This is my first Naruto Fanfic so please leave reviews but please be nice!
(Disclaimer I do not own Naruto)
She was running, it was all she could do. Everything she loved, everyone she loved, burned in the raging fire that got smaller and smaller as she ran. She felt like a coward for running when she knew she could have done something, saved someone, but her sister was dead. She died protecting her, and like a coward she let her friend drag her away, and started running. She had tuned everything out, the fire was roaring behind her, and her friend was talking to her, but she couldn't hear anything. All she could hear was her sister's last words "I love you, now run". and then she was killed.
It was a typical day in the Leaf village, peaceful even, and Shikamaru Nara was on his way to the hospital to drop off some paperwork to Sakura from the hokage. He had delivered paperwork to her before so finding her office was easy, her door was usually open but today it wasn't. It was also locked. He cautiously knocked on her door, and about five seconds later it was opened by Sakura. "Hey Shikamaru, what do you need?" she asked, not fully opening the door. "The Hokage sent me. He needs your signature on some documents for the hospital." he said gesturing to the file in his hand. "Oh, right of course. Come on in and I'll have those signed right away. I'm on break so it won't take long." The pinkette gestured for him to come in and he nodded his head in thanks. Once inside her office he could see why the door was locked. Sauske was there. The two had begun dating when they were 19, shortly after the moon incident, and now two years later it was still weird seeing them together. They weren't a very affectionate couple, in fact he had never seen the couple kiss or out on a date, but everyone assumed behind closed doors that things were different, and this all but proved that theory. "Sauske" he said nodding in his direction as he sat down in the chair beside him. The Uchiha just nodded back to him, and then silently watched Sakura look over the paperwork that he had brought. Shikamaru could honestly say that he liked Sauske. He wasn't loud like Lee or Naruto, in fact the only time Shikamaru had actually had a conversation with the guy was when they went on missions together and that was fine by him. You didn't need to know everything about someone to be their friend, and Shikamaru knew enough about him to consider him one. Now he didn't consider Sauske a great friend like Choji or Ino, but he was a friend and teammate none the less. Also he had become pretty great friends with Sakura and Naruto since their academy days so it was the least he could do to try and befriend the Uchiha.
"Dr Haruno!" a nursed yelled as she burst the doorway. Sakura's head snapped up "What's wrong" she asked as she stood up to retrieve her lab coat. "Two girls have entered the village, one of them is suffering from major chakra depletion, as well as dehydration. Also she asked for Lady Tsunade" Sakura's brow furrowed at that last piece of information. Lady Tsunade didn't work much at the hospital anymore, only when Sakura was on leave, or was needed for a mission which didn't happen very often. "What is her name?" Sakura asked. "Its Rhea Roko ma'am." Sakura looked at Sauske "Will you get me Tsunade?" she asked. He simply nodded and exited through the window, doors never seemed to be his thing. "Shikamaru come with me, Kakashi will likely want to be updated on the visitors that we have here." He nodded and followed her and the nurse down the hallway to the girl's room. Sakura knocked on the door before entering, and once inside he saw two girls there. One was sitting in a chair in a corner, she had long dirty blonde and green eyes, not the color of Sakura's, this girl's eyes were a dark green like the forest. She looked to be about 18, the other girl however was lying in a hospital bed asleep. She looked young, only 16 maybe 17 at the oldest, but maybe that was because she was asleep. She had light brown hair that took on a golden sheen as the light hit it, she was also pretty tan, not the kind of tan you get from being out in the sun, but the kind of tan you were born with.
Sakura turned to the girl sitting in the chair "Hello" she said "My name is Sakura Haruno, and I will be the doctor looking after your sister. Can you tell me what happened?" The girl looked nervous, not scared, more like she was trying to figure out what to say. "My name is Amaya Yamashita, and she isn't my sister she's my friend. Our village was attacked about a week ago and we escaped, About 2 days ago she started getting sick, she was going in and out of consciousness and I didn't know what to do. I remembered her telling me that her family was originally from here, we didn't have anywhere else to go so I thought bringing her here was the safest option." The village attack was news to Shikamaru, if these girls had gotten here in two days they had to live in the Fire Country or right on the border, and if this attack had happened a week ago then they would've heard about it by now. "If her family is originally from here, is that how she knows Tsunade?" Shikamaru asked. The girl looked around nervously not knowing what to say. "It's alright" Sakura said "You can talk to us or to Lady Tsunade when she gets here." Amaya just nodded in silence.
While we waited for Tsunade and Sauske, Sakura checked over the girls lab work. She didn't seem to have any physical injuries, she was just exhausted and chakra depleated. Sakura pulled Amaya out of the room to make sure the girl didn't have any injuries herself, if Amaya carried this girl for two days she herself had to be tired.
Shikamaru was sitting in the chair by her bed, when he heard a small groan. He looked over to see that the girl was waking up, she blinked her eyes a few times and then turned her head to look at him. She had large doe eyes, and the color, they all but forced you to look at her. They were a odd shade of hazel, almost golden, but had little specks of brown and green. Shikamaru wasn't the type of man to fawn over a girl's beauty but he wasn't blind, this girl was pretty. Very pretty. He gave her moment to gather in her surroundings, before speaking. "Hello" he said "My name is Shikamaru Nara, I understand that you've had a rough journey, but I was hoping you could tell us more about what happened to you and your friend." She just stared at Shikamaru, clutching the locket that hung around her neck. "Where is Amaya?" she asked "She's with Dr. Haruno, getting checked out, she said you got sick and didn't know where else to take you." She had a confused look on her face before asking "Where am I?" "You're in the Hidden Leaf Village, Amaya said your family was originally from here." A scared and angry look came over the girl's face, she threw off the covers and tried to stand "She shouldn't have brought me here. We need to leave." Shikamaru stood up to stop her, she was unsteady on her feet due to exhaustion. He grabbed her shoulders to steady her and to guide her back to bed, it was then she realized how short she was. She was only about 5ft, maybe 5'2, and with his 6'1 frame he seemed to tower over her. Even with her height disadvantage she seemed built, and even though she was weak now, he could tell that when she was well rested she was a strong shinobi. "You need to rest." he said as he sat her on the bed and sat beside her. Just as he did there was a knock at the door and Tsunade entered along with Sakura and Amaya. Shikamaru stood up as Amaya ran over to see how her friend was. "You're not Rhea Roko"