Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

Kankuro thought himself a very lucky man.

He'd been attacked by Sasori and lived, survived his little brothers demonic nature for his entire childhood, almost lost his baby brother, lived in a country with hardly any water source for twenty eight years, suffered impermanent brain damage due to his sister and her temper, and bedded Inuzuka Kiba...

Speaking of which, the Inuzuka clan alpha was currently stood in front of him, a couple of blocks away from the bar that they'd argued outside of no more than two hours earlier, looking very very red faced and avoiding all eye contact with the Puppet Nin.

He really wished he had eye witnesses to the fact that the proud Inuzuka was currently apologising to him, spluttering like the word 'sorry' was completely foreign to him.

"So… you're sorry for bitching at me in front of everyone and making me look like a complete clown?"

Fuck it if he didn't have witnesses, Kankuro was gonna milk this for all it was worth.

"Yeah…" Kiba mumbled, fidgeting slightly.

"And you're sorry for smackin' me in the face when you had no fucking right to 'cause all I was tryna' do was get you away from the skank that you clearly didn't want to go home with?"

Kiba nodded quietly.

Kankuro smirked, "I hope you realise that 'sorry' ain't gonna cut it." He heard Kiba growl slightly, but the kid didn't voice his opinion.

"Fine… whadda'ya want me to do? Name you're price."

"…You serious? You're not gonna put up a fight? Fuck, this night just keeps getting better!" Kankuro laughed slightly, bless the kid… he must have really felt like a dick.

"Whatever, just what do you want? Fuckin' name it before I change my mind… I feel like a fuckin' twat, alright! I just wanna do something right for a change," the younger man snapped, finally looking up at Kankuro.

"'Do something right'…?" Kankuro questioned, not needing to put the statement into a question before the Inuzuka spoke.

"Yeah… 'something right.' I feel like a fuckin' street walker whenever I'm around you, and I'm tired of it! I'm not good with feelings and all that shit, but I know when I'm being used Kankuro and it feels fuckin' disgusting!" The Inuzuka sighed, calming himself and interrupting before Kankuro spoke, "I'll do you one more favour, then…" He paused.

"…Then what?" Kankuro didn't like where this was going, one bit.

"'Then'… I want you out of my life. For good. And I don't need you to give me shit about how I'm acting like a woman, the only way I'm gonna get it through you're thick head is if I'm straight up honest with you…" He paused again but continued before Kankuro could input. "I really... I like you alright – No, wait… that's misleading. I love you. There you go, that's it. I love you, and I can't do this anymore. I can't be you're… play thing. I'm done."

Kankuro stared at the young man for a minute, letting his feelings boil inside him. He knew he had to keep calm, he was about ready to blow up like a goddamn fire cracker but Kiba was clearly very, very, vulnerable right now (that or pissed off…) and the last thing Kankuro wanted was for Kiba to leave. He was scared his body wouldn't have the will power to go after him.

"So… we're over?"

"'We'… are you fucking serious? There was never any 'we' I was an object to you… a fucking object! You used me whenever you didn't have a better option; I was a sex toy for god's sake! Not good enough to come first but better than you're left hand. Do you have any idea what that feels like? Loving someone that doesn't love you back! You make me sick Kankuro, physically sick! Y'know, part of me is glad that I'm acting like a woman, it really feels good to get this crap off my chest and you off my back!" The Inuzuka laughed humourlessly, "I've been bottling all this sloppy shit up 'cause I didn't want you to see it, I didn't need to knowing how weak I actually was… I was scared, Inuzuka clan head, big mighty Inuzuka Kiba, plaything for a spoiled Suna brat, was scared that you'd use how vulnerable I really was to your advantage! Sounds fuckin' twisted doesn't it? Sounds immoral! ...You're disgusting. And I fuckin' hate myself, abosolutly fucking hate myself, for how much I love you because you don't deserve it! I feel sorry for whoever gets to be you're next stand in lover, just 'cause you're a puppet master doesn't mean you get to use everyone around you like they're pathetic little dollies! You've had me up on strings for fucking years, cutting them down one by one so that eventually I woudn't be able to stand on my own and I'd have to have you around... just so I could get through one fucking day! ...I can't even stomach the goddamn sight of you anymore, why don't you go home, back to Suna where you belong, buy a fucking prostitute if you need to... as long as I never have to see you again."

Kankuro stood and took it all, feeling very much like Kiba had thrown his heart into a blender… he was twenty eight, but he'd never felt heart ache before. He supposed it was because of how attached to Kiba he was, that his insides felt like stone. Karma had a funny way of doing things.

Watching Kiba walk away was giving him a fucking good feel of what the young Inuzuka felt like. Made his insides twist together and his eyes sting.

He was oddly proud of Kiba… he'd put Kankuro in his place, while making him feel like nothing more than a dirty fucking pervert, and he hadn't bust a tear once.

He kinda wished he could have willed his body to move, so he could have caught up to the younger man and told him that he didn't think he sounded like a woman. Tell him that to Kankuro he sounded human. Tell him that he was sorry for everything he'd put the Inuzuka through… tell him that he'd succeeded in making Kankuro feel like the most disgusting human being on the planet.

BOOM!

Suprise angst... I think...

So, here's the deal... the boys didn't sound like they'd been through enough of an emotional rollercoaster to me, to I added a little heartbreak into it. Just cause they're guys doesn't mean they don't have feelings. (Guys you don't have to input... if you disagree you're fucking liar.) Hopefully this chapter will make both dudes seem more... human, to you. I wasn't happy with the fact that Kankuro seemed perfectly fine using Kiba for sex and Kiba seemed perfectly fine accepting that he was nothing more than a sexual object.

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