The Demon They All Fear. {NARUTO}

|13| Getting Ready.

"Shikamaru~" A short kunoichi whined, looking down at the boy who was trying to watch the clouds. "Spar with me~" She whined again trying to get the brown haired boy to fight her.

"I will if I don't have to treat you to ramen." The boy bargained, closing his eyes and singing. The girl immediately froze what she was doing. What was better? Getting treated to ramen, the God of Food, or a spar with a super lazy person. That was a no-brainer.

She pouted sitting next to him, "You're really lazy, you know that right?" She spoke quietly, looking away from the boy who only sighed and didn't say a respond. A thought popped into her mind, "Hey, when are you going to treat me to ramen?" She questioned facing him.

He shrugged, crossing his arms behind his head making them act like a pillow. "After the chunin exams, since it'll be a bother getting up now and it starts again tomorrow." He responded lazily.

Mina nodded, also lying down mimicking his position, she gazed at the clouds spotting shapes that they made. Soon, her eyes became heavy and she couldn't help but let them fall closed.

The month that was given to train, flew by in a blur. Mina understood the point of playing shoji now, to learn and develop strategies for a battle. Although it took some time to get used to playing in silence for so long, she managed. The time she won against Shikamaru seemed to be a fluke because she never won another game with him. Maybe it was because he was going easy on Mina the first time they played together.

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"Awww~ they look ararable~" A female's voice cooed loudly, looking at the two tangled bodies that lay on the grass. A groan came from the blond and red haired girl, the loud voice just had to stop the dream of food. Yes, food.

Not long after the noise, blue-violet eyes fluttered open, only seeing a blur of colours. As she tried to sit up, she noticed that there was something holding her down. She tried again, with more force this time but only got pulled closer to the thing that was holding her down. It was hard but warm. Mina closed her eyes again, enjoying the warmth and even thought about going back to sleep.

The breezes she felt reminded her that she was not in her bed and made her eyes go wide with panic. Questions swirled around in her head as she frantically tried to push the weight away. She managed to, only enough to see what the weight was. Her cheeks instantly flared with colour.

"S-s-sorry, Shika." She spoke hurriedly, mentally smacking herself for stuttering. The boy sighed and released her to which Mina instantly moved a few meters away.

"So Shikamaru is finally admitting that women aren't troublesome." A males voice spoke catching the attention of the two kids. They looked up to see two people, a female with long blonde hair wearing an outfit with a lot of purples and a male, who wore the basic ninja outfit with a white piece of cloth on the hip, he had black hair and a beard.

"Or that the lazy ass could ever get a girlfriend." The blonde smirked putting a hand on her hip.

"It's not-"Mina was cut off from her explanation when the man spoke again.

"I'm treating team 10 to BBQ, let's go." The man ordered instead of asking, he then turned to the blushing girl, "you can come too if you'd like." He invited.

Mina shook her head vigorously, "No! I've got some things I need to do before the exam anyway, ya know." She explained standing up and dusting off her ninja outfit, the same one she had a from a couple of days ago, she then started running off into the direction of her apartment.

She suddenly stopped, turned around fastly and pointed at Shikamaru, "If you're my opponent tomorrow then don't hold back! I've got a new jutsu I'm going to try on you, ya know! That's only if you're my opponent!" She shouted.