A/N: Not much to say. I hope you enjoy ^^
Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto I would have made damn sure that Kiba had a lot more cannon screen time than filler screen time. But things are not this way so it's obvious that Kishimoto is the owner of Naruto. Consequently that's why you will never see me complaining about filler episodes in the anime since they always been good to Kiba.
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Chapter 4: It's Only Polite to Give Your Name
Naruto woke up with a start the next morning. Sure he was tired from expending most of his day cleaning after Fang because of his small lapse of judgment. But there was nothing a good night of sleep couldn't fix.
Today he had to personally submit his report to Prof. Kakashi at his office. Plus Hinata was coming over to see if she could do something about Fang's lack of vocal response.
Smiling at the prospect Naruto was about to fling his legs out of the bed but stopped when a thought occurred to him. 'Let's see, I wonder if…" He cautiously gave a quick glance at his floor and spotted Fang sleeping on his floor like he suspected.
Naruto shook his head at the sight. 'Fang Fang Fang, you sure are a weird fellow. Keep this up and I might just have to start locking my door on you buddy.'
The blond grinned mischievously as he came up with a prank that was just too good to pass up.
He picked up the alarm clock he never uses from his nightstand and set it up to ring in a minute from now. Then he carefully lifted the blanket from Fang's face and placed the loud object close to his right ear before covering the brunet again with the blanket.
The whiskered boy sat up Indian style in the furthest edge of his bed to watch from a safe distance. He grabbed a pillow to use as a shield if needed to and excitedly waited for the show to start. After all there's nothing wrong with a little payback.
'The fun starts in 3, 2, 1…'
BEEP BEEP, BEEP BEEP, RIIING!
A loud startled yelp could be heard from the brunet as he abruptly sat up. When Fang spotted the still ringing object that almost gave him a heart attack, the primal instincts he developed in the forest told him that the thing was challenging him.
Naruto covered his face with the pillow as Fang grabbed hold of the alarm clock and threw it with all his strength to the wall where it smashed into pieces and it finally quieted.
When the blonde peeked over from behind his pillow and saw the scared-as-shit expression Fang had on, Naruto doubled over and started laughing hard at the scene he had caused.
Fang, who was still stressing out from his rude wake-up call, noticed the other laughing at him. Putting two and two together he began to growl at the blond. Naruto in returned threw his pillow at Fang hitting him in the head.
"Aw loosen up! You know you had it coming!" said the blond with a smile. When the brunet started to rub his head and whimper Naruto added, "Oh cheer up. Look at the bright side. The fact that you reacted by smashing the alarm clock proved that deep inside you're as normal as anyone else."
Naruto laughed at Fang's continuous whining noises as he moved to pat the brunet on the head like a pet. "Now come on, time for breakfast!"
Fang quickly left his bad mood behind at the mention of food and raced to the kitchen.
"Haha, Sakura said I should balance your meals more and get you to eat some vegetables so today I'm making an omelet."
The tattooed male busied himself by tracing with his finger the spiral design carved on the dinner table while Naruto went to the fridge to look for the ingredients he needed. Eggs, ham, onion, tomato, bell peppers, sausage, bacon and cheese for extra flavor.
Putting it all on the kitchen counter he brought out a knife and started to chop the vegetables into tiny pieces at lightning speed. The blond liked to pretend he was a chef even though he was no expert with the kitchen knife. Consequentially this led him to cut himself between his thumb and index finger of his left hand.
"Shit" cursed Naruto losing his grip on the knife and backtracking a few steps. He made a move to head for the faucet and clean his cut but was stopped by a strong grip on his wrist.
Startled, Naruto turned to see Fang standing at his full height. The brunet maintained his firm grip as he brought up Naruto's wounded hand closer to his face inspecting it. Naruto's yelp caught his attention and the sight of blood alarmed him. He remembered how Naruto tended to him when the snake bit him so he wanted to return the favor the only way he knew how.
"Um Fang? I'm gonna need my hand back you know." said Naruto after 10 seconds of nothing happening. Then the brunet did something the blond did not expect. Fang lowered his head to Naruto's flesh and started to clean the cut with his mouth.
A jolt passed through Naruto spine and he tried to pull his hand away but Fang grabbed hold of his arm with his other hand to keep him there. Shock beyond belief Naruto could only watch dumbfounded with mild fascination as Fang sucked on his skin.
The brunet gave the cut one final lap with his tongue before pulling back. Once he deemed it clean enough he let go of Naruto and went back to his previous activity of tracing the pattern of the table.
"Okaaaaaay" muttered Naruto after a minute when he finally remembered to blink after that out of the ordinary experience. "You're definitely back to weird."
Thankfully the rest of the morning went by uneventfully but Naruto was still a little on the fence about the incident. They ate their breakfast in uncomfortable silence, for Naruto at least since Fang didn't seem bothered by it. As the blonde was washing the dishes he heard the doorbell ring and felt relieved.
'Finally! That must be Hinata. Just the distraction I needed. It will do me good to get some fresh air.'
Opening the front door with a big smile on his face he welcomed his guest. "Morning Hinata, glad you could make it!" Then he saw the person standing behind her and his smile turned into a frown. "Shino, what are you doing here?"
"Hmp, greetings to you too Uzumaki" replied Shino straightening his sunglasses.
Hinata, trying to diffuse the tension before it built up, explained on Shino's behalf. "Um N-Naruto, it was me who asked Shino to accompany me. I hope you don't mind." she finished twiddling her fingers.
"Well not really" said Naruto subconsciously scratching the back of his head. "But why did you bring him here in the first place?"
Naruto wasn't trying to be rude or anything. He just really couldn't come up with a good enough reason for the shaded male to be here. Of course Shino didn't take it that way and was quick to fill in the blanks.
"Did you honestly intend to leave Hinata alone with someone she haven't met before and expect her to be comfortable with it?"
"Eh? Well no but-"
"And did you actually believe that it would be wise to leave her alone and hope that nothing bad would happen?"
"Okay I get it. Geez!" Naruto complained stepping aside to let them in while muttering something about people always trying to show him up.
After getting them settled in, introducing them to Fang and making sure that he was behaving, Naruto grabbed his backpack and left Hinata to work her magic.
3 Hours Later
Naruto was dragging his feet back to his apartment with his backpack feeling much heavier instead of lighter as it should had felt. 'Freaking porn obsessed jackass and his freaking porn books'
After having to wait for his professor outside of his office for two hours pass their scheduled meeting time one would think that Kakashi would at least have the decency to look ashamed for being late but that wasn't the case.
The blonde already wasn't feeling like a happy camper for having to wait but he nearly lost it when Kakashi walked in giggling like a pervert with his nose in his book and carrying a plastic bag filled with his latest purchases of adult magazines. The white haired educator walked into his office without even sparing a glance at Naruto.
Naruto marched in right after him, slamming the report on his desk while yelling and complaining for about ten minutes about responsibilities and about having better things to do. Yet Kakashi paid no mind to it preferring to focus on the explicit content of his book instead.
A knock on the door was heard stopping Naruto from his rant. When the voice on the other side revealed herself to be Anko Mitarashi, Kakashi's on and off girlfriend, said teacher panicked.
You see she didn't take kindly to Kakashi's little hobby. She felt that every time he picked up a dirty magazine it was like a silent complain that his love-life wasn't good enough. And every time she caught him with one she would deprive him from sex for a week. And that definitely wasn't something Kakashi was willing to give up.
So in a desperate attempt to hide the evidence he stuffed all his new purchases in Naruto's backpack ignoring once again the blonde's protest and arguments. He shooed Naruto off telling him with a dangerously friendly smile to guard the merchandise with his life like his grade depended on it, which in this case it kinda did.
'Freaking no good pervert'
Naruto never proclaimed to have much respect for teachers but could you really blame him? He had more than a good mind to dump his professor's treasured magazines in the nearest trash bin but he knew it wouldn't earn in any favors in the end.
Groaning he made his way up the flight of stairs before reaching his home. The only good thing he got out of it was that now that the report was submitted his summer vacation officially started. When Naruto entered the apartment he was greeted with the sight of an expectant Shino waiting in front of him.
"About time you got here" said the shaded male as he turned around. "Follow me; you'll be pleased to learn that Hinata was able to make some progress."
Naruto was about to complain about Shino having no right to boss him around but the prospect of new development in Fang's situation was enough to thrill the blond and forget about his awful day.
He dumped his backpack at the entrance and followed Shino into the living room where a smiling Hinata waited for him. She was sitting on a chair she borrowed from the dinner table and was holding a bunch of Card stocks, each with a different picture on them.
A couple of feet away, yet still straight in front of her, sat Fang cross-legged on the floor with his hands between his legs. Naruto had never seen him look so focus.
"Show him Hinata" said Shino.
"R-Right!" replied the girl shifting her pale eyes back to Fang. "Watch this Naruto."
Holding up one of the illustrations she asked, "Alright Fang, can you tell me again what this is?"
Fang rolled his eyes at the question he apparently been asked to answer about 30 times today. "Boat"
Naruto's eyes widen when he heard his new friend speak for the first time. As Hinata kept going from picture to picture the blond noted how strong yet gruff Fang's voice was, probably because of the lack of usage he given to his vocal cords. But to Naruto it was the sound of a miracle.
"Wow Hinata you're amazing! How did you get him to say all that?"
Hinata blushed at the compliment before answering. "Well it wasn't easy. It took us about an hour to get him to stay put and listen to me. It took another hour of me repeating the pictures with their names for him to get that I wanted him to repeat after me. Shino helped in putting an example. Half an hour later after he forced lots of weird noises out of his mouth he said his first word. Since then until now we'd been repeating the same process until he finally got it all right."
"That's incredible!" exclaimed Naruto again. "I can't believe you got him to speak!"
"Actually" said Shino interrupting Naruto's tirade. "He can't quite speak as you say. He is just mimicking the sounds we forced on him again and again. I highly doubt he understands at all anything he is saying. There is no coherent thought going through his mind."
"Aw come on Shino, give Fang some credit." protested Naruto.
"I'm just letting you know my observations" retorted Shino passively.
"Yeah well I'm going to prove you wrong!" said Naruto with finality.
"Be my guess" replied Shino unmoved.
Before the exchange could continue Hinata added. "I have faith in you Naruto" making the blond snicker, not that it put-off Shino any.
"Alright let's see. Hmm…" Naruto tapped his chin until he got an idea. "Aha, I got it!"
Grinning like an idiot he pointed at a random object while looking at Fang. "Lamp"
Fang understood what Naruto wanted from him and did his best to repeat the new word. "Ramp"
"Ehh, close enough" said the blond now pointing to the ground. "Floor"
And just like last time the tattooed male repeated the word with some difficulty. "Flur"
Then Naruto pointed at the girl in the room. "Hinata"
"Ginata"
"Naruto" he said pointing to himself.
"Nauto"
Then he pointed at the last person in the room. "Shino"
"Shino"
"What? How come you got his name right on the first try?"
Hinata tried to calm the stricken Naruto down while Shino stayed looking triumphant by the door frame.
"Don't get cocky yet, I'm just getting started!" said Naruto once he finished whining. The blond then repeated the same sequence again, changing the order every now and then, until Fang got it all correctly.
The shaded male failed to see what Naruto was trying to prove after the blond repeated the sequence for a fifth time. Naturally he let Naruto know how pointless he thought Naruto was being.
To Shino's surprise Naruto chuckled at his comment as if he was waiting for Shino to critic him.
"Now comes the real test!" Naruto announced while pointing at the lamp again. This time remaining silent and not saying the word.
Even without the prompt Fang called the object by its name. The same happened when Naruto pointed to the floor, to Shino, to Hinata and to himself. 'Hehe, now comes the hard part. Come on Fang. Prove that you are smart enough to get it.'
Subsequently Naruto did something the others in the room did not expect and pointed straight at the tattooed male. That's when everyone finally understood what Naruto's real intention was. The blond was asking Fang to reveal his real name.
Fang blinked twice when he saw Naruto's finger pointed to his direction. He looked over his shoulder and saw nothing but an empty wall behind him. Looking back at the perfectly still Naruto, Fang pointed at himself to which Naruto nodded once giving the affirmative.
Everyone waited in tensed silence as Fang's gaze darted to the upper left lost in deep thought. The anticipation was so much that seconds felt like minutes until Fang's silt eyes connected once again with Naruto's blue ones. Fang pointed to himself before muttering the one single word that everyone was craving to hear.
"Kiba"
"Is your name really Kiba?" asked the blond warily.
The questioned brunet consented by nodding and repeating his name. "Kiba"
Naruto's reaction was anything but tamed as he quickly went to hug in excitement the closest thing to him. Said thing happened to be the very bashful Hinata Hyuuga.
The whiskered male jumped up and down in victory dragging the girl to do the same. Hinata, who was turning redder by the second because of the close body contact, made no effort in getting her crush off of her even though she was starting to feel lightheaded.
All that jumping around was starting to make Kiba dizzy so he put a stop to it the only way he knew how; by pouncing on Naruto. The blond was able to release Hinata just in time before he was shoved to the ground with his back against the floor.
Instead of getting angry Naruto began to laugh it off. "Is this going to become a recurrent thing between us Fa- Kiba?" he asked cheerfully at the brunet who was straddling him.
"Naruto" pronounced Kiba excitedly naming the person who took him in. He was baring his teeth in an attempt at smiling.
The blond happily smiled back at the brunet. "That's my name, don't wear it out."
Naruto then noticed Shino picking up bridal style a passed out Hinata and making his way to the exit.
"What happened to her?" Naruto asked confused.
Shino stopped to study the satisfied smirk on the girl's still blushing face before continuing to carry her out of the place. "Believe it or not it would seem that there is such a thing as too much of a good thing and Hinata found out the hard way."
"Huh?"
"Goodbye Uzumaki."
"Oh, alright I guess. Later Shino"
Naruto spent the rest of his day teaching Kiba the name of everything in the house among some other things. That is until Kiba got a headache and consequently stopped paying attention to Naruto.
Night came and like always Naruto turned his couch into a makeshift bed in hopes that Kiba would actually spend the night there. And like always the brunet stayed there until he was sure that the blond had fallen asleep before abandoning the couch and making his way on all fours to the master room.
Kiba got a little disorientated when he found that the door to Naruto's room was closed. Sitting on his ass he pondered on how to go about this situation. Remembering seeing others doing it Kiba raised a tentative hand and reached for the doorknob. Twisting the handle he grinned as he was able to conquer yet another obstacle.
Getting comfortable in his usual spot Kiba was about to rest but stopped when he heard tossing and turning coming from Naruto's bed. The brunet raised his head in curiosity and glanced at the blonde.
All of the other nights that Kiba had stayed there he had never seen Naruto move around in his sleep so much and it made him worry. By the blonde's grim expression and the sweat covering his body Kiba knew that Naruto was in some kind of pain. This wasn't too far from the truth since Naruto was caught up in yet another nightmare featuring the raven haired male from before.
Seeing Naruto trembling and fidgeting in his sleep reminded Kiba of the night after he had first met the blond. When his shack in the forest came crashing down because of the thunderstorm and he was left shaking under the pouring rain. But everything was made better when Naruto found him and stopped his trembling by putting his arm over Kiba's shoulders.
Taking this as the perfect opportunity to return the favor, Kiba got onto Naruto's bed as well and crawled closer to the blond. Resting beside him the brunet carefully circled his arms around Naruto's waist and brought Naruto's back to his chest. The brunet was happy to see that Naruto's body relaxed and his breathing calmed down. Satisfied with the results the Kiba also let himself relax and fell into peaceful slumber.
A/N: Finally we reveal Kiba's name! The process of turning Kiba from an animal into a man has begun! lol, morning sure is going to be quite messy for the two of them when they wake up. Actions do bring consequences as we all know. Sakura is coming back in the next chapter with her findings so keep tuned for that XD
