Disclaimer: We've been through sixteen chapters together…you know the drill.
Author's Note: Sorry for the EXTREMELY late update…life's been catching up to me, so I won't be able to post as frequently as I'd like. I'm going to say it'll definitely be done before the end of the year, even though I promised before the end of the month. There are very few chapters left, and this chapter contains the last few battle scenes. ;( And I made sure to put in a good lemon towards the end to make up for everything. :)
I liked the response I got from my reviewers: LoveUntilWeBleed, Musicgirl1796, and BadButt94. Not nearly as many reviews as I would have wanted. Maybe if I had more reviews, I would update faster. They do give me inspiration.
I'd like to share an excerpt of one review in particular:
-I swear if you kill Shikamaru I am going to punch freaking babies. Yeah, not baby, but freaking babies. Multiple infants shall be punched if you kill Shikamaru so…SAVE THE BABIES FROM GETTING PUNCHED!-
I'd like to thank LoveUntilWeBleed for that amazingly funny review. I just want to tell you guys something. 1. By now, you must know I love giving cliff hangers. If you are not pulling out your hair after you read a chapter, I feel like I've failed. 2. I said there would be ShikaSaku, which can't happen if the Shika half dies (unless I kill Sakura off and have them hook up in heaven…but then we have Ino to deal with…anyway, I'm rambling). I'm just going to say this now, because you'll find out in the first few minutes of reading: SHIKAMARU DOESN'T DIE. So put down your kunai knives and read.
NOTE: I do not condone any violence in name of my stories, including, but not limited to: punching babies, kicking puppies, kneeing old grandpas in the balls, and ripping heads off of bunnies.
Chapter Seventeen
Shikamaru decided to get rid of Sai and the beast at the same time. He moved towards Sai so that they met in the middle. When the lion was on a collision course for them, Shikamaru broke his jutsu, dropped an explosive tag kunai knife, and jumped in the air to dodge the beast. Not a second later, it exploded and Sai and the beast were no longer in sight.
Sai should still be visible. He must be waiting to make a counter attack.
Shikamaru heard a visible hiss and he looked down to see an ink black snake around his ankles. His eyes widened in horror. Oh shit! The snake constricted around his feet, preventing further movement. Within seconds, more snakes appeared and began crawling up Shikamaru's body.
He pulled out his kunai and stated stabbing them one by one, but there were too many. One snake managed to get by, and it constricted around Shikamaru's forearms, effectively tying Shikamaru up. Shikamaru struggled to break free, but only managed to fall down the 20 meters into the ground.
There was a gash on the side of his head and he was bleeding profusely, not to mention the broken bones in his body. He fought against the insane urge to black out, but he couldn't understand how Sai managed to do it. He saw Sai through his blurry vision walk towards him.
"I can't let you live now that you know my plans," he said. He pulled out his tanto and brought it down on Shikamaru's throat.
As the tanto pierced the skin of Shikamaru's throat, Sai realized he'd been tricked. When the blade ran right through the body, he knew it was all a trick. He watched as the body turned into a black shadow before vaporizing.
"You fell for my Shadow Replacement Jutsu," Shikamaru said with a smirk. "You're not the only one who's good at deception."
Shikamaru's shadow reached out to attack Sai, who jumped backwards. He was surrounded by shadow, so he needed to work fast. He opened his scroll again to draw some more beasts.
Perfect.
"Shadow Sewing Jutsu," Shikamaru said. Sai dodged it successfully, but he didn't realize what the shadow sewing was meant to do. Before Sai could react, he realized the shadow punctured a hole in his scroll, rendering it useless.
Sai retreated from the shadow and threw the scroll away. Now he had beaten Sai. His only jutsu was taken away from him. He knew he was going to be victorious, but he didn't anticipate Sai's next move.
For Sai's next strategy, he needed the open air that the treetops provided, so he ran up the trees to resume their open air battle. Shikamaru followed, not willing to let Sai escape. When Sai reached the top, he pulled out two scrolls from his backpack, and he unrolled them both.
Shikamaru broke through the treetops and stood on a tree right next to where Sai was.
He looked at the scrolls and saw one had a picture of a Chinese dragon and the other was blank. He briefly wondered what this was, but he couldn't give Sai a chance to use it. He made a hand sign and tried to trap Sai in his shadow possession jutsu, but it failed.
The eclipse had ended, and the moon shone brightly on the treetops. There were no shadows.
Shikamaru was screwed.
"You think you beat me just because you destroyed the damn scroll?" Sai asked. "You're nowhere near victory." He bit his thumb and drew a line down the open scroll with the dragon. "Ninja Art: Dragon Summoning Jutsu."
In a flash of light, the dragon appeared. It wasn't very big, but it was fast, and it was in the air. Even if Shikamaru could use a shadow, he was nowhere within range.
Sai picked up the blank scroll and held it out towards Shikamaru. The dragon moved so that Shikamaru was between it and Sai.
"You won't escape this time," Sai said. The dragon charged at Shikamaru, who couldn't avoid the speed. The dragon pushed Shikamaru through the air towards Sai's open scroll. "Sealing Technique: Scroll of Imprisonment!" he yelled.
As Shikamaru hit the paper, his body became lifeless, limp. His mind and his soul were no longer there, as evidenced by the black and white depiction of Shikamaru in the previously blank scroll.
The dragon returned to its scroll, and the body was picked up by Sai. "I think it's time to return to camp, and tell the others about how awful it was when you were attacked."
Sai returned to the camp where Sakura, Sasuke and Naruto were waiting by a fire. He faked a limp, and he had made sure to slice his leg with a kunai just in case.
"What happened!" Sakura asked, noticing his limp and Shikamaru's body.
"We were attacked by Rain ninja," Sai said. "They did something to Shikamaru, but I got them to retreat."
Sakura listened to Shikamaru's chest and felt his wrist. "He still has a pulse and he's still breathing. It just seems like he isn't there."
"They used some weird jutsu on him," Sai explained the unsuspecting ninja.
"What about you?" Naruto asked. "Are you hurt?"
"Just a little scratch," Sai said, indicating his calf. "It's nothing."
It didn't matter, because Sakura made it a point to check out the wound and to wrap it. After she had wrapped his wounds, the group decided that they would have to return to the mission at hand and just protect Shikamaru's body.
"There's one thing I learned about the enemy," Sai said to the three other ninja as they were jumping through the trees.
"What's that?" Sasuke asked suspiciously.
"They mentioned something – some sort of hideout – and I think I know where it is."
"Then let's go!" Naruto said. "Just point the way."
As they changed direction, Sakura took the time to approach Sasuke.
"You don't trust him, do you?" she asked the raven.
"No, I don't," he said. "I think he has something to do with what happened to Shikamaru."
"So do I," Sakura said. "He faked his wounds. The angle that his wounds made were so obscure that he must have done it himself. He'd only do that to cover up something."
"Shikamaru and I – we both didn't trust him from the beginning. That's why we split up last night – him to try to find out what Sai's up to, and me to protect you two because you found him to be trustworthy."
"Then you think…" Sakura trailed off.
"I think Sai figured out what we were up to," Sasuke confirmed. "I think we should be prepared for a possible battle when we get wherever he's taking us."
"What about Naruto?" Sakura asked.
"He's always trusting," Sasuke said. "Unless we have proof of our suspicions, he'll give him the benefit of the doubt. It's safer to just stay like this, and if there's some sort of ambush, we'll make sure we're ready."
"Right," Sakura said. They continued the trek in total silence, trying to formulate plans to stop Sai. First, they needed to know what he did to Shikamaru, or else it would all go to hell.
"I had a thought," Sakura whispered to Sasuke after a few minutes. "Sai is leading us somewhere, and we have no idea where. What if it's an ambush?"
"I was thinking the same thing," Sasuke said. "Use a substitution jutsu, so that we won't be in the line of fire."
"What about Naruto?" she asked. Sasuke looked longingly at his boyfriend before sighing.
"We can't tell him or Sai would know we're on to him. We have to just trust that he's a good enough shinobi to take care of himself on the battlefield."
Eventually, Sai led them into a small clearing in the woods, and Sakura got chills up her spine. She looked around and her eyes widened in shock.
"Sasuke! This is where…"
"This is where my brother died," a voice said from the wood. A bolt of lightning shot out and hit Sasuke square in the chest. "And it is where the three of you will die, too."
Ishichi stepped out of the woods holding his sword in his hand and smiling. Sai had already taken out his scroll, and Naruto and Sakura were surrounded by ink beasts.
"Sai!" Naruto yelled. "What are you doing?"
"He's with Ishichi," Sakura said, pulling out a kunai. "We've been tricked."
Naruto looked to see where his boyfriend landed, but he only saw a single log of wood. That was when the chirping started.
Ishichi turned around to see Sasuke rushing towards him with the chidori. He pulled out his sword that had an electric current running through it and the two electrical attacks clashed.
Meanwhile, Sakura took the opportunity to shove her hands in the ground. "Ninja Art: Earth Manipulation Jutsu!" she yelled. Stalactites burst from the ground, piercing every ink beast surrounding them. She rushed at Sai, but he dodged it. Naruto remained frozen in spot, shocked at what was going on.
Finally, Ishichi pushed the Uchiha off of him and pointed his sword at Naruto. The blond turned in time to see Ishichi's lips move and a flash of blue lightning erupt from the sword and head right towards him. Sasuke saw the blond fall, motionless, and cried out.
He gripped his shoulder in pain as he felt Orochimaru's curse mark begin to expand once more, taking over the entire left side of his body. With the curse mark and the Sharingan, Sasuke charged at Ishichi with a stronger chidori.
This time, Ishichi''s sword could not withstand the attack and he fell backwards, hitting the ground with a thud. Sai noticed his leader struggling and decided to retreat. Sakura, however, wouldn't let it happen, and she pursued her foe.
Ishichi picked himself back up and thought of how to approach the situation. He saw the gold mine standing in front of him as the blond groaned in pain. Ishichi smirked and jumped so that he was standing just over Naruto's body. He bit his thumb and touched the ground as a seal appeared.
"Lightning Style: Electrical Prison Summoning!" he yelled. Four pillars grew out of the ground, surrounding Naruto in a box. All sides of the box lit up with electricity, preventing the blond from getting any help. Ishichi smirked and turned to Sasuke. "With every passing second, the electrical walls of his prison shrink, closing Naruto in. Only I have the power to free him before he is electrocuted in exactly five minutes."
"You bastard!" Sasuke yelled. The curse mark retreated and he had to use his knees for support to not fall over. Two chidori was his limit, and he didn't know if he could do it again. He needed a plan, and quick, or else Naruto would die.
Meanwhile, Sai kept running with a livid Sakura trailing not far behind. He kept having to duck to avoid shuriken and kunai that the kunoichi had been throwing at him. Finally, he saw what he was looking for and he rushed even faster. Sakura ran through the wood to catch up to him, and all of a sudden the forest ended.
She saw Sai running on the large body of water in front of them and she sent chakra to her feet as to be able to walk on it. She chased Sai who stopped running and faced her with a smirk on his face. He pulled out his scroll and drew something that Sakura couldn't make out before performing a hand sign.
"Ninja Art: Super Beast Scroll," Sai said, and three large sharks leapt out of the scroll and into the water. The beasts surrounded Sakura, who instinctively plunged her hands down.
But instead of the earth, she felt…water?
Shit.
Sai had led her out into an ocean where she couldn't protect herself. Deciding she needed weapons to defend herself, she tried to take out a kunai only to realize that she threw all her kunai and shuriken at Sai during the chase.
For all intents and purposes, she was fucked.
She jumped into the air to avoid the first shark attack and managed to hit the second with a kunai, making it explode into an ink puddle in the water. She pulled out two shuriken and began to run from the sharks, luring them away from Sai.
Meanwhile, Sai was drawing more and more sharks to attack Sakura. The sharks swam towards her, and by the time she was far enough away from Sai, she was surrounded by fifteen.
Sai smiled as she got ready to throw her shuriken, as the sharks would easily overpower her. The sharks converged on her as she threw a shuriken at one, and Sai's cocky smirk was plastered onto his face.
The smirk faltered, however, when the shuriken passed right through the shark.
'A clone jutsu!' Sai realized. He didn't have enough time to dodge the shuriken that attacked him from behind as the real Sakura appeared. The shuriken hit Sai square in the back, but a cloud of smoke appeared. When the smoke dissipated, there was a log with a shuriken stuck in it floating in the inky water.
The real Sai and the real Sakura faced each other as the sharks began to swim back towards the two ninja. Sakura pulled out a kunai with an exploding tag and threw it at a shark that was in the middle of the pack. When the bomb exploded, most of the sharks exploded in a mess of ink. Sai smirked.
"I never would have imagined you to be this powerful," he said, pulling out his tanto. "Maybe we should settle this…alone." He waved his tanto and the remaining sharks melted into ink puddles. Sakura pulled out a kunai and the only sound that could be heard was the clang of metal hitting metal. They sparred with each other for a while, evenly matched.
All of a sudden, Sakura couldn't move her feet anymore. She looked down to see all the ink that Sai's beasts had accumulated on the ocean top had solidified around her feet. Sai smirked and ran towards her with his tanto, ready to kill her.
Sakura started to perform hand signs in a rush and she said, "Earth Sytle: Stalactite Wall". For a few seconds, nothing happened, but then, stalactites shot out of the water, blocking Sai's path to the trapped Sakura.
"You forget that the ocean floor is made of earth," Sakura said. A final stalactite broke through the ink, freeing its creator. Sakura began to climb her earth wall with kunai knives that had exploding tags attached. After she got far enough up, she'd leave them in the wall and pull out another one. By the time she reached the top, there were twenty exploding tag kunai in the wall.
She jumped off the wall, landing on the other side of Sai, who pulled his tanto free of the wall. He turned to face Sakura and shrunk his eyes in a glare. He made a hand sign with the sword still in his hand and the pointed half of the sword was completed with solidified ink.
Sakura knew that the ink was probably also poisonous, so she had to avoid it as much as possible. She dodged his first three attacks, but his fourth managed to rip her shirt. She was breathing heavily and she knew she only had a few more seconds before her last opening would be complete.
She ran past Sai, who chased her, towards her earth wall. She climbed it with her feet, and Sai continued to chase her. Finally, they both reached the top and Sai smirked, cornering the kunoichi. Sakura did a backflip to jump off it, just as the twenty exploding tags she left on the wall exploded.
The wall crumbled, and Sai fell with it. He was pinned underneath a sinking chunk of rock, unable to get out. When he and the rock hit the water, he knew he had to get out from under or he'd drown. He didn't have enough time, however, before the rock pinned him to the ocean floor.
On the top of the water, Sakura watched the bubbles slowly cease, showing that nothing under water was breathing. She bowed her head, and ran across the water, desperate to reach Naruto, Sasuke and Ishichi.
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As Sasuke watched Sakura run in pursuit of Sai, he knew he needed a plan or else both he and Naruto would die. Naruto slowly began to stand up, badly battered.
He began to battle Ishichi with taijutsu, which got them nowhere. Sasuke delivered a hard kick to Ishichi's back, but Ishichi delivered a powerful right hook. After a brief minute, they were both battered and bloody, and Sasuke's Sharingan was running out of power. He decided to make an attempt at genjutsu.
Ishichi pointed his sword at Sasuke and let out a lightning bolt. As it was going to his Sasuke square in the chest, Sasuke's body opened up, a hole forming, and the lightning passed right through it. As soon as the lightning was gone, Sasuke's body went back to normal and the Uchiha ran towards the Mist ninja.
"What's going on?" Ishichi asked as he went on the taijutsu offensive. A second Sasuke appeared behind him and he was overpowered. The two Sasukes made two chidori and they ran at Ishichi. "You shouldn't be able to do this!"
As the two Sasukes hit Ishichi, he realized that he was, in fact, under a genjutsu. He smiled and he made a handsign, uttering "release". The genjutsu collapsed and Sasuke fell to his knees, simply out of chakra.
Ishichi began to approach Sasuke, who was still guarding Naruto in his weakened state. He pulled out a kunai and threw it, but Ishichi deflected it with a kunai of his own. Sasuke threw two more kunai, but attached an exploding tag to one. Ishichi jumped out of the way of the explosion, but continued to approach the exhausted shinobi.
"Finally, I will have my revenge," Ishichi said, pulling out two kunai. He threw them both at Naruto, but Sasuke jumped in the way, getting hit twice in the back. He spat blood onto Naruto's awakening face, and the blonde's eyes widened in shock.
"S-Sasuke," he whispered. "No." Sasuke gave him a small smile before collapsing.
Sasuke's curse mark returned, and he felt Orochimaru's presence trying to take over more of his body. Sasuke knew that if he let Orochimaru take over him, there was no telling what was going to happen next, but he needed the sannin's power quickly.
Naruto was having a similar struggle as the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox began to slowly take over. Just like Sasuke, Naruto knew this was possibly dangerous, but he needed the extra power.
A cloak of red surrounded Naruto as a tail of chakra formed. His eyes became red slits, and his teeth and nails grew more pointed as his hair became even more unruly. Meanwhile, Sasuke's curse mark took over his whole body. His skin turned a dark gray, his hair lengthened, his eyes turned yellow, his lips appeared blue, and he had a pair of hand-shaped wings on his back.
Sasuke bent down to the ground grasping his right arm with his left, beginning to produce a third chidori. Meanwhile, Naruto, on the other side of Ishichi, began a rasengan in his hand. The two ninja jumped towards Ishichi with their deadly jutsu in their hands.
Ishichi could feel the power radiating off of their jutsu and he decided to dodge it by jumping straight up, out of the way. The rasengan and the chidori collided causing a huge explosion, leveling much of the area. Ishichi was barely able to escape, but by the time his feet touched the ground, Sasuke and Naruto were passed out on opposite ends of their battlefield.
Ishichi's feet hit the ground with a small thud and he smiled, trying to decide who to kill first. He pulled out his sword and he pointed it at Sasuke. But before he was able to shoot a lightning bolt at the unconscious raven, he felt a kunai in his back. Blood ran down his chin from his lips and he turned to see the pink haired kunoichi who he had seen run off with Sai.
Sakura's opportunity had not been wasted as she erected a wall of earth to protect her from Ishichi's incoming electrical attack.
"Earth is strong against water, so you're screwed," Sakura said. She plunged her hands into the ground and activated her kekke genkai. A fist of earth popped out from the ground and clutched Ishichi in its grip.
Under the ground, she squeezed her hand into a fist and the earth fist tightened to match, squishing Ishichi. But, when he would have died, he disappeared in a mess of electricity and Sakura felt a jolt of lightning from behind her.
Ishichi's lightning clone had tricked her, and his attack sent her flying back towards Sasuke.
"You three are very troublesome," he said, pointing his sword at her. "But there's no one to save you now."
Sakura closed her eyes, waiting for the attack that never came. Instead she heard a gasp and she opened her eyes to see Ishichi motionless. Below him, he had a dark shadow, which trailed back to…
"Shikamaru!" Sakura yelled.
Indeed, the brunet was standing with his hands in the usual hand sign for the Shadow Possession Jutsu, and his shadow had caught Ishichi right before his fatal blow. His hair and clothes were wet as he stood, dripping, waiting to finish off the Mist shinobi.
"Shadow Sewing Jutsu!" he said as five more shadows launched themselves at Ishichi's body. His body was pierced by the shadows and a hallowing yell echoed throughout the clearing. As Ishichi's body fell to the ground, Shikamaru smirked. "Only I can call her troublesome."
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"What's the mission report?" Tsunade asked two days later when the four chunin appeared before her.
"Our mission was a failure," Sasuke said. "The ANBU member you appointed to us, Sai, was a double agent. He was somehow in cahoots with the rogue ninja Ishichi Hoshigaki.
"While on the mission, Sai engaged Shikamaru Nara in combat away from us, and he sealed him within a scroll. The next day, he led the three of us into an ambush where Ishichi was waiting for us.
"Sakura engaged Sai in battle and ended up killing him, releasing Shikamaru from the scroll. Naruto and I engaged in combat with Ishichi and were both severely weakened. Naruto and I both fell, and were going to be killed when Sakura stepped in. She was also overcome by Ishichi, but Shikamaru came in at the last second and saved us.
"Ishichi is currently under interrogation with Ibiki, and Sai is currently rotting in the bottom of a lake. All of the members of this squad have been checked out at the Leaf Hospital, and we are all fine, save for some minor, superficial injuries."
"Thank you, Sasuke," Tsunade said. "You all may go."
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Shikamaru walked Sakura back to her home to make sure she made it there okay. He was going to go back home, but Sakura's parents invited him to stay for dinner, and who was he to refuse free food?
After Shikamaru and the Haruno family finished eating, Sakura insisted on walking him to the door, where they finally had a chance to be alone.
"I can't believe I came so close to losing you," she said with tears forming in her eyes. "I know we're just friends, but it would be so hard to lose you so soon after losing Ino. It's like you're all I have left of her."
"I feel the same way," Shikamaru said. "Sure there's Choji and Asuma-sensei, but it isn't the same. She loved you; you were her best friend."
"And you were the guy she loved," Sakura said. He turned away sadly and she tentatively touched his shoulder. "She wouldn't want you to do it, you know," she told him.
"Do what?" he asked, not looking the pinkette in the eyes.
"As soon as you left here you were going to go to Ino's grave, weren't you?" she asked. At his lack of response, she sighed. "Jeez, you're worse than Kakashi-sensei!"
"You don't know what it's like," he said, still not facing her. "How would you feel if Naruto all of a sudden died?"
"I'd be distraught," Sakura conceded. "But my relationship with Naruto is nothing like yours was with Ino. I realized while we were on the mission that I don't really have any feelings for him other than a strong friendship."
"That means you understand even less," Shikamaru said. "When you truly love somebody and lose them, then you can judge me on how I'm acting."
"She'd want you to be happy!" Sakura pleaded. "She wouldn't want you to waste your life. She'd want you to find happiness and even love with someone."
"She's been gone for a few months!" Shikamaru said. "It's too soon."
"I'm not saying go find someone to love right now," Sakura said. "I'm saying to keep yourself open, and don't give up your life. She wouldn't want you to throw it away." She turned away from Shikamaru and walked back into her house, closing the door behind her. Shikamaru sighed and began to walk away from the house.
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"Thanks for telling me your suspicion of Sai," Naruto muttered sarcastically when they got back to their apartment. They'd been having the same argument for hours, and Sasuke was ready to kill the blond if he didn't just shut up.
"You give everyone the benefit of the doubt, dobe," Sasuke said. "Is it really impossible to think that you would have told Sai our suspicions? Then he'd change his plan and we'd have been fucked!"
"Still," Naruto muttered with a pout while crossing his arms over his chest, "you should have told me. I went into it blind and I was the first one taken out!"
"I kind of like you as the damsel in distress," Sasuke said with a sly smirk moving closer to the blond.
"Stop trying to get me to forget I'm mad at you!" Naruto said as Sasuke reached him. The raven bent over and started to bite on Naruto's neck. "I could have been the awesome hero as usual, but you…oh god…you…you…what was I saying again?"
Sasuke grunted and shrugged his shoulders before finally detaching himself from Naruto's new hickey. The blond looked like he was going to speak again, so Sasuke made it his prerogative to shut him up.
The pale raven's lips clamped over those of the sun kissed blond and they began to passionately kiss. Sasuke's tongue swiped Naruto's bottom lip, and in that moment, the blond decided to forget his anger for something more rewarding. He opened up his mouth and Sasuke's tongue leapt out of his mouth to taste every crevice of Naruto's moist cavern.
Naruto pushed Sasuke to the bed and pinned him down with a sly grin. He lifted the raven's shirt above his head and discarded it. He bent down and licked around Sasuke's torso before dragging his tongue up to give Sasuke a hickey in return for his own. When Naruto was finished, he refocused on licking Sasuke's chest, stopping to suck on a pert nipple.
Sasuke moaned as he felt the suction on his nipple while the other was being rolled between two skilled fingers. Sasuke screamed in pleasure as he felt Naruto bite down. Naruto then continued to lick down Sasuke's stomach, stopping at the hem of Sasuke's pants.
"P-Please," Sasuke begged. Naruto didn't need any further provocation as he unbuttoned the raven's jeans and pulled them down, taking the boxers with them. Sasuke's throbbing erection stood in front of Naruto's face with some precum beginning to leak.
Naruto engulfed the member down to the base, causing Sasuke to almost come right there! Naruto bobbed up and down, making sure to cause as much pleasure for the raven as possible. He began to talk around Sasuke's cock, sending euphoric vibrations through Sasuke's cock.
"S-Stop," Sasuke said, and Naruto obeyed. Naruto pulled his clothes off in record time as Sasuke got a bottle of lube and a condom from the night stand.
"No," Naruto said. "I don't want to do this with a condom," the blond said. "I want to feel you inside me." That was all the motivation Sasuke needed to throw the condom over his right shoulder before he pounced on his boyfriend. They rolled around, naked, in the bed for a few seconds before Sasuke squeezed some lube onto his fingers.
He pushed into Naruto's opening, not allowing Naruto to adjust to it before putting a second finger in. He waited a few seconds before scissoring the blond, who moaned in pleasure. Sasuke pumped his fingers in and out of the blond, before finally reaching the sweet spot.
"Sasuke!" Naruto yelled out as the raven hit his prostate. Sasuke hit it continually five more times, reducing the blond to a moaning mess. Sasuke smirked, deciding to add a third finger. He pumped in and out before returning to prostate.
After hitting it another two times, Sasuke saw Naruto's erection and he knew he was painfully hard. Sasuke pulled his fingers out and sqeezed some lube in Naruto's ass and onto his own member. Slowly, Sasuke aimed his cock with Naruto's ass and began to push in.
He was too slow for Naruto's taste, as the blond slammed his ass down until he felt black pubic hairs on his ass. Sasuke gasped and moaned at the sudden sensation and intense heat. Naruto began to take charge, repositioning them so he could ride the raven. Naruto smirked inwardly at Sasuke's look of intense pleasure.
Sasuke, deciding he wanted to be a more active seme, decided to re-reposition them so that he could slam into Naruto and hit his prostate every time. Naruto started to moan loudly, and they both began to feel the onset of orgasm reaching them. With one last grunt, Sasuke came within Naruto, and the blond felt the raven's semen rush through him. The sensation it caused pushed the blond over the edge as he moaned Sasuke's name.
Naruto collapsed on top of the exhausted Sasuke and they eventually managed to get under the covers. Who cares if it was 3 in the afternoon? They had a long mission, and an intense last fifteen minutes, so they deserved the sleep that overcame them with Naruto's head resting on Sasuke's chest. The raven ran his hands through Naruto's hair and whispered, "dobe," before falling asleep like the blond.
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Shikamaru stood in front of the tombstone in somber silence. He knew deep down what Sakura had said earlier was true – Ino wouldn't want him to waste his life. But he still didn't really accept that Ino was dead. It didn't make sense – Ino didn't seem dead.
It almost felt like yesterday that Ino was nagging Shikamaru about training for his match with Temari in the finals of the chunin exam. It was as if the days when he and Ino were always together were so recent. How could Sakura even suggest that he could move on so soon?
Shikamaru sighed before deciding to speak. "I miss you," he said, hands still in his pocket. He looked up at the afternoon sky with the clouds drifting by. "I don't know what to do. I've never been like this until you." He scoffed. "Love is so troublesome. Can you just give me a sign? Is Sakura right? Should I move on so soon?"
The wind began to pick up speed and a leaf was blown onto the tombstone, causing Shikamaru to smirk. "That isn't much of a sign." The wind continued to gain speed and he felt a slight pressure at his shoulder. He turned to see that the wind blew a cherry blossom at him. Delicately, he picked the blossom up and looked at it. "Sakura," he whispered. "You really think she was right? I should move on?" He was met with silence, and the wind did not pick up. "Fine, I'll stop coming by every day," he said, standing up. He turned around to see Sakura standing behind him.
"It's about time," she said, hugging Shikamaru. She pulled away and looked at him. "I'm glad you're not going to waste your life here."
Shikamaru shrugged. "Coming here all the time was too troublesome anyway," he muttered. "But you know that since you suggested I should do things for myself, that means you'll have to be my shogi opponent."
"I don't even know how to play," Sakura admitted.
"It's a pretty easy game," Shikamaru shrugged. "Besides, you're good at planning and strategy. Who knows? You might just give me a run for my money."
"Count on it," Sakura said with a smile. They walked back towards his house together and played shogi.
She won.
Author's Note: So how did I do? Did I make up for the length of wait? There are going to be very few chapters left to this story, but I plan on having it done by the end of December. Maybe two more chapters and an epilogue? That sounds like what'll end up happening. Anyway, you know the deal – review please. I'll even give you all cookies right now in the hopes you review. Did you eat them yet? Good.
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