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Truth
It was a normal day at the academy. The sun was shining and birds were chirping.
Well, almost normal. Today, Iruka decided to teach his students something new, in the hopes it would improve their writing and creativity, two skills which were surely underrated in the would of a shinobi. However, these students had already graduated and were genin/one chuunin, but that didn't matter.
"Class, I will be teaching you skills you can use in your writing assignments." He said.
"Iruka-sensei, we've graduated already! And we don't have any writing assignments," a very loud blond shouted. His mouth was promptly covered by the hand of a pink-haired girl.
Iruka nodded very wisely. "I'm sure the Hokage would love to get more interesting reports, wouldn't you say." When no one responded, albeit a few grumbles and glares, he continued. "You will be practicing your synonyms and metaphors. A synonym is when you compare something: He roared as loud as a lion. Meanwhile, a metaphor is when you say something is something, but don't really mean it: The red rose is a falcon, the white rose is a dove. Okay, divide into teams and come up with different synonyms and metaphors. Go!"
Team 8 huddled together at a table that was way too small for them. "Um...Iruka-sensei d-didn't explain it v-very well," Hinata whispered to her fellow teammates.
"I don't see why we have to do this," Kiba complained.
Shino ignored him. "I will start. The bugs number as many as the stars in the night sky."
Hinata continued. "The petals drifted in the w-wind like gently f-falling s-snowflakes."
"I can't think of anything!" Kiba moaned. Hinata looked at him sympathetically. "I-I'm s-sure you'll think of s-something."
After a long pause, during which Shino fidgeted with his sunglasses twice, Kiba drew in a large breath and stated wisely, "Shino is as tall as a five-feet five-inch tree." He turned around to see Shino nearly choking, and Hinata covering her mouth, therefore muffling her giggles.
"I-it's not a b-bad start," she said between fits of laughter.
Kiba frowned at her.
"Try again, Kiba and perhaps you'll improve." Shino said, having recovered quickly.
It took another five minutes before Kiba thought of something. This time, he smirked proudly and said, "The autumn leaves drifted in the water, exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't."
When he looked at the other two, he didn't see them. Confused, Kiba looked at the floor. Hinata was rolling around in laughter, tears falling from her eyes. She didn't even bother containing her laughter. Shino seemed to have simply fallen over in shock, and he stayed very still.
"Sh-Shino...are y-you...al-al-al..." Hinata gasped at him.
"I am merely very shocked at the stupidity of Kiba here." Shino sat up and reached for his chair. Kiba was pouting at them, looking very much like a dog after you locked it in the house and left for a family picnic.
"I can't win, can I?" he mumbled furiously.
"Don't...b-be w-worried...t-there are s-s-still...m-metaphors..." Hinata wheezed at him.
Kiba glared at her and at Shino and at the whole entire world! "God, please kill me now," he begged.