"Ow..."
Temari shook her right hand a few times as to shake off the pain smeared into her knuckles. Those fingerless gloves she wore turned out to be useless. It didn't soften the blow at all.
The two young Konoha maidens stood with gaping mouths, enlarged eyes, and trembling bodies before the Princess of Sand. The streets of Konoha seemed desolate apart from the people involved in what looked like a murder scene. There was 1 body, 1 primary suspect, and 3 witnesses... 2 of which would claim that their friend had just 'slipped' on the pavement without hesitation.
"...oooo..." The body moaned painfully on the ground. She found her 'resting place' on her side with her loose brown hair covering her broken and leaking face.
"W-we are SO sorry about this, Temari-sama! She didn't know any better!"
"Yeah, she's new in town! She didn't know that you were with hi-"
"Get her out of my sight."
Temari spoke with her back to the begging witnesses, still examining her aching hand. Damn fangirls had jaws about as dense and thick as their heads...
Shikamaru simply closed his eyes and shook his head with a bored look on his face as the two witnesses drug the still-moaning body away from the crime scene. A thin stream of red flowed in the body's wake.
Though her back was turned to him, the kunoichi could feel her Nara's disapproval on the back of her neck.
"...What? The whore was asking for it. I don't care if you are some famous, big-shot strategist these days... She saw that I was walking with you."
Temari began to walk away. Shikamaru followed behind her with a long sigh.
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That moment when your teacher made you look like a complete ass in front of your math class by asking you a question about the Pythagorean Theorem. That moment when the feeling of disappointment was lifted when it turned out your mom was only kidding when she said the store was out of that popular toy you've been begging her for. The moment you played a prank on your sleeping friend... The moment he got you back and played a much bigger prank on you, and things got out of hand.
The moment she grasped her first kunai
That moment he broke 5 gates and sent him into the sky.
The moment blood and chakra first pumped into his eyes.
The moment he got lost in the clouds, staring into the sky
The moment he stared into her green eyes
The moment her green eyes were filled with care, watching him cry
The moment she decided she would try
The moment when she realized she was strong as 'him', and shut out the lies
The moment she almost died fighting against her fate... that moment, she flied
The moment he decided he would kill that man before he died
The moment his friend and brother left the village, and he wondered "why?"
The moment she realized her team would never be the same... the moment she cried.
Your first date. Your first kiss. Your first fight. Your first wedding Your first funeral.
Their first kunai stab. Their first confirmed kill. Their first graduation to geninhood. Their first fallen teammate... Their first funeral.
As different as these moments and 'first times' are, they are still essentially the same thing. They are the high points of our existence... The moments in life that define life as 'life'... These moments are our 'Climax's'. Every step that we take in life that isn't a climax is just another step leading to the next climax... Whether the climax is good, bad, makes us feel happy or makes us feel sad, is irrelevant. The fact always remains that when one thinks back on his life, the climax's are always the scenes that come out the most clear. You may not remember the first time you brushed your teeth, but you REMEMBER your first kiss and you'll never forget it...
These moments, in the Village Hidden in Leaves, is what we will be focusing on. The moments in the lives of the shinobi where... okay, you know what? I'm not going to lie to you guys. This fic is going to become nothing more then a holding cell for a bunch of random Naruto drabbles, one-shots and short stories that come to my mind, like the ShikaTem posted above. But... you should stay tuned anyway. They'll be good. Some will be romance, some comedy, some drama, some action/adventure. Remember to leave feedback for ShikaTem. Enjoy!