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Lavi thought he looked awesome, until he stepped outside and realised how flashy it looked even in the modern day of Konoha.
The shiny black had countless people looking at him with wide eyes and his cheeks redden with embrassement, he turned to go back into to change only to realise the old man had locked him out.
Lavi used the invible cloak technique and to run to the academy knowing he would get suspicious looks from anybody feeling Chakra.
It reduced his embrassement though.
He made it to the classroom door without being scene and opened the doors, everybody turned to see nobody but heard Lavi voice.
"I finally made it"
A lot of kids eyes went wide.
"Lavi, why are you invisible?" Said Mistuki.
"I'm embrassed" said Lavi.
So Lavi was indeed there.
"What do you have to be embrassed about?" said Shikadai.
"Im curious now" said Chocho.
"Promise, you guys won't stare" said Lavi.
They promised and than he dropped it revealing his extremely flashly attire.
Nothing could have prepared them for what they saw.
Lavi had gone from looking like a slighty better begger kid to looking like royalty from TV.
Everybody was surprised even Mitsuki.
"Hey, isn't this too big of a jump from your normal look?" Said Iwabee with wide eyes.
Lavi seemed to be sparkling.
"He looks like a foreign prince" said Simure.
They all couldn't wait to show off their outfit but Lavi had outclass them all.
"Well my old man gave this to me this morning" said Lavi, trying to not show how red he was. "I thought it was cool but I stand out so much"
And than they heard their sensei coming with people behind him, they all formed a line immediantly seeing other adults.
Shino and all the adults eyes went to Lavi flashy attire immediantly.
Nani!?
What was with that outfit!?
Lavi faced forward trying to break from the many eyes on his back as the teacher began his final farewell to them all and tried to show the other adults how well they were trained before giving their groups and Senseis.
Students began leaving in their new groups and Lavi eventually realised that he was left with the outstanding pupils.
"Hmm, there are 7 of us" said Shikadai.
And than the teacher announced the usual Shik-Ino-Cho combination, all three walked out.
"Boruto, Sarada and Mistuki, you will be a team" said Shino. "Lavi Bookman, a jounin has expressed interest in you as an apprentice"
"Nani!?" He said, and all three were surprised.
What Jounin would?
Suddenly the door opened and in came none other than Shikamaru Nara.
"Nani!?" Boruto, Sarada and Lavi said together.
It can't be.
But it was.
"Lavi Bookman, follow me." said Shikamaru Nara, confirming it was in fact him.
The man had told nothing about this to his son.
"Ur, okay" said Lavi walking after the man.
Lavi struggled to keep up with the man as he went to the Hokage office and entered.
For the first time, Lavi properly saw Naruto Uzumaki and bowed religiously. "N-Nice to meet you, sir!"
Naruto smiled and said. "It's nice to finally meet you Lavi" but on the inside, he was wondering why Lavi face looked so familiar.
"Well that's enough time for a break, get back to the paperwork" said Shikamaru and Naruto almost cried but held it and went back it.
Lavi was told to sit and than the Hokage right hand man brought out a game.
It was the game that Shikamaru previous Sensei had used on him to test his IQ.
"I'm going to give you an attack strategy and your going to try and counter it" said Shikamaru knowing Naruto would be trying to peak.
And than Shikamaru made his moves, Lavi looked and just like that all of the knowledge he had of this game sprung to life as if he was taking out a book in his mind.
Clank.
Clank.
Clank.
Clank.
The sound of Lavi moving the pieces in a constant stream before finishing echoed in the office, unbeknown to him, Shikamaru was actually timing him.
Shikamaru look at how the boy would counter this when Lavi was clearly done and said. "How did you get this method?"
"Well with this game, you can think of a million attack Patten's that bend the rules as far as they go" said Lavi. "I actually got this idea from watching the mouse that I released in my exam"
"Mouse?" Said Shikamaru.
"There are a dozen of them but what made it check mate was the smallest and quickest mice" said Lavi. "The strongest was just a lure to cause disarray. While the least likely to attack, does the fatal blow" before he said. "But even if that attack failed, I positioned the pieces in such in such a way that I can reset the pieces with the least amount of casualitys and try another attack over and over again"
Shikamaru said nothing, before he said.
"Lavi, you can go home now"
"Eh?" He said.
"I just wanted to test out something" said Shikamaru. "I never told you I'll take on an apprentice full time. You can go home"
"Well, if you say so" said Lavi. "It was amazing meeting you" and than he left.
"Now I see why Kakashi said Lavi Bookman is a scary kid" said Shikamaru. "He not only used what he had done before but also he must have studied this game religiously. The kids mind is a library that he can access easily"
#2 days later#
The whole teachers lounge at the academy was stunned when they saw Shikamaru Nara walk through the door.
"I did the test" said Shikamaru to Shino. "Would you like to hear Lavi Bookmans IQ?"
Shino went silent and many teachers ease dropped.
"The kids got an IQ of 312" said Shikamaru, shocking the whole room. "Yes I know, when I did it, it was over 200 but what makes it so high is thats kids stored knowledge. Hes an all-rouder, he not only takes into account people but the environment as well in an instant. That kid really could bring a village to its knees if he used it on a large scale. I would like to keep him as an apprentice"
And that's what brought the man outside the Bookman compound, a day later after leaving a clone to make sure Naruto didn't slack off.
Shikamaru knocked on the gate, he heard it would be suicide if he tried to get in without permission.
"I'm coming" said Lavi walking to the gate and seeing who was there only to see the Hokage right hand man. "Come in"
He doesn't look surprised to see me. Noted Shikamaru as he went in and looked around to find a normal garden before heading to the not so luxurious like the Nara clan but definitely not a normal house door, Lavi opened the door and said. "Please take your shoes off at the door"
Shikamaru did so and the first thing he noticed was the shelves.
The massive shelves with hundreds and hundreds of books in them, he followed Lavi to the living room but everywhere Shikamaru looked he couldn't see the end of each row on either side of him, this was either Genjustu or the inside of the house had been expanded many times over to house all these books.
Shikamaru did not think a library could shock him but than he saw the Bookman clan library.
Shikamaru sat down and Bookman said. "Tea?"
"That would be nice" said Shikamaru.
Lavi went to get tea.
"This is quiet the collection, how do you keep track of it all?" said Shikamaru.
"It's actually a clan secret how we locate the books we need" said Bookman. "Some books are written by I through my life time, a small fraction by my grandson, while the rest of these are written by others who document their life work. We collect it all, no matter what the knowledge is, there is no such thing as useless knowledge. Just because a person can't use it, doesn't mean another person isnt desperately seeking for it. You just need the right person to make a piece of knowledge shine. We also have books on any noteworthy individuals so that even if they die and their impact on the world goes, they will always stay alive in the books"
"I'm going out, Panda" said Lavi putting on his fleshy new coat, he found out quickly people don't look at you as poor when you wear flashy clothes.
"Make sure you get my alcohol" said Bookman and Lavi left.
Shikamaru was taken back, alcohol when he looked like he could die any minute?
"Should I be asking if there is a book about me or better yet, if you would allow me to read it?" said Shikamaru.
"A person should never read their own book" said Bookman. " I call it Self Madness. They become obessesed with the past and this village needs a person as cable as you to back up the Hokage or it will collapse. Not even a Genius can feel nothing when their whole lives are written right out in front of them. I really advise you to not try to look for that book"
So not only was there a book written about him, Shikamaru was right to assume their was a book written about all the Clan heads including the Hokage.
Again, if he wasn't so sure there was some kind of protection around these books, he would have grounds to arrest this man.
"I want to get right on it" said Shikamaru. "I would like to take your grandson as my apprentice for real. I wish to train him as my successor as the adviser of the next Hokage"
The old man didn't even blink.
"Is that so? Isn't it better that your son be trained to fill in that role?" said Bookman.
"He's my son, he has yet to found anything to truly motivate him" said Shikamaru. "However Lavi, gives me the impression that he not only knows about the time before the peace but his fangs are far sharper than my own sons right now. My son was born in a peacefull village and time, the concept that everybody could die in the next minute doesn't even cross his mind"
He grew up in a society that forced him out of his lazy rut to survive, these days anybody claiming to kill another person was seen by the younger generation as a movie villain instead of the terror, it should be.
"But to use my grandson" said Bookman. "My grandson also has his obligation as a Bookman to fulfil. I know you, yourself are pressed for time due to the business of your job. If he becomes what you hope, Lavi will come at a cross road. Either he has to a Bookman or be the Hokage adviser, he can't be both. My grandson has to have something or someone in this village that would make him want to protect it. He's immature but he was raised as a Bookman."
"Are you saying he doesn't have a crush or at least want to protect his classmates?" Said Shikamaru. "Children hide things from the adults, all the time"
"Who knows" said Bookman. "If trouble comes, he may run away or stay and fight. But being a Bookman is more of a curse than a blessing. Who he is, will follow him for the rest of his life"
And Shikamaru wondered what that meant.
The Bookman was a very mysterious clan that he may not uncover all their secrets in his life time.
And scene!
I think I'll go on hiatus for a bit because I feel like I'm not giving my A game to my latest stories anymore. I'll be back for Christmas though.