Hello everyone! I got this idea from 'Right Out of a Hat' by Gohan209. You should read it, one of the funniest things ever! Everyone was musing about how, if Shika and Tayuya got put together, all hell would break loose. Well, guess what? All hell breaks loose here!

Anyway, I hope you random people like this...

This was rather a lame starter, wasn't it?

CHAPTER ONE

Chirp! Chirp!

Shikamaru groaned and woke up. He turned to look at his digital alarm clock. Still 5:00 in the morning… what sort of important mission is this?

Walking over to the slightly opened window, he saw the little mission bird on his window sill

"A mission?" asked Shikamaru, praying to God that the stupid little bird just landed here for no apparent reason.

The bird cocked its head and fixed Shikamaru with a beady glare, as if to say, 'No, really, Shikamaru? You lazy ass bum! Why else would I be here?'

Shikamaru grumbled something that sounded like 'troublesome' and closed his window, pulling down the curtains. He changed into his daily clothes, put on his Jounin vest and strapped on his shuriken holster. (A/N: Yeah, apparently, it's a shuriken holster. AndI thought it was a kunai holster...

He walked downstairs, toasted some bread, put it in his mouth and walked out the door, chewing on his toast.

Quietly, he walked down to Tsunade's office. The streets seemed so... empty, compared to the busy, bustling roads of Konoha in the day. But they weren't completely empty. Shikamaru could see someone some 10 feet away, walking along groggily as well.

Stuffing the rest of his toast in his mouth, Shikamaru took a shuriken from his holster. He aimed, and threw the shuriken. If the figure hadn't heard the weapon whistling through the air behind it, the shuriken would've whizzed by its right ear without harming it. However, the figure had quickly stowed away a book, and jumped back anyway, whipping out a kunai and several shuriken(s) in the process.

Shikamaru grinned as he saw Kakashi register who threw the shuriken.

"Hey! Kakashi!" he called. "I didn't give you a heart attack, did I?"

Kakashi smirked underneath his mask. He put away his weapons, clutched his chest, and pretended to be struggling in pain kneeling on the ground.

Shikamaru laughed. After these 7 years, -all differences such as sensei and student forgotten- he, Kakashi, Iruka, Jiraiya, Tsunade, Naruto, Sakura, Asuma, Ino, Chouji, Kurenai, Hinata, Kiba, Shino, Gai, Lee, Tenten, Neji, Gaara, Temari and Kankurou had grown to be a very tight-knit group of friends.

Their way of surprise-greeting one another? Throwing a shuriken that ALMOST hits the other person.

Gaara was Kazekage, Temari and Kankurou being his Sand advisors. To secure the alliance between the Hidden Sand and the Hidden Leaf, Shikamaru had become a strategist for both Leaf and Sand, and Gaara annually sent some Jounins to help train the Genins in Leaf. Plus, Naruto and Kakashi had become the Leaf advisors for Sand.

Naruto had become Jounin, as well as Shino, Shikamaru and Lee. Neji had joined the ANBU with Tenten and Kiba. The rest were Chuunins. Sakura and Ino were training to be Jounin along with Chouji and Hinata. The former senseis helped out a lot too, with Jiraiya or Tsunade dropping by once in a while. (All the girls were very uncomfortable when Jiraiya came, and usually fled to safety… aka the other senseis) However, most of their free time was spent on helping Naruto train to be Hokage.

Kiba was constantly teasing Naruto on how he'll NEVER improve enough to become Hokage before himself. Naruto would reply and tell Kiba that he planned on being the 7th Hokage, because that Team 7 was the squad he was on with Sauske, (who still hadn't come back) Sakura and Kakashi-sensei. (those were the only times he addressed Kakashi as 'sensei')

Contrary to Kiba's teasing, however, Naruto was actually improving at alarming rates, mastering both the Rasengan and Chidori, (and all the jutsus everyone knew that wasn't an exclusive jutsu to a clan, or a Bloodline Limit, although Shikamaru suspected that Naruto was secretly trying to learn his Kagemane) thanks to his friends and former senseis helping him train.

Unfortunately, those helping-Naruto-train sessions never really turned out well for any of them. You know, agreeing to help out with target practice, and before you know it, Naruto has labeled YOU as the target, and then you end up as a human torch or something?

Anyway, enough talk about Naruto burning his friends to crisps. Let's go back to the scene with Kakashi and Shikamaru.

After pretending to die for a few more moments, Kakashi stood up and waved. Shikamaru walked over to the 33-year-old, (do the math, he was 26, 7 years has gone by!) laughing.

"So, you got a mission too?" asked Kakashi, taking out his book again and walking along the road.

"Yeah," replied Shikamaru. "Wonder how important is this, to wake us up this early?"

"Dunno," yawned Kakashi, rubbing his eye with his free hand. "I hope it isn't something stupid."

"Better not be to drink sake with Tsunade..." grumbled Shikamaru. "That last time was very troublesome."

Kakashi grimaced. The last time Tsunade was frustrated, she had forced him, Shikamaru and Neji to drink sake with her in the dead of night when they were returning from a party at Sakura's place. They had all woken up in different stores, and had a very hard time convincing other people that they were drunk and didn't have any intentions of stealing anything. Neji and Shikamaru were still in really tight spots though, since the legal drinking age was 21.

"Don't remind me," muttered Kakashi.

"Is that Lee?" asked Shikamaru, pointing ahead to a figure with a bowl cut that had its back to them. "Or is it Gai?"

Kakashi made a face.

"You can never tell from the back, Lee and Gai look exactly the same now..."

Shikamaru chuckled. He was going to tell Kakashi how troublesome it was, when a voice rang out behind them.

"Hey! Lazy genius! Copy cat! Fuzzy eyebrows!"

Shikamaru and Kakashi grinned at one another. Naruto had made up nick-names for everyone- Shikamaru was lazy genius, Kakashi was copy cat, fuzzy eyebrows related to Gai and Lee, weapon girl was Tenten, Sakura was pink, Iruka was cross-nose, Jiraiya was Sannin perv, Tsunade was sake woman, Asuma was cigarette maniac, he called Ino bossy-girl, Chouji FA, (which, unbestknown to Chouji, meant fat-ass) Kurenai was primp, Hinata was the shy purple, Kiba was mutt, Shino was bug-boy, Neji was fate-boy, Gaara was FHPD, (which stood for former homicidal-psycho dude) Temari was fan-girl and Kankurou was the puppet-boy.

Many of these nick-names resulted in boos and cat-calls, which eventually turned out to be bursts of laughter as Naruto carefully defined why each nick-name was given to the various people.

Oh, and one thing. Everyone thought of a nick-name for Naruto.

The whiskered labeler.

Which was a total burn for Naruto.

Anyway, they continued on the walk to sake woman's office, meeting up with fate-boy, cross-nose, pink, cigarette maniac, weapon girl, mutt, bug-boy, primp, shy purple, bossy-girl, and FA on the way there.

Go figure.

Well, well, well. So what's the mission? Hmmmm... sorry the ending (and start) to this chapter was kinda lame.. I got a little lazy… I'm aiming for some humour in this… XP Not doing very well, am I?

You can only say one thing.

That this is totally random...

Sorry if you think this is a litte too Shikamaru centric, or that I made anyone too OOC... review please!