I'M SO SORRY THAT I HAVEN'T UPDATED UNTIL NOW. I HAVE HAD A BUNCH OF WORK TO DO FOR SCHOOL! I HAD A BUNCH OF WORK TO DO! please forgive me.

Chapter 4

Shikamaru was not having a good day. He had to babysit asuma and kurenai's daughter, who was about 1 and a half, mirai, had gotten sick and thrown up on his jonin vest. Then, he couldn't take it to get cleaned because the cleaners was closed. So now his vest smelled like vomit, but luckily there was no stain.

Now, Shikamaru was watching the clouds as he waited for his team. As he did this, his thoughts slipped away to something else. He thought of naruto, and how he mysteriously disappeared out of his hospital room when shikamaru when to go and see him with kiba, neji, shikamru, and chouji. But when they went to his apartment, all of his stuff was gone. When they were going to tell tsunade about it, they found 2 bowls of ramen spilled in front of the door. When tsunade announced it to the village that he was going to be a missing nin, the villagers did something that shikamaru didn't expect. They threw a party. Who the hell does that?! shikamaru punched sakura for cheering while throwing trash at a training dummy that was wearing orange and who tied to a pole over a fire. Hell, tsunade didn't even stop them from doing anything. She just took another chug of her sake. Jiraiya was so furious at her, that he slapped her out of her chair and left the village. He had only ever come back to the village when he needed to.

"hey shikamaru." chouji called as he walked over to shikamaru. Chouji hadn't really changed. His hair was much longer, and he wore different clothes, but besides that, chouji still ate a lot of food, and he had gotten stronger. It was the same with ino, though she had become a bit nicer, and decided to try and stop dressing to impress people. Ino had definitely gotten far since when naruto was still there. She was in the torture and interrogation branch with her dad.

"so, where are we going for lunch?" ino asked her team after a moment of silence. They thought about it for a few seconds before saying at the same time, "ichiraku's?" the trio had been eating there almost every week in memory of naruto. "also, asuma said that he couldn't come today. Something about mirai puking on him." she trailed off. Shikamaru snorted at the irony of the situation. Karma's a bitch... I suppose. With that, they got up walked to their destination, with shikamaru trudging behind them very slowly.

Ino was getting annoyed by her teammate, but held it in. she was heartbroken when she saw how everybody reacted about naruto leaving, and changed herself up a bit. She was going to fight as hard as she could for naruto. He left, and that was his decision, even though she hated that decision. Truth be told, he was sort of cute. Naruto just always had that smile on his face that sometimes made you just want to go up and hug him. And when they brought sasuke back, he was more devastated about then anybody, thinking that it was his fault, and worked extremely hard for naruto.

He was extremely close to becoming the strongest person in the village, when orochimaru invaded the village again, and said something about naruto. And drove sasuke into a fury mode. Sasuke managed to kill him, but died in the end since he was so injured.

There isn't much to say about sakura. Ever since naruto left, she had become the village slut. It made all of her friends mad about how she treated naruto, ecspecially at the "celebration" after naruto left, that they left her. Though, she made friends with the other people who hated naruto.

But back to where we were at... they were nearing ichiraku's. "could you walk any faster?!" Ino groaned to shikamaru, he just shrugged in response, and sped up walking a bit. "troublesome..." he mumble under his breath some more. He was met with a loud scream from Ino.

"what did you call me?!" and a smack to the back of his, causing his vision to blur for a second. Chouji was used to this type of thing with them, so he just continued eating his bag of potato chips. As they entered the shop, they saw that there were 3 people in there already. One the far side near the wall was a girl with red hair.

Her hair was halfway up into a ponytail, with the bottom half of her hair down, curling around her neck. She had a dark red cape on, with black anbu pants, and a simple black jacket with a choke collar on it. Needless to say, she looked like a beautiful wild beast.

in the seat beside her, there was another girl with short blonde hair. By her face, there was 2 streaks of maroon hair surrounding her face. She was wearing a flower of crown of violets around her head. She was wearing a large blue scarf over a gray long sleeve shirt that looked like it had metal inside of it. Her pants were just some black sweat pants, with some braces over them. There was a wheelchair folded in between the blonde and red haired girl.

Then on the other side of the blonde, there sat a sandy brown haired girl. Her hair was put into two very messy buns behind her ears and the bottom half was in 2 ponytails with a stay piece in a braid. She had a bunch of earrings on her ear, of various colors, and 2 blue clips were keeping her bangs out her face. They were all very beautiful, but in their own ways from what they could see. Wild; kawaii; happy.

They soon saw how much ramen they had ordered. At first, none of them acknowledged each other, but finally, chouji spoke to them

"wow, that's a lot of ramen. I've only ever seen one person eat so much ramen." chouji said to them. Of course he was talking about naruto.

The sandy brown haired girl turned to face him. Her eyes were very... different. They stared at chouji with their red and yellow sticking out against everything else. She giggled.

"yeah. Someone I know told me that this was place was the best place to eat ramen... like ever. He's awesome." flowers were now floating around the now chibi girl as she squirmed in her seat. Ino, decided to ask the question that no one cared to ask them. "well, who told you?'' her tone was sharper than she intended for it to be. Man, her job was starting to get to her. The girl looked uncomfortable now, and didn't answer, instead busying herself with eating noodles. Shikmaru saw this and decided to cut in. "geez, would you stop interrogating them? Troublesome woman..." shikamaru drowsed. This just made Ino more irritated, and she snapper. She slapped the back of his head so hard that he was send tumbling out of his chair.

Shikamaru, on his way down, tried to grab something to pull himself up. He felt something warm, and soft. Without thinking about what is was, he clenched his hand around it. But the thing fell down with him, instead of helping him up. Shikamaru looked at it to see what it was. It was a light blue scarf. It was the girl's scarf from earlier. As shikmaru stood up to hand the scarf back to the girl, he noticed the facial features of the blonde beauty. There were 3 very familiar marks on each side of her cheeks. Wait... no... on each of his cheeks. There were 3 whisker looking marks on each side. And those eyes. Those royal blue eyes that used to be filled with happiness and hope were now filled with slight pain and shock.

It couldn't be him, could it?

I know this was a boring chapter, but I swear that this story will get better. thank you for reading. who do you want him to end up with? no sasuke, niji, sakura, or kurama- wickedlovely101