Originally posted by: NOthing Is Real
is it just me or that Shikamaru is getting smarter all the time?
at first he wasn't able to think of any kind of 'super' plan to beat the sound trio in the forest of death.
after that he wasn't able to find a way to hold down a few sound chunins without dying.
and now, all of a sudden, he's able to run in the forest for miles, use his shadow no jutsu multipie times, control super awsome beings with it while avoiding being hit, and then he uses a new (and probably even more chackra consuming) jutsu, along with the old one, and that's while fighting against tens of genjutsu.
besides, how can he perform seals with a broken finger?
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next chapter better show someone being a smart ninja...