A/N: I've actually written more for this than I thought. Don't worry! I'm still working my butt off on Shino's the Man. I haven't written very many one shots though.

Chapter Two

The girl looked around and her eyes fell on Kiba. "Where am I?" she asked, fear in her eyes.

"It's alright," Kiba said, trying to sound comforting. "I found you." He, once again, told the story of how he found her.

"Wh-who are you? And why am I here? Where…where is here?"

"My name is Kiba Inuzuka," he replied. "Like I said, I found you, so we took you to the hospital. You are in Hikari Hospital, in the town of Hikari."

"Hikari…isn't that…isn't that a town near Konoha?" she asked.

"Yup. I found you in the forest that separates Konoha and Hikari. Now, who are you?"

"My name is…Hinata Hyuuga. I-I live in Konoha," she said.

"We should probably get you home," Kiba said. "But not until you tell me what you were doing in the forest."

Her eyes flew open and she shouted, "Home? No!" She then blushed and said softly, "I'm sorry. I was in the forest because…I was…running from something…but…what? I…I can't remember…"

He cocked his head. "Running? And why are you so afraid of going home?"

Hinata looked down and said, "I shouldn't tell you but…I owe you…my dad likes my little sister more than me and…my older cousin…he hits me and he's not very nice."

"I don't know what we're supposed to do about that, but my mom's coming soon and we can ask her. Maybe she can help us out and even keep you away from this evil cousin," said Kiba.

"N-Neji's not evil," she said quickly.

"So his name's Neji, huh?" He took this opportunity to look at her a little more. She had white eyes and he noticed a bruise on her cheek. Even with this bruise, he couldn't deny that she was a really pretty girl. He instantly blushed.

He wished Tsume and Hana would hurry up and get there so he wouldn't have to spend so much time alone with this girl.

~X~

When Tsume did show up, it was without Hana who had offered to help the Naras with something at the store.

"Hello," Tsume said when she met Hinata, "my name is Tsume. I'm Kiba's mom."

They went through the introduction and Kiba and Hinata explained her family situation to a thoughtful Tsume and then to Tsunade.

"Hmm," Tsunade said, tapping her chin. "This is all very interesting. I'm not really sure what we're supposed to do about Hinata. But until I can come up with something, I'm thinking she stays with you, Tsume."

"We'd be more than happy to let you stay with us," Tsume said, smiling at Hinata.

"Th-thank you…" Hinata said softly.

~X~

Hinata stayed in the guest room and the next morning, Tsunade came to tell them all what she had thought up.

"Seeing as we could be hurting her by send her back, I think she should stay here for a while, or at least until she's completely well and can remember what she was running from," Tsunade said. "What do you think, Hinata?"

"I…I really want to stay!" the white eyed girl said.

"Then that settles that," said Tsunade. "I'll enroll you in the school so you can start on Monday. You seem kind of hurt, but I don't think it's so serious that you can't still get an education."

"Yes, thank you," Hinata said.

~X~

The next morning, Hana told Kiba that Hinata needed to make some friends. That was how Kiba ended up taking Hinata around to meet the other people in town. The first place he thought of was the Nara's store where Ino and Shikamaru were usually found.

"Oh, please tell me you're going to buy some flowers," Ino said. "It's been so boring." Then she noticed Hinata. "Huh? Whose this?"

"Her name's Hinata. If you can get all of our friends in here, I'll explain," Kiba replied.

"Can do!" Ino said. "I'll tell Shikamaru and Chouji-he's over here now- and I'll call Sakura and tell her to call Naruto and Tenten."

"Alright! Come on, Hinata," he said and pulled the girl along. He could get Temari and her brothers just by telling one and he could also needed to get Shino.

He went straight to Shino's house and picked up the phone without permission. By now, Shino was used to his best friend doing these kinds of things.

"Hello?"

"Temari? It's Kiba. You, Kankuro, and Gaara need to meet in the flower shop in the store."

"Kiba," Shino said, "You want to tell me what's going on? And why this strange girl is in my house?"

"Not time," Kiba replied. "Let's just got to the store!" And he drug Hinata and Shino all the way there.

~X~

Soon they were all together. All focus was on Kiba and this girl that none of them had ever seen before in their lives.

"This," Kiba said, "is Hinata." He told her story, starting with her family, leasing up to the day before in the hospital.

"Hello," Hinata said, looking down. Everyone welcomed her. To them, this was the most exciting thing that had ever happened in Hikari.

~X~

That night, Hinata couldn't sleep. The next day she would be going to a school she knew nothing about with people she had just met. She didn't know anyone except Kiba and Hana, and Hana didn't even still go to Hikari school. She had failed her college tests and had decided to help out at home until she could get a job at the Nara's store.

He felt kind of guilty, not going back home and all, but she knew she had to have been running from danger and her family would never miss her. Hiashi would rather have only Hanabi and completely forget about her. Neji might miss having someone to pick on but he'd get over it. Hinata Hyuuga would rather stay in Hikari with Kiba forever.

Kiba…he was one of the nicest people she had ever met. Not that she had known anyone outside of her family besides the Uchihas, a family that was about as high in society at the Hyuugas. Sasuke had been Neji's best friend, automatically making him an enemy to Hinata.

She turned over and stared out the window. How did she get here? Why was she here? It was paining her to try to remember and she coughed lightly. She tried hard, but nothing came to her. When she concentrated too hard, she got a headache.

It wasn't as if she had no memory of her life. She just didn't know anything about that day and how she had ended up passed out in the forest that separated Hikari and Konoha.

~X~

After an almost sleepless night for both, Hinata and Kiba got up to go to school. Tsume had gotten all of Hinata's school supplies and put it in a backpack.

Everyone knew about this girl and everyone had met her. At least, all of the high school had, so she wouldn't hear whispers of, "Whose that?" when she first entered Hikari school's high school wing.

Hinata had a lot of questions, but she didn't ask a single one. It would be better just to let Kiba show her around and follow him until she had her own friends and could follow them around instead. Not that she didn't like Kiba. He was one of the nicest people in the whole world, she had decided. She felt kind of strange thinking about him this way, but didn't let it bother her.

She never could have guessed what was going to happen between her and Kiba Inuzuka.

A/N: I'm already having issues writing this, but I know how I'm going to end it, so I'm only having trouble with the events that lead up to the ending.