A/N: Please enjoy the conclusion of Success Story!

Chapter 15

"Time to get up lazy bones," came the soothing sound of Ino's voice to his half-waking form.

Shikamaru rolled over and cuddled into her pillow in a last ditch effort to avoid waking up for that day, "Go away," he grumbled groggily, clenching his eyes shut as he felt the bed dip down with her slight weight.

A shudder raced up his spine as he felt her settle into the bed behind him and press her chest to his bare back. She knew how to wake him up…

After another month with his beautiful blond, they had settled into a routine of familiarity. Moments of teasing and seduction were interspersed with day to day activates and sessions of bickering and arguments that were usually solved by night as they lay exhausted in one another's arms.

Life couldn't possibly get much sweeter.

"Come on, Shika," she moaned temptingly into his ear, grinning wickedly as he shivered again.

She knew just what to do to get her lover's attention and was not shy about doing it. As it stood, she needed to open up her flower shop, and she needed his help. She had to let her latest employee, Moegi, go after winter break ended and she needed to go back into school. She was undermanned and her simple little flower shop was her new happiness and obsession. All she really needed was for Shikamaru to man the front desk and answer the phone. It was an easy job that even a monkey could do and he was going to be her monkey, he just didn't know it yet.

"What do you want from me now, Ino," he groused, opening up a dark eye to peak over his shoulder at the smiling blond.

"Nothing much," she teased as her right arm wrapped around his waist to flatten her hand out over his abdomen and graze fingertips into the waistband of his boxer briefs, "I just need your help with something," she purred before squealing out excitedly as Shikamaru turned over to press her form into the bed.

He had effectively grasped her wrists in one of his large hands and had them pressed up above her head into the soft mattress. His hips had come to settle between her thighs and his torso pressed her deep into the cushion as he glowered down at her smiling face while she giggled.

"I know what you're up to, and the answer is no," he grumbled, tempted enough to bend his neck and start leaving little nipping kisses along her neck and collar bone.

Ino let out a pleased sigh before lifting her thighs to wrap them around Shikamaru's waist and settle his stiffening cock against her eager heat. Morning sex was always fun, but she was unfortunately running late.

"But Shika," she mewled against his ear, "I need your help," she teased, knowing that he would also take her words sexually.

"No," he growled out heatedly against her neck while pressing his stiff cock against her through their undergarments.

She was wearing too much. He needed to establish a permeant no clothes zone in his room just so he could make love to her more easily. Hell, his whole entire house needed to be a no clothes zone.

"Pretty please, "she begged on a purposeful heated moan before he bit into the skin of her shoulder and drew out an uninhibited one, "Ah, Shika," she struggled against his hold on her wrists, wanting to bury her fingers in his loose hair, "Do you want me to lose business because of you?" she argued almost accusingly.

"I don't care," he growled out, his free hand coming to tear at her panties. He needed to be inside her and he needed it now.

"But, you're the one who paid for it," she reasoned, shivering at the sound of her panties ripping with his impatience, "at this rate I won't be able to pay you back for it."

"You can just pay me with your body then," he insisted, pushing the waistband of his undergarments down just enough to free himself.

Ino inhaled quickly as she felt his stiff flesh surge into her body. With their position, she could feel the base of his cock pressing insistently against her clit with each deep thrust. God, he really knew how to get her going.

Shikamaru knew that this wouldn't distract her enough from her goal to get him to work, but he couldn't help himself. He needed her more badly than he ever had before and now that he was able to have her he would take her as he pleased. Fortunately for him she didn't mind, yet. He hoped that she never would mind as he took full advantage of her beautiful body on a daily basis. As long as he made sure to please her in return he was hopeful that she would stay by his side.

Ino finally managed to free her arms as she wrapped them around Shikamaru's sweaty neck. Her fingers came to claw at the skin of his back as he used her body with a punishing fervor.

The giving and taking in their relationship was of a mutual understanding. As long as he never looked at another woman, and always made certain to satisfy her, she would stay with him and as long as she willingly submitted her body to his desires he would never leave her. She hoped that one day there would be more to it. As of right now, though, this was fine; this was just enough.

Shikamaru finished not long after Ino's screams waivered into exhausted panting. Morning sex was the best. Any sex with Ino was the best, but at that moment morning sex was in first place. He didn't move to withdraw from her. He simply buried his face into the pillows she laid against at the right side of her head. His whole body went limp and this was his last ditch effort to deny her request. But the blond was too tenacious as she began to poke him in the side.

"Alright," she insisted, her throat raw from the eager noises she couldn't restrain, "you've had your fun. Now it's time to go to work."

"Ok, have a good day honey," he dismissed as he rolled off of her and faced away.

He could hear her growl angrily before she smacked him into submission.

Now, there he sat, at the front desk of the flower shop, looking up through the skylights that let in the sunlight for the hungry plant life that surrounded him. This was his only saving grace as he watched clouds pass by at their leisure.

It wasn't that he minded helping out Ino with her dream. On the contrary, he had helped her to establish it. He had used his own money that he acquired over the years to purchase the shop for her.

He remembered the day that he had surprised her with it fondly. She had been so elated that she had cried for hours. Each time she thought about his kind gesture she broke into a fresh bout of happy tears, giving him salty grateful kisses ever chance she could.

He just hadn't pictured himself being her lackey. She would enlist his help often, sitting him up at the front of the shop like some handsome marketing campaign while she worked diligently in the back with floral arrangements and breeding new species.

He really couldn't complain though. The job was easy, the view was nice, and he got to spend time with the woman that he loved when she wasn't obsessing over the position and fullness of the floral arrangements.

Life was much simpler after he had left the Sabaku Company and he couldn't possibly be any happier about it. His dreams had come true. He retired filthy rich with the one woman that he had always loved and he would continue to love her for forever.

End

A/N: Alright everyone! That is it! I hope the ending was satisfactory! I think this was a good attempt at a story after not having written for so long. Now that my skills are slightly sharper I will continue to write when I am able. If you haven't already taken a look at my A True Love Story, please do now that this one is complete! I think it is much better and has a good plot! Thank you again everyone!