"But mom I don't feel very good. My head hurts and my stomach feels funny. Please I haven't missed a single day this year, let me have today off. I know I don't have a fever but I am seriously suffering."

Despite my pleas my mother forced me to go to school even threatened to take me in my pjs. With an enormous defeated sigh I got dressed. However, instead of my normal revealing clothes, I threw on some fluffy purple sweat and a sweatshirt that matched. I threw the hood over my hairdo that for some reason I honestly didn't care about that morning and took little effort with my make up application. Overall I looked blah, but maybe I could convince the nurses at school that I was truly sick because most people know I'd never be caught dead looking the way I did at that moment.

I trudged into first period just as the bell rang my eyes a little blurry from my head pounding so hard. When the crowd cleared in front of me I looked over to see my seat beside yet another empty seat. 'So he didn't show either' a sigh of relief escaped from my lips as I took my seat and rearranged my notebook and spiral to take up the whole table.

About half way through first period an announcement come over the p.a. system "Ino Yamanaka please come to the main office."

"Huh?" I turned my head to the side, maybe I can still go home, even though the thing I was trying to avoid was gone I still dreaded being here. I gathered my things and headed down the hall. Yet I caught a glimpse of my favorite spot out the window. There on a log a light sprinkle of rain surrounding him sat a familiar brown haired young man.

At first I felt afraid, me heart rate increased and I felt it would pop out of my chest. 'What if comes inside, what if he sees me, what if…" then it hit me 'why had he chose there? Why had he even stayed outside? He didn't have anything to hide from, I should be the one out there.' And suddenly I found myself running down the hall, out the door and in front of those logs, the rain had now began to fall harshly against the pavement.

Shikamaru continued to stare at the logs, the loud sound of water smashing the pavement rang through my ears harshly, but not harsher then being ignored by the one I was trying to avoid.

Kind of thankful that I hadn't spent hours on my hair, since it was now drenched I slowly walked over and sat on the log next to the sopping wet being. Putting myself in such an uncomfortable position, not knowing what was running through his mind.

"There are a lot of clouds today." The down trotted wet individual beside me observed rather blandly.

"But you can hardly see anything through all this rain." I replied and regretted it almost instantly.

Another long silence hung over us for several minutes then I heard a sigh. I turned to see a dark set of eyes close to mine, seriousness in them that I had never seen before.

"Are you okay?"

"Look, even though it's troublesome to say this, I knew. I mean I am a genius so it wasn't hard to figure out. The thing was I didn't want to be with a pain like you because you're always doing unnecessary things. Like calling or texting me every second of the day. Always having to know where I am, and when you aren't busy you always scope me out and drag me along to carry your bags at the mall. I didn't want all that, I just wanted something simple. When Tamari showed she seemed like the type of person who didn't care, and I could just be myself. But when I was with her all I could think of is how much girls actually have in common, particularly how much she had in common with one other girl I knew. She always took my cell phone away from me when I got any text, always snooped in on any conversation I had with any other girl, and always had to know exactly what I had planned that day. Then she realized that there was an even bigger nerd in the world that she could jerk around all day and dumped me."

He sighed once again then placed his hand against my cheek. "But you, you've been there since I was young. I use to drag you around and tell you my problems while we watched the clouds. I was never good enough for you. You always had a guy hanging around you, and how could you not when you're so gorgeous. So all your troublesome behavior stopped me from looking into my feelings any further. Then, when I started dating, I noticed you were uneasy." He chuckled lightly; "look this is starting to get old. I'm done talking."

"Wha…" before I got a chance to fully understand this madman's prior babbles I felt a warmth I'd never felt before pressed against my forehead. My heart started to pound just a little faster then normal. "Why did you kiss my forehead?"

"Because if I would have kissed you for real I'd never live it down, and that would be…" before I let him finish I took the liberty of making his life just a little more troublesome, at least for today.