Chapter Two for New Beginnings (hopefully this will be a longer chapter than the first)

Warnings: Yaoi (please don't read if you dislike this) Sasunaru, Depressed Naruto, OOC Sasuke, and Angst… Major Shikanaru (just for now)

Disclaimer: Again I do not own Naruto

(A/N: Messed up on the last Chapter Italics are flash backs which is pretty obvious heh …)

Picking up the Pieces

"Oh no NARUTO" Shikamaru raced out of the building, there's only one place he could be.

NARUTO'S POV

Shikamaru ran through the streets of his beloved village to get to Naruto before he seriously hurt himself. He knew where the depressed blond was. He went there before each of the retrieval missions for Sasuke. The Valley of the End. It was Naruto's special place, where he swore he would break every bone in the Uchiha's body to make him stay. Images of Naruto jumping into the frigid waters and drowning flashed through Shikamaru's mind, making him run faster. Soon the brunette shinobi was standing on a cliff off to the side of the powerful waterfall. There he spotted a bit of black and yellow next to the rushing waters at the top of the waterfall. 'Naruto, don't jump. I'll be there soon' Shikamaru thinks, quickly doing a teleportation jutsu.

Naruto looked down at the fast flowing river and fell to his knees. 'Oh Sasuke, I tried to bring you back.' Tears started streaming down the blonde's cheeks. 'And Sakura, I'm sorry I couldn't keep my promise.' He dipped one of his hands into the freezing water and brought it up to his face, blending his tears with the river water. 'The one person that I finally thought shared my loneliness and I cared for tried to kill me.' Naruto's heart beat quicked as he crawled closer to the river, sliding his feet in.

"Naruto, don't do it!" the blond heard quick footsteps behind him before he was pulled out of the river and into some ones arms.

"What do you think you were doing?" Shikamaru's voice cracked with grief. "You're just going to leave us all like this? You're just going to leave me?" The brunette held Naruto closer and the blond could feel wet tears on his forehead.

"Shikamaru…" Naruto whispered. "Why did you come?"

"To stop you from killing your self," Shikamaru said into the blonde's hair. The taller shinobi pushed Naruto off of him and held him by the shoulders. "Why do you want to do this?" Naruto stared at the ground, tears again started slipping down his face.

"Because I'm sick of being alone," he whimpered, "and the one person that I sought loved me and understood my feelings almost shoved a freaking ball of lightning through my heart." Naruto's head hurt and his eyes were red and sore. Shikamaru pulled him back into a hug, trying to some how physically show that he understood what he was going though. Maybe not personally, but even though the blond ever realized it, Shikamaru had been beside him the whole time. Volunteering for all the Sasuke revival missions and silently encouraging him to complete his goals in life.

"Naruto, your not alone, you've had me the whole time. Come back with me and let me ease your pain. Sasuke is just another obstacle in your life and I know you are powerful enough to over come this, and I'll be there right beside you." The taller one started rubbing small circles at the base of his neck. "Just please come back with me." Finally, in defeat, Naruto hugged Shikamaru back and nodded his head against the taller's shoulder. Shikamaru let out a sigh before disappearing back to his house.

Kakashi's POV

It was another wonderfully chilly day in the streets of Konoha, and Kakashi walked down the streets reading his favorite perverted book. Suddenly the wind picked up and blew a large amount of snow on to his highly treasured book.

"Ugh, not again," he grumbled, pretty soon his precious book would be drenched from melted snow and he didn't feel like going and buying a new one. So, with much displeasure he shoved the slightly wet book in his jacket and trudged through the snow toward the main gates. He had no idea why Lady Hokage had woken him up so early to retrieve and new visitor to the village. 'She must be drunk and not know what she's talking about' he grumpily thought. Soon the gates came into view and he saw to leaf shinobi with a hooded figure.

"Hey Zaku," Kakashi said coming up to the jounin shinobi. Zaku had currently token on the chunin, Misaki, to tutor and train. And by the looks of it they got the graveyard shift. 'Sucks for them'

"Hey there Kakashi," Zaku greeted back, the hooded figure next to Misaki twitched slightly and mentally facepalmed. 'Great, they send him of all people.'

"Hey you okay?" Misaki whispered to him while his tutor and Kakashi talked in the background. The ninja in training peeked at the new comer's face seeing the annoyance on his face.

"Perfectly fine," the dark figure ground out. Misaki looked at him, concern shown in his eyes. This person was mysterious and he'd heard the rumors about him, but he didn't believe them. His clan was powerful and Misaki wanted to get to know the last survivor better, he seemed like a good person.

"Misaki, my boy, how have you been?" Kakashi said loudly pulling the young shinobi out of his train of thought. Misaki stammered at first pushing some of his silver hair out of his eyes and behind his ear.

"W-Well, Kakashi-sensai," The grey haired shinobi gave the flustered young chunin a goofy smile. He probably didn't talk to other jounin much, well besides Zaku.

"So who's your new friend?" Kakashi continued questioning him. Misaki gave a quick glance towards the dark avenger. He gave a quick nod and Misaki continued.

"T-This i-is Uchiha-san," the chunin stuttered, glancing at Sasuke before said figure pulled off his hood. Kakashi blinked a few times, much like Zaku a couple hours ago.

"Well shit, my day just got worse and its only 8:30" Kakashi whined.

Hey guys I hope you like the new chapter… Sorry I know I said this was a Sasunaru and all it's been is Shikanaru, but I like complicated relationships heheh… Any way I have a question… I made this OC Misaki (thinking he wasn't going to be that important) but now I kind of want him to be Naru's rival for Sasuke. Please give me your opinions, Do you want him to stay or just be a super minor character? Please tell me what you think in a review and Thanks for reading.

(A/N: one more thing here is the ages)

Sasuke: 17

Naruto: 16

Shikamaru: 18 ish?

Misaki: 15 ish

(All the other regular characters that may pop up are between Naruto and Shikamaru's age)

~Nik