A/N: Sorry it took me so long to update! I just couldn't think of anything to write! Darn writers block. This is a result of my writers block and wanting to get a chapter up. So if's it's not up to standard, I'm sorry!

Disclaimed: Don't own Naruto Series.

"It's okay Hinata... I'm here," Kiba's voice shot through her pleasant dreams about Naruto, making Hinata awake with a start. She glared to a figure to the right of her small bed.

"KIBA! Stop doing that!" Sitting next to Hinata's bed was none other than the thought to be deceased Kiba Inuzuka. He had an evil grin plastered on his face. "What are you so happy about, Kiba?"

Kiba burst out laughing, looking at her. "N-Naruto-kun, don't leave me now! I loooooooooooove you!" He mocked in a high, fake voice. Hinata glared at him, and went back to sleep. Just because she sometimes talked in her sleep didn't give him reason to mock her.

A few hours later, Hinata's alarm went off. She opened her eyes, and threw the covers over her head. She didn't want to meet with Shino today. He had said tht they needed to talk, and she was not in the mood for one of his lectures. "Hinata, Shino is at the door. Father can't distract him much longer, you know how much he hates smart-assed people." Hanabi banged on the door.

Hinata groaned, and got dressed quickly. She walked down the steps toward the door, Kiba's silvery image beside her. "Hinata, come." Shino's deep, monotone voice beckoned to her. She sluggishly moved along, dreading what was coming next. Much to her distress, Kiba was had started laughing again. As soon as he father shut to door, she glared at him.

"Kiba!"

"That is precisely what I wish to talk to you about, Hinata. As of late," Shino cleared his throat, "you have been acting little odd. Ever since you ran away from the funeral, you have been talking to someone who isn't there." Shino looked down at the navy haired girl as they started walking along the small path toward Konoha.

"It's.. it's not like that, Shino..."

"Can you please explain to me what it is like, then?"

"Well... no... You wouldn't believe me." Hinata glanced over at the silvery image of her teammate, who was floating along with them. Why was it that only she could see Kiba? It would be so much easier if everyone thought that Shino was crazy, too.

"If you feel that way, Hinata, then I feel that this is the best place for you." Hinata hadn't really noticed it, but they had been walking toward the mental institution of Konoha. For the ninja suffering from head injuries, depression, or the like. Hinata sighed.

"Shino, I'm not going crazy! KIBA, STOP LAUGHING!" Hinata turned to her ghost, and started trying to hit him. "KIBA, I SWEAR!"

"They have people for you, Hinata. This will be the best for you. I promise." Hinata stared at Shino with an open mouth.

"You can't be serious, Shino. Sending me to a mental institution is no laughing matter."

"Who is laughing?"

"This silvery appirition next to me, for one." With a shake of his head, Shino lead Hinata into the hospitial. The lady at the front desk smiled.

"Are you here to drop off Hinata Hyuuga, patient number 206?"

Shino nodded, and the lady told them to wait in the seats for a few moments until she could get everything in order. As they made their way to the waiting room, Hinata made a run for it. She ran out of the door, feeling for dear life. Shino sat in the waiting room, staring after. He was surprised that Hinata was doing something against someone else's better judgment.

Finally, Hinata had to stop to catch her breath. She was a little way off from Konoha, in one of the forest training grounds. Kiba floated up next to her. "Does running really wear you out that much? I always thought you had more stamina than that, Hinata. I got all the way her in the same amount of time without breaking a sweat."

"Yeah, well. You're a ghost. Your DEAD. Dead, do you hear me? Dead, as in: NOT ALIVE. As in: NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE. Why are you here, anyway?" She crossed her arms and looked up at her teamate.

Kiba stroked his chin like he was in deep thought. He even sat down cross-legged, and looked up at the sky. He reminded Hinata of a famous sculpture, called "The Ninja Thinker." Kiba ruined her three seconds of admiration for the great art piece by bursting out with laughter.

"Thank you, Captain Obvious. I am dead. But as to why I'm here... I don't know. Maybe someone needs me."

"Then why don't you go appear to them instead of me? I'd be perfectly fine with that."

"Maybe I'm supposed to help you, Hinata." Kiba looked at her with all seriousness in his face, an expression that Hinata did not regonize on his face. She was takenaback by it. "Maybe... maybe that's what I'm supposed to do."

All Hinata could do in response was stare, open-mouthed, at him. She didn't have problems! Okay, maybe one or two. Maybe she couldn't tell Naruto that she loved him. Maybe she couldn't stand up to her little sister. Maybe she couldn't stand up to anyone, and had low self confidence. The list went on. But that didn't matter! None of those were Kiba's problems. She would figure them out, eventually.

Kiba looked back down at Hinata. "Shino's following you. I can ense him."

That broke her out of her trance faster than anything else. Eye twitching in horror, she ran like he wind- straight into Shino.

"Good one, Hinata. Run back to the captor."

"Shut up, Kiba," Hinata muttered. How was she going to get out of this one? Well, there was that way that she had seen in a movie. Oh God, she hoped it would work.

She then turned her gaze back to Shino, and smiled brightly. She wrapped her arms around his waist, and looked up at his unchaning face.

"Shino-kun... I'm not insane. But I am going crazy with love for you." She looked up at him with puppy eyes. In her head, she was silently praying it would work. 'Please let Shino be seduced! PLEASE!"

The only thing she could hear was Kiba's laughter.

A/N: Hinata, trying to seduce Shino? Will it work? And why does Kiba laugh so much as a ghost? Please review!