What A Drag... || Shikamaru x reader

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Edited: 30/05/24

Reuploaded: 06/06/24

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"How's your Dad?" Shikamaru asked as I sat in my seat.

"He only fell out a tree. How annoying, I was worried," I sighed, slouching forward defeatedly. I heard something hit the desk and looked up to see my headband in front of me.

"You dropped it yesterday," he said, not looking at me, his hands in his pockets as usual, "it'd be a drag to have you lose it the day you got it, so I decided to return it to you today."

"Thanks, Shika!" I smiled up at him and he looked at me with confusion, "what?"

"You called me Shika..." he mumbled.

"Oh! Is that an issue? It's just your name is so long and it's really boring to spend about 6 seconds saying someone's name," I asked, frantically waving my hands around before peaking up at him to see him watching me with his hand covering his face, I stood up and poked him in between his eyebrows, "you ok?"

"U-uh y-yes," he bowed awkwardly before basically sprinting to his seat where Choji just teased him.

"Can I ask you something?" Kiba asked, taking his seat next to me and watching as Akamaru curled up on my lap obviously slightly irritated at the sight.

"Go ahead," I nodded, lightly stroking Akamaru's back and then tying my headband around (wherever the hell you want your headband).

"Are you and Shikamaru a thing or something?" he asked, I froze for a moment before looking at him absolutely confused.

"No! Why and how the hell did you get that idea?" I asked him a bit too loudly causing others to look at us, I shrunk back, and they lost interest in what was happening pretty quickly.

"You guys just seem oddly close. Plus I know you didn't see it but when you called him Shika, I'm almost certain he was losing his mind," Kiba pulled his hand out of his pocket and started listing the reasons, "plus, his Mum made you lunch. Your parents' are close to each other, and he defended you all too easily. Almost like it was natural."

"Why? Were you calling me a freak with no friends or something?" I asked him, raising a brow suspiciously even though I knew he was. Suddenly he panicked.

"N-no! Of course I wasn't!" he was the loud one this time.

"Can you guys stop being so loud?" Sasuke asked in his stupid nonchalant voice that made his fan girls squeal happily. Those girls are such idiots...

"Can you stop being an ass?" I retorted, he stood up and pulled out a shuriken.

"You want to fight?" he asked, raising it up. I stood up and pulled out a kunai.

"Bring it, hedgehog!" I shouted back at him as Iruka sensei walked into the classroom.

"Whoa—Sasuke! Y/n! Put those tools down now!" he shouted, running up to each of us and taking the weapons out our hands, "don't be so stupid! Both of you could've gotten hurt!"

That's the point.

Shikamaru's PoV

Y/n gave me a nickname?

Why am I getting all flustered about this?

It's just an abbreviation of my name... that my Dad also has...

"Shikamaru has a crush on y/n~" Choji whisper teased, making sure only I could hear him.

"Of course I don't, Choji, don't be ridiculous," I returned in an equally low whisper.

What a drag. Seriously. She's made my life weird and now I'm having weird thoughts too. Damn.

"N-no! Of course I wasn't!" Kiba exclaimed rather loudly. Our gazes all drifting to where a panicking boy and a smug girl were sat.

"Can you guys stop being so loud?" Sasuke asked, his voice all "cool" and all that jazz, causing the girls swooning over him to squeal.

"Can you stop being an ass?" y/n retorted, Sasuke stood up and pulled out a shuriken.

"What a pain," I grumbled, "there they go."

"You want to fight?" he asked, raising it up. Y/n stood up and pulled out a kunai.

"Bring it, hedgehog!" she shouted back at him as Iruka sensei walked into the classroom.

"Whoa—Sasuke! Y/n! Put those tools down now!" he shouted, running up to both of the angry kids and taking the weapons out their hands before standing in his usual place behind his desk, "don't be so stupid! Both of you could've gotten hurt!"

How could I have a crush on such a hot headed, reckless but kind, relaxing and calm girl?

Damn.

No way. There is... no... way?

Your PoV

(a/n: so your teammates are made up, they don't have an existing role in the Naruto series same goes for your sensei)

"Anyway, now that's settled," Iruka started as the whole class settled down, "I'll announce your teams and then you'll go and meet your new sensei."

I listened to the team assortments, Shino with Kiba and Hinata, Naruto with Sakura and Sasuke, Shikamaru with Choji and Ino and...

"Now for Team 9, f/n l/n, Yuuto Reo, and Riku Haru," he finished. I looked around to see two boys waving at me.

Must be them then.

"Hello," I greeted them as I reached their desk. Yuuto was slightly taller than me with apple red hair, golden eyes and freckles that seemed to sit on his grin perfectly. Riku was the same size as Yuuto and had raven black hair that was longer at the front, bit like Sasuke's emo look annoyingly enough, with bright blue eyes and a pair of glasses.

"I'm Yuuto, but you can call me Yuu," Yuuto introduced himself.

"I'm Riku, I don't really have a shorter version of my name, so I guess no nicknames here," Riku introduced himself with a shrug.

"I'll figure one out," I smiled, "I'm y/n. I hope we get along well."

"Yeah," the two boys say in unison before Iruka sensei approached us and told us where to go to meet our sensei. I didn't know where that was, so I grabbed my bag and followed the boys out the room since they seemed to know.

After a while of walking, we finally reached the place to see an older man smoking in a tree.

"Excuse me!" Yuuto called up to the man as we stopped at the base of the tree, "we're Team 9. Are you our sensei?"