Okay, so what is up with this ending??? But after much searching, I have discovered Truth! The meaning of the really corny set-up/the line that all the Konoha kids get into...Oh, I even put in the song words, to help you follow along if you're watching the ending while you read this(if you have two computers- my laptop's acting up on me...) Hey, thanks so much to everyone who's been reviewing (I have over 30 reviews! Me happy!) ! I really appreciate it!
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Ending #5-or-6-ish? In "What's with the line-up?"

by myakarnin (don't feel like being gatogirl1 today...after a bad day at work, i feel like being bratty...and i don't wanna use capitals cuz it's too hard to hit the shift key)
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Gaman no renzoku datta ro

Kokoro de naite itandaro

Jibun de kimeta sono yume dake wa yuzurenaindaro

Wakiyaku dakedo

Kage no hito dakedo

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Naruto looked up at the fading sun, then sighed, drooping his head. Night was coming and he was still alone.

He'd sat there since the afternoon, but no one had appeared.

It was times like this that were the worst.

When he was sitting alone, looking vulnerable and contemplative...

...and when he couldn't remember the words to that song!!! Curses!! Naruto looked longingly out towards the darkening sky. He'd been sitting there for several hours, and he still couldn't remember the words to that turn Sakura had been singing during an earlier Help-Some-Old-Lady-Find-Her-Glasses-In-A-House-Messier-Than-His-Own mission. He just hated when he couldn't get that stupid tune out of his head...but didn't know the words to sing along. As soon as their mission had been completed (the absentminded old lady's glasses had somehow ended up in the fridge, only to be discovered when Naruto had stuck his head in to sneak a snack), Naruto had darted away, screaming, from Sakura, vowing to kill her if he had to listen to her sing the song one more time. Needless to say, the rest of his team had been rather startled at this turnabout of roles.

And now...the song was firmly lodged somewhere in his cranium. Naruto's head sunk lower as he fell deeper into despair.

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Yume to mimuki au toki, oh yeah yeah yeah yeah

Manaka ni isasete, shoujiki ni isasete

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"Naruto!"

Naruto jerked out of his slightly depressed train of thoughts, turning to see his two teammates coming across the field to where he sat. Sakura was waving as she jogged over to grin down at him, while Sasuke slowly meandered over at his usual unhurried pace. His face lit up as he realized the other genin teams weren't far behind.

"You...you came!" he managed to get out, surprised to see even the obstinate Hyuuga Neji make his way to one end of the line of genin that was forming. "I didn't think anyone would actually want to come!"

Kiba barked out a short laugh. "Akamaru and I wouldn't miss this!"

Hinata blushed a bit, standing as far away from Naruto as she could, but all the while watching him from the corner of her eye. 'I'll try anything you do, Naruto-kun.'

Shikamaru sighed, rolling his eyes upwards as if asking for heavenly patience. "K'so, this sucks. Ino and Choiji dragged me along- claiming something like our whole team should be here..."

Striking a pose with one fist held out challengingly towards the rising sun and his crutch held in the other, Lee declared, "I need all the training I can get to get myself back into fighting shape..." '...so I can be worthy of Sakura-chan's attention...'

Sasuke just snorted. "I wasn't going to refuse the challenge. I'm just here to continue to prove to you that I'm superior to you in every way."

Everyone stared at the Uchiha heir, not certain if they'd read that second- to-last line correctly.

"Sasuke...snorted?" Ino and Sakura read disbelievingly. "That's just so..."

"Uncool," they finished simultaneously.

Even Tenten looked vaguely disturbed. "I hardly know him, being the lesser, unimportant female character I am," she muttered bitterly under her breath. "No one cares about Tenten. She's just a minor role that needs filling to maintain the pattern of one girl to every two guys on a genin team..."

Now everyone's disturbed looks turned towards the ranting chick.

"...But even a lowly, bit-part actor such as myself can see that the habit of snorting in place of laughter is highly uncool and out of character for Sasuke-kun."

Naruto burst out laughing. "Ha hA! Sasuke's been caught in an awkward situation! What're you going to do now, Sasuke?"

Sasuke just smirked. "Baka. Snorting is acceptable behavior for me...because now that I've done it, it'll immediately catch on and everyone will be doing it. People will submit to the peer pressure; in order to be as cool as me, they'll pick up the snorting-instead-of-laughing behavior."

It was as if a lightbulb clicked on above everybody's heads.

"Oh Sasuke-kun," gushed Sakura. "Your snort is just so cool..."

"I always thought it was perfect for your personality," Ino interrupted. "I never meant that you could ever be less than cool...I was just playing along..."

"Liar!" shrieked Sakura. "Ino-pig! You thought Sasuke was uncool for at least five seconds!"

"Did not!" retorted Ino. "And you, Big-forehead, had the audacity to think he was uncool for at least ten seconds!"

A catfight ensued, but since it was rather commonplace, no one bothered to pay any attention to the two snarling and clawing females. Neji, Shikamaru, and Shino snorted.

"Ouch! All those curves and no brakes," Lee commented sadly.

"Yosh!" Naruto said, a bit disappointed that Sasuke hadn't been completely embarrassed but willing to push on with his plans for the day. "Let's get started!" Reaching for the bag he'd set down on the grass, he held up...

...a bag of cherries.

Sakura and Ino immediately broke away from each other and everyone crowded around Naruto to get their handful. Hinata blushed a bit when Naruto's hand brushed against hers when her handed her a large pile of the plump fruit. He looked at her a little strangely. 'She's still weird...' he thought to himself.

When the fruit had been passed out, everyone stood back in their original lineup.

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Ima made nando mo, nantoka akiramezu ni

Ima made nando mo, tachiagatte kita janai ka

Ima made nando mo, bokura nando mo shinjite

Nando mo yume mite, nando mo

Ima made nando mo, baka wo mite janai ka

Nando mo, hito no kage ni tattekita janai ka

Sou, shuyaku da yo

Jibun no yume kurai wa ga mama de isasete

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"Ready everyone?" Naruto leaned forward to look up and down the line at his fellow ninja. All he got were nods of assent, everyone's mouths busy with the blood-red fruit. "Alright then!" he spoke around his own mouthful.

"FIRE!"

Cherry pits went everywhere, crashing into and knocking out the paparazzi that had been standing in front of the kids, hoping for some good shots. Apparently they had underestimated the kids' cherry-spitting abilities. Which, in retrospect, was really dumb of them to do. Especially after all the smutty fanfiction that have been written about these very same characters making good use of their lips; the foolish camera crew should have realized that all of these kids were very talented with their mouths...

"Soooo," Ino interrupted this authoress' digressing to bring the reader's attention back to the story at hand. "Who won?"

Tenten looked resigned. "I know it wasn't me," she said, pointing to her pit that had barely flown a foot or two in front of her. "I don't get nearly enough kissing practice in."

Sakura pointed vaguely to two seeds that were laying exactly next to each other. "Mine over there...and it's further than that Ino-pig's!"

Ino growled at her rival. "No way! Mine is totally a few centimeters in front of yours!" Another catfight ensued.

"I believe mine went the furthest," Shino interrupted over the sounds of the two squalling chicas. Everyone looked greatly disappointed as he pointed out to a pit that had landed at least 30 feet away. But then...it moved?

"That's not a cherry seed!" Kiba shouted furiously. "You cheater! That's one of your bugs!"

Everyone else shuddered. He'd had a bug in his mouth? Eww...none of them would be kissing him any time soon...

Hinata counted the seeds again. "Umm," she quietly tried to get people's attention. "There's only 11 pits...or 10 pits and a bug...out there. Someone's is missing."

The group all recounted the seeds (including Sakura and Ino, who'd finished their catfight with only minimal physical damage to themselves) and looked to see who's was missing.

"Oh yeah," Shikamaru stuck out his tongue and displayed the missing cherry seed. "I decided not to bother with spitting it out. Too much effort."

"So," prodded the slightly disheveled Sakura. "Who won?" Sasuke snorted. ["Oh Sasuke-kun, your snort is so cool!" the two bruised fangirls cried.] "If Shino's bug is disqualified, I am the winner." Smirking, he pointed to his cherry pit.

Naruto scowled. "Curses!"

Sasuke's smirk deepened. "After all, it does make sense. I get the most tongue and mouth action out of anyone in the vast world that is fanfiction."

Contest over, everyone sat down to enjoy the rest of the sunset and fruit, happy just in each other's company. That is...until...

"This is the song that never ends; yes it goes on and on my friend! Some people..."

Naruto jumped in recognition of the hated music, then glared at the pink-haired girl. "Sakura!!!! I just got that tune out of my head!!! Omae o korosu!!!"

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Note: Sorry for that last. Just read a great Gundam Wing fic and I couldn't resist. And due to requests, I wrote this one chapter with no Sasuke/Naruto ...even though it's so fun to poke fun at other people's fiction's smuttiness...