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"...Where should I start?" Shikadai said, as he sat at one of the seats.
"How about answering how you were proclaimed dead by Konoha's most skilled medic, only to show up alive?" Gaara said, he had been to his nephew's funeral and should know more than anybody in the room what a dead person looks like.
His Nephew was defiantly dead.
"we'll...Uncle. I'm not actually alive" Shikadai said, dropping a bomb shell on all of them.
"Son, this is no time for jokes" His father said.
"I'm serious" Shikadai said, "Somebody can even come close to me and try to listen for my heart beat or the movement of my breathing. I'm dead."
They all looked at each other.
Then they stared at Shikadai, deciding to humour him.
They stared at him intensely, however after half an hour, Shikadai shoulders did not go up and down to show he was breathing like a living person...
"I'll go check" Uncle Kankuro said, walking up to Shikadai and placing a finger under Shikadai nose for several minutes.
Shikadai just sat and did nothing.
Kankuro did not feel any air on his finger.
Then Kankuro started to check on the pulse on his neck.
He thought it would pulse but quickly realized that wasn't happening.
Nobody had ever seen Kankuro, a usually pale dude, face become almost white.
He then checked Shikadai heart.
Several minutes want by and it confirmed the horror.
Shikadai wasn't alive.
"Y-Your not alive! And yet, how are you moving and thinking? Your, not a puppet" Kankuro said, he had spent all his life studying puppets and was so good that he would recognize one right away.
Shikadai wasn't one.
Temari was especially shocked to hear her child was really dead.
"Would you like to hear the story about how I became Undead?" Shikadai said.
He had gotten all of their attention.
14: Bomb after bomb.
"You could say it all started before I was born" Shikadai began.
"Wait. Before you were born?" Shikamaru said, what on earth?
"In this world, there is something called 'Essence'. It chooses a host and attach's itself to a person soul before they are even born. When I was born, I was born with this Essence inside of me" Shikadai said.
"And how do you know this?" Gaara said, all of them were digesting this information.
"There are 10 people who are the same as me. How do you think I got to this Village after my death?" Shikadai said. "I was taken before I could harm anyone. Apparently, after death, my body attacks living people into my mind is back."
All four of their eyes widened at this.
"This Essence. What does it do?" His mother said, she did not like that her child would have attacked people because he died.
And Shikadai know what he was about to say next, would shock them all to the very core.
"It kills the host." He said.
Silence.
"What?" His father said, it wasn't everyday he was shocked.
"Those who are born with the Essence don't live long. They didn't live to the age of 20" Shikadai said, "It goes into slumber for a bit and then when it wakes up, it attacks the heart."
"Causing a heart attack" Gaara said, he had read the files on how his nephew supposedly died.
"That's how I died. Everybody who has the Essence inside of them dies young and it's always of a heart attack." Shikadai said.
"How is that possible?" His mother said, "We had you scanned thousands of times!" she looked shaken and who could blame her?
Her own son just told her, she was destined to bury him no matter what.
"The essence can't be detected can it? And therefore, it can't be stopped" His father said.
"It's a blessing and a curse" Shikadai said, knowing his father would see the serious threat.
"We'll, carn't we take it out of you?" Uncle Kankuro said.
"You can try but it's the only thing keeping my grounded here" Shikadai said. "Trying to remove it, would mean truly killing me. My soul would got to who knows where and the essence would just latch onto another unborn child soul."
They were all silent about it.
So, what they got from was this 'essence', enters into random babies, kills them at a young age and then turns them into the undead?
What kind of monster creates something like that?
"You said it was a blessing, how so?" Uncle Gaara said.
"There were lots of benefits when I died." Shikadai said.
"How did you find out, you died?" His mother said.
Her question made Shikadai cringed.
"Shikadai" Suddenly His father voice was scary.
"U-Ur, we'll. One of the people who took my body recorded my funeral and showed me" He said.
His mother exploded, as expected.
"WHAT!" She yelled. "WHO IS IT!?"
Who was the person that dare film her crying, knowing her child would revive soon after!?
She demanded her child tell her.
"Mom. If you know who it was, it won't do you any good" He said, "She would crucify you"
His words shocked all of them.
Shikadai should see his mother as an all-powerful being, she did survive the fourth Ninja War and was a very powerful figure in the village after all.
To think he would one day say that somebody would crucify his own mother if she want up against them.
"Huh?" She said, in shock and disbelief and she wasn't the only one.
"That person has the Essence in them" Shikadai said. "And one of the benefits of having it is that as we get older, we get naturally stronger in leaps and bounds. She was alive way before you were even born."
Sure the woman did not tell him how old she was but he know she was defiantly alive before his mother was even born.
"So, what?" Uncle Kankuro said. "We have faced opponents way older then ourselves"
"You don't understand" Shikadai said, "As I sit here doing nothing I can feel myself getting stronger. I haven't had any training in two years. I met Boruto and the other's today. They were apparently Chunin level but their movements were so slow to me and looked very easy to block. If I want up against them, I'm sure that I can defeat them"
All of them were stunned.
Did Shikidai just say that he could beat all his friends without even training?
Shikadai was a smart boy, he had been away for 2 years and normally, the thought would never even cross his mind.
He had to be absolutely certain to say that.
"Mom, Dad. Uncles." Shikadai said, "I hope you never meet the oldest person who has the essence. I asked her to train me and she almost killed me. I was unconscious for 2 years. That's why you didn't hear anything from me"
"What?" His father said, his son was unconscious for two years?
So, his son had been in a coma for 2 years because of somebody?
"However, she doesn't usually come to this village so I was just incredibly unlucky" He said, scratching his head in embarrassment. "I am probably not scared of anything anymore after facing that. Nothing could come close to the shear monster I saw that day. I wanted to run and plan but she wouldn't let me. It was fight or die."
Meaning the boy who had lived a comfortable life was plunged into the madness that could only be found on a Battlefield.
No wonder he seemed to have mature a bit since they last saw him.
"However, having the very real threat of going to heaven. I learnt a lot of thing's" Shikadai said, talking about his death like it he was talking about the weather.
His casual tone was bothering all 4 of them.
"So, where was I?' Shikadai said. "Oh, right. When I 'woke up' from my heart attack. I was surrounded by people who were just like me. I wanted to return to the Village immediately however one of them pointed out, if I did, everybody in the village would come after me, either trying to kill me or capture and torture me. Even my own family."
Silence.
Because that was exactly what would have happened.
He would be introduced to hell by the people who he loved the most because people would have thought he was an imposter.
"So, I had no choice but to stay in the Village. And it was amazing" Shikidai said, "People just handed me free stuff. I could sleep whenever I wanted and I swim"
"wait. You swim?" Uncle Gaara said.
"I was surprised to but I like it" Shikadai said.
"So, when did you find out, you have a craving for Human blood?" His father said, surprising the hell out of his two Uncles.
Apparently, they had yet to hear that their nephew sucked people dry of their blood and sent them to the hospital.
"Shortly, after I found out I was dead" Shikadai said, "I consumed a human heart short after. I only realized afterwards what happened. I couldn't stop myself, it was like I was possessed. When I came home, I realized I couldn't eat food that didn't have a hint of Human blood in it. Forcing myself only made it worse"
With that, the mystery his father had about why he couldn't eat anything his wife cooked and yet ate from the storage scroll was solved.
"That's why you need help." His mother said, appalled that her child couldn't eat her food without her dropping her blood into it. "Come back and we'll make sure we find a cure. In the meantime, we'll supply you with Blood from the Hospital"
Plus, giving blood was super easy and you got paid for it.
However, they had to figure out how much he needed to consume per day, because there were people in the Village who needed blood as well.
However, the Vampire in him just snapped, when he heard his mother's suggestion.
"Do you think I'll allow you to lock me away and give me some cheap ass, blood?" He said, without realising it.
Silence.
They all understandable looked at him with wide eyes, making him realise what he just said out loud.
"Sorry, about that" He said, damn, he didn't mean to say that out loud. "The inner me, that wants blood just came out. I didn't really mean that"
Of course, he did.
The Vampire in him was disgusted that they wanted him to drink blood from a sealed bag that has been frozen for some time.
"I think I know, what your going through" Uncle Gaara suddenly said, making all eyes turn to him. "Believe it or not, before I met the Hokage, I craved blood"
That and he was insane back then.
"Gaara!" His mother said.
"He needs to know" Uncle Gaara said, well he didn't plan on his nephew finding out. "Before I met the current Hokage, I loved to see people's blood. You could say I was possessed. However, I didn't really have standards, anybody's blood was fine. However, I didn't drink from people, I just liked seeing blood"
Shikadai was surprised, his uncle always appeared so gentle and odd, he never thought that he had an obsession for blood as a child.
It felt like out of everybody in the room, his Uncle understood him the most.
Honestly, nobody in the room ever thought that Shikadai would ever relate to the child and insane version of Gaara.
"And I like drinking blood" Shikadai said.
"SHIKIDAI!" His mother said.
"I'm not going to hide it. After I died, drinking Blood has become pretty good" Shikadai said, as both of his parents and his Uncle Kankuro looked at him horrified. "This village knows what I am and welcomes it with open arms. Everything I eat is coated in Human blood. I am drink directly from the neck, which is the best"
This time everybody was staring at him.
"Here. I am safe to drink Human blood and nobody tries to change me." Shikadai said. "The people who are born with the Essence, have protected this Village since its founding. What other's see as a Monster, they see as a god."
"Shikadai...I want you to be honest with all of us" His father said, suddenly. "What are you?"
His question surprised all of them.
However, Shikadai answered moments later.
"Tou-san" He said.
"I'm a Vampire. A Bloodfallen"
His confession stunned them all.
And scene!
Next chapter, it is the meeting with all the heads of each Village and they are surprised to see the official leader of the Village. Meanwhile Shikadai calls Boruto to tell him, he's on his way to play some games. Review/fav and follow!