Naruto Primer Lost Chapter: All
Capture the Flag
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The Blue Team split up in their buddy groups. Sasuke and Hinata were the official "beat up anyone who might come our way" team, Sakura and Shikamaru were the official "decoy away from our flag" team and Lee and Tenten were the official "find the other flag" team. Of course, if these teams just so happened to overlap then it was okay.
"All right, so you know the plan?" Shikamaru said to Sakura.
"Yeah, I know the plan!" Sakura said with an exasperated sigh.
"Just making sure." Said Shikamaru as he sat down on the ground in front of a huge rock. "If you mess this up then we're screwed."
"Why don't you worry about yourself?" said Sakura, rolling her eyes.
"You BOTH need to worry about yourselves!!" came Naruto's voice as he jumped out of a tree.
"Naruto!" said Shikamaru. "How…?"
"Ha!" said Naruto. "I WAS going to just beat you up, Shikamaru… not you of course, Sakura! But now I figure that I'll, instead, just take your flag and end this game quickly!!"
"What makes you think the flag is around here?" said Sakura, moving towards Shikamaru.
"Because you two are obviously guarding something!" said Naruto. "Thanks to Shino and Kiba, I got the idea that if someone is guarding an area then the flag must be nearby!"
"Then we'll just have to keep you here." Said Shikamaru, standing up and performing a hand seal. "Kagemane no Jutsu!"
His shadow extended and attached to Naruto's.
"You can't keep this up forever!" said Naruto. "Once you run out of chakra or one of my teammates come along, we'll get the flag and win!"
"He's got a point, Shikamaru." Said Sakura.
"Quiet." Said Shikamaru.
Just then, there was a rustling from the bushes and Shino appeared.
Shikamaru and Sakura looked at each other. Then Shikamaru dropped the jutsu and he and Sakura took off running.
"I am triumphant!" cheered Naruto, doing a little dance.
"What?" said Shino.
"Great job Shino!" said Naruto. "The flag's around here somewhere! Let's find it before they come back with reinforcements!"
"Are you sure it's around here?" Shino asked as he started looking.
"Yeah!" Naruto answered. "I'm positive!"
Meanwhile, Sasuke and Hinata were observing Chouji walking around in the forest by himself.
"Um…should we?" Hinata whispered nervously to Sasuke.
"It's a little suspicious." Sasuke answered. "Why would Chouji just be walking around by himself? There's probably other people waiting for him to be ambushed so they can jump out and ambush the ambushers."
"Can you sense anyone?" Hinata asked.
"No…" Sasuke said. "But some people can be pretty tricky and I don't know much about them. Like Shino. And Neji."
"Oh…I see." Said Hinata.
The two of them watched Chouji walk away and then they jumped out of their hiding spots. "This is going to be harder than I thought…" Sasuke said with a frown.
"So what do we do?" asked Hinata.
"Let's find Lee and Tenten and team up with them." Sasuke replied.
"But I thought they were looking for the flag." Said Hinata as she started following after Sasuke.
"They are." Sasuke said.
"But isn't that an important job?" Hinata said, a little confused.
"I personally think it would be easiest to just take out all the members on the other team instead of wasting time looking for a flag." Sasuke said. "We're ninjas, not…flag finders."
"I suppose…" Hinata said tentatively.
Meanwhile, Neji was trying to find the flag while also suppressing the urge to use the Byakugan to do so. He heard something behind him make a sound so he whirled around all ready to smite the sound creator with his Gentle Fist only to see Kiba.
"Geezers!" said Kiba, jumping back in surprise.
"What are you doing?" Neji said, lowering his hands.
"I just thought two heads would be better than one!" Kiba answered. "And you just so happened to be the first person I stumbled across!"
"Whatever…" said Neji, turning around only to see Ino standing in front of him.
"I'm nervous about being out there alone!" she whined. "Can we travel as a pack by any chance?"
"That's pathetic." Neji said. "And you call yourself a ninja?"
"Well, someday I plan on being a good ninja, but right now I haven't quite achieved that yet!" Ino said. "Until I have, I want to play it safe so I don't end up getting mortally wounded or killed or anything."
"I don't think anyone is going to kill or mortally wound you." Said Kiba.
"So what exactly are you two trying to do?" Ino asked. "Look for the flag or look for people to beat up?"
"Either one." Neji answered.
"Then it would be best for me to come with you!" Ino said. "That way, if you come across any girls, I could take care of them since I know guys hate hitting girls!"
Neji only glared at her. Apparently she didn't know about the Main House and the Branch House and the horrible hatred in the Hyuuga family.
Meanwhile, Tenten were leaping through the trees in search of a pink flag. She looked down to the ground where Lee was running parallel to her.
"See anything?" she called.
"Not yet!" Lee yelled back.
But then they both reached a clearing where Shino and Naruto were looking around.
"It's gotta be around here somewhere!!" said Naruto.
"It's NOT here." Said Shino. But then they both noticed Tenten and Lee.
"Aha!" Naruto yelled. "Come to check on the flag I see! Well you'll have to get through US first because we are going to get that flag!"
"The flag is here?!" Lee exclaimed.
"Of course!!" said Naruto.
"You're not fooling?" Lee asked.
"No way!" said Naruto. "You'd have to be an idiot not to know that the flag was around here somewhere!"
"I knew Naruto was stupid…but to just blurt out the location of their flag…" Tenten said quietly so only Lee could hear as she jumped down from the tree.
"I'm not arguing!" said Lee. "It only makes our job easier!"
"If you're not going to leave quietly so we can make our way to the flag then we'll have to fight you two!" said Tenten.
"Bring it on!" said Naruto enthusiastically. He looked behind him to get some back up from Shino only to discover that he was walking away. "Where are you going?!"
"It's been ten minutes." Shino answered. "We have to go back to the meeting spot to check in."
"WHAT?!" yelled Naruto. "Not NOW! We have a job to do!!"
"The flag's not going to go anywhere." Shino said.
"Oh, arrogant I see!" said Lee, shaking his fist at Shino. "You just wait! You go to your little meeting and when you come back, you'll see just how wrong you are!"
"Uh…huh." Said Shino skeptically.
"So you're actually leaving?!" Naruto demanded. Shino shrugged and continued walking away. Naruto grunted angrily, threw some lame yo mama insults at Tenten and Lee and then chased after Shino.
"I'm so mad!" said Lee, punching a fist into his palm. "I have half a mind to find them and beat them up!"
"Let's just find the flag." Said Tenten.
"YOU look for the flag, I'll take care of the two of them!" said Lee as he ran after Shino and Naruto.
"We have to stay together!" Tenten yelled. But Lee was LONG gone.
Meanwhile…
Shikamaru and Sakura were sitting near a little river, sighing, waiting and looking at the clouds.
Just then, Chouji emerged from the forest. Shikamaru immediately put up his hand seal and caught Chouji in his shadow.
"You won't be telling your teammates about where our flag is!" said Sakura.
"Sakura, you're not supposed to say that." Said Shikamaru, sounding irritated.
"So the flag is here?" said Chouji.
"Great job." Said Shikamaru to Sakura.
"Sorry!" said Sakura.
"Now I have to hold on to him for this entire competition to make sure he doesn't find the flag or tell everyone else where it is." Shikamaru sighed. "That's so troublesome."
He paused for a moment.
"Oh no." he said. "I'm low on chakra. Sakura, we have to get out of here because Chouji can beat us both since I don't have much chakra left and you might as well not have any chakra at all. On the count of three, we're going to break into a run. Chouji may be more powerful, but we're faster."
"But what about our flag, Shikamaru?!" said Sakura.
"We'll just hurry and get other people to back us up!" said Shikamaru as he dropped the jutsu and he and Sakura ran off again.
Chouji stood there for a moment and then decided that he wasn't going to hang around if more people were coming to back them up. So he darted back to the meeting spot to inform his team on his new find.
When he got there, everyone else was waiting.
"We were getting worried that you were incapacitated!" said Ino.
"I know where the flag is!" Chouji said.
"Yeah, so do we!" said Naruto, pointing in a random direction.
"No, the flag is over there." Said Chouji, pointing in a different direction that Naruto was point in.
The team paused.
"Okay…" said Neji. "We know they don't have TWO flags…so let's go to one area first and if there's no flag there then we'll know that the other place has the flag."
"Let's go to our area first!" said Naruto.
So they decided to go as a big mob where Shino and Naruto supposedly found their flag to find that Lee and Tenten were looking around.
"You ALL came to make sure we didn't find your flag?" said Tenten.
"You'll NEVER find our flag!" said Kiba.
"We already know where your flag is!" said Lee.
"You do?!" gasped Naruto.
"Yeah, DUH." Said Lee.
"I bet the other four are going to get it right now." Ino whispered to her team.
"We have to send some people back…" started Neji just as Sasuke and Hinata came running into the clearing.
"We found the flag, Sasuke!" said Lee.
"Oh." Said Sasuke as he noticed the entire Pink Team standing there. He wanted to fight them, not look for a flag.
"Okay…two people go back to the flag." Neji said to the team. After a quick discussion, Kiba and Naruto eventually ran off to guard the flag.
"Let's get rid of all these people so we can find the flag in peace!" said Lee.
"I was thinking the same thing." Said Sasuke.
"I'll take Neji!" said Lee enthusiastically. Neji wasn't about to claim who he was going to be 'taken' by, especially if it was Lee. He knew whom he was going after first. And he also knew whom he was going after second. And I'll tell you this much… Lee wasn't either of them.
Meanwhile, Naruto and Kiba reached the water that their flag was hidden in. They looked over the edge to see that it was still soundly sitting at the bottom.
"That's a relief." Said Naruto.
"They may know where it is, but they're not getting past us!" Kiba announced.
"Yeah!" said Naruto. "We'll beat anyone who gets in our way with our mad ninja powers!!"
"Oh yeah!" said Kiba.
The two sat there for a moment, not saying much.
"The others are probably doing a good job holding back the other team." Kiba said finally.
"I hope Sasuke somehow breaks through because I want to fight him!" said Naruto.
"There's no way he'd get past US!" said Kiba.
"I just want to say, though…" said Naruto. "If Sasuke DOES make it here then I want to fight him alone."
"I want to fight too!" said Kiba.
"If it's ANYONE else comes then you can fight them too, okay?" bargained Naruto.
"I guess…" said Kiba reluctantly. "But if Sasuke looks like he's about to beat you then I'm going to jump in and help."
"He's not going to beat me." Naruto assured the world.
Meanwhile…
"Shikamaru, I don't think your performance was very convincing." Said Sakura as she and Shikamaru found a new spot to hang out.
"I think it was." Said Shikamaru as he sat down. "As long as Chouji fell for it, then it doesn't matter how convincing it was. And trust me, Chouji believes anything I say."
"Whatever." Said Sakura. "How do you think our REAL flag is doing?"
"Well, considering the game is still going on then I would assume that it's still hidden." Shikamaru replied.
Meanwhile…
The battle commenced.
Lee charged at Neji who only stepped to the side and focused his attack on Hinata who was standing innocently off in another direction. She gasped and ducked her head just as Neji went to Gentle Fist her into next week.
"HEY!" said Lee. "I'M fighting you!"
Neji was too busy avenging his father again to even reply to Lee. He successfully landed a deciding blow on Hinata and knocked her out.
"There we go." said Neji in a satisfied tone.
"That was cheap." Said Sasuke, looking up from his current tiff with Shino. He didn't like how one of his teammates was now incapacitated.
"Don't worry, Sasuke, I'LL take care of him!" said Lee heroically. It was a good thing Lee said that, too, or else Sasuke would have run off to smite Neji and then Shino would have had a heart attack that someone else left his fight and then that would have been BAD!!
Ino and Chouji were fighting against Tenten. It was awfully hard for Tenten to hold her own against two people, especially since she was a little reluctant to throw sharp things at them in fear of impaling them and killing them. And, since Ino and Chouji work together ever so well, it wasn't long until Tenten was incapacitated.
"All right!" said Ino and Chouji as they slapped each other five.
"That's two…" said Sasuke in a frustrated tone. He looked at his options. Lee already said he was going to take care of Neji…Sasuke didn't really mind that since he didn't know how Neji fought anyway. Then there was Chouji… Sasuke wasn't about to pick on Chouji. The same went for Ino. They were just too weak for him. He looked at Shino who was all…"I'M SHINO!!!" but…Sasuke didn't know exactly how he was going to continue to go about—
"YAAA!!" yelled Lee as he ran up and started engaging himself in a fight with Shino. Sasuke stood there in silence for a moment and then he figured that this was his cue to run off and find Naruto.
As he was doing that, Neji suddenly appeared. "I've been waiting for this for a long time." Neji said.
"What makes you think that I'm going to fight you?" Sasuke said pompously.
"If you don't then I'll just incapacitate you." Neji said.
"Fine then." Said Sasuke, getting ready to fight. They were JUST about to engage in mortal combat when Lee all of a sudden came out of nowhere AGAIN!
"YAAA!!" he yelled as he dove down on top of Neji and started fighting with him. Sasuke looked back at Shino who was standing in the same spot. Shino shrugged so Sasuke turned around and ran past the brawling Neji and Lee to find Naruto.
It didn't take him very long.
"I told you it would happen!" said Naruto, springing up. "Remember, Kiba, don't get involved!"
"Whatever." Said Kiba, knowing that he WOULD have to get involved.
"Let's do this, Sasuke!" said Naruto.
Sasuke didn't reply. He only coolly got all ready and they both started charging. Suddenly, Naruto stopped dead in his tracks. "Hey!" said Naruto suddenly, but he was promptly silenced when he was kicked in the face by Sasuke.
Sasuke lowered his leg and looked to the side to see Shikamaru standing there with his hand seal up and his shadow attached to Naruto's. Shikamaru stopped the jutsu and retracted the shadow, and Naruto collapsed.
"That felt…unsatisfying." Said Sasuke.
"We could hear the fighting." Sakura said since she was there too.
"It's back there." Sasuke replied, pointing behind him.
"Then let's go." said Shikamaru. He, Sasuke and Sakura all ran off to go back to the fighting area.
Kiba looked at Akamaru. "Good job being quiet, Akamaru." He said, petting him on the head. "We're the only guards now. We have to make sure no one gets this flag."
Meanwhile, back at the brawling area, Neji had escaped Lee's wrath but Lee continued to chase after him.
"I want to fight you!!" Lee yelled.
"Geez…" Neji said, sounding a little annoyed as he stayed just one step ahead Lee at all times.
Shino, Ino and Chouji were just standing there. They didn't have anyone to fight and there was no way they were going to get Lee's attention. Thankfully, that's when Sakura, Sasuke and Shikamaru appeared!
"I got Ino!" said Sakura.
Sakura and Ino then ran off to engage themselves in a bitch fight.
"Sasuke, how about we entertain the same technique as before?" Shikamaru said to Sasuke. "I'll stop them and you incapacitate them."
"That seems like sort of a shameless way of winning." Sasuke said.
Shikamaru waited for him to continue. "…And?" he said when he didn't. "It's a good technique. That's how the Kagemane no Jutsu is supposed to be used."
Then Shino came over. "Sasuke, you left in the middle of our fight." He said.
Shikamaru looked at Sasuke for approval as he raised his hand seal. Sasuke rolled his eyes and nodded. So Shikamaru used his Kagemane no Jutsu and caught Shino.
Just when Sasuke was about to deliver the blows that would be required to sufficiently incapacitate Shino, he looked down at his feet to see that a bunch of bugs were crawling up his legs. He shook his legs a little bit in attempt to get them off and then jumped away from the area.
"Shikamaru." Said Sasuke. "I thought you were going to stop him."
"You can stop me but you can't stop my bugs." Said Shino.
Sasuke hardly suppressed the urge to say, "Eww…"
"Then this is pointless." Said Shikamaru as he let the jutsu go.
"All right, Shikamaru, this is your fight." Said Sasuke. "I respect that."
"What?" said Shikamaru but Sasuke had already taken off.
Shino didn't care WHO he fought, he just wanted to fight someone!! So he decided to sick his bugs on Shikamaru.
Sasuke knew that he had to knock out at least one more person since he was pretty much positive that Shino was going to take out Shikamaru and, if Lee kept chasing after Neji, Neji would eventually turn around and pummel Lee. As for Sakura…well, ANYONE could take out Sakura. So he had to thin the numbers down before they all teamed up on him once his team was completely obliterated. He figured that Chouji was his best bet especially since he was only kind of standing there obliviously at the time.
Sakura and Ino were engaged in their fight when they jumped back from each other to take a breather and put their forehead protectors in the right spot so that the fight would be SERIOUS! Just as Ino was reaching for her forehead protector, a huge rotund mass crashed into her at top speed, knocking her to the ground.
It was Chouji.
Chouji landed on top of Ino and crushed all of her internal organs. But not really. Instead, he just knocked her out. And, since he had been previously kicked by Sasuke, he was also knocked out! A DOUBLE HIT!!
"Sasuke!" swooned Sakura. "You saved me!"
"I have knocked out all three of their team members." Said Sasuke. "Should I go after Neji or Shino or…" Then he stopped and looked around. "Or… hey, Sakura? Shouldn't they have a sixth person?"
"Um…" Sakura said, looking around. She spotted Lee chasing Neji and she spotted Shino engaged in a small, low key battle with Shikamaru. But she didn't see anyone else clad in pink. "They SHOULD…who's not here…?"
Just then, Kiba came leaping out of the trees holding a blue flag high above his head. "Hey guys!" he said. "What am I supposed to do with the flag once I've found it?"
Everyone looked at him.
"HE FOUND OUR FLAG!!" yelled Lee, slapping his cheeks.
"You have to go to the teachers!" said Neji. Kiba nodded and took off. Shikamaru tried extending his shadow to catch him, but Kiba went off a little too fast.
"We have to stop him!!" said Sakura to her team.
"Lee, Sasuke," said Shikamaru. "You two are the fast ones."
"RIGHT!!" yelled Lee as he looked like he was going to run off. Sasuke rolled his eyes and ran off.
"Lee!" said Neji. "Um…fight me!"
Lee immediately stopped and turned around. "You got it!" he said.
"Don't do that Lee!" said Sakura. "Remember the flag?! Remember?!"
"But…" Lee said, torn in two. He wanted to stop Kiba but he wanted to fight Neji SO BADLY…
"Come on, Lee, don't you want to fight me?" said Neji.
"Lee!" Sakura whined.
"Sasuke will get the flag!" Lee assured Sakura as he got in his fighter stance.
Sasuke was catching up with Kiba very quickly. He was fast approaching the figure of Kiba speeding off as fast as he could. Not fast enough. Sasuke leapt forward and grabbed Kiba's legs, knocking him on his face. "All right, Kiba, I'll be taking that flag back." He said.
Kiba looked up at him and suddenly poofed. As Sasuke looked on, intrigued, the smoke cleared and Akamaru was lying there barking happily.
"No…way…" Sasuke said, feeling really stupid.
Then he heard laughter and upon looking up, he spotted Kiba.
"Haha!" he laughed. "You fell for it!!" Then Kiba caught sight of Sasuke determined and slightly evil glare and realized that he probably should have been running the whole time so he turned around and ran off.
Just as Sasuke was about to chase after him, Shino dropped down from a tree.
"We're finishing our fight now." Said Shino.
"Move." Said Sasuke.
Neither of them moved.
"Please move." Sasuke tried.
"No." said Shino. "We have to finish our fight."
"I have to catch Kiba." Said Sasuke.
"After our fight." Shino said.
"Fine." Said Sasuke. "I'll end this quickly."
Kiba was speeding as fast as he could. He kept looking behind him but couldn't see any sign of Sasuke and he definitely couldn't SMELL any sign of Sasuke so he figured he was in the clear but he kept running fast anyway. Akamaru quickly caught up with him too.
"Good job, Akamaru!" said Kiba. "Now we just have to find the teachers!"
Then he spotted the four of them.
"Oh, here they are." He said, running up to them.
"Hi Kiba!" said Kurenai.
"I found the flag!" he said, holding up the flag triumphantly.
"So you did!" said Gai. "I guess the Pink Team wins!"
"YAHOO!!" cheered Kiba.
The four teachers gathered all the students back to a little area where all the incapacitated people recovered magically.
"How'd you do it, Kiba?" asked Naruto.
"Well, I got bored with just guarding the flag." Said Kiba. "So I sniffed the blue one out in about three seconds and brought it back to where everyone else was!"
"Why didn't we think of that from the beginning?" wondered Ino.
"All right!!" said Asuma. "We have discussed it and decided who should get the MVP award on each team."
"For the Pink Team…KIBA!" said Kakashi.
"HURRAY!" cheered Kiba. "I feel so special!"
"He deserves it!" said Chouji.
"I deserve it." said Naruto, crossing his arms and pouting.
"And for the Blue Team…" Gai started. "It was a hard choice between Shikamaru and Sasuke… but in the end… we decided on Sakura."
"What?" said everyone.
"Why SAKURA?" said Sasuke, looking offended.
"Come on, Sasuke, she has, like, no chance of getting an MVP award for real." Kurenai whispered.
"Um…yay?" said Sakura. It felt kind of like an empty award.
"Well, I'm glad we had this little game to distract you from fighting that the life of a ninja demands." Kakashi said.
"Except half of the game was based solely around fighting." Kiba pointed out.
"Right!" said Kakashi. "EXCEPT for that!" Then they all chuckled warmly as a black circle engulfed them.