Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto does. If you're reading this and think otherwise...yes I will take extra large fries with my order.
A.N.: Besides craving McDonalds, I'm slighty happy with this chapter. Sakura is just playing the part, Naruto's not a dick, Hinata is shy, Kiba's an a-hole, Sai's emotionless and Chouji's funny. And yes this is a Kibahina fic, but I do like Naruto and he would do this, plus I figured some of you probably like Naruhina a little for some reason. Also there's a typo somewhere in this one, that I can't find again, so if you find it and let me know so I can fix it, it would be much appreciated.
Yamanakas Are a Pain
Chapter Five: In Which Sakura Goes Ballistic
"What the hell, Kiba?" Naruto plucked his finger out of his ear after having Kiba shout right into it when he saw him.
Kiba looked away, flushed with embarrassment at what he had just done in public in front of Hinata.
"Sorry 'bout that, I thought you were on a mission and guess I was just shocked to see you here," was the lame excuse he came up with.
Naruto gave him a dirty look, "So you're screaming my name? I mean, I know I'm awesome and all, but geez, you miss me that much? Either way what are you two doing here and if Hinata's sick why isn't she resting at home?"
Kiba looked over to see Hinata blushing deeply and looking at the ground. Kiba sighed at the sight of Hinata being embarrassed being around Naruto. "She's fine Naruto, she just got a little overheated at training, so I decided to bring her over here to cool down a bit." He knew by Hinata clutching the back of his sleeve that she was thankful for his covering up for her.
"Naruto, you said we'd meet up here at seven, why are you here so early?" Sakura walked into the ramen store with a bag of supplies.
"Sorry, Sakura-chan, I just got really hungry and decided to have a early snack. I'm only eating one bowl." Naruto began to explain to Sakura before she shook her head.
"All you do is eat ramen, if you keep it up you're going to be fat and Kiba here will be getting all your girls," she flashed a cute smile towards Kiba, causing both Naruto to scowl at him, Kiba to blush and to add more to Kiba's blush, Hinata to pull harder on his sleeve pulling him closer to herself.
Naruto looked up, pouting, "Yeah right, the day the dog boy gets more girls than I do is when Sai stops talking about dicks."
"Did someone call for me or for my opinion on Naruto's microscopic penis?" Sai walked into the booth holding a bag of groceries. "Ah, Naruto, Sakura. I thought that we were not to meet until later this evening for dinner. If you do not mind, I must take these groceries home before the milk and ice cream spoils and then I shall return to dine with you both." Sai turned to leave as quickly as he came in.
Kiba looked over at where Sai had been standing, "Well, that was weird."
"He tends to do that Kiba-kun." Sakura looked over at Kiba with her eyes half-lidded and a sly smile on her lips. Naruto really, really was not enjoying all the looks that Sakura was giving Kiba and decided to speak his mind.
"Hey Kiba, stop flirting with Sakura, you and Hinata obviously are involved somehow so stop trying to get Sakura too!" Naruto pointed an accusatory finger at Kiba who glowered at him.
"What are you talking about, Naruto!? Me and Hinata are just friends! And I haven't even said hi to Sakura yet you idiot." Kiba began to get into Naruto's face as he yelled back at the blond ninja.
Sakura looked over at Hinata who seemed terrified of the scene in front of the two girls and decided to make it work to her benefit. She really wanted to win that bet. She walked up in between the two boys and pushed them apart and gave Kiba a quick kiss on the cheek, causing him to blush. He was going to hate her for this later, but if her plan was going to work out, she had to speed this up and her plan was pretty foolproof, plus she could always get Ino to get Shikamaru to help iron out the kinks in it later. She looked at her teammate with a look of disgust.
"I told you Naruto, if all you do is eat ramen, no girl will want you."
"Sakura-chan, why are you being so mean?" Naruto looked like he was about to cry at the scene unfolding in front of him.
"Well, if all you eat is ramen, one you'll get fat and no one will want an overweight Hokage who can't defend themselves. Two I'm not dating a bigger guy, when I obviously can get guys with this type of bod." She pulled up the front of Kiba's jacket and shirt to rub her hands up his abs. "And three, you'd just taste like ramen when you kiss someone and I like fruit and yogurt."
Naruto glared at Kiba. "But Sakura-chan, I'm not bigger and my body's much better than Kiba's. Look," he unzipped his jacket and lifted up his black undershirt to reveal his chest and stomach to Sakura, Kiba and Hinata. Kiba was appalled at seeing Hinata blush at Naruto's shirtlessness but was soon brought back to the world when the owner, Teuchi, kicked them out of his restaurant for indecent exposure and behavior.
"Oh, poopy, Kiba-kun where can we go for dinner? I'd like to have dinner once with a sexy piece of manmeat." Kiba wanted to object but Sakura's hold was too strong and soon he was being pulled away from Hinata, who he had left in the company of Naruto, who at the time of his departure was trying to show how much sexier he was than Kiba. The last sight he saw before being dragged out of his range of vision was Naruto ripping off his undershirt and what seemed to be him yelling at Sakura at how much better looking he was than Kiba.
Chouji had to make a decision, follow Sakura and Kiba or stay and watch Naruto and Hinata. He decided to stay with Hinata and Naruto as Ino would be able to get the info out of Sakura.
"Seriously Hinata! Why doesn't she think I'm good looking? Sure, Kiba's an inch or two taller than me, but still, I'm better looking than him right?"
Poor Hinata was about to faint at being in close proximity to a shirtless Naruto and him asking her to compliment his physical appearance. "I-I...umm, I don- I don't kno-...umm I'm not sure Naru-Naruto-kun." Hinata was close to toppling over.
"Hinata!" Naruto had to grab hold of her before she passed out completely. She felt herself against his chest and began to flush even more. "Wow, Kiba was right, you are overheated. We have to get you out of your jacket so you cool down a bit."
It was official, Hinata was going to die as the boy she had admired for so long began to unzip her jacket and take it off for her. Maybe it was not the most ideal situation but one step at a time, right? And then she remembered that her shirt wasn't thick and besides the cold breeze that was blowing this evening she was pulled back up against Naruto and she began to heat up even more, negating the effect of the wind. And then she was picked up and gasped.
"Sorry Hinata, but if I let you walk home like this I'm pretty sure Kiba would kill me if your dad didn't." Hinata opened her eyes to see Naruto carrying her bridal style and smiling down at her, with those bright white teeth and deep blue eyes. She felt her blush coming back up and so she looked down...and she was now staring straight at his chest and she knew there was no hope of fighting the blush. But her brain did manage to pick up on one thing Naruto had said.
"Wha-what umm...do yo-you mean Ki-Kiba-kun would umm... kill you, Na-Naruto-kun?"
Naruto looked down at her and laughed, a warming laugh. Seriously, if she wasn't already dead, she would be soon from overheating her brain. "Come on Hinata, you're smarter than that. Even I can tell he likes you."
"What!?" Hinata turned so fast that she knocked Naruto down, causing him to fall down on top of her in an incredibly awkward situation. Naruto on the other hand didn't read the situation and kept right on talking. "He looks at you like I look at Sakura, how Sakura and Ino used to look at Sasuke, how Asuma-sensei looked at Kurenai-sensei, how Ero-sennin did with O-baa-chan. Also he didn't like the attention that Sakura was giving him. And neither did I. But looking at you right now-"
"Umm, Naru-Naruto-kun..." Hinata had to look away, his constant stare while talking, those whisker marks, that ramen scented breath...Sakura might have been on to something with that ramen breath thing.
Naruto sat up and pulled Hinata up to sit as well. He put his hand behind his head and flashed her a big smile, "Sorry 'bout that Hinata. Didn't notice that. Thank God you said something, if your dad came along or Ki-"
"He does- he doesn't li-like...umm me Naruto-kun."
"What?"
"Kiba-kun doesn't like me. We're...we're just teammates."
Naruto fixed his gaze on the lavender haired kunoichi. "If that's the case then Kiba's a moron. You're a cute girl. Really weird, but your whole team is, but you're cute. If Kiba doesn't like you, I can assure you that he is either blind or gay. And since he's a ninja that just leaves-"
"He's not gay." Hinata shook her head.
"How do you know? I mean if he doesn't like a cute girl like you?"
Hinata really did not want to have this conservation again, it was embarrassing enough with two other girls, she would not be able to talk about it to Naruto. "I just know.
"Okay, Hinata, let's get you home then."
Naruto had to run like a bat out of hell when he dropped off Hinata. Evidently not wearing any clothing on his upper body, carrying a jacketless Hinata bridal style, with her jacket slung over his shoulder was not something the leader of the Hyuuga clan wanted to see this evening. He hightailed it to Ichiraku's to retrieve his shirt and jacket and started to head home until he saw Sai walking up to the restaurant and greeted him.
"Hi, Sai, I have a quick question for you before we eat."
"What would this question be Naruto?"
"Do you think Kiba likes Hinata?"
"I know that you are an idiot Naruto but I thought that even you would have noticed that he has an amorous attraction to the Hyuuga heiress."
Naruto stared angrily at Sai. "I was asking, you prick, because after I told Hinata that she said Kiba only liked her as a teammate and she would know better. I was just confirming my suspicions."
Sai took a seat at the stand, "Could it be perhaps that Hinata just does not want to see the attraction that Kiba has for her due to her liking someone else?"
Naruto put his finger to his chin in thought and then shook his head. "No, Hinata's too easy to read, someone would've noticed if she was still hung up on someone."
Sai shook his head at his teammate. apparently even Hinata confessing her love to him in the fight against Pein wasn't enough to get it through to him, that he was the reason for her being scared that Kiba might like her.
After an hour and a half scolding from her father about how it was uncouth and unbecoming for the heiress of the Hyuuga clan to come home in such a manner and then changing into her nightwear, a white t-shirt and navy booty shorts, Hinata sat on her bed and started to think about what had happened that night. Sakura hitting on Kiba and being extremely rude to Naruto, Kiba blushing at the whole situation and seeming to be wanting to bash Naruto's face in and Naruto wanting to fight Kiba and walking her home, shirtless on top of it. However, she did have to admit she was slightly irked at Sakura rubbing her hand over Kiba's hot, tanned abs and...what was that? Kiba was her teammate.
"Kiba likes you Hinata," Naruto's statement rang through her head. But that was ridiculous, surely she would have noticed if he liked her. Right? But it would explain quite a bit, Kiba taking his shirt off at practice. "But it' been hot every time he does it," her voice of reason argued. Kiba flexing his leg muscle earlier that morning. "He said he was tensed so it was probably just an accident," the voice continued. Him treating her to meals the last few times they've gone to lunch together. "He was just being polite." Hinata giggled to herself. Kiba being polite wasn't what a voice of reason or logic should come up with as an excuse for that one.
Maybe Naruto had been right. Maybe Kiba does like her and if that's the case then how long has he? How long has he felt like she does around Naruto. She was a terrible person for not noticing. But she liked Naruto, so she should make sure to make sure she could let Kiba know that she didn't see him that way as well. But, did she not see him that way? She likes spending time with him, he's cute, he has Akamaru, they get along, he has an adorable smile (especially when he shows off those fangs), those red triangles on his cheek made him slightly hotter (hmm, Kiba's tattoos and Naruto's whiskers, she might have a thing for guys with facial markings), he was funny, he helped her train and build up her self-confidence. But it was Kiba, her teammate. But did she like him like she liked Naruto? She had no idea. She had to think about this over some ice cream.
Chouji was up in the tree outside of Hinata's room and watched her as she left. She really shouldn't leave her window open if she's going to talk to herself. He had to leave and get this gossip over to Ino A.S.A.P.