Finally another chapter. Sorry for the wait.
The stars were up and the sun had left, and only a pale yellow moon shone on Konoha. And slowly people began to return home in order to relax and sleep. But there was person still up, who was trying desperately not to fall asleep.
She was planning something, and it always took concentration if one wanted something to work properly. Twiddling her fingers a few times here and there when she was thinking extra hard, the girl made sure to write down every intelligent thought that popped into her head.
She chewed on the side of her lip, erasing when she made a obvious error. Frustration dug intently at her mind, and the girl was almost ready to give in. But she continued, trying to stop from slumping over from fatigue.
But every so often, she would tilt to the side and close her eyes before shaking herself awake. Working this hard deserved a reward and hopefully with her plan thought out to the best of her ability, it would succeed. Otherwise, working this hard was useless. She smiled happily as she finally put down her last words on the sheet of paper.
It had to work, but if it didn't Ami was going to find some way of completing her revenge. Thankfully, she still remembered the Transformation Jutsu since this plan of hers was heavily involved with that particular Jutsu. She smirked with glee.
Waiting as the sky turned completely dark, Kakashi sighed hugely as he stared up at the sky and listened to the ninja's mumbling. It was almost time to visit the memorial stone, but he had to make sure to listen to their plans.
After all these years, he wasn't going to let anyone see his face. One eye curved in its usual way as he smiled. Why was everyone so interested in this old face anyways? Walking away when he was sure he had listened in on everything, he whistled to himself a sort of sad tune that echoed his thoughts as they turned toward the Memorial Stone.
"Now that he's gone, we need to start all over," Shikamaru whispered carefully, listening to the movements the Copy-Nin was making, "I can't believe I didn't catch on any sooner. This means we have to start over from scratch."
"What?! Kakashi-Sensei was listening in on us this whole time? Could this possibly be the reason we failed so many times before?" Naruto groaned loudly, even though that Temari was giving him evil looks for almost letting Kakashi know that they were still plotting, "But the way he acted during those times, doesn't seem likely he even knew what we were doing."
"The only reason he's paying so much attention to us, is because Shikamaru and I are unknown to him. Or at least not carefully studied as much. But with your team, he's had years to learn how you work and how you act, so even if he didn't know what you were doing he could easily counter-react," Temari supposed, feeling like that was the best answer for Naruto. She sighed when he rolled his eyes and turned her head toward Shikamaru who just shrugged as the blond female questioned him with her teal colored-eyes.
" Sensei can be so aggravating some times. So do we really have to start over?" pleaded Naruto trying to achieve the puppy-dog look as he looked from one to the other with sad blue pitiful eyes, "I'm sure it will work!"
"No," the two simultaneously answered and they both smiled when they did so. Shikamaru cleared his throat and answered in the only way he could think of that would allow Naruto to accept it, "He'd know exactly what to expect, and from the reports on him, he's a great tactician and is known as the Copy Nin who also created his own special Ninjutsu. With those elements thrown in and the fact that he already knows about it, this plan would fail."
"He's also known as the legendary White-Fang's son," Temari added although Naruto looked confused. But she didn't bother to explain, thinking it would hurt him more than it would help him.
"Fine, fine." Naruto sighed reluctantly as he glanced at the two of them. He sighed and shook his head.
Shikamaru looked up at the sky and wondered how his mother would react when he got home. He shuddered at the thought and motioned to Temari that they should leave before explaining why to Naruto, "Got to go, or my mother will kill me. We'll talk more tomorrow. This is getting way too troublesome."
Naruto just laughed and teased him before heading toward his favorite place to eat. Hopefully Sai would not still be waiting for him after all this time.
Shikamaru sighed and his hand drifted toward his forehead as he started to rub away the stress of the day, "What a day. There hasn't been this much fuss since, forever. Why can't this village just relax for more than a little bit?"
"It's just a way of life, after all it would be boring otherwise," Temari teased putting her arm around his. Shikamaru watched her with vivid brown eyes full of laziness and a bit of tension that shouldn't be there. When a sudden shout came from the ramen shop, they ignored it as the artistic Sai showed in his emotionless way on how he tortured someone.