Congratulate me, I am now an A+ Certified IT Technician. Or, don't congratulate me…buncha haters…
Shinobi's Guide 2: Bored Teenagers
Part Seven: Rorshach Cloud Test
By Kaori
Special Chapter Seven-Only Disclaimer: Although this writer has taken three psychology courses, she is only vaguely familiar with the Rorshach Test. Any claims made about this test are based on anecdotal knowledge. Absolutely no research was done on the subject and any resemblance to actual facts about the test is purely coincidental. In other words: I is joking plz don' hurt me. Kthx.
And now...on to the story!
Boredom continues to weave through the village like an endless stream of consciousness sentence that doesn't really go anywhere but the person keeps going on and on about whatever happens to be coming out of their brains at the moment like the strange shapes the shadows on their bedroom wall make or what the exact shade of beige the cushions in the living room are or even why it is that whenever you try to sit down and study the phone rings and it's your mom calling you "just because" and is worried that you may not be eating properly and speaking of eating I am so full I can't believe I ate four homemade pizza bagels I made a total pig of myself pigs are cute oink oink baby (authoress is suddenly smacked upside the head with a 2x4)
Sorry.
Anyway back to the boredom.
Shikamaru decided to alleviate the boredom the same way he always does, by watching clouds and wishing he was one. He did not expect to be joined by most of his friends.
"What do you guys want?" he murmured.
"Nothin' we just thought that if we're gonna be bored anyway, we may as well be bored together." Sakura explained. Shikamaru gave a disgruntled sigh but refrained from commenting as his friends took up spots nearby.
They all lay there in silence (well, relative silence. Chouji was munching chips as he cloud watched), just staring up at the white fluffy clouds, until…
"That one over there kinda looks like the back of Iruka-sensei's head." Kiba muttered. Several of the other genin tilted their heads to the side in unison but remained quiet.
The semi-silence continued for another ten minutes or so.
"That big cloud looks like a sushi boat." Murmured Chouji around a mouthful of chips.
"The boat part I get but I see sailors, not sushi." Ino said.
"That cloud looks like Haku!" Naruto exclaimed. Sakura raised her head a little to better analyze the cloud.
"Yeah, it does sort of look like Haku." Sakura nodded.
"Who is Haku?" Hinata asked. Team 7 then had to tell the story of their C-Rank turned A-Rank. Once the tale was through they continued to stare up at the clouds and point out the shapes they saw in the clouds.
"You know, you can tell a bit about someone's motivations by the kinds of things they see in the shapes of clouds." Shikamaru said idly.
"Really?" drawled Ino.
"Hm."
"How?" Naruto asked.
"It's a complicated scientific process. It'd be too troublesome to explain it to you."
"But it would be fun to try out." Said Ino, who was getting a little bored with staring up at the sky. This sounded like it would be good for a laugh. "I know, let's try it out on someone."
"Well we can't do it with anyone here." Shikamaru sighed, realizing that now that Ino is intrigued he's pretty much committed to this troublesome idea.
"Why not?" asked Kiba.
"Because it's in the front of your minds now and you'll think too much about your answers."
"So we'll just ask someone else then." Naruto declared. "Wait right here, I'll be back." Fifteen minutes later, the blonde menace was back with Sasuke. "Okay, I brought the teme!" Sakura hit him.
"Stop calling him that!"
"When he stops being one I will!" grumbled Naruto. She hit him again.
"Just tell me why you dragged me out here?" grumbled the Uchiha. "I should be training, not wasting time with you."
"Oh please, you were five seconds away from picking a fight with Anko."
"And then you had to go and mess it up. I'd spent a good twenty minutes working her up to steaming mad, five more seconds and she would've been ready to try to hit me."
"It took you twenty minutes? Ha! You amateur I only need twenty seconds to get Anko mad enough to want to kill me!"
"Why you…"
Ino thought it best to interrupt them before things turned violent. She started with punching Naruto in the gut (so much for curbing the violence) and then asking Sasuke to sit down and help them out with a little experiment.
"Okay, we're going to point to some clouds and you tell us what you think they look like." Explained the long-haired blonde. Sasuke sighed in annoyance but complied; after all he is incredibly bored and he could always rile up Anko later. "We'll start with that one there." She picked a large cumulus cloud. Sasuke regarded it askance.
"Kind of looks like a rabbit." He said.
"And that one?" Ino pointed to another.
"A rabbit."
"What about that cloud there."
"Rabbit." Shrugged Sasuke.
"That one over there?"
"A deformed rabbit."
"Sasuke they can't all look like rabbits." Kiba threw up his hands in exasperation. "Are you even trying?"
"Hey, you asked me what they looked like to me and I'm telling you they look like rabbits." Sasuke replied peevishly. "Whatever, this is stupid. I'm going back to bothering Anko, maybe this time I can get a good workout."
"Well, what do you make of that Shikamaru?" Naruto asked.
"Either he is obsessed with rabbits or…" drawled Shikamaru.
"Or?" Sakura prompted.
"Or Sasuke's decided to forgo revenge for the time being and pursue reviving the Uchiha Clan." All the girls turned bright red, Kiba leered, Chouji stopped eating, and Naruto's eyes crossed.
"Do you think that's why he wants to fight Anko so bad?" the jinchuriki asked quietly. The horrified looks on his friends' faces would've been funny if he wasn't actually worried about this.
"We'd better go stop him." Everyone else said in unison.
Things bored teenagers do #6: Jump to disturbing conclusions about their friends' behavior.
