Suddenly someone was banging at the door and Shikamaru rushed to answer it.
"Wait, pops," Hidan couldn't help but giggle calling Shikamaru "pops."
Shikamaru stepped back and let Hidan answer it. All of a sudden, someone landed a puch across Hidan's face.
"That's him dad!" Ken shouted from outside.
"What did you do to my son?" a man grabbed Hidan by the arm and pulled him up to his face.
Hidan was still trying to catch up with what was going on after the punch. Shikamaru stepped in, putting hands on both of the men's shoulders.
"We can do this peacefully, my children are sleeping," he said.
Ken's father nodded and motioned his son in. "Explain to Mr. Nara what happened to you earlier," he told his son.
Ken looked up at Shikamaru with a sad, hurt face. His brown hair was tossled on his head and his cheeks were marked with red face paint in the shape of triangles. You could tell he was an Inuzuka as his large black dog came in and sat at his feet obediantly.
"I was hanging out with my friends when that silver haired man came up to me and threw me to the ground, calling me names!" He pointed at Hidan, accusingly. "Mitsuko was with him, watching him beat me up! Then when my friends tried to help me away, he threw a rock at my head!"
"Not true you lying brat!" Hidan objected but Ken's dog turned and growled at him.
"Hidan, we don't need that right now," Shikamaru exhaled as he crossed his arms in front of his chest.
"I demand an apology from your whore daughter and her pimp," Ken's father snarled.
Shikamaru dashed forward so quick, father nor son was able to see through his attack. Hidan looked up at the wall to see Shikamaru holding Ken's father up at the chest with a kunai at his neck.
"Take that back," Shikamaru said through clenched teeth.
"No. You have no idea what your daughter does. Ken told me."
"You both have no idea who my daughter is!" Shikamaru made a motion to stab the kunai into Ken's father but Hidan caught his arm.
"Let me take care of it, pops. You're tired and need some rest," he said with a sincere face.
"No, I know what you'll do," Shikarmau stared into his opponents eyes. "You promised the village."
"I know but... They didn't keep their bargain. They still haven't forgiven me," Hidan tried to persuade him.
Shikarmaru suddenly dropped Ken's father to the floor and stepped back, handing Hidan the kunai.
"Be as quiet as possible. I do not want Mitsuko to wake up and see what you can do."
Hidan watched as Shikarmaru disappeared into the hall and heard the sliding of the paper screen door. "Pop's getting old," he said with a sneer. Quickly, he turned and jabbed the kunai into his opponent's shoulder and withdrew it, jumping back.
Ken dashed to his father's side as the door opened and a large dog jumped in and nuzzled his master's face. Hidan grinned almost maniacally, licking the blood off the kunai. He couldn't believe Shikamaru would just let him perform the ritual. Maybe it was because Inuzuka had called Mitsuko names. Shikamaru must be really mad.
"The ritual has begun!" Hidan exclaimed as he thrusted the kunai into his belly, withdrawing a splatter of blood. The Inuzukas watched as his skin changed from skin color peach to black with white stripes where his bones would be. He smeared the blood across the floor forming a circle with a triangle inside it. The symbol of Jashin.