Author: Snow Tigra
Pairings: Shikamaru & Chouji, Shikamaru & Ino
Warnings: Leaning toward horror, but not so much. Inspired by the movie "Unleashed" but bearing almost no similarity to it whatsoever. Alternate Universe.
Teaser
There is a story about a boy. This boy was not a boy, but rather a shadow, a being with barely shape and form. Night in and night out the boy would follow his fellow shadows to cover the world and race away as the sun and electrical lights rose back into the sky. He lived a constant life going back and forth, always running from a world he would never see and never could remain in.
One day the boy decided he didn't want to run anymore. Rather then joining his kindred as they escaped from the light, he wandered to the edge. He stood as close to the light as he could and enjoyed the new sensation of warmth that covered him.
Until it began to burn him.
The boy escaped the light quickly, fleeing back into the shadows where he belonged, but once there he discovered an awful truth. Being burned by the light had given him shape and he was no longer able to merge completely with the others of his kind. No longer could he sink into the other shadows and hear their voices. Now he stood alone, always burned from entering the light and yet never able to complete escape it because his own world did not appreciate him turning his back to it.
He remained trapped, between world.
Never to be a boy, and never to be a shadow again.