Alrighty, chapter one!! Party on everyone. Ok so this story is from Shikamaru's point of view… so enjoy…
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or its characters! This story merely represents the official view of the voices in my head
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The four original genin teams, plus the sand siblings. That's what this mission took. There were the 14 of us and our 4 teachers. Team Kakashi was short one person but other then that it was all of us, and we still couldn't win. Some how we managed to loose 5 people in the process. FIVE PEOPLE! We let them die! We were that incompetent that we couldn't even succeed one bloody mission with 18 people on it. To make matter worse, we were all in shock. One member from each team was gone. They were literally selected. And I don't mean no twist of fate happen to select them, as in literally they were taken because they each were from one team. It was horrible. One by one they were led to the middle of this field, and brought to their knees and slaughtered brutally before our eyes. First Lee, who held his head high and let his life be taken for the survival of us all. Yet tears still poured down his cheeks and we all realized how young he really was to give everything up. Then Kakashi, who went in silence. No struggle, nothing. He knew he was beaten and wasn't going to make matters worse with a struggle Next was Kurenai who put up one hell of a fight, and practically had to be dragged to the field. But, it only made her death all the more brutal. Next was Kankuro of the sand. If you think you've heard a lot of swearing in one sentence you haven't heard anything. But that was quickly ended by the sword of the death bearer. I think even Gaara cracked as we saw the curtains go down on the puppet masters life. And last the eyes of our enemies were turned to my team. None of us could move. We were all frozen in place, the one reason why we had done nothing to help our friends as they were sentenced to their bloody ends. The eyes fell upon Ino, and my heart broke from the look on her face alone. Eyes widened and she began to squirm. She couldn't run but she tried none the less. Once she was seized she began to kick and let out a scream that could have broken glass. Tears flew freely down her face and she cursed the heavens and everything around her. Her hand flew to mine and clung to me for all she had in her.
"Don't let them take me" she whispered "please, don't let them" but I couldn't do anything. That jutsu holding me in place kept me from helping her. I couldn't do anything. I was so ashamed. But the tears in my eyes told her I cared. She stopped screaming when she knew that she couldn't be saved. But the noise was replaced by sobs, sobs that echoed the clearing as she was forced to her knees in the blood of her slain comrades. I wanted to look away, I couldn't watch this, but I had no choice I was tied to the spot with invisible thread and her final moments were all I was able to see. If there was anyone in that clearing with dry eyes at the moment her cries were silenced then they had no heart. After the 5 were gone. We were released. Released and left with these words.
"Let this be a warning to you. Not to meddle where you aren't needed. Your Hokage has been sent the footage of this precious moment and will have already seen it by the time you return."
And then we were left alone. We were free, but no one moved. After what we witnessed I don't think anyone was going to be the same again.
It's been three years since that day. And they have been hell for all of Konoha. There was the bodiless funerals, the ceremonies. The monument erected of the 5 of them in there honour and a constant reminder that they gave their lives for the sake of the village. And not a day goes by that we all don't feel incomplete. But, we have moved on, they wouldn't have wanted us to spend every moment of our lives pining for them. They would have wanted us to spend our days in, if I am allowed to be so cliché, youth as lee always told us to be. And I guess we are giving him what he wanted as one last wish of his fufilled.
"Shikamaru! Wake up! The Hokage called she wants you in her office in half an hour for a mission"
That's the best way to wake up isn't it? You mother in your ear nagging you about a mission. I groan and roll over. Opening my eyes takes effort so I do it slowly. I eventually sit up and scratch my head as I see my mother frowning at me from the door way.
"At this rate you'll get there tomorrow! Now hurry up you lazy git"
With that the door is slammed, adding to my now forming headache. I pull myself out of the bed and throw on the same clothes from yesterday that I picked off the floor. I sniff them a few times to make sure they don't stink to bad. By the time I get downstairs breakfast is made and the crazy lady I call my mum is singing in the kitchen. What happened to bitchy mc stick in ass? Man that lady has more mood swings then anyone I know.
When I got to the Hokage's office I found I wasn't alone, in the office with me was Neji, Naruto, and Kiba. I wasn't too surprised, often the four of us were paired together. We made a good team and got along well. The mission is simple enough. Go to a town called Parville and get a scroll. Bring it back to the village without anyone knowing it left the town it resides in. simple? That's what I thought to. We set off as normal. It would take 2 days to get there, and 2 to get back. Things were ok as we walked. Me and Neji had a pleasant and rational conversation while the two fucktards who called themselves 18 years olds were having a contest over who could spit a sunflower seed the farthest. I swear by the time we reached our first camp site I had decided on two things. 1) that I was very glad that we had stopped and I could get away from the lunatics and 2) a fork, if bent in the proper ways could be shoved into ones nasal passage and puncture the brain killing one instantly (a theory I would have proven had Kiba and Naruto's conversation on how sting bikinis were better then normal ones because they were easier to accidentally untie while applying sunscreen to an innocent girls back who happened to be dumb enough to let either of them anywhere near her while in a bathing suit had gone one any longer.)
I went off to find myself a little corner to sit in until dinner when I was forced to convene with these stumps with brains. But instead found myself looking at something I had never seen before. Off in the distance was a castle. Yep that's right a fucking castle. This boggled my mind, so I called Kiba over to see this. Yes I know, why call the man who's more of an animal then a human, but the man spends more then half his time in these woods and mountains he is bound to know if a castle has been there before or not.
"I gotta say, I haven't been out this far into the mountains since well…you know, the incident… but I can honestly say that there was no fucking castle there before. If there was, well then fuck me hard from behind, I must be blind"
"Thank you for that lovely image, I think now that we all want to gouge our eyes out at the thought of Kiba being fucked, by anyone or anything"
"What do you mean by thing, I never-"
" I think that it would be best to explore that building. Word will be sent to the Hokage"
I'm am not one to add extra work to anything, but there was something about that place that really bugged me, and I really don't know what it is. Also, I think that we could use a break from the normal missions. At Kiba's mention of what happened three years before he seemed to have gone rather quiet and wandered off. He was one of the ones that took it the hardest when it happened. There were a few of them who really took it bad. Gaara and Temari obviously who lost a brother. And Gai, because of his dedication to Lee. And team 7 and 8 were devastated at the loss of their teachers. But Kiba, was always looking lost. He would wander around, his mind blank. He seemed to be a completely different person. I mean, I took Ino's death pretty hard, but Kiba…was different. It took prodding from Shino for 3 weeks before anyone got it out of him. It turns out he was taking Kankuro's death hardest. No one really knew why, but with more prodding , gently, the whole story was revealed.
When Kankuro rescued Kiba from the sound ninjas when we were 12, Kiba couldn't walk at all. So he was carried to Konoha where he needed immediate medical attention for his stab wounds. The one who carried him out of the mountains was Kankuro. It took 3 days because he was going slowly to make sure Kiba wasn't bounced too much. And on the time, Kankuro took care of Kiba as if it were a team mate in trouble. So on that journey Kiba promised that if there was ever a moment where Kankuro needed a hero, he would make sure he'd be there. After that, the two remained friends, and the promise was never forgotten. So when Kiba watched the puppet master die in front of him, and he didn't save him, he felt as though it was his fault. He didn't fulfill his promise and let him die.
That aside, we decided that the next day we would head to the castle
"Kiba, if I have to ask you one more godamn time to move you leg I'm going to break it off"
"Oooh is the Hyuga having some trouble sharing space"
"I don't mind sharing space dog breath, what I mind is sharing the space on both sides of me with the same person"
"Clearly you don't get out much"
"What the hell does that –"
"BOTH OF YOU SHUT UP"
"Stay out of this Blondie"
"Hey!
I'm trying to sleep ok"
"well I would be to if tardo of here
wasn't lying practically on me"
"Hey it's not my fault! Narutard is the one who packed a two man tent for the four of us"
"Then lie on him"
"You're comfier"
"I'm pretending I didn't hear that"
"Pretend all you want, it won't make it real. Trust me, if pretending made things real then a long time ago Hinata would have—"
"If you finish that sentence about my cousin, you will not see tomorrow"
"I sense negative energy in the space, Neji how long have you been having these feelings?"
"What..The..Hell… that's it, Kiba, your dead"
"Death threats are not the answer young grass hopper breath in then…OW HEY!! WHAT THE HELL HYUGA"
That's when I decided to stop being asleep and step in and break them up. Alright I'm sure you are all wondering what the hell is going on in this tent. Well, when we set up for the night we all wondered why the tent looked a little on the small side. Turns out Naruto packed a 2 man tent instead of a 4 man one like the little shit head he is. So we all crammed inside seeing as no one wanted to be sleeping out in the cold. And if you had any wonders on how one might sleep in such an arrangement as this, well let me paint you a picture. I was on one end, curled up as tight as I could make myself. Beside me was Naruto who takes up way to much room then one person should, his elbows were imbedded in my back all night. Beside him was Kiba who decided to be an ass, because beside him, against the other wall, was Neji. Now Kiba had his legs so sprawled they went over Neji and rested on the wall of the tent on the other side. This arrangement is what sparked the argument.
"All of you shut up and go to sleep. Now Kiba, you come switch places with me"
"Why"
"
so you and the blonde haired idiot can sprawl all over each other as
much as you want. And maybe we'll all get some sleep tonight"
So me and Kiba switched places, leaving Naruto and Kiba to be as annoying and spread out as they like, and me and Neji curled up in to our own little balls and not touching anything. And let's say, we all got some sleep.
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AN. Ok, so that was chapter one! What do you all think? Ok so I know I managed to kill out 5 characters in the first like page, but oh well, don't worry there was a point to that, hahahahah PLOT TWISTS tee hee… ok so please please please review, and I shall post more chappies!! Taa taa for now!! Bye bye
Oh and if any of you are wondering…. I have put 4 people in a 2 man tent… and let's say it can get interesting.
