Chapter 2: Kiba

Walking through the streets of Konoha seemed like the best idea at the time. Another argument with sis was driving me insane sitting in the house. Goddam Hana! She really does not know when to stop pushing me. Mum isn't helping either. Goddam family! Sometimes I think to myself that if Akamaru and I were to just leave we'd be better off. But that is not gonna happen. I'd get lonely. And Akamaru would most likely go mad.

And I'd have to leave the most important person to me; Hinata.

Goddammit, I hate thinking too much! I always end up thinking about her. It broke my heart to see hers shattered into a million pieces in front of all those people. But as Hinata does, she puts a brave face over everything. Hiding away; instead of screaming and balling her eyes out in front of people. Pulling away from the crowd and her heartache, she let go of the tears she held back. She thought no one noticed. I did. The scent of her tears driving me mad at the cause of them. It's been a year since then and her sorrow still lingers. If only I could …

'No Kiba! Why the hell would she want you?' mentally slapping myself, I was awoken from my thoughts when that damn Uzumaki boy slapped me on the back.

"Hey, mutt-boy! How you been?" he pretty much shouted with the stupid grin on his face.

"I'm fine Naruto, listen I'm not in th …"

"So, uhm …. You haven't seen Sakura anywhere have you? 'Cause I need to tell her slyly about the party without telling her it's a party that I'm gonna propose to her,"

"No Naruto I haven't", I said through my teeth.

"Ah well, she'll turn up somewhere … most likely mad at me HAHA!"

Damn Naruto, damn him and his bloody Naruto-y ways. I can't stand his stupid grin anymore.

"Well, me and Akamaru better head off, we got a …"

"C'mon I'll treat you to ramen at Ichiraku's" he offered. Although I was hungry, I wasn't in the mood for anyone's company, especially Naruto's.

"Sorry Uzumaki, another time, me and Akamaru have to go train. Catch you later!"

Making my escape as quickly as I could, I started to make my way to the Hokage monument. Walking up the path, there was a familiar scent of lilacs, lavender, tears and blood. Waking up my senses, I looked around frantically to see who is hurt and in trouble. Making a hand sign I whispered "release", reassuring my mind that it was a gen-jutsu. I kept following the scent all the way to the top of the monument. There she was, standing at the edge of the cliff face. Tears coating her pale cheeks in a shimmering river, I realise my senses had not deceived me. I wonder why she hasn't noticed me yet. More to the point why is she standing so close to the edge of the cliff.

Concealing myself and Akamaru, I stand and watch her, trying to figure out why she's standing that close. All of a sudden her tears start to flow more freely than I have ever seen before, causing a heart-wrenching feeling to just grab her and hold her close, letting her know everything's going to be ok.

"Why? Why does no one care about me?" 'What? Hinata, I care!' Shocked I can barely believe my own senses. Does she really believe that no one cares?

"Why am I so unlovable?" 'Hinata!' my mind was tearing itself into millions of pieces; I've never EVER seen her like this before. Sure I've seen her upset but not like this, not to this extent. This was painful to watch her do this to herself.

"What have I done to be left behind in everything I do?" the feeling in my heart can't take much more. It was torturing to watch her tear herself apart like this. My body was crying out to move to her but I couldn't, not yet.

I watch her take a kunai out of her pouch and press it against her delicate skin and shuffle further to the edge of the cliff. The sharp knife pressing into her gentle and pure skin, drenching it in a sea of her blood gathering at her feet. Her pearl like eyes closing, as if she was preparing herself for her own death.

I have to do something to stop her. I try to activate some of my chakra. She does nothing. Dammit Hinata, recognise me, or at least Akamaru! Please don't leave me, not now!

Suddenly something changes. There's a warm look on her face that is soon replaced by fear.

I can't take this anymore! I have to do something. Moving from my hiding place, I keep my eyes solely focused on her, nothing else.

"Hinata …"

A/N
I do not own Naruto or the characters of Naruto, they all belong to Masashi Kishimoto.
Sorry that this chapter is so short but I will make up for it :)
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