DISCLAIMER: Masashi Kishamoto owns everything in this fanfiction. The Characters the setting everything except the idea.(: I thank him for making ninja's awesome (:

NOTE: this story is dedicate to my kitteh (: iloveyouu;;

Two Beasts' Hearts

Akamaru was just admiring the clear blue skies of an April morning. Right left-left right his paws made tracks all over the soft dirt of the Konoha training forest. Slowly, the tempo of his prints steadily increased to a fast walk, and then a jog, a run, and in the end a sprint as if he was getting away from something.

And he was. A ferocious looking Kiba Inuzuka was running in all fours running after the speedy canine. He sniffed the air every so often to make sure he was going the right way. Minutes and Minutes of sniffing, panting, and sprinting, Kiba finally caught up to the small puppy.

"Gotcha!" he yelled at the top of his lungs pouncing on his prey, Akamaru, spreading his arms wide trapping the puppy in a tight bear hug.

Akamaru gave a bark of happiness followed by lots of pants after the 4-mile non-stop dash running from Kiba.

Kiba tried to laugh but because of the loss of breath, all he could do was cough with his best friend and let him go. "Alright, Akamaru. We should head back."

Akamaru gave a quick nod understanding his master full heartedly. Kiba and Akamaru have been together forever. The Inuzuka's are a special type of dog family. All of them are paired with a dog at birth that will spend the rest of their lives with them. The types of dogs in the Inuzuka clan will only die if it's master dies. As a result, the owner and his dog are pretty much best friends till they die.

As Kiba and Akamaru slowly walk back to Konoha, an unexpected shurriken makes a small cut on Kiba's cheek making a small scarlet line appear underneath his eyes. "Whoa."

Kiba growled at the peculiar moving bushed that the shurriken came from. Kiba gets into a lion stance, ready to pounce at the dunce who lay a scratch on his face.

"Kiba?" a familiar voice questioned. Out of the green bushes came a small boy with an orange jumpsuit and shurrikens.

"Uzumaki Naruto?" he answered. Unfortunately, Akamaru couldn't think straight so he automatically pounced to Naruto's arm and dug his canine teeth deeply into his skin.

"OW!" the blond yelled, shaking Akamaru from his arm viscously. Sadly for him, the more he tried to squirm from his bite, his teeth just sunk deeper and deeper into his flesh.

"Akamaru! It's okay! Only Naruto," Kiba explained trying hard not to giggle at Naruto's girly shrieks of pain. Akamaru finally came to his senses and opened his eyes to meet Naruto's crystal blue eyes. He slowly released his jaw from Naruto's forearm and ran into Kiba's neck spitting the awful tasting kitsune blood from his mouth. "My apologies, dunce."

"You're calling me the dunce? Your dogs the one who attacked me!" Naruto said with an amazingly hot smirk, which made Kiba flush like a baby tomato.

"Y-You threw a shurriken at my face! It's only natural he'll get overprotective," Kiba said defensively. Akamaru confirmed with a bark.

"Yea, yea you and your mutt I know," Naruto said pretending not to care. He slowly walks past Inuzuka and his dog. "See ya at the Jonin applicants ceremony."

"Y-You, too," Kiba stuttered and ran with Akamaru all the way out of the forest.

Your going to have to admit it one way or another, or this feeling is going to follow you around, Master. Akamaru telepathically explained to Kiba as he lay down under a tree trying to catch his breath after Uzumaki nearly made him go to cardiac arrest.

"I know… I just can't admit it," Kiba said hoplessly. He looked down in the ground picking up a handful of grass as tears ran down his eyes to the warm dirt. "I cannot be in love with him… but I am."