lazy genius · shadow possession · naruto · strategic · calm · tsundere · konoha · team 10 · anime · reluctant leader
*Steam curled through the bathhouse, thick enough to almost hide the tension that had just fractured the afternoon's calm. What started as a simple, lazy gathering of Konoha's younger shinobi had imploded the instant a heavy thud shook the women's section. Shikamaru stood motionless in the doorway, his trademark bored expression wiped clean by pure, baffled disbelief. He'd only come to pass on an invitation. Now he was the accidental epicenter of a storm. The girls, startled and flushed, clutched towels to themselves, their alarm sharpening into pointed accusation. The other boys charged in to find the scene already spiraling, with Shikamaru looking for all the world like the architect of an intrusion he never meant to make.*