oh snap first update in literally 3 years! sorry guys, i'm not very good at real life. OTL anyways, this is dedicated to leotinees for reviewing the other day and being like "hey write some more" and all the others that waited (kind of) patiently for me to get my shit together again.

That night found Hanabi glaring into the refrigerator. She had come downstairs to fix herself a midnight snack, but that just reminded her of the last time she got a midnight snack—a shirtless Kiba had ambushed her with sexy while she was innocently enjoying an Icee. Ok, so that wasn't exactly what happened, but she had even put on actual clothes this time, since she kind of expected Kiba to be raiding the fridge again, and the fact he wasn't here was making her a little grumpy. But only a little. And only because she wanted to yell at him about the dirty trick he played on her at training, and not because she wanted to ogle his body. Nooooo.

So when two strong arms wrapped around her and began giving her a noogie, she didn't even bother to turn and look to see who it was before she jyuuked Kiba's ass into the hallway.

"Holy shit, Hanabi! What the hell?" Neji yelled angrily, peeling himself off the wall. "I've been gone for two months and that's how you greet me?"

"Awwww snap, I'm sorry Neji!" she cried, running over to her cousin and checking to make sure she hadn't injured him/exacerbated any injuries he had come home with. "I thought you were Kiba!"

Neji's eyes went wide and rather crazy. "Don't tell me that mutt has managed to sex Hinata!"

"What? No! Are you crazy?" Hanabi said to her cousin as she walked back to the fridge, like that wasn't exactly what she thought a few days before. "Apparently he was 'kicked out of his apartment' because his rent was late because he was on some 'Anbu mission'," she told Neji with plenty of sarcastic air quotes. "And because Hinata's Hinata, she told him he can stay here until he finds a new place. But I don't think he's even looking."

Neji glowered, "Well, he best start looking. You're way too fond of roaming around at night in your undies, and I don't want him seeing that—he might get some bad ideas."

"I don't know what you're talking about, all my ideas are good ideas!" Kiba announced as he waltzed into the kitchen. "Scoot over short stuff," he said, sliding Hanabi out of the way before reaching into the fridge and grabbing some of the chicken wings Hinata had prepared earlier.

As he turned back, Hanabi caught a glimpse of his nicely sculpted chest, and noticed something was missing.

"Kiba, did… did you WAX YOUR CHEST?" she asked incredulously.

"What? No, nooo. My chest has always been delightfully smooth and lacking hair," Kiba denied around mouthfuls of chicken.

"You know what? I'm going over to TenTen's," Neji muttered, leaving the kitchen. Clearly the Hyuuga household had caught a bad case of the Crazies while he was away.

soooo yup. hopefully things will get a rollin' again.