Lazyfox: Hola everyone~ I like to begin this segment by saying Random was not killed by Kushina last time, but was severely beaten -Rolls Random's unconscious body out on stage- Yea she doesn't look too good does she?
Random: -mutters darkly to herself-
Lazyfox: Yea she's pissed, but she's still alive, so Random would you like to press the red button to call out our special guest to say the disclaimer for us.
Random: -huffs in annoyance but presses the red button- is it muffin?
Lazyfox: Hell no he'll try and eat me.
Random: -pouts- but I like my MUFFIN! And Coco, and Flower…etc -starts mumbling to herself while counting fingers-
Lazyfox: Yea Kushina kind of knocked a few screws out of her, so anyway our random selected guest speaker for our disclaimer is…..
-Smoke covers the stage, but no one comes out-
Lazyfox: WHAT THE HELL! Where's my special guest!
Kakashi: Yo
Lazyfox: KAKASHI! You were supposed to come out of the smoke for dramatic affect now it's all ruined! -pouts like a child-
Kakashi: Ohhh that's what that was for. I thought it was to hide the fact Sasuke was raping Naruto (eye smile)
Random: -pops out of nowhere completely healed holding a camera taking pictures everywhere blinding people with the camera's flashes and screaming- Yaoi! Where! Where! Awwwwwwww there no Yaoi. I want Yaoi damnit!
Lazyfox: Too bad there's no Yaoi in this story. Sorry though not really ^.^
Random: (O-o) … NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! -Falls to knees crying in agony-
Lazyfox: Quit ruining my stage with your tears woman. If you want to cry go to the emo corner and do your crying there.
Random crawls over to the emo corner and assumes the fettled position rocking back and forth mumbling to herself.
Lazyfox: You just had to get her hopes up didn't you? -Glares at the grinning silver haired ninja-
Kakashi: Sure did and look how funny it turned out.
Lazyfox: That may be so, but still look at her. She looks broken. Poor Random she doesn't get to see her Yaoi. Oh Well get to saying the disclaimer Kakashi.
Kakashi: LazyFoxLover doesn't own Naruto, but again wishes she did -Eye smiles-
Lazyfox: I don't own it yet, but soon oh yes very soon I will MWWWWWHAHAHHAHA!
Random: Yeah and you say I have mental problems -Smirks while eating crackers-
Lazyfox: Oh go back to the emo corner and assume the fettle position again along with your mental break down.
Random: -Huffs- Fine I will. Come on Muffin. -Walks back to the emo corner with her demon dog from hell-
Lazyfox: Oh one more thing before we start the show I like to congratulate FallenAngelFox for guessing the mystery person. Now that this is out of the way let the story begin!
Bold: Means a summon animal is talking or when the Kyuubi is talking.
Italics: Means flashbacks/ thoughts
Bold italics: mean authors notes
* Last time *
Naruko was reminiscing about her past when she bumped into a man sweeping outside his shop. After bumping into the man he began to attack her with his broom and got the attention of other villagers on the streets.
"What's going on here?" asked a villager.
"This brat here tried to steal from me," shouted the man causing the other villagers to glare at the bleeding girl on the ground.
"That's a lie. I was just walking by when he started hitting me with the broom," she shouted from the ground.
The villagers then started attacking her too and when she got away from them they started chasing her.
Hoping to escape them she ran down an alley, but it was a dead end. She saw a low hanging leader leading up to a roof of a nearby building and decided it was her only chance to get away from the mob. Once up the leader she hid in the shadows.
The mob entered the alley, but once they couldn't find her they went to search somewhere else. When the mob was gone she climbed up to the roof.
"Man that was too close for comfort," she says out loud.
"You're telling me," came a voice out of nowhere.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
* END RECAP*
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Naruko screamed.
"Will you shut up already," shouted the unknown voice. "Geeze you're so troublesome. All that screaming is giving me a headache."
"Sorry, you just surprised me is all," she said sheepishly as she regained her composure after her little fright.
"Whatever. Hey are you all right? That gash on your head looks pretty nasty. Doesn't it hurt?" the stranger asked.
Naruko gently touched the wound on her head wincing a little bit from the sting it gave her. "It does a little bit, but it won't hurt for long. I'm a fast healer," she tells him after figuring out the stranger was a boy.
"Here let me help you get the blood off your face. That way you can see better," he says kneeing down beside her.
"Umm mm...o...okay," Naruko stuttered not expecting the boy to be so nice to her and was a little caught off guard when he started whipping the blood off of her face. "Ow." She hissed as the stinging pain flared up when the rag touched the open gash on her head.
"Sorry, but just bare with the pain a little longer I'm almost done. Close your eye for a minute so I can get the rest of the blood off," he tells me as he continued to rub the blood off. "If you don't mind me asking how did you get this gash in your head anyway?"
Naruko started to look nervous not wanting to be beaten again by telling him the truth so she didn't. "I fell," she said feeling like an idiot for telling such and obvious lie like that which made her more nervous which made her fiddled with the end of her shirt subconsciously.
"Its alright you don't have to tell me, just don't lie to me. I don't like liars there too troublesome to be around" he tells her moving the rag back up her head to stop the wound from bleeding again.
Naruko looked at her feet shamefully feeling like a scolded little girl for being caught lying. "How could you tell?"
"Well, for starters you used the lamest excuse in the books, but its also because you were fidgeting a lot and you were playing with your shirt subconsciously," he explained removing the rag to find the wound was healed and no longer bleeding. "I guess you really are a fast healer."
A nervous laugh escaped from her along with an amused one hearing the boy's explanation and scratched her head in embarrassment. "I guess Grandma was right I'm a horrible liar huh?"
The Boy gave a small chuckle. "Yeah you really are. So are you going to tell me what really happened or you going to leave to guess what happened for myself. If you choose the last opinion that'll be a real troublesome pain you know" he tells her.
Naruko gave him a small smile and giggled before her smile turned sad. "You won't believe me if I told you. Nobody ever believes me when I tell them the truth."
"Well, I'm not everybody. I'm me so I'll be the judge of weather your lying to me or not, so tell me what happened and maybe I can help," the boy said removing the rag from her face to take a sit beside her against the brick wall.
Naruko blinked open her eyes after the blood was removed from her face and look over at the boy. He was about her age maybe a few months older than her. Taking in his appearance she let a small giggle escape her when she saw his hair up in a ponytail that made it look like a big pineapple was on his head.
"What are you giggling at," he asked her.
She points at him. "Your hair looks like a giant pineapple," she tells him still giggling.
He looks up at his hair before a smile appears on his face. The sends a nice warm feeling through Naruko while also bringing a small shade of pink to her cheeks as he started laughing.
"What's so funny Pineapple head?" Naruko asked thinking he was laughing at her which made her blush harder.
"That's the same exact thing my mom said to my dad when they first met, so it's a little funny to me to hear some else say that besides my mother," he tells her
Naruko gave him a funny look even though she was still smiling. "You're a little strange weird Pineapple head, I like strange" she says teasingly.
"Will you quit calling me Pineapple head Blue eyes. I have a name you know," he tells her.
Naruko gave him a cheeky grin. "Well, tell me what your name is, that way I quit calling you Pineapple head," she stated crossing her arms over her chest with a good natured smile on her face.
"Man you're just as troublesome as my mother," he mumbled. "The names Shikamaru and you would be….."
"Naruko. Naruko Uzumaki and it's very nice to meet you Shikamaru," she tells him sticking her hand out to him to complete their greeting.
"Yeah likewise Naruko," he says taking her smaller hand in his returning the hand shake. "So Naruko you ready to tell me what happened to you and why you head was bashed opened?"
"Do you promise not to beat me up after I tell you?" she asked still wary about him believing her or not.
"I already told I'll judge what you tell me when you tell me, but I can already tell you wouldn't lie about this, so I will most likely will believe you and if I didn't believe you I wouldn't hurt you," Shikamaru tells her seriously looking into her blue eyes before he gave her a soft smile.
Naruko felt comforted by his words like she could trust him, so she began to tell him her story. "Okay what happen was this. I was walking down the street on my way to visit my grandpa when I got lost in thought and I bumped into someone. I was going to apologize to the person, but before I could say anything he started beating me up with a broom."
Shikamaru decided to interrupt her at this point to ask a question. "Why would he just hit you for no reason like that?"
"I don't know, but for some reason a lot of people in the village hate me. To be honest I have no idea what I did to make them all so mad at me," she tells him.
"Man that sounds like such a drag, but continue with your story," he tells her.
"Well, after the man started beating me with the broom a group of people started gathering around us asking what was going on. The man told them that I tried to steal from his store and the people believed him so when I tried to protect my honor by calling the man a lair, but all that did was make the people angry. The people started attacking me, just like the man with the broom. After awhile I was able to get away from them and made a run for it, until I ran into the alley down there and got myself cornered. I started panicking until I saw the leader hanging down and decided to climb up it and hide from the mob in the shadows of the wall. I stayed there until the mob was gone that's when I climbed to the top of this building where I met you," Naruko says finishing her long story.
"Wow That's horrible why would anyone just randomly attack you just like that. God it sounds like you have a very tough life," he tells her feeling very bad for her.
"Its hard at times, but hey its my life what can I do. Your lucky you don't have to fear walking down the street afraid someone going to hit you upside the head or getting chased down by angry mob," Naruko commented.
"No thanks that would be too troublesome for me," he tells her while yawning.
Naruko started laughing finding Shikamaru's dry humor very funny. Shikamaru felt a little proud he was making her smile and laugh.
"Naruko who's your grandpa? You mentioned him in your story," Shikamaru asked.
"Oh god that's right. I have to meet grandpa soon or he's going to send Cat and Dog out to find me," Naruko cried out in panic jumping to her feet.
"Who's Cat and Dog?" Shikamaru asked getting to his feet at a slower pace then the blonde haired girl.
"They're my older brother and sister, but also my Anbu guards," she tells him.
"You have Anbu guards? Wait who exactly is your grandfather?" he asked.
"Haha yea grandpa put them on me to keep me safe from the villagers, but today they had a mission so they couldn't pick me up. I think they're home now and if they are oh man they're going to be so mad and worried about me" Naruko tells him feeling panic take over her before she registered his last question. "Oh he's the Third Hokage."
Shikamaru staggered over not expecting to get that answer. "You got to be kidding me. Your grandfather is the Third Hokage and people are still stupid enough to attack you. How stupid are those people?"
Naruko felt herself smiling again from his kind words. "Well, I'm his adopted granddaughter, but I still love like he really was my grandfather" she tells him.
"Well, blood doesn't determine family if you ask me besides its kind of cool to be friends with the Third Hokage's adopted granddaughter," Shikamaru tells her scratching his cheek looking up at the sky pondering the thought of being her friend hoping it won't become troublesome in the future.
Naruko felt like the roof fell beneath her feet looking like she was floating on cloud nine possibly looking like an idiot to him the way she was grinning at him.
"F... Friends?" she asked feeling like she needed to hear it again to make it sure it was real and not a trick her ears were playing on her.
"Well duh were friends now right? Unless you don't want to be my friend?" he asked feeling maybe he was out of his league asking to be the Hokage's granddaughter friend.
Naruko couldn't stop herself she was just over come with joy that she just lunched herself tackling Shikamaru into a huge hug that knocked them to the ground as she squeezed the life out of the poor guy.
Shikamaru was caught off guard by Naruko tackling him that when he hit the ground he let out a soft pained groan. "Hey what's with the hugging and the tackling," he said with a tone of embarrassment with a light blush on his face.
"I never had a real friend before so I'm happy really happy," she says softly feeling very happy as she snuggled into him.
Shikamaru still felt embarrassed by being hugged by Naruko, but he was actually really happy he made her happy. "Well you do now, but could you get off me now."
Naruko giggled happily as she got off him and helped him up still smiling like a loon at having a real friend. Shikamaru just shook his head finding her amusing as he takes her hand and pulls her towards the exit located on the roof.
"Where are you taking me?" she asked.
"I'm taking you to your grandpa before he does send those Anbu guards of yours and they catch me with you and think I kidnapped you and decided to attack me. Now that would be really troublesome," he tells her with a small lopsided smile on his face.
"You don't have to take me. I know how to get there by myself" she mumbled trying to hide her blush from him. "Why do I always blush when he smiles at me?"
"I know, but I don't want you to get attacked again and nobody would dare attack you if you're seen with a clan heir," he tells her.
"You're a clan heir. Which clan?" she asked.
"The Nara clan," he says.
"That's so cool you're so lucky," she said with her eyes lighting up with delight.
"How so?" he questioned.
"Because you got some of the best books for medicine and healing jutsu and you guys know how to use the shadow possession jutsu. To me that's way cooler then that stupid old sharingan everyone talks about," she tells him.
"Just don't say that around my dad's best friend's daughter. She'll murder you if you eve say anything bad about an Uchiha," he tells her giving her his lopsided smile.
"Why's that?" she asked.
"Because she's madly in love with this boy in our class named Sasuke Uchiha," he tells her.
"Who?"
Right then Shikamaru felt like thanking the gods above for making a girl with a brain. "Finally a girl who's not in love with that arrogant prick," he cheered catching Naruko off guard with his out burst.
"What was that for?" she asked.
"Sorry it's just that all the girls in school are in love with him and I have no idea why," he tells her sheepishly.
"So this Sasuke guy has a bunch of fan girls I'm guess," she stated.
"You got no idea," he said exasperatedly.
"Hearing that can almost make you feel sorry for the guy. I don't even know who he is and I feel bad for him" she said having a concerned look on her face.
"Trust me once you've meet him you'll think he deserves it," he tells her meaning every bit of it.
"Why would you say that?" she asked seeing the serious look on his face.
"Because he's an arrogant prick who thinks he's all that when he's not," he tells her. "He also thinks everyone needs to do what he says all the time. It gets on my nerves. The troublesome prick" he grumbled.
"Oh come on he couldn't be that bad could he," she asked.
"Trust me he is, but he is from the Uchiha clan and they all can be a bit arrogant," he stated.
After the two new friends continued on their way to the Hokage tower until they came across two people wearing a dog and cat mask standing in front of the tower emitting a killing intent so power it would make anyone piss their pants in a 500 mile radius.
Feeling the intent to kill from where he stood Shikamaru admitted to himself he was definitely freaked out by his new friends siblings. "I'm guessing those guys would be your older siblings?" he asked sounding a little bit afraid of them.
Naruko gave him a sheepish smile scratching the back of her head giving him a nervous chuckled. "Ahaha yep. That's my Nii-Chan and Nee-San."
As Naruko confirmed the two intimidating duo as her older sibling said duo approached them and towered over Shikamaru giving a hard stare through their masks that made him shake in his shoes.
"Oh Kami I'm going to die," Shikamaru thought sweating bullets from the intense stares he was getting especially the stares from Naruko's older brother.
"Hi, Nii-Chan, Nee-San glad to see your both home" Naruko said sweetly hoping to lessen their stern glares on Shikamaru. "Also this is my new friend Shikamaru. He's really nice."
"I see and just what were two doing that made you so late to your meeting with your grandfather young lady," Dog demanded leaning over Shikamaru not liking the boy simply for the fact he was alone with his precious little sister. "If he hurts her I'm ripping him to pieces."
"I kind of got into another mob beating. Nothing too serious this time just a head injury, but it's healed already" Naruko tells them casually not wanting to make a big deal about it even the other three around her did find it to be a big deal.
"How can you say that so casually like its not big deal?" Shikamaru inquired not wanting his new friend to think it was ok for her to get beaten.
"Well it's not really something to worry about. I mean I'm a fast healer so there never really any permanent damage" she said feeling sheepish again from how much concern Shikamaru was showing her.
Shikamaru didn't like that answer, so he decided to do something about it even if it was a drag to do. "Well, it won't happen again as long as I'm around. From now on I'll escort you wherever you want to go that way you won't be alone to get attacked."
"AWWWW he's so sweet," Cat squealed in her bubbly voice groping the poor boy into a hug crushing him into her busty bust.
"Nee-San let him go. You might scare him away with your hugs of doom," Naruko whined not liking the fact her sister was stealing Shikamaru from her.
Dog finding the encounter amusing decided it was time to end it. "Cat that's enough let him down. It's time we saw your grandfather anyway. He's been worrying about you." he said watching his partner let the boy go snickering at the boy's red face as he turned and led the group into the tower.
The four proceeded to walk up to Hokage's study room. Once gaining entrance to the room they walked in to see him at his desk working on his mountainous stack of paper work. (Seriously how can any normal human being be so cruel and make someone do all this paper work every damn day. I'm telling you they got to be some really evil bastards to do this or they just enjoy this for the hell of it.)
"I see you have found my granddaughter," Hiruzen says without lifting his head up from his paper work.
"Yes sir, we have her with us along with her new friend" Dog reported knowing the Hokage would be surprised with the last detail.
Surprised he was. At the mention of a friend Hiruzen lifted his head from his paperwork to see Shikamaru standing next to Naruko. He seemed to be looking around the office. Feeling Hiruzen gaze on them Naruko gently nudged him in his ribs to make him look up at her grandpa.
"H..Hello Hokage-sama it's an honor to meet you sir," Shikamaru stuttered out feeling overwhelmed to be in his Hokage's presence.
"Hello my boy. It's warms my heart greatly to see my granddaughter has made a friend," Hiruzen said sincerely giving Shikamaru his usual warm smile. "Naruko I glad you made a new friend, but you had me worried about you when you didn't show up on time," he tells her worriedly.
"Sorry grandpa, but I kind of ran into some trouble on my way here," she tells him knowing he wasn't going to like the news she had to tell him.
"Trouble? What kind of trouble?" he asked losing his friendly aura at the mention of trouble.
"I kind of got into another mob beating," she tells him say with her head bowed not looking at him as she played with her shirt.
"Damnit that is the Twelfth beating this month," he says under his breath banging his hands on the desk scatting the paper work everywhere.
"Don't worry grandpa I'm fine thanks to Shikamaru. He helped me after the beating and protected me on the way here," she tells him hoping to calm him down.
Hearing that did allow Hiruzen to calm down a little bit. Once he was calmed down he gave Shikamaru a thankful smile. "Thank you for helping my granddaughter," he tells him gaining back some of his friendly aura.
"No problem sir, it's very troublesome, but I told Naruko that I can be her escort from now on as a way of protecting her," Shikamaru said in a lazy voice.
"You really meant that Shikamaru?" Naruko asked him in disbelief thinking he was joking about that.
"I know it'll be a drag, but I don't really mind it if it means keeping you safe" he tells her knowing she needed to hear it again. Shikamaru hoped by spending more time with her she will be more opened to believe in him and start to trusting in him.
Hiruzen smiled seeing the smile blossoming on his granddaughter's face knowing she was becoming attached to the Nara boy. "Then it's settled. Shikamaru from now on I'm entrusting you to be my granddaughter's escort when Cat and Dog cannot be with her."
"Yes sir" Shikamaru said accepting his new role somewhat proudly.
With this new friendship born between a chance encounter a great story was awaiting this unlikely duo in the future, but as for now Naruko was just happy to have a friend.
Lazyfox: So what you guys think? I hoped you enjoyed it. Sorry for the Sasuke bashing to those of you who are Sasuke fans, but I believe I totally nailed Sasuke personally in this chapter.
Random: The hell you did! You have no idea how to nail Sasuke only I do. He's mine to commanded MWWWWHAHAHAHAH!
Lazyfox: -pushes Random off stage and into the emo cage with Muffin- That's for trying to steel my spotlight! Your just mad because I won't make Sasuke gay in this story even though we all know he is. Again sorry to all those Sasuke fans who believe he's straight, but frankly it's hard for me to believe he's not just saying. Anyway in the next chapter you'll see more about how Shikamaru and Naruko friendship progresses with more appearance of characters.
Kushina: So like always please review or DIE!
Lazyfox: -.-' Seriously Minato you need to take her to the hospital to get her checked out by the loony people. she's freaking insane.
Minato: Believe me I've tried, but she always tries to kill the doctors when they try to give her shots.
Lazyfox: Damn she really does have problems I hope Naruko doesn't turn out like her.
Kushina: What did you just say do you need to take a trip to the hospital like your emo friend in the cage.
Random: Hey I'm right here ya know.
Kushina and Lazyfox: NOBODY CARES!
Random: -Starts pouting while eating her crackers again- Meanies
Minato: -sighs- I'm surrounded by crazies help me by pressing the review button please, until next time….
Everyone: JAA-NEE!