I glance at Madara and he at me as we approach the table spread. The food looks delicious, but we also didn't trust it, especially since Kiba had brought up that it wasn't tainted. We look to our kitchen staff, and they nod in the reassurance that he didn't put anything into it since they presumably helped him with it. I sit down at the table after assisting Madara in sitting and look over at the table. Kiba serves each of us a plate of food, there was too much to eat ourselves, so I look at the staff and Kiba as I prepare a napkin over my own lap.
"Please, sit and eat," I say as I motion to the table.
"Are you sure, master Ryuko?" The head of the kitchen staff asks. Kiba was also looking as if he was asking.
I nod, "I am, Madara and I can consume a lot, but even this is too much for the both of us so everyone can grab a plate that assisted in making it or is just kitchen staff," I said.
They all grab a small plate of food and sit at the staff table. Kiba grabs a plate and goes to sit at the staff table, but I motion for him to sit in the seat across from me and beside Madara. He looks nervous as he sits his food down on the table and sits as instructed.
"Why?" Madara asks immediately.
Kiba looks down at his lap and clears his throat, "I was going to bring Ryuko his phone back," he said as he lays my phone on the table, "and I heard you two talking. I realize that I may have been behaving badly or letting my jealousy show. I don't even know why I care so much about you two being together, I barely knew Ryuko before he was kidnapped, but it bothers me, and I decided I needed to find a way to get over myself. However, I also had to prove that I wasn't going to betray the two of you. Even if I had plans to do it, where would I go? No other master would take me, and some other servants informed me that my mother had been killed so I don't have a family to return to," He said quietly.
I look over at him, "Is that really all this behavior is? Jealousy?" I ask as we eat.
Kiba nods, "I, yeah, I am jealous. I thought we were going to be such a happy couple, we'd learned what I thought was everything about one another, and then the slave trade came for you. I think I still felt obligated to love you because of the arranged marriage, but we're not in Konoha anymore. We don't have anything to combine," Kiba said.
I nod, "and I'm in love with Madara. I have been since I was kidnapped," I said as I look at Madara to see him look relieved.
Kiba nods, "I know, I realized that when the sharingan activated. That wasn't just standard sharingan in your eyes, that was the Mangekyou and Sasuke told me that a true loss must be before it can be activated. You activated it at just the thought of losing Madara," Kiba said.
Madara looks at me when he realizes what Kiba said. I bite my lip and look away because of embarrassment, but Madara makes me look at him. He was searching for something showing I was lying by not denying but there would be nothing found. I love
Madara more than my own life and without him I quite literally had nothing. I wasn't scared of having nothing I was scared of losing the one thing that's kept me some semblance of happiness in these last few years. Madara was confused as he looks at Kiba then back at me.
"I don't understand, I mean I do understand how the sharingan works obviously, but I don't understand you, Ryuko," Madara said as he looks at me.
I look at my lap, "I know it's hard to understand and originally I thought maybe I had Stockholm syndrome, from being a constant prisoner and not allowed to see anyone, but I disproved that it was through my own personal tests so I think I just genuinely love you and everything about you. The thought of losing you made everything hurt with depression and anger that someone dare take you from me," I said as I clench my fists.
Kiba nodded quietly, "that's how Sasuke described it too," he said.
Madara kisses my head but I wouldn't look at him out of embarrassment. I'm glad Kiba wasn't going to betray us but I definitely wish he wouldn't have exposed me as he did.