Lean on Me...
Summary: She was found at such a young age, taken in by Shikaku, not as a daughter, but as a wife in training for his youngest son. How will this affect the Nara Clan...more specifically the laid back, easy going, semi-lazy...Shikamaru?
Anime: InuYasha/Naruto
Pairing: Shikamaru/Kagome
Genre: Romance/Comfort/Hurt
Rated: M for Mature
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Kagome – 11
Rookie Nine – 12
Neji – 13
Itachi - 18
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Shikamaru walked back to Kagome's room, his eyes widened slightly as the light glow of the jewel in her hand caught his attention. She glanced up, taking his eyes off of the jewel and bringing them to her. "...how are you feeling?"
Kagome looked back down to the jewel and watched as the light glow faded completely. A frown met her lips and she sighed, "I feel tired, but I'll live."
"I see. Do you want something to eat, something to drink? Water perhaps?"
"No," she let the jewel fall loosely from her hand.
"..." he walked over to her bed and maneuvered the blanket away from her body. Her hand found his as she went to stop him from lifting the corner of her shirt to expose the injury she'd attained on her mission...though, her eyes didn't meet his. She stared out the window of her bedroom and watched the deer's from her spot in bed. "Let me see,"
She turned her eyes back to Shikamaru and looked at him for a few seconds, "it's gone."
"Gone?"
"...I felt it, I felt it go away..." she let go of his hand and he continued to lift her shirt over the bandages and peel the bandages back to show her unmarred complexion. "I was healed...by mama's jewel."
Shikamaru's eyes were wide as he turned her words over in his head, he saw the injury, and now...there was nothing to speak of. As if she had never been attacked, no wound was left behind. "That's quite the jewel..."
"Yeah." She stared at it, "can I get out of bed? Am I allowed to?"
"That phrase," he laughed, "tch...'am I allowed to'. You aren't a prisoner, Kagome...I won't ever tell you that you can't get out of bed...or that you can't leave the house. Though, to be perfectly honest, hearing those words...I can't deny how much I've missed hearing them."
Kagome smiled as a blush formed softly along Shikamaru's cheeks. "You missed me then?"
"Is that what I said?" He looked away stubbornly.
"It's what I heard..."
Silence fell over the two and they enjoyed it for what it was. The company that both had so greatly missed and needed.
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Kagome woke to a gentle nudge the next morning. Shikaku stood over her bed with a bag in one hand and a scroll in the other. "Shikaku-Sama?"
He took a step back as she sat up. Holding the scroll out first, he let it go as she took it in hand and unrolled it. "Be dressed and ready in thirty minutes. Shikamaru already left to meet his team, you will be expected to do such as well."
She let her eyes roam the scroll before grinning and nodding her head in acknowledgment. "Right!"
He left her room and she was quick to throw the blankets off and pull her new clothes out of the bag. To her surprise, on the shoulder of her top, there was the Nara clan crest. She wasn't part of the family yet, and didn't carry the last name 'Nara'...yet there it was. She couldn't conceal her smile, her heart racing at the insignia. "This will be just one more thing to fight for." She pulled on the long sleeved one piece, cargo green dress, a pair of spandex shorts and a set of knee length socks and wrist bands. Tying around her waist a gray cloth belt, she grabbed her gray vest and started to equipped her weapons and a few of her scrolls to her thigh. She looked at her long hair and smiled as she twisted it up into a tight bun before taking her sharpened senbon and stabbing them into the twist.
Walking over to her nifty selection of weapons, she critically eyed her collection before she decided on her weapon of choice for this particular event. The weapon she lifted off of her floor, was called a Manriki-gusari. Two weights on a length of chain. She was quite fond of the weapon, but very rarely did she get a chance to use it. Today, she would allow the weapon a chance to shine.
"Kagome~!"
Lifting her head, she ran to her closet and quickly pulled on her black sandals before opening her door and running down stairs. "I'm here!"
Yoshino laughed as she patted the seat at the table, "you have about ten minutes, eat before you leave."
Nodding, she absently shoveled the food that Yoshino placed in front of her down her throat. She was in a hurry, she wanted to leave, wanted to fight! It had been so long since she trained or saw any of her friends. With Shikamaru and her on talking terms again, she wanted to see Neji and how he'd grown the last few years. She wanted to see Chouji again, Kiba and Naruto! She missed everyone...and wanted to show how much she'd grown. "I'm leaving first, I'll see you all later!" She passed by And bowed quickly to Shikaku who watched her run out the door before jumping off out of sight.
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Unrolling the scroll, she reread the last passage of the scroll. 'Meet in front the Chuunin Examination Hall. Temporary teammates: Namisuka, Ami and Okata, Fuki will be waiting for your arrival and from there you will progress forward as participants of the Chuunin Exam. Good luck.'She looked up at the Examination Hall, turning her eyes towards the wall of the building, she noted two girls a tad bit taller than herself waiting leisurely beside the entrance. "...I wonder..." stepping up to the two girls, she cleared her throat and watched as both lifted their head and looked at her critically. "Ami and Fuki?" Uncertainty leaked into her voice at the annoyed look in their eyes.
"Look at you, so tiny...and yet we are here to fill in for the fact that you have no teammates?" A girl with long purple hair scoffed, flicking a bang from her eyes as she did.
Kagome frowned, "what?"
"Quiet Ami, that's not to be disclosed." This one with spiked maroon colored hair, sighed and held out a hand. "I'm Fuki, this is Ami. We'll be your teammates during the Chuunin Exam's."
Kagome took her hand and nodded, "thank you. I apologize if any of this is an inconvenience to either of you, but lets work hard, from here on...we're a team."
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Me: Here is chapter 25! I don't have anything to say, but I'm sorry it took so long to update!