EmmaLineShade
All it takes to change the course of history is for one person to reach out for another. From there, the butterfly effect takes place, rippling out through time and space.
In this case, Nara Shikamaru offers his friendship to Uzumaki Naruto, a lonely boy with nothing. Desperate for something - anything, really - Naruto clings to him, and then, well, Shikamaru can't seem to let him go either.
or: I write a fix-it fic on Naruto using ShikaNaru as my muse
(Cover to be added later, crossposted from ao3, first book in a series)