Chapter 4: Tactics and Water!
Yo, this is my fourth chapter thanks for all your reviews (again!) I'm chuffed now J Right so let me get on with it, im sure you don't want to be delayed any further hehe! Gods, its going to my head!.
The games begun,
"Everyone positions!" Shikamaru yelled at his team mates they rushed off to their dedicated piles of balloons, Shino had a couple of his balloons strapped in his coat hidden for a sneak attack, Ino automatically hid herself at the outskirts of the clearing sitting cross legged on a thinly non noticeable branch.
Chouji put on a determined face, he wiped his brow, the sun had gotten to him the most.
Shino flicked his wrist at Shikamaru through the bustle of leaves that separated them that was the signal. Shikamaru sent the signal to the members of the team they all nodded understandingly, Shino had sensed the other team using his bugs to send him the warning. Shikamaru smiled cunningly, they had no clue what they were in for…
Sasuke sped across the ground, a couple of balloons strapped to his legs and waist, of course you had to be a fool to go into enemy territory without research about the area, but of course they didn't know where the enemy was.
Kiba led the way moving from the earth to the tree branches, following his nose were he caught the slightest scent of the other team. Akamaru was behind him with Tenten, the weapons master she would give them an advantage with aim and accuracy. She followed Kiba through the forest, she had her share of water bombs plus with her weapons her mission was to find the other teams balloons and burst them, but she new that wouldn't be easy.
"So, what's happening with you and Neji anyway?" Kiba asked out the blue,
"Huh?" Tenten was took off guard, Kiba suddenly asked her such an unnatural question.
He smirked, "Nah, I just thought id tease you a bit," He flashed his canines in a grin, "But…considering that answer I would think I was right yeah?" Kiba turned his back to her as he smelt the air again.
"What!" Tenten yelled suddenly getting annoyed, "There is absolutely nothing going on!" Her face went red.
Kiba turned his head again, "So that's why you spend so much time together then?" He asked purposely sounding innocent.
"That's training!" Tenten was fuming, "Why do you care then dog boy?" she raged at him.
"huh, just thought id make conversation…actually…" He snorted, Akamaru followed closely by him sniffing the forest floor.
"hmm…that's not something to talk about, and anyway, do you like anyone dog boy?" Tenten asked coolly, but unable to wipe the blush which was stuck on her face.
"Nah, but…" He turned around to meet her eyes, "There is so much more…" He leaned in closer to her, she blushed more, locking her gaze with his until they were inches apart, he whispered………….."Fun In Teasing YOU!"
Kiba roared at her expression, his mouth turned up in a big grin, he gripped his stomach from the pain of laughing. Tenten grew rapidly pissed, he made a fool of her! 'The bastard!' she thought angrily.
She glared daggers at him, but this only made him laugh more,
"You…..should HAHAHAH….have…..seen…HAHAHA.. your face!" He gasped through the fits of laughter. Tenten took out her short dagger, and then re-thinking for a bigger pointier object.
She smashed a fist into the side of his head knocking him over onto the dirt and leaves, a black aura was surrounding her, Kiba backed away on the ground 'shit…iv done it now.'
"KIBAAA" Tenten growled from behind the thickest of her aura, Akamaru whined at Tenten.
"What's going on here?" A voice interrupted them
'Oh thank god thank you soo much!' Kiba thought as he saw the person come into his vision. Lee jumped in behind Kiba obviously sensing his distress.
"What's going on here?" He asked again, seeing Tenten look so...so…evil…
"HIM.." she pointed a shaky finger at Kiba, who tried to put on a face of blamelessness.
"Ummm…." Lee began, not wanting to know what was going on, "Sasuke wants to know if you found a scent yet?" He asked ready to leave because Tenten was really freaking him out, "Look," he added "I don't know what's been going on…but…this is SO IMPORTANT!" he shouted pulling the good guy pose flashing his teeth.
"Umm…not yet.." Kiba whimpered.
"Urr…Tenten do you want another mission?" Lee asked quietly.
"No" she answered simply, 'I'm going to make him pay…' she thought to herself even though he could see it in her eyes.
Sakura was with Sasuke getting the balloons ready for combat, some were hidden amongst the holes and crevices in the rock. He already had a ruff idea of the surroundings and had sent Kiba and Tenten to catch which way the other team was and had also sent off Lee to report on the progress. Sakura worked quietly and determinedly with Sasuke.
Sasuke hopped away with some balloons strapped to him, he came back now and again to check up on the situation.
"Yo, you want to do something else?" Sasuke appeared behind her, shocking her she nearly dropped a cloud patterned balloon.
"Ye..yes Sasuke-kun?" She stuttered.
"I want you to set line traps along the trees and forest floor touch sensitive." he added blankly, "That is, if you want to."
"Yeah yeah sure I will." she smiled up at him.
Shino read his bugs vibrations, he could understand what they were trying to say.
"They say….a girl with a boy…..and a dog." Shino said simply listening to the bugs around his hand.
"That's defiantly Kiba!" Naruto said proud of himself for working that out.
"The girl could be either Sakura or Tenten, Shino can you ask them if the girl has a big forehead?" Ino asked plainly.
Shikamaru waved her comment away, "Do they have any of there ammo on them?"
Shino emitted low vibrations from his throat at the crawling bugs on his fingertips.
"They say that the girl is carrying weapons and some balloons, a green boy came as well but he left." Shino translated for the group.
"Hmm…that sounds like Tenten, she's obviously trying to find our stash of balloons and burst them…Kiba is known for his brilliant smelling technique, he's probably trying to smell us out…but that's probably…"
They all looked at the genius chounin, 'probably' that thought in union, he worked out everything that they were doing!
"Hinata come with me.." Shikamaru indicated with his hand, he jumped to the next branch, "You lot stay here till we report back," He strapped on a couple of balloons and set off.
Hinata hesitated, 'Why does he want me with him?' she asked herself. But set off reluctantly after him. They jumped from branch to branch in silence until Shikamaru halted her by putting a hand up, then a finger to his lips 'shhh'.
Hinata nodded she hopped onto the branch and crouched next to him then followed his gaze to the spot were two individuals could be seen.
'It seems that Kiba hasn't noticed us because he's being pre-occupied' Shikamaru thought 'We have to strike now before he does.'
Hinata saw Kiba dodging flying daggers aimed at his head. Tenten stood their growling at him.
"Bastard!" They heard her yell.
"Wow wow calm down it was only a joke!" Kiba leaped out the way of another wizzing Kunai.
"It wasn't funny!" She took a shuriken off her back and let it spin towards him.
"Fuck!" Kiba shouted jumping in the air to pass it.
Shikamaru pulled a face, 'we could just leave them to kill each other' he thought to himself.
He turned to Hinata who was watching the fight with great interest,
"When I signal, jump around to the other side of them and ill give you a second signal ill use my shadownojutsu to get Tenten you hit Kiba with the balloons got it?" he whispered quickly.
She nodded at him and waited with concentration at his movements.
Tenten through down some Makabishi towards his feet. Akamaru growled as Kiba jumped back to avoid it.
"God damnit! Were on the same team!" he shouted at her.
Tenten snorted, she ran towards Kiba a Kunai grasped in her hand. Kiba stretched out his hand and caught the Kunai whilst still in her hand, he squeezed harder, blood dripped down his arm.
Shikamaru flicked his wrist and Hinata jumped around the fight and onto the other side, Shikamaru made his way into the shadows.
"Wha…what?" Tenten asked startled, he didn't dodge it or strike back, his eyes flinched with pain.
"Look.Im sorry ok? I didn't think you would be that upset." His face winced again at his hand being cut.
Tenten stood still with shock and respect, a smile twitched at the edges of her mouth,
"You know. I really wanted to kill you." She smiled
"Huh" He choked out a laugh, "Well, I did kinda get that impression!" Kiba joked. Akamaru barked warningly at Kiba.
Shikamaru flicked his wrist again.
Tenten began to shake unable to move against the jutsu, Kiba stood on alert. Hinata threw a bomb directly behind Kiba to hit his back ,Akamaru jumped up and pushed Kiba out the way of eviction.
'Damn it! I missed my chance, I really have to stop watching soaps, those two got me hooked.' Shikamaru thought angrily to himself.
He stayed were he was using his shadow jutsu to trap Tenten, he slowly took out a strapped on balloon, moving her arm as well.
'shit' Tenten cursed in her head, 'I'm vulnerable, ill have to rely on Kiba.' She grunted with the strain.
Kiba saw the two attacks, he didn't know if their were more ambushes going to come or how many of them surrounded them. He didn't even have any balloons to carry because his nails were to sharp to hold them with.
Akamaru growled in the direction of Hinata, she moved to a different spot...always on the move to try confuse the keen smelling dog.
She let fly a kunai which skimmed his shoulder, then jumped around to hide her position again.
"Shit!" He cursed, he circled around trying to catch her position, he glanced over at Tenten who was trembling, her eyes in shock.
"Move!" he yelled frustrated. She gritted her teeth in aggravation.
'You stupid baka, don't you see that I'm under control.' she thought angrily.
Hinata watched Kiba flick Kunai's in his hands through the leaves, he let one or two loose very close to were Hinata was, it whistled by her head. Hinata let loose another kunai at Kiba from behind him, he jumped in the air and span landing so that he faced the attack.
She shot a dagger at Tenten, mostly to see what Kiba would do, of course she didn't aim it critically just to her shoulder or arm. His eyes caught the gleam of it as it shot past him and towards a shaken Tenten, she looked it straight down.
Kiba leaped with a grunt towards the path of the flying dagger, he landed in front of her, face grimaced for the pain to come shortly at him. Her eyes widened, 'Is this the cocky loud mouthed Kiba that I know?'
Shikamaru used this as a decoy to attack, even though he wanted to see what would happen and really didn't want to upset the moment. He lobbed the balloon at Tenten's back, she froze.
Kiba held out his hand gritting his teeth as the Kunai pierced his skin in his soft palm
He grunted. Tenten felt cold on her back Shikamaru smirked 'that was easy' he saw the patch on her wet back were it struck.
Kiba wheeled around and saw the pieces of colourful shreds of balloon and Tenten looking taken aback.
He pulled the Kunai from his hand in front of her, blood seeped down his arm and dropped onto the ground, he clenched his fists.
"Bastard!" Kiba roared. He lunged into the trees forgetting about Hinata. Shikamaru jumped away, Kiba was hot on his tail, ripping apart branches which got in the way.
Tenten was released from the shadow jutsu she stumbled on her feet, touching her wet back cautiously, her heart dropped into the pit of her stomach.
'Damn I'm the first one to go…how humiliating…I hope Kiba is alright….' she looked around, she sensed a presence.
Gai was standing leaning against the tree behind her, he smiled warmly at his student.
"You were watching this whole time?" she asked tiredly. He nodded and walked over to her.
"Look, don't take it bad ok?" He answered the thoughts in her mind, "Its not humiliating, if that's what your thinking.." he told her patting her on the shoulder.
"I feel so pathetic Gai sensei, I mean…I knew that there will be one person to go first but I didn't think I was that weak to let it happen to me.." she answered truthfully .
"Hehe," he laughed "Your not weak, you just ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time, and if I'm not mistaken that Kiba boy is out to avenge you..hehehe" He chuckled, "Know if got to go and see what the outcome of their fight will be! Ahhh the fresh flames of youth!" And with that he disappeared in a whirl of dust.
Tenten pulled herself together and followed the path which Kiba and Shikamaru left of at.
Hinata watched until Tenten left the site, she turned back and sped back to the base to tell the rest what happened.
Shikamaru hopped through the branches, he heard Kiba and Akamaru behind him.
'Damn, I don't want another fight, plus he seems really pissed off… need to lose him somehow…' he heard Kiba bawl curses at him. He looped his arm on a overhanging branch and swung himself up.
He flipped around and ran in the opposite direction higher than Kiba's level of the branches.
'shitshitshitshitshitshitshitshit' he thought quickly, stepping fast from branch to branch. Kiba shot up through the twigs and branched landing in front of Shikamaru who skidded to a halt.
His eyes gleamed. Cracking his knuckled together he jumped up and pulled his arm back into a fist, leaping toward the lazy nin. Shikamaru stepped out the way as Kiba flew past him hitting the trunk of a tree blowing a hole in the wood. He growled. Akamaru lunged at him teeth bared.
"Hey! Why you so pissed anyway?" He yelled at him as he flipped up to dodge a side kick.
"You took…" He jumped "Down my team mate……" he gritted his teeth showing his fangs, "Like a Coward!" He brought his foot around and smacked the side of Shikamaru, sending him flying crashing into thick branches his back bare to the impact. His eyebrows knotted together with the shaking pain.
Kiba stood their panting one eye closed.
"You wont hit me again." Shikamaru said bluntly.
"Heh…" he laughed, "Stop your talking genius!" His face twisted with a sneer.
Tenten could hear the commotion ringing through the forest, she followed the crashes and curses till she saw the back of Kiba and Akamaru sending Kunai's at a dodging Shikamaru.
'So it was him who got me.' She thought, she new that she couldn't get involved anymore,
"Crap…" she whispered under her breath. She shouted out at Kiba which made him turn around quickly and caught site of her face.
"See…I hope you will be able to forgive me now.." He said with his back now turned away from her, not trusting Shikamaru to let his eyes off him.
"And I'm not the sentimental type…so think this as a one time thing, its rare for me…" he said again twisting his head around just so she could see him smirk.
She smiled then cast her eyes down to his bleeding hand, there's not much she can do now but she'll do something. Taking bandages out of her back pocket bag she held in her hand and jumped forward, stepping next to Kiba. She took his hand without saying anything.
Kiba looked confused at her holding his hand warmly.
"Wh.."
"Don't ask" She interrupted. Tenten pulled out the bandages and roughly rapped the bandages around the wound putting pressure on it enough so that it would slow the bleeding and hopefully pull the skin together so that it would heal. The white of it was already stained red.
She let go of his hand. Kiba's features softened…
"And I thought you were going soft on me then..!" he smirked flexing his hand, examining it.
"Hei, there's only so much I can do now, but I can always help out a team mate!" She smiled looking straight ahead at Shikamaru.
"You two done?" He shouted. Tenten jumped away into the side lines catching a glimpse of Gai move fast in the tree leaves.
Shikamaru ran into the shadows crouching down on the balls of his feet. He waited patiently to see what move Kiba would do. 'He would be a fool to come into the shadows' He thought. 'Plus, he cant carry the balloons that well' It all seemed to be an advantage to him. He squatted there unwearyingly.
Kiba grunted, I cant go there. He whipped out three kunai's in his fingers shooting them at him. Shikamaru rolled to his side, jumped up and through up his arm to protect his face as it buried itself deep in his arm muscle.
He gasped with the piercing, pulling it out quickly he ripped off a part of his shirt and wrapped it tightly around his arm.
"So…I guess I did hit you." Kiba laughed.
Shikamaru laughed before turning into a puff of smoke.
"What the fuck!" Kiba yelled at the empty space.
"He used a Henge!" Tenten shouted.
Kia wheeled around blindly, circling looking for the lazy nin which hid somewhere.
Hinata got back to the plotting group, well, not really they were teasing Naruto who was shouting at them getting angry.
"N..naruto-kun?" Hinata appeared, losing her confidence back to her shy stutter.
"Yo, how'd it go? Were is that lazy ass?" Naruto asked forgetting about the other teams insults.
"I..I'll tell you all," she said at them all, the attention was kind of nerving for her.
The team looked expectantly at her.
"W..well, Shikamaru-kun got Tenten in the b..back with a balloon, a..and Kiba-kun went really mad and ran after him…" She summarized through her stuttering.
"Nice one lazy ass!" Naruto said to an absence Shikamaru. Hinata looked worried still..
"N...Naruto-kun…I…I don't think Kiba kun will be so easy to beat," She new cause he was her team mate, "I mean, he really did look fuming." She added quietly.
"Heh." Naruto laughed ignoring her last comment "Shikamaru isn't so hard to beat either, him being a genius an all!" He shouted confidently.
"Well, lets find out shall we?" Ino said to the group, "Hinata, can you show us the way?" She tried not to be loud, like she always was.
"Sure.." She jumped to the next surface with the team behind her.
"Were the hell are you!" He shouted at the empty space. Tenten new that he had to be close by, but were?
Shikamaru spied through the branches at the pair, 'how troublesome' Kiba smelt a trace of Shikamaru's scent pass by him.
"There!" He spun around and flicked a Shuriken at the leaves.
Shikamaru jumped down onto the battle ground again just missing the cold edges of the weapon.
He smirked, 'so…he isn't as slow as I thought.' He crouched into a stance. Sending his shadow across the wood and straight for Kiba's body.
He jumped back in time from it trapping him.
"You gotta do better than that!" He smiled, growing his claws longer he slashed them at Shikamaru aiming for his chest his hand went right through……..
Kiba paused looking back were Shikamaru was supposed to be. A small puff of smoke emitted from that spot.
He roared "Fucking hell!" Kicking the trunk of a tree, sending a deep crack down the wood. He squeezed his hands into a fist, fresh blood began again, staining his Jacket and clothes again.
Akamaru whined up at him. Tenten rushed over landing behind him with a 'thud.'
He banged his fist down, frustrated and pissed off.
"Calm yourself Kiba!" Tenten said to him. He turned around.
Her eyes widened with surprise, his eyes were glazed over and red, trying to hold them back he turned around.
"K…Kiba?" She asked nervously.
"Ill hurt that coward so bad he wont no which way to walk cause his head will be too far up his own arse!" He yelled.
Tenten laughed, 'Yep…same old Kiba!' she thought relieved.
"Hey, let me get that for you," She stepped forward and unravelled his old bandages, he let her without fuss. "You shouldn't get yourself so worked up about it ya know!" She scolded him.
"Yeah…I know!" He smiled, putting his other arm behind his head. She tightened the pressure then let go of his scarred hand.
"Yo…" He said to her, turning around and gave her a real innocent face with smile on his face, " Neji's a lucky guy…"
Silence…………..
"You stupid BAKA there's nothing going on!" She shouted, but smiling at the same time.
He laughed as he saw a blush spreding across her face.
"Wait…I take it back, I want to kill you now!" She landed a playful punch on the side of his face.
He stepped to the side, catching her hand.
"Lets get back to the rest!" He grinned again. Turning around he hopped away into the trees. Followed closely by a smiling weapons master.
Ok ok, this was like a long chapter! I got carried away with it! I just wanted to experiment with the oddest coupling Kiba and Tenten! I hope it worked out alright, Heehee I like taking risks! So tell me wacha think and I will be oh so grateful! And ill tell you what Shikamaru did to get away! Mwahahahaha (Its not that bad really)
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