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Chapter 1: Sanity or lack there of.

Hinata always wondered about the mental stability of her teammates. At first she had thought they were merely special, then she got to know them. But as of this moment as she sat there in the tub enjoying her bubble bath she knew. Without a doubt that her teammates were insane.

Kurenai was gone on some sort of mission leaving Hinata alone in the apartment, that meant she had the bathroom all to herself. So she sat there in the bubble bath with the bubbles the only thing keeping her modesty. Shino stood there beside the tub as if it was an everyday occurrence to speak to her as she bathed.

"You want to do what?" she asked, hoping she had merely misheard him. Apparently she had, he was frowning at her, she knew her Byakugan had activated the moment he had entered the bathroom. She might have to explain the rubber duck that was being attacked at the moment by Shino's bugs.

"Kill Kiba."

"He's our teammate Shino-kun." the only seemed to make him angrier. She wondered when Kurenai was coming home this was getting very uncomfortable.

"We are to kill Inuzuka Kiba. Tomorrow we will meet at the training grounds and discuss this." With that he was gone, leaving Hinata and a badly injured rubber duck in the tub.

She blinked a couple of times, then stared at the bubbles that covered her modesty. She was determined to enjoy this bubble bath. She relaxed, leaning back she closed her eyes the water was still warm and she was going to enjoy this luxury. After the span of five minutes the door opened again this time her teammate Kiba was there. He smiled at her and walked over to the tub before kneeling beside the tub she sank a little deeper into the water.

"Hey. Thought I stop by to take care of your needs."

"Needs?"

"want me to wash your back?" he was smiling a little to brightly at her, she sunk deeper in to the water, the bubbles beginning to disappear.

"Kiba-kun." he looked up from staring a little to intently at the water. "Can you get me my towel?"

"Sure." he stood and began looking for a towel. There where two towels on the small counter. Kiba grabbed the smallest one and she looked at him as he stood, holding the towel open for her. His eyes closed.

"This good?" Luckily for her she had given up modesty a long time ago. First with the sharing of the tent, since they made her believe in rapist tentacle monsters that lurked in the woods. Then the hot springs because she might get kidnapped. Now she was walking to her bedroom with Kiba close at her heels, while she was almost decent. She had to use both hands to keep the towel from slipping and revealing certain area's. Once she entered her bedroom she went straight into the her closet and closed the door. Leaving Kiba to sit on her bed while she dressed.

As he waited for Hinata he stared to sniff her bed. Making sure no one had been invading his space, or his teammate.

"Are you busy tonight?" he asked her.

"No." she answered from behind the closed door.

"then do you want to catch a movie then go out to eat."

"Kiba-kun, did something happen between you and Shino-kun?" Kiba crossed his arms and began to think about it.

"Not that I can think of."

"are you sure?"

"Yep. So you want to catch a movie then dinner?" she slid the shirt over her head before opening the closet door.

"Sure." he smiled at her then winked at her.

"what you doing tomorrow." he asked her looking her over, she wished her shirt and pants were baggier.

"I have to meet Shino-kun tomorrow, there's a medical scroll." he frowned. And laid down on her bed, spreading out on the bed. She sighed, a habit she had picked up on after meeting her teammates, or the first mission together. She had developed a hatred for the ear walky talkies as Kiba called them.

She grabbed her brush off the small beside table. Kiba sat up, taking the brush.

"Can I brush your hair?" she handed him the brush.

"sure." he smiled at her.

She sat there as he brushed her hair, occasionally sniffing her hair, or nuzzling her neck. Kiba smiled at her, as she looked at him.

"there's this really cool movie that Naruto recommended. We could see that and then go to the Sushi place you and Shino like. " she was a little surprised that he would recommend that place. She was wondering what was going on, why would Shino want to kill Kiba.

Shino on the other hand was finalizing his plan, he had spent a large amount of training time to figure this out. As he looked over the diagram he nodded, he looked at his three bugs and then ordered them to repeat the simulation. One more time to make sure he was right, his father had stopped by in the morning. He had left after Shino had looked up from him, from his place on the floor sitting Indian style and in his bathrobe.

"Shino." his father had said.

"Father." Shino responded to his fathers question.

"Is there something wrong."

"no, why father?" Shibi looked at the walls of his son room. There were pictures of his teammates all over the wall, with the Inuzuka crossed out in red.

"Nothing,….you should go outside and play, invite the Hyuuga over."

"I plan to see her later on, tomorrow I'll bring her over."

"Okay." with that Shibi closed the door to the bedroom and left. Shino remained sitting there staring at the bugs as they replayed the act.

"Soon." Shino said, then there was silence.

Kiba was dragging Hinata by her hand . As they walked over to the theater, Kiba was the happiest person on the world. Hinata was walking with him to their date holding his hand in hers. She looked at him occasionally, other than that she was on edge. Shino wanted to Kill Kiba, if Shino wanted to do something then he would. He had never taken a liking to Kiba, she guessed that he liked her, since he came to her aid and had not threatened her in any way. She looked at Kiba trying to understand why Kiba could possibly be disliked. He was a sweet heart, he was nice, caring and a gentlemen, at least to her. To Shino on the other hand he was a nuisance.

She frowned almost activating her Byakugan as she walked with Kiba, her hand in his. He was usually holding her hand, to keep her close he claimed so she wouldn't get lost. She would have to ask Shino why he disliked Kiba so much, there was nothing to be disliked.

"Come on Hinata cheer up! This is going to be great, you and me together, forever right." she looked at him, really believing that he had been dropped on his head a couple of times.

"Sure." once they reached the movie theater he bought the tickets and she bought the drinks. The movie wasn't something she would of watched on her own. The plot went as follows, the hero had to save the helpless female from the psycho stalker dude. He did, after nearly everything had been blown up. Kiba was really into it, Hinata sighed as she drank her soda.

Dinner went better, after ordering the crunchiest Sushi ever Kiba was happy. It was fun, both trying to see how much wasabi they could take in before chugging their drinks in attempt to alleviate the burn.

"I had fun tonight." she smiled at Kiba and nodded it was fun. "we should do this again."

"we should." Kiba was still holding her hand.

"Hinata." he stopped walking to look at her.

"why did you ask if shino was mad?" she blinked.

"he'd been acting weird."

"oh."

The rest of the walk was in silence whish she was grateful for. Her teammates where insane and like usual she was in the middle. Tomorrow she would go to met Shino and learn of his plan, then she would have to decide.

She arrived home and said her goodbye to Kiba, there was an awkward hug and then he was gone. Leaving her to prepare for her meeting with Shino, she locked the door. Hoping that everything was going to be okay. She walked to her bedroom, pausing as she passed the shared bathroom. She stared for awhile at the tub before looking away and walking. It was going to be an interesting morning, since it was an interesting day.

It was raining the morning she went to meet Shino. He was early standing there under his umbrella. Kurenai claimed that it was puberty that made the boys act weird, Hinata believed that they had taken a rather hard hit the head. Either way she was on guard.

He saw wearing his usual outfit, the glasses were new though. He handed her a scroll.

"Memorize it." she took it from him, raising an eyebrow at him. She opened the scroll, it read as follows.

She would distract Kiba, lure him into a false sense of security and then when Kiba was at his happiest Shino would kill him. Then after Kiba was dead they could go out to eat. Hinata read and reread the scroll, either Shino had gone off the deep end or he was attempting to be funny. Both idea's scared her, she looked up at Shino.

"Shino-kun, how will I distract him." she asked him in disbelief. She was very worried for her teammate at the moment. She could either go along with Shino's plan, tell Kiba, or ignore the plan all together. All the scenarios included her getting involved in some way. Kurenai had better be returning from her mission soon, this was becoming dangerous.

"Shino-kun, what did Kiba do?"

"He broke my glasses."

"..oh…." she handed him back the scroll and sighed.

"Have you decided Hinata." she closed her eyes feeling a headache coming on.

"Shino-kun, you can't kill Kiba."

"it is a crime to allow him to live."

"You can't kill Kiba-kun. I mean it Shino-kun."

He stared at her for awhile before disappearing in a cloud of smoke. This was not the makings for a good day or a good week. Now Shino was gone and she was standing in the rain alone. With a new mission, to keep Shino from killing Kiba.