Naruto walked past the mountains of bodies piling up on the ground. He entered the desolate Clan Grounds, the Nara clan members laid strewn about. He headed into Shikamaru's home to see Bee and Yugito holding Shikaku and Yoshino hostage as he told them to. "You guys can go, I'll handle them properly," Naruto muttered. 

"Are you sure?" Yugito asked.

"Yeah, I have my ways," Naruto responded and gave them both an honest smile. He was genuinely happy for the first time in a long while. 

When they left Naruto used his clones to place this entire home back in order. Shikaku and Yoshino were sealed in the basement, charms for silencing and locks were carved into the door to the entrance. He covered the entire home in an illusion seal. To others outside the home was broken down and charred to a crisp. No one would come here. Naruto laid Shikamaru down on the sofa and headed upstairs to shower and change into the usual clothing that he wore in the house. He came back down to look at the battered Shinobi, he touched his neck. 

'You fucking bastard, at least I know you regret it, time to fuck around with your mental state a bit.' 

Naruto started cooking dinner, it wasn't long until Shikamaru woke up. He looked over at Naruto who was cooking and felt relief. "Thank Kami," He said softly, he had just gone through a bloody haze of a dream. To see his soulmate in such a horrific way, he must have been so tired. He just listened to Naruto humming away.

He tried to figure out why he would have such a vivid dream. He looked around and became concerned when he realized that he was home. He sat up quickly, surprising Naruto who jumped a bit before frowning. "You're an idiot," Naruto said bluntly.

"Do tell?" Shikamaru asked with a confused expression.

"I told you to take care of yourself. Instead, you got ambushed during the night and you wouldn't wake up. Neji had to haul your ass among the chaos," Naruto folded his arms. "Your parents are dealing with their respective fields and I apologized to Neji for his struggle. Now come eat."

Shikamaru wore a face of embarrassment as he sat down to eat. Naruto paid him no mind and ate with a blank expression. "Am I in trouble?"

"Are you in trouble?" Naruto chuckled and his eyes sharpened and Shikamaru felt the look was very similar. "Depends."

"On?"

"Do you buy my shit?" Naruto stated carelessly. "Or perhaps you've experienced trauma? Doesn't matter to me, I'll still break you."

Shikamaru quailed on the inside and Naruto slowly saw the light die in his eyes. "Don't retreat now baby, remember I'm supposed to tether you to this reality."

Naruto laughed as he continued eating. "I find it funny really. You need me more than I need you. You need me to keep sane but at the same time, you want to kill me.  How's that working for you?"

Shikamaru pushed his plate aside and Naruto wasn't having it. "Sit down or so help me I will break your ankles."

"How could you do that? Why?"

"Didn't I tell you before? I was hated so I left. I hated this village in turn. They told a little boy that he was a monster so he grew up and became one. And when the old bat wage war against his new home it was only customary that this little boy now turned monster lead them into victory."

"So, you used me?" Shikamaru looked next to tears.

"Yes, it was ordained by fate that we were tied together. What were the odds? To be fated to the son of the Hokage's right hand, it's certainly a welcomed surprise. But it wasn't all fake, I can assure you that."

"I don't believe you; I can't believe anything you say. I fucking hate you! I have you with my entire being! You took my village, my family, and my fucking friends everything that I had you took it away and reduced it to ashes!"

Naruto smiled at him, cooing softly. "Don't start on friends, your friends don't know the boundaries of fated pairs."

Shikamaru froze and Naruto could see the possessive gleam in his eye. He smirked on the inside. 'Even when you hate me you still love me somewhere in your heart.'

"What you did with Neji-" He got cut off by Naruto who was laughing.

"What I did with Neji? What did Shino do? And finally, what I nearly with Kiba. There was also Shikaoni but I think we've all forgotten."

Shikamaru paled and he snapped. He jumped over the table and he froze, he couldn't move. Naruto chuckled coldly. "You didn't think I would let you have the opportunity to attack me, right? You can't attack your Master."

Shikamaru could feel the pulsing in the side of his neck. He started crying as he sat down, his body is rigid. "Shikamaru I don't know why you're acting like this. You have me now; I will be faithful to you and when we leave here, we'll be much happier in the Cloud."

"Please kill me, just end me. I hate you; I want to kill you."

Naruto smiled with a fondness in his eyes. Imagine that, a demon smiling and in love. "No, I could kill you but I don't want to. It's the first time in my life that I've ever felt the need to protect someone. I love you ya know? But if you continue being a pain in my ass, I could just chain you up with your parents and let you all starve to death."

"They are alive!" Shikamaru immediately perked up and smiled.

"Of course, I want you to have time with them before we leave. Now be a good servant and go upstairs. I want to play with you."

Before Shikamaru could protest an unknown force came over him and he felt an out-of-body experience. Naruto smirked as he watched Shikamaru go upstairs. He followed him into the bedroom and left the door open. Shikamaru was bathed and dressed in pajamas, he had to lay beside the person who destroyed everything. "I hate you." 

"I know." 

"You destroyed my home, my village." 

"They destroyed me first, I did nothing. Did you really think I wouldn't take the opportunity when it opened up? I was extremely happy." 

"Do you really love me?" Shikamaru asked turning to him, Naruto looked him dead in the eye, the Nara shuddered. 

"Of course, I do," Naruto freely admitted, Shikamaru just couldn't believe him. He trusted Naruto blindly and look where it got them. He was the reason for the destruction of his village, his clan. 

"I'm going to kill you."

"I would gladly let you but you'll die alongside me," Naruto lied, with the master-servant bond only Shikamaru would suffer as servants suffer. 

"I don't care, I want you dead," Shikamaru spat. 

Naruto hummed. "Okay, do as you want, go all out. I order you to try and kill me." 

Shikamaru's eyes widened at the declaration. "Why did you have to be this way," He started crying and Naruto pulled him closer and hugged him. "I love you but I hate you!" 

"What a dilemma, should I help you? Do you want me to kill you, darling? My baby, my life, my baby shadow, do you want my bloodshed?" 

"Yes!" Shikamaru yelled through his tears. 

"Then do it," Naruto said, suddenly serious. The blonde manifested a blade and placed it in Shikamaru's hand. "Come on, do it." 

Naruto straddled Shikamaru as the blade trembled in his hand. "Doll?" 

Shikamaru slowly pierced him in the center of his chest. Blood flowed down his hand and it pooled on his pajamas. Naruto's eyes glazed over as he watched Shikamaru's crying face, the smell of blood enclosing them as his clothes turned red. "I really love that look on your face," Blood drained out of Naruto's mouth and he leaned down, sinking the blade down to the hilt into his chest as he connected their lips. 

Shikamaru didn't know how much blood he swallowed but Naruto had no intention of stopping his assault. He watched the blonde carelessly dislodge the blade to the floor as he was picked up in his arms. Shikamaru wanted to struggle but he was frozen stiff by the insanity in the eyes of his soulmate. "I never believed in the soulmate pairing. I found it silly, a nuisance but they really gifted me something precious. I've always wanted to paint something in my own way and to see you covered in my blood is the highest primal satisfaction I've ever felt." 

Naruto licked Shikamaru's tears that night his intentions becoming darker with each passing day.