I DO NOT OWN NARUTO AND/OR THE CHARACTERS

Talk

Kiba and Hinata met on the roof top of one of the buildings in the village where they could be alone, she had been a wreck over the mess she caused between her boyfriend and Naruto and decided that she had to come clean while Kiba was still angry at Naruto.

"I can't believe he'd do that to me," Kiba thought. "Especially with how we took out for him when Sasuke came back. Oh, well, what did you want to talk to me about, Hinata?"

"W, well," Hinata said. "I, it's about N, Naruto."

"Don't worry about him," Kiba said. "I'll set his ass straight, I can't believe he'd try to come on to you like that."

"Wait, what did you say?" she asked surprised.

"I caught his scent on you one day and when I confronted him about it, he said that he made on move on you and you rejected him."

"He said that?" she asked even more surprised.

"Yeah," Kiba answered. "That's why we've been going at it."

"I can't believe he'd do something like that for me," she said confusing Kiba.

"What do you mean?"

"There's something I have to tell you, Kiba."

"Yeah, shoot."

"Well, Naruto didn't approach me."

"He didn't?" Kiba asked.

"Well, I visited his home to speak with him and I told him about how much I liked him then one thing lead to another and I kissed him," she admitted. "He didn't want to but he let me do it anyway because he wanted to make me happy and didn't want to hurt my feelings."

To her surprise, Kiba just started chuckling then his chuckling turned into laughter.

"Why are you laughing?" she asked as she was now the confused party in the conversation.

"Because it's about time," he said.

"What do you mean?"

"Haven't you ever once wondered why I never once tried to have sex with you?" he asked.

"I thought you were trying to be respectful to me?"

"How long have you known me?" he asked.

"Almost 9 years."

"Has anything about me ever said 'respectful?' Respectful would be making an attempt and stopping when you said no, I flat out never tried because I knew you weren't over Naruto. I've actually been waiting for this day since you asked me out. I would've tried to push you towards him but I figured it'd be best for you to do it in your own time."

"Then why were you so angry at Naruto?" she asked.

"Well, first I was just trying to play the good boyfriend since I knew he'd realize sooner or later that I'd have caught his scent on you or yours on him but then he insulted me and I had to take him behind the wood shed, no one's too hot for Kiba."

"He said I'm too hot for you," she said blushing.

"Yeah, you don't think so, do you?" he asked.

"Well, I did choose you to date, didn't I?"

"Yeah, well, you've got some ground to make up, I'll let you get to it."

"Thank you," she said as she gave him a kiss on the cheek before leaving.

"No, problem and tell him he knows where to find me if he wants to get his ass kicked again."

"Okay," she said with a smile.

While she was leaving for Naruto's house, he was busy playing the Naruto role as he sat Sakura down to talk to her about her crying.

"Why so blue, panda bear?" he asked handing her a tissue.

"I don't know," she said. "It's just me and Sasuke are, I don't know."

"Look, why don't you just start from the beginning?"

"Well…"

She told him about how she was feeling, she felt like she was on top of the world as she was with the man she loved and Naruto had came back from his mission to the Land of Snow a changed man. Since he seemed to be better, she also felt a little better about the situation and everyone stopped treating her like the devil so she was now free to enjoy their relationship. Through her battles with the Akatsuki and Orochimaru, she managed to become a world renowned medic second to Tsunade herself in fame but in reality, she was still third behind Shizune in overall skill and, for some reason, Ino was now breathing down her neck as far as being a medic went lately. She was with Sasuke and was the envy of all the women in the village around her age because she got her claws into the class hunk from their academy days and, depending on who you ask as the people were reasonable and would give Naruto his due, the top shinobi of the village that's not the hokage and not to mention he was well of being the sole recipient of the Uchiha estate which allowed him to shower her with gifts and show her the good life but in reality, they rarely spent anytime together because of his ANBU duties. The majority of the time she got alone she spent just that, alone, most nights she came home from the hospital to an empty house and went to sleep in an empty bed after eating dinner for one as she knew he wouldn't be home until the morning if that. And then there was the situation with Naruto, although she tried hard to put it out of her mind, that complicated a lot of things in her life. She had missed the way he doted on her and would do his best to make her happy, even if he didn't succeed, it was due to him trying too hard as opposed to Sasuke who always seemed to have to try harder. But she was with Sasuke and that ship had sailed of her own doing, what was really hitting her over the head was that she wounded her friend. All that Naruto wanted was to love her and for her to love him in return but she squashed that dream like an insect, whenever he did things like avoid her, come up with excuses as to why he had to cut their conversation short, or flash his usual grin whenever he saw her and Sasuke together to show that he was okay with it, it was like she was trapped in the Tsukiyomi and someone was torturing her for days on end. When Naruto mentioned her and Sasuke after laying into her, it brought all of those feelings out of her.

"I see," Naruto said after hearing everything she said. "Is that all?"

"What do you mean," she asked drying her eyes.

"Look, as far as you and I go, I'm okay.

"You are?" she asked.

"Yeah, as you can see, I'm doing okay with the ladies, and I just got everything off of my chest. To be honest, I forgave you almost as soon as it happened."

"You did?" she asked surprised.

"Yeah, I'm not one for holding grudges but it just took a long time to forget it, which is why I said fuck you. I was pissed that you brought it back up."

"Oh, sorry."

"No problem," he said. "Now, as far as the medic thing is concerned, you're never going to be as good as Lady Tsunade and Shizune unless you buckle down. The whole reason Ino's been putting the pressure on you is because she got off of her ass and started hustling for it."

"You think so?"

"I'm positive, shoot for the moon, if you miss you're still amongst the stars."

"What does that mean?" she asked confused.

"That means do the best you can, even if you don't become as good as they are, you'll be on the same level as the great medics who tried to be that good."

"You're right," she said.

"As far as Sasuke goes," he said as he could see that she was all ears. "What are we doing right now?"

"Talking?"

"And what should you be doing with Sasuke?" he quizzed her.

"Talking?"

"Wow, you are smart, I just lost a mon…to myself."

They laughed at his joke and she got up to leave with a new outlook on life.

"Thank you, Naruto," she said giving him a hug and kiss on the cheek.

"Easy," he said. "I'm already at odds with Kiba, I don't want to have to fight Sasuke again."

"Oh," she said stopping. "That reminds me, if I'm being too intrusive tell me but where did you get all of that money to by Tenten those gifts?"

"Oh, I'm an actor."

"Really?" she asked.

"Yeah, I was in Princess Fuun and The Thunderhorse, I was the entire army they fought at the Sacred Valley."

"So, that's where all this money came from?" she asked suspiciously. "I haven't seen it, so maybe."

"It's called royalties, babe," he said in a douchy manner as he chewed a piece of gum. "I'm also in talks to star in the live action version of Bleach as Ichigo given my naturally spiky hair."

"Congratulations," she said.

"I'm just joking," he admitted with a laugh. "I was in Princess Fuun and The Thunderhorse but I was just a glorified extra, although a couple of other movies hired me for the same mission but they just paid me as a regular mission even though I did get paid a little something from the films' grosses, I've actually been in 3 of the 5 top grossing movies of the last two years but, as I said, I was a glorified extra. The first reason I have so much money is because I never spend any of it, everything in this house was either given as a gift, I found on a mission, or I made or grew it myself."

"Oh, that makes sense," she said.

"The second is that they always send Pervy Sage and me to get Grandma whenever she sneaks of to Tanzaku Town where she always goads me into gambling and I end up shutting the place down winning her money back and then some. Then there's the third but you know what that is."

"No, I don't."

"You're kidding me, right?" he asked seriously. "You don't know who my father is?"

"No, should I?"

"You've seen his face everyday."

"I do?"

"I'll give you a hint, he's the Fourth Hokage, dummy."

"He is?" she asked. "Well, there is the hair and the eyes."

"Yeah, well, in addition to the money he had earned from being hokage for the short amount of time he had at the position, they left me the money he'd earned from his mission. Apparently, hair and eyes aren't the only trait we share, he didn't spend his money either."

"Oh," she said. "Well, mystery solved."

She left and on the way out, she bumped into Hinata who was just about to knock on the door, Sakura just looked at her and shook her head.

"She's going to get one of them killed," she thought as she passed her. "Hello, Hinata."

"Hello, Sakura," Hinata said. "Hello, Naruto, may I come in?"

"Are you sure that such a good idea?" he asked. "Because the next time Kiba puts his hands on me, I'm going to fight him seriously."

"That's actually what I wanted to talk to you about," she said blushing but not stuttering.

"Okay, then, come in."

She came in and explained the situation to him and he was quite surprised.

"So, there was both a reason and no reason for Kiba and me to fight?" Naruto asked. "That's just bad communication is what that is."

"S, so, t, then, N, Naruto," she said stuttering and her anxiety came back and her blushed intensified. "W, would…"

"Would I like to go out on a date? Is that what you were trying to ask me?"

"Yes," she said.

"Yeah, I'd like that," he said. "I have to report to the hokage for a mission tomorrow morning so we could do it after I get back unless you have time right now?"

"Yes, I do."

"Well, let's go," he said getting up.

As they left, Moegi was in her house thinking about Naruto and what to do on her birthday.

"I could just show up like last time," she thought, "I mean, I will be 18, so there shouldn't be any real reason for him to say no but that wasn't why he said no the last time. He said no because I just asked him because I was upset with Konohamaru. Maybe I should ask him for a date as a birthday gift then try my hand there."

All of this thinking about Naruto made Moegi heat up and she could feel that it was time for her to get to know herself again, she got up to lock her room door and got back in her bed. Naruto and Hinata's date was going well, since it was impromptu, the things they did were spontaneous as they went to a club in the afternoon which allowed them to spend time alone together and just listen to music. Then they went to her favorite sweet roll stand where she laughed as he had trouble with the sticky frosting that got on his fingers.

"That's funny, huh?" he asked.

"Yes," she said. "That's why they give it to you in a napkin."

"Well, I know how to shut you up."

"How?" she asked.

She got her answer as he kissed her on the lips which did the trick as she was frozen in place.

"So, smartass," he said. "Got anything els…"

"Shh," she shushed him. "Don't ruin it."

He gave her his arm so she could follow as they continued their date, they just walked through the village but that became a problem as they started to receive dirty looks from the people that didn't know that Kiba had taken himself out of the picture.

"Maybe we should take this somewhere else," he suggested.

"Okay."

They headed for the Leaf Village Forest and along the way, they came to the stream that ran through the village where they saw a peculiar sight.

"Where the hell did that gondola come from?" he asked.

"I don't know," she answered.

As it got closer, he recognized who its pilot was.

"Pervy Sage?" he asked.

"Would you be quiet," he said anxiously.

"Sorry, what are you doing?"

"I'm escaping from Tsunade," he said. "She caught me peeping again and she has murder in her eyes."

"So, why don't you just leave the village through the gates?"

"That's just what she expects me to do," he said with a sly look on his face. "That's why I sent a Shadow Clone that way while I escape down this stream and through the forest."

"I'm sorry to interrupt, Lord Jiraiya," Hinata said. "But wouldn't that take too long?"

"You she how she called me Lord Jiraiya?" he asked Naruto. "Now she has respect, I think she's a keeper. Anyway, I didn't want to raise suspicion by trying to dash out of here, this way, I can just cruise on out."

"Well, we're going that way," Naruto said. "Can we hitch a ride?"

"Sure," Jiraiya said. "It'll be romantic for you and your pretty little friend there."

Hinata just blushed at the compliment.

"And great research," Jiraiya thought.

He just watched as his protégé and his date made time together, both of his plans worked as he got great research done for his books and he got out of the village in one piece or so he thought. They got to the forest where they found Tsunade waiting on him cracking her knuckles.

"Oh, damn it," he said under his breath.

"I hope you don't need to walk anywhere for a while," she said.

He got out of the boat and tried to sweet talk his way out of it.

"Oh, come on, Tsunade," he said. "You know how I feel about you and you still shoot me down, that's why I did it. I love you."

She only glared at him.

"Come on, baby, don't be like that," he said as he approached her with open arms only to have his privates caught in her death grip. "I can't get out of this, huh?"

"No," she said.

"And I can't be in anymore trouble?"

"No."

"Well, in that case," he said as he started groping her.

"That's it, get what you need now," she said.

"You're going to hurt him," Naruto asked. "Aren't you?"

"You'll hear about it later," she said as she dragged him back to the village.

"It was nice having a mentor," Naruto shouted to Jiraiya.

"Poor Lord Jiraiya," Hinata said. "I feel sorry for him."

"Don't," Naruto said. "They're role playing."

"Huh?"

"Yeah, that's how the get themselves ready, didn't you notice how he was smiling when she grabbed him?"

They let the boat travel down the river until they got to the lake in the middle of the forest where she showed him a trick and stuck her bare feet in the water.

"Try it," she said smiling.

He tried it and started laughing as he felt a slight tickle.

"Hey, what is that?"

"It's the tiny fish," she explained. "They eat the dead skin and other things off of your feet, I do this after particularly tough missions instead of using those lotions and other things because it's more natural this way."

"Cool," he said.

They got out of the boat and spent the rest of their date under a tree just enjoying being in each other's company until it was dark and he walked her home because he had to get to some rest for his mission the next day.

"I like this," he said. "We're definitely going to have do this when I get back."

"Yes," she said. "I'd like that."

They shared a good night kiss and she went in for the night.