Summary: Shikamaru is raped by Sasuke. Will a mystery savior keep him from falling apart? Or will he be broken beyond repair?
Pairings: Main: NaruShika
Side: LeeSaku, ChouIno
Warnings: yaoi, rape
Disclaimer: yeah. Don't own.
'Thoughts'
"Speech"
Demon/Inner talking
Flashback no Jutsu

Okay, don't flame me about pairings. This fic is written by me. Therefore what I say goes. Don't like it? Click the back button! Constructive criticism, however, is welcome. And reviews telling me you liked it, (and why, if you feel like it). Because positive reviews make me happy, and a happy author makes more chapters for you to read.

With that said, onto the story!

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Nara Shikamaru hated his life right now. The Uchiha had willingly come back, but that wasn't what bugged him. No, what was pissing him off was that he was assigned to guard the bastard. Him, of all people!

"Mendokusai." He muttered to himself.

"Talking to yourself, eh, Shikamaru?" came a voice from behind him.

"Go away, Naruto." Shikamaru groaned. The blonde was being hyper, as usual, and it was not making Shikamaru's day any easier.

Of course, Naruto did the opposite. He glomped and clung to the irate Nara.

"Naruto, get your hand off my ass or you will lose it." Shikamaru warned.

"Sorry, Shika. It's just too cute." And the hand was quickly removed, Naruto knowing that it was not an empty threat.

"That's a great compliment, thanks Naruto." Shikamaru drawled back to his blonde friend.

Yeah, Naruto was gay. Shikamaru had figured it out from the looks the Kyuubi container sent the last Uchiha, and was the only one who Naruto had told. Naruto knew Shikamaru's preferences lay with the fairer sex, so, naturally, he flirted with the brunette for fun only, never really meaning anything by it. Although getting constantly told he was, in Naruto's words, "fucking sexy" didn't exactly kill the Nara boy's ego, either.

Naruto also knew Shikamaru was assigned to baby sit Sasuke. So, as a warning and just because it was fun to tease him, Naruto commented,

"Careful, Shika. Unfortunately for you, Sasuke's gay too. He might be tempted to jump you."

Shikamaru blanched when he heard this. "So that's why you weren't assigned to guard him."

"Yep." Naruto replied. "Can't have the prisoner "sexually satisfied", especially by the Kyuubi-boy." He finished bitterly.

Shikamaru stopped dead and turned to face the blonde. "Naruto, stop that. No matter what they say, you are not the Kyuubi. You are Uzumaki Naruto, shinobi of Konohagakure no Sato, and my friend."

Naruto grinned. "Thanks Shika-chan."

Honestly, being called that annoyed Shikamaru, but he ignored it in favor of giving the blonde a hug, glad he wasn't moping about the ignorance of whoever called him the hated name "Kyuubi-boy".

Shikamaru knew that truth about his friend too. He had put it together at their first Chunin Exam, but hadn't said anything about it until an incident with a villager while Shikamaru and Naruto had been hanging out together.

Shikamaru and Naruto were walking down the street, when Naruto yelped, recoiling as something collided with the back of his head. Shikamaru turned to the blonde, wondering what had happened. That's when he looked down and saw a rock. A rather large rock, that happened to have something red on it. Shikamaru's gaze immediately flew to the back of Naruto's head. Just as he suspected. Blood.

"Naruto-…" He was cut off by the blonde's suspiciously calm voice.

"Don't worry about it Shikamaru. It'll go away."

Instead of responding, Shikamaru had dragged him to his own apartment, insisting that Naruto at least let him look at and bandage it. Naruto hadn't complained. Once inside, Shikamaru inspected the area and found, to his astonishment, that all signs of the injury were gone.

"Naruto, what-?" He raised an eyebrow. "It's gone. How?"

Naruto stared for a few minutes and then sighed and told Shikamaru the truth about what had happened the night of the Kyuubi attack. Instead of looking disgusted, or anything of the sort, like Naruto half-expected him to do, Shikamaru sighed.

"That's what I figured." He returned Naruto's stare. "No matter what, you're a comrade and friend. That you are jailor for the Kyuubi makes no difference to me."

To say Naruto was shocked would have been the understatement of the eon. His first reaction was to glomp his friend and grin from ear to ear. Not one of his usual grins either. This one was genuine. A smile of true happiness.

Ever since then, Naruto and Shikamaru had grown even closer, mostly because Shikamaru was the only one of their generation who knew of Naruto's burden, and accepted him fully despite it. Naruto knew, due to his friend's constant reminders that the villagers were just ignorant, but it hurt him so badly each time they called him those names. Even though he never showed it, he knew Shikamaru could see it anyway. The Nara hated that they could be so blind, and made sure Naruto knew that he didn't believe it for a second.

As they started walking again, the Uchiha compound came into view. Shikamaru shuddered at the thought of being alone with Sasuke, and made no complaint when the other boy hugged him. Kami knew he needed all the encouragement he could get. Leaving the blonde behind, he knocked on the door of Sasuke's current home and stepped inside.