Shikamaru?" Ino had been sat next to the brunette for a while now, not speaking, simply watching the clouds.
"Yeah," Shikamaru replied.
"What do you think love feels like?"
Shikamaru sat up and looked at his blonde teammate in confusion. "What do you mean?" he asked.
"How do you know when you're in love?" she said.
"Well," Shikamaru started. "Love is just a chemical reaction in the brain that occurs to make sure we reproduce. It affects everyone differently."
"I'm not asking what love is," Ino sighed, shaking her head. "I want to know what you think it feelslike."
"That's really troublesome to think about, Ino," he said turning to the sky again. "I suppose because of the dopamine and norepin –"
"Shikamaru!"
Shikamaru turned back to Ino.
"Feelings, not technical stuff," she told him with a slight smile. Sometimes he wished he wasn't a genius.
"Fine," he said. "It feels blissful, exciting; it fills you fear but at the same time, you feel calm and secure."
"But why?"
"It's just a chemical reaction. 100,000 different chemical reactions occur in the normal human brain every second, Ino, you expect me to detail every single one that makes us feel like this?"