Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, only this plot
Pre: Hidan and Kakuzu arc.
Author notes: be warned that I haven't made my mind up about actually describing any intimacy or referring it as past tense.
Shino arrived at the large gates, hands in pocket's he strolled over to a quiet spot away from Izumo who was on duty. The chunin never failed to annoy him. Praying that he was safe he looked up at the design of the gates that protected the leaf from attacks, when he was young shino always thought that no one could open them by themselves. That was until he first saw the buxom blonde: Tsundea smash a giant boulder with a flick, she shattered that belief into little pieces and spat on it. "Sup" said a voice behind shino; his kikai detected him a few minutes before he arrived. So he turned around to see a tall, ninja with long black pants, spiky silver hair, a jounin vest on over a black turtle neck type shirt, is the only was he could describe it. His trademark mask that covered his face below the top of his nose and a headband covering one eye, was the famous Kakashi Hatake also known as either the copy nin or Kakashi of the sharingan.
"What do you mean by 'sup' exactly?" the heir asked in his usual monotone. Kakashi heaved a deep sigh, why can't Aburame's stop trying to act so mysterious.
"Shino, when are you going to loosen up? You don't have to act so reserved all the time" he sighed again "we received word last night that the mission has been moved to S class, so we had to bring an extra member to the team. I didn't want to tell you this but it's —" Kakashi was interrupted by a familiar voice.
"Hello bug freak, long time no see" said the voice. The hive inside shino quivered with rage at the voice that hurt their host. Slowly but surely Shino turned around to see a grinning Suna nin that caused shino a great deal of pain during the fight after the initial attack on the leaf. We need revenge.The kikai inside of him stirred restlessly and started making a familiar hissing noise when they were angry, settle down! He commanded the restless bugs. After a few more moments they stopped and stilled inside of him. Calm eyes looked at Kankuro from behind glasses, he was wearing long baggy dark pants, and a loose fitting brown shirt to match his pants, purple make up that crossed the middle of his nose and tapered around his cheeks which made him look like he used his mother's make up. The most unusual thing about Kankuro was his hood that had little points that looked like cat ears.
Say something insulting, he called us a freak! Thinking on what they said he decided to take their advice "nice make up, feeling proud today?" he asked the Nin. Kankuro who had people crack jokes about his make up all the time didn't bother him, yet what did was the last part 'feeling proud today' what did he mean by that.
A scowl coming across Kankuro's face "what do you mean by that?" he spat glaring at the bug user, who for his part didn't even flinch. Soft chuckles from behind shino, alerted Kankuro so he looked behind and noticed for the first time, that Kakashi stood there.
"Ah such youthful energy from people so young" boomed a loud voice behind Kankuro, shino noticed that as soon as Kakashi heard that he stiffened and shrunk behind the younger man. A shining bowl cut appeared next to Kankuro and smiled at him showing all of the sparkling white teeth of Konaha's most energetic Nin gai sensei. He wore the green spandex and orange leg wormers that people knew him for. "Ah my youthful sand friend, it is so good to see you!" Gai sensei boomed standing right next to said sand ninja.
"Yes nice to see you Gai, Kakashi is behind Shino" he said smiling wide at the glare from Kakashi as gai glimpsed his rival.
"Kakashi, My youthful rival I did not see you there. Thank you Kankuro" he said launching over to Kakashi. For his part Kakashi didn't flee.
"Gai sensei, you forgot your bag" yelled a voice behind Shino. Turning back around Shino saw the ever energetic Rock Lee running up to Gai holding two huge back packs.
"Oh, Lee I forgot. I am so sorry" gai yelled crying and hugging the pack lee gave him. It covered his whole torso; the pack was at least six inches thick.
"I will do one thousand sit ups, for my mistake lee, Yosh" he pronounced doing his nice guy pose.
"Dear god, not this early" Neji said giving shino a nod before Lee shot up and ran over to his rival. Neji wore the traditional Hyuuga #$%^&.
"Neji my rival, before we leave we should do one hundred push ups for a start" he stated already going down on his hands and started. The green one on the ground has no chakra. I could have told you that.
"This is such a drag" drawled a lazy voice behind Kankuro. Gai and Kakashi were playing rock paper scissors, lee was doing push ups and didn't notice the latest arrival. Shikamaru was slouched leaning on a building with his hands stuffed into his pockets. He wore the usual black pants with a kunai pouch strapped to his right leg, his chunin vest over a long black sleeve shirt. A rather small pack was lying on the ground next to him.
"You have been standing there for the last ten minutes, Shikamaru why?" asked shino glancing at the Nara from behind his glasses.
Shikamaru just shrugged "just watching the show. Why is Kankuro here by the way? Isn't he here instead of Temari?"
"That is a very good point Shikamaru, why I am here instead of my sister is to strengthen our alliance. So I am here as a ninja under Tsundea so she can send me on missions" said Kankuro watching gai and Kakashi on their last round of rock paper scissors.
Kakashi had won overall against gai who was now crying "ok everyone come over here, we need to go over the mission details" Kakashi said pulling a map out of his pack that was behind him. Everyone huddled around Kakashi as he revealed the map, "ok, we have found out something about the missing Nin. They have moved from attacking genin to running a crime syndicate in a small village. So we have to go undercover to gain access to the high ups. Shino I want you and Shikamaru to go undercover in the syndicate, but I will not blame you if you don't. If you do your cover will be a gay couple who was kicked out of your town" he said looking down from the two boys.
Shikamaru's face was pure shock Kakashi observed while you couldn't see Shino's face but his shoulders tensed up and he was bunching his hands in his pockets. Dear god, what have I gotten myself into. Ha-ha-ha-ha. His kikai were laughing at him. "What will happen if we refuse?" Shino asked shock evident in his voice.
"Well if one of you refuses then Kankuro will replace you" answered Kakashi, Kankuro had gone pale "but if you both refuse I will have to go with Kankuro" he stated looking up "you should know though that you might have to do this in another mission so you should get it out of the way before you have to something worse".
Shino had regained his composure but didn't want to in case Shikamaru felt uncomfortable like other kids do around himself. "Um… Kakashi sensei I will go with Kankuro" said Shikamaru. Just like everyone else.
"Why with Kankuro? Shikamaru" Kakashi sensei asked glancing over at the stiff shouldered Aburame.
Shikamaru scratched his head "Well I thought that shino would feel uncomfortable with this so I would go with Kankuro". Wait he was being nice? Wow!
"Thank you Shikamaru, but I think I will go undercover with you. If that is ok with you?" Shikamaru smiled
"It's ok with me, besides Kankuro is troublesome" he said giving the sand Nin a mock glare.
"Well that is settled, we will be going to this town" Hatake said pointing to a small town near a ravine "this is where the syndicate is! Shino, Shikamaru, this is where you two will be going, while the rest of us stay back in the forest. If you need back up don't and I can't stress this enough don't! Hesitate to call us in for back-up" he said eyeing both men.
"All right Kakashi I think they get the gist, now take these" Gai handed Shika and shino a small wireless receiver "keep these on unless they are looking for them, they can be turned off by pulling the antenna out and putting it back in, but to turn on you just repeat the process" he said giving them a nice guy pose.
"Ok everyone move out" yelled Kakashi.