This story is so great! I love how Shika is now the sensei of his own team. The kids seem to resemble some of the already existing ninjas of Naruto. (Tsuzuku seems to be a strange hybrid of Naruto, Lee and Sakura cuz of her determination, loudness and strength. Yin is like a Neji and TenTen all wrapped up into one. Xin is like Sakura since he does basic jutsus and tries to think logically). Did you mean for it to seem like that? Sage was awesome! Are you saying that Shikamaru signed a contract with the shadows like Naruto with the frogs? I think that would be awesome!

SD: Prolouge was really good. And I like to see how the characters as we know them as kids got the way they was for this chapter.

Dude, what a great story! I normally hate made up characters, but yours really fit into the naruto universe. And thanks for making Shikamaru awesome ^_~. Can't wait for the next update^^

Awesome chapter! I love it! It's kind of weird seeing shikamaru being so tough on someone, but then again it adds to the story. Keep writing!

SD: Between the the bell test and fighting that shadow summon I take the bells anyday.

I'm liking your story and where it's going^^. You have a good idea going on, but i feel that it's really not going anywhere right now (i'm not flaming! just helping for future references :D). The chapters just seem too...short. Anyway, maybe adding multiple situations to a chapter or legnthening the plot would help a lot in making the story more interesting. Just a thought. You would get a lot more readers and reviews, guarenteed, if you did ;). If you have any questions, feel free to ask me or check out my fic to get some ideas.

SD: Man that was funny. Yep I could see that the only way to get him to become a Jounin. This story caught my attention.

how cute! i love it! i'm so in love with shikamaru^_^ he's a lazy-**, but non-the-less he's awesome! I can't wait to see what happens! Hopefully he'll hook up with Temari;)

I like it. Update soon.

NUMA NUMA EIE! NUMA NUMA EIE!! Lol...kewl Shika-kun is a jonin! Update soon!