What A Drag... || Shikamaru x reader

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Edited: 03/06/24

Reuploaded: 06/06/24

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"Don't move, or you'll die," the person behind me said seriously. I froze at those words but managed to relax.

Then laughter erupted from behind me, and I turned to see Iruka sensei.

"Iruka sensei!" I hit his arm, "that was so mean."

"You should've seen your face!" Kotetsu and Izumo came out from the bushes a bit ahead of where we were stood.

"You were all like 'ah!' and 'oh no'!" Kotetsu made weird expressions as he tried to make the one I supposedly made.

"I hate you guys," I sighed.

"We wanted to lighten the mood around you a bit, you seemed tense and busy since your family arrived," Izumo told me as we started walking together.

"Tense? No. Busy? Yes, definitely," I replied, "but that was unnecessary."

"It's the thought that counts, right?" Iruka asked, I nodded defeatedly.

"You feeling less stressed?" Kotetsu asked.

"Actually, now I'm feeling more stressed," I told them, "you hit me from my blind spot, and I didn't notice until you were in the bushes behind me and then you had me trapped. If that was a real situation, I would've been dead."

The three shared a look that just said, 'that wasn't the point we were trying to get across to you'.

"Oh well, Kotetsu's mock expressions were quite funny?" I tried to change to subject so they'd lighten up. Then Izumo asked to see them and Kotetsu did them again causing all of us to chuckle as he created a bunch of random expressions.

We reached my tent, and they said goodbye.

As soon as I walked in, someone had a kunai to my throat.

"What the hell is this?" I hissed. This definitely wasn't a joke.

"Under order of our leader, you, f/n l/n, are to be killed," the person behind me said through a mask that filtered their voice robotically.

"Who's your leader?" I asked.

"We're not obliged to say," another person said.

I closed my eyes and sensed around the tent, 2... 4... 7... 12... 15. 15 ninja. High level ninja as well.

"Do you know what you're getting yourself into?" I asked them, keeping myself composed and not allowing myself to panic. The air started chilling around me as I started freezing my captor from the feet. Luckily no one had noticed.

"We do. We also know we may not get out of this alive either," someone from the far end of the room replied, "do it."

"Right," the person behind me went to slice my throat but I quickly threw my hand up and slammed it into the wrist of the hand holding the kunai before spinning around and slamming my hand into my attackers face, sending ice across it before I sliced the side of the tent open and jumped out.

The ninja all jumped out after me. 14 now.

"One down, 14 to go," I muttered under my breath before running, leaving a trail of ice behind me. The ninja were foolish enough to step onto it and ended up being caught by the growing ice at their feet.

"Damn it," the one at the front cursed before throwing three kunai at me, I easily deflected them but one of them was a fake and poofed, causing me to frown and then miss the kunai that came straight after it.

"Ow—well, I commend you for actually hitting me," I say, gripping my shoulder where I was just hit. But the tent I was next to was Naruto's and I know he likes to stay up fairly late, so his head popped out the entrance and looked at me, then the ninjas then back to me and then to my shoulder with the kunai sticking out.

The situation clicked in his head, and he jumped out, loudly shouting at the ninja.

"N-Naruto," I tapped his shoulder as more people came out, "you're alerting everyone."

"Well, they were trying to kill you, so I don't care," Naruto replied loudly.

"What's this about someone trying to kill y/n?" Shikamaru's voice piped up.

"Naruto you're so loud," I sighed before grabbing his collar and stopping him from stepping on my ice. He looked at me questionably and I pointed at the ice as it started speeding up its freeze and quickly caught them all in a shell.

"Don't stand on the ice," I warned, "so I was fine without your help, Naruto."

Shikamaru walked around and glared at the kunai in my shoulder. Before he could fuss, I pulled the kunai out and healed myself up before throwing it at the ice. Upon impact it shattered, and the kunai went through all of the structures. 13 of them. Then I went to my tent and dragged out the guy in there and shattered the ice.

"Wasn't there 15?" I questioned, "that was only 14."

Suddenly my feet were swept from under me, and I found myself hanging upside down.

"There's number 15," I nodded, trying to free myself from the wire holding me up.

"Shadow strangle jutsu. Complete," Shikamaru said as the guy who was standing on the branch above me fell to the ground lifelessly and I went falling headfirst to the ground.

"Steady up," Hyousuke caught me and stood me back up onto my feet.

"Look what you did, Naruto. You alerted the whole camp!" I shouted at the blonde who just stuck his tongue out at me and disappeared back into his tent. Well, not before he kicked the pole of my tent in, and my tent went falling to the ground.

Now why'd he feel he had to do that too?

Just rub salt in the wound why don't you. Petty bastard.

"Are you ok, y/n?" Kurenai was next to me looking at me worried.

"No, no, you're not allowed to be worried. It's not good for you or your baby, go to bed," I shook my head disapprovingly at her before looking at my tent and then looking at her sheepishly.

"Come on then," she laughed, I smiled.

"Thank you, Kurenai!" I said a bit too loudly.

Everyone returned to their tents when they found out all the danger was gone now and Shikamaru walked Kurenai and I back to her tent.