Hi~! Sorry for no updating recently... I've been studying for some test. But I finally had the chance to putting this chapter up! Ten pages...sorry if it's long. There's no NaruHina in here but in the next chapter there will be I promise! ;) Please review... and tell me if you don't like something.

"Why were you searching for me?" He changed the subject.

"Oh! Right... Lee-san was here..." Neji-nii hit his forehead with his palm at the sound of his comrade's name "...he wants a battle of youth or something in the training ground number 3 at 5pm." I finished, he seemed somehow annoyed by that. It so ridiculous I don't get why the majority thinks Lee-san is weird, he is actually pretty cool. The way he fights to be in nii-san's levels, even though he can't use ninjutsu, is admirable! He is like Naruto-kun in some ways...

Nii-san just rolled eyes in response and muttered a curse that I will not repeat.

"Hinata-sama..." One of the maids vowed at me and interrupted my thoughts. "Yes?" I smiled at her. Nii-san left vowing at me too. Since he is a branch member, he must show "respect" to me. But he only does that when another relative is around.

"Kurenai-san is already waiting for you." she said eying nii-san in a ugly manner. They don't like that we are friends.

"Thank you, I will receive her."

He puts his little hands in my cheeks,smashing them together. He was playing. I can resist a cute face like that! "You are so cute!" I said kissing him in the forehead, doing that ridiculous tone of voice that everyone who likes babies does when playing with one. Then he hugs me! He is so sweet.

"Don't spoil him too much... He gets plenty of attention in home." Sensei said. I don't care if I spoil him, I like babies!

"Don't say that sensei! Little cute boys like him deserve all the attention." She just smiled and took a sip of tea. Jasmine tea, her favorite.

"So, how are you? I haven't seen you guys in a while... This little monster keeps me busy." She said giving him another kiss in the cheek. The baby is obviously very spoil because as soon as she pose eyes on me, the baby begins to stretch his arms in a 'carry me mommy' way. That causes Kurenai-sensei to take him away from my embrace.

"I've been fine, I guess..." I said pouring more tea into her cup. She took her eyes off the baby and scans me with her red eyes. That's what I love about Kurenai-sensei, I don't have to say much because she already knows what's wrong.

"The elders keep pushing, huh?" I panic, she was saying that aloud! "Please! Sensei...a little more quiet..." I use my byakugan to see if someone was spying us, but there was no Hyuga at sight. How come they are not listening to my conversations? I felt immediately safe and talk the truth.

"Well, actually they've been pushing, yes. But is for my own good! I really want to be the head of clan and Hanabi-chan too. I know at some point will be having to fight..." I sighed; I really would hate to have a fight with Hanabi-chan, like I had with Neji-nii-san. "...the only thing that keeps me ahead of her is the fact that I saved Naruto-kun and my father's favoritism." I finished with a smile.

"Hinata! I'm so glad to hear that Hiashi-san is seeing what you really worth." She was so glad too. I just shyly shrugged and began to blush. "At least I have father's affection and acknowledgment."

"I'm so proud, Hinata." She hugs me, leaving the baby aside. I started to laugh at the baby when he became jealous that I was hugging her mommy too much.

"I also...I told Naruto-kun about...you know..." I said hesitant, I still can't talk freely to her. Her eyes widened.

"Oh, really! Well, that's good! You are finally blooming Hinata." I blushed at that. I really need to tell her what happened...

"And what did he said?"

"He...Naruto-kun...well at first nothing." I tilted my head. And when I saw sensei getting mad at him, I decided to step up and defend him. "But it was because he was busy saving the world! And then after the war, we met near the east gates of Konoha and..." She would be mad. I begin to frown as I felt a little bitter too.

"And?" She said very curious...well not so curious, because if Naruto-kun said he loved me...I would be happy and blushing like a tomato. She perceived a bad answer of me, so I decided to tell her exactly what he told me.

"And he told me I was strong and that he really admired me. Also he said that I was like him in many ways and..." Oh Kami! Here I go, "...he is already in a relationship with Sakura-chan" I lowered my head in defeat. Seriously, why these still affect me so much? I saw sensei's face, her mouth was covered by her hand and she was slightly surprise at that.

"Oh, Haruno Sakura? Does he was with her before Pain's invasion?"

"No. He just not likes me that way." I sadly reply.

"That's a little rude of him, keeping you all that time waiting...did he at least gave you something in return? I know I will be expecting a gift, at least something expensive" We smiled; she always made Asuma-sensei bought her things when she was mad.

But something in return...

"He did not, because he didn't have to..." I think my answer right and then change it. "But if you mean something that is not material, I'd say his friendship. Now he loves to be around me, he knows everything about me and he thinks that I'm strong." With all I was saying, I completely forgot that I was with sensei. All I saw were the moments we spend together laughing and talking...well he did the talking part most of the time. Sensei notices I was in my fantasy world again and she pat my back to get me back into reality.

"He thinks that? It seems you have a pretty good friendship." I nodded blushing and smiling.

"Of course! I've always wanted to be in his 'precious people' list."

"Hinata-chan~! Of course you are in that list!"

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Ok, that voice sounds like Naruto-kun.

"Hey Hinata! Are you going to feed me now?" He said entering the living room in which sensei and I were chatting. Oh my god! He listened...I want to die! I was astonished all the way! I could not believe that he entered without being announced. The only ones allowed to enter without announcements are my teammates.

"Hey!" He said getting very close to my face. "You promise me ramen, Hinata-chan~!" Caressing my cheek, he ended my name with that suffix in almost a whisper that made my heart melt.

I was blushing madly... Like nii-san's color! My body was shaking as I begin to lost balance. But sensei grabs me and I felt better.

"Cut it off, Kiba!" She said smiling and moving her head left and right in disapproval. Wait, he is Kiba-kun using a transformation jutsu! Grabbing my head, I whined in response.

"Not funny, Kiba-kun!" He just started laughing at me with so much force that it was difficult for him to stop. Akamaru then made his appearance waving his tail and rested in the wooden floor. Oh damn my silliness! Then I heard a 'puff' sound...and there he was: from blond to brunette, the fake Naruto, Kiba.

"My head is dizzy. Thank you, Kiba-kun." I frowned. Gathering all his force to stop laughing...he looked at me and say:

"Any time sweetheart! And you should have seen your face..." He chuckle again.

"Not cool" said a mad sensei. She always defends me, like mom. That's why I love her.

"Sorry Hinata, for that and for being late." He grinned at me. Every once in a while, team 8 reunite in my house. Last time we were all like this was after Asuma-sensei's death. We were all in sensei's house to support her. But she didn't need anything; of course it took her 1 week or two to free herself of the grief. But since then, she became stronger in a positive way, not like father. Kiba-kun and sensei begin chatting while I was looking outside the window to catch fresh air. The wind hit my face gracefully. Now the weather was so crazy, in the afternoons it's crazy hot and the night are just so cold. That's why everyone was in light clothes now.

"Hello everyone, sensei..." Shino-kun is here!

"Hi Shino." Said sensei happily, busy cleaning the mess baby had made when he broke cup of tea.

"Shino! Guess what, I made Hinata a joke, want to laugh about it?"

"Kiba-kun..." I was about to whine again but Shino-kun interrupted me.

"Kiba is not ok to do Naruto jokes on Hinata..." Kiba-kun frowned and I was surprise. How does he knows it was about Naruto? Like perceiving my thoughts, he looks at me and say.

"Normally, you only fall in Kiba's jokes when it is about Naruto." I could see a hidden smile from him when he said that.

"Oh..." I said in a lower tone.

"Because really, Kiba's other jokes are pretty pointless." Shino-kun snapped at my other teammate again.

"Ok whatever...where is the sake?" Kiba-kun said annoyed. He's going to start again with that.

"I told you, in my house only father and the elders are allowed to drink." That was a pretty good lie coming from me... I don't want him drunk here! Father could ban him. "And how did you know I was going to cook ramen to him?"

"Well, I run into Mr. Sunshine on my way here..." Notice the sarcasm in sunshine, "...he was with Sakura and he told me to tell you not forget about ramen." He rolled ayes at that. "It sounds like a date..." He said teasingly. Kurenai-sensei worried, so I explained myself before she thinks he is cheating Sakura-chan with me.

"No it's not! Because you and Shino-kun will be with me." I blush.

"But I dislike ramen..." Said my bug boy teammate.

"R-Really? Oh Shino-kun! I forgot."

"You should pay more attention to your teammates' interest and dislikes. That's the base of a solid friendship. How about if you have made instead of ramen something that contained peanuts? You would have killed me since I am allergic to it. You knew that right?" He said calmly, but I felt that I was being lecture in how to be a good friend. Shino-kun is so depressing sometimes.

"Yes I knew Shino-kun..." I said smiling as slowly hiding the peanut bowl behind me. Kiba just sighed in desperation and then yelled at him.

"How about you start talking more about yourself and stop waiting that we guess what's on your mind, freak?" It is funny to see how Shino-kun, with simple things like that drives Kiba-kun crazy.

"If you were my real friends you will have ask before." Then he kept sulking, mumbling over and over again the team eight's friendship rules, Shino had just made up. Kiba was already in hell getting more and more annoyed with Shino-kun's rant about keeping Akamaru far of the crickets in the streets. Akamaru likes to play with the crickets by trapping them between his paws and then killing them. Apparently, crickets were important to Shino-kun too.

"I told you I don't care! They are disgusting animals!" Kiba-kun yelled.

"You are a disgusting animal since you don't shower often." Shino-kun is so calm. Kurenai-sensei and I just laugh at that and I decided to step in.

"Indeed." I said following his game, of course Shino-kun is joking, the thing is that Kiba is so short minded, he does not get it. I was so happy about this meeting with my team.

"Not you Hinata!" Said Kiba in the edge of craziness while I giggle. I swear that he is mentally laughing too. Then I heard Kurenai-sensei laugh at Kiba. Forget about the stupid psychologist I was going to attend! I just need this: my sensei's understanding and guidance, Shino-kun's weird sense of humor and Kiba-kun's jokes. It's like a therapy to me because makes my heart fluttered in happiness.

I grabbed the baby and hug him tight. Then getting close into his ear I whispered: "I hope you get a team like this when you grow up." A kiss in his cheek to seal my wish. When I turn my eyes on Shino-kun, I notice he is wearing that damn coat.

"Shino-kun, why don't you take that jacket off. Just seeing you makes me feel hot..." I say not realizing what I was saying. And Kiba-kun being as dirty minded as he was started to laugh and tease.

"Oh Shino! I think Hinata had already forgotten about Naruto" laughs again. Oh lord! What is wrong with you Kiba-kun?

"I was referring to..." I said embarrassed and Shino-kun interrupted me.

"I simply don't get how Hinata will forget about Naruto by suggesting me to take my jacket off." He said rationally, ruining Kiba-kun's fun.

"Ha, ha!" I said pointing at my best friend. He smiled at me in defeat and then directing to Shino, he asked:

"Yes take your jacket off, don't you feel the weather?"

"I don't feel comfortable taking it off." He said seriously.

"We've see you without your jacket before...right Hinata?" Sensei asks and I nodded. It was right.

"Are you hiding something?" Said Kiba-kun smirking...this can't end well. If Shino-kun lies it will show in an obvious way. He is like me. If he is lying he will pause long enough and then he will stutter the answer.

"N-No...Why are y-you saying t-that?"

"That's it! Take it off!" Said Kiba-kun. Opening his jacket violently and then pulling the sleeves down as Shino-kun force too.

"Guys calm down!" Said an annoyed sensei. I know she thinks that Kiba-kun is childish in some occasions, and this one was one of the occasions she didn't like it. I was nervously looking outside the room to see if anyone is hearing the mess in here. Luckily for me just Hanabi-chan was coming this way.

"What's wrong?" She said entering the room. I bit my finger...oh my!

"I don't want to." Said Shino-kun.

"I don't care! I just want you to take off those clothes!" Hanabi-chan looked the compromising position my teammates were and then rolling eyes at me:

"They finally came out, huh?" Then she left, smiling evilly.

"HA! I have your jacket...let's see..." Kiba-kun succeeded. Beneath those two thick jackets, there was a simple white T-shirt with a V-cut neck. Then I saw, everyone saw. Bruises!

"Hickeys!" Said Kurenai-sensei, a very surprise sensei... Hickeys? Those are hickeys?

Shino-kun was getting all red as Kiba-kun was smirking like crazy! "You dog!" He said punching him playfully in the chest. That obviously hurt to Shino-kun, who was red and lost some air when Kiba-kun hit him.

"With who?" Kurenai-sensei was smiling like crazy too. Rubbing the place of the punch, Shino-kun coughs and said:

"Who cares?"

"US!" We all said in unison! Shino-kun is dating! Isn't that great?

"It is nothing serious. I'm currently in love with someone else. Someone that will never look at me the same way." He said sadly.

"Then why are you dating someone you don't like?" I questioned, I was a little in his position: drooling over someone who isn't in love with me. "Is it to get his or her attention?" Kiba-kun continued. Shino-kun sighed at Kiba's comment and decided to ignore the 'his' part.

"No. It helps me forget."

"You could do that? I mean...it works for you?" I was so interested in that. I don't want to forget Naruto-kun but I can't keep drooling over him. Shino-kun nodded.

"Who are you dating?" Said Kurenai-sensei. This looks like an interview more than a friend's reunion.

"Yamanaka Ino"

"Oh! I've been there you'll love it. She doesn't give much, but what you get...believe me, it will satisfy you a long time."

"Kiba-kun! She's my friend..." He rolled eyes at me. "You said I can date your friends as long as I don't date Hanabi." I narrowed my eyes at him. I know he's joking but if Father or HANABI hears him… Kiba-kun will get castrated.

"Seriously, what kind of a pedophile are you?" Shino-kun is trying to shift the subject away from him. But no one of us was planning on going to tease Kiba-kun.

"Who's the other person?" Again sensei got our attention to Shino's love life. Shino looked at Kiba in a weird way and then looked at sensei. "I can't tell you." Kiba raised an eyebrow at that and then he changed the subject.

"Well, I've been dating too, if you want to know!" Kiba-kun winked.

"Not surprised!" said Kurenai-sensei finishing her tea. "You are always dating, poor girls..." I said to my 'stud' friend. He really has a remarkable history in girls, according to Choji-kun. He have dated Ino-chan, Ayame-chan, other gorgeous girls after academy, and he had 'seal the deal' with another two.

"Who?" I said curiously. He haven't talked about this one, with me.

"Karui, from Kumo." He said grinning proudly. I so envied him! He never blushes!

"Someone from Kumo?" Said Kurenai-sensei.

"That feisty and violent girl?" I said.

"Yup." I looked at him strangely. "What?" He said. I smiled.

"You guys would make a funny couple. Does she have hit you already? I'm eager to look someone put you into your place for a change." Everyone giggle, except for Shino-kun, who was smiling lightly.

"You think you are funny, huh? Well, how about I ditch you in your ramen date with Naruto?"

"No, please Kiba-kun! I don't want him feel all awkward!" I pleaded to him. He smiled and then replied.

"I will not ditch you. But you have to cook something else for Shino."

"A salad will be nice." He said plotting against me.

"Well I was going to make several dishes since Naruto-kun and Kiba-kun eat a lot." But there was another reason for me to do several meals and it involved Naruto-kun's diet. I want him to taste more plates than just ramen. He could be sick if he doesn't eat well.

And then, we just went all the afternoon and evening. All of us chatting and laughing. I'm so grateful with them. They had encourage me to do things I would never ever do, they wash away my fears by stimulating my confidence, they have dried my tears when I felt sad and most importantly, on top of all, they became my family when my real family treated (and still somehow do) me like trash. I love my team.

This persons, were the first to acknowledge me.

I hope you liked the chapter. And I want to thank to wisdom-jewel for always reviewing!