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After a minute or two of calming Naruto down from swearing and crushing everything in the room. Shikamaru took a deep sigh, fuck they just had to take Ino. Of everyone here it had to be her. Troublesome woman.
"Okay everyone, listen up," The room immediately quieted at his firm voice, "Ino's been taken and whoever took her is most likely expecting us to go looking for her, of course they'd know we'd have to split up judging from the size of this building. My guess is they're gonna try to take us all out individually, which is why we have to get into teams of three."
Everyone stood, taking in every word he said before Kiba asked, "Kay, who's on each others team?"
Shikamaru contemplated for a while, okay the byakugan would definitely help in this situation so it's wise to distribute it evenly, there's only five though, and in groups of three we'd add up to seven, so two groups have to be strong enough to sustain themselves. It's also best to keep the children and parents separated to reduce emotion and keep everyone's eyes on the goal. "The children and us adults are going to be in separate teams. We're starting with Namiko, Tema, and Nina will take the west side.
He watched Nina immediately cling to Namiko's side and Tema wait for him to come to her. Despite having no byakugan in this team Shikamaru had a lot of faith in them, Namiko being the prodigy his year, his own daughter Tema and her strong will, as well as Nino for knowing that Namiko would do anything for his sisters and protect them his life.
"Next we'll have Misuke, Sakubi, and Jeni searching south of the building." Shikamaru also believed strongly in this team, he knew Jeni's byakugan could see at least eight km, and knew Misuke being the show off he is would make sure no one got hurt and left all the action for himself, most likely provoking Sakubi, who can also track her scent and guide them if anything were to happen to Jeni, and causing him to engage in battle as well, making sure Jeni could still be stable enough to guide them. Watching as Jeni timidly walked over to Misuke and Sakubi casually walk to meet them. Misuke not talking his eyes off Shikamaru. He continued, "Nino, Takun, and Kunisa are to be searching the east."
He felt a bit uncertain about this group, he knew Nino and Kunisa didn't get along at all, but hoped for Takun to ease the tension, being the best friend of Nino's boyfriend, and Kunisa's brother. He knew Naruto wouldn't allow her to take part in ninja activities so she would pretty much have to be protected by both Takun and Kunisa, which he knew we're strong fighters, but Kunisa was still only a genin and Takun chunnin. Weak ranks to protect a princess, but they had to take risks for the queen, Ino.
His anxiousness only worsening when he saw Takun drag a thrashing Kunisa to Nino. He quickly dismissed the thought as he announced the final team, "And Tejen, Shikari, and Hinari will be looking downstairs." Feeling a bit more confident about this team, he had only hoped Shikari could be more alert and hoped he could stall them with the decent amount of jutsu he possessed. He knew Hinari was barely five and couldn't do much except run and cry, so he put an awful amount of responsibility of Tejen, hoping his skills as ANBU and Hyuuga would be enough to keep them alive.
"Sakura, Neji, and Sasuke are to supply back up anytime needed and search everywhere." He knew Neji and Sasuke, both scoring number one in each of their years wouldn't have a problem being back up and knew Sakura could pack a punch as well. With Hinata pregnant he didnt know how much it might affect her chakra system and how far she'd be able to use her byakugan, so he put the strongest byakugan left on this team.
"I want Temari, Tenten, and Kiba to search upstairs." He knew Kiba and Akamaru would easily track Ino's scent and try to find her, Tenten and Temari are the toughest kunoichi here, he knew they wouldn't have a problem.
Looking over to Naruto he knew he'd be determined to get Ino no matter what, so it was easy to decide his team, "Hinata, Naruto, and I will take the north side of the building. Dismissed."
And in a flash the said group dashed away to their assigned locations.
"Namiko, is uh, momma gonna be okay?" Nino timidly asked her older brother carrying her on his back.
Namiko smiled, "Of course, we're going to save her no matter what."
Fixing his face back to a determined one and picking up the pace occasionally reaching a dead end and turning the corner before continuing their search and Tema not too far behind.
The group started noticing an odd pattern of corners and dead ends,
"Tema, I think we're under a genjutsu." Namiko alarmed.
"You're only now noticing it? Speak for yourself kid, I've already deactivated it." Tema sassed.
Namiko gave a weak smile and quickly dispelled the jutsu from his sister and himself. Now following Tema, his sharp eyes spotted a string and immediately called, "Tema, stop. It's a trap."
"Yeah but it's not only one, look closely at your feet."
Sure enough when Namiko looked down there were small strings keeping his feet in place, after a cry of shock from his sister he quickly pulled out a kunai from his holster and cut the strings. Passing the kunai to Tema he advised, "We should watch where we're stepping."
"Don't tell me what to do little man." she warned. And before long they were off, avoiding as much obstacles as they could to find Ino.
What they didn't notice was green eyes with red sclera watching from behind.
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