A/N- Well this took forever and a year. Btw, this is a songfic based on Stand in the Rain by Superchick. Sorry Tab, i said it was based on Ocean Avenue. It didn't fit!

Disclaimer- check the first chapter, I DON'T OWN NARUTO!

It was falling into an infuriating pattern. Kiba felt himself getting more and more pissed every second. It had been almost an hour and he had been doing the same exact thing.

Dodge a tree. Run. Dodge a tree. Run. Dodge a . .

WHAM.

When you're going full speed through a forest with VERY thick trees, you should probably keep your eyes open. And not whack your head a lot.

"Owww. . . "

Kiba laid there for a few very agonizing seconds, praying his head wasn't broken. Hell, he was praying his whole body wasn't broken.Too bad his mind was broken, stuck between intense pain, the urge to find Ino, and the fear of jumping up blindly and hitting another tree.

He could smell something. Something like and rain . . . And. . . Roses? He very slowly turned his head to the right. Nothing. Turn to the left. . .

A little bit above his head was a torn black piece of fabric.

FLASHBACK

"Argh. Ino, why'd you have to drag me here? The smell's enough to knock anyone blind."

He turned around and met an endless sea of multicolored roses. But No Ino.

"Ino?" The smell was so strong his eyes were watering. His nose felt even worse. "Ino??"

Roses. Roses. And more roses. Where the heck was he?

Roses?

Kiba turned around. And around. And around. Over there? Yes, there it was. It smelled like rain and roses.

What felt like years later, Kiba turned around a corner and a puddle big enough to be the Atlantic Ocean. There was Ino! She looked every bit as suprised to see him as he was suprised to find her.

"Huh? How'd you find me?"

"What, you were trying to ditch me?"

"Nooo.Just suprised you could find me."

"I could smell roses."

"Hmmm, well duh kiba. You're in a rose garden?"

"I mean I could smell YOU." Kiba walked over and circled his arms around her waist. Ino turned a few shades of pink and laughed, shaking her head.

END FLASHBACK

Only Ino could smell like the perfect combination of rain and roses. so perfect that he could find her in the middle of a reeking rose garden.

Kiba got up as slowly as he could force himself to, which was still fast enough to make himself dizzy. Pain screamed through his head and body, but it was bearable. Enough.

He could deal with it.

Minutes (hours?) later, his head was disagreeing with him over that little statement. What had he said? Oh yeah, "he could deal with it."

Kiba was so caught up in a haze of anger (again) and extreme pain that he didn't see the really big gaping ditch right in front of him. His only warning was a Coyote/Roadrunner moment when he found that there was no ground underneath him.

He had enough time to save his head from getting his brains knocked out. Sadly, the rest of him wasn't as lucky. Kiba briefly wondered if he had broken his neck. Maybe it was just his ribs.

Then he realized where he was. He was totally. . .

FLASHBACK (Again)

. . . Lost. totally lost. In broad daylight. Why did EVERYTHING happen to him?? Boy was he in for it when he got home, especially after he had left school early. And Why was he in a damn forest again?

Because his shit-for-brains teacher had blown a fuse. It would have looked bad to anyone at the school. Resident misfit good for nothing (him) getting into a fight with the "innocent" newbie who just charmed his way through the football team. So he called Ino a dyke in front of the entire school (minus Ino). No big deal, as long as Kiba was caught punching him. Kiba almost wished Ino had been there. She would've kicked him out of orbit. Sakura almost had, but Kiba had gotten there first.

And he couldn't stop thinking of Ino. Damn he had acted like an idiot in the rose garden! She had acted like it was ok, but she hadn't really talked to him all week. Well actually, she hadn't been to school all week.

Now between the time he started to think about Ino and now, he had started walking in no real direction, and ended up face-down in a ditch that had opened up in front of him.

Someone up there really had it in for him.

He looked up and saw heels stomping around in the leaves and dirt.

Ino?

Kiba scrambled up and looked through a few trees. It was Ino. She was stomping around in the dirt. How she stayed up in those heels was something no boy could figure out. He had seen the girl win a race in them. Every so often she would kick a tree, saying something he couldn't hear. He didn't really want to know what it was. She kept looking at a cell phone in her hand; had Sakura told her? Wait. . . Why was Ino here?

A new look crossed her face. Anger. Worry. Fear. . . . Hatred? Of who? She spun around and launched a viscious kick at the nearest tree, once again prompting Kiba to wish she had been there when he had gotten beaten. She touched the tree, and her foot slipped; her foot going up, the rest of her going down. Before Kiba could think, he was out those trees and caught her.

"Hey Ino, you okay?"

"Oww. My foot hurts and . . . Wait, where did you come from?"

"You really want me to answer that?"

"No, you'll give me a really gross answer."

"Hey, where've you been all week?"

"Here."

"Here??"

"Welll, not exactly here. Help me up, I'll show you where I've been . . . Hey!! Don't pick me up . . ! Kiba!" He ignored her and picked her straight up. She made a funny half groan half shriek sound and pointed which way to go.

"So why were you here all week?" Ino buried her face in his shoulder. He seriously hoped that she couldn't see his face; he just turned fifty shades of red.

"I . . . Was pissed. I needed to blow off some steam. My. . . My dad's been cheatin on my mom. I found out like a week ago." Kiba couldn't believe it. Her mom was beautiful! Not to mention pretty young compared to her dad, there was an eight year age difference. "You know how I was acting all like a jerk last week? That was why. On Tuesday, my dad found out that I knew. I was just so mad I ran. Hey, turn left."

It took Kiba a second to realize what she said and he turned lwft.

"You're dad? With who?"

Ino's head shot up. She was a few shades of pink now. "Eww Kiba! I didn't stick around to see who!"

"Hey no! I didn't mean, I meant to say . . . !!"

"I know. Hey, over there! We're here!" She jumped down before he could say anything else and limped to a break in the trees.

"This is where I've been all week."

END FLASHBACK

If Kiba remembered right, then the break in the trees would be. . . .

There.

A/N- Great. This was a little fast paced wasn't it? Oops

Argh. Oh well. As long as it works, and I do a fantabulous job on the 3rd one.

Anyone else notice that the font changed? Stupid thing wouldn't let me finish it, so I just spent half and hour cop and pasting and redo-ing

Thank you for listening to the rantings of a mad woman.