Hehe, I actually already had this chapter all typed up. I didn't realize. . I didn't have time to upload it though, so here it is! I don't own Naruto!

"Okay kids. We'll just take these bags..." One ninja picked up the bags that were left at the bank.

"Oh no you don't. Let's go Akamaru." Kiba jumped out of the water and tackled the ninja to the ground.

"What the-" the thief was caught by surprise. His friend had no time to help for Aiko had stabbed him in the arm with a kunai.

"These two are ninjas!" One of them cried before digging a kunai in Aiko's leg. Aiko growled in pain but pressed on as Kiba and Akamaru did the same.

Aiko secured the chakra ropes around the two unconscious criminals. "That should do it," she panted. She had barely won against the missing-nin and was badly injured. Kiba and Akamaru wasn't any better. Aiko pulled a kunai out of her and shoulder and grimaced.

"You okay, Kiba-kun?" Aiko asked as she wiped the blood from her mouth.

"I'm fine. It's just Akamaru..." Akamaru whined as Aiko noticed a deep gash on one of his legs. Aiko quickly dug through her bag and pulled out a needle and string.

"We need to stitch this," Aiko said, "Or he won't stop bleeding." Aiko quickly walked toward Akamaru and stitched him up skillfully. Although she was not a medical ninja, she knew how to take care of herself when injured. Kiba could only watch helplessly as he comforted Akamaru. "Done. Akamaru should be okay now." Aiko patted Akamaru's side and took a look at Kiba. She noticed that Kiba was in a much worse condition. "Kiba-kun, your turn."

"Wha-? No. I'm fine, I- Ow!" Aiko pulled a shuriken out of back.

"You going to walk around with this?" Aiko waved the bloody shuriken in front of his face. "Here." Aiko placed placed a medical cream jar in his hands. "This will help."

"What about you?" Kiba glanced at Aiko's badly cut hand. Her hand had left a bloody smudge on Akamaru's fur.

"You need it much more than I do. Plus I have my own." Aiko smiled, waving her own jar. Kiba nodded and took his shirt off. Aiko's face turned red and quickly turned around and walked toward the river to wash her wounds.

The truth was, her jar was empty. She couldn't stand watching Kiba hurt. And he needed the cream much more than she did. Instead, she just cleaned her wounds with the river water and wrapped them with gauze. When she was done, she stared at her reflection at the river and touched her bloody and bruised face. Aiko sighed and laid down on the cool grass, flinched at her shoulder pain, and stared at the blue sky. She was exhausted since the fight took much longer than expected. It was already mid-afternoon. She was suddenly reminded of Kiba's almost kiss before the whole fight. She blushed at the thought. Does he still have feelings for me? Embarrassed at the thought she touched her burning cheeks and rolled over on her stomach. She had broken up with Renjiro because she didn't feel the same caring love she felt when she loved Kiba...but she still wasn't sure if she loved Kiba as she did back then.

"Hey, this stuff works great...but I need some help."

Aiko sat up at his voice and glanced at Kiba. She blushed as she noticed he still didn't have his shirt on. Kiba smirked at Aiko's embarrassment.

"W-what do you need help on?" Aiko tried not to look at Kiba's finely toned body.

"I can't reach my back." Kiba complained as he handed Aiko the medicine. Aiko smiled as she took the jar from him. She sat behind him and began to apply the cream.

Aiko silently shook her head as she saw how poorly Kiba had applied the cream. She took a dab of the cream and slowly rubbed it on his back. She blushed at how warm is back was. Aiko carefully worked her up from his lower back to his shoulders. This is really embarrassing... I'm touching Kiba's back and-- Suddenly Kiba grabbed Aiko's hand and pulled her beside him. Aiko was caught by surprise as she was plopped next to him. Kiba dug a finger in the medical cream and gently rubbed it on her face. Just by his touch, Aiko felt her face turn red hot.

"You should use some for your face too..." Kiba said quietly. "Your pretty face..." Not sure what to do, Aiko sat beside him, dazed as he rubbed his fingers down blushing cheeks.

Kiba watched as the bruises slowly went away on Aiko's face. He noticed her blushing face and quickly pulled away. He turned away and blushed. What did I just do? That was really thoughtless of me. She's too nice to tell me to stop... I just violated her. Kiba couldn't hate himself more, but his body acted on his own.

"S-so what should we do with that missing-nins?" Kiba asked changing the subject. "Take them back to the village for questioning? Or should we question them?"

"Uhm..." Aiko shyly faced back toward Kiba. Aiko was confused. Did Kiba like her? Every time, he just pulled away. "I think we should take them to the village since they have been terrorizing our village's citizens.

"Okay... Ahhh, all that fighting made me hungry," Kiba complained.

"Ah, I think I have a snack...." Aiko dug into her bag. As she did Kiba smiled, remembering the times when Aiko would always go through that bag to pull out whatever Kiba wanted. "Here they are!" Aiko pulled out a container and opened it. Inside were sprinkled green cookies with the village's leaf symbol.

"....." Aiko stared at the cookies. It had been a habit of hers to make them every morning. Now as she looked at them, they reminded her of how Kiba had never eaten these cookies. How he had always thrown them away. Looking at them always made her sadden. A hand snatched the container that sat in her lap. Aiko stared at Kiba as he stuffed one cookie after another in his mouth.

"I'll...make up for all the cookies I haven't eaten!" Kiba exclaimed. He knew from her expression that she knew he never ate the cookies she had offered him. "I'll eat a billion of them if I have to." Kiba stuffed two more in his mouth.

Aiko smiled at him. Kiba-kun...you probably have no idea how much this means to me....

"Kiba-kun, you have crumbs..."Aiko unconsciously leaned forward to brush the crumbs around his mouth but instead she placed her hand on his marked cheek and lightly kissed him.

I THINK the next chapter will be the last. I haven't finished it yet, but I will be soon. I am almost done! Yaaayyy. Hope you enjoy the cliff hanger. (: