-1Chapter 11: Kiba and the Hospital.
It was a beautiful day, the sun was shinning, the sky was blue, the clouds were making shapes and there was a nice breeze in the air. Kiba and Shino had decided to go and play outside. They had gotten bored throwing the controllers at each other, speaking obscenities to each other and making lewd gestures at each other.
"Man! It's so boring with out Hinata!" Kiba whined again. He was already bored with Shino and Akamaru was annoyed at them for accidentally spilling soda on him and dropping him in the sink. Kiba had tried to apologize but it was hard to apologize when you where chop stick fighting in the kitchen.
Shino was now ignoring Kiba and looking around for any interesting bugs for his collection, it was then that he noticed it. There was a trap that Kiba hadn't noticed, judging from the way it was set it was Sasuke's. Shino slowed down and watched, Kiba hadn't realized the trap since he was once again attempting to apologize to Akamaru, who was telling him that it was to late for an apology. Shino steeped back and a couple of steps to the right before Kiba tripped the wire and then there was an explosion.
Shino watched Kiba and Akamaru go sailing by and hit a rather large tree. Shino would of winced at the impact, but he was stingy with his expressions and reactions so he merely watched as Kiba and Akamaru slid down the tree. Judging from the angles on his arms and legs they were probably broken, Shino walked closer to Kiba, and frowned. Kiba's neck was perfectly fine and Kiba was still breathing. As if on cue Kiba coughed up some blood and Shino smiled.
It was a beautiful day.
Neji had finally decided to leave his room, sporting the beanie to cover his shaved head, and yes Neji had cried when Gai shaved his head. Lee had finally convinced him to go outside when Lee realized that they were out of Oreo's. So they were off to the one store that carried their beloved cookie. While they walked Neji was thinking back to the therapy sessions that he had with Gai. Lee took those sessions too, since he had developed a stalking obsession for a week.
Neji sighed, his hair would grow back and be even better. Lee was ecstatic that Neji was finally out of his bed room and that they were going to get Oreo's. Once they entered the store Neji grabbed one of the baskets, and both him and Lee ran to the cookie aisle.
Then they realized that there was a shortage of Oreo's in the store. Lee's mouth dropped in shock and horror while Neji looked the same way he did when Gai shaved his head.
"my flame of youth dampness with the sadness." Lee sadly told Neji who nodded.
"we might have to settle for chips ahoy." with that lee gasped and placed a hand over his heart in shock, now making a scene as he pointed at Neji accusingly.
"you would betray Oreo for something so cheep and dirty!" Neji frowned and hit Lee over the head with the shopping basket.
"then what do you suggest we do?" Neji asked irritated that he had suggested getting something so dirty. .
Lee crossed his arms glaring at the other cookie brands. "we must go to another store."
"the next store that carries Oreo's is in the sand." Neji reminded lee who nodded.
"we must go to the sand, and allow our flames of saddened youth to be restored by the glorious flame of Oreos!" lee told Neji now grabbing him by the shoulders. Neji stared at Lee, who stared right back at him.
They had a craving for Oreo's and by George they were going to get them.
"off to the sand." Neji told Lee who smiled and nodded. With that they left the grocery basket by the cookie aisle and ran. Lee and Neji where off to the sand.
"this going to be fun!" lee told Neji nodded as lee did a spin kick in mid air.
"we will have our Oreo's!" Neji said with surprisingly a large amount of enthusiasm.
"what if we run into Gaara again?" lee asked.
"I brought the pepper spray." Neji told Lee. Who did another spin kick in the air.
"Gaara will run away in fear at our flames of youth!" Lee exclaimed doing a nice guy pose.
They had done this before their personal best was five hours. The first time was after the exam, it had not been pretty, they had run into Gaara.
Who was also a fan of Oreo's. There was only one bag left, there had been a stand off between Gaara and Team Gai, nothing, not even Gaara would stand in the way of the flame of youth that wanted Oreo's.
Elsewhere Gaara looked up from his meditation and sneezed. He had the strangest feeling that someone was talking about him. He sneezed again, he looked at the clock beside his bed and stood. He had the craving for some Oreo's, he would go to the store and buy some. He knew that the store kept the Oreo's stocked after that incident, they had no choice, the store had to be rebuilt. Needles to say the store owner had not been happy.
If there was one thing that the nurses hated was seeing Kiba and Shino. Once Kurenai entered the emergency room carrying Kiba and Akamaru fallowed by Shino the nurses sighed. The last time Kiba and Shino had been here as patients, Shino had broken Kiba's nose with a wooden spoon, and Shino had fallen down an elevator shaft, which is harmful to one health.
"what happened this time?" the head nurse asked Kurenai.
"Kiba set off a squirrel trap." Kurenai told her hurriedly.
"a squirrel trap." the head nurse said with disbelief as she looked over Kiba. Writing things down on her chart.
Shino nodded he hated Squirrels. Hated them ever since one had attacked him while he was bathing in the lake, that was not an enjoyable experience. The offending squirrel had become a rather tasty soup much to the horror of his teammates once he told them the secret ingredient.
"he'll be here awhile." the head nurse told Kurenai.
"I'm sure he wont be much trouble." the head nurse looked at Kurenai in disbelief.
"I'm sure your other student had nothing to do with this again did he." the nurse asked glaring at Shino, who did nothing. Kurenai shook her head.
"Shino and Kiba are the best of friends, they would never hurt each other." Shino and the head nurse looked at Kurenai wanting whatever she was on.
As usual the nurses collected Kiba and led him to the emergency room, mumbling how they thought it was going to be a nicer day.
Kurenai looked at Shino and motioned for him to sit down as they waited.
Shikamaru and Chouji were in their usual spot watching the clouds and eating potato chips.
"do you think Ino's okay?" Chouji asked Shikamaru who was staring at the clouds.
"as troublesome as it is, we should check on her." Shikamaru said as he sat up, Chouji smiled and nodded.
That was what he was going to suggest, Shikamaru sighed. He had been happy watching the clouds, but he had to see how his teammate was doing, as troublesome as it was he was going to have to walk. Both boys had been worried, sure they were happy for Ino, she was friends with Sakura again. They just didn't like the fact that Sakura was plotting against the teammate of one of their friends who did nothing wrong.
"Maybe we should ask Kiba if he wants to go?" Shikamaru sighed at Chouji's question. That meant even more walking. He really didn't want to be walking, he had walked all the way over here and just sat up, he needed a nap.
Kiba was now in his own room, in a body cast, which meant he would be here awhile. The head nurse looked at Shino who was pressing the happy red button, she frowned.
"It's on a preset limit." The head nurse told Shino. Who was not happy, he had wanted to send Kiba in to a coma. Kurenai was writing get well on Kiba's arm as he slept.
"he'll be fine, the Hokeage is coming here herself to heal him, since she wasn't able to help with Hinata." Kurenai nodded, smiling at Kiba.
"Sign his cast Shino." Kurenai ordered handing Shino the marker. Shino took the marker from her.
"what am I supposed to write?" Shino asked her. He had an idea of what he wanted the write.
"tell him that you hope he'll get better." Kurenai told him.
Shino frowned, that was not what he had in mind.
"wouldn't it be better if I told him, what if Kiba can't read?" Shino asked, the head nurse rolled her eyes, mumbling things about disciplining your child. Kurenai frowned at Shino. Giving him a warning glace.
"sign it." Kurenai told him. Shino nodded and then wrote something on Kiba's arm. Kurenai smiled at Shino and then looked at the head nurse.
"what time will the Hokeage be here?" Kurenai asked.
"give her three hours." The head nurse told her writing something down on her chart then looking around.
"what is it?" Kurenai asked.
"where is Hinata, I wanted to see how she was doing?" the head nurse said.
"she's at a friends house, she's doing better." Kurenai told her. Kurenai then turned to look at Shino.
"Shino, go get Hinata. She's at Sakura's." Shino nodded and left. Leaving the marker on top of Kiba's head. Akamaru had been handed over to Hana, since she was better equipped to deal with him.
Ino woke up to the feeling of someone shaking her, she opened her eyes to see Shikamaru and Chouji's concerned and shocked faces.
"Ino!" Chouji yelled as he shook her, she held up her hand and the shaking stopped.
"what happened!" Chouji asked her, helping her to sit up.
"Hinata." Both of the boys looked at each other wonder if Shino had done this. But Ino stopped that thought dead in it's tracks. "we pushed her to far."
Shikamaru looked at the other two girls, they where bruised but not bleeding. Then again Hinata's fighting style damaged the inside of the body not the outside. Shikamaru looked at Chouji.
"call Asume, we can't carry them by ourselves." Chouji nodded going to the phone. Ino frowned at the annoyed look Shikamaru gave her.
"I tried to stop it." Shikamaru said nothing only surveyed the damage.
"where is Hinata now?" asked Shikamaru.
"I don't know." she told him.
Ino looked at Sakura and Tenten, Hinata had a hell of a right on her.
Chouji frowned he was upset that Hinata hurt Ino, but he was also upset that Ino would try and hurt Hinata. He looked at Sakura, Naruto was not going to be happy. He looked at Tenten, Lee and maybe Neji would not be happy. Hinata had just made a lot of enemies, Kiba and Shino were going to beating a lot of people.
Asume arrived on the scene, Sakura and Tenten were awake but unmoving. Perhaps that was for the best since Shino had arrived with him.
"I was sent here to retrieve Hinata." Shikamaru and Chouji looked at Shino.
"she's not here." Ino told him looking apologetic. "I don't know where she is."
"I see." with that Shino turned and left.
Asume watched him leave, feeling sorry for Kurenai. Her students were special.
Shikamaru picked up Ino as Asume picked up both Sakura and Tenten. "lets get them some help."
With that they were off to the hospital where Kiba had finally woken up.
"where's Akamaru?" Kiba asked. Kurenai smiled at him, going into her mother mode.
"Hana's taking care of him, he's going to be fine." Kiba nodded, he believed her.
"I was careless." Kiba told her.
Kurenai smiled at him. "you're going to be fine. The Hokeage will be stopping by to heal you." Kiba looked at the ceiling. "then you will be off and running ."
Speaking of running, Lee and Neji had finally reached the sand. And there was a stand off of sorts, the wind picked up as the two members of team Gai and Gaara stood in front of the door to the Store.
"Gaara." lee started. Gaara looked at Lee and Neji. Who looked at him, prepared to fight for the Oreo's. The store keeper looked up and dropped his broom stick, he was glad he had restocked the Oreo's.
"we've come for Oreo's." Gaara nodded. He noticed that Neji had a beanie on, that he had no hair.
With that they walked into the store. It was a beautiful day.
"Asume?" he turned there was Kurenai with Shino beside her. "did you come here to say hi to Kiba?"
"Kiba?" Asume asked, Kurenai nodded.
"yes he's in a body cast, the poor thing." Asume blinked and spoke without thinking.
"Did Hinata do that to him?" Asume asked.
Kurenai merely looked at him. "no." Kurenai told him.
"have you seen her?" Kurenai shook her head.
"She's at a play date. Why?" Kurenai asked feeling very worried, Asume was getting nervous.
"Has something happened?" She asked. Asume decided till he learned more he would have to lie.
"I came for a check up!" Kurenai nodded "So Kurenai how is Kiba doing?" Asume said to change the subject.
"he'll be here for awhile." Kurenai answered.
One of the nurses walked over to Asume. "Ino is fine, Sakura and Tenten will recover nicely but whoever did this had a great understanding of the charka system." Asume stared at the nurse than at Kurenai who now didn't seem so happy.
"Wait, what happened where is Hinata!" Kurenai asked now become enraged.
"I don't know." Asume answered honestly.
The nurse looked at them, and walked away quickly when Kurenai looked murderous. Asume put his hands up and looked around.
"what do you mean, you don't know!" Kurenai asked moving closer to him.
"when I went there she wasn't there." Asume told her.
"then she had to have been kidnapped, if all the other girls were injured." Kurenai whispered, feeling sick to her stomach.
"Hinata was the one who injured them." Asume told her. She looked at him in disbelief.
"Hinata." Kurenai said dumbly.
