They had walked about a mile from the resturaunt before either of them relaxed in the slightest. Since everyone already knew about them, or would soon enough anyway, Naruto had no qualms about holding Kiba's hand as they walked home. It wasn't untill they had passed the bridge that either of them said anything.
"Hey Kiba?"
"Yes Naru?"
"Does it feel weird that they know now? Or am I just imagining things?"
"I don't know. I'm still in shock because of Iruka. Ask me again tommarow."
"Okay."
They walked in comfortable silence the rest of the way.
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Kiba opened the front door and a very angry Akamaru headbutted him in the chest.
"What the hell Kiba!?!?! You forget I was here or something!?!?" barked Akamaru, beyond pissed at having been stuck inside all day.
Kiba lay dazed on the ground. Naruto leaned over and lifted Akamaru off of Kiba's chest, put him down on the floor beside him, and knelled next to Kiba. "You okay there Kiba?"
Kiba blinked a few times and tried to sit up. "I think so. Banged my head kinda hard though."
"That's what you get..." grumbled Akamaru.
Naruto helped Kiba stand up and led Kiba to the couch. Kiba was a little shaky on his feet so he hung on to Naruto's arm the whole time. Naruto ran back to close the door and stopped off in the bathroom to grab a bottle of asprin. He placed thebottle on the coffee table in front of Kiba and went to get a glass of water. Kiba rubbed the back of his head and reached for the bottle. He took the glass Naruto handed him and took a few pills. Naruto sat down next to him and looked at the spot where he landed. "Well, at least you didn't cut your head open." He rubbed the spot lightly. "Skulls not cracked, thats good. Gunna be one hell of a knot there by tommarow though." Kiba sighed and drank a little more water. "Leave it to a cranky Akamaru to ruin a perfectly good evening. Well, cranky Akamaru and psychotic Iruka anyway." Naruto nodded, "Thats just the way life is sometimes."
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There wasn't much to do accept to watch TV now that the sun had set. Kiba lay with his head in Naruto's lap as they flipped channels and Kiba waited for the asprin to take effect. That bang to the head had left him with a splitting headache. The fact that he still had a headache over 2 hours later concerned Naruto somewhat, having delt with several concusions during his lifetime and knowing the signs quiet well, but he decided not to say anything. Yet anyway. If Kiba's headache didn't get better soon he was going to call Sakura and have her come over to check him out.
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And of course it didn't. If anything it got worse as time passed. Kiba didn't say anything about it though, not wanting to worry Naruto. Too bad for him the blonde could tell he wasn't feeling any better. It had been three hours since his head had connected with the tile of his floor before Naruto said anything. He looked down at Kiba and frowned, "Kiba, your headache hasn't gone away has it." Kiba looked up and thought for about half a second about lying to him, saying it had and he was feeling better, but something told him not to. "No," he said. "If anything it's gotten worse." Naruto smailed sadly and sighed. "I'm calling Sakura. I want her to take a look at your head. You might just have a concusion." Before Kiba could protest, Naruto picked up the phone and dialed Sakura's number. Twenty minutes later Salura arrived. She took one look at the knot on the back of Kiba's head and said, "Oh yeah, more than likely a concusion. Hopsital. Now." Kiba sighed. He hated hospitals.
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Another hour later and Kiba was laying on a bed waiting to have his head CAT-scanned. It had taken Sakura about 5 minutes to conclude that he did indede have a concusion. Now it was just a matter of finding out how bad a concusion he had. That Kiba hadn't blacked out was a good sign; it ment that he hadn't suffered any major brain damage. Unfortunatly, concusions have a tendency to get worse the more time that passes before treatment. Naruto paced outside the CAT-scan room, waiting for them to bring Kiba out. Sakura stuck her head out and said, "We're done here Naruto. They'll take him back to his room in a minute. Go wait there." Naruto nodded and headed back to Kiba's room.
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Sakura stayed behind to look at the CAT-scans before comming down to tell them the results. She walked in and smiled. "Well Kiba, you got lucky. It was a moderate concusion, but nothing a shot and some bed rest won't fix." Kiba blanched at the mention of a shot, he hated needles.
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Sakura made him stay overnight for observation, adding insult to injury. Three things he hated most, hospitals, shots, and being stuck overnight in a hospital. Only thing that made that night even bearable was that Sakura let Naruto stay with him. Kiba didn't sleep well that night, and was overjoyed when Sakura finally released him the next morning.