Intro: Hi! My name is Nina. I am the newest addition to the Sasura team! I am nice and a soccer addict! One thing I dread though is spiders so someone in this story might have a slight (not so slight) fear of spiders. Ha-ha. Now, let's continue on with the real story.

Note: This has been slightly edited by Julie to make more sense to some readers.

Chapter One: The Sweepstakes

10 years old Sakura Haruno stretched as she looked at the morning sun. 'Another annoying day of school..' she thought warily. Her strawberry-blonde hair glowed in the eyes of the morning. She entered a sweepstakes a few days ago on the internet, she never won anything, so it wouldn't make sense if she were to win.. She quickly took her morning shower, brushed her teeth, ate breakfast and made a mid dash to school! When she got there, students filled the halls. 'Great I am on time' she blessed herself. The loud bell rung, and soon students made their way to their classes.

At the end of the day Sakura Haruno had a thought, and do you know what she was thinking of?

"I wonder if I won that sweepstakes that I entered," Sakura thought while tapping her foot on the grey, matted carpet of her last class of the day. "I never win anything!" Sakura's head filled with thoughts of some other person going on her dream vacation to an island in nowhere! Sakura Haruno was a bright-eyed girl with shoulder-length pink hair. She had bangs that covered her sparkling, emerald eyes, and dainty little nose. Her mouth was almost always in a quaint, welcoming smile, which made her very appealing to others. The clock ticked slowly, every second seeming longer and longer. After a minute it seemed like the world had practically ended for Sakura. She was dying to get out of class. The teacher kept blabbering on and on about how E MC squared was Einstein's theory, and if anyone could describe it. She talked for so long, that by 4:00 (1 hour after school is let out), she was still blabbering! The amazing thing was that she didn't even notice that all of her students were gone!

Sakura was the first one out of class, but the last one home. On her way back from school she always stopped by Mr. Takahashi's Ice cream Soda Shop and had whatever they were featuring as their "Super Duper Soda," for the day. Today's soda had Vanilla Chocolate Swirl ice cream, Sour Cherry soda, Strawberries, and to finish it off, Whipped Cream! She loved this combo. Usually, Sakura left right after finishing off her soda, but today Sasuke was at the store too. After she slurped the last of her soda, Sakura walked over to the counter and then turned to Sasuke.

"H-h-hi Sasuke," she said sheepishly.

"Hello Sakura." Sasuke replied, he sipped his soda.

"W-w-w-what brings you here today?," Sakura said while blushing.

"I could ask you the same thing" he said smirking.

"Well, I got to go now! Bye Sasuke!" she said a little too quickly. Sakura practically ran home, too anxious to look back. Her heart was racing with excitement. Sasuke had actually talked to her! Sakura was running so fast that instead of the regular 15 minutes it took her to get home, it took 5 minutes!

As soon as she entered through the door, her home phone rang. Sakura walked calmly toward the nearest phone, but it had stopped ringing already. About 5 seconds later, the phone rang again. She glanced at the number. Sakura didn't know this person. She warily picked up the phone.

"Hello?"

This is the end of Chapter One in The Not So Perfect Vacation. Thank you for reading this. I really do appreciate it. Don't forget to review; I need to know what you think. Also, when you're reviewing, it would be a big help to me if you posted which pairing would be best in the story at the beginning of your review.

Shikamaru x Ino

Or

Shikamaru x Temari.

Thanks Again!