I want to thank you guys for the reviews :)
no harem, no hinata/naruto for sure.
but they will all be jealous, where is the fun if there is no jealousy in a relationship :D
hope you like this, i am not that good with fighting scenes, hope this one is at least acceptable
thank you :)
now on to the chapter!
Disclaimer:I dont own Naruto
The missing nin lunged at the boy. Naruto took a stance and prepared himself, eyes narrowed. Akuma rased the sword and swund it to his head. Naruto took a step back and leaned to the right in a flash of seconds.
The blade nearly chopped his head off.
Ok, maybe it was like Kubikiri Hachou.
But as he had fought with Zabuza...somewhat, if you call it fighting, he had engraved the movements in his memory, and he could predict the next step of the enemy.
Maaaaa, I am so glad Shika forced me into some shougi and go...even if i lost, most of the time...
Another swing this time aiming at his legs.
The boy jumped and threw a shuriken the head of his opponent.
He evaded and smirked.
"Now now...dont worry too much, your death will be very fast, you wont feel a thing...", he laughed, which made the hair on his neck stuck up even more. The nuke nin, seeing the slight fear in his eyes laughed even more.
"And i'll take that blonde head of yours off and sell it. I have a few contacts who would love to have the head of someone who looks so much like that other blonde teme."
Naruto narrowed his eyes.
"If they didn't have the Yellow flash himself, or the redhead bitch... then his long lost son will be enough..."
His eyes widened and forgot all about being cautious, or thinking or strategy. His eyes saw red. With a roar he ran at the nuke nin, who only smirked at the reaction, which proved his point.
So he is the offspring of konoha no kuroi senkou. He will die.
What he didn't expect was for the blonde to put his hands in front of him and swing with as much force as he could handle.
Tch...brat is an idiot. What kind of attack is that?
His eyes widened as he felt blood on his limbs.
Shikamaru was having a very hard time. Those nuke nin even if they werent that strong as Akuma, still there was a small drawback- their numbers.
He closed his eyes.
20...no 22, where were those two then?
Currently he was holding all the 20 with his kagemane no jutsu, but it wasn't working too well. He knew that the jutsu could be broken, it was proved when they had gone after Gaara. But Asuma sensei had helped him out. Now he was only waisting his remaining chakra. There was no point in holding them, they were already moving, plus he had two unknown nuke nin surrounding him.
What to do.
A roar was heard.
Naruto!
Mendokuse, I have to end this, fast!
Releasing them, he dived into the bushes while making a simple bunshin to confuse them. He knew it was not going to work, but at least it gave him a few seconds.
He was Shikamaru Nara, a few seconds for him were what he needed to make a plan.
He formed his hands in a circle and sat there, eyes closed, blocking the sounds of fighting that were nearly ripping his eardrums off.
Akuma was panting. The boy nearly cut off his leg and hands, he couldn't fight him on close range. He hurriedly made a back flip, jumped and landed 10 feet away from the blond. Naruto had a deep cut on his back due to his inability to move away in time. At least the blade wasn't poisoned.
Man that sword of his hurt, I'm lucky the fox is healing me. I have to finish this quick, Shika might need my help there and all i do here is slack off!
It was a lie, he was literally being beaten by the nuke nin, but at least he didn't give up, never!
And from what it seems he was making it very hard for Akuma too.
At least the training is paying off...wish we had more time.
But he knew it was impossible. If they took the mission any longer, the elders might have really without Tsunades permission or the result of the mission banish him.
He loved Konoha dearly, now more then ever, since he found out that his father and mother had sacrificed themselves for the village. Plus all his friends...
Shikamaru, he did so much for him, he need ed to finish this quick, even if it meant exposing his abilities.
He made a cross sign and called forth a clone. Making a rasengan, he moved at very high speed, unseen to normal eye, as he had taken off his weights. Before Akuma could register what exactly was going on, he was punched in the gut by the jutsu. He few in the air and hit the rock behind him with such a force, that it left a dent, shaped like him.
He was on the verge of passing out, but when Naruto neared him with another rasengan, with the last energy he could handle he raised his sword and slashed his arm.
Naruto yelped in pain and his rasengan dissolved.
Akuma was sneering at him through half closed eyes.
The yellow haired boy was on the ground, the pain from the back cut and the hand finally getting to him. No matter how fast he healed, he needed to be in a hospital, with medical jutsu, if it weren't for Tsunade, he might have died many times, even if he had the fox and the damned chakra with him.
A slow breath escaped him. But the penetrating eyes of the fallen nin were still making a hole in his skull, at least it felt that way.
"Brat...damn you...I will not have a stinking son of the blonde dastard finish me off! I wont let that happen!"
Before Naruto could utter another word, the nuke nin popped a strange looking white pin in his mouth.
A very nasty smell filled the clearing, making Naruto gag and close his eyes. When he reopened them, Akuma was still leaning on the rock with only one difference- he was dead, and Naruto, even in his weakened state couldn't feel any chakra at all from him, where was the chakra now? He had it seconds ago!
Letting go of that thought for a while, he took a deep breath and looked around. The clearing was filled with rocks due to some doton jutsu the nuke nin used.
Despite all the things he could have been thinking now, the only thought that crossed his mind was...
I really don't like doton jutsu, they suck!
Sikamaru gulped and making a hand-seal reappeared in the clearing.
"Foolish gaki, do you really think the clone was a good idea? Like we will buy it? I didn't know Konoha had such a dim minded generation of shinobi...if you can call youreself that", sneered one of them and taking out some kunai, ran at the boy, followed by all the others.
Shikamaru took his stance. It confused the ninja, they had never seen anything like it! But none of them cared. So far they had only seen him use his one jutsu, the stupid capturing one, but they got out of it, what else could the boy have?
The leader yelped and his eyes bulged when he saw a shadow shaped like a fist emerge from the real fist. Evading the first first was pointless, the second, hidden one got him full in the face and sent him smashing into his 'comrades'
Shikamaru's mind was like a robot at that time.
Turn, duck, shadow fist, jump, strike, kagemane, shadow choke, jump, kneel, evade, strike...
But the nuke nin were persistent, they kept coming back. Eventually getting tired of it, as he was losing too much chakra and energy, and the small fact that the fighting sounds form the other end had disappeared, meaning that either Naruto won, or lost...he hoped it wasn't the latter, he sprang into action.
Circling around them and maneuvering them into a position more convenient for himself, he quickly made the rat hand sign while kicking one of the most close ones back into the crowded group.
They stopped moving. Only their cries of outrage and cursing were heard, which the young Nara ignored.
"Kagemane no jutsu success".
Then he made another hand seal and his shadow turned to spikes, which pierced all the nuke-nin. They fell on the ground, dead. Shikamaru let the breath he was holding. He never liked killing, no one of the rookie 9 did, but he understood that it was part of being a shinobi.
His hand was really giving him trouble, it hurt a lot. But at least it was only hand...he always seemed to get off from the worst injuries . Very reluctantly stood up and went to find his friend. When he rached the place, it was a wreck 'what happened here?' Then he saw Akuma clearly dead and the blond lying on the floor, surrounded by blood. His heart beating very fast, he ran to him. He couldn't fail the mission, Naruto was his friend!
"Naruto!"
Said boy turned, when he heard his name called. When he saw his friend, he smiled and tried to stand up.
Shikamaru just sighed and taking out a roll of bandages, looked at him pointedly.
The blonde blinked.
After the bandaging process was over they looked at the body.
Naruto, knowing that he had to have some proof that he killed the nuke nin, sealed his body in a scroll, then Shikamaru led them to the other bodies to be sealed as well. When they were done they hurriedly left, despite their injuries. Staying near Iwa border was not something smart to do, especially after all that happened.
Little did they know they were being watched.
"I have to inform Tsushikage-sams of this" said an figure in black and disappeared.
They put quite a distance between Iwa and them, when they silently decided to stop. Shikamaru was scratching his bandaged hand, and Naruto was on the verge of collapsing.
"We cant sleep yet Shika!"
A raised eyebrow.
Sweatdrop.
"I am hungry! I need ramen".
Double sweatdrop and a tired sigh.
Shikamaru had to admit that he was hungry too. The blonde smirked when he saw the face expression of his companion.
Taking out a small scroll and pouring some chakra into it, 2 ramen bowl appeared. Naruto had taken care of that along the way.
First time in his life, Nara Shikamaru enjoyed ramen.
They ate in silence. When they were done, and the ramen bowls (now empty) were sealed back into the scroll, Naruto suddenly said, with unsureness in his voice, kind of asking a question to which he already knew the naswer.
"Ne, Shikamaru, we finished the mission..."
A small smile.
"Hai, we did, can you believe it?"
Naruto turned to him with his eyes closed and a playful smirk on his mouth.
"I did from the very beggining, you should listen more to me, dattebayo"
Silence.
A few minutes later they were both laughing with tears in their eyes.
Now, Konoha was waiting for them, was waiting for Naruto...his home...
He was not going to be banished!
Hell yeah!
But there was still trouble waiting for them, which they were blissfully unaware of, still laughing like there was no tomorrow.
I want to put an oc here, a redhead probably. and i will put chuunin exams which will be in iwa i think, not sure yet.
review please.