A groan of pain MUTTERED, sound hardly filtering between COBWEB CRACKED LIPS. She doesn’t wait for a response, lost within the LABYRINTH of her own mind. All attention pulled from lecturing him, and back to this broken body that lay before her. He wasn’t sure she knew he was conscious with how wild and rough her hands were being with his wounds. That, or she was furious enough with his recklessness that she didn’t care.
Shikamaru glances to her and his heart is DROWNING, captive in chains to THE WORLD ON HIS SHOULDERS that takes and pushes down on him until the weight cracks his ribs from the strain of it all. Weight that threatens to SHATTER THE BONE there and send him gasping for air, like this battleground has already done to him. golden gaze shifts, each part of his attention torn in uneven parts between the TATTERED NINJA that stood around them both. Each of them demand LESS OF HIM than he has demanded of himself. And yet, despite this pain that seeps from every pore, mixed with sweat and blood, he’d run into hell after any one of them.
should have been faster. should have been stronger. should have been better. Thoughts flow through his mind, washing over him being with POISONOUS venom.
Shika’s mouth is layered in the taste of smoke, not of cigarette but bomb and ruin. Despite his broken body, his fingers twitch in longing to reach for his pack but his stomach curls in siding with this taste on his tongue. He catches sight of OLYMPUS SKY EYES and offers a half hearted smile, recoiling as busted lip begins it’s steady flow of blood once more. ❝ ——— Yeah but you’d never let me die without finishing our match, right? ❞ He’d be damned if she wasn’t the only sight worth seeing right now. He almost reaches up, almost makes the movement to stroke a cherry blossom lock of hair from her heated eyes. It takes casts and bandages to stop him. ❝ He needed me, ❞ the ninja mutters nonchalantly ( as if he hadn’t charged in there and left his life as risk )❝ You can’t tell me you wouldn’t have done the same. Where is Naruto? ❞
