Something Like That . . .
Part IV
Act III-a (The Epic Flight)
Temari grabbed Shikamaru's hand and pulled him up onto the balcony. "Now look here Ms. Fate, don't you ruin our date, we're only doing what you asked!"
"Hey get with the times and forget the damn rhymes, we need to run really fast!" Shikamaru said, grabbing her wrist.
"Ooh, how assertive!" Temari teased as Shikamaru led her down the stairs of her balcony. Seemed kind of silly he'd gone through the trouble of rushing up to meet her only to drag her back down the other way to avoid the very angry narrator.
"Y'know Ramón I can handle her, no sweat! Don't worry, I'll protect you." Temari teased.
"That's exactly what I'm afraid of! It's troublesome but if you kill Ino your little brother Gaara might get set off and he'd kill everyone else, and if that's not enough your other brother Kankuro might just pick me off so he isn't left out of the bloody fun!"
"Oh Gaara isn't that bad . . . anymore!" Temari protested, but she knew what Shikamaru was getting at and decided not to argue the matter, or try her luck with Gaara's natural blood lust over his new and improved niceness.
So Ramón and Julia fled from fate, which totally screwed up their date, but at least they still had their skin.
Wait why am I rhyming? This is unfortunate timing, the next scene's about to begin!
Scene Prep
Ino took a deep breath, "Okay. Okay. The show must go on . . . and I admit I did say that Julia was fighting her lust, but maybe that wasn't the right choice of words . . . Julia is a chaste young lady, do you understand that? Can you understand that?"
"Are you trying to say something about me?" Temari raised her eyebrows.
"I'm amazed at how easily you thought up perverted rhymes." Ino said, clapping mockingly. "And you Shikamaru, encouraging her?"
"I can't help it, Temari doesn't know the lines or the story, I throw the lines at her but she just does her own thing." Shikamaru said.
"Don't pin this one me, it was Kiba who said I should try to rhyme!" Temari protested.
Shikamaru hadn't meant to blame her, he didn't mean what he'd said in a bad way, the rhyming game had been kind of fun. Games were one of the few things that motivated Shikamaru; it'd enabled him to work through the scene without wanting to go to sleep.
"Ino, I suggest you retire me from the role of Ramón and give it to Chouji." He said, "I have no motivation to continue this."
"What?" Temari demanded, "Look here you crybaby, I ought to be motivation enough!"
"What's that supposed to mean?" Kankuro grinned.
"Yeah, what's it matter to you if I let Chouji play Ramón?" Ino raised an eyebrow.
"What? Oh . . . nothing." Temari shrugged, "I just think it'd be kind of awkward, changing our Ramón in the middle of the play."
Shikamaru said "I'm not motivated enough to care about how awkward this play gets. You're all so annoying."
"And just think of how annoying I'll be if you don't do what I say!" Ino cried.
"I'll help her!" Chouji added with a smirk.
"What? Betrayed by my own best friend?" Shikamaru complained, "What's it matter to you if I don't want to be Ramón?"
"It wouldn't if you'd stop trying to throw the role on me." Chouji admitted.
"Fine. Lee, it's all you." Shikamaru said.
"Forget it! I wanted the role so I could kiss Sakura-chan; I remain only because I believe in enduring hard work to the end!"
Shikamaru sighed. "I don't care enough to argue any more. Let's just get this over with." He said, and he walked off.
Temari smirked, "He can't even motivate himself to quit."
"Oh I bet he just doesn't want to do the next scene." Ino said.
"Why? What's up with the next scene?" Temari demanded. "It's a sex scene, isn't it?"
"What? Oh no . . . well . . . uh . . . places everyone! Places!" Ino cried, waving her script in the air and shooing everyone to their place, Temari made a desperate attempt at the fabled script, but she failed.
On with the show . . .
Act III-b (The Epic Fight!)
Shikamaru had to wonder how he got himself into these bothersome situations.
In an imaginary village where the three Hinatas were playing the role of baker, black smith and . . . for some reason, clown, he stood on with Chouji, Lee and Tenten, his "team" and pretended to be assaulted by Ino's loud voice as she returned to her role as narrator.
"The Ramón team of the Hidden Village of Myth gathers after Ramón's intelligence gathering mission, and they note the change in his countenance . . . pst, Shikamaru, try to look more cheerful!"
Shikamaru scoffed and made no such attempt. "Hark friends, for news have I gathered last eve beneath the moon in the enemy's land!"
"Well then tell us quick, so we can talk about that chick, the one I saw holding your hand!" Tenten said.
"Could it perhaps be the maiden that we beheld?" Lee asked.
"The one whose sister, Wimpy, I so bravely felled?" Chouji asked.
"Wait, you guys are—" Shikamaru groaned.
"Your rhymes from the scene before, seemed so much fun." Chouji said.
"This is our last scene, and then we're all done." Tenten nodded.
"So let us three say just a few quick versus," Lee added.
"Oh fuck it, you all get my personal curses!" Ino screamed in her microphone.
"You see even fate is going to rhyme." Chouji said.
"This play would be fun if we did this the whole time." Lee said.
Shikamaru shook his head, "I shake my head, and wish I were dead, even rhyming that scene really sucked."
"Well I'm glad that you're sad, because I'm really mad, and now that I'm here you're all fucked!" Kankuro called.
"Tracked you we did, you meddlesome kid, from our sister's balcony where; we knew you had been, for you can't hide your sin, we discovered a strand of your hair!" Gaara added.
"We know Julia's really tough, she's got the right ninja stuff, but as brothers we cannot stand by," Kankuro said.
"While our sister acts like a whore with a myth village bore, so for that you're going to die." Gaara nodded.
Shikamaru groaned, he'd been dreading this scene. The fight between his team and Gaara's.
"Now wait just a minute, you think you can pin it, on Ramón if your sister's a tramp?" Chouji asked.
"Well I recall the day, that he whisked me away, while we were at a summer camp." Tenten pointed out.
"Now that I never did, so surely you kid, or you're thinking of Lee over there!" Shikamaru cried.
"T'is true, it was me, the handsome Rock Lee, but at least I treated you fair." Lee said.
"Ramón and Julia are the only couple here so that's enough with your little games! And for crying out loud you all have your roles so why are you using your real names?"
"Hey let's focus here, you're ignoring I fear, the fact that you're all going to die," Neji said.
"Why should we all pay, for Julia's one night of play, with this single, no good lazy guy?" Chouji asked.
Kiba nodded, "That one there has a point, is not like you snuck in our joint, it's just this guy over here."
"And he's got to die, that meddlesome guy, for drinking my very last beer!" Kankuro cried.
"Betrayed by my crew, I'll still fight with you, and you all are going to go down! Don't think me a quitter, for I've a pitch hitter, this ninja dressed up like a clown!" Shikamaru said, grabbing Hinata's clown clone.
"Oh no, oh my gosh, he's got the boss, let's get the heck out of here quick!" Hinata 2 said to Hinata 3.
"A ninja renown, disguised as a clown, how did they figure out our sly trick?" Hinata 3 gasped.
"No, no I'm a clown, with a great big red frown, and please don't hurt me I plead!"
"It is just a feint, for a ninja she aint, but still let's see how much she can bleed!" Kiba said.
Faintly Ino was heard mumbling "Screw you guys . . . hate . . . you guys."
"Thanks a lot Ramón, but I won't die alone," Hinata said, grabbing Shikamaru by the collar of his shirt, "I'm taking your lazy ass with me!"
"It was just a joke, but if you weren't such a slow poke, we might just be able to flee." Shikamaru said.
"No just hold him there, we'll kill us a pair, and get home in time for lunch!" Neji said.
"Now wait just a minute, I want those other three in it, instead of two let's kill the whole bunch!" Gaara said.
"Well Ramón thanks a lot, I know she was hot, but you've gone and gotten all of us killed!" Tenten complained.
"Oh come on now guys, maybe we'll be surprised and they won't be all that skilled!" Shikamaru cried.
"Oh shove it Ramón, I don't like your tone, her brothers will cream us all right?" Tenten said.
"Come now my friend, this is not the end, we have not yet begun to fight!" Lee said with a brave pose.
More To Come . . .
Yeah, it's amazing what Kiba can come up with, whether or not people listen is up to them. I kept the rhyming around for one more chapter . . . because I felt like it . . . there's a "wee bit" in the next chapter too, but after that it'll start to fade away. Ino has made her feelings known in chapter 1, she will kiss only Sasuke. I like thischapter a little better than chapter 3 which I did not think was going to be possible.Yes Tenten's fear of Temari is justified, I mean ouch. Really, ouch! But she's still able to walk, so good for her. At the end of Chapter 5 Temari won't be able to make that same boast, so review if you guys want to find out why!