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1. The Beasts' Keepers by Zory_Alechiv

   Fandoms: Naruto (Anime & Manga)  

   • Not Rated
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • M/M, Multi
   • Work in Progress

   07 Aug 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Nara Shikamaru/Uzumaki Naruto
   • Konoha 12 Ensemble (Naruto)
   • Hatake Kakashi
   • Uchiha Itachi
   • Akatsuki Characters (Naruto)
   • One-Sided Attraction
   • canon adjacent
   • Slow Build
   • The Author Regrets Nothing
   • The Author Regrets Everything
   • Author Is Sleep Deprived
   • Additional Warnings In Author's Note
   • Nara Fixation - Kinda
   • Angst with a Happy Ending

   Summary

   Sorry all, this one is on hiatus (hopefully temporary)

   Though I am still very interested in the story, and want to finish it, my muse is elsewhere at the moment. So stay tuned, I promise there is more Shikanaru from me soon, just not here <3

    

   Shikamaru runs into his best friend six years after Naruto left the village and with their reunion, several things were made abundantly clear:

   1. Naruto had finally grown into a towering young man with broad shoulders and sun-kissed skin.
   2. Naruto was stronger than anyone he had ever met.
   3. Shikamaru was still irrevocably in love with him.
   4. And Naruto was the only one that could help him learn how to use the tailed beast that was now sealed inside of him.

   What a drag.

   Series

   • Part 9 of A Fox's Shadow

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   2,699

   Chapters:

   2/?

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

   63

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