You should not try to remember...

Chapter 2

Curiosity

"What I'm doing? There's like a 10% chance that something important is buried here. I could relax and look at the clouds instead of digging and probably found nothing interesting," Shikamaru thinks as he digs with his kunai. Yea, he's a lazy ass and being curious isn't like him, but he has to know. Maybe it's something about his past?

Digging the hole is pretty easy, since it seems like it was buried not so long ago. It doesn't take long before Shikamaru has to jump down the hole. "I hope I'll find something interesting, it's really deep." Shikamaru thinks as he continues digging.

After a moment, something shiny catches his attention and he picks it up. It's a metal lighter. Alright, someone comes in the Nara forest, digs a hole about 6 feet deep and buries a metal lighter. Great, just... great. He puts the lighter in his pocket and is about to get out of the hole when he sees a tuft of what looks like silver fur. He crouches down to get a better look. "What's that?" Shikamaru grips the silver fur and pulls on it.

He pulls so hard, when he finally manages to take it out, he falls backward. When he opens his eyes, he looks at what is in his hand: a head.

He screams in disgust as he throws the head against the wall of the hole.

"OW THAT FUCKING HURT!" Someone yells. Shikamaru is alone in the forest, who could be yelling?

The young jounin looks at the head lying in the bottom of the hole when suddenly, it open his eyes. Bright, deep amethyst eyes are looking at him.

Shikamaru freezes in horror. He was prepared to find anything, even a corpse, but he wasn't prepared to find a talking head. How could he know that he would find that sort of thing? It's not even logical!

"FUCKING SHIT YOU ALMOST SCALPED ME IT HURT LIKE A BITCH YOU KNOW?" The head yells back at him.

"A nightmare, it has to be a nightmare... I will wake up soon." Shikamaru says to himself, holding his head in his hands.

"IT'S NOT A FUCKING NIGHTMARE YOU FUCKING JERK!" The head is angry, but Shikamaru doesn't care, since a head by itself isn't dangerous.

Shikamaru looks back at the head lying in the bottom of the hole. It seems so unreal... "Why are you still alive?" Shikamaru asks to the head as he pokes him on the cheek.

The talking head frowns. "I'm fucking immortal! He doesn't remember?"

"Who are you?" Shikamaru's reply confirms Hidan's doubts.

The head stays silent a moment before he replies, more calmly, "I'm Hidan." He's so confused. Why does Shikamaru doesn't remember him? He killed his teacher and Shikamaru buried him not so long ago! Well, that's what Hidan thought...

"Who buried you there and why?" Shikamaru asks quietly.

"I'm not sure..." The young boy in front of him really looks like the bastard who buried him... but he has no idea who he is... maybe a lot of years passed and this boy is one of Shikamaru's descendants...

"You're not sure? You mean you lost your memories?" Shikamaru sighs. This is great. He digs up an amnesic loud-mouthed immortal dude who cannot even help him. How lucky...

"Hey! Can you let me out of this hole? Pretty please, with sugar on top?" Hidan snaps him out of his thoughts.

"I don't think it's a good idea..."

He will pay for this... "What you would says if you was amnesic and buried in a fucking hole for Jashin know how long, someone found you, and he doesn't help you because he doesn't know you? I bet you would be FUCKING pissed too!"

"No."

"Hun?"

"If I was buried and in pieces, I will be dead. So if someone found me, I wouldn't be pissed, I'll be dead," the young jounin explains.

Hidan bites his lower lip and frowns. "Fuck you."

Shikamaru bursts out laughing. It was the first time he laughed since he woke up at the hospital. He decides he likes to make fun of the immortal guy. He's the only person who doesn't look at him in pity or reproach him for forgetting about... well, almost everything from his past life.

"You won't let me rot here, will you?" Hidan says, giving a 'nice' smile.

Shikamaru smiles. "Don't worry, I'll dig you up."

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Shikamaru lays the parts of Hidan's body under a tree near the hole. It's the first time he's ever dug up a body that has been blown into pieces, well he thinks so anyway...

"Hey, does it matter if you're missing some of your... organs? I don't know if they're all in you or if some of them are still buried..." Shikamaru asks, hoping he will not have to search for Hidan's kidneys or anything like that. It would be so gross...

"Hun? Ah, it doesn't matter. I will heal fast anyway."

Shikamaru sighs, relieved. "Alright." The young jounin stands up. "I will return soon."

"I thought you'd bring me to your home! What if a wolf wants to eat me? Oh yeah, there's no wolves here, it's the Nara forest, so having wolves around could be dangerous for the precious little deer living here." Hidan looks around him, almost hoping the deer doesn't remember him as well. Great, Hidan, the s-rank criminal and Akatsuki immortal member, is now afraid of deer...

"I don't think my parents will react well if I brought home an anmesic immortal stranger I found buried in the forest," Shikamaru explains, snapping Hidan out of his thoughts.

"Yeah, that's right. Maybe his father is that Shikamaru bastard. He would return me to the grave in that case... or worse. It's surprising, I was in that hole for so long but I'm not skin and bone yet..." Hidan thinks as he listens to the sound of Shikamaru's footstep as he returns to his home.

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Hidan is back on his feet before sunset... well, not really back on his feet, but in one piece at least. His stitches are still too weak for him to be able to move without breaking them. He has to wait a few hours until he's completely healed. Shikamaru makes him sit under the tree and lean against it.

"I bet you're hungry. Here's some of my mom's cooking," Shikamaru says as he gives Hidan a bento. The jashinist smiles from ear to ear, as if he just saw his beloved god of destruction in the food Shikamaru just gave him.

"Fuck yeah!" Hidan yells, literally ripping the bento from Shikamaru's hands. "Dear Jashin-sama, I swear I will never whine again about being hungry. I think I've never been so damn hungry before!" Tears of joy fall down his cheeks as he starts to engulf the meal.

Shikamaru sighs. "At least you could thank me..."

Hidan looks up at him, his mouth full of rice and his eyes full of stars. "Mhmmm!"

The young jounin cannot restrain a small laugh. "I guess it will be alright. You should not be eating so fast, it's not a competition you know? By the way, you never told me your name..." Shikamaru remarks.

"I'm Hidan. You?" Hidan says, still eating his meal as if he was trying to achieve a new record of speed.

"I'm Shikamaru Nara." The jounin replies nonchalantly.

At that name, the Jashinist chokes on his food.

"Hey! I warned you not to eat so fast!" Shikamaru quickly stands up and hits Hidan's back a few times, worried. "You'll be okay?"

"Okay? OKAY? Jashin-damned! What the fuck is going on?" Hidan panics.

"You didn't remember who buried you there, but you still remember your name. You're lucky," Shikamaru comments.

Hidan didn't reply, looking at the young boy's forehead. "What's that?" He asks, pointing at Shikamaru's scar. "Hun? Oh, It's the scar I got from a battle. That's how I lost my memory."

"Oh.. I see..." Hidan calms down. "He thinks I didn't remember who buried me here not because I was confused about him, but because I'd lost memories... You're right Shikamaru, I'm so damn lucky. So you lost your memory too, hun?"

"Yeah, because of my injury. Do you remember something else than your name?"

"Hmmm... maybe I will remember later..." Hidan says as he continues eating, trying not to laugh.

"That's what Tsunade told me, too. She said I'll remember later, when my injury heals. I guess it's the same thing for you, even if you didn't lose your memory because of an injury. A good sleep will probably be beneficial for both of us. Digging you up was exhausting." Shikamaru stands up and stretches.

"Yeah maybe..." Hidan says.

"See ya tomorrow!" Shikamaru tells before he turns his back to the 'amnesic' albino.

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Hidan lies on the ground, looking up at the stars as he tries to fall asleep, but something on his mind keeps him from sleep. "I wonder where Kakuzu is... Surely with the Akatsuki, with another partner, counting money and being a miser, like before... before me..." Hidan frowns. What if Kakuzu didn't remember him? What if he died? God, he will miss that miser... but for now, he has a new toy to play with...

To be continued...

Thanks to sunshinelexi for beta reading!