Disclaimer: Neither Naruto nor the jokes are mine.
Grinning Manically Series: "I'm a genie in a teapot, Baby..."
One day, Naruto was walking along the Konoha village borders on a guarding duty and stumbled across an old dusty teapot. Filled with confusion, he picked it up and rubbed it and out popped a genie! A genie that looks like Shikamaru! It's a Shikamaru-genie!
"Wow, Shikamaru! That is so cool!" cheered Naruto excitedly.
Shikamaru the genie said, "Che, Mendokusai. I'm not Shikamaru. I am a genie - Genie of the teapot."
Naruto blinked stupidly at Shikamaru-genie for quite some time and then asked,
"So..., what are doing hiding in a teapot, Shikamaru?"
Shikamaru-genie sighed and closed his eyes - pretending to take a nap. But he knew that he couldn't sleep unless he's back in his sacred teapot, so begrudgingly, he explained,
"See, I am the genie of the teapot. You released me from the teapot, blah, blah blah. This is the fourth time this month and I'm getting a little sick of these wishes, not to mention, troublesome. So you can forget about getting three wishes. You only get one wish."
"A wish? Cool!" cheered Naruto excitedly. Apparently, he's very easy to please.
So Naruto sat down on the ground and thought about it for awhile. See, a normal, logical person might wish for another 3, heck, maybe 10 more wishes, but Naruto was a humble, simple boy. Therefore, after a while he said,
"I've always wanted to visit Gaara at Suna; but it was quite a distance and it took 3 days of running to reach there. Besides, I can't simply leave the village anytime I want to, and Gaara is the Kazekage - he can't leave his village either. Could you build me a bridge to Suna so that I can go over there to visit Gaara anytime I want to?"
The Shikamaru-genie closed his eyes and did the thinking pose. Then after a while, he opened his eyes and said,
"That's impossible. Think of the logistics of that - how long the bridge would take? Think of how much concrete... how much steel... the eco-system? And don't get me start on the countless papers and permits. Troublesome. No. Think of another wish."
Albeit a little bit disappointed, Naruto tried to think of another wish. Finally, after a while, he said,
"I've been trying to get a girlfriend for many times, but never succeed. Sakura always said that I don't care and that I'm insensitive. So I wish that I could understand girls and women. Knows how they feel inside and what they're thinking when they give me the silent treatment... knows why they're crying, knows what they really want when they say, 'Nothing', knows how to make them truly happy..."
...and looked at Shikamaru-genie with his big blue hopeful eyes.
Shikamaru-genie then said, "So, you want that bridge two lanes or four?"
End.