Ladies and Gentlemen. Boys but mostly girls. The one, the only, RyterHarpie has returned to you! (roar of the crowd.) Yeah, I know. My computer has returned from Hades and is just as beautiful as evah! (victory dance) Okay enough of that. I have a lot of story to make up and not a whole lot of time.
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Weeks had gone by (again sorry about that) and though there had been a few moments that had almost become something great, but in the end Shikamaru was always left on the outside with naruto looking on as Sakura sat ever closer to Sasuke. Shikamaru took all of this in strides, until the night he watched Sasuke drag Saura off into the woods, to be alone. He scowled at their backs as she followed him obediently. He was still scowling when Sakura turned around to give him a apologetic look, and he continued to scowl long after they had disappeared.
Sakura looked back towards the campsite. She couldn't rid herself of the image of Shikamaru scowling. She had barely spoken to Sasuke during the mission, and now he was calling her out into the woods. She looked up at him, wondering how far they would be walking, only to see that he had stopped and was staring at her impatiently. She looked away from him, choosing to look anywhere but into his eyes.
"Why did you call me out here Sasuke? Is there a reason or..."
Sasuke came up and pressed her into a nearby tree. He pressed his lips against to hers with an intense force. She moaned involuntarily when she felt his tongue run over her bottom lip. He pulled back slightly smirking.
"Do I need a reason to bring you out here? If you really need a reason, I simply needed a bit of a distraction and you are here."
For a moment Sakura wanted nothing more than to melt into her first loves arms and just be held by him, but that feeling didn't last long as images of Sasuke and Temari flooded her mind. Followed closely by Shikamaru holding her as she cried in the rain. She pushed Sasuke away from her. She stared at him with eyes full of rage watching as he calmly leaned against a tree, not seeming to care in the least. She almost shrieked at him.
"How dare you! Tell me, did you think of Temari as a distraction, or was that just something to pass the time?"
Sakura was disappointed when Sasuke didn't even blink at the statement. He looked as if he would have been more intreasted in scratching his ass than in the conversation.
"DID YOU HEAR ME! I KNOW THAT YOU WERE WITH THAT SAND SLUT!"
"Yes, I know. I saw you there, but you didn't seem to mind when I visited you later on."
She sank to the ground, her vision was swimming. He had known already, he had always known.
"But...But then...why?"
"Why? Actually that is a good question. You were never worth my time, just another simple weakling fangirl, but again I did need a distraction and you were oh so ready to give yourself to me. To be honest, it was always sad to watch."
He walked to where she was slumped to the ground. Her face was frozen in shock and her eyes remained blank. He kneeled to her level and gently twirled a strand of her pink hair between two of his fingers.
"I'm sorry little Sakura, but you're just not up to my level just yet."
He stood up, only to be knocked several feet into the clearing by someone moving too fast to be seen.
Shikamaru had followed them. He knew that it was the wrong thing to do, but he could never allow her to be alone with him.
'No, never again.'
He ran through the woods as fast as his feet would carry him, careful to avoid anything that would tip off the gifted Uchiha. When they finally stopped he had watched and listened to the entire conversation. It had taken everything he had not to come out of hiding when Sasuke had started his little rant, but when he started to touch her again that was when he finally snapped. He had thrown himself into Sasuke, and sent the bastard flying. Without waiting he went on the offensive, throwing shuriken where Sasuke had landed. Sasuke was up and running before Shikamaru could even throw his first star. Sasuke moved in close kicking Shikamaru up into the air only to grab his leg while he was heading upward and pulling him hard into the ground. Shikamaru made a quick hand sign before he was forced from the ground. When the dust finally settled both Shikamaru and Sasuke were laying in a ditch that their impact into the ground had made. As Shikamaru started to stand Sasuke mirrored his action feeling every ounce of pain that Shikamaru felt. Sasuke was sickened by this idiot, and the fact that he had so easily succumb to his mediocre skills.
"Why did you come out here? This has nothing to do with you slacker."
Shikamaru shrugged, causing Sasuke to do the same.
"It's my choice if I see this as my buisness or not."
"You really are an idiot aren't you. I've seen how you two act towards each other, and you could have taken her if you wanted, I was done with her long ago, but now I'm going to make you suffer. You and your pink haired piece of nothing."
Shikamaru charged Sasuke, not really aware that they were still bound by the shadow jutsu. Just as Shikamaru landed a punch to Sasuke's jaw, he recieved a matching blow from his opponent. They skidded three feet apart, both out of breath and in pain. At the rate that Shikamaru was using up chakra it was no suprise that he was already starting to feel the shadow jutsu fail.
'Oh, man, he's going to kill me when he gets free.'
One look at Sakura was enough to make it not matter. He didn't care what Sasuke did to him, as long as he had defended Sakura. The last of his control left him, and the hold he had on Sasuke dropped. Sasuke smirked and took his tiem walking towards Shikamaru. He grabbed hold of his vest and lifted his weak body off of the ground to face him.
"I'm going to enjoy this."
A pink blur passed by Shikamaru's head, and Sasuke ended up sitting on the ground holding the red mark on his cheek. Sakura didn't move a muscle. She stood beside Shikamaru fist raised and head down.
"Sasuke, I'll only say this once. Leave now, or I swear..."
She never finished her sentence. A blast knocked her and Shikamaru off their feet, and to the ground. From the direction of camp, they heard Riki scream.
Okay, okay, don't worry. I'm going to be updating tommorrow and the next day, if I can. Watch for it, and thank you for your patience.
