Strange Ambitions
A Naruto Fanfiction by Otaking GTJ
Disclaimer by Kiba: GTJ does not own Naruto. It is owned by Masashi Kishimoto.
Akamaru: bark bark!
Kiba: What? No, Akamaru, you do not own Naruto! I just said, Kishimoto does!
Akamaru: woof!
Kiba: Don't give me that kind of crap! Masashi Kishimoto is not one of your pen names! You don't even have a pen name! Heck, you can't even use a pen!
Akamaru: woof bark ruff!
Kiba: Hmph, fine! Be that way! If you want to think you created Naruto, then so be it. I'm going to read this chapter!
AN: Sorry it took so long. I wrote this two weeks ago, but the computer just deleted it. Even though I saved. Then the next week, I rewrote it. And it was deleted AGAIN! But this time, I saved it on both a floppy disk and the comp, so here it is. It may be 2 weeks late, but it's still here! And expect the next chap a week from now! The Kiba/Shino Chap! And if it makes you feel any better, this chapter is a good amount longer than the first two...
Warning: This storyline contains an original character. She is not a Mary Sue, and has as many flaws and strengths as a regular char. Please do not bash this fic or this storyline just because it has an original char. After, the entire reason I started this fic was from a conversation with a friend in which I came up with the original character..
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Chapter 3: To be Avenged.
It was a beautiful, sunny morning in Konoha, particularly in one forested area. In this area, there were many insects buzzing around. They had not a care in the world, as they merely flew around, occasionally resting on a tree here and there. Only to wind up being ensnared in a large net, and being added to the arsenal of a powerful being.
Aburame Shino was out bug-catching.
He was enjoying this nice break, for he had just gotten back from an exhausting mission with his father in Spira. Of course, when his adventure would be retold in video game format, the people in charge of it would have to make changes in order to avoid copyright infringement (Because not even the Hokage can handle a well-placed Lawsuit no Jutsu). So, Shino's dad got new clothes and different techniques, Shino was digitally replaced by some blue beast-man, and the entire Aburame clan was replaced by a race of said beast-men. But that was behind him now. Right now he was focused on the hunt. He saw an interesting specimen resting on a nearby tree. He neared closer...closer...He readied his net...
And watched as a cat jumped in front of him and caught the insect.
Shino stood there and watched the cat continue to frolic around and hunt insects. For those who know their cat breeds, this was a Russian Blue. Shino, however, did not know his cat breeds, so he didn't know what the heck kind of cat it was nor did he care. All he cared was that it caught his prize. He calmly walked up to it, and picked it up by the scruff of its neck so it and Shino were face to face.
"Bad kitty".
He then set the cat down, and continued with his hunt. However, it wasn't long until he saw that the cat was still hunting those insects. He once again walked up to the feline, and picked it up.
"Bad kitty".
He then tried to focus on his hobby again, but what do you know? That darn cat still wouldn't stop! It was just frolicking about and catching bugs like Shino had never done anything! This was the last straw for Shino, so he walked over, and picked the cat up again....
"You're not going to listen to me, are you?"
The cat replied with a defiant meow, and Shino looked at it a bit puzzled. He was then about to let the cat down again, when his ninja senses detected someone trying to attack him. He casually stepped to the right, and a kunoichi tackled the air which moments ago contained the bug-boy. She then turned around and just about hissed at Shino. She looked about the same age as all the other Genin in the series, and was wearing a tank-top with slacks. She had short purple hair, and had blue markings on her cheeks in the shape of a claw nail. She looked angrily at Shino.
"What are you doing with Aoiruto?! Put her down!"
Shino looked curiously at her. "This is your cat? It's hunting and eating the insects I'm trying to catch.."
"Well, yeah! Cats naturally hunt out of instinct, and as a form of play! Plus, it's good for training to improve her skills when we're fighting!"
Shino raised an eyebrow. "You fight alongside your cat?"
The kunoichi rolled her eyes, and kind of got a bit of a stuck-up aloof pose. "Of course! I'm Tsume, the rising star of the cat-using Nekozuka Clan! Aoiruto and I are almost unstoppable when we're fighting together!"
Shino raised his other eyebrow. And since he hadn't lowered the first one yet, that means BOTH eyebrows were currently raised. "Nekozuka Clan? Cat-users?"
Tsume apparantly looked surprised that Shino had never heard of her clan. "Yeah, Nekozuka clan! Why, got something against it?"
"No. It's just that you remind me of an annoying team-mate of mine, whose a member of the dog-using Inuzuka Clan..".
Tsume's ears perked up at this, and she immediately seemed to get very excited and agitated. "Wait, you know an Inuzuka? You don't mean Inuzuka Kiba, do you? Do you know where he is? Aoiruto and I have a score to settle with him and his stupid puppy!"
Obviously Shino could not raise any more eyebrows, but somewhere, Lee subconsciously raised an eyebrow, and everyone knows one Lee eyebrow counts as TWO Shino eyebrows, so you can only imagine Shino's surprise. He then pointed towards Kiba's favorite spot to train with Akamaru. "That way."
"Thanks a lot! Come one Aoiruto, let's go and get our revenge!" And so, Tsume and Aoiruto went off in the direction Shino pointed to. Shino just stood there for a moment, then shrugged and continued with his bug-catching.
Meanwhile, at Tenten's house, our favorite weapons-using Kunoichi was conferencing with Ibiki, Anko, Genma, Izumo, Kotetsu, and Raidou about their plan.
"Alright, do we have everyone yet?", Tenten began.
"Almost everyone", said Genma. "Iwashi's on vacation, and we're still waiting on Aoba..."
Tenten froze a bit, then stared at Genma in shock. "Aoba? Who invited Aoba?"
"I did", said Raidou. He's underappreciated like us, and I figured he could help us -
"But wasn't he the one who said, right in front of Sasuke, that Itachi was there, in effect causing the whole mess that resulted in Sasuke leaving and Chouji, Neji, and Kiba almost being killed?"
"Well, yeah, but don't worry, we took precautions", said Izumo.
"Yeah, you don't have to worry about him spoiling our plans to everyone!", agreed Kotetsu.
Anko, who was looking out the window, then shouted out. "Guys, he's here! Aoba is approaching the door at this very moment!"
"Commence pre-planned positions!", ordered Ibiki. Everyone then jumped and hid behind couches, taking Tenten with them, while Ibiki stayed right next to the doorway.. Soon, Aoba opened the door, and came in.
"TENTEN! IS IT TRUE THAT-
But his speech was cut short by Ibiki promptly smacking him right on the head, followed by all the other ninjas minus Tenten tackling him and causing a big cloud of arms, legs, and heads. When the cloud cleared, Aoba was on the ground with his mouth covered with duct tape. He struggled to remove it, but was stopped by Anko kneeling down, staring at him face to face. She then gave him one of those little markerboards that you can write on with markers. and... markers!
"Aoba, I wouldn't struggle if I were you, that duct tape is infused with all of our chakra..Sorry but we just can't trust you to keep your mouth shut after the recent events, so we had to shut it for you! Just a little precaution.. Anyway, you'll be communicating by writing on this board! And you will only show the board to us. Understand?" She gave a twisted smile. Aoba just gave a scared and nervous nod. "Good!"
Tenten coughed to gain everyone's attention. "Anyway, now that everyone is here, let's begin the meeting..You've all agreed to help me become more important by helping me get right in the middle of everything that transpires and becoming the driving force! Since our first meeting, I have successfully learned Kage Bunshin no Jutsu, so I can be everywhere at once. Now, since then, have any of you found out anything of use to me?"
Aoba wrote something on his board, and showed it to everyone. It said "Well, I overheard a girl from the Nekozuka clan talking about getting revenge on Inuzuka Kiba...."
Everyone looked at Aoba in shock, as if they weren't expecting him to come up with such a thing, until Genma patted Aoba on the back.
"Good job, Aoba. You actually did something USEFUL for the ninjas.. You should be proud." He then took out a gold star and pinned it on Aoba's shirt. Yay!
"Well, that is useful information!", continued Tenten. "Alright, then here's the plan. I'll send out a bunshin to go and see what Kiba and the girl are up to, accompanied with one of you..hmm.. how about.. Izumo!"
Izumo shook his head. "Sorry, I'm staying with Kotetsu. We just can't be seen apart." He then realised how this sounded, and immediately covered up with one of those embarrased laughs with one arm behind his head. "Not to say we're a couple or anything, just that we're like the good cop/bad cop team of Konoha.. kinda. and just having one of us alone would ruin the reputation."
Everyone looked at Izumo as if they were saying "...riiiight....", except for Kotetsu, who was apparrantly distracted by something on the far wall and was not paying attention. Finally, Tenten broke the silence.
"Alright then. Then I'll go with Anko." She then used Kage Bunshin, and created, y'know.. a shadow clone. The bunshin and Anko then left, while the real Tenten and the other ninjas just sat there bored, until they decided to play a board game or something..
Meanwhile, Kiba was having a joyous time playing with Akamaru! They were frolicking about as usual, jumping around, playing fetch, teaching Akamaru how to piss on stuff while in midair, y'know, the usual.
"Alright, Akamaru, FETCH!", as he threw a stick, which, in midair bunshined into 20 sticks. Akamaru responded by using his sense of smell to smell the REAL stick, and caught it! "Alright, good catch, Akamaru! Let's do it again!"
But, while they were playing suddenly they stopped, as Akamaru smelled something, and alerted Kiba to it.
"Yeah, I know, Akamaru. I smell her too. Her and her cat. Hey! Tsume! Where are you! We know you're here!
Tsume then jumped out of one of the nearby bushes, while behind another, Tenten and Anko were spying on the proceedings.
"I've never seen her before! Who is she, Anko?", asked Tenten.
"Her name is Nekozuka Tsume, a member of the cat-using Nekozuka Clan", replied Anko. "Her clan used to always be at war with the Inuzuka clan, but that stopped years ago when members from each clan fell in love and a whole Romeo-Juliet-ish thing unfolded, and the two clans decided to intermarry to settle the peace. But I don't understand why Tsume would have something against the Inuzuka Clan now.."
"Wait", said Tenten. "Didn't you just say the two clans joined together through marriage?"
"Yes. why?", asked Anko.
"Then wouldn't that mean that Kiba and Tsume are like cousins or something?"
"Well, yeah, now that I think about it, Kiba and Tsume are cousins!"
"Then that explains it", Tenten said matter-of-factly. "If there's anything that I've learned from Neji, it's that cousins are born enemies.."
Anko sweatdropped. "I don't think that's quite it..."
Meanwhile, with our animal losers, Kiba and Akamaru couldn't hear what Anko and Tenten were saying because they were too consumed with anger at Tsume and Aoiruto.
"Why are you always trying to attack us, Tsume?!", shouted Kiba. "We didn't do anything to you, so why do you have this grudge against us! I'm tired of you always trying to kill me while I'm training with Akamaru!"
"Don't play stupid with me!", accused Tsume. You know very well what you did! Right Aoiruto?" Aoirtuo mewed in response, then hissed at Akamaru, its fur stood up. "I remember it like it was yesterday. Because of you, Aoiruto and I missed the Chuunin Exam!"
"What are you talking about?", said Kiba. "I know you didn't show up for some reason, but we had no part in it!"
"Yeah right!", said Tsume. "I'll prove it to you! It's flashback time!"
And so we go into a flashback of a few months earlier, right before the Chuunin Exam. We see Aoiruto tied up in rope, and hanging over a pool, meowing frantically. Tsume is likewise tied up and over the same pool, her hair is sticking straight up, and has tears in her eyes. She looks with hatred at a small figure in the corner.
"Let us go! You damn coward, You're just afraid to fight us in the Chuunin Exam!"
We then see the figure come into the light, only to see that it's Akamaru, grouped with the other Inuzuka dogs and Kakashi's nin-dogs, all grinning quite evilly, except for Pakkun who had his usual tired look. Akamaru did some barking.
Pakkun was the translator for Akamaru. "He says you're going to stay here until the Chuunin Exam starts, then you'll be let go when we're sure you can't enter. Sorry, but Mister Akamaru doesn't quite feel like putting up with cats in his first Exam."
"That's playing dirty!", shouted Tsume. "Kiba put you up to this, didn't he! You tell him, that I'll get revenge! He'll regret making us miss this Exam!"
But her shouts amounted to none, as the dogs left, laughing... End Flashback, to show Tsume and Aoiruto still looking very pissed at Kiba and Akamaru.
"So you see, that's why I couldn't go to the Chuunin Exam, and why I'm going to get revenge on you! Now stop being a coward, Kiba, and FIGHT ME!"
"Woah, Tsume, I had nothing to do with that! I had no idea Akamaru did that!", replied Kiba. He then looked at Akamaru. "Akamaru, did you really tie Tsume and her cat up so they couldn't compete in the Chuunin Exam?"
Akamaru whistled innocently. Yep, even dogs can whistle when they're trying to hide a horrible wrongdoing.
"Enough talk!", yelled Tsume. "It's time for Aoiruto and I to finally get our revenge! QUADRUPED NO JUTSU!"
She then got all cat-like, and got on all fours, similar to when Kiba uses the technique, then Aoiruto jumped on her back, and they used the Beast-Human Kage Bunshin. Kiba and Akamaru then did the same, and the 4 charged at each other, Kiba and Akamaru using their Gatsuuga, and Tsume and Aoiruto doing a similar move, only they were flipping over in midair instead of spinning, when they were stopped by clouds of many, many bugs, which separated them all. Shino then jumped down in the center of the area, and called the bugs back into his body. He then looked at all four of them.
"Stop it. Your fighting is pointless, and it's disrupting the business of all the insects in the forest."
Kiba and Akamaru kind of looked angry that they were interrupted, while Aoiruto just hissed at the two and Tsume looked up at Shino in surprise.
"Oh, it's you! The cute bug-catcher from before! You saved me from my nasty cousin, didn't you?"
Shino raised an eyebrow. Yes, this time it was his own, as he has lowered his eyebrows since he first met Tsume. He doesn't just keep his eyebrows raised for hours at a time, after all. That would be silly. "Cute? Saved?" He then looked at Kiba. "Cousin?"
"Yeah!", replied Tsume. "He and his stupid dog prevented Aoiruto and I from competing in the Chuunin Exam, and did you just see how he vicously attacked us when we expressed our emotions?" She then put on a fake face of victimization. "If you hadn't come in and saved us, who knows what would have happened!"
Shino shrugged. "Actually, I was just concerned about the insects, and it looked like you were both attacking each other."
Tsume giggled. "Oh, don't be so modest!"
Behind the bushes, Anko and Tenten were still watching, and were getting really into this..
"That girl so has a crush on Shino", said Anko.
"Yeah", replied Tenten. "And she's starting to steal the spotlight too! I can't let that happen! I need to go in there!" She started to come out of the bushes, but was grabbed back by Anko.
"Woah, not yet, Tenten! If you went in now, it would be out of place and just weird, not to mention they would all realise you've been spying on them the entire time!"
"Oh, fine", Tenten grumbled. She stayed behind the bushes and continue to watch the 3 ninjas.
"Listen, it's obvious you're not going to stop fighting even If I tell you not to, so just do whatever", said Shino. "Just try not to hurt any insects. I'll know." And with that he left.
"No, wait!", said Tsume. "You haven't even told me your name!"
By this time, Kiba had finally put two and two together.. "Wait, you have a crush on Shino? What the heck do you see in him! You realise he has bugs throughout his body, right?"
"So?", Tsume replied. "I like his personality!"
"What personality? I don't recall Shino having a personality", said Kiba.
This got Tsume riled up again. "First you prevent me from going to the Chuunin Exam, then you deny even knowing of it, then you attack me, and now you insult the boy I like! That's it!" She then got ready to attack, until a bunch of dogs and cats came in between her and Kiba, followed by Kiba's mother and a man who, with his markings and such, was obviously a Nekozuka.
Tsume and Kiba spoke at the same time. "Mom/Dad, what are you doing here?!" (Obviously, Kiba said Mom, while Tsume said Dad.)
"We've been looking all over for you, and just now heard that you were trying to start another quarrel between the Nekozukas and Inuzukas!", said Tsume's dad.
"We don't want to go back to the dog-cat wars of yesteryear!", said Kiba's mom.
"But you don't know what Kiba and Akamaru did to us, Dad!", said Tsume.
"I didn't do anything! That was just Akamaru! She's the one constantly attacking us!", said Kiba.
"It doesn't matter", said Tsume's dad. "Our clans are joined together, and are at peace! And it is because of this that the two clans have come to a decision!"
"That's right!", said Kiba's mom, as she pulled out a big scroll and read from it. "In order to continue the prosperity between cats and dogs, and to have both of our clans joined together, by clan law Inuzuka Kiba and Nekozuka Tsume are to be engaged!"
"WHAT?!", replied both Kiba and Tsume. They couldn't handle this. After all, Kiba knew he wanted Hinata, and he didn't want to be with his cousin who has been attacking him the whole time! and Tsume liked Shino, and didn't want to be married to the person who prevented her from taking her Chuunin Exam!
"Mom! You can't do that! She's my cousin! It's just wrong!", said Kiba.
"You know as well as I that cousins marrying is an important part of spreading the power of a clan, Kiba", said Kiba's Mom. "Besides, you aren't engaged or interested to anyone else, it seems!"
Kiba and Tsume both would have answered, but Kiba was just too embarrassed to say out loud that he had a crush on Hinata in front of his cousin, no less, and Tsume didn't know enough about Shino to prove they had anything going on. After all, they just met!
"Well?", said Tsume's Dad. "Do you have anyone else? If not, then the engagement stays!"
Behind the bushes, Tenten and Anko were focused on the conversation.
"Tenten, did you hear that?", said Anko. "Tsume and Kiba are in the spotlight of a confrontation right now! You have to take it! It's a perfect chance!"
Tenten knew this all too well. "I know. And I know just what I have to do.. I just hope Kiba forgives me when this is all over.. but anything for me to be important!"
And so, Tenten jumped out of the bushes, and glomped Kiba in a tight embrace, and shouted to the world (well, ok, not the world, just Kiba and Tsume's parents).
"HE CAN'T MARRY HER! I'M ENGAGED TO KIBA!"
Kiba could only stand there in a big mix of both embarrassment and confusement.
".....WHAT?!"
TO BE CONTINUED....
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Quite a cliffhanger, isn't it? Anyway, I hope that was good enough, after you having to wait 3 weeks for it... I personally liked writing this chapter, and some parts of this I absolutely love. Oh, and as for Tsume, she was created when I discussed with a friend about what Kiba would be like if he was a cat person instead of a dog person, and we ended up with Tsume. Oh, and in case you were wondering, since Kiba means Fang, which is what dogs tend to use when fighting, it was only suitable I named the Nekozuka Tsume, or Claw. Anyway, please review! Next week is the Naruto Sasuke Sakura chap, followed by the Gaara/Kankuro/Temari chap, then the Chouji/Shikamaru chap! After that, I don't know what I'll do, but we'll see! Goodbye, and I hope you enjoyed the chapter!