Yamanakas Are a Pain
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. Masashi Kishimoto does.
Author's Note: Hmmm, first one of these I've done. I apologize with this chapter. It got away from me and I tried to salvage it and it didn't go nicely. This was the best I could get it to come out as. I apologize. The next one should be much better. Once again, sorry. Also I think I made it so it seems that Kiba was hit in the head with a brick as a baby, but oh well, you can't always fix everything. Try to enjoy.
Chapter Two: We Should Split Up
"Okay, this is where our section to map out starts. Lets set up some markers to keep this place in check." Sakura grabbed a kunai and made a small petal shaped indention in the tree nearest to her.
Ino pulled out the old map of the forest and made a marking on their location. "So, what should we do now? It's getting kind of dark so scouting out this area won't be possible, or at the very least I won't be able to mark the map at all."
Kiba leaned back against a tree and sighed, "Guess we could set up camp and have dinner and get up A.S.A.P. tomorrow to start the survey. Lets just try to get this done quickly so we can go back and get a good mission."
"No. You guys can stay here if you want but I'm going to find that genin team and see if they need any help."
The other five looked at Sakura in confusion.
"Why Sakura?" asked Ino, "Tsunade-sama said to help if we come across them. They won't learn anything if you go and do anything for them."
"Ino," Sakura looked over at her best friend with a fierce determination in her eyes, "I understand that, but as I said, I'm going to go find them and assess if they need help or not. After what happened with my team, I'm not taking any chances with them."
Hinata looked up at Sakura, "Umm...Sakura-chan? I-If I may ask, wh-what happened to...to your team?"
Sakura's face grew grim, "We were assigned a C-rank mission that in truth was at least an A-rank. We faced off against one of the strongest Swordsmen of the Mist and a kid who could create and manipulate ice. We all almost died. And then you know about what happened during the first Chunin Exams we participated in."
"Fine, if you feel this strongly about it I will come aid you. Why? Because you cannot see in the dark and you might lose your way if you are in such a state and my insects will help with tracking down the thieves."
Sakura looked over at the bug user and smiled, "Thank you, Shino. I know I'm overreacting but I just have to make sure."
"I'll go to. My Byakugan will help locate the genin team quicker and help with navigation through the forest."
Kiba sat up quickly at that. "What? We're sent on a mapping mission and you three are going off to fight. That's not fair, let me go!"
Shino looked over at him. "No. First of all, Hinata and I were the first to agree to aiding Sakura in this endeavor. Secondly, you and Akamaru are a team; and although you two can battle separately, it would not be wise to leave our camp with just Akamaru and Ino. Them keeping shifts in a two-man cell in not a plausible thought. So you will stay and help Ino set up camp."
Kiba glared at Shino. "Fine!" He crossed his arms. "But don't expect me to be happy about it. Just hurry and get back so we can get this retarded mission over with."
"Whatever. Shino, Hinata, lets go."
"Yes."
The three went off deeper into the recess of their section of the forest. After they had left, Kiba started setting up the tent while Ino made a fire pit. She looked over at the irritated tan ninja and petted Akamaru who had been helping her with digging the fire pit and smiled.
"You know, Akamaru, your partner is an idiot?"
"What was that Ino?"
"Just telling Akamaru how stupid you are compared to Naruto."
"What!?"
"Thanks guys for coming along with me,"
"It-it's no... no problem, Sakura-chan."
They had already located the genin team and the enemy bandits. They were only about one hundred meters away from the enemies, but as Sakura had said she only wanted to keep an eye on the genin team and said they would only intervene if necessary.
"I will place a bug on each of them and on the team from Konoha. That way we can keep tags on them if it takes them too long for us to keep watch over them."
Sakura sighed. She walked over to a small patch of flowers by the base of a tree and cut them. "It sucks but as of right now, we can't do anything. So might as well make some salves with this. Plus, I'm famished. Lets grab some fruit."
"How the hell am I stupid?" Kiba was fuming at the fact that Ino had said that he was dumb as Naruto.
Ino sighed. "Would you like some meat boy? Huh, would Kiba like some meat?" she asked in a sickly sweet voice.
"Shut up with that! I'm not a dog dammit!"
Akamaru barked. "No offense to present company."
"Kiba, you're an idiot. You have done nothing but complain about this mission, despite the fact last week you were bored at having the whole week off since everyone else was on a mission. Then you hear me and Sakura are coming on this mission with you and you seem to have a problem with us coming along. You have fought with Shino almost the whole time. The only one who you haven't gotten mad at is Hinata. And before you say anything, need I remind you that I am a Yamanaka?"
"What of it?" Kiba asked glaring at Ino. God was she annoying.
"Lets see, if the blushing and smiling wasn't enough, we've seen you protect her on more occasions than almost any of us have defended our own teammates in similar situations. Heck, Hinata even told me how you jumped in front of her before during practice to block a kunai Akamaru had thrown at her. But, back to my original point, I am a Yamanaka. You know the clan that specializes in mind based jutsu? As in, besides forcing my consciousness onto another, sensing people and transmitting mental messages to people, reading minds..."
"And?"
Ino smirked at Kiba. "God, what an idiot."
"And...would you like to know how I honed that specific technique?"
Kiba sighed and closed his eyes out of irritation. He was tired of all of these questions. "How?"
"I read all of my friends' minds. So, now do you get it?"
"Not really, you've read my mind. So wh-" Kiba's question was cut short when he opened his eyes and saw her evil smile.
"Please tell me you didn't."
"I did and still do when I get bored. And I could tell her if I felt like it."
"You wouldn't."
"Why not?"
"It's not your place."
"Really, so you don't her to know about the dog leash, the maid outfit, the-"
"Ino. Please don't." Kiba's face was flushed red, hiding his tattoos quite well. His eyes were huge with fright and looking towards a caterpillar on the ground.
Ino laughed. Kiba humiliated was quite an adorable sight. "I think she'd think you were cute if she saw you right now. However, if she knew why you were like this, she might have a different opinion. But then again with her thoughts on Naruto, I doubt that she'd notice you. I wonder if she's ever thought of him like that?" Ino threw her hands up and shook her head from side to side.
"Shut up," growled the dog ninja. It was a purely feral growl as if he were a wolf defending his territory. "She might like that idiot, but don't you dare say she's had any sexual fantasy about him. She would never have anything like that cross her mind."
Ino looked at the angry teen standing across from her as she finished up the fire pit. "You do realize I know her opinion on you as well. And who's to say she's never thought of you that way as well?"
"That's not funny. If you really could read minds you would know that those fantasies don't matter. She could just be there and I'd be happy. However, to say she's done anything similar with me in her mind to what I've done with her in my mind is a disgusting thing to do. Don't give me false hope of our relationship ever growing into something more than it already is between us."
"Who said I was giving out false hope. You are very much so her type. Plus, she's not the type who would avoid you if you just confess to her. You know better than that as well. And she does like you whether she knows it or not."
"If she doesn't know then how do you?"
"It's in her subconscious. Plus, she's been trying to stop loving Naruto so much these last few months. She knows it won't happen. He loves Sakura and she's too different from her to meet his "standards" as she said...or I guess she thought."
Kiba continued glaring at Ino. "Why are you bringing this up? Is it because you just want to be a bitch or something? Let me tell you, if it is, you're doing a stand-up job."
Ino laughed. "No, I want to get you two together. I think you'd make a cute couple and that way I can make a good buck in the betting pool."
"Betting Pool?"
"Yeah, me, Tenten and Chouji got bored on a mission and started a pool on who would get with who. Sakura, Naruto and Lee got on in the action when we got back."
"So you betted on me and Hinata getting together?"
"Kind of. I said you two would become girlfriend and boyfriend. Tenten and Lee thought you two would be friends with benefits. Naruto and Chouji said you'd be a pussy, to quote Naruto, and never ask her out. And Sakura said you two would get married and have three kids."
"I'd never pull a wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am on Hinata. I'm gonna kick their asses!"
Ino facepalmed. "Hey idiot, if you're that worried about it, prove them wrong and let me cash in on it. Sakura won't get the money until Hinata has a third kid with you and then I'd have to pony it on up. And as I don't want that to ever happen, I'm getting you two to be a couple on this mission, one way or another. "
Kiba looked over her skeptically. "How can I trust you?"
"You can't." She smiled before gathering some fruits from the tree she was under.
"Fine, I'll trust you for now. But I'm telling you, if you pull any of your usual shit I'm gone." "God, mind reading. Thank God not all Yamanakas are like this bitch," Kiba thought to himself.
"HEARD THAT!
Kiba cringed. Yep, he hated Yamanakas at the moment.