AnimeCrasherz: Since my tia doesn't let me use the computer that often, I'm updating today so you guys don't have to wait forever for the next one.Finally the day of the Kyuubi festival. It's all set up and all of the colorful booths of food and liquor and games and shops are out (probably why there were so many people out in chapter 1.)

Just for the record, I hate Sakura, but I'll try to keep that inside while I write this… though it will hurt a lot.

(Narrator's P.O.V. to make things easier.)

The Kyuubi Festival is Here!

While our four unlucky people were getting ready for the festival, they all had mixed feelings. Well, except for Naruto. He was practically drugged with happiness.

"I can't believe Sakura's going to the Kyuubi festival with me!" Naruto thought, adjusting his forehead protector in front of his mirror. He wanted to look purdy for Sakura.

He had pushed out all of the thoughts and reminders that today was his birthday, and that nobody cared… his friends didn't even know. He had to forget that, but it would be hard to block out the glares of the villagers, the whispers of how he didn't belong there…

Hopefully Sakura wouldn't notice!

Finally ready -But we don't expect him to look any different than he usually does- he confidently walked out of the door to go pick up his beautiful dream date! (hurt me to type that)

Meanwhile, at the Hyuuga estate, Kiba was waiting for Hinata at the gate. In his shaking hand he was holding daisies. Pretty cheap, but he thought that it would be nice since they matched Hinata's eyes.

The other shaking hand was held just inches away from the doorbell/knocker/rope/thing (Whatever the Hyuuga's have.) The atmosphere of the Hyuuga estate, Neji, and Hinata's father, had scared him from coming within 100 yards of this place. Just when he mustered up enough courage to ring/knock/pull/thing, he saw Hinata coming out.

"S-sorry to k-keep you waiting, Kiba-kun." Hinata said. Kiba's happiness made him oblivious to the sad look on her face and the more quiet than usual –if that's possible- tone of her voice.

"Uh… I got these for you." He nervously shoved the flowers in her face.

"Oh, uh… they're b-beautiful…" she took the flowers just as nervously, "I-I'll be right back, I have to go put these in a vase." She ran back inside, leaving the gate slightly open.

She looks kinda cute in that yukata… he thought to himself.

But he was jerked out of his thoughts when Hinata tripped and fell flat on her face on the pavement.

"Hinata!" he shouted, running up to help her.

"I-I… t-trip… I….uh…" Hinata was too embarrassed to speak in English.

Kiba held his hand out to help her up, and she took it with the flowers in the other. They paused for a moment, Hinata blushing madly. Such a beautiful scene for…

"HINATA!" Hinata's father, stomped outside, fuming. "You're lucky I even let you go to the festival with a- a-" he couldn't even say the word.

And BLAH, BLAH, BLAH… was all Kiba heard. Come to think of it, even Hinata couldn't listen to her father. She only felt the awkwardness thickening in the air...

After what seemed like an eternity, her father went back inside the house, mumbling to himself about crazy teenagers, and lawns….

"We should…"

"Yeah…"

Hinata and Kiba began walking back towards the Kyuubi festival. Both were not sure what to say, Kiba out of fear, Hinata out of depression from thinking of Naruto and Sakura, and her usual shyness.

Once again, as Kiba was mustering up courage to speak, he was interrupted by Hinata stopping. She had frozen in mid-step, actually looking kind of silly to Kiba. But she had a look of horror on her face…

Following her eyes, he saw… Sakura and Naruto?

Sakura and Naruto? What does Hinata care about them?

Hinata still stood frozen.(I mean, what will you do in that situation?) Long after Sakura and Naruto had walked out of sight, Hinata stood with her eyes glued on the empty spot.

What the- did I miss something? Kiba followed her stare once again, but this time he came up with a different answer.

….Sasuke?

It couldn't be! But it was. Sasuke was sitting there at a food stand, looking pretty bored and miserable. Like always. Like always.

"Um… Hinata?" Kiba waved his hand in front of her face to no avail. "Hellooo...?" He waved Akamaru in front of her face.

"Ah, eh- Kiba-kun! I'm sorry! I was just... I mean... I'll be right back." Hinata needed to get some thinking time, and she needed to ask something important...

Kiba looked skeptical for a moment. "Sure Hinata. I'll just be over there..." hepointed to a random food stand and wandered off.

Right after Kiba left Hinata looked side to side, behind her, and even in front of her. Then, she approached Sasuke. Luckily there was an empty seat next to him.

It took all of the courage she had just to sit down next to him. "A-a-ano... S-s-sauke-k-kun?" she began.

"Yeah?" Sasuke said.

"D-do you k-know if Sa-Sakura likes... N-N-Naruto?" the last word was the hardest for her to say.

"How am I supposed to know?" he answered, almost angrily, but that's just how he always sounds.

"W-well... y-you're t-t-teammates and all, so..."

"So?"

"Please! I need youto go ask her!Just find out if Sakural-likesN-N-Naruto b-back..."her eyes were more pleading than sad now.

I guess even Sasuke has asoft spot... (Don't hate me if it's OC! ButI mean, Hinata IS unlike the other girls. Quiet and not self-centered... Besides I had to get him into this story SOMEHOW.)

"Fine." he said, getting up. Now hegenuinely sounded a little miffed, but it was at himself for being defeated so easily.

"Thank you! Thank you s-so much..." Hinata said. "S-so, I'll w-wait for you here then?"

"Whatever..." Sasuke began to wander off in some random direction to look for the annoying pair of Narutard and Suckura.

AnimeCrasherz: NARUTARD AND SUCKURA! Don't remember whereI got them but I heart them.

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