AH….. I noticed I spelled kunai kuenai in the last chapter. My mistake.

Disclaimer: see first chapter

Warnings: There are a couple of spoilers in this chapter for Naruto Shippuuden, from the manga part to be exact. Um… And I think there's a bit of character OOC.

Thoughts

Narration

"Speech"

'talking to conscious'

Recap: He trailed his gaze up the body, to hands clutched together, index and middle of left hand pointing up, right hand grasping them, in front of a white ceramic mask of what looked like a deer marked in various spots with read, up to the high-spiked ponytail.

"Uchiha Sasuke." a voice wafted lazily from behind the mask.

"N-Nara Shikamaru,"

End Recap

Shika the Sadist

Sasuke's mouth fell open. He was sure of it. Who would have thought- "Shikamaru?" he asked again, not really believing the tell tale signs that it was.

The man before him crouched down, bringing his hands into an "o" shape, completely ignoring Sasuke. He sat for awhile like that, thinking, or maybe contemplating the fastest way to kill him. He stood, heaving a big sigh. "Whelp, seeing as you already know who I am, I guess I don't need this anymore." He said, removing the deer mask.

Yup, it was Shikamaru alright. The same old Shikamaru except he had grown taller (doesn't every teenager do that in the course of six years) and he had a stubble of a beard on his chin. But that same old lazy-assed expression adorned his face. "Why are you here, Sasuke-san?" He asked, surveying him with indifferent eyes, a gloved hand buried deep in a pocket.

"That's my business, not yours." Sasuke replied curtly. Curtly because, in truth, he didn't know the answer himself, just had a vague idea that it had something to do with a certain blonde ninja appearing in his dreams recently… No, no, no, had nothing to do with Naruto, NOTH-HING, NOTH-HING, and NOTH-HING, absolutely nothing to do with him. If Sasuke had been able to shake his head he would have, violently, but seeing as Shikamaru was possessing him, he had to settle for moving his eyes back and forth.

He had just woken up one morning, put on his shoes, and then his feet carried him off. Yes that was it. His feet had swept him away. Along with that ridiculous disguise that he had discarded not too long ago that consisted of a shawl, to hide the Uchiha Fan on the back of his kimono and a very droopy hat.

"Fine, don't answer. KUSO! And I was so looking forward to cloud watching on my day off, or a strole in the forest would have sufficed but nooo I had to run into one of the most wanted missing-nin right off the back. Ah how troublesome." He angrily wrenched his hand from his pocket, clutching a smoke pack. He shook out a cigarette and placed it expertly between his thin lips, lighting it promptly after. He took a long drag of it, the smoke on the exhale curling like a snake around its prey. Sasuke shuddered, reminded of the snake man he had escaped years ago.

"I guess I have no choice but to take you to Tsunade-sama. She would kill me if I left you tied to a tree. Women are so troublesome." He shrugged, starting to walk away (A/N: hmmm, I don't think what he said sounds right, do you? Any suggestions to make it sound better, if so please answer in a review. Thanks K-C) Sasuke had no choice but to follow, being under Shikamaru's jutsu and all.

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"Ne, Shikamaru-kun?" Sasuke crooned. "I won't run away I-I promise. Believe it or not it was my heh intention to speak to the ahem Hokage, so can you let me out of the jutsu now please?" a vein in his temple was near the bursting point, despite the pleasantness of his tone. He had spent the last few minutes being slapped in the face and below with tree branches. And frankly it was getting fairly painful, the multiple assaults to his already sore body.

Shikamaru regarded him briefly, a smirk tugging at his lips as he walked even farther off the path, causing Sasuke to be forced even closer to the trees. The bark of one tree snagged and tore at his sleeve, barely scraping the skin off his arm. He grimaced.

"I know you won't. But it's for the good of the village that you are under a jutsu that can limit your movements if you should decide to attack. Besides what do you think they would do if they saw one of the Traitorous Uchiha Brothers roaming freely about the streets? Go into hysterics? Throw food or sharper objects? Maybe take justice into their own hands if they were angry enough. I mean that's what I would do. But my position as an ANBU forbids me to do anything to a missing-nin without permission from the Hokage…unfortunately." He took another drag of his cigarette. "and I'm the only chance you have at getting pass the gates." He sneered.

Sasuke glared at him, eyes flashing red. He had tasted the venom drenching Shikamaru's words, seen the murderous rage that had distorted his lazy expression for a moment. What have I ever done to him? He thought bitterly. He only ever remembered doing Naruto harm.

So something must have happened to him. Now that he thought about it, he didn't remember Shikamaru's jutsu being this strong. Last time he had witnessed the jutsu being performed by him, the victim had been able to move their head, twitch their fingers, but he couldn't do any of that. His body was being fully possessed by the jutsu.

"Ne, Shikamaru-san, since when did you smoke?"

Shikamaru removed the cigarette from his mouth, a subtle sadness in his eyes, the slight droop of eyebrows, the tightening of lips. "Since Asuma-sensei died."

Asuma…. Sasuke vaguely remembered the leader of Shikamaru's squad. Tall, dark-haired, tan skin, dark eyes, heavily bearded….always smoking. He blanched. He had tried to move his head to stare at Shikamaru, which was impossible since Shikamaru was looking straight ahead, slightly down, head tilted to the right a bit, eyes gazing left. (A/N: Oh how I love putting a lot of comma's in a sentence:3)

"When,"

"'Bout three and a half years ago,"

"How,"

"Akatsuki,"

Sasuke tried to hide his surprise. The Akatsuki had conquered the Third Hokage's son (A/N: or nephew, I don't know what the relationship between them was) That was…

"Finally! There's the Gates." Shikamaru said. "I'm gonna let you move your head around now, I'm pretty sure you'll want to see what's changed." As soon as he was able to Sasuke stretched the muscles in his neck. Shikamaru replaced his ANBU mask.

They walked in silence the rest f the way, pausing at the threshold for Shikamaru to whisper something into the ear of one of the guards. Sasuke noticed the guards eyes, glance over at him and widen. Shikamaru withdrew from the guard who in turn ran off running into Konoha.

Sasuke glanced suspiciously at the brunette beside him. "What was that about?"

"hn. It's not polite to burst in on someone unannounced now is it?" He said, stuffing his hands into his pockets.

"No… Not at all," Sasuke said, a small smile resting on his lips as they passed through the gates. Almost instantly a feeling of warmth washed over him, making the horrors of his past seem like a child's fantastical nightmare. He felt as if he had woken up from such a dream to be comforted by a concerned parents embrace. He felt… as if… he was finally… Home.

I think i made Shika seem more sadistic than i ment too. um well that was chapter 2.i'm moving tomorrow so i won't be able to get another chapter up for a couple of days so bare with me people. Please R&R, i'd like nothing better than to get feed back, to ensure myself that my writing doesn't completly suck, so please review.

Thank You K.C