SilverWolfStar ~~ HEYOH!!!! It is I, back to give you another story!!
HIDAN ~~ What..... The.... Hell....?!?!?!
SilverWolfStar ~~ Someone say the disclaimer!! Quickly, i wanna get on with the story!!
Kiba ~~ SilverWolfStar doesn't own the Naruto characters... If she did, she would make Hinata realise that i am the one for her (sighs wistfuly) and she would be in the Akatsuki, getting Hidan, Deidara, Sasori and Itachi to -
SilverWolfStar ~~ WHOAWHOA, that's enough from you Kiba. *grins nervously* On with the story, hope you like it!!
HIDAN, DEIDARA, SASORI AND ITACHI ~~ What did Kiba try to say?!?!
SilverWolfStar ~~ Crap.....
Chapter 1 -- Don't wait for me then…
The wind blew a tumbling leaf down the road, and past a pair of black sandals. Sakura smiled in the general direction of the leaf, and continued her walk to the training ground. It was a nice day in Konoha, and Kami knows where her team had gone! It had been four months since Sasuke returned and two months since his eye had stopped looking like a black lump! Naruto was happy his best 'teme' friend was back, and Sai was… Sai. They were probably discussing stuff over Ramen, and now was a perfect time for Sakura to continue her training. Kakashi was pleased to have his original group all back together again, and had started arriving earlier to missions or training sessions. Sakura smiled as she thought fondly of her team. Yes, she had gotten over that silly crush on Sasuke. Heck, so had most of his old fan girls!
"RASENGAN!" Naruto's unmistakeable voice bellowed… Right on the training grounds. Sakura froze mid-step, and cocked her pink haired head to the side. Her emerald eyes glistened as she heard more bangs, and felt the heat from Sasuke's fireball. Her feet headed towards the training ground, moving faster and faster. She burst through the bushes, and stood, her gloved hands clenched, surveying the scene of her team training. Without her. Naruto turned to her slowly, as Sai froze mid-punch. Sasuke stuffed his hands in his pockets, and Kakashi looked uncomfortable, his kunai heading to his weapon pouch.
"Sakura-chan… We… I mean… we… you… it's-"
"Naruto, spit it out." Sakura snapped. She turned her emerald glare to her fellow team mates. "So, what are you doing? Training? I see, I wasn't informed of this training session. Or did I not pay attention… Oh wait a minute, no I always pay attention. So what's the reason?!"
"Sakura, please calm down-"Kakashi was cut off, as Sakura threw a chakra-enhanced fist at the ground, splitting it. Said pinkette threw her head up, from where she was on the ground and glared at her sensei.
"Calm down?! Why?!"
"Sakura, you are too weak." Sasuke's blunt voice cut threw the air. The silence dropped uncomfortably, enfolding everyone in a distracting heat. Sai and Kakashi moved the dirt with their feet, Naruto stared at a passing butterfly, and Sasuke stared at Sakura. She stood up slowly, her eyes fixed on his onyx gaze.
"I'm weak? I'm the weak one in this group?!" she spat, "so I guess it was a pure fluke that I killed a freaking Akatsuki member then?! I guess it's just pure luck that I punch the ground, with or without chakra and the ground splits beneath my fist?!"
"Well, Sakura-chan, what Sasuke is trying to-"
"I meant what I said, Naruto!" Sasuke snapped, cutting off his blond friend. Sakura arched a pink eyebrow, when Naruto didn't defend himself, and then closed her eyes.
Her old memories, the ones she had pushed far back in her mind, flooded back to her. The image of just standing there and allowing a kunai to come towards her head, because she believed Sasuke was dead, and Naruto deflecting it. Being pushed away on numerous occasions, being told she was a burden. She always remembered the enemies leering at her, telling her they don't fight weaklings. Naruto had always believed in her. But know Sasuke was back, surely Naruto would do anything to help make Sasuke welcome? Even if that meant going back on his word to Sakura. Shame really.
Sakura felt the tears coming, and struggled to not let her emotions show. It didn't work. She collapsed onto her knees, her shoulders shaking as the tears flowed freely, splattering onto her black shorts. Maybe she wasn't cut out to be a kunoichi, maybe she was better as a medic. But she always trained, and Naruto told her how strong she was becoming. Maybe it was just in Sasuke's eyes though. That wouldn't do, she had to have respect from everyone!
"See what I mean? Crying, and not even arguing back!" Sasuke's voice sneered. Sakura choked on a sob, and, without looking, leapt with her ninja skills and sprinted past a sad Naruto, a concerned Kakashi, a worried Sai and a smirking Sasuke.
She continued her running, the forest flashing by her blurry vision, until she realised the forest was getting darker. Looking round, she noticed the higher leaves were thicker and closer together, letting no dappled sunlight through. Then Sasuke's words hit her again, and she broke into a strangled sob, curling next to a tree and trying hard to comfort herself. She heard the leaves rustling, above her sobbing, and then felt something warm, a human hand, trailing over her wet cheek, and down onto her neck. Sakura froze, before gasping and blanking out, as the person hit her pressure point…
"Hinata! Hina!" Kiba Inuzuka's worried voice carried. He was supposed to have found her by now, and he couldn't even smell her. Hinata was supposed to be around her, and if he couldn't sense her chakra, or even smell that tropical scent of hers, he guessed something bad had happened. "Akamaru! Spread out!" he barked at his ninja dog. The white dog howled understandingly, and leaped away. Kiba jumped over a bush and headed towards the village, his eyes darting everywhere.
"Hinata-chan! Come on, you should be here round about now!" Kiba hollered, turning his head to the side. He peered round every tree, climbed up all of them, and still no sight of his new love interest.
"Hina-chan, come on! It's making me worry now!" Kiba tried one last time, hoping, if she could hear him, the guilt trick would work. Suddenly, Kiba fell out of the branch with a startled yelp, a light weight on his back. The Inuzuka twisted round, to try and face his attacker before they hit the ground, but the weight was gone, and Kiba forced himself to land on his hands and handspring to his feet. He whirled round as he sensed his attacker landing behind him. Her glossy midnight hair settled down to her waist, and her eyes betrayed her amusement. Her lips quirked in a faint smirk, her body positioned in the Hyuuga battle stance. Kiba's heart gave a little flutter, but he pushed that thought away and grinned dog-like. He gave a howl, and Akamaru answered, bounding back towards his master. Before the white dog reached Kiba's side, Hinata leapt forward, her palms raised, aiming for Kiba's shoulder. Kiba leant backwards, her palm missing his shoulder. Then his body jerked forward and he coughed. Her other fist had connected deeply with his gut. He noted that he was in fact, right by Hinata's neck, and he breathed out heavily, allowing a smirk to fall into place. She shuddered involuntarily.
"Kiba-kun. I think Kurenai-sensei wanted us back now." her lilting voice vibrated against Kiba's chest. Her fist had dropped to her side, and Kiba watched with some satisfaction as her neck, ears and cheeks began to flush a light pink.
"Nah, I'm comfy." he whispered huskily, resting his head on her shoulder.
"KIBA-KUN!" the Hyuuga heiress shrieked, trembling violently underneath his muscular frame. He chuckled softly, inhaled her tropical scent and breathed out again against her neck. Then he pulled himself up and cocked his head to the side, as Akamaru sat beside him, both of them grinning in their own way, at the kunoichi in front of them. Said girl was a light pink, and her lilac eyes were closed. Kiba nudged her shoulder and began walking away, smiling to himself. He knew she would catch up, and sure enough, Hinata appeared beside him.
"Kiba, don't do that again." she scolded lightly. Her stutter always disappeared around himself, Shino, Kurenai, Sakura, Ino, Shikamaru and Chouji. It just appeared around everyone else. Kiba grinned.
"I don't know what you mean." he shrugged. He gave her the cute innocent puppy dog look, that normally worked on her.
"You know what I mean, Inuzuka." Hinata said coldly, her eyes still dancing with amusement. Kiba feigned a hurt look.
"I didn't know you would be so strong as to actually use my last name with me." Kiba teased lightly. The footsteps behind him stopped.
"What do you mean?" Hinata asked, staring at her feet. Kiba turned to her, curious.
"By what?" "What you just said. After I called you Inuzuka." Hinata reminded him.
"I didn't mean anything by-"
"Does everyone still think I'm weak?" Hinata interrupted him, "does everyone still think of me as poor, shy, weak Hinata Hyuuga?"
Kiba gaped at her. How could she think he thought that?! "No, Hinata, I-"
"It doesn't matter, Kiba-kun! Don't try to defend yourself!" Hinata yelled. Kiba flinched, and Hinata turned and jumped away.
"HINATA!" Kiba roared, sprinting after her. But her scent and chakra had disappeared again. Damn it! She was to good at disguising herself.
Kiba headed back towards Kurenai and Shino, his head down like a lost puppy. Kurenai turned, her red eyes welcoming, and Shino sat in the shade. Kurenai looked for Hinata beside her team mate, but, as you know, couldn't see her.
"Where is Hinata?" Kurenai asked, hoping that said girl would jump out, scare Kurenai and laugh along with everyone else.
"She ran off." Kiba muttered, sitting down dejectedly. He tried to fight the tears, but realised they were angry tears and let them come. He was angry at himself for being so stupid. He felt Kurenai hug him comfortingly.
"It's not a rejection Kiba, she must need time to think about your confession-"
"I DIDN'T TELL HER I LOVED HER!" Kiba roared, jumping up. Kurenai let out a startled yelp and stepped away from the fuming Inuzuka. "I was teasing her after she called me Inuzuka, and she took it the wrong way!" Kiba growled, "She thought I had called her weak!"
"Did you?" Kurenai questioned. Kiba shook his head profusely, glaring at his hands.
"I suggest we go to look for Hinata-chan. She could be anywhere now." Shino's deep voice broke the silence. Kurenai nodded, and disappeared in a swirl of leaves. Shino placed a strong hand on Kiba's shaking shoulders, and steered him towards the forest.
"I really love her Shino. I think she's the strongest girl I've ever met, yet she seems so gentle. And sensitive. Why would I want to hurt her?" Kiba whimpered. Shino stayed silent, as usual. Kiba let his chakra develop more around his nose, and set about looking for the tiniest trace of her tropical scent. It was stronger around his body, where he had rested against her.
Hinata was just striding along the edge of the dark forest, where no one ever ventured. Kiba was normally the one who always thought she was strong, but there he goes, telling her she wasn't. Or was she being over dramatic? Should she turn back and apologise to him? Hinata looked behind her, biting her lower lip anxiously. What if she had upset him? She didn't want to do that to Kiba, he was her best friend! Then a dark shape covered her eyes, and Hinata kicked out furiously, angry at herself for letting her guard down. As she opened her mouth to scream, the person holding her hit her pressure point, and her kicking ceased slowly, her scream ending out a whimper…
Ino Yamanaka strode along the hallway, towards the Hokage's office. Her team was to meet up there, and receive a mission, and Ino was happy. They hadn't had a team mission in ages. She hummed a song, flipping her platinum blonde hair over her shoulder. For once, she had let it down, and it hung like a blonde curtain of silk, cascading down her back to her hips. She heard raised voices, yelling at each other, and smirked. Shikamaru didn't know when to shut his mouth! (A/N: I love Shika, so I'm not being mean, it's just he talks back to the Hokage sometimes!! XP) Just as Ino went to open the door, she heard her name being yelled in Shikamaru's voice. She paused, cocking her head to the side.
"Why don't you want her on this mission, Nara?!" Tsunade-sama's voice bellowed.
"Because, it's too dangerous for Ino to participate in!" Shikamaru yelled back.
"Nara, you and I both know that's not the reason." Tsunade's voice lowered. Ino guessed she had sensed her own chakra approaching, and was wondering what she was doing outside.
"Well, then, why are you asking me what the reason is?" Shikamaru snapped. Ino opened the door, and stalked in, her eyes like icy blue daggers at Shikamaru's back.
"What's the reason then, Shikamaru?" Ino snapped. Tsunade sat back, to observe the scene in a comfier position. Chouji munched on his chips nervously and Asuma, a newly revived Asuma, breathed out a dragon shaped smoke cloud. Shikamaru shifted uncomfortably, his eyes at his feet. "Shikamaru!" Ino growled, demanding an answer in that one sentence.
"Well… I… you see… the… I… you…ano… the mission… and you… ano…" Shikamaru mumbled in the most unlike Shikamaru way, stammering about what to say.
"Why?!" Ino shrieked.
"Ano… Your… too… weak…" Shikamaru trailed off, as Ino gasped. Tsunade sat bolt upright, her eyes widening. That was not what she was expecting. She glanced down at the file for the mission, the picture of Kabuto glaring up at her, the smirk intact.
"I'm too weak?" Ino whispered, almost to herself. Shikamaru sighed, and stepped forward, to comfort his blonde friend.
"NO!" she shrieked, spinning away from him, and in one swift movement, crouching down and sweeping Shikamaru's feet out from underneath him. As the shadow-user fell to the ground, Chouji leapt forward, to grab the angry Yamanaka.
But Ino was gone, jumping up onto Tsunade's desk, but before even the Hokage could react, jumped out the window. Shikamaru leapt to the now broken window, to see the pieces of glittering glass fall to the ground, and the blonde curtain of hair disappearing towards the gates of Konoha. He groaned, and buried his head into his hardened palms.
"Well… That wasn't the answer I was expecting." Tsunade muttered. Shikamaru spun to face her.
"What? Did you expect me to tell her me and Naruto are planning on getting her together with Naruto, and Sakura with me?! Well, if that happened, she would have wanted to be part of the scheme, which isn't helpful, or she would have just rejected the idea, told Sakura to reject me, and then we would all be in a pickle!" Shikamaru snarled. Tsunade shook her head, and turned to the three men in her room.
"Go find her. Before she does something bad." Tsunade sighed, handing the file to Asuma, who tucked it into his vest, his eyes straying to the window that Ino had smashed and jumped out of. "We'll find her." Tsunade confirmed.
The pain was bearable for now. She would just have to find Sakura or Hinata, to heal her, and she could go and argue some more with her team. She sat down just a ten minute walk away from the Konoha gates and began pulling out the shards of glass. Each tug sent a shock of pain running through her body, as if reality was hitting her continuously. She bit her lip, and relaxed all her muscles, looking at the biggest, sharpest bit of glass stuck in her arm. Ino began pulling at it, wincing and biting harder on her lip. As she managed to pull it all out, the blood seeped over, like a scarlet fountain, and her head began to spin. As she started slipping, fainting coming over her, she noted a silhouette of a person approaching her slowly…
TenTen skipped her way towards her two team mates, and the sand siblings. Temari grinned as the brunette scampered up to her side, and Kankuro flushed lightly under his face paint. Neji greeted the sole female member of their team, and continued his argument with Gaara.
"Kanky, are you still upset that I saw you in just a towel?" TenTen teased, as Kankuro yet again avoided eye contact.
"TenTen!" Kankuro hissed, as silence fell over the six gathered. TenTen and Temari grinned cheekily, as Neji turned his lilac eyes to Kankuro.
"TenTen saw you naked?"
"And wet!" TenTen chirped merrily. Kankuro lashed out at her, and she danced neatly out of the way, her and Temari howling with laughter, as Gaara hit his older brother upside the head. He whined and rubbed the sore spot. Rock Lee and Neji glanced at each other, before nodding.
"Let's get training." Neji said, jerking his head in the direction of the training ground. Rock Lee held a fist out to Kankuro.
"I, challenge you, great puppet user!" Lee yelped. Kankuro sniggered, and nodded. Neji glanced at Gaara.
"I guess I'm fighting you." Gaara murmured, his sand already out and wavering.
"Hey, hey, hey! What about us two?!" TenTen yowled, as the four young men headed off. Gaara turned to her, his lips in a faint smirk. "Fighting each other." he said, rolling his eyes. Temari and TenTen looked at each other.
"Come on! We fought each other in the Chunnin exams!" Temari groaned.
"And it would be great to see if you've both improved… Which I'm sure you have!" Kankuro added hurriedly, at the look the two offended girls glared at him. Temari and TenTen shook their heads, grimacing.
"I wanna fight you puppet boy, and Temari-chan wants to fight Lee. So we're sorted." TenTen said, jutting her lower lip out and fluttering her eyelashes in a way of persuasion.
Kankuro and Lee almost nodded, when Gaara stepped forward and sneered. "You have to fight each other, because we are stronger."
"Meaning?" Temari snapped, stepping up to her younger fiery haired brother.
"Meaning you're not at our level." Neji said, standing side on and arms folded. TenTen choked on air, surprised that Neji would say that to her. Frustrated, she chucked four kunais' at each boy, then disappeared to outside of the Fire territory.
She broke down, crying angry tears and cursing herself.
"Hey. You look down!" a voice sneered, before hitting her pressure point and knocking her unconscious…
Temari was sitting on her fan, flying over the village. She felt hurt that her brother thought of her as weaker than himself and Kankuro. But it was nothing to cry about, she just needed time to cool off, instead of destroying half the town. She was sure Tsunade-sama wouldn't like her town destroyed because Gaara thought Temari wasn't strong. As she contemplated that fact, she slumped forward, close to the edge of her spread fan. Her eyes dropped slowly, as she caught a oddly figured silhouette…
SilverWolfStar ~~ Wowza.... Was i a bit mean in this chapter??
Kiba ~~ Why did you make Hinata take it the wrong way?!?!
SilverWolfStar ~~ Now now, you'll have to read the story, and i'm sorry Kiba-kun *drags out Hinata and hands her to Kiba* here ya go!!
Kiba ~~ HINA-CHAN!!! *hugs her*
Hinata ~~ Kiba-kun.... You're squashing me.....
SilverWolfStar ~~ AWAH!!! Young love XP AnyWHOOOO, FROM ME AND KIBI AAANNNDDD HINATA
SilverWolfStar, Kiba and Hinata ~~ Please Read and Review and thank you !!!! :D