"If I have to go, you have to, too!" Shikamaru yelled grabbing me around the ribs and pulling me out of bed I dug my claws into the fabric of the blanket but it was just pulled off with me, I landed on the ground with a thump, grumbling. "I'll get the spray bottle." Shika said in a annoyed tone, I stood up right away blinking he blurriness of sleep away. "Troublesome." He said as he left the room with me at his feet. He went to the backyard to stretch and I went to the woods to catch myself some breakfast. School was so annoying I already knew everything the teacher talked about, the only fun part was the spars, but I was rarely allowed to join. Plus everyone wanted to talk to me, I had learnt a seal to put on the throat so I could talk to the humans, but I still preferred to stay quiet most of them time, but all they wanted to do was talk.

It didn't take me long to find a squirrel, I brought it back home it's lips body between my teeth. I dropped in in our backyard watching Shika stretch as I ate. I was much bigger now I came up to Shika's waist, so I ate the whole thing now. Shikamaru went inside but I stayed out cleaning my fur and watching the sky.

"Seishin! Time to go!" The women called. She told me to call her 'mother' but that was weird. I pulled my self up grumbling and walked inside towards the door, Shika said by to his mother and we left.

"You almost done school yet." I asked lazily walking forward.

"About a month left." We both sighed.

"Shin! Shikamaru!" someone yelled behind us.

"It's the plump one." We stopped walking waiting for him to catch up.

"Hey Choji." Shika greeted, I on the other hand stayed silent.

"Did you do the homework?" The plump one asked. Shika looked at me, I looked back.

"I didn't do it. I'm just a fox." I emphasised the word fox.

"Well you said you would." He grumbled.

"Well you shouldn't believe me." I retorted. We both rolled our eye's at each other.

"Troublesome." Just as the word left his mouth, the Smelly blond girl, and pink girl power walked past us yelling names at each other. The three of us starred after them. "Troublesome." Shika said again, the plump one and I slowly nodded. The bell rang just as we got to the school, but our class appeared to be waiting outside, we joined them, everyone whispering trying to figure out what was happening.

"Kids! Today you will be going on a three day survival trip with one of these here genin. You will be attacked by the sensei's over the three days AND you get no camping equipment." Iruka told us. Huh, we had done these before, but never with attacks or no supplies. This would be fun. I smiled.

"Shin stop smiling you look creepy." The pink one complained as she looked at me. I growled and she flinched away, I chortled out a laugh. Children were so easy to frighten, I mean I'm a fox I'm really not that scary.

"Okay I'm going to call out names, and they will be your group." He started calling out names but I didn't pay attention until I heard Shika's name, though I missed who else was called with him. I followed him to a 15 year old child who wore baggy pants and a mesh shirt. The Naruto kid came to our group as well. Great, he was to loud and energetic for my liking. Even right now he was jittering around in excitment. Our last member was the Hyuga girl, she was good, and quiet. She was blushing bright red and standing awkwardly four feet away. "Okay first group to make it to the check point on the map wins, you can leave once you acquaint with each other."

"Okay My name if Isamu, what your guy's names." I noticed that when he talked he didn't look at Naruto. Rube boy.

"That's Naruto, I'm Shin, Shika, Hinata. Lets go." I said walking towards the exit of the village. They starred after me for a second before scrambling to catch up. "If we run we can have a good five minuet head start on the other groups." I told them picking up the pace. "Rude boy, show me the map." He didn't move.

"He means you." Shika told rude boy. He made an offended noise.

"We have to head North-west once we get out." He says, once we reach the gate he begins running North-East, I stop as I watch him run.

"That's East." Shika and I say together. Naruto bursts out laughing.

"Give me the map." Shika Sighs, the Rude boy smiles sheepishly handing it to him, Shika holds it in front of my face. I sigh.

"Due west for three clicks than we will head northwest for double that tonight." I thought for a second though. "We will take the tree's because we also have to be weary of attacks."

"Isamu, will lead as the leader, Naruto will be second, he will be the distraction and cover so if we get attacked I can use my jutsu. I will be behind him, than Hinata who will be within ear shot so if Shin think's he hears or smells someone she can take a look." Shika quickly hashed out. I nodded.

"Yeah that's what I was going to say." Rude boy said quickly.

"MAN! This is so COOL!" Naruto yelled. As we jumped into the tree's.

"Quiet unless you want to get attacked." I yipped hopping up to a branch, the pack started to move forward. Hinata kept slipping when she would jump, each time I would jump forward to steady her, I looked down at her shoes. "Take off your shoe's and wrap a bandage around the heel and pad's of them." I instructed, she did as I said while the group waited for us on their braches. "Leave them here I'll get them for you later." I told her. We started going this time the shy little girl was much more steady.

It was nearly night fall and their pace was unbearably slow, I sniffed around. "We can stop here." I called out to them. We were still in the lead, and the people closest behind us stopped ten minuets ago. They all laid down on the ground sucking in air. "Start a fire I'm going to go hunt." I ran through he bushes, I had caught the trail of two rabbits a while ago, it took a few minuets to pick up the trail again. I caught the first rabbit in my mouth killing it quickly than leaving it as I chased the other, it took ten paces to get the jump on it before I caught it between my teeth. I retraced my steps to the dead rabbit, than brought them both back to our camp.

"YEAH! Good job Shin." Naruto cheered, I growled at him and he clamped a hand across his mouth. "Oh right. Sorry." The rude boy was still trying to start a fire using two rocks. Stupid child. I gathered chakra and blew a small flame into the kindling. The genin looked at it for a second then to me. I tossed one of the rabbits at him.

"Skin and cook." I told him. He looked repulsed for a second before taking out a Kunai.

"Come on lets go gather berries." Shika said to the other two children, probably so I could eat my own dinner without them being grossed out. I ripped the flesh off of the neck of the rabbit.

"Gross can you do that somewhere else?" Rude boy asked. I ignored him. Useless leader. Naruto came bounding through the bushes.

"Look Shin! I found a big bush of berries!" He showed me a bunch of smooth black berries laying in the fabric of his shirt. I eyed them.

"I hope you didn't eat any." I said taking another bite of my dinner."

"I had a bunch, they taste a bit bitter but they aren't that bad." He said still sounding proud.

"Well they are poisonous so that's unfortunate." I told him blandly, he dropped the edges of his shirt the berries falling as he turned a hue of green. He grasped his throat.

"Give it to me straight Shin how long do I have." He fell to his knee's dramatically. I chortled at the strange boy.

"They wont kill you, just force yourself to puke before they upset your stomach." He stuck his finger down his throat, I quickly grabbed my dinner and jumped away. "Go somewhere else and do it!" disgusting child. The blond smiled sheepishly and walked back to the bushes just as Shika and Hinata came back.

"I found some edible root's" Hinata said softly taking said roots out of her pockets.

"I didn't find anything." Shika said sitting down and leaning against a rock. I eyed the boy.

"You didn't even look." He just shrugged lacing his hands together behind his head.

"Hey Isamu, how did you plan to cook that." He asked the Genin who was still trying to skin the rabbit, he looked up at Shika with wide eye's. I chortled and continued eating. Shika grumbled and walked over to the boy. "I'll finish the rabbit, you go find two long sticks with a prong at the end, and another long stick to put through thee rabbit." Rude boy handed the rabbit to Shika and disappeared into the bush.

"Three due north." I said quietly.

"I see them." Hinata replied. Naruto appeared a second before they attacked, they jumped out of the bush dressed completely in black, they waited a few beats before attacking us. Naruto jumped into action, though wasn't very effective against the sensei, but he did act as a good distraction for Shika to catch him in his shadow, I jumped at him placing my teeth around his neck lightly squeezing and he 'died'. The four of us stood beside each other, facing off against the two 'attackers.'

"Where is that stupid genin, okay Hinata take the one across from you, we will take the other one." Shika said quietly.

"A-Alone" she squeaked.

"You are the strongest here, you can do it." I said to her, She gasped and blushed but nodded. "GO!" I jumped at the one we were supposed to take, biting his ankle then darting away. Naruto screamed than attacked him, but he easily flipped him away. I gathered Chakra spitting fire at the man, he dodged and backed up connecting his and Shika's shadows. Naruto held a Kunai to his throat. The sensei chuckled in defeat, we turned just in time to see Hinata land three devastating blows to her opponent. I smiled as he fell and put his hands up, but the hard look remained on her face, only leaving once the three of them lifted their masks, the one we had just taken out was Iruka.

"Good job guys, but where is your genin?" He asked, I motioned to the bushes before returning to my dinner. "well we have to go, but you guys did great, excellent teamwork." the three of them jumped off. Shika sat back down and tending to their dinner again.

"Troublesome." He muttered.

"Guy's we were AWESOME!" Naruto exclaimed pumping a fist into the air.

"I didn't even know I could do that." Hinata whispered so low I was probably the only one who heard.

"I knew you could." I told her. She blushed bright red before continuing to wash off the roots. "I'm going to sleep while you eat, than wake me up before you guys go to bed and I'll keep watch for the night." I said loudly so they would all hear.

"B-but Shin-san you will only get a few hours of s-sleep." Hinata exclaimed.

"He doesn't need much sleep." Shika answered.

"Oh." She replied softly.

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"Let's get going, the group behind us just woke up, and will probably be leaving within the next fifteen to twenty minuets." I said to the humans. Today was the third day and we only had a two miles to the check point.

"How can you tell?" Naruto asked me.

"They all peed." I said monotone. He made a grossed out face.

"Lets use the road today, we can move faster, and we know we can deal with the Sensei's easily." Shika suggested.

"There is a river about a mile away from us." I reported as we started moving.

"How did you that?" Naruto asked. I tried not to be annoyed with the odd boy.

"I can smell it." He nodded and continued running. "Speed up!" I yelled, they looked back at me. "There is a group of Sensei's but if we speed up they will intercept the group behind us instead of us."

"NO LETS TAKE THEM!" Naruto yelled. Than came to a halting stop. I grumbled.

"Yeah, with me with you guys it will be easy!" the rude boy said stopping as well. Of course they wouldn't listen, stupid children.

"We have about a minuet before they get here." Hinata confirmed. I grumbled, They should have listened to me, now we were going to loose our lead. Three sensei came into view.

"We're going to take you down!" Yelled Naruto, Hinata dropped into fighting stance and Shikamaru pooled his shadow around his feet. The sensei came at us, Rude boy took one.

"Hinata and I will take this one." I said blandly jumping at the one who came towards us, I bit his ankle than swung behind him as Hinata began her gentle fist attack, but the Sensei dodged every one. I built up some chakra spitting little fireballs near his feet. He slowed down, having to dodge attacks from both sides usually does that, I spun around on my front paws and slammed my back ones into the back of his knee's making them give out. Hinata hit both of his arms before he could recover and I wrapped my teeth around his neck. Gross what an awful taste. He slumped faking dead. The other fight were not going well, the genin was getting his ass handed to him, and I'm not entirely sure what Naruto was doing, it was like he was attacking without a plan, while Shika tried to get his shadow to his opponent. I looked up at Hinata and she nodded, than went to help the genin while I went to help the other two. I clamped down on the back of the sensei's foot tripping him, since he was reversing. Naruto jumped on him punching him hard in the face.

"Shadow possession complete." I lightly bit the sensei's neck and he 'died' just as Hinata and the Genin finished up. "Okay lets get going." Shikamaru said.

"we only have a few minuets on the group behind us, we need to be fast." I instructed as we headed out, this time with me in the lead, we reached the river which I leisurely walked across, while the others had to swim across. Once the finally all reached the other side the other group had made it to the river. The depressed Uchiha, blond smelly girl and bug guy and some Genin, who looked far more useful than ours. "Run!" I yelled. We took off as fast as we could, we had maybe a mile until the check point. I looked back at them, their genin could walk on water, he grabbed their hands and pulled them along in the water, they made it across in thirty seconds. Why did we have to get the useless genin? There was a good distance between us and I was confident we could stay ahead until the end. That is until our genin face planted.

"Keep running he will catch up." I growled.

"I think he is hurt." Hinata said stopping, the others did the same.

"Throw him in the river?" I suggested.

"We can leave a teammate behind!" The other group passed us as they peeled our genin off the ground.

"Is he unconscious?" Shika asked, I looked back over and sure enough he was, Hinata and Naruto supported him between each other, but he was definitely not awake. "Now we will have to walk to the finish line." Shika complained. "troublesome, all that work to be first, and we wont even be third." troublesome indeed I agreed as two groups flew passed us.

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"What's wrong with Shin?" The Nara mother asked while they ate dinner.

"He is sulking." Shika said in a bored tone. I wasn't sulking! "They stuck us with a dead weight genin and he is convinced it's some controversy." it was, they stuck us with him so we would fail! Okay I might be sulking a bit.

"Dead weight how?" Shikaku asked, but I answered before Shika.

"He didn't know how to start a fire, or read a map, his fighting skills were about as good as Naruto's, he apparently can't run a think without knocking himself out! I'm also pretty sure he hid in the bushes during our first fight." Shika nodded at each one of these points, in a confirming way.

"He just need's more training, like you two! Back yard now!" Shika looked down at his plate which still had food, but the women didn't seem to care just pointed to the back door. We both sulked to the back yard.

"Troublesome. We just got back from a three whole day survival exercise you think she would cut us some slack." He sighed stretching.

"Well she thinks we suck since our team came in sixth." I growled.

What? Fox's hated to loose. Or maybe that was just me.

Hello guys, hope you are still tuned in! next chapter Shins personality begins to change. I wont give to much away, but stay tuned!

~Snowwy**