BOOK 1 of 2
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Shikamaru of the Nara clan, one of the children learning the shadow possession jutsu.
Y/n is a girl who has just arrived in the village with her father (a previous resident of the village).
Y/n i...
"Sakura," I stopped the pink haired girl before she could leave my office, "don't tell Shikamaru about y/n, bring him to me now."
"Yes, m'lady," Sakura bowed her head before running away, Shizune looked at me worried and an old toad jumped onto my desk as I dropped down into my seat, ignoring the blood-stained mess in front of me.
We'll deal with that later.
"Explain what they meant," I demanded.
"My name is Fukasaku, I was with Jiraiya boy during his final moments, he left a message for you," the toad told me before pulling the cloak on his back, off and turning to show the burned symbols on his back.
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"Shizune," I started but she knew what I wanted and went running out of the room. I took a photo of the marks and Fukasaku pulled his cloak back on.
"Jiraiya boy died in action," he told me, I nodded but then remembered Zethran was still here. I called for an anbu who appeared almost instantly.
"You called?" the voice asked.
"Take Zethran to house 7 in the l/n owned land," I ordered, the anbu member nodded and turned, motioning for Zethran to follow him, he did and then they were gone within second.
"And y/n put up a good fight," Fukasaku continued once the door was closed.
"Damn..." I mumbled before a knock sounded at the door, "come in!"
I already knew who it was before they walked in.
"Shikamaru, I have some news for you," I spoke up as the person came into sight, he raised a brow at me curiously, "it's regarding y/n."
He froze in place, his eyes darting between the blood and then me.
"She came back with one foot in the grave. After what I'm presuming, shadow hopping here, I found her bleeding out, her family appeared and saved her so don't worry but..." I trailed off and watched as his expression went from anger to sadness, to worry, then back to anger and now this, "she is in bad condition. I had her sent to the hospital."
Heartbroken.
That's what his face showed me.
A heartbroken kid.
"W—Will she be ok?" Shikamaru asked me.
"I think so," I replied, he let out a long sigh and then turned.
"I'll be leaving then," he announced, before I could say anything, he basically ran out of the room and then Fukasaku started explaining everything from when he arrived onto the scene.
Shikamaru's PoV
She's in the hospital.
But she came back.
I'm happy she's alive but so very pissed she came back almost dead.
"I'm here to see f/n l/n," I said to the woman behind the registry desk. She looked at her clip board and shook her head.
"Sorry, we aren't allowing any visitors for at least two days. Come back in two days and you should be able to see her," she told me.
"Damn it!" I slammed my hand on the desk before apologising and leaving. I ran straight to where I knew Choji, Ino, Hyousuke, Riku and Yuuto were all training.
We'd been training with them here and now. Apparently, Hyousuke had made a deal with Asuma that ultimately ended with him helping out with keeping up our training from time to time in Asuma's place should that ever happen.
"Guys!" I shouted, they all looked over to me, Hyousuke had a cigarette hanging out of his mouth, Choji and Yuuto were fighting head-to-head and Riku looked like he was giving Ino pointers on her medical ninjutsu.
"Shikamaru? What's up?" Choji asked. He noticed my urgency and quickly became worried.
"Y/n..." I started, "she's back but she's in hospital. They aren't taking visitors for at least two days."
"What?!" Yuuto shouted, "explain everything."
And so I explained everything Tsunade had told me.
They all stood in silence.
"Tch—she's so freaking stupid!" Riku finally broke the silence.
"My thoughts exactly," I agreed with him, fiddling with the ring on my finger.
"In two days, I am going to give her a lecture on how stupid she was," Hyousuke mumbled as he put out his cigarette and walked away, I sighed.
"Two days..." I repeated. These two days are going to go by so slow that it'll hurt.
°❄️° Two days later_
"We're here to see, f/n l/n," I stood at the desk with a hopeful expression.
The woman stared at the clipboard for a while before smiling.
"Follow me," she told us.
By us, I mean me, Choji, Riku, Yuuto, Hyousuke, Kakashi, Sakura, Naruto, Ino, Kiba (and Akamaru), Hinata and Shino—basically everyone.
We followed her up three floors, the second floor was the intensive care unit, so I was relieved when we didn't stop there. We stopped outside a room, and she knocked.
"Y/n? You have guests," she called before opening the door, "seems she's still asleep, if you're going to stick around, stay quiet please."
We nodded and walked in. On sight of her, I quickly rushed to her side.
She was pale, her hair was messy, her body was scarred and cut up with bruises dotting around random areas, bandages covering her torso, arms and legs, even around her head. She had an oxygen mask on her face and wires sticking out of her arms, connected to machines and drips.
Someone's hand pushed me down onto a stool, I looked to see it was Hyousuke, he was glaring at her appearance as well. I noticed everyone had taken a seat somewhere, whether it was on a stool or a spare bed they all just looked at her. Well, Shino stood beside a window and stared out to the village.
Her appearance, it was weak and vulnerable, not the y/n I knew at all. The sight just made me angrier by the second. So much I found myself holding her hand with one hand, the other was on my lap, clenched into a fist and I just glared out the window in front of me.
