Broken and Abused Whats Behind The Mask

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"Shikamaru? What are you doing-" she was cut off by her parents yelling and ordering her to come back into the house. He decided to use this opportunity to ask her if she has seen Naruto lately so that she could tell him about the Hokage's orders rather than himself however as soon as he opened his mouth he was dragged away into the alley by Sakura.

"Walk with me" Sakura was obviously angry at something but Shikamaru wasn't bothered to figure out why so he just followed her instead of resisting but she kept a tight grip on him in case he decided to up and leave.

When they finally ended up in the children's playground near the academy Shikamaru took his seat on one of the swings while Sakura took the other but instead of sitting was standing up rocking back and forth. It was almost dusk and Shikamaru had to do many things before the day ended and therefore decided to get this over and done with.

"Look this is such bother but could you ask Naruto to-" 

"It's all been about Naruto these days, Naruto this, Naruto that. Honestly! an idiot like that causing trouble around the village, hmph I could even say the village would be at peace if he just left. Why can't people like my parents actually understand and appreciate me? You know sometimes I look at Naruto and envy the freedom he has with no parents. He can do whatever he wants and always get away with it!" Shikamaru was furious at her for what she had just said. Was she that ignorant to those around her that she couldn't appreciate the lucky things that she has? He could not let this go and decided to finally put her in place, something that was very overdue.

"I think that's enough"

"Don't tell me even you are going to take their side now?!" Sakura jumped off the swing glaring at him.

"That's not what I'm saying" Shikamaru slowly stood up and put his hands in his pockets and sighed, "Do you even know where Naruto is?"

"hmph, No I don't and I don't particularly care, that so-called ninja can take care of himself" Shikamaru gave Sakura a foul look before speaking again.

"You're really annoying you know that? Lifes too short to wake up with regrets. You have to love the people who treat you right, forgive the ones who don't, and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said it would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it" Sakura felt disturbed by his words. She looked down at the grounds before answering Shikamaru with sorrow in her words.

"I'm sorry" Shikamaru raised his eyebrow.

"Don't apologize to me. I'm not the one you insulted for not being "brought up right." Anyways I'm heading to Lady Hokage because unlike you, I care whether or not Naruto is even here." Sakura was a bit shocked to hear these words.

"W-What do you mean?" Shikamaru explained how Naruto was not present in the village since no one has seen him for days, he finally decided something was not right and was to report this to Tsunade. Shikamaru left without another word leaving Sakura alone with her thoughts, she began to shed tears as she realizes how much of a fool she was being so cruel to Naruto when no one even knows where he is right now.

Shikamaru knocked on the Hokage's office door to hear a faint come in and so proceeded to enter. Tsunade was writing and checking some paperwork when she greeted him without even glancing at him, therefore to attract her attention he began with

"Naruto" in a tone that quickly made Tsunade stop what she was doing and gently place her work down. Tsunade signaled him to continue,

"Has been kidnapped."

That was A LOT longer than intended but I got the main points I wanted in this chapter so that's all good. I've been thinking of an uploading schedule and so far I think I can upload every day unless something comes up where I will let you know beforehand.

I hope you enjoyed this chapter and so I present to you the ending quote:

"Be careful with your words,

they can only be forgiven,

not forgotten"