Shikamaru stared at all the animals in his bedroom. Apparently Sakura had gotten lonely . . . again. It had started off innocently enough. Konohamaru in his anxiousness to summon the Sarutobi monkey summons had gone to Sakura for help in learning the technique. At the time though Sakura had been thirteen and too proud to admit that she didn't know anything about summons and in her foolishness had signed the contract with the monkey clan right along with Konohamaru, and mastered it by sun down. Never minding the fact that it took another two years before the monkey clan truly accepted and trusted her as a partner. Her second summons came during her training with Tsunade; not realizing or listening to Sakura, she had had the girl sign the contract and Katsuya came on the first call. It was during the fourth war that Sakura had found a basket with nine small puppies, the runts from nin-dogs. She had taken them in and cared for them. When Kakashi had found out he had let her sign the nin-dog contract formalizing her pack within that world, they were her main summons. Two years later after the war when she had gone to visit Nekobaa in search of supplies the woman had forced the cat summons contract on her, insisting that her time would soon come to an end and the contract had to live on; that had still yet to happen, but the cats were happy to be signed with her and even more happy to get on the dogs' nerves when they were forced to work together. Her fifth and final summons had come when she went gambling with Tsunade; a bear contract. That was the summons Naruto hated. The bears always liked a good chase, and Naruto annoyed Sakura a lot, and as a result Sakura had a habit of summoning the bears and letting them get in their daily exercise by using Naruto as the symbolic rabbit for them to chase.

Personally Shikamaru got a laugh out of it . . . except when they were lounging all around his bedroom, playing cards, with his pregnant wife, who was on bed rest. Letting his kunai holster hit the ground he moved around a bear, stepped over one of the dogs, picked up a cat and moved it out of the way and then squeezed between Enma and Sakura so that he could kiss his wife. She grunted a hello and his stomach sank. He was about to be fussed at. "You're late." She didn't even look up from her hand.

"Gennin have short legs."

"Make them run laps, they need endurance to be shinobi." Still no eye contact. "It was a D rank mission?"

"An out of town D rank mission."

She finally looked up, pressing her cards to her lap. Daishiro, a German shepherd who was Sakura's main companion tried to peek, as her attention drifted away. "That took four days?"

"These are really slow gennin." She laughed and he breathed a sigh of relief, "All right guys you can go home, thanks for keeping me company. Choruses of goodbyes were heard as smoke filled the room until all that were left were nine dogs and the monkey king.

Turning to face Enma, Shikamaru raised an eyebrow "My mother-in-law is coming over for dinner."

Shikamaru nodded in understanding "Take the guest bedroom." The monkey nodded his thanks and was gone, nine dogs following behind him. Turning to Sakura he kissed her again "No wonder they call you the Summoning Princess."

SO, this chapter was number 48 of 80 Day Challenge, a journey I embarked on back in December of 2012. I did one sakura one-shot a day for 80 days, and this is the chapter that this entire story is based off. All that's left now is the epilogue, I'm hoping to have that out in a few days so stay tuned. Also I recently started a tumblr, the link is on my profile. You can ask questions there, request one-shots, imagines, or reader inserts. It's actually been pretty therapeutic, and has served to get the creative juices flowing. Leave a review and let me know what you think.