All right I've gotten a couple of reviews thankyou for your interest in my story! As I promised here is the last chapter (tears) it's been soo much fun writing this but all good things must come to an end. Also I have decided to start writing a high school fan-fic next with all the crazy shit me and my crew do (hilarious!) Anyway enjoy!
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Tammie is an original creation by XxXPippinXxX
Troublesome Girl
Chapter Sixteen
Recap:
Tammie opened her eyes. "Shikamaru?"
"I'm here Tammie, I'm right here"
"I can't hold on much longer"
"No, you have to you can't leave me again"
"It hurts too much. Make the pain stop"
"I'm trying; I promise you'll be ok"
"Say goodbye to Asuma"
"No, you're gonna live and you're gonna meet some great guy and have some beautiful children and then they'll have children and you'll die an old woman warm in your bed. Wait for then, not now, not here" he pleaded.
"There's no one but you" she said trailing off and fading away.
Shikamaru paced back and forward in front of the emergency room, the rest of the gang watched in silence having no ideas on how to calm the pineapple haired shinobi. It had been hours since Sasuke had performed the Dispelling jutsu and Tammie had passed out. Before entering the emergency room Tsunade calmly explained the odds of survival, it pained Shikamaru to hear it but he refused to leave when Tsunade told him to go home. Shooting him one more sympathetic glance Tsunade entered with Shizune at her side. The red theatre light dulled and Shikamaru's head shot up in time to see Shizune push the doors open.
Shizune was exhausted "We did all we could…" she trailed off sadly.
Shikamaru stood stock still not breathing, waiting for Shizune to continue, lines of fear and pain etched into his face.
"She will never be able to fight again, we expect she'll have lost part of her memory and even now she may never walk again"
"But she'll live?" he asked breathless.
A wry smile confirmed his answer and he pushed the theatre doors open, Medics watched carefully as he entered in almost slow motion. Time slowed as he reached Tammie bed side, her skin was translucent and tubes protruded from her body. He sat on a stool beside her bed, she was still asleep but he took her hand and pressed his lips to it hoping to give her some comfort.
"I'm sorry, this is my fault I never should have let you go in the first place I should have stopped you. I thought I was doing the right thing, but I was wrong" he whispered lowering his head to rest on her lifeless hand clasped in his own.
"I don't care if you can't remember me or how I feel I'll work for the rest of my life to make you remember…I love you, I always have and I want to marry you and raise a family and grow old together but first you have to wake up and get better. Please just wake up"
Busy spilling the feelings he had always hidden from her he didn't see her foot twitch or her eye's slowly crack open. "Only if we can get a puppy" she rasped squeezing his hand and offering a small smile.
Tears of joy clouded his eyes "We can get two" he said leaning over to kiss her softly on her bruised and tender lips. "Marry me?" he asked softly.
After a drink of water to clear her throat she answered jokingly "Well now I'll have to think about that… done. Of course you lazy butt!" Laughing, secretly glad that she still held that spark of mischief that made him fall in love he embraced her.
After weeks of intensive therapy Tammie regained use of her legs and was allowed out of the hospital. Her first stop was to Asuma, who cried until Tammie gave him a hug and promised never to leave him again. The rookies were overjoyed to see her again, except they weren't rookies anymore they were jounine and most of them were married. TenTen showed Tammie the wedding band she and Neji shared. Sakura and Sasuke had a baby; and Hinata and Naruto were pregnant.
Tammie and Shikamaru moved into a small apartment and got two dogs just as he promised. By the time Tammie and Shikamaru married Naruto and Hinata were proud parents and it was TenTen that was pregnant, with twins. Asuma proudly walked Tammie down to aisle to give her away and saw the birth of their first child. Soon after he and his wife Kurenai passed away with smiles on their faces and love in their eyes.
TWO YEARS ON
Tammie stood on the balcony of her apartment with a timid two-year-old clutching at her skirts. She picked the child up and kissed her on the head. The glass door opened and Shikamaru emerged and said "Someone needs a nappy change" holding up their 6-month-old baby.
"Is daddy going to do it?"
"No way"
Tammie laughed and kissed Shikamaru while they watched the sun set on another day in Kohona.
65 YEARS LATER
It was a dark night and the stars where shining, but for the two figures walking through the wood, they could have been blind and they would still have known the way. They focused their chakra and walked out onto the lake.
The women then made series of hand signs and water swirled around them enveloping them in a bright and colourful sphere of air. These two were 86 years old but for just a moment if you watched closely you would have seen an old couple sharing their final kiss, replaced by two 16-year-olds sharing their first, before the water closed the sphere and the couple disappeared into droplets of water which rose to meet the heavens and shining stars.
And that's it, the end of Tammie and Shikamaru and their love story. I would really love if you reviewed one last time so I can improve in my next story that's title has been undecided. Thankyou everybody for you support if you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask.
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