A/N: I had writers block a little while I was writing my other fic "The Last Hokage" (which you should go read and review!), so I decided to write this short (for me at least) intro to another fic. It's an AU story and the characters may be a little OOC but that's because it's more of just my original thing with the Naruto names instead of my own. The AU is my own little universe that I just kind of mess around with in some short stories although you don't get any insight into it really in this short. I'm not really sure if I'm going to continue this as I want to work on "The Last Hokage" (read it!) as that is more of an actual fan fiction. Leave some feedback on this fic if you want, although I'd appreciate it even more if you reviewed me other fics as well!

Bonus if you can tell me where I got the title from :P

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of it's characters.

This is from Kiba's POV.

Us Against the Crown

The ocean always seems so angry; the storm constantly raging on. Maybe thats why I'm always so drawn to it. So I can watch the swells crash down in the distance and feel the biting wind whip sand into my face. So I can see the current suck the little pieces of wood I throw out, dragging them down into the abyss below. So I can feel the bitter froth the ocean spits up at me chill my feet, even though I'm more then 50 meters from the water line. I'm always the only one here on the beach. Everyone else is to afraid to come near it. My mom would kill me if she knew I was here right now. She's always been terrified of the ocean because of what it did to my dad. But I come here nonetheless.

If I asked my English teacher or my counselor why I'm so drawn to this hostile place they would tell me that it's because I view it as some metaphor to my own life or some bullshit like that. I've never been a fan of school though, so I'd never ask them anyway. If you asked me why I always came here I'd probably just tell you it's because I need to be alone. I need some time to be alone to think, and this is the only place I can ever be truly alone. Only a few people ever dare to come here. My dog, Akamaru, is one of them. He'll come and keep me company sometimes, let me pet him while I talk about nothing in particular, or play chicken with the constantly assaulting waves. But in the end he's just as afraid, and he'll just go running back to the house to sleep in his safe, comfortable bed.

She's one of the only other ones that dares to come out here for more then a few seconds. It seems paradox to her nature, as she's afraid of just about everything else, but she comes out here nonetheless. I'd like to think that it's because I'm here, that she feels protected and safe with me, even with the ocean trying to attack us from only a few meters away. I don't know if that's true or not, but like I said, its what I like to believe.

"I thought I'd find you here," she says as she slowly sits down next to me. I smile weakly but keep looking out into the ocean. I know whats sitting next to me now. Her long black hair blowing in the wind. Her fragile yet beautiful body looking like it may get blown away by the fierce wind. Her odd, cloudy white eyes starring off into the same fearsome ocean that my savage black slitted pupils are.

"Have you been here all day?" She asks, already knowing full well the answer. I nod my head but continue to look out onto the horizon. I can feel her getting worried about my unresponsiveness, a sign to her of my current state of depression. I'll make small talk with her, if only to relieve her worry a little.

"So how was school today, Hinata?" I ask, finally tearing my eyes from the ocean and setting them on her. Like I predicted, she starring at me and her eyes are filled with worry. I don't want her to be worried about me; some innocent girl like her shouldn't have to worry about some messed up kid like me.

"It was fine," She replied, "Although it feels kind of strange without you being there."

I get a small laugh out of this. "You should be used to me not being in school by now," I joke back. I haven't been to school for about a week now, having been suspended for fighting. I need to work on controlling my temper, or at least that's what everyone tells me. I know I should, I've been suspended several times before for fighting, although this time was different. I get in fights a lot just for the hell of it; because some kid tries to poke fun at me or they just do something I don't like. But this time I had a legitimate reason, or at least legitimate enough to verify the ten day suspension and possible expulsion to myself.

"You know Naruto'd be mad if he knew you were here with me," I tell her, getting serious again.

"Yeah, I know," She whispers back, barely audible over the deafening crashing of the waves on the beach. "It's okay though, he never comes out here anyway."

Although what she says is true I'm always worried that on an outside chance he will show up and catch her with me. I hate knowing that what I do could destroy the relationships shes worked so hard to obtain. It's always been like that though, I've always just been a thorn in her side, slowing picking away at everything she holds dear in her life. Yet she still comes out here to be with me. It gives me a little hope that someone likes me enough that they would risk things that are important to them just to be with me.

Thats not to say other people don't like me, just they do in a different way. I've probably portrayed myself as sort of a loner right now, which I really am not. Recently thats sort of how I felt but it typically isn't me. I have plenty of friends and acquaintances in real life that 'like' me, just its not the same kind of like. All those other relationships and friendships I have are just shallow connections I keep so that I can have someone to hang out with on weekends, or talk to when I'm bored in class. They would all abandon me the second things started to look bad or trouble started to brew. It's not like I care, I would probably do the same thing to them. But she's stuck with me through it all.

I can't really figure out why though. Maybe it's because of my dog. She's always wanted a dog but hasn't been able to get one because her dad's allergic. Maybe she just spends time with me so she can pet Akamaru when she's feeling down. That's a pretty crappy reason though, there are plenty of other far more normal that have dogs that she could be friends with, but its the only one I can think of.

"Your mom would be pretty mad if she knew you were out here as well," she tells me. I know thats true, but like Naruto, she never comes out here. I think she knows this is where I am but her intense phobia of this water prevents her from coming out and dragging me away from my sacred place. I feel kind of bad for being so blatantly rebellious towards her, but I don't think I could stop myself from coming here even if I tried.

I've always felt kind of bad for my mother. She's been through a lot and I've been of no help to her. First dad gets swept away and shes left alone, widowed, with two kids. Then I start acting up in school, getting into fights and getting suspensions. And then to put the final nail in the coffin my sister, her last hope at having a normal family, runs off after shes finished with school with no warning, to work on some secretive project she doesn't tell any of us about. All of this has left my mom rather beaten up and broken. So she displaces all this sorrow and rage she has on me. I feel like I kind of deserve it but I hate it nonetheless.

"So is your trial soon?" Hinata asks me, the worry still highly evident in her voice. She's referring to my appeal trial about my suspension of course. I think the school system has finally had it with me, and this time they are threatening to kick me out for good. I wouldn't really mind if I did get kicked out, I hate school after all and get nothing out of it, but everyone else seems to care. They're all worried were this is going to lead me later in life. What am I going to do without a diploma? What's going to be my purpose in life now that I've diverged from the norm of what was expected of me.

Although I don't mind what happens in the end I'll try my best to stay in if only for Hinata. I hate seeing her worry about me and this trial has done nothing but make her do that. Again, I can't see why she stays by me, when all I bring her is worry. I won't complain though, if she wants to put with me there's no reason for me to argue.

We both sit there for a while now, starring out into the ocean, getting soaked by the spray. "Have you ever wondered what's out there?" I ask her. It's something I've been thinking about a lot recently. If there's nothing for me here, maybe there is something for me out there, past this storm. For a while in school I tried to do good so I could become an engineer or something like that, and build something to get us off this island. But I gave up, it always seems so hopeless. Legitimately intelligent people have tried and failed before me, to build a boat to sail past it or construct something that can fly like the birds to soar over it. But they've all failed. The ocean is too fierce, it drags the boats under before they're even a hundred meters off of shore, and the winds are too mighty, the atmosphere to low, not even the birds try to fly over the ocean.

"Sort of," Hinata responds to my question. This doesn't surprise me, it's natural to wonder what's beyond what you can't see, but she's not the adventuresome type. Even if she doesn't like it here, here is safe and known, not the dangerous unknown that lies beyond the sea. "Why do you ask?"

"No reason," I reply. "It's just something I wonder about sometimes."

"Oh," she says back. She won't dig deeper, there's no reason for her to here.

I'm starting to get depressed the more I stare out into the ocean. Maybe over there the government is so corrupt. Maybe over there the water is calm. Maybe over there people are happy. I have to pull my gaze away from the sea after a while, it starts to take too much out of me. I let my gaze settle on the wet sand and on Hinata. I come to the conclusion that even if I could leave I wouldn't. Not as long as she's here. She's what's keeping me sane.

"Kiba, there's something I have to tell you." Hinata whispers. She's serious now and she's looking me right in the eyes.

"Yeah?"

She stays quite for a moment, picking her words. I start to become afraid. I don't want to know what she has to say if she can't even think of a way to say it.

"Kiba..." she whispers again, still unsure of what to say.

"Yeah?"

"Kiba, I'm moving."

So like I said, I'm not sure if I'm going to continue this, although you can review if you want. If I do continue, an actual story will develop and it won't be some endless angsty drabble.