As requested by MoonGoddess00-

Here is a new Fem OC/Naruto Story.

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Azure eyes stared unblinkingly at the scene unfolding before him- unable to tear his eyes from the injured body of the civilian girl that had been found and brought to the village by one of his friends while they had been returning home after a job well done.

The civilian in question was currently being treated by Sakura and Tsunade, which Ino and Shizune present to aid them and give them both chakra if it was needed due to the fact that the injured girl's body was so bad off.

Her injuries ranging from simple broken bones and contusions to ruptured and damaged organs and internal bleeding. He stared. Still unable to look away even as the girl's torn and ratty, dirty rag-like clothing was cut from her body so that Tsunade and Sakura could better access her wounds. Only to draw back once the tattered material was removed with expressions of horror and shock.

Blue eyes narrowed slightly at their reactions as he himself could see. It was only for a moment or so, but he still saw. And his blood boiled in his veins in rage.

Never since the ending of the fourth shinobi war ten years ago had he ever seen someone so wounded like this strange girl was.

And the fact that she was just a simple civilian spoke volumes towards the sheer agony and brutality that the girl had been forced to endure. Christ! She would be lucky to wake up once her wounds were treated.

He'd be even more shocked if she awoke with her sanity intact.

"Hokage-sama." His advisor and childhood friend spoke tentatively from somewhere behind him. He didn't move. Didn't even seem to react to Shikamaru's voice- all he could do was watch and not look away. Though he didn't understand why.

He was a shinobi after all.

He had been for a majority of his life. Why should the tortured body of some random person bother him? He wondered before a nagging voice in the back of his head whispered, Because it does. Because you care. She was hurting, scared- possibly even terrified and crying for help that would never come...

The thought alone disturbed him far more than he would care to admit. Mainly because he understood what that felt like, it was just so damn close to home for him that it had him twisted up in knots. Making his normally healthy looking lightly sun kissed skin take on a peculiarly green shade that made him want to vomit up what he'd had for lunch before being called to the hospital by his Anbu.

Taking note of his peculiar green shaded skin, Shikamaru reached out and lightly laid his hand on the blond man's shoulder and gave it a gently squeeze, understanding that must be difficult for Naruto due to how it made him relive some of the most terrifying memories of his childhood and young adolescent life.

However, he needed his friend to focus.

"Naruto-" He tried again, this time using his friend's name rather than his rank. Naruto turned his head ever so slightly to glance at him. His azure blue eyes appearing to glow eerily in the florescent light. The pupils of his abnormally expressive eyes were slitted.

Making his eyes the only thing visible to show how pissed he was as he said in a low tone.

"What do we know about her so far?"

"According to the person that picked her up, they and their team were on their way back when they heard this loud sound, almost like thunder clapping overhead, and once it died down they heard screaming. They went to investigate since it was close by and they were worried that some innocent bystander may have been jumped by some of the enemy and were being killed. But all they heard screaming was a woman's voice. They got to the scene and found the girl sitting in what looked like a fiery crater on her knees, her eyes staring blankly ahead-"

"Let me guess- Screaming."

"Yup. You guessed it. The guys said that she just wouldn't stop. And she didn't react when they told her to stop so one of them knocked her out before one of the others pointed out how hurt she was. The guy said that even though they didn't know her- it just felt wrong to leave someone without weapons to defend themselves- especially given the extent of her injuries. So they picked her up and came straight back."

"I see." Was all the blond said as Shizune looked towards the glass window separating the ER and the observation room and quickly moved to pull the curtain so that he would no longer be able to see the girl as Tsunade and Sakura worked on her.

But before she could completely close the curtain, he saw the vague action of pale lids fluttering as the girl's head turned ever so slightly as if sensing him somehow standing there, and he saw the slightest sliver of teal colored eyes from under a fringe of sooty colored lashes and tensed up, his breath catching in his lungs as their eyes seemed to lock and hold for just the barest of moments before the connection was broken and he could see her no more.