“It’d be better if you quickly left, meow. If you don’t, you’ll be ripped limb from limb.”
Faced with the repeating provocations from the ninja cat, Kiba finally sapped.
“Heeeh, that’s just fine with me. We can get our information just as well by tying you up, can’t we?” Kiba glared at the cat with sharp eyes. He cracked his knuckles, then rolled his neck around, lightly loosening his body. And then-
“Let’s go, Akamaru!” Kiba leapt up from the floor, and Akamaru rushed forwards at almost the exact same time.
“You foolish human, meow.” The cat looked up at the ceiling, not looking particularly concerned at all. It moved its back legs one by one to stretch them out, and rolled the joint of its own eck as well.
“Gyan!” Akamaru let out a high-pitched yelp, and collapsed next to Kiba.
“What’s wrong, Akamaru?! Wai- this is-?!” Kiba suddenly collapsed next to the writhing Akamaru as well. “Ah- wait- ha- gah- hya- kaa- ku-”
Akamaru and Kiba rolled around on the floor, letting out strange noises. They seemed to have completely lost themselves, pulling at their hair and hitting their clothes.
Shino’s skin perceived the tiny little attackers that had jumped off the ninja cat’s body.
“Ohh, so they’re fleas…” He said. “You sent out fleas as an attack. As expected of one who carries the name of a ninja cat. This is really rare. I guess you could call somet like Ninpou: Flea Shuriken…”
“D-don’t just c-calmly analysEEEEEE.” Kiba yelled. “Quickly d-do something sHINOOOO!”
It couldn’t be helped that one would feel incredibly itchy when they’d been covered by such a large number of fleas. Kiba’s aggrieved yelling and Akamaru’s pained whines were echoing in the corridor.
In order to aid them, Shino kneeled down on one knee and made the signs for a hand seal.
“Insect Gathering Technique!” Shino yelled, and placed his hand down on the floor. As he did, a pattern of blue chakra shaped like a spider’s web emerged. It spread out from his fingertips like a fan.
As he did that, the fleas that had covered Kiba and Akamaru jumped towards the blue chakra webs, gathering inside them. The Insect Gathering Technique worked just as it name suggested, luring out bugs near the user and gathering them in one place. It was a fundamental technique for the Aburame Clan that every one of their members could do.
On that note, this had originally been a technique used for collecting insects of investigating ecology.
“W-we’re saveddd…” Kiba must’ve been in a lot of pain. He was trying to even out his disordered breathing as he got up.
Akamaru looked like he still felt disgusted by the ordeal, shaking his whole body like he would when he’d gotten wet.
“To think you couldn’t even win against fleas. There’s a limit to how pathetic can be, you mutts, meow.”
“You shitty cat, looking down on us…!” Kiba lunged towards the cat who had been calmly watching them.
“Gotcha!”