Hello everyone,

So I see the finish line for quite a few of my stories. This is not one of them.

Enjoy the chapter.

The music played loudly in the studio. The dancer was as graceful as the song was depressing, also ridged. She had long black hair with blunt, hime bangs, and the lavender tights she would was as if it was painted on her flesh. She did an assortment of moves, spins in her ballet shoes, kicks, stances, and the works.

While she danced, Naruto was in the stands, doing quick sketches of the dancer, wearing his glasses as his eyes were irritated as of late, he sketched thirty-second sketches, trying to capture the basic flow of the dancer.

When the song finished, the girl needed a break. "Naruto, I hope you got everything you needed." Hinata says as she walks over and sits down at the edge of the stage. Naruto was still in the zone and took him a second to realize that Hinata was talking to him.

"Hm? Oh yeah, I got a lot. Thanks, Hinata. These will make great references." He smiled and gets up, and goes over to where Hinata was sitting, and sits with her, showing her the quick sketches.

"They're good…I just thought they would be more detailed."

"As fast as you were dancing, there was no way I could get that much detail in. Besides these are just references for a cool character I'm coming up with for a manga I'm making."

Hinata laughs lightly and says, "I'm glad you're back. School was boring without you." She says and hugs him a bit, though Naruto didn't return it back, he leaned into the touch though. "I missed you too Hinata."

Walking back to his dorm, Naruto noticed the letter on his door with his name on it. It looked official and he opens it, reading it. It was another bill for paying his tuition here. He owed about 2,361,272 yen* and paid 1,052,631 yen so far with the help of working his ass off while in school. He hated getting bills, reminders that he couldn't even save a single bit to himself.

Naruto works a lot of odd jobs. But the one job he enjoys doing is helping a manga artist he knows hoping to get his work published when he finishes. Or at least hoping that they like it.

He walks in to his dorm, which he shared with an annoying roommate. "What the hell are you doing in my desk?" He asks and saw Kiba digging through his desk.

The dog boy looks over and grins guilty, "I need to borrow a pen for homework." He says and Naruto looks over and saw a pen on the ground, "you mean that one?" He asks and the guy looks over and tries to play it off, "of course! There it is! In the most obvious place ever."

Naruto sighs, tossing his messenger bag on the ground and tosses himself on the bed, hugging the pillow, "if you needed money, just ask."

"You always say no though."

"That's because I don't have any to give." Naruto says in an annoyed tone. Kiba was his friend and he was glad that he got to room with him, but now he wanted to ring his neck. He's been trying to steal his things to sell and just trying to take his cash. Thankfully, he had a bank account now. "Go mooch off your boyfriend Kiba. I'm broke."

Kiba glares at him, "we broke up." He states and goes to lie down on his bed. Naruto would normally care, he really would, but all of the cheating around Kiba's done, he was surprised that it didn't happen sooner. "Then ask your sugar daddy."

"You're so caring Naruto! I told you my boyfriend dumped me and you're ignoring me. Can't you see that I'm in pain?" Kiba shouts dramatically.

Naruto looks over, "you were just trying to steal from me again. My sympathies go to Kankuro for going broke trying to support your wasteful ass." He says clearly and grabs his manga from his desk and began reading it, holding it up in the air while lying on his back. This was his only day off and he wanted to enjoy it while it last.

Kiba pouts and goes over to Naruto, looking down at him and getting in his face, "so what am I going to do now for money?"

"Get a job like everyone else?" Naruto replies clearly annoyed that Kiba was getting in his face. "I hear that the corner of 4th and 5th Avenue needs a new prostitute there." He says.

"I'M NOT A WHORE!" Kiba says and grits his teeth, "I'm leaving. I'll be back later." He says and Naruto was quick to say, "If you come back drunk, I'm kicking you out!" The loud slam of the door was enough for Naruto to get a headache already. Fucking Ass.

Tired, Naruto puts his manga down and stares at the ceiling above him, seeing the little dots that were in the tiles and seeing them form into things, his mind playing tricks on him but he liked it.

He just lost himself in the connecting constellations.

Sasuke sat with his friends in Shikamaru's apartment. He shared it with his girlfriend and thanks to his genius and gambling habits; he knew how to make much without getting a job. Temari was from a very wealthy family, so paying wasn't a problem.

Like most young adult males, there were doing one thing; playing video games.

Shikamaru and Choji were playing mostly, and Kiba walks in, being a friend of Shikamaru and Choji so they wouldn't say anything, but Temari would.

"Where's Kankuro?" Kiba asks Temari.

"Work and he defiantly doesn't want to see you man-whore." Temari says sharply as she takes a bite of her pizza. "Why are you even here anyways?"

"Because I want to have angry sex. My fucking roommate is an asshole and pissed me off."

"So, go have sex with him." Choji pipes in and Shikamaru chuckles a bit and wins the fighting round with Choji.

"Fuck off! Who would want to fuck that bastard?" Kiba says but mumbles the last part so no one really heard him and that was when everyone realized that he was plastered off his ass. Kiba was a heavy drinker when he did drink, and lately it was heavy. Sasuke rolls his eyes and hears the toilet flush from where he sat, and saw Neji coming back out. "Who won?"

"Who do you think?" Sasuke says and grabs a handful of popcorn from his hand and began to munch.

"Shikamaru."

"Bingo."

Neji looks over and saw Kiba, standing wobbly and asks, "Why is he here?"

"I WANT SEX!" Kiba rings and takes a drink from a water bottle, but it was filled with vodka. Neji shakes his head in disgust, "someone go lay drunky down or kick him out."

Shikamaru gets up, handing the controller to Sasuke, and says, "come on Kiba, you need to leave."

"Don't touch me motherfucker." Kiba slurs and tries to push him away. "Where's Kankuro?"

"We said he's at work!" Shikamaru says and pushes him out with more force until he was out of the apartment and locking the door behind him. "Man, he's annoying when he's drunk."

"He's annoying when he's not. You're just never around to hear it." Sasuke comments as he had classes with him and knew first-hand how much he talked and yammered on.

"I wonder why he got so slutty." Choji asks.

"Choji, it's just easier to ignore him." Temari says and gets up, getting water bottles for everyone and tosses him over to each of the dudes. "Besides, when was the last time that any of us were friends with him?"

"Since Naruto moved. Kiba filled in the slot of the annoying kid in class and we hate him for it." Neji comments.

"Because he replaced some kid named Naruto?" Temari asks.

"No because he was fucking annoying." Shikamaru answers her not really seeming to like the answer Neji gave her. "You missed it when he came out of the closet. Dude, we don't care, get out of our faces." Shikamaru says as he opens his bottle and opens the bottle, drinking from it. "No one likes him."

Outside of the door, Kiba heard every word as if it was being told to his face. In his drunken stupor, he walks around until he falls in an alley and broke down into tears. It's always been like this…he didn't get any attention at home…his father died when he was young and his mother went off the deep end…and his sister? He hadn't seen her since before his old man died.

No friends, no family…he was alone.

A soft whimper was heard and Kiba shifts his head forward, seeing a small pup looking at him, timidly getting closer. "Woof." He yips and sniffs at him. Kiba was quick to shoe him off, but the pup didn't leave. Instead, he got closer and licks his cheek.

Kiba sits up and pats his lap, allowing the pup to get in his lap and he pets him. "It seems like you're the only one who likes me." He says softly and continued to pet him. "You're a good boy."

And that was how Kiba met his dog, Akamaru.

Reviews.

I am taking ideas for this story with whatever people want to see. I like working with my readers so if you want to see something in the story let me know.

I think it is kind of sad for Kiba but let's hope he can get his act together.