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Chapter 4

Sleeping Pup

Kagome sighed; everyone she usually played with was away today. Shino was with his father, while she wasn't really sure what Shikamaru was doing, but it was positively 'TROUBLESOME" in the Shika's words. Choji, on the other hand, was helping his dad with a new recipe for their BBQ Restaurant, she was going to get to taste test it when they were finished.

So once again here she was alone, proof that she needed to make more friends so that this would stop happening! Since coming to Konoha it was few and far between that Kagome was alone. Many a day was spent with Shino or with Shikamaru and Choji, and it was hurt something inside when she was alone now.

Sighing at the thought, Kagome settled on the swings, she would figure out something to do. They'd only been in Konoha for about six months, and she wasn't allowed to come to the park as often as she'd like.

But she had meet two girls, one was name Ino, she had pretty blue eyes and her friend who was rather odd. Her name was Sakura, she had a really big forehead compared to the rest of her face, her hair was pink and eyes a bright shiny green and she wanted to be a ninja. Kagome had asked her father repeatedly how the girl had gotten PINK hair, it was a bit disturbing. Sure, her own had a blue tint to it, and a lot of the Hyuuga members she'd seen on the streets had a purplely tint to match those lavender eyes of theirs, but still, pink?

Kagome hadn't been too impressed with them; they were always talking about flowers and boys. Specifically a boy named Sasuke, who was soooo cute and swweeet. It made her want to vomit, and confirmed she would never act like a normal girl, if those two could be considered normal.

Kagome sighed, why was today SOOO boring, she wondered as she swung higher and higher.

Huffing, Kagome jumped laughing happily as she seemed to fly through the air before landing on the ground. The first time she'd jumped out of the swing while her father had been watching had nearly caused the young man to have a heart attack, but to Kagome it was just plain funny.

Kagome blinked, was that pile of leaves moving?

The four year old moved closer and nearly fell over when an extremely small white puppy popped out of the leaves. Where had he come from? Kagome wasn't really sure, but he certainly was cute.

"Hiya puppy, why are you here?" Kagome asked.

Akamaru sniffed the girl, she seemed really nice. Nicer than his partner who wouldn't wake up, they needed to go home! And he didn't want to get scolded by Kuromaru, he was scary. Akamaru tugged lightly, on the girl's shorts, she was needed to wake the boy up. Kiba, was now immune to being licked in the face.

Kagome blinked, "Okay, okay, stop tugging, I'll follow you."

Akamaru barked happily before rushing forward.

Kagome cried trying to keep up, the small dog was rather fast for its size. As they passed the Merry-go-round she had to wonder were exactly they were going.

As they continued Kagome found her eyes widening, she'd stayed on the north, north eastern side of the play ground because it had been where she'd found Shikamaru, Choji, and Shino. She'd never gone to the southern side! The park really was large, her daddy said it was like 100 acres or something big.

"Ne, puppy, slow down!" Kagome cried before suddenly being forced to come to a halt by eating dirt. She'd tripped over the small white dog, it wasn't far. Sniffling, Kagome could feel the tears welling up.

Akamaru would have sworn if he could that is, crying wasn't something he was supposed to have to handle. Whimpering he began to lick the young girls face, nope, no crying, small puppies weren't suppose to have to handle small girls that tripped over them then began to cry.

Kagome sniffled again, caught some were between crying and laughing, which ended making her cough. Wiping at the tears, she spoke, "I'm sorry. It just hurts a bit," before standing up on wobbly legs. It really hurt, she thought to herself, looking at the broken skin of her knee.

Akamaru sighed in relief, before once again tugging at the young girls shorts.

Kagome huffed as they continued onward, until they came to a large grassy area that was situated beneath a large oak tree. On one of the branches an old swing, wavered in the breeze while a young boy snoozed in the shade.

"So, is this who you wanted to show me?" Kagome asked, eying the little dog.

Akamaru nodded, geez, this was such a hassle. And the other nin-dogs wondered why he gave the boy issues.

Kagome sat down next to the boy, studying him intently short spiky hair seemed to be more unruly than most, running everywhere, but it was relatively short. He wore simple, ninja sandals, dark brown shorts, and for some odd reason a long sleeved jersey, which was several shades darker at the elbows. But what was most interesting to Kagome, were the red triangles below his eyes.

Kagome fidgeted, he just looked so interesting, she shouldn't but she wanted to. For the next several seconds, many different emotions ran across her young features as she warred with herself.

Akamaru sighed, why were humans so WEIRD?

Moving onto her knee, Kagome leaned over lightly before beginning to rub the red triangles, they were really smooth and not too different than his other skin, so why were they red?

Kiba slowly woke up, it was odd, it felt like someone was rubbing his cheeks. But no one would do that, it was disrespectful. Blinking, Kiba yelped at the sight of two blues orbs narrowed on his face. Jerking upward, he groaned as his forehead made contact with the face in front of him.

Kagome gave a cry. That really, really hurt! And now her knee hurt again, but the pain was really bad in her ankle and she didn't know why. The tears were falling freely this time, normally a little pain didn't bother her, but it hurt in her ankle a lot, when the boy smacked his face against hers it had pushed her back on it, and it twisted and made a funny popping sound.

Akamaru groaned, he'd just gotten the kid to stop crying in the first place.

Kiba huffed lightly, before looking at the crying girl. Aww, geez, he hadn't meant to make her cry! Crap, Hana was going to smack him. "Hey, hey, I'm sorry. Don't cry!" Kiba moved to crouch in front of the smaller girl.

" But it hurts." Kagome sniffled.

"Where?"

"My knee and my ankle," She replied.

Kiba sighed, oh yeah, that was sprained. Her ankle was already starting to swell up pretty bad, not only that but he could see an angry black and purpling bruise starting to form. That was never a good sign, her knee on the other hand looked like it was scrapped up pretty badly, ripping at his shirt, before licking at it.

"Ea! Wh…wh….why are you licking my knee?" Kagome asked, her cheeks pink. Her knee jerking lightly as the boy continued licking it again, and again.

"Oh, to see how bad it is." Kiba responded, before wrapping it in the torn of stripe of his shirt. That would hold the knee, but there was no way she was going to walk on that ankle.

"Ah... 'kay." Kagome nibbled on her lip, she still hadn't figured out what the red triangles meant.

"Soo, where are you suppose to be?" Kiba asked.

"Over at the North gate. My daddy is supposed to pick me up soon." Kagome sighed, he was going to be mad at her. She wasn't were she said she was going to be.

"Kay," Bending down in front of the girl, "Get on my back, okay?"

"O-okay," Kagome struggled, and yelped when she started to fall forward, thankfully Kiba, moved quickly enough so that the younger girl was settled across his back.

"Ne, um, why do you have red triangles on your face?" Kagome asked quietly, her chin was resting on his shoulder and slender arms were easily looped over his shoulders.

"Oh, they show what clan I'm from. My name's Kiba Inuzuka, by the way." The boy replied, watching as Akamaru trotted beside him at an even pace.

"I'm Kagome Sarutobi. Thank you for taking me back."

"Don't worry about it," Kiba replied, since it was partly his fault. Not only that, but his mother was going to kill him.

The next twenty minutes passed in compatible chatter, Kiba learned that Kagome had an aunt, two uncles and a baby cousin and her grandfather was Hokage, were as Kagome learned that Kiba had a very large and loud family and he wasn't sure if he could count all his family members because it was a rather large number and continually grew.

And it just continued on and on, until they were finally at the gate.

Asuma frowned, "What did you do?"

Kagome sighed, "I fell."

"Doing what?" Asuma asked.

"That was sorta my fault," Kiba responded, geez, this guy was big.

"Really?" Asuma asked a brow rose.

"Yeah, but I didn't mean to knock her over, she just startled me is all."

"It was my fault too…" Kagome pouted.

Asuma sighed, "Alright then let's go, you're going to see a doctor." Pulling Kagome off, of the young boy's back wasn't too hard, she was just that little.

Kagome pouted, "Fine. Kiba, can we play again?"

Kiba sweat dropped they hadn't done much playing. "Sure, I'll see you later, Kagome." The boy waved, before running off. He was so doomed, his mother was going to make him clean the kennels all by himself, he could feel it.

Akamaru chuckled darkly; this was going to be fun, before following after his partner.

"You make the oddest friends, kid."

"I got it from my daddy. I mean, you hang out with that weirdo Scarecrow all the time, or the guy in the green spanda suit." Kagome replied a frown on her face, before shuddering. The spanda suit guy was scary, always screaming about flames and youth.

Asuma just groaned, why did she have to be so much like him? Shaking his head, they headed to a doctor's office to get the foot wrapped. Asuma could now honestly say that he was a bit terrified of what Kagome and Kiba could get into.

Edited: 9/2/2012