A Win-Win Situation

By Topaz Talyn

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any related characters

Chapter Fourteen: Hinata

Kiba was furious. During that day's training session he had overheard Kurenai and Hinata talking to each other. Hinata had told Kurenai that she had a date with Gaara that very night. Kurenai had congratulated Hinata on her new love life causing Hinata to blush furiously. Kiba had been quietly seething throughout this conversation. He had to stop Hinata's date from happening. So Kiba went to the only person who would help him.

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"….No"

"Come on Shino." Kiba begged his quiet comrade to help him in stopping Hinata's potential romance.

"Kiba, why is this so important to you?"

"Because"

Shino sighed. He was well aware of the fact that Kiba had a major crush on Hinata. He was also aware that Kiba would sooner die than admit this fact to anybody. But just because Kiba didn't admit it didn't mean that it wasn't obvious. Well at least it was obvious to Shino who spent almost every day with the two of them. Shino also knew that Kiba was stupid enough to do something like attack Gaara in order to claim Hinata for himself. There was nothing that Kiba could say to convince him to do this.

"Kankurou's going to be there." Kiba said. Shino's eyes narrowed (not that you can tell)

"Let's Go."

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Outside the restaurant, Kankurou stiffened. He had felt the sense of impending doom before but it had never been this strong. Temari noticed his odd posture.

"What's wrong?" she asked

"Nothing much, I just can't shake this foreboding feeling."

"You've been getting that a lot lately. You really should see someone about it. Now shut up I think they're going to start talking."

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Inside Gaara and Hinata were sitting across from each other in the booth. Both were silent however.

Gaara was not speaking because he was a naturally silent type. He was trying his best to look friendly and inviting. But since he's Gaara he ended up looking homicidal and evil.

Hinata was not speaking because she was too frightened to even move. What they need is a convenient and loud distraction. Such a diversion will enter in 3..2..1

"GAARA! WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH HINATA?" Gaara twisted in his seat to see Kiba standing in the doorway. HE wondered if all Konoha boys were like this.

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Outside Temari was shocked at the new development. (I don't know why she was so shocked since this has happened on almost all of Gaara's dates) She knew that something had to be done immediately. She grabbed her ultra intimidating giant fan and prepared for a battle.

"Kankurou, let's go!" she shouted. There was no response. She turned around just in time to see Kankurou running for his life from Shino, who despite having 90 of his face covered, was managing to look incredibly pissed. Temari just shrugged and charged into the restaurant.

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Inside the restaurant the most awkward moment ever was transpiring. Kiba having charged in and made his big speech was now just standing in the doorway and looking angry. Gaara was blankly staring at Kiba. Hinata was blushing and hyperventilating out of fear.

Then Temari charged in and whacked Kiba over the head with her gigantic fan. The rest of the customers, most of them being ninjas jumped into the brawl and chaos erupted in the restaurant.

Gaara took this opportunity to sneak out and go back to the hotel.

Hinata took the opportunity to faint.

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The next day at practice Kurenai looked at her students and decided not to ask what had happened.

Kiba was covered in bruises and had a large bump on his head.

Hinata was blushing tomato red and couldn't even look at Kiba. While Kurenai could deal with this, Kiba often got in fights and Hinata was often shy. She could not deal with Shino.

Shino was standing perfectly still with a huge maniacal grin on his face.

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Back at the sand siblings hotel Temari was looking at her list desperately. Kankurou was in the corner rocking back and forth and muttering something about beetles.

Temari was in a desperate position, all of Gaara's dates so far had gone poorly. This meant that she would have to move on to the next name on her list. She had tried to think of someone else but there was no one. She quietly read the name to herself.

Mitarashi Anko. She gulped.

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While it was an odd phenomenon, every single person in Konoha. Every ninja, and every civilian. From the academy students to the Hokage. All of them felt a sense of impending doom.