He let me go, seeming a little angry: "Also, when you are hiding your tracks, don't touch others casually."

"I'm sorry. Are you upset?"

"No." Shikamaru turned his head away from me, "...It's just that the chakra consumption is too great. I'm a little tired now."

I looked at the sky: "Indeed, it's almost time for lunch."

Shikamaru asked me, "Do you want to come to my house?"

"what?"

"What else do you have going on today?"

I shook my head.

"Well, come to my house. You can have lunch there, and then we can rest together. If my chakra recovers... maybe we can go to a movie in the afternoon."

Of course, there was no reason for me to refuse the opportunity to go to Shikamaru's home, so I said happily, "Then I'll go talk to the aunt at the orphanage!"

We went to the welfare home together. Shikamaru was waiting for me outside the door. The aunt at the welfare home didn't say anything, but just asked me to come back early. I naturally nodded in agreement.

I ran out the door and smiled at Shikamaru, "Auntie agreed! But you have to come back for dinner!"

Shikamaru also smiled and said, "I'll take you back when the time comes."

He led me towards Nara's house and I said, "Knowing that you and Shikamaru are going out together, the aunt at the welfare home isn't worried at all."

"is it?"

"Yeah, she was very unhappy when she was with Naruto before." I was a little confused: "Many people don't like Naruto, but he is obviously a good person... I asked my aunt why she didn't like him, and she couldn't say anything."

Shikamaru didn't say anything. He looked a little tired and sleepy. He always looked listless, and his eyes were half closed and were now almost closed.

"Shikamaru?"

"Hmm? Ah... sorry... what did you say?"

"Are you sleepy?"

"No... just a little tired..."

"Excessive chakra consumption will cause this..." I suddenly felt a little sorry: "I'm sorry for making you uncomfortable."

"Nothing, I agreed. So it's my own fault..."

"Is this place far from the Nara family?"

"Hmm... a little distance..."

"So where are we going to pass? Tell me a place I know the way to, and then I'll turn into an adult and carry Shikamaru there. Shikamaru can rest on my back for a while. When we get there, I'll wake Shikamaru up and let you show us the way."

After saying that, without waiting for his consent, I formed hand seals and used the transformation technique.

"How is it? Is there anything wrong? There is no mirror here, I can't see the effect..."

Shikamaru looked at me for a moment and shook his head: "Nothing is wrong, it became very successful."

"I can't see what I look like. What do I look like?"

"It's exactly the same as when I was a child, as if it were enlarged in proportion."

"That's good, it seems I played well." I laughed, squatted with my back to Shikamaru and said, "Come on, come up."

Shikamaru:"……"

I could sense he was hesitating.

"what happened?"

"If I run into someone I know, it would be embarrassing... It would be really troublesome..."

"So, Shikamaru lowered his head?"

"There's a family crest on the clothes." He sighed and leaned forward: "But, never mind... You've been to the bookstore, right? Just walk in that direction and wake me up when you see the bookstore."

"understand!"

I carried Shikamaru on my back. Even though the transformation technique only made him grow in a false way, his height had definitely changed.

The height that I see at the age of sixteen is very different from that of the seven-year-old me.

The first obvious change is that the surrounding trees seem to have become shorter.

My first reaction to these new feelings was to share them with Shikamaru, but he lay quietly on my back, breathing steadily and long, and had already started taking a nap. I didn't want to disturb him, so I silently suppressed my excitement, thinking that I would tell him everything after he had rested.

On the way to the bookstore, I felt a little regretful. After seeing that face that was almost exactly the same as Shikamaru's, I was so excited that I didn't even ask Shikamaru how he felt after using the transformation technique.

I seemed to be too focused on my own feelings and didn't consider Shikamaru's feelings.

But Shikamaru has always been very nice to me...

This makes me feel a little guilty.

Wait a minute, why don’t we ask Shikamaru what he thinks?

However, by the time I reached the city center and before I even got to the bookstore, I was feeling a little tired.

It seems that the amount of chakra I have now is only enough to maintain high-precision transformation techniques for a dozen minutes.

This level seems to be about the same as Shikamaru, but how about compared with Naruto? How about compared with Sasuke?

Uchiha Sasuke is known as a genius...

As I was thinking this, I suddenly heard someone calling me in surprise: "Chaolu...?"

I looked in the direction of the voice and saw a familiar masked man.

It's Kakashi.

I carried Shikamaru on my back and quickly mouthed to him, "Shh..."

He was stunned for a moment, then walked up to me. When he saw Shikamaru behind me, he looked puzzled: "What are you doing?"

"We agreed to practice transformation techniques together." I whispered, "Shikamaru has consumed too much chakra and is a little tired."

"...Is that so." He had a strange expression on his face and kept staring at my face. "Are you...really turning into your grown-up self?"

"Hmm! What's wrong? Is there something wrong?"

"No... He's become very good, almost exactly the same as when he was a child..."

"Shikamaru also said that it's the same as being enlarged in proportion." I laughed: "I hope that when I grow up, I can really look like this."

"Yeah……"

"Yes, because I look very cute now. It would be bad if I grew out of shape."

Kakashi seemed to be amused by me, but the smile was very shallow, as if he was hiding something.

"Where is Chaolu going now?"

"I'm going to Shikamaru's house. Shikamaru invited me to lunch."

"I see... does Chaolu know the way?"

I shook my head, "I made an appointment with Shikamaru to go to the bookstore and wake him up. He will tell me where to go next."

Kakashi glanced at Shikamaru who was lying on my back and whispered, "I'll take you there."

"May I?"

"Ah."

"Thank you." I said happily, "Ah, should I call you Kakashi-sensei in advance?"

"Need not."

I immediately became alert: "Why? You wrote a letter of guarantee that you would be my teacher."

"I did write a letter of guarantee. After you graduate, I promise to assign you to my team. But if you want to become my student, you still have to pass my test. After you pass, you can call me teacher."

I immediately said, “I can definitely pass!”

Looking at me, Kakashi smiled and said nothing.

Generally speaking, a person's smile often represents a happy emotion, but for some reason, although Kakashi was looking at me with a smile, I could feel that there was some other emotion underneath the smile...it seemed very bitter.

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