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ShikaNaru Headcanons

☀️Shikamaru definitely realizes his feelings first and it is 100% an "oh, shit" moment.

☀️I imagine the Nara clan to love not as angrily as the Uchiha, but just as obsessively. Where the Uchiha seek to almost possess, the Nara clan covets knowledge. In this case, Shikamaru wants to know everything about Naruto— no detail is too small.

☀️ I'm not saying Shikamaru is stalking him, but he'd definitely follow him everywhere. Like, he's not trying to hide. Naruto just hasn't noticed because it's... Well, it's Naruto.

☀️And the few times he does notice him it's just— "Wow, what're you doing here Shikamaru? 😀" baby you should be asking why you've seen him ten different times this week and it's only Monday.

☀️Nara Fixation Nara Fixation Nara Fixation Nara Fixation Nara Fixation Nara Fixation, did I say Nara Fixation yet?

☀️Naruto wants for nothing because somehow, Shikamaru always knows exactly what he needs and is able to predict exactly when he's going to need it.

☀️ Naruto never quite realizes the depth of the obsession/love. He's just completely oblivious to the fact that Shikamaru is kind of, slightly, a little bit (maybe a lot a bit) insane. With a cherry on top.

☀️ Lowkey, I am a huge fan of crazy Shikamaru. Like, not outwardly crazy, but "I know your height, weight, regular resting heart rate, wrist diameter, and how many times you've said 'believe it' today" crazy Shikamaru. Knows too much Shikamaru.

☀️Naruto 100% just assumes they're dating after a while of certain details accumulating. Shikamaru feeds him like, daily. Shikamaru has shared a bed with him several times. They spend a lot of time together. They hold hands. Shikamaru knows like, everything about him somehow.

☀️ Naturally, they must've been dating this entire time and Naruto simply didn't notice until now. And because Naruto has zero experience with healthy relationships, he just accepts this as fact and moves on with his life.

☀️ Shikamaru when Naruto grabs him by the face on day, plants a huge kiss on him with no context, and then skips off: 👁️👄👁️

☀️ Come on, it'd be so funny.

☀️ Insert Naruto also knowing a surprising amount about Shikamaru, because he's more attentive than people give him credit for. Shikamaru follows him around so much, of course he learns about him over time. He may be an idiot, but he's not a moron. Or... something like that.

☀️ Naruto is just happy someone actually wants to be around him. Sasuke is Sasuke, Sakura constantly yells at him, Kakashi literally runs, Yamato is only around for training, and Sai just insults him in increasing intervals when they're together.

☀️ Touch-Starved! Naruto vs. Can't get enough of touching him! Shikamaru! Go! Fight!

☀️ Shikamaru "he's never going to love me" Nara and Naruto "I wonder when Shikamaru is gonna propose" Uzumaki

☀️ Naruto just goes to the court house and files the documents himself. Surprise, Shikamaru. Not only does he love you, you've been married for the past four months.

☀️ Alternatively, Shikamaru could pull the same move. Oh, you kissed me on the mouth? Sounds like a proposal to me.

☀️ For a certified genius, Shikamaru would absolutely be the kind of idiot to assume Naruto couldn't ever return his feelings. There could be so much evidence to the contrary and it really WOULD take an entire kiss to the lips to convince him.

☀️ No worries, Naruto is more than willing to oblige.

☀️ Basically um I love them, they're both smart AND stupid in different ways, but they make it work. And nobody can change my mind.

One too many drinks + one Naruto with way too many ideas + one Shikamaru who finds it a little too hard to tell Naruto no... especially when mixed with one too many drinks =

Fun times all around (and a couple bruises and maybe an ER trip or two)

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I love these two normally, of course!

(Happy Bday grey!! Pt.2💀✌️)

@vendeda

oh shikanaru u

u meekish schoolyard fascination quickly catapulted into extreme codependency u

ur so observation in humanity, case study of the idiot with the sincerest smile you’ve ever seen, theory board specimen turned fiery, irrevocably hopeless timeless love

so pure spirited and full blooded is that heart skipping eyes freezing lungs failing giddy floating face flushing u r

so frozen solid and panicked as shikamaru breathes in the absolute zeal and open chested heart ache and full body mind and soulful hope leading Naruto headfirst into the rest of his life in a series of increasingly incredible and intense events that always seem to stack up into something beautiful instead of falling through the faults of the trusty human limit and nihilistic doubt

every step is on the unstable air of an oceans edge, yet Naruto makes a messiah of himself in the way he runs insultingly easy on that endless sea’s surface and Shikamaru knows objectively how and why and what Naruto is doing but he just can’t believe his eyes

his inexperienced heart pounds a hole through his chest and pulls him so thoughtlessly onto the water until he’s sweating and panting and running after Naruto with that infectious passion for life and human connection and peace- like that’s ever been more than a carrot on the end of a long, lying stick

he’s sweating a layer of his skin off and he hates the heavy exhaustion weighing down a crack through his internal promise to stay the fuck outve this- outve the adrenaline and line of fire and risk- but he forsakes his clan and his brain and the reality of the world and what being a shinobi even means because goddamn he’s hungry

he’s hungry in a way he doesn’t think contentment can soothe anymore

not even close

not when all he feels as he watches those clouds dance lazily across that bluest blue, is loss, because he knows a bluer blue and Naruto would never resign himself to sitting listless at the base of his favorite green hill because he’s off making greener pastures of shitty realities with thinly survived battles and thickly woven trust gained by the same stunned realization everyone has:

Naruto Cares

he cares so much his sleeve lead his feet because he’s long since given up hiding his heart behind his ribs like any self respecting person of moderate preservation

and shikamaru seethes as he understands so deeply he might as well be every new pair of eyes that trace the frame of Naruto’s smile with that glittering helplessness they never mean to revel

he tells himself obligations uproot his back from that perfect hill, that perfect view, those perfect clouds- duty probably, he is clan heir after all

but he knows the truth rests closer to the surface than he can manage to smother

He Knows He Can’t Help But Care Too

through, because, for, and ever after Naruto, because all of a sudden the grass itches where it once caressed and his heart creeps into that little dip between neck and shoulder

not yet on his sleeve, but it doesn’t have to be

because it’s enough

Naruto’s back faces him as he runs ever faster, over ever greater oceans, ever brighter suns that rise on that dangerous current-

And It’s enough

silent and subtle and studying- this view is now what returns that contentment he’s been basking in for so long

smiling all mock exasperation- yeah Shikamaru thinks-

This Is Enough

I support these homosexuals...

Wait they have wives!?

believe it