Bugs: Team Eight
Chapter 2: The Test That Stumped Them All
The morning of the test, Hinata, Kiba and Akamaru walked on the gravel pathway. He didn't want to hold a grudge on Hinata for an insignificant act. What he was interested in was her reaction if Shino showed up for the test as well as going out of his way to step on bugs of all types that crossed his path. "Dammit," he said, "I thought we were finished taking tests."
They neared the bridge Kurenai appeared standing next to the wooden railing. Also there, Shino had his hands in his pockets. Kiba recognized he wasn't wearing his head protector and smiled to his thought; "He's stepping down." He realized that Hinata had decreased her pace and fell behind him. Without a second guess, Kiba ran at Shino and threw a left punch. He ducked and swung over to Kiba's left side. Kiba twisted to the right and elbowed Shino in the face knocking his sun glasses next to Kurenai's feet. "Enough," she scorned them then bent down to pick up his sun glasses. Shino had his hands over his eyes and she reached her hand holding his glasses to his hand. "Teammates shouldn't act like that. Ninjas are formed into teams, and in the nature of being in a team, they must rely on eachother. If you can't get past your fears, self-interest, or paranoia then you are formed in your ways and not the way of the team. The point of having teammates is to break form, that which can be predicted and controlled. Take the river as an example: it is formless; it can't be controlled. Levees break and human made rivers split off and flood. The purpose of the three person three is to emulate a raging river, where when one some leaps into it, if he fights it he will die and must surrender to its way to survive. The river is affected by three things: the land it carves, the life that it contains, and the water that it flows. When anyone of these parts reminds a mystery, the outcome is unknown. Then understand, you have to merge and sustain each member and then you gain the will of the battle."
Kurenai tapped her head protector. "There is a location transcripted on the back of my head protector that appears when exposed to the sun. Your mission is to get the information of the location. The last one there, fails."
She disappeared. Kiba looked at Hinata, "The person who gets the head protector off her will be at the greatest disadvanage when heading for the location," he stated. "If the person who removes the head protector isn't me, then I can have Akamaru look at the location have him tell me the answer. Hinata could use her Byakugan once the light hits the transcription. As for Shino, he could use his pet bee to show him it too." He set his dog off his head. "Therefore, I don't want anyone following me."
Hinata and Kiba separated taking different ways of the bridge. Shino stayed in his place. "You aren't going to tell me how you knew I was still here, aren't you?" Kurenai asked. She broke through the planks of the bridge and landed on the railing. "I've heard the team's plan. You wouldn't be able to take away my head protector."
Hinata's Byakugan that crackled her eyes and filled veins to the outer side of her eyes with charka had allowed her to see 360 degrees and caught Shino facing Kurenai. She turned around and focused on Kurenai who had a bug crawling under her head protector. An effort had to be made on her part to look through Shino who was filled will charka loaded bugs sworming his body. She jumped on a branch with leafs that covered people from seeing her, but she could see through the leafs. With her view focused on Shino and Kurenai, she lost her view of what is around her and was shocked when Kiba landed on a branch next to her. "Shino is smarter than I thought. I got a note by him early in the morning. He wrote he could keep a tab on her if he could get a female bug that crawl around his eyes on her. If I could knock his glasses towards her, he would have a female bug that only male bugs can smell on the glasses. Now, Akamura should lead them to traps I have planted."
Shino had bugs crawling on his head and they transformed into a head band. "Are you ready to become a ninja?" She asked. He threw a kunai at her and she pulled out a kunai to intercept it. Her instincts reflected on his room, the chair and desk made out of bugs, and she turned sideways and dodged it as it decomposed into bugs.
"It missed," Hinata told Kiba.
"Just wait," Kiba said.
As the bugs spread apart, underneath, another kunai was hid under the shadow of the bug kunai. Instead of impaling in the railing, it turned into Amakura who recoiled from the railing and bit Kurenai in the forehead. Kurenai was replaced by a log. She appeared behind Shino, "They're working together?"
Shino looked at Amakura who pointed his head into the forest on the other side of the bridge from Kiba and Shino. Shino used the body replacement technique as well and Kurenai hit a log. From the forest, that Kiba had laid the trap, a group of shurikens hit her.
Shino stood in a tree and watched a log fall down filled with shurikens. His hand reached up to a branch above him, it was too late to try another plan; she behind him again. Against the trunk of the tree, she stabbed him with a kunai in the side. The blade ripped into the body and separated the bugs and before she could stop, she cut a rope that the bug clone was hiding. She watched a net fall underneath her, they hadn't planned where she would attack. Two hands reached out behind the tree and grabbed her head and smashed it into the tree. Her paralysis didn't last long as she got a hold of one of the hands and pulled Shino on to the branch on to his back. She kneed over him with a foot on him pointing a kunai at him. She felt her head and her head protector was still there. Shino slowly reached for his head protector and removed it letting it fall to the ground. "Giving up?"
"Why had he taken it off?" She thought again pondering his head protector made of bugs.
"I got the location," Hinata said watching the head protector fall down the tree and into the light.
"Let's go." Kiba responded.
The forehead protector she had felt was had of bugs as Shino had replaced it. She got off him as they started to crawl on her head. With his arms raised to her, he released more bugs. She would have to get rid of them before she chased after Kiba and Hinata. Her speed as she ran to the river removed some of the bugs, but until she jumped into the water, they stayed on her.
Shino rolled off the branch and landed on his feet next to the forehead protector. He tied it around head.
A--------------------
At a well that the location directed them, Kiba and Hinata waited for their instructor. Hinata was distant and she felt bad for taking a position away from Shino. "You know..." he was patient to get her full eye contact, "he has a great mind for strategy, next time he'll past." Kiba explained.
Kurenai appeared in front of them. "You have successed because you worked as a team," she started. Shino slowly walked into the area and left her head protector with her. "You passed. As a team you must allow yourself as well as your teammates the chance to scarifice themself without dishonoring their intentions. If this was a real mission, Shino would have been killed if you helped him or not, so your duty was to stay alive and finish the mission without throwing your life away and stealing away his honourable decision. When you demostrate that you can throw away your need to be a ninja or to not interfere with others' choices to end their rank as a ninja, then you have the understanding of a ninja. You're dismissed. Tomorrow we start the missions."
"I should thank Shino," she thought but he had already left.
B----------------
Team Ten had Ino, Shikamaru, and a chubby guy named Choji. Out in the open field their instuctor, Asuma stood with a smoke in his mouth. The three sat in a tree and Choji tried to keep quiet as he put his bandaided hand into a bag of chips. "Let's give up," Shikamaru suggested. Ino had a fantasy involing Sasuke. He had looked at her. "I love your long blonde hair." She heard Shikamaru's negative comments all around her: "Why bother trying. How troblemsome. Let's give up." They rang throughout her fantasy and Sasuke said, "but Shikamaru convinced you to give up being a ninja and I no longer like you."
Ino grabbed Ino by his light grey vest. "Look," she pulled his dirty drowsy face to hers, "think of something fast, now!"
He rested against the truck of the tree and thought with his hands pointing down and his fingers touching. He openned his eyes. Ino snapped her fingers and brighten up with a smile. "I'm too hungry to move," Choji said throwing some more chips in his mouth. Shikamaru gestured for her to come closer to him so he could whipser to her. With his hand to her ear, her smile fainted to a ghostly look.
"That's suicide." She proclaimed.
"If Shikamaru," Choji pointed out, "makes a plan, it will work."
"Shit," Ino said as she put her hands together in front of her face to make a triangle. "Body replacement technique."
She passed out and had control of Choji's body. Shikamaru picked her up and put her down on the ground. He looked up at Choji. "Now take all of his food and throw it down here."
Ino had a hard time getting to all of the food; there were even candy bars hidden in holsters made for weapons. Quickly, Shikamaru removed his vest and wrapped all of the food in there and attacted it to Ino. "Okay, you can leave his body."
Ino regained consciousness and started to run and Choji followed with a fire in his eyes. Behind him, Shikamaru also followed. Ino lead them into the field that Asuma stood in, and she threw the bag of food over him and then ran in a circular path to meet up with it. "So they found out how to get Choji to run." He commented ready for what he would suspect. "Shikamaru will try to use his shadow to get me, but he doesn't have much to work with to extend his shadow. It would have been better to have lured me into the forest. I don't have to worry about Ino since her technique would be too slow to get me."
She stood behind him as they ran in the direction of Asuma. "Choji could use his multisize and meat tank jutsu, but he is not graceful with that."
"Come on fat ass!" Ino yelled with joy. She pulled down a bottom eyelid with his finger and struck her tongue out at him. Choji stopped and Shikamaru stood a meter a head of him and strenched out his shadow. "It's not long by a long shot." The instructor recongized.
Ino and Shikamaru were getting ready, this was going to hurt. "Multisize jutsu," Choji said and his proportions ballooned and his body elipsed the sun for Shikaramu's feet. His shadow strenched the extra meters to get to Asuma. Ino then used her body switch jutsu and caught him.
"I see, he used Choji to expand his shadow." He thought as he tried to gain control of his body. It was hard since Shikamaru had him trapped in his shadow and Ino had taken control of his brain. "They are certainly suicidal."
"Meat Tank!" Choji yelled and his limbs and head retreated into his body and started to spin. It rolled over Shikaramu, and under Ino's control, Asuma jumped out of the way. "You all pass!" He was forced to say. Choji continued rolling and trampled over the limp body of Ino. Choji stopped the jutsu stumbled on his feet.
Ino returned to his body and Shikamaru returned to his senses; "What a hassle."
Asuma gathered his team up. "Good work," he said in a deep voice. "Anyone willing to be crushed under the weight of a member of Akimichi for the good of the mission is a ninja by my standards. You have all passed. Missions begin tomorrow."
"What I put up with for love?" Ino questioned.
C---------------
Naruto screamed and kicked tied up on the middle of three wooden posts. The ropes slackened and he was free. He turned around and saw Hinata who looked elsewhere. "Thanks Hinata!" He said passionately loud. "I passed my test, I'm going to be a ninja."
"Ah," she sounded and looked for the words to say, "the test wasn't to untied yourself was it?"
Naruto's shoulders dropped and he shook his head violently. "No, no." He pointed at himself with his thumb. "I was tied up to the post and Sakura fed me. It's called teamwork."
"What a weird instructor," she thought, though she knew she had not done any more than he did to recieve her pass. "I knew you could do it."
He laughed and rubbed his sleeve of his orange jump suit. He wondered about her team. "Hinata has strange problems remembering what she was talking about and drifts off. Kiba is also on her team, he's a big shot who thinks he can beat up everyone. There's Shino, too. What I know about him... he's on Hinata's team." He found it difficult to talk to anyone on team eight. His team however was balanced out as he had to deal with his rival Sasuke and the girl he had a crush on, Saruka. "How did you do?"
"I passed too," she said it like a secret.
-------- End of Chapter Two ------------
Next Chapter: Tomorrow is the first mission. Though loose ends were tied up in this chapter, it only means more incidence will cause riffs next time. Both teams had good success, if you can count being run over by Choji success, unlike Naruto's team. Now that they have passed and on missions, what challenges will come up next. I don't know. But be ready for more super cunning tactics.
Notes: I will rate this fanfiction from G to PG-13. I never thought it was G in the first place.
Sorry for the filler with the InoShikaCho team. I know that Shino is a great perception for fighting, but I also like Shikamaru for the same reason. Maybe you can use the two fights to compare the two.
Predictions: Right now, team eight has to do some low ranking missions, but I may or may not include some sort of twist to create some development like Naruto's mission to Wave Country. This team has already followed what development that Naruto's team did, so I wouldn't mind diverging from that pattern.
Comments and suggestions are welcomed as long as they don't involve breaking the plot line of the anime.
Chapter 2: The Test That Stumped Them All
The morning of the test, Hinata, Kiba and Akamaru walked on the gravel pathway. He didn't want to hold a grudge on Hinata for an insignificant act. What he was interested in was her reaction if Shino showed up for the test as well as going out of his way to step on bugs of all types that crossed his path. "Dammit," he said, "I thought we were finished taking tests."
They neared the bridge Kurenai appeared standing next to the wooden railing. Also there, Shino had his hands in his pockets. Kiba recognized he wasn't wearing his head protector and smiled to his thought; "He's stepping down." He realized that Hinata had decreased her pace and fell behind him. Without a second guess, Kiba ran at Shino and threw a left punch. He ducked and swung over to Kiba's left side. Kiba twisted to the right and elbowed Shino in the face knocking his sun glasses next to Kurenai's feet. "Enough," she scorned them then bent down to pick up his sun glasses. Shino had his hands over his eyes and she reached her hand holding his glasses to his hand. "Teammates shouldn't act like that. Ninjas are formed into teams, and in the nature of being in a team, they must rely on eachother. If you can't get past your fears, self-interest, or paranoia then you are formed in your ways and not the way of the team. The point of having teammates is to break form, that which can be predicted and controlled. Take the river as an example: it is formless; it can't be controlled. Levees break and human made rivers split off and flood. The purpose of the three person three is to emulate a raging river, where when one some leaps into it, if he fights it he will die and must surrender to its way to survive. The river is affected by three things: the land it carves, the life that it contains, and the water that it flows. When anyone of these parts reminds a mystery, the outcome is unknown. Then understand, you have to merge and sustain each member and then you gain the will of the battle."
Kurenai tapped her head protector. "There is a location transcripted on the back of my head protector that appears when exposed to the sun. Your mission is to get the information of the location. The last one there, fails."
She disappeared. Kiba looked at Hinata, "The person who gets the head protector off her will be at the greatest disadvanage when heading for the location," he stated. "If the person who removes the head protector isn't me, then I can have Akamaru look at the location have him tell me the answer. Hinata could use her Byakugan once the light hits the transcription. As for Shino, he could use his pet bee to show him it too." He set his dog off his head. "Therefore, I don't want anyone following me."
Hinata and Kiba separated taking different ways of the bridge. Shino stayed in his place. "You aren't going to tell me how you knew I was still here, aren't you?" Kurenai asked. She broke through the planks of the bridge and landed on the railing. "I've heard the team's plan. You wouldn't be able to take away my head protector."
Hinata's Byakugan that crackled her eyes and filled veins to the outer side of her eyes with charka had allowed her to see 360 degrees and caught Shino facing Kurenai. She turned around and focused on Kurenai who had a bug crawling under her head protector. An effort had to be made on her part to look through Shino who was filled will charka loaded bugs sworming his body. She jumped on a branch with leafs that covered people from seeing her, but she could see through the leafs. With her view focused on Shino and Kurenai, she lost her view of what is around her and was shocked when Kiba landed on a branch next to her. "Shino is smarter than I thought. I got a note by him early in the morning. He wrote he could keep a tab on her if he could get a female bug that crawl around his eyes on her. If I could knock his glasses towards her, he would have a female bug that only male bugs can smell on the glasses. Now, Akamura should lead them to traps I have planted."
Shino had bugs crawling on his head and they transformed into a head band. "Are you ready to become a ninja?" She asked. He threw a kunai at her and she pulled out a kunai to intercept it. Her instincts reflected on his room, the chair and desk made out of bugs, and she turned sideways and dodged it as it decomposed into bugs.
"It missed," Hinata told Kiba.
"Just wait," Kiba said.
As the bugs spread apart, underneath, another kunai was hid under the shadow of the bug kunai. Instead of impaling in the railing, it turned into Amakura who recoiled from the railing and bit Kurenai in the forehead. Kurenai was replaced by a log. She appeared behind Shino, "They're working together?"
Shino looked at Amakura who pointed his head into the forest on the other side of the bridge from Kiba and Shino. Shino used the body replacement technique as well and Kurenai hit a log. From the forest, that Kiba had laid the trap, a group of shurikens hit her.
Shino stood in a tree and watched a log fall down filled with shurikens. His hand reached up to a branch above him, it was too late to try another plan; she behind him again. Against the trunk of the tree, she stabbed him with a kunai in the side. The blade ripped into the body and separated the bugs and before she could stop, she cut a rope that the bug clone was hiding. She watched a net fall underneath her, they hadn't planned where she would attack. Two hands reached out behind the tree and grabbed her head and smashed it into the tree. Her paralysis didn't last long as she got a hold of one of the hands and pulled Shino on to the branch on to his back. She kneed over him with a foot on him pointing a kunai at him. She felt her head and her head protector was still there. Shino slowly reached for his head protector and removed it letting it fall to the ground. "Giving up?"
"Why had he taken it off?" She thought again pondering his head protector made of bugs.
"I got the location," Hinata said watching the head protector fall down the tree and into the light.
"Let's go." Kiba responded.
The forehead protector she had felt was had of bugs as Shino had replaced it. She got off him as they started to crawl on her head. With his arms raised to her, he released more bugs. She would have to get rid of them before she chased after Kiba and Hinata. Her speed as she ran to the river removed some of the bugs, but until she jumped into the water, they stayed on her.
Shino rolled off the branch and landed on his feet next to the forehead protector. He tied it around head.
A--------------------
At a well that the location directed them, Kiba and Hinata waited for their instructor. Hinata was distant and she felt bad for taking a position away from Shino. "You know..." he was patient to get her full eye contact, "he has a great mind for strategy, next time he'll past." Kiba explained.
Kurenai appeared in front of them. "You have successed because you worked as a team," she started. Shino slowly walked into the area and left her head protector with her. "You passed. As a team you must allow yourself as well as your teammates the chance to scarifice themself without dishonoring their intentions. If this was a real mission, Shino would have been killed if you helped him or not, so your duty was to stay alive and finish the mission without throwing your life away and stealing away his honourable decision. When you demostrate that you can throw away your need to be a ninja or to not interfere with others' choices to end their rank as a ninja, then you have the understanding of a ninja. You're dismissed. Tomorrow we start the missions."
"I should thank Shino," she thought but he had already left.
B----------------
Team Ten had Ino, Shikamaru, and a chubby guy named Choji. Out in the open field their instuctor, Asuma stood with a smoke in his mouth. The three sat in a tree and Choji tried to keep quiet as he put his bandaided hand into a bag of chips. "Let's give up," Shikamaru suggested. Ino had a fantasy involing Sasuke. He had looked at her. "I love your long blonde hair." She heard Shikamaru's negative comments all around her: "Why bother trying. How troblemsome. Let's give up." They rang throughout her fantasy and Sasuke said, "but Shikamaru convinced you to give up being a ninja and I no longer like you."
Ino grabbed Ino by his light grey vest. "Look," she pulled his dirty drowsy face to hers, "think of something fast, now!"
He rested against the truck of the tree and thought with his hands pointing down and his fingers touching. He openned his eyes. Ino snapped her fingers and brighten up with a smile. "I'm too hungry to move," Choji said throwing some more chips in his mouth. Shikamaru gestured for her to come closer to him so he could whipser to her. With his hand to her ear, her smile fainted to a ghostly look.
"That's suicide." She proclaimed.
"If Shikamaru," Choji pointed out, "makes a plan, it will work."
"Shit," Ino said as she put her hands together in front of her face to make a triangle. "Body replacement technique."
She passed out and had control of Choji's body. Shikamaru picked her up and put her down on the ground. He looked up at Choji. "Now take all of his food and throw it down here."
Ino had a hard time getting to all of the food; there were even candy bars hidden in holsters made for weapons. Quickly, Shikamaru removed his vest and wrapped all of the food in there and attacted it to Ino. "Okay, you can leave his body."
Ino regained consciousness and started to run and Choji followed with a fire in his eyes. Behind him, Shikamaru also followed. Ino lead them into the field that Asuma stood in, and she threw the bag of food over him and then ran in a circular path to meet up with it. "So they found out how to get Choji to run." He commented ready for what he would suspect. "Shikamaru will try to use his shadow to get me, but he doesn't have much to work with to extend his shadow. It would have been better to have lured me into the forest. I don't have to worry about Ino since her technique would be too slow to get me."
She stood behind him as they ran in the direction of Asuma. "Choji could use his multisize and meat tank jutsu, but he is not graceful with that."
"Come on fat ass!" Ino yelled with joy. She pulled down a bottom eyelid with his finger and struck her tongue out at him. Choji stopped and Shikamaru stood a meter a head of him and strenched out his shadow. "It's not long by a long shot." The instructor recongized.
Ino and Shikamaru were getting ready, this was going to hurt. "Multisize jutsu," Choji said and his proportions ballooned and his body elipsed the sun for Shikaramu's feet. His shadow strenched the extra meters to get to Asuma. Ino then used her body switch jutsu and caught him.
"I see, he used Choji to expand his shadow." He thought as he tried to gain control of his body. It was hard since Shikamaru had him trapped in his shadow and Ino had taken control of his brain. "They are certainly suicidal."
"Meat Tank!" Choji yelled and his limbs and head retreated into his body and started to spin. It rolled over Shikaramu, and under Ino's control, Asuma jumped out of the way. "You all pass!" He was forced to say. Choji continued rolling and trampled over the limp body of Ino. Choji stopped the jutsu stumbled on his feet.
Ino returned to his body and Shikamaru returned to his senses; "What a hassle."
Asuma gathered his team up. "Good work," he said in a deep voice. "Anyone willing to be crushed under the weight of a member of Akimichi for the good of the mission is a ninja by my standards. You have all passed. Missions begin tomorrow."
"What I put up with for love?" Ino questioned.
C---------------
Naruto screamed and kicked tied up on the middle of three wooden posts. The ropes slackened and he was free. He turned around and saw Hinata who looked elsewhere. "Thanks Hinata!" He said passionately loud. "I passed my test, I'm going to be a ninja."
"Ah," she sounded and looked for the words to say, "the test wasn't to untied yourself was it?"
Naruto's shoulders dropped and he shook his head violently. "No, no." He pointed at himself with his thumb. "I was tied up to the post and Sakura fed me. It's called teamwork."
"What a weird instructor," she thought, though she knew she had not done any more than he did to recieve her pass. "I knew you could do it."
He laughed and rubbed his sleeve of his orange jump suit. He wondered about her team. "Hinata has strange problems remembering what she was talking about and drifts off. Kiba is also on her team, he's a big shot who thinks he can beat up everyone. There's Shino, too. What I know about him... he's on Hinata's team." He found it difficult to talk to anyone on team eight. His team however was balanced out as he had to deal with his rival Sasuke and the girl he had a crush on, Saruka. "How did you do?"
"I passed too," she said it like a secret.
-------- End of Chapter Two ------------
Next Chapter: Tomorrow is the first mission. Though loose ends were tied up in this chapter, it only means more incidence will cause riffs next time. Both teams had good success, if you can count being run over by Choji success, unlike Naruto's team. Now that they have passed and on missions, what challenges will come up next. I don't know. But be ready for more super cunning tactics.
Notes: I will rate this fanfiction from G to PG-13. I never thought it was G in the first place.
Sorry for the filler with the InoShikaCho team. I know that Shino is a great perception for fighting, but I also like Shikamaru for the same reason. Maybe you can use the two fights to compare the two.
Predictions: Right now, team eight has to do some low ranking missions, but I may or may not include some sort of twist to create some development like Naruto's mission to Wave Country. This team has already followed what development that Naruto's team did, so I wouldn't mind diverging from that pattern.
Comments and suggestions are welcomed as long as they don't involve breaking the plot line of the anime.