Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. If I did, I wouldn't have to do my homework in school! I wouldn't even have homework!

A/N: This is another kind of filler and has almost nothing to do with the main plot. I just needed something to put in this chapter to fill up the 50,000 words. It's still good though! But there's Kiba/Hina in it, so if you don't like that couple, don't read any of the parts with Hinata or Kiba in it. If you really don't feel like reading the not so important stuff, read the last paragraph thingy.

Published November 29, 2006

Chapter 12 - Messing With Other People's Business Pt. 2

On that same day Ino and Temari had their talk…

"I don't think this is going to work, Gaara!" A whispering Kankuro unhelpfully said.

"Well, no one said you had to come." Gaara responded.

"But I didn't want to be home…alone…with no…food." Kankuro shivered.

"Hn." Gaara said annoyed. "Then shut up."

"You can't tell your big brother to shut up!" Kankuro continued to whisper…loudly.

Sand could be heard from behind Kankuro, stirring and rattling, waiting for Kankuro's blood. (A/N: Okay, that was a little too descriptive and kind of creepy.)

"Shutting up, Gaara!" Kankuro saluted with his hand.

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"Hurry up! They might already be here!" Kiba whispered as loud as possible.

"K-Kiba-kun, I don't think this is such a good idea." Hinata opinionated her, well, opinion.

"Don't worry, Hinata! I know what I'm doing." Kiba grinned as he pointed to himself with his thumb.

"If you say so, Kiba-kun." Hinata nodded slightly.

"Kiba! Hinata!" A pink haired girl (the only pink haired girl in all of Konoha) waved her hands up wide in the air. "Ow!" Sakura whined.

Tenten had just knocked Sakura on the back of her head. "That's what you get for being stupid! No wonder Ino doesn't feel bad when she calls you billboard brow!" Tenten loudly whispered.

"Well, sorry! I was just trying to get their attention!" Sakura whispered.

"Sure you were." Tenten sarcastically said as she rolled her eyes and crossed her arms loosely.

"Ugh. Whatever." Sakura also rolled her eyes. Then she turned to Kiba and Hinata. "Kiba, Hinata, what are you two doing here." Sakura asked, a bush away from Kiba and Hinata. "Ow!" Sakura yelped again.

Tenten knocked the back of Sakura's head again. "You know why they're here! They're here for the same reason we are!"

"When did you become so violent!" Sakura whispered.

"What do you mean by that?! Are you saying I'm weak!" Tenten took it as an offence.

"No, no. Nothing like that." Sakura said as she waved her hands frantically in front of her.

Tenten quit her anger. "Good."

"Though you have to admit, I am much stronger than you." Sakura smirked with her eyes closed and arms crossed.

"Oh, that's it now Haruno!" Tenten gestured her hand into a fist. "You went too far!"

"Oh kuso (shit)!" Sakura said right before Tenten pounced on her.

Kiba and Hinata sighed in unison.

"I thought I was over reactive." Kiba continued to whisper.

"Me too…" Hinata said normally because if she whispered, you wouldn't be able to hear her.

Kiba glared at Hinata for a second but only a second. 'That was an insult, right?' He thought. 'Whatever.' How could Kiba stay mad at the girl he's loved since forever.

Hinata noticed his glare. "No offence, Kiba." Hinata blushed.

"Of course not." Kiba assured.

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Neji hit his hand on his forehead. "Oh no. They're there too!" He informed Sasuke with his Byakugan.

"Oh kuso (shit)!" Sasuke swore. "Now we'll be stuck with all those idiots and get caught!"

"Hey! Hinata-sama's there too!" Neji took as an insult to his cousin.

"You didn't let me finish…we'll be stuck with all those idiots, except for Hinata, and get caught!" Sasuke corrected.

Neji nodded like he was possessed; he was half listening. "Chikushou (damn/shit)." He said in a low, almost whisper like, tone.

"D-D-Did you just swear?!" Sasuke looked shocked as he stepped back away from Neji. "W-What did you see?" Sasuke was almost too afraid to find out the answer.

Neji didn't say anything. His face changed. He had an 'I'm going to kill you' look right now. Imagine Gaara's facial expression on Neji's face. Then he spoke. "Kiba's dead."

"Oh no." Sasuke said right before Neji shot off to the park like a bullet. 'Would dogs be allowed at Kiba's funeral?' He thought. 'I guess I'll find out soon.' Sasuke ran in the same direction as Neji and tried to catch up with him.

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"Maybe we should get out of the way." Kiba suggested to Hinata as he watched Sakura and Tenten fight with each other.

"I think you're right, Kiba-kun." Hinata agreed.

Sakura and Tenten had been wrestling and didn't notice that they were also moving away from their spot behind the bush. Soon, they were only a few inches away from Hinata and Kiba. Then, the worst possible thing happened.

As Kiba was standing up and helping Hinata up, Tenten and Sakura pushed Kiba as they wrestled, causing him to fall on top of Hinata, where Kiba's lips touched Hinata's.

Tenten and Sakura noticed what happened and stopped wrestling. They were frozen. Dead silence was all that was left.

"What. Did." Sakura ended the silence.

"We. Do?" Tenten finished.

As quick as a second, Kiba pushed himself back up as Hinata pushed Kiba off. Hinata blushed the brightest shade of red she's never blushed before.

"Oh kuso, kuso, kuso (shit, shit, shit)." Kiba put his hand on his head like he had a fever. "Neji's gonna kill me!"

"How's he going to do that? He didn't see you." Sakura asked.

"Neji can see…everything…at the worst of times…like this." Kiba frowned in sadness. "I'm a dead man."

Tenten's head hung low as she spoke. "It's true."

Kiba was as miserable as ever. He curled up into a ball with his arms around his legs and rocked himself back and forth. "Why don't you think I've asked Hinata out yet?" Kiba asked Sakura and Tenten as he swayed back and forth.

Tenten and Sakura were silent. 'Oh…now I see…' Both girls thought in their head.

"Exactly. Neji is too overprotective of Hinata. If I even hugged her, I would get a personal beating from him. Haven't you ever wondered why all of Team 8 wears jackets? (A/N: I have! I just noticed that they all wear jackets when I saw episode 206. That's kind of sad to admit.)"

"Why do you guys wear jackets all the time?" Sakura asked.

"I thought it was because Shino's skin would burn quickly, you were too embarrassed to show your flat body, and Hinata was always cold." Tenten said openly and honestly.

"No, and I don't have a flat body!" Kiba retorted. "It's because Neji did not want us flirting with Hinata in any way. He also didn't want anyone to see Hinata and make remarks about her body or anything. I wouldn't ever be caught dead in a jacket if it weren't for Neji and his threat to forbid Hinata from entering the Academy and becoming genin."

"That makes sense." Sakura whispered to Tenten.

Tenten nodded. "Too bad it's all true. Now Neji should be coming any minute."

"I heard that." Kiba said. Then he sighed. "I just hope he does it quickly. I don't want a slow and painful death…"

"Oh, Neji's not that cold hearted! He'd probably just beat you to a pulp. Not enough to kill you! He'd just make you suffer for the rest of your life is all." Tenten tried to make Kiba feel better but it only made everything worse.

"Oh, man. She's right. My life is going to be a living hell!" Kiba buried his face into his hands.

"KIBA INUZUKA!" Neji yelled from only a few kilometers away.

"You better start running, Kiba!" Sasuke warned, a few kilometers behind Neji.

"Aww, man. This sucks!" Kiba buried his face even more into his hands.

Neji appeared right in front of Kiba, looking down at him. "You." Neji glared rudely. "What were you doing with Hinata-sama?" He asked even thought he knew what had happened.

"It was an accident, Neji!" Sakura insisted as Sasuke came jumping down next to Neji.

"What happened?!" Sasuke said clueless of the incident.

"It really was an accident, Neji!" Tenten sided, hoping Neji would believe her. "It was my fault." She took the blame.

"It was my fault too. We were fighting. It was all an accident." Sakura took some of the blame.

"We accidentally pushed Kiba down and his lips happened to touch Hinata's!" Tenten informed.

Sasuke's face turned a dark shade of blue. 'So that's what Neji swore for. I knew he had a good reason.'

"Accident or not, Kiba is still dead." Neji said.

"No!" Hinata shouted but it sounded like a normal volume for everyone else.

Everyone stared at Hinata.

"Neji! Don't do that! If you do, I'm telling Father!" Hinata threatened, still shouting.

Neji continued to glare at Kiba.

Kiba looked up and saw Neji's evil, deadly glare. Then he looked back down in fear.

Neji chuckled. "I can't believe you want to date him." He smirked. "You're a lucky one, Kiba. Be thankful Hinata-sama likes you so much. Any other guy would've been dead by now."

Kiba only nodded. What could he say? He was speechless.

"I'll allow you to go out with Kiba, Hinata-sama." His words shocked everyone around him.

"R-Really?" Hinata wasn't sure if Neji was telling the truth or playing a cruel trick on her.

"Yes…but, Kiba has to talk to Hiashi-sama." Neji conditioned.

Hinata nodded slightly.

"Now get up, Kiba! You are very cowardly; you're almost as cowardly as Shikamaru." Neji offered his arm out to Kiba.

Kiba took Neji's arm and stood up. "Thanks, Neji." He scratched the back of his head. "For a minute there, I thought I was really dead."

"You'll be dead if you hurt Hinata-sama in any way…at all." Neji said seriously.

Kiba chuckled nervously. "Heh, of course."

"Hey, I think I see Temari." Sasuke got everyone's attention.

"Get down!" Sakura dropped down. Everyone else followed suit. "There she is!" Sakura whispered to everyone.

"Do you think she can see us?" Tenten asked everyone quietly.

"I doubt it." Neji answered. "She seems too distracted to figure out we're here."

"True." Sasuke agreed.

"I just saw someone we know." Neji informed. "No, two people we know."

"Who?" Sakura asked.

"Gaara and Kankuro." Neji confirmed.

"Whoa…where?" Kiba asked.

"Over there, directly across from us in the other bush." Neji pointed at the bush across the pathway.

"What a coincidence." Sakura said.

Everyone other than Sakura nodded.

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Kankuro gasped slightly. "I see Temari coming."

"Duh." Gaara said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. It kind of was. "I felt her presence half an hour ago.

Kankuro pouted as he crossed his arms. "I was just letting you know." He muttered.

"Hn." Gaara said. Once again, sand could be heard behind Kankuro.

"Shutting up, again." Kankuro sweated.

"I guess since you just saw Temari, you didn't notice there were people in the bushes across from us." Gaara assumed.

"There are other people in the bushes?! Who?" Kankuro asked, idiotically.

Gaara sighed as he looked closely at the people across from him. "There's Sakura, Hinata, Kiba, Neji, Tenten, and Sasuke."

"Wow." Kankuro was fascinated like a child's first time in a toy store. "What a coincidence, huh? Why do you think they're here?"

"Same reason we are." Gaara said obviously.

"How do you know?" Kankuro wanted proof.

"Why else would they be behind bushes in Konoha Park at the exact time Temari is supposed to be meeting with Ino?" Gaara asked.

"Oh…now I get it." Again, Kankuro really didn't get it, but wanted Gaara to stop thinking he had an older brother who was annoying and stupid.

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"Here comes Ino." Sakura whispered.

"Oh, no. They're talking too far away! I can't hear a thing!" Tenten complained.

"I can hear perfectly fine." Kiba said.

"Well, I'm not part dog, Kiba!" Tenten snapped back.

"I'm not part dog! I can just tell you what they're saying…or you can take a chance and move closer, revealing yourself to Ino and Temari, and then they can interrogate you until you crack." Kiba persuaded.

"Fine. But make sure you get every single word they say!" Tenten crossed her arms.

"Yeah, yeah." Kiba said lazily.

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An hour or two later…

"I would hate it if Ino came over to our house." Kankuro said. "One of them can do a lot of damage, but two, that's just asking for trouble. They could trash the entire house in mere seconds."

"Hn." Gaara responded.

"That's all you have to say? Were you even listening? Didn't you find anything they said interesting at all?" Kankuro asked.

"I already knew everything they said." Gaara answered monotonously.

"How did? But how? When? If you?" Kankuro asked many incomplete sentences at once, speaking gibberish.

"I just know these things." Gaara said obvious and plainly.

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"Wow…" Tenten said.

"Yeah, wow." Sakura agreed.

"I learned a lot of new things today." Sasuke said like he was in a trance. He was like a zombie; he was in astonishment of everything Kiba had said.

"I did not need to know everything they talked about." Neji was also in a trance-like state.

"Yeah. I think we should get back to work." Sasuke recommended.

"Definitely." Neji nodded. "Oh yeah, and Kiba?"

"Yeah?" Kiba turned to Neji.

"You're eating dinner at the Hyuuga mansion tonight." Neji stated.

"Actually, I was going to take Hi-" Kiba started.

"That wasn't a suggestion, it was an order." Neji glared at Kiba until he gave in.

"Okay, your house it is." Kiba scratched the back of his head nervously.

"Good." Neji said.

Sasuke and Neji left to actually work for once.

"I guess we should be going. Tsunade-sama's going to be mad if I'm late to her office again." Sakura left running towards the Hokage's building.

"We need to get some formal clothing for you, Kiba-kun." Hinata told Kiba.

"Aww, man." Kiba sighed.

Kiba and Hinata walked out of the park, which left Tenten all by herself.

"Aww, man. I have no where to go. I'm the most unimportant main character. Where can I go?" She pouted. "I guess I'll stuff my face with dango (Japanese dumpling) or something." She slugged her way out of the park with her back slouched and trudging her feet. Her shoes never left the ground, which scratched them up very badly.

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At Shikamaru's house…11:29 P.M.

"So what did he say?" Shikaku asked.

"Nothing that would interest you." Yoshino answered lightly.

"Oh really?" Shikaku asked.

"Yes, unless you want to sit in your corner again." Yoshino shrugged.

"Okay…" Yoshino's husband declined.

Five minutes later…

"Yes. Thank you very much!" Yoshino spoke in a light, cheerful tone. She hung up the phone. "Good news! I'm talking to the two of them tomorrow!"

"On such short notice? How's that even possible?" Shikaku asked.

"I have my ways." Yoshino grinned. "Goodnight honey!"

"G'nite dear." Shikaku slipped into bed and turned off the lamp on the small table next to him.

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A/N: I swore a lot this chapter. I just noticed that. I typed 'kuso' 6 times in one chapter! Weird…anyways, next chapter will be up as soon as possible! I think this chapter was one of the definite worst since it really didn't have anymore info about the story other than the last part.