Yipeedeedoodles! The second chapter of Four Little Letters! Aren't you all happy? lol. Anyways -yes, Achillea, it WILL BE KibaHina. That's why it was inspired by 'Second Best', see?

Anyway, I'm sorry to all the KNTM fans/people out there. I want to get this out of the way first. It's just a four-shot, so it won't take long, I promise!


Four Little Letters
By Mini-Chobi

"I'm sorry, Hinata-chan..." said Tsunade. "We did everything we could, Shizune and I..."

Hinata looked up, her pearly white eyes were tinged pink from her crying. She bit her quivering lip to stop the tears.

"I have to hurry off to help Neji now... please, don't take this harshly," Tsunade said, placing a hand on the young kunoichi's shoulder. "You're in the same position as Ino, you two will have a lot to talk about."

Hinata was confused. "What do you mean? Ino..." Hinata gasped. "Is Shikamaru... Shikamaru... what... oh-no... Shikamaru?"

Tsunade gave her a sad smile and walked swiftly down the hall, leaving Hinata outside Kiba's door.

As soon as Tsunade and Shizune turned away, Hinata slumped down against the wall and started crying again, drenching her lap in tears. When she could bear it no longer, Hinata stood up and entered Kiba's room. Akamaru was whining beside Kiba, licking his hand and willing him to wake up.

Hinata swallowed. She sat down on the chair beside Kiba's bed, and lay her head on his chest.

As she did so, she felt something sharp poke her. Wondering what it was, Hinata lifted her head and looked back down at Kiba's chest. There was a plain white envelope there, and Hinata wondered how she could have missed it before.

Slowly, her hands shaking, Hinata lifted the envelope and flipped it over. Scribbled there, in Kiba's handwriting, was one word:

'Hinata'

Hinata gulped, and carefully slit open the enelope. She took the folded letter out from the envelope, unfolded it, and began to read.

Dear Hinata,

Shikamaru insisted that we all write these letters. I don't think even he thought we were going to survive this mission -hello... assasination of a fucking ...? (1) Nuh-uh. (Oh, we aren't supposed to let anyone know WHO we're assasinating, so I wrote dots instead. You understand though, don't you?)

The other guys are writing them to other people. I saw Shikamaru write Ino's name on the envelope of his, so his definetly went to Ino. It's pretty sad. Obviously, those two have liked each other from the beginning.

On that topic... I wanted to tell you Hinata... I like you. Not just as a friend, but, you know... that? I hope I'm not too late telling you. It's just that you've always been trying to woo Naruto. I thought I was just in the way.

I'm most definitly going to die on this stupid mission, though, so no worries as to if I'll disrupt your love life with Naruto. Yup. Me, Sasuke, Neji and Shikamaru. The loners and the dead. Woot woot.

And yes, I'm being sarcastic.

VERY sarcastic.

I hate Naruto now, plain and simple. I envy him because he gets to spend time with you. I'm frustrated at him because he doesn't even awknowledge your existence much. But I do. I love you, Hinata.

I've got to tell you even if I don't survive this fucking mission. I don't care if you don't love me back. I just needed to tell you. That's all.

Loving you forevermore, (wow that sounded so corny!)
Kiba

By the time Hinata finished reading the letter, some of the words were so smudged by her tears they were barely legible. (sp?) She quickly folded it up again and slipped it back into its envelope. Tears still dripping from her face, Hinata leaned back in her chair and thought of what she had just learned.

Kiba had loved her.

Kiba probably would never have guessed this, but Hinata had given up on Naruto after seeing how utterly obsessed he was with Sakura. Hinata had then stopped having a crush on anyone for about a year. During that year, Kiba had gone away on some private training outside the village with Akamaru.

When Kiba had come back, Hinata couldn't believe her eyes. (and that's saying something for a Hyuuga) Kiba had become very... there was no other way to put it -very sexy. Not just a little -very.

Either Kiba hadn't noticed the change or didn't really care. He continued hanging out with her and Shino. That was fine with Hinata. However, most of the time, some insane fangirl of his would randomly run up to him, screeching that Kiba MUST go out with her.

Kiba would then blink a few times and refuse, turning back to try and make small talk with Shino. Of-course, Shino would stand there like the tree he was and basically ignore Kiba until he gave up and started talking to Hinata. Then Hinata would blush slightly and chat happily with Kiba.

At those times, Hinata often wondered if Kiba was just used to her blushing all the time and stuttering, or if he had somehow gone blind, or was he just as dense as Naruto. The red on her face was enough to make her spotted a mile away.

It was after one of these 'hanging-out times' when Shino came up to Hinata and stated something very unexpected.

"You love Kiba, Hinata."

Hinata was startled, waiting for Shino to grin and yell 'Haha! Got you!'. Then, she remembered that it was Shino she was talking to, and that Shino was always serious, whether he should be or not.

"What... what do y-you mean-n, Shino-s-san?"

Shino had tilted his sunglasses slightly so that she could see his eyes. There was a thouroughly exasperated look on his face. After a moment, he walked away.

That Shino really didn't say more than necessary. Ever.

As Hinata came out of her flashback daze, she wiped the tears from her face, and looked at Kiba's lifeless body in front of her.

Suddenly, she knew that Shino was right. She did love Kiba, and now that he was gone, it hurt deeply.

As she felt fresh tears coming up, Hinata leaned over and suddenly something she would never dare to do if Kiba had been alive or hadn't told her he loved her.

She kissed him.

Hinata's tears fell from her closed eyelashes and dropped lightly onto Kiba's face. As she pulled back from the kiss, she looked once again onto the handsome face of her teammate and good friend.

Smiling sadly, Hinata stood up, squeezed Kiba's lifeless hand and petted Akamaru good-bye.

Then, she headed towards the door. With her hand on the doorknob, Hinata turned back and looked out the window.

Outside, white fluffy clouds floated around in the clear blue sky. A ray of sunshine came in from the window and landed on Kiba's face, making it seem like it was glowing.

Hinata looked down slightly.

"Wait for me in Heaven, Kiba."


Hello. I was going to make Hinata say 'I love you too, Kiba' but Ino said that so I made her say 'Wait for me in Heaven, Kiba.' instead. Wow! Go me!

(1) Originally, there were four dots, standing for 'kage' but noooo! Fanfiction doesn't allow four dots together! I mean, come on! It's only FOUR DOTS! Geez! As Kiba constantly sticks up his middle finger in the manga I thought it would be appropriate for him to swear a lot. That is all!

-MC