Chapter 2

'Shikamaru's POV'

—6 years later—

Shortly after Shikamaru's discovery of the bunker, he started at the academy. Which was absolute torture for him. Day in and day out learning things he already knew, and having to pretend like he was a clueless idiot. Like the rest of his good grades would have been no problem if he cared enough about them.

After class would end, he would go back to the bunker to train. His parents didn't care what he did as long as he came home on time. So sneaking around was really no problem. Due to Shikamaru's nearly perfect memory he learned at an astonishing rate. In all the Jutsu he had learned, one of the most helpful ones was the {SHADOW CLONE JUTSU} he could only manage one. But while he was at school. His clone was training. and after the first year he was slowly able to make more and more clones. Fuujutsu was incredibly simple for him, seeing as he basically had a photographic memory. He started to wear training seals, to improve his strength.

His chakra control was probably kage level at this from all the training he did, and his chakra reserves had skyrocketed, to kage level as well. His Taijutsu was low jonin, not for lack of strength Shikamaru wore gravity seals to make himself stronger. It was because he spent his time learning jutsus. His Genjutsu and Ninjutsu were beyond kage level at this point. His lava release was that strong.

Nearing graduation from the academy, Shikamaru was one of the last to leave. As he stood and walked out of the class he saw Mizuki in the teacher's lounge, Writing in a small book.

Shikamaru looked both ways down the hall. No one was there. Shikamaru ran through a few hand signs. {CAMOUFLAGE JUTSU} he muttered, turning transparent. He crept into the room and peered over his teachers shoulder and read

'...no one respects me I feel like im just wasting time, and all opportunities are being passed to the others around me. Why am I ignored and people like Iruka being seen? I feel invisible and cast aside….I feel worthless….'

'He's writing in a diary? How pathetic.' Shikamaru thought. Suddenly an idea popped into Shikamaru's head. Ever since that day six years ago. Shikamaru's craving for power grew and grew. He had hid it well but found it hard at times. A little over 3 years ago when he was headed home from training, he found a mob of people attacking a blond haired kid. That was about his age, named naruto. Out of curiosity Shikamaru had looked into the matter.

What he had found out after a little digging, was that Naruto was the Jinchuriki of the 9-tailed fox demon. After finding this out Shikamaru had began a long term plan to gain control over the Jinchuriki. Being nice to him, helping him and treating him like a human. It had been going well but he needed to find a way to make Naruto absolutely loyal to him. And Shikamaru had just found the perfect way to do just that. Shikamaru ran through some more hand signs {YIN STYLE- FALSE IDEA TECHNIQUE} he whispered. Using this Jutsu. Shikamaru could manipulate someone's mind into thinking something and then get them to do it.

What he had just implanted was the idea to steal the scroll of sealing using Naruto as bait. 'This is going to be interesting' he smirked as he snuck back out of the room leaving a dazed Mizuki to sit in the teacher's lounge. Shikamaru undid the jutsu and became visible again. And he pushed the door to the teachers lounge open.

"Hey Mizuki-sensei?" Mizuki snapped out of his daze and looked at Shikamaru. "Are you feeling ok Sensei?"

Mizuki smiled a little. "Yes. I'm ok, think of you Shikamaru."

"Are you sure you seem down." Shikamaru baited.

"Yes. I am just dealing with some work stress."

"If you're stressed then why not retire?"

"Retire? I've never thought of that."

"Yeah, being a konoha shinobi is a real drag." Shikamaru put emphasis on the shinobi part, and now all he had to do was let his jutsu do the rest.

"Anyway sorry for bothering you sensei." he turned left Mizuki in deep thought.

As he walked down the hall he turned the corner to find the two people he hated the most, Choji Akimichi and Ino Yamanaka, walking down the hall together. And unfortunately for Shikamaru they had spotted him.

"Hey Shikamaru!" Ino said. "Where have you been!? it feels like forever since we last saw you!" Ino yelled.

"Yeah….munch munch…..forever…munch munch…if I didn't know any better…munch munch munch…I would think…munch…..you've been avoiding use…"

'It's because I have been avoiding you. You fat pig, can't even talk without stuffing his face. And you're too immature to face the fact, you're a Disgusting gluten." Shikamaru thought to himself. "Yeah, I've just been really focused on my training. Which is what I'm going to do now."

"Blow off training for today and come hangout with us!" Ino said loudly

'And you, you're vain and annoying. You don't care about anything that's not sasuke, dumb and brainless Bimbo.' he thought. "No sorry I really can't." he said walking past them. Fortunately they didn't follow.

[AN: i know this chapter is short. but the next one will be going crazy and be longer so just wait a little bit]