Morning Blues

Sakura has awoken to the birds chirping outside her bedroom window. She had been sharing it with Tenten in their new apartment that Shikamaru had paid for. A knock came at the door that surprised her. "who is it?" she asked. She hurried to the door shuffling in her new clothes the embraced her legs and waist. It was a traditional geisha kimono she had been wearing for a week now. "It's me," said the voice behind the door. She opened it in question and saw between the crack Kiba staring at her in anger. "What's wrong?" she whispered.

She looked behind back at Tenten's sleeping form then decided to step outside of the room and speak to Kiba in the hallway. "What is it?" she whispered again. Kiba snarled under his breath, "I will not be some sex whore to the local samurai Sakura. I don't care if its for the money to make us survive in this dead end town, but this is demeaning! I had a samurai the other day try and rape me Sakura. This place is...hell...I couldn't do anything but run...all that training out the window! Sakura...I can't make it like this. I don't want to be a "bi-do" to the samurai. This isn't honorable to me. It's stripping me of my honor for my relationship with Kankuro...I..." His eyebrows furrowed as he looked down at the wooden floors and hugged himself. "It's going to be alright...I believe in Gaara. If he received word of us, I wouldn't doubt for a second he would come and rescue us Kiba..."

Kiba looked up at her glared, "I'm not counting on Gaara rescuing me, Sakura. I'm counting on Kankuro with my life right now. We have to do something...if they're pursuing us...I know Kankuro wouldn't believe it if we were dead...he'd come for us right?" Kiba began to doubt himself. Before he could say more, Shikamaru had opened the bathroom door from the hallway and looked over at them for a second pause. He was holding a spray can of bug repellent with an evil look in his eyes. "What's with you two?" he questioned. Sakura tried to avoid any questions coming to Kiba and changed the subject, "Why do you look so eager with the bug repellent, Shikamaru?" she joked. Hoping the question would lead away from Kiba's suffering. Shikamaru began to grin and muttered, "I'm infiltrating their base!"

That brought Kiba's attention. "What? I want in!" He hurried to stand next to Shikamaru and looked around as if the situation was top secret. "What's the plan?" Kiba whispered. He was ready for anything. Stealth mode or spy mode was in his thoughts. Shikamaru turned and stared at him in confusion..."Uh...ok." he looked over at Sakura and saw that in her eyes she was begging for anything to cheer up Kiba.

He took in the idea and glanced back at Kiba, "Uh...how about you cover me?" he muttered. He slowly opened the bathroom door and held out the spray can in front of him. He said over his shoulder, "Ready Kiba?" Kiba had no idea what was going on, but wanted to be apart of something he thought would get them out of this mess. "YES!" Kiba shouted. Shikamaru grinned and entered the bathroom to the most horrid skin crawling sight. He didn't flinch and began to spray all around him. Kiba was horrified and stood frozen in the doorway.

There were ants crawling all over the walls and windows and were beginning to climb up towards the ceiling. The ants were the size of thumb and crawling all over like mad. He whimpered and began to look around to find a plunger behind the toilet. He hurried and grabbed for it and started hitting the walls shouting madly, "DIE DIE DIE!" Sakura hurried to see the sight and screeched in horror, "WHERE DID THEY COME FROM!? THEY'RE HUGE! AGHAGH" She screamed out of the room and ran to get out of the house. Her body was shaking from disgust and horror.

The shouts of the boys awoke Tenten in her slumber. She dragged herself out of her bedroom with the comforter encircled around her body. She stepped into the hallway and came towards the sounds of Kiba shouting, "KILL IT!" and Shikamaru wailing, "THEY'RE CRAWLING UP MY LEGS!" Opening the door she mumbled as she slowly opened her eyes, "What's going on with you two?"

Kiba threw her across the hall and shouted, "GET OUT OF HERE!" Tenten glared up at him in confusion. "What the hell is wrong with you?" "THEY MADE A NEST IN THE BATHTUB! WE'RE TRYING TO--" Tenten interrupted him to slap him silly. "Quit shouting at me!"

"Sorry, it's just there are ants all over that bathroom! They're huge and we have no idea where they came from!" Kiba explained exasperated. He felt energized and excited. "We're going to kill them off!" he grinned. Tenten just stared at him. She couldn't think of anything to say to his words.

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Kankuro breathed in and out slowly as he came to open his eyes from the most wonderful hopeless dream he's had in weeks. His heart fluttered thinking back to holding Kiba in his arms and stroking the smooth parts of his skin that felt so seductive and enticing. But waking up, his heart fell to see he was still in the middle of a forest with his search party and no Kiba anywhere near in sight.

"Where are you...Kiba?" he breathed.

Author's Note: I know I know, I took my sweet-ass time to the point I've forgotten everyone's names from Naruto! OO ACK! Well, I'll try and ad another chapter for this. I've gotten the bad case of writer's block for two whole months!! THIS SUCKS! So I've been seeking influence and reading books, comics, and naruto comic's like crazy. I think I've read like 12 books so far and 20 comics! ee