Naruto: If I ask you to kill Sasuke, you will become a succubus?

Chapter 270: 7th Night Extra: About Shikamaru

"Shikamaru."

Hearing the call, the young man sitting under the eaves outside the house was slightly startled. He turned to look at his father standing in front of him and asked softly, "What's the matter?"

"Chaolu has been confirmed as a suspected missing person. If you see her again, you know what to do, right?"

The father had never met her but knew that his son had a good relationship with the girl.

What should I do…?

What should I do?

After the Chunin Exams ended in disarray, after the Third Hokage died in battle, and after the Jinchūriki of the Sand Village wreaked havoc?

Seeing his father turning to leave, Shikamaru called out to him, "Hokage-sama is gone, who listed her as a missing person of suspicion?"

As the Hokage's advisor, his father is usually very busy at work, and at this critical juncture, he is even more overwhelmed.

But in order to confirm the safety of his son, he still took the time to return home and personally told him to be careful.

“This is a decision made at the top.”

The reason for such a general reply is probably because he is not qualified to know yet.

Although his father was in a high position, he was just an average student in school, and he had stumbled all the way to the end of the Chunin Exam.

"……I see."

His father gave him one last look before leaving.

A little deer seemed to sense that its little master was in a bad mood. It slowly walked out of the woods, walked in front of him, lowered its head and gently touched the back of his hand.

Shikamaru subconsciously raised his hand and touched it, whispering: "Why did things turn out like this...?"

It seemed as if the world turned upside down overnight.

The Hokage was killed and Chaolu disappeared.

The village linked her to the unrest and believed she was a spy sent by another village.

"Father wants me to see Chaolu and control her and hand her over to the village..." Shikamaru laughed self-deprecatingly, "It's not like she doesn't know who my father is, so how could she appear in front of me? Does she trust me so much... that she thinks I will never inform the village?"

The little deer didn't understand and just rubbed against him.

But Shikamaru wasn't in the mood to play with it right now, so he gently slapped it away, stood up and went back inside.

As soon as he entered, he sensed the presence of an outsider.

Some ninjas from the Sand Village did not have time to evacuate with the main force and fled into the village in all directions. Could they be those lone guys?

Shikamaru grabbed a kunai with his backhand and thought, if that was the case, this guy's luck was really bad. Did he know where he had escaped to?

"Come out."

As soon as he finished speaking, a rustling sound came from the cupboard where bedding was piled.

As the paper door was gently opened, a familiar figure appeared in Shikamaru's sight.

The girl exhaled softly, obviously she was not getting enough oxygen because of being in the cupboard.

Shikamaru's eyes widened in surprise, "Asaro?"

"Shikamaru, help me." The girl looked at him pleadingly, "Help me leave Konoha."

[…Suspicious missing persons…]

[Decision-making by senior management…]

[Shikamaru, our Nara clan has protected this forest for Konoha for generations...]

[…No enemy is allowed to leave from here, and no outsider is allowed to enter from here…]

【If you meet her, you know what to do...】

[You will be the new generation of Ino-Shika-Chou in Konoha...protect the village...]

Your responsibility...

"Asaro..." Shikamaru clenched his kunai, "You..."

He was silent for a moment, then continued, "Did you bring enough money?"

Seeing the girl shaking her head, Shikamaru put away his kunai, turned around and took out a thick envelope from the corner.

"Here is the New Year's money I saved over the years... Take it first."

After putting the envelope into the girl's hand, he said, "Follow me."

……

Passing through the dense forest, dispersing the eager deer, and avoiding countless traps, Shikamaru and Chaolu arrived at the end of the forest.

"If you get out of here, you can leave Konoha."

Chaolu held the envelope in her arms, looking hesitant: "Shikamaru, you don't want to ask me anything?"

"I don't want to ask."

"Because Shikamaru already knows that I'm innocent?" She widened her eyes slightly and smiled happily: "Shikamaru is the smartest! Right?"

"……no."

"what?"

"There is indeed something suspicious about you that I cannot explain. No matter how I think about it, I shouldn't let you go. So... I give up thinking about it."

Chaolu looked at him blankly.

"If my reason is not good enough for you, I will abandon it first. No matter what, I just hope you can survive. Let's go. If I leave for too long, I will be discovered. I must go back early."

The girl didn't seem to understand what he meant. She ran forward a few steps as he said, but then stopped and turned around to look back.

Shikamaru still stood there, staring at her.

"what happened?"

"Shikamaru...will you come with me?"

Shikamaru was startled.

"I'm alone..." The girl blinked her eyes, tears seeping out of grievance: "I'm a little scared."

"I……"

He subconsciously took a step forward, but a rustling sound of wind suddenly came from the forest, which brought back his senses and stopped him in his tracks.

"…I can't help it. Chaolu."

So Chaolu took a deep breath, held back her tears, and gave a forced smile: "I know! I'm sorry for always making unreasonable demands on you... Then, I'll go alone."

She took a few more steps forward, then stopped and turned to look at Shikamaru.

She rushed over and hugged him tightly.

"goodbye!"

Before he could react and hug her, the girl disappeared in an instant.

Perhaps they both knew that a slow farewell would only make both of them feel the pain of being tortured to death, so it would be better to make a quick decision and cut off all ties.

Shikamaru lowered his head, and at some point, his father appeared behind him. He gently placed his hand on his son's shoulder.

"Mom has prepared dinner and is waiting for us to eat when we get home. She made your favorite dish."

Shikamaru: "Why...? If you found her, why didn't you stop us?"

"You made this decision. You trust her, and I trust you." His father patted him on the shoulder gently: "I just hope that she will not let you down."

"..."

"If I hadn't followed you, would you have gone with her?"

Shikamaru said softly, "There is no such thing as if."

……

"Shikamaru, what's wrong with you?"

Ino placed the bouquet in the vase on the bedside table and looked at Shikamaru lying on the bed, raising an eyebrow: "You got injured and hospitalized on your first mission after becoming a Chunin?"

Shikamaru sighed deeply, looking exhausted.

"I heard that you were under an illusion... That shouldn't be the case. When Zhu Lu Die was training, he had our family's mountain secret technique. Shouldn't you have been accustomed to dealing with mental attacks by now?"

"The enemy this time... is good at finding the things that the opponent fears the most and creating illusions."

"The most frightening thing?" Ino asked curiously, "What kind of illusion did he create for you?"

"In the illusion, Chaolu came to see me on the day she disappeared."

Ino was stunned.

"She trusted me...she asked me for help and asked me to help her leave."

"Hey, you wouldn't..."

"I helped her escape Konoha. She asked me if I wanted to come with her."

"..."

Shikamaru raised his hands to cover his eyes and repeated in a low voice: "She asked me if I wanted to go with her..."

"What you fear most is her asking you if you want to go with her?"

"……Um."

"why?"

"Because I'm afraid that I'll agree, and I'm also afraid that I won't agree."

Ino sighed: "Is she afraid of you... afraid that it would be difficult for us, so she left without telling anyone?"

Thinking of the girl who had left the village, Ino stared at the bouquet in a daze: "By the way, Shikamaru, today is Tanabata."

"?"

"Chaolu said that after she graduated this year and went on a mission, she would have a stable income and could buy better gifts than before... She reserved a Tanabata bouquet at our house." Ino raised her chin towards the vase: "She reserved this for you."

Shikamaru turned around in astonishment, "...What...is this...! It's too much to delay receiving a gift...!"

"Well... no matter what, the money has been collected, so let's send it off. However, Naruto has left the village, Sasuke is gone too, and only Shino, Kakashi-sensei and you are left." Ino stood up, "Okay, I'm going to send the next person off."