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Ethan loved three things in life: anime, sleeping in, and girls with killer looks. He never expected to wake up as Nara Shikamaru, yes, the “what a drag” genius from Naruto, right in the middle of Iruka’s classroom.
But this Shikamaru? Oh, he’s done being lazy.
Armed with future knowledge, a sharper tongue, and zero patience for filler arcs, he’s rewriting the ninja world’s plotline one smug grin at a time.
Kage-level power? Check.
Outsmarting the smartest? Easy.
Getting chased by dangerous enemies and dangerously attractive kunoichi? Constantly.
From bored genius to ninja heartthrob, Shikamaru’s new motto is simple:
Why play side character… when you can be the main event with a lot of girls on your arm?
Isekai never looked so damn satisfying.
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Shikamaru flinched slightly when Orochimaru pressed his cold fingertips to his temples.
He still couldn’t believe he was actually going through with it.
But if it was the only way to save Neji, he had no choice.
In his mind, he went over the hand signs once more—those he had practiced again and again over the past days.
He knew them perfectly.
But still, the fear of making a mistake now was overwhelming.
To help Neji, he had to choose the exact right moment. The perfect words.
What would he need to say to truly change Neji’s fate?
And then, suddenly, he heard Neji’s voice in his mind, calm and clear:
“Every freedom needs some kind of structure to truly feel like freedom. And I found mine in you.”
A warmth spread through Shikamaru’s chest, and all at once, the doubt vanished.
He knew exactly what his message would be.
He opened his eyes and gave Orochimaru a nod.
Orochimaru, unusually solemn, nodded back. Then he pressed his fingers more firmly to Shikamaru’s temples.
“Close your eyes and begin.”
Shikamaru obeyed.
The last thing he saw were Orochimaru’s large, golden, snake-like eyes.
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Shikamaru zuckte leicht zusammen, als Orochimaru ihm seine kalten Fingerspitzen an die Schläfen drückte. Er konnte nicht fassen, dass er es nun wirklich tat. Aber um Neji zu retten, blieb ihm nichts anderes übrig. Er ging im Kopf noch einmal die Handzeichen durch, die er in den letzten Tagen immer wieder geübt hatte. Obwohl er sie perfekt beherrschte, war die Angst groß, jetzt etwas falsch zu machen. Damit er Neji helfen konnte, musste er den perfekten Zeitpunkt wählen. Was musste er sagen, um sein Schicksal zu verändern? Da hörte er plötzlich wieder Nejis Stimme in sich: „Jede Freiheit braucht irgendeinen Rahmen, um sich wie echte Freiheit anzufühlen. Und ich habe meine Freiheit in dir gefunden.“ Ein warmes Gefühl breitete sich in Shikamarus Körper aus und auf einmal hatte er keine Zweifel mehr. Er wusste genau, was seine Botschaft sein würde.
Er öffnete die Augen und nickte Orochimaru zu. Dieser nickte, ausnahmsweise ernst, zurück und begann dann, mit den Fingern fest gegen Shikamarus Schläfen zu drücken. „Schließe deine Augen und fang an!“
Shikamaru schloss seine Augen. Das letzte, was er sah, waren Orochimarus große gelbe Schlangenaugen. Dann formte er die Handzeichen und aktivierte das Jutsu. -
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“You’re not making much sense.” Shikamaru was right to not trust the guy. Something was clearly wrong in his head.
“The only downside are the monsters.”
“The monsters? Like the one that attacked me?”
“Yes, like that.” He stops walking, standing in front of the entrance of the cavern. “Those monsters were human, once, a long time ago. Spend enough time in this place and you’ll get ‘corrupted’. I was researching evidence of another realm when I discovered something about it. Every life that ends up in said realm can never die as long as they’re in the realm.”
Different realms, immortality. Shikamaru knew that his life would never again be as easy as it was before.
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Shikamaru's had an easy life. Different realms and a troublesome team is bound to change that. Not to mention the 'Akatsuki' group targeting him for whatever reason.
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Tonight, Tomorrow Night, and Forever by Dattegokun (Cammerel)
Fandoms: Naruto (Anime & Manga)
02 Oct 2025
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He’s going to have to make a move. A really big move. Whether he likes it or not.
Saying ‘I love you’ won’t cut it. It has to be… undeniable.
What a drag.
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The Wild Deer, Wandering Here & There, Keeps the Human Soul from Care by Alllis_da_idiot
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Naruto (Anime & Manga)
29 Sep 2025
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Shikamaru hadn't expected to be reborn as a child in the middle of the cesspit that was aptly named Gotham city.
But he was here now, so he might as well smooth some things over, Ninja style.
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Shikamaru is reborn as Timothy Drake, hyjinks ensue. -
look up to the sky (and pray for it is your only choice) by MaskSoully
Fandoms: Naruto (Anime & Manga)
27 Sep 2025
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“I’m going to die here…” Shikamaru thinks as the enemy’s whip coils in the dim light. Choji’s fragile ribs press against him, Ino’s warmth slipping away, and all around—their friends—breaking. Sasuke, Sakura, Naruto, Lee, Hinata, Neji, Tenten, Shino, Kiba… one by one, crumbling. Broken. Bleeding. Silent.
We are all going to die here.
What should have been an easy C-rank mission twists into a nightmare that devours the Konoha 12, suffering fates that are far more terrible than death. When 4 weeks of no communication come and go, and one night, a familiar white dog turns up with a torn up sleeve, bloodied and obviously a cry for help.
The parents have to turn to each other, the sensei's turn to each other, and they know. They will get their children back.
But more questions arise: Where are they? What is happening in this town? Why do they act like their children never existed?
How far can human cruelty grow? When does one become a monster? When does one become judge, jury, and executioner? When does one's morality cease to exist?
None of that matters. Because all they want is their kids, and they'll do anything to get them back.
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Nindo of the Winged Serpent (and his shadow) by Lesaiet
Fandoms: Elden Ring (Video Game), Naruto (Anime & Manga)
24 Sep 2025
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Messmer and the Abyssal Serpent share their regrets in the afterlife.
Later, Shikamaru is born with a flickering shadow, shorn of light.
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OS ShikaTema. In between canon moments during Chapter 312. What if Shikamaru skipped Yakiniku Q because he had his own celebratory ritual? Medicinal antlers made a good excuse but what brought him to the forest that night was her...
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Let me be your shadow (unnecessary but forever yours) by Trial_and_Error
Fandoms: Naruto
21 Sep 2025
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The Nara clan is known for their relationship with the deer in their forest, their alliance with the Akimichi and Yamanaka clans, shadow manipulation, medicines, knowledge, and laziness. One of the things that they are known for to a lesser extent is their fixations.
All Nara’s fixate on something, usually, it's a hobby or habit that they fixate on, but on some very rare occasions, they fixate on someone instead of something.
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Shikamaru opens the door in a pair of low-slung sweatpants and a loose, faded t-shirt and Ino thinks that her life is turning into one big joke. And a rather distasteful one at that, if she’s allowed any input. Shikamaru’s standing there, one arm braced on the doorjamb above his head, leaning against the frame of the house so that she can see a slash of toned, tanned stomach from where his shirt’s riding up, and Ino thinks she might strangle something. Maybe whatever god’s decided to turn her life into their personal sitcom. Maybe Shikamaru.
_____________'Casual' and 'uncomplicated' sounded good to Ino when Shikamaru suggested it. And, if she's honest, her feelings are still relatively uncomplicated - just in a different way then Shikamaru meant, and decidedly opposite of 'casual'.
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Things go sideways for Shikamaru while on a mission to rescue Naruto from the Akatsuki.
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Naruto leans down, his lips at Shikamaru’s ear. “You don’t have to be scared of me,” he says, and Shikamaru shivers at the feeling of his breath against his skin. Until this moment, he never has been scared of Naruto. Not even when he took out Neji during the chunin exams. “You want this just as much as I do. I know you do, Shikamaru.”
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- Part 1 of Fooled series
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Thrown together at the same university without their childhood buffer, a popular, image-obsessed Ino and a lazy, brilliant Shikamaru must navigate the pressures of college, their fractured friendship, and a confusing new guy, all while the unspoken bond they've always relied on threatens to become something infinitely more troublesome.
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A secret is something that is hidden, but it can also mean a bond between two people who share it. Where friendships and alliances are built in unique moments. Two children looked at the pool of blood at their feet. Who would have thought that this would be how Shikamaru and Sakura became... friends?
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The first move is always a feint. It's the most basic thing, to land a hit with the second move—or in his case, the second life. Nara Shikamaru is reborn in a completely wrong time and wrong gender, where troubles manage to ensue and give him a monumental headache.
Troublesome.
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A Strategic Replay(And the troubles that Ensue) by Couch_PotatoSundae
Fandoms: Naruto (Anime & Manga)
23 Jul 2025
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Shikamaru Nara is seventeen years old and fighting in a war that seemed to have no end.
Seventeen years old and has witnessed more than enough death and suffering necessary for many lifetimes over.
He is seventeen, and he’s exhausted. It was an exhaustion that was like living his life through a lens, struggling to go through motions that were once so easy.
He is seventeen when in a dingy little medical tent, he notices something off with an innocent looking lamp in the corner.
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Or; Shikamaru wakes up in a body far too small to be his and to the face of his long since dead father in a compound destroyed at the very beginning of the war.
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- Part 1 of Life Goes On
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Sakura has always, unapologetically, been a blanket stealer. It’s one of the many not so fun quirks Shikamaru’s learning to love. (Yes, he said love. No, he does not want to talk about it yet.)
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- Part 3 of SATURDAY SUN
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For a covert mission in a high security village, Sakura and Shikamaru have to pose as a happily married couple.
They *think* it’ll be easy….until the lines start to blur
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A rooftop in Suna. A strategist avoiding paperwork. A dinner invitation that might just change everything.
Shikamaru thought diplomacy was the most troublesome part of his trip—until Temari invited him to dinner, asked him a favor, and dared him to be honest.
Trouble, it turns out, isn’t always a bad thing.
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Inspired by the violentometer to warn if the person with whom you are is running away, I will make all the situations live and another one in addition to arrive at 25 by doing the worst at best.
To make him live the trauma by healing at the end.
TW: Rape, manipulation, emotional blackmail.
English is not my native language, sorry.