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PART 8: GREAT SORROW

"and then?"

all four of them did not expect this.. but there they were.. found.

the guy was taller then them all and he looked older too but not too old.. he had black hair and brown eyes.. not that attractive but he wasnt ugly at all.. the thing about him was that he had a sword he was carrying.

"HEYY! YOU [you know wat he always says]! HAND KiONE BACK BEFORE YOU GET WHOOPED!!" naruto, impatiently yelled out, pointing at him..

"naruto.." shikamaru hissed at him.

"what shikamaru?-.-?" naruto asked with a confused look.

"shut up!" shikamaru hissed at him again.. the man looked at him as if they were all pathetic little genins and a chuunin.. he didnt actually think they were even genins.

"you know what? scram! this place isnt for brats like you." the man cooly told them. ino decided that she had it enough..

"you know what? we dont want to!.. give us our friend back back you moron!" she stepped up, since noone else would.

"you'll have to do more than demanding us to leave. we wont go until you let her go." chouji said out loud. the man was about to get annoyed by them..

"she isnt meant to be with you.. she is meant to be at where she belongs.. she doesnt need to any of you.. so leaving is the best thing-"

"for who?!" a voice interrupted him.. it came from the left of the man and the right of the four proud ninjas.. a figure was limping toward them.. when the figure appeared so that they all can see, they were shocked.. shikamaru and the others were shocked at the condition she was in and the man was shocked at her stamina.

"KIONE!" shikamaru said as she ran up to her. she got her arm and helped her walk. ino went after too.

"shikamaru-san.. go.. run-away.. right now." she was weak.

"no!, what happened? did he do this to you?! what happened!!" shikamaru was so shocked and angry.

"he.. is very strong.. go, while you can.." she wasnt even in the condition to speak.

"haha!.. see.. you better scram while you can.." was all the man said.. shikamaru was really angry.. he was looking down.. so angered.. he let ino take care of kione.. he walked towards him..

"who.. who are you!" shikamaru looked at him with the most fierce eyes ever..

"me?!.. yanta komoto..yep, thats right.. her brother." komoto was still smirking..

"what?! you do this to your own sister?! your own blood?!" naruto yelled at him.

"hmph, she.. she is not my sister.. if she was, she wouldnt have betrayed us.. she wouldnt have betrayed our father!!" he became angry too.. shikamaru, looking back at kione, turned back to face him.

"if you people havent been so evil, she wouldnt have!!" naruto yelled. naruto was pretty angered too. he cant help it if someone like komoto or his father was ever alive..

"i.. will never forgive you.." shikamaru said again with the most fierce eyes.

"who needs it?" the man smirked..

"i said.." shikamaru started to run at the man. it was with great speed.

"I WiLL NEVER!!" when he came about right in front of him, he vanished, not with smoke, but with speed. he came behind him. komoto was suddenly shocked, and from behind him, kicked powerfully

"NEVER FORGIVE YOU!!" komoto flew off spitting out blood.. when he hit the ground, he tried to stand up, but spat out more blood.

'what the?!' komoto thought.

"you see, when i kicked, i gathered a large amount of chakra to my feet.. which damaged some pressure points around your brain."

"how do you-" ino asked.

"im not stupid ino." shikamaru said. then he created hand seals to form is kagemane no jutsu.. this jutus allowed him to stop komoto from gettin his weapon..

"NARUTO!" shikamaru yelled, naruto nodded and started to form his rasengan. with it, he blasted komoto.. they all thought he was defeated but what was in his place was poof of smoke. it was a clone.

"what?!" naruto said out loud.. he thought he used up a very good rasengan.

"LOOK OUT!!" ino yelled. then a sword flew toward shikamaru, it was too late..thinkint that he was hit, he looked but then, kione was in front of him.. instead of him, he realized, it was kione, the sword smacked right where her arm and shoulder was located. kione, with pain, clasped..

"kione.." shikamaru caught her.. and he carefully took the sword out and threw it away.

"how? what?..no." shikamaru looked at her with nothing but shock..

"you know, the swords poinsonous.." komoto's voice, with a chuckle..

'!!' shock went to everyone.

"NOO!" naruto yelled. ino ran to her to try to support her. shikamaru was still too shock to think of anything.

then, naruto searched around for komoto.

"WHERE ARE YOU, YOU [watever he says most]!" naruto yelled..

"chouji! go get help! go to the hokage NOW!" ino yelled at chouji. chouji imediatly ran for the hokage.

komoto came out. right after his appearance, naruto formed kage bushin, to creat multiples of himself, there were alot and then all at once it charged at him.

"AHHHH!!!" narutos yelled.

"wat the?!" komoto said. after getting beat, he thought to himself that this wasnt just shadow clones, they were real..

shikamaru was still shocked.. it was too much for him. while naruto was beating the crap out of komoto, ino tried to make sense out of him.

"shikamaru! what the heck are you doing here for?! go fight!! dont just look blank." with that said, he realized and stood up.. kione was burning up and was sweating now cus of the poison. shikamaru was now angered again.. instead of being in shock.. he began walking up to komoto.. he was pretty much beat up and narutos were really gettin tired. then, using up too much chakra, the jutsu undoed itself.. naruto was really tired out.. shikamaru formed his kagemane again, assuming that since komoto was not in a condition of making a clone to hide, shikamaru was now sure that this will end it..

"shadow clone again?" komoto asked pathetically..

"yeah.. this time, your not gona get away." shikamaru then took out a kunai kind of looking weapon, it was curved at one end and at the other end, it was curved the same way, komoto did the same..

"you know, its going to hit you to." komoto said.

"i know, i'm willing to risk that." shikamaru said and then he threw at him, komoto copied. but before it was about to hit him, shikamaru ducked so that the weapon wouldnt hit him. komoto copied that too.

'!!!' both naruto and ino thought.

"what was the point of that?!" komoto yelled. shikamaru only grinned.

"its coming back!" naruto yelled.

"yeah, the curve edges make it come back." shikamaru explained. so just then, ino threw her shuriken at the curved tipped kunai which was about to hit shikamaru. luckily, she didnt miss. but shikamaru's kunai hit komoto at the back of his head. just then, shikamaru undid his jutsu and threw more weapons at komoto's heart..

"ugh!" komoto just clasped, spitting blood out. and died, a painful death.

right after that, shikamaru ran to kione.

"kione!.. ino, is she okay?!" shikamaru asked.

"shikamaru.. the poison.. it spread too fast.. its covered half her body already, i dont think-" ino felt really bad for him

"NO! shes NOT! wheres chouji! MAN!! kione! kione! can you hear me?!!" shikamaru was desperate.. he would do anything to keep her alive.

"shikamaru.." ino couldnt do anything else.

"..shi.." kione opened her eyes a little wider.. "shikaa..maru-san.."

"kione?! your okay! your okay! your gona be." shikamaru helf her hand.. this was practically the first time he ever did this..

"i want to.. than..thank you..fo..for.. ev..every..thing.." kione was breathing heavily.. her eyes were beginning to close too.

"no kione, dont. the hokages gona be here and your gona live." shikamaru pleaded."you.. you know.. i.. i really.. like...liked you." kione barely got the word out.

"i really like you too kione, so just hold on."

"no.. no.. i lo..love.. you.. shi..shika..ma..maru-" kione just stopped. she just closed her eyes, and ino couldnt feel her breath anymore.. the grip of her hand loosened.. and she was gone..

"NOO!!!" shikamaru yelled.. he clutched her hand tightly and cried silently.. this was probably the first time he did this since his baby days.. he brought her head up to his face and cried on it.. then he gently whispered "i love you" back to her..

ino and naruto looked down, filled with great sorrow for shikamaru and for kione.. also standing there was the hokage and chouji, also filled with great sorrow..