Title: A Flowers Fragrance
Rating: T (PG-13)
Genre: Romance
Pairing(s): Itachi x Hinata X Kiba (Final Pairing undecided)
Summary: Flowers can represent many things…Some things sad and some things happy, even after the flower wilts, its fragrance still remains… Itachi x Hinata x Kiba
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any of the characters in this fic, although I wish I owned Kisame…sniffle…oh well! On with the story!
Side Note: Same as before, one year after the Chuunin exams, blah, blah, blah.
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A Flowers Fragrance
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Chapter Seven
-----------Kiba, Shino, and Kurenai------------
The three waited patiently for their Hyuuga comrade, "This is unlike her…normally she's always the one to arrive first." Kurenai said aloud putting her hand to her chin.
A brief moment of silence passed until Kiba's canine friend Akamaru began to bark, "What is it Akamaru?" Kiba questioned staring at his dog, whom took off quickly into the bushes where a small 'thud' was soon heard.
Kiba walked over carefully. When he got close enough he heard a voice, well, more of, giggling, "Hinata!" he shouted happily making both Shino and Kurenai walk over to the Inuzuka.
Looking past him, sure enough, there was Hinata whom had been pinned to the ground by Akamaru. Looking up at everyone, a slight blush came to her face considering how funny she must have looked on the ground.
Kiba picked Akamaru up and set him down so the Hyuuga could stand up, which she did. Silence fell upon the group, and all eyes were on Hinata. Noticing this, she looked at the ground and stayed quiet.
"Where were you Hinata?" Kiba asked realizing that nobody was willing to talk.
Hinata looked up and blushed again, she couldn't tell them where she really was and whom she encountered, "I-I was training, and-and-and lost track of t-time, I'm s-sorry." She replied fiddling with her fingers, really hoping that they would by her lie.
Another moment of silence fell upon the group, 'Hinata's a REALLY bad liar.' Kurenai thought to herself, and not only that, but she could tell the neither Shino nor Kiba bought the poor Hyuuga's lie.
"Okay!" Kurenai shouted loudly patting (well, more like smacking) both Shino and Kiba on the back, "You heard her, let's get to more pressing matters!"
Shino and Kiba stared at Kurenai, before nodding their heads, "Hmmm…" Kurenai observed Hinata, "Hinata, where's your bag?" she asked Hinata, who answered with a questioning look of her own.
"We're going on a mission today, remember." Kiba stated giving a large smile at the thought of a mission, and not only that, a mission with Hinata! Yay! If Shino, Kurenai, and Hinata weren't there than the Inuzuka would probably start dancing and squealing like a school girl; yes, he was that happy.
Hinata sighed, she had forgotten. This morning she had been paying more attention to trying to escape the Hyuuga Household without being seen by her father that she completely forgot about the mission they were supposed to go on today.
"I-I'll go g-get it." She said taking off towards the household, many doubts filling through the Hyuuga's head.
----------------Hyuuga Household---------------
Hanabi was walking by happily eating a cupcake, turning the corner she saw Hinata entering her room whimpering, as soon as the door closed she heard Hinata yell, 'WHY ME!' very loudly, the quiet, shy Hinata just screamed why me…
"Hmmm…" with a shrug she continued down the hall and there, standing, was Hiashi and Neji.
Now this would be a normal sight except Hiashi was still frozen in place like they had left him last night and Neji was…poking him…with a stick.
Hinabi stared at the sight before her, and then at her cupcake. Minutes later Hanabi was back in the kitchen and threw all the cupcakes and hers into the trash, "Now who in the world makes alcoholic cupcakes?" she asked to herself walking away.
----------------Back with Team 8---------------
Kureanai, Shino, and Kiba waited patiently and within a few moments a figure came into view, "S-Sorry, I took so long." She said in between breaths.
"It's fine! We weren't waiting for long! No need to worry!" Kiba said with a large smile trying to reassure his friend.
Hinata gave a slight smile at Kiba's words, "Th-thank you." She thanked with a slight blush making Kiba blush to.
Kurenai could tell Shino was rolling his eyes at the sight before them right about now, "Well, we should get going, this package isn't going to deliver itself." She stated holding out a small brown package.
----------------Kisame and Itachi---------------
Itachi and Kisame were walking down a path that lead away from Konoha. Kisame seemed lively; he kept talking about something or another and wouldn't shut up, as for Itachi, well…he was being…Itachi-ish.
"And then he said---" the shark man was cut off by his Uchiha partner, "Look Kisame, I don't care what he said, I don't care what it is that you do in your free time, and I don't care what you have to say, so refrain from talking until we reach the next town." Itachi said bluntly.
The truth of it was that he had a pang of sadness having to leave Konoha, since he probably would never see Hyuuga Hinata ever again. Of course him being the so-called 'emotionless' killer that he was, he would never admit that he would be sad at the thought of never seeing a certain person again, and being in denial and knowing it can make one very pissy and rude.
Kisame stared at Itachi a large grin placed over his face, "Oh, what's this Itachi-san? Did the bluebird of sadness come take a dump on your head?" Kisame knew he'd probably end up dead for making fun of Itachi, but hell, it was well worth it.
Itachi stopped walking and turned his head, so that he was now glaring at the shark-like akatsuki member, "What did you say?"
"Nothing." He said innocently. (If that's even possible for a huge, shark-like, killer) "Anyways…What's our next mission?" Kisame asked trying to change the subject.
Itachi shook his head and turned to his jacket and began to dig through it. Pulling out a scroll he opened it and handed it to Kisame.
Kisame took the scroll and read through it, "Let's see here…It seems that someone got a hold of information about the Akatsuki from Konoha and are sending the info in a scroll and…" he read a little more, "And we have to kill whoever is carrying the package before it reaches it's destination."
Pulling out a paper that had been attached to the scroll, Kisame examined it, "It's a map." He said simply, "Probably the path way the person's going to be taking."
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Unfortunately for a certain Inuzuka, Aburame, and Hyuuga, they happened to be holding a package that supposedly contained a scroll with 'special' information on a special 'something'.
Now normally this would be an S ranked mission, but no one actually knew what was inside the package, not even the Hokage. As far as everyone knew, the client (the person who had the package) just wanted a package delivered with 'special' information on a special 'something'.
It's not that this client didn't have enough money to pay for an S-ranked mission, no it was more like, why pay more when I can pay less. So in this it was considered to be a simple delivery mission, more than enough for three Genin and a Jounin to handle.
----------------Team 8-----------------
"Looks like we just have to deliver this package to its destination and we can go home." Kiba said looking at a piece of paper.
"Even so, stay on guard you never know what may happen." Kurenai said to Kiba walking behind the group of Genin's.
"There's no need to worry! Me and Akamaru can handle anything that comes at us!" He shouted triumphantly striking a pose as Akamaru barked happily with his master. Kiba stopped to notice that everyone was walking passed him, "Hey!"
"Idiot." Shino mumbled.
Kiba caught up to the group Akamaru right behind him, "Stop messing around Kiba." Kurenai said looking at him.
"Yes Kurenai-sensei." He said with a bit of annoyance found in his tone, but Kurenai just ignored it, after all you get used to it after awhile.
The four walked until the sun began to set, "We'll find somewhere to set up camp and stop for the night." Kurenai said giving a small stretch and yawn, which was copied by Kiba.
The four eventually found a spot which seemed perfect, it wasn't to far away from the path, but was well hidden non-the-less, the surrounding had many trees, but enough free space to set up the two tents and a small ways due north was a stream.
Once the camp was set up the four began to get ready to go to sleep, "Hmmm…" Kurenei thought aloud which made Kiba, Shino, and Hinata turn towards her, all of which were beginning to enter the tent they had set up earlier.
"Hinata I think you should sleep in my tent with me tonight, after all that'll give you and the boys some privacy." She stated putting her hand to her chin and nodding in agreement with herself.
"H-hai!" Hinata replied. Gathering her things she went over to the other tent, entering it she began to set up her stuff.
'Damn Kurenai-sensei! Damn her to hell! And me and Hinata were going to sleep right next to each other to, grrrrrr'' Kiba thought angrily while glaring at her; which she noticed, "Yes Kiba?" she asked giving a slight glare of her own.
"What? Nothing!" he said waving his hand in front of him to reassure the Jounin, turning around he made his way into the tent and was soon followed by the bug-user and Akamaru.
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Kurenai sat up, she looked over to the Hyuuga who was fast asleep, "Bathroom." She mumbled standing up and walking out of the tent making her way away from the camp.
Kiba woke when he heard moving, 'Probably Kurenai-sensei.' He said to himself sleepily, not to long after he had heard the first moving noise, he heard another moving noise, 'Probably Hinata.'
A brief moment of silence passed, 'Wait Hinata!' he sat up and looked at the entrance of the tent, then looking down at Shino whom was still asleep along with Akamaru who was at the foot of Kiba's sleeping bag, 'That means me and Hinata could have some alone time!' with that thought he stood up and walked out of the tent, heading in the direction of which he could smell Hinata's scent.
----------------Kisame and Itachi---------------
The two Akatsuki members walked quietly through the forest, "Hmmm…" Kisame stopped along with Itachi.
Pointing ahead of himself he began to talk, "Two people there and…" he moved his finger and pointed in another direction, "One person there." Pointing in yet another direction he continued "And one more person there."
Itachi stared ahead of himself, Kisame didn't really need to say where the people were, he was more then capable to sense chakra himself, but putting that aside, he noticed in particular one chakra patter, 'Hyuuga.' He thought to himself.
"Kisame, I'm going this way." He said pointing in the direction of which the Hyuuga's chakra pattern was found.
A large grin (Itachi: Gawd I hate that grin) spread on the shark man's face, "Gonna go see your giiiiiirrrrl frieeend?" he said in a sing-songy tone of voice.
The large Akatsuki member managed to get a glare from the Uchiha, but it didn't last long since Kisame was already walking in the other direction, 'Damn him for being bale to remember chakra patters.' Stopping to care about what Kisame had to say he turned in the direction he had been facing, he did have wonder why the Hyuuga was out here in the middle of the forest.
Itachi then began to walk forward, slight excited that he would be able to see the Hyuuga again, though he would never admit he was 'happy'.
----------------Shino and Akamaru---------------
Shino sat up and looked around the tent, only to see a sleeping Akamaru but no Kiba. Guessing that Kiba had gone to the bathroom he soon heard a rustling outside, standing up he walked outside.
Akamaru awoke when the bug-user got up and stepped outside the tent, noticing that the Inuzuka was not there he dicided he didn't want to be left alone and followed Shino.
Once outside Shino froze to see a large someone standing in the shadows of the tree's, and even if the person wasn't it was to dark to see anything anyways.
The person took a step forward and the light from the flames of the campfire aloud Shino to see whom it was. He did not recognize the person but he did recognize the cloak that he wore, it was the same as the one that Uchiha Itachi wore.
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Okies, I finished chapter 7, go me! And for this author's note I don't really got anything to say, so…yeah……Um, oh and I know this chapter kinda sucked, but bare with me for now okay? The next chapter is promised to be exciting…or something…anyways, just cause I want to I'm putting this entire chapter into a short summary, okay here goes:
Kiba's on his way to spend some alone time with Hinata, Hinata is making her way to the stream to strain, but Itachi is making his way to the stream to meet Hinata, Shino just met Kisame and knows that he's da bad guy, and Kurenai's going to the bathroom