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Shiko Trivia (Part 3: Shippuuden's first half)

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Parts of the Story: 
Shiko Trivia (Part1: Pre-series)
Shiko Trivia (Part 2: Pre-Shippuuden)
Part 3 -you are here-
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Hi everybody. Here is the 3rd part of Shiko's story. We finally reached Shippuuden which means that the strips coming to your way will take longer to make, 'cause I want to deliver the details of her story without writing it for years. Believe me when I say I would be able to do that and write a series of novels. :D Anyhow let's dive into it.


Panel 1 - What friendship means: Throughout the first act of Shippuuden Shiko is mainly an off-screen character. As mentioned earlier she can't leave Konoha so she spends most of her time there, perfecting her skills and so on. At the beginning of Shippuuden her teacher, Hanako, requests a Shiko's promoted to jounin what she'll receive after the reunion of Naruto and Sasuke. During that time she meets Sai who she can't help it but feel sorry for. Shiko helps Sai learning how to express himself and they develop a strong friendship (not in a traditional way of course, after all it's Sai we are talking about).

Things start to hit the fan when Tsunade asks Shiko to meet her at the Hokage's office. Tsunade gives her a top secret spy mission: her job is to become a part of the Akatsuki and provide information of their schemes so they can stop them from taking Naruto. (The Akatsuki already shown her interest in her because of Shiko's ability to wield all 5 elements without a having a bijuu sealed inside her. By the way, the sealed spirit is a top secret topic, only 6 people [Shiko, Tsunade, Kakashi, Hanako and the 2 elders] know about it in the whole village.) In order to do so Shiko has to become a rogue ninja by leave Konoha, meaning that she'll be a target for bounty hunters and will be added to the Bingo book. Shiko hoping that she can save her friend agrees but she askes one last thing from Tsunade. Kakashi, her father, must be informed about why she left. Shiko would hate see him hurt knowing what happened to him in the past, also they possibly can meet from time to time.

On her last night in Konoha she writes letter to her friends to say good bye and delivers them. Nobody notices the girl sneaking around except Sai who was staying at a hospital due to his injuries. Shiko tells him a lie about how she wants to live freely, without boundaries but he doesn't believe her. The boy tries to stop Shiko when an accident happens. She jumps out of the window and when Sai decides to follow her he loses his balance and falls to the ground from the 4th floor. Shiko tries to treat an open wound on the back of his head when the staff of the hospital arrives. She vanishes as quickly as she can, so nobody will notice. However the note she left in Sai's room makes everything worse. The citizens of Konoha and every shinobi thinks she's a deserter who attempted to kill one of her comrades. Even Naruto's attempt of speaking up for her fails.

Panel 2 - Siblings but not equals: Shiko's situation is dire. It is truly a do-or-die position what she got herself into. Thankfully as expected the Akatsuki welcomes her in their non-heartwarming way. To test Shiko's abilities and loyalty Pein gives her a task: she needs to kill her last remaining relative from Kirigakure, her little brother, Higatsu. Of course it would be foolish to let the girl go alone so Pein orders the closest Akatsuki duo to stay with her and keep on eye on her so Shiko won't try to attempt any trickery to save the boy. Shiko accepts Pein's terms but she requests Kisame to leave while the mission is in progress. Kisame is one of the main targets of the Souta clan so he would be a major distraction. The leader didn't see the point of her concerns but Kisame didn't want to "stay around and play babysitter". The shark-man leaves to a different mission 

Shiko tells Itachi right away that he knows the secret about him and the Uchiha clan. She also talks about how she accured the knowledge and she wants him to trust her; however it's easier said than done. Itachi has problems with his newfound partner: he doesn't like the fact the Shiko knows so much about him, it concerns him that she just agreed on killing her only brother not to mention that she is way too pushy about trust between them. He advices training before her encounter with Higatsu so he can see what she is capable of.

After a few days Shiko was ready to take on Higatsu. Thanks to Kisame they loced the boy and met him on a field near the border of the Land of Fire. Shiko had no intentions of murdering Higatsu so she prepared a plan to make it seem that the deed is done. Little did she know that Higatsu had other things in mind and he was thirty of he elder sister's blood. For years he has been mourning his deceased father and brother while he was certain that their death was all on Shiko. Higatsu left Kirigakure alone after he heared the news about his siter's escape from Konoha to avange his late family members.

When the fight has begun Itachi was hiding in the distance. Thanks to the bloodline technique from their mother's side of the family branch Higatsu was able to liquefy himself just like Mangetsu or Suigetsu can but was only delaying the inevitable. Before her final blow Shiko made both Higatsu and herself disappear so she can tell her plan on how to save the boy's life but he didn't listen. Instead he admited his defeat and commited suicide. In that moment a spirit, simular what Shiko has inside her appeared and vanished almost immediately. Before that it said one word: "unworthy".

Panel 3 - My compass: After delivering Higatsu's body to Pein Shiko was left alone with Itachi for a few weeks. Shiko was trying to act tough but while she was talking about herself she couldn't continue the act and told Itachi that she lied to him. She told him about why she really left Konoha, that she is concerned about Sai's well being, how she didn't want to kill Higatsu yet he did it himself, what happened with the spirit and that she's only here to save her friends and family. In that moment Itachi got close to her and hugged her. From that day Itachi didn't see her as a treath but more like an ally instead. They had the same goal and both of them were ready to give anything to fulfill it which made him a tiny bit happy.

It's hard to describe their relationship. It wasn't romantic or sexual by any means, more like a partnership that turned into very close friendship during the year what they have spent together. The girl tried to support Itachi as much as she could by cheering him up, talking to him, etc, to put his mind at ease hoping that her actions might cure his deep sadness. In return Itachi protected her from Tobi by keeping her getting her own cloak. (Fun fact: Shiko wore the Akatsuki cloak only once, near the end of her journey. In her case getting the cloak ment that she'll be on her own, far from Itachi and the other Akatuki members without a partner of her own.) Shiko's efforts certainly helped a little but of course it wasn't enough to change the older Uchiha brother's mind about his plans.

Panel 4 - Alone, again: Shiko was Itachi's only friend but he was never fully open with her even though he grew to like her. When the time came to face Sasuke Itachi knew that Shiko would do something foolish just to stop him. He used a powerful genjutsu to put her in a deep sleep. She was in her dreamland for about 3 days when she finally broke the jutsu. She went after Itachi but when she arrived it was already too late. Shiko saw Itachi's final moments and when he fell to the ground she ran to him and started sobbing over his dead body.

Shiko was so shocked, she didn't even notice that Tobi teleported everybody away. When she finally snapped out of it she looked for Sasuke, threatened him to kill him if he tries to harm any of her friends. And lastly she took Itachi's necklace and wore it from that moment 'till her last days on Earth.




That's about it for this part of the story. I'll be back with more as soon as possible. However I'm still uncertain about a few things about the ending, but dont worry, I'll figure it out. Thanks for reading and take care ~

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Reference #2 by MondoArt

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Leladiel's avatar
it turned out really nice :)