I fully intended for this to be a more relaxed, funny chapter at first, but then I couldn't pull it off. And then I wrote more smut, and didn't like and was too lazy/uninspired to rewrite it, so now it's just short. I couldn't help but give Shikamaru this jitsu. Double post for the last two chapters!
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He smelled of blood.
Kakashi didn't like that, not at all. He always felt that when someone smelt of blood they were somehow different people from the ones he saw every day. Perhaps he just assumed everyone else had the same ability to hide as he did.
When he smelt of blood, Kakashi was a different person.
His three summoned nin-dogs curled around him, masking the humanness of his scent with their own. The moon was hovering above him, one unblinking silvery eye. It was late, he was tired, and he still had one more sound-nin to kill.
Shikamaru floated into his thoughts as he tried to clear his mind for a dreamless sleep. He shoved the memory of comfortable arms away even as he yearned for it. He didn't want to taint t the memories of his lover by mixing them with ones of war. For as long as possible.
Sensing his agitation, one wet nosed pressed into his neck, a motherly reassurance.
He slept.
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When he got home, Shikamaru was already there, with Kiba and Akimaru.
He headed straight for the bathroom and shut the door behind him as he heard the dogs bark and snuffle in greeting.
Kiba made a few growled remarks about ungrateful assholes to Shikamaru, who only shrugged his shoulders and smiled.
Kiba left, taking a hint, and the dogs went and fell asleep on the couch, exhausted after a long mission, leaving Shikamaru to fret with his hands until the bathroom door clicked open and he was on his feet, clawing at silver hair and appropriating Kakashi's breath.
The sight of Kakashi completely naked, still damp with steamy water, was enough to arouse all the desire in Shikamaru from the past week and send it straight to his loins. As their tongues struggled for dominance, Kakashi soon had all his clothes off too.
His hands seem to move on their own, sliding over firm skin, pulling them closer together, shuddering as their cocks slid against each other. It was always closer, closer, closer that they wanted to be together. At one point it had been enough just to kiss; now not all the sex in the world could satisfy them for long.
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"Missed you," Shikamaru mumbled into his ear and gave his rough cheek a scratchy kiss.
"Mmm," Kakashi mumbled in a comfortable accent, trying to pull the sheets up with his toes from the bottom of the bed.
After watching him fruitlessly struggle for a few minutes, Shikamaru's shadow reached down and pulled them up itself over their hips. Kakashi raised his eyebrows as he rolled onto his back so Shikamaru could snuggle into his side.
"So I see you finished that technique."
"It's not perfect, but it doesn't need a lot of chakra after the original infusement."
"Similar to the summoning technique, you mean?" Kakashi said sleepily.
"Yeah," Shikamaru yawned. "If you hadn't helped me I would never have gotten it."
"You don't give yourself enough credit," Kakashi said mildly, dozing off.
"Neither do you," Shikamaru said quietly, pressing a kiss to that cheek again.
They fell asleep.
So, in blatant disregard of the new guidelines that I never follow anyways I'm going to thank all of my readers personally, because they deserve it. Thank yous for reviews to chapter nine go out to Pickle-kitten, Eveilae, Sabriell, vanyalashkie89, and ruka-kun. nod
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