The journey to elite ninjahood
Alright this is my first story and hopefully not my last.. haha anyway..i might as well be straight up with all of you.this story ain't gona have any romance in it..no pairing of characters..well mayb a little..we'll see how the story progresses shall we? P alrite..this story happens just after Naruto left to train with Jiraya for three years. Neji, Hinata, Shino, Rock Lee and Kiba go through the Chunin exams once again to become Chunins and take the Jounin exams with Shikamaru. The first part will be on the Chunin exams and the next part will be on their journey to attaining Jounin status. Hope u all enjoy..
While Chouji and Neji and Kiba along with Akamaru were still in the hospital, Shikamaru driven by his urge to be stronger and execute his missions perfectly, went training with his father. Upon reaching the training grounds, Shikamaru, being Shikamaru lay on the floor and started to look at the clouds and started thinking "Gosh all this training to be stronger is going to be so troublesome.. if I had known better I would have not taken that bloody Chuunin exam.. heh.. well now that im a Chuunin I guess I just have to train harder so none of my friends will die during dangerous missions.. ARRGH! How troublesome!" he thought sitting up. Just as he sat up, a shadow appeared around him and steadily got larger he looked up and saw a huge boulder falling towards him from above.
Quickly jumping out of its way he stood there looking around. His father was no where to be seen. He took a few steps back to try and recollect his thoughts but suddenly felt his ankle catch on to a wire that was so well hidden that he did not even see it even though it was right behind him.
"This is bad!" he said to himself as the wire gave way and a huge tree trunk swung towards him. He jumped and landed on the trunk only to find an explosive tag on it being lighted. He quickly jumped off the trunk and landed on a nearby tree hiding in the shadows only seconds before the explosive tag on the tree trunk exploded. "Amazing!" He thought to himself "While I was there day dreaming my father actually managed to set up so many traps, some of which were so near to me and I didn't even know. He even predicted what I would do and set the traps according to it. So that's where I got my intelligence from.
But I bet he didn't predict that I would jump onto this.." just as he was thinking that, he turned to his right and saw a note stuck to the tree trunk ."Shikamaru, your objective today is to get past this trap field and locate me. Once you have found me, we will battle, and if you are able to trap me with any of your shadow techniques, I will teach you a new Jutsu from the Nara clan, i will teach you the Nara clan's Kuchiyose no jutsu, i will teach you to summon the shadow lord ." Read the note which was signed by his father. "So much for not guessing I would not jump here." He sighed.
Shikamaru jumped off the tree and was about to land on a thick patch of grass when he saw a glint of metal on the ground "SPIKES!" he shouted at himself mentally and quickly leaned forward, used his hands to push the ground just in front of the spikes and flipped over the spikes landing on his feet. Right in front of him was a note reading "Be more careful Shikamaru, almost got you!" "WHAT! He actually knew I would do that!" thought Shikamaru "this is bad, I got to think about it and devise a strategy" he sat down and put his hands together but just as he did that, another tree trunk came flying towards him.
He dodged it and jumped to yet another tree but only to see an explosive tag being lighted as he touched the tree. "DAMN!" he thought as he jumped off the tree and landed in a tall patch of grass. "I cant stay in one place and think or the traps will still be set off!" he thought to himself as he ran across the field making sure to keep low so that he may spot any traps that are planted on the ground.
He was running when suddenly his arm caught another well hidden string and soon he saw 8 kunais flying towards him from all directions. "what the!" He thought as he jumped, trying to dodge the kunais "I've been focusing so much on the ground that I failed to notice that trap, I have to be more cautious when looking for traps now." Suddenly all the kunais were diverted and came flying towards Shikamaru who was still in mid air. His mind worked quickly and he immediately took out 4 kunais from his kunai pouch, placing two in each hand threw them at 4 of the kunais that were flying towards him.
The kunais that he threw caused 4 of the kunais that were flying towards him to deflect further upwards and hit each other at such an angle that they were deflected back down and caught the other 4 kunais aimed at Shikamaru at that small ring at the end of each kunai resulting all 8 of the kunais to be pinned to the ground. As Shikamaru was about to land, his saw 8 stones surrounding the area that he had set the traps off. "So that's how the kunais deflected upwards, my father knew that I would jump away so he used those rocks to divert the kunais upwards towards me."
"PSSSFFFT!" explosive tags planted on the rocks around him lit up while he was still in mid air. "ARRGH! Does my father have no end of explosive tags? What is he trying to do kill me!" Shikamaru grumbled to himself as he quickly jumped off one of the rocks and ran towards two nearby trees for shelter and to catch his breath. On that tree was another note "See? I already injured u with that trap." Read the note..
"wait a minute.. im not injured." Thought Shikamaru "He didn't expect me to dodge that trap perfectly. This means that I have the upper hand now cos he doesn't totally know what im going to do."
Meanwhile, Shikamaru's father who was hiding in the trees saw everything. "What! He managed to dodge that trap perfectly, I know of some jounins that are unable to dodge that trap! My son is more skillful than I thought."
Alright! That's it for now. Will post more later. Please feel free to review this story. If you guys don't like the story, I may not continue so yea! Haha.