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Haruno Sakura didn't think she was unique like Sasuke. She also didn't have as much determination as Naruto. But she wasn't a slob, misogynistic, or lazy. So why was she born next to the very thing she despised? Shikamaru.
She grew to tolerate Shikamaru, if you could even call it that. They did have the same friend group and they both had to get along according to Ino-pig and Naruto. To everyone's surprise, people with higher intelligence than most people won't get along with each other. Shikamaru and Sakura had first-hand experience with that.
They would always argue over the stupidest things according to other people. Sakura thought she had the very right to debate with him when he was wrong and Shikamaru had the same philosophy.
To Sakura's shame, she and Shikamaru did quite get along better after the war until he started agreeing with Gaara-kun about Sasuke having another year of prison. To no one's surprise they started fighting like cats and dogs over this issue and many more to come.
Sakura had finally found peace when he fortunately died of a heart attack before her. So once she died she had felt completed with her life. Until she got reincarnated 22 years back in time to when she was born. She didn't think much of it until her mother, who now she realized looked familiar, turned her head around to meet someone's eyes.
It was the devil reincarnated to torture her through the deepest pits of hell, Shikamaru. She closed her eyes and for one of the first times since she was born, she bawled her eyes out. It took her mother, whom she knows as Yoshino, to put her to bed.
It had to be him. Why couldn't I have been reincarnated into something better? Like Ino’s sister! But I had to be reincarnated as Shikamaru’s twin. No wonder my mother looked familiar, I met her in another life, no pun intended.
Sakura decided to suck it up and stop crying, she took to instead glare at her new brother while drinking her formula. He eventually got the hint and went to bed. Sakura had no idea what to do but cry at this unfortunate problem. She wondered what happened to her mother and father, maybe they just won't have kids? She doesn't want a copy of herself, seriously.
The next morning she woke up having something wet on her face and something heavy on her stomach. It was the devil, Shikamaru. He drooled on her face and then fell asleep on her stomach. She didn't think he could be smart enough for revenge, but he proved her wrong.
Since she was a baby she couldn't get Shikamaru’s humongous head off her stomach. She wished she just stayed dead at this point, her embarrassment was through the roof and she couldn't take it anymore.
She had started crying to see if Shikamaru would be woken up. Unfortunately, the Nara genes were ridiculously strong and he stayed asleep through her mini-tantrum. She practically gave up and gave in to the dark and fell asleep next to him.
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Sakura and Shikamaru were both 5 months old and pretty much well-developed, so their father, Shikaku Nara, took them to the park. Not surprisingly, it was our mothers' idea since we were getting "too pale" and we needed sunlight to survive. We couldn't do anything since we couldn't even crawl yet so we just laid there in the sun while some granny's fawned over us.
"Her hair color is so unique, and her eyes. How did she get her hair color?" One of the women asked while staring intently at my hair.
Her father cleared his throat to respond, "It was a recessive hair gene from her great aunt." Her father replied with ease, having heard the question at least ten times when he took her out of the compound.
"Shikamaru looks so smart! It's like he can understand what we are talking about!" The woman said, cooing at him. Around that time she stopped listening and snickered in her head. She could already tell who the prettier twin was and it wasn't Shikamaru.
Sakura would have a blast teasing Shikamaru about this when he could understand it. Which will be soon she hopes, not surprisingly being an infant is tiresome.
Luckily, there are certain perks to being an infant. For example, you can stare at anyone you want and people would just think you're being cute! Also, she doesn't have to work which is fantastic itself.
While the women were complimenting Shikamaru he eventually fell asleep. Sakura wasn't surprised, but she was surprised at what was behind Shikamaru. It was Kakashi, way younger than she ever saw him. He was wearing his Anbu mask and was sprinting to the Hokage's office. She was only able to catch a glimpse of him, but she could recognize that Icha Icha book in his pocket any day.