Disclaimer: Naruto is the property of Mashimoto-sempai or sempai
Please read the Author's Note at the very bottom before you complain about "Shamans" to me.
On Lailan's Spider, Suki with Team Kakashi and Team Gai
"Hey, Lailan, why did you show us your spiders? And what do you mean by you're one of the only four people? Are all the animal summoning that huge?" Naruto and Lee bombarded at Lailan.
"Woah woah woah, mate, one at a time," Lailan said, "I should be asking you guys first, mate, not you ask me."
"Fine, ask away." Sakura grumbled while reading a medical jutsu guide, annoyed by Naruto's loudness and probably Lailan's accent.
"First of all, why do both of you guy's team have to be together?" Lailan questioned.
"I'm proving my Team is better than Kakashi's Team." Gai-sensei quickly budged in before Naruto or Lee could say a word.
"YOU IDIOT! WE'RE WAY COOLER CUZ WE'RE EQUAL WITH KAKASHI-SENSEI! BESIDES, WE'D BEAT COOLNESS IF SASUKE STAYED." both Sakura and Naruto yelled which disturbed Neji's meditating, Kakashi's reading and Tenten's weapon polishing. As soon as they said that, Sakura and Naruto felled into depression.
Why do they have to involve me in everything? Kakashi thought as he sweatdrops. And why do they have to mention Sasuke when his name's jinxed?
"Okay, okay, I'll answer your questions only if you stop yelling or Suki with throw us off." Lailan sighed, "Okay first answer, I didn't want to surprise everyone when we get there because everyone's going to be knocked out of the cold when you guys see our large animal summons."
"So you mainly breed them or something?" Tenten reluctantly asked while sharpening her kunai knives, "I heard that you guys don't depend on the basic ninjutsu and genjutsu but more towards animals and nature surroundings."
Everyone stopped what they were doing and stared at Tenten in shock.
"What? I just read it somewhere, don't have to act like I'm dumb." Tenten snapped before she cut a few strands of hair from Lee's head to check the sharpness.
"OI, TENTEN!! THAT'S MY HAIR YOU'RE CUTTING!" Lee yelled after a batch of hair fell onto Suki's back. "YOU RUINED MY YOUTH, TENTEN!! MY BEAUTIFUL, SHINY HAIR!!"
"Good mate, excellent research." Lailan applauded, "Okay, about the summoning, yes they are huge but the smallest is around the height of your friend Neji sitting down. The largest, I'm not going to say."
"Okay then, why did you skip our other question?" Naruto and Lee asked at the same time while they stared at each other angrily, "THAT"S MY LINE!"
"Will you guys shut up?" Neji grumbled, "Tenten, can you pass me my water bottle?"
"Hmm, not a good team to combine, but I'll answer your other question." Lailan said, "The reason I left the question last, mate, is because of a story."
"YAY! Story time!" Lee yelled while everyone glared at him. "What? Don't you like stories?"
"Yeah but don't you don't have to be so happy about it!" Sakura, Naruto, Neji and Tenten yelled back. "Just stop talking and let her speak."
Both Kakashi-sensei and Lailan sweat-dropped in embarrassment.
"My old sensei told us that the first people in the village about 30000 years ago made a contract with the spiders. They agreed to give them their land and not to destroy the people but only 4 people can possess spider jutsu." Lailan began which brought everyone's attention on her.
"That sounds fishy," Kakashi piped in while reading his book, "And how did you know you had spider jutsu?"
"Well, every year before anyone can graduate to be a genin, every sensei in their Team will ask everyone to try a few spider jutsu. The three people other than me who possess the Spider jutsu are Hekuni, Sunaru and Tailee. Both Hekuni and Tailee were in my Team last time, but now we are just living around the forest taking care of our summons."
"Hmm, why living alone?" Lee wondered out loud before Neji started to activate his 8 trigrams if Naruto, Sakura and Tenten didn't restrain him.
"Well, mate, our jutsu is a secret to us, not to anyone else in the village." Lailan amusingly replied, "And that's when the problem starts. You have the ANBU Black Ops right mate? Well, we have Shamans who are both guardians and healers."
"And the problem starts?" Naruto asked pretending to be a spider which made Sakura angry. Lee was poking Neji; Tenten was reactivating her bombs while Gai-sensei tried to persuade Kakashi-sensei into another game of rock paper scissors.
"Hmm, let's just say that the Shamans are the highest ranked guardians who originated from the Hidden Snow Village. The Snow ninja wasn't too impressed by the fact that the Shamans left the snow village because of their leader. No matter how strong and powerful the Shamans are, the snow ninja tries to eliminate us every year." Lailan answered, "oh and by the way mate, I belong to a full fledged Shaman household."
"So, it's like a feud between both ninja and Shaman?" Neji asked warily after Lee finished poking him, "What's the difference between the both of them?"
"Well mate, the snow ninja follows the same standards as a regular jounin ninja. Shamans, on the other hand, use advanced ninjutsu and genjutsu but it involves a lot of sacred animal summons."
"Shamans also ignore the basic shinobi kunais and shurikens but they use other common weapons like spears and staffs, right? And they also possess something called a dream catcher?" Tenten reluctantly asked while reshaping her wooden staff.
"Since when did Tenten become a nerd?" Lee laughed until a small stink bomb almost missed him by a hair.
"It's called reading when you are bored, you should try it someday." Neji replied for Tenten while fishing out "How to Survive in Team Gai" manual from his pack.
"Man, you are so smart, mate." Lailan impressively announced, "We do use a staff but it's intricately designed to a Shaman's taste, unlike that battle staff you're holding. When we get there, I'll explain the dream catcher later."
"Kakashi-sensei, why are we on this mission again?" Naruto yelled at his sensei, which awarded him three hard punches from Sakura. "SAKURA-CHAN!! WHAT WAS THAT FOR?"
A/N: Heh heh, I neglected this fanfic without notification and clarification. -'
I'll make one thing clear: this is NOT related or a crossover fanfic of Shaman King. I hope no one gets confused with this because even though I like Manta and Yoh very much, I'm actually elaborating more on the Inuit/Native American Folk Shaman but with my lame imagination.
I found out last minute after watching the Sasuke Retrival Arc anime three days ago that there was a Sound nin who possesses some type of Spider ninjutsu. Both Lailan and her three teammates don't relate to that person since I found out too late. Besides, I didn't plan on doing a Neji flashback about the Sound nin.
I also found out three days ago that there was a Land of the Mountains AND Land of Forests plus I didn't know that either since my brain isn't prone to advanced research or fanfic. -'
Some of you may remember the ninjas from the Snow Country in the very 1st Naruto movie. Yes there are shinobi there and no, I forgot to look up on that information too. Sun Village, I dunno, I guess you should use your imagination about this one.
Lastly, I will apologize for the discontinuation of my first fanfic. I kinda lost interest in it when I got back to school because of exams and events but I might put this story on hiatus and write a chapter or two when my brain cooperates with fanfiction.