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Bleedndreamz – Thanks a bunch for the advice. I'll try to make it longer and better.

Helovestowrite – Maybe :P

Chapter 2

"I say Naruto Nara just rolls off the tongue" Naruto said beaming to himself.

1 Week Later

Naruto woke up in his new bed and looked around the room. He looked over to see his newest brother Shikamaru. Somehow he still felt put of place. He thought back to the meeting to see if he could actually join the Nara clan.

Flashback – 1 Week Before

"Ahem…. This meeting is to bring Naruto Uzumaki into our clan and, is also very troublesome! If there are any of those who do not want this to be say now or shut up!" Shikaku said with a bored tone in his voice.

Yoshino, Shikaku's troublesome wife as he calls her, stood up "Shikaku, why are we bringing this boy into our home? I'm sure you all know what he contains and what that thing did to many of our clan. What if he unleashes the demon on us and tries to finish the job it started 3 years ago. How do we know that the demon let itself be placed in this boy so it could fool us and then come out and attack us when were not expecting it. They could be allies.

Many of the clan members began thinking to themselves. What if she was right?

Shikaku yawned and let out a deep sigh. "Why do you have to be so troublesome? The reason why we are bringing him into our clan is because I can see that he has great potential. This boy runs from his enemies. Some of them even jonins, yet the boy can still outrun them. The people of this village while thinking they are hurting him are just making him stronger. His pain tolerance is amazingly high. This boy can take a worse beating then me and I'm sure all of you too.

After Shikaku's speech many of the convinced members, who didn't want to say anything, began to agree with him. This boy could be a great ninja when the time comes.

"Now if all that troublesome stuff is out of the way, how many of you want Naruto to join our clan?"

Everyone except Yoshino and someone whose husband was killed by the Nine-tailed fox raised there hands. Yoshino and the other women looked to the ground and scoffed.

"Okay… The boy will be joining my family which consists of me, Yoshino and my son Shikamaru!"

Yoshino was now beyond pissed, not only was the boy being brought into her clan but she herself had to look out for him. If she hurt him it would be obvious to everyone who the assailant was. Her entire life was beginning to suck really badly.

Naruto's Bedroom

Naruto looked over at his brother. Naruto couldn't help but feel jealous of his life. Here he had a mom, dad, house and an entire clan that would look over him forever. But Naruto had no one. The only person he had trusted was the Hokage and he didn't even get to see him that much. And even when he did get to see him the man was always had his nose in the piles upon piles of paperwork that seemed to increase everyday even though the Hokage always finished all of them.

Naruto shot a quick glance at his new nightstand. It had an alarm clock, a lamp for reading, and a half empty glass of water than he had drank before he went to sleep the previous night. He took another look at his alarm clock which now read 8:23 AM. He looked over to his brother and noticed he was still deep in his sleep.

Naruto turned back to his pillow and closed his eyes and tried to go back to sleep. But apparently his eyes had other plans. They decided to stay open. Naruto wondered why he could never sleep long. He would always go to sleep when the sun had set and when he woke up the sun would usually just start to come back up.

He sighed and got up and proceeded to go straight to his new bathroom. After taking a short shower he left and went downstairs to the living room. He heard noises coming from the kitchen so he walked over to that area so he could investigate. He saw his new mom cooking some breakfast. Naruto walked in and stood next to his mom. "Uh… hello…. mommy!" Naruto said awkwardly. He really had no idea what to call her. What if she just wanted to be called by her name since he wasn't really her son? Maybe she wanted him to call her mom!

His new 'mom' looked at him and gave him one of the cold stares that Naruto was so familiar with. He blinked and the look disappeared and a whole new motherly look was replaced. "Oh hello Naruto! How did you sleep last night?" Yoshino said trying to hide her hate for the young boy.

"Um good… thanks! How come dad and brother aren't awake yet?"

Yoshino winced when she heard Naruto call her husband and son, dad and brother. "Oh those two usually sleep in until around 11 AM. Even if they do wake up they say that it's too troublesome to get up."

"Oh Okay!" Naruto began to walk away when he smelled his mothers cooking. Then he heard his mother say something and he realized that he couldn't move. He had heard about something called pushu or jutsu, this must be one of them.

"You don't think you're going to leave before getting some breakfast?" Yoshino said trying her best to sound as if she actually cared.

Naruto began walking backwards until he was back in the kitchen where he saw his mom holding a plate. On the plate he could only guess what they were because he never once before had anything she had prepared.

"Here are some scrambled eggs, bacon and some waffles! Go sit at the table and I'll grab you some tea to drink."

Yoshino released the jutsu and let Naruto walk to the table. He began eating as fast as he could. Yoshino saw this and walked over to him. "Why are you eating so fast?"

Naruto looked at her and she could tell there was a great amount of sorrow in his eyes. "So I don't have to taste the food!"

"Why wouldn't you want to taste the food?"

"Well… So I won't get sick." Naruto replied casually as if he had said what he had done while at the laundromat.

Yoshino began to see just how horrible this boy's life was. "What did you usually eat then?

Naruto began searching for the right words before he said anything. "I really don't know."

Yoshino began to tear up at hearing Naruto's little story. Maybe he wasn't the demon after all. Maybe he was just some orphan whose life just wasn't going the way it was supposed to. Then Yoshino did something she never thought she would do, she leaned down looked deep into his eyes and wrapped her arms around him.

Naruto tensed up when she began getting nearer and nearer to him. From the look in his eyes he thought she was going to hurt him.

Yoshino noticed this and felt even worse about how she had acted towards the 3 year old. She looked up and saw the clock on the wall. It was now 10:44 AM. "The boys are going to be up soon better get some more breakfast ready!" she thought to herself. She released Naruto and got up and started preparing some more food.

20 Minutes Later - Downstairs

Shikaku and Shikamaru somehow got up at the same time and walked down the stairs mumbling something about the troublesome sun and the troublesome light. They both made it down stairs and looked into the kitchen where they saw Naruto and Yoshino talking like they had been mother-son for their entire lives.

Shikaku and his son walked in to the kitchen and sat down at the table. A minute later Yoshino set down a plate with the same food that Naruto had in front of both of the lazy Nara's. Naruto looked over and saw that Shikamaru was on the verge of falling back to sleep.

"Hey Shika wanna go outside and play?" Naruto said for the first time ever in his life.

"Nah… It's too troublesome right now!" Shikamaru said as he yawned for the fifth time after he sat down.

Naruto looked down to the ground with a sad look in his face. He thought maybe since Shikamaru was his new brother that maybe he would want to play with him. But he thought wrong!

Shikamaru saw Naruto look to the ground. "Man this is going to be so much trouble!" Shikamaru thought.

"You know what maybe we could go play or maybe lay in the grass looking at clouds, either one." Shikamaru said with his famous bored look on his face. "I think Choji will want to meet you!"

Naruto's face instantly changed from sad to happy. This day was becoming better and better with each passing minute.

10 Minutes Later – Akimichi Compound

Naruto and Shikamaru had finally reached the Akimichi house and Shikamaru knocked on the front door. A few minutes later a big man came to the door. He looked down and saw Shikamaru. "Hey it's little Shikamaru!" The big man yelled. "Come on in!"

Shikamaru and Naruto walked into the Akimichi house and Naruto was immediately cornered by the big man. "Hey Shikamaru! Who's your little friend?"

"My name is Naruto Nara!"

Hmm…. Naruto huh!" the big Akimichi said. "Never heard of ya!"

"Naruto was recently adopted by my… err… our family! Shikamaru explained lazily.

The man laughed amazingly loud "Well then, my name is Chouza!"

"Dad! Who are you talking to? A quite and mysterious voice said.

"Shikamaru and his new brother are here!"

"Brother? Shika doesn't have a brother!"

Hmm? I coulda sworn that I heard that he did somewhere!" Chouza said sarcastically.

The owner of the voice finally entered the room and saw Shikamaru and someone he didn't know. The kid looked around his age and around his height. But what stood out was his spiky blonde hair and his bright blue eyes. That combination wasn't commonly seen around the village.

"Hiya, my name is Naruto Nara; I'm Shika's new brother!"

""Oh, I guess I was wrong. Anyway my name is Choji Akimichi!" the young Akimichi said with a hungry look on his face.

Naruto began to wonder why his brother hadn't said anything for a while so he looked over to where Shikamaru was standing and his jaw dropped to the floor. His new brother had fallen asleep standing up! Naruto began shaking him but didn't have any luck. So he began yelling his name before Chouza stopped him.

"Don't worry kid. It's his morning ritual."

"What do you mean?"

"Well first thing is he comes over and hangs out with Choji for a bit then we let him take a little snooze on our couch. Then he wakes up and then he eats lunch, if you can call it that!" Chouza said with a confused look on his face. He really had no idea how little the young Nara could eat. He wondered if the new kid could eat more.

"Well on to step three, so can you wake up Shikamaru and we can all have lunch!"

Naruto began doing everything in his power to wake up his brother. He slapped him, yelled in his ear, punched him in the shoulder, threw things at him, and casually told him that he was on fire. But in the end what made him wake up was a quite snap of Naruto's fingers.

"What do you want you troublesome person?" Shikamaru yawned with a confused look on his face.

"Well Mr. Chouza said that it was step three! Um… What does that mean?" Naruto said with an innocent and confused look.

"It means their going to try to shove mass quantities of food down our throats, its troublesome, but its food!" Shikamaru said while walking little by little towards the kitchen where the sounds of clinks were being made.

The first thing Naruto saw in the kitchen was a vast mountain of food of all sorts. Naruto began searching the food for what he might want to eat. It was hard for him because he hadn't had anything of the things he was looking through. After a minute or two he saw some stringy type of stuff that smelled really good.

He walked up to the woman who was serving the food "Um… lady what is the stringy looking food?" Naruto asked with a bewildered look on his face.

The women looked at him like he was insane. "Kiddo! This magical stringy stuff here is called ramen! Try some!" She handed him his own bowl. Naruto looked down at the bowl not sure whether to trust her or not. In the past people had given him food, but there was always something in there that just didn't belong. The cook noticed this and reassured him that it was perfectly okay. Naruto could see something in her eyes that just made him trust her. Now that he believed it wasn't tainted he took the bite of the mystery ramen.

Not a second later his eyes widened and eyes started to water. The cook having watched this went over to Naruto thinking it was too hot or he didn't like it. "You okay kid? What's the matter?"

"It's… It's delicious" Naruto said while quickly shoveling the rest of the ramen into his mouth.

The cook sweatdropped! Never in her life had she seen someone who loved ramen at first taste. She looked down and saw the young boy holding out his bowl. She studied him wondering what he wanted. After a while she caught his hint and gave him another bowl. Fifteen minutes later she realized that Naruto and her was having a race. She would fill the next bowl with ramen and Naruto would try to eat the ramen faster than she could give him his next bowl.

So far Naruto was winning!

After Naruto's 125th bowl he decided that was enough for him. Shikamaru walked over "time for step four!"

Naruto wondered what he meant. "Hey Shika, what's step four?"

"Well its time for us to go home I guess, its getting kinda late!"

Late? Last time Naruto checked the clock it was still lunchtime. He took another look at the clock. "8:56 PM! How did the time go by so fast?"

"Well you and that troublesome cook over there were having a war! But it doesn't matter anyways, let's just go home."

10 Minutes Later – Nara Compound

Naruto and Shikamaru just got home and walked into the living room where they saw their dad sleeping on the couch in the most uncomfortable position. Naruto just stared. How did this man get like that? He couldn't tell where one part of his body ended and another began.

"Hey! You troublesome old man, wake up" Shikamaru said in a dull voice.

"Mom, I told you not to disturb me while I'm sleeping! Why do you have to be so troublesome?" Shikaku mumbled while waking up.

Shikaku finally woke up all the way and noticed to kids staring at him like he just said something really embarrassing. "What do you troublesome brats want?"

Shikamaru and Naruto both answered at the same time. "Nothing!"

As Naruto and Shikamaru went upstairs to go to sleep Shikaku called up to them.

"Tomorrow we're going to start training!"

Naruto looked back down at him. "Training for what?"

"Tomorrow you're both going to learn our clan's jutsu and learn to become ninja's!"

Shikamaru looked to the ground and mumbled something that only he could hear. "This is going to be so troublesome!"

A/N: I can't think of what team to put Shikamaru and Naruto on or who their jonin sensei should be. I would like your opinion though!!

Also I don't know what pairing to do. Last one I did was NaruHina but some people said they didn't like that pair. So it's up to you now!