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Where was her child!
Temari Nara practically tortured her husband for hours.
She didn't even manage to get home before she heard from some people that her child had been kidnapped by a bunch of red eyes people.
Temari thought her whole world had collapsed when Shikadai suddenly died of a heart attack.
However, she didn't believe it at first.
Yes, her child, sadly, had his father's personality but he was in top form.
She made sure to force him to eat even if he was too lazy too, she would make sure he had a balance diet.
So, it was a shock to find out that he had died from something like that.
She broke down crying when she saw her child's body and he refused to show any signs of life.
Even for a lazy person at least she could always see that he was breathing.
Temari then forced the whole story from her husband out about what went on in the final hours of his life.
A part of her blamed the kid Ryoga for what happened to her son, knowing it was wrong to do so.
They soon buried her son.
After that, she was practically a ghost in the house, even after his burial she would often find herself back in Shikadai room or making enough food for three people.
Not even a visit from her brothers could cheer her up.
So, imagine her surprise when her husband managed to convince her to come and watch the Chunnin Exams, knowing full well that Shikadai would have participated as well if he was alive.
The exams were going well, but when it was time for a break and the adverts came on...
It was like the world had opened up to her.
Temari would know her own child's voice in her sleep and when it blasted from the speakers, she felt her mourning heart leap with joy.
The person who appeared on the screen was the spitting image of her child except for the red eyes, however he sounded exactly on point.
Could it be?
However, her husband told her that she shouldn't have any hopes, for anything and even seemed angry that somebody would choose to look like their child.
But it didn't stop her from requesting a copy of the advert for countless re-watching in secret.
The T.V show aired and she only had eyes for the boy who looked and sounded like her son, watching him with a mother's institution.
He may be acting but the expressions he had some times were dead on.
With each episode, the more convinced she was.
It got to point that she had busted into her husband's office and dragged him to the graveyard they buried their son at, despite the man's 'protest's'.
A part of her was scared that Shikadai really was dead and she was disrespecting her child grave while another part told her, to take a chance.
She wanted true hope.
The casket was empty.
Her child body wasn't there.
Her instincts as a mother had been right!
Shikadai was out there, alive and well!
And several high-end Ninja's had to stop her from going out of the village and disappearing to who know's where to look for her child.
There was a watch on her 24-7 just to make sure she didn't disappear.
It was driving her insane.
And then her child actually showed up.
Her child stood before her in the flesh and blood with red eyes and there were so many emotions going through her mind but in that moment all she wanted to do was touch him.
Make sure he was really there.
However, her joy didn't really last long.
Shikadai may have survived but he was different.
She was sure her son wasn't aware of it, but every move he made had a certain grace to it that wasn't there before.
It wasn't the grace of the ANBU but the grace of a predator.
She had studied her son's face enough to know when he was lying and whenever she put food in front of him, he would look sick.
Her assumptions proved correct when she forced him to eat and he was soon rushing to the toilet to hurl.
Something had happened to her child's body.
His fiscal health took a complete nose dive.
Like a fish that had been taken out of water.
She couldn't wait until he felt comfortable enough to tell her what was making him sick because she got the uncomfortable feeling that if he didn't get help, she would be burying him for the second time.
She wanted a doctor to look at him, mostly to find some way to help him.
However, her son was quick to escape at the mention of the doctor.
She wanted to raise an eyebrow when he suddenly had a change in personality.
There was something Shikadai did not want her to know and she felt said that her own son could not tell her.
Eventually her worry got too much and a doctor was called with her husbands 'help', so imagine their surprise when they found their son, completely healthy.
And his healthy streak continued.
But he was still not eating anything, however rumors started to circulate that something was attacking the villagers and sucking blood from them.
In that moment, she wondered why she was thinking of Shikadai improved health.
She shrugged it off as her being happy that her child didn't look like he was dying anymore.
However, her happiness did not last long.
Shikadai decided that he shouldn't sleep.
So now he wasn't eating and sleeping.
After a few days, he looked like a ghost.
No matter how many times she nagged him, he just wondered around at night trying so hard to stay awake.
However, the final straw was when he was too weak to even stand properly anymore.
He collapsed in the middle of the living room.
As a mother it was her duty to strap him down to his bed and force him to sleep.
The monster showed up again but this time the Hokage could track it.
She had to breathe a sigh of relief, now the village was safe for her child.
And then Shikadai disappeared again.
She really needed to put a tracker on her child.
She heard Shikadai had ran to the gates, apparently faster than any trained ANBU.
She would have been proud if not for the fact, he was kidnapped.
So now she was here.
Nobody dared to say anything when Temari walked into her husband's office, knocked him unconscious and then dragged him back to the house.
Several hours later, Shikamaru had sung an S Class secret to his wife.
From the look on her face, he was scared that she would kill him.
He didn't know that his son was also facing a life and death situation at the hands of a scary female.
Like they say.
Like father like son.
Ch 10: Push to the brink.
Shikadai could feel that she was telling the truth and that's what scared him.
Did he really have two hours until his core vanished?
A small crack appeared it and his fear got worse.
No. Calm down and think this through. Shikadai thought.
"I said if you don't come at me with an intent to kill. You will die" Said, a voice right behind him, sending shivers down his spine.
He looked back but there was nobody there.
He at Miaso to find out she was there with a smile on her face, however something was wrong with the picture.
It took him a second to figure out what it was.
The man that was unconscious on the floor had disappeared.
She had taken him and if she had taken him, then it was unlike that she had been behind him.
Then Miaso attacked.
Shikadai eyes were wide as saucers as Miaso used his own core to try and hit him.
He tried his best to dodge but she was so unbelievable fast, much faster than his own mother when they sparred and that terrified him.
More than a few jabs got him and each time his core collided with his body, he could feel it trying to come home but Miaso wouldn't allow it.
More cracks started appearing and Miaso would not let him think, as she attacked him again and again.
Each blow was aimed at places that were guaranteed to take a seasoned Ninja down in one hit.
It was so overpowering and to make matter worse, Shikadai was positive that this wasn't her true strength at all and she was limiting herself because of him.
"Old habits are to break, huh?" Miaso said, "If we met on a battlefield, I would have enjoyed having you be the first one to die."
Shikadai was terrified.
He had built no immunity to having somebody come at him with an endless amount of killing intent that would make a person go insane.
She made his fight with Ryoga look like a child.
His limbs were freezing up from the fear and he was forced to abandon any long logical thinking to short sentences.
He tried to put some distance between from them but she stuck to him like glue.
Every punch and kick he throw, were stopped effortless, the overpowering nature of it, would break any Ninja's spirit.
This was a Vampire.
A true Vampire.
A thing that no Human should offend.
And there was more than one.
He had to become this.
Shikadai ran.
He thought there was no shame running, only for Miaso to give him a good knocked on the head, never had his body sunk so low that only his head was above ground.
Then she started to merciless kick gravel at his face.
"*cough cough*" He tried getting the gravel out of his lung's but more just kept coming.
"This won't kill you but what are you going to do about your core?" Miaso said, slightly insane. 'It's doesn't look too good."
She stopped kicking for his eyes to look at core, that was starting to crack down the middle, with all the crack's showing up, it would soon collapse on itself and become shards.
Shikadai did not want to know the next step.
"You are a Vampire." Miaso said, kicking him in the head. "Not a Human being. Abandon everything that was taught to you by humans and come at me with the intent to kill" she pulled him out of the ground, he was a bloody mess but he was still alive.
Then Miaso started to squeeze his core, speeding the process up and it broke into shards.
When Shikadai saw this, something in him just snapped.
Maybe it was a defense mechanism that was activated with the core in such a dear state or it was his bloodline as a fighter calling out.
All he know was that he was going to die.
His spirit to survive roared and he lunged at her, seemly gone mad.
Miaso wasn't expecting it so the attack was successful.
"Give it back!" He growled.
The killing intent he emitted was that befitting of a Vampire.
If a regular human could see what she saw, they would flee for their lives.
Shikadai seemed to have forgotten the core pieces in her hand's as he focused all his attention on trying to kill her.
Each punch was meant to end a life.
If his friends and family could see him now, he would be forcible restrained.
The killing intent did not fit somebody who had lived a comfortable life until now.
Miaso had seen countless human beings in their life time, they would either run or fight when she made her intentions clear.
Shikadai was not expecting a sharp hand to go through his neck and all the strength in his body disappeared along with the last bit of consciousness he had.
Miaso instantly got up in one full swoop and caught him when he was falling.
And before the pieces turned to dust, she merged them back into his body.
Miaso came back to her sense.
"EHHHHH! I-I OVER DID IT!" She said, there was just so much blood that she wouldn't have known the thing in her arms was a person.
However, he had succeeded in getting his core back.
And scene!
Next chapter, Shikadai wakes up and learns that he was actually asleep for 2 years. Meanwhile, Baruto who is out with friends gets a call from an unknown number. Review/fav and follow!