Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto
Being a dad means making your kids believe they can do it themselves.
Shikamaru wondered why Kiba didn't teach their children how to ride a bike.
Kiba certainly got more use of the bike then Shikamaru did. It was even Hana who gave the bike to the family when they found out Kiba was expecting their first child, saying that it would be a great form of exercise if Kiba wanted to get his body back.
But still for all reasons considered Shikamaru found himself with Kiyoshi one spring day teaching Kiyoshi how to ride a bike.
"OK, it's like riding a tricycle 'cept it's more troublesome because you have to put more work and energy into it." Shikamaru didn't know what was weirder the fact that he was teaching Kiyoshi how to ride a bike or the fact that Shikamaru himself didn't know how to ride a bike.
He knew how bikes worked and how to safely use them and probably knew more about them than the average BMX rider thanks to his intelligence, but he had never gotten on top of a bike and rode it. Kiba never was the sharpest pencil in the pencil box.
"Daddy, do I have to learn how to ride a bike? You don't and you're a great ninja." Kiyoshi's childishly intelligent dark brown eyes stared into his father's.
"It's not about being a ninja it's about having a childhood. Something I was too lazy to have." The whole thing was troublesome. And Kiyoshi had a point. He shouldn't have to learn how to ride a bike if he didn't want to.
"Does that mean I don't need to learn how to ride a bike?" Kioyshi asked tilting his head, curious.
Shikamaru gave a lazy smile/smirk and put his head on top of his son's. "Not if you don't want to."
"But I want to!"
Shikamaru groaned. This was going to be a long day.
What a drag.
And yet he still spent the whole day teaching Kiyoshi how to ride, until he proudly watched Kiyoshi circle the backyard.
What a troublesome drag indeed.
Author's Note: I don't why but I found this chapter to be so cute. Like out of all the chapters I have written this one is the cutest.
I can picture Shikamaru never knowing how to ride a bike. He would know all the details and mechanics of it but he would never get on it. Kiba on the other hand I can always picture riding a bike. If Kiba was here in the modern day world he would be a BMX rider.