A/N: Update! Sorry it's been so long, loves, but school been overwhelming. Plus, I've been trying to update other stories as well. And Gaia's addictingness is very overwhelming.

Disclaimer: I can't draw. So no owning Naruto for me...

"Hin-Hinata... I don't think..." Shino stumbled over his words. Hinata managed a glance up at his face, which had a slight pink tinge on it. IT WAS WORKING? Hinata buried her face in his chest to hide her shocked expression.

Did Shino actually like Hinata? She felt a hand on her chin. The hand lifted her head, and tilted it toward Shino. Her eyes widened as Shino came in closer.

This was not supposed to happen!

Hinata surpressed a scream when Shino's lips met hers. His lips felt warm and inviting. She closed her eyes and leaned into the kiss. Hinata hadn't noticed that Kiba's laughter had stopped. Shino pulled away. She thought he could see a speck of disapointment in his usually unreadable face. Her shock must have given it away.

"You're lying," Shino said, half an inch from her face, disapointment almost evident in his emotionless voice.

"Wha-? No I'm not!" And here she was believing he actually liked her. She definitely thought too much of herself. Her eyes widened as she felt a hand on her wrist.

"You're coming with me." Shino pulled the navy haired girl toward the hospitial for the mentally unstable. She groaned. Who was here to help her, now?

Then, she felt a hand on her other wrist. Kiba...? Her hopes soared.

She turned, only to come face to face with her cousin. "He... hello, Neji-nii-san."

He nodded at her, and then turned to glare at Shino. "Aburame-san. Where are you taking Hinata?"

"She is delusional. She is under the impression that she loves me and Kiba is still alive," Shino stated, not turning around.

"Hn." Neji raised an eyebrow. "And what if she does like you?"

"She doesn't. I kissed her."

"You did WHAT to my cousin?" In less than a second, Neji was standing behind Shino, arms crossed. Shaking his head, he sighed. "Look, I don't care what your odd fantaises are. I just need my cousin not to do the the hospital. Bad for the clan's image, you see? The heir going crazy..."

Shino let go of Hinata's wrist. "I guess clan's do need to protect their images. It would be disasterous for other countries to see Konoha shinobi as mentally unstable. But I do advise getting help for her."

"Right. Hiashi-sama will take care of that." Neji then took Hinata and guided her away from Shino, the silvery mist that was Kiba following them. He kept throwing angry glances at the retreating figure of the bug boy. He had kissed her.

Shino had kissed his Hinata.

He had never been so glad that Neji was Hinata's cousin before. If it wasn't for Neji, Hinata would be in the mental ward now.

"Hinata, are you alright?"

"I'm fine, Neji. Thank you."

"I just saw you when I was sparring, and I remembered overhearing Shizune-san talk about your mental condidtion to Shino. On that note, Hiashi-sama wants me to talk to you about this problem Shino thinks you are having."

Hinata let out a sigh. Her own father thought she was crazy. Kiba floated a distance behind, still brooding over the fact that Shino kissed Hinata.

'It's not like it matters. I'm dead. No one can love a ghost.'

Hinata and Neji came to a stop in an empty field.

"Sit," The elder Hyuuga commanded. Hinata nodded, and sat down. "Hiashi-sama say's you've been talking to someone who isn't there. Shino also said you've been talking to Kiba."

"They'd be right," she muttered, throwing a glance at Kiba.

"Kiba's dead." Kiba sat next to Neji, making a triangle. Neji didn't see this, but Hinata did. She looked at him, her glare telling him to leave her alone now. But he still sat there.

"That's what I tell him!" Hinata said, turning back to her cousin.

"Hm... It seems you have it..." Neji muttered. Hinata's eyes widened, as did Kiba's.

"Have what?" She asked in alarm.

"Well, I've been doing some research since I heard about you talking to ghosts, and..."

"And what?" Hinata interrupted.

"If you'd be quiet, I'd tell you." When Hinata didn't respond, Neji continued. "Like I said, I've been doing some research. I came upon something really interesting in a book about our clan. There is a special type of Byakugan that allows the user to see ghosts without having it activated. It skips generations."

"Really?" Hinata asked, letting out a breath of relief. She wasn't crazy! It was just that her Byakugan was different!

"No," Neji stated dryly.

Hinata sweat dropped, almost face planting into the ground. "Thanks alot, Neji."

"Welcome. Anywho, about your problem. You think you can see Kiba?"

"I know I can see Kiba! He's right here!" Hinata pointed at the empty space.

"Then I have no reason to doubt you. If you are sure, then he must need to help you. Tenten said something about ghosts staying on earth for those reasons."

That's what Kiba told me when I asked him what he was doing here...

"So you don't think I'm crazy."

"You have given no reason for me to think that."

"But I see dead people."

"So does half the world, it seems."

"Right. So, you don't mind that I think I see a dead teammate of mine?" Hinata asked once again, for good measure. Neji was known to pick on people without them knowing it. He had such an odd sense of humor.

"Should I?"

"No."

"That answers your question."

Hinata sighed. Her cousin was so odd at times. How everyone else got the idea he was a brilliant, calm, normal person was beyond her. "Thank you for understanding, Neji."

"Anytime." He got up, and left. Hinata turned to Kiba.

"At least he believes you, Hinata," Kiba said in a reassuring tone.

"Neji never was one to care if I was crazy unless I tried to hurt someone. Which I never did."

"Hey, at least you haven't hurt anyone. Yet." Kiba added in a playful tone.

"But what about Shino? I think I hurt him. And to top it all off, he's the best friend I've got, and he doesn't believe me. Maybe I am going crazy." Hinata crossed her arms and adverted her gaze to the ground.

It was then that Hinata was pulled into a tight embrace. It felt so real, regardless of the fact that a ghost was huging her. "You're not crazy, Hinata."

For some reason, that made it all better.