A/N: This took me a while to do because I take honors classes in high school and have hours of homework every night. -_- I also don't like this chapter very much but I think I'll learn to spread my time better soon and have more time to write and update. I have my next two chapters planned and now I just have to write them out. Next chapters will get better than this one...promise haha :)
Chapter 13:Getting Back at Shikamaru
"What'cha doing?" Kiba asked Shino, looking over his boyfriend's shoulder at a little jar full of insects.
"What do you think I'm doing?" Shino asked sarcastically. He stood up from sitting on the soft ground of their training field. It had just rained the night before, and the ground was still damp from the ridiculous amount of water the clouds had dropped on the village.
Kiba hugged his boyfriend around his waist and rested his head on the taller boy's right shoulder. "Collecting bugs since the ground is really soft and the trees are wet?" Kiba asked and kissed his partner's neck. Shino felt little tingles from his kikai run through his entire body, along with the natural tingles of excitement every normal person felt when touched like that by someone they loved. Shino turned his head to attempt to look at Kiba, but instead bumped his chin on Kiba's forehead and bit his tongue.
"Ouch," he whispered as Kiba lifted his head.
"Yeah, that hurt a bit," Kiba said, rubbing his forehead.
"My tongue's bleeding now," Shino said, tongue sticking out of his mouth, little dribbles of blood running off the tip.
Kiba giggled at the sound of Shino's voice when his tongue was sticking out of his mouth. "So was I right?" he asked after a moment of silence.
Shino turned his head to stare at Kiba, who was innocently staring back. "Sure," Shino said, putting his tongue back in his mouth after. Kiba giggled at the sound of his voice again.
"Forget that," Kiba said, grabbing Shino's hand and tugging him. "We have to meet Kurenai and Hinata," he said, and the boys started running towards their destination.
Team eight was sitting on steps in front of Hinata's main door to enter her house. They were waiting for Neji to get done with his training with Hinata's dad before they left to go see team ten. None of them really cared to stay, but since Hinata's father expected her to do everything for him and Neji when they were training, they thought it would be best not to cause a scene and leave early. It was really inconvenient to have such a goody-goody on their team, sometimes.
Shino was sitting in his normal, unaffected, calm looking stance. Kiba, however, was slunk over, chin on his knees, arms thrown over his head, just hanging there. "I'm so bored. So bored," he would mutter every few seconds while he rocked from side to side.
Kurenai was leaning against the side of the house and Hinata was standing beside her. Neither of them was particularly happy, but they tried not to show it. They were supposed to meet team 10 at one of the training fields for some reason. Asuma had made a big deal about them being on time to the area. No one knew why he wanted them there on the dot, but they didn't think they would make it anyway at the rate the two Hyuuga men were burning fuel. It seemed they could go on with their training for hours longer, so Kurenai spoke up.
"Um...hey!" she yelled at the two to get their attention on her. Both stopped what they were doing, paused in a battle stance, and turned their heads her way.
"We need to be somewhere for something soon," Kurenai started. "Would you mind if we left with Hinata now?" she asked as politely as she could, even though her annoyance was easily seen.
Hiashi looked at her for a moment like she was stupid. "Of course you can take her," he said, confused look on his face.
Kurenai stared at him with a face of slight shock. "Uhh...um, okay. Thank you very much," she said as she hurriedly grabbed one of Kiba's arms and yanked him off of the ground. "We're leaving," she told Kiba, who hadn't been paying attention since he was sulking over his boredom. This statement earned a loud "yes!" from Kiba and before he ran towards the exit, throwing a scowl at Neji on his way, which earned no reaction from the boy.
Team Kurenai raced out of Hinata's yard and into the streets of her clan's housing complex. Hiashi and Neji just stared at them as they ran away, confused. Why did they want out so badly?
Kurenai turned her head to look at each of her students and then looked straight ahead as she said something about uncaring, annoying people. Yep, that was most likely about that man Hiashi, the man who she wasn't quite fond of, the man that didn't think highly of her Hinata. One day she'd show him...one day.
"So why the hell do we have to go here again?" Kiba asked in annoyance. He wasn't looking forward to whatever was going to happen. Akamaru had been extremely quiet until they were almost to the training grounds. When Kiba had been rocking back and forth in boredom, Akamaru must have been napping. He was slacking off on sleep lately. Probably staying up late to...howl...or something at some far away dog. Hopefully to be playful...
Now Akamaru was running at Kiba's side towards their destination, looking excited as a puppy could be. Kiba didn't know why Akamaru would suddenly act so happy. It wasn't like him to react to things that way. Maybe this wouldn't be so bad after all.
"We don't know!" Kurenai said. "Now, for the 3rd time, stop asking!" she yelled at him. "We're almost there anyways. We'll find out soon enough. Really soon, actually," Kurenai said before a large body jumped down in front of her and she ran flat into it. The two bodies toppled backwards, tangling with each other on the way to the ground.
"You'd think two jounins would be able to stop that kind of collision," Kiba said loudly, arms crossed, shaking his head, as the three genin stared at their senseis.
"They probably did it on purpose," Shino whispered to his teammates, actually making a joke, earning a giggle from both of them. Shino himself chuckled. Team eight and team ten knew that their senseis had something for each other. They were all just waiting to see if they would ever make something out of it.
Kurenai untangled herself quickly and hopped back onto her feet, followed by Asuma. "Um, sorry there...Kurenai," he said to his "potential" love interest, looking into crimson eyes, rubbing the back of his head nervously.
"Oh...um, it's okay," Kurenai said in return and the two looked away from each other quickly. It was so obvious they were trying to hide their blushes from the young ones.
After a few moments of absolute, awkward silence, Asuma looked at the three genin. "So, the reason I wanted you to come here is to get back at Shikamaru for what he said about...um...me and...uh...Ku-kurenai," he said as Kurenai smirked.
"What'd he say?" Kiba asked, smirking.
Asuma swallowed nervously and his eyes widened a little. "No-nothing important. The point is he said something about u-us," he said quietly.
Team Kurenai had heard what Shikamaru had said about Asuma and Kurenai. It just so happened they were hiding behind the counter of the restaurant Team Asuma had been washing dishes for. The mission was just a filler since there was nothing else to do. Since team ten didn't want to do it, they thought they could convince Asuma that they were doing the job by going to the restaurant and then sneaking in team eight to do the work for them. Team eight would get all the pay.
Asuma was supposed to go to the restaurant to let them out at five in the evening but showed up an hour late. Since team eight had offered to do only the amount of work they were getting paid for, they made team ten do an hour of the work. Shikamaru was not happy about being woken up from his nap underneath the counter.
When Asuma had finally showed up, Shikamaru of course decided to open his mouth and complain about having to do "an extra hour of work." Team ten had been suspicious of why Asuma would show up late since he was always early, and Shikamaru decided to share his thoughts on why he was late.
"I bet you were off with Kurenai doing something," he had said. Chouji coughed a little and giggled and Ino smirked devilishly.
"Yeah. You've been around her a bunch lately. And you've been showing up to things later and later than usual," Ino told Asuma.
Asuma looked nervous now. "I bet you two were experimenting this time. You know, figuring out what makes each of you tick. Yeah, that's what you were doing. You were having sex with Kurenai when you were supposed to be coming to let us out of here!" Shikamaru had yelled at him.
The rest of the two teams were stifling their laughter, seeing Asuma's bright red face, full of embarrassment and anger. Team eight blew their cover from laughing after Shikamaru added that Asuma seemed to have a stiffy. They were laughing because only he would be smart enough to say it out loud, even though everyone had "accidently" noticed.
After leaving the restaurant and keeping the money that was supposed to be team eight's, Asuma stopped being late to training and stopped going to training with an erection. Yep, almost every time before that incident, team ten always looked to see what was going on down there, perverted as it may seem.
Team eight remembered the incident like it happened yesterday. They started laughing remembering the sight of Asuma's terrified face as he ran from the restaurant. "Okay, whatever. We'll do whatever you want," Kiba said through laughter.
"I want you to embarrass him like he embarrassed me. I want you to congratulate him, and then tell him it's unbelievable," Asuma said.
"What do you mean?" Shino asked, not getting what "it" was.
"His becoming a chunin," Asuma said, earning a gasp from everyone there.
"What?" Shino said. He wasn't happy in the least. Shikamaru had gotten to show off his intelligence and his laziness, but he didn't get to show his special talents.
"That is not cool," Kiba said, looking slightly Shino's way. He looks pretty bummed. And he was having a good day... Kiba thought sadly to himself. Hinata had been quiet the whole time until now.
"It's okay Shino. There's always next time. I know you'll become a chunin next time we enter the exams," Hinata was saying to Shino as Kiba kept repeating the word "unbelievable" over and over to himself.
Asuma couldn't hear their little conversation so he turned to Kurenai questioningly. "What're they talking about?" he asked her.
"Shino's been down since he didn't get a chance to fight in the second half of the exams," she replied.
"Oh," was all Asuma said as he pondered over whether or not he should bother the group and tell them they weren't the only ones who came here to embarrass his chunin.
"Umm, guys? We need to get to the training field. Kakashi and Gai's teams are supposed to meet us there too," he said.
Shino decided it was time to quit moping and give Shikamaru some "payback" for becoming a chunin. "Let's get him good," Kiba said, already thinking of "special" ways of embarrassing his comrade.
"Alright, let's get moving," Asuma said before sprinting off in the direction of team ten's training field.
"...and that's what we're going to do," Asuma said, finishing telling his plan to get back at Shikamaru to teams seven and nine.
The members of the two teams just stared at him for a minute before Asuma said they had to start the plan. Team Kakashi didn't really want to be part of it, but neither did Team Gai. They knew no matter what they said they wouldn't be able to get out of this one. Asuma was always doing something secretive that all the other jounins didn't seem to think was worth the time, but when he asked them to help they just couldn't seem to say no.
Everybody was in their hiding spots. Shikamaru would walk in to the training field at least 10 minutes late like usual and they would jump out and say something stupid like "SURPRISE!" or "CONGRATULATIONS!" and he would apparently become embarrassed by it. Asuma did tell them to say something about it being unbelievable or weird and it would make him even angrier.
"I can hear him coming," Chouji said to Tenten, who was in a tree branch beside him.
Tenten quickly passed the word on through the line of bodies hiding in the trees until Asuma got word. Now everyone had to wait for Chouji's signal to start congratulating Shikamaru.
After at least another minute of waiting for the lazy bum to get into the training field gates, the tree people heard the signal.
Chouji jumped out of his tree and attacked his best friend from above, knocking him to the ground in a bear hug and shouting his congratulations to him. "It's so weird! I can't believe you actually became a chunin," Chouji was yelling as a hoard of familiar bodies started jumping out of trees and "attacking" Shikamaru.
"It's so unbelievable!" Tenten shouted at a red faced Shikamaru, who was being helped off the ground by Kiba. Everyone was yelling their "embarrassing" phrases at Shikamaru when suddenly Kiba grabbed the back of his head and pulled it towards his. Shikamaru's eyes went wide as he saw Kiba's mouth nearing his face in slow motion. Even his scream sounded slow when he felt Kiba's lips touch his cheek and then leave just as quickly as they had come.
Everyone stared at Kiba and Shikamaru as they took in the odd scene that had just played out in front of them. Shino was in the back of the crowd snickering to himself. He had told Kiba he should give him a peck on the cheek in front of everyone and see what would happen. Kiba had been planning on full on attacking him with a ginormous jumping hug, but he thought it would be funnier to see Shikamaru's face if he kissed him.
"Umm, I think we're done here," Kakashi said as he hurriedly dragged the gaping Sasuke away from the group and left the field. Sakura and Naruto followed after, and then Gai's members started to leave so Gai decided he'd go too. Now it was just Kurenai and Asuma's teams left to deal with the now scarred Shikamaru.
"Wh-wh-wh-what the-the hell w-was th-th-that?" Shikamaru asked, eyes open wide in fear Kiba would attack his face with his lips again.
"Jeez, you act like I just groped you or something," Kiba said, earning a glare from Kurenai and Hinata and some chuckles from Shino. Ino and Chouji thought it was hilarious and were laughing their butts off. Asuma looked confused.
"I thought you were going to grope him," Asuma said to Kiba.
"Yeah, I was going to, but I didn't want to scar him too badly," he said. "I thought this would be funnier though."
Shino was snickering even louder, still hiding it under his breath though. "I guess we'll get going now then," Asuma said. "I don't need him to be this freaked out for long," he added seeing that Shikamaru was staring wide eyed into space.
Asuma grabbed Ino and Chouji by their shoulders and started pulling them towards the exit of the field. Kurenai and Hinata followed. Shikamaru turned to go after the group. Shino and Kiba followed behind Shikamaru. Shino was giggling now, mainly because he knew something Shikamaru didn't.
Kiba and Shino were slowly creeping up on the unaware Shikamaru. He was falling farther and farther behind the group since he was walking in a daze. He looked up at the trees, then at his feet, then the clouds, and his gaze stayed on the clouds for a while.
Kiba looked at Shino with a smirk. Shino smiled back behind his high collar before Kiba started creeping up close behind Shikamaru. Without notice, most likely because he was in a daze and not paying attention, Kiba grabbed Shikamaru's butt and squeezed.
Shikamaru jumped away from the hand that was abusing him and turned his head to look at his attacker. Of course he should have known it was Kiba. His eyes went wider and he turned away from Kiba to run away. "Asuma! Asuma! Kiba groped me! Kiba groped me!" Shikamaru was yelling towards his sensei. Shino started to die of laughter.
Far off in the distance loud laughter was heard from two young ninja. A certain jounin was growling under his breath, a young girl was about to faint, and another jounin was attempting to not run back at her students and smack them up a little bit.
This chapter is finally done. Compared to other chapters I don't think this one was very well written. I didn't really have much in mind for this chapter and this is what popped out of it. Hopefully I can gather more time to work on the next chapter, considering I did this in almost no time and I know that most likely downgraded the quality. But whatever, it's fine for now :) Next chapter is about Sasuke before he leaves, then the next will be when the genin and Shikamaru have to go find him and bring him back. It'll take me a while to update but at least it'll get done and it'll be better than usual if I take time :)