My Bad Habit

What A Dangerous Thing, To Finally Have Something Worth Losing

What's good guys? No? Okay.

Please don't kill me.

I am going to finish this book before completing the others, so until I finish this book, which might take a while, but oh well. I am experimenting with chapters with different Points of view, so, this is in Shika-chans. For Christmas, I am going to get an bearded dragon. Yay! How about a Christmas special for this book? Eh? EH??? Anywho, rooooooolll the tape!

Chapter 8: What A Dangerous Thing, To Finally Have Something Worth Losing

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Shikamaru

I wait patiently as she sneaks inside her house, up her stairs, and into her room, giving me a thumbs up before swishing the curtains closed. I restarted my engine quickly, noting that Ino's father wasn't home at this hour, probably at my dads house, getting drunk, with choji's dad as well. I kick up the kickstand and I drive, turning sharply in order to get home faster. I pull up into my driveway, seeing the lights on and hearing the drunken yells from where I am now.

Sometimes I feel like I take care of my dad more than he does to me.

I jog up to the front door, trying to sneak in, but I am ambushed by the three fathers of me, my best friend, and my girlfriend. They laugh like they were after a joke before my dad spoke," where the hell you been boy? I been looking all around for ya'!" The stench of beer reaches my nose and fills my senses," dad I think that you and I both know that the only thing you've been looking for is the next beer to drink." I say, punching my nose a bit, exaggerating. The others laughed while dad scowled at me, too drunk to make a witty enough response. "Boy do you know how late it is? What were you out doing? Or maybe you finally got a girlfriend?" He asked with a wolfish grin. I look at him, unimpressed by his sorry attempt to embarrass me. "I was just driving someone home, that's all. Now if you would let me get up the stairs that I can go to sleep, that would be exemplary." I said in a dull tone, making him more pissed off at me.

He kept yelling and grumbling at me, making me pinch my nose at the stench of booze coming from his mouth.

My legs started moving on their own accord, taking me up the stairs and into my room, ignoring the drunken stares of my dad and his best friends. Making sure to close my door and lock it with my special room key, I strip down to my boxers. I travel to my conjoined bathroom and brush my teeth, not bothering to shower at the moment.

I told my dad and his friends a bold-faced lie.

I was not going to go to bed anytime soon. This is my time to think, my time to reflect. Besides, I have insomnia, so until I'm utterly exhausted, I can't sleep comfortably, hence why I skip class to nap. Now laying on my bed, I go the main focus of my life for just about forever, Ino. Now that I have her, I seem to adore her even more and more everyday. I grin to myself at the way she would laugh like the world was off her shoulders, like she was truly living. I laugh at the way her lip slightly pouts when she doesn't quite get what she wants, or how her smile makes a smile rise on my own lips. Her blonde hair in the sun showing the golden strings off at maximum, her stare looking down into your soul and yet, still soft. Her go-to personality, and her unique way of showing her delicate side, like when she sleeps, she will cuddle with me and initiate most of our hugs. Don't even get me to talk about her figure though, mmmm. Through and through she lights a fire in me that I myself didn't know was there. She is just amazing, and that is why I love her. Then a serious thought dawns on me, making me feel a little scared.

What a dangerous thing, to finally have something worth losing.

Trust me, I damn sure as hell know that I could lose her, and who I would lose her to if, god forbid something that dreadful might happen. Sai.

He has always rubbed me the wrong way, and I never liked him, before and after meeting the snake. I shake those thoughts from my head just as my alarm goes off. At that moment, I look to see that it is six o'clock in the morning, and that I was thinking about all off this straight through the night.

I get up from my bed, going to my bathroom and taking a shower, getting ready for the day ahead. After I get out of the shower, I get dressed, and grab my bookbag, heading to school, somehow avoiding my dad during this time. I head straight to the roof, finally getting tired, and hoping to catch the first, warming rays of sun, before going to class. When I get there, surprise surprise, Sai is standing there, with a couple of his goons that I don't care to remember the names of. "Stay away from Ino, this is your last warning, dickless." I scoff, all of my tiredness forgotten at the thought of good fight.

"I just can't seem to get my head around the reason why you're still so persistent on her, I am the one who is currently dating her so, back off." I say, acted bored of this conversation as to rile him up more.

Man, I just came here wanting to sleep.

He made a hand motion, and simultaneously, the two guys charged at me, before I quickly tripped them, making them eat the concrete. I raise my brow in defiance," nice try, once more maybe?" I say just as Sai rushes me and tries to get in a few punches from I hit him square in the jaw with a uppercut. I see a bruise start to form on him, and before I can get in another hit, he, to my surprise, drops down on the ground and big fat tears roll down his face as he tries to cover his face with his hands, failing miserably. I look down at him in pity, before I sigh. This is such a drag.

I walk past him, climbing up the stairs, and get into my usual spot. Well, that was unusual. Who thought I would see Sai cry? "Leave," I say in a bored tone, hiding my amusement over this whole situation before I hear a bunch of shuffling from the three idiots, before the rusty door screeched open, then closed.

Finally, the silence. Closing my eyes, I breathe in the fresh air. Then, I feel the cold air like pins and needles. The wind blows a mellow scent to me, smelling of Cinnamon and flowers. I open my eyes, only to come to contact with bright blue eyes that hold so much anger, it actually sends a shiver down my back.

"Shika, what the hell are you doing? Skipping class again? You know I can't keep up with you like this..." she rambles on and on with me dozing off, closing my eyes, until it stops. I open one eye precautiously, ready to dodge a slap if need be. She's just staring down at me, before she sighs, and sits down crossing her legs. She scoots closer to me and messes with my ponytail, surprising me since she did all of this without a word. "Shika, didn't sleep again, did you? You need to sleep baby. Please, for me." Anything for you Ino.

I take control of the situation and put my head in her lap, and I instantly feel warmer, the cold wind not nipping at the skin on my face. She blushes a deep shade of crimson and stops her movements trying to avoid eye contact but I make her look at me, grabbing her cheeks, bringing her lips and mine together for a small kiss.

My eyes droop even farther, looking at the angel that I can now call my own after all of the years of me laying in wait, Ino.....

" I love you."

I see her eyes brim with tears before the darkness consumes me and sleep wraps around me like a straight jacket. Yet before I'm totally gone, I hear a hushed response.

"I love you too Shika, so very much."

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Wooooooooooooo!! That felt good. Before you try to kill me, he is not dead, I was just listening to a sad song while writing this chapter. Comment if you want a Christmas special this year, I'll try to make it as good as I can.

Peace peeps,

littlel-lemonhead