Chapter 1: Tamari and Shikamaru
Smelling the freshly cut grass and feeling her dew-dampened clothes, Tamari awoke with a start. As she slowly rose to stand she noticed a throbbing pain behind her left eye.
'Hang over' she thought, finally coming to her feet. She wobbled a little; partly from having just awoken, partly from her headache. Slowly blinking sleep from her eyes, Tamari notices the uprightness of trees and white strands of scroll all around her. Tamari looks around. Scroll, Ramen, and miscellaneous trash litter the forest floor. She comes to the conclusion that she is on the site of a party. Tamari starts her way up the trees to get a better look when she notices that she is wearing a boy's shirt and loose, baggy jeans.
'This is not what I left the village in.' She complains to her self, 'I might as well so see what else is wrong with me.' Tamari hears a rippling sound of moving water. Nearby there is stream. In the bushes of the nearby villages stream, she de-clothes herself. She looks at the reflective surface of the moving stream. She sees a rippled version of herself. Her eyes are heavy with bags and her hair is knotted, frizzy, and dirty.
Shikamaru was a silent, smart student of Asuma. Always had been, always will be. All through his life he has been a lazy, slacker, but his IQ is 200+. He hates to prove his intelligence and girls just generally flirt with him. It was only now that he had started realizing his attractions to girls (and a few guys). As cool, collected and controlled as he was, it took all he had not to look. couldn't help this. This was a year ago that he had his awakening, and since then has come into full blossom with his sexual side. His battle with Temari has just passed (three days ago) and he cant stop thinking of her: the way she thought, how long it took to capture her. 'I should have made her kiss me' he sighs, his head among the clouds. 'Oh well, I think I'll go for a walk, maybe return to the party area, see if anyone's still lingering after Kakashi-san and Asuma-Sensei busted it up.'
Shikamaru started his slow but sure walk into the forest. His shock lies next, in Chapter 2 the Sighting.
