Naruto Primer Lost Chapter: All
Teams
The reason why this chapter is rather long is because it was originally going to be an independent submission. But then we decided that it would make more sense to just throw it in along with the Naruto Primer Lost Chapters even though it wasn't really a lost chapter. But then the chapter was too long so that's why we split it up.
"We've decided that you guys don't have enough fun as ninjas so we figured what could possibly be more fun than a rousing game of capture the flag?" Kakashi announced.
"Capture the flag?" said everyone, looking annoyed.
"We tried to make the teams as fair as possible." Said Gai, whipping out a piece of paper.
"So that means that Sasuke, Shikamaru, Lee, Sakura, Tenten and Hinata are one team while Kiba, Shino, Ino, Naruto, Neji and Chouji are on another!" said Kurenai.
"How are these teams as fair as possible?" said Neji.
"We're not at liberty to tell." Said Asuma
"What about me?" asked Ino. "I'm the only girl on my team!"
"Just deal with it." Said Kakashi.
"So we found these shirts you could wear so you'd know who's on which team!" said Gai. Everyone groaned as Gai pulled a mound of shirts out of a box. There were two colors; pink and blue.
"Now, since this team has most of the girls on it, we're going give the pink shirts to this team." Said Kurenai as she took the pink shirts from Gai and tossing them to…the team that had only ONE girl on it!
"That doesn't make any sense!!" whined Kiba.
"Asuma refused to put Shikamaru in pink." Said Kakashi. "The rest of us didn't care."
The males glared at their teachers who didn't care.
"SO ANYWAY!!" said Gai as he gave the remaining blue shirts to the other team that had Shikamaru on it. Both teams (most of them rather reluctantly) pulled the shirts over their heads.
"Let's get this game started!" said Asuma.
"You have to pick a team leader." Said Kakashi.
At the sound of that, the teams immediately turned to one another to discuss things.
"I think Sasuke should be leader!" said Sakura.
"I agree." Said Tenten.
"But Shikamaru is a chuunin!!" said Lee.
"Well…he IS." Said Hinata.
"So it's down to our votes." Said Shikamaru, turning to Sasuke.
Sasuke glared at Shikamaru. "You take it." he said.
Shikamaru looked surprised. "Really?" he said.
"Yeah." Said Sasuke. "You gave me the MVP point in the baseball game when it came down between the two of us last time."
"Well, all right." Said Shikamaru. "It's troublesome, but whatever."
The other team was having a rather tough time deciding with both Kiba and Naruto who were obsessed with being a leader. So, while Kiba and Naruto fought in the background over who got to be leader, Shino, Ino, Neji and Chouji decided to be productive.
"I don't want to be leader." Said Chouji.
"Neither do I." Ino said.
Shino looked at the other three and then took a step back, clearly expressing that he did not want to be leader either.
Neji wasn't about to argue about his leadership role so they called Naruto and Kiba back over to have a vote.
"I vote for ME!" said Kiba, looking angrily at Naruto.
"And I vote for me!" Naruto said back.
"And the three of us vote for Neji." Said Ino, pointing to herself, Chouji and Ino.
"I vote for me too." Neji said.
"WHAT?!" yelled Kiba and Naruto.
"Here are the flags." Said Kurenai out of nowhere as she handed the pink flag to Neji and the blue flag to Shikamaru. "You can hide them anywhere you want but they have to be visible, meaning you can't bury them or hide them under something. And you can't carry your own flag at any point!! If someone has your flag then you have to fight them and win in order to get it back."
"Since we're ninjas and all…" Kakashi added. "You are also allowed to attack members of the other team for no reason. If you knock out or incapacitate everyone who is not on the same team as you then your team automatically wins. Or, you could do it the friendly way and just steal the other flag and bring it back to us."
"There will be MVP awards given out in this competition too, so do your best to contribute to your team!" said Gai. "It will only be teacher awarded MVP points though and it will only be given to one person on each team!"
"No using the Byakugan to find the flags." Said Kurenai especially to Neji and Hinata. "If you two use the Byakugan other than to fight then you will be immediately disqualified."
"And—" began Kakashi.
"Enough with the rules!" said Naruto. "Can we just start?!"
"Well then." Said Kakashi, looking slightly offended.
"He has a point, though." Said Asuma. "Let's get them started already."
"You have ten minutes to hide your flag!" said Gai, putting his arm up. "GO!!"
The two teams darted off in separate directions.
"All right, where should we hide our flag?" said Tenten to the Blue Team.
"Before that, we should decide on a strategy." Said Shikamaru. "As the Team Leader, I'm suggesting that we use the buddy system just in case a member on the other team decides to engage in a fight with one of us."
"That's a good idea!" said Lee.
"Sasuke, you go with Hinata." Said Shikamaru. "Lee, you go with Tenten. I'll go with Sakura."
"But I wanted to go with Sasuke!" whined Sakura.
"And I wanted to go with Sakura!" Lee joined in.
"That's why I put myself with Sakura and put Sasuke with Hinata." Shikamaru said smartly.
"What about the flag?" said Sasuke. "Where are we going to put that?"
"I'm working on that." Said Shikamaru.
Meanwhile, the Pink Team wasn't being NEARLY as strategic. It's kind of hard to match up with the Blue Team strategy-wise considering they have Shikamaru on their team.
"Let's all run around together as a big mob and ambush everyone one by one and take them all out!" said Naruto. "And we'll start with Sasuke!!"
"That is the worst idea I have ever heard." Said Ino.
"We should start with hiding our flag." Neji said.
"I've got it!!" said Kiba. "Let's dig a hole in bury it!!"
"The teachers said we're not allowed to bury it." said Chouji.
"Oh…" said Kiba, thinking. "In that case, let's hide it under a big rock!!"
"We're not allowed to do that either." Chouji said.
"Then I've got nothing." Said Kiba, shrugging flamboyantly.
"They said it had to be visible…" said Naruto thoughtfully. "What if we buried it… SLIGHTLY?"
"No, we're not going to bury the flag." Said Ino as-a-matter-of-factly.
"It's not fair!" said Kiba. "It's easier to hide a blue flag than a pink flag! We should complain!"
"And what do you think that would prove?" Neji said. "Do you actually believe our psychotic teachers would listen to anything we have to say?"
"Let's just hide it already." Said Shino who was obviously getting impatient.
The Blue Team reached a small ledge that hooked under slightly. "As long as it's visible…" said Shikamaru, grabbing a shuriken and impaling the flag so it was sticking out of the side of the cliff so that it wouldn't be visible unless one bent over and looked under the cliff.
"Is that really a good hiding spot?" Sasuke said, crossing his arms.
"Oh yes." Said Shikamaru. "It is."
"How much longer until the game officially starts?" asked Hinata.
"Any minute." Said Shikamaru.
"Now, are we going to be trying to incapacitate the other team or are we going to be trying to find the flag?!" said Lee as he threw some punches to show that he was ready to go.
"I think we should just go for finding the other flag." Shikamaru said. "If we get the chance, we could always make their numbers smaller. Honestly, I don't think they're going to try to get rid of all of us instead of going after the flags since we have so many girls on our team."
"Wow!" said Sakura. "I never realized that that was an advantage!"
"Yeah, a lot of guys don't like hitting or beating up on girls." Tenten agreed.
"Kiba wouldn't, I don't know about Shino, Ino wouldn't be able to do the job, Naruto wouldn't, Chouji wouldn't and Neji…well, he would." Said Shikamaru, counting off on his fingers.
Hinata coughed nervously.
"They'd all be easy to eliminate." Said Sasuke.
Meanwhile, the Pink Team reached a small pool of water. "Make sure it's visible, okay?" said Neji as he handed Naruto the pink flag. "We don't want to get disqualified for your stupidity."
"Yeah, yeah!" said Naruto as he grabbed the flag and jumped into the water. He swam to the bottom and stuck the flag in the bottom with a shuriken. Then he swam back up. Everyone assessed the location and decided that it was visible enough.
"All right," said Kiba. "One or two people should stay here to watch the flag."
"Then they'd know where the flag was." Said Shino.
"Aw man…" said Kiba. "I want at least ONE of my ideas to pull through!!"
"Now, are we going to actually look for the flag or just beat everyone else up on the other team?" questioned Chouji.
"I'LL take Sasuke!!" said Naruto. "You guys can decide amongst yourselves who you're going to beat up."
"I don't think we should do it that way." Said Ino. "It'll be easier in the long run to just look for the flag."
"But that's the boring way." Whined Naruto. "Plus, THEY'RE going to be gunning for US!"
"I doubt that." Ino said.
"ATTENTION!!!" Gai yelled, coming out of nowhere and screaming into a megaphone so everyone jumped thirty feet in the air out of sheer surprise. "I just came to tell you that you can start running around foolishly in attempt to get the flags now."
"Thanks…" said everyone, looking at Gai in an annoyed fashion. Then Gai skipped off to inform the other team.
"Every ten minutes, meet back here." Said Neji. "That way, we'll be able to discuss our hypothesizes on the location of the other team's flag and we can also find out if anyone has been knocked out of the competition; on our team OR the other team."
"LET'S GO!!" yelled Naruto enthusiastically.