Without a Strategy
by Granate, 2004 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Shikamaru had resigned himself. Not that he had tried in the first place, or even ever intended to try. No, he wasn't stupid. He was lazy, cowardly, and frequently sour, but he was not stupid. He knew that cool girls like Yakanama Ino liked cool guys like Uchiha Sasuke. There was no way he could compete with that. Sasuke was the Number One Rookie of their class. Sasuke had a bloodline limit. Sasuke could do that cool fireball thing. Shikamaru knew just one higher level jutsu. Strategically, he wondered of he could beat Sasuke in a fight. He would probably do that Uchiha eye thing and copy the Shadow Technique. He didn't know why he liked Ino in the first place. He'd always thought he would find a girl who was perfectly, wonderfully average. Average height, average looks, average abilities. But Ino, she was nothing like that. She was too talented, too bold, too tall, too ambitious, too loud, too bossy, too aggressive, too proud, too smart, and much, much too pretty. It had started when they'd been put on the same Genin Team. Oh, she had made her displeasure clearly known to both him and Chouji, but it wasn't as if that had surprised him at all. She had taken charge immediately, which was fine with him. He certainly hadn't wanted to be responsible for the team. Being on a team with her and Chouji worked out well enough. He liked it when she told him to take care of her body when she left it. She had asked him the very first time. Maybe he just seemed like a better alternative to Chouji, but she always asked him. He liked that. He didn't mind just doing whatever she said because, sometimes, she made him want to try.
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