Naruto Primer Lost Chapter: Shikamaru/Shino/Tenten
Height Requirement
Many people realized that we neglected to do a chapter for these three hanging out. We did a Kiba/Naruto/Neji one, a Sasuke/Lee/Sakura one and a Chouji/Ino/Hinata one. Why didn't we finish it off with the remaining characters? Because…they're BORING. Shikamaru can stare at the clouds all day, Shino never speaks and Tenten (say it with me this time) has no character development whatsoever! But 'tis our duty.
Shikamaru had left the restaurant early because he felt that sitting around watching Chouji eat was boring.
Shino was engaged in his daily bug hunt.
Tenten was hopping mad because someone had destroyed her Hover Disk.
Of course, like everyone else, these three happened to meet. They stood there and stared at each other for a minute or two when, all of a sudden, a bus pulled up and an old guy walked out.
Then he started dancing around crazily like a fool to some insane music that had seemingly come out of nowhere. Tenten, Shino and Shikamaru shrugged and punched the air.
"WE'RE GOIN' TO SIX FLAGS!!" they exclaimed as they all piled on the bus.
Upon reaching Six Flags, they quickly ditched the old guy and started making their way around on their own. Tenten picked up a little brochure that showed a map of the whole park and the three started looking curiously at it to decide which ride they wished to partake on.
"How about the Superman ride?" Tenten suggested.
"The Superman ride?" sighed Shikamaru.
"Whatever." Said Shino.
So, because they had one vote FOR, and the other two failed to voice which way they cared about, they made their way over to the line. While they were waiting in the line, they came across a huge life size portrait of Superman with his hand out, implying that one had to be a certain height to ride the ride. Now, this particular height just so happened to be five foot four.
"Aw man," said Shikamaru. "That's troublesome. None of us are tall enough to ride this ride."
"That's so lame!" said Tenten. "We're just too short by a few inches!"
"Maybe they won't notice." Shino said. "Shikamaru's hair makes him look taller. So does mine."
"Yeah but I don't want to have to wait in this line for however long we're going to have to only to be turned away once we get to the front!" Tenten said.
"All right." Said Shikamaru. "What other rides are there?"
"There's the Time Warp." Tenten answered, opening the map up again. "I heard that was fun."
"Let's go to that." Shino said.
So the trio walked across the park and got in line for the Time Warp. Once again, they were faced with a height chart that demanded they be at least five foot two.
"What is this?!" demanded Tenten. "Are they purposely trying to make it so that short people can't go on this ride?!"
"I think they're making it so that children can't go on the ride and break their necks." Shino said.
"We're not going to break our necks." Tenten said. "We're ninjas."
"THEY don't know that." Shino reminded her.
"Okay, okay, so Time Warp is out of the question." Tenten sighed, opening the map up again. "What now?"
"How about the Mind Eraser?" Shikamaru said, pointing to one of the rides pictured on the map.
"I wonder if there's any way to find out how tall you have to be to ride the rides without actually having to walk over there and find out." Shino said as he scanned the front of the map. When he didn't find one, they all shrugged at each other and went over to the Mind Eraser.
"I wish I was just a few inches taller!" whined Tenten when they found that the height requirement was that they be at LEAST five two.
"Is there ANY ride we can go on at our present heights?" Shikamaru wondered aloud.
No sooner had he said that than they found themselves riding on the Dumbos.
"This is dumb." Said Tenten once the ride ended and they all got out. "They make rides for teenagers and for little kids but nothing for the void in the middle! Namely, US!"
"I'm sure if we looked hard enough, we'd be able to find one." Shino said.
"We shouldn't have to look that hard." Tenten said. "We're at an amusement park! Aren't most kids at an amusement park our age? Why wouldn't there be an abundance of rides for us?"
"You shouldn't take it all so personally." Shikamaru said.
"I want to see the manager!" Tenten announced.
"No, that's troublesome." Shikamaru sighed.
"What are we supposed to do for fun?" complained Tenten.
"Let's spar." Shino suggested.
Shikamaru and Tenten looked at him and then at each other. On cue, they all shrugged and commenced their sparing right then and there.