Hey there peoples! Sorry it took me so long to update, I was having a bad case of writers block. Anywho, I forgot to put in on the last chapter that I don't own Naruto

Kiba: yeah, because if she did it would be aloooot different

Shikamaru: feh, that's for sure

Me: WAH, leave me alone!

Yeah so, I will apologize ahead of time before you read this chapter that I might change the character's personalities from what you would expect or are used to. And I am SORRY but hopefully it won't make that big of a difference.

It had been a week since Rikka had arrived at Konoha and things were…to say the least, awkward. The couple-to-be hardly exchanged words because they had no idea what to say to each other without encountering a long silence. So they just steered clear of each other.

Kiba had just left to train with his team, leaving Rikka to find her new teaching job for while she stayed in the village. Because in Rikka's village they trained a lot faster so she was already a chuunin. So now she was going to teach. The young red head walked into the ninja academy with Buru at her side of course. After some searching she was able to locate the office. "Um, are you master Iruka?" she asked a tall man who, at the moment, was looking over papers and scores. The dark haired shinobi looked up and smiled at her.

"Yes, you must be Rikka. It'll be nice to have someone else to help teach the students" he said and stood up, shaking Rikka's hand. Buru growled a warning not to touch her but Rikka looked down at the husky and glared at him, commanding that he stop.

Shino shook his head, his smile hid by his large jacket. He was sitting on a park bench while Kiba paced and ranted.

"I mean yeah, I'm glad to see her. She was like my best friend back in the day. But fiancé! I don't know what to do Shino!"

This kind of babble went on for quite some time. And Shino, soon joined by Hinata listened to it all. That was the perk of having quiet friends: they made good listeners. That was until Kurenai showed up, then the team went to training; leaving Kiba to only think about his troubles, not discuss them.

"Okay class, this is master Inureitou. She'll be my assistant teacher starting today". Iruka informed the class of young academy students. Rikka smiled and gave a small wave to the class.

Later in the evening-

"Hey Kiba, how was training?" Rikka asked from the kitchen when she heard the front door open and close; signaling the arrival of her fiancé.

"Eh, it was okay. Training was usual I guess"

he replied as he walked into the kitchen, sniffing the air. "You cooking something?" he asked, looking over at the redhead who was sitting at the bar, reading a cookbook.

"Yeah, your sister went out on a mission so I'm making dinner…She'll be back in a few days" she said casually, not looking up from the book.

"O-oh, okay…" Kiba on the outside looked pretty calm. But on the inside he was in absolute panic 'oh my God, its just us in the house! Me and Rikka, in the house alone! Not good…not good!'

"Hey, sir daydreamer. Come help me with this…" Rikka called over to Kiba. He looked over at her with suspicion before walking over as he was told.

"Uh sure. What do you need?" he asked, now standing next to Rikka.

"Here," she handed him to eggs. "Scramble those for me" she ordered and went digging through the pantry.

"But I can't coo-" Kiba started until Rikka sighed heavily, going back over to him with a box of rice in her hand.

"I'll show you. Its really easy to do" she said and smiled, taking the eggs back and cracking them into a pan on the stove. "Now watch, all you really do is move the eggs around while they cook so they don't burn. It's not very difficult" she said while she demonstrated what she was talking about. Kiba silently watched and listened. "Okay, now you take over" she said, handing him the spatula.

"Oh but I can't…"

"Sure you can. Don't worry about it, their just eggs" she said reassuringly and gave his hair a friendly ruffle; causing Kiba to blush. Rikka giggled and turned her attention to cooking the rice. "So Kiba, can I meet your friends sometime?" Rikka asked, now almost done cooking the rice.

"Ummm…yeah, sure" Kiba replied after some thought. What would it hurt for her to meet the others? Rikka smiled happily as she served some of the fried rice to him.

"Thanks a lot Kiba"

"No problem" he said, now a little embarrassed by the thanks. While the two ate they made short conversation. "So. How was the academy? You found it alright didn't you?" Kiba asked, glancing over at Rikka who sat at the table across from him.

"Yeah. It was pretty good," she said, pausing to eat a bite of food "It's really fun to work with kids" Kiba snorted in mid-chew.

"Sure…" he said after swallowing.

"I'm serious!" she said, taking her and Kiba's empty bowls and putting them in the sink. Kiba laughed and stood up.

"Okay, it is…" he said, knowing its better not to argue. "Well, we should get to bed. Its getting late,"

"Yeah, yeah…" Rikka smiled at Kiba after they had gone upstairs. "Well, goodnight" she said, opening her bedroom door and letting Buru in.

"Night…" Kiba replied, half yawning as he walked into his room.

TBC

Hope you guys like it. I stayed up till 3 in the morning writing this and the next chapter. But I'm not done editing it so it won't be out for a while. Sorry about making the academy visit so short in the reading. I'll try to make a good chunk of a chapter on that if you want. LET ME KNOW. Anyways, hope you enjoyed this chapter R&R always welcome. And I'll talk to you guys later.