The Lord Voldemort was strange, Bellatrix thought to herself as she looked at her supposed lord who was talking to his big snake Nagini (Was he compensating for something?) and obsessed with immortality (and for the wrong reasons).
She would admit that this incarnation of her friend was horribly similar to Orochimaru except Shikamaru was not really evil and he was simply scared of Temari's wrath.
Still regardless of the reasons, it did not amuse the One-who-was-Hokage that his friend was not quite right in the head even for ninja's standards and was starting to copy Orochimaru's ways. Take note that the last one held great importance for Bellatrix.
Lord Voldemort worries her a lot. She ignored the tiny little voice in her head saying that this was a payback for all the headaches she induced on the poor souls back home as Naruto. Nope, she was not crazy. She is a ninja even if she is a witch right now. Ninjas have a questionable sanity and moral compass.
She observed her friend and made quick notes regarding his behavior.
1. He is bipolar and temperamental. One minute he's nice. Another not that nice and would threaten bodily harm to his followers. Bellatrix rather thought this was normal as Shikamaru once threatened Naruto to do his paperworks and not toy with seals as it is idiotic or else he would be 'committing treason for killing our idiotic Hokage'.
2. He's lazy. Again, this does not surprise Bellatrix as this was Shikamaru she was talking about. Naruto himself prefers to delegate other works too in the past. Bellatrix wonders why the Death Eaters would be happy at receiving the task even if it's just trivial things (washing clothes for one). Oh, while she is at it, she might as well ask why they were called with a stupid name such as Death Eater.
3. Shikamaru is not obsessed with taking over the world and learning magic techniques, like what Dumbledore feared. If anything, the Death Eaters were like a secret club or something. They might have killed some of the muggles but in their defense, those deserve to be killed for committing such heinous crimes! Like that one muggle guy who raped children and that woman who said that ramen is shit (the last one was an accident but Bellatrix rather thought she deserved that for insulting the awesomeness of ramen). In short, the Death Eaters do not hate muggles. They can be rather appreciative of the muggle culture as they have the best fashion, food and music. And ramen too, Bellatrix could not forget that one.
The woman frowned at that as she tried to re-evaluate her opinion on her 'liege'.
"Dumbles is an idiot," she muttered under her breath as she sipped her wine rather elegantly. She would have liked ramen but Shika's minions still have not bought her supply yet."Shika's not bad. He's just in a phrase. If anything, he should notice that purebloods are now less hostile to muggles and muggleborns. Why on earth would he-"
Bellatrix stopped her train of thoughts as she remembered Grindelward and an interesting tidbit shared by Aunt Wulburga.
"I hope that senile gramps would see that Shika's pretty harmless, dattebayo."
The Death Eaters would agree with her. Lord Voldemort might be the one to lead but it was the Dark Lady they fear the most. Her fits of boredom can only cause chaos, pranks and trauma. Like the one with the dog and…. Like the one with strings, glue and….like… like… you know what, let us just forget this all together, shall we?
"I swear I heard someone badmouthing me, dattebayo," Bellatrix frowned then shrugged at that, thinking that she was simply drunk. That or she was hallucinating from boredom.
"Hey, I haven't pranked the Lestranges for a while! What should I do this time, dateebayo?"
Let us all pray for the souls of the Lestarnge brothers and make a run away from the bored Dark Lady. May she have mercy on the poor souls.
Probably