"I want..." you began, "I want you... to... erm..."2
+~*^*~+Shika's Pov+~*^*~+3
'She's gonna ask me to go out with her, I just know it...' he thought to himself.4
+~*^*~+Your Pov+~*^*~+5
You WERE going to ask him out... but you decided against it.6
"Show me around Konoha, please?"7
You said it as if it were a question.8
Your heart was broken a little at the thought he didn't like you.9
He answered, same bored voice. You mentally sighed at it as he said, "with pleasure."10
...11
With PLEASURE?12
Maybe he was just being a gentleman...13
You blushed slightly.14
He led you out, holding the door for you.15
You let your arms brush slightly again, unnoticeable.16
You automatically felt tingly and light, airy and feathery.17
It was odd.18
You only figured it was because it was yours and his emotions put together...19
But, the lazy bum couldn't love, right? I mean... he's like... EMOTIONLESS.20
You walked the streets as he told you where his friends lived as you walked, the local stores, places to eat, and so forth.21
You were quietly walking beside him, and admiring everything.22
"Hey, so Shikamaru CAN catch a girl! Way to go, buddy!" you didn't know this voice, but blushed slightly at the comment.23
Shikamaru knew this voice...24
He turned around and you followed. There was a great big dog, a few feet away from you, and a guy riding on top of it. The guy was muscular, had on a dark gray-ish-almost-black jacket that was zipped up, but you could see a hint of a fishnet shirt under it. He had on some matching pants the same colour as the jacket and some ninja shoes of that same colour.25
"What is it, Kiba?" Shikamaru asked.26
"Just saw y'all walking down the road, and thought I'd say hi," his grin broadened as he sized you up, "well now, who's this beauty?" you snuck onto his brain wave for a moment and all he was thinking about was getting you into a bed...27
Your eyes widened for a moment, but you got control over yourself quickly.28
"Ina, H-Hikata," you stuttered, shyly.29
Shikamaru could tell there was something wrong with you. He'd have to take you back to his place and find out what.30
"Well well... Welcome to Konoha! But don't let that lazy-bum show you around! Let me show you the ropes!" he was over-cocky.31
"Actually, I believe she asked me to do that," Shikamaru said, kindly. He saved you from embarrassment. He could sense you were a nervous wreck, and that you were cautious about Kiba.32
You glanced at him quickly and nodded a thank you.33
"Oh well, some other time then!" Kiba winked at you, howled, and took off.34
"Make sure I never see him again," you said nervously, looking up at Shikamaru(because you were a few inches shorter than him.)35
"I doubt that's possible... why don't you like Kiba?" Shikamaru pressed on, farther than you would have liked.36
You trusted Shikamaru, right? Yeah. Ok. Sure.37
"Umm... C'mere..." you dragged him off the side of the rode, to an ally way.38
"I haven't been completely honest with you... or the team... I have a special gift... I'm an empath..." and so you began your story, over, from when your parents died up until now. You included every little detail, along with Shikamaru being blank except when you touch.39
( But did not include the fact that you liked him a lot. )40
He looked at you, surprisingly, with immense curiosity.41
+~*^*~+Shika's Pov+~*^*~+42
She started on this long story, starting from the beginning. He didn't think you were crazy, or mental, just overloaded. Which you were. This only made him want to be yours more.43
+~*^*~+Your Pov+~*^*~+44
So you had told your story, happy to tell at least ONE person.45
"You can't tell anyone..." you said cautiously.46
"Yes, I know... so, why were you so jumpy around Kiba?" Shikamaru asked, innocently.47
"Umm... well... he was thinking about me and him-" he stopped you mid-sentence.48
"Enough said," he smiled slightly, "be careful around Kiba, ok? Promise me that," his smile became sincere.49
You nodded, not sure if you could trust your voice.50
"I knew there was something special about you, Hikata," his smile did not stop.51
You felt blood rush to your face.52
His smile faded to a smirk.53
"Here, it's almost sunset, I'll take you to get some ramen. Then I will walk you home," smirk still presently plastered to his face.54
"o-ok..." you stuttered.55
You and him walked towards the nearest ramen stand.56
You hopped on a stool, and him beside you.57
"one regular ramen, please," you ordered as Ayame, Ichiraku Ramen's waitress, walked up. Shikamaru ordered a beef ramen.58
Y'all slurped down the ramen in silence.59
Ayame got you two some water, and left.60
You slurped the rest of your ramen as Shikamaru drank the last of his water, and she took the dishes away.61
"So... Was this classified as a date, or a meeting, or what?" you asked.62
Shikamaru looked at you as if you'd blown a fuse and exploded.63
You looked at him like '...'64
He came back to reality, but was still kind of dumbfounded.65
"Look, when I brushed against your arm those were tests. I wanted to see if you really liked me. You passed," you paused to smile.66
You saw a blush creep up onto his cheeks.67
You giggled lightly.68
You checked your digital watch, and it was almost six O'clock.69
"I gotta go, Shikamaru. I'll see you tomorrow," and with that you hopped up, gave him a quick hug ( that made you feel flustered because of Shikamaru ) and walked out. You walked home quietly, as you left him in a daze, your orange scent of shampoo, washing wall over him from the hug.70
'Mango mandarin...' Shikamaru noted to himself.71
You walked down the street, happily, humming to yourself.72
All of a sudden Kiba was in front of you, on his very large dog.73
You stopped as soon as you saw him.74
"So, did you dump Nara?" he asked, grinning.75
"N-no, we were never going out..." you stuttered because being on Kiba's brainwave made you fidgety.76
His smile turned into a smirk.77
You noted that you were about two houses away from your house/apartment.78
You walked past him, "well, my apartments right here. See you tomorrow, maybe. Bye, Kiba!" you tried to sound happy. As you walked past him, he grabbed your wrist and pulled you onto his dog.79
"Come on, take a ride with me! I'll give you something that lazy Nara never would!" he told you, very exuberantly, as he ran his dog forward, past the same ramen shop.80
"Shikamaru! Help-" you yelled as you passed the shop but Kiba put his hand over your mouth quickly. You had seen Shikamaru's feet at the stool, probably still paying Ayame.81
Your mind was racing with thoughts, usually kept to yourself. You couldn't think of anything to do. You turned your head slightly to try and see the ramen shop but you could still see his feet at the stool.82
+~*^*~+Shikamaru's Pov+~*^*~+83
He heard a voice that sounded like yours, screaming his name and for help, but it was like dust on the wind. He paid and stood up, cautiously he lifted the flap to the ramen bar and walked out. He surveyed to the left, scanned the area from left to right and then, when he got to the right he saw you, on Kiba's dog, his hand over your mouth, riding off with you helpless.84
Not thinking, he ran after you.85
Royally pissed at Kiba and his body yearning for your well being.86
And then you saw her eyes... hope filled... glistening... slightly fear ridden, eyes.87
He was never going to forgive Kiba for even THINKING about this...88
+~*^*~+Your Pov+~*^*~+89
You saw him running towards you. It made your heart flutter and hope fill your mind. He suddenly stopped. He made some weird hand sign, 'rat...that's the hand sign for rat...' you reminded yourself, trying to take your mind off of the current situation.90
All of a sudden the large dog stopped abruptly and you and Kiba went flying off."What the f-" he began, but Kiba hit his head on the side of a building and you landed a few feet in front of him, breath being knocked out of you. You skidded to a stop, getting scratched up by the gravel, but not nearly as bad as Kiba's head injury. You rolled over as Shikamaru rushed over to you. You could see a small puddle liquid red form around his face. Everything was a little fuzzy around the edges.91
"Hikata!" suddenly a pair of warm arms were around you.92
"Sh...Shikamaru-k-kun...?" you managed. Kiba had been holding your mouth and you couldn't really breath well through your nose.93
"yeah, it's me... C'mon. Up we go," he helped you up, you using him as a prop.94
You coughed at the change of gravity.95
"Here..." he raised your hands above your head, "breath deep, but it will most likely hurt."96
You did as instructed and as the air rushed into you it scratched your throat and lungs.97
You felt better though.98
He let your arms fall around him, using him as support.99
"I'm sorry..." Shikamaru pleaded, "I should have walked you home like I said I would, but I didn't! I'm so sorry..."100
You pushed up on him and spoke softly, "stop... I understand... we should be glad he didn't get far..."101
He loved the way you said 'we', in fact he could get used to it.102
You glanced at your clock, out of habit, and saw the slightly blurry numbers. You didn't know why, but you felt as if it had been hours... but really... it was only ten past six... you groaned. You felt really weak. Dang, all the fall had done was knock the breath out of you. Shikamaru noticed this. He checked your forehead. You felt hot.103
Shikamaru picked Kiba's knocked out body and helped you walk to the hospital.104
He entered the hospital, a few nurses came when they saw Kiba.105
"He fell down, ma'am. Hit his head on a building," Shikamaru stated politely as one of the nurses took Kiba away, "and she feels like she has a fever."106
You put more of your weight on him, and fell over half way onto him to reveal a really bad gash, that Shikamaru hadn't noticed.107
He supported you more as a nurse too you away, 'she must have hit the concrete hard and it left that... I was too occupied on helping her I didn't notice it... Idiot!' Shikamaru yelled at himself as he fell behind two nurses with you on a stretcher.108
'Oh, Hikata... I hope you'll be ok...'109