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Background History: Shikamaru Nara was brought up on a deer-sanctuary run by his father, Shikaku, in Helena, Montana. For several generations their family has been running a successful conservation and breeding centre for endangered subspecies of Sika deer, Dybowski's sika deer and Formosan sika deer. As a child, Shikamaru enjoyed helping his father out with the herds and was content to do little at school. Due to his horribly lazy attitude, put in no effort whatsoever, safe in the knowledge that he had a secure future inheriting the family business. As a result, his grades were horrible and his teachers wrote him off as being utterly useless and doomed to a life of flipping burgers. He spent more time in detention for not paying attention than he did on his work outside class. However, at the age of twelve he surprised everyone, including himself, when a schoolwide IQ test revealed that he had an IQ in excess of 200. To the exasperation of all his teachers, and his mother, this newly acquired knowledge did not motivate him to do better, as Shikamaru was still as lazy and unmotivated as he had always been. To him, the fact that he was now technically a genius mean exactly nothing, only that now people seemed to expect more from him and were failing to hide their disappointment when he underperformed. The problem was motivation, and if Shikamaru couldn’t be bothered to do something, then it would not get done. This behaviour carried on until his mother lost her cool and ended up screaming at him that he would be thrown out of the house and cut off without a penny unless he got his act together and did something. Grudgingly, Shikamaru put a little effort into things and actually started to do homework. His grades went from abysmal to acceptable, and he continued to live uneventfully at home with his parents up until he graduated high school.
Shikamaru had absolutely no desire to prove himself, he simply couldn’t see the point. While other kids at school had aspirations of amazing, if not improbable careers, Shikamaru had never held the usual lofty childhood dreams of being an astronaut or a rock-star. Fame and recognition were never something he craved; he didn’t try out for sports teams, despite being good at quite a few games, he never started a band and never dreamed of dating the head cheerleader. Occasionally, he would help out some of the younger kids in town by volunteering to read to them at the library at weekends and listening to them read in return. Unlike most boys his age, he was a sucker for little kids and, despite the irony and never having amounted to much himself throughout his school career, he wanted to do all he could to help them achieve their full potential. He himself was quite content to watch all the absurdities of high school pass him by as he kept his head down and got on with things. He had friends, and while he wasn’t Mr. Popularity, he was incredibly loyal and dedicated to his friends and they were loyal back. All he wanted, truthfully, was to get a little house, not too far from the farm, where he could get married to an average girl, have two kids fairly quickly (a girl, then a boy), take over from his dad running the farm when he retired and then wait until his son was old enough to run the business so that he could take it on, and Shikamaru could retire and play games of shougi and watch the clouds. As he got older, he realised that in order to do this he would probably have to find some kind of paying work in order to keep a family in relative comfort- deer didn’t pay well- but there was no way he could see himself working a nine to five. It was just too boring and troublesome.