Shopping Spree
Ino nearly got a heart attack when she saw how late it was when she woke up.
"Darn I overslept!" she yelled.
She quickly ran to the wardrobe picking some clothes out the huge collection of clothes.
Shikamaru who even continued sleeping when a bomb exploded next to his bed didn't notice the chaos.
"Darn I don't know which skirt I have to choose." said Ino.
She walked towards Shikamaru and kneeled down beside the bed.
"Shikamaru, dear wake up." she said.
Shikamaru didn't reply.
"Plan B." sighted Ino.
She jumped on top of him and said, "Shikamaru wake up, now!"
Shikamaru's eyes cracked open.
He was completely disorientated, and had no idea what was going on.
He saw two colours: Red and Blue.
A voice said, "Which one?"
Instinctively he said blue because that was the colour he liked the most.
The voice said, "Thank you dear." And he felt a kiss on his lips.
"I'm back around six your breakfast and lunch is in the fridge."
It took him five minutes to realize what happened.
Ino had overslept and she didn't know which skirt she had to choose.
He slowly came out of his bed and looked around.
The room looked like a bomb had exploded; everywhere in the room were shoes, jeans and skirts shattered.
'Oh great.' he thought.
Then he remembered that Ino was going to buy a wedding dress today.
'That's why she was so stressed.' he thought.
Shikamaru walked into the wardrobe and grabbed a t-shirt and some pants.
The wardrobe looked even worse then the bedroom.
"Why do girls panic so much about what they are going to wear?" he asked the cat who was sleeping on a pile of clothes.
The cat opened his eyes and looked at Shikamaru with an 'I don't know either' look in his eyes.
He took the cat in his arms and walked downstairs.
Ino adored that cat, she had found him 6 months ago on the street. Shikamaru could still remember Ino coming home with the cat. She named him Cosmos.
Shikamaru liked Cosmos as much as Ino did. Cosmos was incredible lazy (just like him) and slept the whole day on his pile of clothes in the wardrobe.
"So what do you want to eat?" he asked Cosmos while he opened the fridge.
He put his breakfast on the table behind him and continued searching in the fridge.
"Well Cosmos the only thing I have for you are some leftovers from yesterday.
He took the leftovers out of the fridge and put the table.
After he had closed the fridge he noticed that his breakfast was gone, and so was Cosmos.
"Damn cat! That was my bacon." he said.
He looked at the leftovers, it looked disgusting, even for a cat.
Shikamaru sighted, no breakfast for him.
He walked upstairs to clean up the mess Ino had made.
"Hi Ino!" said Sakura who was waiting for her at the corner of the street.
"Hi!" replied Ino.
"I've found some nice shops here in Konoha." said Sakura.
"Are the dresses very expensive?" asked Ino.
"No not very, we're lucky." answered Sakura.
"Well let's go!" said Ino.
They walked towards the shops.
The first shop was a tiny shop between two bigger buildings.
They walked inside, a woman walked towards them and asked, "Can I help you?"
"Yes I'm searching a wedding dress, I prefer a Lila one." said Ino.
"I've got about five Lila ones, follow me." the woman walked towards a wardrobe with all different kinds of wedding kimono's.
She showed them all, one for one. But Ino didn't like them. They were too old-fashioned.
They thanked the woman for her time and continued shopping.
Ino and Sakura visited four more shops but Ino couldn't find a dress which she liked.
After four hours they walked towards Ichiraku's to buy lunch.
"All those dresses are terrible." said Ino.
"I know." said Sakura.
"Hello Ino, Sakura." said Kurenai.
"Something wrong?" she asked when she saw their faces.
"We've visited all wedding shops in Konoha but we can't find a nice dress." said Sakura.
"Which colour do want?" asked Kurenai.
"Lila." replied Ino.
Kurenai smiled, "You can have my dress."
Ino's eyes began to twinkle; she had seen Kurenai's dress when she married with Asuma and it was of the nicest she had ever seen.
"I bought in a town a few miles from Konoha." she said.
"Come follow me."
Ino and Sakura followed Kurenai to her house.
It was a nice house on the edge of the village.
Kurenai opened the door and they walked inside.
The air was filled with smoke from Asuma's cigarette.
"Asuma!" yelled Kurenai, "How many times do I have to tell that you have to smoke outside."
"Hi folks." said Asuma a bit surprised.
"I didn't expect you to be home so early." said Asuma.
"We're only here because of my dress." Kurenai replied.
"Dress?" asked Asuma.
"I tell you later about it." said Kurenai while she ran upstairs.
After five minutes she came back with a beautiful Lila kimono.
"Feel free to change the dress if you like." and she handed Ino the dress.
"Thank you!" she said happily.
"Good luck," said Asuma, "Shikamaru is very lucky with a girl like you."
Ino smiled, "Thanks again."
Ino and Sakura said goodbye and walked towards Sakura's house.
"So how long are you and Naruto together?" asked Ino.
"Almost as long as you and Shikamaru are." she replied.
"You remember that date at the lake?" said Sakura.
"Yeah, it was fun." said Ino wit a smile.
Sakura opened the door of her house.
It was still dark inside.
"I'm home!" shouted Sakura.
No reply.
"Ah well." said Sakura and she walked upstairs.
"Sakura?" asked Ino, "Can you keep my dress at your home until the wedding?"
"Course," she said, "He's not supposed to see it until the wedding, if he does it gives bad luck."
"Hi girls." said Naruto who was standing in his pyjamas behind them.
"It's three o'clock in the afternoon and you've still not dressed your self?" said Sakura.
Naruto gave her a smile and walked back upstairs.
"I have to go, see you later." said Ino.
"Bye bye!" replied Sakura.
"Shika I'm home!" said Ino.
Shikamaru walked towards her and asked, "Have you found yourself a dress?"
"Yes a very nice one." she replied.
He grabbed her hand and kissed it.
"So how was your day?" Ino asked.
"Well I've cleaned up the mess you made in our bedroom and I've learned Cosmos how to play Go." he replied.
"Is he a good at it?" asked Ino.
"Yeah he's almost as good as I am." said Shikamaru with a smile.
"If you were a cat you'd probably be Cosmos." said Ino sarcastic.
Cosmos walked down the stairs towards Ino.
"Meow." he said.
"Hi sweetie!" said Ino and took Cosmos in her arms.
"That sweetie of yours ate my breakfast this morning." said Shikamaru.
"Good cat!" replied Ino.
Shikamaru smiled, "Lazy cat."
"Yeah and you're my lazy fiancée," replied Ino, she looked at Cosmos and said, "Great I live with two lazy men in a house."
"Anyway I have to cook dinner, so you two play a game of Go and be nice." said Ino.
She gave Cosmos to Shikamaru and walked towards the kitchen.
"Woman are troublesome don't you think Cosmos?"
"Meow." replied Cosmos.