What A Drag... || Shikamaru x reader

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Edited: 01/06/24

Reuploaded: 06/06/24

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I'm at home.

Staring at myself in the mirror.

What the hell is there to love about me?

Temari likes Shikamaru a lot. But he likes me? I mean... I've liked him for a while...

This is all confusing.

I walked out of my bedroom and went to go to the kitchen when the sound of the door being knocked on caught my attention.

"Hello!" I looked for the source of the voice to see Choji with his hands in a bag of crisps(/chips), walking down through my entryway towards where I was leaning back to peek down.

"Hello?" I greeted him as I stepped aside and allowed Choji to step past me.

"How're you?" he asked.

"I'm good," I replied before leading him towards the living area and flopping on one side of the sofa, he flopped down on the other, "anyway, what's up? Why am I being graced with your presence today?"

"I just felt like coming to talk with you for a little while. Words passed around the village that you're home, so I wanted to say hi before you got bombarded with all our friends," he told me. I closed my eyes and inhaled remembering about the rest of the people I knew in the village.

"Actually. More importantly, Naruto, he's not back yet is he?" I asked, Choji shook his head, "phew—I don't have to fight him."

"Fight him?" Choji repeated confused.

"If he found out I went training for three years, he'd force me to have a one-on-one duel with him," I told him, he made an 'ooh' face completely understanding what I was saying and nodded in agreement.

"You're lucky you're back first then, huh?" he asked before going serious, "Shikamaru seems to be acting weird today. I saw him go into the shops and ask for soap."

"Soap? That's... a normal thing to do in a shop," I raised a questioning brow at his words.

"Any shop but old Lady Sero's shop," Choji told me, "remember she sells fruit only."

I bit the inside of my mouth to try stop myself from laughing.

"It's like he's in a daze," he muttered. I finally let my laugh slip and looked at Choji amused.

"Sorry, but that's too amusing. I've never seen a dazed Shika before," I laughed, he smiled and laughed as well.

"I hadn't until today," he nodded along with me as someone knocked at the door again.

"Aren't I popular today?" I asked as I stood and went to the door. I opened it to reveal the dazed Shikamaru.

"Hey," he greeted me.

"Hello, come on in, close the door behind you. We were just talking," I greeted him before going back to where I was sat previously.

"We?" I heard him ask.

He came in and saw Choji.

"Hey, Choji," he greeted his best friend before sitting down next to him, "so what's going on in here?"

"I came to tell her about the great dazed Shikamaru buying soap from a fruit store," Choji told him, I smiled and held back a laugh at Choji's extravagant exaggeration. Shikamaru just hid his face in the collar of his vest.

"What happened to you anyway?" Choji asked. Shikamaru looked at me as if asking if he can tell him about last night. I nodded.

"What am I missing here?" Choji asked, looking between us.