NaruHina: Making Merry

Chapter 3

"Sai! Knock it off already! I told you to stop calling me Mr. Dilf!"

Shikamaru choked on his ramen when he heard the words. He coughed up the noodles then turned around in his seat to face the two shinobi entering Ichiraku.

Sai chuckled in response. "You can't expect me to not make fun of you for that, Naruto. What kind of friend would I be?"

"It's annoying," Naruto retorted with an angry snort. "And it's not funny anymore!"

"Oh, it's always going to be funny to me." Sai saw him and smiled at Shikamaru. "Hey, Shikamaru."

Shikamaru nodded at both of them.

"Shikamaru!" Naruto said as he sat down next to his friend.

Sai took up the seat next to Naruto and gave their order to Teuchi.

"Yup!" cried the older man and proceeded to drop noodles into the pot of water bubbling on the stove.

Shikamaru sent him a sideways glance and said, "So you're going around calling yourself Mr. Dilf now?"

Sai laughed quietly. Naruto glared at Shikamaru. "Not you, too! Shikamaru!"

Shikamaru smiled. "Temari told me. She heard from the girls."

"Ugh," Naruto said as a blush climbed up his cheeks. "It's not like I asked for it! I don't even know why women would think that about me."

Luckily, their order came and Shikamaru was spared from having to reply.

"Itadakimasu!" Naruto pried his chopsticks apart and sipped his broth. He glanced at the clock above the ramen master, who was busy filling orders of the new customers who came into the shop.

11:00 p.m.

Hinata and Boruto were probably sleeping right now. It was a good thing he'd told Hinata he would be late arriving tonight. He'd known the mission with Sai was going to take a while to complete and he'd told her to not make dinner and not wait up for him.

"I don't know why women would think that, either," Sai said. "It's not like you've got a big d—"

"Sai!" Shikamaru and Naruto yelled at the same time.

"You're such an asshole, sometimes," Naruto grumbled.

Sai shrugged then worked on his noodles.

Shikamaru leaned over the counter, looked past Naruto and frowned at Sai.

"Sai, have you always been this gossipy? Are you jealous that women think that way about Naruto?"

"I'm not gossipy," Sai calmly replied. "I'm repressed."

"I don't have a comeback for that," Shikamaru said. He turned back to his noodles.

Naruto breathed a sigh of relief. Maybe now he can eat his noodles in peace. He took a sip of his miso soup. God, he was so hungry. The bento Hinata had made for him had been enough to last him until 6:00pm. But that was hours ago.

"Still, though, I'm puzzled by the sudden attention Naruto's gotten now that he's married and has a kid?" Sai said beside him.

Damn it. They weren't going to drop the subject. Naruto ate his noodles in angry silence and didn't bother to respond.

On his right side, though, Shikamaru answered the question seriously. "Why not? Sexual attraction, especially for people who are already taken, is a thing. And think about it, if there's such a thing as dilf, the opposite is true, isn't it?"