So I had to get Hikaruthehunter, you know the sexy writer that's like jesus... ANYWAY I had to get him to help me because I HAD NO FUCKING Idea where this was fucking going... WITH LOVE, SNAKE
'I fucking hate mornings, and the sun' Were the first thoughts that had streamed through Naruto's aching head, apparently there is a limit to how much abuse a body can take in one night. He sighed after realizing that the sun wasn't going to go away, even if he rolled over to get it from his eyes he could feel it burning a hole into his back like a heat ray. Which was a situation Naruto really didn't feel comfortable sleeping through, so he rolled onto his back once more to get a good look at where he'd passed out. Which was most certainly not the alley he'd been hoping to pass out in again. He could tell by the feel of the material under him that he wasn't even in his own home, which is when he began to panic. The blonde jolted up into a perfect ninety degree angle, making the small,blue hand-knit blanket pool down to his waist, which wasn't even covered in his clothes. 'Now things are just getting weird' He mentally mumbled, as he looked down at the clean, yet obviously slept in shirt. A yawn drove out of his freeway of a throat, which was the perfect time to stretch, considering in Naruto's mind, stretching while yawning was like the only bliss the morning could offer, besides coffee; and donuts.
He absently licked his lips hungrily at the thought of the deep fried dough on his lips. Finally down to the last thing on his list before he could remove himself from the confines of sleep he rubbed his eyelids, clamping them shut as to not get any of the mysterious stuff that had accumulated the night before inside his bagged eyes. Finally deeming himself ready enough to face the day just long enough to get to the bathroom, to actually get ready to face the day. He removed the soft and thick blanket that had piled on top of him like mud and slugged his legs over the edge of the cushion slightly nervous about his whereabouts by the lack of creaking his weight distribution normally caused. He opened his eyes, realizing since he didn't know where he was he probably shouldn't wonder blindly with his eyes closed. Dark blue irises roamed the room, taking in all the unknown details of his surroundings.
"Hello?" He called out, still sort of whispering but still loud enough for someone to hear them from across the room. Nothing but a faint dripping sound, probably from a leaky pipe or rain off the roof. He paid it no mind as he continued to explore the room he was in without alerting anyone. He looked over expensive vases and copies of famous pictures that covered the walls, but no family portraits nothing to tell him where he was other than the view from the window. Which he decided to investigate to make sure he wasn't in a paralle universe or something. He glanced oddly at the reflection the morning sun had caused on the window, the copy of himself that stood flat and mirrored his movements looked as tired as he felt. Naruto felt the urge to yawn again at the sight as if it were a very boring book, but decided to hold it down-for now at least- he continued to walk towards the window. He pushed his hands against the expanse of glass and looked down at the world where he'd grown up. "Okay, well it's not an episode of the twilight zone" He mused, only to wonder it the world he was seeing was only a copy of the things he knew. Another thing that was occupying his mind was why the hell was he up so high, he felt like he was on a Ferris wheel that was way to high for comfort. It felt as if he could feel the wind rocking the building he was in, a very nauseating experience. He decided that looking out the window was no longer a thing he should do right now at the risk of vomiting over the expensive couch that he had climbed over to get to the window.
Feeling relieved at losing the feeling that the room he was in might topple over at any moment, he decided to explore the rest of the room.
After looking for a good half hour, he decided it was hopeless, plus he was too scared to go into the rooms down the hallway at the risk of getting caught, and the police being called even though it wasn't his fault that he was where he was now. He sat back down on the couch where he'd woken up and looked over at the television attached on the wall above the fireplace's mantle. He gawked at the size of the darkened screen for a moment, deciding whether or not to take it for a little test drive. But ultimately decided against it. He sighed, bored of being alone in the deafening silence of the room. Naruto decided to stop the annoying and mysterious ringing in his ears by humming a small tune, not only did it keep the ringing at bay it also let him lose himself inside his thoughts, digging into what had caused him to be where he was. Being lost in thought, he didn't catch the question that was spoke from across the room. Until it was repeated again, closer than the last time. His eyes, which had ominously closed by themselves switched open and was caught with an eye full of blinding sunlight that reflecting off of almost every object in the room. The person taking quick notice of his reaction, laughed softly after adding a comment about the sun.
He blinked a few times, waiting for the blurs and eye blinding light to be translucent enough to see through. He finally noticed the dark woman that was standing in front of him, dressed lightly in a tall white sleeping gown that covered almost all of her body, one arm was tucked at her hip holding a stuffed grizzily bear, In the other hand was a coffee cup made of white china. She handed it towards him, the polite smile never leaving her aged face. "You slept pretty hard last night, you okay?" She asked, her accent foreign to Naruto's ears. He nodded around the cup he was sniffing. "I guess a nice dinner and shower can do that to people, when's the last time you ate? You look like a string bean child!" She commented, getting more awake as her sentences continued. Naruto rolled his tongue over his teeth, thinking about answering her question honestly. "Thanks for that" He replied, trying to get off of the subject.
"So what happened last night?" He asked, all he knew was apparently he fell asleep after dinner and a shower, which sort of explained why he was in somebody else's clothes, but this was a woman, not a man, and he was wearing Men's clothing so obviously there was more to this than he'd expected. "Well, after you brought that dog in that you said led you here, you ate, showered and slept" She stated, counting the activities on her fingers. He nodded, at least he didn't do something stupid, other than letting a dog guide him home that is. That's when it clicked, he'd let a dog lead him to Kiba's place. "Huh" He said aloud at his discovery. He'd always figured that Kiba's family would have more... taste. He shrugged it off and looked back at the dark woman in front of him, still holding her bear in between her arm, staring at him like she was studying for a test. Surely this couldn't be Kiba's mom, he thought to himself. "So, I take it your one of Kiba's friends?" She asked, looking him over still. Naruto shook his head, his now clean blonde falling slightly from its tucked position. "So you wouldn't know that he doesn't actually have a dog correct?" He stared at her blankly, how was he supposed to know that Kiba didn't have a dog. Stupid animal led him here and now he was in trouble. "So why did you let us in then, if he didn't have a dog?" She shrugged in response. "You looked like you could use a good meal, I've seen you in those alleys, thought I'd be helpful" He nodded, and shot a small smile at her, she was obviously a kind woman, even to complete strangers that had brought home a dog that wasn't theirs. "So where is the little mutt?" He asked, his smile larger. She flipped her head in the direction of the hallway she'd appeared from, "First room on the right" She added, giving the blonde a better sense of direction.
He started down the hallway, his feet making weird squishing noises on the thick, deep dark red carpet, like stepping on pillows. He'd been mesmerized by the sound that he didn't even realize he'd made it to the first door on the right until he'd practically hit his head on the open door. He scoffed at the door like it was the one being rude before leaning on the door's frame. He smiled fondly at the familiar black and gray dog, that looked almost like a wolf. The canine was sleeping on the bed, under the covers with his muzzle snorting doggy juices on the pillow along with drool. Not the most attractive thing for a dog, or anybody for that matter to be doing but it was kind of adorable at the same time. Naruto walked towards the mass in the bed and snuggled up to it, absorbing the musky dog scent like air. The dog, in a panic of being squished to death no doubt woke up with a jolt and stared at Naruto with wide dark eyes. He smiled down at the dog, who had a a terrible case of bed...fur. Naruto absently started to comb down the thin, smooth hairs that defied gravity as he looked over the dogs image. It looked like a dog Kiba would have, flashy and nice looking. Did he just call Kiba nice looking? He shrugged it off, this was just a dog, a dog what would be Kiba had he been a dog Naruto mused.
"Wanna go to the park?" He asked in the dog's face, using a cute voice he didn't know he had until he'd used it. The dog just looked at him, also questioning the voice he'd used. He was a dog not a baby, Naruto told himself. "Then let's go!" He yelled anyway, not caring if the dog was shaking his head no or not. Naruto could tell the dog was following him, even without looking behind him, The constant light thumping on the squishy carpet gave it away.
Naruto walked up to the front door that he'd found earlier, he looked over his shoulder at the dark woman who appeared to be sleeping while listening to Animal Planet's commentary on nature. The blonde snickered to himself, he looked down at the dog "She really likes bears doesn't she?" The dog nodded several times in agreement, which made Naruto smile, even though he was indeed slightly weirded out that a dog could actually understand him. He looked back at the woman on the couch "I guess I'll get out of your hair" He said quietly, but loudly enough for the semi-unconscious woman to hear him. She waved her arm in front of her face, like swatting a fly for a signal of her goodbye. Naruto tried to open the door by turning the knob, but there was too much resistance to open it fully. After unlocking a series of worn down silver locks and chains the door was finally open for both Naruto and the dog.
A quarter of a mile later they ended up at an packed park filled with joggers that were running around a circle made of blacktop, Naruto looked at the series of playgrounds also filled, but with children begging to be pushed higher on the swings that they were rocking back and forth on. Naruto sighed, Kiba thought the blonde looked rather downcast, but obviously couldn't inquire on it. So he followed Naruto who appeared to be falling into the creepy synchronized pattern of the joggers on the blacktop. Kiba followed as closely as he could until they were both fast walking like the rest of the others.
This went on for some time, until Naruto randomly decide to sit on one of the previously abandoned benches that had recently held the weight of pregnant mothers that were watching their children whilst catching up with friends over the phone. Naruto continued to stare blankly at the swing set, a downcast glint was set in his eyes only noticeable to those who truly looked like Kiba was doing right now. Obviously annoyed with the fact that the blonde wanted to swing yet did not do so. So doing the only thing a person under a love curse could do, he gripped Naruto's baggy pant leg in between his teeth and began to haul him over to where he could finally stop staring at the playground without ripping his eyes out of his head. The blonde was shocked to be pulled out of his staring contest with the metal bars by suddenly being on his back, losing the contest and starting another with the sky. He jolted back up, like he did when he woke up this morning. He looked down at the dog, who met eyes with him, still tugging on his borrowed pants. He pulled a glare at the dog, who did a doggy smile through a mouth full of pants.
"Need to take a poop or something?" Naruto watched as the dog's eyes rolled in their sockets. "You should really learn to talk" The blonde advised as he started to get up, which resulted in the dog let go of his jeans. As soon as he had fully stood up the dog began walking off, right where his eyes were planted moments ago. He followed hesitantly until he was right out of the gravel filled box. Staring down at the dog awkwardly, Who was moving his head back and forth between the swings and the blonde, practically begging for him to go and have fun. But the blonde just sat there, rubbing the inside of his elbow with his hand awkwardly. "We should probably go... It's getting late" the excuse was really stupid in Kiba's opinion, considering it wasn't even noon according to the suns angle in the sky. "I mean I'm late silly" He explained further for the canine, obviously knowing that the dog was judging him mentally for being stupid since it wasn't late at all.
The used to be human dog, wanted to know what could the guy possibly be late for when he was the one wasting time by staring at a swing set, but since he was unable to talk he followed the blonde was he cut through the grass until he was back on the sidewalk. Walking in the same direction they had came from. They had jogged all the way back to Kiba's apartment building, but instead of going inside the twin doors that were set in between two stone columns, they were walking across the street where they had ran into each other last night. The couple continued down memory lane, more of an alley, until Naruto stopped in front a rustic looking door that was hidden behind the half way descended fire escape ladder. "Usually I would use the ladder, but I don't think you can climb so stairs it is" Naruto mused as he opened the door for both the dark dog and himself and closing it like it had been. They found themselves in a medium sized room, a door on the right wall led to the streets, the windows on either side of the door covered in burnt out Neon signs. Kiba had wondered for a moment why they hadn't just come through the front door instead of wasting his precious time going around the block, he just ignored it as the blonde being insane, and it was hard to think and walk up stairs when you're a dog.
"We have to be quiet my dad is probably still asleep" Naruto not so quietly whispered as he turned himself around a wooden pole to protect people from falling in between ten flights of stairs. Heights didn't seem to bother Kiba as much as they seemed to bother Naruto, who all but glued himself to the opposite wall of the rails. They finally ended up on the top floor, since there was no staircases to be seen. Naruto just walked right in like he owned the place, which he probably did to some extent since the waft of the room that filtered into Kiba's nose smelled almost entirely like the man he was traveling with.
Naruto turned into what seemed like a kitchen buried under dirty dishes and half smoked cigarettes. "Remind me to clean this after work, kay?" the blonde smiled down at the sour faced dog, who had yet to stop the habit of rolling his eyes at the blonde whenever he tried to lighten the awkward funk and silence they were constantly found in. But after his little sarcastic and murderous rant Kiba had realized that the blonde had said work. Which made him scoff, but only came out like a retarded doggy sneeze, which made Naruto look at him with a smile one would use with babies. Only making Kiba's irritation greater, he wasn't cute. He was hot, with a capital all of it. After the blonde had rummaged though piles of discarded meals and various other things that only made Kiba's nose cringe. The blonde held a small silver key in between his thumb and index finger. "Found it!" he yelled with creepy amounts of glee, the glee had faded into what seemed like terror as he slapped a hand over his mouth and looked around the room suspiciously. After the ghost had apparently been cleared Naruto smiled down at the dog "Time to open up shop" He whispered behind his hand.
Naruto exited the apartment, without even locking the door, it seemed really weird for Kiba but found himself finding a lot of things weird lately. So he didn't question it, not that he could. Their roles seemed to reverse on the way back down the stairs, Naruto was whipping himself around on the poles and was practically racing down the stairs, all the while Kiba was slowly avoiding falling on his face from the lack of four-legged balance. Even though it took quite a while Naruto waited at the bottom of the stair case for him. The blonde shot him a playful smile and went to the front door and unlocked it after flipping the switch on the multiple neon lights telling the world that they were open. A few meager customers began to come quietly through the door, they handing things to Naruto who bagged the items before telling them to have a nice day. From the items that flew from the racks and onto the counter Kiba could assume the store they were in was some sort of computer shack or a technology center. He lay lazily behind the counter while the blonde typed on the plastic cash register every few minutes and greeted the customers.
After what seemed like a decade of agony the room went dark and neon lights went out, Naruto looked down at the nameless dog who was slumbering behind the counter. "Hey Naru" An unknown voice broke Kiba from his dreams of being anywhere but where he was now. He looked up at the man who came from the door where the stair case was, the man didn't seem to notice him as he had his cobalt eyes glued to Naruto like he was the last slice of pie. "Hey How've you been son! Oh my gosh! I'd really like some tacos!" the man stated, Kiba thought the man's voice sounded a little bit too happy for someone who only wanted Mexican food. "Yeah sure" Naruto sounded annoyed, probably from the way he was jiggling with locks was the source. Once the bolt finally turned he walked over to the man and smiled at him. "I love you dad" He smiled. That's when it clicked in Kiba's head again. Love was the key over this catastrophe. He padded his way over to the two blondes, finally noticing the similarities of them both when they were standing next to each other. "Oh who's this little guy!?" The taller blonde stated with the same creepy glee he talked about tacos with.
"Well I thought it was Kiba's dog, cause he led me to Kiba's house last night but then it turns out Kiba doesn't have a dog.. So I was wondering if... like.." He trailed off. "Can we keep him!" The other man yell asked in place of Naruto which made the shorter blonde raise his brows in shock. "Well I'm gonna go get tacos.. Be back in like fifteen minutes!" The man was about to walk out of the door he'd come through but quickly stopped before he reached the door way. The taller blonde ran past Naruto, to the station where Naruto and him had been for hours, he clicked a few buttons on the cash register to make the drawer open. He stuffed his hands in like they were a second pocket and grabbed what few wrinkled bills a days' work had gotten them. Naruto sighed, that aggressive aura floated around him like a cheap cologne. "Bye!" He yelled his goodbyes once again and left the dark room without another interruption Naruto, clenched his hands, he felt angry but looked as if he was about to bust out in a crying fit.
Another and Final long breath escaped Naruto's contracting neck, with a mood change that would make a bipolar person jealous the blonde looked down at Kiba who was staring at him with the most shocked expression a dog could muster. "I'll tell you up stairs" And he did, the blonde explained slowly, holding back hiccups and sobs- he was losing his edge- he talked about his father, how he 'Used' to be addicted to drugs, how they 'used' to be in a lot of debt. The blonde used air quotes around used, telling Kiba that the correct term would be 'Are in debt' but after the pounding of the word used into his brain Naruto decided to use the term, but his father couldn't stop his air quotes. Kiba felt for the first time in a long time, genuinely interested in something someone said other than himself, which was a shocking revelation, both that he could be a good listener and that that someone so Good could have so much Bad around him.
After their little heart to heart conversation, a one sided conversation at that, Naruto set on cleaning the kitchen. Where he'd discovered some of Naruto's father's other habits, which Naruto muttered about loudly as he scrubbed dried on food off of yellow speckled Linoleum that made it difficult to tell if the spots were stains or designs, after that was done the blonde set on sweeping all of the broken glass and accumulated dust and small things into the cracked, plastic dustpan that could really use an update. It was fascinating watching the blonde work in almost silence, the way he fluttered around the small area like a dancer. The grumbling had stopped Kiba had finally noticed, instead it had turned into an unknown tune that sounded like a tune Rose had sung once while she was cleaning, which made Kiba ask himself if there was a soundtrack for cleaning. As fast as Kiba's thoughts had flown by Naruto was done with the kitchen and was back to grumbling, while looking through the chipped wooden cupboards for something.
"I don't suppose dogs like frozen pizza right?" Naruto asked from on top of the counter. Kiba looked up with a bored expression, he nodded after finally realizing that Naruto had asked something. "So yes?" The dog nodded again, in turn Naruto jumped off the counter, making the various loose things on the surrounding counters shake. He walked over to the small white refrigerator and swung open the small door on top of the larger one. "Supreme... or supreme?" adding fake gagging sounds to express his displeasure, He grabbed one of the boxes from the smoky prison and shut the door again. He set on trying to get the frozen dough out of yet another prison, the only difference being this one was cardboard. After minutes of struggling, an almost ripped out tooth the frozen meal was on a pizza platter and was waiting to be cooked to an edible temperature.
Finding the kitchen a boring place to wait for food the blonde walked over to a brown fabric couch and flipped over the back, Kiba followed out of boredom and sat over Naruto's legs, head and paws over the blonde's thin calves. They spent the next twenty or so minutes watching a not so entertaining cartoon about cats and dogs, which still made Kiba's companion laugh even though he found the program less than amusing. The oven beeped in the back round, Naruto scooted his legs out from Kiba's body and flipped over the couch like he'd done earlier and was on his way to the oven. He pulled on two mix-matched oven mitts and opened the oven door to pull out the pizza.
It smelled amazing. The dark colored caning jumped over the arm of the couch and spattered across the wood below him right behind the blonde who was singing and shaking his hips as he started to cut the pizza with a wheel on a stick. Finding the pizza easy to rip into six pieces Naruto put the cutting wheel down on the stove top, away from the pizza, he grabbed two freshly cleaned plastic plates from the dish drainer next to the sink and stack a piece of the cooked dough on each plate. He set one on them on the floor before picking up his own plate and started to eat his slice.
The dog set one paw on the larger end of the pizza and started to nibble on the other end, trying to get the stretchy cheese to go down his throat. Naruto tried not to laugh at the dog's efforts but a snorted laugh escaped him, making the dog glare at him from the corner of his eye, still not taking his paw and mouth of the food as if it were going to run away if he didn't cut off the cheesy head. Naruto was very tempted to get a knife and cut the meal into bits, but was stopped by the stinging in his sides from holding down laughs and the fact that the dog was refusing to let him near it, telling the blonde that he could do it himself.
After a few minutes struggle Naruto let the dog have it his way, tired of getting a dog's rump in his face when he was trying to be helpful. The playful aura in the kitchen seemed to waft away like the good smell of fun was being pushed off by something wrong. Kiba looked up from his plate after a chill had run down his spine. He looked at Naruto, who had his eyes angrily set on the large analog clock that was nailed on the wall next to the fridge. That's when he realized it, as if reading Naruto's angered and worried thoughts. It was past the fifteen minutes that Naruto's dad said he was going to be gone. "Probably getting high" Naruto sighed, he put his half eaten pizza plate on the counter. "I'm goin' to bed" He told the dog, who seemed to frown at him, trying to show sympathy in the dark brown orbs that were clashing with his.
Naruto walked away, his shoulders dragging slightly, he knew his father was going to be late it was a fact, but he still felt disappointed that he lied again. He walked past the bathroom and his father's room's doors and opened his own bedroom door. He jumped from the door onto his bed, he kicked off his shoes, shimmied out of his pants and snuggled under the covers ready to go to sleep. That is until a faint clicking echoed off of the walls. The door creaked open, Naruto flipped open one of his eyelids and looked at the dark dog who was standing there like a concerned parent which made Naruto smile. The dog walked in front of the bed and jumped on top of Naruto's legs again and rested his head down, looking down over Naruto. The two of them went into a comfortable warm slumber.
"Kiiibaa" An annoyingly familiar voice called into the darkness of Kiba's slumbering mind. "Kiiibaa" It called again. The darkness was filled with the smog like purple dust. Kiba gulped, knowing where this was going already. That's when she showed herself. "So Kiba, I might have been wrong about this" She explained, lounging over a purple velvet chair like a throne. "Well, actually, think of it as an... incentive" Her smirk widened evilly. "I could be wrong about you... You can be friendly" Kiba's eyes rose at that, incentive which meant reward. He really wanted to know what he was getting himself into, but Ino being Ino decided to take her sweet time, talking about random things about how a person can really change in certain circumstances.
The blonde had finally stopped talking when she noticed the dog was on the verge of falling asleep in his own dream. "And sometimes they can't" She said simply. "What's the reward you might ask?" The blonde asked, even though she already knew the answer, being able to read Kiba like a picture book. The dog nodded, "You'll find out when you wake up" She winked and within a moment the blonde was gone, the smoke had cleared and Kiba was left alone in his semi-awake semi-asleep mind.
A disturbing heat had woken Kiba up, the hallucinated experience percolated in his mind, with a gasp Kiba shot up in his bed. He looked over himself, he felt like yelling from the rooftops when he looked down at his free hand that wasn't holding up his weight, it was actually his hand. opposable thumb and tanned skin, he was a human again.
End of Chapter Four