"Are you ready to go yet?" Temari was loudly questioning after repeatedly knocking her fist against the cabin's bathroom door.
"Why are you so loud?" Shikamaru groggily snaps at her once he finally opens the bathroom door and comes face to face with his girlfriend.
A smile visibly appeared on her face after she witnessed his reaction to her question, "I'm not but if you don't hurry up we're going to be late for breakfast."
A "troublesome" was vocally escaping his mouth prior to him emerging from the relatively small bathroom fully clothe.
"I knew you would come around sooner or later." The dirty blonde cheerfully comments with a small smile present on her face as she reaches out and grabs his hand.
"Besides," She huffs and speaks up as they walk toward the cabin's door, "I want to get the best seat at the table."
Another "troublesome" soon followed after since he simply allowed Temari to drag him alongside her.
The young man merely released a sigh once he thought to himself as he quietly trailed behind his girlfriend, 'This is going to be a long day.'
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"How long are you going to stare at me?" Ino was irritably posing after pausing in the middle of washing her face and glaring up at the mirror toward Kiba.
He casually leans with his back against the bathroom doorframe with his arms across his chest and his right leg over his left.
"I didn't want you to see yourself face forward in the toilet since you're not tolerant of alcohol." The brunette answered in a cool manner.
'The mutt thinks he's so cool from the position he's standing in. Humph,' The blonde quickly presumes as she toots her nose up at his actions.
The young woman merely focused in on her morning routine but was still mentally bothered by the presence of Kiba, who stared intensively at her.
'Is he showing concern for me?' She curiously ponders before she observes HIs head slightly nods off, which means he was in a light sleep.
A small smile appeared on her face at the young man's current position. 'He's probably tired from watching over me last night.'
The platinum blonde momentarily was pausing in the middle of what she was doing, making her way over to where Kiba was standing and closely studying his facial expressions.
'He seems to have gotten darker from the last time I saw him.' She noted as her eyes traveled from his skin to the two red distinctive fangs on both sides of his cheeks. 'The fangs are still the same.'
Ino raises one of her hands to push back his messy brunette hair away from his forehead and was surprised that he did not move or flinch from the sudden contact.
'Good…he's making this easier than I thought.' She presumes as she leans forward until her lips softly presses against his forehead.
Kiba was slowly opening his eyes and ogling at Ino's chest since it was at his eye level, 'I must be dreaming.' He was immediately ruminating while uncrossing his arms and wrapping them around Ino's waist.
'What…' The platinum blonde suddenly thought once she felt his arms surrounded her and brought her closer to his body.
She was then feeling him gently rubbing his shaggy head of hair in the valley of her breasts causing her cheeks to turn a bright red hue.
"Kiba, what the hell are you doing?" Ino verbally shouts at the boy who merely ignores her questions and continues doing the action.
'I have to think fast.' She frustratingly thought when an idea popped in to her head so she bent her knee and shot it toward his stomach region.
An "oof" noise was heard before being released from Kiba's hold when she heard, "What the hell was that for?"
Her face contoured to a "no way" expression while she instantly responded with, "I should be asking you the same thing, you mutt!"
It was at that moment, Kiba briefly paused to recall what all just occurred a couple of minutes ago before the look of realization hit him. "So it wasn't a...dream then?"
Her face glows a bright red color after she listens to the question he asks to himself, 'Does he dreams about my chest when he's sleeping?'
The brunette was removing the small bit of sleep with the side of his hands before looking up to see Ino pointing a finger at him while her other arms was concealing her chest.
"You're a prevent Inuzaka!" She embarrasingly shouts at him with a very red face as her arm shakes in the process.
'Don't tell me that it was real.' He inwardly weighed as a mischievous smirk appeared on his face while he did a silent victory cheer at his luck.
Her blue eyes merely observed his prevented facial expression until he returned her gaze with his own, 'I don't trust those eyes.'
"It was your fault." The brunette simply says along with a shrug of his shoulder.
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Neji was quietly remaining on the edge of the cabin's bed thinking over the conversation he had with Tenten a couple of minutes ago.
'All I know is that she got upset because I was looking at the paper.' He inwardly thinks as he tries to figure out why she was so upset with him.
The paper she handed him was placed to the left of him since he did not know what exactly to do with it.
He simply releases a deep breath since it seems to calm his nerves and allows him to think clearly. 'I guess she must've assumed that I was looking over her shoulder.'
It was then did the Hyūga realized what he did wrong. The brunette fondly recalled from when they first started dating how Tenten confessed she hated when people looked over her shoulder.
"My father was adamant about not having his only child take up the family business of wielding. So when he finally gave me a chance to prove myself, I thought he would allow me to display my talent. Instead, he would remain over my shoulder and complain about how I was not doing this correct or how it was too dull and needed it to be sharpened. I absolutely hate that."
'How could I forget that?' The young man reprimands himself after he brings his hand in front of his face and shakes his head at his negligence.
'I have to make it up to her.' He mentally declared.
On the other hand, Tenten was aimlessly staring at her reflection in the mirror of the bathroom with an apparent frown on her face.
'Neji is such a jerk!' She irately shouts to herself as she tries to calm herself down from her sudden anger outburst.
She was not mad that Neji was concerned for her but was rather mad at how forgetful Neji could be when it came down to her.
'He'll probably never figure out what I lashed out at him.' The brunette sadly thinks presumes since she recentlt notices that Neji no longer pays her the attention he once did when they first started to date.
'I wish he could be as caring as he used to be.'
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"Enough…" Hinata was gasping between her bouts of laughter, which was causing Naruto to briefly pause in the middle of ticking her.
"So have you learned your lesson, Hina-chan?" He jokingly inquires as he stares directly in her face to see tears of joy in her eyes.
The woman nodded her head up and down with her eyes closed before she verbally admitted, "Yes."
"Good then…" The blonde mentions after he rolls from on top of her body, "…because I was starting to get hungry."
His fiancée was wearing a small smile on her face while mimicing Naruto's actions and rolling off of the surface of the bed.
"We should probably get going? I wonder if everyone has made it yet." The young woman poses as she stands on her feet.
Her fiancée physically stretched his arms upwards, returned them back to his side and quipped, "Probably Neji and Tenten since they like to be on time."
"Ah but he's always been like that though even since we were little children." Hinata agrees with a small smile on her face.
"You forgot overprotective too." He mentioned along with laughter, which caused her to think, 'He did give you a hard time when he found out that we were dating one another.'
The same smile was remaining on her face at the thought of recalling how Neji was reacting to the news that his cousin was dating none other than Naruto Uzumaki.
"Hinata…" Neji calls out to his younger cousin after he glances over his shoulder and catches her in his vision.
A nervous Hinata twiddled her fingers and rocked back and forth on her heels with a pink tint across her face.
"Yes?" She was curiously posing while managing to speak without stuttering, which would have been a dead giveaway to her older cousin.
"Are the rumors true? That you're dating that Uzumaki kid?" Her cousin inquires in a harsh tone as he continues to hold his cousin within his sights.
'It's either now or never Hinata.' Her inner voice encouraged her to stand up and defended her opinion.
"So what if I am dating him? It's not like you can control who it is that I like. Besides his name is Naruto not Uzumaki kid." Hinata shouts at him with her hands now in a fist fashion.
"You never gave him a chance to prove that he's more than just the reputation that you hear others say about him! So don't you dare pass judgment on him."
"What about your father Hinata? You know he would highly disapprove of you choosing someone of Naruto's status."
"I don't care what father, you or any of the family members' opinions of Naruto are. He's a bright spirit with a large heart that gives without hesitation and doesn't expect anything in return. I want to be that person who can return his love just as equally." The young woman explains her reasons.
"Hey Hinata, what do you think they're going to have for breakfast?" Naruto was wondering before turning to face her with a wide smile on his face.
"If we leave now maybe we could go see before the others get there." Hinata suggested, which seemed to get him instantly reared up and ready to go.
'He hasn't changed not one bit.' She mentally noted, 'That's one thing that I liked about him.'
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"It was your fault." Kiba simply says.
"Come again? Did you just say that it was my fault?" Ino repeated for him to clarify what he just said to her.
"So you can't hear all of a sudden?" The brunette was firing back right before ducking and avoiding an unidentified flying object that she was purposely directing at his head.
"Alright...let's just calm down here." The young man frantically suggests with one of his hands extends outward to protect his face.
His plea apparently earned a pause from the platinum blonde in the middle of whatever it was that she currently held in her grasp. "Good...now let's just take a few deep breaths so we can explain what happened in a calm manner."
Ino leisurely lowered the object in her hand until it was on the surface of the bathroom door as her face was completely red.
"I just wanted to thank you for watching over me." She tries not to stutter over her sentence. 'Oh cripes, I'm starting to sound like Hinata with all this darn stammering and stuttering.'
Kiba was intensively listening to her side of the story before interestedly asking, "And what else happened?"
"I approached you, pushed your hair from your forehead and placed a kiss on your forehead." She explains slowly step-by-step to him.
The brunette raises an eyebrow at how the platinum blonde recounts her side of the story. "Oh…so you tried to take advantage of me when I was sleeping? Shame on you Ino, have you no dignity for yourself?"
Ino was about to rebuttal until she realized that Kiba did have a valid point, 'Damn' "I guess I have to apologize for that too."
"You know you don't have to wait till I fall asleep to attack me because I am more than willing to stay wide awake for the experience."
"Shut up, you mutt!"
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07.01.17 Major editing: Grammatical changes