Naruto Primer: Kiba and Hinata
Stuffed Animal
Ever since his battle with Shino, Kiba has been exploring his sensitive feelings for Hinata. If he was willing to play Rock, Paper, Scissors with someone for hours, he figured there must be something there.
Hinata was oblivious to all reality. But it's not like she knew that Shino and Kiba were battling over her love for hours. She was still getting over her little outing with Neji and looking for Naruto and hacking up a little more blood. But she planned on going back to Build-A-Bear…
Kiba knew that Hinata expressed interest in Build-A-Bear so, being the sensitive, caring guy he is, he decided to explore her interests. While he was there, he built himself a bear since it would be kind of senseless to just go there and NOT build one. Of course, it was actually a dog, but as he walked out of the store with his little box and adoption certificate for his dog that he built, he realized that maybe he should give it to her.
He just so happened to cross paths with Hinata on his way home. Of course, he had planned on this suave little greeting with her that would eventually end up with him giving the bear to her that went a little something like this:
"Hey Hinata!"
"Hi Kiba."
"I was thinking of you today."
"Really? That's so sweet!"
"I made you this because I heard you loved Build-A-Bear so much."
"Wow! It's so cute! You're such a great guy!"
"I know. I know." (Insert kiss here that is quickly followed by a date.)
Of course, it went a little more like this.
Kiba stood there and raised his hand to wave to her. "Hey Hinata…" he started but, all of a sudden, Akamaru popped out of his hood and grabbed the box out of his hand.
"Hi Kiba…" Hinata said nervously.
"Hi Hinata!" Kiba said as he tried to wrench the box out of Akamaru's mouth. Finally, he did, and Akamaru barked a few times. "No, Akamaru! It's not YOURS, I thought we already went through this!" Akamaru barked some more. "Well you can't have this one!!"
"Is this a bad time?" asked Hinata.
"No!" Kiba yelled. "I mean…uh, one second." He looked back at Akamaru who was still barking. "I'll make you one some other time! This one isn't for you!"
"Did you make that bear for Akamaru?" asked Hinata, pointing at the box. "Those things are expensive. Can I see it?"
"Oh, sure!" said Kiba, taking it out of the box and showing it to her. "It's not Akamaru's though, even though he thinks it is."
Akamaru barked.
"No, no it's NOT!" Kiba said angrily.
"It's so cute!" said Hinata.
"You can have it if you want…" said Kiba.
"I couldn't take Akamaru's!" said Hinata.
"But it's not his…" Kiba started but Akamaru barked in interruption. "No, how many times do I have to tell you that it's not yours?!"
"I was actually just on my way to Build-A-Bear." Said Hinata. "And I would ask you to come, but you already went…"
"I NEVER pass up an opportunity to go to Build-A-Bear!" said Kiba.
"Oh, okay then!" said Hinata with a smile.
The fact that Hinata was still carrying the Build-A-Bear dog that Kiba had made offended Akamaru so he barked something to Kiba. "What do you mean it's not fair?!" Kiba demanded. "It wasn't yours in the first place! It was originally for…" Kiba caught himself quickly. "Uh…not you…"
"I'll make Akamaru a bear!" offered Hinata.
"He doesn't need one, he's just being a brat." Kiba said, glaring angrily at Akamaru, who started to bark again. "Don't try to kid yourself, Akamaru. You wouldn't last one day without me!"
Akamaru barked one more time and then jumped out of Kiba's hood and ran off in a random direction. "Don't use that sort of language in front of a lady!" Kiba yelled after him as he turned around and crossed his arms. "That selfish little dog. All over a stuffed animal!"
"Uh…" Hinata said tentatively as she looked behind her to see Akamaru disappearing in the distance. She could tell that Kiba was trying not to care. "Is it really only to let him go off like that?"
"It's his fault." Said Kiba.
"Well I can't go to Build-A-Bear knowing that Akamaru is off all alone." Hinata said. "He sounded awfully angry. Maybe we should go after him."
Kiba was secretly crying on the inside because, as we have told you many a time, he is very sensitive. Plus, he's been through so much with his Akamaru that even when they were only in a little tiff, he felt very sad. "Fine, but only because you want to so much." Kiba said.
Hinata Kiba and Akamaru were ever so close and that he truly wanted to go off and look for him. "Where do you think he went?" she asked.
"How should I know?" Kiba said stubbornly.
"Well, I guess I could use my Byakugan to look in the general direction of where he went and then we can follow him…" Hinata suggested. Kiba chose not to answer so Hinata shrugged and did JUST THAT!! "He's over there." She said.
"Like I care." Said Kiba. "He can stay there for all I care!"
Thus the search for Akamaru began. At first, Kiba was rather reluctant, but a few hours passed by and it began to get dark outside. That's when Kiba started to worry about his poor puppy.
"It's getting kind of late…" Hinata said.
"We can't leave until we find Akamaru!" Kiba said passionately as he continued to search for Akamaru. "AKAMARU!! WHERE ARE YOU?! I'M SORRY I CALLED YOU A BRAT!!!"
"I don't know if he can hear you." Said Hinata. "I mean, if I couldn't find him with my Byakugan and you can't sniff him out then he's probably not near…"
"What if a bear got him?!" Kiba stressed.
"Are there any bears around here…?" Hinata asked quizzically.
"I'm not going home without Akamaru!" Kiba said.
Hinata felt a little bad that all this was happening. She didn't know exactly HOW it had happened, because one minute they were all there hanging out and then there was a stuffed animal and now this is where they were.
"What if he went home?" she tried.
"Right!" said Kiba. "That's where I told him to go if we ever got separated! We have to hurry!!"
Kiba practically sprinted home as Hinata tried her best to keep up. He WANTED to believe that Akamaru would be waiting for him on the front step, but a piece of him told him that Akamaru was gone for good. And even yet, another piece of him said that he was eaten by a bear. Kiba would have to beat up that piece of him later.
Akamaru wasn't outside on the front step, but Kiba still had hope. He swung the front door open. "Akamaru!" he shouted. "I'm sorry!"
But Akamaru wasn't there.
No one greeted him at the door.
Hinata came running over to where Kiba was still standing in the doorway looking depressed.
"He's not here…" Kiba said sadly.
All of a sudden, a little white puppy came strolling nonchalantly around the corner of the house. He barked twice. "Akamaru!" Kiba yelled happily. "You've been here the whole time?!"
Akamaru barked a few times and then leapt into Kiba's arms. Once again, Hinata was there to witness the scene change into a drawing with sunlight and flower petals and all that other stuff.
But then the scene ended. "You're going to get it later when I'm not so overwhelmed with happiness." Kiba said to Akamaru.