A/N: Kiba Fight Scene Redone!

Please tell me if I got it slightly better than the last one, this time. To be honest, I really did read through the Kiba chapter again and just realized how ugly it sounded. Like WTF was I on when I wrote that, huh? Oh god, well I hope this fixes the problem. I don't hate Kiba, I love the guy, and I just hoped I could have some roughness in his fight.

Tell me how I've done!

Chapter One – Brute Force Fighting! Inuzuka Kiba!
(Heavy Violence by: Toshiro Masuda)

The forests around Konoha had always been famous for two things amongst us locals: danger and irony.

Danger was self-explanatory- any forest that surrounded a ninja's home was always full of hostility, hence the need for defenders to be on patrol for foreign ninja at all times. The forest around our home had always been the site of many of Konoha's battles.

The irony of the forest, on the other hand, wasn't so easy to explain.

My first day in Konoha still confuses me when I think about it. It felt like walking through a black, gaping hole and entering a maze of questions that could never end.

It all started when I knelt down by a small river to have a drink and take a break. I had been hiking for about a day and a half, having taken a slow, easy pace to reach here. I took off the simple, black headband that kept my hair in place, and dipped it into the refreshing crispness of the running water. As I stared at the huge, stonewalls of my old home, an impulse brought my hand up to feel the naked skin on my forehead.

I had long since stopped wearing the forehead protector that Konoha had given me when I had graduated from the academy. To be honest, I had only remembered it recently, while I was packing my bag to get here. The last time I had felt its metal was before my training with Jiraiya had begun.

'Take off your protector,' Jiraiya had ordered me. 'It will only get in the way.'

I didn't bother to question the dubious claim. I did as I was told. I thought it would be gone for a few weeks, maybe two months max, but I ended up not wearing it for five whole years. It felt way too nostalgic to put it back on now.

As I was pondering on that thought, I felt the presence of a large, ferocious creature, side up next to me to drink at the river. I thought it was a wolf or some sort of tiger.

I peered out the corner of my eye.

The 'wolf' was smaller than I expected, but its appearance seemed wild and untamable. It also seemed familiar. I stopped drinking from the river and turned to face the creature.

"Akamaru?"

'It's Kiba's crazy, little dog,' I thought to myself.

It felt good to see an old nin-comrade, even if it wasn't human.

The small, white pooch kept sucking at the water in the small river.

"Hey boy, I'm finally back in Konoha and you're the first Konoha Nin I see. How have things been around here, back at home? You taking care of yourself, boy? Where's that crazy mutt-face you call a master? Where is he? Ohhh, where is he boy? Where is he?"

Okay, I got a bit carried away with my doggy-talk. As I saddled up closer towards him so that I could pat him, he remained motionless and deaf to my words.

Only when I got too close, I got in trouble.

My hand had just about reached the fur on his back when his face suddenly whipped around and his jaw snapped at my fingers. I drew my hand away just in time to hear the 'chomp' sound miss my fingernails by inches.

Then the stupid dog returned to his drinking as if nothing had happened.

"Akamaru? Damn! That was close, man! What the hell? Take it easy I just wanna-"

I brought my fingers closer to pat him, even more carefully this time.

Then I heard the dog begin to growl angrily, as if it could sense my hand coming nearer. I pulled my hand back just as a second 'chomp' noise came out of nowhere and threatened to tear my fingers from their joints. I groaned at the mutt.

"Geeze, you used to like me, remember? What happened to you?"

Then I heard a voice, from the greenery above. I looked up at the branches to see a young man with some crazy facial hair perched on one of the larger branches above the river.

"Naruto? Uzumaki Naruto?" A familiar voice asked.

"Yes…?" I trailed off.

The figure jumped down. With a closer look, it was much easier to determine who it was: his hair had grown slightly longer and unruly and his clothes were a bit different, but there wasn't a doubt in my mind that I was staring into the eyes of an old friend.

Inuzuka Kiba.

"Geeze… it's been five years, Naruto," Kiba wheezed in disbelief.

I laughed, "Things haven't changed much, have they? Looks like you still take time to take Akamaru out on your crazy, little 'walks'."

"Where's your forehead protector, Naruto?" He sternly asked me.

"Oh, I was training and I had to take it off and…"

Kiba stared at me with an apprehensive kind of shock.

"Kiba? Yo, snap out of it, man. It's me- you're old friend!" I called to him.

Kiba was silent for a moment and then said, "Naruto. Things have changed."

"Huh? What do you mean? My new look?" His gaze made me feel self-conscious of myself. Kiba was the first human being I'd seen since I left the village.

"No, not your look. I'm kind of sorry it has to be me, man. I know we were old friends way back, but times have changed. I'm going to have to take you in," He began saying.

"Take me in? Kiba? So you want to come with me back to Konoha?"

"On behalf of the Hokage and with the authority of the same, I'm going to have to arrest you, Naruto, for crimes against the Konohagakure," He announced flatly.

I laughed at him for a long time.

"Shut-up, Naruto! Can't you see I'm serious man?"

I continued to laugh at his idea of a joke. Kiba was always a crazy guy.

"And what if I refuse Jounin-san? What if I resist your arrest? Very funny Kiba…"

"I'm sorry, but these are orders, man. No one will get hurt if you come peacefully."

My laughter began to fade. My stomach was still a bit sore, though.

"Kiba? You're… you're serious, aren't you?"

"Yes, Naruto. You've committed one of the most unforgivable crimes against our village. You deserted us years ago, without consent or notification by the Hokage."

"Deserted?"

"You, out of all people, Naruto-kun. Just let us take you in and we don't have too…"

"Deserted? I was with the stupid pervert-sensei! Then he left and…!"

I felt my anger begin to rise. Kiba was a good guy, but he was so ignorant sometimes.

"Naruto! No more of this! Come with me now!"

"I don't believe you Kiba. It's me, Naruto, man. Wake the hell up!"

"You leave me no choice."

Kiba didn't even look like he was trying to see things my way. Had the Hokage really convinced him that I was a bad guy? How had they managed to do that?

"I'll have to take you in by force then."

"Kiba…"

Suddenly a trio of kunai came flying down towards where I was standing. I leapt back in time to see them stab into the soft dirt with a sickening 'squish' noise.

"Oh, you can't be serious," I groaned.

That's when the fight music started.

Kiba jumped back on to the ground and sided with his dog, Akamaru. The pair stared at me with some sort of self-convinced justice. It was really quite unnerving.

"You CAN'T be serious!" I cried.

"Double Piercing Fang (Gatsuuga)!" He cried suddenly.

Suddenly he and his dog began whirling around at an incredible pace. It was the same move he had performed five years ago, against me, at the Chuunin exams. They were like miniature whirlwinds of murderous intent. I saw them storm towards me in a second.

Then I dived down towards the ground and yelled:

"OH YOU'RE SERIOUS! YOU'RE REAL SERIOUS!"

"Naruto! Give yourself up!" Kiba cried as he spun around me.

I struggled with the question of why Kiba was suddenly eager to fight me.

Is he still pissed about the Chuunin exams?

Then I felt one of my arms in Kiba's arms, my other arm, in between his dog's teeth.

"Coming with us now?" Kiba asked stubbornly.

I struggled to move my arms, both of them in submission.

"No! Kiba! Let go!"

I heard him grimace.

"Then… sorry, Naruto… Double Piercing Tornado!"

Then I felt my feet rise into the air, the background quickly becoming a spinning whirlwind. Him and his dog had entered the same high-speed spin, this time, with me in the center. I fought to maintain balance and fight off dizziness as they spiraled the three of us up into dizzying heights. We reached the branches before I felt him trying to drive us back down. Now was my chance…

Then, Kiba and Akamaru continued their crazy double spin back down to the ground.

BANG!

"Then, I'm sorry, Kiba," I warned him from my vantage spot.

The dust cleared and Kiba and Akamaru stopped spinning. They looked up in genuine surprise, confusion on their faces.

"How did you manage to grab that branch without me noticing you?" Kiba exclaimed, watching me dangle by an arm as I hung lazily on to the branch.

I smiled at him, but inside, I was just as confused as he was and questions whirled by my head. 'Why was he so determined to arrest me, now?' 'What were his intentions?'

"No matter! We're taking you in!"

"Man are you… just… wacked out of it, man," I sighed.

"Okay, Akamaru, let's do it! Man-Beast Combination Transformation: Double-Headed Wolf (Jinju Konbi Henge: Sotoro)!"

I saw Kiba swallow some pills and give a few to his dog and then, in an explosion of chakra and smoke, Kiba and Akamaru disappeared.

Soldier Pills?

"That move…"

And when the smoke cleared, a human-sized wolf stood in its place.

"Let's go, Naruto," The two heads barked in unison.

The two-headed wolf jumped up and landed on the branch I was hanging from and dashed down towards me and grabbed me by the wrist, hoisting me up, and hung me in front of him with one arm. His other arm came up and punched me across the face.

"Is that all you got, Kiba?" I snapped back at him.

My two legs came up and kneed him in his exposed belly, causing him to buckle over for a few moments and drop me back down on the branch. I caught my footing and held my balance against him, the both of us standing on the narrow branch, facing each other.

I was in confusion and awe. So determined was Kiba's cause.

Suddenly I felt a burning pain streak downwards across my chest. Kiba had actually managed to land one long swipe against my body, slicing a smooth portion of my skin across my chest open. It was bleeding slowly, but didn't pose any immediate problems.

If he was eager, then fine. I'd have to convince him otherwise.

I charged up at him and picked up his huge body by the waist, clearing him off the floor and charging him into the large trunk behind us. After I had tackled him into the corner, I got up and loosed a few punches at his gut. I heard him yelp helplessly in pain.

"Double Wolf Fang (Garooga)!" He suddenly called out in between punches.

And the spinning began anew as the branch we were standing on gave way under the buckling might of his new, two-headed whirlwind attack. Just as his feet finished drilling through the thin wood, I leapt up to the branch above and he followed in my ascent.

Branch after branch was shed from that tree as he chased me, renewing his spinning attack over and over and with every landing. Now and then I would try to land a few punches, but he we was just too quick for me.

None of our attacks seemed to land on the other.

Soon, we were running out of branches. I looked up: the top of the tree was nigh approaching. I came to a pause and waited for Kiba to catch up with me.

I had no options left.

"Nowhere to run, Naruto!" Kiba cried as he ran up to chase me.

Then he stopped. Stood his ground a few branches below me.

"Man-Beast Combination Transformation: Triple-Headed Wolf!"

'Triple?'

Suddenly a second explosion of chakra rushed out from Akamaru's body. I saw him swallow another soldier pill before the smoke made him completely invisible…

And then, the smoke cleared.

Triple.

There was a third head on Kiba's shoulders, one that looked identical to the other two, except for one difference- this head was appeared blue and wavy and seemed to crackle in the air. It was made of chakra.

"Naruto!" He howled my name defiantly. "Nowhere else to run!"

"Kiba!"

"Triple Wolf Fang!" And his spinning began anew, seemingly quicker and more aggressive than before. This was just too much for me to bear.

And as if that wasn't hard enough, it seemed that the third head brought with it some new complications. I watched as a chakra-formed apparition of the wolf-size Akamaru weaseled it's way out of Kiba's new whirlwind and looked at me before deciding that it wanted to pursue me for its master.

The Third Head had given Kiba another ally. One made of pure chakra.

I saw it rush and crackle towards me, it's hind legs crackling with energy with every great leap up the tree. It charged up the tree and it felt closer than it actually was.

The original Kiba was also making his way up, destroying branches wherever he chose to stand. Now, I realized, I had to make a move.

I couldn't hold back for a friend. If Kiba pushed any harder, he risked both of us getting hurt real bad. I rushed to bypass the scary-looking, chakra-wolf, and chased down the original Kiba, spotting his whirlwind and grabbing him by the throat.

I slammed him down, with a kick to the face, onto the branch we were standing on. Once he was down I got on top of him and began punching at both of his faces, his arms flailing angrily at me, trying to push me off. Then I heard the crackle of the chakra-demon behind me and I turned around to meet it.

It soared down from the high branches above, its wide jaw gazing open and emanating with power. I stood up to receive it, then, at the last moment, ducked as low as I can and rolled out of the way as it missed our branch by seconds.

It regained itself on a branch lower to the both of us as I saw the original Kiba regain his own stance and stare me down.

"C'mon, Naruto, you gotta have more than that…"

Then he charged at me, shoulder-tackling me in the chest and dropping me into the branches below where I knew the chakra-wolf to be lurking.

"Roar!" The creature cried.

Suddenly, I saw it happen in slow motion as I fought to get back on my feet on the shakier, smaller branch below. I saw the original Kiba jump down to meet me from directly above, and the owner of the third head, the chakra-clone, come from my side.

Both of my opponents were in the air. In the open… and vulnerable.

I took the shot and jumped towards the aired chakra-wolf.

"Uzumaki Naruto Rendan… Rebound Combo!"

I flew haphazardly towards the chakra-wolf, slid underneath him in mid-air, and punched him in the underbelly, hearing his cry of pain. Then I held him by the sides and rode with him, through the air, slamming his back into a tree trunk behind us, and pushing off his body with both of my arms.

'Uz…!'

I flew, feet first, airways towards Kiba who was still dropping down through the air to meet me. Before he could make any response, my two feet clipped him in both shoulders, slamming his body into an opposite tree trunk. I crouched down before gravity could slide me off, to give him a hook punch across both of his heads, then leapt off with both my feet, releasing him and allowing him to slide down the tree…

'Ma…!'

I returned to the chakra-wolf, who was still shaking off the attacks of my last attack from its system. It glared back up at me from on top of its four feet on a branch further below. I came down on him headfirst and tackled it onto it's back. Once there, I quickly picked up its body and held it in a stranglehold by the neck, using the momentum to carry it up with me as I ran sideways up the tree behind it. Once I was as high as I wanted to go up the tree, I punched the demon in the gut again and released its body with a push and jumped backwards off the tree, landing on the opposite one closest to Kiba.

'Ki…!'

My feet were still emanating chakra when I landed on the opposite trunk. I caught it with my soles after completing a spin in the air and continued to run down the trunk to face Kiba who was now standing and watching me approach.

"Garooga!" He cried a second time.

"Rasengan!"

He charged up at me to meet me on my downward run towards the ground on the other tree trunk. His whirlwind ended quite abruptly, however, when I charged my Rasengan for a moment before throwing it towards his whirlwind body. The spiraling sphere of chakra must've messed up his rhythm, because next thing I saw, his jutsu was cancelled and I saw him trying to fall back towards a stable branch in tatters.

I ran harder down the tree to meet him and caught him, still running.

"Do you still want to arrest me, Kiba?" I screamed at him, the ground coming closer and closer to the both of us.

"Hinata will always be mine, Naruto! I'll take you in with every muscle I got!"

Hinata?

"Fine."

I picked up his body halfway, saving him from a rather gruesome landing on the ground below, and tossed him up towards the chakra-clone, who was still falling its way down the tree. The throw was so great that the two falling bodies slammed into each other with a quick, groaning thud noise.

'Naruto Combo!'

And with that, I quickly found a foot on a thick branch to stand on as I saw Kiba and his fading partner inadvertently latch on to each other and fall down towards the river we had been drinking at below.

They whizzed by a few more branches and leaves, missing any dangerous parts by a hair and then…

Splash!

And it was over. I paused to take a breath.

Then I dove down into the water and fished out Kiba and Akamaru, whom, by now, were both separate and unconscious. Apparently, their chakra-wolf had disappeared in the wet landing. I brought them to dry ground and laid them next to each other.

"Naruto?" My name suddenly rang out.

I wheeled around in alarm, ready for another attack.

Instead, there was a girl standing beside me. Blue hair, tall legs…

"Ki-kiba-kun?" The girl exclaimed in panicked confusion.

It was Hyuuga Hinata, of the Hyuuga family and Yuhi's team. The same as Kiba's.

"Hinata?"

"Naruto?

"Hinata!"

"Naruto! And Kiba?"

At this bit I got really confused. There were too many names in the air.

"Damn it, Hinata! Make sense!"

"I don't know! What the hell just happened here?"

"Kiba! He… he attacked me!"

The expression on Hinata's face changed from alarm to absolute terror.

"Wait! I swear! I was only defending myself!"

I watched Hinata's body language: there wasn't a doubt in my mind that she was busy in some other world in her mind fighting a million different thoughts.

"Hinata… it's me, Naruto… don't you remember? Doesn't anyone remember me…?"

I saw Hinata's features soften. Her pearl-white eyes gazed at me with an innocent sympathy. She meant no harm, but she didn't know what to do after I had downed her teammate. It was a regrettable thing to do, but it was Kiba who had gone insane right?

I mean, c'mon, he wanted to arrest me- what the hell, right?

"I… of course, I… re-re-remember… you, Naruto-kun…"

"Look, Hinata, Kiba went crazy all of a sudden and he said he wanted to arrest me or take me in or something, so we fought and he fell in the river and…"

"Naruto-kun!" Hinata suddenly cut me off, her eyes closing, her mouth shouting loud in all urgency, "You've gotta come back with me to the village. They'll be here any second! We have to leave this place now!"

"Hi-Hinata? What's gotten into you?"

Hyuuga Hinata, panicked and nervous in all states, charged up to me and grabbed me by the upper arm in an attempt to drag me away from the river scene.

"They'll be here! They'll be here!" She cried out in fear.

"WHO? HINATA? WHO?"

"ANBU!" She cried, "ANBU! Naruto-kun! We have to hide! We'll go back to the village, we can hide at my place and we can take care of that wound across your chest."

I looked down: a red streak had stained the garter on my pants and streamed down my navel. I was still bleeding. I had almost forgotten about that wound.

"ANBU? What the…?"

"No time to explain, Naruto! Please come! I'll tell you everything later!"

Is Hinata acting on an impulse?

"Wait, we have to tell someone about Kiba! Is your commander here?"

"Shino's training out here too! Shino-san will take care of it. He's never too far away from us. When he finds Kiba he'll take him to Yuhi-san!"

We began running together, arm in arm. Well, it wasn't really running. I was getting dragged and Hinata was leading the way through the forest towards Konoha's walls.

"Wait! How would ANBU know I'm out here?"

"Yuhi-san will tell them," She paused to regain her breath when she was convinced it would be safe to stop running for a while.

We took a break at the base of a part of the Konoha wall, surrounded by some very tall bushes. She slammed her back against the stone and paused to explain.

"Yuhi-san, when she… finds out…" She gasped for air, "She'll tell them… they have… radios."

"Radios?"

"After what you did, they gave all the Jounin orders to help find you…"

"What I did… What did I do?" I replied back, dazed by her words.

Suddenly there was a noise, like a series of quick whooshing noises. I looked up and saw shadows trail against the sky. There must have been four to six of them.

Suddenly, Hinata took my body and threw us both down on to the ground.

"Shhh! They're… here: ANBU," She cried.

I remained silent, trying to make sense out of the jigsaw puzzle I found myself in. Was Kiba and Hinata really convinced that I was some sort of fugitive? Who else?

Where they really ANBU sent to find me? And why was Hinata helping me?

"We have to go… back to my place. There's a way through here," Hinata snapped, holding back some foliage that was blocking a crawlspace-sized hole in the base of the wall. It was tiny, but if Hinata and I crouched down low enough, we could use it to enter the village. I was surprised that it was even there.

"How did you know this crack in the wall was here?"

"Kiba uses it to break curfew all the time. C'mon, Naruto-kun. My house isn't far from here, we just have to sneak you past a few blocks."

"Sneak me past? Why?"

"If you're caught, they'll arrest you. Can you transform long enough to reach my front door?"

I paused and thought about what she asked me and said, "Five minutes."

"Good enough. Transform! Quick!"

I was confused, but had no other place to go. If Hinata could help me reach Jiraiya, then maybe this sick joke would finally be explained to me.

"Sexy no Jutsu!"

"Good! Let's go, Naruto-kun!"

And in the same fashion, Hinata grabbed my arm and dragged me towards the house, the whole time, half of my mind focused on maintaining the illusion.

The other half wondering what on earth had happened to the people of Konoha.

If people on the streets saw us, they would see two ladies running together down the streets and because, even in all of my five years of training, I hadn't quite figured out the right hand seal for clothing, my illusion was a bit… strapped for coverings…

"Does your illusion have to be naked?" Hinata cried, "It's drawing attention!"

"I'm sorry! You said it was only a block right!"

"AT LEAST BLOCK YOUR PARTS!" Hinata cried out louder.

"Okay! Okay!"

Then we both saw her front door.

'Keep going, C'mon…' I chanted, fighting to maintain my jutsu.

My chakra ran out just as we slammed through Hinata's front door.

"Oh, Thank God. I can relax now," I wheezed.

"That's right, Naruto-kun," Hinata smiled, "You can relax now."

I looked at Hinata; she stared at me with a hungry disbelief, a strange longing in her eyes.

"We're all alone," Hinata mumbled enigmatically.

Remember what I said about the forest being full of irony?

"Quick, Naruto," Hinata ordered immediately, "Take off your clothes."