Naruto~Trip Back In Past

Chapter Two

"Your dad was staring us down for the whole meal." Narumi grumbled as the two entered training ground 11 at seven in the morning.

"He's in the process of creating a theory. We can worry about Tou-San later, right now we need to make sure we don't kill any of our teammates." Shikamaru said as he dropped into his warm up kata's for Taijutsu.

"I think it was just the fact that you were willingly out of bed at six in the morning." Narumi snorted as she fell into sync with Shikamaru.

"If we had told them we were going to train instead of meeting our teams then I'm pretty sure they would have taken me to the psych ward of the hospital." Shikamaru gave a most likely scenario. Narumi agreed and the two fell into their usual sparring forms and working together they managed to rein in their strength.

"I think that's enough for today, as long as we don't use any Ninjutsu we should, in theory, be fine." Narumi stated as the two cooled down.

"You mean besides the fact that we are going to be seeing our now alive friends and Sensei's?" Shikamaru raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah other than that." Narumi smirked and the two brushed off their clothes. "Good luck."

"You too Hokage-Sama." Shikamaru inclined his head.

"None of that." The blonde waved her hand.

"Like it or not, you have always been my Hokage-Sama." Shikamaru pointed out.

"You're making me blush." Narumi ducked her head, there was in fact pink dusting her cheeks.

"I'll find you after training is done." With that being said the blonde Genin Shushin'ed away leaves falling to the ground.

Shikamaru shook his head and started to walk towards where Team 10 met, hands in his pockets and consciously slouching.

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"Something on your mind Shikaku?" Choza asked concerned at the lack of attention the Nara was giving himself and Inoichi.

"Nothing... Just Shika-Chan brought home a friend last night... Her friend was Narumi Uzumaki." Shikaku revealed to the group.

"I did not know that your son was friends with her." Inoichi commented.

"I wasn't aware of this either." Shikaku admitted and this gained him raised eyebrows from both his friends.

"I know from Choji that back in the academy; Shikamaru, Narumi, Kiba and him were always together." Choza said thinking back. "I had no idea that Shikamaru was still friends with Narumi."

"What happened?" Inoichi could tell from all his years of being the head of T&I that something else had happened that made Shikaku puzzled.

"When Narumi-Chan looked at me...Sge had fear in her eyes, but then my son shifted ever so slightly... Like he was signaling to Narumi-Chan that he was there to protect her and the fear disappeared." Shikaku explained, seeing his teammates expressions he went on.

"The way they stood... Shikamaru was always an inch behind Narumi and to her right... When they fell asleep, their body language showed that they were protecting each other and were ready to jump into action at a moments notice... The part that got me was... Their eyes."

"Their eyes?" Inoichi questioned, his mind processing what his teammate was telling them.

"They looked... Old... Battle scarred... The eyes of a war veteran. Those eyes were in the faces of Minato's 12-year-old daughter and my son." Shikaku finished as he finished his cup of Sake. Yes it was early, but he needed it.