Summary: Also known as: The Kids Without Parents. Where I kill everyone's parents for a bit of fluff.
(A/N) Greetings! I, uh, got bored with UP, and no one was reading anyway, so, like, this happened…
Kiba wasn't quite sure why he was being called to the Hokage's office, or why one of his aunts had very quickly insisted he pick a dog. The most recent litter of dogs had been almost four months ago, and was of a much larger breed, experimental, so none had been chosen yet, and as such, Kiba had to pick between dogs bigger than he was.
On the plus side, it did mean he could ride his dog. But only if he could get up onto its back. Which his aunt had helped him with this one time. She had also told him that his dog's name was Keruberosu, which sounded really cool. She said he could figure out what it meant by himself though, so he'd have to find someone really smart! Like his mom! Or his sister! They knew everything!
He wondered again why two animal mask guys were escorting him to the Hokage's office. Maybe his mom and sister were back! They'd been gone forever! Ooh! Now he could ask them what Keruberosu's name meant!
He grinned and bounced a little. Yeah, he'd ask his mom and sister!
The two animal mask guys started smelling sad, and Kiba wondered why. He was going to see his mom and sister... wasn't he?
He wasn't. Kiba stumbled back, leaning against Keruberosu.
"I'm sorry," the Hokage repeated.
Kiba didn't quite get it. His mother and sister were never coming home? But that was so long. They would come home soon, right? This was just a big prank. Like the ones he'd play on big sister. B-but the Hokage was busy, he wouldn't do that, would he? And this was a mean prank. B-but if it couldn't be a prank then what were they gonna do with him?
"You'll be placed in the orphanage until you can have your own apartment," the Hokage said. "In three years, you'll most likely begin the academy. You will receive an apartment then."
One of the animal mask guys picked Kiba up and put him back on Keruberosu.
"The ANBU will help you collect your stuff, then drop you off at the orphanage," the Hokage said. "I'm sorry."
He had already said that, but that didn't make it any better.
Kiba buried his face in Keruberosu's fluffy fur. The dog whimpered slightly, sensing his owner's emotions.
"These are for you, the ANBU will show you how to open them." the Hokage handed two scrolls to Kiba. "Funeral preparations have been taken care of by the clan, so you don't have to worry about that. Dismissed."
The animal mask guys gently escorted Kiba and Keruberosu out into the hall, closing the door behind them.
Kiba had his stuff entirely collected, and put in storage scrolls. As promised, the animal mask guys showed him how to open them and get stuff out, then made him promise to only open the scrolls the Hokage had given him by himself, or in the company of other clan kids.
The sign on the front of the building read 'Nikko's Orphanage for Clan Children'. Kiba wondered why it had to be specifically marked as for clan children. Were there that many orphans?
The animal mask guys gave some papers to the lady at the front, then some other lady came and gestured for him to follow her.
Kiba was still riding Keruberosu, and the dog followed the lady without any prompting.
"You'll be sharing a room with Shikamaru Nara, and Naruto Uzumaki," the lady said, gesturing to the door at the end of the hallway. Ask them if you need anything."
Kiba somehow managed to slide off of Keruberosu, landing on his feet and knocking on the door.
A kid opened it. "You really don't hafta knock," he told Kiba sternly. "No one else does, so you shouldn't either."
A second kid, this one with black hair, contrasting the bright cheery blond of the kid that opened the door. "That's probably Kiba, Naruto, the matron said he was coming today." The kid yawned, and wandered over to the bed Kiba assumed was his, flopping down in it and starting to snore softly.
Naruto blinked. "Oooooh! Hi then! I'm Naruto, and the lazy butt is Shikamaru!"
"I'm Kiba!" Kiba replied, sticking his hand out. "And this is Keruberosu, my dog!"
Naruto took Kiba's hand absently, gaping at Keruberosu. "He's massive! D'ya think all three of us could fit on his back?"
Keruberosu barked in amusement. Kiba translated. "Keruberosu says he thinks he could fit us three with room enough to spare for one of his littermates."
Naruto's mouth fell open wider. "Woah! We should totally try sometime!"
"You gonna let them in?" Shikamaru asked lazily, turning his head to look at them.
Naruto squawked and flailed, but moved out of the way. "Why didn't you tell me before!"
"You were too busy staring at the dog," Shikamaru mumbled into his pillow.
Kiba carefully entered the room, glancing around. It was simple, three beds, three dressers, three desks. Plain off white walls liberally splattered with random stains, a window, and assorted drawings tacked up on the walls.
"That over there's your bed!" Naruto chirped, pointing to the one that wasn't messed up. "It took 'em ages to figure out how to put it together, it was so funny!"
"They didn't like Naruto laughing at them," Shikamaru drawled, staring at Kiba again. "Not at all."
"Adults don't usually like it when you laugh at them," Kiba told Naruto. "My-my mom'd always scold me 'n my sister if we laughed at her."
"They don't really care what you do here," Naruto told him. "They mostly ignore me 'n Shika."
"They probably realized how futile it was trying to make me do anything," Shikamaru muttered, stretching out like a lazy cat in a sunbeam.
"'N they just hate me," Naruto said like it was the simplest fact in the universe.
"I'm sure they don't hate you," Kiba denied. "Mom always ignores us when we're bein annoying-er" he stuttered to a halt, remembering mom wasn't coming back, she wouldn't be able to ignore him when he got too loud any more.
Naruto hugged him suddenly. "It's okay! I don't mind. 'Cause if they hate me, they won't hate some other kid! And I'm okay with that." He took a slight step back and grinned ear to ear.
Kiba sniffled a bit, then was nearly bowled over by Keruberosu. The dog knocked him down, then sat on him, staring at him with big blue eyes. Kiba giggled a bit, reaching up and wiping away the tears. "You're heavy, y'know that?"
Keruberosu woofed, and Kiba giggled again.
Naruto flopped down on top of both of them. "If it's a cuddle pile you want, you just had t' ask!"
Kiba decided this might not be all bad.
"So what's in those scrolls?" Naruto wondered later that day. "You haven't opened those ones!"
Kiba glanced at the scrolls the Hokage had handed him. He reluctantly dragged them over to him, wriggled out from under the dogpile, and spread them out on the floor in front of him.
He followed the instructions on opening the scrolls, and two swords appeared in a poof of smoke. They were clean and sharp, and there was a book about the care of weapons with them, along with two sheaths.
"Woah!" Naruto shouted, wriggling off of Keruberosu to examine the swords. "What're those!"
"Kiba," Shikamaru answered, showing actual interest for the first time.
"Yeah?" Kiba asked, tilting his head.
Shikamaru sighed. "No, the swords are called Kiba. They're two swords that are supposed to be able to conduct lightning chakra."
"You know everything Shika!" Naruto exclaimed, poking one of the swords.
"No, I really don't," Shikamaru groaned, putting his face back in the pillow. Kiba hoped he didn't suffocate himself. Although it seemed like he knew how to not suffocate himself despite having his face in whatever he'd fallen asleep on.
"Where are they from?" Kiba wondered. "And why did Hokage-sama give them to me?"
Shikamaru sighed and rolled off his bed. "You're probably lucky I was just reading this book."
He dragged a book over to them, plopping down on the floor and opening it to a page with a picture of the swords Kiba had pulled out of the scroll. "Look, they're part of the seven swords of Kiri."
"I think that was where Mom went," Kiba agreed, trying to figure out how to put the swords in the sheaths.
"Try putting them in from the sides," Shikamaru suggested. "And it's very possible Hokage-sama just thought you'd want the swords." The 'because they killed your mom and sister' went unsaid. Kiba didn't think Naruto got it.
"Cool," Naruto decided, deciding to try sheathing the second one.
(A/N) Hi. ...I have nothing to say for myself other than this will end up more cracky and fluffy then you think. Also I have a discord server now, cause, reasons. pnQAF39 is the code. Hope to see you there.
