A/N: This is the next chapter, a little bit of language, but other then that a good chappie I think, please read and review if possible, I will continue to type no matter if I get the reviews of not I like this story and I decided the pairing for Shika.
Shika walked to the infirmary and stood in the door way, watching the duo he smiled slightly, Naruto deserved this, always giving so much and getting so little in return. It screamed poetic justice, Naruto had finally been dealt a winning hand, fate could only tempt the boy so much, and he was eventually going to beat it. Shika turned to leave but stopped when he heard Naruto crying.
"I am sorry Shika, I know it isn't fair, I really do, but I can't help but feel happy she isn't dead and she is here with me." Naruto tried to explain but Shika smiled and waved tit off and walked away he, he rounded the corner and collapsed
He missed her, the way her hips swayed as she walked down the street, or the way her long exotic hair smelt of fresh cherry blossoms, it was truly intoxicating, everything about the girl had driven him mad, her green emerald eyes, her long legs, and those child bearing hips he could just latch on to, but her most attractive feature was her long flowing pink hair. Oh how he missed his Sakura-chan, she was his, he had won, the ever present contest between every single male ninja, it had been troublesome and painful
It had occurred slowly, but shortly after Sasuke left, he found her crying in his favorite field, he had mumbled something about it being troublesome and proceeded to talk to her, or at least try, it didn't go well at first but towards the end it took a weird twist.
Flash Back
Shika had made it to his favorite hill only to find Sakura crying while holding a fading picture of her team, Shika paused and frowned, she was taking it the hardest and he knew it, hell every one knew it.
"Excuse me Sakura are you okay?" Shikamaru asked as she turned to look at him slightly startled by his voice
She didn't answer she just lunged and attached herself to his body, he looked down to see her crying her eyes out, he just wrapped his arms around her an laid back, watching the clouds roll by as she cried, he smiled, he wouldn't tell anyone but Sakura was soft, she was soft in a good way.
"I don't want to sound troublesome Sakura, but have you ever thought about letting him go, he made his choice, he chose power over you now you should choose something over him." Shika replied a bit more emotional then normal
Sakura smiled slightly it was hard to read Shika sometimes and right now wasn't one of those times.
"Choose something or someone, Shika-kun?" Sakura asked innocently while drying tears adding the kun for effect.
"T-that's not what I mean and you know it women." Shika huffed even though he turned beat red, Sakura looked up from her current position and ran her fingers over his cheek
"Thank you Shika-kun for caring enough to comfort me, and red looks good on you, you should wear some." Sakura replied
"I am not Sasuke, Sakura, I am Shikamaru and that's all I will ever be." Shika replied as he looked away
"I am not asking you to become that bastard, I am just saying that when you blush the color looks good on you." Sakura replied while she continued massaging his cheek with the tip of her fingers
"Thank you Sakura-chan, so troublesome, would you like to get something to eat tomorrow with me, sort of like a date or something, tsk troublesome so troublesome." Shika asked turning back to her shaking his pineapple shaped hair
"I would love to Shika-kun." She replied glad that she wasn't crying and that Shika was there for her
End Flash back
She had been his, he won her that day, and fate took her away, she wasn't dead no she couldn't be, he could still feel her , she was somewhere, he would find her, he knew it, because if he didn't God help the sith because he would kill them himself. Shika slammed his fist on the temple floor release an enormous amount of chakra, he was the shadow user, he commanded the night, it was his to destroy evil, when the sun set he prowled, they will learn the meaning of pain, he wasn't going to let them do to this universe what happened to his. The temple groaned under the stress of his release as the shadows came to life, and moved with out purpose trying to absorb all light and life.
Lee looked around and noticed that everyone seemed afraid, he knew what was going on and honestly he couldn't say he understood, he hadn't lost a girlfriend when their world imploded in around them. Luke looked at Obi-wan and raised an eye brow while Lee just stood there and waited for the episode to pass or worsen, it wasn't actually like any one would get hurt.
"Master Obi-Wan what was that?" Kyle asked as he took the time to walk around and check the students as the rumbling stopped
"They haven't had time to grieve, believe me when I say that they need the time to grieve." Obi-replied as he sat and took a bite of a delicious pastry hoping his answer would satisfy the three he was with
Shika continued to pound the ground, this was his grief, no matter how troublesome it was he needed to relieve it. She was his, this was his promise to her, he would find her, he could feel it, she was out there, what most people didn't realize is that once you found that some one, their was a connection something that didn't die until one person crossed over and theirs was still there, she was alive and he would find her. He half laughed half choked he had saved her from Sasuke he could save her from this.
Flash back
The rookie nine and team Gai minus Sasuke and Sakura sat in Tsunade's office wondering why they would be called out here nine o'clock at night,, Tsunade stood and walked to her window and looked out, it was a cold cloudless night, the moon sat ominously in the back ground, how was she going to tell them that Sakura had been taking by Sasuke.
"Baa-chan why are we here so late I need some sleep, got a mission in the morning?" Naruto asked only to be answered by a chair that flew from Tsunade's side and exploded into many pieces after making contact with his head, thank KAMI he had his ANBU mask on
"How many times do I have to tell you not to call me the infernal nick name you've given me, seriously you idiot, sometimes I wonder why I promoted you to an ANBU captain." Tsunade ranted although she was secretly glad that she could transition better into the new mission details, she sighed and then continued "The reason you are here is because Sakura has been taking by Sasuke, and I am going to send you after her."
Shikamaru felt his insides constrict, she was taken, his Sakura gone at the hands of that bastard, he collapsed to his knees clutching his head as it was assaulted by intense pain, with his vision blurring he could barely she the shadows coming alive. The voices ever present beckoning him, offering him power, 'was this his Blood Limit', was he going to be the second in the history of the clan to obtain this locked away power, by making a deal with the very darkness that surrounded him would he become the true shadow master.
Shikaku was walking down the street when he felt his son's chakra flaring. He turned and ran to the direction he felt it coming from Hokage tower, he ran as fast as he could and explode past two ANBU and through the front door to see his son on his knees clutching his head as darkness enveloped him. He managed to make eye contact with his son for one moment, and he knew that his son was going to make a deal with the darkness, finally the blood limit had awaken again.
Shikamaru felt himself melt into the shadows, the world around him clouded in blackness, he could make the faint outlines of those who were in the room with him, it was amazing, he felt so isolated and powerful, to hear what they were saying but not seen it added a bit of mystique to his blood lie, Shika watched as three incorporeal bodies took a shapeless existence before him.
"Who or what are you?" He asked as he muttered something about the troublesome situation he was in
"We represent the pact that your clan once made with us, we are the shadows, we rule the in between the world which exists void of any light, we had once heard of a man using the shadows to defend people, that man was your clans founder, he happened to spark an interest and needless to say the rest is history, we granted him the power of a blood line limit and he ruled the shadows, and now the line has awaken again, it is a honor to meet the king of shadows once again." They replied in unison
"What now?" Shika asked as he stood watching them
"You hear her screaming, go save the one you have chosen or should we say the one you have claimed outright as yours and no one else's even if she doesn't know it yet." One of the shadows snickered, as Shika smacked his forehead and cursed the fates eh would get prankster shadows, reminded him of Naruto, speaking of Naruto he gave him one last glance before he went to rescue his Sakura-chan
Naruto glanced out the window he had just sensed Shika leaving through, 'Good that bastard Uchiha is going to get what he has coming.' He thought as a smile appeared behind his ANBU mask, after all he wouldn't be a captain nor could he miss the chakra signature of Yuago entering the village.
"Hokage-sama, it seems an ANBU team has returned from a mission I would like to go and greet them on a job well done, if that is okay Hokage-sama?" Naruto asked with manners which shocked everyone in the room except Tsunade who smirked and took a sip of sake
"So Naruto-kun your girlfriend is home is she, you can go see her after you rescue Sakura and not before." Her smirk fading as she became serious, as the others idly thought about who his girlfriend was
"Hokage-sama, Shikamaru has already left to get her, trust me when I say if it is only Sasuke-san then every thing is fine." Naruto replied as he looked at Tsunade and took his mask off
"Tsk, like that lazy bastard could kill Sasuke-kun, he might be an ANBU but he certainly isn't a match for Sasuke-kun, no one here is." Ino replied she looked at Naruto who sneered at her in response, Chouji shook his head, Ino would never really know their friend like Naruto and he did
"Believe what you will, but listen to the closely when you walk home because if Sasuke is out there and Shika finds him, you will be able to hear the Traitor screaming as Shikamaru tortures him for touching something that belongs to him, and the only response he will receive." Naruto paused as he looked at the group before him, Ino looked pale as she waited for him to finish " is death." Naruto finished as he looked at Lee who nodded
"His Shika-kun really that strong?" Hinata asked as she looked at Naruto and smiled faintly
"He is my subordinate, and I have seen him fight I assure you there is no more a sick and twisted shinobi I have ever seen save one and he train Shikamaru. Lee lets go we should greet our brothers and sisters as they return." Naruto said as he disappeared in a swirl of leaves
"Brothers and sisters, what his he talking about, is it me or is Naruto even more of a baka since he left the academy?" Ino asked as she sat confused
"Ino-san Naruto means our brother and sister ANBU our flames of Youth are similar so we are like a big family." Lee explained as he too disappeared leaving an equally stunned group behind
Sasuke had come back for her, he was so close to his revenge he could taste it, but he needed a women to sire his clan and he thought of none better then the fan girl he had left behind as a gennin. Running a hand up her leg he noticed she flinched under his touch, she was afraid of him, when he left her she was a love struck fan girl and now she was afraid, my how she had changed. He ran a hand up her smooth leg again this time reaching under her skirt.
Shika had arrived as he watched the Uchiha ran a hand under her skirt, he needed to move fast before he violated her. Shika walked from the shadows, his presence alerting Sasuke that he wasn't alone, his hand stopped mere inches from its destination before he ripped it away from Sakura.
"Nara Shikamaru what can I do for you?" Sasuke asked as he spun on the boy
"You can keep your hands to yourself, and not touch what belongs to me again, lest I should kill you if you can't." Shikamaru replied as Sakura was shocked listening for her place next to the tree where she was chained, 'did he just call me his' Sakura's heart leapt, Shikamaru was here declaring his love for her
"Yours really, so then you would be really pissed if I did this?" Sasuke replied as he struck Sakura hard across the face causing her to spit blood from where her cheek split open on the inside, Sasuke swung again this time however his hand stopped mere inches from her face, Sasuke looked to see his hand frozen in the air by shadows
Sakura opened her eyes to notice the fist frozen solidly with in the clasp of shadows her and Sasuke both turned to Shika whose eyes were now completely black, while the very essence of night swirled at his feet, Sasuke's eyes swirled red as he tried to catch the movement but couldn't, his boy forcibly turned to face the Konoha nin, Shika was angry, the killing intent literally rolling off him.
"YOU MADE HER BLEED, YOU SICK BASTARD." Shika yelled as another shadow clasp appeared and captured Sasuke's free arm forcing it up and in the same position as his other hand
"How's it feel Uchiha to be helpless, to know that when the sun sets your not the predator any more, this is my realm Sasuke-kun, lets play." Shika taunted adding the kun with a hint of sarcasm and malice evident
Sasuke felt his lower body explode in pain, he let loose a blood curling scream that caused all near by bats and nocturnal birds take flight, Sasuke looked down to see shadows form from nothing and fight their way into his body through the pores on his lower legs and then fight their way into his blood stream, else where the shinobi in the Hokage tower heard the scream and realized just how right Naruto had been.
"You shouldn't have touched her, you gave up all claim to her when you left her on the park bench, I sat with her and watched her cry and comforted her, SHE IS MINE." Shika yelled as Sasuke screamed in pain he was watching the black veins snaking their way up his body until they were at his neck "True power Sasuke was in this village all along and you forsake it for power, look at her Sasuke is there anything you want to say to her?" Shika asked
"You whore you really put out don't you?" Sasuke spit out, these words just further enraged Shikamaru as he pushed his shadows further causing the second to last Uchiha to scream even louder, Sasuke's eyes widened as he watched a hand form out of the shadows and snake its way to his neck, Sasuke looked into the eyes of his executioner and smiled even as he screamed, the distinct sound of neck bone crushing caused the area to become quiet as Shika rushed over and broke the binds that held Sakura and gathered her into his arms.
End Flash Back
Shika cried as his chakra waned and he calmed down, the building quit shaking and the shadows receded, he was tired and he missed Sakura, he was going to find her he just had to, he would do his best to get that troublesome woman back. Shika crawled into the infirmary and into a bed where covered himself and cried while he drifted off to sleep.
Naruto lay in bed weeping, he clutched himself to Yuago, he had failed, he wasn't able to protect his precious people and because of that Shika suffered. He kept muttering "I failed" as Yuago tightened her grip on the boy, as Naruto hung on to his only life line.