1 Ch 1: Reincarnating is a chore

Being killed isn't a very pleasant thing, evident by the amount of pain that I am going through, now you may ask yourself just how am I staying as calm as I am? Well, adrenaline helped quite a lot, and the fact that I didn't have much to lose also helped a fair bit.

So as I was lying there in the middle of the street bleeding out because of the knife stabbed into my lungs I felt quite comforted, the shadows slowly crawling towards me and the clouds looking fluffier than ever and like that, I woke up.

All the pain that I was feeling just a second ago was completely gone and a feeling of infinite strength and stamina was flowing through me, it felt as if I had drunk 50 energy drinks in one go, I felt myself slowly get more and more addicted to this feeling, it was as if I had discovered a part of myself I never knew even existed, and that's when I realized.

"Where the hell am I?"

Looking around I found myself lying down in the shadow of a large tree looking up at some funny looking clouds, some were shaped like bunnies one even looked like a dragon, but that wasn't what I was most concerned about, the air felt clean, cleaner than I had ever thought could be possible, that's when it dawned on me, I got reincarnated.

I slowly got up from my supine position and walked to the small river that wasn't far from where I was lying down, with every step I took I felt more alive than I had ever before, every breath I took was as if there wasn't any smog in the air, the permanent smokey smell that I had gotten desensitized to was gone and in its place was the fresh air that only the billionaires of earth could breathe, hell it was probably much better than that.

And let me tell you if anything had ever shocked me it was most definitely this because what I saw looking back at me from the reflection of the river was a young Shikamaru, you know the pineapple haired genius from naruto, my favorite character who I sympathized with the most in all of Naruto. I quickly realized that I was reincarnated into the universe of Naruto, and not just as any side character, no I was reincarnated as Shikamaru Nara, I also came to the realization that this energy and infinite strength that I felt must have been chakra there was also another feeling although much weaker than that of chakra I was sure there was something else present as well.

I quickly pinched my arm making sure that I wasn't dreaming and I could in fact feel the pain coming from my arm, and it also dawned on me that I was weak, even though I had felt stronger than ever before, I realized that I wasn't in fact as strong as I had originally made myself out to be, hell right now if some random genin decided he wanted to kill a Nara he could beat me within seconds, hold on, how did I know all that?

and ever so slowly the memories of the Original Shikamaru slowly started streaming into my own, with that also came pain while not as bad as all the fanfics I read had made it out to be it was still painful to get 5 years of memories to get crammed into your brain in a matter of minutes, the memories I was rechieving felt as if they were merging with my own, although my memories were obviously more numerous so they came out on top, although I could feel the effects of the merge almost immediately, I felt more lazy and tired than before but I didn't really let that bother me as my sheer fear of the monsters that are in this world made sure that I wouldn't laze around, otherwise, I could kiss my sweet new life goodbye.

Right now I was 5 years old and would be entering the academy in 3 years, all students enter the academy at 8 years old although there are exceptions like with Naruto who entered at 6 years old that would also explain why the anime said that he failed twice before being graduated by Iruka, although exceptional children may request to enter early or if it is war then everyone enters at 6 years old and graduates much earlier.

Now, this would mean that I had 3 years to train as much as possible although as a child I would have restrictions on me I had a lot of free time, that free time could be used to train.

Another thing I had to watch out for was Danzo, I had more protection against him as my father was the Head Jonin and my mother was also a jonin, though this wouldn't stop him from trying to do something as I was certain he had Root operatives in the Nara clan, it wasn't only my family that existed, we were a clan, after all, my father, the clan head was simply the clan head because he was the smartest of us all, and the smarter a Nara the stronger.

In my previous life, I never had many friends and my only family was my mother who worked herself to death because of the situation we were in, but in this one? I had a mother who I knew loved me and a father who was Incredibly strong and also loved me.

I would make sure that I became strong enough to protect my new family.

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So........ hello, although this isn't my first fanfic the other one that I had made was when I wasn't as experienced as I was now, my other story was rushed and there wasn't any feeling behind it, I plan to change that in this one, now for questions you may think that he has no reason to think of his 'new' family as his own well that isn't very true first of all the memories of the original Shikamaru half-merged with his own memories that already is enough of a reason in my books and I will also be revealing more and more of his backstory as the story progresses I won't just tell you everything otherwise there is no point in writing this.