Comatose

Chapter 1: Plaguing Thoughts

"Darn it! I lost again!" an angry sand kunoichi yelled.

"Woman, don't break my eardrums!" the famous Nara prodigy told her.

"Well, I should be going home now. Bye Cry-baby. Don't cry too much while I'm gone okay?" She kept a neutral expression but the Nara saw a glint of evil in her eyes.

"Okay you troublesome woman. Now leave me alone."

"Fine I'll go deer boy. No need to be irritated..." With this, the sand kunoichi grabbed her tessen and left the Nara household. 'Is she sad about leaving? I thought she wanted to go back to Suna already? Hn, women, so troublesome.' With this, Nara Shikamaru crept up to his bed and slept.

Meanwhile, Temari was making her way back into the Sand village with a certain Nara in her mind. 'Arggh! Darn it! Why is he plaguing my mind! Dammit!' Finally, Sabaku No Temari screamed in the top of her lungs.

"Dammit Shikamaru! Why are you always in my mind?" She slumped against one of the trees in the forest and sighed. 'Shikamaru...why can't you just leave my mind? You're making this very difficult you know that?' Sighing, Temari stood up only finding out that her tessen was missing.

"Huh? Where's my tessen? I just put it right here!" Suddenly, she heard a man snicker. "What's a woman like you doing in here?" Temari grew irritated.

"Show yourself you bastard! And give me my tessen back!"

"Ah, such a foul mouth. And why should I give your precious tessen back? You'll just kill me before we have some fun!" 'Okay man, you just popped my bubble. If you don't show yourself now I'll kick your ass to Iwigakure!'

"I said show yourself!" The man, wanting the pleasure he needed so badly, finally stepped out of the bushes in front of Temari. "Now, if you would just shut the fuck up and give me what I want, you'll be on your way like nothing happened!" Temari, seeing that the man stepped out of the bushes, observed him carefully. 'Hmm, he must be in his forties...'

"Like what you see, eh?" The man earned a snort from the desert dweller. "In your dreams bastard!"

"Oh now you did it bitch! Come here!" The man then chased Temari until he stopped in front of a lake. 'Where could that bitch be hiding?'

"Hmm, maybe you should hide things better, eh?" The startled man then looked to his right and lo! Standing there was Temari holding her marvellous tessen. "Wha- How did you find it?"

"Ha! Easy! They don't call me a kunoichi for nothing! You see, the one you were talking to a while ago was a shadow clone, or a replica of me while I, in the mean time was finding my tessen. Got it?" The stranger gulped and backed away. "You win this round, but wait for the second!" With this, the man ran away.

"That's what I thought." Temari then made her way back not noticing the poisoned senbon coming her way. Before she could even dodge, the senbon made its way to her neck drawing blood out of it. 'What's happening? I can't move! I..' Before she fell unconscious, she saw a pair of feet coming her way and then...blackness.