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Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep.

"Mou! Shikamaru-chan!"

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"Mendokusei...didn't I tell you to stop calling me that?"

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"But...but Narumi likes to call Shika-chan that." The blue-haired girl in front of him pouted.

Beep. Beep.

"Fine, fine. Just don't cry like you did last time. It's troublesome, you know." Narumi's pout quickly turned into a smile, as she sat herself beside the ninja.

Beep. Beep.

"Ne. How can Shika-chan stay so calm and collected? Like Shika-chan doesn't have a care in the world?"

Nara Shikamaru started at the sleep-induced girl on the operating table. If that she didn't have so many open wounds and bruises, she would have looked like a sleeping angel. Narumi even had the blonde hair, white clothes, and kind demeanor to play the part. As expected, she was one of the most popular, young kunoichi in the village. But why hang out with someone like him? He was the laziest of the bunch, who only stood out because of his intelligence and specialty with shadows.

And one day… he finally asked her.

"Eh? Why do you ask Shika-chan???"

"I'm curious."

"Because Narumi loves you of course!"

Of course Shikamaru did not take this seriously and just waved it off. She probably wouldn't tell him the true answer. Maybe she was hanging out with him because she felt sorry for him. It didn't really matter though. It's not like he enjoyed her company... right?

It was a few days later and they had a mission to do together. The mission was a high C rank, and the mission was to escort a scholar to his home in wind country. They were to protect him from bandits, theives, screaming fans, ect. Easy mission right? Not at all. It turns out that The scholar wasn't who he said he was. He was actually a buisness man, on the run from a whole lot of ninjas.The two konoha shinobi were certainly unprepared for what happened next.

"Shika-chan! Watch out!"

But I suppose you would know what happened next.

Narumi lunged to his side, and a barage of kunai and shuriken stabbed her anywhere they were thrown. Shikamaru's eyes widened. Why didn't he notice it? If he wasn't so stupid, this wouldn't be happening! Shikamaru threw some explosives attached to kunai. Well, actually, alot. It pretty much finished off everyone surrounding him, and the slumped over Narumi. When he finished catching his breath, he went right into inspecting Narumi. He had checked her pulse. She was still alive. He picked her up and rushed her to the nearest hospital. And the buisness man? He had run away before the battle even began. And now we are back to where this story started.

Beep. Beep. Beep.

"Damn!"

He slamed his fist on a sidetable, he glanced at Narumi again. Then a sudden rush of feeling came onto him.

"It's all my fault. If I payed more attention to my surroundings, this wouldn't have happened. Why didn't you let me take the hit? Why?!?"

It seemed time just stopped when a single sentence came from the weak mouth of the angel.

"Be...because Narumi...Narumi loves you, of course..."

"Narumi?!"

Exactly three seconds after her sentence, the weak line on her heart monitor became...flat.

"NARUMI!!"