* KiaraHey guys! Sorry for the extremely long day . I became really lazy and writer's block kept getting to me...So sorry...
Well, anyway, this chapter doesn't have Shino in it, instead it's the Team 8 sweethearts taking control :P But don't worry it's all about Shino in the next. Plus, there's an OC going along with Shino :D
There are a few AN's in the chapter and others that I just marked with asterisks, so I hope you don't mind...Anyway, enjoy! :D Here's Chapter 3 for you guys, I love you all :D
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"So, it's finally morning.", Kiba told himself as the heat of the sun's rays pinched his closed eyes and wheezily, he stood up from what seemed to him a long night, all thanks to the events that happened the previous day.
The young teen sighed as he got out of his room with a very stern look, like a huge rock weighed promptly on his head and he was thinking hard on hot to get it off.
"Man, yesterday was too much for me...Shino...I swear do those things to me again and I'll-", scowling under his breath, his sister came in and cut his thoughts off.
"Kiba?", worriedly catching his attention.
"Hmm?", he replied, politely returning the question, while grabbing his usual seat.
"What's the matter, li'l bro? You seem so...distracted... Don't tell me you're bothered by the design of your yukata for the Konoha Festival? I rather think it would look good on you.", smiling at the thought of her younger brother wearing the said fabric.
Actually, Kiba didn't think his yukata was that bad, although he didn't like the fact that he had to keep shifting his right leg just to be able to move normally.
"God, Shino, why did you have to pick something so uncomfortable... Oh well, at least it wasn't one of those weird long ones.", and at that memory, his face went scarlet with pictures of Hinata in her yukata flooding his mind.
Being completely ignored, Hana decided to interrupt his thoughts. "So, Kiba, what do you want to eat?", successfully grabbing her little brother's attention.
"Hmm, oh, uhm I'll just take a slice of bread, and I'll be off...", standing up, he ate some bread, prepared his stuff and left, leaving his sister absolutely puzzled.
"Geez, he has a weird mindset this morning. I wonder what happened yesterday that made him this way...", Hana said, trying to think of a possibility while sipping her tea.
As of now, Kiba was just taking a walk around the streets of the village, head down, thinking about that one event that made him so distant.
"Ugh, I really need to get rid of this memory...", again wearing a most irritated expression, he decided he would go to Ichiraku's and have a bowl of hot ramen to calm him down (AN: And to fill his stomach...Come on he only had like what, a slice of bread!). But to his surprise, when he lifted the entrance curtain (AN: Is that what you call it?), a certain someone was there from the mentioned memory.
"H-Hinata!", surprised to see her eating ramen at the seat, second to the left.
"Ah, Kiba-kun..."
"Oh man of all the people that could've been here, why did it have to be her! Not that I didn't want to see her, well it's actually the opposite... Wait! What am I saying... Oh forget it, you idiot. You know damn well that you like her... Hey! Wait a sec... Ugh! This is so annoying, what the hell am I saying!
Kiba's self-conversation continued a little bit longer, until Hinata spoke up and broke that conversation.
"Uhm, Kiba-kun, you can sit right beside me you know", patting on the seat to her right, smiling as she was so amused by how he just stood there.
"Y-yeah...thanks.", doing as he was told, and facing the counter to order some ramen. "Uhm, can I get a large bowl of beef ramen , please.", he requested and when it was served in front of him, he stared at it for a while, then got his chopsticks, broke it into two and started eating.
For quite a long time, Hinata was choosing her words carefully in her head, because for some reason, she was getting somewhat tense with Kiba now.
Finally, the words had been planned, and she muttered them out anxiously...
"U-uhm, Kiba-kun."
"Yeah?", he answered back after sipping in a noodle.
"Uhm, so...What brings you here?", laughing nervously as she said this, because these weren't the words she specifically had in her mind.
"Ugh, that's not what I wanted to say...I must look so stupid..."*, swiftly turning away from Shino with a bright shade of red on her face.
"Actually, I, just wanted a bit of fresh air... And instinctively I stumbled here...", slowly the crimson-faced Hinata turned to her cheerful friend, the reds already gone from her face. She couldn't help but chuckle at the sight of Kiba smiling his goofly smile, before she let another word out.
"I see...So, Kiba-kun, are you doing anything else later?", the reds slowly creeping back to her face, but luckily she was able to stop them this, replacing them with a genuine smile.
"Well, those weren't exactly the words I formulated in my head, but at least I got the message through...I hope", she thought to herself awaiting an answer.
Kiba laughs a bit, for no reason at all, before replying. "No, I'm not doing anything later, why?"
"I see, so do you want to spend the rest of today with me?", again refusing those blotches of red to get to her face, this time however, she failed, and just looked the other way.
"M-me", pointing to himself, stunned at her invitation.
"yes, silly, who else do I know here?", looking back at Kiba, laughing at how comical he looked.
"A-are you sure about this? Don't you want Shino to come with us? I'll go get him right now! I'm sure he's not busy or anything like that. No, of course not! Why would he be? It's a day off for us, right? So he shouldn't be busy. Yeah , let's go ask! Ahahaha, that would be great!..."
As the suddenly hyper teen made a big fuss, Hinata just stared at him, but not in a freaked out way, but in a tender loving stare that caused a smile on her face, and lose sight of everything else but him.
Not much longer, Kiba noticed and started waving a hand in front of her to regain her attention.
"Hinata, helloooo. Hinata, you still there.", Hinata quickly stirred as soon as she realized what she doing.
"Oh sorry...I got a little distracted by you.", giggling a bit from his previous action. "So, do you want to go? Just the two of us.", giving him her bright smile as she said this.
"W-well...Ok, if it's really fine with you.", calmly giving his response with some pinks on his cheeks. Secretly though, he could literally burst out in flames of happiness, hearing those words escape from his, quote and quote, beloved.
The two friends slowly got out off the chairs, paid for what they ate, and took a stroll in the sun-kissed streets of Konoha. They didn't really talk much, being constantly distracted by the beauty of the afternoon sun, until Kiba saw an ice cream stand and later asked Hinata if she wanted some.
"But we just ate, didn't we?", asking her silly friend with a playful tone.
"Yeah, but, it's ice cream, who can resist it! I mean, it's good anytime, isn't it?", smiling with confidence at his own words.
"Come on, I'll even treat you, just tell me what flavor you like.", grinning while discreetly putting his hand inside his pocket to make sure he brought his wallet.
"Oh, thank God, I brought it this time.", inwardly sighing with relief.
"Fine, you win. I'll just have cherry.", cocking her head to the side with a smirk to admit her defeat.
"Alright!", hurriedly scurrying over to the stand. "One cherry for her and a chocolate ice cream for me, please.", Kiba ordered, handing the money to a friendly man, who looks like he's in his late 40s. Cheerfully, the vendor got what was asked and gave it to them.
"Here you go, cherry for the young lady, and a chocolate for the young lad."
"Thanks.", both sid, licking their ice creams bit by bit, savoring the flavor.
"Your welcome.", directing his attention to Kiba.
"you're quite the gentle man, treating your girl with ice cream on a fine day like this."
Instantaneously, the blood in their body rushed to their faces and looked at opposite directions.
"W-we're just f-friends really...", Hinata cried, trying her best not to stutter.
"Y-yeah, really, just friends.", Kiba agreed, backing up her comment.
"Really now, what a waste, you two look like a really cute couple. Youngsters these days, even friends look like they're having dates. Seriously I could've sworn you kids were more than that.", making the two blush even more, if that was even possible, since their faces could literally explode from the massive amount of blood they contain.
Fortunately, the vendor noticed and decided to stop his comment and just see them off.
"Well, I'm betting you two need to get home soon, so, good day to you, both.", thankfully this worked, the blood drained out of their faces and they started to move again.
When the sun finally set, they found a bench nearby, with a really nice view of the night sky, and enjoyed the rest of their ice cream there. When both were finished, a little silence had occurred between them, but Hinata broke it off after some time.
"The stars sure are pretty today...", she pointed out, looking at the stars wistfully.
"Yeah, they kinda are...", Kiba remarked, looking at the sky as well, though occasionally he would steal some glances at Hinata, which created other thoughts in his head.
"They'll never be as pretty as you are though...", and with that sentence, he remembered what the ice cream vendor said...
"...you two look like a really cute couple..."
"Uh", Kiba rapidly expressed **, which startled Hinata and soon she fixed her gaze at him.
"What's wrong?", she asked, concerned.
"Oh nothing...", shifting his eyes to the side, while Hinata was returning to the stars.
"You know, this takes me back... Remember when we'd stargaze every night with Shino and Akamaru, right after training.", happily bringing back those memories.
"Yeah, and also those times when we would pull some pranks on Kurenai-sensei.", guffawing at that time.
"Hey, that was only you! And those were really mean! No wonder, she always gave you the harshest exercises.", laughing at those days.
Time seemed to fly when nostalgia hit the both of them, as they talked about their days as a genin. All of them filled with bountiful smiles and endless moments of laughter. Indeed, the two reminisced their childhood until they noticed how the village got dimmer and realized how late it was.
"Wow, it's already pretty dark, I guess we should call it a day. Come on I'll walk you home.", Kiba stood up, ready to go.
Hinata, on the other hand, sat there a bit longer, staring straight ahead into nothing, when she spoke up and faced Kiba.
"Kiba-kun, is it ok if... Well, we could do this again, some time?", giving him a pleading look as she asked shyly, with a slight blush.
"T-this, you mean, hang out.", Kiba answered, rather lost for words.
"Y-yeah, this..hang out, or whatever you call it.", standing up now, readying herself to leave as well.
"N-no problem, you want Shino to come with us?", now walking with Hinata on the way to her home.
"N-no, just the two of us. I'd really like to spend some more time with you, Kiba-kun.", shying her face away from him whilst saying this.
"W-wha-", confused, Kiba stared at his friend with a nice shade of crimson splattered on his cheeks. Mentally slapping himself to return to reality, Kiba closed his eyes and shook his head before replying.
"S-sure, I'd like that.", showing her a smile as she slowly turned to him.
"Thanks, Kiba-kun.", giving back his smile.
"At this point, Hinata's house was just a few more steps away, so Hinata thought it would be best to stop and say goodbye to him there, since she knew that his house was in another direction.
"Goodnight, Kiba-kun. See you again some time.", leaving him with a smile and a wave.
"Yeah, see you.", greeting her back before heading off to his own house.
When he arrived, the house was still, it was dark, and everyone was already asleep. Making his way to his room, events of that day played fresh in his mind, and after changing his clothes, he went to his bed, and laid down with a stream of pleasing thoughts.
"Today's the best thing that could ever happen to me.. There's just one thing I wished were true though...I wish...that what...that vendor said...was true...I wish...me and Hinata...were really...a couple...".
And with that, Kiba closed his eyes with the biggest smile he had ever made in his entire life.
Uh-huh, he's happy...but will it be for long...Oh, no spoilers! Hehe :P
Oh yeah! My AN's...
*iBloo (aka my good friend, Kiara) , I know you love this line...
** Sorry, I couldn't find a better word :P
Yeah... Well, hopefully I get to write faster, and better! Man, there are still some redundant words, and I think I went overboard with being descriptive...Oh well, at least I learn from my mistakes :P
Don't worry, I promise to do my best, so just hang tight ok :D
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