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Chapter 9: Exotic flavours and looks
The six teenagers and the big white dog started to walk along the path towards Suna once again. Kiba and Sakura were walking next to each other with Akamaru behind them. A little bit in front of them Hinata was walking next to Rin surprisingly. It looked like that they talked easily with each other, they smiled and laughed a little bit. Naruto couldn't hear them however. The two girls were walking too far behind him for him to hear. Despite that he still yet tried to hear, he was slightly afraid that Rin would do something that could upset Hinata. Not by purpose to be mean, but to maybe tease her about something. She liked to pull pranks, and to him Hinata seemed so frail, therefore he was afraid Rin might hurt her. He didn't have anything other to do anyway, Shino wasn't exactly the funniest person to be around when you're the number one loudmouth of Konoha. After a while he just gave up.
"Ahh, it's hopeless I just can't hear them" he said out loud to no one. Luckily enough the girls couldn't hear him, in that case he wouldn't be walking there anymore. That moment he probably would be in the air, kicked up there by Rin.
"What is it that is hopeless?" Shino then asked him without curiosity.
"Hearing what Rin is saying to Hinata, I'm worried she will say something she should regret" Naruto said without showing any real concentration on Shino. Despite his earlier claim he still yet tried to hear the girls.
"Should regret?" Shino asked him, now sounding a little more curious weirdly enough.
"Yeah, she likes to tease and never gets that some actually gets hurt" Naruto said with just as little concentration on Shino.
"Okay, and you're afraid that Hinata is one of those who will get hurt?"
"What? Ehm... that's not how I meant it…" Naruto said sounding a bit embarrassed and apologetic, his hand at the back of his neck.
"I just meant that I don't want Hinata to get hurt because of... ah, I don't know really. I guess I just don't want her to get hurt, just leave it at that okay!"
Shino just smirked slightly in the protection of his clothes.
In the afternoon they reached a small town. Instead of just going right by it like everybody else expected Shino walked in to it.
"Hey, Shino-kun where are you goin'?" Kiba asked him. Everybody had stopped to look at the hooded boy except Rin that had kept walking with him. Shino stopped and turned around towards them.
"In to town" he said as if it was the most obvious and natural thing in the world.
"Why are you goin' in to town?" Kiba then asked him.
"To eat and to get room for the night of course" he then said in the same way.
"Weren't we supposed to go straight to Suna, and sleep in the tents all the way?" Kiba asked.
"Do you want to sleep outside in the tent and take watch or do you want to sleep inside i a bed?" Shino then asked them.
"I guess you're right" Naruto who was eager to sleep in a bed said before Kiba could say anything against Shino again. So now the six shinobis started to walk in to town. Still yet Kiba wondered why. Shino never was one to go against order. Still yet here he was saying that they were to sleep in town despite their budget that was planned for camping.
They decided to go find a place to stay at first to have a place to stash their bags. Besides it wasn't time for dinner yet.
Despite Shino's want for going in to town they still yet had a low budget and couldn't let it show that they had spent too much of it in this short time. Therefore they couldn't stay at an expensive hotel, and stayed at a hostel. Furthermore they could only get one room, otherwise it would be too obvious they hadn't camped out in the forest on their way to Suna.
So the six teenagers and the oversized dog walked in to the only hostel in town that allowed animals. The owner was turned with his back against them. Shino walked up to the counter.
"One room for six people and a dog if you got one please" he said to the back of the owner. The owner turns around to answer.
"Well, I'm sorry, the biggest ones we got are for four people. But I do think we have some spare mattresses somewhere that you could get" the person said. He didn't look like the owner anymore. He looked far too young for that. He actually looked their age. He had a plain look that you wouldn't be able to remember even if your life depended on it. He had short brown hair and brown eyes.
"Okay, I don't see that we have much better options" Shino said to him.
"Good, here's your key" the boy at the counter said as he reached over a key to Shino.
"Arigatou" Shino replied before they went of further in to the hostel to find their room.
Pretty soon they reached the room, the hostel wasn't exactly big or something. It had four normal sized beds. Two at each side of the room, and a table in between the two pair of beds. Rin went straight to the bed furthest to the left and put her bag on it. Shino put his on the bed beside hers. Kiba and Sakura practically ran for the bed furthest to the right putting both of their bags on the same bag. So, one bed and two people left. Hinata and Naruto stood in the door opening and looked at each other. They jumped forward in the exact same moment going for the bed. Naruto efficiently pushed Hinata out of her track and made the table get in her way. This did however not help that much, because of her limberness she easily jumped over the table and landed on the bed. At the same moment she landed on the bed Naruto did the same. They looked at each other. Hinata standing where the pillow should be and Naruto at the foot of the bed.
"You could just both sleep in it together" Kiba then suggested hiding his inner smirk. They looked over at him only turning their heads, and then turning their heads slowly towards each other again.
"Well, I guess it looks like we'll have to share it then" Naruto joked a little bit.
"Hell no, you're sleeping on the floor" Hinata then said with a sudden confidence she usually only had with Kiba.
"What? No I won't" Naruto answered her statement. Hinata just looked at him for a while. Then she jumped up a little bit and landed again now sitting on the bed and claimed "Mine!" she looked at Naruto practically daring him to say anything against her with her look. He looked at her in utter shock, was this really the shy Hyuuga Hinata? Because of the shock he wasn't in any state to fight over the bed with her. Therefore he stepped down letting her have it.
"Okay, I guess it is yours after all, and I'll just get the cold and hard floor" he said trying to give her bad conscience in a last attempt to win the bed. Or better yet, to get to share it with her.
"Yeah, I guess you will" she said not showing her bad conscience that now came.
Kiba just shock his head at the two, it was so obvious that they liked each other. Not only that Hinata had liked Naruto but the other way around too. All these years when they had going around and saying that Naruto was probably the densest person there was, and here Hinata was all along apparently just as dense.
"I'm going out for a walk" they could hear a monotone voice said. Kiba looked up to see his hooded team-mate at the door
"Alright" the brown haired boy said.
"I'll go with you" he then could hear from the other side of the room. It had been Rin that had decided to go with Shino.
The other four teenagers just looked at them surprised as they walked out of the door together.
The door shut behind them. Kiba and Naruto looked at each other for a brief second before starting to walk towards the door.
"I'm going out for a walk too" Kiba said.
"Yeah, me too" Naruto then added.
"Hell you are" Sakura said in a harsh matter of fact tone. The boys stopped dead in their tracks as they heard her tone. They turned around.
"Why not?" Kiba asked as they tried to look innocent.
"Because you just want to sneak on Shino and Rin, and I won't let you do that" she explained in the same matter of fact tone. Naruto and Kiba turned their heads towards each other. Then their heads started to hang as they walked back to their earlier positions in the room. Sakura's wrath combined with her inhuman strength was not something they wanted to be exposed to.
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Shino and Rin walked quietly through the town and in to the surrounding forest. They quite often took walks together in Konoha, usually the case was that Rin went with Shino as he went out to search for rare bugs. Usually she borrowed his bugs to train on her chakra control.
"You wanna train?" he asked her as usual as he stretched out his arm towards her.
"Na, I don't feel like training today" she said as she shook her head a little bit.
"Okay" was all he said as he lowered his arm again. Then they continued walking there quietly next to each other.
"Shino-kun" Rin said after a while.
"Yeah?" he asked her waiting for her to continue. She breathed in as if she wanted to tell him, but instead of saying anything she just breathed out again in a sigh. She then suddenly stopped. Shino stopped next to her and turned towards her.
"What is it?" he asked her. She just looked at him for a while. Then she reached up and took of his hood. Then when standing there she decided to take of his glasses also. She hadn't planned it since she was afraid that she would freeze just as the last time. Then on the other hand now she knew what to expect, so she shouldn't freeze this time. She was wrong, despite knowing how his eyes look she froze. That white little ring around his pupils looked like they actually did shine, and the darker parts looked like they stretched out far longer than his eyes. Like the dark parts engulfed her, and the white circle was truly the only light.
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Shino noticed the girl freeze in her position with her hands at his face. Standing so close to him. He felt extremely exposed without the usual protection of his hood and glasses. He felt his face heat up slightly from her intense gaze on it. He then got the strangest urge, all his neck muscles told him to close the distance between their faces and put his lips on hers. He really hadn't felt interested in a girl in that way ever, therefore he never had felt like doing anything near kissing. Then he felt himself lose control over his own muscles and starting to slowly close the distance between them.
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Rin noticed his face starting to get closer to hers. She felt her face heat up because of it. She had never really felt interested in a guy in that way before. So she didn't really know what to do right then, so she decided to listen to her instincts. She felt her own face starting to close the distance between them just as Shino's. Only that hers went slightly faster then his. Soon she could feel his lips on hers, and she seriously started to wonder why she hadn't been interested in guys earlier.
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'Are they…. K-k-k-kissing?? What the…' Naruto thought as he stood in the bushes and saw Shino and Rin make out.
Eventually Hinata had gone out for a walk as well. That's when Naruto and Kiba took the opportunity. Kiba started to stall Sakura with kisses as Naruto sneaked out. Sure, Kiba would have wanted to go with also, but the only way for him to know was at the moment if Naruto went alone and then told him. That was the reason for Naruto being able to stand there looking at the couple.
He stood there utterly shocked not able to even think. Then he suddenly out of nowhere remembered that he should disparate so that the real Naruto could get to know this. He was after all only a kage bunshin. So he poofed away and soon the real Naruto stopped dead in his track standing there and stuttering in his thoughts.
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As they broke apart for air Rin thought she heard a low poof. She looked at the bushes next to them and saw the hint of smoke that must have been there just a second ago.
"Well, I guess I shouldn't have counted on it being a secret for such a long time anyway" she said.
"What do you mean?" Shino asked her.
"One of Naruto's bunshins was here just a moment ago" she explained and looked back in to his eyes.
"So the other ones should know by now"
"Yep"
"Okay" he said with a smile as he once again closed the distance between their faces for another kiss.
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"SHINO AND RIN ARE KISSING!" Naruto screamed as he barged in to their room. He was met with the sight of Kiba and Sakura jumping away from each other because of the shock. They looked shocked at him for a while before they finally understood what he had said.
"They were what???" Sakura almost screamed.
"They were kissing" Naruto repeated himself, only a little calmer this time.
"Nani? Are you sure?" she asked him.
"Of course I am, do you think I don't know how a kiss looks?" he asked her a little irritated.
"Of course I don't think that, it just sounds so strange with them two kissing" she said.
"But you have to tell me more!" she then said sounding curious. Kiba and Naruto looked at her surprised.
"Wasn't you the one who said we couldn't go and peek on them?" Kiba asked her.
"Well who cares what I said earlier, what's more important is what I'm saying right now" she said as she waved her hand in the air.
"Ehm, okay, well there aren't that much to tell. Actually it's kind of blurry because of the bunshin's shock. But it did look like they enjoyed themselves, or should I say each other, very much" he said growing a smirk at the ending.
They then were interrupted by Hinata barging in through the door. She closed it and rested at his panting heavily. She looked at them with horror in her eyes. She stopped her gaze at Sakura.
"You shouldn't go out on you own" she told her.
"Why?" Sakura asked her confused.
"It's exotic week at the brothels" was all she said as explanation before she fainted.
Hinata woke up blinking. She sat up and found herself on her bed in the room. Her three friends were all sitting at the table watching her with worry in their eyes. When they saw that she had woken up Naruto jumped over to her.
"Hinata-chan are you alright?" he asked her with the same worry in his voice.
"Yeah I'm alright Naruto-kun" she replied looking a little startled.
"What happened Hinata-chan?" Kiba asked his team mate. Hinata turned her head towards him.
"It's exotic week at the brothels" was all she said at first. The other three looked confused at her. Then she continued.
"Since this is mostly a stop on the way kind of town there are many brothels here. And this week it's exotic week. They are looking for girls with exotic looks. My eyes are apparently very exotic over here. And I'm guessing Sakura-chan's hair are as well" she explained to them.
"Nani? They tried to hire you at the brothels?" Naruto asked her shocked.
"Hai, they didn't only asking me to work there but they also chased me all the way back here. So I guess the Byakugan is one of the most exotic things over here" she then said. The shock she had been wearing on her face since she entered the room started to drain from her face slowly now.
"They're outside right now?" Naruto asked her sounding slightly aggravated
"No, I managed to lose them on the way here"
"Okay, good" Naruto said, Hinata could feel the tenseness poor of off him.
"So, neither of us should go outside alone?" Sakura asked her then.
"No, I don't think so. Since they're civilians we can only say no and hope they listen. But they don't listen to us girls. But I do think they would listen if it was a guy who said no" she explained why. Sakura tensed at this, she really didn't like it when she was treated unfair just because she was a girl.
"I don't about Rin-chan though?" Hinata asked them.
"Don't worry, I think that Shino-kun can keep her from hurting them despite them being civilians. She isn't that exotic looking anyway" he said as if that was what Hinata had been worrying about. "He's probably keeping her too busy to notice them anyway" He then said with a smirk. Hinata looked confused at him.
"What do you mean Naruto-kun?" she asked him.
"You noticed how he has started calling her Rin-chan?" he asked her without losing the smirk. First she wondered what he meant, then it hit her.
"They are?" she asked shocked. He merely nodded.
"Oh my god" was all she said.
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Rin and Shino walked through town hand in hand this time. They figured they should just make it clear since they knew that Naruto already knew anyway. They walked in to the hostel where their room was. The guy at the counter turned around when he heard the door open.
"Ah, it's you guys, I have the extra mattresses here now" he said to them. Shino and Rin looked at each other.
"Wouldn't it be fun to take it just so Naruto has to sleep on the floor?" Rin asked the boy that stood there next to her. He only smirked a little bit as a reply. Rin took it as a yes.
"We only need one" she said to the guy that worked there before went with him to get the extra sleeping place.
Shino carried the mattress as they walked towards their room. Rin stopped just outside the door. She sighed once lightly before she reached out her hand to open the door. She stopped however just centimetres away from the doorknob. She turned her head towards Shino, now carrying a smug smile on her face.
"What about messing a little with the Teinousha?"
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"TEINOUSHA" Rin screamed as she barged in through the door. Naruto's head snapped up, his face held a look of horror. He quickly jumped behind Hinata that was sitting on the bed. His hands on her waist, he crouched behind her looking out behind her back.
"YOU THINK IT'S FUN TO SNEAK ON PEOPLE?" Rin screamed as she half ran towards them. Hinata brought up her hands to her face as protection.
"And then you're a coward and hide behind a girl" she said sounding both irritated and letting the smirk shine through her voice.
"Well, I only hide behind her because I know you wouldn't hurt her" he explained himself. "And she has already beaten the crap out of you once anyway" he then added. Rin smirked a little bit.
"Oh, so what would you have done if you did think I would hurt her?" she asked him ignoring the part about that Hinata had already beaten the crap out of her.
"Would you have taken care of your self, or would you have protected her instead?" she asked him with a smug smile.
"Protected her of course, she's my friend and therefore one of my important people" he said as if it was the most natural thing in the world. What he apparently hadn't counted with was Hinata falling against him limp. She still was slightly startled when he hid behind her, and his hands on her waist didn't help. Rin had sawn how close the girl had been to fainting. So she used it and made her faint, because she knew what and how Naruto would've answered the question. So because of that Naruto was now standing with an unconscious Hinata in his arms. He had however learned from earlier. This time he didn't become extremely worried and start to shake her. He merely picked her up and walked over to her bed and put her on it. Then he looked over at Rin slightly irritated.
'Was that really necessary?' She could hear him say in her head.
'I don't know if it was necessary but it was defiantly fun' she answered in his face not losing the smug smile.
"Well, well, well wasn't this an efficient way to lose focus from you and Shino-kun?" Sakura said with a smug smile of her own. Rin looked over at her looking slightly horrified.
"So, why don't you tell us" Sakura said. "Kizume" she added after a while with a smug smile, knowing that Rin now defiantly would answer.
Rin looked shocked at her. The two girls had come to an agreement earlier. Sakura hadn't wanted Rin to look at herself as Sakura's servant in any way. Rin on the other hand couldn't accept not being her servant. So they compromised, she wasn't to see herself as Sakura's servant, except when Sakura called her by her surname.
It looked as if Rin seriously wanted to look down from Sakura's gaze, but she managed to keep it.
"We kissed" she replied to Sakura still holding the pink haired girl's gaze.
"Well, we already know that, tell us more Kizume" Sakura said with the same smug smile, letting Rin know that it wasn't truly for real. At this the floor became too interesting for Rin. Her gaze moved from Sakura's eyes to the floor and a blush found its way to her face. By now Shino stepped in to help her.
"Well, for your information all we did was kiss. Not that it's any of your business anyway, so don't bug Rin-chan about it like that anymore please"
Everybody except Rin looked at Shino surprised.
"Did you actually say all of that at once without explaining a move you did in a fight?" Kiba asked him. Shino blinked once behind his glasses, he hadn't realized it himself that he had spoken so many words at once.
"Apparently" was all he replied soothing his friends with the short reply.
"Hey, Rin-chan I'm sorry" Sakura said "But you gotta learn to ignore me when I call you Kizume to joke with you" she then added.
"Yeah, maybe so" Rin said as she scratched her neck.
"Well I'm hungry, if I'm not the only one I think we should try to wake Hinata and then go out and eat" Kiba now said interrupting the earlier conversation.
A/N: So hope you liked your Christmas present:P
Once again sorry on forehand for all the late updates that will come "/
Well well, hope you liked this chapter! Please review!
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