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Chapter 3!!!

Chapter 3: The File

"But if you do something for me, I might reconsider."

"Fine, I'll do it," Shikamaru groaned. "Just don't tell anyone. I have a reputation to keep up with."

"Yeah, a reputation of a lazy, good for nothing, sleepaholic," Tenten rolled her eyes.

"Exactly!" Shikamaru nodded, paying for the groceries. "Now what do you need?"

"Can you get me into your dad's files?" Tenten asked in one breath.

"Why?" Shikamaru eyed her suspiciously.

"No questions!" Tenten snapped. Shikamaru just shrugged and led her to his home. Slamming the door open, he barged in. Tenten followed in a more polite way. "Is your mom home?"

"No," Shikamaru replied, not turning around. He walked into the kitchen and laid the bag on the counter.

From where he was sitting at the table with a nice cup of tea, Asuma chuckled.

"Hey, Asuma-sensei," Tenten greeted as she sat down across from him.

"Good afternoon, Tenten. Strange to see you here. Training, I suppose?" Asuma sipped his tea.

"Not really, we have some team planning to do," Tenten replied. Shikamaru raised an eyebrow but said nothing.

"Well, I think I should be going," Asuma stood up when he had finished his tea. "Oh, yeah, Shikamaru, your father is taking a nap in the living room."

"Wait, then how did you get in?" Shikamaru asked.

"I have a spare key," Asuma shrugged, dangling the keys, before he disappeared.

"You gave him a key and you didn't give me one?" Tenten demanded childishly.

"So that's where my key went," Shikamaru muttered, ignoring the brunette. "Psh, how troublesome."

"Take me to the files," Tenten ordered.

"Bossy woman, so troublesome," Shikamaru grumbled as he led her to his father's office. On the way there, he yelled at the top of his lungs, "Dad, I'm going to into your files!"

"Okay, have fun," his dad mumbled in his sleep.

Shikamaru opened the door and let Tenten slip in first. As soon as she was through, Tenten began rummaging through the file cabinets and papers on the desk. On the hand, Shikamaru, being the lazy boy he was, sat down in the big comfy chair and dozed off, not bothering to ask what the brunette was up to. It was for the best anyways, because she wasn't going to tell him anyways.

Her hands flew across the tabs, scanning each one before pushing them back in the drawer. Once she was done with the first cabinet, she moved onto the second. Pretty soon she had gone through everything in the small room. Picking up the file that was on the desk which was also littered with several papers and scraps, she smirked triumphantly as she read the heading.

S-class Criminal File: Hidan

The next day:

"Shikamaru, have you seen Tenten?" Shino asked as he jumped down off the tree to land in front of the drowsy ninja.

"How many times have I told you not to do that?" Shikamaru looked annoyed.

Shino shrugged. "Sorry, forgot you were squeamish."

"I'm not squeamish! I'm just not fond of completely covered guys who look like drug dealers suddenly jumping in front of me," Shikamaru grumbled. "You're so troublesome."

"Whatever, I need to find Tenten. We have a mission."

"And by me, you don't mean me?" Shikamaru eyed the bug boy.

"No, it's just Tenten, Kiba, and me," Shino rolled his eyes through his dark sunglasses.

"Yesss!" Shikamaru smirked. "Tenten's in her apartment. I was just over there."

Without a word of thanks, Shino jumped away leaving Shikamaru to retreat back to his house for his midmorning nap.

When he reached the brunette's home, Shino knocked once. When she didn't answer, he knocked again and again and again.

"Okay! What do you want!?" Tenten threw the door open.

"Mission," Shino simply put.

"Now?" Tenten looked pissed. Out of all times, why now?

Shino nodded.

"Let me get ready," Tenten sighed, slamming the door in the boy's face.

"Do you get it?" Tsunade repeated, staring the three teens down, hoping to make them break under the pressure just for her own amusement.

"Can we just go already?" Tenten replied, looking irritated. "Can we just get this over with?"

Shino eyed her strangely from the corner of his eyes. What's gotten into her today?

"Careful, girl, you just got out of trouble," Tsunade threatened. "Now, you all can get the heck out of my office and leave me in peace."

With a short nod, Shino and Kiba exited the room. Before she left, Tenten turned and asked her sweetest voice, "Tsunade-sama, when I get back, can we talk about something?"

Tsunade, however, did not like that tone. It meant the girl was up to something. Sighing, she replied, "I'll see about it."

"Thanks!" Tenten grinned before running out of the room to catch up with her two teammates.

"Shizune," Tsunade called.

"Yes, ma'am," Shizune appeared at the door.

"Why was I the one stuck with this stupid job?" Tsunade groaned, banging her head on the desk.

"Lady Tsunade!!" Shizune yelled in shock.

Wow, that was pretty pointless...NExt chapter something actually happens!

~~I didn't even get any rules in here....