In the fifth-year classroom of the Ninja Academy.
Naruto, who was playing Go with Shikamaru beside him, blurred for an instant.
Shikamaru, who had just made a move, keenly noticed it.
"The real you is here?" Shikamaru asked softly.
As he spoke, he subconsciously glanced at the classmates around them.
It was recess right now.
In the classroom, there was a fatty constantly eating potato chips, a cheerful boy playing with a little white dog, a Byakugan girl staring at Naruto, and a blond girl whose gaze kept shifting between Naruto and Sasuke, no one knew what she was thinking.
There was also a pink-haired lovestruck girl staring at the handsome Uchiha.
This Uchiha was also a Shadow Clone.
Mm, everyone else could be ignored.
Shikamaru knew that Naruto had always been using Shadow Clones to attend class.
It was not that his insight was so strong that he could see through Shadow Clones, but because on quite a few occasions when he skipped class, he had seen one Naruto and one Sasuke training taijutsu out in the wild, while another Naruto and Sasuke never missed class and seriously attended every single lesson to the end.
And using Shadow Clones to train taijutsu was useless, so from that, he could naturally deduce that the ones in class were Shadow Clones.
"Why didn't I think of such a convenient ninjutsu that lets you skip class without getting beaten by your parents?" That was Shikamaru's first thought after learning this.
And his second thought was: training Shadow Clones is such a pain, my parents would ask me why I suddenly wanted to train this, and I don't have that much Chakra either, so forget it.
Thus, Shikamaru continued living his Ninja Academy life of occasionally attending class and occasionally skipping it.
"Mm."