Naruto: 20 Decisions out of Politics
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runespoorTitle: 20 Decisions out of Politics
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Group: Team 8 [Hinata, Shino, Kiba; possible-squinty-implied NejiHina; a lot of Kurenai and Tsunade]
Rating: PG-13
Notes: Second in the Triangles and Circles![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
20_truths series. Because Naruto comes in threes.
Part 1 – Team 10: 20 Complications for "the Easy Team"
Three genin in a team. Generally two boys and a girl – due to the high mortality rate of ninja villages, girls are less pressured into becoming shinobi, but of course it's perfectly possible, it's always about balance. Two boys and a girl, the tried and true formula. Never all boys or all girls.
Three people in team, usually as puberty is lurking around the corner, that's a recipe for disaster and everybody knows it.
It's just that all the other solutions are even worse. Two people would be too weak, too easily unmade or destroyed; four people would lead to scissions in the group. Better stick to the triangle and wait for them to twist out of shape until they reach their own equilibrium, taut and brittle and always spinning on the bridge of disaster.
You have to make sure the disequilibrium is thought out, the Hokages know. You have to be forewarned, each team fitting an archetype, personalities carefully chosen to clash – running into each other again and again until they fit into some semblance of a shape.
1.There are also some teams that are put together because personalities seemed like they could mesh, when all surrounding factors had been carefully studied, and it honestly seemed for the best – for the clans involved, and also hopefully for the three genins. Such is the case with Kurenai's Team 8, which has basically been built around the little Hyuuga girl. The Aburame and the Inuzuka clans are lesser yet respectable clans, and those three apparently haven't had much interaction during their Academy days, so hopefully this one would be a 'blank slate' situation.
2. On paper, of course.
3. Every team has its stories and few don't have histories as well, but strangers would be less likely to know about Team 8's than that of other teams. That may be because Kurenai is by nature a rather private woman and because the members of her team just aren't as big drama-magnets as a few others she could name. That may be due to other reasons, but they're Team 8; you'll never know.
4. Each of them seem to have a private life out of the team, and it's certainly not an expansive closeness, as that of Team 10, but it works.
5. At first it works because Hinata's quiet and nervous and doesn't like conflict, and so, when the three of them stumble into her cousin having a furious sparring session with one of his teammates, not three weeks after they've officially become genins, Kiba succinctly declares Neji to be a drama-queen, Shino acquiesces silently and Hinata doesn't say anything though she's feeling very lonely, and it's the first time the two boys have explicitly agreed on anything. Kurenai reads Hinata's expression and is grateful for Akamaru's barking.
6. Then it works because Hinata's quiet and tense and doesn't want her team to fight, and Shino is content letting Kiba take the lead he so obviously covets, only shrugging and intervening when he deems necessary. Then Kiba snarls and growls and gives up as soon as Hinata opens her mouth to stutter that she thinks Shino has a point. Shino always has a point, otherwise he wouldn't speak up, and it allows Hinata to keep the team balanced. Kurenai watches Hinata's glances between the two and wonders what she's done to end up with the team which has four teammates – since Akamaru doesn't even have the decency to consistently side with Kiba -, two of which with eyes she can only guess at and one with eyes she rather wishes she didn't have to.
7. Nobody – read: Sandaime – ever said anything about needing to envisage sexuality from a canine perspective to make it through difficult missions, and she's never going to be able to tell it to the other teams' sensei, so she regularly finds herself complaining – okay, bitching – to Tsunade-sama about it.
8. Finally it works because Hinata's quiet and taut and doesn't wish people to fight her. She listens to Kiba's ideas, then to Shino's reticence, and when finally she reaches a decision it's just not possible to turn it down because for one it's not a proposition and for another it will work. Kurenai sees Hinata, and she wonders about the Hyuuga clan's blindness. Tsunade sometimes regrets that Hinata was born a Hyuuga, as it makes her wholly unsuitable a potential Hokage.
9. Neither Kiba nor Shino seem bothered by this development; Kiba's not one for big responsibilities after all, and Shino likes doing things out of the way.
10. Team 8 is a secretive team, in spite of Kiba's outbursts and Hinata's blushes, and no one knows exactly what to expect from them on the betting-pool scene.
11. The more pessimistic predicted a grand debacle between Kiba and Hinata, because of Kiba's confused affection for the girl, and his vague resemblance in personality to the Kyuubi vessel, and his shock value to Hyuuga-sama.
12. So far, either the scene is frozen either the three of them are consummate actors. Kurenai and Tsunade give more thought to the latter than the average observer, seeing as Kiba has a dog's ability at picking up and concealing scents, Shino is naturally poker-faced, and Hinata understands politics a lot better than some Clan Heads.
13. Sometimes Kurenai thinks of the past and the future for her team, maybe more than is usual for a jounin-sensei; but she was barely a jounin herself when she got saddled with those three, so she's not entirely sure what her stance is supposed to be, or if, indeed, she cares.
14. On the day both Kiba and Hinata become chuunins, half a year after Shino, she goes to Tsunade-sama and talks about the first chuunin exams. She's aware that she might well be bothering the Hokage with details, but the Hokage is a big girl. If she thought Kurenai was wasting their time, she'd tell her.
15. She talks about how fast they were to go through the Forest, the first team of Konoha to reach the end. She talks about how they left unmentioned their encounter with the Sand siblings until it was entirely irrelevant; and when she'd questioned Shino on it, he'd only shrugged and said that by that time, everyone had understood what sort of person Gaara was anyway, and she'd had to concede the point. She talks about the following days, when the other teams that constituted what is now called the Rookie Nine Plus Three were still inside, her team's unspoken apprehension.
16. She talks about Kiba's honorable match against Naruto; how he and Akamaru weren't humiliated, how easy their fighting had looked, how they had bloody well not adapted to their opponent's style.
17. She says that Shino deserved better than having his adversary abandon on him in the final round of the exam, how Shino could have been another worthy of the rank of chuunin even at that time.
18. She spends longer on Hinata's case, but there are some things you can't escape, and Team 8 was designed with the little Hyuuga girl in mind.
19. Somewhere between her wriggling her fingers and her heart exploding, she'd abruptly stopped looking so little any more, and the Hyuuga sets of fixed ideals had paled when she'd stripped her cousin of his icy control.
20. The matter – neither Kurenai nor Tsunade feel the need to be more precise – brings them directly to Gai's team.
Author:
runespoor7Group: Team 8 [Hinata, Shino, Kiba; possible-squinty-implied NejiHina; a lot of Kurenai and Tsunade]
Rating: PG-13
Notes: Second in the Triangles and Circles
20_truths series. Because Naruto comes in threes.Part 1 – Team 10: 20 Complications for "the Easy Team"
Three genin in a team. Generally two boys and a girl – due to the high mortality rate of ninja villages, girls are less pressured into becoming shinobi, but of course it's perfectly possible, it's always about balance. Two boys and a girl, the tried and true formula. Never all boys or all girls.
Three people in team, usually as puberty is lurking around the corner, that's a recipe for disaster and everybody knows it.
It's just that all the other solutions are even worse. Two people would be too weak, too easily unmade or destroyed; four people would lead to scissions in the group. Better stick to the triangle and wait for them to twist out of shape until they reach their own equilibrium, taut and brittle and always spinning on the bridge of disaster.
You have to make sure the disequilibrium is thought out, the Hokages know. You have to be forewarned, each team fitting an archetype, personalities carefully chosen to clash – running into each other again and again until they fit into some semblance of a shape.
1.There are also some teams that are put together because personalities seemed like they could mesh, when all surrounding factors had been carefully studied, and it honestly seemed for the best – for the clans involved, and also hopefully for the three genins. Such is the case with Kurenai's Team 8, which has basically been built around the little Hyuuga girl. The Aburame and the Inuzuka clans are lesser yet respectable clans, and those three apparently haven't had much interaction during their Academy days, so hopefully this one would be a 'blank slate' situation.
2. On paper, of course.
3. Every team has its stories and few don't have histories as well, but strangers would be less likely to know about Team 8's than that of other teams. That may be because Kurenai is by nature a rather private woman and because the members of her team just aren't as big drama-magnets as a few others she could name. That may be due to other reasons, but they're Team 8; you'll never know.
4. Each of them seem to have a private life out of the team, and it's certainly not an expansive closeness, as that of Team 10, but it works.
5. At first it works because Hinata's quiet and nervous and doesn't like conflict, and so, when the three of them stumble into her cousin having a furious sparring session with one of his teammates, not three weeks after they've officially become genins, Kiba succinctly declares Neji to be a drama-queen, Shino acquiesces silently and Hinata doesn't say anything though she's feeling very lonely, and it's the first time the two boys have explicitly agreed on anything. Kurenai reads Hinata's expression and is grateful for Akamaru's barking.
6. Then it works because Hinata's quiet and tense and doesn't want her team to fight, and Shino is content letting Kiba take the lead he so obviously covets, only shrugging and intervening when he deems necessary. Then Kiba snarls and growls and gives up as soon as Hinata opens her mouth to stutter that she thinks Shino has a point. Shino always has a point, otherwise he wouldn't speak up, and it allows Hinata to keep the team balanced. Kurenai watches Hinata's glances between the two and wonders what she's done to end up with the team which has four teammates – since Akamaru doesn't even have the decency to consistently side with Kiba -, two of which with eyes she can only guess at and one with eyes she rather wishes she didn't have to.
7. Nobody – read: Sandaime – ever said anything about needing to envisage sexuality from a canine perspective to make it through difficult missions, and she's never going to be able to tell it to the other teams' sensei, so she regularly finds herself complaining – okay, bitching – to Tsunade-sama about it.
8. Finally it works because Hinata's quiet and taut and doesn't wish people to fight her. She listens to Kiba's ideas, then to Shino's reticence, and when finally she reaches a decision it's just not possible to turn it down because for one it's not a proposition and for another it will work. Kurenai sees Hinata, and she wonders about the Hyuuga clan's blindness. Tsunade sometimes regrets that Hinata was born a Hyuuga, as it makes her wholly unsuitable a potential Hokage.
9. Neither Kiba nor Shino seem bothered by this development; Kiba's not one for big responsibilities after all, and Shino likes doing things out of the way.
10. Team 8 is a secretive team, in spite of Kiba's outbursts and Hinata's blushes, and no one knows exactly what to expect from them on the betting-pool scene.
11. The more pessimistic predicted a grand debacle between Kiba and Hinata, because of Kiba's confused affection for the girl, and his vague resemblance in personality to the Kyuubi vessel, and his shock value to Hyuuga-sama.
12. So far, either the scene is frozen either the three of them are consummate actors. Kurenai and Tsunade give more thought to the latter than the average observer, seeing as Kiba has a dog's ability at picking up and concealing scents, Shino is naturally poker-faced, and Hinata understands politics a lot better than some Clan Heads.
13. Sometimes Kurenai thinks of the past and the future for her team, maybe more than is usual for a jounin-sensei; but she was barely a jounin herself when she got saddled with those three, so she's not entirely sure what her stance is supposed to be, or if, indeed, she cares.
14. On the day both Kiba and Hinata become chuunins, half a year after Shino, she goes to Tsunade-sama and talks about the first chuunin exams. She's aware that she might well be bothering the Hokage with details, but the Hokage is a big girl. If she thought Kurenai was wasting their time, she'd tell her.
15. She talks about how fast they were to go through the Forest, the first team of Konoha to reach the end. She talks about how they left unmentioned their encounter with the Sand siblings until it was entirely irrelevant; and when she'd questioned Shino on it, he'd only shrugged and said that by that time, everyone had understood what sort of person Gaara was anyway, and she'd had to concede the point. She talks about the following days, when the other teams that constituted what is now called the Rookie Nine Plus Three were still inside, her team's unspoken apprehension.
16. She talks about Kiba's honorable match against Naruto; how he and Akamaru weren't humiliated, how easy their fighting had looked, how they had bloody well not adapted to their opponent's style.
17. She says that Shino deserved better than having his adversary abandon on him in the final round of the exam, how Shino could have been another worthy of the rank of chuunin even at that time.
18. She spends longer on Hinata's case, but there are some things you can't escape, and Team 8 was designed with the little Hyuuga girl in mind.
19. Somewhere between her wriggling her fingers and her heart exploding, she'd abruptly stopped looking so little any more, and the Hyuuga sets of fixed ideals had paled when she'd stripped her cousin of his icy control.
20. The matter – neither Kurenai nor Tsunade feel the need to be more precise – brings them directly to Gai's team.
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