What A Drag... || Shikamaru x reader

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Edited: 29/05/24

Reuploaded: 06/06/24

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Shikamaru's PoV

I was having dinner with my parents and two others. That girl, y/n, and her Dad were here.

Although dinner was mainly our parents talking, I couldn't help but find myself glancing at the girl beside me from time to time. She sat with her back straight and never allowed her elbows to hit the table. Not really eating much of the food my Mother had made even though she said it was good.

"Y/n? Aren't you going to eat anything?" my Mother finally asked her after a while of y/n not eating after a few bites, I could tell it was bothering her.

"I'm sorry, Yoshino. I've never been one to eat a large amount of food at a time. I'm still getting used to it," y/n apologised, she seemed disappointed that she wasn't eating, and her Dad just reached over the tabled and produced an apple.

"At least eat this then I can trust you've eaten enough," he told her, a sense of understanding between the two of them, she nodded and took it before eating.

She is a strange girl.

"You can stop staring at me now, Shikamaru," she said, everyone looks at me and I quickly found myself looking down.

"What a pain.." I grumbled before eating my own food again.

After a while my Mother's curiosity clearly finally got the best of her.

"F/n... I was curious, where is m/n?" she asked. F/n just froze, and y/n slouched forward, trembling slightly.

"It's not like you two to be separate?" she continued, this time y/n slammed her hands on the table stood up, walking out to the back garden without a word.

"Oh no! Is this a touchy subject?" she asked hurriedly.

"M/n is dead," f/n started, looking down sadly, "she was killed by someone of the... sha—Nara clan... accidentally."

Oh no...

"... Our clan?" my Dad asked, outraged, almost seeming to force out the words with an understanding frown between the three of them. They seemed to understand some hidden message while I just frowned.

Someone from our clan killed someone?

"I'd recognise that... shadow possession jutsu anywhere," f/n told us, although, the way he was looking at them and his tone sounded strange, almost as if he was trying to tell them something else. The words he was saying weren't the truth that enough was clear, but I guess it was something he couldn't say around y/n and me, "anyway, she and her Mother were a bit further down a road because they were bored waiting for me to finish my business with a man I knew. Then this shadow came out of nowhere and caught the both of them. When I looked up, I saw my daughter crying silently as she was forced to watch her Mother get murdered in front of her."

Should I be hearing this?

Feels like a subject I shouldn't be listening to.

"T-thats—oh my goodness, that's terrible!" my Mother exclaimed, her hands covering her mouth as her eyes brimmed with tears again.

"How old was she?" my Dad asked.

"It was on y/n's birthday two years ago," he answered.

"Her 7th birthday," I muttered.

What a drag... My clan has some murderers in it, perhaps, maybe not. Just great...

Wait—that must be why she doesn't seem to like me, right? It's pretty obvious that she doesn't like me, but I'm going to prove I'm nothing like that murderer!

One minute... why do I care? She's just a girl... who suffered because of my clan... and her Dad is good friends with my parents... and she's.. Ugh! Shikamaru get your head on straight.

I stood up and walked towards the door before freezing, what laid in my vision was something I could never explain.

"Shikamaru?" my Dad called out to me, the three adults stood to join my side before f/n pushed past me.

"Y/n! You've awakened our jutsu!" he exclaimed happily. She turned around, standing on the pond in our garden that once used to be water but now was pure ice.

Your PoV

"F/n... I was curious, where is m/n?" Yoshino asked, I could tell she was bursting with curiosity but when the question finally slipped my Dad just froze and I slouched forward, trembling slightly from the bad memories.

"It's not like you two to be separate?" she continued, my anger slipped through, and I found myself slamming my hands on the table and standing up before walking out to the back garden.

"Oh no! Is this a touchy subject?" she asked hurriedly. Hell yes it's a touchy subject.

I let out a grumble in frustration as I walked around the garden, a small pond was there.

My Mother's face popped into my head when I looked down to see my reflection staring right back.

I knelt down and cause a ripple in the water so I couldn't see those eyes staring back. Instead of ripples, the water froze.

"Ice?" I questioned confused before tapping another area of water to see it freeze over too. Standing up, I got the not so smart idea to step onto the frozen surface. When I didn't fall in, I looked down at my feet to see the ice becoming thicker under my feet. I smiled and took a few steps forward, more ice formed until I found myself happily dancing around on the ice.

The thing I was most happy about was the fact...

"I have a shadow!" I whispered loudly before stopping and standing. I've never had a shadow before, this is a strange experience. I just looked down before hearing my Dad let out an excited shout.

"Y/n! You've awakened our jutsu!" he exclaimed happily. I turned to him and smiled. For once, I smiled a genuine smile that I've never seen on myself in so long.

"You smiled..." he muttered, his eyes wide in shock. I laughed at him.

"The ice gave me a shadow," I smiled.

Shikamaru's PoV

What a weird girl indeed...