Chapter 2 – There She Is
Bustles of murmurs were heard from a small crowd gathered outside the Ichiraku ramen stand down east of the village of Konoha.
"The Ehime clan, eh?"
"You mean the new girl?"
"Who could she be?"
"Hokage-sama said she's already a chuunin."
"I'm wondering about where she came from…"
"What's the reason she's here?"
After what seemed a while, Kiba, Naruto and Akamaru cautiously approached them, puzzled at their gathering.
"What's all this about? All I wanted was to go and eat some beef ramen. Kiba's treating me," Naruto complained out loud.
"No I'm not…"
Ino, part of the crowd, replied to Naruto's question, "That new girl from the Ehime clan. The one that Hokage-sama brought in."
"Hokage obaa-san? Ehime clan? What are you talking about?" he replied, still clueless. Kiba too looked sort of confused.
They all looked at them dully, giving expecting looks.
Sakura placed a hand on one hip and cocked her eyebrow, "You two weren't listening to her announcements, weren't you?" she gave a tone of voice that anyone would have heard as an irritated tone at two irresponsible, immature 14-year old genin.
"Well, how could we listen if everyone else was blabbering too loud? What about Akamaru? He wasn't listening." Naruto retorted at his pink-haired teammate.
All she did was sigh at his childish way of thinking, "Naruto, Akamaru's a dog. It's reasonable if he doesn't listen.
The white dog barked happily, unknowing of what they just said.
The boy with the pearl-lavender eyes, Neji, spoke up with his opinion, "It's weird though. That girl came here without reason just like that. Hokage didn't say or state anything why. It doesn't make much sense," he frowned, "It gives one something to think about."
"Bah. You're always worrying about tiny little things anyway. That doesn't matter. Now, everyone move aside so I can get my ramen," Naruto rudely shoved the people aside as Neji gave a slight glare at him. The hungry genin ignored their darting looks though, eagerly wanting to get to his bowl of steaming hot beef-veggie noodles.
Kiba shrugged with a calm expression, "Has anyone seen Shino or Hinata? I haven't seen them since the assembly."
All of them shook their heads.
"Well, thanks anyway. I'll go look for them instead. See ya." He waved goodbye, and headed the other direction. A bit concerned for Naruto though, noticing their ongoing murderous looks they shot him.
"Hmm… Where could they be?" he thought aloud to his dog, his head facing up the skies.
Out of the blue, Akamaru suddenly ran off barking and yipping along rocky cobble-stoned path.
It was only after a few seconds that Kiba noticed his dog scurrying on its own, "Wha- hey! Akamaru! Akamaru, come back!" Kiba began to follow after him wondering what it could be that enticed his dog to run off without a reason.
People's eyes followed them, questioningly and the thought of 'why was that crazy owner chasing his poor defenseless dog' went into their minds. as the chase continued a little longer. After all, Kiba was fast but his dog was faster. Considering the tireless hours Akamaru spent chasing –or being chased by- his master, playing with butterflies or just plain running around silly until he drops from fatigue or dehydration.
It eventually came to an end after a while when Akamaru finally came to a halt. Kiba panting, his hands on his knees, a few feet behind him,
"Akamaru, what are you thinking? Why would you just-"
Kiba stopped in mid-sentence upon looking up and noticing a fairly pretty, raven-haired girl, approximately his age or older, standing right beside his dog. He squinted, captivated and blinded by her garnet eyes on the spot –or rather the sun's glimmer shone on his face-.
"W-Who are… Who are-"
"Is this your dog?" she asked him before he got the chance to complete his sentence. She had that certain charm, somehow, that one of a kind charm slowing down the fast lane pace of guys like him.
He nodded, still eyeing her. Probably forgetting why he was there in the first place. His dog looked at both of them, satisfied.
"Ok. I'll be going now to see your, country's head, the Hokage," With that, she left him there before he could get any information concerned with her.
Kiba's mind was flooded –or emptied- with no other thoughts but her. Who she was. Where she came from. How she got here. Her this and her that. He wanted her name.
Then again, those were the same thoughts the crowd from the ramen shop had been asking each other.
"Bark bark!" Akamaru's yip snapped him back to reality as though he had flown to the heavens and met an angel in disguise.
"Oh right. Where was I? Oh yeah, you!" he scrunched his nose up at his dog, "Why'd you run off like that! We're supposed to find Shino and Hinata, and you're supposed to help! And what do you do? You go run off to some complete stranger and…"
He began to walk unsteadily on the sidewalk as if he was drunk and once again, his thoughts were filled with her, her and her alone,
"You run off to some complete stranger who happens to be very, very… very…"
Thoing
"Ow…" Kiba fell flat on the floor rubbing his head. His forehead appeared to be red at the fact that he hit it on the metal lamppost, obviously unknowing where he was going while his head was up in the clouds again.
"K-kiba-kun! Are you okay?" A familiar voice suddenly called out and Hinata rushed to his side with Shino following.
"As expected from the second village idiot," Shino gave an exasperated sigh, referring to the first idiot as Naruto, of course.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine!" he quickly stood up, brushing the dirt off his jacket, embarrassed at the fuss he's made but then suddenly remembered something, "Did you see that?"
"See what?"
"A while ago, this… this girl! Somewhat like an… an angel or something…"
They still looked confused, unaware of what he was talking about, "Kiba, we don't know what you're talking about. Please elaborate."
"She was really pretty."
"Wow. That's a big help," Shino sneered sarcastically.
"Um… Kiba? Shino means her detailed physical appearances," said Hinata.
"Oh, well," he started to think, "She had fair skin, raven-black hair, garnet-colored eyes, purple over-vest with its length above her elbows, bandages wrapped around her waist, and probably a black size-A-cup bra-"
"Hey, You could have already stopped and the bandages part," Shino barked in his normal calm manner, partly amazed at his very-'detailed' description, "How did you even know that, anyway?"
Kiba strongly objected "I am not a pervert! It happens to be just so obvious judging by the size of-"
Shino cut him off again before he could go any further, "Why are you so defensive? I didn't say you were a pervert, I only asked how you knew that 'information'. So, that probably means you are one, right?"
"I… Well, I- I mean… I meant that- Oh fine!"
"So you admit it? Hah. Now you're a pervert, an idiot and a fleabag," Shino remarked as Hinata laughed at their 'debate'.
"Again with the fleas? I do not have fleas!"
"So you say you don't have fleas, right?"
"Right!"
"You're not a fleabag, right?"
"Right!"
"But you're still a pervert, right?"
"Right! I- I mean wrong! I am hell not a pervert! Just shut up already!"
"Fine, fine. I stand by what I say and have said all these years that you are a pervert, idiot and a fleabag. Case closed," Shino ended, coolly leaving the 'so-called' pervert, idiot and fleabag speechless.
He then finally managed to utter some words, then a sentence, "Hey we're missing the point. I was asking who was that… wing-less angel," he began piping dreamily again as his partner rolled his eyes.
"You say that about almost every girl you see."
Hinata added to his statement, "She's the new girl from the Ehime clan. The one that Hokage-sama brought in awhile ago."
Kiba blinked twice, turning to Shino "…Eh?"
"If you were listening, Hokage Tsunade introduced to us this new girl from the Ehime clan. That's all she stated though, didn't give us the first name though."
"Oh… ok. so that was her I bumped into?"
"Actually, you bumped into the post…"
"I meant before the post! The girl. Enough with the jokes, I'm serious." Kiba snarled, "Anyway, I'm heading home now, ok? See you two."
They bid him goodbye and he waited until they both were out of the naked eye's sight.
Kiba turned to Akamaru, "Heh. Didn't she say she was going to see the Hokage? Come on Akamaru, we're getting her name," he gave a sly smile as his dog looked at him questioningly. Without a word further they both headed the opposite direction of their house looking for the Ehime girl.
Hey again, here's my 2nd chapter. I'll post this along with the 3rd chapter for today. I hope you'll read it. Please give an honest review that can help me in my writing, if you want. Sorry if it sucks, i'm trying my best.
-Falya-kun
P.S. The 3rd chapter is Kiba's flashback on what happened earlier. Chapter 4 which i'll post soon is from Akamaru'sperspective.