What A Drag... || Shikamaru x reader

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Edited: 30/05/24

Reuploaded: 06/06/24

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I was sleeping when I heard knocks on the front door. I groaned and covered my ears hoping if I didn't answer, they would just go away. But they didn't the knocking just got louder and louder until I found myself getting out of bed, cursing the world and whoever was knocking so intensely on my door in the middle of the night.

I just used the shadows covering me and shadow hop to Shikamaru's room. He woke up almost immediately upon sensing my presence.

"Someone wouldn't leave my front door so I'm here now," I told him, climbing into the other side of his bed.

"Do I get no say in this?" he asked.

"Exactly," I tell him, he sighed.

"You're going to be my pillow then as compensation," he told me.

"Whatever, just let me sleep," I grumbled before feeling him lay down and use my stomach as a pillow.

Shikamaru's PoV

I felt a presence in my room and shot up to see y/n yawning and walking towards my bed.

"Someone wouldn't leave my front door so I'm here now," she told me, climbing in the other side of my bed.

"Do I get no say in this?" I asked, looking at her settling silhouette.

"Exactly," she replied, I just sighed and then remember that she's really comfortable. I smiled to myself.

"You're going to be my pillow then as compensation," I made a deal that would work out in my favour too.

"Whatever, just let me sleep," she grumbled at me, I smiled and pulled her closer so that I could use her stomach as a pillow like we used to do ages ago.

Shikaku's PoV

"Shikaku! Wake up!" I felt Yoshino shaking my arm roughly, I woke up and looked at the alarm clock.

What a pain—

"It's barely 7. Give me an hour," I replied, I could feel her glaring daggers at me, "fine I'm getting up. What a drag..."

"Don't you 'what a drag' me. When you see what I'm going to show you, you'll understand," she told me as I climbed out of bed, she pulled my arm to get me up quicker, and I was dragged down the hallway and to Shikamaru's room.

We poked our heads into the room to see, Shikamaru. Yes that fairly normal except, he wasn't alone.

"Is that y/n?" I asked, rubbing my eyes to try get rid of any illusions that may be attacking me.

"Yep," I looked at Yoshino who was basically dying of excitement, "I just want them to start dating. They're so close already!"

"Don't push them," I shot her a glare, knowing exactly what she's like I'm sure she'll try, "plus they're what? 11—no—12 years old? Give the kids a break. They're not old enough to date."

"Maybe not in your eyes but I believe anyone can date no matter their age—in moderation, of course," she told me before grabbing my arm and smiling, "maybe Shikamaru will be different and ask her out quicker than you ever did."

"Hey now! No need to be so mean," I whined before walking away from the door and into the kitchen. I need some food or at least a drink.

"Mum?" I heard Shikamaru question his Mother in the doorway.

"Sleep well?" she asked him, I moved to the hallway arch and crossed my arms and watched.

"I did actually," he replied as the sound of knocking hit our front door.

"Not again!" y/n shouted annoyed. She stormed out of Shikamaru's room and walked into his shadow before disappearing.

I chuckled and walked to the door, opening it to see Hyousuke.

"Hyousuke?" I questioned his presence.

"Is y/n here?" he asked.

"She just left," I told him.

"For the love of—do you know where she'll be going?" he asked.

"Home I guess?" I shrugged.

"This girl is becoming a pain in my ass," he said loudly in frustration before running off in the direction of her house.

Your PoV

I appeared back in my room and started to get dressed out of my night ware. I picked up the guardian cloth and looked at the pattern.

It was the character for guardian with a snowflake within the symbols.

I folded it and tied it around my right arm, you can see the character and symbol and no matter what I wear, I can still see the weird blue thing that wrapped around my arm and up to my eyebrow.

I decided to just wear a shirt with no sleeves, might as well embrace it. I grabbed the bow, which I now figured out how to shrink down, and then put it into my bag, I noticed the scroll.

"What should I do with this?" I mumbled, "I have to protect it but where am I supposed to actually put it?"

I started wandering around my house before stepping on a fairly loose plank in the floor. I pulled it back to find there was a hidden basement.

I pulled it back to reveal a hatch and pulled it back properly and notice a set of stairs. I walked down to find a barrier.

"Release!" I mumble. The barrier broke and in there was a bunch of random stuff. Scrolls, papers, books, even a tree with names and faces. The title of the tree was 'Guardians of the Snow' I looked at it and near the bottom was my Dad, Mother, below them was me. Next to my Dad was the Sora guy. He looked identical to my Dad.

"Twins?" I questioned before deciding I'd leave the scroll down here and put a triple barrier around it.

I was down there for 10 minutes creating the barrier before going upstairs again, closing the hatch and putting a blood barrier on there while also covering it with a rug.

"I might as well put a barrier around the whole house as well because I have to protect that scroll now," I muttered before walking out the front and sitting on the gravel. I put my hands together and start putting a barrier around my home. It was something I'd been taught how to do quite a few years ago from some random traveller who spent time with me and my Dad somewhere on the road to the Hidden Rain.

If anything I'll have to put more barriers around if any threats come up, but it'll be fine for now.

"A barrier?" Shikamaru appeared and pulled me off the ground.

"Yeah, I have things to protect now," I replied before looking at him curiously, "what brings you to my neck of the woods?"