#shikanaru

[rayshippouuchiha]

Chapters: 6/? Fandom: Naruto Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Nara Shikamaru/Uzumaki Naruto Additional Tags: Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst, Crack Treated Seriously, Humor, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, BAMF Uzumaki Naruto, Genderfluid Character, Yandere Shikamaru Nara, Smart Uzumaki Naruto, BAMF Nara Shikamaru, Alternate genin teams, Strong Uzumaki Naruto, Smitten Nara Shikamaru, Violence, Canon-Typical Violence, Hatake Kakashi Needs a Hug, Hatake Kakashi Needs Help, Nara Shikamaru Gives No Fucks, alternate team 7, Team Ticking Time Bomb, Monstrous Strength Naruto, Naruto With Tsunade's Strength, Nara Shikaku Is Very Tired, Shikamaru Calls Dibs On Naruto, The Nara Fixation, Uchiha Idiocy, Uchiha Sasuke Being an Idiot, Love At First Chakra Enhanced Strike, Sasuke You In Danger Boy, Genderfluid Uzumaki Naruto, DO NOT RE-POST THIS STORY ON ANY OTHER PLATFORM. Series: Part 1 of Shadows & Strength Summary:

Naruto still might not be entirely sure why Shikamaru is being so nice to him, why he’s suddenly decided that Naruto is worth his attention after all of these years, but he’s also rapidly hit the point where he just … doesn’t care.

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[lyllaotterofhalfworld]

THEY KISS

[tora-the-cat]

Shikamaru saying his 'dream life' is one where nothing happens and he gets married peacefully to a faceless woman and he lives peacefully and no one asks him for anything except a game of shogi ever again. And the literally 2 pages later being like 'oh I'm gonna be narutos advisor. Yeah that's the dream….'

[konohomies]

sketches

[astrozure]

🍥🦌

print!

[liph-zip]

the ultimate love triangle: aloof dudes who fixate in the sunshine boy in their lives (and treat him with blatant favoritism)

[kathrahender]

Please can the male character of a fantasy show/shonen anime not end with a female character for once? Stop with the heteronormativity dear God.

Give the main male character more female friends instead of giving him female love interests. Male characters deserve to have female friends. They don't have to be always romantically involved! I'm tired of people always wanting to ship a girl and a boy without any other option. They could be just friends! (and this feels very close to me because I had a best male friend in high school and people ALWAYS saw us as lovers and it WASN'T true at all! It was so irritating I swear. "You look good together" "You are a good couple" "Are you two together?" Why can't you leave us alone??? He was just my friend). Because YES, a girl and a boy can be friends without feeling romantic love for each other.

Annabeth could have been Percy Jackson's first female friend and she could have been the first girl who cared about him, just like a "female version of Grover" and just a friend- but no, they had to end up together because God forbid a main male character not being the boyfriend of a girl (and the same happens with Hiccstrid, Jlaire and Anidala, they could also just have been friends)

Naruto and Hinata could have been besties instead of lovers but no- they had to make Hinata a girl whose life was only centered in "How do I make Naruto-kun love me?" (and the same happened to Iris West. She could have been more important to the plot and Barry's best female friend- but instead she was just his love interests and her development was null. And the same happened with Allura. At first she was a good character, but then she was only there to be Lance love interest, what he should have been overcome. And btw Allura's romantic love towards Lance felt very rushed. As well as Hinny was so bad developed in the movies and Ginny's development didn't exist).

Seriously people stop with these things. Stop reducing a female character to a love interest. Don't make the main male character end up with a female character because that "it's better for the plot" "it's better for the world" "people won't accept the male character dating another male character" "people won't accept the male character not dating anyone". Not everything has to be a straight couple. Actually, not everything has to be a couple! All relationships in the book/show/movie/anime could be platonic and it wouldn't be a big deal! (Although personally I like romance, but aroace people also exist and they deserve to be represented in media).

[dubiousanon]

ShikaNaru Headcanons

☀️Shikamaru definitely realizes his feelings first and it is 100% an "oh, shit" moment.

☀️I imagine the Nara clan to love not as angrily as the Uchiha, but just as obsessively. Where the Uchiha seek to almost possess, the Nara clan covets knowledge. In this case, Shikamaru wants to know everything about Naruto— no detail is too small.

☀️ I'm not saying Shikamaru is stalking him, but he'd definitely follow him everywhere. Like, he's not trying to hide. Naruto just hasn't noticed because it's... Well, it's Naruto.

☀️And the few times he does notice him it's just— "Wow, what're you doing here Shikamaru? 😀" baby you should be asking why you've seen him ten different times this week and it's only Monday.

☀️Nara Fixation Nara Fixation Nara Fixation Nara Fixation Nara Fixation Nara Fixation, did I say Nara Fixation yet?

☀️Naruto wants for nothing because somehow, Shikamaru always knows exactly what he needs and is able to predict exactly when he's going to need it.

☀️ Naruto never quite realizes the depth of the obsession/love. He's just completely oblivious to the fact that Shikamaru is kind of, slightly, a little bit (maybe a lot a bit) insane. With a cherry on top.

☀️ Lowkey, I am a huge fan of crazy Shikamaru. Like, not outwardly crazy, but "I know your height, weight, regular resting heart rate, wrist diameter, and how many times you've said 'believe it' today" crazy Shikamaru. Knows too much Shikamaru.

☀️Naruto 100% just assumes they're dating after a while of certain details accumulating. Shikamaru feeds him like, daily. Shikamaru has shared a bed with him several times. They spend a lot of time together. They hold hands. Shikamaru knows like, everything about him somehow.

☀️ Naturally, they must've been dating this entire time and Naruto simply didn't notice until now. And because Naruto has zero experience with healthy relationships, he just accepts this as fact and moves on with his life.

☀️ Shikamaru when Naruto grabs him by the face on day, plants a huge kiss on him with no context, and then skips off: 👁️👄👁️

☀️ Come on, it'd be so funny.

☀️ Insert Naruto also knowing a surprising amount about Shikamaru, because he's more attentive than people give him credit for. Shikamaru follows him around so much, of course he learns about him over time. He may be an idiot, but he's not a moron. Or... something like that.

☀️ Naruto is just happy someone actually wants to be around him. Sasuke is Sasuke, Sakura constantly yells at him, Kakashi literally runs, Yamato is only around for training, and Sai just insults him in increasing intervals when they're together.

☀️ Touch-Starved! Naruto vs. Can't get enough of touching him! Shikamaru! Go! Fight!

☀️ Shikamaru "he's never going to love me" Nara and Naruto "I wonder when Shikamaru is gonna propose" Uzumaki

☀️ Naruto just goes to the court house and files the documents himself. Surprise, Shikamaru. Not only does he love you, you've been married for the past four months.

☀️ Alternatively, Shikamaru could pull the same move. Oh, you kissed me on the mouth? Sounds like a proposal to me.

☀️ For a certified genius, Shikamaru would absolutely be the kind of idiot to assume Naruto couldn't ever return his feelings. There could be so much evidence to the contrary and it really WOULD take an entire kiss to the lips to convince him.

☀️ No worries, Naruto is more than willing to oblige.

☀️ Basically um I love them, they're both smart AND stupid in different ways, but they make it work. And nobody can change my mind.

[run-stray-wolf]

Best friend, husband, advisor - page 34-39 (read from right to left, like the manga)

What if instead of Iruka, Kakashi chose Shikamaru to help Naruto study for becoming the next Hokage? What if Shikamaru took it seriously and discovered Naruto had ADHD? What if along the way Shikamaru became Naruto’s best friend? This is a Naruto x Shikamaru comic, following mainly Shikamaru's POV. Page 27-33

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[theylovevenus]

Shikamaru and all his exes plus his current girlfriend in chronological order. This has gotta be one of his top ten worst nightmares

[hellcifrogs]

The two Shika ship fusions!

[rayshippouuchiha]

Okay, abt your S&S, the part where Shika hopes in the future that he gets injured enough so Naruto can stitch him up or heal him.

let’s put a spin on that.

how about: a scenario where Sasuke gets a pretty ugly gash somewhere, and Naruto’s the one that has to stitch him back up, just Sasuke smiling smugly at the thrashing Nara in Kakashi arm just WAITING for Kakashi to let go so he can beat that broody teenager up.

Oh gods look if Sasuke manages to be the one who gets stitched up by Naruto first? Shikamaru is going to be livid. Kakashi is gonna have to start sleeping with both eyes wide ass open to keep Shikamaru from going at Sasuke with a kunai to cut those stitches right back out.

[epitome-of-an-openbook]

look I love Shikamaru and Temari's relationship, they are probably my favorite canon ship in the whole franchise - but as a ShikaNaru truther I find it very interesting that Shikamaru ended up with a blonde haired, blue eyed, babe with wind nature chakra and a close connection to a tailed beast, as well as a complicated family situation hinging on the fact that their father was a kage who sealed a tailed beast into his infant son in a move that ultimately killed the mother.

[instantreplaytime]

@slicknicktime

ShikaNaru, I'm getting back into the shipping pool of Naruto.

[epefanio]

I choose to believe some of Naruto’s top love languages are quality time and gift giving and he was like “Hey Shikamaru what if we made bracelets for each other wouldn’t that be fun” shika said that was a drag but naruto still made him a bracelet and he did that thing where he pretends he isn’t a big fan of it but still wears it all the time and he did bother Ino to have them teach him how to make a bracelet so he could also make one for Naruto

[astrozure]

i'll give you everything i have