Here I will be posting short snippets and stories. All will be part of BFS universe unless otherwise stated in the beginning of the chapter. NOTHING here needs to be read to understand BFS. However, some of this will not make sense if you haven't read BFS first.
This is not in chronological order. They are just random excerpts of the story that I wrote out and wanted to place in the story but had no place. None of them will be in first person like teh normal BFS chapters which wil make a unique experience. Most will be other POV's so you can see other things happening within the universe.
Some scenes like the next one I plan on posting are things that happen in between that I want you guys to see, but couldn't fit into the story. This is not that kind of chapter. This is just because I have a head cannon that Kakashi would hate to have Shikamaru as a student and that Asuma feels the exact same way about Kageko.
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Asuma met Nara Kageko only two week after team placements. He was treating his team to a dinner after a difficult day's training and they were walking towards an barbecue place recommended by Choji, one that Shikamaru and Ino had both insisted on, citing something about Choji's diet needing to be met.
They were making their way down the main village road while Ino complained about something to the two boys when a fourth person casually walked over and joined in the group.
She was short, shorter then Ino, and had the same spiky hair as her brother. She also had a perpetual slouch that looked just like Shikamaru's own lazy Nara walk. She shared the darker skin of the Nara's and even wore the same color clothing as her brother, a clan insignia emblazoned on the sleeve. It was female version of Shikamaru, just shorter. His genin and her nodded in greeting, but she tossed a casual "hey" to both Ino and Choji.
Choji let out a cheerful "Hello!" back.
Ino was frowning at her, a line marring her smooth forehead.
"Kage-chan, whats the big idea getting placed on a team with Sasuke-kun?" Ino burst out.
The darker haired girl stopped walking and turned to face the blonde, blinking sardonically.
"Why, hello Ino, how are you? I'm fine. I am enjoying my team placement, thank you for asking. No nothing crazy, family is fine. Thanks for asking. Now that we got all the formalities out of the way, was there anything you wanted to ask me?"
Shikamaru and Choji both snickered. Ino looked embarrassed but she brushed it off, rolling her eyes. "You know I care about all that. This is more important though." She insisted.
Kageko rolled her eyes. "Emo-boy is fine. He's actually an alright teammate even though he doesn't seem to know how to say more then three words in a row. And Naruto is cool too. A little too hyper now that he so concentrated; I used to see him less one on one in the academy I guess. But I've been working on helping him calm down with some tricks from a friend of mine."
The whole group continued walking to the restaurant which Asuma was grateful for because he was starving. He wondered if the fourth brat was going to be joining them. It wouldn't be a problem but the first few weeks of a new team were important for forming bonds and he didn't want her to hang around if she was going to be fighting with Ino. That would disrupt the team balance because Shikamaru would probably take his sisters side.
"You would be Shikamaru's sister?" He interjected himself into the conversation, introducing himself. "I'm Sarutobi Asuma, their sensei." He brought Ino and Choji in for a slight hug because they were the closest to him. He grinned affably at her.
The girl grinned back at him. She was more lively then her brother, although he didn't know if it was possible for anyone in the world to be lazier then Shikamaru. She also seemed to jump from mood to mood like the wind changed direction; shed gone from lazy to joking to friendly to sincere in just the few moments since he'd met her.
She was back to friendly when she introduced herself. "I'm Kageko. Pleased to meet you. You're invited to dinner tomorrow evening, by the way. My mom has been wanting to meet you all together and Shikamaru probably wasn't going to tell you until tomorrow."
"I'll be there." Asuma promised. He'd been planning on having more dinners involving the teams family if possible. Team dinners were how he had bonded with his team and he knew that with an Akimichi it was going to be even more important. He also knew that Ino-Shika-Cho teams tended to be very tight units, both within themselves as well as within their clans. Getting invited to family dinners might help relax that formality. Or so he hoped.
Ino and Choji nodded in agreement to the invitation as well.
"We were already coming over cause it was a Friday." Ino pointed out. "We always come over on Fridays unless theres some other kind of clan or village event."
Kage shrugged. "Mom would want the invitation passed along nonetheless."
"Are you joining us for dinner tonight?" Shikamaru spoke up for once.
Kageko shook her head. "I'm supposed to meet up with Shisui this afternoon. I'll catch you later though Shika!"
Ino caught the slight girls arm before she could move away. Batting her eyelashes innocently, Ino frowned at her. "We didn't even have a chance to talk yet Kage! After all, you're teammates with Sasuke-kun now and as my future husband, I'm sure there is so much you can tell me. You have to get him to date me."
The other girl burst out laughing. "Ino, I love you, honestly. But I'm not going to help you get with the emo-brat. For one, he hates me. For two, I think he's pretty annoying. But for three, he's my teammate and he doesn't deserve to have his trust broken like that."
"But—" Ino interrupted and Kage cut her off, her voice suddenly serious.
"—Ino, No." Her voice was firm, her body no longer slouched and her face unsmiling. "Leave my teammates—both of them— alone. No stalking Sasuke; no being mean to Naruto. I'll tell the same thing to Sakura. You can go and bitch to her about how mean and unfair I'm being and get over your arguments with each other. But you wont mess up the dynamic of team 7 in the first weeks of its formation. Its crappy enough already." She rolled her eyes and ended back in a slouch as she finished speech.
Instead of looking intimidated, Ino looked annoyed and dejected. "…Fine." She said after a moments pause, as if giving a big concession.
Grinning Kageko pulled her into a quick hug and gave her a kiss on the cheek before doing the same to the two boys. She waved goodbye to Asuma, declaring, "I have to run, I'm already late. I'll see you all tomorrow for dinner!" as she doubled back the way they'd come, clearly having missed a street to turn on in favor of staying and walking with them.
Asuma was glad to have been given the lazier Nara. Shikamaru wasn't quite so moody; he didn't flip moods like his sister just had. And he was more predictable in his response. What kind of response was that? She acted like she was a character in a novel.
No, Asuma didn't quite like this other Nara. But that was fine. He just had to get through a dinner and fake his interest before he could go back to dealing with just his own team.
Ino grumbled as they walked on. "I just want an in with Sasuke-kun. Is that so hard to ask? I've known Kage for years. She's being super uncool about this."
Shikamaru ignored her. "Choji, I heard that new food stall was opening on the other side of the village. Whats up with that?"
Choji eagerly began filling them in on the news of the new hot spot and all talk of Sasuke was forgotten as even Ino stopped to listen in to the gossip.