"Stupid" He thought as he walked through the thickness of the Kohona forest. "Why I can't I just tell her the way I feel?"
Kiba, on his way to meet his fellow team members, mentally beat up himself. This was a daily torture that he did, every time he would lose his nerve to talk to her. It was she, who could only harness his animalistic, heart, and wind it up more than he was ever able to do on his own.
A rustle in the trees caught Kiba's attention, and he pulled out a kunai instantly. His eyes shifted from one group of tree tops to another on the other side of him.
Suddenly, Metal stars shot down near his torso, barely scratching his skin. He jumped away to dodge, and doing so, threw the kunai towards the group of trees, 5 feet away from him.
A small chuckle was heard, as his weapon was deflected before it could even disappear into the leaves.
"Your late, again Kiba." Spoke a rough deep voice that seemed to flow from different directions.
"And you're aiming to kill, Shino." Kiba answered, letting his guard down, and heaving a small sigh of relief.
"We're were getting rather impatient, and thought we'd give you a little welcoming." Shino had now appeared from the depths of the leafy coverage.
"Alright, Alright, you made your point, I need to show up earlier. Jeez you're starting to sound like Naruto." He shot back, "Where's Hinata?"
"K-Kiba-kun." Spoke a small meek voice from behind him. But as he slowly moved to turn around, he felt the cool sharpness of the kunai Hinata held aggressively against his neck. "You really need to show up earlier, or I might have to actually use this for real"
He met the purple eyes of a pale girl, slender with long violet hair that shimmered against the sun, almost giving her an angelic appeal, and again for the fourth time that week, he was at a loss for words.
"Does she get more beautiful each day, or are my eyes mistaking her angelic appearances each time we meet?" He thought to himself.
"Well, let's get training, we wouldn't want to be caught in battle unprepared, and lacking defensive and offensive skills, now would we?" Shino stated as he sauntered off into a deeper abyss of the wooded training ground.
"Let's do our best!" Encouraged Hinata, giving Kiba a sweet smile. It twisted his stomach and he followed her gliding after Shino.