Author's Note ::Hey you guys! This author's note will be unusually long because it's the first one of the story and I will introduce to any new readers how I do things. Just wanna thank everyone who took the time to come check this story out and reading my first story "Big Time Love." To clear things up this is a Naruto :: Shippuden fan fic centering on KibaXShikamaru. I chose this pairing because I think it's the best :D lol there will also be tid-bits of other pairings, but pairings I'm yet unaware of. Anyone who's read my first story, knows that I like to roll with an idea and write the chapter out as I go. In fact, as I'm typing this, I literally have to concrete plot or idea... just brainstorms, so like I said I like to wing it. As part of my thanks to reviewers I like to give shout outs on the upcoming chapters to whomever reviewed the chapter previous to the one that they're reading. I also like to name the chapters after song titles and often weave that song somewhere in the story to give it depth. I also do this thing where I put an ' * ' before the paragraph where the song goes or belongs, so if you want to listen to the song AS you read, you can do that, which I myself like to do, so I would like to extend that pleasure to you, my readers :D
Everything in Naruto is normal like it is in the storyline, except that Sasuke is home and is totally cool and everything. K? Episode wise this is around 175, except the village is okay and so is Tsunade.
P.s:: For list of all Jutsu translations, scroll down to the very bottom of the chapter... AND DON'T CHEAT!
Enjoy!
The Other Promise
Chapter 1 :: My Heart
"Katon! Hōsenka no Jutsu!"
A volley of fireballs shot from the 16-year old prodigy's mouth. Using his chakra he strategically aimed each ball at his opponent. Kakashi dodged them all with ease thanks to his sharingan and landing two feet from Sasuke's right.
Sasuke quickly formed the snake hand seal, causing the ground below Kakashi to explode. The blast engulfed Kakashi's entire being and after subsiding, left a scorched and blown apart Kakashi. Sasuke deactivated his sharingan and began to rest his shoulders before his chakra spiked and sensed something. He immediately jumped hard to his right and barely dodged an incoming volley of kunai. He landed hard on his side, skidding a couple of feet forward. Gasping for air he looked to the mangled body of Kakashi only to see it transform in a puff of smoke and be replaced with a scorched wooden log.
Sasuke quickly looked around for the real one and reactivated his sharingan.
He quickly got up to his feet and formed more hand seals.
Boar→Dog→Bird→Monkey→Ram
He slammed his right hand down on the ground and a simple trigram spread out from it.
A hawk appeared beneath Sasuke's feet and lifted him high into the air. He was so high that the trees began to turn to ants and he stopped. He turned the hawk to face the side as he formed the Tiger seal in preparation for another attack.
"Katon! Gōryūka no Jutsu!"
Expending a large amount of charkra into this attack he created seven large successive shots of large dragon shaped fireballs into the surrounding area. They landed with perfect precision and scorched the land below him and set a blaze the ground.
The hawk dives down to the ground at break neck speed after his attack and dropped Sasuke to free-fall to the ground below him.
Kakashi leaped from the trees and crouched hard crane style and looked up in the air only to face the enormous hawk bearing down on him.
Quickly after regaining his breathe he expelled the rest of his remaining chakra once he was in range.
"Chidori Senbon!"
Sasuke crossed his arms together in a deep X formation and gather lightning in his arms and released them towards the ground unaffected by his fireball jutsu.
It was too fast. Kakashi tried to dodge them all, but there was just too many and he was successively hit in his shoulders and upper back.
Stunned by the lighting of Sasuke's Chidori Senbon he finally dropped to his knees, unable to fight of the stun.
Sasuke body flickered to Kakashi and held out his Sword of Kusanagi to Kakashi's throat.
"You lose... Kakashi-Sensei." Sasuke said, before forming a triumphant grin at his teacher.
"You got me Sasuke. I admit... that was good... You win, this time." He admitted, with a glare.
"Every time." Sasuke shot back coolly.
He helped up his sensei and Yamato walked out from the clearing.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT! LOOK AT THE TREES!" Yamato was always a lover of nature, never being able to go out as a child. He was always kept on lockdown under Orochimaru and after getting out he developed a much greater appreciation for the earth around him.
After looking around the area that the wood user frantically gestured Sasuke simply replied with...
"Eh"
Yamato dropped his jaw and looked dumb struck.
"Kakashi-sa-!"
"It's alright Yamato..." Kakashi interrupted, holding his hand up in front of his lover.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah..." he mumbled as he walked off a bit and formed some hand seals before interlocking his hands together.
Tiger→Snake
"Mokuton Hijutsu! Jukai Kōtan!"
Just then the ground beneath them shook and rumbled. It felt like a thousand stampeding buffalos were rampaging the fields around them. Suddenly, hundreds of roots sprouted from the ground and formed trunks and branches which then formed leaved at the end of the branches. Hundreds of trees recovered the area that had just been massacred from Sasuke's fire style jutsu and made the forest even denser than before.
Yamato released the jutsu and stumbled for a few seconds and was about to collapse on the ground, until Kakashi rushed to his side and held him up.
"Thanks Kakashi-san... That technique takes a lot out of me." Yamato weakly thanked.
"I should be thanking you. That was a very good thing of you to do." Kakashi replied, and threw his boyfriend over his back and allowed him to piggy back all the way home.
As they were arriving back, Kakashi and Sasuke were talking about Naruto while Yamato was out cold on Kakshi's back.
"How's Naruto doing?" Kakashi asked.
"He's... Getting better. But he still misses Jiraiya-sama." Sasuke replied with an indignant tone... He sighed, at turned to Kakashi... "I know this makes me a bad person and a horrible person at that, but Naruto being like this and me being unable to help him make me feel... Unimportant."
"Like your father used to make you feel." Kakashi filled in. Sasuke just nodded and they kept walking.
"I know how he feels... To lose someone. And so should you. You have to be patient with Naruto... He's the only REAL father figure he's ever known. Think about how you felt after you lost your family. I know it's no real comparison, but still."
"Yeahhhh." Sasuke agreed.
"Naruto also needs to understand that he doesn't have to bare this whole thing himself. He has you." Kakashi said smiling.
"Thanks." Sasuke smiled back.
They continued in silence until they reached Konoha's main gate. As they were walking in, they could hear loud voices in the distance and pressed further on ahead instead of going home; to see what was going on.
"You're such an ass Nara!" Kiba shouted.
"Me? Do you even hear yourself! Says that guy who dumps a girl after sleeping with her!" Shikamaru shot back.
"What I do is none of your bus-" Kiba began, but was interrupted when Shikamaru got all up into the Inuzaka's face and responded calmly with a strained voice.
"And what I do... Is MY business..." the Nara said. "Why do you even care what I did?" You've never cared before. Just stay out of my business. You're so troublesome, you know that?" He stuck his hands in his pockets, turned and walked away non-chalantly.
The Inuzaka blinked after the boy and immediately became infuriated.
"UGH! THE NERVE OF THAT GUY! HE MAKES ME SO... SO!-"
"Horny?" Neji said blankly. The rest of the gang that witnessed what just happened started laughing at the dog boy.
"Shut up! He could've heard you!" Kiba said frantically, punching Neji in the arm.
"OWE! Well it's true Kiba. Why don't you just tell him?" Neji said.
"Yeah! He might like you back!" Ino said, smiling with excitement.
"Yeah right..." Kiba slumped down on the ground and laid his head on his arms crossed over his knees. They all knew that Kiba's mood had changed and didn't like the current atmosphere hanging around them.
"Why don't you guys go on ahead to the movies? We'll catch up." Hinata said timidly. They all blinked at the usually shy girl who rarely even spoke at all, who had now taken up the time to talk to the boy she liked.
"Alright..." Choji said shrugging his shoulders and they all walked off down the street.
Hinata looked down sympathetically at the boy below her. Even though she had a crush on him, she respected Kiba's sexuality and would much rather be his friend than nothing at all...
"What's wrong Kiba-kun?"
(Sigh)... "The guy that I've loved my whole life since we met has no feelings for me whatsoever... I'm only a friend. And even if he was like me..." He looked at Hinata and tears welled up in his eyes... "I would never be good enough for him..." Hinata choked at the sight of Kiba crying.
"W-why d-don't you think you're good enough?" Hinata asked.
"Because... I'm not... I'm not smart like him. Pretty as him... And now he thinks that I'm the biggest man slut in the village because I have all you guys vouch for my heterosexuality. He would never want to be with a dog like me... Pardon the pun..." He laughed quietly at himself. Hinata thought for a moment before speaking.
"Kiba-kun, you may not be the smartest in the class, but you're not ugly. I think you're the most handsome boy in fact." She said with a smile. Kiba looked up at Hinata. Hope filled her words and helped reassure him.
"If he really does like you, you know he won't tell you... We all know how Shikamaru-kun is... he doesn't like anything... Troublesome." she laughed at her mocking word choice.
"Maybe you should spend some time with him."
"Yeah... Yeah maybe you're right Hinata-chan." Kiba said with a smile.
"Thanks... for talking to me."
"You're welcome!" She said shyly, blush covering her cheeks. They both got up from the ground underneath the tree they sat under and started heading for the movies with the rest of the gang.
"You know..." Hinata said. "If he really likes you as much as you do him. He's beating himself up right now."...
"KUSO!"
Shikamaru threw his glass cup at the wall and it shattered into dozens of large and tiny glass shards.
"I NEVER THINK!" Shikamaru cursed himself as he dropped down onto his bed gripping his hair, which was held up in a rubber band.
"I could've handled that so much better, but I had to let my attitude get the best of me! AGAIN!"
"Now he thinks I'm a jerk... I see through his rouse. He's not fooling anybody." Not me at least...
He doesn't sleep with all those women... They would hate him if he did, but they're all friends, as if nothing had happened. Sure they were 'SAD' after, but it lasted maybe a week, but it never seemed real to me. Like they were faking it...being a genius has its advantages and this was one of them.
"If you only knew how I felt about you..."Shikamaru got up from his bed and went through his gigantic cd case next to his $1,800 stereo system his parents had gotten him as a graduation gift. He glanced down the cd rack going down the alphabet for a certain cd...
"P-p-p-Ah Paramore." Shikamaru pulled out an album called "All We Know Is Falling." Music was practically life for Shikamaru and Paramore was one of his favorite bands. Especially their older stuff. He took the cd out of its case and popped it into the stereo, hit shuffle and hit next and the song "My Heart" came on. Dope... This was his favorite song. He turned back around and plopped onto his bed and started thinking some more.
If he can't admit it to me, then I have to make my move. But I have to be subtle. If neither of us confesses, then we'll never get closer to our needs... Or at least mine...
"I am finding out... That maybe I was wrong...
That I fallen down and I can't do this alone..."
God... their lyrics are so amazing. I need to make a promise to myself. I must promise that I will do anything to get the guy I... love... yes... That is my promise... That and another one...
"The Other Promise..."
Author's Note :: Thanks for reading you guys! I hope you like it so far, and believe me it will get tons better.
:: JUTSU LIST ::
Katon:Hōsenka no Jutsu::Fire Style:Phoenix Flower Jutsu
Katon:Gōryūka no Jutsu::Fire Style:Great Dragon Fire Technique
Chidori Senbon::Chidori (One Thousand Birds) Needles
Mokuton Hijutsu! Jukai Kōtan::Wood Style Secret Technique:Nativity of a World of Trees