Disclaimer: Don't own Naruto or the characters you guys created (I HATE REPEATING!)

Notes: Does this sound like a humor fic? Cuz its not suppose to be this amusing. Um, this chap focuses on Team Shikamaru and Team Shino. I can see that people are mad at me for Naruto losing to Sasuke in 15 seconds, but hey, life's not fair, (I'll just make Sasuke lose sometime against Naruto, everybody wins and loses in the fic. Sasuke's victory just came early.) and don't ask me how Sasuke got so many cousins, because I don't know and I don't feel like explaining, so there! =P (for the jutsus I used mostly English names sometimes Japanese, by the way.) sorry if this chap is dull, I kinda rush through it

Missions Pt. 2

Alright, alright," Shikamaru grumbled, "Who the hell is it? Geez, its nine thirty in the morning!"

"It's us, Shikamaru-sensei." Called two voices, "It's Shorai Natsu and Nohashii Mizu."

"Oh, its you scumbags." Shikamaru yawned as he opened the door, "Where's the other guy, whatever his name is?"

"We don't know where Seiya-kun is, he's usually late anyhow." Mizu was hopping about excitedly on one foot, her blue eyes shining as she stared at her sensei with anticipation, "What're we going to do?"

"Take a nap." Shikamaru answered promptly, "Get lost."

Mizu instantly shrank outside, but Natsu pulled her back inside, "Gosh, Mizu-chan, loosen up a little, will you?" the older girl hissed, "He's just kidding, there's a thing called sarcasm, you know?"

"This is so troublesome." Shikamaru yawned again, "Why don't you two go look for Seiyu, or Seiya, or whatever his name is and wake me when you do?" he sniffed delicately, "What stinks?"

"I think Seiya-kun is here" Natsu wrinkled her nose in disgust, "You can always tell by the smell."

"Morning, all." A guy in a white radiation suit appeared in Shikamaru's door, engulfed in what seemed to be stinkbomb gas, "Can't you set a later meeting time next time, I had to set my alarm clock for 9:00! That's early!"

"A kid after my own heart." Shikamaru stretched out on the couch and produced his biggest yawn yet. "But, hey, Kakashi is going to be after me if I don't teach you guys anything. So let's go."

The Aburame brothers, Kinji and Shino, were engaged in a fierce game of shooting kunais at the targets pinned on the door.

Suddenly, two boys burst in, one was wearing a dark blue shirt with a sword strapped to his back, the other boy had black layered bangs and carried no weapons except for the traditional pouch at the waist. "Oh, crap!" they yelled at the same time as they both ducked to avoid the kunais that was aimed at their heads.

Shino stood up, "Well, well, you two could've knocked, then we would've known not to kill you."

"Sorry, Shino-sensei." The long-haired boy bowed politely, "Max pushed me, and we kinda lost our balance. I'm Lee Taichi."

"I didn't push you!" shouted Max, "You're such a klutz that you tripped over the doorstop.

"I don't remember us having a doorstop." Kinji scratched his head as he looked skeptically at Max, "My brother has always been too lazy to install one, and plus, the door wasn't open. Are you sure you didn't push him?"

Max flushed a deep red, "Um, well…I…"

"Never mind." Shino answered lightly, "Where's the girl?"

"Ali said she'd meet us at the bridge." Taichi said, "She said she didn't want to come here."

"Since when are you two so chummy?" Max smirked.

"No, we just…ran into each other early this morning, that's all." Taichi looked down at his shoes.

"Damn it, you two, stop arguing already." Kinji sighed, "You're giving me a headache, I thought you guys would've outgrown that after the Academy."

"Whatever." Shino thought his two students acted just like Sasuke and Naruto so many years ago… "Let's just go, whoever says another word will get it."

Max and Taichi nodded silently as they followed Shino out the door.

"So," Shikamaru settled himself comfortably under the shade of a large elm tree, "First thing you should know about me is that I'm the laziest guy in Konoha and I hate doing stuff."

"Then why are you even teaching us?" Mizu demanded, "How am I suppose to become strong and win competitions to get enough money for my Mommy?"

"Calm down, Mizu-chan." Natsu put a hand reassuringly on the little girl's shoulder as she glared at Shikamaru, "What the hell do you think you are?"

"A bum." Shikamaru replied readily, "Fine. Damn, its so troublesome." He got to his feet, "What would you three like to learn?"

"Kawarmiri No Jutsu!" Mizu piped up.

"Ino-san 's mind transfer technique." Natsu said.

"Nothing." Seiya lay down, using his backpack as a pillow, " I don't care, I'm going to sleep now, no one bother me, or else I will kick your ass."

"You smell." Shikamaru pinched his nose, "I don't have a problem with you sleeping, but at least find a motel that's 500 miles away where we won't smell you."

"I can't help it." Seiya closed his eyes, "I've always been too lazy to take a bath."

"Ewww…" Mizu gagged, "Did you have to tell us that?"

"He asked, brat, it's not my fault." Seiya began to snore.

"Why can't you two follow his example?" grumbled Shikamaru, "Whatever, you, little girl." He pointed to Mizu, "I'll teach you first. Since that jutsu doesn't require much anyway."

Kuromori Ali smoothed her unruly black hair anxiously and pinned it back into a messy bun, her eyes were of an unearthly clear white, not the eyes of a Hyuga, but those that were descended from the Kuromori Clan, as legendary as the Uchihas were some 20 years ago.

"Ali!" Taichi rushed up to her, breathing hard, and Max was right on his heels, "Did you wait long?"

"Not really, Tai." Ali shook her head, "I just got here, my brother made me cook breakfast."

"I hate it when my sisters make me do stuff for them." Agreed Taichi, "Well, but at least we got time off from them today."

"Ahem," Shino coughed pointedly, "I will teach you three separately today, since you each have different needs. Ali-chan will go first, it is only fair, after all." Gesturing to Max and Tai, he said, "Just hang around, and don't get in trouble."

Shino led Ali away to a little clearing a few yards away. "Well, show me what you can do."

Ali stared hard at her sensei, a strange mist covering her eyes, then suddenly in one fluid movement, extracted three kunais from her pouch and threw them all at Shino, one at his heart, and the other two at the chakra points on his neck. "Take this!"

Shino dodged the attack easily, "You're pretty fast for a genin." He commented. "Now, I will test your endurance." He summoned an army of spiders, "Let's see you get out of that."

Ali closed her eyes and took a deep breath, her eyes changed into a cold icy blue as she shouted, " Water Prison No Jutsu!" and a water bubble surrounded the spiders, leaving them trapped.

"Very good," Shino approved, "Now, if you just concentrate more chakra into your throwing arm, it'd be a lot better, and I can see that you have the eyes…"

"I'll try to do that." Ali nodded.

"And also try not to be so unsure of yourself on the seals," Shino continued, "I'll be checking on you." Beckoning Max forward he said, "You're up, Max."

"First off, do you even know what Kwaramiri is, Mizu?" Shikamaru looked down at the little girl, "Cause if you do, it will save a hell lot of time."

Mizu was indignant, "I do!" she glared at him coldly, "I just don't know how to do it."

"If you don't know how to do such a basic jutsu, why the hell did Chouji ever let you graduate?" Shikamaru murmured to himself, "How troublesome, the fatass might as well eat his own brain." Out loud, he said, "Can you do Bunshin, at least?"

"Yeah! I'll show you!" Mizu willed all her chakra into her open palms and did the seal rather clumsily, "Bunshin No Jutsu!"

Shikamaru was surprised, the brat actually managed to do cloning, "Good enough, now, in order to replace yourself with a nearby item, you must think like that item."

"What?" Mizu looked about, confused, "I can't think like a tree. Shikamaru sensei."

"No, you don't think like a tree." Shikamaru sighed with exasperation, "You wish you were a tree, and you perform the seal."

"How do you do the seal?" Mizu asked.

"Like this, watch, I'm only gonna do this once." Shikamaru went through the seal with infinite slowness. Mizu actually kept up quite well, "Good enough."

"Yay!" she jumped up and down, "I did it! I did it!"

"Don't celebrate too soon." Shikamaru yawned and stretched, "You still have to try it out. Once, Chouji was such a blockhead that when he performed the jutsu, he left half of himself behind."

"Are you talking about Chouji-sensei?" Natsu spoke, reminding them of her presence, "Can you really do that?"

"Anything can happen if you're not careful enough." Seiya mumbled sleepily, "Can you guys quiet down a little? I'm trying to sleep."

"Exactly." Shikamaru nodded, "Personally, I think kids these days waste too much energy, it's just so troublesome. Chouji looked like an idiot with his head on top of the tree."

"Here I go!" Mizu breathed deeply, as she concentrated fiercely on a dead twig beside Seiya, "Kwaramiri No Jutsu!" a moment later, a puff of smoke surrounded her and she disappeared.

"Good job, Mizu-chan." Natsu congratulated her warmly when she appeared again, "Your mother would've been proud."

"Geez." Shikamaru wondered when this day would be over…

Ali retreated beside Taichi as Max stepped up, "You know, Max, I had a word with Tensei yesterday." Shino said conversationally. "He said you suck at interpreting Ginjutsu. So I'm going to train with you on that instead of the third stance, since I'm not much of a weapon user."

"What?" Max could hardly believe his ears, "But I can't see through Ginjutsu, that's why I've been picking up speed."

"Well," Said Shino in a matter-of-factly way, "There's a reason that I'm doing this, you cannot always depend on your strength, on your speed. You're going to run out of energy sometime, so you have to learn to see through the technique."

"Fine," Max heaved a sigh as he sheathed his sword.

"Just a warning." Shino added, "This ginjutsu is a fairly advanced one, so it's okay if you don't see through it, but if you do, that's good."

"Okay." Max glanced around nervously.

"Kokuangyo No Jutsu! (Bringer of darkness)" Shino stepped back as a dark cloud enveloped Max.

Max, in turn, was horrified to find himself in the dark, "What the hell…" he gripped his sword tightly as his eyes searched vainly for some kind of escape and finding none. Closing his eyes to calm himself, he remembered what his dad had said about warding off Ginjutsu, "You must not be afraid of whatever your eyes see, for it is not real."

A minute later, the fog cleared and sunlight came flooding back into his vision, "Did I see through it?" he asked hopefully.

"No, but you were beginning to." Shino, even though you couldn't see, was smiling, "Good job for a day's work. Now, do a stance fusion."

"Gladly." Max whipped out his sword with ease, and started with a giant cleave, that nearly knocked the wind out of him, followed by a left jab, and a swift upper thrust aiming at the eye.

"You may rest now." Shino stopped him after 20 minutes, "Save the cleave for the end."

Mizu sat down on the grass as far as possible from Seiya, who was once again snoring his head off, and watched with interest as Natsu and Shikamaru started their training.

"Aren't you a Shorai?" Shikamaru studied the brown-haired girl closely, "You don't look like one."

"I am." Natsu's eyes flashed dangerously, "I can see, just not very much."

"Can you?" Shikamaru sounded skeptical, "Just for the hell of it then, what will Kakashi be doing at 4:30 tomorrow?"

"He'll be…" Natsu's voice trailed off as a hazy vision swam into her head, with much concentration. It showed Kakashi (or Hokage) sitting at his dining room table with Kurenai beside him, drinking beer. "Drinking beer with his girlfriend."

"Interesting." Shikamaru cocked an eyebrow, "Now, you want to learn Ino's technique, huh?"

Natsu nodded eagerly.

"I don't know how to teach you that." Shikamaru sat down on the grass, "I don't bother to try, ask Ino to teach you or something."

"You're a sensei." Natsu reminded him.

"I'm also the world's laziest bum." Shikamaru corrected, "I happened to like that."

"I'm going to tell hokage." Natsu threatened, "You're gonna get fired."

"Try, I want you to." Shikamaru looked through half-closed eyes, "Trust me you're not the first one that tried."

"At least teach me something."

"It's not really that hard," Shikamaru sighed with exasperation, "All you do is try to penetrate someone's mind. But you also have to be careful; cause stronger ninjas have lost their lives trying this move. Train your mind first, teach it to overcome the normal obstacles of stress and trauma. Teach your mind not to care."

"What do you mean people have died learning this?" Natsu asked, "That's not possible, is it?"

"Some people have violent minds, and their ways to resist you will be sometimes deadly." Shikamaru answered, "And if you are hurt in their body, your own body will also be hurt." He lay down, using a rock as a pillow, "Meditate now, and don't bother me."

Taichi could feel all eyes on him as he stepped forward next to Shino. "What do you want me to do, Shino-sensei?"

"Fight me, I want to see what you can do." Shino said quietly, fixing the boy with a penetrating gaze, "Though I heard you use mostly Taijutsu?"

"Er, yeah." Taichi nodded nervously, "Is that okay?"

"As long as you don't die." Shino shrugged.

"All right then…" Taichi assumed a defensive stance as he secured his bangs behind his ears, "I'm ready."

"Doton: Doryo Dango! (Mud dumpling)" Shino reached down and grabbed a large piece of earth, which fire ants instantly infested, and hurled it at Taichi.

Taichi jumped up and released his own barrage of kunai at his sensei, but even if the mudball missed its target, the ants refused to be beaten, they attached themselves to Taichi's oversized blue shirt, "Kwaramiri No Jutsu!"

"A little late." Shino commented as Taichi once again appeared beside him covered in scars, "You should've prepared that one sooner."

Taichi winced slightly, "You said I could fight my way."

"I did, but you don't really have to be that rash." Shino glanced at him, "Hold still, the ants are poisoned." Kneeling down, bright blue chakra glowed from his fingertips, pressing the injured forearm gently, Taichi's wounds instantly closed and healed, "You did well, but just think next time."

A/N: Yeah…I have nothing else to say, I'll try to update soon.