Author's note: Wanwan is the honorific for a dog or pet. Wan is the Japanese sound for a dog barking. If You like this, you'll prolly like my other story, Apart. Check it out! More characters to come, promise!
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Naruto characters. I DO own the cuteness I wrote into this story. Nyah!
"Momma, momma," Kiba said, pulling at his mother's jounin jacket. "Who is that?"
"Who?"
"That girl, on the slide, with the purply eyes! I think she's pretty!"
Kiba's mother smiled. "You like girls now, do you? No more cooties?"
"Yeah right, mom!" Kiba barked, "I'll bet she has crazy cooties! I just… prolly wouldn't mind em so much…" His cheeks turned a soft shade of pink which complemented his new, red fang marks.
Kiba's mother laughed and bopped him on the head. "You little tramp, you," she said, fuzzing his brown hair.
"Mom!" Kiba growled angrily, rolling away, "You're embarrassing me!" Suddenly, the wind blew, and the little girl with the purply eyes slid down the slide, smiling. Kiba closed his eyes and sniffed the air. "She smells good," he whispered, smiling.
"Go play, then!" his mom yelled, smiling as she swatted him towards the playground. "Go play!"
Kiba growled and ran towards the slide, climbing it quickly and sliding down with a high pitched howl of joy. The purply eyed girl sat at the bottom in the sand, building a sand mound.
"Puppy!" she said to him as he flopped onto the sand beside the slide. "You look like a puppy!"
Kiba looked around, and pointed to himself. "Me?"
"Puppy!" She smiled and tossed some sand at him.
"Hey!" Kiba snarled, rubbing the sand out of his hair. "Why'dja do that!"
Suddenly, the girl was quiet, and rolled onto her stomach, hiding behind her small mound of sand. Kiba instantly forgot about the sand she had thrown and hid behind her pile of sand as well, keeping low to the ground.
"What're we hiding from?" he whispered.
The girl only pointed a small finger to the road above. A small, blond-haired boy, very young, walked along the road, his fists in his short's pockets and a scowl on his face.
"Who… who is that, puppy-san?" she asked quietly, blushing slightly.
"Eh? That guy is… I dunno, I saw him around once." Kiba laughed. "He pulled a funny prank and…" his face fell, "nobody backed him up in the fight he caused…"
The girl seemed to sink a little lower into the sand, blushing deeply. "I…I like his hair," she said softly.
They watched him walk away, and Kiba noticed the boy's eyes never looked at the other kids his age playing on the playground. "I'm Kiba," Kiba said, as soon as the boy was out of view, "and I'm gonna be a ninja!" He stood and offered her his hand, which she accepted, smiling.
"Nice to meet you, Kiba-wanwan," she said. Her smile and her teasing caused his face to redden.
"I'm not a dog!" Kiba yelled, growling, "I'm a ninja!"
"Kiba-wanwan!" barked Kiba's mother with a grin, "Time to go home!"
Kiba groaned. "Mom," he whined, "you're no help at all…" He brushed himself off and gave a big grin to the small girl. "I'm a ninja, don't forget it!"
"Kiba-wanwan is a ninja," the girl repeated. She smiled and asked, "Kiba-wanwan is my friend?"
Kiba nodded. "Friends!" he said, smiling, and dashing off to his mother. They walked along, his mother teasing his hair.
"Make a new friend?" she asked.
Kiba nodded.
"Any cooties?"
"Crazy ones," Kiba said, looking at the girl over his shoulder, "cuz she threw a buncha sand at me."
His mother laughed, and tossled his hair again, picking him up and throwing him over her shoulder.
"What's her name?" he thought aloud.
"That's Hinata-hime," his mother said, smiling.
"A princess?" he said in astonishment.
I'm not surprised, Kiba thought, smiling at her.
