What A Drag... || Shikamaru x reader

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Edited: 03/06/24

Reuploaded: 06/06/24

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"Can you release me now?" Kistov stepped forward, "I'm so tired."

"Oh, yes, sorry, you may go," I stopped flowing chakra into the summon and he disappeared. Looking around the room I found: Sakura, Ino, Choji, Kiba, Akamaru, Shino, Hinata, Neji, Lee, Tenten and Yuuto.

"What happened to you?" Zethran asked from where he was behind a curtain, probably where Naruto was as well, then walking over and placing his hands onto my shoulders and started healing me.

"Shadow Guardians," I replied, his grip on my shoulders tightened, I sighed and showed him the scroll, "I still have it. Don't worry."

"Good, anyway, you're all healed up. Whatever you did to yourself, you really wrecked your body," he told me before moving over to a bed in the back.

"I went into guardian mode. Twice." I told him, everyone looked at me confused except Zethran shot me a glare.

"Twice? Man, Dad will kill you," he muttered, finishing whatever he was doing and then pushing the curtain back to show Naruto.

"Well, if it isn't the hero? Hello, Naruto," I greeted the blonde, he sent a grin in my direction as the entrance of the tent opened again.

"Shikamaru, how's your leg now?" Zethran asked.

"Better now thanks to you," a familiar voice replied, I turned around to see Shikamaru walking in with a bandaged-up leg, "y/n?"

"Hey, Shika," I greeted him, glancing over the leg.

"Good, you're alive," he muttered just as someone came into the room.

"Does anyone know if y/n has returned yet?" it was Riku, I stood up and faced him, "y/n! Good! Come on, we need you."

"Need me?" I questioned.

"You brought a girl back, but her legs. Lady Shizune sent me to get you as a jounin of the leaf who has incredible healing jutsu," Riku replied before grabbing my wrist and dragging me out of the tent and over to another one and then to Konni's side.

"How's it possible that her legs look worse than when I gave her over to her Mother?" I asked them, confused before going to her legs, "actually don't tell me. Just stay quiet."

No one spoke as I started to heal her legs.

I closed my eyes as I did. I'm hurting so bad.

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Stepping away from Konni I pick her up and place her on the ground.

"Try walking," I told her. She nodded and took a shaky step forward before taking another and then finding strength and jumping around happily, running out of the tent obviously in search of her friends.

"Thanks," her Mother thanked me.

"Yes, thank you, y/n, please go rest," Shizune thanked me as well before dismissing me.

"Wait—where's Tsunade?" I asked her.

"She's... indisposed, right now," she told me awkwardly, "give her some time."

Weird. Shaking my head from the thought, I just nodded and then left, I was going to the tent before I was pulled out of the public view.

"Who the—?" I started before being shut up by someone kissing me. I didn't need an answer to my question.

He pulled away and rested our foreheads together.

"You took your time coming back," Shikamaru muttered, "where did you go?"

"The forests outside the village. I didn't want anyone to get stuck in the fight between us. Who knows how much I could've gotten out of hand?" I replied, "is Kurenai ok."

"She's fine, now, are you ok?" he asked.

"I'm just tired, Zethran healed me up earlier," I replied, "I used a lot of chakra today. More than I have had to in the past."

"What're you planning?" he asked.

"I'm going to call the l/n clan to come and help rebuild. They have a strange way with building things within a week, it's great," I replied. He hugged me tightly.

We were silent for a while.

"I'm just glad you're ok," he said after hiding his face in my shoulder.

"How sweet," I joked before pushing him away and scrunching my nose up, "you stink of sweat. And... boy, how did you get injured? Look at you hobbling around on one leg."

"Well you don't smell any better," he replied, "and I got stuck under rubble. Same story as most people here."

"Idiot," I shot back before grabbing his hand and smiling as he just scoffed out a laugh. I then turned and pulled him back to the tent where everyone else was just tripping over my feet exhaustedly.

"Whoops," Shikamaru laughed as he caught me and picked me back up, "you weren't kidding when you said you were tired."

"Oh, shut up," I glared at him as we finally reached the tent. I didn't wait, I just laid down onto one of the beds and rested one of my arms against my forehead.

"Can I ask what happened to your bow?" I heard Zethran's voice.

"No," I responded.

"Well, either way it needs repairing. Who and what destroyed it?" he asked, I could feel everyone's eyes on me.

"Kota the scroll keeper, just a sword, and Drayton an elder, twin blades," I told him, "their blades were as bad as my bow. So it's fine. They ran off even though they said something about not leaving unless it was the only thing that they had to do."

He stayed quiet and I looked at him, propping myself up on my elbows.

"Take it you didn't see any Shadow Guardians," I scoffed as he just looked off to the side.

"Technically, I'm a guardian in training still so..." he trailed off.

"Great," I rolled my eyes, "targeted because I was the only one here. Weird, I had insight into what happened to my Dad."

"Yeah," he nodded, "must've been hard for you."

"Well I survived so," I shrugged, "not today, idiots from another clan. I win. Again."

He laughed as he rolled his eyes at my attitude and then glanced over my bow.

My Dad was attacked like that when the village was under attack by Orochimaru and the sand nin. He must've felt so alone and panicked. I just wish I could've been there to help him.

"By the way, can I have the orb?" I asked him.

"How'd you know I have an orb?" he asked me.

"Because you're Zethran. Ze always has an orb," I winked at him, and he just sighed before chucking me a small silver orb. I made it expand and connected it to Uncle Sora's orb.

"Zethran... No that's y/n, did you lose your orb or something?" Sora asked me as his face appeared in the glass of the round surface.

"How rude," I growled, "anyway, the leaf village was attacked."

"By the leader of the Akatsuki. I know. I have an idea why you're talking to me now," Sora replied, I nodded.

"Please come, all of you, to the Leaf Village and help rebuild. You guys are master carpenters and speedy as well. So please. I'll owe you my life," I begged, placing the orb in front of me so that he could see me bowing to him. Everyone in the room gasped at the sight.

"No need to owe your life, you're our scroll keeper, that's more than enough. We'll be there in a few days, keep an eye out for us," he replied, shooting a smile and then disappearing.

"Well, thank god for that. I don't feel like dying any time soon," I sighed before throwing the orb back at Zethran and then lying down, "I'm so drained. Wake me up whenever food is being passed around again."