"Oops!" exclaimed Sakura as she noticed that she had dropped one of her books. She was currently training with Tsunade and doing medical research but the stack of books she had gotten from the library was just too much. One of them was bond to fall.

She bent down to pick it up. She then noticed that her shadow was reaching for it too. No real surprise there but it actually looked like it was actually trying to grab something, like it was different from a regular shadow. Sakura just shook off the thought and decided her eyes were playing tricks on her.

She pressed her hand flat against the cold ground right on her shadow. Sakura had always thought there was something about shadows, something that was different than just the way light bends. Considering how Shikamaru could control them.

Then her shadow hand grabbed on to her real hand. Sakura thought that her eyes were playing tricks on her again. But when she couldn't pull her hand away from shadow she knew that it was actually happening. Much to her surprise.

She was too freaked out to scream. Even with the super strength she had learned from Tsunade she still couldn't pull her hand away.

To make matters worse, the hand was pulling her in.

Her arm began to disappear into the ground and Sakura's voice was still lost in her throat.

Once her arm fully disappeared her shoulder started disappear and it was all happening really fast. Sakura saw that her head was about to make contact with the ground.

She closed her eyes and wanted for the impact but it never came. Suddenly Sakura was back in Konoha. Sitting on the same ground she thought she had just been pulled through by her shadow. She must have imagined it.

But wait…

Where were all the books and scrolls she had gotten from the library?

It seemed to be Konoha. But something was different…

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At that moment Naruto had to question his sanity. Well he always had and so did everyone around him-But that's not the point!

He just saw Sakura get sucked into the ground! What the hell was going on?

He screamed and ran around in circles for about five minutes before finally calming down.

Then he walked over to where Sakura had been.

He stomped and jumped up and down on it but nothing happened. It was just a regular ground. He put his hand against it and still nothing happened.

But what had happened to Sakura?

He began jumping up and down in frustration.

"Naruto? What the hell are you doing?" Ino came up to him and asked.

"Sakura-chan just got sucked into the ground!" Naruto yelled at her and cried anime tears.

Ino laughed in disbelief. "Naruto? Are you feeling okay?"

"NO! I'm serious! Something happened to Sakura-chan!" Naruto continued to scream at her.

Ino rolled her eyes. "Naruto. Seriously, I think that you might be seeing things. I just saw Sakura twenty minutes ago. She was at the library. I think you need to go home and get some rest."

Naruto was getting really frustrated Ino was being no help. Then he got an idea. "Where's Shikamaru?"

"At the training fields cloud watching. Why do you as-" Ino wasn't able to finish her sentence before Naruto ran off.

But while he was running away he shouted out the answer to Ino's question. "Because he's smarter than you!"

Hearing this a vein popped out of Ino forehead and she screamed "Baka!" at him.

Naruto really needed to get to Shikamaru. Maybe he could actually help.

A/N: I know it's really short with a cliffhanger but I thought it was a good ending point. This is the fifth ShikaSaku fanfic I've written and now I know for a fact that ShikaSaku is my absolute favorite pairing! Well I know that the plot is kinda cheesy but I can't help it. And if you don't like this story then don't read it. No like No read. Its simple, so don't flame me because you didn't like it!

I might redo this chapter. It just depends on how popular or unpopular this story gets. My second ShikaSaku fanfic got more popular than I thought it would so its hard to tell if a story is going to be a hit. So is it a good introduction?

Please Review!