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�� Speckled
rays of sun ran across Shikamaru, highlighting his abnormally pale color. The
lines under his eyes were dark, and his fingers cold, but he was alive. The
scratchy blanket residing over his hips kept him slightly warm. Besides, it was
far too troublesome to spread over the rest of his body. He cracked his eyes open,
curious about his surroundings, but everything was still the same. Cup on the table, florescent lights above him, open window to his
right, and ugly hospital socks covering his feet.
�� He
wiggled his toes. Shikamaru remembered how the jackass that fought him promised
to paralyze him. To rape his skin with the sharp edge of a knife, and then do
the same with his dick. �Blood makes
excellent lubricant, if there�s enough of it.� Shikamaru wiggled his toes
again before carefully rolling to his side and facing the door. Looks like the
jackass was wrong, but his body had still taken quite a thrashing.
�� Shikamaru
was joined by the rest of his team right when his opponent was really warming up.
Both fighters had their fair share of wounds, but neither promise of
destruction nor rape ever came to be. Yet even now, Shikamaru took his wounds
lightly. �Such is the life of shinobi. How
troublesome,� he murmured. He disliked wasting time in the hospital, a place he
seemed to find himself frequently at after each mission. Not being able to do
anything was such a pain in the ass.
�� What
is the life of a shinobi?� A voice from behind him
responded to the rhetorical statement. Shikamaru barely acknowledged his new
windowsill visitor, leaving his back turned away from him. He lay still for a
few more moments before stiffly rolling over. The wind had really picked up
outside and the scatter of light mixed with the shadow of a nearby tree�s leaves
clouded Kakashi�s form. Shikamaru looked up at him with a cautious gaze.
�� Kakashi
took the acknowledgement as an invitation, and stepped down from his crouched
position between ledge and window. A spartan chair was pulled from the corner,
as he figured speaking at eye level would be easiest on Shikamaru.
�� To protect the king.� Kakashi was baffled. Loyalty to a despot on a throne? Shikamaru didn�t let
Kakashi�s perplexed look dissuade him from his explanation. �Like a shogi game.
A shinobi�s job is to protect the king, which just so
happens to represent this village; its future and the people within. If you need an
explanation.�
�� Such a simple explanation for such a big task.� Kakashi
relaxed back in his chair. He hadn�t expected such a serious response out of
the young man beside him. Could life be summed up in a shogi game? Perhaps. �I guess it�s not such a bad life, being a pawn��
�� I
prefer to think of myself as a knight,� Shikamaru interrupted.
�� Knight.� Kakashi accepted this correction. �I guess it�s
not such a bad life playing a knight.�
�� Y�know,
we never did finish that game of shogi we started. Got called
off for the mission and all.�
�� Kakashi
looked thoughtfully at Shikamaru, who had perked up when shogi was mentioned,
and decided to prolong his agony a bit. Kakashi felt after the seriousness of
this past mission and the fact that Shikamaru could have avoided his life
threatening injuries, there were more important things to talk about.
�� Yeah,
we were going to start a game of
shogi, weren�t we,� Kakashi said unconvincingly. A thoughtful finger stroked
his chin like he was considering an idea he had previously forgot.
�� Don�t
avoid it, Kakashi. You�re acting like you still need time to prepare your
strategy. Come on, now�� Shikamaru couldn�t help the devilish smirk that framed
his face. It spread from the tip of his upturned lip to the haughty crease in
his eyebrows over closed eyes. However, the confident crease quickly ceased at
Kakashi�s rebuttal.
�� Now
Shika, surely you�re far too weak in your state. That
guy really took it out of you. Before and after the fight.�
Kakashi gave Shikamaru the most condescending happy little eye crease he could
muster. When he opened his dancing eye, he was met with a teeth grinding,
irritated �Shika.� He even caught a momentary eye
twitch accentuating that point. Unfortunately, when Shikamaru opened his eyes,
his irritation was replaced with deep anger.
�� Do
not call me weak, Hatake.� His words came out in a
defiant growl.
�� Your
opponent dangled your life in front of you while your team picked up the
pieces��
�� Where
is this coming from?!� Shikamaru shot up in frustration, leaving the comfort of
his bed behind. It wasn�t like Kakashi to beat around the bush in such a
deprecating manner. But it was a bad decision to respond physically, because
Shikamaru let out a yelp and both hands immediately shot to his left side. His
vision blacked for a moment toward the pain before he regained his place.
�� With
cleared presence, Shikamaru felt Kakashi�s hands prying at his own, which were
firmly plastered to his refreshed wound. Just under his ribs on his left side,
Shikamaru had received a deep gash from that sadistic jackass�s knife. The
threat of infection and questions of poison stopped the med-nin�s from completely closing it, and the staples
holding it together had popped under his recent exertion. Reopening it was
almost more painful than initially receiving the damn wound.
�� Shikamaru
let Kakashi pull his fingers away from their death grip, and he growled at the
intense pain from lack of pressure over the wound. One large hand circled
around both of Shikamaru�s, holding them tightly,
down and out of the way. With a grunt of pain from the wounded man before him,
Kakashi squeezed the hands tighter together and Shikamaru refocused his
attention on his lap where the tangle of fingers lay.
�� Kakashi�s
free hand took the liberty to start undoing the blood-wet bandages, loosening
them just enough to slip down freely. As fresh air hit the wound, Shikimaru gave a short growl of surprise and proceeded to lay down quickly, tucking his head away from the sight of
his wound and Kakashi. Nervous hands moved to unconsciously grip at Kakashi�s
fingers, which were still holding his hands firmly out of the way.
�� However,
when Shikamaru moved to lay down on his right side, which left his wounded side
up in the air, he had dragged Kakashi with him. Now half-leaning and
half-sitting on the bed beside a pained Shikamaru, Kakashi found himself
leaning on his friend for leverage, with his hand being held instead of the
other way around. Luckily, Kakashi spotted the source of unusually high
discomfort. One of the staples had dislodged completely, but was forced back
down into the wound again. Currently, the bent silver piece was poking at a
rather fleshy part, deep inside the gash. He supposed Shikamaru�s
hands had pushed the staple further into the wound when he provided pressure to
relieve the initial pain.
�� A
free hand retrieved the misplaced staple with a sharp pull. Shikamaru sucked in
a jerky breath and held it for several moments before releasing an anguished,
�Ah, fuck!� Kakashi ignored it when his fingers were squeezed tighter still,
and his eye continued to regard the rest of the wound. A few staples near the
now missing one seemed a tad loose, but not in the wrong spot, so he quickly
pulled the bandages back in place and reapplied pressure. It brought some
relief to Shikamaru as he opened his eyes and looked up to Kakashi.
�� Whot iz thiz screaming?!� Kakashi pulled back and stiffened.
A hauntingly eerie feeling permeated around him, as the Jounin looked out into
the distance beyond the window. He could see freedom; he could see safety. But
then, an angry white monster stomped in front of his utopia, and all he could
see was an irate disinfectant nurse. �Dammit!� And Kakashi had nearly forgot
he was in the same building as this horrid woman. His eye still wavered in a
blank, distant look, but his outward appearance took on an almost haggard and
disheveled look.
�� Are
you trying to undrezz ze
patients?! Whot are you doing? Whot
are ZU DOOOING?!� Shikamaru
glanced from his hands gripping Kakashi�s hand, to Kakashi sitting along the
edge of his bed, to his disheveled blankets and clothing. The position did look
compromising, and even he didn�t know
how they got into this tangle. Somewhere between the bizarre fear etched into
Kakashi�s face and the annoying anger of the fat woman in a way-too-small
nurse�s uniform, Shikamaru found himself frozen in astonishment at their
interaction. He had even forgotten about his pain. Almost.
Shock is good for short term memory loss, but soon, his nerve endings starting
singing in unison. Shikamaru let out a grimace and hunched back down into the
safety of his bed.
�� I seez the book you readz.
It�z filfy, completely
filthy! Zo NO! You do NOT do thoze
thingz with ze paitentz!� Shikamaru was sure she was still yelling, but
only at a level nin-dogs could hear. He realized this
did not help Kakashi.
�� Kakashi?� Shikamaru asked, hesitantly turning to look up at
the man who was merely trying to help him and now looked seriously unnerved.
Kakashi�s eye floated downward to meet Shikamaru�s
questioning expression. Their eyes locked until another nurse came rushing in
followed by Sakura. Soon both of them were brushing Kakashi aside and turning
to Shikamaru�s open wound. Shikamaru still gave
Kakashi a scrutinizing gaze, using it to distract him from the aired wound,
probing fingers, and stabs of pain. When a healing glow entered his body, he
closed his eyes as millions of fingers pulled his skin together from the
deepest part of the wound to the top. By the time he opened his eyes again,
Kakashi was gone.

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Author�s Notes: Thank you, thank
you, thank you for your votes and/or responses! I appreciate the time you�re
taking to read Shogi Games, and I hope you�ll keep coming back. Slowly but
surely, I�m getting somewhere (I do have Chapter 4 outlined). And I want to
thank Lemondrops (my sister, the hamster) for pimping
me in her story. =P And go check out her stuff if you
haven�t already. We (her fangirls) are slowly but
surely seeing new stuff from her. Thanks!
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