Disclaimer: Rated T for some course language, and suggestive scenes.

Writer's Note 1: Here the story really earns its T rating as some of the things Temari and Shikamaru say to each other during the balcony scene are rather suggestive. I was going to put this up tomorrow, but with all of you reviewing I figured I wouldnt make you wait, so here you go!

Something Like That . . .

Part III

Scene Prep

"Okay, that wasn't bad for the beginning," Ino said.

"That was terrible." Neji scoffed.

"I'm feeling no motivation whatsoever." Shikamaru pointed out.

"When do you actually feel motivated?" Chouji asked.

"I'm just reminding her is all." Shikamaru shrugged.

"Well all right, that was awful, they even laughed at us, but that's not going to deter us, all right? So lets make my—I mean our—oh who am I kidding, my vision a reality! Lets show them that we are all capable actors who can properly play out the story of Ramón and Julia!"

"How did she talk us into this again?" Tenten asked.

"Well I wanted to kiss Sakura-chan; I am not sure what I am still doing here." Lee said.

"What? You're the most enthusiastic of the group, stick with it!" Ino cried.

"You're right I—" Lee began, but Ino cut him off.

"Great! Perfect! Now anyway Temari you're really bad out there."

"What's that?" Temari demanded.

"You're not talking like Julia." Ino said, not backing down from the annoyed sand ninja.

"A script might help; I don't know anything about Julia!" Temari said.

"Okay, she loves Ramón but is duty bound to her family, in this upcoming scene she converses with Ramón from her window, she's basically battling her lust for him but eventually she invites him to come up. Shikamaru will say the actual lines, you just—where did he go?"

Shikamaru raised his hand, "Beyond all reason, I'm still here . . . though it's troublesome."

"You just say that to annoy me, don't you?" Ino demanded.

". . . Yes."

"Well stop it! Temari, try to respond positively to everything Shikamaru says, okay?"

"I guess." Temari sighed.

"And try to rhyme!" Kiba added.

"What? Why?" Ino demanded. Shikamaru wanted to know the reasoning behind Kiba's line of thought too, but didn't care enough to ask.

"Because it'll sound more poetic." Kiba said.

"Say, that's good! Okay, you heard the man, rhyme Temari!"

"Does it bother anyone else that our fighting scene was one sided?" Tenten asked suddenly.

"What?" Lee asked.

"Lets examine the teams here, Chouji, myself, Lee and Shikamaru are on Myth team, and Neji, Gaara, Kankuro and Kiba are on Fantasy, doesn't that seem imbalanced to anyone?"

"No." Gaara said.

"You're still alive." Kankuro pointed out.

"Well I had to keep Temari's brothers together, I thought you'd want to be on the same team as Neji, Tenten, but I didn't want you to have to be too close to Temari since I thought . . . y'know, you might have some issues."

"Issues? What issues? I've got no problem with Tem—" Tenten was saying until Temari whipped out a little paper fan and lightly fanned herself with it. "Shit! Shit! Keep that bitch away from me!" Tenten cried, leaping behind Lee.

Shikamaru sighed as Temari smirked. Did she have to make things even worse?

She was almost as cruel as she was pretty—hey wait, did he just think that?

Bah, never mind. On with the show.

Act II (The Balcony)

Shikamaru sighed as Ino narrated, "And so, later that night our hero Ramón journeys to the village of Fantasy to see his lady love, Julia . . . he comes to her balcony, and calls up to her, and how shall she answer?"

Shikamaru took a deep breath. "What glow from far window gleams, is it not Julia who shines like the sun?"

"Hey, Ramón honey!" Temari cried, waving at him.

Shikamaru blushed and said, "Eh, uh I . . . have traveled far to see thee here in thine home, behind enemy lines have I come for thee fair maiden."

Temari tapped her chin and said and then pounded her fist into her palm as if she'd just thought of something, "Got it! Ahem . . ." She took a deep breath and called down, "Hey Ramón my dear, c'mon up here for some beer! My dad's not home so we can party all night, but when my brothers get back you're in for a fight!"

Nice rhymes, but otherwise . . . Shikamaru thought. His next line wouldn't make sense with what she'd just said, a major flaw in Ino's idiotic, annoying plan. So, though it was bothersome he improvised "I uh . . . I am afraid my sweet that lest I retreat thine brothers shall rend me asunder." Shikamaru shrugged and sat on a prop rock, too unmotivated to hold his hand over his heart and go down on one knee. "But while I am here, just toss down the beer, and I shall tell my captain it's plunder."

"What the hell are you two doing?" Ino demanded, "That's not the script Shi—Ramón! Tem—Julia, you're supposed to be under age!"

Temari rolled her eyes, "Pray tell me Ramón, why not use a phone? Why comest though all this way hence? Stay or flee now my love: come to me up above, or make some mad tracks for that fence." She pointed at some imaginary fence, then leaned over the balcony towards him, "Because I'm not going to clown, not in this night gown, I'm freezing and that's not a joke. I hope you have cash, or I'm dumping your ass, for I do not date guys who are broke."

"Julia is not a prostitute!" Ino screamed. "End the scene! End the scene!"

Shikamaru sighed, ignored the fact that Temari looked really hot in the Julia night gown and said "My love I must say, though I should not stay, as it pains me indeed to admit; My life matters not, and since you're so hot, I'll climb up and hang for a bit."

"Well don't get any ideas just because I'm alone, and beautiful and sexy and great fun to bone; I've a brain of morals beneath these blond whirls, and I'm not a whore like those other girls . . . unless you get me a really nice ring, gold with a diamond, you know that kind of thing? Or maybe a necklace all strung up with pearls. Then I guess with you I'd be loose, like those other girls."

"If you two have sex on my stage," Ino roared in a rage, "I'll . . . I'll . . . I don't know what I'll do, but it sure will hurt you!"

Shikamaru sighed as he lazily made an attempt at climbing up to the window. There were "invisible" stairs but he didn't care enough to walk up all of them and just kind of sat down to rest midway, "Pearls have I none, but I've got a cinnamon bun, and it can be yours if you wish."

"Darling, pastries are great, but I'm watching my weight, I'd never put out for that dish." Temari countered.

"I'm killing you both!" Ino cried. "Stay right where you are, I'm coming over there!"

"My love methinks fate, is getting rather irate, with this slaughter of a classical play." Shikamaru said.

"So come up to me, and we'll forgo the fee, hide from fate and call it a day!" Temari offered.

The enraged Ino rushing towards Shikamaru suddenly gave him the motivation he needed to finish climbing the stairs.

More To Come . . .

I love this chapter, I hope all of you will too. I rather enjoy the medic nija part myself, and Lee's costume disturbed Gaara and Kankuro too much for them to give the battle their all, plus they were trying not to kill anyone. Anyway to that certain special someone, I don't think you and me will have a problem since I never "right" new chapters, I write them. And you'll be ripping my balls "of" what? Great balls of fire? Don't have those, buddy. LOL! Anyway just for you, my many reviewers the next chapter, how'd you like it? Let me know, I'm really rather pleased with it though some of the rhymes could have been better. Chapter 4 will rock your socks, so keep on reviewing!