What A Drag... || Shikamaru x reader

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Edited: 30/05/24

Reuploaded: 06/06/24

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Over the next few weeks we were rebuilding the wall, houses, and buildings that'd been destroyed in the attack.

Apparently my ice was a great help for keeping everyone cool, don't I feel appreciated. Please sense my sarcasm because I hate having to sit around and keep circling ice around people so they can be a bit cooler.

Shikamaru didn't leave my side either. He kept a close eye on me. I appreciated it an' all but I felt like in his eyes, if someone so much as hit me, I'd just crumble away.

I'm not that fragile, pineapple boy.

I just wish he'd see that.

Almost a month had passed and the new Hokage stepped up. I was curious who it was but at the same time I didn't care. It's just another person who I'll take orders from and ultimately see die at some point, it is the way of this world.

"Y/n!" Hyousuke sensei noticed me and called for me.

"Hyousuke sensei?" I greeted him with a confused expression.

"The Hokage would like to speak with you," he told me, I nodded and use his shadow to appear in the doorway of the office.

Knocking twice, I entered to see Shikamaru, Yuuto and Riku stood waiting.

"You're the new Hokage?" I asked, the lady at the front nodded. She had long blonde hair and a diamond in the middle of her forehead. Wait... Long blonde hair... and a diamond in the middle of her forehead...?

"Are you... Sannin Tsunade?" I asked her, she nodded again. Oh—it's her, it's really her, "uh—please allow me to introduce myself properly to you in a way you'll recognise me... Hopefully... My name is f/n l/n, daughter to f/n and m/n apparently, I have a Godmother out there and she... well... she's you?"

The whole room was silent.

She just looked at me. Not uttering a word.

The boys all looked at me shocked before Yuuto grabbed my arm.

"Are you mad? I know you've just lost the last of your family and all but pushing this role onto someone you've never met is really stupid," he told me harshly. I shook my head.

"My Dad told me about her. Sannin Tsunade. My Mother's sensei and closest friend. They asked her to be their child's Godmother if they ever had a child," I told them and the lady in front of us stood up before walking around the desk towards me.

She pinched my chin and tilted my face, looking me over before taking a few steps back.

"There's only one way to know, I'll get back to that later. First off, the reason why you four are here," she turned around and returned to her seat, "your sensei's and fellow ninja have spoken nothing but high praise of you and the Third Hokage had left a plan of the future... moderately... Shikamaru Nara, Yuuto Reo, Riku Haru and f/n l/n, you're all to be promoted to chuunin as my first motion."

The room was silent.

"What?" we all exclaimed finally breaking the heavy silence.

"But I forfeited," both me and Shikamaru shouted.

"And I lost!" Yuuto added.

"I barely won by default!" Riku finished.

"Yes, yes, but it would seem he was planning on making Team 9 chuunin anyway and then choose a few out of the exam to add. But he only wrote down the surname Nara. So I asked around and it would seem you deserve this title," Lady Tsunade told us.

"Thats... Just a strange reason," Yuuto mumbled, "a nonsensical reason, if you will."

"Anyway, Shizune, give them their uniforms," the lady demanded the girl with the pig in her arms. She nodded and placed the pig down before picking up four chuunin vests. We all took them and put them on. It was strange. I got a promotion out of pure luck by the looks of it.

"You're all dismissed but as for you, y/n. If you're really a l/n born of my closest friends bloodline then you'll have a trigger and these scrolls left by f/n will react to you. Can you bring your trigger here so we can ensure this?" Tsunade asked, I nodded and watched as the others started walking out. I just grabbed Shikamaru's wrist and looked away laughing awkwardly.

"Mind staying?" I asked, he was tense for a moment but relaxed and walked back beside me. Tsunade nodded and pulled out four scrolls. She didn't care what was on her desk, she just pushed everything off and placed the scrolls in a line vertical line, each end and top was hitting another except the 1st and 4th in which had the top and end exposed.

"Try open the scrolls. These were left by your Dad. Only a l/n can open and read them," she told me. I nodded and approached the desk. Placing my finger on the seal we watch as it proofed, and the scroll rolled itself out.

'Y/n,
I'm sorry, I guess if you're getting this scroll, it means I've passed.
So I'll tell you everything.
First things first, our family has been a line of guardians for generations. We are guardians over our homes and loved ones, we have always been a great ally to have. Our blood is something we cannot allow any other person to hold unless they're part of our family. This is because it's easy to manipulate it.
Second, as a guardian you vouch to protect our families jutsu and the village you have decided to live in. It's common curtesy if anything is.
Thirdly, when you vouch to take over you must be well aware that you are signing your life and future away to this job. Now open the second scroll and do this:
°  Cut your finger open and write your name in an empty circle in your own blood. Don't be surprised when a mark appears on your body, it's just the mark of the guardian - like mine on my stomach, the blooming daffodil.'

I stop reading the scroll and open the second before biting hard enough on my finger to make it bleed and wrote my name in a clear circle. The last person to sign it was someone named Sora.

"Sora?" I questioned, tracing one of my nonbleeding fingers over the name before stopping and putting my bleeding finger in my mouth.

The scroll poofed and I felt a weird tingling in my left hands fingertips.

I looked down to see a strange pale blue mark swirling around each fingertip and up my arm. I moved to a mirror and pulled down the collar of my shirt to see the mark climbing up the side of my neck and face, stopping just above my eyebrow in a little swirl.

"What the hell?" I asked with a frown before returning to the scroll and reading more.