Kiba POV

Why was she so sad all the time? She almost never spoke, but she sings. She was brave enough to get her nose pierced but covered herself everywhere else. Today she wore a lime green hoodie that had "Punk's Not Dead" spray painted on the back in black and purple.

I'd been asking myself about her all week since that creepy guy came to get her from the mall. She seemed to be kind of scared of him. I had no real way of knowing that unless she were to tell someone and I doubt she'd ever tell anyone about her personal life.

At least I got her to come to the concert, I thought. I had to keep my nose from bleeding. She looked way hot she the she was reclining on the stone table.

"So what's the plan for today?" Sai asked. Ino was sitting on his lap like always.

"We can go to my house," Neji volunteered. "We just finished the home theater."

Neji and Hinata came from a rich family and Neji had no problem putting it on display. That was another thing that made me mad about Neji. He was so stuck up.

"Yeah that's cool. It's close so I wont have to walk very far," Shikamaru agreed, stretching. Jeez, he was always half asleep. How he was the first in class was just amazing.

Harima dropped her head. I had noticed she did that when she tried to hide a smile. She was smiling a lot lately. Strange, but her being happy made me happy.

We all got up and started to walk. I thought I should disrupt the peace a little bit. "Ha-ri-ma," I said. I could feel her wanting to disappear. "Get on my back!"

She looked up at me confused. Like she hadn't heard me. If she talked at all, she probably would have said "Are you serious?"

"You heard me," I said smiling reassured. Her look said "pass" and she started to walk ahead but like I would take no for answer. I stepped in front of her.

"Let him carry you!" Sakura yelled to her. "I need you to get him to quit being an ass." I wish she would mind Sasuke. She had such a big mouth.

There was a pause. The best thing in the world happened right there and then. I felt the weight of a small girl jumping on my back. Smiling to myself, I linked my arms under her knees and shifted her upward on my back. She squealed lightly. Somehow having her on my back was the best feeling in the world.

Naruto walked up to me matching my stride. "She took to you kinda fast huh?" he said under his breath. He smiled like he knew something I didn't. I hated it enough when Shikamaru and Neji did it. The brainy know-it-all and the spoiled rotten-know it all, respectively.

"What's that suppose to mean?" I asked annoyed. He walked ahead of me with that idiotic smile of his. Hinata trailed after him like a lost puppy. She was so cute. I used to have a crush on her when she was the new girl, but no one knew about that and it went away after her third day at Konoha. Besides, Naruto had basically fallen in love with her and I couldn't do that to my best friend.

Harima rested her head on my shoulder and sighed. I could hear the "thump thump thump" of her heart racing. She was fainthearted, wasn't she? That was fine. I wasn't going to let her fall.

"Hey Harima," I started. I wanted to ask her if she needed a ride to the concert on Saturday. "Harima?" Was she ignoring me or was she listening and not saying like always?

She didn't say a word. At first I thought she was just being quiet again, but then Sakura and Tenten said "Aw," when they turned around to check on her.

"Hey Kiba. I knew you were soft, but if little girls fall asleep on you…" commented Sasuke. I don't know why, but something really didn't sit quite right with me about the way he worded that.

"Sleep? Who's asleep…besides Shikamaru…sort of?" I responded. Sasuke gestured toward Harima. Oh, she was asleep. Yeah that was the conclusion most people came to. She was gonna flip when we got to Neji's house and she woke up on me. Deep down, I have to admit to myself that I blushed a little.

We came to the Hyuuga Estate and the black Iron Gate swung open. They were so ritzy. It was sickening. One by one we filed in through their back door leading to the kitchen. The kitchen, if you don't know, is a boy's favorite place. Namely, this boy's favorite place. Although I had to put Harima down somewhere if I was gonna eat. The Hyuugas are always loaded. Harima first, then insanely good food.

I hurried past the kitchen, where everybody else was taking a seat. I came into the den and came to a couch. She should be comfortable enough here. I leaned back and unhooked her long skinny arms from my neck. She collided with the couch and curled up in fetal position. One armed covered her face. She had this way of sleeping that was intriguing to me. It was kawaii to me and all but it concerned me. I patted he shoulder and she curled up into a tighter ball.

That sealed it. Something was wrong and I was going to find out what no matter how little Harima said.

Naruto POV

"Naruto, can you do us all a favor and let whatever happens with Kiba and Harima-chan happen?" Sakura said, getting her own bottle of Ramune out of the refrigerator. Kiba and Harima had gone into the next room so Kiba could put her down I guess. I guessed Sakura had heard my comment to Kiba about Harima taking to him so fast.

"What?" I said in my defense. "It's going so slow with them."

"Dude! They only met a week ago. You expect them to be together forever in holy friggin' matrimony?" Temari said. Damn, she was so easily worked up! Shikamaru put a hand on her shoulder and her sudden rush of PMS was gone.

"N-naruto-kun. Harima and Kiba are meant for each other. They will come together in due time." I thought about what Hinata said. Well they did have a similar likeness when you got past the whole she completes him thing.

Kiba came in. His jaw was set and he looked more pissed. He dragged out a chair and plopped down in it hard. Suddenly, somebody turned off the happy. Was there something in the air today?

"Kiiiiiba!" Ino said in her singsong voice. "How's Harima sleeping?"

"Something's not right," he grumbled. "Someone's hurting her."

We all paused. Where had that even come from? Why did he care? What should we do about it if she didn't tell us anything? Either way, I wouldn't stand for anyone hurting anyone in the gang. New and quiet or otherwise.

"How do you know?" asked Sasuke.

Kiba exhaled. "Did you notice how the day after the mall thing, she had a wristband where that creepy guy had her arm?"

Come to think of it, that was kind of accurate. She had that bruise on her forehead that wasn't there yesterday. The creepy guy looked young. Was he like her big brother or something? No he didn't look like her at all.

"Well we can't do anything until she tells us," Sakura said. She looked concerned. "Somebody go wake her up."

Of course Kiba was all over that because before Sakura finished her sentence. He was in love with her and I didn't understand why they didn't get over it and get together.

Kiba returned with Harima. She was doe-eyed as usual. He pulled out a chair for her and she sat down. She slouched tiredly. She sighed. I want to know why he didn't just let her sit on his lap. Why was he being so spineless.

"Harima. Do you want to stay over tonight?" Neji said. We all glanced at him. What was he doing? Then he looked at Tenten and winked. Someone would have to explain this to me later.

"Stay over?" she sighed. She looked like she really wanted to. She was about to reply when her cell phone vibrated. She glanced at the caller ID. I peeked at it too. Him, it read.

She looked a little livid which was even scarier to behold than Sakura when she's on her time of month.

She stood up and left the room. We all fell silent as she began to talk. We could hear the guys on the phone screaming at her and it made my blood boil for her. If I was ready for action, then Kiba was ready to kill whoever He was.

"Where the hell are you, Harima?"

"I'm with my friends. Please stop yelling." Harima sounded helpless.

"I'll yell whenever and to whoever I feel like, bitch. Get your ass home before I beat you twice as hard," He remarked. "We need to finish what we started."

There was a pause. Even I was anxious to stay quiet and hear her response. Finish what they started? What was going on at her place?

"I'm not coming home, Ryu" was all she said. She was fighting the urge to cry. I know that kind of voice anywhere.

The guy named Ryu laughed. "Of course you're coming home. You do what I tell you to do." He was sounding more and more like a pedophile. I didn't like him.

"I'm staying with a friend from school," Harima explained. "You don't know her."

"The blind one with the dark hair or the blonde slutty one?" Ryu asked. "Either way, I know where you are."

Ino hissed something under her breath out of anger. Hinata should have too and it made me mad that she was just gonna take that. Her eyes were just pretty and she was far was blind. In fact, she was really intuitive.

"S-stay away from me, you loser," Harima interjected. "And stay away from them."

She must have hung up after that because there was dead silence after that. She came back to the kitchen where we resumed our conversation like we'd been talking without her. Some use that was. She knew we were listening.

"Thank you for staying over, Harima," Hinata said happily. Her smile was so pretty, I thought. "We're gonna have so much fun."

"You heard him…"

At first we thought we imagined her, but this was the first time Harima had ever spoken on her own terms. No one prompted her to and she was good at not talking when somebody wanted her to. Her voice was so soft it was like she was talking to herself.

"I have to go now." Harima got up in a hurry and started toward the door. Kiba grabbed her arm.

"At least let me walk you there," he almost begged. "Please don't go if you don't want to."

She really didn't want to leave. She looked at Kiba blankly and paused as if she was thinking about what to do next. She walked past him and sat back down.

"I'll show him a thing or two. I'm no slut!" Ino grumbled. Sai patted her shoulder and kissed her forehead. Ino had really softened him. When we first met him, he was openly spreading rumors about us. I was kind of glad when Ino came around. We were all about to kill him.

"Excellent, now it's time for some long overdue interrogation," Sasuke said coolly, causing Harima to look confused. Even I was confused about it. What interrogation?

"Yeah, Harima-san", Neji added, draping his arm over Tenten's shoulder. I heard that he finally asked her out. "Whether you like it or not, you are tell us about yourself."

I put my arm around Hinata like I saw Neji do with Tenten. I just wanted to do it badly enough. She didn't reject it. In fact, she welcomed it. Did Hinata have a thing for me like I had a thing for her?