I do not own any of the Naruto characters; they belong to their respectful owner, Masashi Kishimoto. I only own my OC, Rei Miharu.

The First Letter

The mission wasn't a success, far from it, Sasuke had escaped them again and the blonde moped. It annoyed him to no end that he would be so worked up over the missing shinobi, in his mind he was deemed unworthy of the Uzumaki's companionship. But, all together, the failure of their mission pissed Kiba off. They were so close; it was as if success was right in their reach before it completely disappeared before him.

"Na-Naruto-Kun… we'll g-get him next time…" there was that soothing voice he so richly enjoyed hearing. It was like bells ringing in the midday wind, enough to lull his beastly soul.

"You're right, Hinata! We will!"

Then his entire world crashed down on him, her voice was rarely that timid and shy around him, she was always hanging off Naruto's every word. She was in love and as much as he hated to admit it… he knew Hinata Hyuuga would never be his.

"Oi, Kiba! Let's get some ramen!"

"Sure thing!" His smile played his features, placing such thoughts to the back of his mind, at times he wished he could talk to someone, anyone, to get these feelings off his chest but he couldn't… His pride denied him that right, so he held onto it and watched as she slipped further and further away from him.

"Hinata, you should come too" Kiba offered, knowing she was looking for an invitation and if it wasn't Naruto to offer it was him.

"Yeah!" Naruto added, grabbing the timid heiress by the arm, gently.

'That should be me.'

"I'll even pay for you!"

'That could be me.'

Hinata's cheeks blushed considerably at his offer, waving her hands before her in frenzy, warranting a confused look to cross Naruto's face.

"You do-don't have too."

'But it will never be me.'

"Come on! You deserve it." All he could do was step back and be happy for her, besides, she deserved him, and he knew how it felt not to have those feelings reciprocated. So, if he couldn't be happy he would at least hope she could be happy for the both of them.

"Kiba, come on!" Naruto brought him out of his thoughts.

"Yeah, yeah! Just shut up already!" He trotted up beside them, Akamaru in toe, his tail seized to wag. The large dog was aware of the turmoil that plagued Kiba, he knew better then anyone about his feelings for the Hyuuga girl. He pressed his wet nose against his master's hand as if to comfort him.

"Don't worry about me boy" there was a pause. "Just focus on becoming the strongest we can be…"

There was only so much he could take and by the end of their ramen stop Kiba had had enough, he excused himself wanting nothing more then to go home and sleep away the day's events.

"See yah tomorrow!" he waved them off, leaving both to their doing. His heart sank a bit at seeing the smile Hinata gave to Naruto, a smile he rarely saw unless the blonde was near. How was it he only seemed to come second? What was it that he didn't have? Naruto was always one step ahead of him, the leaf's number one, knucklehead ninja was becoming the leafs top, leaving Kiba in the dust.

Akamaru gave a soft whine laying in Kiba's room, huddled in the corner as he watched the usually happy Inuzuka lay there almost motionless in thought.

Bark!

"I know boy… I'm acting like such a suck! I need to do somethin', anything! To get me out of this slump," he gave an annoyed groan turning on his side, staring at the unused desk. For a moment, he remembered of that young kunoichi from Getsu from so many years ago. It was true he couldn't talk to anyone in Konoha but what about someone who he knew couldn't see him, couldn't judge him. Paper and ink hurt a whole lot less then faces and actions.

Bark bark!

"What?" he got to his feet, sitting at the foreign chair, pulling out a sheet of paper and pen. He, somehow, couldn't recall one time he actually sat there. Why did he even have a desk?

Akamaru expressed concern; his master was definitely unstable if he was planning on writing to someone he barely knew aside from the one time encounter three years ago.

"Come on boy, what's the worst that could happen?" his usual grin returning, "It wouldn't hurt to try!"

Kiba's chicken scratch writing decorated the clean page, barely illegible but good enough, right? He sure hoped so. There was almost a sense of pride as he looked at the letter, it wasn't much but it sure made him feel a whole lot better. He didn't write a lot, didn't bother to go into too much detail, he wrote just enough without giving away too much about his life.

"What do you think?" He didn't expect him to actually talk or read the letter; it would be a miracle if he could. "Looks great, right?"

Another pause.

"Do you know her address?" another obstacle. He could always simply send the letter to Getsugakure in hopes it got to the right person, again if not, what was the worst that could happen.

"Let's get this out of here, boy" Akamaru stopped, giving his head a shake in defiance. "Tch, fine stay here. I'll be back in a few minutes."

Bark

"Yeah, yeah. I'll bring you back a treat from the store."

Kiba had been able to get his hands on a messenger bird, he wasn't sure if it would work or not but it was always pleasant to know that he had been able to get something off his chest, but not everything. He was formal enough to ask how she was and then go onto talking about his missions, more so his most recent one.

"Is that all, Kiba?"

"Yeah, Thanks."

The teenage gave a nod and turned on his heel, just as the bird was set free into the sky, in the pit of his stomach he sure hoped that the brunette girl in white best got his letter. His only memory was of the small genin, he didn't quite realize that she could have possibly changed through the years like so many of them went through.

Hey Rei Miharu! (right?)

I don't even know if you remember me but it's Kiba! Inuzuka! Remember now? If not… well, bummer, but who could possibly forget a face like mine? Come on. So, how are you doing? Last I saw you it was… three years ago? Yeah, three years. Wow, time sure flies by.

Had any good missions? I did… too bad it ended in failure. The damned Uchiha… he's a sneaky bastard, but I showed them how skilled I am. I hate it when I fail a mission, it's so… troublesome! I sure hope you're doing better then me, sometimes it's annoying knowing you could have successfully completed a mission but don't. I swear, Naruto is becoming soft.

Oh, I don't even know if you know him and I don't want to go into too much detail about him. He already has what I can't have… Sorry, off topic there…

There isn't much really to say… I damn hope this gets to you if not. Hello total stranger who just wasted a majority of their time reading this.

Inuzuka, Kiba and Akamaru

Gloved hands trailed their finger across the page reading and re-reading the letter, how peculiar the letter was indeed. Her short-cropped hair fell across her face, inches just above her shoulders.

"Hey Rei… we're gonna be late!"

"Coming!"

The First Letter

Dur, what a fail.. I am pretty sure I butchered Kiba's character even though I didn't want to. Rei only made her appearance at the end, I wanted to focus more on Kiba first then her really.

Besides she won't really make her debut until chapter three or four, that's what I'm hoping four that is.

Please R&R