A/N: Enjoy…
Kakashi's wounds is still bleeding from the shot, he can feel his body turning numb and cold, that's when he knew he was going to die but fate is kind to the silver haired man, in the near horizon he could clearly see medic-nins rushing to him 'Saviors' he thought almost falling unconscious, before blackness could engulf him once again he took a glance at the two dying hyugaas, his eyes must be deceiving him 'It can't be' he thought as he fades to blackness…
The stranger picked up neiji and hinata and slung them in his two shoulders, the figure took a glance at kakashi, looking at his wounds "You'll live kakashi, you will live" he said coldly as he calculated the distance between kakashi and the medics, then he shifted his glance to the sanin apparently he too is still alive but barely as blood gurgles out of his mouth he was still alive, the force of the kunai wasn't strong enough to penetrate straight through "Your not going anywhere" the figure said, he looked back at his two passengers slung over his shoulders "I better get moving", as the first medic rounded the corner, the medic saw something flicker in the corner of her eyes, when she looked she saw the snake sanin bleeding to death, but the figure is nowhere to be found…
"Ino, Tenten, Choji keep running" shikamaru said as they guide a handful of children to safety, shikamaru looked back if they were still being chased by the muskets, and to their dismay the whole battalion was right behind them "Get them!" the battalion leader yelled at his muskets, shikamaru gritted his teeth at this rate they would catch up to them, they were all exhausted from the fight, they have use what is left of their equipments when they fought the first wave of muskets, all is that left is one light grenade, he is left with no choice "I want you all to keep running... promise me you guys won't stop until you find a safe place, alright?" the others were confused "shikamaru what are you…" Ino's eyes filled with shock "No! You're not going back there!" she yelled as they run through the scarred streets of konoha hoping to find a hidden place were they can all hide together…
"I'm sorry" shikamaru shook his head as he look at choji sadly, choji is like a brother to him and he wouldn't let him get hurt, he looked at the two injured children that choji is carrying the injury wasn't serious both boys sprained their ankles and couldn't run, those boys were the kids along with the rest that they met after the funeral…
Flashback
Four figures are walking along the lively streets of konoha as they entered a playground of a civilian school they didn't care were they end up they just want get away from all the things that happened recently but they didn't want to forget, they just wanted to ease the pain that are swelling up inside them, they found a bunch of six children playing, as soon as the kids saw the group of four one kid yelled "Hey look he's fat!" soon enough the others started to laugh, shikamaru, ino and tenten glanced at choji to see his reaction, they expected him to shout with all things going on, but they didn't expected this "So, you think I'm fat, well I might as well gobble you up" he said grinning while giving chase "Ack! Run away, a monster is going to eat us!" a kid said playfully, choji and the kids started to chase each other around the playground, on the sidelines tenten and ino began to giggle their colors returning to their faces once again, shikamaru just smiled, choji then tripped, his face fell first to the ground, the others laughed and giggled, the children then piled on top of choji "Whoa hey! you guys are heavy!" again they laughed, it's like the pain inside of them is gone for now…, they all sat down under a tree enjoying the shade "Ne onii-chan whats your favorite food" a little girl in the group said happily and curious, choji thought for a moment then saying "I think it would be chips and how about you guys?" all of the kids looked at each other the same time "We like ramen!" all of them yelled, the new information shook all four ninjas to the core, once again they were reminded of naruto, at the same time the colors in their faces are gone "Umm… did we say something wr-" the kid was interrupted by a loud explosion few blocks away from their current place, shikamaru was the first to become alert "Everybody let's get out of here, it's not safe here" with that they run out of the area to find shelter for the kids
End of flashback
"I promise I'll catch up just go!" shikamaru skidded to a stop then taking a glance at the group "I promise..." he said reassuring his friends, the others wanted to stay, but they are with kids who can't fight as result there are no choices to take, they all nodded in response as they continue to run, he then turn his head to the sound battalion "Troublesome..." he muttered, he pulled out his light grenade from his pocket getting ready, the sound army stop their pursuit of the group to face shikamaru "Looks like they left one behind… kill him..." the leader said, the muskets were about to raise their rifles when shikamaru threw his last light grenade behind him "Troublesome..." he muttered before everything went blinding bright, the muskets blindly fired everywhere as shikamaru begins doing handseals "Kagemane no jutsu" he said as his shadow crept it's way to the many blinded sound muskets, once the light fades out and they were able to see properly again, they weren't able to rub their eyes, they stood their frozen, shikamaru again began to do another handseal "Kage Kubi Shibari no Jutsu" he quickly said as a shadow hands crept through to all the sounds neck, all of them had fear in their eyes as shikamaru finished all of them at once, now several bodies lay there in front of him dead, shikamaru turned his back walking away "Meh… troublesome…" he said as he began to slow down "Really… trouble…some…" he fell forward , his left cheek touching the ground, his eyes began to shut 'I wasn't able to keep my promise… I'm sorry…' he thought, his eyes closed, a pool of blood quickly expanding beneath him…
A/N: Review please…
