Disclaimer: I'm sure yall know by now but just in case it is on chapter one.

Warning: This chapter contains hints at yaoi which a relationship between two men.

I hope you guys enjoy this one!

I think I did fairly well on this one. Though at some points they may seem a bit out of character but only slightly I think and it is to help keep the story rolling so I think it works.

Special thanks to DarkHabit-san who read over the chapter for me!

Enjoy

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Chapter 4: Ino Invasion

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Temari cooed at the bird perched on her windowsill as it flapped its wings at her briefly before settling down again and turning its head to clean betweens its feathers.

The blonde sighed as she placed her hand on her hand.

Konoha was such a peaceful village.

Kankuro had been locked in his room since yesterday and it has started to annoy her. Temari was somewhat interested in what could cause Kankuro to become a recluse considering the teen liked taking walks around the Leaf village.

"Boys…" Temari muttered to herself with a small smirk before she cooed at the bird again causing it to fly away.

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"Hmm…" Shino muttered as Kiba was spread out on the sofa scratching his stomach with a goofy look of satisfaction on his face.

Shino had pretty much figured out what happened at Kiba's yesterday after Kankuro had escaped. Or really he just stood there while the flustered teammate of his tried to come up with some sort of excuses but it obviously wasn't working.

All Shino had to do was stare at the teen before Kiba finally explained what happened. Interrogation over and now the dog boy hoped his friend might be able to make better sense out of it than he was currently doing.

It wasn't a rare thing, homosexuality, while never really spoken about; everyone knew it was going on.

"Hmmm….." Shino went on causing Kiba's fingers to stop as his face suddenly changed, turning red when the boy was opening his mouth to say something but realized it didn't matter and closed it again.

A first, Shino thought.

"Kiba, Shino?" A small voice spoke before Hinata opened the door to the dog boy's home.

Kiba sat up immediately giving Shino a look that clearly said, "SECRET"

Hinata smiled as she saw her two teammates acknowledge her entering the room. They didn't meet at Kiba's often, usually with excuses about the place being a mess and such, though with as many dogs as the family had she never doubted the truth behind them.

"So I heard-s" Hinata paused as she looked at Kiba who just gave her a confused look in return…. "Ano…."

Hinata's took a deep breath before she smiled again at her teammates. "I heard some interesting news."

Kiba clapped his hands together and jumped up, "This has got be good!"

"Ino-chan and Chouji-kun will be joining our team for sometime while Asuma-sensei and Shikamaru-kun are out on a mission." The girl folded her hands over her lap as she smiled sweetly at her two teammates.

"………" Shino sighed mentally.

"WHAT?" Kiba stared at Hinata as if waiting for her to suddenly realize she said something wrong and what she really meant was that Chouji had eaten Ino and they were all to attend her funeral.

"…" Hinata continued to smile.

Kiba looked over at Akamaru as the dog whimpered. Hope for a happy life seemed to be fading in the shadows before Shino muttered something.

"But we only move in three cell groups."

Kiba's eyes widened. "THAT'S RIGHT! THAT IS BLOODY RIGHT! WHAT NOW, HUH HINATA, WHAT NOW?"

Kiba did a little 'booyah' dance in front of Hinata as if she had been the one to make the decision in the first place.

"That's right……ano……Chouji-kun and I were going to do something else…" Hinata brought her fingers up to her lips in thought as if she had forgotten something else.

"Hinata." Kiba whined as he grabbed the girl's shoulders causing her to snap her head at him. "You mean to tell me I get stuck with a boy crazy retard while you get it easy with fat-assssssssssssssssssss………"

If Ino had been a polite person she would have knocked but being as she already didn't like the situation she decided at that right moment to slam the door open. Chouji who just followed her whilst munching on his chips was about to make an introduction until he realized what Kiba had just said.

Ino, Hinata, and Shino were suddenly in the next room when smoke came from Chouji's nose. "What did you call me?"

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Kankuro threw his screw driver to the other side of his room. Stupid thing wasn't doing acting right.

The teen sighed before he looked at the puppet he had been working on. If he kept this up he would probably end up breaking it. Running his hands through his hair he gave out a deep breath before placing the puppet down on the ground gently.

'I don't know' Kankuro gritted his teeth. What the hell was he thinking? He doesn't know, sure as hell he knows.

Has known….

Wants to know…

The sand-nin paced around his room hurriedly, turning in circles quickly before he stopped in front of the mirror.

He liked Kiba.

So what right? Its not like its something terrible like……murder, no……rape, maybe…no…….attacking a village by orders of an imposter…..

Kankuro sighed as he ran his hands through his hair once more.

"If you keep doing that you're going to go bald." Temari smirked nonchalantly at her brother. "I was wondering if Kiba and Akamaru were going to be coming over today…"

"Why would you want to know that?" Kankuro sucked in his breath as he realized his sudden reaction, his cheeks slightly pinking. "Does it matter?"

Temari smirked as she raised an eyebrow. Touchy touchy.

"I might have company tonight and I just wanted to make sure no one else would be here." With that his older sister turned and walked nonchalantly down back to her room.

"No one else here? Then where am I supposed to go?" Kankuro spoke to the retreating figure.

"Not my problem is it?" And with that she was gone.

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"And then the whore was like-" Kiba grunted as Ino kept talking. "And Sakura, Shino you would appreciate this, Sakura, she-"

The mission had been simple enough, escort heiress to other city. The city itself was only half a days journey away and so they made it briefly around lunch time. The walk back however…..

"Kiba why do you think Hinata doesn't like you?" The walk back was going to resort in Kiba killing off Ino and convincing Shino that they would just say she fell behind.

"……" Kiba stared forward while Ino kept looking at him. He would sever her head first, to stop the noise.

"Not to be RUDE, or anything but I just thought ya'll would make a decent couple." Ino stopped when Shino made some sort of noise.

"LISTEN INO!"

"Ino I think you should learn that not talking might be the best thing in some cases." Shino quickly interrupted while Kiba fisted his hands and glared at her.

"Ahhhh……" Ino paused before she nodded in understanding. "So she still likes Naruto-loser."

That was it.

Sure Kiba could deal with Ino for the most part. She was annoying but she was also a very capable shinobi. But that was the last straw.

"You know what Ino." Kiba spoke in a way that was not quite yelling but just as ever berating, "You are ABSOLUTELY right."

Ino's mouth parted as if she was about to say something but she closed it and continued to look at the dog boy in silence.

A first, Shino mused, seemed like it was happening a lot recently.

"IN FACT," Kiba through his hands in the air emphasizing. Akamaru's ears went back as the dog whimpered quietly at his master's behavior. "I liked Hinata very much, she was my first…my first….and you know what I probably always will, but you know what makes all of this not matter so much."

"….." Ino just stood there.

"It's okay that she doesn't return my feelings, and I'm not going to force mine on her like you would! Cause I understand what it feels like to want to be close to something and not get the chance to!" Kiba glared at Ino before he scoffed.

"But I guess finding happiness in other people's joy is not something you are ever going to experience is it? You stupid bi-"

"What the hell do you know?" Ino shouted as she leered over at the dog boy. "You know Kiba you piss me off!"

"THAT MY LINE!" Kiba growled.

"….." Shino sighed and just kept walking.

"Ha, some speech you gave there Kiba! You really had me going, poor considerate Kiba-kun, always thinking about others and not himself; is that it!" Ino placed her hands on her hips and smiled. "All you want is a little pity, admit it."

"Pity!" Kiba gritted his teeth, "I pity you Ino, you are so incapable of seeing what is really going on around you! All you ever think about is yourself! Even before you became a chunin and before even that! Remember you gave up a friendship for your little Sasuke-kun, what about now? That little Sasuke-kun you used to run over people for betrayed our village, and you are teasing me in my decisions of who to like?"

"Kiba that was too far." Shino muttered as he put his hand on his friends shoulder.

Kiba just growled before he glared at the shocked girl.

"You need to start looking at how other people view you. It might give you a lesson in life." With that Akamaru barked something causing Kiba to stop as he looked down at his dog.

"You know nothing about me." Ino stated as she shook. "You know what Kiba, I say things all the time but you know what the difference between me and you is? I don't mean it."

"Just because you don't mean it doesn't mean it doesn't hurt." Shino stated before Kiba could say something. "I think it's about time both of you stopped and keep walking, we're not too far from Konoha."

There was a moment of silence as the trees moved silently with the wind. A few leaves flew in between the three of them before the peace was disrupted.

BURP.

Everyone's eyes went wide as the turned to see Akamaru smiling at them and then gave a small bark.

"Akamaru did you just-"

"Did your dog…"

"Burp." All three chunin said at the same time before Ino started laughing.

Akamaru made a small embarrassed whine before the dog started walking ahead of the group.

"Haha, don't pretend nothing happened." Kiba laughed at his friend, "We all heard it."

Akamaru then proceeded to walk farther causing the group to laugh.

"Gawd, we needed a laugh." Ino stated whilst wiping one of her eyes before she smiled meekly at Kiba, "Ano……gomen?"

Kiba just pouted at her as his cheeks turned a little pink as he turned his head away, "Ha, that's right you are."

Ino's forehead twitched a bit before she smiled and ran over to Kiba hugging him, "Admit it, you like me!"

"What, no I don't!"

"You know you do! Whats with the blush huh?" Ino teased as she clung to him. "I could be your first kiss!"

"What makes you think I haven't been kissed before?" Kiba shouted as he was able to get out of her hold.

"Really?" Ino smiled mischievously, "Who?"

Shino sighed as he watched all this happen in front of him. At least there mission was over.

"Why it was..was…." Kiba's face turned beet read before he stood up and took off running, passing Akamaru who then proceeded to run after his master.

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Kiba took a deep breath as he slowed down in the village, Akamaru still behind him.

The dog boy sighed as he felt his face heat up even more.

He hadn't realized Kankuro was his first kiss.

Akamaru barked causing the dog boy to nod his head. They need to head home because the clouds were too dark for it to not rain any second now.

Kiba sighed as he made his way to his family's house until he saw a figure standing by the mailbox.

The unmistakable head gear, the black out fit with a marking in the middle of the stomach. A bandaged object hanging on the persons back.

The face make-up that seemed to highlight the frown that person was giving Kiba at the moment.

It seemed Kiba only blinked before Kankuro was suddenly beside him grabbing his arm and pulling him off in another direction.

"Hey-"

"Shut up." Kankuro cut Kiba off and tightened his grip on the teens arm.

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DunDunDUUUUNNNNNN…..

Well what do yall think? Huh?