The Life Of Shikamaru Nara (UPDATED)

[Music] the life of shikamaru nara from naruto shikamaru nara is a shinobi of konohagakure's nara clan though lazy by nature shikamaru has a rare intellect that consistently allows him to prevail in combat the responsibilities that these successes leave him with cause him frequent annoyance but he gladly accepts him so that he may be of service to his fellow members of team asuma and to prove himself to generations of the past and future welcome to the amagi in today's video we're going over the life of shikamaru nara before we begin we publish a new video every day so be sure to subscribe to our channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos background shikamaru is the only child of yoshino and shikaku nara when he was young he once played ninja with other children his age choji akamichi wanted to play with them but the other children refused to allow him to do so claiming he was too stupid to participate when shikamaru couldn't convince the others to let choji in he left the game and went to his favorite spot to watch clouds choji happened to be sitting in the same spot when he got there so shikamaru introduced himself and invited choji to watch the clouds with him choji asked chikamaru if he wanted some snacks from that point onward they were best friends upon entering konoha's ninja academy they'd usually sit together in class and hang out afterwards shikamaru had very little interest in the class itself preferring to spend his time sleeping rather than listening to irika umino's lessons shikomaru showed the same lack of enthusiasm for the tests he was given and couldn't be bothered to actually answer the questions leading to his poor grades prologue land of waves upon graduating from the academy shikimaru is added to awesome asara toby's team 10 along with chochi akamichi and ina yamanaka in the anime shikamaru is surprised that narada uzumaki also graduated since naruto failed their in-class graduation exam tuning exams despite how recently they graduated from the academy asama enters team 7 in the tuning exams being held in konoha shikamaru agrees to participate but nevertheless complains repeatedly about the competition with the many other participating ghenin especially his recent fellow graduates the members of team 7 and team 8. for the first stage of the exams they are given a written test with 10 questions too difficult for the standard genning to be able to answer and for which reason participants are expected to cheat without getting caught eno uses her mind body switch technique on shikomaru to fill out his exam sheet with answers she copied from sakura harano in the anime shikamaru is glad for eno's intervention as he didn't want to bother answering the questions on his own team 10 ultimately passes for the second stage of the exams team 10 enters the forest of death to take part in a 5-day survival exercise team 10 initially spends their time avoiding conflict hiding whenever they come across another team when they discover sakura defending your teammates from a team of oto nin by herself shikomaru asks ino if they should help her ino decides to and shikamaru drags choji along to provide additional support team 10 initiates formation ino shikacho choji attacks zaku abumi with human bullet tank shikimaru immobilizes doso and ino uses her mind body switch on kinsuchi ino tries to use keen as a hostage but zaku opts to attack keen himself rather than let her be used against him too tired to offer much more of a fight team 10 wonders what to do when sasuke regains consciousness shikamaru has them withdraw sensing that sasuke can deal with the oto nin on his own after passing the second stage the remaining ghenin take part in one-on-one preliminary matches shikamaru to his annoyance is matched against kin who uses bells tied with strings to distract shikamaru giving her an opening to attack him with senbon in the anime the bells also produce a genjutsu further disorienting shikamaru shikimaru alters his shadow's shape and directs it to keen under the cover of the strings she's been holding onto allowing him to ensnare her without her notice after revealing his technique he takes a shuriken from his holster and throws it forcing keen to do the same shikamaru dodges kian's hurricane by bending backwards forcing her to dodge his shuriken in the same way upon doing this keen knocks her head against the wall behind her rendering her unconscious ensuring shikamaru's victory when the preliminaries conclude shikamaru and the other finalists are informed who their first opponents will be when they reconvene after a month of rest and training because there are an odd number of finalists shikomaru is scheduled to fight dosu in an additional match shikamaru is frustrated that he'll need to do additional work if he's to win the tournament from listening to the third hokage's explanation about how the finals will be handled shikamaru speculates that one doesn't need to actually win the tournament in order to be promoted to tuning which the third confirms when shikamaru asks him ganin are promoted based on performance not wins or losses after they disperse choji overeats in an effort to console himself for losing his preliminary match sending him to the konaha hospital while shikamaru is visiting him there the day before the finals he also visits naruto who's recovering from his training as shikamaru and naruto are talking they notice gaara entering rock lee's room intent on killing him shikamaru stops him with his shadow and tries to convince gara to leave by pointing out that he and naruto outnumber him but gara isn't deterred after telling them a little about his childhood gara prepares to kill them his sand not being inhibited by shikamaru's shadow might guy arrives before he can do anything else to them and forces gara to leave when the finalists gather the next day shikamaru is informed that his match with dosu has been cancelled and that he'll instead be fighting tamari of sunna in his first match when it's time to fight he contemplates forfeiting but naruto wrongly assumes he's eager to get started and shoves him into the arena tamari attacks him when he's slow to get up but he dodges at the last moment deciding he doesn't want to lose to a girl shikomaru retreats to the cover of some nearby trees and uses the threat of his shadow to force tamar to keep her distance while she ascertains his shadow's maximum reach shikamaru formulates a strategy doing so quickly enough to be ready when tamari attacks mafaar with her giant folding fan he takes shelter behind the trees and strikes out with his shadow again extending farther towards her than before the setting sun lengthening the shadow's range tamari dodges this and his other attempts to let his shadow reach further forcing her to repeatedly move away from him to avoid it she attempts to finish the fight quickly expecting things will only become easier for shikamaru as the fight goes on when she finds herself already caught shikamaru has been maneuvering her towards a hole in the ground created during naruto's earlier match which allowed him to catch her with his shadow form underground capturing her from behind shikamaru approaches tamari apparently to deliver a finishing blow he forfeits instead claiming that even if he won this match he spent too much chakra to be able to safely fight in later matches the observing older ninja are impressed by the wisdom of this decision but naruto is upset and enters the arena to accuse shikomaru of stupidity when sasuke arrives in the arena for his match with gara shikimaru and naruto head back to the stands to spectate they cross paths with gara moments after he murders to kusanin and are paralyzed by the realization that he would have killed them had the kusen did not been there naruto becomes fearful of what gaara will do to sasuke and runs off to cancel a match when shikimaru catches up he's amused to see that naruto's concern for sasuke's safety has suddenly become jealousy for sasuke's improved abilities konoha crush sasuke and gara's match is interrupted by an invasion of konoha and a genjutsu puts most of the spectators to sleep shikomaru is able to dispel the genjitsu but he still pretends to be asleep anyway so that nobody will bother him this is discovered by sakura when she comes over to wake him and naruto up and pakun forces him to get up by biting his ankle having overheard kakashi haruke's instructions for the four of them to stop sasuke from pursuing gara shikomaru flatly refuses prompting pakun to bite his hand until he agrees as they head away from the stadium pakun informs them that they're being followed by nine oto nin because they're outnumbered because none of them are particularly good fighters shikamaru explains that their best option is to lay an ambush a task he volunteers for while the others continue to follow sasuke shikamaru creates false tracks to lead the otonin down a different trail and then captures them with his shadow once he's near them shikomaru notices that he's only captured eight odo nin and hypothesizes that the ninth kept his distance in case of ambush shikimaru tests his theory by throwing shuriken at the eight forcing the ninth to reveal his location in order to block the shuriken shikumaru can't reach the ninth with his shadow and in fact is about to lose his bind on the other eight but he holds them for as long as he can once he's forced to release them he prepares to be killed but is saved by asuma who has dealt with the 9th odo nin and quickly defeats the others asuma congratulates shikomaru for his good work and tells him to rest a few days later after the invasion has been repelled shikimaru attends the third hokage funeral sasuke recovery mission even though the tuning exams were interrupted and even though he lost his match shikamaru's performance was enough to earn him a promotion to chunin as the only candidate promoted that exam team 10 goes to yakiniku q to celebrate after which shikomaru trains with his father shikaku although shikaku wants to resume the training early the next morning shikimaru is summoned before tsunade the new hokage she informs him that sasuke has defected from konoha in order to join with orochimaru the man behind the invasion shikamaru notes a team of chunin and jonin should be sent after sasuke but tsunade explains that this is impossible the village being too understaffed in the aftermath of orochimaru's invasion the only sasuke recovery team she can allow is one led by shikomaru and consisting of any genie he sees fit to recruit in half an hour tsunare recommends naruto's inclusion and shikomaru insists on also including choji kiba inuzuka and neji hyuga are likewise recruited after leaving the village the recovery team comes across sasuke's escorts the sound 4. shikamaru has neji scout the area and then has him loudly report sasuke's presumed location within a coffin the sound 4 carrying the sound four hear this and when they attack shikamaru takes the opportunity to capture the four of them with his shadow he didn't count on the presence of a fifth member however who attacks him and forces him to release them girobo then captures them with his earth prison dome of magnificent nothingness kiba uses fang passing fang in an attempt to break three but the prison only heals the damage shigemaru notices that the damage heals more slowly in one area and by engaging girobo in conversation shikimoto confirms that it's the point farthest from him he has choji attacked that area and they successfully escape girobo will need to be distracted if they're to continue pursuing the rest of the sound for shikamaru volunteers but choji insists on being given the responsibility promising to defeat girobo shikamaru agrees on the condition that choji catch up with him after he's won shikamaru makes a point to mark their route as they go for choji to follow he realizes however that it may become necessary for each of them to fight a member of the sound 4 alone like choji is doing and warns the others to be prepared for this when they catch up with the sound 4 kiramaru tries to delay them and negi remains behind to fight kidamaru when they catch up again with sakhan and tayuya they try to use their superior numbers to their advantage although they do succeed in taking sasuke from them sasuke is quickly taken back by the sound four's backup kimimaro kiba and sakon end up being separated from their respective teams and naruto goes after kimi maru to retrieve sasuke leaving shikamaru to fight to yuya toyuh berates shikomaru for systematically sacrificing all the members of his team in order to rescue sasuke but shikamaru rebuts that as team leader he has faith in each of them she summons her three ogres and uses her demonic flute to control their attacks against him the ogre's attacks are so well coordinated that shikamaru has no opportunity to use any of his jutsu he tries finding a pattern in the music to you plays to try and predict their movements but the music changes too often for him to pick out anything by instead studying her finger positions he learns to predict the ogre's actions when they move into the correct position shikamaru uses a flash bomb to extend the ogre's shadows allowing him to capture them and control them against tijuya she then desummons them before he can do that but once they're gone she discovers the ogre's entire capture was a distraction she has been bound by shikamaru's shadow having been slowly navigated towards her tayuya is able to resist his shadow's bindings by activating her cursed seal shikimoto tries strengthening his hold on her with his newly learned shadow neck binding technique but he can't make its grasp strong enough either he releases her and allows himself to fall victim to the genjutsu she casts with her flute when she comes near him to finish him off with a kunai which he left for her he releases himself from the genjutsu by breaking his own finger and traps her within his shadow again using her closer proximity to improve the shadow's control her cursed seal still makes it strong to resist it so he keeps her bound until he runs out of chakra tayuya is stopped from killing shikomaru by the arrival of tamari suna's assistance having been requested by tsunade damari quickly destroys tsuyuya's flute forcing her to retreat into the forest shikomaru starts musing about how they might go about finding her or drawing her out which tamari ignores simply destroying the forest instead tayuya is crushed beneath the fallen trees and shikamaru though intimidated by tamari's ferocity is nevertheless thankful to her tamari accompanies shikamaru back to konoha his broken finger is healed and shikamaru is informed of the dire consequences the rest of his team has been left in that things went so badly on his first mission causes shikamaru to believe he's unfit to be a ninja much less to lead a team tamari won't comfort him nor will shikaku when he comes to check on things shikaku reminds shikomaru that his friends will continue to go on missions with or without him but maybe they'll avoid death if shikimaru leads them then if this mission went badly shikamaru should learn from it and improve so that future missions will be more successful tsunare interrupts with news that the team will make full recoveries that naruto has been found alive and that sasuke escaped although this means that the mission failed both tsunare and shikamaru are glad that everyone survived shikomaru even tearfully vowing to do better next time tamari and her brothers later return to suna and shikomaru sees them off he wishes them a safe journey and thanks them again before they go tamari teases shikomaru to call if he needs their help again mizuki tracking mission in the anime team 10 helps naruto round up escaped prisoners from the konoha strict correctional facility they use their formation ino shika cho to restrain the legendary stupid brothers until tsunade can arrive to defeat them konoha plans recapture mission in the anime shikamaru leads the konoha 11 in stopping geno from destroying konoha shikamaru proves to be a shrewd detective quickly catching on to seemingly minor clues and predicting geno's plans in the end geno decides not to destroy the village instead having fun letting the konoha 11 naruto in particular figure out what he's up to before he dies of a pre-existing illness naruto the movie legend of the stone of gal-el naruto sakura and shikamaru are sent to deliver niragui to its rightful owners when they arrive at the village where nerigui's owners live they're attacked by temujin's warriors who wield the power of the stone of shikamaru is eventually forced to fight the bat light chimera he uses a net of explosive tags to trap her allowing kankuro to finish her off suna gakurei's support mission in the anime shikamaru leads the konoha 11 and helping suna stop the four celestial symbols men repayment for their help to the sasuke recovery mission the konoha 11 splits up once they reach sunnah with shikomaru reaching to mari in time to save her from kujaku together they feed kujaku tamari and the other tsuna nin rest in konoha after the four celestial symbols men are defeated and when they're ready to leave shikamaru sees them off once again in naruto's footsteps the friends paths in the anime about two years after naruto leaves konohad a train shikamaru helps tsuna coordinate with suna to hold a joint tuning exam which has the potential to be both a sign of solidarity between their villages and also a way to potentially draw out akatsuki gara suna's nukazukage agrees with tsunade's plans because only three man teams can participate and because shikimaru is already a tuning shikimar's position in team 10 is temporarily filled by sakura shikamaru proctors the first stage of the exam a written test where participating teams must get a combined score of 100 points despite being seated in different rooms to pass teams must find some way to communicate and use teamwork to get the correct score towards the end of the first stage shikomoro offers a bonus question if each team can decide upon a team member to disqualify the rest of the team will be allowed to pass to the second stage this is a ruse and the only acceptable answer is for teams to elect to disqualify nobody shikamaru congratulates those who pass this first stage and hands them off to tamari the proctor of the second stage the exams are forced to be cancelled during the second stage and the kazukage consults shikimaru about what to do it's decided that performance reports on all remaining participants will be sent to their respective villages to decide who will be promoted to chunin shikamaru later helps tsunare pick who to promote kazukage rescue mission when naruto returns to konoha after his two and a half years of training he runs into shikomaru and tamari seeing them together he asks if they're on a date both deny this instead explaining that they're only working together to plan another tuning exam shigemaru asks if naruto will participate since he's the only person from their graduating class who is still a genie naruto is devastated by everyone's promotions tenshi bridge reconnaissance mission naruto tracks down shikomaru to ask for his help in potentially finding sasuke again chikamaru can't once again telling naruto that he's helping arrange the tuning exams choji offers to help naruto though shikomaru shares his doubts that asuma will allow it while they're discussing this they're attacked by psy's super beast imitating drawings shikamaru uses his shadow sewing technique to destroy psy's drawings while naruto gets close shikomaru then tries to catch sai with his shadow but he's able to escape 12. naruto shippuden the movie shikumaru is part of a konoha force sent to hold off mario's stone army he later helps prevent this same army from providing backup to mario in its fight with naruto 12 guardian ninja in the anime when konoha is attacked by furido's four-man team tsunade puts shikimaru in charge of konaha's defense shikamaru is frustrated that he can't join his friends on the front lines believing that it's where the strategist is most needed and most effective shikomaru eventually defies orders and does just that and in doing so the earth release resurrection technique corpse soil is repelled when sora later rampages through the village shikimaru tries to restrain him with his shadow but this fails and he must leave sora's defeat to naruto naruto ship it in the movie bonds when the land of the sky attacks konoha shikamaru helps protect the villagers and fend off the attackers later he's put on a team with kakashi sai and shino abarame to take down the land of sky's ship fleet having deduced where the fleet is located based on its attack patterns he and kakashi work out a plan that enables the team to accomplish their mission akatsuki's suppression mission shikamaru plays shogi with asuma but is surprised by asuma's suddenly more offensive and reckless playstyle asuma explains that he's learned the importance of protecting the king even if it means sacrifices using shogi as a metaphor asama says that shikamaru is a knight while he's like a basic pawn shikimaru guesses that the king is like the hokage which asuma disagrees with though he refuses to elaborate they're both later assigned to one of the 20 platoons a task force designed to hunt down akatsuki members within the land of fire as their platoon searches the countryside for a lead as to the location of two akatsuki members that earlier attacked the fire temple shikamaru questions asuma on his continuing strange behavior specifically that he stopped smoking asuma once again avoids the question instead reminding them to be ready for the akatsuki member's undoubtedly formidable abilities on reaching the bounty station they find hidan waiting outside asuma distracts him while shikamura restrains him with his shadow allowing izumo kamizuki and kotetsu hagane to stab him with their swords to their surprise hidon survives the attack hedon's partner kakazu then appears and attacks chikamaru forcing him to release hidan their platoon regroups and asuma instructs chikamaru to try and restrain hidan with his shadow sewing technique while he fights him along planning to decapitate him once he's captured shikomaru objects to the inherent risk of the plan but goes along with it at asuma's insistence heedon evades shikimaru's shadow and awesome as strikes in the process managing to scratch awesome's cheek with his triple bladed scythe after licking asuma's blood from the scythe and entering a symbol he drew on the ground earlier kidan links himself with asuma causing any damage he receives to also be done to asuma hedon tries to take advantage of this link with asuma to stab himself in the heart relying on his own immortality to survive while asuma dies shikomaru stops him with his shadow and having picked up on how his ability works forces hedon to leave the symbol on the ground thus breaking the link now free to attack hidon again asama cuts his head off hidan once again survives and he calls on kakuzu to sew his head back onto his body asama izumo and kotetsu try to stop kakuzu from doing so while shikamaru exhausted from the effort it took to move hiton out of the circle can only watch they fail hiton's head is reattached and he returns to the symbol reestablishing the link despite shikamaru's attempts to reach in time to stop him hidon is able to stab himself in the heart asama keels over just as another of the 20 platoons one which includes choji and ino arrives to provide backup hidan and kakuzu retreat giving ino a chance to try and heal the damage to asuma's body aware that his wounds are too severe to heal asuma gives parting words to his students to shikamaru he whispers the identity of the king they spoke about earlier as his last act asama requests that shikamat would give him a cigarette but he dies before shikamaru can light it shikamaru lights the cigarette and smokes it himself blaming the smoke for his tears they returned to konahat to report about what's happened with shikamaru taking responsibility for informing kuronaiyuhi about asuma's death shikamaru does not attend awesome's funeral instead spending his time thinking over cigarettes practicing with asamus chakra blades and planning his revenge once he's got everything ready shikamaru sets out with choji and ino to hunt down hidon and kakazu tsunade tries to persuade them not to go but they're all confident in what they need to do sai tries to hold them back on the grounds that they need a fourth member at which point kakashi hadake appears and volunteers to be their fourth tsunare finally relents and shikamaru quickly modifies his plan to take advantage of kakashi's skills once ino locates hidan and kakuzu shigamaru launches the first attack striking at them multiple times until he's able to pin their shadows using asuma's chakra blades shikamaru uses his shadow to force hedon to attack kakazu but kakuzu frees himself in time to dodge shikomaru continues using hidan to attack kakuzu and with choji's help maneuvers kakuzu into a position for kokashi to attack him with his lightning cutter although kakashi pierces kakuzu's heart kakuzu has four spares one of which he uses to save himself he kicks kakashi away and joins hidan who shikamaru was forced to release hidan attacks chikamaru and the others with his scythe while kakuzu uses his extra hearts natures to attack from a distance overwhelming them shikomaru decides that hidon and kakazu will need to be separated if they're to be defeated and volunteers to deal with heat on alone despite hidan's attempt to use the experience gained from his many previous captures to avoid shikamaru's shadow he's captured yet again and led away once deep enough into the forest shikamaru surrounds himself with explosive tags so hedon won't be able to get away under any circumstances once chicamaru is forced to release him hidon strikes acquires some of shikamaru's blood and stabs himself in the heart the blood that hedon acquired was actually kakazu's which kakashi collected earlier when he used lightning cutter hedon's link was therefore to kakazu and he has thus destroyed one of kakazu's hearts hidan doesn't realize this and assumes shikomaru is dead allowing shikimara to attack him from behind in an effort to cut off his head hiton notices in time to keep his head attached but shikamaru once again catches him with his shadow he uses the shadow to attach all of the surrounding explosive tags to heat on and then activates a mark he set earlier which causes the ground beneath hidan to collapse into a pit realizing what shikamaru intends to do hidan vows to dig himself out and come after shikamaru shikamaru doubts this explaining that the surrounding forest belongs to the nara clan and that only they can enter and leave it he ignites the explosive tags with one of awesome's cigarettes awesome is lighter in the anime blowing heat on up hiton's still speaking remains fall into the pit which shikumaru buries with a final explosive tag kakazu is defeated by the time shikamaru makes it back to the others and they return to kanaha to report their success to tsunade shikamaru visits asuma's grave afterwards and finds kuronai there as they reminisce about asuma shikumaru vows to teach asuma and kuranai's unborn child just as asuma taught him he plays shogi with shikaku later and they discuss asuma's earlier metaphor asuma believed the king was the next generation which shikamaru also now believes shikaku is glad that he's learned this and then proceeds to defeat shikamaru so he'll realize he's not yet ready for the responsibility of protecting it naruto shipped in the movie the will of fire after hiroko declares the start of the fourth shinobi world war kakashi approaches shikamaru and tells him his plans to sacrifice himself in order to defeat hiroko kakashi is shortly afterwards taking control of by hiroko and forced to leave the village when naruto attempts to go after him shikamaru stops him though he does not divulge kakashi's plans to anyone but tsunade despite his and tsunari's instructions to remain in konoha naruto and sakura go after kakashi and shikamaru leads a team to bring them back they run into son along the way whose defeat shikamaru leaves to the rest of the team while he catches up with naruto upon reaching him shikomaru threatens to kill naruto believing the future of konoha is worth sacrificing kakashi naruto agrees that konoha's future is important but he doesn't feel the future is worthwhile if they assume sacrifices are the only way to protect it naruto's words are in accordance with the will of fire and in fact remind shikomaru of asuma so he joins naruto in rescuing kakashi upon freeing kakashi and getting drawn into a fight with hiroko shikomaru advises naruto on where hiroko's weak points are haines assault tsunade assigns shikamaru to decipher jiraya's dying message about the identity of pain akotsuki's leader he takes the message to the konahawk cryptanalysis team but they can't decode it until they know what the key is something that somebody close to jiraiya might be able to find out tsunare and kakashi have no theories when he asks them so shikomaru visits naruto naruto is depressed about jiraiya's death and has difficulty focusing he takes naruto to see kurenai who is well along in her pregnancy to illustrate the role that shikimaru and naruto must be able to someday fill being cool teachers to children like kuranai's just as asuma and jarya were to each of them this properly motivates naruto who is able to find a clue that seems to point to jiraiya's most recent book ichi tactics kakashi uses his copy of the book to help him decode the message the real one is not among them shikimoto shares the message with fukusaku who was with jiraya when he died but the message makes no sense without additional context shikamaru is forced to wait until the other investigations into pain proceed further shigemaru discusses possible meetings with sakura and shiho a few days later but they're interrupted by payne's assault and they disperse to join the village's defense in the anime shikimaru immediately goes looking for kurenai finding her in time to save her from one of the animal paths giant centipedes he helps her find an evacuation point out of the village before going to see what other helvey can provide pain eventually destroys konoha which shikamaru survives with only a broken leg in the anime he broke it while shielding shiho from harm while naruto fights pain alone shikomaru meets up with shikaku ino and inowichi yamanaka to pool their knowledge about pain with their combined information they hypothesize that pain is actually being controlled remotely by someone likely from the highest point near konoha because of his leg shikamaru must stay behind while shikaku and inuichi go searching naruto eventually defeats pain and upon his return to konoha shikamaru joins in the celebration of the victory past arc the locus of konoha in the anime shikamaru and shiho sift through the rubble of konoha to find some photos of villagers which they try and reunite with their owners shikamaru and the rest of team 10 later round up some hogs for the villagers to eat the teamwork they demonstrate reminds shikomaru of their mission to apprehend baji five kage summit news reaches konoha of sasuke's recent activity with ikatsuki specifically his attack against kumogakuri's ninja the members of team 8 team 10 and team guy decide that sasuke can no longer be allowed to implicate konoha in his criminal deeds and they resolve to personally kill him shikamaru volunteers to inform naruto and sakura of their decision still holding himself responsible for the sasuke retrieval mission failing when he finds sakura he overhears sai already expressing similar sentiments to her and joins in with him telling sakura that it's their responsibility as sasuke's former friends to stop him sakura eventually agrees and volunteers to be the one to tell naruto when naruto returns to konoha after learning of this and having his own confrontation with sasuke he meets with his fellow konoha 11 and requests that they leave dealing with sasuke to him fourth shinobi world war countdown when the fourth shinobi world war against ikatsuki looms shikomaru is called to a council of konoha's tacticians to discuss strategies for the coming war and any preparations that will need to be made shikaku notes that because he's so young shikomaru will need to take extra care to take in all the information that's brought up which shikimaru promises to do naruto the movie blood prison shigemaru is part of the team sent to the blood prison to rescue naruto who was wrongly imprisoned there power in the anime konoha receives reports that hidan's triple bladed scythe was stolen from the nara clan forest and shikomaru is sent to investigate shikamaru is later part of a force sent to tanika village to provide backup for team 7. paradise life on a boat in the anime shikimaru starts to feel the pressures of sending his friends to the warfront he's sent to mozuku island to help ease his mind where he meets with naruto when they later try leaving the island they get lost in the fog and caught in a whirlpool which shikomaru helps them navigate safely out of back in konoha shikamaru is approached by konohamaru saratobi who wants to enlist in the allied shinobi forces though shikomaru refuses because konohamaru doesn't know the identity of the king in shogi konohamaru is frustrated by this and tries to prove himself in battle by fighting tamari but shikamaru forces him to stop konohamaru eventually realizes what the king is and decides to find a better way for him to help the village road to ninja naruto the movie shikamaru and the rest of the konoha 11 fight off an attack by what seems to be the entire akatsuki roster but what are actually disfigured parts of the white zetsu army when naruto and sakura are sent to the genjutsu world they meet that world shikamaru he's goofy slow-witted and lacks the real shikamaru's intellect his hair is also thicker appearing star-shaped when held in its ponytail 4th shinobi world war confrontation shikomaru is assigned to the allied shinobi force's 4th division the deputy to the division's leader gara because gara is also in charge of the other four combat divisions tamari informs shikamaru that he is in effect the fourth division's leader after the allied forces mobilized the fourth division encounters several reincarnated kage gara requests back up from allied hq but shikaku and the others there instead decide to send part of the fourth division including shikamaru to provide backup to the first division as they near the first division's location shikaku contacts shikimaru choji and ino and tells them about their first threat they'll need to deal with kinkaku who possesses some of the nine tails chakra when they arrive they use formation ino shikacho on kinkaku allowing his capture in the kohaku no johae after kinkaku's defeat team 10 is immediately confronted by a reincarnated kakazu who is interested in fighting them shikaku contacts them and instructs them to deal with another threat instead a reincarnated asuma although none of them want to fight asuma they as his former students are experts on his fighting style and thus the best qualified to defeat him when he notes their presence osuma congratulates them for their clear growth since he last saw them they attack him and he's forced to counter but he gives pointers about how to avoid his attacks and ultimately defeat him although shikamaru and ino are committed to the fight choji has difficulty bringing himself to strike asuma to everyone's frustrations awesome is included choji eventually manages to psych himself up and once shikomaru maneuvers asuma into position punches him shikamaru restrains asuma with his shadow while he's sealed away but before that asama gives them new parting words that he has nothing more to teach them since their teamwork is now perfect by nightfall the first division's battle appears one all the reincarnated forces have been captured and all present elements of the white zetsu army have been defeated when the demonic statue of the outer path suddenly appears in the battlefield and starts devastating the first division shikumaru suspects that it's a distraction he finds toby in the process of taking the captured kinkaku and ginkaku out and guessing that he plans to make use of their nine-tails chakra restrains him with his shadow toby compliments shikamaru's perceptiveness and has the demonic statue attack him but he's saved by choji toby escapes taking kinkaku ginkaku and the demonic statue with him fourth shinobi world war climax after being informed by inuichi from hq that naruto and b were fighting the masked modera shikamaru and the rest of the konoha 11 rush to his aid as he runs he tells choji that he'd expect nothing short of naruto overdoing things in the battlefield and because of his short temper he wasn't one to calmly think a plan through so naruto should wait for them after shikomaru arrives on the battlefield shikaku relays a plan of restraining the ten tails to the assembled allied forces but the plan is unsuccessful the ten tails controllers toby real name obito and madra uchiha are nevertheless concerned by shikaku's strategies and have the ten tails fire a tailed beast ball at the distant allied hq where shikaku is stationed before the hq was destroyed shikaku relays a final attack plan to shikamaru and adds that he as new chief strategist will need to come up with a new one if it fails shikimaru thanks him for being such a good example to live up to before the communications are cut off with shikaku's death once empowered by naruto's version one like cloaks the remaining allied forces in akshikaku's last plan a large scale formation ino shikacho shikamaru and the other members of the nara clan hold the tentail's shadow while the rest of the alliance attacks the attack succeeds in removing the tentails from obito and matera's control as a consequence the ten tails attacks become more devastating and indiscriminate when the ten tales prepares to destroy the allies of the tailed beast balls shikamaru has ino used the mind body transmission technique to connect him with kitsuchi and teach him a simple protective wall shikamaru then has ino connect him with the rest of the allies so we can teach them this same jutsu and use it to try and deflect the tailed beast ball it breaks through all their defenses but is slowed enough for the reincarnated 4th hokage to arrive in time to save them sasuke uchiha arrives shortly after the fourth claiming to now want to help protect konoha by defeating the tentails shikimaru states that he's willing to accept sasuke's assistance but he can't overlook sasuke's past actions with their whole graduating class together again the members of teams 7 8 and 10 attack the ten tails minions for team 10's contribution they use the human bullet yo-yo wherein shikamaru uses his shadow to grab choji and swing him through the ten-tail's forces that eno senses for him their formation is quite successful but does not compare to the amount of damage inflicted by team sevens members despite sasuke's contributions some amongst them remain wary of him birth of the ten tails jinshoroki obito eventually becomes the ten tails jinchotiki against whom only naruto sasuke and the four reincarnated hokage can fight morale starts to sink because of this so shikumaru contacts the alliance through eno and encourages them to remain vigilant for any opportunity to contribute to the battle when obito prepares to destroy the alliance with four tailed beast balls shikumaru curses his inability to come up with a plan of countering it naruto and the fourth hokage are able to teleport everyone to safety but obito only employs a different tactic recreating the god tree to feed off the chakra of whatever allies it comes into contact with shikamaru is one of the many to have his chakra absorbed by the god tree but its roots are cut from him before he can be killed even though he's saved shikomaru's lost enough chakra to place his life in danger and he struggles to remain conscious sakura attempts to revive him but it's not until the version one cloak from naruto which was thought lost in one of the ten tale's earlier attacks reappears that shikamaru starts to recover through eno's link with the alliance shikamura's feelings about naruto are shared with everyone else the inspiration that naruto brings to him the painful childhood he wants to protect naruto from and the hokage position he wants to help naruto achieve when tsunada arrives in the battlefield she replenishes shikimata's chakra so he can rejoin the fight he then helps naruto defeat obito first by joining the rest of the konaha 11 in hitting obito with one of naruto's resengan and then by rallying the allies to pull the tailed beast's chakra from obito's body even with obito defeated other threats still remain a final zetsu begins overwhelming most of the alliance which they're all too weak to put up much fight against shikamaru regretfully notes that they must leave fighting the zetsu up to the reincarnated third hokage while the alliance continues fighting the zetsu shikimaru notices naruto and sasuke's distant fight with madara uchiha when the infinite tsukiomi is cast upon the world shikamaru alongside most people are immobilized by the genjutsu and restrained kagaya otsotsuki strikes in his dream shikamaru observes his parents marriage and asama and kuranaes and decides marriage is too bothersome which tamari agrees with naruto and sasuke eventually released the infinite tsukiomi freeing shikamaru and the rest of the world and thus ending the fourth shinobi world war kakashi hiden lightning in the icy sky a year after the end of the war shikimaru is placed in charge of the blood prison part of konoha's obligation to provide security when the ryuha armament alliance hijacks the tobiishachimaru in order to ransom the release of their leader gario from the blood prison tsunade contacts shikomaru to discuss their options they decide against caving to the armament alliance's demands and send reinforcements to the blood prison to prevent a potential prison break as the tobi shachimaru nears the blood prison the armament alliance expels its passengers into the prison each of whom who are strapped with blue fire powder that detonates when they make landfall shikamaru instructs konoha's forces to save the passengers before they're blown up and then has them start rounding up the prisoners escaping through the damaged outer walls shikamaru goes after gario planning to capture him using the shadow imitation technique but discovers that eno has already caught him using her mind body switch technique they return to the blood prison and watch as the tobiishachimaru crashes nearby tsunare wants kaio the highest ranking armament alliance member to survive the failed jailbreak executed kakashi haruke instead suggests that shibu made the prison's new warden thus releasing konaha from security obligations shikamaru sees merit in the idea and tsunade approves on the condition that kakashi become the sixth fukage all agree shikamaru hiden a cloud drifting in silent darkness after the fourth shinobi world war ended shikamaru became chief coordinator of the shinobi union successor to the allied shinobi forces two years after the war the shinobi union has created an unprecedented peace in no small part due to shikamaru's tireless work the amount of work he's been doing in fact bothers shikimaru as he's gotten quite far from his dream of spending his days doing nothing but watching the clouds just when he decides he doesn't want any more responsibilities he notices one of psy's ink birds delivering a message to kakashi and immediately goes to kakashi's office to read the message both are bothered by what sai says such as his warning about gengo the charismatic leader of the land of silence or reports that psy's team of anbu have all gone missing what bothers them most is that sai didn't deliver this message in person and that his words suggest he is awed by gengo it's apparent to kakashi that gengo is a major threat to the shinobi union's peace and that in order to protect the union he must be assassinated shikomaru does not hesitate to volunteer for the job chiefly so he can try to find sai he will need help on the mission but runs into issues when meeting with his friends he doesn't want to talk to tamari about it preferring to keep it a konaha only matter he doesn't want to involve choji or ino because it's too foul of business he doesn't want to ask naruto for help because he doesn't want naruto to lose faith in him kakashi assigns to onbu roh and soku to assist chikamaru and they secretly leave konoha traveling to the land of silence after three days of non-stop travel they infiltrate the capital city and start interrogating enlightened ones gengo's followers who all revere him and who believe he will revolutionize the world shigemaru soku and roh disguise themselves as enlightened ones and attend a rally where gengo delivers a speech to an enraptured crowd as they move into position to assassinate gengo their presence is inexplicably discovered shikamaru tries to capture gengo with his shadow but his shadow refuses to be used against gengo sai now an enlightened one comes to gengo's aid and captures shikamaru and others shikamaru is imprisoned forced to endure sounds of roe and soku's torture and gengo's occasional small talk after 10 days they are brought before gengo who invites chickamaru to become his right-hand man when shikomaru refuses gengo observes how the world is skewed against shinobi it is shinobi who can use ninjutsu yet it is normal people who form the majority of the population it's normal people who govern yet it is shinobi who die in the wars those same normal people start gengo believes the world is unjust to shinobi which row and soku agree with shikomaru also finds his words compelling and starts doubting the work he's done to protect the current shinobi system yet he can't bring himself to agree a small place in his heart clinging to the question of why he should be subordinate to gengo gengo invites shikimar to kill him if he truly believes it's the right thing to do shikamaru starts to suspect gengo is using some sort of genjutsu but gives up on figuring it out and prepares to join hands with gengo before he can a gust of wind suddenly lifts him into the air and then drops him on the ground shikamaru sees that it's tamari's doing and from her appearance and her words gengo's influence over him disappears he realizes that gengo's words are a lace with gunjutsu which now that he knows this means they no longer have any sway over him although he can't actually refute anything gengo said shikamaru states that the shinobi system has naruto and tamari and that's enough reason for him to defend it gengo attacks trading blows and words with shikamaru shigemaru decides that rather than the unremarkable life he'd used to want he'd prefer dedicating himself to creating a peaceful world where it doesn't matter whether or not a person is a shinobi shikomaru overpowers gengo but sai forces him to let gen go go tamari fights psy so that shikomaru can go after gengo he follows him to a room too dark to use his shadow forcing him to rely on his other senses to dodge and disarm him when ro and soku freed from gengo's genjutsu join him and open a door to provide some light they team up against gengo shikimoto distracts gengo with shadow clones while ro hides his chakra allowing him to maneuver behind gengo he restrains gengo with his shadow and soku uses a chakra needle on his tongue robbing him of his ability to talk gengo's influence over the enlightened ones disappears and he is taken into custody in the aftermath shikimaru is confronted by naruto who is upset that shikamaru would put himself in danger without telling him shikumaru promises never to keep anything from naruto ever again gengo is turned over to gara the kazukage who led the reinforcements responsible for saving him although gara claims he only did it because of how important shikimaru is to the shinobi union he points out he might not have done so without tamari's insistence as the kazukage leaves with his other tsuna nin shikamaru asks tamari to stay behind so we can ask her out on a date she responds with how troublesome when shikamaru gets back to konoha he is given a week off by kakashi but he no longer finds the distinction between work and relaxation as troubling as he did before kakashi gives him a mission when he returns to work that while important can be accomplished by almost anyone for that reason shikamaru turns down the mission as his date with tamari is the next day the last naruto the movie two years after the war shigimaru is placed in charge of a team tasked with rescuing hanabi hyuga from tonerio tsutsuki because taneri might have some involvement in the imminent crashing of the moon into the earth kakashi gives shikomaru a clock that will keep track of how much time there is until earth's destruction shikamaru and his team are to prevent this if at all possible they follow taneri's trail into an underground passage within which they are faced first with genjutsu-based defenses and then the gatekeeper they do eventually make it through the passage arriving in what they later discover is the moon's interior after they spend the day investigating the surrounding landscape hinata hyuga voluntarily joins with daenery and naruto is badly injured in his failed attempt to stop her once he regains consciousness after three days naruto has lost all willingness to continue since hinata has seemingly taken to neri's side shikamaru lectures him about not giving up reminding them that no matter what hinata has done and no matter what naruto's feelings for her are they still have a mission to complete their team assaults taneri's base with shikomaru figuring out how to pass through its protective barrier by observing to neri's puppets shigemaru then holds off the puppets with his shadow while the others go looking for hinata and hanabi they succeed in finding them and naruto defeats teneri which has the added benefit of saving the earth they return home through the same passage they arrived in konoha hiden the perfect day for a wedding naruto and hinata decide to get married shortly after the mission to the moon and shikomaru is invited to the wedding he has lunch with choji to discuss what he should give them as a wedding present feeling that his first choice of money would be thoughtless he finally settles on getting them a romantic honeymoon trip but will need a woman's input to help him plan something suitable while looking for ino to help in this regard they run into tamari who also happens to be a woman shikomaru is reluctant to ask her for help feeling she doesn't have the right personality he's also embarrassed about their previous date during which they spent most of the time discussing work choji forces him to ask her anyway but from the way shigemaru poses the question tamari believes he's asking her to plan their own honeymoon tamari is embarrassed and shikamaru not realizing the confusion believes he's offended her he tries to find an excuse to leave but tamari holds him back and agrees to tour the kanaha hot springs district with him evening descends and shikamaru and tamari walk around in the soft lighting of the hot springs tamari remains quiet and strange the whole time so shikimaru suggests they go to a shop so the trip isn't wasted tamari points out some target throwing booths where numerous couples are trying to win prizes shikomaru ends up winning two small trinkets in his determination to figure out the booth's scam which he gives to tamari afterwards he takes her to an inn hoping she can tell him if hinata would like it tamari suspects he has other intentions and declines believing she won't refuse him if they go inside shigimaru puts his hands on her face worried she's sick because of how red it is causing her to run away he chases after her desperately needing her opinion when she stops he assures her how important she is to him explaining that he as a man can't evaluate the inn's services for women tamari is confused once again and shikimaru is confused by her confusion he repeats that he wants to give naruto and hinata a nice honeymoon and now that he says it he realizes what tamari thought he meant earlier tamari is put at ease and shikimaru smiles from the misunderstanding on the day of the wedding shikamaru happily discusses work with damari gara heedem a sandstorm mirage shikamaru and tamari decide to get married which becomes its own political issue in tsunagakure and also generates a second one having gara get married first when gara meets the woman he's arranged to marry hakuto shikamaru secretly attends in case there's trouble when various missingnin attacked the meeting shikamaru saves tamari from being killed by an enemy puppeteer after the attack is fought off gara requests via tamari that shikamaru meet him on the border between the land of wind and the land of fire there gaara turns hakuto and her lover shigazane over to shikamaru so they can both elope and settle in konoha under new identities in order to make sure they won't be bothered by their new lives shikomaru will fire a report corroborating gara's story that they were both killed in the desert before shikimara leaves to take hakuto and shigazane to konoha he smiles to see gara with hakuto's sister sasuke shinden book of sunrise when enemy ninja infiltrate konoha shigemaru is part of a force tasked with finding and capturing the intruders new era after shikamaru and tamari mary they have a son shikadai who shikamaru trains to be part of the new generation of inoshikacho alongside with ino and shoji's children when naruto doesn't show up to his own hokage inauguration shikamaru has konohamaru sarutobi disguise himself as naruto on top of his work as the seventh hokage's assistant he became mirai saratov's sensei after she left the academy academy entrance arc in the anime as the new semester for the academy was approaching and by extension new students joining shikamaru kept naruto on track with the various paperwork on the day of the entrance ceremony as everyone began looking for an absent boruto he suddenly appeared crashing a train into the hokage monument shikamaru then had everyone clear out to begin cleanup weeks later when shikadaya was doing community work as punishment for an episode of the academy while tamari was furious shikamaru took it in stride noting that no one is perfect and this will only help him grow tamari not pleased with the two male's attitude decided not to give them any food for dinner that night later as a mysterious presence continued to cause people in the village to randomly attack the citizens shikamaru joined in an investigation the investigation later discovered that the perpetrator's actions were leaving its victims severely drained of their chakra to the point of being hospitalized as they continued their investigation only to find no real leads shikomaru decided to help an overworked naruto back to his home once there they learned that boruto was acting strange recently when they confronted boruto about it he proudly declared that he finally manifested his biakugan shikamaru was skeptical about that as one normally requires extreme training to manifest the power as himawari herself proved that in rare occasions one can independently awaken the biakugan it was decided that naruto would bring boruto to hizashi hyuga who would give a better answer to the situation as the mysterious attacks began happening more commonly and expanding in the area evidence was found to suggest that the real goal of the perpetrator was to harvest people's chakra it was also discovered that wood release was possibly involved as root had a history of conducting its own secret research on the farmed power of the first hokage shikamaru decided to research it more wassai later a strange release of chakra began spreading throughout the village as it showed a similar nature to the chakra of the rampages shikomaru went to act he learned from sai that the culprit was sumirekake who was the daughter of a radically loyal father of danzos to nuki shigaraki shikimata realized that sumire was able to hide her actions so efficiently because the identities of all former root members were sealed away to avoid ostracizing them from the other villagers he heard from kakashi that she was completing the final request from her father to unleash the gozu tenno on the village despite the initial devastation the attack ended soon afterwards with sumiday surrendering as shikamaru discussed the events with naruto and sai he noted his relief yet surprise at her being stopped by boruto appealing to her kindness sarada uchiha arc when their son's graduation from the academy approaches both shikomaru and naruto take the time to help train them naruto in fact takes too much time training his son boruto in a game of hide and seek so shikimoto captures boruto with his shadow so that naruto can get back to work while they're both back in the office they receive news from sasuke about a boy with sharingan naruto leaves the village to help sasuke investigate placing shikamaru in charge of anything that comes up while he's absent he also asks shikamaru to apologize to boruto for not waiting around to see him off graduation exams arc in the anime as ninja classes began preparing for graduation exams orochimaru came to the village to discuss matters with naruto about his research on donzo's old experiments as aruchimaru delivered promising results to aid sasuke in his own investigations shigemaru voiced his still limited trust on rochimaru reminding him to stay in disguise while roaming the village which the sandy and nonchalantly disregarded as obvious shikamaru aided naruto in assigning the first mission for each of the new genin afterwards he openly admitted to worrying about how shikidai would do on his mission to which shikomaru chuckled at how much times have changed biyakia gang arc in the anime shikamaru began teaching shikidai more advanced tactics in shoghi to sharpen his mind for strategic planning later when a group of self-proclaimed noble thieves began making various heists throughout konagakurei their act of distributing their stolen wealth to the poor began gaining much support from many of the villagers even more swarms of protesters began emerging in the village against various legitimate companies fueled by the biakia gang's claims that said companies were corrupt one of which included the kami nariman company in hopes of better understanding this new enemy it was decided to talk to the other villages for any information on the biakia gang later the protesting was growing potentially violent as shikamaru came to aid he crossed paths with mitsuki who informed him of boruto rushing to aid she could die's sudden leaving of his post deciding to investigate his son's actions himself he found inojin and chocho facing a member of the bayakia gang after swiftly defeating the foe himself shikamaru decided to look the other way on genny and ignoring orders to avoid fighting the thieves when the ghanian asked shikamaru to help them with the pursuit he reluctantly declined as he still had to help with the chaos from the riots he was however happy to hear how determined shika dai seem during this as the five great ninja nations continued to investigate the remains of kagiya's legacy they found another ruin that was connected to her shikamaru then joined naruto in personally investigating it naruto shinden parent and child day when konohagakura began celebrating a new annual holiday parent and child day shikimaru offered to set up a schedule to ensure naruto would have time with his own family later shikamaru joined his son for the day accompanied by sai li and their respective sons when tamari learned that the winner of an eating competition would get unlimited free dumplings from ankaroto for a year she forced shikomaru and shikadai to compete wanting the prize for herself however they soon overeat leaving them physically sick and unable to continue later that night the nara men nervously ate dinner under the stern watch of a noticeably angered tamari due to their failure at the competition vs momoshiki arc naruto's already heavy workload becomes even more complicated by the approaching tuning exams sensing the difficulties this is causing naruto's personal life shikamoto volunteers to complete some of his work for him so naruto can spend time with his family later as investigations into kagi's former activities continued it was discovered that her creation of the white zetsu army was in fact set up as a further precaution for a looming threat shikamaru designs the exam's first stage and keeps naruto informed about how boruto is performing when both boruto and shikadai advance to the final round shikamaru sets up a competition with naruto but which of their sons will win if they end up fighting each other boruto and shikadai do indeed fight each other and boruto is initially declared the winner but naruto catches boruto cheating and forces him to be disqualified the finals are interrupted by kinshiki and momoshikiyotsutsuki who attack naruto and destroy much of the stadium where the finals are being held shikimaru attempts to restrain both of them with his shadow but momoshiki absorbs it and shikamaru is forced to withdraw naruto is captured and sasuke organizes a rescue team consisting of himself boruto and the other five kage shikamaru sees them off as they travel to momoshiki's planet noticing that katasuke and kosuke are following after them naruto is saved and life in konoha returns to normal in the movie's novelization shikamaru is tasked with organizing another tuning exam mitsuki's disappearance arc in the anime after the defeat of momoshikiyotsutsuki and korahagakure recovered from this attack a kage summit was held shikamaru also attended to discuss the next course of action later when two tuning gate guards were attacked by unknown assailants the village was put on lockdown shikamaru joined naruto and his advisors while overseeing eno probe one of the guard's minds for answers learning that mitsuki had left willingly with the attackers when naruto revealed to the others mitsuki was in fact the rochimaru's son much outraged followed from learning that naruto would permit an offspring of the man who had killed the third hokage live in konagakure let alone keep it a secret naruto rationalized this on the grounds that rochimur's conduct had changed since before and he was aiding and investigating the otsotsuki despite this noting the unpredictable nature of rochimaru the meeting ended with deeming the otto born boy as a threat as the council and hokage continued to talk about how to best deal with this shikamaru continued to express his approval of naruto's actions when konohamaru requested that he be sent to retrieve boruto and sarah who left the village to go after mitsuki shikamaru denied it as his conflicted feelings about mitsuki meant he couldn't be objective in the mission as questions continued to build up on mitsuki naruto and shikamaru felt the situation didn't make sense for mitsuki to betray them they began wondering if the enemy's goal was mitsuki himself because of his unique background they received word that one of the guards was recovering and would soon awake to give them answers the guard revealed the attackers were from iwagakure and were on route to the land of earth and sai reported that the jutsu that injured yorito was explosive clay as naruto contacted kurozuchi about the situation shikamaru began wondering why the enemies had such an interest in mitsuki later as talks about what to do about mitsuki's apparent betrayal continued it was reluctantly determined that they would have to place extreme punishment on mitsuki over hearing this konohamaru insisted he be the one to bring mitsuki back which naruto reluctantly agreed to as naruto contacted iwagakura again for an update he was told that kurotsuchi left on an important mission after hearing this naruto and shikimaru were now certain that something foul was happening in iwagakurei shikamaru's fears were proven correct when shikidai contacted his father via phone revealing that iwa gakurei was taken over as part of a plan by onoki when shikomaru told his son to stay hidden shigedai insisted that he figured out enough to make a move against the enemy the call was then cut short as the enemy forced shikadai to retreat knowing they couldn't act hastily shikamaru talked with the other officials and decided that he would join naruto in meeting the other daimyo to get their support on engaging this personal matter after finally getting approval naruto and an escort moved out leaving shikamaru in charge during the hokage's absence before leaving they were confronted by team seven's fellow genning having learned of their friends danger they were determined to help and requested to join the hokage while naruto initially refused to put the ghanian in danger the group firmly said that they will go with or without his approval admiring their loyalty to their friends naruto decided to let them impressing shigemaru later the chaos in iwagakare was subdued but also came with the passing of anoki this left shikamaru in charge for a while longer while naruto went to the latest chicago's funeral as a representative for konohagakure upon naruto's return while mitsuki was pardoned for his apparent betrayal on the grounds that he saved iwagakare from the fabrications the team 7 genin were stripped of their shinobi status for having deserted the village later however thanks to support and gratitude from kurotsuchi it was agreed to restore the students to their shinobi status later as the elder sister of the fifth kazukage tamari was invited to join gara at the win daimyo's banquet shikamaru however chose not to attend as he felt his duties as chief advisor to the hokage were more important ensue nara the elder advisor of the nara clan was deeply annoyed that shikomaru as head of the nara clan would not be joining he voiced his disdain at how much the nara clan appeared to be slipping since the 4th shinobi world war and the constant gossip of the land of wind that the nara clan was not worthy of the unity between the kazukage clan ever since shikamaru married to mari shikimaru insisted that such gossip was irrelevant and that he worked earnestly to progress his clan later shikamaru learned that enshu approached shigedai with the offer of going into politics under the teachings of the fire daimyo to better the reputation of the nara clan trusting that this was what his son wanted shikamaru decided not to get in the way however the following day shikadai decided to decline the offer instead deciding to prove the worth of the nara clan by mastering the various wind release techniques from his mother along with the nara hidden techniques konoha shiden steam ninja scrolls on the day of the five kage summit in konoha shikamaru saw mirai off as she was tasked with accompanying kakashi and gai on their journey he encouraged her to make good use of her late father's blades when she attempted to make the correct guess on his quiz about who the true king is he again told her she was wrong later after mirai returned from her mission which included saving young girls from the remnants of a near-forgotten jashin cult he was happy to hear mirai finally figure out the right answer for the quiz one tale escort arc in the anime shikimono received a message from sasuke via his hawk revealing the current location of urashikiyotsotsuki later shikamaru and naruto were surprised with the delivering of shukaku from gara explaining urashiki's intent to capture the tailed beast while shikimaru and naruto were concerned about the events and learning boruto was there sasuke quickly appeared revealing that he had already saved boruto and that urashiki had disappeared in addition to setting up a kage summit to deal with the potential danger to the other tailed beasts it was decided that shukaku would for the time being remain in naruto's care time slip arc in the anime shikamaru and naruto later learned that urashiki was on the move again being even more indiscriminate in his stealing of chakra soon after while pleased that all of the five great shinobi nations were on alert and willing to share all intel on odashiki shikamaru voiced his concern about mirai's sudden disappearance and also wondered what the alien foes true goal was to gather all this chakra later it was decided to test new surveillance equipment designed to follow their location during the field test urashiki was spotted in the area this prompted most of the konahan nin in the village to engage while shigemaru stayed in the okage office to help protect naruto meanwhile the grown up sasuke and boruto were sent back in time due shortly after sasuke's defection there the two pretended to be traveling performers but were put underwatch by naruto during which past shikimaru and his friends helped boruto and naruto clean up a bath house after the commotion naruto and jiraya caused days later shikimaru and the rest of his team invited boruto and naruto to join them in an after mission barbecue dinner at yakiniku q noticing how concerned naruto looks shikamura reminded his friend to come talk to him if there's trouble before it escalates which naruto acknowledged days later konohamaru moegi and udon approached shikamaru and his friends for help telling how naruto and boruto were battling a dangerous foe they quickly agreed to help determined not to lose another friend after sasuke by the time they arrived however urashiki was already defeated the group then escorted their injured friends to the hospital days later after sasuke and boruto recovered and prepared to return to their time sasuke first used his sharingan to erase the memories of everyone he and boruto came in contact with of the recent events with to protect the timeline some time later back in the present sumire was officially transferred to join the scientific ninja weapons team naruto reached out to the land of iron and requested an exchange student to take her spot on team 15. shikamaru was concerned about his experimental move of mixing shinobi with samurai but naruto insisted it would help close the gap between the two shikamatu shinden a cloud dancing in forlorn falling petals the morning after drinking alcohol and smoking tobacco shikamata woke up in his house smelling of cigarettes and greeted chikidai who informed him that tamari was in a bad mood greeting his wife in the kitchen he was ignored dragging himself to have a bath shikomaru cleaned himself before getting dressed presented with food by tamari shikimoru apologized for forgetting to eat dinner together the night before and complimented her food as the two began talking tamari reminded him that he had forgotten their wedding anniversary yesterday which was due to preparing for the upcoming five kage summit prompting shikimaru to apologize shikamaru then left to the hokage building before being late for work at the hokage building shikimaru attended the kage summit with naruto and listened to the kage bicker about topics concerning konoha during the meeting kurotsuchi demanded konoha to disclose all of its confidential information as the villages proved to peace and said iwagakurei would leave the five great shinobi country alliance if they didn't as the meeting ended shikimaru found the situation troublesome afterwards shikamoto met with hinoko and ro to organize them to infiltrate iwagakade to see if there's something going on in the village to explain kurotsuchi's attempt at disturbing the peace intending to visit onoki during the mission shikimoto waited at the land of earth's border where he was approached by a security team of shinobi and escorted to the kage's house mujina banned its arc in the anime shikimata was part of the briefing of team 7's mission to infiltrate hozuki castle to verify the information about the mujina bandits offered by kokori in exchange for protection ultimately the mission was a success freeing kokori and gaining his information on the mujin of bandits albeit they were unaware that kokori was in fact killed by shojoji and used his appearance to escape several months later shikimoto helped prepare naruto for a meeting with ikyu maruka the fire daimyo during which he and naruto discussed financial matters kara actuation arc later in the anime team 25 and sasuke were sent to investigate the information extracted from the captured shojoji about kara's existence in amegakure upon their return they reported that kara had long ago abandoned their facility there and were performing biological experiments they also learned that there were in fact civilians who sympathize with kara and its goals later they learned that victor president of the land of valley's premier medical and research company was in fact a member of cara knowing he had somehow acquired a sample of the first hokage cells shikimaru decided to use connections in the land of valleys to get permission to investigate victor's company three days later he got the approval to send a team to stealthily investigate later after team 10 returned from a joint mission with shinki's team to retrieve urashiki's puppet shikidai reported about their attack from deepa the same man who assaulted team seven this news greatly concerned and disturbed shikamaru following the defeat of viktor who was revealed to be a member of kara konoha leadership discussed on how to handle the shadowy organization knowing now that even influential people in the world could be associated with the enemies also learning of kara's various collaborators outers they considered closing off the gates to konohaka kure to stop the flow of information naruto was torn on this asking for a day to think it over ultimately as shikamaru suspected naruto decided not to close the gates as it would deter cooperation with the outside world instead deciding to reinforce security au arc in the anime shikamaru attended the memorial service for the fallen people of the fourth shinobi world war where he and eno reminisced on their father's death at the end of the memorial service he met au the sole survivor of the tentails attack on the allied shinobi forces hq knowing he worked beside his father shikamato asked if shikaku really believed shikomaru and the others could defeat the ten tales of his final plan ao assured him that his father never had any doubt about shikamaru's abilities and was proud of him to the end leaving shikamaru truly grateful when naruto decided to test katasuke tono's new scientific ninja weapon shikamaru and sai watched naruto tested against boruto at the training hall during the match shikamaru applauds boruto for using his shadow clone technique in order to get behind his father after naruto defeats his son he reveals that he was using a prototype for a new weapon based on momoshiki's ninjutsu absorbing power as boruto began to get angry for feeling the match was unfair sasuke soon arrived and explained the need of the weapon noting the coming danger of enemies like the otsotsuki clan naruto then has team konohamaru take a c-rank mission to escort katasuke to ryutan city kawaki arc when team 7 found a mysterious boy named kawaki with connections to kara they brought him back to konohagakure while the boy was greeted with kindness when he woke up he quickly tried to run away only for shikimaru's shadow paralysis to stop him insisting that it was perfectly safe afterwards shikamaru spoke privately with naruto insisting that it was too risky to leave the boy inside the village or to go about freely as in addition to his great power and being a target for kara he could very well be a spy naruto however insisted that they treat kawaki as a guest seeing the boy as very much like he was as a child being feared for the power within following protocol naruto called forth a kage summit as katasuke explained his analysis of the boy's uniquely remodeled body talk about the boy's fate began it was unanimously decided to treat the boy with sympathy as they were no strangers to children being made into weapons it was also agreed for the boy to live with naruto who would watch over him at all times which kurozuchi was impressed at how much multitasking naruto could do through his shadow clones as kawaki began opening up to people naruto decided to teach him ninjutsu at his request during training sai and shikamoto discussed whether or not they could really trust kawaki shikamaru finding others naive for trusting kawaki too much sai informed him of the intel recovered by konohamaru and that it had been passed along for sasuke to investigate as space-time ninjutsu was required following the dangers associated with kawaki and the enemies after him shikamaru told shikadai to maintain a certain distance from kawaki later when jigen arrived in the village through kawaki's kama and took naruto into another dimension shikamato quickly acted upon kawaki detaining him while having a team use a four violet flames formation to lock down the area while he interrogated kawaki about the recent events openly voicing his distrust of them since the beginning while boruto vouched for kawaki the boy decided to accept shikamaru's authority admitting the logical theory of the situation shigemaru wondered why if naruto was defeated why jigen hadn't returned yet he theorized that they were either still fighting or jigen was weakened too much to return however kawaki's prosthetic began reacting realizing that naruto was still alive but detained kawaki reattached the arm and decided to test a theory by synchronizing his mark comma with borutos they were able to produce the same rift jigen had done earlier while shikamaru refused to let kawaki or anyone enter the rift kawaki used his comma to escape shikamaru's technique while he and the ghanian entered the rift to find naruto shikamaru disapproved of their recklessness and was informed that while sasuke had been located he was injured and in no condition of using space-time ninjututsu to follow kawaki and the other genin worrying shikamaru after the ghanian returned with naruto shikikumaru briefed him on what he had missed he also stressed the danger of jigen's infiltration method and proposed tightened security on kawaki he was contacted by ino who informed him of shikadai being taken hostage by a motto who wished to talk to him shikamoto revealed naruto's recovery much to amato's relief and was told amado wished to defect to konoha offering them intel ankara jigen their ten tails and the otsotsuki amado was detained where despite his claims of seeking asylum was very bold while being interrogated as shikamaru made his anger for the man known amado began explaining all he knew he revealed how the otsotsuki have since before recorded history been traveling from planet to planet harvesting its chakra for the sake of evolving itself while destroying the planet in the process using the ten tails he also revealed that jigen himself was turned into an otsotsuki from being branded by his comma of ishikiotsutsuki amado also revealed himself to have sabotaged the blimp to free kawaki and likewise ensure that sasuke would get the intel from ishiki amado's glasses then began beeping his glasses were taken off revealing a holographic projection of jigen talking with kashin they learned that kashin and amada were working together and that kashin had intended to kill jigen as they watched the fight amado insisted in naruto agreeing to his asylum deal angering shikamaru when he declared he'd only remove shikadai's bomb when he has his deal in writing when sasuke pointed out an apparent inconsistency in amado's explanation of how comma worked amato's chuckle in response to what caused shigemaru to grab him by the collar amado continued explaining the unusual circumstances regarding jigen eventually claiming he'd teach them how to kill the death transcending otsotsuki when jigen's death triggered ishiki's resurrection in his body amato explained this also erased kawaki's comma to avoid duplicates leaving shikamaru to realize that without any remaining kama ishiki was vulnerable to a permanent death after amado was officially made a citizen of kona hakakure aware of his rights and limitations shikimaru demanded he finally remove the bomb from shikadai amado confessed he had bluffed causing shikamaru to finally calm down while snarkily praising amato for being so thorough with his plans amado continued to explain their situation and suggested an evacuation they were alerted of ichiki's arrival after an order was issued for civilians to evacuate the village and shinobi not to engage the threat shikimaru joined sai in taking kawaki to an underground facility protected from ishiki's biakugan ordering amado to join them once secluded shikamaru resumed directing the konoha forces via communication networks he received reports that boruto and ishiki had disappeared followed by naruto and sasuke he pointed out to kawaki that he was free no longer being ishiki's vessel but kawaki dismissed it as ishiki still intended to rebrand him he watched with interest as amato observed boroto's potential role in the fight against ishiki amado explained that boruto as a wielder of kama was invaluable to ishiki as the god tree could only reach full maturity by sacrificing an otsotsuki ishiki originally intended to sacrifice himself through jigen and later resurrect again through kawaki but once boruto was fully transformed by his mark ishiki could accelerate his plans by sacrificing boruto instead shikamaru was disgusted by this tactic kawaki was furious at amato's calm demeanor demanding to know how much of this he's planned for shikamaru managed to calm him down chunin re-examination arc in the anime following ishiki's attack naruto requested that shikamaru reorganize the tuning exams that were interrupted by momoshiki's attack shikamaru acted as a proctor for the second exam shikamaru explained that for the final round the finalists would have to face off against one another in one-on-one combat shikimaru dealt with a lot of paperwork to rebuild the arena before the finals he watches the matches alongside naruto and sai at the end of the second match between wasabi izuno and iwobi uino shikamaru commented to naruto that they're bickering about becoming hokage reminded him of naruto and kiba when they were younger during the third match after sarah decides to commit herself against chocho shikumaru sai and naruto comment on how the match improved when boruto and mitsuki were absent after the names were drawn for the fourth match shikomaru recommended not giving them special treatment so they were both disqualified days later mirai returned poisoned from what was supposed to be a simple escort mission with konohamaru and reported he had been taken prisoner by hiyogo shikamaru discussed the situation with sai and naruto and they agreed to send team 7 as reinforcements they commented on the team's feeling regarding their last mission with konohamaru as their captain shigemaru voiced his concerns about making kawaki a ghenin feeling that his modified body would be a prime target for enemies to go after naruto however insisted that for kawaki to grow he needed to experience the outside world and make friends along the way who would protect him because kawaki fared poorly in d-rank missions with different teams lacking teamwork shikumaru deemed him unfit for being a shinobi he and naruto agreed to assign him a c-rank escort mission as a final chance to qualify as a genin he was concerned about intel of a recently discovered dead body linking it to five other assassinations in other countries konohamaru later updated them that all victims were from the same country as the client of team 10's mission so they dispatched team 7 as reinforcements as they were on a mission nearby great sea battle of kirigakore arc in the anime the land of water faced a civil war against the funato clan team 5 and team 7 accidentally found themselves caught up in it aiding kirigakade the teams were able to help end the war peacefully upon their return to konoha shikamaru and naruto informed them of the aftermath from chojiro shikimaru later took care of naruto's paperwork when he went on vacation with his family to a hot springs inn and explained the situation to mirai kawaki academy arc in the anime shikimaru and naruto assigned kawaki a secret mission to protect princess kai yukiwari from the land of bamboo while she attended the academy as an exchange student they explained that her father discovered an assassination plot targeting his daughter and sent her there while he investigated the matter domestically kai herself unaware of the threat shikamaru later attended the entrance ceremony for the new academy class code arc later shikimaru was relieved to get word that naruto and the others had returned safely and defeated ishiki shortly after shikamaru and naruto decided to indefinitely take boruto off active duty while deciding on how to deal with his comma helping him pass time with various interviews from the media about his victory over ishiki after amado finished restoring kawaki's arm he talked to shikamaru and naruto about the remaining kara threats amado explained that once all the active inners are gone the various outers will cease to function he also noted that the ten-tail seat of kara must be dealt with quickly to protect the planet and has likely been moved since ishiki's defeat but fortunately there are methods for space-time traveling besides ninjutsu finally amado explained the looming danger of the last inner code despite proving incompatible with the kama as a vessel he survived the process to be imbued with its power also despite his modifications granting him might that far exceeded jigen's code's fanatical devotion to ishiki let him avoid being disposed of even agreeing to limiters being placed on him by a motto as such code would inevitably seek out and kill all who were responsible for ishiki's death hearing such a threat naruto requested shikamaru to set up a kage summit during the talk with the other kage via video they reviewed the nature of code and his goals shigimaru also noted that code already destroyed all the transfer portals to the pocket dimension housing ishiki's ten tails as the hunt for code continued they found claw marks left by code near the outer wall of the village which based on amado's intel shikamaru considered to work similar to the flying thunder god technique the nature of their spread concerned him and he wondered if they were decoys left with the intent to thin them out later shikamaru was contacted by naruto who informed him of kawaki's evasion of surveillance and ability to conceal his chakra signature he and amato wondered how and why kawaki left knowing the risk of kawaki beating code shigemaru ran to naruto's house declaring that he would join naruto in the retrieval since the hokage no longer had korama for additional power using sage mode naruto managed to detect boruto's chakra 40 kilometers away shikamaru asked ino to keep full alert throughout the village and asked naruto not to get reckless as he couldn't maintain sage mode for very long naruto however assured him that he could keep it up much longer than before due to years of experience shikamaru remained firm that naruto must be cautious they arrived in time to save kawaki from having his arm broken by momoshiki shikomaru pinning him with his shadow momoshiki absorbed his jutsu to free himself when code took shikomaru hostage he urged naruto to ignore him in attack momoshiki decided to help kill naruto who was also a problem for him and was surprised to see kawaki absorb momoshiki's attack with a new comma to save naruto as code kept muttering to himself shikamaru realized he was in contact with an ally shikamaru remained a hostage as kawaki and momoshiki fought kawaki reminding him of it mid-battle when naruto moved to save boruto from kawaki's attack code saw no point in killing shikomaru but kept holding him he was shocked as boruto emerged and allowed kawaki to strike him down code opted to leave and released chikamaru while kawaki was overwhelming code he pulled daemon through the claw mark of his face reflecting kawaki's attack and knocking him out before leaving shikomaru tried to snap naruto out of his stupor and began to consider how to deal with kawaki arguing with naruto who still wanted to support him he was stunned when boruto woke up his injuries completely healed later shikamaru had sumire check on kawaki still unconscious but completely healed because he didn't trust amato to be near him again ibiki questioned the lack of restraints on kawaki but with his new and restored abilities shikumaru felt that they had no actionable options instead focusing on not antagonizing him over his simple goal of protecting naruto sumere noticed the heavy atmosphere as naruto expressed wishing a long conversation with kawaki when he woke up but chikumaru attributed it to almost getting killed earlier sasuke arrived and shared new intel about code's likely location with shikamaru and otsotsuki cult hideout in the land of snow shikamaru confirmed to sasuke the events following the battle with code shikamaru checked on a motto by himself and got rough with him questioning his singular fixation with kawaki and his comma code emerged from the claw mark on shigemaru's neck and ino contacted him having sensed code's intrusion he had her notify naruto but he said she shouldn't send reinforcements and to wait on his signal he paralyzed code with his shadow and revealed he knew of the mark on him having baited him to come he commanded a cyborg on a motto's lab awake and reprogrammed delta who pinned code down he removed code's hand from a claw mark thinking he was retreating but he had reached to bring ada through instead shikamaru noticed amato's fear of ada and was puzzled by delta stopping her attack and obeying aydah's command he requested backup through eno and paralyzed aydah with a shadow beginning to feel feverish noting the effect ada was having on them he asked ino to link him with a motto and warning him not to expose their communication asked about her abilities amato did so and warned him against trying to kill her to end the effect as resisting her could result in mental damage she was amused by how much he resisted her until he relented he was concerned about the danger naruto and sasuke would be in the room shikamaru recalled that amaro wouldn't fare well under torture and asked ada her motives he was surprised by her merely wanting kawaki as a boyfriend and contacted ino to change the access codes to the room and stall the reinforcements instead he offered her the option to join konoha so she could tell kawaki how she felt as ada considered the offer he informed naruto outside that the door access code had been changed to prevent others from falling under ada's allure through inos jutsu when ada was aware of this amato filled him in on the workings of her senrigon when kode resumed torturing a motto shikamaru reminded him that code couldn't kill him before getting the command code when they wanted to retreat to avoid kawaki amato shared that ada's allure wouldn't work on an otsutsuki leading to an argument between amado and shikamaru he tried to hold code and aided there but she had delta interfere with his jutsu after they left taking amato with them kawaki arrived through a vent wishing to speak with the motto shikamaru also requested him to remove code's claw marks later he explained ada's alluring ability to naruto sasuke boruto and kawaki he speculated on her status as a supposedly scrapped cyborg whose abilities exceeded jiggins and that she wasn't the only one active recalling that code used someone other than her to overpower kawaki the previous night shikamaru argued with kawaki over amaro's goals and the merits of discussing them kawaki deriding amato as dead and shikamaru as useless however amado was alive and called shikomaru on the phone where he updated konoha about removing code's power limiters and the dissolution of his alliance with ada who accepted chicamaro's offer and would also bring her brother daemon with her after the call shigemaru decided to send team 7 on a mission did you enjoy your video make sure to check out these other great videos from yamagi and make sure to subscribe and ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos you

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Length: 82min 28sec (4948 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 17 2022