Title: Terror of Valentine

Summary: Cupid comes to Konoha and causes havoc throughout the village.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto!

A/N: All I've had is guys looking in the wrong direction so far...so I need a girl now! Since I love Hinata so much, I'll included her in two chapters! Whether you feel sorry or happy for her is all up to you.

Warning:Slight OOCness and possible bad grammar!


-Chapter 3-

:TUESDAY afternoon:

Cupid's mess up that morning followed by knocking himself out pissed Cupid off to no end.

His body was sore and Konohamaru, Moegi and Udon were really starting to get on his nerves. He'd arrived at the realization that asking kids for help was not such a good idea; unless you had the patience to handle such a responsibility.

For the moment the three kids were grouped nearby, paying no attention to their mission to help Cupid. Rather then doing what they were asked, they played a game of hackey sack.

A large vein pumped on Cupid's forehead as he tried repeatedly to count to ten. It was supposedly a good way to relieve stress, but he never got to finish because the kids' hackey sack kept hitting him.

In front of the group was the large administrative building.

Many shinobi entered and exited the building in a random fashion. A familiar Main House Hyuuga member stood on the steps, her hands fidgeting together while she tried to stay out of people's way.

Hinata had managed to stay out of Shikamaru's sights so far that day. Mostly thanks to her Byakugan.

The entire day before she had been on the run from an obviously confused ninja.

Not even on the Hyuga property was Hinata safe from her new stalker. Shikamaru had taken up a spot outside her window to sit back and watch the clouds or so he claimed. At some point Hinata had no choice but to go out to Shikamaru and treat the small wounds he had gained for some reason that was still a mystery to her.

Her actions were unfortunately a sign to Shikamaru that she was finally returning the same feelings of affection that he had developed only the other day.

It was not until the middle of the night, when Hinata's father grew tired and chased Shikamaru off, was Hinata at peace. Her other piece of luck was that Shikamaru was an extremely late riser in the mornings, which gave her plenty of time to hide until her mission with her team that afternoon.

"Shino-kun…hurry please." Hinata timidly glanced about the crowd hoping some unseen force would grant her wish.

Meanwhile Cupid was on his thirteenth try on counting to ten to relieve tension. This method, however, was obviously not working.

His ears perked and his gaze shot right through the crowd at the silent bug-user shinobi as he made his way slowly through the crowd to the administrative building and Hinata.

Crossing his arms over his chest, Cupid glared at Shino. He was annoyed by the non-hurried walk. Cupid's foot tapped against the ground impatiently.

"Come on! Come on! Come on!" Cupid snarled through grinded teeth.

By the time Shino had reached Hinata's view point Cupid looked like he was about to pop. As for Shino, his usually emotionless face perked at the sight was his teammate, and vise-versa.

"About time!"

Konohamaru, Meogi and Udon had grown tired of their game and stood by Cupid's side watching the same scene play out. Only because they didn't consider this their job at the moment, they only yawned at what looked like someone walking while stuck in slow motion.

Udon rubbed the growing sleep in his eyes. "Aren't there too many people around to use your ability? Remember what happened the last time?"

Cupid's stress level cracked a little with Udon's reminder, and his eyes filled with a mixture of rage and insanity.

"Give me that!" Cupid yelled, snatching the kids' hackey sack out of their reach.

This time he was going to hit the mark and be successful! He would show them! All of them!

With a combination of calculations and anger Cupid jumped high into the air releasing the hackey sack at the same time. Cupid never let the little sack out of his sight and while still in mid-air Cupid performed a strong round house kick sending his energy into the miniature beanbag. The hackey sack shot into the crowd with blinding speed.

Normally, and also if his other plans had worked out, Cupid would have thought to move the two to a more secluded area and simply bounce the ball onto off of Hinata's head. With the last attempts ruined by awful coincidence, this route seemed much more successful to him. But of course, Cupid had gone temporally insane by this time.

The three ninja cadets' mouths gaped wide as the high speed hackey sack made a crashing blow to the center of poor Hinata's face and forced her head to whip back from the impact.

When Hinata's head came down, her hands immediately cupped the painfully red nose. Her eyes squeezed shut tightly to try ease the hurt. Hiding in the crowd, Cupid and the kids, including every other person in the area, fell silent as Hinata winced and whimpered uncontrollably.

"Oh crap…" Cupid came to his senses too late.

Shino ignored the person who had attacked Hinata with the hackey sack at the time and rushed to the Hyuuga girl's side. Standing behind Hinata, Shino grasped one of her shoulders to help steady her as the other gently patted her other shoulder to assure her she would be all right.

"Hinata?" Shino angled his head so he could get a clearer view of her face. In a sick way, Cupid's plan was working.

Still everyone remained quiet and cleared a small area to give the two genin some air.

Shino paid no mind to what was happening and continued with his words, "Hinata, you'll be fine."

"Come on it was just a hit to the face." Someone interjected with an unfriendly voice and no concern what so ever. "You should be able to take it."

Looking up to the insulting voice, the rest of Hinata's face reddened to match the color of her throbbing nose. Hunching her back so she could only see the ground, Hinata's index fingers tapped together showing her embarrassment. With another shy look up, Hinata stood straight and continued tapping her finger together.

"I-it's fine, Kankuro-kun." She was blushing even more just saying his name. "I-It doesn't hurt any-anymore."

A few of the red paint markings knitted together as Kankuro gave Hinata a strange look. "I wasn't asking if you were hurt! GOT IT?! Why are you looking at me like that?"

Shino remained behind Hinata passing a look over her in utter confusion. He knew all the signs when she was infatuated with a guy and right now she was exhibiting them times ten! Shino looked visibly hurt by her decision.

The crowd slowly moved away and began going back to their business to try and erase the moment out of their heads.

"Kankuro." Temari appeared by her brother's side with Gaara in tow. "There's no time for you to talk with your fangirl. We have work to do."

Gaara's amusement flashed in his eyes at the expression on Kankuro's face after Temari's comment.

Temari spoke again. "Just say good-bye to your little girlfriend already!"

Cupid fell over on the ground in defeat as the kids sweatdropped. He groaned as the kids picked his feet up off the ground, and proceeded to drag him away.

"She's not my girlfriend!!!"

Kankuro gave chase after his older sister, his fists frantically flying trying to reach for her as she laughed and teased him, staying a good distance out of his reach. Gaara stood aside watching his siblings make idiots out of themselves while Shino stood near the door away from Hinata.

As for Hinata, she watched as her newfound love fumbled about swiping at his sister, until Shikamaru showed up. After that point, Hinata took to trying to stay very close to Kankuro.

-TBC-


Cupid: Uugh.... -stares into space-

E-M-P: That should clam you down. -shakse bottle of pills- These work good.

Cupid: ... -drooling-

E-M-P: Are you going to be ok for the next chapter?

Cupid: ...zzzz

E-M-P: Damn.

A/N: There's really no ground rules or timeline for the story! So ignore the fact about the sand siblings being there. As for the event of Hinata falling for Kankuro due to the power of love…tell me your thoughts!

'09 Author's Notes: Again there are some sentences added and others taken out. Something I didn't realize back when I wrote this; Shino and Kankuro are somewhat rivals! I switched the teasing bit to Temari because it would be completely out of character for Gaara.

I love my editor Cursed Blessing! You hear me CB?