Chapter 25: Beach Fun
The Nara family ended up going to the beach with Kiba and his small family, Chouji and his, Gaara, and Kankuro….so much for a 'Family Vacation'
The first day at the beach the guys; Shikamaru, Chouji, Kiba, Gaara, and Kankuro took the kids; Emiko, Suki, Yukio, and Aiko to play at the ocean while the moms; Temari, Ino, and Hinata stayed at the hotel with the babies; Daichi and Mieko.
Who's idea was it to stick the guys with 4 kids, the ages of 7 and 8, was of course Temari. True she wanted to spend time with her daughters, but she also thought it would be nice if the guys spent time with the kids alone.
Shikamaru sighed, watching his daughters attempt to build a sand castle, both girls wearing their bathing suits. Emiko's was 2 piece purple suit with a small fan on the back of the bottoms, while Suki's was also a 2 piece but hers was green with a small Chibi dear on the back bottom, their hairs up like they normally had them.
"No Em, if you build it too close to the water, it'll just get washed up." Suki sighed, placing her hands on her hips, "What are you doing Em?" She asked.
Emiko stood, her arms crossed in front of her, and her eyes closed, "I'm trying to move the sane like I did when Uncle Gaara was watching us." She explained, then went back to concentrating on the sand.
"You actually moved the sand?" Suki asked looking at her sister a bit shocked, "Are you sure Uncle Gaara didn't move it for you?"
Emiko sighed, opened her eyes, and looked at her sister, "I'm pretty sure I-"
"Suki! Emiko!" Yukio shouted, running up towards the girls, ShiShimaru and Aiko following behind him, "Why don't you guys play IN the water? I mean if all you wanted to do was play in the sand, then why didn't you just go to the Sand Village?"
"Yea, the water's not cold, and its pretty fun." Aiko said, dripping wet.
Suki looked at Emiko, whom looked like she was tired of building a sand castle, and sighed, "Fine…but I gotta ask dad something, then I'll come play…okay."
Emiko nodded, then her and the boys, along with ShiShimaru, all ran down to the water, so they could all go swimming. While they were playing, Suki walked over to the guys, whom were all sitting on the sand watching the kids.
"What's wrong Suki?" Shikamaru asked, looking at his daughter, "Your not tired already…are you?"
Suki shook her head, "No, I have a question." She then looked at Gaara, "Did you move the sand for Emiko when you watched us that night?"
Kankuro couldn't help but laugh slightly, "Looks like you got caught little brother." Gaara looked over at Kankuro, and he stood, "Alright, I'll go watch the kids…" He said walking towards the kids, not wanting to get attacked by his brother.
"So you did" Suki sighed, then sat down on the sand, "I knew it."
Shikamaru raised an eyebrow at his daughter, "Okay spill troublesome girl, what do you really want to ask?"
The young Nara girl shook her head, "No…No that's all I wanted to ask." She said, looking down at the sand, picking it up and throwing it back down.
Kiba looked at Shikamaru, and the two nodded at each other, then Kiba began sniffing the air, "You know something interesting." he said, looking from Shikamaru to Chouji, "When someone's lying you can smell it in the air. It gives out a distinct scent."
Suki looked up at the three fathers, she had an eyebrow raised, "Does it really?"
"Not only that, but I can feel it in the sand, the persons heart races faster than normal." Gaara added, now wanting to know what was on his nieces mind.
Now Suki's eyes had gotten wide, then she mumbled, "What a drag, of course we had to be surrounded around sand." She then sighed, "You really wanna know, and promise you wont make fun of me, or tell Em."
Chouji looked at his friends daughter, "What's wrong Suki? Just tell us already." he said, as he began eating some chips.
"Fine" Suki took a deep breath, then looked at her father, "I…I don't know how to swim." She said, looking a bit ashamed and embarrassed.
Shikamaru looked a bit confused, "Wait, you don't know how to swim? If that's true, then why'd you want to come to the beach?" He asked, wondering why he didn't know why HIS daughter didn't know how to swim, now also wondering if Emiko knew.
Suki shrugged, "Mom said for us to pick a place that we hadn't ever been to, and wanted to go to and for a long time Em and I have been talking about wanting to go to the beach."
"Wait, I thought you went to the swimming lessons like your sister, Yukio, and Aiko" Chouji pointed out, since he was the one that, Ino, told to arrange the appointment for all the kids.
"Well you see…" Suki looked over to the chubby ninja, "The lessons were such a drag, and I never really thought I would need to know how to swim…so I ditched the lessons, and watched the clouds or took a nap." She said, scratching the back of her head.
Chouji and Kiba couldn't help but laugh slightly at how much Suki resembles her father, the legendary lazy ass ninja.
Kankuro walked down towards Emiko, Yukio and Aiko, mumbling to himself wondering why it is both of his siblings are always threatening to beat him up.
"Hey Uncle Kanky!" Emiko shouted, waving at the puppet master, "What hap-" She was interrupted by getting knocked over by a wave, falling into the water below her.
Yukio blinked a few times when Emiko came up from the water, the young girl lost her hair ties in the water, and now her medium length black hair was down in her face.
Kankuro ran over to his niece, "You okay Emiko?" He asked, as she coughed a few times.
Emiko nodded a few times, then let out a loud sigh, "Aww man" She then began looking around in the water, "Do you guys see my ties?" She asked, not liking her hair down.
Yukio laughed, "HA! You lost it!" He kept laughing until the young Nara glared up at him. "Why don't you just leave it down, if you put it back up, your just going to lose it again." He pointed out.
Aiko smirked, "Yukio likes your hair down Emiko." Both kids glared at the brown haired chubby kid.
"Alright you guys" Kankuro sighed, shaking his head with how defensive the two kids got.
Ino looked at Hinata and Temari, both of which were playing with there babies. "How are the two of you able to be so relaxed with the amount of kids that you guys have. I have trouble with just Aiko…well, don't get me wrong, he's a good kid, but I don't think I could handle another."
Temari laughed at Ino, "That's what I thought when I had Emiko and Suki…I figured I was the one who was going to be staying up with the girls, while Shikamaru slept, but it actually wasn't that way at all…Shikamaru enjoyed staying up with the girls, putting them to sleep."
In raised an eyebrow at Temari, "Are you telling me that Shikamaru, the guy who thinks everything is too troublesome, enjoyed getting up in the middle of the night to take care of not one, but two babies?"
Temari nodded, "Well, it wasn't really that hard, since Suki was basically always sleeping, the only one that really fussed was Emiko, but all you had to do with her was blow in her face, or let her play with your hair. She wasn't that hard to calm down." Temari laughed thinking about the first night the girls were home.
Hinata looked over at the two blondes while Mieko was reaching up for her long velvet hair, "Yukio was always awake when he was a baby. The only way to get him to sleep was by laying him down on Akamaru's stomach" She said, then looked back down at her daughter, "where on the other hand Mieko here likes to sleep, but also loves to get into stuff."
The three mothers then continued to tell stories about when their kids where babies, and how they were each different and yet alike at the same time, the three of them staying in the hotel for the rest of the day, until the kids and guys got back from the beach.
-End of chapter, okay the next chapter will be more at the beach….I think…anyways, if you have any really cool ideas that you want to see in the story, just tell me and I'll put them in here….oh yea, I thought it would be kinda funny if one of the twins didn't know how to swim, so of course I made it Suki cause she is the most like Shikamaru, and I figured that thinking swimming being a drag is something Shikamaru would say when he was about her age…well I hope you liked it…please review telling me what you think…until next time-