What A Drag... || Shikamaru x reader

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Edited: 30/05/24

Reuploaded: 06/06/24

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We finished eating and all moved into the back garden of the house. Shikamaru and I stood opposite to each other on the grass while our parents were sat on the platform connected to the house.

"Come at me with all you've got," he told me. This is a new look on Shikamaru. He's never been this serious before.

"Alright, Mr-Deadly-Serious," I mocked him before getting into my taijutsu stance.

F/n PoV

"Taijutsu?" Shikaku asked.

"She still hasn't found her trigger yet," I told them, they both just shot me a surprised look, "you thought she would've found it by now? It's starting to annoy both myself and her. She wants to find it so she can use our jutsu but she can't because she hasn't found the thing that will trigger her trigger."

"Sounds like a pain," Shikaku sighed as he leaned onto Yoshino, and we watched as y/n ran head on at Shikamaru. She swiped at his feet and then pulled his ankle down into the ground harshly when he tried to jump away. She struck him in the stomach, faster than I'm sure Shikamaru could see or even think to react to.

Shikamaru was at a disadvantage because she had no shadow to catch which meant, the Nara jutsu isn't going to be useful here.

He jumped up and threw kunai at her when she turned away from him, she just pulled out her own kunai and reflected them at him. He ended up dodging his own kunai. Grabbing a shuriken, he stuck two paper bombs to the metal before throwing it.

"Damn!" she shouted as she dodged the explosion.

Shikamaru jumped from his perch in the tree but when he landed y/n noticed that there was another paper bomb starting to explode and jumped down grabbing her friends shoulders and dragging him out of the blast radius.

"Y/n! Shikamaru!" I shouted, the three of us standing up and running over to where they were, the fog clearing to show a dome of ice.

"Ice?" Yoshino questioned. I knocked on it and it melted revealing y/n shielding Shikamaru whose face was oddly red. Y/n rolled off him, exhausted and looked at me. Her eyes had a snowflake covering the iris of her eye only letting the natural e/c of her eye to show in between the little points and separations of the flake.

"Y/n..." I knelt down and pulled her up, inspecting her eyes.

"I think I've found my trigger," she whispered to me, looking at Shikamaru out the corner of her eye where Shikaku and Yoshino were inspecting him for injuries and scolding him for being so reckless with not only one but two paper bombs.

"Shikamaru?" I asked her, she nodded and grinned, "I see."

Should I tell her that the trigger is usually someone you've fallen in love with?

Nah.

She's smart, I'm sure she'll figure it out herself. She's always been a smart girl, but I hope she won't be so blind to the obvious.

"Well, then, y/n, now you have your trigger, it's time to put into practise all those jutsu I have taught you," I told her, grabbing her hand and pulling her off the grass. She nodded and we moved to the pond, the Nara's watching curiously.

Your PoV

Shikamaru's my trigger. Who'd have ever guess that would be the case?

When I saw him about to get blown up, I just jumped at him and grabbed him, something inside of me stirred and I found myself creating a dome of ice around us, wanting to keep him safe as I panicked.

When I was creating that dome, it was like I could see all the water in the air and in the ground, all around me. Kind of scary, if I'm to be totally honest.

I walked along the ponds surface and started thinking about the things my Dad had taught me for hours. I knew all our families jutsu... theoretically... Now I guess I have to attempt to put it together. I raised my hands and closed my eyes, I could feel the water in the air

I moved my hands around and felt cold rising from my fingertips. Soon my whole body was really cold.

F/n PoV

"She's doing it," I whispered, smiling a wide smile. The lake had frozen, and she was creating a ball of ice in her hand.

She looks like m/n, it's scary how alike they really are, they may not have shared many things but in the way they looked when using their jutsu... they do look so alike.

I just wish she could've seen y/n like this as well.

Shikamaru's PoV

Y/n looks like a goddess right now.

There was a ball of ice floating in each of her palms and little flakes were floating around her. This plus the moon light made her look like she wasn't from this world. Pretty...

"She's so beautiful in this light," my Mum beamed happily. I know she's been seeing y/n as her own daughter for a while now, also, apparently she looks almost identical to her Mother so this must be bringing up old memories.

I have to admit she does look really beauti—wait.. Shikamaru, what're you thinking in this head of yours, huh?

She's a friend.

If anything she'll more likely date someone in her team, they're the ones who she sees the most.

Why am I so disappointed by that?

Damn it—what a drag.