Chapter 3 : Let the games begin!
Hiya again, I think this will be my hardest chapter to do..hmm I have to plan this, and be clever….gods I have no hope heehee! Ill give it a go anyway, so if this is worse than the other two ahhh iv tried. Ok read and review!
Shikamaru couldn't help but think 'How troublesome.'
"Team Kyuubi!" Asuma yelled at the team "Come over here!"
Naruto led the way to Asuma, "I will be telling you which sensei's you will have, Team Kyuubi will have Kakashi and Me!" He laughed, "Team Silver Wolf has Gai and Kurenai! They will lead you to your main den, neither of us know were each others is, so its fare, we cant help you that much."
They broke up into the two teams.
"Hey, hey! Lets get started!" Naruto yelled punching the air, forgetting about the heat wave and how tired he was, "Sasuke I'm gone-a Kick your ass!" He yelled triumphantly, sycing himself up to the challenge.
Shikamaru appeared behind him and grabbed his blonde hair dragging him back to were the group was stationed.
"Right, you wearisome lot" Asume clapped his hands together, "Kakashi will escort you to your main den, right?" He gave a side glance at a bored looking jounin, his eyes cast downwards at a small folded book held open between his fingers.
"Yeah yeah" Kakashi answered, "Keep up you don't want the other team to no which way we are going, try not to leave tracks Asume, your bringing the ammo?"
Asume nodded and was gone in a wisp of dust, he landed on the other side next to Kurenai and Gai, he whispered in there ear then looked back to collect the balloons.
Naruto had to tear his eyes away from the other group, Ino Shino had already set of after Kakashi. Hinata trailed behind with Naruto, nudging him on the shoulder to bring him up to date on what's happening. He gave her a quick smile and then set of after his moving team.
Now from Team Silver Wolf's point of view
Sasuke listened closely to the main teachings Kurenai was telling them, looking over his team mates faces as they all had a gleam in there eye to let the games begin.
Lee had a serious 'the worlds going to end if we don't win' expression etched in his face.
Kiba stared un interested at the Sensei, Gai set up the balloons he was going to take in a clever jutsu that was specially made for this purpose.
"Now I will show you you're base, right!" Kurenai smiled, turning her body on the group and jumping into the forest the opposite direction in which Team Kyuubi left of.
They sped high speed into the depth of the woodland, trees grew narrower and leaves blocked out most of the wild sun's rays. Sasuke followed closest behind Kurenai with Sakura, Kiba, Akamaru, Lee and Tenten.
The journey seemed to last for a long time, weaving in and out of dry parched tree trunks, the air was still, the forest seemed to hum.
Kurenai skidded to a halt beside a fallen tree, she jumped over it and landed with a thump on some rock, cracks and holes dotted the area, loads of secret tunnels and hiding places riddled the surroundings. They each made the leap over the fallen trunk landing curiously on the hard surface.
Kurenai put her hands on her hips, flicking her black hair out of her eyes she nodded at Team Silver Wolf..
"This will be your den, know your surroundings, scout the area, get a good idea of land form and your advantages and disadvantages, you can or don't want to use this place but we advise you to do it, you wouldn't want to waste time on finding a descent place.
Gai sensei will be here in a second, I'll leave you to get to business." She hopped onto the fallen log and waited silently watching the actions of the team.
Akamaru sniffed the ground following his nose around the area, Kiba's brow was furrowed,
"Hey! Who's the team leader?" He shouted across the rocky hide-out.
They all stopped and turned, Sakura piped up, "Sasuke kun of course!"
Sasuke kept to himself resuming to his scouting. Kiba scowled, Lee looked questionably at the rest.
"Well….whoever can come up with good strategy and fighting skills should do it!" Lee shouted at them, looking over at Sasuke. Akamaru barked his agreement. Kiba's scowl turned worse.
"Fine…we'll take orders from the loner over there." He crossed his arms and winked at Sasuke, he flashed his fangs in a grin.
"Akamaru can you explore the tunnels underground, kiba scout the edge of our hideout, Sakura find blind spots in our vision and set up ambush attacks and watch outs….Lee you'll be one of the main gaurds and attacks of the balloons…Tenten your sneak attack, a backup batch if you can find a chance to get them from behind…." Sasuke didn't waste anytime sorting everyone out, Akamaru set of to work sniffing in and out of tunnels. Sasuke jumped off after Kiba so that he can get a rough idea of the area.
"I want all of you to explore the area, we all need the advantage!" He called, turning his head whilst jumping over the fallen trunk and disappeared from view.
Gai turned up a minute later a shimmer chakra surrounding the 50 odd water balloons which hovered in the air around him he slowly lowered them to the ground Tenten looked them over, she gazed over the crater filled den, strategy buzzed in her brain to see were was the best place to keep the limited amount of ammo.
Gai wiped sweat beads of his forehead and joined Kurenai on the fallen trunk.
"This'll be interesting." he noted,
"Hmm." Kurenai nodded in agreement.
They waited until every team member was back from their assigned jobs, Gai jumped down and landed behind Lee. Kurenai followed suit.
They said one simple line…
"Let the games begin!" they said in union.
Team kyuubi
They headed further away from the clearing jumping from branch to branch legs pumping to follow Kakashi's lead. They ran in silence for a while, Hinata taking up the rear of the moving team. Kakashi hooked his arm on an overhanging branch and swung himself upwards into the tree tops, Shikamaru came to a halt and followed with the rest, weaving in and out of the kindling propelling themselves higher on the thick trunk tree.
Kakashi crouched on one of the hidden branches stopping to wait for the Team, they each dropped onto the branch crouching onto the wide cracked surface.
"Why the hell are we here?" Naruto inquired above the rest.
"hehe, I thought you'd ask that….well it may not look much but this is your base…" Kakashi swiped his arm around to show them the area, "Well," He smiled, "The base is technically not here," he turned around and hopped onto a higher branch a small opening which was hidden from first glance, he pushed aside the camouflage and pointed promptly at the small gap, "This is your den, inside is a open space the perfect size to keep all of you."
He landed back down on the branch, "I'm sure all of you guys already no how to collect your Chakra into your feet to scale the tree quickly, you have an advantage here….you have control of the height you can move quickly through tree tops, plus you have a chance for bombing the 'enemy'. So…once Asuma sensei comes we will tell you when to begin, I
advise you scout the area and find ambush points and get to know your territory so that you have a ruff idea…well then that is everything to say, u best get some things sorted out yeah?"
"Right! Naruto beamed punching the air.
"Shikamaru should be our team leader! He is so clever!" Chouji added to the group.
Shikamaru scowled 'Why me..' but to see the look on his best friends face he just had to agree with him. "Yeah whatever." He waved the comment away.
"So….commander...what shall we do?" Ino asked with unnecessary innocence. Shino looked blank, awaiting the main strategy plan from Shikamaru.
"Hmm…Shino, I want your bugs to explore the surroundings and keep watch, set traps along the branches and along the ground keep them hidden….Ino I want you to scout as well and find the best spots for visual advantages for us…Chouji, your our main hit point so I want you to search the grounds, note if there are leaves and how closely the trees grow together…Hinata, I want you to be a look out get to know the area well, we will be relying on you….right urr Naruto, you will also be one of our attackers and spies….wait….you cant be a spy, you were bright orange and your too loud… I have already thought of 100 advantages and tactics we can use."
"yeah!" Naruto gave a good guy pose with a thumbs up, Just happy for being in attack.
Kakashi appeared holding his 'Come Come Paradise' book, his eyes cast downwards uninterested in other proceedings.
Asuma hopped onto the branch, a horde of wobbling balloons floating beside him, he winked at Shikamaru.
"So, I heard that you will be leading yeah?" Asuma turned to Shikamaru, a cigarette coming out the side of his mouth.
Shikamaru nodded, he indicated with his index finger were to place the floating bombs without a word.
"I want to separate the batch of bombs into piles hidden in to selected trees around our territory," Shikamaru shrugged as he jumped of the branch and disappeared to look for the certain trees.
Asuma, Kakashi and Naruto were left in the main branches when Hinata jumped down from the above branch she crouched on the wood.
"Were is Shikamaru-Kun?" She asked at no one in particular (cough cough Naruto cough)
"Oh...he went to find some tree things do to…something." Naruto grinned and rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. Hinata sweat dropped…'How could I be angry at a face like that..' She blushed at her thoughts.
"Hinata kun are you alright?" Naruto asked innocently after noticing her red cheeks on her usual pale skin tone.
"y..yeah thanks for asking Naruto Kun." She gave a shy smile.
"Ahh young love, I remember you to be a ladies man yourself Kakashi!" Asuma broke the Kawaii moment with a chortle.
Kakashi jumped from his stance and landed with a blur behind Asuma, he knocked his head to the side with his knuckles, "Baka." Kakashi answered simply.
Naruto gave a cheeky grin completely ignoring the first part of Asuma's sentence.
"Hey hey Kakashi san! Were you really?" He shouted at the Jounin.
Kakashi sighed, mentally wishing that Asuma hadn't opened his big mouth and given him the trouble of answering the pesky Fox boy.
"WELL WELL?" Naruto shouted impatiently curious to know about his past.
Kakashi stared at Naruto without blinking, "I have know reason to answer that…"
Asuma chuckled, "He's a player." He leaned in on Naruto's ear and whispered loudly from behind his hand, making sure a certain jounin would hear. Kakashi halted in his tracks, he slowly turned his head, a piercing stare cut the atmosphere like a knife through butter. Asuma quivered under the intensity of it.
Ino and Chouji jumped onto the branch.
"Hey! We….." Ino cut herself off, she looked at the scene in front of her it was deathly quiet Kakashi was glaring at Asuma who's face wanted to cry and laugh at the same time, which resulted in a amusing expression. Naruto was looking confused and Hinata was staying out the way trying to blend in with the background. Even Chouji could sense the tension in the air, he could practically see it, never had he seen Kakashi pissed, or even glare before!
"Uhh right……" Ino broke the silence impossible for her to be quiet for a long time, "Were is that lazy ass we call a leader?"
"Oh that's nice…"Shikamaru's voice dripped with sarcasm entered the conversation. He appeared from behind a tree trunk, strolling over to the 'happy family'.
"Hey speak of the devil!" Ino yelled watching the muttering chounin walk over.
"Asuma sensei, can you follow me with the ammo…" Asuma, happy to get away from the flying daggers coming from Kakashi, he hopped away after Shikamaru.
They got their ammo sorted and posts, Shikamaru would be at the outside post with Chouji, since he can work with him. Shino reported back his bugs hidden around the area so that they will get a warning before Team Silver Wolf attacks.
Naruto would be in the centre Ino also being in a hidden attack to capture them in her special jutsu.
Kakashi and Asuma said in union as Team Kyuubi was about to kick off.
"Let the games begin!"
HIYA! This took a while to type so I hope you like it! I wasn't sure about the 'Kun' 'san' stuff so ill be grateful if you guys tell me! Thanx! Yer so I hope you liked it, im rubbish at keeping anime secrets…I wana tell you soooo bad! AHHHH its..no….cant say, sorry, you have to keep reading and watch me torture myself! Lol
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