Day 6: Silences, Yells, and Screams
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in 'Naruto'
The Fifth's Office
"As you all
know," Tsunade-sama said seriously, "It is time for us to take action
on
"Hai." Kakashi,
Asuma, Kurenai, Iruka, and Gai chorused, each nodding their heads before
disappearing in their own puff of smoke. Jiraya did the same without the 'Hai'.
"Good luck,
kids." Tsunade-sama said, "I hope you're ready for this."
'Team
7', '10', and '..'
"Ouch!" Temari
yelped, whacking herself in seemingly random spots.
Wha-! Hmph. the six currently present Konoha
subs thought, She's just trying to catch us off guard. She looks so retarded
though!
"Ow-ow-ow-ow-ow! Get
it off me! Get it off me!" Temari yelled to any one who could hear her,
meaning almost everyone on the island, as she hopped around madly with her eyes
bulging out of her head. She was still whacking herself silly.
"HUH?-!" Team 7
and 10 chorused in surprise. They started thinking: What was she losing it for?
Then they began throwing out suggestions:
"Ooh-ooh-ooh! It's a
rat!" Ino suggested, jumping up and down with her hand waving in the air,
looking like someone on 'Family Feud' who needed to say the last possible
answer in order to win a thousand bucks.
"Nu-uh! It's a
spider!" Chouji stopped chewing just long enough to get out.
"Yeah, a
tarantula!" Naruto agreed, nodding his head vigorusly. Then he stopped
suddenly, "I'VE GOT IT!" Everyone stopped to listen-with the
exception of Temari of course, "She's dancing 'Mackarena'!" He
started dancing, too, moving his hands and jumping around as he sang:
"Mackarena, mackarena, mackarena! Something-something,
something-something, Mackrena! Don't know-don't know, Mackarena! OHHHHH,
Mackarena!" he jumped and stood in another direction as he said:
"AH-HIGHT!" and started over again.
Everyone sweatdropped.
(Including Temari)
Then the suggestions kept
coming:
"It's an illusionary
technique!" Sakura yelled, sounding like a know-it-all.
"Of..something." she added, sounding less sure of herself.
"It's a..oh whatever.
How troublesome. She's just crazy." Shikamaru finished and everyone seemed
to agree. Until Temari spoke again.
"AHHHHHHHH! Just get
it off me! I hate bugs!" Temari screamed. The talking and
arguing over what was wrong with her ended in a sudden absolute silence
before..
"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!"
everyone burst out laughing.-except Temari of course. Even Sasuke had a hint of
a smile on his face. Ino and Sakura were slapping they're knees. Shikamaru was
holding his ribs as his whole body shook with laughter. Naruto was rolling around
on the floor and laughing like a maniac. Chouji was stomping his feet causing
the whole ground to shake. It was like an artificial earthquake. Sasuke's eye
started twitching and and so did the corners of his mouth as he tried not to
laugh. Temari was, like Naruto, rolling around on the floor. Only instead of
laughing, she was hyperventilating and her face was beet-red. She hoped the bug
would go away like a fire would if she used the 'Stop, drop, and roll' method.
It wasn't working.
Kankuru suddenly popped
out of the trees and told her to hold still for a second. She kept rolling
around insanely.
"Hold still for a sec
and I'll get it off you!" he repeated loudly so she could hear him over
all the laughter around them.
"Get it off! Get it
off!" she continued to yell, ignoring her brother completely. He paused
for a moment and then-WHAP! The sound of flesh on flesh echoed loudly
throughout the whole island. Hinata stopped screaming her head off. Shino's
bugs stopped crawling except one. Shino wasn’t moving in the first place. Kiba
froze as though caught in a picture. Everyone from 'Team 7' and 'Team 10'
stopped laughing so they could see what was happening. Temari froze. Kankuru
did the same and sweatdropped. He hadn't meant to slap her that hard. They watched
in silence-those who were present that is-as Shino's only moving bug crawled
from inside the back of Temari's shirt to somewhere deep in the forest.
Temari slowly looked from
the place the bug had been seen last to Kankuru, who now had about five sweatdrops.
She stood up so slowly and calmly it was scary. She brushed herself off in the
same scary manner as Kankuru ever so slowly inched backwards into the forest
with little hope of getting away from his disturbingly calm sister. He knew
that when she got like this, her anger would become power that might even match
Gaara's.
"I'll give you ten
seconds." she said venomously. "One..Two.." Kankuru ran for dear
life. "Ten." she said simply, skipping over the seven numbers before
it. She bolted after her brother and soon the six remaining subs heard a
scream. A heart-rendering scream(don't ask what that means exactly). Following
the scream was...
'Team
8'
Right next to Hinata's
head was..
THE DEAD SQUIRREL!
Kiba's face turned a shade
of bright red -and several other colors- at realizing that he had been trying
to wake Hinata up all day and he hadn't noticed that the reason she fainted in
the first place was right next to her head.
"It's o.k.,
Hinata-chan, calm down." he said comfortingly-or at least he thought it
was, but he really just sounded nervous-as he turned her head away from the
dead squirrel and tried to cover it up with leaves. Not that it mattered
much-she had fainted again. Kiba kicked himself mentally as he struggled to
lift her limp body off her sleeping bag and away from the squirrel.
"Hey, Shino!" he
called breathlessly. His face was red from the effort of carrying Hinata.
"Could you bring the sleeping bag from over there while I carry her?"
Shino just nodded and did as he was asked. He went back to standing motionless
as he concentrated on a certain bug of his. After all, the one crawling all
over Temari was under no circumstances, an ordinary bug. He chuckled inwardly.
Kiba gently placed Hinata
on her sleeping bag. and watched anxiously over her as she mumbled something
like:"..next to me..poor squirrel..Shino..ant..no..dead now...". He
was fuming inside, burning with rage. How could Shino just stand there after
making Hinata faint. And, geez, he didn't have to kill the squirrel... He
sighed.
"Shino, I'm going to
get us something to eat, okay? Watch Hinata till I get back." he said.
Shino nodded silently. Kiba made his way into the trees with Akamaru on his
head. They walked and walked some more and they heard a voice, or was it two
voices, close by. They headed for the source. When they reached it they gasped.
The most horrible scene met their eyes and Akamaru nearly fainted again...
'Team
Gai'
They pounced and, in a
flash, Neji was tied to a tree. Lee and Tenten were standing in front of him,
looking fakely-innocent. He would have prevented them from tying him up, but
they were his teammates. What did I do to deserve this? Why me? he
thought desperately, Oh yeah, now I remember: Fate.
His thoughts were
interrupted by Tenten, who was yelling in his face. He zoned back in on what
was happening.
"Neji! Hey,
Neji!" she was saying loudly, "Earth to Neji!"
"What?" he
replied sounding annoyed.
"Nej-oh, you heard
"I already told you,
nothing happened." he replied unconvincingly. That look on her face made
him nervous.
"C'mon, Neji, tell us
what happened." Lee said as though Neji was an insane patient with a
secret and Lee was a psychiatrist trying to coax it out of him.
"Untie me,
baka." Neji replied, "Nothing happened."
"C'mon, Neji."
Tenten said her evil grin still plastered on her face. Lee now had one, too.
"Don't make us use 'The Ticks'. You know how much you hate those."
"Not 'The
Ticks'." Neji said, his eyes widening in terror. He remembered the last
time they had used 'The Ticks'. He shuddered. They bought back memories. Bad
memories. "Oh no."
"Oh yes." Tenten
said, nodding her head devilishly.
She looks scary Neji thought before finding some
courage. He narrowed his eyes at them. "You wouldn't."
"Oh but we
would." Lee said, nodding his head devilishly like Tenten.
"Unless..."
"Unless you tell us
what happened last night." Tenten finished.
"Never!" Neji
shouted dramatically, like a mobster was trying to pump him for information he
knew he couldn't reveal without dying soon after. Tenten sighed.
"You know I hate to
do this but.." she said sympathetically shaking her head. Then she turned
devilish again, like a skittzo whose second evil personality had just kicked
in. "Lee, bring in..'The Ticks'."...
