Shikamaru crouched on the tree catching his breath and planning his next move. Being Shikamaru, he squatted down and started to think but his father on saw him and flung three kunais at him. Shikamaru sensing that something was wrong opened his eyes only to see the kunais flying at him at a very fast pace.
"not again!" he thought as he jumped and dodged the kunais.
"My father's really not letting me form a plan. I'm going to have to think as I dodge and make my way across this damned trap field."
As he was in the air, he saw a dark figure standing in front of some trees directly across where he was in the field.
"My father!" he thought and was just about to make his way across the field, planning to hide in the tall grass as he went.
"Wait a minute!" he thought as he stopped himself from jumping off the tree "That's exactly what my father wants me to do...but if I go through a totally unexpected route, my father will be taken by surprise and I will have the advantage in battle!"
With that thought, he jumped a few trees to his right and prepared for his next move. He prepared 2 kunais in his hand and with a sudden leap from the tree, charged towards the figure in front of the trees.
"What is Shikamaru doing charging at me head on like this? Its so unlike him!" his father thought as he saw what was happening.
Shikamaru charged towards his father and was just about to throw his kunai at him when he caught sight of three small flames being set alight in the tall grass. He knew immediately what they were, explosive tags.
"Oh no! When will this madness ever end!" he thought as he scanned his mind for the possible types of traps that this particular one might be.
"There are too many possible types! arrgh! So troublesome! If it's a wire triggered trap I'd be dead in the next few steps. Well if I can't be sure of the kind of trap I'll just have to get rid of the trap."
With that thought he took out 1 more kunai and flung all three of them at the three explosive tags, after which he wrapped his own explosive tag around yet another kunai and after wrapping an explosive tag around it, flung it at the ground to get rid of any tags and kunais that may have been set for him and making sure he was just out of the blast radius.
It worked according to his plan, Shikamaru was now hidden in the smoke caused by the explosion and the three kunais that he threw at the explosive tags had impaled them and were now flying towards his father still lit.
The kunais hit their target and exploded but when the dust cleared, Shikamaru's father was nowhere in sight. Shikamaru simply smirked, walked to the center of the three trees, tied an explosive tag around a kunai and flung it into the air.
"my father is not the only one with a lot of explosive tags" Shikamaru smirked as he thought back on all the explosive tags that were used by both him and his father during this training session. "He'd better reimburse me for them though.. they're expensive he thought rather gingerly."
The kunai exploded in the air and Shikamaru noticed a figure crouching on a thick branch in the middle tree. He took out three shurikens and was about to throw it at the figure in the trees but at the last moment, he flicked his wrist and threw the shurikens at such an angle that it went around the tree on the right, spun around it three times and impaled itself in the bark of the tree trunk.
Shikamaru walked to the back of the tree on the right to see, just as he had planned his father trapped by the metal wires that he had tied to his shurikens.
"Kage Manin No jutsu." Shikamaru said and trapped his already trapped father in his jutsu.
"Very good my son, but how did you know that I was behind the tree?"
"When I flung the kunai with the explosive tag on the floor while I was charging at you, the blast of the explosion created wind that already revealed your bunshin in the trees. I was not sure if it was the real you however as I saw a further shadow trailing down into the ground where you were supposed to be standing. That's why I threw the kunai up into the air. By the light caused by the explosion, I saw a small trail of shadow leading to behind the tree on the right. It's the weakness of using shadow Jutsus; there is always a trail no matter how slight."
"so you figured it out" said his father in an impressed tone. " looks like intelligence runs in our family"
A reluctant look overtook Shukaku as he sighed and said "very well as promised I will teach you to summon the Shadow Lord starting tomorrow. But be warned, should you fail to master this summoning, it will cost you your life. Are you sure you want to learn it?"
"Dammit! This is so troublesome!" mumbled Shikamaru in frustration. He thought for awhile and gave a heavy sigh, "if this will help me complete my missions better then teach me."
Ok that's it for now.. will update more soon..once i get the time of course.. since i started work time is a scarce thing..