Hey there! I took a while (Again) to write this. In the last chapter, you may wonder if that thing about white lilies is actually a chinese myth. Yes, it really is a myth. Anyways, I have read a lot of stories, and my e-mail thing's not working right, so I can't get alerts when you update as much. If I havn't read your update, please, tell me. Oh, and if you would like me to read your story,i'd be happy to read and review! Oh, by the way, I don't think this chappy turned out as good as the last one, but, hey, I tried. Please, if you'd like this story to continue, take a second or two to review. Thank's soo much, and please, tell me what you think. I hope you liked it! (Grin) By the way, this is a ultra short chapter.

IS THERE ANY HOPE?.Part 3.By Petit-Hana.In Honor and suport of the Hinata and Kiba pairing. HinataxKiba forever.

Kiba gently sat Akamaru on the floor. It was still spring, the early snow practically melted away, and flowers started to bulb. It was a sunny day, but still, very chilly. Kiba could careless weather it was cold or not. It didn't even cross his mind.

"Gah! What type of training is camping out in the cold for three days?" Kiba asked Akamaru.

"Bark!"

Kiba set some large leaves and grass in a pile on the floor, lying back in it. He felt someone aproching him, the light foot steps came up to him. They were so familiar.

"Um. Kiba?"

Kiba automatically recognized the voice. He sat up quickly, to meet her gaze.

Well...you know how Kurenai-sensei said we could seperate or stay together for the test?"

"You wanna stay in a group?" Kiba asked.

Hinata shyly nooded.

"I don't really like being all alone at night and--"

"Sure. I'll stay with ya. But, Shino's long gone by now. There's now way of convincing him." Kiba sighed.

Hinata smiled. That warm smile, that Kiba was seeing more and more. But still. That smile. Even if he saw it alot, ever time she smiled, it still felt like the first time he saw it. The way it made kiba's chest flutter, and made his grin get bigger.

Kiba coughed.

"Do..you have a cold?" Hianata asked with a conserned look.

"Ah, it's nothing. You shouldn't get so worked up."

Hinata looked down at the floor.

"Um...okay then."

Hinata stood next to a small patch of snow that hadn't melted away yet. They were in the middle of a forest, for a small training test that Kurenai, their jonin instructor had made up last minute. The test was that you had to survive in the forest. It was supossedlly a easy task, more like a week long camping trip. The only problem was they could not leave the forest, and they couldn't bring anything but weapons and the clothes on their backs. That seemed to be quiet a problem, seeing how cold it got during the spring this time of year. The snow had barrely started to melt, and chances were, this wasn't the last time they were going to see it this week. The group was aloud to stay together, or to go their own ways, and by the looks of it, Shino had already decide what he was going to do.

Kiba coughed a number of diffrent times during the day. He sat on the floor, playing with snow. After a while, Hinata got a hesitant look, and decided to make sure he was really okay. She fell onto her knees infront of Kiba, and placed her soft hand on his forehead.

"Your a little warm."

Hinata had obviouslly gotten Kiba by surprise. He was alert by now, and he blushed at Hinata getting so close, and worrying about him. He didn't like other people's sympathy, it made him feel needy and dumb, but when it came to Hinata...

"Your a little red too--"

"I-i'm fine!" Kiba stuttered, his blush getting brighter.

Hinata walked around silently through the tall grass.. She started to admire the suroundings, tall grass, shady trees, breezy climate.

"Well, hello little squirrel."

Kiba noticed her gone, and sighed in relief, falling back into the soft grass. He stayed there in the calm silence around him, besides Hinata's soothing voice off in the distance. After a while, he decided to stand up. He pointed his nose up right and sniffed the air for a second. Flowers? He quietly made his way up a fairly tall tree.

Hinata held a small amount of snow in her hands. She felt some ozze through her fingers, and the icy snowflakes seemed to sparkle, and glisten, glossing her pale hands with a cool wetness. Another cough, that seemed so far away startled her, and the snow plopped onto the floor, leaving behind nothing but wet hands. Could I have really gotten that far away from Kiba?

She walked around a little, but noticed nothing familiar. She looked at all the trees, and they all seemed to resemble. Her heart beat faster, and everything was becoming a blur. Her walk had advanced to a jog, and then into a frantic run, as she looked around for any trace of something familiar.

"Ah--!"

Hinata recovered from her fall. Her heart beat had still fast, either by the scare of tripping, or the frantic running. She picked herself up from the tall grass, that was now dotting with glossy drops of a light rain. She stood up and dusted off her coat.

"Akamaru?"

Akamaru rolled around in the wet grass.

Hinata sighed in releief, but instantly noticed something wrong. Kiba wasn't there.

"K-kiba?" She meant her voice to be a yell, but she was surprised when it came out in a whisper.

She walked by a tree, slowly, hoping to see him waving at her from a distance. She got scared, and decided on making a better search.

"Byakugan!"

Hinata never really liked using her byakugan much to look off into a distance, but in this case, she could think of nothing else to do. The only thing that frightened her was that even with her byakugan, she didn't see Kiba. She gave up, and her face came back to it's original shy glare.

Oh Kiba! Where are you--

"Hey there!"

"Kya!"

Kiba popped his head out of a tree, looking at here upside down. He grinned at Hinata, and disapeared back into the tree. Hinata hessitated, but started to climb up towards Kiba, who by now was almost at the tallest branch. He was sitting on it, looking off into the distance. Hinata sat on the same branch, a foot or two away from him. It never occured to her to ask WHY he was in a tree, but, at the way he was focused on looking for something out far from the tree, she guessed the obvious, that he was looking for something.

Hinata stared at him in awe. He was so focused, in between small bright green leaves, and bulbing spring flowers, that only a week or so from now where going to fly away, making room for fruits, and plump leaves of summer.

"You see that?" Kiba pointed forward.

"hm?"

"A small feild or meadow or something. At least I think it is--" He trailed off.

Hinata didn't want to use her byakugan anymore, so she decide to see it from Kiba's eyes, from his point of view. She winced, and her body arced forward, trying harder to see.

Kiba stared at her. He found it funny how she was trying so hard to see it, how she winced and tilted her head every which way. But, out of this beautiful scene, he noticed the beauty shatter, as Hinata was starting to lose balance. Hinata hadn't noticed until about a second after Kiba did, and her face became bewildered.

"Ah!"

Kiba shot forward, grabbing onto her arm and pulling her back on the branch.

"Be careful!" Kiba laughed.

Kiba noticed that they were sitting so close together that their legs touched. Kiba wasn't sure weather he had inched closer to her, or her to him, but he was pretty sure that it was nothing more than the fact that he had pulled her back onto the branch, and she had somehow ended up close to him.

Hinata didn't seem to be very aware of it though, as she clung onto his sleeve with her eyes shut tight as if she was still falling. She cautiouslly opened one eye.

"I see it!"

Kiba smilled.

"You do? Pretty cool huh?"

"Yes. It's wonderful. Um..." She trailed off for a second.

Kiba turned to face her.

"C-can we maybe go look at it?" She asked.

They ran into the feild of flowers, as a cloud of butterflies flew up and danced around them. The day was pretty cold, so the fact that the butterflies were even there was strange.

Hinata looked excitedlly at Kiba with her cute, welcoming smile, as butterflies started to gently land on her.

Kiba grinned.

"You got one on your nose."

Hinata got a frantic expression. "Sh-should I shoo it away?"

"Actually, it looks pretty good on you." Kiba said shyly.

Hinata's face brightened into a pastel pink blush, which Kiba could see, as it clearly stood out from her creamy, pale white face.

Kiba looked away quickly, starting to blush himself.

The silence was broken by Hinata's light sneeze. The butterflies on her gracefully flew up, swirlling into the air. The sun started to set, and by now, they were siting side by side on the floor, staring up at the butterflies.

"Look at the sunset!" Hinata pointed.

Kiba looked over, and they started to watch it go down in silence. The dull orangy lighting made them feel drowzy. Kiba yawned into his sleeve, and he rested his hand back on the floor--

Kiba's eyes got wide. His heart beat faster, and he looked down at his hand. It was resting on Hinata's hand. She too had caught his mistake. Before he could evern think, a butterfly landed on Kiba's hand. They remained still, starring at the butterfly for a while. It's wings were brimmed with snow. The butterfly kept their hands this way for a while, then it floated back into the light breeze, leaving them in a akward position. Kiba was still in shock, and it took him a while to remember how to move. His hand instantly shot up and he dug it deep into his coat pocket.

"I-i...I-i'm s-sooo s-sorry." Kiba blushed.

Y-yeah...um...I-i d-don't mind." Hinata shyly looked away, and fiddled with her fingers.

It was dark now, and Kiba felt sleepy. He looked over at Hinata. To his surprise, she was asleep. She was still sitting upright, but started to lean to her side, and before he knew it, Hinata was snuggling into his shoulder. Kiba smilled. His eyes gave in to how sleepy he was, entrancing him into a peacful dream.

Will I ever touch your hand like that again?