AN: This is the last chapter, and is probably the weakest crap ending you've EVER read. What can I say? We really wanted to get it over and actually, we weren't going to put it up on I'm really sorry it's so bad. Well, this is the last time I'll ask you to read Naruto's Narrator. And I have another fanfic to suggest: Naruto's Weakening Seal and the Darkness Shinobi, it's not crazy (mostly) and I think it's pretty good, so read it, please. And here is chapter 11…


He put a foot on her face and jerked out his sword. He suddenly appeared in front of Shikamaru and stabbed him in the stomach. Unbearable pain rippled through Shikamaru's body. Itachi twisted the sword before taking it out and this time aiming for his head. Itachi suddenly looked up, annoyed, and Shikamaru realized that the sky was red.

Suddenly, everything faded out and he woke up to Temari shaking him.

"Shikamaru? Are you ok?" Temari asked him.

"Yeah, you're not dead?" he asked. Temari looked at him like he was crazy.

"Not yet. But if Gaara doesn't hold up…" Shikamaru hugged her. "Shikamaru, now's not the time." Shikamaru pulled away and got up. Kankuro was a short distance away, carrying Sakura and Sasuke (who were both unconscious). Temari picked up Naruto. "Come on, Shikamaru, let's go. I think Gaara can hold off Itachi for a while."

Shikamaru noticed Gaara, who was fighting Itachi a little ways away. Shikamaru followed Temari back to the village gates. ANBU squads were alerted and sent out.

Gaara came back an hour later with a couple of cuts and bruises, but he was okay, the sand had protected him well enough and he knew not to look into Itachi's eyes. Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke were ok after a long session with Tsunade and the white room.

After a couple of days…

"Bye, Kankuro. Bye, Gaara." Temari hugged her brothers.

"See ya." Shikamaru said, shaking their hands. They were headed back to the Sand village, after Naruto's house party in Sasuke's mansion (it was forced on Sasuke's account). Kankuro and Gaara headed off with a squad of Sand nins, who had been waiting patiently in Konoha for five days, after Temari alerted them that the Kazekage was ok and in the village.

Temari and Shikamaru walked home (Temari had moved, finally). Ino was waiting there.

"Shikamaru, I've come to say farewell, I've set my sights on Sasuke, now that's he's kicked Sakura out." Ino simpered. She walked away, toward the Uchiha mansion, which now had new traps for fangirls. Naruto had helped, but his were more like pranks, water balloons with glue and bags of feathers, that sort of thing, Sasuke's were more… fiery, which was the one word to describe him after he found out what had been happening. That was when Sakura screamed "HE'S MINE!!!" to which Ino responded "NO WAY, FOREHEAD!". Shikamaru and Temari heard a scream and an explosion, Sasuke's cold laughter in the background.

Naruto (who was passing by) turned to Hinata, Kiba and Shino (who were walking with him to the Ramen shack, he had intended to only treat Hinata for helping to rescue him, but Kiba and Shino had come, too) and smiling, said "I helped Sasuke with those traps." There was a loud creak and a splatting noise.

"AAHHHH!!! MY HAIR!!!!" Naruto's smile grew wider. "That one would be mine!" Jiraiya tapped him on the shoulder.

"Naruto, we're through interrogating Itachi. Apparently, he's the only one left, so you can rest easy…" They all laughed.

"As if I haven't already been!" Naruto shouted. Jiraiya, Kiba and Shino quickly smacked him on the head. Hinata sighed.

"Looks like things are back to normal." Shikamaru smiled.

"Normal? This is what you call normal?" Temari asked. They made-out. The End.

EN (ending note): Wow, I've never done an ending note… anyway, I just wanted to tell y'all stuff about the story (gack! How dare you make us read more after that crappy ending?!). It was originally called 'How Ino Died', but we never really got around to killing Ino, so we then named it 'How Ino Almost Died'. But she never was in a life-threatening situation (Shikamaru and Hinata were, but they're not Ino, thankfully). Of course, we never got around to changing the title and 'How Ino Almost Died' kind of stuck (and it was a fun title!) Me and year-of-the-gnat also made this whole fanfic on the phone, on weekends, it didn't take as long as you would think, it took longer, because most of the time, we're totally insane, but we never worked on this story during these times, because this is our serious story. I'll probably get year-of-the-gnat to post the crazy ones. Well, that's pretty much it… Thanks for reading this far! Oh and if you made it this far, could you please review? I like reviews...