CHAPTER 1

From a young Age Shikamaru Nara, always preferred to be alone. Along with his Nara laziness, this is perhaps the reason no one saw his true potential. Shikamaru by all meanings of the word was a prodigy. His inherent skill would have been compared to one Itachi Uchiha. But due to his laziness. No one ever knew this about him. Seeing as he never tried or cared what others thought of him. Shikamaru always liked the Rain it was one of the few things he did like aside from sleeping or playing shogi. And this is where we start our story….

'Shikamaru POV'

As Shikamaru awoke later in the day like always. He turned on his side to look at the window of his room to see storm clouds in the distance. He sat up and got out of his bed changing into his normal clothes, as he did he looked at his calendar to see it was September 12.

'Looks like my 6th birthdays coming'He thought to himself as he slouched out of his room into the hallway and into the kitchen. But unlike what he expected he did not see his parents like he normally would have. What he did find was his cousins. Shida and Shuko Nara. where twins. Both of them were tall and skinny. With their black hair tied upon their heads. And we're wearing chunin vests. They were playing a game of shogi. At the kitchen table. As Shikamaru entered the kitchen. Shida looked over lazily.

"About time you woke up." she said in a flat voice

"What are you two doing here?" he asked. Without taking his eyes off the bored Shuko said

"We're looking after you. Shikaku is going to a meeting in the fire capital for lord third. He'll be gone a few weeks"Shikamaru sat down at his usual spot at the table where some toast and eggs were waiting for him. "Where did my mom go then?"

Shuko rolled his eyes as he said "she went with him to the capitol. I think she said something along the line of 'you never take me anywhere.' so she went with." Shikamaru sighed, 'troublesome' he thought. He finished his breakfast in silence watching his older cousins play their game of shogi, which ended in a draw. After which he stood and turned to leave.

"I'm going for a walk." he said over his shoulder.

"Whatever." Shida said. As she reset the board for a rematch with her would often go on walks by himself. He would walk to his favorite. A secluded meadow in a forest at the edge of Konoha. As he walked through the streets he saw civilians and shinobi alike, Going about their daily lives.

As he neared the edge of the village he passed by a mob of angry people surrounding a boy around his age, the kid in question had bright blonde hair, and sky blue eyes. As Shikamaru walked past the crowd that was now kicking the boy, he heard them yell. "DEMON" and "MONSTER" at the kid who was crying heavily and begging for mercy. 'What a drag' Shikamaru thought to himself as he kept walking past the mob of people. After another couple of minutes of walking he reached the hidden meadow. Where a small stream ran through. Shikamaru sat at the base of his favorite tree. As he leaned back, he looked up into the sky to see rain clouds off in the distance.

'I hope it rains' he thought. Closing his eyes he listened to the sound around him and fell into a peaceful nap.

Drip drip drip….

Shikamaru opened his eyes to see rain clouds, he felt the drops of rain hit his face. After slowly getting off the ground he began walking back out of the woods. As he walked it started to rain harder, and harder. Shikamaru was now running to get out of the raging storm. Shikamaru squinted his eyes against the rain. 'I really should have brought an umbrella' he thought. As he looked through the pouring rain. He didn't recognize the surrounding area. "Man what a drag." he said to himself. He started to move in a random direction. Which he believed was the right way. As he moved quickly through the rain washed woods, thunder flashed across the sky. As he looked up at the sky.

He failed to see where he was walking and his foot looped through something. He tripped and fell over. Shikamaru looked down at what he had tripped on, only to see…. A metal handle poking through the foliage...'What's that doing there?' Shikamaru thought. He reached down and put his hand only on the handle and pulled at it slightly. The handle gave way and a hatch swung open. And looking down it he saw that it led to a small staircase. Shikamaru hesitated for a second, but only a second 'Either I stay out here and get soaked. Or I go down there' But Shimamura's curiosity got the better of him. And he slipped into the hatch and closed it behind him. In the darkness he made his way down the stairs, feeling the smooth stone walls as he did. The steep stone steps suddenly made a sharp right, as they plunged even further underground.

Shikamaru found at the bottom of the long star case a locked metal door. Feeling his way along it he found the door handle. After applying pressure to it he found that it was locked. He cursed under his breath, and started to think of a way to get the door open. He remembered reading something about doors that need chakra to open. So he channeled his chakra into the door handle and with a click, the door swung open to reveal a dimly lit hallway with doors on the right and left, and one more door at the far end of the hall as well

He slowly crept inside and the door swung shut behind him just like the hatch. Looking around he saw a set of double doors on his immediate left and a single door on his right. And three doors further down including the one at the end of the hall. Shikamaru tried the door on the right first, upon opening the door he stepped into what looked to be a small office space with a simple metal desk and chair with bookshelf on both sides of the room, that held what looked to be journals of some kind. Moving to the desks

he found an open journal. He leaned over and scanned the page it was opened to.

'What's this?' he thought. 'Whoever wrote this was experimenting with Jutsu, it looks like.' he noticed that the single drawer of the desk was slightly open, pulling it open he found a single set of keys that had five keys on it. 'I suppose no one else is going to need these.' he took the keys and continued to look through the book. And on the very last entry he saw the signature W.S.

'What a drag.' he thought. 'Who is W.S.?' He set aside his curiosity, he moved out of the office and moved to the double doors across the hall. He fumbled a little to find the right key. But after unlocking the door with a satisfying click. He pushed the doors open to find a rather large library full of different jutsus.

He moved around the room looking at all of the thousands of scrolls that held jutsus of every kind, the library was well organized. And even had a smaller but more in depth section on fujutsu. He stopped when he came across a section that was marked as {YIN}. looking on the opposite bookshelf it was marked {YANG}. Shikamaru walked into that section out of curiosity, as he walked further down something caught his eye.

He looked closer and saw a scroll marked {YIN STYLE- SHADOW MIMICRY JUTSU}. He pulled it off the shelf and opened it.

{YIN STYLE- SHADOW MIMICRY JUTSU}

{THIS JUTSU, MUCH LIKE THE BUNSHIN NO JUTSU. CREATE A PERFECT REPLICA OF} {ANY PERSON, IT WORKS AS A GENJUTSU. EVEN COPYING THE CHAKRA SIGNATURE.}

{OF ANY TARGETED SHINOBI. EVEN ALLOWING THE CASTER TO COPY MUSCLE} {MEMORIES OF THE TARGETED NINJA.}

'Interesting' Shikamaru thought. He looked at the rest of the scroll to see how it was done. 'almost looks like the shadow style Jutsu from the clan library that I read.' he rolled up the scroll and pocketed it for later.

He kept looking and found another Jutsu called {YIN STYLE- SHADOW MIMIC JUTSU}

[AN: The SHADOW MIMIC Jutsu does the same thing as the Shadow mimicry Jutsu, only it makes a shadow clone that's identical.]

Shikamaru moved to the {KATON} section and found a smaller subsection called {YOTON} [lava release]. He looked through the scrolls and found one called {YOTON-SCORCHING STREAM ROCK TECHNIQUE}. Shikamaru grabbed it as well, and moved to the doors of the library. After closing the doors behind himself he walked to the left to the three doors he had yet to enter. The first door he came to was also on the left which led to another large room with high ceilings. Standing in the doorway, Shikamaru saw two things.

The first was the large window on the upper part of the right wall that looked like some kind of observation room. And the second thing was the rakes of training equipment. 'This is a training area.' he thought. He turned and looked through the door that was opposite himself from the training room. It was a larger room that had five prison cells in it that had chakra suppressing seals on the walls, floor, and ceiling. And lastly, Shikamaru looked through the door that he first saw when entering the underground bunker. What he found was a fujutsu lab, and a store room with enough food and supplies to last almost 80 years.

After looking around a little more he went back to the training room. He pulled out the Yoton scroll. And opened it, Shikamaru out of boredom had already read many books on basic chakra control from his clan libraire out of boredom. And had already found his chakra natures, so following the steps on how to cast the jutsu was Childs play for him.

But as the chakra built up in his chest he felt something shooting through him. And as he shot the molten balls of lava at the set up training dummy, he felt a bubbly sensation in his chest, and he felt his heart pound, and his mind tingled. He felt….. Powerful….… he felt Strong….…he felt Unstoppable…

For the first time in his life he felt really and truly alive. As the lava from his jutsu cooled and hardened he had made up his mind.

He needed more power.

And he would do anything to get it...