Believe me when I say that I've TRIED to update this, I really have, but with working 13 hours a day, 6 days a week, there's really no TIME. But I get Friday off, so I'm going to devote that day to writing/updating :dances:

Also, this is for KKSlover4ever, because I'm pretty sure they mentioned something about writing some horror? Well, I tried. Really. It's not long (insert me wincing) but I hope it's not too bad.

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ShikaNaru Drabble #27

Moving

The hardest part about being a member of ANBU had to be the standing.

Always standing.

Standing as the Hokage gave them their missions, standing as their team captain barked orders, standing as they came across the enemy ninja.

Standing as they found the enemy's victims.

A group of seven children, all under the age of eight, rough slashes from a kunai left across their necks, stomaches, and wrists. The skin, literally shaved off each child's legs, left hanging in strips across bark and small bushes. Blood polling around each head, trickling out of each ear, the only sign that their eardrums had been ruptured by a sharp puncture. They had been butchered as if they were cattle.

The air smelled liked Shikamaru's garabage when he left it sitting in his kitchen for one too many weeks, full of old, bloody bandages and sweat-soaked things. Only this made him want to vomit, made his eyes sting and his stomach lurch and fingers itch to touch a weapon and the person who did this.

Shikamaru glanced at the ANBU standing next to him, hearing the too-soft sniffs, the almost unaudible swallow that came with keeping one's stomach out of their throat, felt the twitching, sweaty hands as if they were his own. And then the other straightened up, shoulders unnecessarilly tense, voice oddly dull, hands clenched into fists as the blond-headed captain sent out orders to the rest of them, mask glinting in the dying afternoon sun when it turned towards Shikamaru, hesitating for just a moment, before moving foward to clean up the mess.

Shikamaru almost sighed.

Standing was always the hardest part, but it was the moving that got to you.

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Again, I apologize for the super-long wait! I'd respond to reviews now but I have to get up in about. . . .six hours. Ba-humbug.

Naruto- Sucks to be you. XD

Oh shut up.