@Big_Bad_Lith:
That gives me an interesting idea. Swap around the Konoha gennin into different teams. how do they function? And I'm talking about if they had always been in those 3-man cels. like early times.
Neji and Hinata in the same group would be trouble, Neji would bully the hell out of her and even if the third kid and teacher tried to stop it, the tension would be awful.
Naruto and Kiba in the same group would lead to a rivalry that becomes a bromance, I think. They're both wild guys, and I think function on a similar wavelength.
I want to see Rock Lee, Shikamaru, and Hinata team. Shikamaru is a genius who doesn't like to try, but I think he would respect Lee (whose only genius is hard work). Hinata would have Lee standing up for her all the time (which she certainly didn't get from Kiba or Shino), and maybe would transfer her affections from Naruto to a more deserving target. Lee is dense, so he might not realize he shouldn't be pining for Sakura, but that never seemed to really be a big part of his character anyway. I think the whole team would gel together very well, and I actually LIKE all of the characters on it.
Hm…. I can think of a couple of good combinations, but granted it has to follow the 2 guys, 1 girl combo, the imagination isn't really able to run free. The one I would have loved to see would be Shino, Shikamaru and Neji. 3 supersmart characters who were actually extremely interesting until the plot decided to go total retard. But if it has to follow the 2 guys, 1 girl, I think litterally any girl could be in any team and she wouldn't make any difference at all. So it would probably fall down to have an organic relationship between the two boys.
Lee and Kiba would be a cool group, Shikamaru and Lee would also be kind off interesting...
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@Razh:
Here's an idea for an interesting team. Lol, I'm actually laughing while writing this.
Sasuke, Shino and Ten Ten.
The total amount of dialogue between the three would just be embarassing