Song of the Moment: We Are The Champions by Queen…I think? Maybe Styx…??
Reason: It's The LAST CHAPTER!!!
OMGEE EVERYONE!!! We're down to the last chapter. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?!?!?!?!? I think I'm going to cry. Sniffle Can this really be it? Is it all over after this? How will it end? Will Shika find love, or will Ino turn him down hard? Is Ino gonna wind up with Sasuke? Will Sasuke ever quit being so fing retarded?!?!?!?!
Well we all know that that last question can never happen, but the others are possibilities . but now I shall leave you with these questions and find out the answers.
Alright I'll get to the story, but only after this little pointer
I ONLY WISH I owned Naruto. Then Sasuke would quit being retarded, Shikamaru would have nipple piercings, Neji would fall madly in love with Hinata and they would have little incest babies (same for Kankuro and Temari) and Orochimaru would be known better as Michael Jackson…wait…isn't he already? Oh well…
Sniffle I think I'm going to cry now. This, my friends, is the last chapter of …of… blows nose Spring Break in Konoha. ;; I can hardly believe it. It feels like just yesterday I was typing up some random thought about what it would be like if there was Spring Break in Konoha. That was clear back during the Christmas break. Good times, my friends, good times.
Well since this is the last chapter and everything I would like to say a few words:
ON WITH THE FINALE!!!!
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Nara Shikamaru sighed and dropped his arms to his side and slouched forward, causing his arms to dangle. Mrs. Nara fussed and complained about his hair.
"Mom, it's just a festival, there's no super reason to worry about my hair, its not gonna work the way you want it to, it never comes out of the ponytail," Shikamaru attempted to put in.
"Oh shut up. You're lucky to have a woman like me as your mother. What if I didn't bother to tell you what looked nice and didn't?" His mother frowned furtively at him.
"Then things would be a lot less troublesome…" his voice trailed off before he could stop himself from saying it.
"Shikamaru, you will be a successful ninja someday, because I have worked so hard to make you such. You will be amazing, just like your father, correct?" she called to the front room where Shikamaru's father was watching TV.
"Yes, dear," he replied quickly. It was not wise to cross the Nara woman, and even Shika's father knew that.
"Besides, what about this girl you're taking?" his mother voiced casually, though Shika knew what she was doing. She was trying to get him to primp up a little.
"She shouldn't care what I look like, she should like me for who I am," Shika objected boredly. "Not that she likes me, or even thinks of me like that."
He felt a little put out about the way she had acted after he confessed his feelings for her on the rooftop. She had ignored him, pushed him away, and avoided his friends as well. He wasn't sure how she would react to the prospect of going with him, especially since it was her father who suggested it when Ino could neither decline, or accept her father's proposal.
A few more minutes of primping and she let Shika go. The sun was getting close to setting. The festival started when the first star shone over Konoha, the Warrior's Star, as it was called.
"Ok, dear, I don't think you should do anything with his hair," Mr. Nara came in and hugged his wife from behind, "At least it's out of his face."
The Nara's cuddled, much to Shika's discomfort and dismay, for a few moments, before sending Shikamaru to his room to find his paper festival fan (A/N: called an uchiha; Hahaha .) so they could prepare.
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Shika rubbed his hands together anxiously. He stood by the festival gate awaiting his date: the lovely Miss Yamanaka Ino.
"Chill, we haven't even been here more than ten minutes. She's not that late." Came the little voice of the now familiar conscience that Shikamaru possessed.
But what if she doesn't want to be around me? What if she thinks I'm a freak? What am I gonna do?
"Well, if she thinks you're a freak now, what will she'll be thinking in bed…"Shikamaru paused and blinked…was it even legal for him to be thinking of things like that at his age?
"Shikamaru!" a voice called out to him softly; a voice that he hadn't heard in all too long.
Shika looked up to see her, standing there, illuminated by the candles that lit the walk way.
His jaw dropped at the sight of her. She was wearing a sky blue yukatadecorated with cream chrysanthemums and baby's breath flowers painted on. Her hair was pulled up in a knot on top of her head with a blue and black ornamental kanzashi holding it in place. Her oceanic blue eyes seemed to glow from the light from the candles and the red tint on her cheeks.
"What are you staring at?" Ino cocked a confused eyebrow.
"Ok, so the kimono does leave a lot to the imagination, but she looks pretty damn hot."
Didn't I tell you she would?
"I was just noticing how nice you look tonight," Shikamaru shrugged trying not to loose his cool.
Ino blushed as she seemed to brighten up, "You really think I look ok?"
Shika blinked. She seemed awfully happy that he thought she looked nice. But she did look amazing.
"Well, should we get to the festival?" Shika suggested. Ino grinned hugely and nodded. She walked up to Shika and looked at him expectantly. Shika cocked a curious eyebrow.
"Well?" she said impatiently.
"Well what?" Shika asked, officially confused now.
"Are you gonna offer your arm to me, or do I have to walk alone?" Ino put her hand on her hip in a sassy fashion (A/N: Ha! The word of the day! Sassy…).
Shika let out a sigh of relief, she didn't totally hate him after all. He shrugged and held out his arm politely as she wound her arm through at the crook of his elbow and clung tightly.
"First the arm thought the arm, next she'll be wrapping her legs around you! Way to go!"
Shikamaru couldn't believe what he was thinking in response to his conscience, Hey, cool it. I'm too young for sex right now, so stop that. Let me enjoy this innocent night with Ino for once…No matter how hot she is!
"Hey, what made you change your mind about hating me anyways?" Shika gave her a sideways glance.
Ino looked at Shikamaru curiously, "Hate you? I never hated you at all, Shika-kun." She smiled and looked to the sky. "I was just couldn't wrap my mind around the fact that a boy actually liked me, you least of all."
" 'A boy actually liked me'? What's that supposed to mean? I can name at least four guys in our class who think you're seriously hot," Shika said as he followed her gaze to the sky searching out the Warrior's Star.
"Ok, thinking I'm hot and really actually liking me are two totally different things, by the way, I overheard you talking to Naruto and Sakura…What do you mean you I have a hot body and you want to bang me?!" She took her fan and reached to smack him over the head with it.
Shika tried, but failed sadly, to dodge and wound up smacked in the eye. He stumbled as nearly fell, thankfully he was able to reach out and grab something soft and squishy and regained his balance…and realized what he was grabbing.
Shika rubbed his eye with one hand while he examined his great luck to have reached out and grabbed…Ino's breast. His eyes widened as he slowly looked up at Ino nervously. He could see the vein throbbing in her forehead as she raised her fist.
"Ino…uh…wait…I-I-I can explain, I didn't-,"
"PERVERT!!" Ino's fist made beautiful contact with the right side of his face, knocking him into a magazine rack.
Shika grinned, his nose trickling blood.
So much for an innocent night.
"I have to admit, you have pretty good aim there, buddy."
"Hey, you kids! Get away from those magazines, those are NOT for kids!!" yelled a fat, plum faced merchant as he tottered to his precious magazines.
"Not for kids?" Shika picked up a magazine to examine what he was talking about. Shika's little friend woke up.
Panties, bras…no bras!! Ino has gotta try that.
"Jackpot."
"Shika-kun! Your nose is bleeding!" Ino gasped and ran for him. Shika blinked and remembered where he was as the fat little merchant huffed and puffed as he came up to Shikamaru and snatched the nudie magazine from him.
"Oh, my precious Tanazaki!" he cried as he kissed the magazine. "Did that nasty snot nosed little kid hurt you?" he crooned.
Ino and Shikamaru exchanged nervous glances.
"Think we should get going?" Ino asked nervously. Shika nodded as she helped him up and the two slowly walked away from the creepy merchant.
Ino dragged Shika around the festival, begging him to win her prizes for her. In return, Shika showed her the best things to eat, which she wolfed down like a hungry animal much to Shikamaru's surprise.
"Hungry at all?" Shika said sarcastically as they sat on a bench near the food stands.
Ino smiled shyly from her fried fish on a stick, "Well, I've kinda been afraid to eat, ya know, always afraid to gain weight or else Sasuke-san wouldn't like me."
Shika noticed the change of suffix at the end of Sasuke's name. "So, what was the point of not eating? So what if you gained weight, your size doesn't make you who you are. It's your attitude and personality that a person should like, not appearance, because someday, you'll be a wrinkly old hag like my mother. Looks change, they never stay the same. You should just be you, do what comes naturally and if eating is what you want to do, do it. Don't let a boy tell you who to be or not to be."
Ino chewed a bite of fish thoughtfully and stared at Shika, "Who'd of thought that you were so deep? But I guess that makes enough sense. So what do you like? My body, or my 'attitude and personality'?"
Your hot ass!
"Breasts, glorious breasts!"
"To be honest, I like everything about you. You have a fiery 'can do' attitude, and a great body, but I won't say the things on my mind and ruin a nice moment." Shikamaru replied.
Ino smiled and inched herself a little closer to Shika, whose heart skipped a beat. She turned her head to look him in the eyes. She moved her face closer to him. Shika gulped nervously, not sure what to do. He closed his eyes and moved a little closer to Ino.
"Wow, Ino. Never thought that you would wind up sinking so low to kiss a loser like him," came a cold, Cooler Than Thou, voice.
Shika jerked back and opened his eyes to see Uchiha Sasuke dressed in dark blue male traditional festival garb, glaring down at him.
"Oh, hi Sasuke-kun," Ino muttered and looked down at her feet, blushing. "I didn't see you there."
Sasuke smirked, "Obviously not." He clacked his way over and sat himself between to Ino and Shikamaru. Shika rolled his eyes at this obstacle.
"So Ino, I was wondering what you were doing tonight. I thought maybe you and I could hang out." Sasuke said, his voice like a snake charmer.
"Well, actually, uh, um, I'm here with…Shikamaru-san," she mumbled, still not looking up.
"Yeah, so get the hell out of here, queer balls," Shika interjected.
Sasuke turned and glared at him, "Are you challenging me? I have some advice for you if you are: don't. It wouldn't even be worth the humiliation I could and would leave you with, freak."
"Like hell you would. You're such a pussy you couldn't take a hit." Shikamaru growled.
"Oh, you want to talk pussy? You're worse than any guy I've ever seen, up and slobbering every time Ino walks by like a little pet puppy." Sasuke retorted.
"Man, are you just gonna take that lying down?"
"Yeah, me and every other guy, because she hot. You just wish you could have something like her."
"Oh, and that's why you're checkin out magazines with naked girls? I saw that earlier. You sicko. Pretending to fall into that stand just so you can stare at breasts."
Ino looked up at Sasuke, her face worn with anger, surprise, and curiosity. She opened her mouth to speak, but closed it, apparently at a loss for words. Finally something came to her, "How about we go get ice cream or something instead of fighting, huh guys? Com' on!" she begged.
Sasuke turned on her, his lust for a fight taking over him, "Is that all you think about? Food? I saw you eating, you're going to get fat and then you're not even going to be attractive in the body, because nothing else about you looks good."
The tears in Ino's eyes made Shikamaru snap. It was one thing for Sasuke to attack Shikamaru, but another thing for him to attack an innocent bystander. Shikamaru stood up and dragged Sasuke up by the back of his robe. He spun him around so they were face to face. He yanked on Sasuke's robe so their faces were mere inches apart. Sasuke's usual neutral expression faltered and turned to genuine fear.
"Say that to her ever again and I swear to god I will neuter you with a dull shuriken, do you hear me? In fact, get your ass the hell out of here and don't let me see you around this festival tonight. I don't want to so much as catch a peek of you around here."
With that, Shikamaru flung the stunned Uchiha into the small crowd of hopefuls who had managed to gather without Shika's knowledge to watch a fight. Sasuke regained his persona and pulled himself up and dusted off and turned and walked off without another word.
The disappointed crowd dispersed, leaving Ino and Shikamaru alone once more.
"Shika-kun?" Ino asked timidly.
"Dude…we ROCK! Can you hear the sound of her voice? Sweet melody…"
Shika turned and smiled weakly at Ino, his fists still shaking in rage, "Oh, sorry. I forgot you were here." He exhaled.
He looked at Ino's face and blinked. It was shining with admiration and awe.
"You ok?" Shika asked as he sat back down next to her and put an arm around her shoulder.
"Yeah, just…thanks. That was very nice of you. That was so brave, standing up to the Uchiha Sasuke like that. Every one's so afraid of him that we just let him walk all over us." Ino smiled and tears welled in her eyes.
"Oh, well I didn't like what he said to you. That's just messed up. No one should ever say that to another person. Ever. It does nothing but cause trouble." Shika shrugged.
Ino wiped her eyes on the back of her hand, "But what you just did for me. That was very nice of you. Thank you so much."
Shika blinked, wondering why she was crying. He pulled her hands down and wiped the edges of her eyes with his index fingers. "I…You're welcome."
Their eyes met once more. Things happened much faster this time around. Before Shika knew it, he was lip locked with the most beautiful platinum blonde ever.
"WE DID IT! GO US! WAY TO GO, SHIKAMARU!!!"
I'm…actually…Ino…touching…
They pulled away and Ino smiled, "Shika-kun, you are the most amazing guy I have ever met."
Shika smiled and stood up, "Thanks a lot. Would you like to go get some ice cream? Then maybe we could head up to the rooftop for some cloud watching?"
Ino grinned and stood up and faced Shika sternly, "Ok, just leave the porn magazines here, hm? You troublesome boy."
Shika couldn't help but laugh and the two joined the crowd, arm in arm and heart in heart. It was the perfect way to end the most perfect spring bang…er…break.
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Sasuke: (walks in) WTF is going on here? What's this? (reads Spring Break in Konoha manuscript) WHAT THE HELL??? IZUMI!!!!
Enter me: yes, queer balls?
Sasuke: (evil glare) What's this? (points at manuscript)
Me: Oh, I call it "Spring Break in Konoha" .
Sasuke: (death glare) oh yeah? Who is "FarCryFromDead" (points to first page, first chapter)
Me: tis meh Fanfic name, why?
Sasuke: (picks up a kunai) I think it's time we negotiate character…well characteristics…
Me: O.o with a kunai? Are we gonna play baseball?
Sasuke: (devilish grin) something like that…(taps his head lightly with handle)
Me: (Understands…like a blonde) oh…so it'll be softball?
Sasuke: (Sweat drops…TT) NO I'M GONNA KEEL JOO!!!
Me: (frantically writes things down on manuscript) Fine fine!! I'm a change it, I'ma change it!!!
Sasuke: (Waits…with kunai aimed at poor poor Izumi's head)
Me: (Writes…with Kunai pointed at head…T.T O.o eugh…) (finishes) okies, all done…
Sasuke: (snatches manuscript) lemme read that…
Alternative ending:
Meanwhile, Uchiha limped on with a sore leg from landing on it funny when Nara had thrown him. Not only was his leg hurt, but so was his pride.
He walked through the festival, the sweet smells making him nauseous. He sought out a nice quite little table away from a crowd. He sat down and rubbed his sore leg in attempts to make the pain subside.
"Sasuke? Are you alright?" came an overly familiar voice. Sasuke looked up and found himself face to face with Naruto. He blinked in surprise at seeing the young ninja in training alone.
He made up his face to his common "don't give a damn" expression, "Yeah, I'm fine. Where is your little Sakura? Weren't you and her supposed to be here together?"
Naruto shrugged, "I guess she got tired of me or something, cuz she took off with Neji and Tenten. Have you seen Hinata?"
Sasuke glared, "Oh, it's Hinata you want, is it? Well then, what am I? Your sex toy?"
Naruto stared, "…I don't even know how to respond to that. Are you on crack or something?"
Sasuke blinked in horror, "OMG, I did not just say that."
Naruto smiled slyly, "Actually you did. Say, wanna head over to my place for some ramen?"
Sasuke caught the drift of the question and grinned, "Are we going to 'eat ramen' until the sun comes up?"
Naruto raised an eyebrow, "Only if you want to." He smiled his fox smile.
Sasuke scrambled to his feet and smiled and together they went to Naruto's house to enjoy some really good "ramen."
End Alternate Ending.
Sasuke: (Blinks) I hate ramen…
Me: (head-desk) you aren't actually eating ramen, silly…
Sasuke: (Angry) Then why the hell did you put that in there???
Me: (Rolls eyes) I can't say it out loud, don't want to offend anyone. Let me whisper it in your ear (does do)
Sasuke: (Blinks…blushes) Ramen is sex?
Me: (sighs) I tried not to say anything, but yes…
Sasuke: (examines manuscript, mainly the ending again) …(Blushes deeper) so ugh…(clears throat) Yeah, This is Ok…I mean, it could be better, but I'm not complaining…
Me: (gasps) You're admitting to being GAY???
Sasuke: (Shifty eyes) …
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