Penumbra
This was it. They were there, standing on the cusp, on the brink. Between the dark and the light, the edge of the dawn of a new era. One of happiness and peace. One where they could live without fear of total war.
As he stood up he looed around him, trying to see who had survived and who had died. And then he saw her. Golden hair, teal eyes standing in the middle of the battle field doing the same thing as him.
"Temari!"
"Shikamaru?" She turned around. "You made it."
"Yeah and so did everyone else from the looks of it."
"So we're free now?"
"I suppose." He sighed, hand unconsciously searching for his cigarettes. "There is still the clean up. And deciding what happens to the ninja system."
"So it's the penumbra, huh?" She smiled. "The very edge of the shadows, right before the light . . ."
I had to look penumbra up.