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/I no there r a few quote capitalizing problem./ I no. I'm lazy. Get over it, k? sorry, but it's too TROUBLESOME. (that's right. Shikamaru and I…. We're buddies. HA)

Thinking

"talking"

inner

"SHOUTING"

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Shikamaru inhaled then said, standing in front of the podium, and the microphone, "Sakura once told me something. It bugged me everyday I saw her, but I couldn't quite get until she showed me, by risking her life, and losing it. She told me one day, 'Just because it's troublesome, doesn't mean it's not worth it.'

"She said this when I agreed to date Ino. It kinda tangled up my brain, though it seems so simple now.

"Now, this is something I thought was troublesome. I mean, I at first I thought, 'If it's not worth it then it isn't troublesome?' but that didn't make sense.

"Then when I saw the next time, maybe around Christmas, and she bought everyone a gift, and I said, 'Troublesome', Sakura simply said, 'Just because it's troublesome, doesn't mean it's not worth it.' It's so simple! Yet, I just couldn't grasp it hard enough before it slipped away.

"I just kept thinking about it and thinking about it, until one day… it clicked. I just woke up one day, and whispered, 'I got it.' I had it.

"But it was only after dating Ino for two years, did I get it. Then I questioned this. Why did it take me so long to get it, when I asked everyone else I asked immediately understood? But when Sakura left for that very last mission… she told me, one last time. She told something that helped. You know what she said?

" 'Shikamaru, I can't believe you don't understand! Here: You call Ino troublesome right? Well, most the time you let troublesome things go, right? Well… you still have Ino, don't you? If you let everything else go, then why keep her? Think about it.'

"And you know what? It drove me nuts for the next three days, until one day I looked into my fiancée's eyes… and it worked.

"I finally figured it out after almost three years. The phrase, 'Just because it's troublesome, doesn't mean it's not worth it,' means, just because you have to put a little work into it, doesn't mean, in the end, you can't be happy with it. Sakura was working to get Sasuke back, and in the end, though she's dead, she made her wish come true: Sasuke's back in Konoha.

"You have to put a little work into what you want and need. I wanted -no- NEEDED, to be with my fiancée. So I worked to keep her! So, even if the work was troublesome, I got something better. I have a wife!

"So, in the end, I figure out why everyone else knew: they knew what it was like to keep something, and work to keep it. Love is a perfect example.

"Sakura feel in love with Sasuke. She worked, herself being the Hokage's apprentice, a medic, to try to get Sasuke back to where he belonged. She went to an extreme extent. She killed herself, to save something she loved. And THAT… is the ultimate, troublesome, price. Though her wish came true, she's not here to see it. You were an excellent person, Haruno Sakura. Despite the phrase, you weren't that troublesome at all."

Shikamaru walked back to a crying Ino. She sobbed into his shoulder, as he said, "Choji you're next."

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Choji stood in front of all the people, and simply said, " 'Your stomach and it's chips.' "

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