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(For Shikanaru event 2025) Prompt:Firsts
Shikamaru truly doesn’t understand why people don’t. Naruto had been quiet but eager at the beginning of the year. And even now, joking around and pranking people, he’s never been harsh to their classmates. So why do they all avoid him like the plague?
Admittedly, he’s starting to feel bad. His first impression of Naruto was as a troublesome kid who was too loud for him to tolerate. Because now, all he can see is a boy with a quiet, but steadily growing pain in his heart.
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5-year-old Shikamaru and Naruto bump into each other in the woods (literally), and Shikamaru begins to uncover the concerning pain residing inside a boy whose hair resembles the sun and his eyes the sky.