Forty Six And 2: Team Ten
Chapter One: Shikamaru Says Some Strange Statements!
Sarutobi Asuma leaned back on the chair in the class room he was meeting his new genin students in a classroom of the Ninja Academy. The door slid open and a blond girl wrapped in bandaids and dressed in purple entered followed by a heavy boy with a white scarf and had his blue bandana wrapped like underwear over his head that had two large spikes of red hair pointing out from underneath them. "Oh no," Asuma put his large hands over his eyes. His fingers parted and he peaked to see the tired downcast face of his final member of this three person group. "What kind of shit is Hokage pulling on me?" He threw his arms into the air. In his dense navy green vest, he searched for a smoke. "I'll be back, when I'm back."
He opened the window and leaped out to the group a few stories below his team's floor. The final boy to enter, yawned and reached out his shiny bare arms. "I knew this group would exist." Nara Shikamaru stated in his flagging tone.
"How could you know?" The girl, Ino, said. She displayed her back him; her long blond hair covered a stripe of it with a pony tail. Her arms crossed and her face hoister high with spirited smugness symbolized with a mouth opened smile. Her head twisted and she glared at him with one eye. "You were surprised when Iruka told us the teams."
"How can I explain this to you?" He asked his own holiness, himself. Shikamaru turned the twist-tie to tighten the bond of his hair that exploded upwards from the top of the back of his head. "Each of our fathers were in the same group. That is how I knew."
Ino rejected her head from him. "Damn, why hadn't I thought of it like that?"
The fat boy with red swirls on his cheeks had occupied his time digging into a bag of chips. "What's taking the teacher so long?"
A-------------------
Asuma found a fellow Jounin on the seat of a swing hanging off a branch of a tree. "Hey, Kakashi!" Asuma bellowed in his deep voice. The ninja with most of his face covered with a blue slanted headband and a matching cloth around his mouth and nose looked up from his book and nodded to his bearded friend. "Do you have a smoke?"
"I was sort of saving it for after I fail my students." Kakashi stated. His revealed eye closed halfway. "Sure, why not?"
Kakashi opened a pocket on his vest over his chest. A large hand rolled smoke dropped down to his blue fingerless gloved hand. It was passed to Asuma who smelled it. "Some wacky tobacky, you got here." Asuma inspected it and Kakashi's eye widened as Asuma looked uncertain. "What is this?"
"I call it...umm..." Kakashi tapped the bridge of his book on his lips, "ninja grass."
Asuma pulled out a zippo and lit it. He held the smoke between two fingers, which had caused him to put it between his two inner fingers and drop his middle finger because it was so fat. He took a whiff and blew out the smoke. "No, no, no." Kakashi waved his finger and took the smoke between his index finger and thumb. "Hold it like this, and when you take the smoke in," Kakashi inhaled through his mask in a long drag then his voice stained when he talked and held the smoke in, "you gotta hold it in for a hella long time."
When the smoke was beat, Asuma had cow eyes and chuckled frequently. "Thanks, ah, ninja guy. Are you hungry?"
B-------------------
Team ten waited for their instructor to show up and when he did, he grapped the chips from Akimichi Choji's bandaided hand. His mouth dropped and he was forced to pull another bag out of his pouch. "Hey, team," Asuma sprouted with his mouth full of chips. "Have you ever wondered why the sky is blue?"
"No, because it isn't blue." Shikamaru pronounced. "Because most of the world is covered in water, the atmosphere reflects the blue colour of oceans. Like the vastness of space, the sky is mostly black with the..." Shikamaru yawned and rested in his folded arms.
"What? What is it?!" Asume blurted.
"Too troblemsome," He replied.
"What's too troblemsome?" Asume asked and took a seat behind the desk. He rubbed his short dark hair that stood like well kept grass. His hand rubbed his beard. "I'm bored. Tell me your innermost secrets."
"My name is Akimichi Choji." He said.
"Okay, okay, okay," Asume interrupted. "Ino, you can go next. What do you wanta do?"
"Well," she thought for a moment and tapped her nails on the desk, "I want to make my parents proud and cover the whole village in flowers." She waved her hands frantically, closed her eyes and smiled sweetly innocence. "I also want to marry a handsome man who will accept my indepence. He's going to be strong and listen to be contently. His interests will be wide, and as well as sharing in what I love, he will have related hobbies and have a healthy relationship with nature."
She spaced out with her chin in the hand.
"And I..." Shikamaru began but Ino jumped out of her chair and slapped her hands on the desk.
"I'm not done yet!" She said.
Asume laughed and crossed his legs on the desk. He motioned his hand to crack the whip on Shikamaru, "Waaaaahksh!"
Ino stole the snack from Choji and threw it at Asume who fell back off his chair. He got up and fixed his chair. "I wouldn't be interrupted when I'm telling you my dreams." She asserted. "These are the children we are going to have..."
When she was finished, the board had the future three generations of her family. "Shikamaru, do you want to tell me anything?" Asuma asked.
"I want an average life, two children, an average looking wife." He declared. "I will retire and spend the rest of my days playing go."
C-------------------
In the shadow of a tree, Shikmaru rested with his hands behind his head. A fallen leaf tumbled in the wind and settled on his cheek. This did not stir him. His headphones plugged into his ears and he watched the clouds. The shadow of the tree started to move, and it attached itself to a man at a fruit stand. The man dropped his fruit putting one hand behind his head and with the other grabbed the ass of a woman who was turned away from him.
Shikmaru held his hand down at his hips and towards the sky. He grumbled and the tree's shadow returned to normal. The music drowned out the agruments he had caused. On his favourite and final verse of the song, his humdrum vocal chores flowed with the song he was listening to: "See my shadow changing, /Stretching up and over me. /Soften this old armor. /Hoping I can clear the way /By stepping through my shadow, /Coming out the other side. /Step into the shadow. /Forty six and two are just ahead of me."
Over his head, Ino smiled and winked. Slowly Shikmaru shifted his headphones to his pockets. "What is it?"
"I saw what you did," she explained, "do you want to cause some more trouble?"
"As long as it's not troublesome to me."
D-------------------
With a collection of empty mugs in front of him, Asuma sat next to the Hokage at the bar. As the leader of the village, and the strongest ninja, Hokage restrained himself and had a single glass of wine in his old wrinkled hand. "Tell me about your encounter with the genins." Hokage demanded.
"They are as annoying as ever," Asuma said.
E-------------------
Ino left Shikmaru in the wreak of the go table surrounded by part of the newly formed team eight of Kiba and Hinata. She stamped her feet. "He didn't have to call me an idiot," she spoke to herself. "But the bee following Shino around does explain his alignment with that clan. Still, I hate it when Shikmaru's right."
"What arrogance?" Shikmaru remarked to himself on a comment Kiba had made about Shino. He pointed up to the sky and directed the glances at the sky. His shadow sweeped so smoothly to Hinata. "I've wasted enough time. Ever notice when one person yawns, another person does too?" Shikamaru yawned into his fists and Hinata followed, and then extended them to his side fast causing her to punch Kiba. "Bye."
He walked away and watched Kiba rub his arm and look at Hinata. Around the bend, he spotted his friend Choji in the window of a barbecue buffet. "There are only certain things a man should do alone."
Shikmaru sat down in the booth with Choji. The red meat seared on the large grill that was in the middle of the thick wooden table. "Hey."
"How are you doing, Shikmaru?" He asked.
"Ino and I," Shikmaru started off slowly and dragged on in an unflent pace, "decided.. awwhhh... to prank some people. We went to a clothing store and annoyed a young couple. Ino would enter the girl's mind and critize everything that the guy put on. And when the girl was trying on clothes, I made him use gestures that said that he really wasn't true to what he was saying. Then she challenged me to a game of go, but she kept trying to use her technique on me. I sort of wish I was still under that tree."
"We are going to be tested tomorrow." Choji reminded him.
Shimaru crossed his arms and tapped on the metal plate on his headprotector that he tied around his scrawny bicip over the short grey sleeve of his vest. "Hey, Choji. I was thinking about giving up when we take the test."
"What? Wouldn't you father be mad?"
"I figure there would be nothing he could do about it. I don't want to deal with the recognization of being a ninja. They fight, and they run. There has to be something easier and more natural for my faults."
"Uh-huh." Choji nodded, wiping a smear of sauce off his face. Shock woke up Shikmaru. "You're going to make a fine ninja."
-------- End of Chapter One ------------
Next Chapter: There is some doubt in Shikmaru's mind if he even wants to become a ninja. When the test comes, his teammates are going to have to convince him to try his best, which is trying at all. You know the outcome, but you haven't read the story behind team ten. This part is going to focus on Shikmaru.
Notes: This is a companion fanfiction to "Bugs: Team Eight", which is also written by me. There will be connections between each chapter of the two fanfictions.
Like each first chapter of focusing on a character, I have them listening and/or listening to a song. Here, Shikmaru is listening and singing (badly) along with "Forty Six & 2" by Tool.
Mysteriously, ninja grass does not exist in this world and is quiet legal in Naruto's universe.
Predictions: If you have read the first three chapters of "Bugs: Team Eight", you will know when this is going to end. However, it will fill in more of the first mission with a focus on Team Ten. Since the fanfiction depicting Team Eight has seven chapters already, there may be some overlaps since I never imagined I would write a similar thing with this team.
Comments and suggestions are welcomed as long as it's not too troblemsome.
Chapter One: Shikamaru Says Some Strange Statements!
Sarutobi Asuma leaned back on the chair in the class room he was meeting his new genin students in a classroom of the Ninja Academy. The door slid open and a blond girl wrapped in bandaids and dressed in purple entered followed by a heavy boy with a white scarf and had his blue bandana wrapped like underwear over his head that had two large spikes of red hair pointing out from underneath them. "Oh no," Asuma put his large hands over his eyes. His fingers parted and he peaked to see the tired downcast face of his final member of this three person group. "What kind of shit is Hokage pulling on me?" He threw his arms into the air. In his dense navy green vest, he searched for a smoke. "I'll be back, when I'm back."
He opened the window and leaped out to the group a few stories below his team's floor. The final boy to enter, yawned and reached out his shiny bare arms. "I knew this group would exist." Nara Shikamaru stated in his flagging tone.
"How could you know?" The girl, Ino, said. She displayed her back him; her long blond hair covered a stripe of it with a pony tail. Her arms crossed and her face hoister high with spirited smugness symbolized with a mouth opened smile. Her head twisted and she glared at him with one eye. "You were surprised when Iruka told us the teams."
"How can I explain this to you?" He asked his own holiness, himself. Shikamaru turned the twist-tie to tighten the bond of his hair that exploded upwards from the top of the back of his head. "Each of our fathers were in the same group. That is how I knew."
Ino rejected her head from him. "Damn, why hadn't I thought of it like that?"
The fat boy with red swirls on his cheeks had occupied his time digging into a bag of chips. "What's taking the teacher so long?"
A-------------------
Asuma found a fellow Jounin on the seat of a swing hanging off a branch of a tree. "Hey, Kakashi!" Asuma bellowed in his deep voice. The ninja with most of his face covered with a blue slanted headband and a matching cloth around his mouth and nose looked up from his book and nodded to his bearded friend. "Do you have a smoke?"
"I was sort of saving it for after I fail my students." Kakashi stated. His revealed eye closed halfway. "Sure, why not?"
Kakashi opened a pocket on his vest over his chest. A large hand rolled smoke dropped down to his blue fingerless gloved hand. It was passed to Asuma who smelled it. "Some wacky tobacky, you got here." Asuma inspected it and Kakashi's eye widened as Asuma looked uncertain. "What is this?"
"I call it...umm..." Kakashi tapped the bridge of his book on his lips, "ninja grass."
Asuma pulled out a zippo and lit it. He held the smoke between two fingers, which had caused him to put it between his two inner fingers and drop his middle finger because it was so fat. He took a whiff and blew out the smoke. "No, no, no." Kakashi waved his finger and took the smoke between his index finger and thumb. "Hold it like this, and when you take the smoke in," Kakashi inhaled through his mask in a long drag then his voice stained when he talked and held the smoke in, "you gotta hold it in for a hella long time."
When the smoke was beat, Asuma had cow eyes and chuckled frequently. "Thanks, ah, ninja guy. Are you hungry?"
B-------------------
Team ten waited for their instructor to show up and when he did, he grapped the chips from Akimichi Choji's bandaided hand. His mouth dropped and he was forced to pull another bag out of his pouch. "Hey, team," Asuma sprouted with his mouth full of chips. "Have you ever wondered why the sky is blue?"
"No, because it isn't blue." Shikamaru pronounced. "Because most of the world is covered in water, the atmosphere reflects the blue colour of oceans. Like the vastness of space, the sky is mostly black with the..." Shikamaru yawned and rested in his folded arms.
"What? What is it?!" Asume blurted.
"Too troblemsome," He replied.
"What's too troblemsome?" Asume asked and took a seat behind the desk. He rubbed his short dark hair that stood like well kept grass. His hand rubbed his beard. "I'm bored. Tell me your innermost secrets."
"My name is Akimichi Choji." He said.
"Okay, okay, okay," Asume interrupted. "Ino, you can go next. What do you wanta do?"
"Well," she thought for a moment and tapped her nails on the desk, "I want to make my parents proud and cover the whole village in flowers." She waved her hands frantically, closed her eyes and smiled sweetly innocence. "I also want to marry a handsome man who will accept my indepence. He's going to be strong and listen to be contently. His interests will be wide, and as well as sharing in what I love, he will have related hobbies and have a healthy relationship with nature."
She spaced out with her chin in the hand.
"And I..." Shikamaru began but Ino jumped out of her chair and slapped her hands on the desk.
"I'm not done yet!" She said.
Asume laughed and crossed his legs on the desk. He motioned his hand to crack the whip on Shikamaru, "Waaaaahksh!"
Ino stole the snack from Choji and threw it at Asume who fell back off his chair. He got up and fixed his chair. "I wouldn't be interrupted when I'm telling you my dreams." She asserted. "These are the children we are going to have..."
When she was finished, the board had the future three generations of her family. "Shikamaru, do you want to tell me anything?" Asuma asked.
"I want an average life, two children, an average looking wife." He declared. "I will retire and spend the rest of my days playing go."
C-------------------
In the shadow of a tree, Shikmaru rested with his hands behind his head. A fallen leaf tumbled in the wind and settled on his cheek. This did not stir him. His headphones plugged into his ears and he watched the clouds. The shadow of the tree started to move, and it attached itself to a man at a fruit stand. The man dropped his fruit putting one hand behind his head and with the other grabbed the ass of a woman who was turned away from him.
Shikmaru held his hand down at his hips and towards the sky. He grumbled and the tree's shadow returned to normal. The music drowned out the agruments he had caused. On his favourite and final verse of the song, his humdrum vocal chores flowed with the song he was listening to: "See my shadow changing, /Stretching up and over me. /Soften this old armor. /Hoping I can clear the way /By stepping through my shadow, /Coming out the other side. /Step into the shadow. /Forty six and two are just ahead of me."
Over his head, Ino smiled and winked. Slowly Shikmaru shifted his headphones to his pockets. "What is it?"
"I saw what you did," she explained, "do you want to cause some more trouble?"
"As long as it's not troublesome to me."
D-------------------
With a collection of empty mugs in front of him, Asuma sat next to the Hokage at the bar. As the leader of the village, and the strongest ninja, Hokage restrained himself and had a single glass of wine in his old wrinkled hand. "Tell me about your encounter with the genins." Hokage demanded.
"They are as annoying as ever," Asuma said.
E-------------------
Ino left Shikmaru in the wreak of the go table surrounded by part of the newly formed team eight of Kiba and Hinata. She stamped her feet. "He didn't have to call me an idiot," she spoke to herself. "But the bee following Shino around does explain his alignment with that clan. Still, I hate it when Shikmaru's right."
"What arrogance?" Shikmaru remarked to himself on a comment Kiba had made about Shino. He pointed up to the sky and directed the glances at the sky. His shadow sweeped so smoothly to Hinata. "I've wasted enough time. Ever notice when one person yawns, another person does too?" Shikamaru yawned into his fists and Hinata followed, and then extended them to his side fast causing her to punch Kiba. "Bye."
He walked away and watched Kiba rub his arm and look at Hinata. Around the bend, he spotted his friend Choji in the window of a barbecue buffet. "There are only certain things a man should do alone."
Shikmaru sat down in the booth with Choji. The red meat seared on the large grill that was in the middle of the thick wooden table. "Hey."
"How are you doing, Shikmaru?" He asked.
"Ino and I," Shikmaru started off slowly and dragged on in an unflent pace, "decided.. awwhhh... to prank some people. We went to a clothing store and annoyed a young couple. Ino would enter the girl's mind and critize everything that the guy put on. And when the girl was trying on clothes, I made him use gestures that said that he really wasn't true to what he was saying. Then she challenged me to a game of go, but she kept trying to use her technique on me. I sort of wish I was still under that tree."
"We are going to be tested tomorrow." Choji reminded him.
Shimaru crossed his arms and tapped on the metal plate on his headprotector that he tied around his scrawny bicip over the short grey sleeve of his vest. "Hey, Choji. I was thinking about giving up when we take the test."
"What? Wouldn't you father be mad?"
"I figure there would be nothing he could do about it. I don't want to deal with the recognization of being a ninja. They fight, and they run. There has to be something easier and more natural for my faults."
"Uh-huh." Choji nodded, wiping a smear of sauce off his face. Shock woke up Shikmaru. "You're going to make a fine ninja."
-------- End of Chapter One ------------
Next Chapter: There is some doubt in Shikmaru's mind if he even wants to become a ninja. When the test comes, his teammates are going to have to convince him to try his best, which is trying at all. You know the outcome, but you haven't read the story behind team ten. This part is going to focus on Shikmaru.
Notes: This is a companion fanfiction to "Bugs: Team Eight", which is also written by me. There will be connections between each chapter of the two fanfictions.
Like each first chapter of focusing on a character, I have them listening and/or listening to a song. Here, Shikmaru is listening and singing (badly) along with "Forty Six & 2" by Tool.
Mysteriously, ninja grass does not exist in this world and is quiet legal in Naruto's universe.
Predictions: If you have read the first three chapters of "Bugs: Team Eight", you will know when this is going to end. However, it will fill in more of the first mission with a focus on Team Ten. Since the fanfiction depicting Team Eight has seven chapters already, there may be some overlaps since I never imagined I would write a similar thing with this team.
Comments and suggestions are welcomed as long as it's not too troblemsome.