I Wonder What It's Like

Chapter 25

"Wow, I didn't realize you were such a bitch," Sakura's voice chimed after a moment of awkward silence. Hinata turned and looked into Sakura's emerald eyes.

"You're in my house, Sakura. If you're going to speak that way to me, you can leave. Now," Her voice was cold and she waited to see if Sakura would move.

"I was invited in. I'm not leaving," She sneered. "Does being a bitch make up for being a lonely little girl for so long? Or does it bother you that Kiba has slept with most of the female population except for you?" Sakura smirked evilly as she stood her ground.

"I won't deny, losing Kiba as a friend hurt. But I personally don't care in his female choice, although if he slept with you he may want to get checked out for STDs," Hinata found herself smirking smugly at Sakura's angered expression. "But that has nothing to do with me asking you to leave. And it doesn't matter if you were invited in, I'm kicking you out. Now leave, or I will find a way to make you." Hinata stated as her glare intensified.

"I think you should leave, Sakura," Tenten's cold voice surprised some of the people in the room.

"Oh and suddenly you're Hinata's BFF?" Sakura spat venomously.

"Hinata has always been a real friend. You only wanted to be friends with me to get closer to Neji and the guys," Tenten stated quietly. "And I'm sure Neji will agree with Hinata right now, it's time for you to leave." Tenten crossed her arms and glared.

"Actually, I think that's a good idea. Sakura, you need to leave. Now." Neji stated with a frown. Sakura growled at the three and headed out towards the front door leaving everyone to stand there quietly.

"Thanks Tenten," Hinata smiled as she turned around to finish working on her pizza.

"I honestly don't know how you can be friends with that…thing." Tenten grumbled towards Neji. When Neji went to answer she got a call from a friend about a project. "I have to go. I promised Lee I'd help with our project today. I'll talk to you later Neji. Bye Hinata," Tenten walked over to the girl in question and hugged her lightly, smiling when Hinata returned the gesture.

After Tenten left, Neji and his group of friends all headed back to the living room to watch something, the only person who had remained in the kitchen was Kiba. He stood there and watched as Hinata placed the pizza into the oven and went back to sitting next to Shino.

"So how was the entomology program?" She found herself asking just to start talking before Kiba could start all his fake apologies.

"It was good. I liked it, I'm kind of sad it's over. But I'm happy to be back. I missed it here," He smiled at Hinata and she returned the gesture. "So other than obtaining a boyfriend, what else have you been up to?"

"Just getting through junior year of high school. Not looking forward to Senior year like everyone else is," She admitted with a chuckle. "Don't want to deal with Sakura or any of them. I'm tired of all the fakeness and being looked down on because I'm not part of the popular group."

"Understandable," Shino nodded. "At least it's just one more year, and then hopefully most of them will choose a different college," Hinata smiled at that thought.

She went to go speak up but Kiba beat her to the punch. "I know you guys don't want to hear it now, and it will take a lot of work… But I do plan on making it up to you. I've been a terrible friend, and I can understand why I don't even hold that title anymore. But I will figure out a way to fix things. Even if it means losing popularity or other friends. I never meant to let it get to my head," He finished in a mumble.

Shino and Hinata glanced at each other before looking back over at Kiba. He gave a small smile before speaking again. "Well I should get going. I need to go walk Akamaru and figure out my plans for fixing our friendships. It was nice seeing you again Shino, and once again, I'm really sorry, Hinata." His soft tone made it hard not to believe him as he walked out the front door.

"Well, what do you think about that?" Shino asked, his voice as soft as Kiba's was.

"I guess we'll see," Hinata stated as she frowned in confusion. Kiba had been one of her best friends, but what he did had really hurt her. Was she really willing to let him back into her life? She shook her head, she would have to wait and see what kind of things he did to make it up to her. The timer went off and she brought the pizza out of the oven without another thought towards the current Kiba situation.

After the pizza, Shino and Hinata had decided to go catch a movie. It had been a stupid movie that they had decided to laugh at and make fun of the whole time. Something that they used to do when they were younger and there weren't any good movies to go and see. The credits were now rolling and the two were shaking their heads. "Well that's an hour and a half that I'm never going to get back," Hinata whined jokingly as the two stood up and headed for the exit.

"Yeah, what a waste of eight dollars and fifty cents," Shino agreed. The two walked out of the theater and headed for Shino's car. "You know…Suna isn't that long a drive away… You could totally introduce me to your boyfriend," Shino smirked as Hinata's cheeks heated up.

"It's rude to just show up unannounced," She pointed out as she covered her cheeks trying to make the heat in them die down.

"Then call and ask if tonight would be a good night to come out and visit," Shino added with a bigger smirk as he pulled on his familiar shades.

"You're killing me, Shino," Hinata grumbled as she pulled out her phone. She sighed when she saw she had a text from Gaara asking her to call him when she got the chance. This just upped Shino's chances of the two of them going to Suna together.

"It'll be fun. We can walk around Suna or do something fun. Maybe even stay the night at a hotel or something… It's the summer, we have to do something extremely fun before school starts back up again," He reasoned somewhat out of character. "Besides, if we're in a different city, we don't have to deal with Kiba for the night!"

Shino had a good point with that reasoning. Knowing Kiba, as long as his personality didn't change too much in the years they hadn't been friends, he would start bugging them tonight with all of his apologies and reasoning on why they should be friends again. Hinata groaned and shoved Shino lightly and brought her phone up so she could hit call.

Gaara glanced down at the caller id as his phone range, he then excused himself quietly from the living room he and his siblings had been watching a movie in. He walked out the front door and leaned against the wall before answering the phone. "Hey Hinata," He found himself smiling right after saying her name.

"Hey, how have you been?" She asked. She sounded somewhat flustered.

"Pretty good. Bored, like I've said before…Hanging out with my brother and sister for too long can get really boring after awhile," He chuckled. She laughed softly as well.

"And as I've mentioned before, trust me…I know," She paused for a moment and he could hear someone asking her to ask something. "Okay, okay. Stop it," She muttered to what he assumed was the person talking to her on the other end. "So my friend Shino came back for the summer and I'm hanging out with him at the moment."

Gaara sighed. He had a feeling that this conversation was going to end quickly. "Hey, I'm sorry, if you want we can talk later. I didn't mean to interrupt any friend time."

"Oh no, he's been bugging me to call you for the last half hour," She laughed. "And if you could see the look he's giving me right now, you'd be laughing too. Anyway, he wants to meet you and is also trying to avoid Kiba, because Kiba is trying to apologize to us about being a lousy friend for the last few years, and was wondering if we could drive out to Suna and meet up," She paused and he could tell she was either biting her lip or giving her friend Shino a nervous look.

"That's cool with me, we could hang out at my place or figure something out to do. Suna is full of tons of randomly fun things," Gaara stated quickly so that Hinata couldn't take back her question. "Plus Temari will be excited you're coming up," He grinned knowing his sister would be just as happy as he would be to not have to deal with just siblings for awhile.

"Sweet," Hinata replied back in a somewhat defeated tone. "Well, I'll call you again when we're in town," She let out a sigh. "Hope you guys end up liking each other and this isn't a super awkward visit."

"Don't worry, I'm sure we'll be fine. See you in a bit," He grinned as Temari walked outside. The two hung up and he smirked at his sister. "Hinata and a friend are going to come up and visit for awhile."

"Oh good. I'm getting tired of Kankuro's jokes and only seeing the two of you….I need a female," She sighed as Hinata laughed.

"Well it'll be about an hour or so, but she'll be here soon."

A/n: Okay, so I know it's been awhile. And I'm really sorry. School has been crazy and work too. Plus I haven't been sure what I wanted to do with this chapter. I had to figure out how I wanted Kiba to act and how to have other people respond to that. Hopefully the length somewhat makes up for the lateness? I think this is relatively longer than my chapters usually end up being. Thanks for reading and let me know what you think! Any ideas for what Gaara, Shino and Hinata should do when they all meet up in Suna?

Thanks again. Hoping to update sometime within the next month or so. All depends on the workload.

Also thanks for all the reviews, they always help motivate.

Katie