Can Ghosts Kill People?
Summary: Shikamaru was lazily spending the day watching the clouds go by instead of attending class. But an accident takes place leaving Kakashi with a dilemma of spreading the word of the chuunin's death. (Reposted and Complete) Rated K+.
Disclaimers: Naruto is owned by Masashi Kishimoto. All the copyrights associated with Naruto belong to him. Only the ideas contained within this story are the property of the author. No profit is being earned by the writer of this story.
Author's Notes: Just reposting the first fanfiction I have ever written. I believe I was in Fourth or Fifth Grade when I wrote this. I just fixed it up. Enjoy and R'n'R! :D
Chapter One: As the Clouds Fade
It was a nice and refreshing day, with the clouds calmly drifting across the sky. The wind was gently blowing—quite a nice day to rest and relax. It's such a shame, though, that certain students were spending the lovely afternoon indoors. Not like they had a choice anyway. They were forced to stay and listen to their former teacher as he went on and on refreshing them of the important and basic Ninja lessons.
And yet, one chuunin didn't want to waste the perfect day. And so he didn't attend the class. I'm sure you know who that certain ninja was.
Shikamaru lay at a nice and peaceful spot—his favorite spot to sleep and daydream (It was much less troublesome than attending lectures.) There were no troublesome missions, no troublesome teammates, no troublesome assassins…
He awoke in a jolt as he dodged a surprise kunai attack from no where. 'A kunai?' he thought. 'Why, of all things, a simple and lowly attack? Or maybe…I'm just underestimating it.' He eyed the kunai and his jaw dropped in horror as he saw an explosion seal. "What the—"
Meanwhile, Kakashi was happily reading the new edition of Icha Icha Paradise. "Ho ho ho…good thing Iruka decided to lecture some ninja rules to those 12 students…now let's see—"
KABOOM!!!!!!!
"What the hell was that?!" He asked to no one in particular. He quickly headed to the site of the explosion. Upon arriving, he found a gigantic pit. "What the hell happened here?" He examined the scene very closely. "An explosion seal caused this." Kakashi concluded. "Who did this? Wait, why would someone do this? Right here… at this spot…"
Kakashi's eyes widened and gasped in horror. He looked for something—something he prayed not to be there. He stopped. A bead of sweat rolled down his face as he saw the lifeless body lying on the burnt grass. "Oh…oh no. No, no, no. How will I explain this to his father? To Asuma? To everybody?"
And thus endeth the perfect afternoon.
~.::.~
"Hmm… I wonder where Shikamaru is," mumbled Choji. Naruto commented, "Who knows? He might have gotten too lazy to even go to school."
"Everybody, please quiet down," Iruka sighed. There came a knock on the door.
The visitor didn't want for Iruka to answer. "Yo," Kakashi greeted, pushing the door open.
"Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto yelled, his face beaming. He was secretly hoping he would come and pull him away from the class to do a mission.
"What are you doing here, Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura asked.
"Iruka," Kakashi called out as if he didn't hear the questions of his pupils. "Can I talk to you for a sec?" Iruka nodded and went out of the room, closing the door behind him.
"I wonder what that was for," Kiba pondered. "And where the hell is Shikamaru?"
"Yeah, it would be improbable that he decided to just gaze at the clouds." Ino said looking outside the window.
"And why is that?" Kiba asked her.
"There aren't any clouds at all."
The knob on the door turned and Iruka slowly stepped inside. His face was distraught with grief that the genins couldn't help but ask what Kakashi told him.
"What's wrong Iruka-sensei?" Tenten asked. Iruka turned slowly to all of them. He gave a heavy sigh before he started. He was at loss for words. How would he tell his students?
"Iruka-sensei, what happened?" Naruto asked.
"It's about…" He gulped. "Shikamaru."
"Oh! They finally found him! Good thing. If he skipped class again, I'd totally kill that jerk!" Ino threw her fists up in the air.
"It's not that at all!" Iruka shouted. Everyone grew quiet. 'Right, I'll tell it to them as direct as possible.' "Listen. What I'm going to tell you is true. And…so…" Iruka's lips trembled and he stuttered. "Shikamaru is…" All waited in suspense. Iruka bit his lip. "He's…" He gulped.
"Dead."
"What?!"
A lot of ellipses there… So annoying… -.-
