Mother's dark love

Shikamaru and Yoshino

Naruto

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-Konoha, Nara residence-

"I'm heading out Yoshino." Shikaku called out while yawning.

"Ok." Spoke Yoshino while cleaning a bookcase. " Don't fall asleep in the middle of the road again dear."

"Don't worry, two times is enough for me." he spoke before leaving the house.

'I just know he's going to fall asleep again. I just know it.' She thought before her son walked in, and was wearing a cleaner version of his attire. "Heading out Shikamaru?"

"Just for a little bit, I'll be back later." he waved to her while walking past.

Just then she heard a voice she all too well knew. 'Not her again!'

"Hey Shikamaru." Temari said while waiting outside the door. "Wow, you cleaned up really nice."

"Thanks." He sighed before looking at her attire. "So you chose to wear a short skirt this time?"

"Of course, I like to change things up." she huffed. "Now let's head out. The restaurant isn't going to stay opened all day."

"Bye mom." Shikamaru waved as he and Temari walked away.

"Later." Yoshino said before snapping her feather duster in half. 'That bitch!' she watched them walk off while turning and walking to the living room with a scowl. "Why the hell does she ALWAYS take my son out on dates like he's her boyfriend!? He's just starting to be a Chunin yet that Sand bitch is mucking it up by making him depend on her!"

She sat down on the couch as her mind raced with a thousand thoughts per minute. 'Maybe this is all a plan? Maybe this is an attempt for the Sand to try and weaken our forces from the inside out, and what better way than by getting together with our own shinobi? Meaning Shikamaru is in danger!' She then pictured her son with a sand head band while holding a child with Temari's hair as said woman is heavily pregnant. 'Gah! I won't let that bitch take my son from me without a fight! I swear on the honor of the Nara clan!'

She stood up and paced the living room while rubbing her hands and tried thinking of a plan. "Now what to do. Maybe do a Naruto, no that would be a temporary solution. A Uchiha? No. Punching her, too crude. Sending her falling off an iceberg? There aren't any icebergs in Konoha." She tried and thought of thousands of possibilities yet nearly all of them had complications to them in one way or another.

'If I just knew a way to get rid of her and make sure no one could trace it back here, everyone would win!' She thought before getting an idea so perfect that even a hundred Nara's would be proud of and grinned. "Yes, I could use that jutsu to get rid of her without causing a scene. Then Shikamaru would think she left him for another and come running back to me." 'Only problem is it'll take a lot of my strength and if I'm not careful, my cover will be blown.'

She then looked around before silently grinning. 'But I could think of something as I keep an eye on MY son.' she sat down and started going through handsigns at a rapid pace while gathering up chakra. "Shadow Puppet Possession no jutsu." She said as multiple shadows in the form of strings were created as they shot out and traveled in all directions as they looked for the target.

(With Shikamaru and Temari)

"So what kinda place is this again?" asked the Nara.

"It's a restaurant that serves rare Suna dishes." She said with a grin. "And I know you will love it Shikamaru."

He let out a yawn as they reached the restaurant. But unbenounced to everyone, shadow like strings sped towards Temari and latched onto her shadow.

The ninja stopped and felt her body being paralyzed before resuming 'normal' movement. "Um Shikamaru." 'Jutsu complete.'

"What is it?"

"I have to go. Sorry." She said before running off. 'Now to dispose of this bitch.'

'What the? What's with her?' thought Shikamaru rubbing his head. 'She was all about this place. Something's not right.'

As the ninja of the wind ran out of the village, she stopped as a certain revean that a certain pervert dropped his student a few years ago came into sight. 'Perfect. The Chasm of Death will be perfect for a bitch like her.'

"Temari! What are you doing?!" came Shikamaru's voice as he ran over towards her.

"I'm sorry Shikamaru. But I can't live anymore." She said before jumping off the cliff and into the chasm. "Goodbye cruel world!" 'Now release.'

"TEMARI!" he shouted out looking as Temari's body vanished in the darkness with wide eyes. "No…."

As he stood there in despair, the shadow threads retracted and swiftly returned into Yoshino's shadow.

She let out a groan and sighed. 'That jutsu always gives me a headache.' She then grinned. "But the plan worked and my son is none the wiser."

(Hours later)

Yoshino held her book before hearing the front door open. "Oh Shikamaru? How was the outing?" 'Now to begin my act.'

Her son was silent and just walked upstairs without responding to her.

"Shikamaru!" She called out. "Shikamaru come down here."

"NO!" he yelled back down before hearing his door slam shut.

'Maybe it was a bad idea to let him follow that bitch to her death.' She thought before getting up and walking up the stairs. "Shikamaru. Open the door or I will hit you with a frying pan again!"

"Mom, right now I just wanna be left alone." he spoke back with a sad tone.

She sighed. "Just open the door and talk to me. If something's troubling you let me help."

"...the door's unlocked if you wanna come in."

Yoshino opened the door and saw Shikamaru sitting in his bed with a depressed aura around him. "What happened today?"

"It's Temari….she….."

She sat down on the bed next to him. "She what dear?"

Shikamaru choked and looked away. "Killed herself."

"Wait what? Why would she do that?" She said with mock concern.

"I don't know...I just don't know." he choked out with tears.

'He really must be devastated.' She thought before putting a hand on his back. "Did she do anything strange before the suicide? Like having her feelings hurt or a family member die?"

"None of that as far as I know, she just...said she had to go when we go there and ran off."

"Ran off? Where?"

"The Chasm of Death." He choked out. "No reason, no explanation, she just jumped off after saying sorry."

Yoshino looked at him before hugging him. "There there. Let it all out son." 'Yeah maybe showing her die wasn't the best plan I ever had. But then again, this will keep him from getting near any other girls for a while.' She internally smiled as Shikamaru cried his heart out at losing a friend. "Don't worry, I'm here. I'm here Shikamaru."

(Timeskip)

It's been ten months since the suicide and well, things have been tough. Shikaku never returned home, some thought it was an escape plan to get away from his wife, and tensions have been rising between the sand and the leaf. Gaara actually wanted to go to Konoha and destroy it for the death of his older sister but decided not to in exchange for returning the body. However, while yes they found the body, it was broken beyond repair and already a pile of bones by the time it was returned to Suna. And well….it wasn't helping the still rising tensions.

Shikamaru was currently at one of the bars in town and was chugging straight from the bottle. Which wasn't helping since he had a very low tolerance to booze but it helps keep himself from going insane from the traumatic event that plagues his mind every waking moment.

'First Temari, then dad, and now we might be going to war. Just fucking fantastic.' He thought while taking another chug of the bottle not knowing that someone was walking behind him.

"Shikamaru, what are you doing?" asked Yoshino with her hands on her hips.

"Go away mom." He said with a slight slur. "Just go the fucking away!"

Yoshino's eye twitched before reaching out and taking the bottle out of his hand. "That's it! You're done drinking sake!"

Shikamaru glared at her before unexpectedly flipping her off. Bad move too as she opened a storage scroll, that was in her pocket, and summoned a massive frying pan the size of a table. This was the famous 'Lazy Death' frying pan, used to not only punish people but also knocking them out of drunkenness as well.

She swung it and hit Shikamaru right on the head, causing his head to thump on the counter with a bump on the spot.

"Gah!" He yelled in pain while rubbing the bump on his noggin. "That hurt!"

"Shikamaru." She said with a dark glare. "Get your ass up from that chair and head straight back home NOW!"

"Ow, fine, geez." he groaned rubbing the spot and got up before walking out. 'Crazy mom.'

Yoshino sighed before walking out as well.

-Nara residence-

"Now explain to me why the hell have you been drinking yourself to death." The now head of the Nara clan said with a stern tone as she stood before her still depressed son.

"It's pretty damn obvious. Temari kills herself, dad disappears out of nowhere, and we're close to war." he frowned. "What do you think?"

"I get the reasons, but why are YOU acting like everything that happened to you was your fault?" She said with a frown. "What happened to her wasn't your fault."

"I was right there mom! I could have been faster and stopped her from falling!" he yelled back while gripping his hands. "You'd be feeling the same thing if the whole situation happened with you and dad."

She looked at him with sympathy, well mock sympathy that is, as she placed a hand of Shikamaru's shoulder. "I would have. But no one can change the past, not even the best of ninja could win against what has already occurred." 'Especially since I had to get rid of Shikaku when he was getting too close to the truth.' She thought while remembering how her now deceased husband saw her cackling about the murder, something she had to prevent by using the Shadow Puppet Possession no jutsu on him and sending him all the way to Wave just to make him drown. 'Still can't belive that made me bedridden for a month due to chakra exhaustion.'

"Right now I just wanna be left alone." he sighed.

"Sorry dear but I think you should talk with me a bit more." Yoshino said while hugging him close. "It's a mother's job to comfort their children when they are sad after all."

He looked down and relaxed in her hold while sighing. "I just don't know what I'm gonna do with everything going on."

"From what I can see, you have two options." She said. "One, you live in the past and let yourself be consumed by grief and sorrow. Or two, you can move on from this and get stronger from the tragedy."

Shikamaru looked at his hands while sighing. "I'll try, but it won't be easy."

Yoshino smiled before kissing his forehead. "That's better. Now will you stop drinking, it's really bad for your kidneys."

"Alright." he relented.

"And no smoking." She said sternly. "It's not only bad for your lungs it's bad for your skin and heart." 'Damn you Asuma and your smoking habit!'

"I said alright mom, yeesh."

"Oh." She said while remembering something. "And no unsafe sex. I don't want to be a grandmother just yet if you decide to date another woman." 'Which is unlikely since I will be the only one for you.'

"What what?" Shikamaru asked confused and slightly red from the question.

"Nothing, just making sure. Dinner's in half an hour." she smiled kissing his forehead before heading out. "And don't forget to wash your hands and face."

"Ok ok. Sheesh." He sighed. 'Troublesome woman.'

(Timeskip)

Another ten months went by and life returned to semi normal. The tension between the two villages was resolved and it was a strong as ever, well almost as there were some Sand ninja's that wanted war but they were mysteriously killed in a most brutal fashion. The strange part, there was no sight of any physical force trauma. It was like they just died where they stood and mutilated beyond recognition with their necks snapped.

Shikamaru sighed as he relaxed on the couch and felt close to taking a nap after the day's meeting with the other chunins. Only to get hit with a frying pan in the head. "Gah! Mom! What the hell?!"

"Sorry, but you did promise that you would help cook dinner tonight."

"You didn't need to hit me with the damn frying pan."

"If I didn't do that you would have stayed asleep all day." She sweatdropped.

"Alright alright, crazy woman." he muttered the last part.

Yoshino smiled at that before kissing his bump. "Thank you dear." she walked to the kitchen while discreetly pulling out a small leaf and dropped it in Shikamaru's drink. 'That should help knock him out for later.'

Shikamaru sighed as he got up and walked to the kitchen while thinking two words. 'Troublesome mom.'