Author's Note: I hate this series and I have writer's block. But I'll just keep writing and see where it takes me

Hinata sat next to Kiba awkwardly in Pre Calculus. Kiba hadn't looked at her for a long time, he just sat there playing with a string on his hoodie and hardly paying attention to the teacher. Hinata was dying for conversation with the handsome football player, but she couldn't think of what to say or when to say it. All that was on her mind was the rumor and her own feelings for him.

"Kiba?" Hinata finally asked. Kiba looked up to meet her gaze, "What was the homework assignment again?"

Kiba just returned to playing with his string and shrugged. Either he wasn't paying attention and he didn't hear the assignment, or he didn't want to talk to her. Hinata just sighed and asked the girl in front of her for the assignment, which she graciously gave the cheerleader.

The bell suddenly rung and Hinata gathered up her supplies to take it to her locker and get her lunch. Hopefully she'd meet Tenten or Ino along the way to her locker, she really needed to talk to them about Kiba. They were the only ones out of her five other friends who didn't urge Hinata to take action on her crush.

Hinata drug her feet to her locker and opened it. She put her Pre Calculus textbook and she binder in her locker and then she texted Tenten and Ino to come to her locker. She hated to feel alone, she felt like everyone was looking at her. And her cute cheer uniform, which made her look adorable, just added to the staring.

In order to waste time, she slowly moved her books around in her locker and she took her time finding her brown bag lunch. Once she was done finding her lunch and putting everything into order, she decided that she still had time to spare, and she primped in the purple magnetic mirror in her locker.

"Hey Hinata!" Tenten called. She came up to Hinata's locker with Ino. Now that all three of the girls were wearing identical uniforms, she felt like the stares subsided a bit.

"Hey guys," Hinata closed her locker and grabbed her lunch. "I have to tell you about Kiba," she announced.

Ino's eyes went wide, "We're sitting with them at lunch you know," she informed Hinata. Now it was Hinata's turn for her eyes to grow wide.

"I wouldn't worry about it too much," Tenten reassured Hinata as they started walking. "He'll probably be too busy to notice anyway, with Sasuke and him suddenly becoming best friends and all," she finished.

"That is true," Ino agreed. Then she turned to Hinata, "Okay, tell us what happened in Pre Calc then,"

Hinata nodded and told them the story about how Kiba had ignored her and how he could barely even look at her.

"That's weird," Tenten pondered. "Didn't you guys use to be best friends?" Tenten wondered.

Hinata nodded, "At the academy we were really close. But not anymore I guess. I mean, I thought that we were still friends, but I guess he had other plans," Hinata admitted, she was now sulking.

Ino patted her friends arm in consolation as they entered the cafeteria and saw Karin and Sakura madly waving the three girls over. Sasuke, Kiba, Neji, Naruto, Kankuro, Temari, Shikamaru, Rock Lee, Karin, and Sakura were already seated at the table. Karin and Sakura were talking at one hundred miles an hour to Sasuke, the poor boy didn't know what to say to them most of the time.

Hinata approached the table and noticed, much to her dismay, that Tenten and Ino had taken the only two available seats next to their boyfriends, which meant that Hinata had to sit across from Kiba. Hinata sighed and she took a seat across from Kiba nervously. She offered him a shy smile as he glanced her way in question and then she turned to talk to Temari, and Kiba turned to talk to Sasuke, Karin and Sakura.

"So how's it going?" Temari whispered to Hinata.

"Not good, I'll tell you later what happened in Pre Calc today," Hinata told her. Temari frowned and then grabbed Shikamaru's hand to hold it. She began a conversation with Naruto, Shikamaru, Kankuro and Hinata, trying to lighten the mood.

Hinata added input into the conversation that Temari was engaging everyone in, but she was troubled by Kiba paying no mind to her. She ate her peanut butter and jelly sandwich while watching him interact with Sakura and Karin. This raised suspicion in Hinata's eyes, maybe Kiba liked Karin or Sakura, they were beautiful girls after all.

Hinata was one of the last people to throw her trash away, the bell was about to ring for fourth period to start and the lunch room had pretty much cleaned out. She said goodbye to Temari, Kankuro, Shikamaru and Naruto and excused herself from the table. All of her friends had left the table to go get their supplies for their next class, that is, everyone except for Kiba.

Kiba waited at the cafeteria door, waiting to ask Hinata a question. Hinata walked out of the lunchroom, fixing her tight cheerleading skirt before she felt someone grab her forearm.

She turned her head quickly to meet the eyes of Kiba. Her cheeks turned hot and she looked at the linoleum floor of the school's hallway.

"Can I ask you something?" Kiba said.

Hinata looked at him and then nodded, "Of course Kiba," she breathed.

Kiba sighed in relief and let go of her forearm. He took a step back, much to Hinata's disappointment, and then he shoved his hands into the pocket of his hoodie nervously. Hinata braced herself, could this be the question that she had been waiting so long to hear?

"Listen," Kiba finally spoke. "Does Sakura have a boyfriend? Because I really like her and I wanted to ask her on a date this Friday," Hinata stared at Kiba, now brokenhearted. Her mouth gaped open, then she realized that the brunette boy was waiting for her answer.

"Oh no, she doesn't have a boyfriend. But I think she likes Sasuke," Hinata offered, hoping that he'd change his mind.

Kiba laughed, "Oh no don't worry, I already talked to Sasuke about that, he said that it was cool if I asked her out 'cause he doesn't like her,"

Hinata looked at her white cheerleading shoes sadly, "Oh," she said under her breath. "Then I'll talk to Sakura and see if she'd be interested in going out with you," Hinata weakly smiled. She was trying to mask her pain, and she wasn't sure it was working, but there was one thing she knew for sure. You can't get a guy by going off on him for liking one of your good friends. The thought of her self control made Hinata happy inside and it gave her hope. Just because Kiba liked Sakura, didn't meant that this was over.

"Really?" Kiba beamed. Hinata nodded. "Oh thank you, thank you, Hinata!" Kiba cheered as he gave Hinata a big bear hug.

Hinata blushed at the sudden contact and then she watched as the happy boy ran off, he gave Hinata a big wave before disappearing around the corner.

Hinata sighed and looked at her white shoes once more, what had she gotten herself into now? So the rumor that Ino told her wasn't true…