Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. If I did, I wouldn't make people wait two weeks for a one-hour episode! I would even it out and have half-an-hour every week!

A/N: Sigh. I'm kind of saddened…but at the same time, relieved. You choose your mood! By the end of the chapter, you'll probably change it, free of charge! (That made no sense at all.) Darn! I got this chapter in at 12:00 A.M.!

Published March 27, 2007

Chapter 26 - Forever Pt.2/Say Goodbye

"Aahhh!" Tenten screamed. "Oh my gosh! What's going on?!" She turned back to Ino.

"I think it's an earthquake." Ino said, trying to grab on to anything she could, but found nothing. "Naruto, you idiot, wake up!" Ino pushed Naruto back and forth aggressively.

"Hmm? What do you want, dattebayo? I was having a good nap. Stop shaking me! I'm awake already." Naruto whined.

"Naruto! I'm not shaking you anymore. I think it's an earthquake." Ino alerted.

Neji opened his door quickly. "Tenten!" He said. "We have to go now!" Neji alerted.

"Wait a minute! What about the others?" Tenten asked.

"It doesn't matter! We have to get out of here, now!" Neji grabbed Tenten wrist.

"And what are we, chopped liver?" Ino commented.

To Ino's delight, the door of room 1002 opened. Chouji saw Ino. "Ino! Are you okay?!"

"Yeah, I'm fine." Ino said.

"We have to get out of here now!" Chouji said.

"Mm." Ino nodded. She stood up. "Come on, let's go, Naruto." Ino let out a hand to Naruto.

"Mm." Naruto nodded slightly and took Ino's hand and stood himself up.

Just then, two more doors opened--room 1003 and 1006.

Sakura was in her full fighting outfit with weapons at hand. She saw Naruto. "Naruto!" She said. "Are you alri--" Sakura stopped herself, reminding herself not to sound like Naruto's guardian. "Let's get out of here!" She said.

Kankuro was the other person who opened the door. "Come on!" He looked quickly at Tenten and then looked away after noticing that Neji was also there. 'She must be alright.' Kankuro inferred. "We don't have much time left if this keeps going."

As Temari and Shikamaru were in the elevator, it came to a sudden halt.

"Shit! What the hell is going on?!" Temari complained with the star anise still in her mouth.

"The whole building must be shaking, but it's not an earthquake…" Shikamaru said.

"It's definitely not the same as an earthquake." Temari agreed. "It's probably a group of ninjas."

Shikamaru nodded.

"Great. Just great." Temari said sarcastically. "We're stuck in the elevator again. Now we have to think of a way to get out of here." She looked at Shikamaru for his answer. "I hope you know what to do, genius. You better not cry on me. We didn't watch all that TV for nothing." Temari smirked at Shikamaru.

Shikamaru smirked back. "Got it." He looked up at the ceiling. 'Yup.' Shikamaru took a sharp kunai out of his pocket.

"Do you always keep a kunai in your pocket?" Temari asked.

"No. Only when I'm with you. (A/N: If you think about that in a perverted way, it's kind of funny! XP)" Shikamaru joked. Then he used his chakra to climb the side of the wall until his kunai touched the ceiling.

Temari crossed her arms and stuck her tongue out at Shikamaru. "Just open it already."

Shikamaru moved the kunai around a tile on the top of the elevator. "Done." The tile fell down.

"Ladies first." Temari grinned. She jumped up and out of the elevator.

Shikamaru sighed. He jumped down and jumped back up, following Temari out of the elevator.

"This would be so much easier if I had my fan." Temari pointed out, looking up.

"Eh. We seem to be only three floors from our room." Shikamaru said.

"Way ahead of you." Temari kicked her foot to the side of the wall, then kicked her other leg on the other wall, and continued to kick back from wall to wall until she reached the 100th floor sliding door. She put her fingers in the slit in the middle of the doors and pushed them apart. Slowly, the doors slid open and Temari entered the hallway.

Shikamaru sighed. 'Sometimes it's nice to have a woman stronger than you. Less troublesome for me.' He jumped from wall to wall and followed Temari to the 100th floor.

"Hey guys. I thought you would've been out of here by now, but I overestimated you." Temari said.

"Maybe we were waiting for you." Ino said.

"Maybe. Or maybe you guys just didn't know how to get out of here." Temari said back.

"Jump out the window?" Naruto smirked.

"Oh yeah." Temari smiled deviously.

"Let's just go before this whole building and everyone else in it collapses." Neji said.

"Fine." Temari went into Neji's room and opened the balcony door. She jumped of the door and ran down the side of the building.

Shikamaru finally entered the 100th floor hallway. "Hey. Where'd Temari go?"

"She jumped out the window." Naruto said.

Shikamaru sighed. "She goes too fast." He ran into Neji's room and out of the balcony, following Temari.

Neji followed along. Then Tenten, Ino, Sakura, Chouji, Naruto, and Kankuro followed as well.

"There they are." Naruto said. "Hey you!"

One out of five of the enemy ninjas were looked at Naruto. "Hehe. Look, it's a brat in orange."

"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu! (Shadow Clone Technique)" Naruto created almost twenty clones that all went towards the ninja who underestimated him.

"Aahhh!" The ninja said. The clones clobbered him and basically punched him to a bloody pulp.

"Well that guy wasn't very good." Naruto scratched his head with his finger. "I'm kind of disappointed. I wanted an interesting battle."

Meanwhile…

Neji was fighting another ninja.

"Hakke Rokujuyon Sho! (Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms)" Neji said.

The other ninja didn't stand a chance. In a matter of seconds, Neji had successfully defeated the enemy.

"That was pitiful."

Meanwhile…

"Formation Ino-Shika-Cho!" Ino, Shikamaru, and Chouji said.

"Kagemane no Jutsu. (Shadow Imitation Technique)" Shikamaru said. His shadow stretched to the ninja who was causing the shaking. He nodded to Ino.

Ino made a hand seal. "Shintenshin no Jutsu. (Mind Body Switch Technique)" She said. Her body was now motionless and fell into Chouji's arms. Ino's mind was now in the enemy's body. "Ready, Chouji."

"Here, Tenten." Chouji gave Ino's body to Tenten to hold. "Baika no Jutsu! (Multi-Size Technique)" Chouji turned into a huge ball. "Nikudan Sensha! (Human Bullet Tank)" He rolled towards the enemy's body.

"Release!" Ino sealed her hands right before Chouji crashed into the enemy ninja.

"That was easy!" Chouji said, walking back to Shikamaru, Ino, and Tenten.

Ino finally came to consciousness. "That was easier than usual." She first said.

Shikamaru nodded. "These ninjas seem to be very inexperienced."

"Hey! What do you guys think you're doing?!" One of the hotel service workers, a female with long green hair dressed in a white-collared shirt and black skirt with a blue jacket and a lovely black tie (A/N: Just trying to be specific for those who care about how this random person looks), came out.

"We're trying to save everyone's ass here!" Temari shouted angrily back.

"What is this 'we'? You mean 'us'! You and Kankuro just stood there watching." Naruto argued.

"Well what do you want us to do? We don't have our most useful weapons! You basically had everything covered anyways." Temari explained.

"You were probably just getting lazy like Shikamaru." Naruto said.

"Hn." Shikamaru responded.

While that whole conversation occurred…

"Wasn't that a group of ninjas?" Sakura asked the worker.

"Yes, but they were here doing their job." The worker sighed. "I guess you don't know too much about this hotel, huh?"

"No, not really." Sakura scratched the back of her head.

The green-haired girl smiled politely. "Well, you see, every other week, we have someone create 'earthquakes' or small shakes to the building. The owner wanted tourists to be able to experience everything Japan has to offer, like earthquakes. That's why these ninjas are here. It's an experience you can only find here at the Moonlight Tokyo Hotel."

"Isn't that bad for the foundation?" Sakura asked.

"No, no. Of course, we would never put our wonderful guests in harm. As you know, Japan is actually well-known for having many earthquakes. Well, our building, along with many others, has a foundation that is almost elastic and bendable. It's quite remarkable really. I guess you and your friends are tourists, huh?" The lady said.

"Heh, kinda." Sakura chuckled embarrassingly.

"Well, as much as I hate to say this," The lady looked behind Sakura to see the other ninjas. ", you and your friends are going to have to leave. I don't think the worker ninjas are going to be happy when they wake up. I don't think the ones awake are going to enjoy your company either."

"Wha--" Sakura sighed. "Okay. I don't blame you. We did beat the bloody pulp out of them."

"Well, I have to go call the hospital or something. Goodbye!" The worker waved before turning around and heading back inside of the hotel.

"Goodbye." Sakura said politely. Then she turned around to the mess of ninjas. "Well," She said loud enough for everyone to hear. "Now that we've just been kicked out of the hotel…" She said even louder. "I guess we have to pack up now." Sakura said in her normal volume.

"Awww man! We try to do something good and we get in trouble! That's not fair!" Ino complained.

"Urgh. Who would've thought we're the only ninja in this damn hotel to beat the crap out of these guy!" Temari also complained.

"What's with this 'we' again? It's 'us'!" Naruto said.

"Will you end the whole 'we' and 'us' thing?!" Temari shouted.

"Not until you say it was 'us' and not 'we'!" Naruto shouted back.

"Who cares?!" Temari argued.

"I care!" Naruto retorted.

"Well I don't!" Temari said.

"Well I do!" Naruto continued to argue.

"Gosh. Do you two have to be so loud?" Shikamaru said with a finger in his ear.

"Shut up!" Naruto and Temari shouted at the same time to Shikamaru.

"You know what guys? We should be trying to heal the guys we beat up." Ino suggested.

"Way ahead of you!" Sakura said, healing one of the ninjas. "This is the last one. I think the other guys ran away or something." She shrugged.

Everyone else shrugged (even Neji and Shikamaru).

"Woah, what happened here? We miss a party or something?" Kiba said, walking with his arm around Hinata's waist. "Awww, I always miss the good stuff."

"You missed some bad news Kiba and Hinata. We got kicked out for hurting working ninjas." Sakura notified.

"What?! How the heck did that happen?!" Kiba asked.

"Well, there's good news! Nobody's dead!" Sakura tried to act happy.

"Oh great. Nobody died." Kiba said sarcastically.

"I didn't really like this vacation anyways." Hinata opinionated.

"What? What's that supposed to mean?" Kiba asked.

"Nothing. I just kind of feel homesick." Hinata said.

"Oh." Kiba said. "So what do we do now?" He asked no one in particular.

"Pack up and go I guess." Ino shrugged.

Inside the hotel…

"I'm sorry, Sakura." Naruto said as he and Sakura walked up the stairs to the 100th floor.

"No, I'm sorry. I shouldn't be worrying about you so much. This trip has really showed me how much of an ass I can be." Sakura sighed.

"You're not an ass, Sakura! You just…ummm…you're a little too bossy sometimes. That's all." Naruto tried to say as nicely as possible.

"Well, in any case, I don't really deserve an apology. So let's just keep things as friends for now, okay?" Sakura said.

"Yeah." Naruto said. "When I become Hokage, I can start thinking about us being a couple, dattebayo!"

"Well that's going to be a while." Sakura joked.

"It's going to be soon! I just have to get Granny Tsunade to retire!" Naruto grinned.

Sakura giggled. "Yeah, I'd like to see you try. She still could whip your butt."

"Granny Tsunade. Please. No way. I'm much stronger than her!" Naruto put his hand in a fist. "Dattebayo!"

About 10 floors above Naruto and Sakura…

"So…thanks for caring." Ino said quietly.

"I'll always care for you, Ino." Chouji said.

"Why do you have to be like that?" Ino asked rhetorically.

"Be like what?" Chouji asked confused about what Ino was talking about.

"Why do you have to be so nice and sweet and perfect?" Ino said.

"Perfect, please. I'm not even close to being perfect." Chouji said.

"Well you seem pretty close to me." Ino said.

"Thanks for the compliment, but no one's perfect or even close." Chouji said.

"Well you're pretty close." Ino said. "But I'm not."

"I don't want you to be perfect. I don't want you to be anywhere near perfect." Chouji said.

"There you go again! You're all nice and whatnot! It's driving me crazy." Ino said, trying to keep her voice down. "I'm not worthy of your love." She said.

"What are you talking about?" Chouji asked, just as confused as before.

"I'm saying that we're not a very matching couple." Ino said.

"Well neither are a lot of couples." Chouji said.

"We're complete opposites." Ino said.

"So are Shikamaru and Temari and Kiba and Hinata." Chouji said.

Ino sighed. "I don't want a relationship right now, okay? As hard as it is for even me to believe, I've had enough boys for a while. I won't be ready for a while either." Ino said, finally letting out the truth.

"That's fine." Chouji said.

"It is?" Ino said surprised.

"Yeah, it is."

A couple of floors above…

"I'm sorry! I should have never doubted you! I didn't know what I was doing. I think I was just in a bad mood. I didn't mean whatever I said before. I love you Neji!" Tenten said as quickly as a cheetah on steroids. (A/N: I made that up right on the spot! XP)

If Neji wasn't as smart as he was, he would've probably understood completely nothing Tenten had just said, but luckily Neji's a genius.

Neji grabbed Tenten's hand with his own and hugged Tenten.

"Hey you up there! We're right behind you, you know!" Kiba shouted.

"Neji! Not in public!" Hinata said, sounding like Neji's mother if he had one.

"Oh, gosh. They're just hugging." Temari said. "It's not like their smexing or anything." Temari chuckled.

"What? Like you and Shikamaru?" Kiba raised a curiously naughty-minded eyebrow at Temari.

"Yeah." Temari smirked at Kiba.

"Wha?" Shikamaru said off-guard.

"Well, well. Looks like Shikamaru lied about being a virgin." Kiba put his hands behind his head.

"And you are?" Temari asked.

"Well, yeah…" Kiba said, part of him kind of embarrassed.

"Awww, a cute little baby still." Temari stuck out her tongue at Kiba.

Shikamaru sighed. "This is so troublesome."

Outside of the Moonlight Tokyo Hotel…

"Hello my youthful friends! I came back here as soon as I heard your call!" Rock Lee said.

"Well, great. Here's your stuff." Tenten gritted through her teeth.

"Huh? But why does everyone have their belongings packed up already? Did we not have a week's stay at the Moonlight Tokyo Hotel?" Rock Lee said confused.

"We did, but some people just had to beat some workers up, to a bloody pulp, I might add." Temari answered for Tenten.

"Why would su--" Rock Lee started.

"Don't ask, Lee. Just…don't ask." Neji advised.

"Hai!" Rock Lee nodded.

"Hey, you know what?" Sakura asked everyone.

"What?" Everyone turned to Sakura.

"Well, I was thinking, since we have a couple days left, we could just relax on the beach or something. I think we have enough money to get a decent hotel, right?" Sakura said.

"True." Ino said. "To the beach?!"

"To the beach!" Naruto said.

"Shikamaru's paying!" Ino said.

"Yeah."

"Totally."

"Yup!"

"Thank you, Shikamaru!" Hinata said politely.

"Wait a minute! I thought you said you felt homesick!" Kiba said.

"I do! I'm sick of home!" Hinata smiled.

The End

A/N: That's it! Are some of you annoyed, let down, sighing and tsk-ing me? Well, if you are, good for you sarcasticness! I just wanted to end it now so I could start on TWO of the most pwnsome ShikaTema story you should read, Why Temari Wears Gloves and Moments/A Moment With You.

WHICH TITLE DO YOU LIKE BETTER, Moments OR A Moment With You? PLEASE TELL ME YOUR OPINION!

Song: Forever by Papa Roach again and Say Goodbye by S Club 7. 'One last kiss before I go' and 'It is time to let you go' from Forever seem to fit rather well. 'I'll miss your love in every way' and 'Cause true love never dies' seems to be a good ending title from Say Goodbye. I'm singing Say Goodbye for my 8th grade talent show! lol.