Each shade of blue...

'I'm not going.' Kiba stated ingenuously to the Hokage.

'Oh really?'

Kiba held eye contact with his harrasser, inconspicuously blinking and doing his best to be one step ahead. 'Yes, that's right. There's many other very deserving Shinobi in this village merely waiting on your word to set them out, and for that reason I shall not deny my fellow friends and teammates from something I'm hardly interested in.'

The busty blond standing before him returned a derisive look.

'Hokage-sama.' Kiba threw in hastily.

'Well how very well worded of you Kiba. However, I don't care what you think, and you shouldn't lie.'

'What?!' Kiba almost shouted, losing his prior rigid ardor.

'Now that we're passed that, I have to make it clear to you that you must travel only at night.' The Hokage continued, smirking at how easily the boys facade came down. 'Also, you are required to meet your second teemmate at a very specific time and place. Neither may be plied with, otherwise the mission will fail.'

'How come?' The still furiously indignant Chunnin questioned.

'Because the assisting Jounin will assume you did not make it and return back to his respective village, and so the mission will fail.'

'Why fail? I could still just complete it without the losers help.'

The Hokage just smiled. 'No, I'm quite certain you would fail.' Kiba was now growing more and more heated as the "conversation" continued, and it took some effort now from the Hokage herself to avoid laughing, though the effect of the suppresion was getting through to Kiba, and not helping in either respects. 'You will however, assuming you do meet up with the Jonin, be considerably vital to the completion of the mission; roughly a 60/40 share if you wan't a more objective delineation.'

'De...lineation?"

The Hogake sighed and glanced away from the boy. This was getting ridiculous. 'All the info, including logistics and the like are in the scroll. Just follow orders as usual and it should be fine Kiba.' She held now in her outstretched hand the scroll, that Kiba glanced at and reprehensibly took.

'But why can't you send Naruto, or Lee?'

'Well Kiba, one Akamaru is needed, and second, I don't think the assisting Jounin would work well with either of those two.'

'Can you tell me who it is then?' Kiba questioned with a nuance more or less resembling respectfulness.

'No.'

Kiba frowned and his face visibly dulled to pessimism. 'Well why arn't Naruto or Lee any good?"

'Because Kiba, there a little too outgoing if you will, as you know quite well, and their personality and methods would not mesh well with the other Jounin. Someone more down to earth and mature is needed.'

'Well I'm still not going, no matter how immature you think I am.'

'Then your not a part of this Village.' The Hokge beamed with a smile.

The matter was decided.

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