A/N: To be honest, I didn't plan on writing a Christmas fic. I already have a long list of stories I'd like to write. But then, I got this idea and I decided that it's worth a try. Especially that, although it's multi-chapter, it won't be very long.
This crappy prologue of an equally crappy fic is dedicated to an extremely talented artist, great friend and my fellow ShikaIno supporter, Az. Her birthday is tomorrow (2nd December) so, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AZ! Congrants on surviving schoolies and good luck with everything!
Minna-san, review, please!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
Many people believe destiny is a fixed timeline of events that is inevitable and unchangeable.
Some believe that they choose their own destiny by choosing different paths throughout their life.
Others don't believe in it at all.
I never believed in this thing called fate. Soulmates, destiny, miracles... Call it whatever you want. Such things just don't happen, not even on Christmas. Because they simply don't exist.
For example, let's say you're in the middle of the street and you're about to sneeze. While you're looking for a tissue in your bag, your other half walks by, completely unnoticed by you, as you were busy looking for the tissue in your bag.
And what next? You're doomed to spend the rest of your life alone, not even knowing that your happiness was so close to you?
Then again, if you won't look for the damn tissue, some handsome stranger/cute girl won't be able to offer you their own tissue and you might never meet them again. Which one was your true soulmate, anyway, and how you're supposed to know? And even if you knew, you won't know what other choice you missed.
The theory that God has lives planned for everyone, every detail written in a damn 'Fate Book' or something, is also highly unbelievable. I doubt that God would take his time (Then again, he has basically all eternity for himself...Hell, I doubt time even exists for God), sit down and write down everyone's path of life and then direct us through it till the very end as he pleases.
If the damn book exists after all, then what's the point of having 'free will'? I might as well just lie down and wait for all things that I'm destined to experience, happen to me. Which, in such a case, would be death from thirst, hunger and laziness.
It's too troublesome thinking that we have our lives already designed by some freakin' supernatural power and there's nothing we can change, no matter how much our life sucks. No, thank you, I'd rather get off my lazy ass from time to time and make some effort to make my life the way I want it to be.
One of my friends though, believes whole heartedly in the 'destiny and fate theory'. His name is Neji Hyuuga and ever since I remember, he's been using those two words on every, possible occasion. Whether it's the impact his hard childhood had on him or he was just born like this, Neji believes that no matter how hard we try, people can't change. If you're born a genius, you will die as a genius. If you're born a loser, you will die as a loser.
It's a great example of pure idiotic logic. If people couldn't change, they wouldn't even make any troublesome effort to try, because what for? It won't change anything, so why bother? Many people do try and succeed. Even if it's just step by step, gradual, almost unnoticeable progress, they do change. And you can see it all around you. Hell, even animals change their behavior, depending on surroundings and the way they're being treated, so why not people?
Neji also changes but even if you point it out to him, he'll say he's always been like this, because it was his destiny to be like this. Or something like that.
Of course, I have no material proof that destiny doesn't exist. But there's also no proof that it does exist.
However, as for my encounter with Ino Yamanaka, I'd rather think it was a mere coincidence.
A/N: Was I too sarcastic or bitter? I know this prologue is damn short but there's nothing more I could write. The next chapters won't be like this and they'll be longer.
Even though it's short, I managed to do two things I swore I'd never write. One: I wrote the whole chapter in some character's POV.
Second: AU. (Alternative Universe. Go figure.)
The only thing left I swore not to write (except pairings I don't like) is lemon, lime etc. I'm scared just thinking about what it means.
You know, when everything was already planned out, I realized that it suits ShikaIno and SasuIno. I like both pairings a lot (Still, ShikaIno is my top fave) so I was a bit hesitant on which I should decide. In the end, it's Shikamaru and Ino for me (influenced also by the recent chapters of Naruto)
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