Shika's Talent show.

Shikamaru woke up that morning with a bad feeling swirling in the pit of his stoumach, the twelve year old curled closer to his blankets to try to laz-away his bad vibes, but his mother came bursting in five minates later waving a efather duster like it was a deadly weapon in her hadns it might as well be he though as he yawned and agreed with whatever his mother was saying, before getting up, slowly, and walking to the bathroom for his morning shower. when he was showered and dressed in his school uniform, a white shirt with a dark blue blazer over the top and matching trousers with black shoes, he sat at the table and slowly chewed through the toast still with the feeling of impending doom looming over his shoulder, the doorbel rang and his mom answered and in bounded a blur of orange and yellow.

"Shikamaru!!" yelled his friend.

"Naruto, be queit." he muttered at her feeling that his bad day was going to be something to do with his friend of a year and a halfish, he then saw that she had been followed by his best friend Chouji, that loudmouth annoyance Kiba and a girl with pink hair... sakura that was it, the girl had only just started hanging around them. Naruto was wearing an orange sailor suit and sakura was wearing a pink one. Kiba nd chouji were wearing the same as him, except kiba's was black and chouji's was a dark red colour, that was the great thing about their school was that they could wear any colour they wanted but it had to be the same design, only Naru seemed to go against that by wearing black platform boots making her a few inches taller than she actually was and wristbands, her hari was tied back into two ponytails on the back of her head., the pinkette had a ribbon on top of her head to keep all but her fringe from her face, and her hair reached her waist, her forehead was large but no one really noticed unless she pionted it out. Kiba's brown hair was all over the place and he had drawn two red triangles under his eyes across his cheeks in facepaint, he was getting quite practised at that, Shikamaru noticed. getting up out of his oh so comfortable sitting position he pulled his shoulder legth brown hair into a ponytail at the top of his head where it stuck up slightly. checking his reflection breifly just to make sure no one had snuck intop his room and dye his hair blue or green or red or something crazy like that (cough) Naruto (cough).

"So, what're we doing today?" asked the blonde with excitement as though they were going somewhere exciting.

"school..." answered shika monotonously, making Naru and kiba groan. "what were you expecting?"

"wouldn't you like to know?" said kiba as his and Naru's faces went evil, and shika realised what his bad feeling was about.

"What have you done then?" he asked resigned to his fate, they grinned evilly.

"why shika-kun i honestly don't know what you're talking about..." said Naruto as innocently as was possible.

"don't be naive naru, i know you guys enough to know when you've pulled a prank."

"us? do something so dishonest and dis repectfull towards our beloved peers, why shikamaru, i don't know how you can think such things of us!!" said Kiba just as innocently as Naruto , Chouji laughed a little at their act, they were a good team but only when they had a mutual goal, for example, pranks. Sakura looked from one side of the argument to the other, she really didn't know what to think about her newest freinds, she was joining different clubs when she came the school only a few weeks before and then she joined one of the sports team where she thought she fit in with these two, it wasn't the club for her, but they invited her to join them for lunch when they saw her eating alone and now here she was two weeks later, them not having gotten tired of her yet, or at least she didn't think so.

"sakura-chan whould we, pull a prank on Shikamaru when we have a test first and no one else to cheat off of?" said naru looking as innocent as possible with puppy dog eyes, which she pulled off rather well.

"Ahh... eto... you could always pull it off after first i suppose..." Naru puffed out her cheeks like a puffer fish or a frog when sakura didn't stand up for her, then they gave up the act.

"fine there's a prank!!" she said throwing her arms up in the air.

"yeah, but we're not telling you when or where, it'll be when you least expect it..." said kiba mysteriously pulling a flashlight out of nowhere and holding it in front of his face like he was telling a scary story. he was the one who freaked sakura out most, although he was harmless, he was very strange. Naru wasn't much better though.