A/N: This summer has gotten off...to an incredibly boring start. It's only been 2 weeks since school ended and yet I'm nearly bored to tears. I go out sometimes but...even so...wait, none of you care about my personal troubles.
Alright, long story short, I'm bored, I miss my Kiba x Hina coupling, and this is short enough and doesn't require that much effort on my part. Review, yadda yadda, all that good stuff. Some mild language.
Kiba yawned, idly scratching at the triangular tattoo on his cheek as he pushed open the door.
Upbeat music flowed through his ears, resounding down the dark thin corridors of the club. He awkwardly passed a drunken couple, fiercely sucking each other's mouths off and pressed hard against the chipped stone wall.
As the already dim lighting seemed to darken to near pitch blackness, he entered a medium sized room where the smell of booze was thick and the downbeat of the music seemed to shake the entire room. Multicolored lights flashed across the heads of the numerous people dancing. Kiba craned his head, ignoring the multiple girls who winked flirtatiously at him and casually caressed his arm as they passed him. When he noticed Naruto, standing on an elevated platform at the back of the room, both hands clumsily messing with the turntables, he pushed his way through the thicket of the crowd.
"Naruto!" Kiba yelled, as he neared the DJ stand. "Naruto!"
Naruto seemed not to hear him, as his eyes were covered by huge shutter shades and his ears were completely consumed by an enormous set of headphones. Naruto bobbed his head up and down, mouthing the words of the hip hop song he was currently playing.
"Naruto!" Kiba nearly screamed. Although he didn't catch Naruto's attention, he did catch the attention of a girl with bleached blonde hair, who purposely bumped into him the next moment.
"Oh, I'm so sorry…" she squeaked in a high pitch, before surveying Kiba up and down and nodding appreciatively. "I'm just such a klutz, you know." She giggled, sticking her polished fingernail into her mouth as she smiled at him. "But enough of that, what's your-"
Without waiting for an answer, and without saying anything himself, Kiba shoved the girl out of his way, into another girl who turned around and loudly berated her for being an idiot.
Kiba jumped onto the platform and snatched the headphones away from Naruto and smacking the shutters clean off his face, before slapping his hands away from the turntables.
"Hey!" Naruto turned to Kiba, his features indignant. "Dude, what the hell do you think you're doing?"
"Just come on." Kiba muttered. Clutching his friend's wrist, he led him out of the room, as Naruto protested loudly behind him. Kiba hurried across the dance floor, rushing out the back door of the club and tossing the slightly drunk Naruto against the filthy brick wall adjacent to the club.
Naruto laughed in a light stupor, before focusing his eyes on his best friend.
"What's up?"
Kiba sighed, reaching into his back pocket and handing Naruto a cell phone. "Sakura."
The smile flew off Naruto's face, as he paled and his eyes widened. "Shit." He balanced himself against the wall, using his other hand to run through his hair, frustrated. "Shit." He repeated.
"You know, you really should actually call her back sometimes." Kiba advised quietly.
"I know, I know, Mom." Naruto snapped. "I've just been busy."
"Oh yeah." Kiba retorted carelessly. "You sure looked busy in there."
Naruto hmphed, pushing Kiba lightly in the shoulder as he flipped the phone open. "Alright, here goes." Naruto breathed deeply, before hesitantly punching in Sakura's number.
He held the phone cautiously, like a bomb, before holding it gently up to his ear. There was no answer for a few moments, as Naruto waited, Kiba jumped and sat on the lid of a nearby dumpster, watching his friend.
Suddenly, Naruto spoke. "Uh, hey, yeah, it's me." Naruto's face was twisted in guilt as he spoke to her. "I was just calling since-"
The next moment, an unintelligible set of shrieks and loud screaming emerged from the other end of the phone. Naruto flinched and held the phone as far as possible from his ear. Even at a distance, Kiba could hear what Sakura was saying.
"-COMPLETE ASS! YOU NEVER CALL BACK, YOU'RE ALWAYS OUT SO DAMN LATE! HOW CAN YOU EXPECT ME NOT TO WORRY?"
Naruto held the phone back to his ear. "Now Sakura, calm down, I'm perfectly fine, nothing has-"
Once again, Sakura cut him off. Naruto rolled his eyes and held the phone away, waiting for the yelling on the other end to stop. His eyes strayed to Kiba's, and he pointed at the phone, mouthing the word 'crazy' as he did so.
Kiba nodded along, playing the façade of agreement, but deep inside, he felt a little…sorry, for Sakura. Kiba himself treated his girlfriends the exact same way, never calling them, never seeing them, and overall forgetting about them. But Sakura…she was a nice girl.
Kiba noticed suddenly that the yelling on the other end of the phone had stopped, and that their conversation was now inaudible aside from what Naruto was saying. Naruto seemed troubled, as he tried to speak.
"Please, just listen-" He pleaded. "No, because I was…no that was a different time because I-" He sighed. "Sakura…please…don't. I-I'm sorry."
Kiba heard the click from the phone as the conversation ended.
Naruto went still, and averted his gaze down as he snapped the phone shut. He turned away from Kiba and stuffed his hands in his pockets, as he started down the alley, away from the club.
"Oi!" Kiba called after him, dislodging himself from the dumpster. "What happened?"
Naruto slowed, before coming to a complete stop. He looked over his shoulder and regarded Kiba with quiet eyes.
"She…broke up with me."
Kiba scratched his head thoughtfully, before running up to catch up to Naruto. "So? She 'breaks up' with you all the time. Go and get her back."
Naruto shook his head, sighing deeply. "I think she was serious this time."
"Oh. I see." Kiba stood awkwardly, unsure of how to comfort his friend, before settling on lightly patting his shoulder. "Well…don't let it get you too down."
"…Yeah." Naruto blew threw his teeth. "It's just part of the life, I guess." With that, he turned the corner of the dark streets and turned towards home.
Kiba's chest hurt a bit as he heard his friend say that. It happened all the time, with them. Get a girlfriend, get dumped. And just go find a new one to fill the void. It made Kiba uneasy to see how easily someone could get replaced.
Love, in their world, was non-existent.
Hinata wandered through the long, marble hallway, admiring the numerous tall vases and elaborate tapestries stationed along the walls of Sakura's home. Her hands clasped behind her, she stared at the doors she passed, trying to find the one to Sakura's room.
"Her mom said it was in this hallway…" Hinata thought aloud. However, her question was answered the next moment by a shrill wailing clearly emanating from the room the Hinata's left.
In her surprise, she pushed the door open and ran in, before blushing slightly at her rudeness. However, the people inside hardly seemed to care.
Sakura was on the ground, on her knees, still dressed in her pajamas. Surrounding her was a bounty of pillows and blankets, all of which were covered in chocolate wrappers. Sakura briefly looked up at who entered, her eyes red and puffy, before she averted her gaze down again and continued crying. Her hair stuck out in odd directions, which Ino was clearly attempting not to grimace at.
Ino and Tenten were crouched down on the floor with her, patting her back consolingly, both of them still in their school uniforms. Ino glanced up at Hinata.
"Bout time you got here." She sighed.
"Sorry." Hinata murmured. She kneeled down beside the rest of her friends, lightly brushing away the candy wrappers.
Sakura sniffled. "I-I still j-j-just can't b-believe him." She looked up, several fat tears rolling down her raw cheeks. "W-why me?" Her face twisted into agony again and she brought her hands up to cover her mouth as she leaned into Ino.
"It'll be okay." Tenten said simply. "Naruto was a jackass as always, you're better off without him." Her voice came out in a blunt monotone, which caused Hinata to flinch and Sakura's sobbing to become more erratic. Well, Tenten was definitely honest.
"B-But…I loved him." Sakura said, tears still coming down her cheeks. She reached for a pillowcase and absent-mindedly blew her nose into it loudly, before throwing it across the room and weeping harder than ever.
Hinata was uncertain of what to tell Sakura. Naruto was notorious for being a terrible boyfriend, yet Sakura had ignored all of their warnings and insisted that her time with him would be different.
"Sakura…" Hinata spoke very softly, lightly touching her friend's knee. "There will always be other people, neh?"
Sakura looked up and stopped crying briefly, meeting her eyes evenly with a blank stare, before she shook her head and let more tears escape.
"No, there won't be." She sniffed loudly. "There won't ever be anyone."
Hinata said nothing. She didn't want to end up saying something she regretted.
Regardless of her sympathy for Sakura, she couldn't help but feel a tad…jealous? And irritated. Hinata had never anyone who she could run to. Ever. Her whole family was cruel and cold and treated her like a stranger. And her friends…they felt so temporary and shallow. As if they could disappear in a moment.
Sakura would be fine. She always found someone else. But...
Where was Hinata's someone? Where was the person she could yell at and scream at, and yet still always go back to for more? She wanted to know the dedication where you'd stick by someone, no matter what happened. She wanted the strength to hold onto it. And she wanted to live for someone, and for someone to live for her.
But for the time being, that was only the stuff of dreams.
A/N: ...No comment. I wrote this...in about half an hour, so...;; Please be nice. No flames.
-silver
