Alright, so this is my first fic. Don't be too hard on me! But please review and tell me what you think! More chapters will be forthcoming – if this doesn't bomb entirely.
Disclaimer: I don't own or claim to own any of the Naruto characters, but I do claim ownership of my Original "Naruto-verse" Character, Tsuka Toriikata (and Daisuke).
It was eventually going to happen, but Kiba Inuzuka had often crossed his fingers in the hope that it would fade from memory before it made its way into the daylight. Unfortunately for him, after a short "exploratory" excursion with Sakura, 17 year old Naruto had finally realized that he and Hinata perfectly complimented each other. They hit it off and had been seen together frequently ever since.
Kiba sighed inwardly, reaching over to scratch his now wolf-size dog at the nape of his shaggy neck. He had been dropping hints towards Hinata for a while now, but her infatuation with that hyperactive orange ninja had pulled through in the end.
It wasn't that he wasn't happy for them. In spite of his own affection to his prior teammate, he had always been more of an older brother to her than an actual peer. Kiba had just been starting to feel the spring in the air, and the squeeze it put on all of them. Once Sasuke returned from his mission, love had blossomed up left and right. Sakura was now living more often at Sasuke's house than her own after she warmed him up. Ino and Shikamaru had some sparks flying between them, and even Choji and Neji had been seeing some special girls lately. And while Kiba couldn't ask for a better companion than Akamaru, he still felt an ache for some female attention somewhere inside him.
Gritting his semi-fanged teeth and shaking his thoughts off his shoulders, Kiba rose back up and trudged back downhill to the Inuzuka residence, dog in tow, avoiding the small patch of dogbane some idiot – likely Naruto – had planted in his family's garden as a practical joke. Ruffling the heads of each of the triplets, his sister Hana's three dogs, Kiba meandered back up to his room, thoughts stealing back into his mind and reminding him of his lackluster life. Collapsing with a groan and a sympathetic whine from the dog at the foot of his bed, Kiba snarled and tried to sleep it off.
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"Kiba! Get down here you lazy idiot! There's a mission scroll for you. Do it right this time! We're running low on kibble and it's your turn to buy!" Kiba's mom, Tsume, growled up the staircase, her husky voice obviously exasperated with her usually exuberant son.
"Yeah. I gotcha… kibble. Right," Kiba aroused himself slowly, combing through his shaggy hair with his fingers and blinking slowly. He wandered down the stairs slowly, catching his balance once, and grunting as Akamaru hit his knees behind him. Jumping down the rest of the flight, he reached the dining room table and snatched the scroll waiting for him.
Still mostly asleep, Kiba flicked the seal of his new mission scroll open. Tracking. Not like that was anything new. It seemed like his whole life was just chasing after things now.
Object: Track and Locate three mist village spies. Retrieve items held in their possession. Call for backup from ANBU and interrogate.
Then followed a short description of the three targets; two males, one female, not much else- and, unfortunately, no scent samples. But reading further along the scroll brought a curious frown to his face.
Team: Kiba Inuzuka, Tsuka Toriikata.
The name was completely unfamiliar to him, but that wasn't his biggest concern; why was he teamed up? For Kiba's kind of tracking missions, having someone else along was more of a hinderance than help. No matter though. He would talk to the Fifth and convince her that Tsuka, whoever they were, was not going help this mission succeed.
And there you have my first chapter! Please review…. Peas?
Once again, Naruto is not owned by me, and I don't claim to own it. I do however, own the character Tsuka Toriikata.