Chapter 2:

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Summary: Naruto and Kiba both are in love with Hinata. But who will she choose? What do Kiba and Naruto have to do in order to win her heart? Naruto and Kiba both head off to search for her and confess their love.

Chapter 2: First Confession

Hinata was walking towards her usual training spot about a mile away from the civilized part of the village. She had just had another argument with her father about her getting married.

Hinata was never the type to fight back, but because her father talked so much about it, it got on Hinata's nerves. It was the only thing she argued about with her father. She didn't want to get married. Not yet anyway. In the Hyuuga clan, by the time you were seventeen you were to be arranged in a marriage.

But Hinata refused to agree to those terms. She wanted to live her life as a teenager as long as she could. But she would be turning eighteen in two weeks. She could not avoid the topic for long.

When she got to her training spot she took of her jacket and folded it and put it on the ground. She was wearing a small tank top with mesh underneath it, making her look even more womanly than she already was.

She sat down and started to meditate. She breathed in through her nose and out through her mouth several times and started to build up chakra. She listened carefully to her surroundings, taking in every sound and motion that she heard. She waited a few moments so her chakra was built up to the maximum.

And then… "Byakugan!" Her goal was to locate all the birds around her from a twelve mile radius and then throw kunai's in every direction to see if she was right. She began counting aloud. "Six… fifteen… eighteen… twenty three… thirty one!" She jumped off the ground and got ten kunai out of her leg pouch and threw them in all directions. She didn't have to wait long for the birds to start flying out. She quickly counted exactly thirty one birds. She smiled to her self in satisfaction and silently thanked the birds for helping her.

She heard loud noises in the distance a ways off and she immediately activated her Byakugan again and got in her fighting stance.

On her left she saw Naruto jumping from tree to tree towards her location. "N-naruto?" she said quietly, blushing. She gasped as she saw that Kiba and Akamaru were also coming in her direction.

"They'll both be coming out at the same time." She looked around and backed up a few steps so that she didn't get hit by them when they came out. "At the speed they were going, if I don't move out of the way, I'll be caught in a collision."

Kiba, Akamaru, and Naruto were defiantly coming towards her. It would only take them a few more seconds to reach were she stood. She could hear them now, and they were getting louder and louder.

Naruto, Kiba and Akamaru both jumped in the air at the same time locating Hinata immediately and both landing right in front of her.

Hinata jumped back a few feet and made a little yell. Her eyes were wide in shock. She looked at the two men in front of her.

Kiba was looking at Naruto in annoyance and Naruto was looking at Kiba with anger. "Naruto, do me a favor and leave. I have something important to tell Hinata." said Kiba with an impatient growl. "Hey Kiba!" shouted Naruto, "Do us all a favor and take a hike! I've gotta talk to Hinata right now!" Kiba was really getting annoyed now. "Tsk! Fine just make it quick!" "It's kinda private dumbass, so leave!" "No way! What I have to say is way more important!" "Fine then let's have a battle to see who gets to talk to Hinata first!" shouted Naruto. He was already getting in position to attack. "Everything has to be a fight with you!" Kiba got in his fighting stance.

Hinata all the while was standing only five feet away listening to the two young men bickering. When she saw them getting ready to start a fight, she reached out. "No! Please don't fight!"

"Rock, Paper, Scissors!" Kiba held out scissors while Naruto held out rock. Hinata sweat dropped. "Alrighty then!" said Naruto in triumph. "Now to get down to business."

Naruto's face suddenly went serious. He turned and walked right up to Hinata. He was a foot taller than her and his face looked so manly and radiant with the sun behind him. She blushed seeing how close they were.

"Hinata" "Y-yes?" There was a slight pause. "I love you. Be my lover."

Hinata nearly fainted, Kiba's mouth dropped, Akamaru covered his head and whined, and Naruto stood completely still, waiting for an answer.

"I-I d-don't…um…that is I, uh…what?

"I love you." Naruto repeated, "And I want you. I've wanted you for a while now. So please be my lover."

"Now hold it right there you asshole!" yelled Kiba "I was gonna tell her that!"

"WHAT!?" yelled Naruto in furry. "What are you trying to pull Kiba?" Sparks flew as they glared at each other. Hinata just stood their in amazement. She stared at the two boys fighting. She couldn't believe what she was hearing and hearing. The boy she had a crush on ever since the Academy was finally telling her that he liked her back. No, not liked, he loved her. But what shocked her more was Kiba. He had been her best friend and teammate since the Academy. She had no idea that he felt such feelings towards her. How long had he felt this way? Since the first time he met her? How long had Naruto liked her? He sure didn't act like he liked her before now. How was this happeneing? It's all so confusing.

She snapped out of her thoughts when Naruto landed right at her feet. "N-naruto!" He wiped the blood away from his mouth, and stood up glaring angrily at Kiba. "So it's gonna be like that huh? Fine then." Naruto made a hand seal, and a shadow clone appeared. He held out his hand and started to form the Rasengan. Kiba got backed up a bit and he and Akamaru got ready to form the Gatsuuga. Naruto charged at Kiba, Kiba charged at Naruto. "Kibaaaaaa!" "Narutooooo!" "Stop it, please!"

All of a sudden Kiba, Akamaru, and Naruto were all thrown back by a huge gust of wind. Hinata stopped her Hakkeshou and looked at the fallen boys. They both looked up and saw Hinata looking very upset. She was shaking from head to foot. Both Kiba and Naruto got up and walked over to her, Akamaru not too far behind them. "Hinata?" "You okay?"

That's when she snapped.

"NO I'M NOT OKAY!!" she screamed. Kiba and Kiba cringed and took a step back. "Why are you both fighting!? It's so stupid! And what you're fighting about is even stupider! Neither of you ever said anything about liking me before, and now all of a sudden you both love me!? What the hell!?"

While she was yelling at the boys, Akamaru had walked slowly up to her. She was starting to cry now.

"Why now!? Why is this happening!? I don't want to be fought over! I just got over Naruto and Kiba and I were doing just fine, but now my old crush…and my best friend… comes out of the blue and says this…I'm so confused." She felt something wet touch her elbow. She looked down and saw Akamaru licking her and whining to her. She burst into tears and hugged Akamaru.

Kiba and Naruto looked at the two and then dropped their heads. "I'm such an idiot." thought Kiba, "I should have known that fighting was going to upset her. She never liked it when people fought in front of her. But that's only when it's a fight in Konoha and has nothing to do with a mission." He looked over at Naruto and saw that he had a sad look on his face. He could tell that he too was feeling ashamed. "But Hinata's right, why does Naruto suddenly like her after thinking nothing of her after all these years?"