Author's Notes:
Ah, I needed a break from my story "Mission of Survival"
(The story is just now reaching the main parts, and I have a writers block for it D: )

And so, This was born of an idea I had while trying to sleep! xD
It's going to be 5-7 chapters long, and will have some fluff...not a lot, but some. c:

Also, This one is going to have some splashes of humor here and there :D
(More than the Survival Story, but less fluff as well)

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I don't own Naruto, Naruto owns me :0
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I revised this piece on 9/16/07, I tried to make it more understandable and fun :
N'joy!

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Mission: Unite team 8!
Chapter One –A Team-less Team--

Kiba groaned, It hurt like hell! Not that being hit with nun-chucks in the back of the head had anything to do with it.

Okay.

So it had ALL to do with his pounding skull, but he wasn't gonna admit it in front of his Sensei and team. Kiba, Hinata and Shino stood in assorted fighting poses, surrounded by an area referred to as "The Training Grounds". But to any Shinobi that knew better would might as well call it "The Torture Grounds".

Scratches decorated the two of the Shinobis face's, along with the occasional bruises and bleeding. Shino was unscathed, but Hinata and Kiba were in bad shape. Kurenai-Sensei stood firmly across the grounds, observing her pupils. Her arms were crossed, she was not a happy camper.
Hinata gasped and fell to one knee, holding her side, face twisted with pain. Kiba risked a glance at his fallen teammate, and then quickly averted his gaze to the figure in front of him. Shino kept his focus at all times on the figure before him, even disregarding his female teammate's obvious pain.

This so called "figure" was actually a training dummy that Kurenai-Sensei had borrowed from Team Gai. It was wooden, stern, and held weapons in all four of it's arms, a menacing Barbie to say the least.

Shino eyed the dummy's limber hands, in which one held the nun chucks that had assaulted Kiba and his hard head. In the other 3 arms the wooden dummy wielded a wooden sword, and a bow occupying the last two of the available limbs to operate.

Akamaru barked nervously next to Kiba. Are we just going to stand here? The dog said. Kiba growled at his canine companion; which roughly translated to "Shut it."
Akamaru turned his eyes onto the dummy-paused-, and then leaped onto Kiba's head.

Several seconds passed in silence, but not for long.

"THE HELL?!" Suddenly Kiba shouted, Shino ignored him and stared at the dummy with intense concentration. Kiba's jacket, right under Akamaru's convenient sitting spot, was soaked through in what seemed to be urine.

"AKAMARU! WHAT THE HEL--" Kiba started, reaching his hands up to strangle his best dog friend; but just as he let his guard down, the dummy flew at him with incredible speed. Kiba raised his arms into a cross in attempt to block the incoming attack, but failed. He was flung back and skidded across the grass, "ARRG!" Kiba yelled as he rolled another 5 or so feet, and finally came to a stop. He held his arm cradled close to his body...he was breathing hard.

"DAMNIT... DAMNIT AKAMARU!" He yelled, still laying mostly motionless on the ground.
Akamaru whined and licked his owner who smelled badly of dog pee.
Kurenai stood up.

"Enough!" She hollered. "I have seen what I needed to confirm." She pulled a string out of the back of the Dummy, and it instantly fell forward, more lifeless than ever.

Hinata looked up weakly and asked "Is...Is that why you called us up to t-train Sensei?" The Hyuuga's breathing was slowly evening out to a normal pace. The Jounin nodded.

Shino resigned his fighting stance and stood normally, facing his Sensei. Kiba on the other hand was struggling to get up and make his way back to his teammates. He winced as he used his arm to get himself up, but he stumbled over to his team anyway.

Kurenai's expression turned softer and she sighed. "I didn't think I'd have to do this to you guys, but I have no other choice." She eyed Hinata "But before I tell you, Lets have everyone in full health."
Team 8's Sensei bent down and offered a hand to Hinata. The injured Kounichi accepted it and leaned on Kurenai's arm, they began to walk slowly to Konoha's gate.

Shino trudged behind their female team members; Kiba also walked behind them, flexing his arm in pain.

"...hm." Shino grunted, his eyes glancing over at Kiba.

"What do you want Bug freak?" Kiba shot back.
It was odd for Shino to even pay attention to his teammates, even odder for him to talk to them.

"...You smell...really bad...I think your stench is killing off my bugs."

Kiba was taken aback for a milla-moment and then growled.

"ARRRG!" The dog lover stripped off his pee soaked jacket and threw it over his shoulder, Whats the point in wearing something that is wet AND smells?!

"You should have taken it off earlier...the pee has already soa--" Shino began to say, but was cut off strictly by Kurenai-Sensei.
They had reached the Konoha Hospital.

Kurenai twisted her head backwards to face the two boys behind her, her gaze landed on Shino.
"Shino, since you are not injured I need you to please inform Asuma-Sensei that I will be needing his assistance, hand him this 300 yen, and tell him to meet me tomorrow at the planned date."
His Sensei shoved the money at him with her free hand, she looked quite agitated to say the least.

Shino took off without another word.

"Now then..." Kurenai turned to her pupils that were harmed-in-training sympathetically. "Go get healed up, and meet me in the training grounds again tomorrow at noon."

"B-BUT! We just trained Sensei!" Kiba shouted, angrily brandishing his hurt arm.

"Don't worry, we're not meeting there for physical training." And with that, She took off in the same direction that Shino had left in.

Kiba was confused (when is he not? X3 ). Why would they meet in the training grounds if they weren't training?
"Ah!" cried Hinata suddenly.
She stumbled against the wall, her knee's shaking as if she were freezing and trying to stay warm—except for the fact that it was over 80 degrees outside.

"Oh, right...first thing first, we need to get you in the hospital Hinata. You sure took a beating from that dummy, eh?"
Hinata mumbled something along the words of "H-hai.."

Kiba let Hinata lean on his uninjured arm as they made their way into Konoha's large medical center. Hinata coughed, her free hand wandered to her face.

"What is it?! Are you okay?" Kiba asked, worried that she may have been internally injured. She coughed again and slowly replied.

"...N-no, but...Kiba-kun...Y-you smell a-awful." Hinata hid her face from him as he started to burn up in anger.
But before Kiba could say anything in response, A team of medical Ninja approached the two scathed Shinobi. Sakura was among them wearing a white apron-like uniform over her usual outfit.

"Kiba, give us Hinata, she needs medical attention right away."
Inuzuka handed his teammate into the care of the medical nin surrounding him. Hinata was whisked away in a matter of seconds, leaving only him and Sakura standing in the middle of the hospital's lobby area.

"Okay, Kiba-kun. Follow me to your room, I'll look over your wounds and heal them." She opened a door leading to the recovery rooms and motioned Kiba to enter. He walked in and was shortly followed after by Sakura.
Inside was a long hallway, with several doors on each side. They were numbered 102-155 and had either an "occupied" or "unoccupied" sign hanging on the doorknob. Sakura started down the hallway, watching the numbers on the door. When she reached room 127(which said "unoccupied" on the sign), she unlocked it and led Kiba inside.

The pink haired Medical Ninja instructed him to lay down on the bed that was provided-- not to mention old and just barely comfortable enough. She pulled out a clipboard from her apron and began jotting down some notes on a pink slip of paper.

"I have to leave for a couple minutes to help take care of Hinata, Please get undressed and don't you dare think of getting up from that bed." Sakura said professionally.
Kiba grumbled, but did as he was told as soon as she closed the door.
"Where the...where am I supposed to put my jacket?" He asked thin air—maybe he was expecting a reply. He waited, but of course no one told him, so he scanned the room. He located a laundry bin, and threw his wet jacket into it, undressed to his boxers, and then covered himself with the sheets of the bed.
Sakura came in his room several minutes later with another clipboard, but this time with yellow paper.

"Lets take a look at those injuries then." Sakura said brightly.

She put down her clipboard.
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Shino leap lightly from roof top to roof top, he glanced down at the tangled roads below him. Asuma-Sensei wasn't a hard person to find, but today it seemed like he would never find him, Maybe it was the sun getting to him. Shino held tight onto the money Kurenai-Sensei had given him to deliver, it would be...how to say...? Troublesome...? To find if he lost it.

Finally, after a couple minutes of randomly checking stores, Shino spotted Asuma-Sensei entering a Barbe Q restaurant with his team. Shino leaped down from his roof and landed in front of Asuma and his group of genins.

"Ah! Whats wrong Shino?"
Asuma eyed Shino cautiously. Usually Kurenai would send Hinata or even Kiba to message him, It must be quite important if Shino was here.

"Kurenai-Sensei has a message and item for me to give you." He replied, his voice was low and gravely.

Choji spoke up "I hope this doesn't take too long, Sensei is paying for my food this time" He patted his large belly happily.
Asuma hurriedly shoved Shino off to the side of the road where they could talk privately.
"Go ahead inside everyone and order, I'll be out soon." Asuma waved them nervously and motioned for them to go inside.

"Hai, Sensei!" Ino replied and entered the restaurant dragging her teammates inside with her. The door closed.
Asuma turned to Shino and sighed.

"Okay. What is this message?" he asked Shino, his voice was stern and filled with concern.

"Our Sensei says that 'we will be needing your assistance', and that to give you this--" Shino handed the 300 yen over "Also, she said to meet her tomorrow at the date you discussed."

Asuma's eyebrows lifted high into his hair line as he stared at the money.

"So, she lost the bet after all...how ironic..." He cleared his throat. "Tell her tha--"

Whoosh

"--Tell me what?" A woman landed in front of the two men, her knees touching the ground. She stood up, dusting herself off.
"Kurenai-Sensei...?" Shino said, somewhat lamely.

Asuma grinned.
"Tell her" He was still talking to Shino, his eyes glancing over at Kurenai "That I will be there, with the preparations." He looked over at Kurenai, bowed, then walked into the restaurant, lifting a hand as a farewell. The hand he lifted had the money that was once Kurenai's; grasped between his index and forefinger.

"That guy..." Kurenai growled in a almost Kibaish way.

Shino turned to his Sensei.

"Whats this about?" He more demanded then asked.

"Meet us at the training ground at noon tomorrow." She replied simply, and took off in the opposite direction in which she came.
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"Okay, lets take a look at those injuries..." Sakura said, placing her clipboard down on the bedside table.
Kiba lay in his bed, half naked, with a girl asking to see his injuries.

How embarrassing.

Sakura placed her hands on his chest and began to feel around for broken bones or internal damage. She sighed, picked up her clipboard and scribbled down something.

"What were you doing to get all beat up like this, Kiba?" She continued to inspect Kiba as he laid as motionless as possible.

"Feh, Stupid training with Girly Man's (Gai) Training dummy" He scowled, not appreciating having to review the recently traumatizing memory.

When she finished she stood up and turned towards the door, her checklist in hand.
"You have minor internal damage, and a fractured arm." She continued "I can fix both, but I want you to rest afterwards."
Kiba half nodded half grunted.
Sakura began to leave, but as she opened the door, Kiba sat up;
"AH! Sakura! How is Hinata?" Kiba asked.

Sakura turned around, her face looked strained, like she was going to cry.

"Sakura, is Hinata okay?"
Sakura's face twisted even more.

Silence swept over the room.

Sakura dashed out of the room, holding her face with her hands.
"THE HELL?! GET BACK HERE!" Kiba shouted,throwing off his covers and almost jumping up from his bed. Dressed in only his boxers, Kiba sped out of the room after her, injured and all!

He saw Sakura was at the end of the hall way, breathing hard.
Kiba ran as fast as his injured body allowed until he was face to face with Sakura.

"Sakura! Answer me! Is Hinata alright?!" Kiba shouted, grasping the collar of her apron.

"Yes! Of course, Shes fine." Sakura replied, waving a hand as if she was shooing away an annoying fly.
Kiba was extremely confused, he let go of her.

"Then why the hell did you run out crying?!"

"Crying..?" Sakura asked, her head tilted to one side.

"..."

"OH! I wasn't crying." She said, her eyes shifting from left to right.
"Then why did you leave so quickly, holding your face...?" He asked, pointing an accusing finger at the Kounichi.

Sakura blushed.

"W-well, you see;I was holding my breath..." Sakura stuttered in way that would make Hinata proud.

"WHAT?!!"

"...you smell REALLY bad, Kiba."

Kiba looked outraged.

"But I took off my stupid jacket, Theres no way in hell you could have smelled it from there!"

"The pee soaked into your skin, Kiba-aka, Why did you keep the jacket on so long?! Common sense would to be to take it off right away." She complained, her patience was wearing thin, and she still had to heal this guy.

Kiba was speechless.

"Now, BACK TO YOUR ROOM. Not only are you out of bed, but your still in your boxers idiot!"

Kiba glanced down at his half naked body "ehhh...?"

"Don't "ehh?" me! BAKA! NOW!" Sakura yelled.

Kiba quickly scuttled back to his recovery room like a dog who had done something his owner highly disapproved of,Sakura amused herself picturing this image and how well it actually suited Kiba.

He covered himself just as Sakura entered.

She rubbed her temples and sat down in the chair settled next to his bed. Sakura tied her hair up, and began to heal Kiba's injuries, her hands swaying just inches from his skin; omitting a bright blue glow.

When she finished, Kiba was already asleep.
"Good, and Hinata must be healed already as well..." Sakura whispered to herself.

Sakura left his room quietly.

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End Notes:
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Next chapter-- Everyone meets up in the training grounds, what are Kurenai and Asuma planning?

And why...?

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