"Drop your pants!" Kiba snapped impatiently.

"I- what?" Sakura squeaked in dismay and grabbed her waistband as he tried to yank them down. "Unhand that!"

"I need to do this, Sakura, I can smell your need."

"Hell no you don't, I can - hey!"

"Trust me, it's for the best. I've done this before, I know what I'm doing."

Sakura squeaked again when he finally succeeded in pulling down her trousers, bunching them down around her ankles. She gripped his hair in warning as he crouched low, his humid breath tickling the fine hairs on her thigh. "We can be caught at any minute," she whispered urgently.

Kiba's eyes flashed as he glared impatiently up at her; she could feel the danger emanating from him, and had the distinct feeling that going along would be a lot better than refusing. "All the more reason to do this now. You simply can't wait forever!" Sighing in irritation, Sakura released her grip on his hair as Kiba gently pried her knees apart and buried his head between her legs. "This wouldn't be a problem," he began as he licked the inside of her thigh, "if you still had the energy to take care of yourself.

"Funnily enough, no one else was complaining," Sakura replied hotly. "Do you always move this fast on your teammates or am I just special?" She moaned and threw her head back. "Oh damn - didn't think you were the sort to do this!"

"Hmm mmm." Kiba pulled back a moment. "This is basic survival techniques that every man and woman should know." He managed to look unduly proud of himself from where he knelt between her thighs.

Sakura bit back another moan. "I could have done this on my own.

He snorted disdainfully. "You're not that flexible.

"Not this, but my own two hands are perfectly functioning! I - oooh!- have my own techniques and skills to use if I'm... ever in a situation where I couldn't do this."

"Mmm mmm." Kiba cleared his mouth. "I don't believe you've ever done this before."

"I had to two years ago with Ino."

Kiba's eyebrows shot up and disappeared in his bangs. "Now that I would have paid money to see!"

Sakura threaded her fingers through his hair, marveling at its surprising softness. "We were at the Chuunin exams in Suna when it happened." She squirmed under his touch and winced when the pressure of his mouth became unexpectedly painful. "It was certainly... different. Ah! Not quite what I," she paused to take a deep breath, "expected."

Kiba pulled back and spat. "This is how it's traditionally done."

"I could have done it myself."

"If you had the chakra to do yourself then you would have sensed that snake before it bit you."

Sakura groaned in irritation. "So I used a little too much chakra healing the hostages." Kiba pointedly said nothing as he wiped away blood and saliva from the bite mark located on the inside of her upper thigh. "How the hell was I supposed to know there was a snake hiding in that corner?"

In the corner, Akamaru gnawed on the bloody remains of the venomous snake that was either an implant of the guards they had snuck past, or just a native who had found a cozy shadow to hang out before being trampled by an exhausted pink-haired med-nin on the run.

author's note: Hahah. Made you look! So, uh, on the medical side of things, do not do what Kiba did. There is strong evidence to suggest that actually sucking the snake venom out of the bloodstream doesn't work, and it can potentially poison the person doing the sucking, especially if the person has any open mouth sores or bleeding gums. In any event that you or a loved one are bitten by snake, the best thing to do is place a tight tourniquet above the bite to delay the spread of poison.

Unless you're ninjas like Kiba and Sakura. Then you can do whatever you want.