Chapter 24: Vacation Plans
Temari laid on the couch with Daichi sleeping on her chest, running her hand threw his sandy blonde hair, "Shikamaru" she looked over at her husband.
Shikamaru, whom was sitting on the floor practicing Shogi with himself, looked up at the blonde, and waiting for her to say something. After waiting for a few minutes he sighed, "What?" he asked.
She looked from Shikamaru back down to her son, "Do yo think we didn't the right thing?" She asked
The laze ninja raised an eyebrow, "On what? We've done a lot of things Temari."
"On our children. Do you think we raised them well so far?" She asked still running her fingers threw Daichi's hair.
"What makes you ask?"
Temari looked at Shikamaru an annoyed look on her face, "Stop answering my questions with another question, It's very annoying to say the least."
"Well, don't ask questions about things like that" He looked back down at his board, "Because you already know the answer"
Temari sat up, not waking little Daichi, and sighed again, "We need to go on a vacation."
Shikamaru looked back up at Temari kinda shocked, "You mean, going to Suna?" He asked.
The green eyed mother shook her head, "No, I mean somewhere the girls haven't gone" Temari stood, "After all this stuff with Orochimaru kidnapping Emiko, then Suki leaving to help her, its gotten me thinking and I want to relax with them, spend time with just the family, without having to worry when of if someone is going to attack us."
"Well, where do you want to go?" the dark haired Jonin asked, also standing, and walking towards Temari to hold his only son.
"I'm not sure" She said, handing Daichi to Shikamaru, "We could ask the girls where they would like to go" She suggested.
"Well, they should be home soon" Shikamaru said, "I take your going to want your brothers to come with us."
Temari shrugged her shoulders, "I'm not sure, Gaara might not be able to because he has a village to run, and Kankuro might have a mission, but it would be nice if they could come…I mean they are family." She then looked at Shikamaru, an eyebrow raised, "Do you not want them to come?" She asked him.
"I never said that" He sighed, then looked down at Daichi, "Your mother is a very troublesome woman, please don't be as troublesome as her or your older sisters." Daichi looked at his father with his dark, tired, eyes, not really understanding, or caring, what his father had said.
"Hey, don't tell him that Shikamaru" Temari said, walking over and hitting Shikamaru on his shoulder, "I don't want his first word to be the same as Suki and Emiko's"
The front door opened and in walked Suki and Emiko with Yukio walking behind them. The three walked in the house and looked at Temari and Shikamaru, confused looks on each kids face.
"What are you guys doing?" Emiko asked, looking at her parents, who were pretty close to each other, as Temari was about to kiss Shikamaru before getting interrupted by the door opening.
"We were talking" Temari answered, "How was your day at the academy today?" she asked, changing the subject.
"It was such a drag." Suki sighed, sitting down in a chair, "Everyone kept looking at Em and me, whispering. Then at the end of the day, Yukio insisted on walking us home, he didn't want anything to happen to us….as though we couldn't take care of ourselves." She closed her eyes, sighing again, "Did I mention how much of a drag it was."
Temari laughed slightly at her daughters Shikamaru-like attitude, then looked at the young Inuzuka, "Thank you Yukio for watching over Suki and Emiko."
"Yea, now you can go home dog breath." Emiko said, her arms crossed, after almost crying over Yukio's injuries, she had been acting more stubborn around him.
"Emiko" Shikamaru sighed, "Is that the way you should talk to the guy who-"
"Followed us everywhere" Suki said, opening on eye looking at her father.
"I uh…my dad said not to be late, or else I'd have to clean up after the dogs for a month, so I should go" Yukio said, as he left the Nara house, heading towards his home.
Emiko looked back at her parents, "So what were you guys talking about?" She asked.
Temari looked at Shikamaru, then back at her daughters, "How would you guys like to go on a vacation?" She asked, awaiting an answer from the two.
Suki quickly sat up, both eyes open looking at her mom, "You want to go on a vacation….to Suna?" She asked, asking the same thing her father asked.
"Yea…um, that place isn't much of a vacation mom" Emiko pointed there, "I mean, we have a house there….and its like our other home."
"No, I don't mean Suna" Temari said, then sighed, "You both think like your father. I was thinking of a place where the two of you haven't gone, and want to see." She smiled at the twins, "So…where is it you two would like to go?" She asked
The girls looked at each other, nodded, then looked back at their parents, "The beach!" they said in unison. Smiles on their faces, as though they had been talking about this for a while.
Shikamaru was surprised with out excited the two girls were, "So…you two want to go to the beach?" They nodded, and he sighed looking back down at his son, "Its Suna…with water, how different" He said in a very sarcastic tone.
"Then the beach it is" Temari smiled, "Go pack your stuff, so we can get ready to go."
The twins hurried back to their rooms to get ready, and Temari looked at Shikamaru, "Should we invite Kiba and Hinata? They've had just as hard of a time as we did during the whole thing, besides I think it would be nice if the girls had someone to play with." She then put her finger on her chin, as though she was thinking, "If we did that, we'd have to invite Ino and Chouji….then it wouldn't be a family vacation, but then again, everyone could use a vacation."
Shikamaru and Daichi watched as Temari debated with herself over whether or not she should invite the others. Daichi looked up at Shikamaru, slightly confused, looking as though he was asking his father, "what the heck is mom doing? And who is she talking to?"
"Don't give me that look Daichi, she's your mom" he sighed, talking to his baby son.
Temari looked at Shikamaru, her hands on her hips, "Well? What's your opinion?" She asked. Shikamaru was about to say something when, "Your right, it would be too troublesome to bring everyone, but it would also be nice."
Shikamaru sighed, "It seems as though you have everything figured out." He raised an eyebrow, "So did you get everything figured out?" he asked, wondering if Temari was going to start yet another debate with herself.
"yep, your going to invite Ino, Chouji, Kiba, and Hinata to go with us. Then I'll see if Kankuro and Gaara want to come." Temari answered.
"Wait…why do I gotta-" he sighed, "What a drag" After he said that, Daichi let out a small laugh at his father's look on his face.
-End of the chapter, Okay now that I got the serious stuff out of the way, I'm going to just kinda try and continue doing the short little funny stories with this, until I can come up with either another story idea, or more drama, so I hope you guys like it…and I'm not sure if they have a beach, but now they do…cause it's my story and I'll add one if I want to…heehee, anyways, tell me what you think, and if your confused, sorry…that was not my intentions…so until next time.-