"My lady, come on, we have to go." The Anbu wearing the jet black mask, her companion and friend, the last of his clan-Shikamaru Nara, said as he knelt down to pry her bloody fingers from the shirt of her dead husband. Her heart aching in her chest, she fought back the fresh wave of tears threatening to spill forth and took a shuttering breath as the male carefully and gently pried her fingers from Kakashi's body.

He was so beautiful, even with the stain of crimson marring his perfection in death.

So pale, his once soft pink lips tinged blue, his mis matched eyes, those eyes that she had loved so damn much staring blankly ahead, little riverlets of red staining the corners, looking like tears. His soft silvery hair curling slightly around his cheeks, the damp strands clinging to his cooling skin.

She stared blankly at him, feeling like her heart had been ripped out, it hurt. It hurt to breath. Your having an anxiouty attack, just try to breath. But it was so hard-she had loved him so much. It hurt to think, she couldn't think; it was only natural for someone who had lost their beloved one.

Shika glanced at her from the eye slits in his mask and growled, it was no good.

She had gone far away from him, from the pain, from the village that needed their Kage so desperately. He gripped her hands a little tighter, just a little worried that she wasn't trying to fight him to grab hold of the only family that she had ever known. He could hear the people screaming in the distance, knew that they were being cut down in the streets.

The Akatuki had gone too far this time.

Sauske, had gone too far this time.

Naru's face was pale even under the blood stains where she had put one of her hands against her cheek, a nervous habit that she had developed as a child to make herself feel like someone out there in the world had loved her enough to bother and touch her once. Her soft blond hair was stained pinkish copper on both sides of her head where she had gripped her hair and started to pull it out as she cried.

He was vagiuely aware of the flames rising in the room around them, the smoke coming up to choke them and was momentarily distracted when he heard a popping sound over head. He wrapped his arms around Naru and threw them both to the side as a beam fell from the ceiling and landed on top of Kakashi's body, oddly enough that got her attention. She let out the most agonising scream he had ever heard and tried ot sqramble across the burning floor to her dead husband, he managed to grab her ankle as she reached out and put her hands against the burning wood and tried to get it off of Kakashi, burning her hands in the process.

"Damn it Naru." He growled again as he yenked her violently back towards him and grabbed her shoulders and shook her and roared, "He's dead! We have to go!"

"No, no, no, no, no. He isn't dead! He can't be dead!" Pain did funny things even to the greatest of people, he grimmly mused as he looked toward the door, he could hear Sauske's voice outside. Calling her, if she werre still with them she would have fought. She would have won, but Shika could already tell that she was'nt with them anymore. Her struggles to free hersefl from his grasp were too weak, her breathing too labored.

She coughed up blood on his shirt and he plaed behind his mask.

He had known that there were advantages and drawbacks to mating a Hatake, it looks like the drawbacks were winning this time. She was dying. Again this was natural. Hatake had loved her so much that he had bound their souls together both in life and death. The moment that he had died, she death had been imminent.

"Oh god, Naru..." He breathed as the horror of it all sank in and he tried to think, he grabbed her, scooped her up in his arms like a small child and looked around, there was no point to hiding her. They would probably die here today anyways, but at least they would be in good company. Right?

He looked out toward the window of her office as the glass shattered and the flames leapt higher, he could see the village, like Naru's home, hopes and dreams it too was going up in flames. He could see the broken and dead bodies of everyone he had ever fought with, been friends with, and loved. All of them were gone now.

Sweat ran down his face, his long dark brown hair slipped free of the rubber band holding it back and he shifted his hold on Naru, she was slipping farther away. He ripped off his mask and finally managed to think of something that he could use to take her from this place of pain and death. Perhaps he could even save her, though he dared not let hope blossom in his aching heart. Because if his plan failed and she died anyways then he would truly be alone.

He took a deep breath, as deep as his burning lungs would allow and focused, gathering the shadows in the room and outside in the once peaceful inky darkness. Calling them to his side.

This was a forbidden jutsu. One that people had killed for in the past.

He would have killed to use it sooner.

He pictured a place in his mind, the leaf village. His home with it's large buildings, the stores in the shopping district, the tower. And the people- god all of the countless thousands of innocent lives- all of them alive and well, his heart suddenly slammed against his ribs painfully as he felt Naru's body go completely still and limp in his arms as she stopped breathing.

Hurry.

No, it was'nt over. She couldn't die this way! He wouldn't let it!

I have to protect her, He thought as he pictured her smiling face from the first day at the ninja acadamy. She had been so innocent then, so sweet...

Hurry.

The shadows gathered at his feet, wrapping around his ankles and climbing higher like vines of darkness, creeping across his skin. So icy and cold, he gritted his teeth as his eyes flashed a pale glowing blue and the light from them illuminated the room, his chakra flaired, driving the flames back, changing their color to deep green with dark blue-

Hurry.

The door across the room came flying at them, he jumped out of the way easily, still cradling his Kage in his arms as he built the steadily growing power sizzling in his veins. Sauske stepped into the room, a smug look on his face and looked at Naru. "Aww, gone already." Bastard, didn't even look sorry for all the pain and death he had brought to the girl's door.

Finally after what seemed like forever the shadows began to swirl at his feet and he glanced at Sauske, his pale glowing blue eyes reflecting his barely leashed rage.

"I'll be back for you, mother fucker. And this time...you will die." Shikamaru said coldly as he stepped off into the darkness and fell into the pit that he had created leaving an shocked and angry Uchiha yelling curses at his back as he fell, his arms tightening around Naru's body as they fell into the bleak and unending darkness...

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Here we go, part one of my new story. hope that you like it.

There will be some shika/naru action from time to time, but essentually it is a kakashi/naru story so bear with me.

The ages are

Shika-17

Naru-17

Past Kakashi-18

expect some really neat stuff. as always, read and tell me what you think.