Had to leave you guys on a close one :)

CHAPTER 12 - Y-You Too?!

The girls crouched on the floor. Ten Ten pulled over her desk chair in front of the door, in case anyone decided to 'knock it down' and give them a screaming. On the other hand, Sakura sat underneath her bed and Ino was underneath her own desk. Ten Ten stood by, peeking to see if they were still out in the back of the dorms, in which, they were not.

"Shit, Ino!" Ten Ten exclaimed. "You just had to go do that."

Sakura lifted her head up, banging it by accident on the bottom of the bed. She placed a hand on her forehead. "Yeah, stupid bitch."

"Well, SORRY if I-"

Knock. Knock.

"AHH!" All three girls shouted, urging each other to go open the door.

They then saw the handle jiggle, in which they all went to go hide in their bathroom. They locked the door while the three of them all rushed to hide in the bathtub, closing the curtains immediately.

"SHIT. INO. SHIT." Sakura cried out.

Ino, doing her best to squish in between the two girls, went red. "I'M SORRY!" She mouthed.

Before anyone said anything, Ten Ten then hushed them and whispered in the lowest possible voice. "Don't. Move. A. Fucking. Muscle."

The girls quieted down, the room was silent to the point where you could hear someone breathe normally. Due to that, Sakura put a hand over Ino's mouth. There was a bunch of tension in the air, and they then heard the bathroom door open.

'Goodness gracious, how did I end up being trapped in a horror movie with these girls?' Ten Ten thought to herself.

. . .

The curtain opened.

"AHH!" The three girls shouted again, same with the person who opened the curtain as well.

"AHH!" Hinata yelped, stepping back as she had a broom in her hand.

The girls took a moment to breathe, before Ten Ten stepped out of the tub. "Hinata! It's only you!"

Hinata began to catch her breath as well. "O-Of course! W-W-Who else would it be?"

The door knocked again.

Ten Ten covered Hinata's mouth just like how Sakura did to Ino. Ten Ten gently kicked the bathroom door closed, locking it by pressing her big toe into the knub. She would step back into the bathtub, leading Hinata with her and softly closed the curtains again.

Temari knocked on the door angrily. "I know they're in here."

Shikamaru yawned, stepping out of his own dorm room to put his e-cig away. "What's the big deal? They all suspect it anyway."

"S-Suspect? Oh. Suspect what?" Temari turned a bit to him.

They both turned red again. They didn't know how to handle this, even though it was painfully obvious that they had both gained some feelings with each other. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been so close to kissing.

Shikamaru seemed to remain unresponsive, in which she kept trying to knock on the door.

"Get your asses out of there!" She called out angrily.

"Temari."

"Girls!"

"Temari." Shikamaru said again.

"Hey!" She called out, giving one final bang.

Without a warning, he took her by the arm and made him face her. It was like how they were, not even twenty minutes ago. His hands were planted on her shoulders, their noses almost touching, it was like the moment had been replayed.

And just as bad timing defined itself, the girls opened the door to see the pair eye to eye once more.

"Listen, Temari, we're sorr-" Ten Ten apologized as she opened the door, blinking to see another moment ruined.

Ino grinned. "Well, at least I don't have to fetch the binoculars again."

"Wait, wait, wait." Temari said, as Ten Ten was explaining the whole situation. "So you're trying to tell me, you guys have been staring at us throughout that whole time?"

Ino and Sakura tilted their heads. "Well..."

"Enough," Temari raised a hand up. "I think I've had enough of that for today. Shikamaru, take me home."

Shikamaru raised himself from Ten Ten's desk chair, until Ten Ten halted Temari. "Wait!"

Temari sighed, giving Ten Ten a bothered look. "Yes?"

"I..I also wanted to say I'm sorry about the gift I got you, I know, it wasn't my place and all I really wanted was for you to find something fun in what you're good at." Ten Ten explained.

"Ten Ten, there are a lot of things I'm good at. And besides, what's the use of volleyball? I bet the team is just a bunch of girls wanting to talk about how many guys they've laid or whatever-"

Ten Ten then interrupted her. "That's not the point! You liked volleyball!"

"Well at this point, I'd rather not do volleyball if the people around me are crappy. And that's what the girls on my last team really showed me," Temari told her. "Now let's go Shikamar-"

"Okay! We'll tryout with you!" Ten Ten exclaimed.

Ino, Sakura, and Hinata all cried out in harmony. "WHAT?"

"Yeah!" She looked at her room mates. "We all will!"

The blonde turned her head a bit, her ears twitching at the announcement of Ten Ten. She stayed silent, before rotating her head back into its usual position. She said one word before walking out the dorm room.

"Fine."

As Temari walked furiously to the Jeep, Shikamaru walked calmly behind her. "Look at you, walking as if you're the one driving."

Temari turned around, clearly annoyed. "Don't get on my nerves. That was not the way how I wanted things to go."

The two entered the car. Shikamaru didn't bother to budge on the wheel until she was visibly paying attention to putting on her seatbelt. Her body language said everything; her elbow beside the window, her forehead in the palm of her hand, and the way she forgot her safety of the polyester strip.

"I don't get it. She got you some gear to help you out, and even offered to tryout with you. So, what's up? What's the big deal?" He asked her.

Temari didn't face him. "Because I hate depending on people, that's why. Ever since I got here I feel as if I have to depend on everyone, I hate that." She removed her elbow from the space beside the window, straightening her posture. "Well, not anymore. I'll walk home."

And with that, she opened the car door and walked out. Shikamaru blinked, immediately clicking his seatbelt to release the grip and walked out his own seat. He speed walked to catch up with her. "Hey!"

"Don't follow me. I can handle the thirty minute walk." She said as she walked even faster.

'Goodness gracious, she's such a child.' He sighed, practically jogging and lifting her up by the knees and hung her whole weight over his shield.

"Alright, let's go."

Temari fought his grip. "SHIKAMARU! LET ME GO!"

"No. You're crazy if you think you're going to walk all the way back home in this weather." He told her, stomping back to the car. He bent his knees and bit to make sure she didn't loosen from his arm, and pulled down her skirt a bit to make sure there was no exposure.

He then opened the passenger door again, forcing her in it.

"Ah! Damn it!"

Kankuro tapped his foot, waiting for a knock on the door. After several minutes of waiting, he heard footsteps from the hallway in which he instantly turned the knob and opened the door of the apartment. "About time."

And there he was, a grinning Kiba with a pile of magazines in his left hand. "Sorry, I had a-"

"Nevermind that." Kankuro told him, gripping him by the wrist and pushing him in front of him, leading the boy to his room. "Just get me the stuff, I have a feeling my sister and brother are coming home soon."

As the two boys entered Kankuro's room, they were seated on his twin XL bed while Kiba began to spread out the magazines. Their eyes glistened on the front covers of the magazines, seeing a bunch of half naked women in bikinis.

"Damn, where did you even get this shit from?" Kankuro asked the guy next to him, who would close his eyes and smirk.

"A true magician never reveals his secret, now open the damn pages and see which one you like!" He told him, in which Kankuro gladly did so.

Pressing his fingertips between the first page, it revealed much better content than what Kankuro had seen on websites. He felt himself getting tight in the pants, however trying to hide it from Kiba considering that would.. just be weird to him.

He skimmed through more pages, feeling himself getting tighter and he did a bad job of hiding it from Kiba. Kiba looked over at Kankuro, daring to look at him in the eyes. He turned red, Kiba then looked down at the bulge in his pants, causing him to look down at the publications. He would open another magazine, in order to distract himself.

Kiba grabbed a fistful of hair, aggravated. "Well? Pick something out already."

"I-I can't!" Kankuro told him, flushed.

"Why not?" Kiba asked.

Kankuro turned even more red. "W-Well.. you know why!"

Kiba understood, looking away.

If the two boys hadn't experienced true awkwardness before, they certainly have now. They both looked away from each other, Kankuro trying to distract himself with the magazines, but in reality, he isn't even paying attention to that anymore.

FLASHBACK

"S-So? That's your dumb secret?" Kiba leaned against the wall of the large bathroom stall, looking at Kankuro who was seated on the toilet.

Kankuro stared at Kiba angrily. He had just told him that out of all his years of living, he had never had his first kiss. "Well shit, this is why it's called a secret for a reason."

Kiba laughed, a bit more timid than Kankuro expected him to be. "Well, considering that's your dumb secret, I guess I can tell you mine."

Kankuro's ears pierced up, turning his head sideways to the other male in the stall. He waited for Kiba to come closer and whisper him the secret that was kept only by a select few.

"I'm bi."

Kankuro's eyes widened as the words of Kiba echoed in his ears. He looked away from him, nodding.

"M-Me too.." Kankuro whispered, not wanting to look at Kiba's reaction. Kiba, on the other hand, suspected it all along. He then walked towards the seated guy, bending over and placed a finger under his chin. Without a warning, he planted a steady kiss on Kankuro's lips.

Without breathing, Kankuro didn't move his lips. He allowed the sensation of Kiba's lips to become familiar, he looked up at Kiba, speechless. "W-Why?"

Kiba shrugged. "Because i wanted to, and it was obvious. Bi's can see other bi's."

END OF FLASHBACK

"Kankuro, man, listen-"

Kankuro turned to him. "J-Just shut up, okay?! I know what you're going to say."

Kiba raised an eyebrow. "What did you think I was going to say?"

The lips of the former Suna individual quivered, then noising his response. "That I'm being ridiculous, and dramatic for no reason."

Kiba rolled his eyes. "No, that's not it. Not even close to what I was going to say actually."

"Then what were you going to say?!"

"Can you calm down man, I was just going to say..." He gulped, turning red. "We can reveal each other, if you want."

Kankuro shook his head roughly, wanting to know if he heard it right. "Did you just say we should-"

"Yeah, now do you want to or not?" Kiba asked, a bit aggressively to match Kankuro's intensive voice.

Kankuro looked sharply at Kiba, unzipping his pants shyly. Kiba stared at the zipper, and so copied his move. Kiba looked up at the male beside him, closing the distance between them and similarly hooked a finger under his chin and planted a kiss on his. Except this time, he intended to fully make out with him. Kiba pointed his tongue, opening his mouth to request entry on Kankuro's own. As Kankuro was a bit inexperienced, he slightly opened his lips and was surprised by Kiba's forceful tongue entering his mouth. And there they were, having a passionate make out session.

As the pair of lips moistly massaged against each other, Kiba took dominance and inserted a hand into Kankuro's pants, feeling his member and taking it into his hand. Kankuro jumped, but took some time to get used to the sensation, and would eventually do the same treatment to Kiba.

"Kiba..." Kankuro said as he murmured against the boy's lips.

Unexpectedly, the door would swing open. "Kankuro! I need my- AHHH!"