Although Shikamaru complained about trouble, trouble, when he went home for dinner in the evening, he still took an opportunity to talk to his father about the matter.
Nara House, Nara Shikaku's study.
"I'm not busy talking about work today. We, father and son, haven't played a game of chess for a long time." Nara Shikaku took out a shogi game from the drawer:
"Let me see if your chess skills have deteriorated."
After placing the chess pieces, the father and son sat on each side and turned their attention to the chess game.
At the beginning, Nara Shikaku's expression was relatively relaxed, while Shikamaru's brows were tense, and he had to think twice about every next step.
This is because he cannot concentrate.
However, as time went by, the situation gradually changed.
After all, Nara Shikaku was getting older, and he gradually felt unable to play chess.
As for Shikamaru, with the changing situation in the chess game, his attention became more and more focused.
Coupled with the fact that he was younger and had more active thinking, he gradually gained the upper hand and won several pieces in a row!
The head of the Nara family picked up a flag, but was still unsure of what to do next.
Finally, he put the chess piece back: "I am still old after all!"
"Think about the time when you first learned chess from me when you were a child. It seems like it was just yesterday. Now you are so old."
Hearing what his father said, Shikamaru immediately replied: "You are still very young, Father."
At this time, Shikaku retired more than ten years early and was indeed considered young.
"When the heart gets old, people get old." Lu Jiu said meaningfully: "Those things in the past are of no use. The future still depends on you young people."
Shikamaru heard the implication of his father's words, and the expression on his face finally changed.
Nara Shikaku turned around and took out a scroll.
What is recorded on this scroll is the secret shadow ninja technique passed down by the Nara family.
Shikamaru didn't pick him up immediately: "Father..."
"Take it over, Shikamaru." Shikaku was very open-minded.
Nara Shikaku is a confidant of the Third Generation Sarutobi Hiruzen and the captain of the Konoha Jonin Class. He is particularly good at sensing changes in the situation.
Although he didn't show it explicitly, Shikaku could feel through his intuition that Konoha was in a period of great change.
Gone are the days when the Hokage and the ninjas ruled the village together.
Looking at the various new policies since the Fifth Generation came to power, such as the massive construction of Konoha Village, the absorption of rebel ninjas from other villages, external exchanges, and the expansion of the scale of the ninja school... we can always see Naruto's figure behind them.
While these measures strengthened Konoha's strength, they also secretly weakened the importance of the ninja family.
Not to mention anything else, just the massive construction of Konoha Village and the expansion of ninja schools mean that in the future Konoha Village, civilian ninjas will completely overwhelm family ninjas in number.
Maybe people today will still know about the Nara family, but what about ten or twenty years from now?
From the Warring States Period to the Ninja Village Era, the influence of the ninja family was gradually weakened.
Of course, there is another reason why Nara Shikaku was so confident in handing over the family's secret ninjutsu.
That was because Naruto's super strength convinced the head of the Nara family that Naruto really just wanted to study the shadow ninjutsu, rather than trying to steal their family's secret ninjutsu.
Valley persimmon
Nara Shikamaru solemnly took the scroll: "Thank you, dad."
He is so smart, of course he knows what his father is hiding.
If Shikamaru could hand over his family's ninjutsu, it would be like submitting a certificate of merit, and he would definitely be valued by Naruto.
"Why are you thanking me? I'm already an old man." Nara Shikaku said with a smile: "It's not a bad thing to retire. You can go around and have fun with your mother."
"Yes." When it came to the topic of tourism, Shikamaru became much more relaxed: "The village has recruited skilled craftsmen from the Land of Snow and is building the village's first railway."
"In just a few years, you and your mother will be able to travel around the Land of Fire by train."
Talking about the topic of trains, Nara Shikaku suddenly asked: "Godai-sama...with the assistance of the Hokage, do you have any plans to repair trains abroad?"
Of course repairing the train as Lujiu said would not be that simple.
The situation in each country is different. Some countries are very advanced in technology and even have electric trains; but some countries are still in the stage of feudal agricultural society.
Under such circumstances, the only way to repair trains abroad is to rely on force.
Shikamaru is so smart, of course he can read the meaning behind this.
"Yes. Not only abroad, Naruto once discussed the construction of a transportation plan with me, covering the entire ninja continent." Shikamaru also used this method to give his father a thorough explanation.
"It's actually like this." Shikaku was not too surprised by Naruto's great ambition. As long as they were serious, anyone could see that such a big reform in Konoha was not just focusing on the Land of Fire.
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The next day, the Hokage assisted in the office.
Shikamaru, who clocked in early for work, took out the scroll he brought and handed it to Naruto's hand.
"This is the secret shadow ninja technique of the Nara family." Shikamaru said.
Naruto reached out and placed the scroll on the table, flattening it. He originally thought that Shikamaru would discuss it with his family for several days, but he didn't expect that he would come up with a reply in one night.
"Shikamaru, do you know what kind of creatures tailed beasts are?" he asked Shikamaru.
What kind of creature is a tailed beast? Shikamaru was stunned for a moment when he heard this question.
Is it an animal? But the tailed beast seems to be able to be reborn infinitely; it is not an animal? But the tailed beast clearly looks like an animal, and even has similar animal habits.
In the end, it was Naruto who revealed the secret: "Tailed beasts are living entities created by the aggregation of chakra."
"Chakra is a very magical energy. According to my research, if chakra is brought together artificially, a life with sufficient intelligence can be created!"
"Have you ever heard of the story of the Shadow Warrior?"
[Shadow Warrior] is a bedtime story spread in the ninja world. Even Naruto, who is an orphan, has heard it, and it is impossible for Shikamaru not to have heard it.
The story is very simple. The general content is that a long time ago, a monster designed to steal the shadows of a group of warriors and manipulated the shadow warriors to cause harm to the world. The warriors whose shadows were taken away will enter a deep sleep state. If the shadows do not come back for a long time, the warriors will
will die completely.
People were helpless, and finally relied on a passing ronin warrior to defeat the monster and rescue the shadows of those warriors.
When he was a child, Shikamaru also imagined whether his family's shadow ninja technique could achieve this level, but when he grew up, he gradually realized that this was impossible.
Apart from anything else, just how to make the shadow fight like a human is a big problem. Not to mention how to let the shadow retain enough wisdom.
But what Naruto said today gave Shikamaru hope of 'creating' a shadow warrior!
"Come on." Naruto stood up: "Come with me to the root base."
"I already have an idea on how to create a group of shadow warriors, shadow ninjas." As he spoke, Naruto had already closed the Nara family's shadow ninja scroll!