After much debating with my inner self, and little prompts here and there, and plain insanity, I decided to draft an Epilogue for Battles.
YES. It seems I keep giving my fics at FF.Net as being completed, only to extent them after. +facepalms+
Shame on me. I am taking my time with it tho: the other two flowed pretty easily, but I still need to see the particular scene I want to set the Epilogue on. It was brought to my attention Battles was left somewhat suspended in air, and I do agree:
Thinking about shaking the lemon tree, with yet another shift of POV: third person to wrap it up. It will make for a good wrap, since both Sakura and Kakashi's chapters had little third person "pauses", so it's not that far-fetched to use third person now I think.
ALSO CRACK. God, I don't think I will make a good job at crack, but after the Cherry Blossom Mask, little scenes centered on OMGKAKASHIISHHAWTANDIWANTHIMNAOWTF! Sakura have been bugging me.
The one I have been scribbling in my open gdoc document (where I store a WHOLE lot of the ideas that pop at times), is filled with such intense OOCness that it actually hurts has as a premise the female part of the Konoha Twelve meeting for tea, and Ino bringing a theme for the afternoon, in the form of a magazine that has SEX MEME's.
Sneak peak of DOOM:
“Ok, ok, next prompt!” Ino chirped deviously, with a little bounce on the chair, the magazine in her hands.
Hinata looked over her shoulder, slightly flushed, but more interested than I would expect from her. I set my chin over the heel of my hand. I have to admit this is actually pretty funny.
Blaming my hormones. And by extension, Kakashi. And my lack of sleep.
“TenTen. ‘Lasts longer.’” Ino proclaims with pomp and circumstance.
The weapon mistress smirks, cupping her mouth in a unnecessary gesture to promote some kind of secrecy. “Yamato-Taichou.” And she crowns the name with a little wiggle of eyebrows.
“Oh my God, you just did NOT go there!” Yes, I am staring at her, with a barely contained smile/horrofied expression on my face. Why did she have to bring the older men into this? I am having the very scary premonition that the "Don't think about Kakashi-sensei!" rule I made this morning is not going to hold on. Damn it.
“What?” She mock frowns, looking at me, between giggles.
“Well-- I..I don’t really see what is wrong with that... Sakura-san. He... he is a male, and the meme says for us to say the first name that comes to mind...” Hinata intervenes with a little smile. And of course, the blush. No need to mention that by now.
“Damn right!” TenTen beams at her.
Ino clears her throat. “Yeah... I see what you mean.” She wiggles her own eyebrows. “ Gives the expression woody a whole new meaning doesn’t it?”
I hate to admit, but Ino just synced with me mentally. Don’t know if that is a bad or a good thing.
There. Now I'm off to sleep.