The sun was low on the horizon before they decided to throw in the towel. Well Kiba had to anyway. Naruto probably could have gone another 5 hours or so before he would have quit for the night.

"Where the hell do you get all that stamina from Naru-kun?"

Naruto just grinned.

Kiba shouldered his pack and sighed. "If Naruto is this energetic after sparring all day, i wonder how energetic he'd be after...Whoa there, not even gunna go there right now..."

He shook his head as he waited for Naruto to finished packing up.

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Back in town Ino, Shikamaru, and Choji were still sitting in the resturant talking, mostly about Kiba and Naruto. Well, Ino and Shikamaru were, Choji mostly just munched and listened. None of them even looked up when Lee and Sakura walked in. In fact, it wasn't untill they were standing right in front of them that they noticed.

Ino looked up and saw Sakura standing right next to her, "Hey bill-board brow. What do you want?"

"Well, you and your big mouth are pretty hard to miss. You're practically yelling everything you say Ino-pig. Now whats this about Naruto?"

Ino laughed, "Wouldn't you like to know. Run along and leave the gossiping to me."

"Watch it Ino-pig. You mess with my teamates and you mess with me. Now, what are you saying about Naruto???"

"Nothing much, just debating weather he's lost his mind or not. What with him and Kiba being an item and all..."

"WHAT?!?!" she roared. "Don't you dare go around starting rumors like that!!!"

"But it's true Sakura," she said innocently. "Shikamaru here saw them together this morning."

"Shikamaru!!!" she grabbed him by the neck of his shirt and pulled him up out of his seat.

"Calm down Sakura!!!" pleaded Shikamaru, fearful for his life. "I'm not making it up! I really did see them together. I heard what they were saying to each other. Kiba even called him 'Naru-kun' and 'My little blonde Kitsune.' It's obvious that they're together."

Sakura lowered him back into his seat. "I swear, if you're making this up I AM going to kill you..." she growled dangerously before going to were Lee had sat down.

Ino waited untill Sakura was out of ear-shot before muttering very quietly, "Well, now we know if he had told her or not..."

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And, as if on cue, who should walk in but Naruto and Kiba. They had decided to just stop at a resturaunt insted of going hom and cooking, being as late as it was.

"Speaking of the devils..." muttered Choji between bites of food.

They boys sat down in a both far from the others. They gave no sign that they had even noticed that the others where there. Completely clueless to the four sets of eyes that watched them, Kiba ordered their food. He rubbed his sore shoulders and talked quietly with Naruto as the waited for their order.

"Nothing looks different," muttered Shikamaru as he watched.

"Yeah, I've seen them together at this place before a few times."

Kiba reached up and pushed a stray lock of hair from Naruto's face.

Ino blinked, "I spoke too soon i think..."

Sakura's jaw was on the table. Lee couldn't see the boys so he was trying to get Sakura to tell him what was wrong, not wanting to turn around and attract attention to himself.

Naruto and Kiba continued to live in their own little secluded world, completely unaware of the shinobi watching them. It wasn't untill Naruto reached over and took Kiba's hand that they noticed anyone was watching them. And all it took was a very loud gasp from Iruka, who had just walked in with Kakashi, to do it.

"Naruto?!"

Naruto's head snapped up and he stared at Iruka. "Iruka-sensei!?!"

That's the problem with going to a resturaunt that's popular with the local shinobi, you never know who's going to walk in next.

Naruto looked around and finally noticed everyone else that was watching them. He and Kiba both blushed so red that they matched the marks on Kiba's face. "Oh crap..."