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...
shika was able to do all of the crap he did against tayuya cuz he became a better skilled and stronger ninja...it's not like he stayed the same from all the way back to the chuunin exam days. and for the jutsus with a broken finger...i think he still maintained both of the shadow jutsus. i don't think he ever "stopped" it. so he was able to still control it even with a broken finger.

and showing someone else with shika's intelligence would take away the only thing that separates him and the others. naruto is just gay.