Kiba's pov
"Hello fellow ninja!" was all i heard before the air got knocked out of me.
Spitting up the ramen i was choking on i spun around and faced a bushy browed greasy haired ninja dressed in green. He has bumped into me while running at his faster-than-light speed. "Geez don't knock into me like that!"
I turned around and hit him upside on the head. Out of the corner of my eyes, I saw the entrance curtain lift. Ino and TenTen came in followed closely by Neji and Choji. The girls took a seat next to nervous Hinata who was constantly glancing at Neji. Neji, on the other hand payed no attention to Hinata and sat down in front of Lee, next to me. The only one missing was that lazy Shikamaru. "What are you doing here?" Ino snapped at me. "Eating. That's what I wanted to ask you" "Having a team reunion since we hadn't had a mission in so long, none of us had seen each other" "huh, us too" I admitted. "How come you said eating then?" Ino snapped annoyed "Because it was none of your business pig-face!" I snapped back. She made a rude gesture with her left hand and with a hmph we both shunned each other.
Shino placed his chopsticks on his bowl, stopping the silence and with a swishing of the curtains, the Ino-Shika-Cho reunion was complete. Shikamaru had entered the restaurant. "Crowded place. 3 team reunions at once... what a drag. *sigh*" "You know what else is a drag having a person like you around!" Obviously, it had only gone downhill from when I choked on ramen. It has only been 5 minutes and I am so psyched from yelling that nothing could get me to stop. As i heard the entrance curtains swish i turned around ready to scream 'DO YOUR REUNION SOMEWHERE ELSE!' but i saw mysterious cloaked figures step in.
One in a plain, black cloak that would have disappeared in the shadows if it weren't so light outside. The other was shrouded in a snow coloured cloak that was elegant -and not to mention expensive. O.O It had a fancy-shmancy metal thing with a white mesh cloth on the end covering the left side of the figure. Both of their faces and hair were covered so I couldn't tell who they were. The white figure stepped forward and held out a huge piece of paper that stated they wanted a vegetarian ramen with extra tomatoes(who eats ramen with tomatoes?! *sweatdrop*) and an order for beef ramen with extra beef and any other meat (i mean seriously, is that person a dinosaur?! *double sweatdrop*)
They sat down and the person in the white cloak started bouncing on their seat. Then got up and whispered something in the black cloaked one's ear.
(This is getting annoying for me. From now on, I shall name the black cloaked one Blacky and the white cloaked one Snowy)
When Blacky shook his/her head- or rather tilted his/her head slightly to the right and jerked it back- the person in the white cloak started to emit a high pitched squeaking that sounded like Akamaru when he was a puppy. "Stop whining such a drag," Shikamaru whined. Blacky stood up and pulled Snowy towards him/her and probably whispered in Snowy's ear (I couldn't tell because i couldn't hear a word or see Blacky's mouth.) Snowy jumped up and clapped. By then, I hypothesised that Snowy was a girl. To confirm my suspicion, she pulled back her hood. We stared. She was very attractive with a childish face and stunning platinum, white hair with shimmering gold and curly tips. Her long hair was tied up in huge pigtails with a metal wreath-like barrette. All in all, kawaii *drool*.
"What's cute, Kiba?" Ino drawled in false innocence. "Aww, Kiba's in loooove. Too bad she's out of your league."
"Oh crap, don't tell me I said that out loud" i whispered to the pig -face
"Say what? How her hair shimmers as she shakes it, oh don't get me started on what you said about her face." Ino snickered. I stare as the platinum haired girl started shaking out her hair. ' H-ho-hott O.O'
"OH ! #$" i scream. I DID say those things out loud! Did she hear me? Probably because she makes a face at me.
Blacky's hood turns toward my direction, and I could actually feel the anger radiating from Blacky. Man, I'm guessing that Blacky is a guy. Wonderful, he even packs a great deal of evilness. Is Blacky Snowy's boyfriend? Oh no, I got competition. 'keep calm, Kiba, even if Blacky stole your girl you can still get her -_-'. I told myself doubtfully.
I turned back to stare at Snowy, but they were gone! I turned to my team, but they were staring intently into the kitchen along with Tenten and Bushy Brows. Shikamaru, and Neji, fatso Choji too. Even pig faced Ino was staring at the kitchen. Was I missing something? I turned to the kitchen, but there was a flash of white as the cook ran out and threw his apron in my face. What was going on?!
"Are those real? They can't be" Tenten muttered. "That was what he ran away to find out, right? If they were real, where could they have come from?" Ino inquired. "There's something not right about that guy..." Choji said in a convincing tone. It was hard to take him seriously with his face filled with potato chip crumbs. Neji nodded "Yea, something is off, Why-" "can someone tell me what's going on?" I interrupted. Neji kept going as if he hadn't heard "-would he keep his face covered and pay like that instead of with regular yen?"
"Can. Someone. Tell me. What's. Going. ON?" I tried again, in a louder voice. Ino was obviously ignoring me because she practically screamed "Of course they'll be fake then, he's so suspicious!" just to be louder than me. The smug look gave it all away. Lee didn't catch on but he still agreed with her statement "Yea-"
I had enough "WILL SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT'S GOING ON!" I made sure everyone heard me. With stunned and disgusted looks, they turned their heads toward me. "Are you stupid? That guy in black just polished off the bowl- like not even water left!- in about 30 seconds and paid with a ton of huge ass rubies. The store is closing because people left to see if the rubies were real and if they were, they will cash it in for a shitload of yen! Duh." Ino snickered "Maybe the reason his dazzling girlfriend is here is to distract idiots like you while they do their crime and get away with it. Fortunately, not all of us are idiots! We saw what they did and they won't get away with it!"
I noticed how she added emphasis to the word dazzling in the beginning. "Who are you calling an idiot?!" I grit my teeth. "They say love can blind you... I wouldn't know" Shino says in a quiet, menacing voice. Silence always follows after he speaks.
"Um love?" I said. I was the first to find my voice. I heard a hmph. It wasn't a mad hmph it was a hmph that had a trace of laughter as if he had tried and failed to stifle his laughter.. I rounded on the guy that dared laugh. It was Neji Hyuga. His face had a smirk on it. Similar to the guy sitting next to him. Curse Shikamaru and Neji! They think their so great just because girls throw themselves all over boys like Shikamaru and Neji.
I exploded. "Why are we talking about love!? We should be finding that freak in the black cloak and that hot chick umm i mean girl in that white cloak!" Dang, I can see the 'hot chick?' retort from Ino just bursting out of her mouth, but Bushy Brows saved me. "He is right!" "Yea, let's split up. Me and Akamaru will track down the mysterious couple, I'll take my team and Neji with me to chase down Blacky and Hottie-I- I mean Snowy. The rest of you can go find the ramen chefs and warn them about the rubies." "no" I hear. Everyone's head snap. Hinata sat there uncomfortably and shuffled a bit. "um, we can't go without a mission." "There's no time, we gotta go now or else we will never find them!" I ran outside to find Akamaru and tell him.
Everyone followed along. Enjoying my role of being leader, I shout out an order to Tenten, Lee, Ino and Choji "Okay, you guys have to find the chefs and warn them-"
"Warn us what?" I spun around and momentarily became dizzy. Out of the corner of my eye, blurs of color indicate that everyone else spun quickly too. "We have to tell you! The rubies- 'Yes, i found out they were real! It turns out that the man in the black cloak has tried to sell them, but no one believed they were real, so no one bothered to try to test to confirm, but when i came, all the experts told me they were real! I got too many yens though. Do you know where the man ran off to? I want to give him his change."
"Unfortunately, Kiba was eyeing his girlfriend and doing things to make her extremely uncomfortable-if you know what I mean- and he left." Ino answered solemnly. "Look!" Tenten exclaimed from inside the ramen house. We all ran inside. "Please keep the change and repay us bit by bit with store credit, signed M.M" Tenten read. "Oh how kind! I hope they come around more often, we have a lot of food to give away to them. If they came on their anniversary, we can make them an extra special meal. They are such a nice couple!" The chefs exclaimed.
I anime fell on a chair (breaking it) and put my head in my hand. "Oh, yes Kiba, would you kindly get out? Making girls - 'uncomfortable'- is highly inappropriate. "But-but" "Kiba!" "Okay!" I storm out "Akamaru!" I go to the spot where I left him, only to NOT find him. "Akamaru!" I turn to the horizon and see his tail wagging with... with... - I rubbed my eyes, I had to be imagining things. No, I wasn't imagining things! Akamaru was riding off! He didn't even listen to me calling out his name! And with Blacky on his back?! Blacky got me kicked out of the ramen house, took my girl AND my dog!
"BLACKYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!"
