AN: Here's the 21st chapter. I personally think this chapter is quit boring but you get to know, for you who ever saw my drawings, why I always draw Kankuro with a nipple ring! XD

Early in the morning, Kiba had to leave. He kissed his boyfriend good bye, went to his place to get Akamaru and left Konoha with his team mates Shino and Hinata. Since he had to tell everyone about his relationship with Kankuro, he started to think of the best way to let people know. The worst was done; he had told his mother about him being gay. Now to see how everyone else would react. He decided he'd tell Hinata and Shino first since they've been close for a bit.

'I guess now would be the perfect time to let them know...' Kiba thought to himself as he followed Shino. 'But what if they... No, it's now or never!'

"K-Kiba is something wrong?" Hinata asked softly.
"Uh? Oh.. Nah.. Nothing's wrong." Kiba said.
"You- You've just been awfully quiet since we left Konoha... You- you sure you're ok?" Hinata asked again concerned about her friend.
"Yeah I'm fine, don't worry... I'm just thinking a lot..." 'Ok, say it... Now!' "I just think I'm in love." Kiba finally said.
"Kiba you don't 'Think' you're in love, you are or you are not... Who is it?" Shino asked even though he already knew who his team mate was in love with.
"..." Kiba blushed deeply.
"Never mind, you don't have to say it, we know already know it... it's that Kankuro right?" Shino said.
"...H-How did you know?" Kiba asked.
"K-Kiba, there are some things that you can't hide us... and *Ahem* there's also those weird string like marks on your wrists..." Hinata blushed. "A-Any-anyways, I'm happy for you two... I-I don't know h-him that much but he got one of the best man he could get, and if you're happy with him- That's all that matters to us." She shyly said.
"Like she said..." Shino said, approving what Hinata had just said.
"Whoa thanks a lot guys! I feel a lot better already." Kiba said, rubbing at the marks around his wrists. They all kept on going with the mission.

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Once Kiba left his bed, Kankuro felt lonely. He couldn't sleep anymore, so he got up and sat down in front of the TV for a bit. It was still too early to start working on Karasu, neighbors would complain about the noise, and the streets were empty so he wouldn't find anyone interesting to hang out with, so he just staid there watching some early morning TV show. After a bit he started to fall asleep again, and since he had nothing on the schedule for that day and Kiba was gone for at least 2 weeks he didn't fight to stay awake. All he could dream about for the few hours he was asleep was Kiba, he'd fuck the boy in every possible ways, over and over again. He didn't want to wake up, but was forced to as he felt something wet between his legs. he looked down only to see his right hand was wrapped around his still clothed now limp member; he had came in his boxers.

"Lame..." He said to himself softly as he got up and walked to his bedroom to get changed.

He applied his usual face paint and put on his hat. Once he got changed he decided he go walk around the village for a bit, he really needed to get familiar with the place. As he walked through the village, he saw some familiar faces, but none that he could even remember the name, so he didn't stop to talk to them, until he saw Shikamaru. He was happy to finally see someone he knew.

"Hey Shikamaru!" Kankuro said as he walked to him.
"Hey how are you?" Shikamaru said.
"I'm not bad, just bored as hell"
"I can understand that, hey I don't have much time to talk to you right now, but... what are you doing tonight?"
"Oh well I have an appointment with my couch at 7:15 and planed on going to visit the toilet a couple of time, then big meeting with my bed, why?" Kankuro stupidly asked
"haha look like you're quite busy. I just wanted to know if you wanted to come over to my place, I'm having some friends over and I thought you'd be bored so you'd want to come by." Shikamaru offered.
"Well I'll try to get free for tonight." Kankuro said. He didn't like to go to any party since most of the time he ended up fighting with someone, but he wasn't in Suna anymore, maybe it was a good time for him to make some friends.
"Alright, at... lets say 8: 30 at my place, when you walk out of you apartment, you turn left and walk to the main street and turn left again, you keep on walking until you see the grocery store then you turn right, my house is the third one on your left. I'll see you later." Shikamaru explained quickly before leaving.
"... Ok, I try to remember that! See you later!" Kankuro said trying to remember what he just said. Shikamaru would have remembered something like that, but he tended to forget he was talking to regular people.

Kankuro just kept on walking. He wandered around Konoha for a few hours and decided he'd stop in a quite place to relax a bit. Never in his life had he thought he'd be that bored by himself. He walked in the park where he thought he wouldn't be bothered, he noticed Tsume was there walking her dogs. He wanted to turn and walk away, but it was too late, she saw him.

"Hey Kankuro." Tsume greeted him.
"Good morning Miss Inuzuka." Kankuro said politely.
"Come on, seeing how close you and my son are, I think you can call me Tsume." She said with a smile.
"So, you know..." Kankuro felt so awkward at that very moment, he just wanted to disappear.
"Yes I do, Kiba told me...Come on, don't take it like that, I won't kill you for going out with my son, except if you break his heart..." That didn't help Kankuro feel more comfortable around her at all, and she could smell it, so she tried to change the subject. "So how do you like Konoha so far?" She asked.
"It's nice, it's different than Suna, but I like it." The young male said with a smile.
"Great! Do you want to come over for dinner tonight?" Tsume asked him.
'Oh god no. That would be too freaking awkward...' "Sorry I have something planed with a friend tonight, maybe another time." He said as a mater of fact.
"Oh you already have friends around here?" She asked curiously.
"Well my sister's boyfriend lives here, you probably know him, it's Shikamaru." He said, happy to know him.
"Shik-a-maru... Oh yeah Naara?"
"Yes." The Jonin said.
"Oh ok then, well you're welcome when ever you want Kankuro! Now I'll get going, I have some house cleaning to do while Kiba's away." She said as she walked away with her dogs.
"Ok, Take care Tsume!" Kankuro said waving at her, finally happy she was leaving.

Tsume smiled at him and walk away. Kankuro walked to the nearest tree and sat down under it. He just listened to the sound of the wind running through the leaves and closed his eyes. After a bit, he got sick of earring children playing in the park so he decided he'd go somewhere else. He was officially bored to death, so he decided to go back home and work on Karasu until going to meet Shikamaru. Once he was at home, he turned on the stereo again, plugged his MP3 and worked on his puppet. A couple of hours as passed and he was now testing his puppet. He ran outside and tried to control it. Karasu was working like it use to, he was so proud and happy; everything was perfect, even the 'tak tak tak' noise could be heard as it did before the attack.

"Fuck you Sasori!" Kankuro said to himself, smiling from an ear to another. He walked back inside and checked what time it was. "Damn I'll be late..." Kankuro said as he ran to the washroom for a quick shower.

He walked out, reapplied his face paint properly, grabbed something to eat, brushed his teeth and walked out, locking the door behind him. He turned left and tried to remember where Shikamaru told him to go.

"Damn it... Ok, he talked about a groceries store, there's only one that I know of, let's go there..."

Kankuro walked to the grocery store and decided he'd grab some beer since he was there. He then walked out and he saw a familiar face; one of the guys that took the exams with him a couple of years ago. Maybe he could help him to find Shikamaru's place.

"Hey, 'excuse me, do you know where Shikamaru lives?" Kankuro casually asked him.
"I was just going there... just come with me..." The boy said.

They both walked to Shikamaru's apartment.

"Hey Chouji, Kankuro! Come inside!" Shikamaru said, obviously he already started the party.

Once Kankuro walked inside, he noticed Naruto and Sakura were there, at least he would have someone to talk to even though Naruto wasn't really someone he wanted to talk to. Beside Naruto and Sakura, there wasn't anyone else he knew. Shikamaru made the intro to the only two people Kankuro didn't know. There was Chouji, Ino, Naruto and Sakura.

"Hey there Kankuro!" Sakura said as she saw him walking in the living room.
"Hey doll boy... How's it going?" Naruto asked.
"Meh... you're village is boring man!" Kankuro said as he sat down next to Naruto on the couch.
"That's 'cause you have no friend here fucker..." Naruto answered.
"Don't remind me…" He answered, taking some beer out of his pack and offered one to Sakura who refused it and one to Naruto who took it and got one for himself.

The two of them just kept on arguing with each others the whole time, Sakura had to interfere a couple of time, they both liked picking on the other one. As the night went on, they all got really drunk. Everyone's attention was now on Shikamaru and Ino who were talking about piercings.

"There's one piercing I really want to get, the navel, I totally love it." Ino said.
"I can do it for you if you want... have some barbell somewhere, my mom use to have her navel done too." Shikamaru offered.
"Are you fucking crazy! There's no way I let you do that, you're fucking drunk!" She said loudly.
"Come on Ino, it's just a stupid piercing, he won't kill you!" Kankuro yelled, obviously really drunk.
"Why don't you do it?" Ino yelled back at Kankuro.
"Are you daring me to?" Kankuro asked with a serious expression on his face.
"Uh uh!" She said nodding.
"Then bring it on! But you gotta get you navel done too!" Kankuro yelled as he got up.
"Hn! You'll chicken out!" She answered looking away her arms crossed over her chest.
"You don't know me yet missy... Go grab you piercing stuff!" Kankuro ordered Shikamaru who went treasure hunting in his parents bedroom and came back after ten minutes.
"There, I have 1 ring and 2 barbells"
"Ladies first, witch one do you want?" Kankuro asked.
"I'll take this one, the barbell... But you're the one who goes first." She said, hoping he'd change is mind.
"Of course. I'll take the ring..." Kankuro said.
"Ok, I'll go clean it..." Shikamaru said as he walked away with the stuff he needed.
"You guys are crazy..." Sakura said.
"You should get one too Sakura!" Ino said.
"No way..." She answered. Shikamaru came back a couple of minutes later with tinny clamp and 2 large sewing pins.
"So who's first?" He asked as he walked back in the room, thinking one of them might have changed their mind.
"Guess that'd be me... I'll get the nipple..." Kankuro said as he took off his shirt and sat down in front of Shikamaru.
"Why am I not surprised." Naruto said rolling his eyes.
"Shut up!" Kankuro ordered.

Shikamaru wiped the nipple area with a cloth and some alcohol and pulled Kankuro's left nipple with the cold clamp. Everyone else was looking.

"Ready"
"Shut up, just do it..." Kankuro bit his lower lip and squint as he felt the needle go through his skin. "Son of a bitch..." Kankuro whispered as Shikamaru moved the needle out and put on the ring.
"There... You're sister will kill me if she learn I did that." Shikamaru said.
"...I won't tell her don't worry. Next!" Kankuro said as he looked over to Ino.
"Damn it, I can't believe you're making me do this." Ino said as she lay down on the couch.

Shikamaru kneeled down next to her, she lifted her shirt a bit, Shikamaru grabbed the piece of skin with the clamp and pulled on it softly.

"I trust you Shikamaru, better not mess it up!" Ino said loudly. Shikamaru was better not messing up, she'd kill him.
"Don't worry. Ready?" Shikamaru said, not really waiting for an answer.
"No..." Ino said biting her lips as she felt the needle going through. "OOOWWW Damn it!" She almost yelled.
"Stop squirming!" Shikamaru ordered.
"S-sorry... fuck, it hurt." She said, resting her head on the couch.
"There, all done..." Shikamaru said as he tightened the balls so it wouldn't fall off.
"I don't- feel too well..." Ino said as she got up and ran to the bathroom.
"I can't believe you guys just did that." Chouji said.

The party went on, they all continued to drink for the rest of the party until no one could take it anymore. Around 2:40 everyone was going back home. Chouji walked Ino back home and Kankuro walked with Sakura and Naruto.

"It's ok Naruto, Kankuro will walk me back home, we live on the same street..." Sakura said as they walked in front of Naruto's apartment.
"You sure?" Naruto asked.
"Come on, I won't rape her or anything, I'm fucking Kiba for Christ sakes." Kankuro said, not thinking about Sakura anymore.
"What!" She almost yelled.
"Kiba won't be happy!" Naruto giggled as he unlocked the door. "See ya!"
"Damn it... look, can you keep that for yourself until Kiba say it to you please? He'll kill me if he-" Kankuro tried to explain.
"Have you guys been... doing it for a while?" Sakura asked as they kept on walking.
"Since that night I first hung out with you guys." Kankuro said, blushing lightly.
"I see... I'm so blind! but now that I think of it, he was a bit different... did you ever got checked?" Sakura asked.
"Checked?" Kankuro asked not really sure what she was talking about.
"Oh god... I'm not the one who should be talking to you about that." Sakura said embarrassed. Then again who would be supposed to, both of Kankuro's parents were dead now.
"I never had any unprotected relation with anyone before him if that's what you implying." Kankuro said, really not wanting to have this conversation with the pink haired girl.
"But you know that you still can have something right?" Sakura insisted.
"Please someone kill me..." Kankuro said with a loud sigh.
"Kankuro, its important... look, I won't talk about that to anyone, you should just go get check before he come back from his mission. I have access to any medical file at the hospital; I know Tsume forced him to go get checked last year, so he should be clean, but still-" Sakura started.
"All right, all right! I will. fuck, I hate going to the hospital... I'll probably cost me a lot since I'm not from around here right?" Kankuro asked, giving up.
"Nah, just say I sent you, they'll let you in for maybe like 200Ryo." Sakura said, smiling at him.
"I see. Ok, well... There you are." Kankuro said as he stopped in front of Sakura's house.
"Thanks for walking me home Kankuro. You better go to the hospital, if you don't I'll know it." She said looking at him before turning away to walk in her house.
"I will. G'night"
"See ya!" She waved at him.

Kankuro walked back to his apartment trying to walk as straight as he could, so no one would notice that he was drunk. It's not as if there was anyone outside to notice it at this time of the night, but he still tried to convince himself he was ok. Once he got back home, he locked the door behind him and went to bed immediately, he didn't even took off his cloths or face paint, he just collapses in his bed, falling asleep as soon as his face met the pillow.

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Kiba and his team mates have been walking for 3 days now, and they were all exhausted, so de decided to call it a day and set up the camp for the night. They'd all be sleeping in a big tent; they set up a fire place and set there until they'd get tired.

"I have a wired feeling about that mission..." Shino said quietly looking at the fire.
"What do you mean?" Kiba asked.
"I don't know, it just seems strange that since we left, we haven't met any travelers or rogue ninjas."
"It's true... I guess we're just being lucky." Kiba enthusiastically said.
"Or some one is watching over us... Hinata!" Shino said lifting a finger slowly so no one except them could see it.
"... Biakugan! t-that can't be possible." She said looking in front of her.
"What is it?" Kiba asked.
"F-four person, around us... they're not coming for us; they're just standing there"
"B-But I can't smell anything?" Kiba said confused.
"I don't know who they are, but let's pretend we haven't noticed them for now, if they didn't attack us yet there's a reason." Shino said.

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It's been almost 2 weeks Kiba and his team-mates left and besides partying with Shikamaru, Kankuro was really bored and needed something bigger than regular entertaining. Even if he had fixed his puppet, Kankuro decided he'd be training everyday without his puppet. He wanted to prove Kiba he was worth something even without them. The only person that was willing to train with him was Chouji; Strong, but not much of a challenge speed wise, but still he was training. At first Kankuro thought Chouji was going a little to easy on him and he found the right trick to make him attack with all he got, he just kept on calling him fatty for a couple of days.

"So, same time tomorrow?" Chouji asked once Kankuro decided he had enough training.
"Nah I have an appointment tomorrow morning." Kankuro said remembering he had to go to the hospital for some tests.
"Really? With whom?" Chouji asked.
"It's none of your business Fatty." Kankuro said walking away.
"I'm NOT FAAT!" Chouji yelled, steam almost coming out of his ears.
"OK, OK! Sorry! Stop!" Kankuro said before Chouji had time to perform any other expansion jutsu on him again.

The next morning, Kankuro had to go to the hospital for his check up before Kiba come back from his mission. He got up, took a shower, put on his face paint and walked to the hospital.

"Good morning, how may I help you?" The lady at the reception asked.
"I... am here to get checked... Sakura sent me." Kankuro said uneasily.
"Oh yes, she told me you'd be coming, you're Kankuro right?" She asked with a smile.
"Yes."
"Please wait here for a moment..." She said as she walked in the back to get his medical file ready.

Kankuro felt so awkward, he wish he didn't have to go through this, but Sakura was right, he had to get it over with as soon as possible.

'What the hell am I suppose do I tell Kiba if ever I have something? Fuck, he'll kill me for sure... Ok, calm down... There's nothing to worry about.' Kankuro thought to himself before a nurse call his name.