Ninja's Life Remake

Chapter 37: Sasuke Revival Team

"What do you mean Sasuke's gone?" Kira called, all traces of sleep away from her system completely. Shikamaru, Choji, Neji, Kiba, and Naruto stood outside her front door staring at her expectantly. "I just saw him yesterday."

Shikamaru explained what he knew. That Tsunade had told him early this morning that sometime last night Sasuke had disappeared. That Orochimaru had kidnapped the guy.

"Shit...okay yeah let me grab my backpack." She rushed back inside towards her room she was quick to grab her bag and throw it over her shoulder, tying her pouch to her right leg. Running to the bathroom she grabbed another two handfuls of bandages and shoved them in her backpack.

The group of six ran towards the entrance, Naruto thinking he was the leader started yelling for the group to follow him. Shikamaru had crouched down drawing out our attack plan. Kiba didn't seem to like that Shikamaru was leader, he didn't think he had the ability to lead this team.

"Kiba get your head out your ass. Shikamaru's the leader. Deal with it." Kira snapped her head pounding, she crossed her arms over her chest, keeping her eyes outside the gate. There might be trouble getting Sasuke back.

Kiba growled glaring at the girl. She was seriously pissing him off. "Why're you here anyway? You didn't get to be Chunin either."

"Kira is an exceptional healer, should any of us get harmed it is her duty to heal us." Shikamaru spoke up keeping his eyes on his paper to continue drawing his diagram. Shikamaru was finished. What surprised her was that Shikamaru hasn't actually seen her heal anyone besides maybe Sakura a while back. For all she knew she couldn't do it, she couldn't live up to Shikamaru's expectations. Heck, even now she still wasn't one hundred percent. Shikamaru looked at each one of his team members.

"We'll go in single file. First, the most important forward guard will be you Kiba. You spent all year wandering the Land Of Fire with Akamaru, so if anyone knows the terrain, it's you. Plus, given your acute sense of smell we can track Sasuke by scent. You can even detect and disarm booby traps, where the enemy has touched them. Also, a single file formation is vulnerable to frontal attack your pairing with Akamaru makes you doubly effective."

To say Kiba was shocked at being put first at the front of the line was an understatement. Even after bitching that Shikamaru would probably make a horrible first leader, Shikamaru had let him go first. Kiba grinned at being acknowledged for his own smarts and talents.

"And then I, platoon leader come second. Whatever the situation. I can respond by ordering Kiba directly from behind. Meanwhile I can use hand signals to communicate with the rest of you." Shikamaru waited till he was sure everyone understood. "The center, third is you Naruto. You've got the best initiative. Son you're best placed at the heart. You can support either the front or back as need be. You're the hinge of our back up especially given your shadow doppelgangers." Naruto grinned excitedly to get this mission started with.

"Kira you're fourth behind Naruto. Being our healer we need you to be in the center of us all. You'll be able to heal both front and back when need be. Being in the heart with Naruto you'll be safe from a spontaneous attack." Kira nodded her head. She understood her position, she just hoped she'd be able to live up to the role of Team Healer.

"Choji, you're fifth up. You don't have speed, but you have the greatest striking power. Once Kiba, Naruto, Kira, and I launch a surprise attack, you take the stage and clobber the enemy with a fatal blow. In other words your job is the follow up strike." Choji gave a curt nod in understanding his position.

"Finally, bringing up the rear, is Neji. Rear guard is the toughest job of all. With your byakugan, you can ensure that our squad has no blind spots." Shikamaru pointed to the diagram on the ground for explanation. "Verify your target area. Kiba front. Me greater forward area. Naruto left, Kira center, Choji right, and Neji you use your Byakugan to cover the area behind us."