Chapter Five - Can't Hide Anything
Kiba leaned up against one of the posts he was training with and yawned. "Never alone out here with Akamaru as company." He laughed. "But no, I'm meeting with Hinata to train for a little while. Speaking of which she's late." He shrugged. "Shino couldn't train today so it's just us two." He slumped to the ground and stretched. "What about you? Training alone?"
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Hinata stopped, surprised at Sakura's appearance. She didn't usually talk to her, so she was pretty shocked. "Oh, um, hello," she said quietly. "Are you...out training today?" She kept her shy attitude about her as she talked, not quite making eye contact. Rather, she thought about the strange irony of timing.
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"Yeah, Sakura, has been training on her medical techniques, and I can't help her with that, and Sasuke wants to train alone for a while so the next time we spar, he can see how much better he has gotten compared to me," Naruto said and decided sitting was too much work so he laid down." "I hope Hinata is okay, she is almost never late," he said thinking about her family, if they had found out.
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"No not today, I'm taking a resting day," she said and then took a very serious tone. "Hinata I heard a rumor about you today, that you were dating Naruto and that you kissed him, that's not true, is it?" Sakura asked, a little bit of jealousy in her voice, but hardly noticeable.
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Kiba grinned. "She's probably fine. Knowing her there was probably some brawl on the street and she decided to stop and help out the injured or something." Kiba looked at Naruto suspiciously, getting the strange feeling that he was hiding something.
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Hinata felt her eyes go wide but tried to hide it by turning away from Sakura. Who would be spreading rumors? She didn't think that Neji would tell other people other than her family, he wasn't much of a gossip as far as she knew. Still turned away from Sakura she asked softly, "Do you believe everything you hear?"
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"Hehe, you're probably right she is nice like that, very nice indeed," he said as he thought of the night he had last night, then snapped back to reality. "So how have you been though, it's been a while since we had a mission together and had a chance to talk," Naruto said, trying to change the subject away from Hinata, before he said something he did not want to.
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"Well no not always, but I heard it from a very reliable source, and you have not denied it yet, is it true or not? Do you have feelings for him?" she asked in a firmer tone, but what Hinata did not know is that Sakura had a voice recorder concealed on her, recording the entire conversation.
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Kiba put his hands behind his head and allowed Akamaru to crawl up on his lap. "Eh, same ol' same ol'. I'm either training or doing some odd job thing when we're not on missions. I've been helping Hinata with her training off and on, too. How've you all been? I mean, I haven't seen any of you, Sakura, or Sasuke hardly at all." He grinned. "Having any luck with Sakura? Has she peeled her eyes from Sasuke yet?"
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She remained silent for a moment and said the most sensible thing that seemed to come up in her mind. "Oh, I figured that it had been village news about how I felt about Naruto-kun..." Part of her wanted to confide in Sakura, being a girl her age who had never been an enemy to her, but the other part of her wasn't trusting her as easily as she usually did. Something about her voice just told her to steer clear.
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Naruto's tone turned serious. "To be honest, I have no idea what is going on in that department at all, so I'm just gonna let things work themself out," he then changed back to his normal tone. "But other than that, I have been okay, you know mosly D and C-rank missions, nothing very interesting." He looked straight up at the sky avoiding eye contact, and trying not to make and noticeable movement that would indicate he was lying, Kiba was very good at picking up on those kinds of things.
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"Well not to him, you know he is very dense, kinda stupid and all," she said trying to get a rise out of Hinata, "And for some reason you have not answered my first question. Are the rumors true?" she asked then calmed her voice to a very sympathetic tone. "I just want to know so I can either not worry about it or help set them straight."
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Kiba blinked and Akamaru barked. Kiba sat up from where he was leaning against the post and looked at Naruto seriously. "Your scent's changed - you've taken on a nervousness. Anything you want to talk about?
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She turned to look at Sakura and then once again downcast her eyes. She decided that Sakura wouldn't hurt her. "Yes, Sakura-kun, I do like Naruto-kun..." She smiled sadly. "And thank you for your concern..." She looked at her watch. "I need to get to Kiba-kun. I'm already late." She turned and began to walk off. "Please Sakura-kun, I would love to talk someday. We hardly ever see each other anymore...
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"Can't hide anything from you, can I?" Naruto said and sat up. "That scent thing must come in handy when you want to find some food, hehe," he said making some small-talk. "Well it's not something I planned on talking about for a while, but I guess I have no choice now, you'll know if I'm lying." Naruto then explained everything from borrowing the money to Sakura coming over at night. "And now I do not know what is going on, and promise me you won't tell this to anybody, the last thing I need is for anybody to find out I'm uncertain about Hinata after less then a day.
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Once Hinata was out of sight Sakura pulled out the voice recorder and turned it off. "Well this does me no good, she didn't say anything incriminating," she said and put it away. "Why am I trying this hard to get Naruto, I don't even know if I want him, but he's just liked me for so long, it's awkward not having him crazy about me, maybe I should just let it go, or I could try to turn on the moves to Naruto and see who he chooses, yeah I like the second one better," she said and walked to her house to get ready to try and win over Naruto.
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