Transmigrated Nara

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Chapter 11 Chunin Exams in what!

It was normal day for me I mean training for the Chunin exams after Asuma announced he was planning on putting us in the Chunin Exams but he seemed to have a weird smile on his face…it kinda looked greedy…I don't think he has such a smile just to see his students go to the Chunnin Exams…looked kinda smug too…ugh this guy sometimes. Whatever I was still going to train my ass off for the next two months.

"Shikamaru-Kun." I heard a call for my name as I turned to the voice seeing it was Sakura and she was pretty tired. "…Sakura?" I questioned we were supposed to train today but she looks like she doesn't need anymore training for a little anyways.

"I…I was just going to say that I wanted to stop Training with you until after the Chunin Exams." Oh so this is what it's about. I give her my full attention and gave her a smile. I was about to train so telling me might have bummed as having someone is better than by yourself but in this situation and moment I know what she must do. She can't keep to me and train with me all the time same with if I wanted to train with Naruto or Sasuke.

I'm a student myself and while I may know the jutsu's in the series I need to know how they work like Chidori to make purple lightning or any other of the Nara Clans jutsu. I may be able to give them hints about something untapped like maybe telling Naruto to actual perfect the Rasengan when he at least comes back when the 2 ½ years pass I mean when I saw he was still using a clone kinda made me upset and made more sense that Sasuke was able to speed blitz Naruto at the Tenshi bridge arc.

Plus I…may or may not feel right with helping them…they just get so many buffs and jumps in powers like Sasuke only barely killing a sick Itachi and then next was being able to survive an encounter with all 5 Kage and Killer bee right before. Oof but that doesn't mean I won't try on help just that I can't make it obvious I know these types of things I've got to remember where I am. Konoha may be a normal town or village to most of the people outside but the politics and things that happen inside are proper…suspicious so having someone that has any idea of the future I might be chained up by Danzo somewhere or make me one of his emotionless drones…

I return my thinking to Sakura who was kinda just staring awkwardly and I rub the back of my head sheepishly. "Uhh sorry I was daydreaming but I completely understand and I might just tell you that if we encounter you in the exams Sakura…I won't let you win." I sent her a challenging smirk and she looked quite determined herself. She nodded with a smile and started to run off and I smile in the direction she went. 'You guys better be stronger.' I thought with some uncertainty…personally having a S-Rank like especially as resilient as Orochimaru going after Sasuke and your team as a result they needed to train like there's no tomorrow to be able to survive. Taking my time and doing stretches I tried thinking what I wanted to learn or what I could really learn…'Kakashi is probably going to be training his team with Sakura duh so that leaves me with only two people I do know which are Asuma-Sensei and my Dad and I already have the odd days but sometimes he's not able to make it and I'm there just practicing myself though it's only been a recent occurrence there must have been something to happen…maybe like…Kabuto…ugh I hate him…more than Orochimaru even then Orochimaru just kinda wanted eternal life but did some rather crazy shit while Kabuto… if I could put him in the ground I would…though I don't think I would be able to until like if this were the anime the 2 and a half year time skip. Ugh seriously I mean I don't want to be completely OP because where's the fun in that and having to outsmart someone and yes I sound like an idiot but the fun I sometimes get from fighting is something I kind of always had I used to fight with my cousins all the time and I was very competitive especially in sports or anything and being able to replicate things not perfectly but good enough only fueled it more. But it's time to know your limits and now is definitely not a time to pass them with all the thing's happening in the shadows just the time for the Chunin exams to pass and hopefully quietly but there a really bad feeling of it still happening.

Focusing back on what I wanted to train I just take some time to think and eventually after 20 minutes of nothing being done I just throw a kunai down with my Chakra unknowingly using lightning on it as it sparkled on the floor and I grew a bit more anger at the seeming block I had. I threw another one with Lightning and it somehow connected with the other kunai with lightning pushing it away hitting the floor across the other one as it was making some sort of fence type thing. 'Oh…' I throw a kunai with lightning above the kunai next to the tree to make nothing happen…'what' I need to feel like I was I need to find a way to…connect them?

Imagining what I felt I felt the Chakra in both Kunai and connected them and a lightning wire was made to connect the two. I stared in wonder and connected the original kunai I threw and made a wire across the ground and one diagonally having to form my concentration on the three newly formed lightning wire. 'Cool' throwing a kunai to the last position to make a square and I watched as it connected with the others making like a fence of electricity as there was tiny sparks in between the bigger lightning wire as it filled out.

It may look invisible for the majority but I threw another kunai throwing it through the wall as it passed through an empty space in the square and was coated in lightning Chakra. Wow it… it doesn't seem to act like a shield against to Chakra metal weapons but normal attacks of mostly lightning would just get absorbed.

This whatever Technique I found on the spot…what should I call it I mean could I really just saw Lightning Style: Electric Wall…it's a basic name yes… but it is what the jutsu is. Maybe a C-Rank Jutsu at best…from now maybe I'll find another use.

Getting closer and grabbing the kunai getting a shock and recoiling back with my hand semi burnt. 'Owe that fucking hurt!' Coating my fingers with some Lightning Chakra I managed to grab onto it without shocking me. When I took it out of the stationer place the fence fell to about a triangle.

Doing the same process again for the other Kunai's and the one I threw through the trees I looked at my kunais and started again and made things like electric trip wire which very convenient.

Other than that my training the day where Sakura stopped training with me wasn't that eventful. I mean most things are better with more people and training seems to be better with more. 'What will I work on for the next couple months…I have no clue…there only so much I can practice both water and tree walking but maybe I can work more of my lightning release jutsu maybe another jutsu? While also learning and developing the Shadow Stitching Jutsu on the odd days. I wonder if another curve ball is going to happen…it shouldn't as the Chunin Exams are supposed to be held in Konoha this time.

What a pain! This is so troublesome.

Times pass and more time has gone and went it was now only a couple days till the Chunnin Exams where even I lost track of the time with the training and multiple missions during the time it was approximately 30 D-Ranks and 2 C-Ranks which gave me a bit more to add on the budget for my own money I mean my clan has an armory but each time I get something new from the armory but sometimes I feel really guilty so I might just buy my own materials from after the Chunin Exams I mean I have to pray I get Chunin but in the end things will play out like they play out. Asuma-Sensei had given us the paper to sign up an hour ago and we were currently lounging around trying to decide if we were really going to do this or not. "Guys…I don't want to pressure into this so just if you know that if you're not ready for this then we'll back out." I told both Choji and Ino and they both turned to me and smiled.

"No…we got this we trained so hard these last two months I don't know if I could live with myself if I didn't enter." Ino smiled and looked at her paper. Choji excitedly let out a chuckle. "I know we got this and we'll all get Chunin." Choji pumped his fist and I let out a small chuckle.

"That's good I don't think my mom would let me live if I declined sooo…" I heard both Ino and Choji snicker at my misfortune but I just smiled and looked at the sky. This may not be the life I used to live but I'll live I don't think there is a way to go back home and after a while of being somewhere sometimes it makes you want to leave sooner or never. I'm starting to feel that way already and I've been here for only six months. I live by my mod-do Live in the Moment and I'm damn sure trying. We see Asuma-Sensei approach the area and brought all our attention to him as we started to walk him guiding us.

"So just to let you know I have a lot of money on you guys to get promoted among the leafs 3 Rookie Genin Teams." We were walking down the streets specifically we were going to Choji's families shop with the barbecue that you cook yourself and with how iconic people make it out to be I have never been there in my entire 6 months of being here in Konoha or it's nearing actually 5 months in actuality but the nearing Chunin Exams will take another month.

Overall the past month and about half have been productive as I managed to lower the handseals for Lightning Bolt and focused on making it more powerful and working more with the Shadow Stiching Jutsu.

Overall I have been working more on efficiency overall and it's helped me increase my Chakra reserves but also my control and manipulation over it. While I didn't try to force Chidori I only managed have a little spark hit my hand so I would have to stop. It's a real drag not being able to do them I mean I may only be like what 12 but hey I can try can't I. Now that I look at the sky I go over what's gone on more in depth as today was only a couple of days before the Chunin Exams meaning it was April and heh it was funny that today happened to be my original self's birthday today…I would be 18 now as I was previously 17. I sigh it still saddens me to this day but it would always sadden me at this point who brought me here and why. Asuma-Sensei managed to look back and see my struggling face as he slowed a bit to walk step by step with me.

"Shikamaru you doing alright over here." I saw Asuma-Sensei and I looked up at him. Ugh I'm like 4'10 right now I was 5'8 before and even then my dad was 5'6 and my mother was 5'2 and while Asuma-Sensei was about 6'3 so he towered over me and surprisingly he was actually that tall I didn't think he was that tall. He felt like he was Kakashi's height but no he's not.

"Hm I'm doing alright Asuma-Sensei but just trying to figure out my thoughts." Asuma-Sensei nodded and walked a bit further ahead and while we kept going we made it to the shop and I heard Choji's stomach grumble upset. 'Oh no' I looked at Asuma-Sensei's look of despair as Choji led the charge into the restaurant.

Asuma-Sensei wept at the table as I got up to leave after eating my share as Ino herself left a bit ago having another shift at the Flower Shop. I walked outside I needed to walk after all I mean I just ate a bunch of meat and walking was one of the better ways to feel better after having the meat sweats. I walked around were I heard a shout of "Let Go of me!" I looked around the corner of the street I was walking past and saw Kankuro holding up Konohamaru by his scarf as he flailed around to get out of his grip. "Little leaf brat I should pound you into the ground kid." Kankuro said mildly annoyed. I saw Temari getting annoyed at her younger brother and looked around. "Let the kid go Kankuro." Temari said after checking the surroundings as I hid behind the wall again.

"Let him Go!" I heard Naruto's voice who came with both Sasuke and Sakura who were at his side and while Sasuke looked with intrigue at the Sand nin Sakura and Naruto looked at Konohamaru struggling in Kankuro's grasp.

"And why would I listen to a couple of brats." Kankuro looked at the three while they all turned apprehensive. That is when I sighed and grabbed a pebble and sneaked my way into the tree. I lay back on the trunk on the branch and threw the pebble at his hand knocking his grip in the brown haired boy who fell on the floor on his ass as his friends Moegi and Udon who picked him up as everyone looked in my direction. "You know bullying some kids just because they ran into you isn't cool at all." I run down my hand to my pocket as I pocket my hand and look at the person on the other side of the tree who was skeptically looking at me though I didn't gain his attention as I was discreetly looking at him.

"Oh my you're a bit of a cutie." I heard Temari said while having a smile and a very tiny blush and I raised my eyebrow.

"Thanks you don't look bad yourself and is he your little brother?" I ask and while I made no mention of knowing Gaara was there I saw Temari turn to Kankuro who was nursing his hand as it was a fist and he turned to glare at me.

"And so what is it to you punk." I raised my eyebrow again while letting my mouth open a bit exasperated.

"I'm talking about him." I pointed to Gaara's direction as everyone's eyes turned to him and we're wide open at the sight of the redhead while Temari and Kankuro looked on quivering a bit. "G-Gaara." Temari said as he body flickered into view in front of Temari and Kankuro and I followed jumping infront of Naruto, Sakura, Sasuke and the three kids who looked on at wonder at this guy.

Gaara looked at me intimidatingly while I looked back unwavering as he released more killing intent that made the rest tense but I kept my breathing stable and didn't waver until the silence was broken by Gaara.

"What is your name?" I raise my eyebrow at him "isn't it more common you say your own name as an introduction to find another persons name?" I tilted my head having the tension sink only by a bit. "My name is Subaku No Gaara and yours?" Gaara answers and while I was half unsure of giving my name or saying a remark of 'Why would I need to tell a dead man' I knew that wasn't going to end well. I can't be an idiot especially not here when he's a serial killer basically.

"Shikamaru Nara" I nodded at him before he turned around and cut in between his siblings.

"Let's go and Kankuro…" Gaara looked at Kankuro's way as he felt himself tense a bit more. "Don't embarrass our village or I'll kill you" Gaara looked away and walked away having Temari and later Kankuro follow him to a nearby hotel around the area. I turned to face Team 7 who just looked strangely but not at me but at the disappearing Gaara. "You guys alright" I shake my arms around me all flashy like until they look at me.

"Shikamaru-Kun…I don't know about that guy." Sakura said worriedly while Sasuke and Naruto grasped there hands turning them into fists.

"Well I think he's here for the Chunnin Exams…it won't be easy I'll tell you that ." I looked at the way Gaara left and Sakura grabbed at my hand. I peeked up at her as she looked at me.

"J-just be careful around that guy." I smile at here and wink cheeringly and she smiled with a slight blush on her face that didn't go unnoticed by either Naruto or Sasuke who soon stepped in front of Sakura. "Maybe you won't have to worry about that guy if we beat you." Sasuke said arrogantly as even Naruto agreed with him and he almost never agrees with Sasuke. "Yea Shikamaru-Teme watch out that training session back then won't happen now…we'll just kick your ass faster than you think." I saw them both smirk at me as I looked a bit hurt at there tone. 'I thought we were friends guys that was kind of aggressive guys.' I look at them both and there determined look sunk into me. I heard a little huff from Sakura who looked at the two boys disapprovingly.

"That wasn't very nice Naru-Kun, Sasuke-Kun." They both were brought out of there joint world to look at Sakura and at each other before muttering an apology to her.

"Don't apologize to me apologize to the guy who you directed you anger too!" Sakura said a bit exasperated over the two boys. I heard Naruto click his tongue in irritation and Sasuke look away distastefully and I felt more hurt. 'Why are they acting like this…did I do something to hurt them or something.'

"Hey…guys if I did something unknowingly that hurt you then I…want to apologize." They all looked a bit wide eyed and Sakura decided to answer for them. "It's nothing you did Shikamaru-Kun so please raise your head." I raised after doing a short bow as Sasuke and Naruto looked away.

"Hmm I was angry and wanted to get back at you from our first training session together during the Chunin Exams so watch your back." Sasuke said warningly while Naruto Nodded behind him choosing not to voice his agreement. Though in both there heads they were thinking about the real reason or like the other reason. 'Get away from Sara-Chan, Shikamaru-Teme/ Get away from Sakura-Chan, Nara.' They both sneered mildly at the thought him.

'I feel hated and I don't know why!?'

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