Sorry I haven't updated for a few weeks. But I was on vacation, and the place I was staying at had no computer, and I didn't have my laptop. Poor me. Then when I got back, my school had a speech contest, so I was forced to work on it a lot, eliminating fanfic writing time. So that's my reason. But thanks for all of your reviews and favs. I feel so proud. But anyways, naruhina is in an obvious lead. But don't get to comfy. This is still a love triangle fic and I intend to keep it like that for a while. There's going to moments of naruhina and those of kibahina, so just keep that in mind. Well I hope you enjoy this next chapter!

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

It was 11 o' clock and Kiba's family was busy getting ready for Kiba's party. All of his family, except for Kiba, who was sleeping peacfully. But that couldn't last long.

"Hey, Hana, go wake up Kiba."

"Can't you do it?"

"I'm busy, now go!"

Hana mumbled then whispered something into her dog's ear. The canine nodded and walked off.

Hana's dog carefully nudged open Kiba's door, got on his stomach and crawled to Kiba's bed. He walked right up to Kiba's ear and...

BARK, BARK, BARK!

"AHH! What the hell is this! Where am I!"

"Finally you're up." Kiba's mom shouted from the kitchen. "Now get ready, you're parties in a few minutes."

At the reminder that his party was today, he burst off to his shower.

He came out in a few minutes, and shook off the water that clung to him. He picked up the hair brush that his sister had bought him a few years ago. He looked at the brush in his hand, then the mirror image of himself and his hair, then back at the brush. Meh, maybe on my wedding day. He shrugged it off and went downstairs.

"Hey mom what's for breakfast?"

"It's not exactly a normal breakfast time Kiba."

Kiba looked over at the clock and noticed that it was much later then he was used to waking up. They must've let me sleep in for my birthday.

"Well, then what's for late breakfast?"

Right on cue, his mom gave him his plate of his favorite morning meal.

"An assortment of random meats! You're the best, mom!"

"Stop stating the obvious and eat."

Kiba was one step ahead of her. In a minute Kiba was already done with his meal and wondering around the house.

"..."

"Hmm? Who's there?" Kiba said as he turned around.

"Huh, must've been my imagination. GAH! Shino! When did you get there!" Kiba exclaimed as he turned back.

"..."

"Stop sneaking up on me like that!"

"You're supposedly a shinobi. You should be able to tell that I was there."

"Yeah well, shut up. And what are you doing here?"

"You're hosting some sort of event?"

"It's called 'having a birthday party' you freak."

"..."

"And anyway, you're early. The party isn't for a while."

"I tend to be early."

"Even so, you're..." Kiba glanced at a nearby clock. "40 minutes early. Even if you do tend to be early, that's way to early."

"Well I needed to converse with you about our other teammate, who, at the moment, is absent."

"You know you could've just said 'talk about Hinata-chan'."

"..."

"Yeah well, what did you want to "converse" about?" Does Shino know that I like her? I don't think Naruto would've told him, and noone really knows him well enough to pass on that I like her. No I think I'm safe at the moment.

"About how you like her."

CRAP! How the hell did Shino find out? Did someone tell him? I wonder who. Does have a secret social life none of us know about?

"In case you're wondering, I know because she told me."

"Wait, she told you?"

"That's correct. She normally confides what's going on in her life with me."

"Fine. Well then what would you like to know?"

"Is it true? Hinata-chan would like to know that much. Since she is unsure if her assumption is correct, she asked if I could find out for her."

"You can tell her that's it's true. Anything else or are you done here?"

"Well I thought it be fair to also tell you that she was with Naruto yesterday."

"WHAT? You mean like on a date!"

"I doubt that it was an official "date", but I suppose technically, it was."

Kiba was fuming. He was stomping around and flailing his hands into the air. After some more stomping, flailing and swears, Kiba calmed down.

"So, are you gonna help me with this or not?"

"I feel I only need to tell you that she was out with Naruto. I do not, however, feel inclined to help you with your love life."

"Then can you at least tell me if she likes me a least a little?"

"From what I can tell at the moment from what she's told me... Yes, she does like you."

Kiba was now literally bouncing off the walls with excitement. Yes! She like's me too! I'm still in this thing! Now we'll see who'll get her Naruto! Ha ha ha ha!

"But at the moment, I believe she more inclined to choose Naruto over you."

Kiba stopped his happy dance to give Shino a nasty glare.

"And just why do you say that?"

"Well for one thing, Naruto has had more personal time with her, not to mention he has gotten farther with her than you have."

Kiba's joyful leaps were quickly replaced by moping.

"But if it's any help, she said that she wasn't sure yet. So she could be swayed to you if you tryed hard enough."

Kiba's mood changed once again. If someone saw him changing his mood this quickly, they would've thought he was a bi-polar times 100.

"Thanks Shino, you're a good teammate and friend."

"..."

Kiba took one last quick look at the clock.

"Oh crap! It's 5 minutes till twelve! I gotta change!"

Kiba quickly got into some casual clothes. Nothing fancy, but not his ninja gear. And just as he pulled over his shirt he heard a knock at the door.

Kiba's mom had answered before Kiba could get to the door.

"Hello! And you would be?"

"I'm Ino, he's Shikamaru, and the chubby one's Chouji."

"I'm not fat! I'm big boned!"

"Well anyway come in. Kiba will be down in a bit.'

Within 10 minutes, the rookie nine, and couple other Inuzuka who were friends of Kiba, along with a few inuzuka girls, most of whom invited themselves.

The second to last one to come was Naruto.

Knock, knock

"Hey Naruto! Come in and put my present over there."

"Ok. And by the way, who else is here?"

"Well let me think. We got all us rookies. But not Sasuke, I don't like him and even if I did invite him he wouldn't come."

"Ok, then who else?"

"Over there are most of my Inuzuka friends. Next to them are a few girls who've had a crush on me for a while. And the girl in the group of my friends is my ex"

Naruto looked a little stunned. I didn't know Kiba had fangirls. Or an ex, or a girlfriend at all. Huh, she's kinda cute, but Hinata-chan's better.

"So she's your ex? Then what's she doing here? Aren't broken up couples usually on pretty bad terms?"

"Normally, but she's a cool girl and didn't want her out of my life. So we stayed friends. But I think she wants a little more then that."

"Ok that's one question down. But when did you get fangirls?"

"They came along about half a year ago. I don't understand why Sasuke hates his so much. It's fun to just randomly flirt with them without meaning."

"Well I always thought that he might be, you know... Cause when we accidently kissed I swear I felt him trying to get some tongue."

Kiba burst out laughing on the floor, getting stares from everyone except the invited Inuzukas, whose dog like hearing picked up on their conversation and were rolling on the ground as well. But Kiba's rolling and laughing was interrupted by another knock on the door.

Let's see, we got 7 of the rookies not counting Sasuke, my friends, my old girlfriend, my fangirls. So that must be Hinata-chan!"

"Hey Hina..." Kiba wasn't able to finish her name due to his jaw being comfortable on the floor for the time being. Wow, Hinata-chan looks amazing! Even better then she normally does! When did she get those clothes?

Hinata giggled silently to herself as she saw the same reaction that Naruto had when he first saw her, plastered on Kiba. And she blushed as she saw that every guy in the room had the same look, more or less.

Kiba gathered himself and straightened up.

"So Hinata-chan, when did you get that?"

"N-Naruto-kun helped m-me pick it out." Hinata covered her mouth as she finished her sentence, afraid that Kiba would be angry at her or Naruto. But he wasn't mad at all, he looked amused.

Naruto, you lucky son of a bitch.

"Well Hinata-chan. I thought you should know, you're a little overdressed."

Hinata looked around the room and saw that she was in fact, way fancier then everyone else. She lowered her head and fixed her eyes at the floor. Kiba's and Naruto's winced at the sharp pain in their chests, seeing Hinata looking so sad.

"I-I'll just g-go home and ch-change..."

"NO!" every boy in the room shouted as Hinata turned to leave. She looked back to see a slightly embarrassed face on all of the males.

"I mean, no, don't go through all the trouble." Kiba said trying to cope for the boys' outbursts.

"Oh, w-well alright."

Kiba wiped a bead of sweat off of his forehead. The party continued like normal for a while, until Ino wanted to pick things up.

"Shikamaru, tell everyone we're playing truth or dare."

"Why do I have to do it?"

"Because I said so!"

"How troublesome. Besides wouldn't it be better if someone louder then me told everyone?"

"Fine lazy-ass. Everybody we're playing truth or dare!"

Hinata face quickly went to a deep shade of crimson, as she glanced around the room in panic, mostly gazing back and forth between Kiba and Naruto.

"Don't worry Hinata, you don't have to play if you don't want to. I know how shy you are." Ino said as she noticed Hinata in her highly panicked state.

Hinata was incredibly relived that she wouldn't have to play. After all, everyone knew that she liked Naruto, and Kiba liked her. So it's very likely that someone would ask if she liked Kiba or Naruto, or would dare her to do something to, for, or with, Naruto or Kiba.

Kiba was eager to play, oh the embarrassing things that he could make Naruto do. But seeing as Naruto was super into it and was already shouting that he wanted to go first, Kiba thought that this could be a good opportunity to get some alone time with Hinata.

"Hey, do you mind if I sit this out?"

"It's your birthday, so sit down and play!"

Kiba nodded his head in the direction of an exiting Hinata. Ino caught on instantly.

"But then again, since it's your birthday, I guess you do what you wanna.

Kiba felt like he could hug Ino, but that wouldn't exactly add to his chances of being with Hinata. He instead mouthed a quick "Thank you" then left.

He looked around his backyard for Hinata and found her sitting up in a tree.

"Oi, Hinata-chan! What're you doing up there?"

"I'm j-just r-resting for a bit."

"Well do you mind if I join you?"

Hinata shifted a bit and patted the space next to her on the branch. Which Kiba quickly filled.

"K-Kiba-kun?"

"Yeah?"

"W-why aren't you p-playing with ev-everyone else?"

"Well I'm not a big fan of truth or dare. But mostly it's because I didn't want you to be alone out here. After all, Naruto didn't really look like he was gonna come."

Hinata's eyes lowered slightly but she was glad that Kiba was there with her.

"So Naruto took you out shopping yesterday eh?"

Tryed to hide her face so Kiba wouldn't see, but she nodded in response.

"So did you have fun?"

She nodded again, still trying to avoid having her red tinged face from being seen.

"Well as much as I don't like that Naruto did get to take you out, you had a nice time so it's all good. By the way, how did you get up here with a kimono on?"

"We learned how to climb with chakra, remember?"

"Well actually, I never really learned. I just put some spikes on my shoes, pretended I could climb, and slept the rest of the day."

She giggled a bit at his joke... at least, she thought it was a joke.

At that moment a big 'ewwww!' came from the house, followed by a huge amount of loud laughing which sounded like a certain blonde genin.

"I think Naruto dared someone. And I think it was gross."

After a couple more minutes of relaxing, Hinata was subconsciously moving herself closer to Kiba. She only noticed when she felt her head begin to rest on Kiba's shoulder. She looked at the situation and found that her leg was touching his, and one of her hands was half on her own leg and half on Kiba's. A few days ago, she would've jerked away in an instant, but she found that she was very comfortable there. But her mind was still somewhat restless because a question had been bouncing around in her head that she needed to get out.

"K-Kiba-kun?"

"Yes?"

"W-who's that g-girl y-you were t-talking with?"

"Oh you must mean Shippo. Yeah, she's an ex-girlfriend. But thing's didn't work out. She still wants to get back together though."

"Well w-what happened?"

"I'll tell you some other time."

Hinata was, thankfully, successful in hiding that she was jealous that someone wanted to get Kiba for herself.

"You're ok with that right? No awkwardness?"

Hinata shook her head vigorously. But she shook her head just hard enough that Kiba could catch on that she was a little jealous.

She began to shift around a little bit, and Kiba could tell that she was starting to become uncomfortable. After all, they had been sitting on a tree for a while. Kiba thought that maybe he could help out. So he picked Hinata up off the branch just a bit, moved himself so that his back was against the tree and placed Hinata on his lap.

"Kiba-kun!"

"Oh sorry! Do you want me to put you back?"

Hinata really didn't want to leave this spot. She felt like she could sit there for hours on end.

"W-well, actually c-could you shift j-just a little t-to the left?"

Kiba nodded and did as she asked of him. Hinata felt so safe and nice where she was, so she melted into Kiba, wiggling just a bit to get perfectly fit. Kiba however was very nervous, and the sensible part of him really wanted her to stop moving to avoid an awkward situation. But the other half of him wished this could go on forever.

"Hey, you two! Come down! Lunch is done!" Ino shouted to the two genin in the tree.

I'd never thought I'd ever say or think this but... Ino just saved my ass.

"Come on Hinata-chan. Let's go eat."

She nodded in agreement, got up, and walked down the tree using her chakra. Kiba suddenly felt cold without her body hear, and Hinata felt the same way without Kiba's body next to hers.

A birthday lunch of pizza passed smoothly, with the exception of Ino whispering something to those next to her. Kiba could tell she was talking about how she found Hinata and himself by the way she would point to him or Hinata while talking.

The party continued normally for about two hours or so. Ino was busy interrogating Hinata about what happened between her and Kiba. So neither Naruto or Kiba had a chance to talk to her.

Kiba checked a nearby clock and saw that it was around three o' clock. It was about time for the event that he had planned for his party, which he mentioned to everyone except Hinata for his own reason.

"Alright! It's about three, so get your swimsuits, and meet outside. We're going to the lake."

Everyone but Hinata and Kiba ran to bags, which contained their swimming attire, and went off to change. Hinata was, of course, very confused, she thought those bags were presents for Kiba.

"Ano, K-Kiba-kun. What lake?"

"Oh, didn't I tell you? We're going swimming!"

"B-but Kiba-kun, I-I don't have a swimsuit w-with me."

"That's no problem! My sister still has her's from when she was our age. I think you could fit into it." Hee hee, it's working! I've never really seen much skin on Hinata-chan. But my sister's bikini shows enough, it'll look better on Hinata-chan anyway. Oh crap, I think I'm becoming a pervert. Oh well, it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

Kiba went to his sister's room to get said bikini for Hinata.

"Here you go Hinata-chan! Change fast, we're leaving in just a bit!"

Hinata was pink all over, but she complied and quickly changed and met everyone outside, causing many wide-eyed stares at her.

Kiba's house was very near the lake they were going to. Only about two blocks. So Hinata didn't have to walk around in the bikini in public for very long, much to her relief.

After 3 minutes, everyone had settled on something to do. Kiba was throwing a ball for Akamaru. Naruto and Chouji were holding up Sakura and Ino respectively on their shoulders as they tried to knock the other into the water. Kiba's friends were busy fighting in the water, while his fangirls had hearts in their eyes from seeing him with no shirt. Shikamaru was floating in the water, staring at the clouds. Shino was collecting bugs skidding across the water. Hinata rested on the sand, her legs folded to her chest, watching everyone else.

"Hey Hinata-chan! What're you doing here by yourself?" said Naruto as he snuck up on Hinata.

"Naruto-kun!" exclaimed Hinata, surprised by Naruto. "I'm um, j-just watching. W-weren't you h-holding up Sakura?"

"Yeah, but she fell down. It was unfair, Chouji's huge. Anyway, we're about to play some volleyball! Wanna play?"

Hinata wasn't the type to just go and play something. But one of her love interests had asked her nicely, so she agreed.

The teams had been set. Kiba, Akamaru, Hinata, and Naruto on team 1. Chouji, Shikamaru, Ino, and Sakura on team 2. Shino, Kiba's friends had sat this out, and the fangirls opted for ogling Kiba.

Hinata was having lots of fun, especially because Kiba and Naruto were both trying to show off. Which unfortunately led to them hitting each other and team 2 taking the lead. But Hinata didn't care. But as Hinata was lost in her thoughts on Kiba and Naruto, she didn't notice that the two had crashed into each other again, leading to the ball heading right to Hinata's face! But who should save the day? Akamaru to the rescue! Right at the last second Akamaru jumped onto Hinata's shoulder and hit the ball back over. But what nobody noticed was that Akamaru had knocked loose one of Hinata's bikini's straps. It didn't fall off, but was barely hanging off of her shoulder.

The ball came sailing back, the two boys still coming out of their daze, and Akamaru had sunk into the sand. So Hinata sprung into action, jumping up to spike the ball. It had worked, it landed perfectly, right between Shikamaru and Chouji so neither would get it. But as she came down she felt something beginning to slip. Her body reacted immediately, Stopping it from falling off.

As she looked around, she saw that Naruto and Kiba had frozen completely, and even looked like there just a bit of blood coming out of both of their noses. Hinata couldn't take it anymore, she ran off, crying and mortified, snapping the two boys out of their perverted half-consciousness. They looked at each other, the direction Hinata had left, back to each other, then dashed off leaving a trail of sand behind them.

They were looking around frantically for her, and both decided it'd be best if they split up.

Ten minutes later, he had found her. She was hiding behind a tree, sobbing softly into her hands. She jumped as his hand was placed on her shoulder. She had apparently taken a blanket and wrapped it around her for comfort. When she turned around and he saw her face, he heart had broken in tears. The sight of her pearl white eyes, glimmering with tears, was enough to mentally crush any boy.

"You ok?"

"N-no..."

"Please stop crying Hinata-chan. Just seeing you like this is hurting as much as you must."

"Th-that was the m-most humiliating thing that ev-ever happened to me."

"It's ok Hinata-chan. Worse things have happened. People will forget. It'll smooth over, you'll see. More embarrassing things have happened to me."

"Th-thank you... Kiba-kun..."

"You're welcome. Now lets go back. Everyone's waiting back at my house."

"..." Hinata looked at the ground. She was obviously too ashamed to go back.

"What would it take you to come back? I really want you to be there."

She turned her head toward Kiba, she seemed to be considering whether she should go.

"It may not be much but will this do?" Kiba squatted down and gave Hinata a small kiss on her cheek.

"K-Kiba-kun!"

"You gonna come back now?"

Hinata nodded very slightly. She was sure of it, she did like Kiba. But did she like him as much as Naruto? She wasn't sure which one to pick. She may have been very confused and conflicted, but she was content having two boys competing over her.

They returned back to house, where everybody was relived to see she was safe. She quickly got back into her kimono and the party resumed.

The festivities continued, until 6, when they got they're dinner, cake, and Kiba got his presents.

The party was over, everybody was leaving. Kiba was happy with the gifts he had gotten. He watched everybody go, content that his party, was a success. He had been closer to Hinata then ever in his life. He was in bliss.

Hinata and Naruto were the last ones left. Kiba walked them to the door and held the door open. Right as Hinata was walking out, she was caught on the cheek by both Kiba and Naruto's lips. She flushed up and started going off with her fingers pressing together. Naruto looked at Kiba and Kiba at Naruto.

"You're good competition dog-boy."

"You ain't bad yourself o' summoner of tadpoles."

"Shut up about that already! It was a big tadpole!"

"I'm to tired to roll around on the floor laughing at. So go home before you embarrass yourself further."

Naruto went out, looking at Hinata. Kiba did the same. And as they looked at her, they saw she looked as if she was skipping in happiness.

Well, I did my best to make it longer. Did I do alright? I'm still new to writing a big amount. I got low grades in English class cause I hate writing so damn much. I want to tell you that the part where Akamaru loosens Hinata's top is based on a fanart I saw of Akamaru biting of her strap at a beach, and Kiba had a big nosebleed in the backround. Just thought I'd tell you that. Please review and excuse my late update, you know I had at least a decent reason for not updating. Just for effect, I'll say it again... Please review!