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okay, hello people, heres my story, hope you like, now please read and reviw
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Sakura was different. Her parents worried about her. She would spend hours, seemingly talking to herself. Her parents had her talk to therapists, psychiatrists, and psychologists, trying to figure out what was wrong with her. They all gave her perfect bills of health, absolutely nothing wrong with her except she just liked to talk to herself. She had explained to them that she just figured things out that way. Rather philosophical for someone who was only 7 years old. The children in her age group, however thought she was a freak. More often then not, in the middle of a game she would walk off muttering to herself. Even if people called out to her she would keep walking. Sometimes she would disepear for the rest of the day, others she would appear after only a few minutes. When ever anyone asked her where she had been, she would say "I was helping him/her." whenever they tried to get her to tell them she would just smile. They kept inviting her to play just to see if they could get her to tell them what she was doing. One day she came back, looking very tired. When they asked what she had been doing, she surprised them all with her answer.
"He couldn't find the way so I helped him find it"
"Who?" they asked
"Shione." This made them all stop. Shione had been a favorite ninja amongst all age groups, and he had died recently in a battle with the rain village. The children looked at her strangely. They didn't know how to respond and decided to finish their game, pointedly avoiding Sakura. As time progressed, she would disapaer more and more often, often not showing up at all or returning haggard looking, not something that was healthy for a 7 year old girl. The other kids became afraid of her and started calling her names and running from her. One day, they were going to play ninja war, and people were picking the teams. Names were picked until she was the only one left. It was a ebony eyed boys turn to pick and he glowered at her, not wanting to have to deal with the 'billboard brow freak'. Sakura felt as if she was going to cry. As the kid glared at her, she felt a tug at her subconscious. Following it she left the kids behind. Yells of "were ya goin' freak/billboard brow" were heard, but fell onto deaf ears. The ebony eyed kid gave an inaudible sigh of relief. Now they didn't have to worry about her stopping in the middle of a chase and wandering off, like she had done many times before. She continued on her way completely ignoring them.
"The teams are going to be uneven now" said a rather lazy brown haired boy.
"What do you care, Shikamaru? Now your guy's team has more and were okay with that so stop complaining just to complain."
Shikamaru sighed something along the lines of "How troublesome."
After about five minutes into the game Shikamaru declared that he quit and walked off. No one really missed him, he never actually tried and was always the first one caught unless Choji was playing or when Sakura was off in a trance. Shikamaru went to the roof were he would watch the clouds with Choji.
"You gave up all ready, Shikamaru?" Shikamaru looked up to see Choji walking towards him.
"There was uneven numbers."
"Lier, i saw there was an even number, unless someone else quit or was kicked out"
"Sakura was chased off again" he explained.
"Again?" Choji asked. Shikamaru nodded.
"I feel kinda sorry for her, I mean, she doesn't have any friends and everybody is always creeped out around her." Shikamaru sat up and looked at Choji,
"What are we supposed to do about it?"
"I don't know, maybe if someone was kind to her, maybe she wouldn't creep people out as much." He popped his chip bag.
"I better get going, dad said something about a trip," he waved to Shikamaru as he walked to the stairs
"See you later." Shikamaru starred at the sky. For some reason he couldn't focus on the clouds. He sighed. Choji had away of putting things that compelled Shikamaru to move of his own accord. He would say something and then leave him alone to think about it and sure enough, within minutes Shikamaru would be on his way with a purpose. These occurrences happened rarely and when it did happen it would often scare his family and friends. He walked past his dad, actually make purposeful steps, instead of his normal plodding. His dad had come and found him, intending to tow him home. He went to pull him along, when he saw his face. He had seen his son serious only a few times before and first that had stood out was when he saw it before he sat with his dieing sister.
::Flashback::
Shikato starred at the medic, praying that everything she had said was a part of a big joke. He went in to see his daughter and felt the urge to cry. She was covered in blood, she had several IVs hanging around her hospital bed. She painfully turned her head towards him and gave him a sad smile
"Guess i should've stayed on the farm eh?" he blinked back tears. He had tried to get her to quit being a ninja many times, even though she was becoming one of the most promising student in a long while, she had graduated from the academy at age 7, became a joinin at age 13. She joined the ANBU squad at 15.
She laughed a little, "Come on dad wheres that famous come back?" she coughed and a line of blood trickled out of her mouth. He felt a tear trickle down his cheek. It didn't escape her notice, she tried to laugh but made a garbled cry instead.
A tear trickled down her cheek "Can I see mom before I go?" He didn't have to ask where she was going. As if on que, in walked Yoshino. She cried silently.
Shikana laughed again, "You were right, all that rushing finally caught up with me" this only sent her further into tears.
Shikato ushered his wife out of the hospital room. He walked her down the hall and saw the last person he wanted to see. A five year old Shikamaru was marching down the hall. Shikato reached out to grab his sons shoulder, wanting him to see the sight in the emergence room. He froze as he saw his sons eyes. They seemed to stare right through him, daring him to try and stop him, not something you want to see in a five year olds eyes. To top it off Shikamaru never looked like he ever had anything important to take care of, he usually was a pain in the neck to get to do any thing. Now he looked like he would murder anyone who got in his way. Shikato watched with worried eyes as his son walked past him and into the room. A few minutes later he heard the flat tone beep that could only mean one thing. Shikana had passed on. A minute later Shikamaru emerged from the room eyes slightly swollen but still determined. He walked past his parents, not once looking at them. All they could do was watch him go by and pray that he would be okay.
::Flashback end::
The second time had been when Choji had broken his leg while he and Shikamaru had gone out for a while, and Shikamaru had burst into their living room like the hounds of hell had been chasing him. He had run up grabbed Shikato's hand an d proceeded to drag him to the spot that Choji had fallen. He had seen that look a few more times but at less drastic times, once when he decided to actually try on a test. Another time had been when some kids had been picking on Choji and Shikamaru had come to his friends defense. The serious look on his face had been enough to shut them up. So all in all, a serious Shikamaru was a scary Shikamaru. Shikato only hoped that whatever was on his sons mind wasn't a serious as it had been in the past. Shikato wondered for a moment how someone at such a young age could be so old at the same time. Shikato sighed and walked slowly to his home. He had the beginnings of a migraine and he had a feeling it was going to get worse.
Shikamaru soon found the pink haired kunochi on his favorite cloud watching hill. He stood there nervous of going up and talking with the outcast. He hated it when Choji set him up like this. Well you really couldn't call it setting him up, all Choji would do was say a few seemingly meaningless things and there he was, something on his normally carefree mind and it wouldn't stop bugging him until he did something about it. He sighed. There wasn't anything else to do any way, so he trudged up the hill and stopped when he was a few feet away. She looked up at him an annoyed expression on her face, as if he had just interrupted something important.
"What do you want?" she snapped.
He had no idea of what to say, so he simply said "your in my spot," which in truth it was his spot. He often came here to watch the clouds and try to ignore his parents.
"What?"
"Your in my spot" he repeated. She was confused, he wasn't going to yell or laugh at her?
"Aren't you going to move?" Sakura's face became angry.
He wasn't going to yell or laugh, but he wanted her away all the same. She got up and began to stomp angerly away.
"I didn't say you had to leave." the boy called after her. She stopped and looked over her shoulder at him.
"I just wanted you to move over, so I could sit down." she was really confused now. He wasn't yelling at her and was even inviting her to sit with him. She hesitantly walked back over to where he was sitting and sat down carefully, half expecting some sort of trick. When nothing happened she relaxed a little. Through this Shikamaru had watched her, wondering why she was so nervous. He answered his own question, remembering the cold and mocking stares the other kids sent her way. 'well that could anyone afraid of people' he though as he flopped backwards to stare at the sky. The nagging feeling was gone, and he felt no reason to wast time starring at something other than clouds
Sakura starred at him for a moment be fore asking "what are you doing?"
"Watching the clouds" he stated simply.
"Why?" he looked over at her. She was interested now and had no intentions of letting him watch the cloud in peace.
He sighed and answered "because they are free and do what ever they want, with no worries or responsibility." She starred at him for a few moments. Long moments, Shikamaru thought.
"Not really" she said suddenly. "What?" now it was his turn to be confused.
"The clouds aren't as carefree as you think." he looked at her strangely. 'What do clouds do other than drift along?' She was starring at the sky now. I she didn't finish saying what she meant, he just might blow a circuit. No matter how he looked at it he couldn't see where she was going with this.
She finally spoke "clouds are pushed along by the wind. They have the responsibility of carrying the rain and to provide shade from the sun. they don't choose the breeze they are pushed by. They are simply caught by the wind and pulled along, whether they wished to stay or not."
Shikamaru starred at her. He never would have thought it through that far.
"Why" he began, before stopping, he didn't really know what he was trying to ask. She seemed intelligent, so why did she case others away from her. 'Well here goes nothing' "Why do you stay by yourself all the time?" he asked and waited, now sitting up and looking at her, clouds all but forgotten.
She thought for a moment before answering "I'm not alone, not really." Shikamaru got even more confused, if that was even possible.
"what do you mean?" Shikamaru was beginning to hate having to ask what so many times.
"There everywhere, cant you see them?" she looked directly at Shikamaru now. Taking in his still clueless look, she almost cried
"Why" she said more than asked "why can't anybody see them but me? There always there, trying to talk and show things to people, but no one listens, why?" she was angry now."why why why!!!"
Shikamaru was beginning to wonder if she was insane, when her head snapped around and looked at something invisible. She sighed and seemed to calm down. She looked at him again.
"You ignore them too," she said softly. He looked at her still confused and beginning to wonder if he should try run from this girl.
"Who is 'them'" he asked. All though he was becoming increasingly disturbed by her, he wanted to understand what she was talking about.
"You can't see them," she murmered softly, almost to herself. "But why?"
he was on the verge of yelling, as she started to stare at the sky again. An evil voice in his head said
'Now you know how other people feel when you ignore the world for clouds'
'shut up' he yelled inside his head before he realized that he was yelling at himself. He put a hand to his head and began to wonder if insanity was contagious.
'Not that it would have made a difference, I've been here the whole time'
'Shut up!!"
'make me!'
His attention was shifted back to the infuriating girl, as she claped a hand to her ear, as if some one had yelled in it.
"Okay okay!!!" she yelled "I'll tell him!!!"
Shikamaru proceeded to stare at her as she turned towards him.
She inhaled deeply before "WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU BEEN DOING?!?!"
Shikamarus' eyes nearly popped out of his head. Her voice was different, like someone else was speaking with her, and on top of that, what was spewing from her throught was almost familar.
"You have been wasting waaaay to much time gawking at clouds and screwing around! And where is the necklace I gave you?! I've been trying to talk to you and you, being you clueless self, couldn't hear me. God, if I wasn't dead I would smack you into next week!! I had to go off and find a haruno just so I could get you r attention!! now you'd better god damned well better go and get that neckalace before I find someway to make you life miserable!!!" she finally stopped and took a breath.
Shikamaru was starring at her, his jaw nearly on the ground. She had just yelled out...something and it was surprisingly familiar. Taking a minute to put pieces together. And suddenly he figured it out. The reason the voice was almost familar. There was only one person he knew that could come up with a speech like that. His sister. Adding that piece to the puzzle it hit him.
Sakura was always off on her own because she could see the dead.
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Yay! my first chapter done! I'll try to update, but first you have to reveiw, so please click the magic button and tell me what you think!