Past meets Future
Chapter 10: End
DUN DUN DUN DUUUUUUUH!!!!!!
The next morning everyone gathered at an all-you-can-eat buffee for a farewell brunch. Everyone was there: all the past-nins and all the future-nins. Even the future teachers who I have failed to introduce in this fic were there. The future boys all had dessert first and piled their plates high with cake and enormous bowls of ice cream and cookies and brownies and every topping know to men. Gaara- and Kankurou-mirai were demonstrating how good dessert chiefs they were by combining a lot of every thing with sugar that was served and mixing it all together. When they were finished, no one wanted to try it. It's was an odd blue-ish greenish color with brown mixed in from the chocolate (like green-blue mud) and it glowed slightly. Kankurou-mirai decided not to touch it when they were done and Gaara-mirai surprised everyone by downing the whole thing. Both Neji's cleaned the place out of their waffles (another SNG reference (actually that was my idea she just write her stories faster then I do)) and the Naruto's were fighting over the ramen. And of course, no farewell brunch would be complete unless the Kibas started a food fight. Which they did. And it lasted for about an hour and ended with Tsunade apologizing to the owner as they were kicked out.
The rest of the morning was spent lounging around the Hokage building as Gaara-mirai let his stomach settle enough to get the seals ready. During that time, Temari-mirai made Gaara-mirai cut his hair and now most of the people gathered couldn't tell the two Gaara's appart, with a few exceptions. Gaara-mirai and Naruto-mirai were now sitting on the roof quite full and content, trying to out do one another in stories. (u know like stuff they've done SNG and I do it all the time. I almost always win. does Lee-pose)
"Gaara," Naruto-mirai whispered.
"Hm?"
"Look." Gaara-mirai looked up and saw Sakura leading his younger self out onto the roof, oblivious to the two future nins.
"I'm real sorry about last night," Sakura was saying.
Naruto-mirai raised as eyebrow and glanced at his friend. Gaara-mirai made a tiny kissing noise and Naruto-mirai made an 'oohh' motion.
"It's ok," Gaara mumbled.
"I just didn't want you to be upset about it."
"I'm..not," Gaara said looking away.
"You're not?" Sakura looked up startled.
Gaara shook his head. "I kinda liked it." he said very slowly.
Sakura looked extatic (I love that word cant spell it to save my life though). "Really?" he nodded slightly embarrassed. "Do you...wanna do it again?" she asked glancing at him.
Looong pause. "Sure," came the mumbling answer.
Sakura smiled and leaned forward and kissed. After a moment's pause Gaara kissed back.
"There's an empty room on the third floor, if you want to use it," Naruto-mirai suggested after a few minutes. (keyword: few minutes)
The two younger nins broke away really fast and stared wide eyed at the two. Gaara-mirai held his hands up. "I was just watching, he's the one who interupted you."
Sakura and Gaara: BLUSH!!!
Both ran down the stairs and their separate ways leaving the two on the roof laughing.
"The last time I saw that look on your face was when Tsunade-obaachan got real drunk and started hitting on you." Naruto-mirai commented clutching his sides.
"You had the same look the whole time you were on that date with Hinata," Gaara-mirai shot back, also laughing.
Naruto-mirai shoved him and Gaara-mirai shoved him back. Then it became a whole shoving fest until both stomachs began to churn unpleasently and they had to lay quiety for a while.
"I can't believe you ate that whole bowl," Naruto-mirai said, thinking of the brunch.
"It actually tasted kinda good," Gaara-mirai replied.
"Perhaps, but you'll eat anything."
"I wont eat Temari's cooking."
"Gaara, no one can eat your sister's cooking," Naruto thought for a moment. "Wait, no, she makes really good waffles. Neji was happy about that when he found out. Remember?"
Flashback
Neji entered the Sand House after someone inside yelled to come in. He walked into the kitchen where Temari was preparing breakfast and Gaara, Shikamaru and Kankurou were watching her nervously and very suspisiously.
"Good morning, Neji!" Temari greeted, unusually perky that day.
"Good morning," Neji nodded to her and her brothers. "Hokage-sama asked me to deliver this to Gaara." He placed the folded letter into Gaara's outstretched hand. He turned to leave, but Temari stopped him.
"Why don't you eat breakfast with us?" she asked. "I tried something new and want an outsider's oppinion."
"What are we, furniture?" Kankurou muttered.
Temari ignored him. "I'm really good (what a liar), just a bite." Neji glanced at the three boys who were vigorously shaking their heads trying to protect the naive Hyuuga from the vicious monster that was Temari's cooking. Before he could say anything, Temari steered him over to a chair next to Gaara and forced him to sit. "Here," she placed a plate in front of each of them and sat down waiting for them to try it.
Neji glanced at the Sand brothers and Shikamaru. All were staring at the plates as if sizing up with contants or checking them for traps or poison. Kankurou and Shikamaru were the first to move, Kankurou being the closest one in hitting range and Shikamaru cause Temari had him wrapped around her little finger and tucked in her back pocket. They slowly cut up the food on their plates as if they had all the time in the world. Gaara decided that any note from Tsunade was better then Temari's cooking and began reading the letter. The Hyuuga sighed and looked down at his plate. With his fork he poked at the crispy golden brown substance that was coated with mounds of butter and sugar and submersed in dark brown gooey stuff. He cut it up into bite size pieces then slowly brought one to his mouth. All four were staring at him; Temari in hope, and Gaara, Kankurou and Shikamaru in pure shock at his boldness. Neji threw caution into the wind and stuff the piece in his mouth.
Neji: O.O !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Temari sighed. 'I guess, I messed up again,' she thought to herself.
Neji slammed his fists down on the table, tears streaming very Gai-like down his face. "THESE ARE THE BEST WAFFLES EVER!!!!!"
Kankurou and Shikamaru's jaws hit the ground and Gaara went bug-eyed (Another kodak moment gone to waste for lack of camera) and fell of his chair anime style. Temari's eyes went all sparkly.
"Really?!?!" she cried.
Neji wolfed down his share in two seconds and held his plate up. "More please."
The other three boys glanced down at their waffles, now very curious and reached to try them, but Temari swept up their plates and dumped their contents on Neji's plate and handed it back to him. "Hey!" Kankurou cried. "That was my breakfast!" Temari ignored him and delightedly watched Neji scarf down the rest of the waffles.
And so began the endless days Neji slept over their house, just for Temari's waffles. Which she made every morning after that.
End Flashback
"....I didn't get any breakfast that day," Gaara-mirai mused. They glanced at each other and stared laughing again, for no reason.
"Naruto-kun."
Naruto-mirai sat up and smiled. "Hey, Hinata!"
"What are you two doing?" she asked kneeling down next to them (Ok...note the stutter's gone? this is Hinata-mirai).
"Hiding from Obaachan," Naruto-mirai answered. "She's in such a hurry to send everyone back home. But I think everyone's having a lot of fun, now."
Hinata-mirai nodded. "Gaara-kun, I saw Sakura with the other Gaara. Lee-san (mirai) saw and got nervous. He went to talk to our Sakura right away."
Gaara-mirai smiled at the sky. "I'm not interested in Sakura," he said as though Lee-mirai was right their and he was assuring him. "They wont remember anything anyway."
"When are you going to get a girlfriend, Gaara-kun?" Hinata-mirai asked, laying down next to Naruto-mirai.
"Never."
"Huh?" Hinata-mirai and Naruto-mirai lifted their heads up to look at him.
"They're too troublesome." Gaara-mirai made quotation signs then stretched and placed his heads behind his head.
"I'm not troublesome, am I?" Hinata-mirai glanced at Naruto-mirai.
"'Course not, Gaara's just dumb."
"I'm glad you guys are having fun, but I think it's time to send them back," Tsunade said suddenly appearng in front of them.
"Just a little longer?" Naruto-mirai asked.
"You're not even spending time with them," Tsunade stated. "You two are being lazier then Shikamaru."
"How troublesome," they both choroused.
All the past nins crowded in a group inside a circle of chakra Gaara-mirai set up. He aslso stood inside the ring, but away from the group. He took off his white scarf thing and wrapped an end around each wrist and began making a series of signs, binding his chakra with Shukaku's. With a flight of his wrist he sent the folds of the cloth up in the air where it hovered, glowing a pale blue. Gaara-mirai's voice echoed as he spoke the summoning, "Nimpo: Kai Houijishin Gamicichi: Element Time!" (don't ask me what that means I just wrote gibberish) A shining figure emerged from the cloth and sailed over their heads then surrounded the past nins and Gaara-mirai.
The future-nins covered their eyes as the light became unbareible to look at then it died, and the past nins were gone, Gaara-mirai with them. A few minutes later he reappeared, alive, but completely drained of all chakra. Naruto-mirai and Kankurou-mirai caught him as he began to fall and Tsunade rushed over to him. He gave her a small reasuring smile before he blanked out.
'I wonder who will remember..' he mused.
NO IDEA.... Shukaku sighed as he curled himself up for a nap, also exausted. WHO CARES?
Sakura groaned and opened her eyes. The first thing she saw was Ino grinning at her.
"So, you're finally awake, Sakura." Ino said, then sadly added, "Our match is over."
"I....lost?" Sakura asked her eyes welling up.
"Hey, I'm the one who feels like crying! To be tied with the likes of you," Ino trailed off. (blah blah blah Ino hands her her head protecter, they wont loose Sasuke to each other)
They stood and looked over the fighting ring. Lee's team mate was fighting the girl Sand-nin. Sakura suddenly remembered the dream she had been having and looked around. 'Weird,' she thought, 'it all felt so real.' Everyone had been in it. Blushing she remembered her kiss with 'that sand guy' (has ne one besides me notice that that's what almost everyone in Konoha calls Gaara for the better part of the chuunin exam?). She glanced over at the two Sand-nin watching their sister beat the snot out of Ten Ten. She gave a quiet gasp when she saw a blurry figure of a red haired boy standing behind them. He smiled at her then completely faded away. 'How weird...' she mumbled to herself. Her thoughts were interupted by Lee and his teacher Gai screaming "GOOOO TEN TEN!!!!!"
-End