Chapter 5: The Sand Nins
Hi, this is the next chappy and you sort of have an idea with the chapter title and everything, so…read and enjoy!
Shikamaru ran through the tree coverings, so what he had to give up his pride, reputation to get away from the wrath of a pissed off Dog boy. He had legged it when he used a henge to occupy Kiba.
As he ran he glanced to his side, a blur of orange, white dark blue sped past. He skidded to a halt knowing those colours easily.
"Oi you lot!" he shouted to the blurs which were behind him.
They stopped and turned around seeing their Lazy nin standing their looking flustered, a hand resting on his hip.
"Hey! Its lazy ass!" Naruto pointed laughing, jumping over to him he smiled jokingly. "Why you here, arnt you supposed to be fighting Kiba kun?" He asked.
Shikamaru snorted not wishing to tell Naruto his 'great escape'. It would be so much simpler to say that Kiba had to look after Tenten or something…
"Hey!" Ino shouted over, "We missed you Shika-kun!" Ino grinned.
Shikamaru scowled 'woman…' he thought coldly, glaring at a blond haired girl run over to him and poke him in the ribs.
"Hey, oi!" He pushed her hand away. Hinata gave him a questioning look, the what-happened-when-I-left-and-why-are-you-here kinda look.
They looked at each other getting an unspoken understanding, Shikamaru turned around.
"Hey..umm I wana get as far away as I possibly can…so...I don't get the crap beeten out of me." He said boredly. Glancing over at his shoulder were he had come from.
He heard a definite roar echo through the trees.
"Well..that's my cue to leave!" He jumped back heading for the base. They all gave each other a questioning look. Only Hinata had a rough idea of what Shikamaru was doing.
They followed in persoot of his quick, very very very quick running.
Sasuke saw Kiba and Tenten running towards him, jumping onto the crack riddled rocks.
"Im out." She said simply before Sasuke could ask her anything. He sighed and looked away.
'Damn, I have to rethink this..' he thought, "Tell me, what happened?" he asked finally, looking at a stoney faced Tenten.
Kiba sat down and cradled his arm whilst Tenten explained what happened. Akamaru sat at his feet, nudging his hand in comfort. When she got to the bit about Shikamaru leaving by using a henge no jutsu he shouted out,
"And I would have beaten that bastards ass!" He interrupted, glowering at the thought.
Tenten smiled knowingly and continued, her story interrupted only at the points that Kiba shouted out snide remarks.
Sasuke took the information quietly nodding at the right points. 'Shit, were behind.' he thought.
Turning his back on them he lowered his head in thought.
"Right, since we have suffered one loss, we cant risk anything and everything has to be planned." he turned his head, "Kiba are you fit to fight?" he asked.
"Hei," he nodded his head in return. "I cant attack with balloons though, my nails risk them bursting."
"That's why you will be in attack and the most venerable since you cant eliminate the enemy team. But you can still be a decoy to them whilst me and Sakura go in, Tenten, since you are eliminated you cannot interfere, but you can serve as a good medical aid if needed."
Sakura jumped next to Sasuke. "Its done Sasuke-kun!" she smiled, her grin broke when she saw the pair ninja's in front of her. "Urr. …what happened?" She asked concerned.
"Feh, its to long to explain…Tenten has been eliminated." Sasuke said blankly. Sakura gasped, she new someone would be eliminated but Tenten? 'How humiliating' she pitied Tenten.
" She doesn't need pity Sakura, leave her with what pride she has left." Sasuke looked at Sakura. She blushed with embarrassment.
"Since this unexpected turn of events, I think I have a plan." They huddled together, "Right Kiba…….." he turned it into a hushed whisper.
Shikamaru reached the main tree panting. Hinata stopped by him with Ino who was complaining about being dragged around the whole forest, Naruto and Shino who crouched beside him.
"Lets not ask yeah?" Naruto said amused.
"Hmm, well obviously they will want to attack any time soon. So I say we head out to them and do it as a fair fight!" Naruto shouted teeth showing in a big grin.
"Baka." Ino said hitting him on the head.
"Actually he may have a point there.." Shikamaru added quietly. Ino turned startled.
"You don't actually…this idiot?" Her eyes wide, pointing at Naruto with an accusing finger.
"Hey!" Naruto yelled.
"Look.." Shikamaru butted in, "I said you had a point, so don't get too happy, and you Ino…don't start making rude remarks…God its like dealing with children!" He added, more to himself than anyone.
"Whatever you lot, just get on with it" Chouji said to the bickering group. Everyone hushed till you only heard the buzz of some passing bugs.
"Umm…well, you guys wanna hear the master plan or what?" Shikamaru broke the silence.
"Wow, shika-kun! I never thought you would be so into this as to call it the master plan!" Ino laughed at him.
"Woman…I just want to get this over and done with, I don't want to be here." He said bored. "Now sit." He added with the flick of his wrist.
Ino huffed, but reluctantly sat down near him. The rest did and soon Shikamaru was telling them the master plan.
Kiba led the way, being able to detect if anyone was there, followed on either side by Sasuke and Sakura and at the back Tenten.
"I smell a person dead ahead." Kiba said to his group. Akamaru barked with him.
"He says that the guy is of our friends." He smirked, "Found you." he whispered.
Shikamaru stood on the ground waiting. He new the other team was coming dead ahead, and he new that Kiba would want revenge, and of course he new that fighting will be a but harder. The thing he didn't no for sure was their strategy, they would be a fool to come straight into enemy territory.
He saw a rustle in the leaves, and heard a voice hiss "Shut the hell up."
He smirked. "Sly!" he said to the surrounding scenery.
Sasuke held his position above Shikamaru in the trees, waiting for Kiba to jump out….on cue Kiba leaped out the bushes and faced Shikamaru's glare.
He sneered, "You wana nother ass wooping genius?"
"As I see it, you never wooped my ass in the first place..." He said in return to Kiba's threat.
"Whatever coward, im gona kick your ass anyway!" He challenged the shadow nin.
"heh…whatever."
"Kankurou!" Temari yelled at her brother, "You got us lost again you idiot!" She wacked him over the head with her fan.
"Hey! I didn't tell you to follow me!" He bellowed back.
"Why you lit…"
She was cut short by Gaara who held up his hand at the pair.
"This bickering is tedious."
Kankurou huffed, stuffing his hands into his pockets. Temari snarled, letting her brother have the last word.
"Whatever, for more important matters, " she glared at Kankurou, "How the hell do we get out of this stupid forest!" She stamped her foot impatiently.
'Oh yeah, spend some nice quality time with you brothers...stupid stupid stupid' she mentally hit herself repeatedly.
"It was your idea dear sister" Kankurou said, his voice dripping with sarcasm.
"I swear to g…" She was cut off again by her scary little brother.
"Just follow me." He walked away. Kankurou and Temari were glaring at each other the air crackled and sparked between them. Finally the followed there brother.
After a bit of silence Kankurou felt this as his privilege to bring light to the matter.
"Hey brat," He said leaning over Gaara's shoulder from behind. "You know were your leading us?"
Gaara, thankfully, blanked out the brat bit and replied curtly, "No."
Kankurou pulled back to Temari. "Well…its better him than me" He smiled sheepishly under his sisters glare.
Temari couldn't take it anymore, they were supposed to spend nice time together, even though they were together 24/7 anyway.
"Right you two!" She said breaking the peace, "We are supposed to be having a 'fun'time! Now I want to see happy, people!" She pointed at her brothers.
They stared blankly at her.
"You gotta be kidding…" Kankurou said turning back and continuing walking, Gaara did the same without saying anything.
Temari put a hand on her head. 'Why do I even bother?' she asked herself, then followed behind.
The trees looked the same, the ground looked the same, the clouds were the same.
"AHHHHHHHHHH I have to get out of this place!" Temari burst out.
Kankurou wurled around to the sudden noise. Gaara just gave a second glance.
"Hey crazy! Don't do that!" He shouted at her.
"Shut the hell up!" She shouted back at him. "Everything's the same!"
Kankurou sweat dropped. "We lived in a desert nearly our whole lives! And this place is too much the same for you!"
Temari turned red, pulling her fan out she held it threatingly at his chest.
"Feh.." He said pushing the fan away. "You have already proven you can fight," He disappeared, then reappeared behind her, "But your social skills suck."
She turned and lifted her fan to wack him on the head. "HA you can talk! 'im so lonely boo hoo' awww is Kank-woah scared?" she made an imitation of him, pulling a babies voice.
"I WAS 5 FOR CRAP'S SAKE!" He roared at her.
"Quit it." Gaara joined in the shouting.
"Look brat, this was before your time so butt out!" Kankurou yelled at Gaara, putting his anger out on him. He immediately regretted it.
Temari stifled a laugh, biting her tongue to stop herself. He was in for it now.
"I wont bother to squish you, your death would be pointless." He said.
Kankurou let out a sigh of relief.
Getting his posture back he put an arm around Gaara's shoulder.
"Hey lil bro, your not that bad!"
"Don't touch me."
Kankurou slowly lifted his hand smiling awkwardly.
Temari watched the backs of her brothers. 'Why is my family so weird?'
They walked quietly. She saw Kankurou, and then she didn't. His head disappeared form her eye level.
THWACK
Kankurou was crumpled on the floor face first in the ground.
Silence….
"BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH YOU STUPID HAHAHAHAHA DUMMY!" Temari clutched her sides as she choked out the words through her laughter.
He shot back up as if nothing had happened.
"Shut the fuck up!" He yelled at her, getting red. Gaara smiled slightly getting a good look of his older brother to remember it for a very, very long time.
He stood there fuming whilst Temari was on her knees laughing. She wiped a tear from her cheek.
"Im..I haha sorry." She said to him, getting out the last of her laughter.
"Has anyone told you that you laugh like a horse?" He shouted at her. Her mood suddenly darkened.
"What did you say?" She shook.
"Horse laugh!" He teased, digging himself a bigger hole.
"I DO NOT have a horsey laugh!" She screamed at him, sending a kunai at his head.
He moved his head out the way. "Hey chill, it's a joke…God you took that worse then when I said that you were fat…" The words came out before he could stop himself.
"F..FAT?" She attacked him like a cat, claws out ripping anything she could get ahold of.
"Get…. Of me bitch!" He yelled at her on the floor.
"When you say sorry bastard!" She growled at him. They rolled on the floor at each others throats.
Gaara sat patiently watching them with a mild interest, popcorn appeared in his hands and he munched on them like in the movies. Don't ask me how the pocorn appeared, he has his ways…
"Get the fuck off me!" He pushed her off, jumping back. "God I hate you right now." He spat.
"Whatever cry baby, I'v hated you long before you could talk!"
This stabbed Kankurou in the heart.
"You don't mean that." He said softer.
She turned her back on him and crossed her arms. "I love you Kankurou, deep, deep very deep down…but that doesn't meen I have to like you." She said simply.
This lifted the air a bit. Gaara was munching in the corner, throwing the random popcorn at the two.
"Toink..hey…toink…stop…toink….it!" Kankurou yelled at Gaara catching the popcorn and crushing it in his hand.
"Hey Gaara, see if you can get it in his eye!" She laughed and crouched beside her baby brother.
"Stop plotting against me god damit!" He barked at them..
A crash in the trees stopped there family time. Three heads shot in that direction.
"Finaly, a little bit of action!" Temari smiled as she jumped to were the sound came from.
Shikamaru flew to the floor, he never underestimated his enemies strengh but Kiba was realy going for it.
His back took the fool force of the trees behind him, making the tree collapse by the huge crack which Shikamaru had flown into it.
Kiba stood there, his arms loose by his sides, panting slowly. Sakura couldn't help but gasp at the mere force her team mate used.
Shikamaru gradually got back up, clutching his side. One eye open squinting at Kiba through the blur of pain.
He wiped away the trickle of blood which was coming from his mouth. "You can do better than that." He challenged him.
"heh." He said in reply.
They eyed each other. Thoughts passed through Shikamaru's mind.
'Ok, they should be coming out any minute now…' His eyes flicked up to a sudden movement. Kiba saw this to and risked turning his head to see the disturbance, seeing this as an opportunity to attack he ran at Shikamaru.
Temari jumped into the trees. 'So this was the noise?' Kankurou ran up behind her knocking the branches aside. "Hey, you shouldn't have run off like that!" He scolded her. Her head whipped around giving him a dirty glare. Her head shot back when she saw a hooded figure run straight at someone she knew. Temari suddenly jumped out, her body moving on its own accord.
'Ahh what am I doing?' she asked herself as she landed in front of a certain genius. Kankurou stared at her in disbelief, his eyes wide. Gaara walked into the battle ground, his arms crossed as he glared at them.
Kiba skidded to a halt in front of Temari's fan. Shikamaru had his arms raised waiting for the impact. He lifted his head bit by bit seeing the back of Temari.
"Hey! What the hell are you doing!" He shouted at her.
She turned her head. "Shut your mouth, I'm saving your weak punk ass." She said, annoyance coming into her voice.
"Ahh! You ruined everything!" He cried. Shikamaru pulled a tantrum on the floor.
"Stupid woman you've just ruined the master plan!"
"Hey! I'v saved you twice now! You better be grateful or I'll kill you myself!" She turned her back on Kiba and shouted at him. Kankurou thought this was the time to make his appearance.
Kiba wheeled around at the other sand nin. "Oh god, it's the whole family!" He yelled in aggravation.
Temari raised her fist to whack Shikamaru over the head. "Why you ungrateful….!"
Kiba tapped her on the shoulder, cutting her off.
"Damn it, let me finish a sentence around here!" She looked at Kiba, her eyes blazing.
He retracted a bit under her fiery glare. "Heh, excuse me," He said, taking a whole different angle. "But your kinda in the middle of an ass whooping, so could ya move out the way?"
She turned her head back to a red Shikamaru. 'Stupid bastard, he doesn't even know that I'm trying to help him…and on purpose!"
Kankurou eyed his sisters behaviour curiously. 'Hey, she must have a thing for this guy.' He smirked. 'AHA blackmail!'
The hiding teams watched, not really sure what to do. But the same thing went through their minds.
"Lets join in!"
Naruto jumped out of his hiding place in front of Gaara.
He smiled. "HI Gaara, What brings you here?"
Everyone watched in shock as Naruto talked to Gaara like a normal person.
"Heh, we got lost." He said simply.
"Fair enough!" He understood automatically.
"Well, if this little reunion is over, can I see the rest of you?" Kankurou asked aloud to the hidden teams from behind Gaara.
Ino, Shino, Sakura, Sasuke, Hinata, Chouji, Lee and Tenten jumped into view. Standing equal distance apart from each other.
"My master plan…down the drain" Shikamaru whimpered to himself.
"Aww Shika-kun!" Ino said, running over to him, "It was good!" She said reassuringly.
"Look, I don't wanna be rude or anything, but what the fuck is going on?" Kankurou asked to the Leaf ninjas.
"We are competing in a water fight." Sasuke said blandly. "And you are in the way, we would like to continue."
"Whatever dude," Kankurou said defiantly. "We'll be on our way."
"Hold on!" Temari shouted. "We need directions!"
"Oh hell no, I'm not asking for directions and neither are you dear sister."
"What's up with men and asking directions?" She shouted at know one in particular.
"What's up with woman and reading maps?" He shouted back at her in response.
"I can read maps better than you dipshit!"
"You don't know were North is stupid!"
"Hey, did they do this for the whole journey?" Naruo asked Gaara behind his hand, eyeing the pair rant at each other.
Gaara sighed, "Yes actually."
The group watched with interest at the pair fight.
Seeing no way to shut them up Gaara said, "Anyone want popcorn?"
Hi! I was supposed to continue this chapter longer but this seemed a good place to stop, and plus Gaawa (I call him that ,cute!) was quit good in this bit, he only threatened to squish Kankurou once! Record.
Anyway, ill be continuing it form there with the fight scene and stuff! Hope you liked it!
R&R
Frozenangel1992