By now Shikamaru was a very imposing sight to anyone, Kiba included. Rising only as high as the lazy one's toes he felt small next to Shikamaru even his size was enough to dwarf everything else in sight. There was however one benefit, if you are ant sized to someone else, you are as unnoticeable as an ant.

Shikamaru moved to make sure his body was outside of what was left of the village and sat down. He was still rubbing the back of his head while mumbling something about "how troublesome" this whole thing was. It was then Kiba saw an opening. Shikamaru's other hand was near the ground, he might never get a better chance to get that bottle back!

Channeling chakra to his legs Kiba took off, running at the bottle at full speed. For some reason the bottle had gotten bigger along the way, but every time a giant grew it would be proportionately smaller then them. To Naruto it would be larger then him, to Kiba it would be something well over sized, and to Shikamru, it would be tiny. Tiny meant he couldn't get a good grip on it. Not having a good grip on it meant it could be knocked free. That meant an opportunity Kiba could not pass on.

Kiba reached the bottle and while Shikamaru was still distracted by the tiny village, pulled it free. Then he dashed away as fast as possible. He did NOT want to be around when the giant Shikamaru remembered the bottle again. Kiba ran until he got to the other side of the nearest mountain range, figuring that would shield him until he grew bigger then Shikamaru.

Bigger then the biggest thing on the planet that was the giant ninja? Oh yes, Kiba had every intention on being the biggest. In fact his laser like focus on getting the bottle back and growing again meant he didn't notice anything else that happened around him. Kiba opened the bottle and prepared to bring it to his lips once again.

In doing this he did not see that there was someone who had followed him. Someone who had seen Shikamaru grew. Someone that knew what the bottle was capable of. Someone that wanted to grow bigger them self.

That someone was...