A/N: I'm sorry, Id have updated on Sunday, but I was forced to go to a family gathering! I had to where these shoes from hell instead of my new sk8ter shoes! It sucks! I had to even brush my hair! And to top it all off! I had to dress nice! NOOOO! Please forgive me! --. And then wouldn't let me upload! AHHH!

If I owned Naruto, would I be writing this fic? No, it would be on the show! So what does that tell u? I don't own it! So there!

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Chapter 13: Is He A Good Kisser?

Shikamaru helped Temari down the stairs form their classroom. She looked at him and smiled crookedly. He looked back at her and smiled, "So, care to tell me what happened? Or are you going to try to sell me that troublesome story that you bruise easily again?"

She sighed, 'I may as well tell him, I mean, why shouldn't he know that my brothers beat me up? But then again, he might ask why, and I don't want to stop seeing him, I really like this one. I'll just tell him that they beat me up because I spent too much money on clothes again! WOOHOO! I'm a sucky liar!'

"My brothers," She changed her mind, 'if he knew they did that then he'd be too worried to let me go home, new plan.' " After my meeting with my brothers I decided to walk home, I got mugged, and that's how I got this way, no biggie!"

"Troublesome."

"So, what are you doing say, right about now? Wanna go out for lunch, my treat!" She held his hand, lacing their fingers.

"Sure." He looked at her bandages, he felt bad that she wouldn't trust him with the truth about what happened. "I'll drive, you're in no condition to drive right now."

"Thank you. I don't want to drive anyways; I'll crash into a million mailboxes. I failed drivers-ed. I have a fake license." She smiled evilly. "I'm bad."

"HaHa." He rolled his eyes. "Where do you want to go?"

"I don't care, just give me food!" She flopped against the side of his car.

"That's helpful." He sighed and put his hands behind his head. "You're such a troublesome woman, Temari-chan." He kissed her cheek.

"I'm surprised that you're not too lazy to kiss me." She smirked, but her happiness was interrupted once she noticed that her brothers were glaring at her, Kankuro chuckling as he hit his fist against his hand.

"You know Shika-kun, how about I meet your folks and we can eat lunch at your place and I'll stay for the prodject!" She said nervously as she got into the car.

"Huh?" He got in the drivers seat. " What was that all about? You got all spazy just now?"

"I-It's nothing! Really! Now, lets get out of here!" She looked nervously at her brothers.

"Troublesome." Shikamaru drove out of the parking lot and towards his house.

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Amaya walked down the stairs alone, she watched as all the people and their friends walked down the stairs making plans with each other for the three-week break.

'But if friends are kind, and care, then maybe I could look harder like my aunt said. But if friends are like Kiba, then I don't know.' She pulled her shoulder length hair back up into a ponytail. She looked forward into nowhere as she debated having friends with herself.

She looked plain with a gray sweatshirt on and black cargo shorts; her black hair topped it off as an outfit that was painfully plain.

Her eyes were glazed over with sadness and despair, in two days, it was the third anniversary of her parents death, and in one day, was he brothers anniversary of him being murdered nine years ago. She walked down final steps, but slipped and fell on her face.

All the other people laughed and pointed at her as the made fun of her. She stayed down; she felt the hot blood pore from her nose, and start to seep from her lips, forehead, chin, elbows, and knees. She tried to push herself up, but fell again back to her face as she heard all the people laughing and teasing in a crowd. 'Brother, why couldn't it have been me to die, mom, dad, why didn't you take me with you, I don't want to be alone.' She tried again, and stumbled to her feet, she let the blood slide down her face, not trying to wipe it away. She walked through the crowd that had gathered to mock her. They looked at her like she was a monster as they saw the bloody trail from her nose. 'If only I could have gone in your place brother, father, mother, if only.'

She walked down the streets alone again, back through the allies and broken paths. She rubbed her hand on the drying blood from her nose. She sighed, "I may as well get use to it, I still have two more years left, and they may stop…. Or not."

The orphan Nara girl trudged up the six flights of stairs to her apartment. She slid the key into the slot and walked in. Lonesome and empty, she had her bed, a few boxes full of clothes and a cooler to take the place of a fridge. Amaya sat down, her stomach grumbled. "Hungry."

She mindlessly walked out of her home, down the stairs and back to her aunt and uncles house, wondering why she just hadn't taken up the offer to stay with them three years ago, but at least now she got her exercise.

Kiba walked home the same way he always did, he and Shikamaru were neighbors. But noticed someone new walking on the sidewalk today.

"Hey!" Kiba ran to catch up with the new comer.

Amaya turned around, startling Kiba with the blood that had dried on her empty face.

"Holy Crap! What happened to you?" He stopped.

She turned around and kept walking to her relative's home.

"Hey, answer me!" He jumped into pace with her.

She didn't answer and kept looking forward.

"Hey! I'm talking to you!" He growled.

"Haven't you done enough? Breaking my heart wasn't enough for you? I don't need anyone else to make fun of me. I can't believe you're that cold, bastard! Get away from me!" She ran down the broken concrete away from the Inuzuka.

'I what? Her heart?' Kiba ran after her down the street but couldn't catch her in time; she had already reached the door to her cousin's house and went inside. "Great move Kiba, now she thinks you're a bastard."

Amaya stood against the door panting.

"What did you do?" Shikamaru asked from the couch where he and Temari sat watching TV.

"Shut up. I don't need you to be bitching at me too. Where's your mom?"

"At her new job. Why?"

"I just wanted to ask her if she could spot me some money to buy flowers to put on my families graves idiot. Remember, they're death anniversaries are in a few days, bro's is tomorrow."

Temari had a look of pity on her face and grabbed her purse and pulled out twenty dollars. "Here, will this be enough to get some nice flowers for them?" The blonde's generosity startled both the Nara's.

"W-what? You're kidding, right?" Amaya stuttered in disbelief.

"Not at all, they're your family, I always remember to put nice flowers on my parent's graves on the days of their deaths." She put the money in Amaya's hand. "I want the flowers to look nice, they'd probably deserve it." She smiled despite her swollen cheek.

"T-thank you." She smiled. "Oh! Sorry, do you even know who I am? So sorry, I'm Nara Amaya." She smiled sheepishly.

"Shikamaru-kun told me about you, but I don't believe we've met. I'm Temari."

"Yeah, you're all he talks about." Amaya laughed.

Temari giggled and looked at her red-faced boyfriend. Who had sunk down into the couch. "Aw! Thank you Shika-kun, that's so cute!"

"Hey Shikamaru, what left-overs do ya' got?" Amaya walked into the kitchen.

"Before you eat, clean off your face." Growled Shikamaru. "It's gross."

"Oops! Sorry you guys!" Amaya ran off to the bathroom to clean off her nose.

"She's cute, I don't know why you don't like her, Amaya seems nice."(Like cute as in, funny, nice, you get it)

"She usually doesn't act like that, she's upset and is trying to hide it, she's totally out of character this time of year, she was really close to her brother. She's on the verge of tears if you could tell." Shikamaru said bluntly.

"Wish I was close with my brothers, but oh well." Temari leaned against her boyfriend.

"I don't have siblings, glad too. They seem troublesome."

Amaya came out of the bathroom, she had been crying, but she tried hard to suck it up. "Is she staying for the prodject?" Amaya opened up the refrigerator.

"Yeah. Why?" Shikamaru looked up from the couch at his cousin.

"I was just wondering, I got an eviction notice and I didn't know if you guy were using my room for her or not, that's all." She pulled out a left over dish.

"Oh, so when do you have to be outta there?"

"Tonight, can I keep Kuroinu here? I'm not sure how many more places I can go with her." She started the microwave.

"I don't know, ask my mom, she'll be back in about a half hour."

"Okay." She pulled her food out of the microwave and walked to the back door. "Well, I'm going outside, don't do anything to gross while I'm gone." She snickered and walked outside and closed the door.

The sky was still cloudy from the rain but felt good outside with the breeze. She sat down on the bench and heard voices from over the privacy fence. She looked at the ground and cried she felt unloved from Kiba's words and her family's deaths. She sat her dish of food on the ground as she cried harder for herself and her lost family.

But over the fence was Kiba and Akamaru…

"Bark, bark!" The little white dog told Kiba.

"Yeah, I hear it too, a girl's crying." The youngest Inuzuka looked over the fence to see Amaya. "Wanna tell me what's wrong?" He called nicely from the fence.

She looked up; her face was red and tears poured from her black eyes.

He jumped over the fence onto the concrete in the Nara's backyard. Kiba walked over to Amaya and sat down. "You know I'm sorry for what I said." He watched her tears hit the ground. "What's wrong?"

"My brother died nine years ago tomorrow and my parents three years ago in two days." She tried to wipe the tears away from her eyes. "I miss them more than you can imagine. You don't know what it's like to loose someone that close to you, do you?" She looked into his eyes.

"No, I don't know what it's like, and I'm glad for it. But I'm sorry for you." He put his hand on her quivering hand. "I'm sorry, I never in my dreams wanted to hurt you. Because I do like you, I like you a lot, and I don't know why I said that I didn't because I do."

Amaya looked at him shocked. "But you-."

"I said I didn't like you but I lied, I do really really like you, and to see you crying hurts me." He sighed. "If you need to talk to someone about how you're feeling and about your family you can talk to me."

"Thank you, that makes me feel a lot better." She smiled. "I'll remember that." She kissed him on his lips and he kissed her back. They kissed for a long, long, extremely long, time. They finally stopped for air and blushed.

"Uh… um… I gotta go." Kiba got up and got ready to jump back over the fence when Amaya stopped him.

"Can my dog stay with you?" She smiled.

"Sure, when?"

"Uh, tonight until I get a new apartment, eviction bites."

"Yeah, it would. But sure, we've got a ton a' dogs."

"Thanks!" She kissed him again on his lips. "No hurry up and leave before my cousin or my aunt and uncle see me!"

He jumped over the fence into his yard. Amaya blushed and leaned against the fence. It was amazing how your opinion on someone could change so quickly.

Temari opened the door and smirked at Amaya. "And you told us not to do anything." Amaya's eyes went wide. "Naw, just kidding ya'. I was just gonna ask I you've eaten yet, 'cause we were going to eat with his parents and we wanted to know if you wanted to join us."

Shikamaru lifted an eyebrow:I thought you hated him?"

"Well…um…" Amaya blushed.

Temari elbowed him in the side, "Hey! She likes him! Leave her alone!"

"Troublesome… Well you comin' or not?"

Amaya snapped out of her trance, "Oh, sure."

"Then get your ass over here, we're leaving." Shikamaru walked back into the house.

Amaya followed him but was blocked by a crooked smiling Temari. "So, is he a good kisser?"

Amaya's eyes went wide. "W-what!"

"Was he or not?"

"Well, I guess so." Amaya fidgeted.

"Yes or no, girl."

"Yes." Amaya blushed.

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A/N: YAY! Next chapter you find out what happens to Hinata, does she die, or does she live? DUN DUN DUN!