Tenshi: Remember that previous chapter that I might have said that I'll not continue this one? Well my muse said other wise so here we are~

You might as well go back to the previous chapter if you want to know my plans for this but... oh well. Enjoy!

Mrs. Cole was a very sensible woman but the moment that boy arrived in her orphanage that weird things happen. Tom Marvolo Riddle was a handsome but strange child. He was too quiet with eyes far too intelligent and calculating for his age. She did not like him but a part of her fear him.

One time when he was a baby, Mrs. Cole would get the feeling that he was watching her and mocking at it. His eyes, beautiful color that they were, reminded her too much of soldiers out in the battlefield. It was unnerving to be truthful. It was as if an old man was trapped in that body.

Strange things happen in the orphanage and it usually was traced to Tom Riddle. There were times when the boy got angry and things exploded. Most of the children were scared of him that the woman was forced to place the boy in a room for himself.

Tom Marvolo Riddle was a strange old soul. He caused a lot of trouble but can never be traced with him. Mrs. Cole was a very sensible woman but that only means she was wary of the unnatural.

Shikamaru(or should it be Tom Riddle now?) hated the orphanage. It was boring, filthy and devoid of fresh air (itsmells shit literally and figuratively). Shikamaru had been a very intelligent one even back as child in his original world but even in his lazy days, he hated filth and noise. Sadly in his life as Tom Riddle, he was sent to an orphanage which has both. Now he can somehow sympathize with Naruto and his pranks. Those were a good way to pass time and a good laugh.

That doesn't mean he forgave the blonde (because the last time he checked, Naruto still had blonde hair) for his experiment which landed him here. In retrospect, that might have been Shikamaru's fault too. He should have known never to visit Naruto when he knew that the blonde was in those moods.

Well at least Shikamaru's pranks told children off him. He never liked them. Troublesome the lot of them.

"Tom you have a visitor," Mrs. Cole's voice outside his room shook him off his reverie regarding troublesome blondes. He inwardly frowned at the unusual situation. Didn't the orphanage matron hated his guts and would prefer not to suffer his presence more than necessary. Huh? Since when did he even have visitors? Last time he checked Tom Riddle had the reputation of a troublesome child which was rather ironic in Shikamaru's opinion as he considered this world even more troublesome than his original one.

"Enter," Shikamaru ordered the matron as she opened the door and looked at him in a tense expression. Accompanying her was a very curious man. An old man with long silver beard and twinkling eyes with the oddest fashion sense even in this world.

Shikamaru knew right there that things would only get troublesome from now on. I'll get you for this, Naruto!

Nara Shikamaru's Journal Written In His Original Language

Age 10

I am aware that I'm a child now. Funny things how it works. My mind is an old man but physically speaking? I'm a child so I might have lashed out to other children with this body's new abilities. So yeah... I might have scared them off but hey at least they are not bothering me!

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I'm still unsure of this world or if this power is mine or if there were others like me. Since I'm not Naruto so I'm betting on the former option. I'm reading fairy tale books and the thing I could compare with my abilities is magic. As I have run-ins with myths and legends in my original world then it is safe to assume that these stories have merits. At least this now-dubbed magic has its use and I could just laze around here and do almost anything with it.

Note to self, explore more about it.

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I befriended a snake and could talk to it. Hopefully, this does not mean I'm a second coming of Orochimaru.