Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto
I would also like to thank Wormkaizer for pointing out my mistake on Nejis name (I thought it looked weird) thank you(
Nearing the training site Hinata started to think she was late.
"WHERE THE HELL IS HINATA!" and hearing Kiba yelling like that, just proved to her that was the case. Entering the clearing Hinata saw Kiba ranting about her being late and Akumaru, his dog seemingly agreeing with him by barking at different points in the conversation.
Shino the ever-calm companion was leaning against a tree his head already turned in her direction. Their sensei, Kurenai is nowhere to be seen.
"Shino!" Kiba yelled. "Aren't you a little worried about Hinata, she is your team mate too ya know!" Shino, outwardly not bothered that Kiba was in his face, pointed in Hinata's direction and said "she's right there"
Kiba turned his head in the direction Shino pointed to and there she is, standing there, looking nervous like usual. Ignoring his stupid moment with Shino he swiftly walked to Hinata bent down to look at her face, because he was taller and said
"Who did that to your face, ill kill them!" Akumaru who was in his coat barked in agreement" BARK"
Hinata remembering the bruise on her face, she quickly covered it up. "Its..nothing..i fell that's all" Hinata replied not stuttering, since she is so close and comfortable with her team mates.
"Your lying" came Shino's voice, not changing from his usual nonchalant tone as he suddenly popped up right behind her making her and Kiba jump.
"Why did you do that bug boy!" Kiba yelled. "And what do you mean, she's lying"
"What I mean is that she is not telling the truth" Shino said indifferent to Kiba's question.
As usual Shino's face was covered by his black sunglasses and high collard coat which made it so that Kiba didn't know if he was being serious or making fun of him.
"Im not stupid you jackass you know what I mean!" Kiba screamed at Shino.
Shino slightly lifted an eyebrow and said nothing, knowing that would piss off Kiba even more. Kiba's face was starting to go red, ready to explode.
However, a bell like laughter stopped his out burst and both Shino and Kiba turned to look at Hinata, who was laughing at this daily occurrence whenever Shino or Kiba are together.
"Im glad you're finding this funny Hina-chan" Kiba said, pouting. "Im sorry its just so funny that you get so frustrated when Shino- Kun doesn't fight back" Hinata replied still laughing.
Shino hearing this silently agrees with Hinata on Kiba's short temperedness. Seeing how the conversation was veering away from the original topic, Shino decided to step in.
"You still haven't told us who did that to your cheek" Shino said breaking up the conversation between the two.
"Yeah who did that to you ill hurt the bastard" cried the dog loving boy.
"no it isn't really necessary im fine no big deal" Hinata said as she starts to wave her hands in front of her, trying to reassure her team mates, most importantly Kiba before they do something drastic.
"Not important! The guy freaking punched you a good one and im sure it wasn't because you started the fight now tell me who it is so me and Akumaru can kick his ass" Akumaru gave a confirmative bark" bark" "oh and I guess Shino can come too" Kiba said in after thought.
"Thank you Kiba for giving me permission to...... come along with you as you... what did you say? Kick this guys ass" Shino said in a lazy voice.
Turning to Shino, Kiba to the surprise of his teammates didn't go for Shino's bait "shut up Shino just shut up..."he turned back to Hinata as she was in the process to sneak quietly away.
"What are you doing Hinata, do you think you can escape from your team mates now tell me who is the guy that did that to you was it Sasuke?
Sighing in defeat she stoped"no" said Hinata as she sat on the ground preparing for a long interrogation. "I really need to work on my stealth," thought the once again defeated girl ninja.
"Is it someone I know tell me who did it" Kiba continued wanting to know badly who did this to his friend and teammate.
"Its not someone you know ok drop it please" Hinata pleaded not wanting them to know how bad her home life actually was.
"No im not stopping ok, now tell me!" Kiba continued not giving up.
"it was Hanabi...ok it was my longer sister, are you happy now are you going to go beat her up now" Hinata finally cave in. bowing her head she got ready for the condescending remarks.
Thump. She turned to the side there was Shino sitting next to her, trying to comfort her in his own way,
"Hey that's what I was going to do!" yelled Kiba as she also sat down next to her. But to upstage Shino he wrapped his arm around her shoulders, and to add the icing to the cake, Akumaru got out of Kiba's coat and sat in her lap. Giving her face a nice wet lick.
Hinata could only slightly smile and pet him, as she remembered her family.
Kiba's voice called out from the uncomfortable silence"Well I guess I cant go beat up your sister, I cant hit girls sigh oh well the next best thing is for you to talk about your problems to your teammates"
"I don't think you two"growl she stopped and looked down at Akumaru. "Sorry I mean you three want to here my problems, you have your own, mine are meaningless, just worry about yourselves ill be fine I promise." The white-eyed heiress said to her teammates.
"Hinata don't belittle your self from what people say about you, including your own father. Came Shino's usual calm voice from the side.
Startled by how the words were so close to the truth she looked up to Shino, who just gave her a slight nod that said everything, that he Knew."
With tears in her eyes she looked at all three of her teammates, and smiled, becase they don't hate her, they care for her and for that she saw an opening to her fate.
"if they are here with me , im sure that's all I will need, for they..they care for me!!" and with that thought she cried and hugged Akumaru tightly. Feeling her happiness not sadness, he gave a happy bark and licked her face, which made her laugh.
"hey guys what's up with the happy reunion thing going on" came a women's voice in front of them.
Hinata, Shino, and Kiba looked up to set their sight on their sensei Kurenai. A beautiful dark haired red-eyed jounin stared back at the ninjas in training. In a relaxed posture, she looked at her team.
"It seems that during my absence of being here, my team got even closer hmmm good" thought the crimson eyed woman.
"So are any of you going to ask why im late?" said Kurenai getting annoyed that they didn't care..
"No none of us give a damn" yelled the fierce looking boy with a cute dog(what isn't it funny?)
"im hurt I guess I will tell you anyway" sighed their sensei in a sad voice. "Well while you guys were sitting around I found out about your mission." continued Kurenai.
"Well tell us already" yelled Kiba getting impatient. "why were you taking so long"
"Easy im making the moment last" came the unperturbed voice of Kurenai.
"Can you please tell us sensei" came Hinata's soft voice.
"Why of course Hinata since you asked nicely" came Kurenai's voice suddenly not so cold as before.
"What!" came Kiba's outraged voice, with Akumaru bark added to the effect,
"Well she asked nicely" the red eyed woman said innocently.
"Wha..what" can Kiba's reply.
"Ok then", kurenai cut him off. "Your mission is more like a test, its with Asuma's team and Kakashi's team"
Shino finally decided to get in the conversation "what kind of test is it?"
Kurenai them looked directly at her team, her face getting an evil like smirk "its search and destroy"
Shino, Kiba, and Hinata looked at each other and in various degrees showed how happy they were .
Kiba showed his enthusiasm by saying "HELL YEAH"
Hinata showed hers by calmly smiling.
In addition, Shino showed his by lifting an eyebrow.
"I thought you guys would enjoy that" Kurenai said, happy for her team.
"We are so going to win, I mean all of are skills are in search in destroy" Kiba stated getting excited about the upcoming match.
"My point exactly" came Shino ever rational one." Why would they do a test so much to our advantage?."
Kurenai winced "um well"
"Hey that's a good point, not that im complaining but the test would be really easy for us" Kiba continued.
"im also wondering" came Hinata's soft voice full of curiosity let having a deep feeling that she already knows.
"Well, Ill tell you the truth, even though all three of you are heirs of your own respectable clan., people seemed to have forgotten us hehehe , that's why I was late I heard Asuma talking about it and I came storming into the compound and demanded that they let us participate in this test, and I found out that they forgot about us....im sure its not because they think were pathetic all of us including me we stay away from people and they forget"
Came Kurenai's response, scratching her head she got ready for Kiba's fit.
"What they forgot about us, unbelievable,!" can Kiba's indignant reply.bark bark ""you said it Akumaru"
"As I suspected" came Shino's composed voice not at all angry.
"They forgot about us because one, we do not have overly loud people like Sakura and Ino also Naruto, well except Kiba but he's mostly with us or in the woods with Akumaru.
We also do not spend a lot of time with everyone else, since all of us including sensei are loners.
And last but not least, from what ive gathered, the other teams and people in general in this village, are either scared of us or disgusted, and think were strange, but that's natural for people to think about things they do not know about, I hold no grudge"
Shino stopped talking and looked at Kurenai "am I right sensei?"
Kurenai stopped leaning on the tree and started to walk towards her team.
"Yes you are right, but that doesn't change anything, think of it this way, if you win this you prove to everyone that you're strong"
Kurenai pointedly looked at Hinata when she said this.
"She's right, this is my chance to prove to my father that im worthy, I can do this!! It also helps that Nenji's team will not be in this test, its perfect" Hinata thought, determined to not fail.
"ok then well we should get going or we are going to be even later than Kakashi said kurenai.
"lets go and kick their ass" came Kiba's usual reply bark bark was his answer from Akumaru who was now on his head, the rest of the group decided to keep quiet.
Walking towards a familiar place Hinata could not keep her interest down
"Sensei, are we going to the forest of death?" came Hinata's questioning voice.
"Good guess Hinata, yes we are going to do the test in there, so there's another advantage for us isn't there?" said Kurenai who was getting hyped about showing the other sensei's her teams strength.
At first when she got her team she didn't like it not one bit, but she grew to like those kids, and even grew to respect them, in her mind she fondly calls them the team of misfits, for that's what they are, because none of them are like the other kids, and in her opinion that made them better. Now this is her team's chance.
"what sensei said was true" thought Hinata "we do have an advantage if we go to the forest of death."
For team eight almost everyday that they train they go there to improve their individual skills.
"all of us know that forest like the back of our hands and I know the perfect place to hide to" Hinata kept on thinking.
"Were close came Kiba's surprisingly soft voice.
"How does he kno.." Hinata kept on thinking
Suddenly two loud voices broke the peaceful silence
"SASUKE KUN IS MINE" screamed Ino
"GET AWAY FROM HIM INO PIG!" yelled Sakura
"LARGE FOREHEAD GIRL" came Ino"s answering reply
"Oh" thought Hinata "that answers my question.
Ino and Sakura's fight continued. Their voices got louder and louder as they got closer. Then both stopped. Hinata guessed it was because Sasuke who got sick of their voices.
"I can only hope that this goes smoothly" thought Hinata.
"But wait you get to see Naruto" said an excited voice in her head. So Hinata thought of nothing else the whole way their till she woke out of her musings by the one person she was thinking of.
"Kakashi sensei when are we going to start the test, I need to beat Sasuke!" came Naruto excited voice unexpectedly.
"Number one Naruto Chan" said Kakashi's lazy voice "not everyone is here and two this is a team event so you can't beat Sasuke, unless you want to lose"
"Who's missing?" asked Sukura.
"Team eight" said Kakashi as he was reading his book icha icha paradise.
"What you mean that weird group with that bug guy and that other guy with the weird obsession with dogs and that strange white eyed girl" came Naruto voice.
Hinata couldn't help but wince at that comment "so he thinks im weird, I guess I should of expected it oh well I just have to prove to all of them im strong"
was Hinata's last thought as her and her team entered the clearing to meet the other teams. And the start of the test.
So did ya like it, hope your not angry with the cliff hanger R&R
