A/N: wow sorry for the late update, I just noticed I only have 2 weeks of vacations no! I must hurry... so here's the next one

Chapter 5: The Tale of Kiba and Akamaru... (and Shino??)

"Kurenai sensei's left on a mission" informed Shino that morning on their way to the training grounds.

"Has she? I remembered Hinata saying something like that yesterday" said Kiba who was walking by his side with Akamaru on his head. "But we didn't pay her much attention. Anyway, seems there's going to be only us so let's practice some new moves for the chuunin exams" added him waiting for his dog's reply but he didn't seem to hear him as he was smelling something in the air.

"Huh? What is it, buddy?" asked Kiba a bit confused. Suddenly his dog jumped from his head and started running towards an alley. "Hey, what's up?" cried Kiba running after him.

By the time he and Shino arrived, there was left only Akamaru barking at something that apparently used to be there.

"Come on, there's nothing in there" said Kiba picking up his dog and placing him under his jacket. "We must hurry, Hinata might be waiting for us"

"Seems she hasn't arrived yet" informed Shino when they finally arrived at the trainig grounds. With some delaying from Kiba's attempts to make Akamaru be quiet in his jacket, they thought they were going to be the last in there.

"OK... doesn't matter... agh!" jerked Kiba when Akamaru got released and started running and jumping from tree to tree trying to smell something in the air.

"Hey! What's wrong with you!" yelled Kiba and started chasing his dog as Shino watched them from afar.

"Kiba-kun, Shino-kun, sorry I'm late" cried Hinata who had recently joined her team. "Ano... what's wrong with Akamaru?" asked her to Shino.

As soon as Akamaru noticed her, he jumped to her head and then started running to the Village followed by Kiba. "Sorry Hinata! I don't know what's wrong with him... I'll promise I'll be back soon" yelled him leaving.

"Hey Akamaru! Get out of where you are!" called Kiba who had lost his dog a few blocks before.

"Hey! You're the Inuzuka kid, huh?" asked an angry old lady.

"Y-Yes, mum" answered a shocked Kiba. "Why are you..." started speaking but was cut off by the old lady who pulled him by the ears into her store.

"Look what your stupid dogs have done!" yelled her showing him the inside. There were the remains of what it used to be a very clean grocery store, now all the vegetables were spread on the floor and most of the shelves were broken.

"How would you know if it was my dog?" complaint Kiba having a bad feeling about this.

"Who else would have them?" replied her. "Look! there is one of the little devils!" pointed her to a dog who just had jumped from the roof and started running into the bakery.

"Hey Akamaru!" cried Kiba in an attempt to go after him but was stopped by the old lady... again...

After some minutes cleaning the store Kiba had lost the trace of his dog again. Not that he couldn't smell where he was... In fact, he knew that if he followed it he'd end up cleaning more stores. Maybe he'll do that later but most important now was... what the hell had gone into Akamaru. He needed to find him, and so he headed towards the current place his dog was, luckily the smell was from somewhere familiar.

"Akamaru!!"

Kiba could heard Ino's voice yelling at his dog, he just hoped he didn't damage any of the flowers of the Yamanaka's shop or he'd be in serious trouble. He could imagine an angry Ino making him make flower arrangements. Luckily, she wasn't as close as the shop he thought, in fact he just happened to jump into her head and continued his way when Kiba reached Ino.

"Kiba! I'm gonna kill your dog when I'll find him!" yelled her when he arrived.

"I'm sorry Ino, I don't know what's gotten into him today" replied Kiba.

"He went in that direction, if you want to know" added Chouji who happened to be with her along with Kiba's teammate.

"I can tell you where he is now" said Shino as Chouji continued eating his chips.

"I already know where he is but he's moving really fast that I can't go after him without runing into angry shopkeepers" explained Kiba.

"Yeah you'd be thankfull I wasn't at my parents shop or you'll be a dead man by now" added an angry Ino who was trying to fix her pony tail.

"You just have to search in the next places he's going to appear. I'm going to help you. Follow me" said Shino and started walking ahead, leaving Ino and Chouji.

"Ehh... ok. Bye Chouji! Bye Ino, and sorry!" yelled him and rushed behind Shino.

"Agh!! Kiba's so out of the list!!" cried her to Chouji.

Some minutes later, they arrived at a dark alley where they found a white female dog running straight to them.

"Shino that's not Akamaru" stated Kiba but was cut off by Shino.

"He's coming" said him and as soon as he did, Akamaru came running behind the other dog. Shino soon caught the white dog and Akamaru suddenly stopped at them and started barking in protest.

"Huh? Who's that, Akamaru?" asked a confused Kiba to his dog. He could swear he saw him flushed, giving a bark for response.

"I've seen that behaviour in my bugs too" explained Shino quietly. "Apparently, Akamaru's fallen for this little" added him pointing at the white dog in his arms who was furiously trying to scape from Shino's hold and from Akamaru.

A/N: hehehe yeah I know I'm not well informed about animals relationships but come on! Akamaru's just different from the rest right? He's special!... and seeems that the female dog didn't like that LOL poor Akamaru... and Kiba's just as dense as Naruto :P Well this one turned out short :( Next one: The Tale of Ino. (and Chouji?)