Hi-hi everyone! If you have been reading this fic from when I first started it and are wondering why I always take so long to update (or usually) it's because I'm kind of making it up as I go along. You see, I know how it's going to end, but I don't know how I'm going to fill the space between then and now. So please try to be understanding. Arigato-gozaimus! Thank-you!

Disclaimer: Are you kidding me! If I owned Naruto why would I write fanfiction! So no I don't own the show or the manga.

Invisible

Chapter 6

The Rest of the Day

"Regular talking"

"Thinking"

"Kyuubi talking to Naruto"

(Naruto)

"Hey, baka, get up." called Sasuke. Naruto sat up on his makeshift bed and rubbed his eyes. "What?" he said groggily. "Get up. It's almost time to get going." Sakura spoke this time. "Alright." Naruto said, standing up. He stretched, pulled on his jacket and looked around. He spotted Kiba. That's when Naruto remembered what had happened earlier that morning, the kiss with Hinata just as the sun came up, and Kiba viciously attacking him, apparently out of jealousy.

Naruto shook his head to clear it of thoughts of that morning. It didn't last long. Sasuke came up to him and brought those thoughts right back to his head. "Hey baka, what happened this morning, you came back to camp with a bloody nose.'

"Oh really Sasuke, I hadn't noticed." Naruto snapped irritably

"Calm down, what happened?"

"Nothing that concerns you, why do you even want to know?"

"Because you were bleeding, Kiba was pissed and Hinata was freaked out." Sakura spoke up this time

"Fine, I'll tell you." Naruto grumbled, not liking the fact that his teammates were ganging up on him. "I was kissing Hinata and Kiba came out of nowhere and attacked me."

As soon as he finished his sentence, Naruto turned and went to see what the feudal lord's daughter was whining about now, not giving Sasuke and Sakura a chance to respond to the news.

"Do you understand why the Inuzuka boy looked at you so angrily the other day?" Kyuubi's voice rang in Naruto's head, surprising him.

"He didn't like me with Hinata, he wanted her for himself."

"Good. Now, what do you plan to do about it?"

"I don't know, right now, I just want to forget about it and get this mission over with so we can go home."

"The Inuzuka boy is still jealous, still angry. If you don't keep your guard up, and come up with a strategy in case he attacks again, who knows what might happen."

"You just can't make me feel better can you?"

"Not really."

Naruto pulled his focus back to the outside world, and to the mission. He had to bring up the rear in the formation around the girl today, so he was walking alone. He stared hard at Kiba, not to far in front of him, to the left. "How far would he go to make sure me and Hinata aren't together?" He wondered. A cold sense of dread crept into him, and even though it was mid July, Naruto felt as if he might freeze on the spot.

A few hours later, around 1 o' clock, the group stopped to rest and eat some lunch. They had stopped next a small river, near the path they had been on. Naruto's head was pounding, mostly because of the feudal lord's daughter's, (Rena) complaining. He had to listen to her whining non-stop! Nothing was ever right, or good enough for her. And Naruto was usually the one Kakashi made fix whatever it was she whined about. Naruto was glad they had stopped; it meant he could go off a little ways alone and eat his lunch in peace. This is exactly what he did.

Naruto was sitting alone with his lunch, a cup of ramen, when Hinata came over to him with a bento in hand. She sat down next to him and smiled half nervously and half warmly. He smiled back, but it was obvious he was faking, more obvious than Sai.

"N-Naruto-kun, if you want me to leave I will." she stammered.

"No, it's not that." Naruto said frowning again and looking away. "I've just been thinking about what happened this morning."

"So have I." she admitted. Naruto looked back at Hinata, into her eyes. "She's scared of what might happen to." He realized.

"We better finish eating." he said, changing the subject quickly. "We'll be going soon.

By the time the sun started to set, and it was time to set up camp for the night again, Naruto had come up with nearly five dozen things Kiba might do to keep him and Hinata apart. All of which included brainwashing Hinata, and painfully murdering him.

"Calm down, I doubt Kiba would go that far." He thought trying to rid himself of the icy feeling of dread that stole all the mid summer warmth from his body to no avail. To make matters worse, Naruto and Kiba were assigned guard duty together that night.

It had to be nearly midnight. Naruto sat high in a surprisingly strong dead tree on guard duty. He was completely focused, since he had gone on watch, no thoughts of the fight with Kiba had entered his mind. This made him completely unprepared for wht happened next.

A highly sharpened kunai whizzed through the air and barely missed Naruto. He carefully turned around to see who had thrown it. It was Kiba. He looked completely out of his head, his eyes flashed with a deadly anger, and his hair was wild. He looked like a rabid dog. "I'll kill you." Were the only words that escaped his mouth before he lunged at Naruto, apparently forgetting they were three stories up in tree. Both boys fell from the tree and landed on the ground. As Naruto fell, thoughts raced through his head, "This is it. I'm dead." seemed to be the most repetitive. When he hit, there was a sickening crack. As for Kiba, there was a harsh thud. Both of them lay completely still, completely silent. Blood oozed from a wound on the back of Kiba's head and rip in Naruto's arm, which was twisted completely around at the elbow. All the others in the group were awake now, Kakashi and Kurenai giving orders to everyone. The last thing that ran through Naruto's mind as he slipped into absolute unconsciousness was, "This really was a horrible day."

(Kiba)

"Kiba, get ready to go, we're leaving soon." Kakashi called. Kiba stood up from where he had been sitting on the roots of a tree. Even though he had said he was going to go back to sleep, he never had. Instead he had sat down on the roots of a tree and plucked at the grass. He had been trying to calm himself down, seeing as his anger had led to him attacking his own comrade. Unfortunately, it didn't work. Kiba was as angry as ever, and now Kakashi was watching him like he was a newly captured criminal.

"This sucks." He muttered as he checked his pack to make sure he had everything.

"It's your own fault." it was Hinata. "Why did you just attack Naruto-kun like that?" her voice was unusually strong and angry.

"I'm not sure." he mumbled "Why do you like him so much? I've always been ten times stronger."

"You lost to him in the chunin exams."

"That was a fluke."

Hinata just frowned and walked away. Now, Kiba's anger had flared to twenty times what it was before. He was ready to kill Naruto. "We'll be on guard together when we stop for the night. All the others will be asleep; I'll kill him then, and make it look like an accident." As Kiba finished checking his pack and fell into his place in the formation around Rena's carriage, on her left side with Sasuke right in front of him, he formulated a plan to kill his own comrade.

As the group moved, the plan grew. Naruto liked to be near the top of a tree when he was on guard. All Kiba had to do was push him out of that tree and make it look like he fell. "Shouldn't be too hard, that idiot is so clumsy it's a wonder he hasn't fallen from one of those trees already." Kiba thought. But he only thought these things with half his mind. The other half was screaming for him to calm down and listen to reason, to just accept it and move on. But Kiba didn't listen; the half that told him to kill was the instinctive half of his mind, the half he seemed to be more used to using.

By lunch time Kiba had finished forming his plot. As he sat eating some onigiri, he went over a few more times in his head to make sure it was perfect. Then he noticed Hinata going over to sit with Naruto where he had been sitting by himself. His anger grew even more.

"Whatever it is you're planning, you shouldn't go through with it." Shino said coming up from behind him.

"What are you going on about?" Kiba snapped.

"You're planning something you'll regret."

"How do you know?"

"It's obvious to me."

"Then why would I regret it? I'm getting rid of a problem."

"If Naruto were to die, Hinata would be heartbroken; you told me you had fallen in love with her; why do you want to cause her that pain?"

Kiba stopped eating and stared at Shino. "How could he have possibly guessed my plan?"

"You're insane." He muttered. Shino only shrugged. "You'll see Shino I won't regret a thing!" he shouted in his mind as he finished his lunch.

Finally, the group stopped for the night. Kiba's heart pumped with excitement, or was it fear? Soon he would be able to fulfill his plan. He disguised his anger well and even helped Naruto set up a tent for Rena. No one, except Shino, suspected Kiba's plan. In fact, even Shino wondered if he had been wrong, or if Kiba had simply changed his mind.

When at last complete blackness fell around midnight, Kiba carefully jumped from tree to the next until, he reached where Naruto was sitting. He looked down; they were about three stories up, perfect. He looked back at Naruto, he hadn't realized he was there; Naruto was completely focused on what was in front of him, perfect. Kiba took a deep breath. He was almost shaking with anger at the sight of the boy who kept Hinata from him. He hurled a kunai at him, purposely missing because he wanted him to turn around; he wanted to see Naruto's face as he realized what was about to happen, as he died. When Naruto turned, his eyes widened. "I'll kill you!" Kiba snarled. Then he lunged.

Pushing off hard from the branch he had been standing on towards Naruto, Kiba grinned evilly. Too late he realized he had kicked off too hard. He tackled Naruto, and began to plummet headfirst towards the ground. Kiba fell about a story before he tried to grab hold of a tree branch, but when he did the dead branch broke off the tree; all he had managed to do was flip himself over so he would land on his back.

As he fell, the anger that had clouded his mind and dictated his actions, cleared. "How could I have been so stupid?! I should've listened to Shino! He's always right!" He hit the ground hard, with a harsh thud. Kiba felt something sharp cut into the back of his head, a rock maybe. He could hear the voices of the rest of the group scrambling to figure out what had happened. "This has been a really bad day." Kiba thought as he slipped into the blackness of unconsciousness.

(Hinata)

"Ohayo-gozaimus Shino" Hinata said faking a smile as Shino came up to her to tell her it was time to go. He didn't say anything, but Hinata knew he saw right threw her phony smile. In truth, she was still much shaken, very angry, about what had happened with Naruto and Kiba. She looked around, there was Kiba, checking his bag. She walked over to him, feeling unusually brave today.

"This sucks." She heard him mutter as she neared. Hinata knew he was talking about Kakashi keeping such a close eye on him.

"It's your own fault. Why did you just attack Naruto-kun like that?" she pressed

"I don't know. Why do you like him so much? I've always been ten times stronger."

"He beat you in the chunin exams."

"That was a fluke."

Hinata scowled in frustration, and walked away. Inside her heart was thudding with fear. The tone he had used was not like him at all. She had seen how Kiba got when he was really angry. There was no telling how far he would go to get rid of what ever it was that made him that mad, and in this case it was Naruto. She knew he would plan something, and she knew all three would suffer for it.

Hinata tried desperately to calm her fears while the group walked. She was on Rena's right side, just ahead of Sakura. "I wonder if Naruto-kun is worried as well. I have to talk to him when we stop for lunch." Even though she couldn't see Kiba, she could feel a murderous intent wafting off of him. Despite the blazing heat that surrounded her, she felt as if she were frozen as dread and fear and mistrust crept into her heart.

At last, it was time to stop for rest and lunch. Hinata sat near Sakura and Sasuke, digging for her bento in her pack. When she finally found it, she got up and went to sit by the river with Naruto. He had been sitting alone. She forced a smile to her face, it was sort of warm but it was also nervous and shy. Naruto smiled back, but his smile was faker than Sai's first attempt.

"N-Naruto-kun if you want me to leave I will."

"No it's not that. I've just been thinking about what happened this morning." his face fell and he turned to face the water again.

"So have I." she whispered. She looked Naruto straight in the eye when he lifted his head again. "He's afraid, just like me." she thought, slightly relieved that she wasn't the only worrying.

"We better finish eating." Hinata changed the subject quickly. "We'll be leaving soon.

The group had been walking for r hours, and Hinata was exhausted. She was so glad when they had finished setting up camp. She had even calmed most of her fears about Kiba; he had been much more pleasant than that morning. He had even helped Naruto with setting up Rena's tent. Now she wasn't so worried about the two of them alone on guard that night.

Earlier she had dreaded when they stopped for the night because of Naruto and Kiba being on guard together. With everyone asleep, and under a shroud of complete darkness, who knew what Kiba would do? Now, Kiba was being his old self and Kakashi had even stopped keeping such a close eye on him. Hinata went to bed completely unawares of Kiba's dangerous plot.

Around midnight, Hinata awoke suddenly to a sickening crack, and harsh thud. She sat up to see something that terrified her. Naruto and Kiba were both laying on the ground apparently completely unconscious, with blood spilling out two very serious looking wounds. She heard Kakashi and Kurenai giving orders, which meant they must have been alerted at the same instant she was.

"Hinata, help me over here!" called Sakura, who was examining the wound on Kiba's head.

"Hai, of course!" Hinata rushed over, and as she bent over her badly injured friend, and boyfriend, only one thing crossed her mind "What an awful day!"

Well I hope you guys liked it! I'm sorry I made Kiba look really evil in this chapter, but even though I am mostly making this up as I go, do have some very vague idea of what's going to happen. So don't eat me. Please. Okay, anyway, I got this chapter up a lot quicker and, if I do say so myself, did very well with the length! I apologize for any OOCness. It wasn't intended and I just didn't pick up on it. So I want to get 5 new reviews before I post the next chapter, so the review total will be 30. Get it? Got it. Good. Sayonara