Chapter 21: The Life I Wanted
Hiruzen and Orochimaru stared at each other after a few second they both did a different hand seals.
"Kage Shuriken no Jutsu" Hiruzen creates a thousand shadow clones from one shuriken, striking them towards Orochimaru.
"Kuchiyose: Edo Tensei" two wooden coffin emerge from the ground in front of Orochimaru blocking the shurikens, a third one was beginning to emerge but stopped before it could even fully emerge "the third one didn't work... Oh well... That's fine..."
"Of all people for him to summon those two..." Hiruzen thought gritting his teeth.
The Coffins slowly open...
"It can't be..." The ANBU outside said shock.
The coffins opened revealing, Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama also known as the Shodai and Nidaime Hokage of Konohagakure.
"It can't be... The Lords..." An ANBU said shock.
"The lords...?" The ANBU beside him ask.
"It's been a long time eh, monkey?" Tobirama said in an emotionless voice.
"Ohh... It's you... You've grown old haven't you, Sarutobi..." Hashirama said
"I would not have thought I would meet with you two brothers again in a situation like this... It's regrettable... Hiruzen said in a monotone.
"This is... Really bad..." an ANBU said.
"Edo Tensei, eh? This youngster is the one who summoned us with the taboo Jutsu..." Tobirama said looking at Orochimaru.
"If that's so... I guess that means we would have to fight against you, hmmm..." Hashirama said.
"Gotcha, so that's what's been going on... That teme he's too anxious" Naruto said gritting his teeth while jumping on some branch with Sakura, Shikamaru, and Pakkun.
"So? Why am I being assigned to this mission? It's a shitting chore" Shikamaru complained.
Sakura sighed "Come on Shika stop being so negative... Besides like I said earlier Sasuke is your comrade..."
Pakkun sniff "This way..." He said turning left.
"Shit!..." Sakura thought when she sense nine chakra signature chasing them.
"Oi! You guys! Pick up the pace! From behind 2 squads with 8, no 9 men are chasing us..." Pakkun said worriedly.
"Oi! Oi! Already? Men you have got to be kidding me..." Shikamaru said gritting his teeth annoyed.
Sakura bit her lower lip.
"Shit! Should we ambush them?" Naruto ask looking at Sakura.
"Ambush them? Not a bad idea..." Sakura said smirking mischievously.
Shikamaru narrow his eyes at Sakura "We can't ambush them... Ok listen up, an ambush is a basic tactic that's very favorable to the user but there are two necessary conditions that must be met" he said holding up two fingers, "the first is that those fleeing must move without making noise and discover the enemy first... Second is to locate and quickly conceal themselves in a place and position where you can take them off guard and ensure you cause maximum damage to them... Only when both of these conditions are met without a doubt, will the ambush become effective... Well the first isn't so hard to clear as long as we have pakkun's nose... And even the second condition, it may seem at first glance that we would be able to secure the best position to secure them... Since this is our home and we're quite familiar with the geography, but... This plan wouldn't work against the subordinates of a shinobi who was from Konoha..."
"Why is that?" Naruto ask confuse.
"Because they're all probably ninja's who have mastered the art of hunting... Hunters, who have been taught the geography of this land and practiced mock combat for this battle... Even with that, the ambush will still be advantageous to us but there's too many advantage factors involve, to begin with the enemy's a ninja squad that's been organized for this plan, where as we have... An idiot (looking at Naruto's sulking face)... A Kunoichi who's ability is way too scary (looking at Sakura's smirking face)... A dog (looking at pakkun's offended expression)... And the best guy at running away, me... Battle tactics, it's how to come up with the best plan after fully grasping the combat ability available in a given situation and so, after that analysis, There is only one thing we can do now..."
"And that is..." Sakura said raising an eye brow.
"We need to create a diversion that looks as if we're going to ambush them... One of us will have to remain behind and... Delay them by faking an ambush..."Shikamaru explain.
Sakura narrow her eyes at his words "In other words... A decoy... If they're stalled they won't be able to locate the remaining three... But there's no guarantee that the person who remained as a decoy will survive..."
Shikamaru smirk at her "Exactly... So who's going to do it? The dog's necessary to chase after Sasuke, in which case..."
Naruto gritted his teeth "Ok... I understand, I'll..."
"I guess I'm the only one..." Shikamaru said cutting Naruto off.
"He's right... If you think about the guy who can fulfill the job as a decoy successfully and be more likely to survive it's Shikamaru... And besides the Kagemane no Jutsu was originally a Jutsu used as a delaying tactics, ain't that right, Shika?" Sakura said raising an eye brow with a smirk on her face.
"Right..." Shikamaru said smirking back before grabbing a branch and swinging himself backwards and landing on a the same branch his back facing them, "Well I'll catch up with you guys later on so, hurry up and go."
Naruto, Sakura, and Pakkun stopped on the branch behind him.
"We'll be depending on you" Naruto said confidently.
"Be careful Nara, we don't want you dying before you could even reach Chūnin level, now do we?" Sakura said smirking at him.
Shikamaru turn his head with a lazy smirk on his face "Hai..."
Naruto look at Sakura and Shikamaru dumbfounded "What did I miss?..."
"Let's go, Naruto" Sakura said speeding away with Pakkun.
"O-Oi! Matte!" Naruto yelled chasing after them.
The sound-nins following stopped on a branch.
"Heh, they're still amateurs" a sound-nin said looking at the footprint and broken branch in front of him.
"Oi! The enemy is coming closer and closer, is he really delaying them?" Pakkun ask doubtful.
"Of course he is... He won't betray us" Sakura said half smirking at him.
"She's right... He's got bad mouth and acts like everything is a pain in the neck but he's not someone who'll betray us" Naruto said confidently.
"Ahhhh... I managed to make a good on my escape somehow" Shikamaru said lazily looking up the clouds.
The sound-nins stopped on their tracks when they saw the footprints and paw prints before they're eyes widen.
"Or rather I was supposed to be a guy who could be seen like that" Shikamaru said smirking at them.
"Would you look at that, he's just a kid..." A sound-nin said in disbelief.
"To think we'd be caught in the likes of him... This must be the famous Kageshibari no Jutsu , huh?" Another sound-nin said impress.
"Ahh, that's a really old-fashioned way of saying it, times are changing... Now it's called Kagemane no Jutsu" Shikamaru said smirking, "Just like I thought, this match was really a mistake, I used up too much chakra, I won't last much longer."
Shikamaru threw 4 shurikens and 4 kunais at the sound-nins to find out where the last sound-nin is hiding.
"Over there, huh" Shikamaru thought looking up the tall tree on his right, he tried to use his shadow to trap the sound-nin but he's almost out of chakra, "Fuck... The speed of the shadow won't increase, I don't have any more stamina to convert to chakra."
"It's useless we already know all about your Jutsu" a sound-nin said smugly.
"Geez..." Shikamaru said boredly.
"Looks like you're at the end of the rope" a sound-nin said "this so called Kagemane no Jutsu will be released soon, best be prepared."
Shikamaru sigh looking up the clouds "I was going to be a so-so ninja and earn an ok salary, marry a regular girl who isn't too ugly and not too pretty, have two children, first a girl, then a boy, retire after my daughter is married and my son becomes a successful ninja, and spend the rest of my life playing shōgi or Go, then die of old age before my wife... I wanted that kind of life, maybe have that kind of life with Sakura... Kami, what am I thinking? She's dating Sasuke, whatever future I'm fantasying with her will remain a fantasy..." He thought sadly.
"Hmm, the pursuers have stopped moving" Pakkun said relieve.
"He did it! He was successful in stopping them in their tracks" Naruto said grinning.
Sakura gritted her teeth when she sense how low Shikamaru's chakra is before sighing in relief, "Thank Kami..."
"Alright, now all that's left is Teme... Shikamaru you better be alive and catch up to us" Naruto thought gritting his teeth.
"It's like you said... Looks like I reach my limit" Shikamaru said as the shadow fade.
"Oi, how about coming out now... And while you're at it, why don't you lop his head off for him" a sound-nin said.
Before the sound-nin could attack him someone killed him.
"Nani!?" A sound-nin said his eyes widening.
"I finally caught up with you..." Asuma said appearing behind Shikamaru carrying a dead sound-nin on his side.
"Asuma..." Shikamaru said relieve.
Asuma threw the sound-nin away before killing the rest of the sound-nin in a blink of an eye.
Shikamaru sigh while tiredly flopping on the ground.
"You did good, Shikamaru... But, for the time being you're done..." Asuma thought smiling at his student's tired form.
"Good, he's safe... Sakura thought half smiling in relief before narrowing her eyes "Now Sasuke you also better be safe..."
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