So... Lazy genius in a crazy world is reincarnated as a lazy genius in a crazy world? I thought the idea brilliant, and I've always liked these characters. So, opinions?

:Oh, and I own neither One Piece nor Naruto, citations will be at the bottom.

Nara Shikamaru died. He fell in the war, fighting alongside friends. He died protecting his Hokage, Uzumaki Naruto. He, the impossibly lazy Nara that just wanted to live an average boring life, had managed to end up as an important person in the war before sacrificing himself for others.

How Troublesome.

And now, it was getting even more troublesome for him. Because, apparently the universe decided to conspire against Shikamaru so that he couldn't even have an average death. Instead of being dead, the powers that be had decided he'd get reborn into a different universe. A reward, they said, but Shikamaru knew that they were all just sadists that liked to watch him squirm.

And since he was now a baby and then a toddler, they'd get to see a lot of that. Though he honestly did like being a baby. He could sleep as much as he wanted, people fed him, there were a lot of upsides. His new name was Kuzan, which wasn't all that bad. His new family were… well, they weren't genius's like his old one. Not even close.

They were simple fishermen, from what he could tell, and at the very least seemed to value hard work. Though they seemed to have trouble with a child as intelligent and lazy as him.

Lee probably would have loved them, but even though he'd only recently turned three they still expected him to start learning how to fish and sail. It was so troublesome.

Though troublesome, he'd also started working with the training he'd done in his previous life. At first, Kuzan had thought that he'd just be able to relax and take it easy in this new life. But no, that would just get him killed.

There were pirates. Sea monsters. Corrupt Marines. The world itself seemed like it wanted to drive every person on it absolutely crazy. It was frustrating to know that to not get killed you had to stop being lazy, again. Why was like so hard?

And there was a reason Nara's liked to cloud watch, and were lazy. Their mind thought so much, gave out so much information, that the only place for them to truly get it calmed down was in that place of mindless serenity generally only found watching the clouds.

But here he was, working as often as he could on hard learned ninja skills. Even though this new place didn't seem to have chakra, he could feel that there was something else. Kuzan wasn't sure what it was, but at least it allowed him to use the same kind of sensory awareness as chakra did. Knowing where people were was dead useful.

Especially after that day he'd eaten that fruit in the forest.

At least ice powers were cool and useful.

The great weakness of Devil Fruit users had a much harder time of affecting him after he mastered his new powers. Ice was frozen water, and there was so much of that in this world.

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For all the good eating the ice Devil Fruit would eventually cause him, on his home island it was extremely troublesome. Because his family, who'd never really understood him but were nice people, took the devil part seriously. Well, the entire island did. So, even though he'd been on good terms with just about everyone on the island the week before, they had tried to kill him as soon as they found out what he'd eaten even though he'd had the powers for years.

It was troublesome… and it really hurt. If this was how Naruto had felt for most of his life, then Kuzan had to wonder about how he didn't try to kill everyone in the village.

So, in realizing that he couldn't stay on the island he'd been born on, Kuzan stole a boat and some provisions and left. And while he would make it to the next island, and the island after that… well, eventually there was a storm.

And to weather a storm on an inadequate fishing vessel in the middle of the Grand Line as a Devil Fruit user alone was suicide, even if your super power was ice.

Unless Monkey D. Garp was there to fish you out. In which case, you owe the man quite a lot.

But, as Kuzan would quickly find out, Monkey D.'s are Troublesome with a capital T.

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Somehow, a lazy ninja became a marine. Kuzan, in some Garp inspired madness had decided to join the marines. Admittedly, this was partly because he didn't really have a home anymore, and partly because Garp had pretty much saved his life.

Oh, and he'd been military in his previous life. Needless to say, he'd found that it was much easier to be lazy when working for the government. Missing Nin had to work way harder than everyone that had never turned traitor.

Kuzan owed Garp his life though, and the best way to repay him would be to join the marines besides all of the benefits it would give him. And it wasn't like he didn't have experience working as a soldier under a corrupt government. Though, he conceded in his own mind, it will probably be even more troublesome an occupation than ninja.

At least he'd be directly under Garp to start out with. Because as troublesome as the man was at least he was more in line with what Kuzan had known.

Garp probably would have fit right in with the shinobi of Konohagakure, or at least with Gai and Lee. Probably with Naruto as well, Kuzan admitted. And the vice-admiral, even though he knew that Kuzan had eaten a Devil Fruit, had refrained from telling HQ about it. Garp had said that when Kuzan had gotten high enough for a promotion to captain, then he'd tell HQ.

Kuzan would be grateful to the man for helping him get settled into the marines peacefully. And for allowing him to make friends before being scrutinized by superiors. Jaguar D. Saul, a fellow recent cadet as well as a giant, reminded him a bit of Chouji with his kindness and protectiveness towards his friends.

Needless to say, they got along pretty well, and hung out even outside of training and learning the ropes on a battleship.

Garp, Kuzan had decided, was probably the best marine to follow after as a subordinate.

Kuzan and Saul would continue to be subordinates under Garp until they had both climbed the ranks enough that he felt them ready to potentially set off on their own as captains. By the time Garp had told HQ that he was nominating them both for a promotion, and that Kuzan had a Devil Fruit, Gol D. Roger was executed and the marines started trying to find the man's child.

The two friends would climb steadily in rank at this time, separated more often than not, but still remaining close friends. It would take barely a year before they both became Vice-Admirals at the relatively young ages of twenty-three and eighty-four, and that was when things really started to get going.

One day, the events that would happen on an island named Ohara would cause a former Nara to retire from his new job with a crafty satisfied smirk, relieved he finally got to make a move against the Government.

Because on a particular day, Jaguar D. Saul, the only true friend of Kuzan, worked with a man who would someday be known as Akainu and realized the true depth of the rot that made up the marines and World Government. He would resign and end up as a castaway washing up on the shore of Ohara.

His friend Kuzan would barely get the notice that he had resigned before being sent with fellow Vice-Admiral Sakazuki for a buster call on the archeologists of the island.

Sakazuki would kill every civilian trying to escape, and gain the go ahead from HQ.

And Kuzan would be forced to kill the best and only friend that he would have for a long time. It would take nearly twenty years before he made friends with someone again and take his revenge.

Nara's are patient and smart. When they become motivated, they are the most terrifying things in the world.

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The island of Ohara was burning. The screams of the dying, especially from Sakazuki's side of the island, were starting to silence themselves.

Kuzan knew that this entire day would have a special place in his knightmares, being on par with some of the horrors that he had witnessed as Shikamaru. To make matters worse, he had recognized the man destroying battleships on this side of the island.

As soon as he heard the report as to how those ships had been destroyed he knew that Saul was responsible.

Kuzan had been ordered to kill him, and prevent anyone from escaping the ravaged and burning island.

As he froze the fire around Saul and the little girl he'd obviously been trying to protect, Kuzan began to plot. His mind ran as fast as it could, trying to figure out how to get out of the situation.

It got ten times worse when he recognized the girl as Nico Robin, one of the people that was supposed to die even before Sakazuki ordered everyone massacred.

"Robin," Saul said while placing his hat on her head, "Take the boat and go from this place as fast as you can," he looked over at Kuzan and said, "One day you will make friends that will stand by your side regardless of circumstances."

And Nico Robin took off as fast as she could through the icy path that had been made with tears streaming down her face and a cowboy hat clutched to her heart.

Kuzan looked over at his friend, "I've been ordered to kill you," he said at last.

"Then kill me," came the reply, "I am a dead man anyway, and if you kill me then you won't die alongside me as a traitor. So long as Nico Robin is safe from death then I don't care what my fate is."

Seeing the extremely conflicted look on his best friends face, Saul decided to tell him the reason he quit the marines, "The World Government is corrupt, yes, but so long as I know that you are there to counteract and bend orders to do what is right, I will give my last breath easily."

With a heavy heart, Kuzan killed his best friend, and brought the body as proof to the rest of the marines.

He saw Robin on the way to the surviving battleships, and used his powers to give her an escape route, "Nico Robin," he called out, "Don't get caught, I likely won't be able to help a second time."

It wasn't very long after that day that both Kuzan and Sakazuki were promoted to Admiral, gaining the monikers Aokiji and Akainu. Along with Borsalino who becomes known as Kizaru, all three would gain acknowledgment as three of the strongest marines in the navy.

Aokiji became known as a practicer of Lazy Justice, all the while keeping in his heart the last words of Jaguar D. Saul and hiding the true extent of his abilities from his fellow marines.

After all, a ninja's greatest asset was stealth and unpredictability. So while they knew of the big things he could do, none ever found out many of the skills he had used as a Shinobi. Barring of course his tactical genius, because inventing all the commonly used patrol patterns and attack plans could be extremely useful one day.

:Hahahaha this is awesome. I feel so accomplished.

Eiichiro, Oda. One Piece. Shueisha, 1997. 85 Vols.

Kishimoto, Masashi. Naruto. 1997. 72 vols.