An Akatsuki Attack On Other Konoha Ninjas

Shikamaru was for the second time in his life completely out of ideas and with his back against the proverbial wall. Not since he had been forced to face down the squad of sound Ninja during the Invasion three years ago had he ever felt this sort of utter hopelessness before.

Only this time, said despair that was creeping into his heart was amplified tenfold since he knew for a fact his Sensei was not about to rescue him. For Asuma Saurotbi lay dead at the feet of the Akatuski that was currently standing over his corpse licking the blood of his three-headed scythe in psychopathic glee.

He was hyperventilating as he gazed upon his Senseis body, and his legs began to quiver as his eyes drifted a few meters to the left where the madly giggling man's partner had proceeded to rip his father's heart out and insert it into his own chest.

Temari had seriously wounded the weird tentacle using Ninja, He had at first assumed him to be dead only for him to spring back up and kill his father and switched his lost heart with that of his father.

Temari's furious screaming as she was doing her best to guard against his father's killer and Inos wailing beside him over the fight thus far were the only things currently keeping him rooted in reality instead of utterly falling into complete shock.

That, and his best friend Choji currently shaking him by the shoulders "Shikamaru! Shikamaru you need to get a grip! We need you!" he knew that his rotund friend was right of course, but he was simply unable to do anything.

His body would not move. It in fact took every bit of his willpower to not run away screaming or sink to the ground under complete the despair he was feeling right now. The idea of forming the necessary movements to pull off a successful shadow possession, much less the strain this would place upon him of doing it towards individuals as strong as the Akatsuki two members were simply impossible.

All he could do right now was watch, unable to do anything to help his teammates or Temari just like he had not been able to save his dad or Sensei from their demise.

He saw Ino shoot her spirit towards the tentacle guy in order to give Temari another shot, while Choji picked him up by his collar to scream at him “SHIKAMARU! If you do not help me and the others your dad and our Sensei died for nothing. Please, lock down the scythe guy with your shadow possession so I can flatten him!” Shikamaru shook like a leaf in the wind the second his friend had let go of his collar.

“C-C-Choji I-I c-cant we need to, we need to run now!” but as he declared his intention to flee Choji had already begun this charge towards the killer of his Sensei leaving Shikamaru with no choice but to attempt his best of helping Choji out. When he took up his signature position he got a thankful smile from both Ino and Temari who had managed to take out another heart via Ino freezing Kakuzu and returning seconds before Temari's wind blades hit her while she was still in the older man's body.

As Temari already turned back around to focus on the recovering Kakuzu Ino tried to give her teammates words of encouragement “I knew you would-” only for the voice of Ino to stop mid-sentence causing Temari momentary confusion and concern before turning around.

“What's wrong with him now-” Temari gasped in shock as she saw the pathetic shadow line that barely stretched a couple of inches away from Shikamaru, seemingly almost as scared of approaching Hidan as its user was, all the while Choji charged towards his certain doom as the cowardly shadow and its wielder stood rooted to their spots.

"Shikamaru SNAP OUT OF-" but before Temari's screams could continue, she was already pummeled to the side by Kakuzus's flying tentacle-empowered fist. She was flung right into, and the pair skidded across the ground as a stone beign skipped over water.

When they finally stopped both girls were conscious but barely, now laying on the ground close to where Shikamaru was standing, the pitiful sight he was displaying now even more pronounced.

He had completely given up the shadow possession attempt and the shaking of his body had intensified. As he looked in rapid succession between Choji who was still charging over to Hidan and Kakuzu who was approaching him and the girls close to him while cracking his knuckles.

Then everything happened rather quickly. Choji was easily flung into the sky by a swing of Hidan's scythe, while his partner dragged the brown-haired Shinobi down to the ground with his tentacles at such speed that they all could hear multiple bones break as he shattered the ground beneath him.

He then kicked Akamichi towards the rest of their group, causing Choji to spit up blood as he came to a stop a few inches away from Shikamaru's feet.

"I did not ask for your help" Hidan grumbled towards Kakuzu as he walked closer to the group, with the older man just shaking his head "who says I wanted to help? Besides, somebody had to make sure you did not play longer with your food than required´" as he stomped towards the by now sobbing and shivering mess that was Shikamaru the pair got a look of disgust in their eyes.

"Look Kauzu, this one looks close to pissing himself in fear!" Hidan laughed cruelly as he looked towards the two girls and Choji with fake pity in his eyes "can't imagine how you must feel that this sorry sack is the last one of you standing" before lowering himself towards the eye of the level of Shikamaru and giving him a manic grin.

He would have a bit of fun with Shikamaru before killing him. Kakuzu ought to not mind too much. He hated cowards almost as much as himself so torturing such a perfect example of one ought to be right up the grumpy man's alley.

"Why don't you beg for the lives of your little group eh?" Hidan said beofre quickly being interrupted by Temari who screamed at Shikamaru "don't listen to them! They are both close brought for your Jutsu now Shikamaur" with Ino chiming in from his sight, anger already in her eyes over her teammate's actions thus far but also encouraging him "yeah if you just lock them down quickly we can-"only for her words to die in her throat as Shikamaru sank to his knees to kneel and began to beg.

"P-Please d-d-do not K-k-kill us S-S-Sir!" snot was dripping down his nose combined with tears as he pleaded for his group's life, to the shock and horror of Choji, Ino, and Temari while Kakuzu only looked away in disgust.

Hidan meanwhile was enjoying it rather thoroughly.

"Hmm, I am not convinced yet. why don't you kiss my boot and tell your friends to follow your example huh?" he stuck out his sandlas only for Shikamaru to immediately shuffle toward them on his knees and pepper them with kisses. His brain was almost on complete autopilot now doing everything in its power to ensure his own survival... as well as that of his team of course.

Sneaking a glance towards them as they starred at him in disbelief he quickly spoke between kisses "please mwah you need to start doing as they tell you mwah or else they will kill us too!" only to be met with looks of resolution from all of them, with a hefty dose of anger, pity and disgust being mixed in.

"We would rather die than debase ourselves like that you hear me" Temari declared towards Hidan while Choji and Ino nodded in affirmation to her left and right.

"And who could blame you?" came a voice from behind Hidan shocking all of them there as Hidan was shortly afterward buried into the ground by a Rasengan that ripped him utterly apart.

Shikamaru was sent hurling backward from the shockwave as he took notice of what had happened inches away from his face. Hidan was a bloody mess of chunks and bone splinters. Not even the immortal freak was going to be able to recover from that.

When he looked at the figure standing in the dust cloud before him, he at first assumed Asuma had returned from the dead via his profile of him. The thought of him having witnessed the shameful display beforehand almost caused him to pass out. But as the dust settled it quickly became clear that it was another Saurtobi that saved him.

Namely his Senseis nephew, Konohamaru Sarutobi.

The young man gave a confident smile to the rest of the group, Temari, and Ino both blushing as their hearts beat faster than ever before as they looked at Konohamaru with adoration that he had not seen in Ino's eyes since her early days of crushing on Sasuke and never witnessed from Temari before. Choji shared a similar look with the females as he looked up with admiration and gratitude in his eye towards the young Chunin.

A complete contrast to what their eyes had shown when they looked at Shikamaru moments before. Konohamaru on the other hand turned around with fury quickly entering his eyes as he looked towards Kakuzu who had taken up a battle pose.

"Are you the asshole that killed my Uncle?" he asked with his teeth gritted as he stared him down. Kakuzu only shook his head. "I killed the coward's father. Hidan killed your Uncle" to which Konohamaru let out a sigh of frustration "dammit, wanted the guy that killed Asuma to suffer more" before looking towards Shikaku's dead body.

Contemplating for a moment on his best course of action he decided to make it quick and attacked Kakuzu with a Tsukiyomi locking him in place before setting him on fire with the Amaterasu.

He screamed for around 30 seconds before his heart and brain were turned to ash, ending him for good.

As he turned around to be met with the stares of a shocked crowd of Shinobi, he felt his team slowly but surely catch up with him from the distance. The look he cast towards Shikamaru mirrored that of the young Naras teammates. Pity and yet a certain amount of anger and disgust over his cowardly display despite the fact it could have cost his teammates their lives and allowed the murders of his Uncle to get away.

It seemed like his little brother and fanboy were going to have a new classmate very soon…