How does Shikamaru decide?

Ino or Temari?
** at Shikamaru **

I lay there and looked at the clouds, but something was on my mind. Because I saw HER face again in front of me, she was in Konoha again for a few weeks about that I was actually quite happy but I didn't show it. And then there was the thing with Ino ... what is actually between me and Ino? Are we just friends or are we more than that? And again I saw Temari's face in front of me, she just couldn't get out of my mind, I just had to think of her, of her manner and of everything about her! Strangely suddenly I remembered a conversation I had had with my father years ago.

At that time, Tsunade had just been announced as the 5th generation Hokage, I said to my father: "Phew, a woman will be Hokage ... I don't get along very well with girls they are stubborn and talk a lot. And they keep arguing even though they're somehow attached to each other Besides, they think they can do what they want the boys to be - they are just annoying! "My father replied dryly: “Without women, men were broken. Even the coldest woman gives warmth to her beloved man. You understand that when you are an adult! "

Now that I remember these words I have to smile, I think I finally understood what he meant to say to me!
I looked at my watch and found that I only had an hour left before I had to go to TenTen's birthday party. Everyone was invited, all of them are my friends from Konoha and the three Suna-Nins: Temari, Gaara and Kankuro.
Strangely, at the Chu-Nin selection test, Temari and Tenten got ready and meanwhile they were best friends.
Pf, I only thought about it, something again that I will never understand in women! first they hate each other like the plague and then they are best friends! Strange but no matter I was glad that Temari was invited because that way I have the opportunity to spend time with her without everyone saying we have a date!At this thought I had to smile again, but now I made my way to my room and prepared myself for the party, but my thoughts were long with her again!

*** at Ino's home at the same time ***

Damn what should I wear? , that was the only thought that had preoccupied me for hours, but suddenly there was this feeling again, I thought of him, but was I so sure of my feelings? I thought back to the thing a week ago:

,, Hey Ino! ", Kiba Inuzuka called to me. I stopped and waited for him." Tell me, do you have plans for Saturday? " How so ?"
"We could go together, right?"
I looked at him and just felt a strange feeling in the stomach area, somehow he is very cute when he behaves as shyly as he does at the moment! Wait a minute what am I thinking? I'm in love with Shikamaru! Is it?I wasn't so sure of my own feelings anymore and just thought back. Two hours ago I was out with my former teammates, Choji and Shikamaru, when we suddenly met Temari and her brothers. They came up to us and talked to us for a long time. Then I noticed something that the otherwise annoyed Shikamaru, who otherwise rarely spoke (much too exhausting!), Talked quite extensively with Temari! And not just the way he looked at her! Completely fascinated, he had only looked at me once and that when we were watching the sunset together. He just said that the sunset was beautiful but not nearly as beautiful as me! Then I asked him just bitchy why he had to sneak into me like that. He had been very hurt at the time, I was shocked by my words myself, but by then it was already too late with a depressed expression and infinitely sad eyes he disappeared and left me alone on the cliff.To this day I regret my words ... I always (!) Wanted to be near him, it was different than the "feelings" I had for Sasuke that was just a crush but that with Shikamaru was different! I also remembered ours first kiss about 2 years ago, at one of my notorious parties. That was after the thing with the sunset, then I kissed him there Temari was already in the village and suddenly I could explain to myself why he was so dismissive at the party to me, so he already liked her then!
I suspected something like that but never suspected it! But wait a minute, what if I'm just wrong? I mean erring is human, isn't it? But does he have feelings for me now? And me for him? And what about Kiba? I noticed (a week ago, you have to take a look upstairs)
That I like him a lot even more than like a friend, just like Shikamaru, or even more? First I pushed all these thoughts aside, because afterwards I can think about it again in peace, now I have to get ready!I looked around again and finally decided on a light blue, knee-length halterneck dress that nicely accentuates my eyes, plus a couple of ballerinas in the same color and a couple of long silver earrings and a couple of bracelets. I just put my hair together with a couple of hair clips, plus a little eyeshadow and mascara. When I look at myself in the mirror again I just think: Wow, I look good, why didn't I think of it earlier then I wouldn't have wasted so much time! I looked again at the wall clock in my room and realized that I have to hurry. But suddenly the doorbell rings and while I was still wondering who it could be, I went to the door to open it.

*** Tenten's house shortly before the party ***
"Tenten now come out at last you look great and if he doesn't notice it is his own fault!" I just shouted and knocked like a madman on the bathroom door. "Do you really think so?" only asked a shy voice from the bathroom.I was surprised, Tenten and shy is that possible? The girl who usually never minuses? "Definitely!" I replied.
"Thank you Temari!" Tenten replied and unlocked the bathroom door. I went in without hesitation, after all Tenten had become one of my best friends in recent years! And I was right, Tenten looked stunning! She entered Red dress in Chinese style, she wore her long hair open only with a few clips and she was only lightly made up with make-up. I just looked at her and thought: "Wow, if they all look so great, I can wrap them up!" She seemed to have read my thoughts or to be able to interpret my facial expression because she only said: “What are you looking at? You look great too! "
I looked down at myself and just thought: Well not necessarily stunning but very pretty!
I wore a black skirt that goes a little over my knees, a black, backless shirt and, last but not least, black shoes with a 5cm high heel.So that the whole thing doesn't look too uniform, I tied a white cloth to myself as a belt replacement. I was also made up and I also wore jewelry. So all in all a bit unusual for me but still pretty! "Will I like Shikamaru too?" I thought out loud. When I noticed what I had just said, I barely winced because I had seen Tenten's smile. Still smiling, she asked me: "So you are after all in love with him? "I blushed, the whole time I was very successful in making everyone believe that I don't want anything from him. But actually, I had been in love with him since the Chu-Nin selection test.
Well now it was out, I could tell her, couldn't I? "Yes, I'm in love with him!" I became a little redder if that was even possible! Tenten no longer smiled, she laughed! Is she laughing at me? Is it really so unimaginable that I'm in love with him? She appeared again Noticing my facial expression because suddenly she stopped laughing and just said: ,, Sorry!But it's funny the boy who never feels like doing anything and one of the most active girls I know! I think the one who said opposites attract was more right with his assumption than he thought! "I also had to smile when I thought about it, but then a thought struck me that wiped my smile away: Ino. What has happened in the meantime, whether the two are a couple? Such and many very similar thoughts went through my head and every thought made me sad, after all 2 years ago I had seen the two smooching on a couch at one of Ino's parties! But as I said, that was 2 years ago. In 2 years a lot could change that I knew from my own Experience, my brother, for example, had changed a lot in the last few years, of course he is now Kazekage too, there you change but he has changed fundamentally! In the past he was only driven by hate and murder addiction but now he's actually quite nice !Tenten only said to me: “That with Shika and you will work out! It's easier for you than me! All you have to do is convince a bored guy, I have to thaw a chunk of ice! "When she said that I had to laugh the only one who was even colder and more dismissive than Neji Hyuga, this was Sasuke Uchiha since he murdered his brother. He has been back in Konoha, but he has hardly changed, he is still dismissive and cold just like before, only one thing had changed: lately he was doing something with Sakura more often but that's different. I was torn from my thoughts when the doorbell rang. Before I knew it Tenten had already opened the door and it was all already there and with all I mean all! I looked around it was all there I know and definitely more! I just heard a giggle that seemed all too familiar to me: It was the laugh of Ino Yamanaka. I saw myself around and saw her immediately, she looked stunning in the light blue dress and suddenly my self-confidence, which was usually quite high, was blown away.Against the questions came she was with Shikamaru ......? Wait a minute, that's it! The guy who stands with Ino and who she laughs with, he looks good! I just thought but I was torn from my thoughts when I saw how she fell around his neck! That was too much for me and I ran out of the room, out on the porch and finally I couldn't hold back the tears. I leaned against the wall and let my grief run free. I should have known he liked Ino! It was so obvious! Or not ? Question after question, the only thing I knew was that I would be on my way home tomorrow morning. Get away from Konoha as soon as possible, away from Ino, away from him!
*** Shikamaru's view of the action ***
I was just on the way to Tenten's