This took even longer than the last one. I'm gonna make sure school work doesn't get in the way. Xbox unfortunately will be a bigger hurdle.

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I'm rating chapter M. I decided on some good ole drunken angry conversations.

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Chapter 7: The Fox and the Hound Part 2

The bar seemed like the only real place we could go to keep us occupied. Sure, we could have gone anywhere else and not partied but…in reality we were going to end up here anyway, so what the hell. The bartender put our drinks infront of us and walked away. We were on our fifth…or was it sixth beer? I couldn't remember but it didn't really matter, all I really wanted was a response from Kiba. I had done all the talking and the most I had gotten out of him was a head nod. The smell of cigarette smoke suddenly hit my nostrils.

"I don't think you two could look any more miserable than you do right now."

"Yeah well…it's been one of those days." I drank from my beer. "What are you doing here?"

"I've been looking for you two, it's about…" He peered over to Kiba.

"It's cool…go ahead and talk about her." Kiba said he downed the rest of his beer.

"Right." Shikamaru took a deep drag from his smoke. "Hinata is getting married in two months…they set the date this morning."

We stared at Kiba to see his reaction. "Bartender!" He yelled.

"How do you know this?" I asked.

"I saw Neji this morning. He was going to tell you himself, but he really hasn't had the time. Apparently Hiashi has him running around."

"I see." I finished my drink.

"How's Ino?"

"I dunno. Same as always I guess." I sighed.

"You really love her don't you?"

"Yeah man, I do."

He sighed. "Did you ever hear about her old boyfriend? "

"You?"

"No. Not me. She dated this guy briefly after me a year or so ago." He finished his smoke. "Never caught his name, real dirt bag though. Cheated on her a few times, stole from her. Finally one day he hit her…"

Naruto slammed his hand on the bar. "What! When was this! Why didn't I hear of this?"

"Because we knew you would act like this." Kiba said as he slid over another beer. "Drink up."

"We figured it would be best not to tell a lot of people. Kiba and myself just happened to be there when it happened. Sakura is the only other person who was there." Shikamaru motioned over to the bartender.

"Did this all happen at the hospital?" I asked

"Yeah." He responded.

"The must have been the day Tsunade really yelled at her. What did she do?"

Kiba laughed. "Beat the guy within an inch of his life. It took the two of us to pull her off of him."

I groaned as I threw my head in my hands. "I'm such an asshole…" I couldn't believe what I had done. In all fairness I had no idea she went through that, but everything I've done…no wonder she's been all weird.

"The reason I'm telling you this is because…because I heard she went on a date tonight, I wasn't sure if it was you…but seeing you here…" Shikamaru went silent. "I just don't want to see you get hurt."

"What! With who!" I yelled.

"I dunno. Just something my mother mentioned to me earlier. She heard from Ino's mother and assumed we had gotten back together."

"I gotta go see her." I said as I ran out of the bar.

"Naruto wait!" I could hear them yell.


The next I thing I know I was running as fast as I could to her house. Yea it was late, and yea I had no idea what I was going to say, but it didn't matter, all I needed right now was to see her. I was stupid to think other wise, but all the lights were off in the house.

"This is crazy, what am I doing right now?" I paced back and forth trying to figure out which window was hers.

"Naruto?"

"Sakura?" I turned around to see her looking at me. "What are you doing here?"

"I could ask you the same thing?"

"I'm here to see Ino. I need to talk to her about earlier…god I'm such an idiot."

"I heard…"

"So why are you here Sakura?"

"Naruto…I don't think you should be here right now."

"What? Why? I came here to apologies and that's exactly what Im going to do."

"Have you been drinking?"

"Yeah a little, so what?"

"Come with me for a second Naruto…I need to talk to you about…"

"Sakura? Naruto? What are you two doing here?"

"Hi…" Was my respond...good one dummy…

"Naruto... why are you out in front of my house at this time at night."

"I came to see you. I needed to talk to you, about everything…the beginning of this whole thing, the whole bar thing, us yelling at each other…just everything. Look Ino I wanna…"

"Ino who are you-" she jumped "Naruto!"

"Hinata?"

"Shit…" I heard Sakura whisper.

"Hey you two whats going on out here?" the blonde man came out. It was him, Hinata's fiance. "Who is this Hinata? Is he a friend of yours."

"You? What are you doing here?"

"We came back from our date a few minutes ago. Though, I don't think its any of your business, I've never even met you."

"We? Who the hell is we!" I began to stare him down.

A tall dark haired man appeared from her house. "That would be me. I'm Kaori a friend of Hiro's." He point to the blonde. "We had made dates earlier…but are we interrupting something?Because if not..." He kissed Ino on the check. She froze. "Can't you see you were a little busy?" I could tell he was drunk from here. My blood began to boil.

"Look, you guys go back inside, just let me talk to him real-"

I cut her off. "No. No its cool. I get it. There's nothing more to say." I turned around and began to walk away. Everything was falling apart.

"Naruto wait." I heard Ino yell.

I keep my back to her. "A date! Really Ino?" The alcohol took over and was pushing my words out for me. "For Christ sake you just met these guys and he already gets a date?" She opened her mouth to say something, but nothing came...she just stood there. I glared at him over my shoulder, I wasn't sure if he could see me or not, but It didn't matter. I looked at Hinata. "Congratulations on settings a date." She walked out onto the lawn with us.

"Y-you'll be coming, right Naruto?"

"Of course he his Hinata he-" I cut Sakura this time.

"No. I won't be...I'm sorry, but I just don't agree with this. If it was your decision, then of course I would go, but I thought you were beyond your old pushover self...I thought you were stronger than this." I didn't have to see their faces to see the if I wasn't drunk I would be shocked too. Did I just blame her for this?

I walked over to Sakura and looked into her eyes.

"You idiot. You've said some stupid things before! But this by far is the most idiotic thing you have ever done!" she yelled as she slapped me across the face. I stumbled back a bit from the force.

"Atleast I didn't betray you!" A look of shock came across her face. "You knew about this didn't you."

"How is this a betrayal!"

"Kinda looks like one to me." Kiba hopped down from a tree. "Well, well. Isn't this nice."

"Kiba go away!" Ino yelled.

"Screw you Ino, I'm just here to grab Naruto and leave."

"Oh? So you're Kiba? Hiashi has told me...things about you. I think that it would be in your best interest if you left quietly with your tail between your legs.." Hiro said smugly.

Kiba clenched his fist. "I'm sorry...I must have misheard you." He began to walk closer to the house. "What the fuck did you just say to me?"

"I think these rich punks want their asses handed to them." I replied, following from behind. Sometimes I just feels so good being the bad guy.

"As much as I would like to see this happen, you gotta let em go guys." Shikamaru had trapped us in his jitsu. I was burning with anger on the inside.

"You bastard, let us go!" Kiba yelled

"They're diplomats you idiots! You cant touch them."

The two boys laughed. "So I guess the cats outta the bag."

Kiba growled loudly. "I'm gonna rip your god damn throat out!" He looked over to Hinata. "Really Hinata? Is this how it's going to be? I know I fucked up. I really, really fucked up big this time, but you gotta understand that there's so much more to this than it seems! If you want to punish me by dating someone else, fine! But don't for one second start to love that piece of crap!" Ino and I locked eyes. I wanted to say something, but this was Kiba's time. " Do you know how incredibly strong willed and gifted you are?,Him. He's just a spoil punk who gets what he wants, you could kill him with just your pinky finger, hes that weak. Has he told you are so beautiful its hurts? He's only the outter you, there's no way in hell he's even had a chance to see the tip of the iceberg that is your beauty. He doesn't understand get that I know guys like him, and you're just going to be another number and end up hurt! Is this really what you want. " He looked at Ino. "Remember what happened to you with your old boyfriend? I'm so sorry that happened to you Ino, but don't you understand that you are just letting her walk right by you into a similar situation!"

The yard was quite. Kiba had finally gotten a lot off his chest and thank god it was infront of the one person it should have been this entire time.

Shikamaru released his hold and walked up next to us. "Come on, we should go."

Kiba said nothing but continued to lock eyes with Hinata. She was crying…and so was Ino.

I put my hand on his shoulder. "Come on Kiba…lets just go back to the bar."

"You two need to stop drinking…" Sakura said.

Kiba walked past both of us. "Youre coming along to right?" he said to Shikamaru.

"Yeah. Sure." He replied they began to walk away.

"I guess I did it again didn't I."

"I cant believe he brought up her ex boyfriend…"

"She cant linger over that forever, it was a while back…"

"Sometimes people need a longtime. Hinata need time when you rejected her." My stung, I hated thinking of that day.

"Yeah well… I got over you pretty fast didn't I?" I began to walk away. "Later." And with that I ran off.


I sighed as I sat down at the bar. Thankfully they had already a beer.

"So…listen guys…I've been doing a lot of thinking."

"Really? Well don't hurt yourself there." Kiba laughed. Shikamaru smirked.

"No really, I"m serious."

"So are we." They laughed again.

"I'M JOINING ANBU!" I yelled. They both just stared at me. "I'm filling out the paper work tomorrow and talking directly to Kakashi and Tsunade." I raised my beer in the air. "so just enjoy this last one with me." This is was my best choice, in the end we just weren't meant for each other after all, and that hurt so, so much to say. But that's how it is…and life will go on.

"Cheers boys…"

"Cheers...good luck Naruto." Shikamaru said as he raised his glass.

Kiba was quite for a moment longer."ANBU huh? That's a pretty tough job...you'd be gone for a long time."

"I know...I need it." I replied.

"Ok then!" he raised he glass and quickly pounded his down.

"I'm going with you!"

"What!" Shikamaru and I replied.

"You know what that means right?"

"No." I responded.

"No. And I don't trust where you're going with this." Shikamaru sipped some of his drink as he carefully eyed him.

"That punk is a dead man!" Kiba dashed out of the door.

"KIBA NO!"