That night I found myself standing in front of my mirror wearing a kimono of all things doing my hair, my hair was short so all I really could do was wear a headband but still I couldn't understand why I was even doing this.
"I'm going out for a bit!" I called out opening the front door
"Where are you going all dressed up?" dad asked walking towards me
"Just to the movies.."
"With a boy?"
"Yes with a boy" I sighed
"On a date?"
"... undecided"
"And what are you doing after the movie?"
"I don't know, probably go somewhere nice and dark and quiet so we can make out" I said rolling my eyes
"WHAT! Takara get in here!" he called out
"Maybe not a good idea..." I sighed mentally cursing myself
Mum poked her head into the hallway and took in the situation before coming towards us with a sigh.
"You look nice Suki"
"Thanks mum, can I go now?" I asked turning away
"You're not going anywhere young lady" dad said placing his hand on my shoulder
"You're going out? Is it a date?" mum asked ignoring dad
"Not exactly... it's just Kiba, were going to watch a movie together" I explained facing her
"That boy with the dog?"
"Uhhh yeah..."
"Will you be back for dinner?"
"Probably not, movie might not finish until 7 maybe... just wrap something up for me in the fridge"
"Ok, have fun and don't come back too late"
"Sure mum, I'll see you guys later"
"YOU'RE LETTING HER GO!" dad shouted
Before I could get caught again I slipped out the door closing it behind me and ran off down the street towards the movies. Once I was far enough away I slowed down to a walk looking up at the sky.
"Well at least I get to watch a movie"
I got there but couldn't see Kiba and for a split second I thought that maybe he wasn't coming, looking at the time though I realised I was 20 minutes early. I sat down on the bench outside to wait for Kiba; I had been waiting for 15 minutes but still no sign of him.
"I swear if he doesn't come I'm going to kill him"
"Suki?"
I looked up and was surprised to see Kiba standing there looking very un-Kiba like, he was wearing black pants and a white shirt with a black jacket over top unbuttoned and Akamaru was missing.
"What did you do to Akamaru?"
"Left him at home" he surged
"But you never go anywhere without the puff ball, and what are you wearing? You look... Clean"
"DON'T CALL HIM PUFF BALL! And besides I could say the same thing about you, fish girl" he smirked walking away
After getting the tickets we found a seat and sat down, the movie we were watching was meant to be a scary one but mostly it just had a lot of things jumping out at the screen in turn making me jump.
"So this is why you're not a ninja?" he whispered to me with a small chuckle
"I can't control what my body does" I hissed back
Just as I said that the killer in the movie jumped from the roof making me jump and grab hold of Kiba's arm. Kiba froze in place and I quickly removed my hand from him, my heart was pounding and I didn't know what to do so I decided to just ignore it. I guess Kiba came to that same conclusion because he wasn't making fun of me, yelling at me or doing anything.
"Uhhh sorry about that" I blushed
"It's fine" he quickly said not taking his eyes from the screen
Throughout the rest of the movie every time out hands brushed against each other we both pulled back muttering apologises to the other. By the time the movie had finished I couldn't help but sigh a little relived, it was getting just a tiny bit awkward.
I sigh stretching my hands above my head "that was a good movie"
"Did you want to get something to eat?"
"Uhhh sure... sounds good" I smiled at him
We walked to the ramen stand in silence, I couldn't get a read on the guy, any other day he would be teasing me for being a fraidy cat or just plain making fun of me but this was different, he was silent. During dinner things lightened up a bit and before I knew it we were laughing and teasing each other like we did every other day.
"You know I was surprised when you agreed to watch a movie with me" I admitted "I mean I was only asking the others cause I knew they would never agree, could you imagine it, Neji and me at a movie together? Or even Sasuke or Sai; that would have been scarier than anything else in this world"
"I was surprised when you asked me" he admitted
"I wasn't going to after all you're in the middle"
"Middle?" he asked raising a brow
"Yeah I have a list, it's kind of a people who wouldn't be caught dead doing anything with me list, the lower you are the less chance I have of actually being alone with you and you're in the middle, a clean 50-50 chance, suits you actually"
"Who else is on this list?"
"Well there's Sai at the bottom, then Sasuke, Neji, Shika, you, Shino, Choji, Naruto and at the top is Lee"
"I'm below Shino!"
"Well of course, Shino is quite nice once you get to know the guy and unless he really didn't want to he wouldn't mind being with me"
"Yeah ok but tell me, what the hell happened with you and Sai I mean sure the guy is a little weird but he's harmless"
"What makes you think I did anything?"
"Whenever you get too close to him he looks like Naruto when Sakura is about to hit him"
I couldn't help but laugh at that, Naruto was terrified of Sakura when she got mad and he had every right to be after all one of her punches to anyone other than Naruto would probably kill them.
"Wellll... he called me callous so I took Naruto's ninja star things and started to throw them at him... I did apologize, I even bought him a present but he still won't talk to me"
"And that's a bad thing" he scoffed "last time I talked to the guy he asked if I had fleas from Akamaru"
"What, really? That's hardly fair"
"I know!"
"It's more Akamaru got the fleas form you" I said with a grin
"HEY!" he shouted at me
After we ate dinner we walked around for a little while not really going anywhere or doing anything, that's when I realised something.
"Heh"
"What is it?"
"Oh I was just thinking, this is the first time you and I have ever spent so much time alone together"
"No its not"
"Yes it is..."
"No, don't you remember just the other week when I was helping you find a present for Choji?"
"Shika was there to... and Hina"
"They were?"
"Yeah, remember Hina was always braking up our fights and Shika was grumbling to himself in the background"
"Oh yeah... well what about when we were waiting for the others to meet us a couple of months ago, and you fell into the river?"
"You mean you pushed me into the river and Shino was with us that time as well, he helped me out"
"What about wh..."
"Just give up" I cut in "admit it we don't really spend more than an hour or maybe two alone together"
"No way, you don't know what you're talking about"
"Sure I don't" I laughed pushing his shoulder
We walked around for a little longer before I decided I should probably be getting home.
"I guess we should head home soon huh"
"Yeah" he nodded
Kiba walked me back to my place then once we reached my house there was a kind of awkward silence as we both avoided each other.
"You know I had fun"
"Yeah for a fish girl you're not bad"
"Same goes to you, dog boy"
We glared at each other for a few seconds before we both started laughing.
"We still on for training tomorrow?"
"Like you could train with real ninjas" he smirked at me
We waved goodbye to each other then I headed inside only to be picked up by dad and looked over.
"Argh! What are you doing!"
"Did he touch you?"
"No dad" I sighed
He put me back on the ground then cleared his throat trying to give me, what he called his 'grown up dad face'.
"I think it's time we had a talk about boys"
"Oh boy, ok dad I'm going to stop you there" I said backing away slowly "there is no way I'm talking about that with you"
With that said I ran up to my room before he could corner me, once I was in my room I changed into my pyjamas and laid down on my bed looking up at the roof.
"Kiba huh... I wonder if that was actually a date or not" I yawned closing my eyes "oh well"