Hi everyone! Chapter ten already, wow!

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Ch.10 More Adventures at the Culture Fest

Depressed, I sat in the booth in my classroom drawing pictures lacklusterly. Not even drawing or the fact that I was next to my new friend Shino-kun could cheer me up.

At the sound of the door opening I didn't look up, just continued working on the picture of a girl in my class. It was only my professional pride that stopped me from handing her a stick figure and telling her to suck it up. I really wasn't in the mood.

The footsteps stopped in front of my booth and a male voice said to me, "I really like your art."

Still not looking up, I replied, "Thank you."

"It's almost as good as mine."

"Great."

"Will you do me a favor?"

"No."

"Please?"

"No."

"It's not that hard."

What's wrong with this guy? Can't he see I'm not in the mood? I slammed my pencil down on the table and glared up at him. The normal shy, quiet Hinata was currently hiding in the bathroom of my brain, bawling her eyes out and the bitter, pissed off Hinata was in charge.

I opened my mouth to tell this guy what he could do with his favor to see was Sai from my English class.

I blinked, and then continued. "You can take your stupid favor and shove it up your-"

The dark haired boy winced and quickly covered my mouth with his hand. "Please, Hinata-san, just listen to me?"

How dare he? I will bite him!

Before I could do that, though, he said quickly, "Just talk to me outside and I promise I'll leave you alone no matter what you answer."

Because I wanted him gone before I started crying for the eighth time since I saw Ino with her hand in Kiba's pocket- oh shoot, here I go- I nodded. He let me go, and I stood up, averting my eyes and trying to surreptitiously wipe them dry.

He led me outside and the last thing I saw from the classroom was Shino's worried looking eyes peeking over the rim of his sunglasses.

In the hallway, Sai stopped and turned me away from the door. "So, my favor is…"

Silently, I waited for him to get on with it.

"Um, will you model for me?"

Eyes widening, I looked up at him. I don't know what I was expecting but it sure wasn't this. What did this have to do with my art anyways?

Judging by the leer on his face and direction his eyes were looking (definitely below my face, that's for sure) I could tell this had nothing to do with my art. Pervert.

"No," I told him, and tried to turn to go. He grabbed my arm though and spun me around.

"I'll reward you," he told me, licking his lips and still not looking at my eyes. As his gaze slowly traveled up and down my body I couldn't help but shudder. He was so gross.

"No! Now let me go!"

"Come on Hinata," he leered, pulling me closer to him. "It'll be fun."

My eyes widened. Is this seriously happening? This is the worst day of my life! It was the worst before this happened, dammit!

Around Sai's arm I saw Shino exit the classroom and look towards me. I widened my eyes at him, signaling for help, but he just walked away.

What?! I thought we were friends!

Sai slammed me up against the wall of the hallway and caged me in his arms. "In fact, he drawled, "Maybe you can give me a sample right now."

His eyes meandered up and down my body while his hand reached for the zipper of my hoodie.

Now I wasn't just annoyed and pissed off, I was afraid. He's seriously doing this! I looked around the hallway desperately but it was deserted. Where are all the people wanting pictures now? I silently wailed.

I looked back at Sai who had my hoodie unzipped and fingering the bottom of my t-shirt lustfully and decided enough was enough. I opened my mouth to scream and then went for my trademark attack-the-pervert move, kicking for his tender place.

Like lightning, one of his hands covered my mouth and the other knocked my leg away.

My eyes widened as I started shaking. What was I going to do? And why the hell does this always happen to me?!

Tears trickled out of the corner of my eyes and I desperately started trying to kick or scratch or bite his hand or something!

Chibi-angel and –devil also tried to help by flitting around the dark haired boy's head and yelling at him. Devil-chan even poked him with her mini pitchfork but he didn't notice them at all.

Nothing worked, and at the end of my attempt my hands were pinned above my head, my legs were pinned by his legs, and Sai was bending down towards my face.

Really crying now, I closed my eyes and just gave up.

Suddenly, though, the dark haired boy's hands and legs were ripped off my own.

Huh? What's going on? Slowly I opened my eyes to see my attacker on the ground with someone on top of him pummeling his face.

My heart stopped beating when I realized who it was.

"Kiba-kun!" I staggered away from the wall and towards the boys brawling on the ground.

I don't know if you can call it brawling, though, because only one of the boys was throwing blows. Sai was just lying there on the ground as Kiba rained punches all over his body, especially his face.

As the bruises accumulated and the blood started obscuring the losing boy's face I kind of got scared. "Kiba-kun? Kiba-kun! You can stop now!"

The punches just got harder. I ran towards them and bent down, trying to see my rescuers face through the flailing brown hair. What I saw stopped my breath.

A snarling, almost animal-like face replace the normal friendly look of the boy I knew.

Crap. He lost it! Just like when he was a freshman! I need to stop him before he kills Sai!

I got down on my knees and tried to grab Kiba's arms, frantically saying, "Kiba-kun! Kiba-kun please stop! Don't hurt him anymore! Stop it!" As my sentences turned into sobs I realized I was crying harder than I had when Sai was attacking me. I hate seeing Kiba-kun like this!

Tears streamed down my face and my body was wracked with sobs. I felt Kiba's blows slow then stop and through the veil of water in my eyes I managed to see him slowly turn towards me.

"Hinata?" his broken voice answered.

"…Stop it…" I managed to get out through my sobs.

A bloody hand gently wiped away the tears on my face and I looked into Kiba's deep brown eyes, just inches away from my own. The hurt in them almost knocked me over.

He looked at what must have been blood from his hand on my cheek and flinched, the pain in his eyes almost increasing, if that was possible.

"Sorry," he whispered, and sat back as Sai backed across the floor away. Our eyes didn't leave each other's.

"Are you okay?" he asked softly.

"Yeah," I nodded.

"Do you… do you not want me to hit him?" Now those brown eyes were confused, shocking me.

"Of course not!" I answered loudly.

"Oh. Sorry. I thought he was bothering you. I didn't realize you liked it." Kiba's turned distanced themselves but not before I could see tears in his own eyes.

"You idiot!" I burst out and tackled him.

"Huh?" Looking shocked, Kiba rocked back on his feet and stared at me hanging on his neck.

I blushed at my outburst but carried on. I had to make my words reach him even if he didn't like me back.

"I don't like him," I told the brown haired idiot who had been my best friend, broke my heart, and saved my life. "I like you."

Silver eyes met brown for a long moment as the brown went through stages of disbelief, shock, and then something I couldn't read. As Kiba didn't do anything, though, I began to doubt myself and slowly drew away.

"Um, if you don't like me back then- then that's okay..."

"You idiot!" Huh? My eyes widened as Kiba reached out, grabbed the back of my head, and kissed me.

In stupefaction I stared at Kiba's closed eyelids, but slowly the heat and gentleness of his kiss melted me and I closed my eyes. Our mouths moved together like they were made for each other and warmth turned into heat as I pressed myself against his rock-hard body.

My hands dug themselves into his hair and I pulled myself as close as possible, lost in his kiss. Finally, I really, really needed to breathe and I pulled away, gasping.

Dazed, I looked at Kiba-kun who looked back, breathing as hard as me with a light tinge of red on his cheeks.

"Hyuuu!"

We started at the sound of a whistle to see Ino standing behind us, supporting Sai and wiping his bloodied face with a handkerchief. She was also watching us, I blushed to notice.

"Finally!" she said. "You guys took so long to get together!"

Eh…? I thought confused. Didn't she like Kiba?

"Yeah, you guys did," Sai added. "And by the way, Ino, when you said I'd probably get hit you did not mention getting beat to a pulp."

Now I was doubly confused. What just happened?

"Explain," a voice said from behind me and, judging by the shivers rolling down my spine, I knew it was Kiba's. I blushed to think of him but when one of his hands took my own I didn't pull away.

"Well…" Ino started cheerfully, "The whole group knew you two liked each other but neither of you had the guts to ask the other out. So I got Sai-kun to help me create a situation where your feelings could come out!"

I stared at her in disbelief. Forget earthquakes or tsunamis, this girl was a force of nature!

A meddling one.

"And so you flirting with him was part of the plan?" I asked, still stunned at her meddling.

"Well, not exactly…" Ino was blushing! Ino was looking guilty! What is going on?!?

"You see," Ino continued awkwardly, Sai was supposed to you know…"

"Assault me?" I asked dryly.

"Yeah, well, whatever." She wasn't guilty about that I noticed. Typical.

"Well, anyways, you were gone. And I was supposed to get Kiba to the hallway so I was kind of flirting. And then you walked up."

Here Ino looked serious for the first time. "I never meant for you to see that, Hinata. I'm really, really sorry about that. And I promise that I have no designs on Kiba at all. He's sooo not my type. No offense," she added to Kiba.

Baffled, he blinked his brown eyes. "Uhh, none taken I guess."

"But I'm really sorry, Hinata," the blonde haired girl finished.

Her blue-green eyes looked sincerely straight into my own as I debated whether to forgive her or not.

"She was only trying to help," Chibi-angel advised. "And besides, look how tightly she's holding Sai's hand. She definitely isn't after Kiba."

I looked at Chibi-devil next, who only shrugged and said, "Whatever. You got the hunk in the end and that's all that matters, I guess."

Wincing, I blushed at her blunt terms but I guess I have to agree.

"That's okay, Ino," I told the blonde girl, who immediately looked relieved. "Great! It would suck if we weren't friends any more!"

Friends.

My eyes softened as I smiled back. "Yeah," I agreed.

"And I apologize, too, Hinata-san," Sai chimed in.

"It's okay," I said. Well, I was in a forgiving mood, might as well, even if he still scares me. I'll just try not to talk to him in the future. If he and Ino start going out though that might not be so easy.

"But why did Sai still attack Hinata?" I heard a voice from behind me ask.

Huh. Guess Kiba-kun was listening after all.

He still looked kind of angry though. Maybe it's because of the trick they played on us?

"Well, the plan was still on," Sai shrugged. "But I was getting kind of worried that Kiba wasn't coming."

"That was my fault, sorry," Ino said, raising her hand. "He was sulking in the corner muttering about 'Hinata was crying,' 'Hinata was going to slap me', and stuff and growing mushrooms. I couldn't get him out." (A/N: Tamaki anyone?)

Stifling my laugh I pointedly didn't look at the blushing Kiba and replied to Ino, "Well, I guess I get it now. But never do that again."

"Okay, fine, fine," she laughed. "But you're glad I did, right?" The blonde suggestively wiggled her eyebrow at the two of us making me blush. When I glanced back at Kiba he was red too, but didn't let go of my hand. I couldn't help smiling.

But then a thought struck me. "Wait a minute," I said, turning suspiciously to Kiba. "If she was flirting with you then that means you were letting stick her hand in your pocket and stuff."

Suddenly I felt pissed, not a normal reaction for me. Maybe jealousy was part of the deal of being someone's- girlfriend? Is that what I am? Whatever, he's still going to have to explain himself. You can't be flirting with a girl and then just kiss another one randomly, no matter how good a kisser you are.

Shoot, I'm blushing again. Curse this complexion!

At least the brown haired boy was looking suitably contrite as he sheepishly looked at me. "Sorry, Hinata," he answered. "But I had just walked into your classroom and you were holding hands with that weird kid, Shino. And I guess I got kind of jealous."

My mind went blank for a moment. What is he talking about? I was holding hands-? Oh yeah!

I suddenly remembered grabbing Shino's hands and asking to be friends. I guess that would kind of look different than I intended.

Did you see him? I asked Chibi-devil and –angel. Is that why you were so quiet?

"Yeah," they muttered. "Sorry." "We didn't want to worry you if nothing happened," –Angel added.

It's okay, I sighed, and then turned to Kiba. "We're just friends," I told him wearily. It had been a long day. But at least he was jealous too. Which made me a little happy.

Not that I think jealousy is a good thing. Of cooouuurse not. Right. Anyway, changing the subject.

"Yes, we're just friends," A deep voice chimed in.

"Wah-!" I fell over into Kiba as Ino jumped and grabbed Sai's arm, Sai yelped and jumped a foot, and Kiba half swore behind me.

We all frantically looked around for the intruder on our (we had thought) private scene to see a tall boy with sunglasses leaning against the wall as if he had always been there.

"Wh-when did you get there?" Ino asked breathlessly, echoing all our thoughts.

Shino raised one eyebrow at us. "I've been here the whole time."

…

….

"Really?" Kiba asked. The taciturn boy nodded in answer.

"Oh. Sorry, man, we didn't see you."

"I noticed."

An embarrassed silence prevailed, broken at last by Ino's attempt at recovery. "W-well! I guess Shino-kun followed us here! He was the one who told Kiba you needed help, Hinata."

"Oh, really?" I asked, surprised. I guess he didn't abandon me after all. "Thanks Shino-kun!"

"No problem."

…

More silence.

"So I guess we should go," Sai suggested. "It's actually a miracle that no random stranger has wandered over here already."

"Yeah," Kiba nodded. "And you might want to put something on your face, Sai. Eh, sorry about that by the way."

"It's okay," Sai answered. "It doesn't hurt that bad. Only as if I had been dragged along on my face by a car for three miles."

We all anime-sweatdropped. Ookaaayyy…

"You're so brave!" Ino squealed, giving the black haired boy a hug and making Kiba, Shino, and I sweat drop even more.

Those drama queens are perfect for each other, I thought to myself, shaking my head.

Kiba and I got up from the floor and we made to move off, only to be stopped by an outraged voice behind us.

"What is going on here?"

Startled, the five of us turned towards the voice and simultaneously winced. Shizune-sensai, the vice principal, was known by all the students as having no sense of humor and being very strict in the rules.

We waited in trepidation as the dark haired teacher's eyes went from my tear-streaked face, to Sai's battered one, to Kiba's bloody knuckles.

"This isn't what it looks like," the brown haired boy feebly tried to explain but was forestalled by the vice principal's stern command of, "In the principle's office. Now. All of you."

Drooping, and with sagging shoulders, we went.

My first detention and now this, I moaned. Am I turning into a criminal?

"Yes!" My chibi guides chimed cheerfully.

I sighed. Again. Great.

xxxAliasxxx

Exhausted, the five of us filed out of the principal Tsunade's office. Luckily the blonde busty principal didn't seem to care much about what we did and was only worried about how much alcohol she could manage to drink before the end of the festival, so after a quick lecture about fighting, she let us leave.

Ino dragged off Sai to somewhere and Shino disappeared, leaving Kiba and I suddenly alone.

For some reason I couldn't talk and felt really awkward around the brown haired boy. I was blushing, too. Thankfully though he was too, and also avoiding my eyes, making me feel a little better about my lack of confidence.

"Do-do you have a ride?" he suddenly asked, blushing harder.

"U-um, yes," I reluctantly answered. "Neji is going to take me home." For some reason though, I didn't even mind the thought of Kiba's demonic driving skills. He isn't that bad, as long as he's not upset, I thought wistfully to myself, I wish he could take me home.

Stealing a quick peak in his direction I met his eyes, looking at me. We both immediately turned even more red and looked away.

Chibi-Devil slapped her forehead with her hand. "You two are acting like a pair of kids in a manga! Who just got their first boyfriend or girlfriend!" she shouted in disgust. "Jump his bones already!"

Glaring in her direction in annoyance, I snapped at her in my head, "This IS my first boyfriend, idiot!"

I ignored the last part. 'Cause kami I wished I had the guts to do that.

"Oh, right," she snickered. "You've never had a boyfriend before, I forgot."

"Um, Hinata?"

Huh? I snapped out of my glare to see Kiba still looking at me. Thankfully though he didn't seem to notice me giving bad looks at what must seem to be no one.

Or maybe he just is used to it by now. Hmmm… That's probably a bad thing.

"Hinata?" Kiba tried one more time.

This time I responded, "Yeah?"

"Want to…" his voice seeming to fail him as I looked at him curiously, he closed his eyes, took a huge breath, and spit out, "Want to go to the festival with me?"

I blinked at him. Festival? The one this Sunday? Wait… HE'S ASKING ME OUT?!

"Uh- uh- um," I sputtered, face bright red and steam coming out of my ears, "Y-ye-yes!"

His face and the fluorescent lights above his head started spinning in circles and then everything went black.

Yes, I fainted. But I, frankly, didn't care at all.

He asked me out!

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Hope you liked it. Kiba is adorable isn't he? Anyways, I'm going to start a new thing. I like to call it Random Alias Trivia! Or RAT! : )

Here we go…

Where Hanabi Got Her Obsession With Sporks

Once upon a time the three young Hyuuga children were playing a game where they were knights trying to rescue the princess. Well, Hinata was the princess but Hanabi and Neji were knights.

Hanabi and Neji got in a huge argument about what the proper weapons for knights were. Hanabi maintained that spoons were more dangerous because you could hit people with them and it wouldn't leave a mark. Therefore, you wouldn't get caught. Neji thought that forks were sharper and so were better.

Just before the fight could escalate into actually demonstrating on each other which utensil was more dangerous, the Princess Hinata stepped in.

She spoke, "Don't fight you guys! Just use sporks!"

And from that day onward sporks were the chosen weapon of the Hyuuga family.

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