Disclaimer: No i don't own naruto or any of his friends. Wished I did, but i don't.
Italics: text written in italics means thoughts.
Hey everyone, this is Zack Samurai. This is my first Naruto Fanfic so sry if the character's are a little out of charater.
Chapter 1: Reunion And Kidnapping
"Hey Shikamaru, do you want to go and train today?" Chouji asked his lazy friend who was lying on his back on the ground just cloud gazing. "Since you became a Chuunin you haven't had the time to train with us anymore." He urged his skinny friend with the green vest over his shirt.
"Alright Chouji, lets go and train, we'll train in the woods near Konoha where not many ANBU travel to so we wont be interrupted." 'Man, what ever happened to the days where I was able to watch the clouds?' Shikamaru answers as he gets up from watching the clouds float across the sky. It has been two years since Naruto left Konoha to go and train with Jiraiya, the perverted frog hermit. Without Naruto here in Konoha the village seemed quiet without his constant yelling. "Lets just get permission to leave Konoha from the Hokage first. Wait here." He leaves Chouji there and returns about a half hour later and the two both exit the village via the gates and begin training. A couple of hours later Gaara and his brother Kankuro ran through the gates of Konoha village only to be stopped by the guards of the gates.
"Out of our way, we need the Hokage's help!" Kankuro pleaded with the guards as he still tries to break through them. Gaara uses his sand to move the guards out of the way without hurting them while Kankuro runs to the Hokage's office. About a half hour later Kankuro is seen running towards Gaara with the new Hokage, Tsunade, running along side of him along with Shikamaru's father, Ino's father and Chouji's father.
"About time you got here, your guards are just sleeping over there," Gaara points over to his left where the guards are found sleeping, no doubt put that way by Gaara. "Me and Temari and Kankuro were heading here when we were ambushed by sound ninjas, they succeeded in separating us from each other but I found Kankuro and we decided to see if we could get some help from you in order to find our sister." Gaara tells Tsunade about why they are here in their village. Back with Shikamaru and Chouji who are busy training in the woods.
"Hey Chouji, I am getting bored. How about we go back?" Shikamaru asks but before Chouji gets the chance to answer the body of a dead sound ninja falls in front of the two and Temari floats down, in her usual ninja outfit of a dark dress, in between the two on her fan.
"Hey you two, long time no see. Watch out, there are about twenty more sound ninja after me." Shikamaru and Chouji both get ready for combat while Temari jumps off of her fan to land next to Shikamaru and gets ready to fight.
"Hey Chouji, go to the village and get some help. I'll hold them as long as I can." Shikamaru says as he performs the necessary seals for his Kage Mane no jutsu. Chouji runs in the direction of the village.
"I would watch it though, these sound ninja are Jounin level. They were able to split up me and my brothers, it seems that they are after me." she gets her large fan from her back and gets ready to use it. A group of twenty sound ninja jump out of the trees and they start to attack the two. After about a half hour of fighting them Shikamaru and Temari finished off nineteen sound ninja while the last one runs off, leaving his fallen comrades. Shikamaru only has a few cuts and bruises while Temari has three kunai in her upper left leg and two in her upper right leg. "Um it looks like they are all gone." Temari says as puts her giant fan back on her back. She starts to pull out the kunai's from her upper legs but Shikamaru stops her and he pulls out some medical supplies from the pouches on his Chuunin vest. He starts to help her with her legs but she slaps his hands when his hands get too close.
"What? I'm just trying to help you with those wounds. How troublesome you women are." Shikamaru says as she just takes the supplies from him and continues to apply field medics to her injuries.
"Well sorry, I really don't allow guys to touch my legs. No matter what the condition is." She just glares at Shikamaru with killer intent coming from her eyes. A few minutes later she finishes patching up her legs.
"Finally! … Can you even walk with those injuries?" Shikamaru asks as he puts the remaining supplies back into his vest. Temari tries to get up but she falls back to the ground, the kunai's must have done some major damage to the muscles in her legs. Temari blushes slightly but tries to hide it by looking down at the ground. Shikamaru doesn't notice her blush. "Well?"
"Well what! No I can't walk… so why don't you just leave me here? I never asked you for your help!" Temari yells at him. Mostly trying to hide her blush.
"Eh? Why do you have to be so loud troublesome woman? It looks like you can't walk so I guess I'm going to have to carry you, just don't yell at me woman for helping…" Shikamaru says as hetakes his finger out of his ear andkneels down, his back facing her, so she can climb on. He was trying to get her to climb on his back so he could carry her on his back. 'This day couldn't get more troublesome; man I wish I was a cloud. They never have to put up with this shit.' She just looks at him for a second.
"Um, what are you doing?" She asks as she begins to wonder herself if it is a good idea to even let him carry her. He turns his head to face her.
"Just hurry up, we Konoha ninja don't leave allies behind." He says as he quickly turns his head away so she wouldn't see a blush creeping up on his face. 'God this woman is so bothersome, but I can't leave her here.' he thinks.
"Alright, but don't get any ideas about this. I won't hesitate to kill you." Temari says as she slowly and painfully climbs onto his back. He gets up into a standing position and puts his arms where they needed to be in order to carry her, and unfortunately for him, he accidentally touched her butt with one of his hands which made her blush deeply and smack him in the back of the head. "I said nothing funny!" She yells while still blushing, clearly angry.
"Hey, it's n not like I meant to do it Temari! It was an accident!" He yells as a large bump forms on the back of his head where she hit him. She wraps her arms around his neck in order to help support her from falling off. He just walks it off as he walks back to the village, thinking how annoying this day was becoming. "So, care to explain why you have sound ninja coming after you?" He asks as he continues walking on the ground.
"From what I got from one of their ninja's that Gaara caught and threatened, they plan to use me in their plans in order to get to Gaara." She explains a little bit as she pauses in order to take a breath of air. "What we got from the sound ninja is that they have a little time left in order to capture me and that Orochimaru wants me captured at all cost."
"How does he plan to use you in order to get to your brother?" Shikamaru asks as he walks around a large tree and stops. He looks around the area to spot any hidden traps and continues on walking when he doesn't find any.
"Well he is planning another invasion of Konoha and plans to use me against my brothers by saying if Suna helps her allies Gaara would be able to find my dead body in the desert near Suna." Temari takes a deep breath and continues talking. "Also, when we found the sound ninja that Gaara tortured we found him at the borders of our village. We took ten sand ninjas with us and planed to inform your Hokage because they were able to block all messages so we decided to report this to your Hokage directly. Unfortunately, on our way here we were ambushed multiple times, losing the ten ninjas with us. They attacked us recklessly without that much strategy in their plans. I guess they are running out of time to capture me." She chuckles at her last sentence.
"So sound is planning another invasion. And they plan to use you in order to stop our allies from coming to our aid." He said to himself rather than to her. 'Damn, I need to report all this to the Hokage as soon as I get back.' Shikamaru thinks to himself."By any chance do you know how many ninja he has under his command?"
"The info we got from the sound ninja was that he has at least a thousand." Right after she said that Shikamaru stops in his tracks. "Orochimaru is gathering all the ninja he can, missing ninja and all."
"A thousand! Not even Konoha could stand against that many." 'This is serious, how can we even contend against that many?' He thinksasa sweat drop rolls down his face.After a few moments of thinking he begins to walk again. "Wouldn't you have run into our ANBU on your way here?"
"We did, but always right after we would be ambushed and they were killed."
"I see…" He replies and continues on his way to Konoha while looking out for ambushes and traps.
After about a half hour of walking towards the village they finally reach the main gate only to see both Kankuro and Gaara. Along with them are Shikamaru's father Shikaku, Ino's father, and Chouji's father and Chouji himself. Shikamaru's father just smirks at his son's predicament. Kankuro's mouth hangs agape while Gaara gives Shikamaru a small death glare. Shikamaru notices the glare and sighs while muttering his favorite saying, "How Troublesome". Without even saying anything Shikamaru carries Temari to the hospital where the medical ninjas there heal her injuries. They order her to stay the night, just in case there are any other injuries. They put her in one of the many rooms where she and Shikamaru having a conversation.
"Hey crybaby, can I ask you a favor? You still owe me from the time I saved you from that Tayuya woman." Temari asks as she pulls the covers up to her waist. Shikamaru just sighs.
"What is it this time troublesome woman?" He asks, slightly annoyed that she reminded him about the time she saved him.
"Can you stay here with me tonight? Please?" She asks what she wanted with a little hint of plea in her voice. Shikamaru just sighs, not even answering. He just sits in the seat that's to the left side of the bed.
"Why me and not your brothers?" Shikamaru asks as he looks at her.
"I know Kankuro would defiantly take the chance to bug me about me getting injured and Gaara is probably busy giving a detailed report to your Hokage."
"Alright, I'll stay." 'So much for cloud watching today. But why did I stay? Normally I would have refused if she asked me. I need to think about this later on'
"Thanks crybaby." Temari says with a hint of humor in her voice. She then closes her eyes and falls asleep. Shikamaru soon follows her example and closes his eyes too after he takes off his Chuunin vest off and puts it down in the seat next to him. In the middle of the night the one sound ninja that escaped snuck into the village. He hid in the shadows and stealthily made his way to the hospital where he figured she is because of her injuries. He makes his way inside the hospital and begins searching for her in the rooms. After about a half hour of searching and five times almost being caught by the nurses working that night, he finds Temari's room. Care full not to make any sounds he grabs the handle to the door and slowly opens the door. While he is opening it he pulls out three Senbon needles, with his right hand, from his kunai pouch on his leg and holds them between his fingers. He brings his hand that has the Senbon needled to his right side. He sees Shikamaru sleeping in the chair next to her bed and Temari sleeping in her bed. Shikamaru quickly wakes up and goes for his kunai in his kunai pouch on his right leg but before he can grab it the sound ninja throws the three needles at him. One hitting him in his right shoulder, another in his left shoulder, the last hits him in his neck just a few millimeters from a vital spot. 'Shit…I failed to protect her…' Shikamaru thinks to himself. Shikamaru then falls into a deep slumber, for you see… the needles were dipped in sleeping poison. Temari awakens by the sound of Shikamaru's body hitting the floor. She sees the sound ninja and she goes for her fan which is next to the bed, in between Shikamaru's seat and the bed, but before she even gets one finger on it the sound ninja throws more Senbon needles that land on her arms and her left side. 'Shit, I got hit by ten of those needles… I hope to god Shikamaru isn't dead…I couldn't bear the responsibility of costing him his life when I asked him to stay… Please don't die Shikamaru…' She thinks to herself as she too falls unconscious. The sound ninja then walks over to the bed and flings her over his left shoulder and jumps out of the window in the room………………………………...
When the sun rises a nurse goes into Temari's room to check on her only to find Shikamaru lying on the floor, unconscious. The nurse quickly calls for help while she treats the young man. The Hokage is immediately informed about Temari going missing. The Hokage comes a few minutes later and takes over healing the young boy who was now on the hospital bed that was Temari's. Just as she finishes healing him Gaara and his brother burst into the room, demanding to know where their sister is. Then the whole room burst into yelling between everyone.
"SHUT UP! Hokage, I'm going to assemble a rescue team and go after them. I'm going to need Kiba and Akamaru. Also I'm requesting a medic ninja to be assigned to the squad. Also I request that Neji be assigned too." Shikamaru gets off the bed and puts his Chuunin vest on. Every one in the room are shocked that the teenager and heir to the Nara clan is actually taking action when he is famous for being the laziest ninja in all of Konoha. 'I guess the sound really
"Alright Shikamaru, you are in command of the squad of Kiba, Neji, and Sakura. You are to move out as soon as possible." Tsunade said. She then turns to face the Kazekage and his brother. "And before you two can even ask, your not going on this mission and that's final!" She says with a glare that made both brothers immediately forget any protest that they were about to make. The two just remained quiet.
"Tell the rest of the squad to meet me at the main gate in a half hour." Shikamaru says with an emotionless face and no emotion in his voice. He then walks out of the room in order to get ready for the mission.
"Let us go with them, the hell with what the Hokage said." Kankuro says to his brother in a whisper only able to be heard by the Kazekage. Kankuro begins to walk out of the room but Gaara bars his way with his arm, stopping him. He looks to his younger brother looking for an answer to his reaction.
"We'll stay here, they can handle this. Look how motivated he is to rescue her. Let him do this himself." Gaara says as he looks at his brother with a glare that told him that if he even tried to question him he wouldn't hesitate to kill him.
"Alright…" The puppet user sighs. 'I hope you aren't hurt Temari, who knows what Gaara would do if he found out that someone harmed you in anyway.' Kankuro thinks to himself. 'I just hope that lazy ass can get to you before they do something really horrible to you…' That last thought made him shudder at the possibilities.
Alright, first chapter. What did you guys think? Please Review, and no flames. Constructive critisism welcomed though.
