Choose your own Naruto Adventure- Flirt with Shikamaru? P19
From Create Your Own Story
You've always had a bit of a crush on Shikamaru.
You listen intently as he leads the 'tour', you don't ask him too many questions, not wanting to bore him any more than he already is.
"And you can see the Hokages' faces from over here..." he tells you.
"You know..." You start. "We can ditch the whole 'tour' formality thing and just hang out."
(Ino and Choji are still around they just don't have much to say)
"..." Shikamaru just looks at you with a blank expression.
"Let me guess...'how troublesome'?" You do your best to imitate his expression.
This actually makes Shikamaru crack a smile, "Actually...no."
"That's good then. Let's go have a little fun then." You start walking off.
"Hey, Kimiko-san! Where are you going?" Shikamaru calls after you.
"I have no idea!" You reply without turning around.
You can hear Ino and Choji laughing, and you swear you heard Shikamaru chuckle as well.
Anyway, they stop you from wandering off and you all end up on a grassy field...yep, lying back and watching the clouds.
"I thought Kimiko-san wanted to do something fun?" Ino commented.
"This is fine." You say. "I've recently had all the excitement I can take...it's nice to just sit back...and slow down..."
"Sounds boring to me..." Ino sighs.
"Really? How come?" You continue.
"Well, what can you do when you're just staring at clouds?" she asks exasperated.
"Find shapes in them...used to do that a lot when I was little, like see that one there?" You point at a cloud.
"Don't you think that one kind of looks like a giant fish?"
"Well...sort of..." Ino mumbles.
"What I like to do is turn the cloud shapes into a story...so do you see anything?" You ask.
She focuses on the clouds, "I guess I see...okay, this one's a little weird...a frog on its back?"
"That's perfect! Okay, so the fish and the frog live in a pond together and the fish is jealous because the frog is able to move on land as well as water..." You start. "Now, you add something to the story."
"Uh...the fish decides to plot against the frog by..." Ino trails off finding it hard to think of anything.
"Asking the old smoking tortoise to lure the frog into a trap." Choji adds.
"Smoking tortoise?" You giggle.
"Over there." Choji points.
"Oh, yeah. I see it..."
"Hey, so do I!" Ino says excitedly.
"So, the old smoking tortoise approaches the frog and asks him to retrieve...a bearded caterpillar!" You continue.
"And the bearded caterpillar can only be found on the hill shaped like a bald duck!" Ino adds her part.
"The frog goes to the bald duck shaped hill to retrieve the bearded caterpillar but he does not know that it is being guarded by the flaming turkey." Choji continues.
"The flaming turkey corners the frog but..."
"Is saved by the fluffy badger." Shikamaru snorts.
You are all caught by surprise...you'd completely forgotten about Shikamaru.
First you giggle, and then you all start laughing.
"Fluffy badger..." You giggle.
"Least I'm not a bearded caterpillar..." He smirks.
"So? Ino's a bald-duck shaped hill."
"Yeah, well Choji's a flaming turkey." Ino sniffs indignantly.
"And proud of it" Choji concludes.
"You know...usually I just like to watch the clouds..." Shikamaru sighs.
"Sorry, was I making it 'too troublesome' for you?" You grin.
"Heh...not as much as it could have been...." He actually turns his head to smile at you.
You quickly look back to the sky, hoping to God you aren't blushing.
"There you are..." A shadow falls over you and you tilt your head back and see Asuma towering over you.
The corner of your mouth starts to twitch as you recall the 'old smoking tortoise'...apparently the others are thinking about it too because within seconds you all burst out laughing.
"Did I miss the joke?"
You all sit up.
"It's nothing, Asuma-sensei." Ino responds. "Ah, this is Kimiko-san. Tsunade asked us to show her around Konoha."
Asuma raises an eyebrow as he lights another cigarette. "I can see that..."
"Um, we're taking a break." You add.
(A/N Actual cloud watching was conducted to aid the writing of this piece and all actual mentioned shapes were in fact formed and seen in the sky at a certain point.)
