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Chapter 2- Bet You Didn't Know

Temari brushed her hair back again as she looked at her self in the mirror. She had to admit Kiba had taste. The dress was plain and white but it hugged the figure of her body until it flared at the waist. It caught to mid thigh to show off her long legs and had a fair enough cleavage that accentuated everything else. The heels that she wore with it were also white and four inches high. She looked stunning if she said so herself. But would Kiba think that? He must have been with so many girls that probably would have looked better than her in this dress. Well that sucked. She probably didn't look like anything that great.

"Temari!" a loud voice called and the door slammed open. In less than a blink of the eye Temari had a kunai ready. At the sight of Kiba she lowered the kunai. He was staring at her.

"What?" she asked putting the kunai in a secret place under the dress. He didn't answer but walked towards her. He took her hand and spun her around to face the mirror then wrapped his arms around her waist from behind.

"You look wonderful." he whispered in her ear which tinted her cheeks a light shade of pink. Shikamaru never told her that. The very few time she dressed up it was always 'nice' or 'good'. Stupid four letter words that just didn't cut it. Maybe she should have realised those times that it wasn't worth it. Oh the jerk. She muttered a quiet thanks

"You're welcome. It's the truth." he said resting his head on her shoulder and closing his eyes.

"Kiba," Temari began earning a low hum in her ear that sent a shiver down her spine. She glared at his reflection and the look of utter contentment on his face. "Why are you still holding me?"

Kiba shifted to hide his smirk behind her head. "You smell nice." he answered but pulled away from her all the same. She glared at him with suspicion. He flashed her a bright smile and jumped to sit on her bed.

"What are you doing here anyway?" she asked

"I was calling for like ten minutes out there. I thought you lost it."

"Aww. It's touching that you care," she said with a smile as she walked towards him. She suddenly grabbed him by his collar and yanked him forward to give him a dark look. "but don't ever think that I'd lose it over the piece of trash."

"While I enjoy your attention and roughness," he said pulling her hands from his collar. "it's time to go."

"Great. Where exactly are we going?" she asked as he pulled her with him.

"Really cool party. Pretty much every ninja will be there. Civilians too. Oh and next time be careful how you threaten me. It might not turn out the way you want it to." he told her adding a wink to the last sentence. She rolled her eyes at him. They were out in the night air when Temari realised a few things about Kiba's appearance.

He looked good in deep red and he knew how to dress. His dress shirt had the first few bottoms open to show off his tanned chest and the sleeves were also rolled up to his elbows. His pants fit him perfectly.

In the right moon light his spiked brown hair looked silver streaked and his Inuzuka markings were almost invisible.

He actually seemed hollow faraway.

That last one lead to the final point: no Akamaru.

"Like what you see?" he asked with a smirk. Damn! Caught in the act! She smiled flirtatiously at him.

"It depends, what is it that I see?" she said batting her eyes. He chucked and held a white object out to her.

"That's your admission." he said as she took it from him.

"A mask?"

"A lot of people probably have similar ones. If that's the thing I can customise it for ya!" he said putting in a silly grin as he held up a red marker. He quickly put the mask onto her and began to scribble on the mask with the marker. He stepped back to look at his handy work: a red paw print under her right eye with smaller paw prints down to the end.

"What did you do?"

"It's a paw print."

"Can I trust you that it is?"

"Well yea."

"Where's yours?"

"What's with all the questions?" he asked but held the mask up. She snatched it and the marker away turning away to scribble her own paw print on it before slamming it onto his face.

"Ow". he grumbled moving a hand to the mask.

"You can't look at that!" she exclaimed pointing the marker at him.

"Ok ok. We're here anyway." he said pointing at the building they had stopped before.

"A nightclub." Temari whispered then shook her head. "Should have known Konoha would have a nightclub."

"What, you didn't know? We've got about three of them. The civilian one The ninja one. This is the mixed one. Shikamaru never took you to one?" at that she gave him a look that clearly said 'If he had, wouldn't I have known there were nightclubs?'

"He's such a bad boy. So dull." he said leading her into the building after the doorman let them in. The place was dark except for the eratic flashing light and the music was booming loud. He pulled her towards the bar. "Drinks first dance later."

Surprisingly she had proven herself a very good dancer to Kiba. They had barely danced through one dance before Temari spotted a familiar head. She pulled Kiba down to talk to him.

"I'm gonna play with a certain jerk who never took me to a place like this." she said as she looked over at the owner of the head. Kiba followed her eyes with a smirk.

"Fine just come back before the end of the song. Remember, you came with me."

"So possessive." she murmured with a grin behind the mask.

"Can't help it if I am." he said letting her go.

Now Shikamaru had been watching the dance floor with blank eyes he wasn't really interested in these things but Ino had dragged him along. Now she had disappeared. How wonderful. He raised a brow under his mask when a really sexy looking blond stopped before him. This was not Ino.

"Want to dance?" she asked but didn't give him time to answer as she pulled him onto the dance floor.

This girl was good. So very good. Better than Ino which meant she was better than Temari even though he didn't take her anywhere. Suddenly she stopped, patted him on the jaw and pushed away from him leaving him in the middle of the crowd. He watched her walk over to another man. He guessed that meant she was a drifter until she pulled both their masks off.

He couldn't help gaping openly as Temari planted a kiss on Kiba's cheek awfully close to the mouth. What the heck?

Kiba smiled at her returned a kiss to her forehead. He whispered. "I see you decided to play."

"It's not a dangerous game is it?" she asked innocently putting the mask back onto his face.

"I don't like being someone's toy."

"Good neither do I. Let's just do this our way."

"What is it that we're doing?"

"Hanging out as friends."

"Good choice."

"What? You want more?"

"Not sure if you could handle me."

"Could you handle me?"

"Definitely."

"Let's hope it doesn't get to that without my one condition."

"Are we talking about the same thing? I know I'm talking about us being friends and all but what are you talking about. Be careful what you think Temari."

"We are talking about the same thing Kiba we will remain friends."

"Then don't kiss me."

"I-" Temari bagan only to be cut off by Kiba.

"Don't speak, get drunk."

So, getting drunk might not have been the best idea when you had killer paper work to do the next day.

'I'm going to kill Kiba.' Temari thought darkly stabbing the desk with her pen. Her head was splitting open right down the middle no matter what she took. To make it worse Shikamaru was downright miserable and wouldn't stop glaring at her thoughtfully. She didn't even know if that was even possible. Then to top it off Kiba was just his usual chipper self. Not fair.

"What exactly is it you're doing with Kiba?" Shikamaru suddenly asked.

"What the heck is that supposed to mean?" Temari glared at him.

"Last night."

"I told you I was busy."

"Why Kiba?"

"He's fun and you're a stick in the mud. Now shut it." Temari told him pulling the pen out of the table to continued her work.

"Troublesome." the master of lazy grumbled

"Only because you're jealous!" Temari snapped. Slamming her pen down, she stood abruptly. "I'm taking a break."

Shikamaru watched her leave in slight shock. That had not been expected and that just confirmed an idea he had. It was really the only logical idea he had.

Temari on the other hand had left the building but the sun was getting to her. She slipped into an alley and moved all the way to the back around a corner were there was actual shade she stood silently for a moment. She was slowly calming down when someone she hadn't heard from in a long time came up.

Booze Temari.

'Sup girl? Long time no talk.' the overly excited alcohol induced voice said in her head. Just great.

'Oh no. What epiphany are you gonna try and push on me now?' Temari mentally asked with a groan. She must have been seriously drunk for Boozy to come out. It's ironic that Boozy actually made sense even if she was brought on by something that made you absolutely senseless.

'Oh that's easy.' Boozy began.'"the state of your emotional stability and the case of your love life.'

'Please no.'

'I'm not going away until you realise my rightness!'

'Fine. Start. Let's get this over with.'

'You dated the wrong guy.' she said and Temari snorted.

'I could tell you that.'

'You should have dated Kiba.'

'What?'

'You should have dated Kiba. You liked him first.'

'You're crazy.'

'I'm right.'

'No you aren't.'

'Oh come on back when we were the bad guys you can't say you didn't think he was cute. Cute in an odd but cute way. I mean the dude wore his puppy in his clothes and on his head.

'He was kinda cute.' she admitted.

'You spied on his teams training once because you had a tiny crush on him that you claimed you didn't and have been in denial since.'

'I don't remember that.'

'That because you decided to push it to the back of your head and conveniently forget but you do remember. I know, I'm your conscience. You can't tell me you don't remember his awesome skills and the after training bath down by the river where-'

'Ok! I remember just don't repeat it.'

'Good cause if you remember then, imagine now.'

'Stop.'

'Just saying and don't forget how proud you were when Kankuro told you about the fight with the twin creep.'

'...I remember...'

'Admit it Temari you really like him. One of the reasons you blocked it out was because he was too young then and you thought it would be weird then. What's three years to you now? One guy flipped back in your face already and personally I believe it was because you went with the second guy first and he's not even older than the first guy. You should try for the first guy now before it becomes too late.'

Temari thought about it for a moment as she continued pushing herself up from the back of the alley. She pushed herself slowly around the corner. She looked up and immediately flung herself back around the corner.

'Was that Kiba?' Temari thought bringing the image of what she saw come back. Kiba had a terrified man by the collar with the long sharp nails on his man beast transformation pressed against his neck and a sadistic grin that was only so greatly intensified by his massive canines. Not the mention the ruffled snarling Akamaru by his side.

"Dang girl, he's even hot when he's scaring the living daylight out of some one!" her inner voice screamed and she gripped two of her puffs as her head ache shot skywards.

"What are you doing?" asked a voice from above her. She looked up to see Kiba leaning against the wall beside her. Temari gave him a horrified look. "If you're wondering about that guy he was an over excited pervert that was bothering Hinata."

Temari hung her head but didn't answer. Her head suddenly felt like it was being closed in. Kiba leaned to wards her a little.

"Temari? Are you alright?" he asked but still received no answer. Her head was really starting to get to her and the painkiller wasn't even helping. He cupped her face in his hands and looked into her eyes with worry. He slapped her on the arm and her eyes widened as she came back to the present.

"Oww!" she growled out before bringing a hand up to tenderly touch her head.

"Are you alright?" he asked again and she waved a hand at him to say she was fine. "What were you doing?"

"Listening to alcohol talk."