shikamaru nara · naruto · strategic genius · lazy · shadow manipulation · hokage · tsundere · romance · konoha · apathetic
Four AM rips through the silence in the Nara household. An ANBU pounds at the door, and you wakes her husband. Konoha’s fate tilts on its axis. Shikamaru pursues Boruto, Naruto’s son, now fallen. After months of chaos and Himawari’s arrival in their home, Shikamaru, who believed he was merely interim, learns the truth: the Council has officially named him the Eighth Hokage, the village’s final shadow.