Troublesome

Shikamaru Nara x Elain Hyacinthia Potter (Fem!Harry)

This is another ShikaxHarry idea that never took off. This one is also up for adoption; just send me a PM or drop a review if you're interested. I will then add the name, title and if possible story number once it has been adopted.

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Chapter

Shikamaru felt like cursing or bashing his head into a wall or something equally strenuous as well as stupid. He was a genius, there were hundreds of different ways to temporarily maim himself, each appealing more the longer he thought about it.

This was supposed to be an easy mission for him, the Panther. He had been ordered to shadow a noble who was almost as important as a Jinchurikki to the Hidden Villages they lived in. A civilian girl of seventeen years.

What could happen, he had foolishly thought when Tsunade-sama tasked him with this mission, she was just a silly noble?

Well, apparently, he should have asked what couldn't happen to his unfortunate target. She was hunted by terrorists, basically declared a missing-nin from their government, a witch (!) and cursed with the worst luck possible.

Not even Naruto had been this bad in their genin days.

How had it come to this?

Shikamaru managed to follow their group thanks to a tracking seal placed inconspicuously on his target's back.

He had watched slightly impressed as she planned to infiltrate the worst possible place for her to be, had observed at a distance how the slip of a girl plotted to rob a bank never before broken into successfully. Had felt for her as she suffered through unmentionable horror at the hands of an insane woman unfortunately blood-related to her. Shikamaru had thought up a plan to free her and friends when a strange wrinkly creature interfered.

Now, he watched as she prepared for a sacrifice, having witnessed a horrific example of what cruelty humans can possess.

He followed her into the strange basin swirling with silvery liquid. It reminded him of the Yamanaka's techniques.

Startled green, green eyes focused on him as soon as she noticed another presence nearby.
"Who are you? What are you doing here? Why did you follow me?" she demanded forcefully.

"I'm your bodyguard. It's my job to follow you everywhere," he said, grateful that his ANBU mask hardly resembled a Death Eater's.

Surely, she had noticed how certain maps appeared when she needed them? Or how pursuers never returned?

Obviously not, judging by her narrow-eyed glare.

"Why did Snape die then?" she hissed angrily. "Why didn't you save him? Why were we captured, Hermione tortured? Why -?!"

Shikamaru sighed, glaring back at her. "I'm responsible for 'your' safety. I was going to break you out when that -"

"Dobby. His name was Dobby."

"Dobi appeared. Also, haven't you wondered how smooth your quest has been until now? I organized those troublesome maps for you, protected you from detection for as long as possible," Shikamaru justified himself, his voice almost deadpan.

Disbelief warred with intense surprise, clear as day in her expressive eyes.

"Wh-what?" she spluttered incoherently.

"Troublesome," the Nara sighed. They didn't have time for this. "I was hired to protect you from everything, even yourself, troublesome woman. This is such a drag. I should have declined the mission."

"Mission? Drag? Why are you even still here if it's so troublesome?" Potter-hime demanded angrily.

"Someone hired me to be your bodyguard. If I return before completing my mission, I will be fired at best," Shikamaru explained nonchalantly. "For the length of my mission, I will stay with you."