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Title: I Understand
Author: Dreaming of Everything, dreams_of_all
Series: Naruto
Characters/Pairings: Shikamaru, Chouji, Shikamaru/Chouji (Chouji/Shikamaru)
Rating/Warnings: PG to PG-13 for a mild kiss. Slash. Very short.
Summary: ShikamaruChouji. The best thing about knowing somebody for long enough is that you start to understand them, no matter what actually gets said.
It all started with a kiss, as they lay next to each other, watching the sky, and Chouji's mouth tasted of food and spit and Shikamaru's mouth tasted unbearably, over-whelmingly human. It was awkward, the two of them not used to this much contact, body stretched against body, one all angles and one all curves.
Chouji understood Shikamaru better than anyone else, and Shikamaru respected Chouji as no one else did. It had always been that way. They had-relied on each other. Lived a delicate balance of trust and corresponding acceptance, understanding and enough respect to just let certain things go.
And now, as they had spent a lazy day like they always did, Shikamaru had half-leaned-over and kissed him, messy and half on Chouji's mouth and half on his cheek until he had shifted to square his lips under his, and they had broken apart after a wonderful, tense minute and looked at each other, worried and unsure and panting, trying to hid their reactions and failing. Was that balance still there? That understanding? It was worth more than a kiss- Shikamaru looked younger than he ever had before, and Chouji more tense, before the moment faded.
They had understood and they leaned in again, and this time their lips met the first time, and all those years meant that they understood each other, now, without needing words, more than anything else, and they trusted each other with everything, even the things that didn’t get said. The things that needed no words.
Later, as they lay side by side, as they always did on these days, the last clouds still barely visible, Chouji smiled and looked over.
“I knew you couldn’t be good at everything.”
“Che. Just because I missed. Once, I might add-“
-END-
Author: Dreaming of Everything, dreams_of_all
Series: Naruto
Characters/Pairings: Shikamaru, Chouji, Shikamaru/Chouji (Chouji/Shikamaru)
Rating/Warnings: PG to PG-13 for a mild kiss. Slash. Very short.
Summary: ShikamaruChouji. The best thing about knowing somebody for long enough is that you start to understand them, no matter what actually gets said.
It all started with a kiss, as they lay next to each other, watching the sky, and Chouji's mouth tasted of food and spit and Shikamaru's mouth tasted unbearably, over-whelmingly human. It was awkward, the two of them not used to this much contact, body stretched against body, one all angles and one all curves.
Chouji understood Shikamaru better than anyone else, and Shikamaru respected Chouji as no one else did. It had always been that way. They had-relied on each other. Lived a delicate balance of trust and corresponding acceptance, understanding and enough respect to just let certain things go.
And now, as they had spent a lazy day like they always did, Shikamaru had half-leaned-over and kissed him, messy and half on Chouji's mouth and half on his cheek until he had shifted to square his lips under his, and they had broken apart after a wonderful, tense minute and looked at each other, worried and unsure and panting, trying to hid their reactions and failing. Was that balance still there? That understanding? It was worth more than a kiss- Shikamaru looked younger than he ever had before, and Chouji more tense, before the moment faded.
They had understood and they leaned in again, and this time their lips met the first time, and all those years meant that they understood each other, now, without needing words, more than anything else, and they trusted each other with everything, even the things that didn’t get said. The things that needed no words.
Later, as they lay side by side, as they always did on these days, the last clouds still barely visible, Chouji smiled and looked over.
“I knew you couldn’t be good at everything.”
“Che. Just because I missed. Once, I might add-“
-END-