Disclaimer - I DON'T OWN NARUTO!

(WARNING! This is rated M for CURSING, BLOOD and sexual references. Also it's a sour chapter...)

Chapter 10 - 'What the fuck have you done Kiba?'

"We should go home. There's no point do this kind of work tired," Kankuro said to Kaoru. The girl was focused in a pile of opened scrolls. Of course the pile was completely organized. Compared to his side of the desk, Kaoru's side was really neat.

"I'm not even sure if there's a point of doing this," Kaoru replying, before kicking herself mentally because she just complained about a mission, especially to a "superior". She should know better, she knew she had to put her feelings aside in matters like missions. Especially in front of another shinobi. She should not complain!

"Why do you think that?" the puppet master asked.

"Well... I don't think this jutsu can be undone. And even if it could be, the user would probably lose his life."

"Can't you do anything about it? Like trick the Death God(1) or something."

"Trick the Death God?" Kaoru asked, with an eyebrow up. Her face clearly showing pure shock.

"For Kami's sake Kaoru was just an idea..." Kankuro said annoyed by the girl's reaction. She didn't need to react like that...

"A brilliant idea!"

"Whatev- wait what?" Kankuro was surprised. Was she mocking him?

"That's brilliant. If we could find a way to substitute the user's soul by something else, maybe we can actually do this without sacrificing anyone!" she looked through the window thoughtful. Kaoru seemed so serene when she was thinking. Her blue eyes, almost on fire, with the gold of the sunset hitting them.

'That's it Kankuro, no more thinking about Kaoru. She doesn't like you, and this is all a waste of time.'

There was no way he would give in to that girl. She detested him, and ignored him, since the Academy days. There was nothing good about her. Maybe she looked cute with her hair looking so natural like that, but that's it. She wasn't even fun. There was no way Kankuro would continue this crap. He was Kankuro, one of the most scary and mean shinobis from Suna, the brother of the Kazekage, the puppeteer prodigy that went after two Akatsuki members alone and managed to survive. He was Kankuro the guy that hated kids, and immature people, he was the guy that hated being underestimated. Yes, he was someone big and important in Suna, Kaoru was nothing compared to him, had no power towards him. He couldn't let himself continue with such thoughts.

His thought process was interrupted by a knock on the door, Tsunade opened it.

"It's late you can go to Kiba's now. Tomorrow you can't come, there will be an important meeting, so no outer shinobis will be allowed in the building. See you after tomorrow."

Kaoru and Kankuro left the Hokage building without saying anything, both with different reasons.

Kankuro because of his decision to not "giving in" to Kaoru, and the kunoichi because she couldn't stop thinking about the mission.

Her thoughts focused on the little things about that kinjutsu(2), the missing details that she couldn't find answers, no matter how much she thought about them. She was stressing about it, and with reason. Kaoru was smart enough to know that was nearly impossible to undo that jutsu.

And she didn't even wanted to think about the second part of the mission.

As she walk at the, now, dark streets of Konoha, Kaoru noticed something, and stopped. She looked at Kankuro. Her eyes were focused at his scrolls in his back.

'What the...'

Kankuro realized he was walking alone. He looked back and saw Kaoru glaring.

"What?" the puppeteer asked.

"Didn't your puppets got destroyed by Sasori?"

"So?"

"What do you have in those scrolls?" Kaoru asked feeling a bit stupid for not noticing it earlier.

"I have more puppets you know? Than the ones Sasori destroyed, even though they were my favorites...", he said almost offended by the question.

"Hmm... okay."

They both kept walking in silence, the streets were mute compared to the day. It seemed like Konoha's nightlife was almost nonexistent. After half an hour of walking, both shinobis realized, something was wrong. From Kiba's house, to the Hokage mansion, it took about twenty minutes walking. The more they walked the bigger the tension grew, none of them wanted to speak what they were thinking. That, because the first one to admit the terrible situation they were in, was going to show weakness. And as they grew up competing with each other in every aspect related to the capacities of a shinobi, they would never admit something as simple as the fact they didn't know where Kiba's house was. Yes, they were completely lost.

As they kept walking towards god knows where, Kaoru started to get impatient. Konoha was so different at night, it was hard to recognize the streets. After 15 more minutes of walking, they passed through the same street they did almost half an hour before.

"Kaoru I'm not sure your purple head noticed but we are lost," Kankuro said trying to sound as apathetic as possible.

"We? I've been following you!" Kaoru said angry, there was no way she would be blamed for this.

"What? I'm the one following you!" he said with a slight louder tone.

"Don't runaway from your flaws! You do anything to not get blame for your incompetence!" Kaoru said louder. She didn't mean to be so mean, but the words just slipped out of her mouth. Against Kankuro she would always be less controlled. He knew how to drive her mad, and she fell for it every single time.

"What the fuck? If you are so good compared to me then why didn't you tell that we were lost in the first place? You are the one that runs away every time something bad happens. How many times did I saved your ass in missions? You can't do anything alone!"

"Why the heck did you come up with that? As I remember clearly I also saved your.. butt plenty of times. What you did was just what any other shinobi would do. Don't make yourself look bigger than you are. You are not that great!", Kaoru also knew how to hit him where it hurt most, his big ego.

'Don't make me say it...'

Kankuro clenched his fist, he wouldn't hurt the girl, but he sure wanted to scare her, he punched the wooden wall nearby, and the wood cracked around his fist. Kaoru remained in her place, with her emotionless face. That lack of emotion that the puppeteer hated more than anything. He tried to calm himself, he had to think carefully, before exposing reckless words he may regretted later. But he wouldn't dare to let her have the final word. He calmed down, and Kaoru notice the change in his eyes, something was about to happen and she knew she was not going to like it.

"And who the hell are you to tell me what should I do or not? I'm the head of the puppet's corp in Suna, the brother and right hand of the Kazekage, how dare you to not acknowledge me as great?" he said with a cold calm voice.

Kaoru wasn't intimidate by him, but his dark voice sent shivers through her spine.

"Acknowledge what? That you almost got killed by a greater puppeteer than you will ever be? The fact he died less than a week after and it was not by your hands? That you are YOUR BROTHER's right hand? Kankuro-dono grow up a bit will you, everybody knows that you stand where you are now, because your brother pulled some strings. You are in his shadow and you will always be. You are his little puppet," Kaoru said with her emotionless voice. Those words sounded like daggers filled with poison.

'I said it...'

Kankuro's mind burst, being called a puppet was way out of line, but being called his brother's puppet was something he couldn't forgive.

"You have a lot of nerve... calling me a puppet..." Kankuro's voice was low and shaky, Kaoru got the impression it was the calm before the storm. "You say Gaara pulled some strings for me to be where I am, but what about you? You are... YOU ARE A FUCKING HYPOCRITE! You are just where you are, just a Jonin because your father pleaded to Gaara. No one even knows you're name in Suna, your just the daughter of a hero. If it wasn't for Kurokaze-sama, you wouldn't have even become a kunoichi. You say I will always be in my brother's shadow? Well, you will always live in your father's, and frankly you disgrace his name. You are just a little piece of shit compared to him." the moment Kankuro spoke these words, he regret it. Kaoru didn't say anything. He knew he crossed the line.

'Now go, useless piece of shit.' She remembered the last thing her father said before coming to Konoha. She couldn't retaliate Kankuro's words. It was true, what he said- what both said. She would always be in her father's shadow. 'You disgrace his name', the puppet master said. How could she be so careless and act towards Kankuro like he was equal to her, like he was in the same level? He was a sand shinobi, they were cruel and harsh towards weaklings. They were intolerant and punished failure. They were emotionless, not the way Kaoru pretended to be but truly cold. Their hearts were trained to not feel anything.

'You are just a little piece of shit.'

If her word were like daggers filled with poison, his were a big double edge sword on fire. And it pierced her right through her heart and through her soul, burning every last bit of happiness and joy she barely had. She couldn't look at the puppeteer anymore, if she would so, she'd break down right in that spot. In that cold and filthy looking street.

Those large wood buildings around looked like gigantic black mountains, monstrosities that drained all the light provided by the small crescent moon.

Kaoru couldn't breathe properly, her mind hurt, and her body ache. The cuts in her back seemed to awaken by the puppeteer's evil speech. Kaoru was used to this, used to be treated like crap, to be called shit or whore or even worst. But why she was so affected by this now? Why her heart cried and screamed for relief, for comfort? Why Kankuro's voice, and his eyes glaring her hurt so much?

"Kaoru-chan!"

A voice came like the light in the end of the tunnel. The first breath after being under water for so long. Kaoru looked at the end of the streets and saw her light. And she realized why it hurt so much, when looking at the younger boy coming. Kiba gave her a taste of goodness and happiness. He showed her that she wasn't a piece of shit, that she was someone important. He treated her like a real person, like she was equal to him. Kiba was the warm in her cold world. He was the heat, the sun, the light... He was her escape. Even if was just a kiss or a hug, or simply welcoming words. His actions meant the world to her.

Kaoru moved towards the dog boy, and when she reached him she put her arms around his neck. She pulled him in to a passionate kiss, and he happily kissed back grabbing gently her waist. It didn't matter the pain in her back, or if he slightly made some pressure in her back wounds. That kiss was her way to escape reality, her way to feel something besides pain.

Kankuro watched the two shinobis kissing. It was the first time he actually saw them kissing. The first time, he heard them talk, and then he quickly saw them locking lips, but not like this. In the first kiss, they were not so hungry or lewd.

The puppet lover sighed sadly, and he could only conclude that his decision to bury everything was the best way to escape this mess.

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Kiba's house was way far from where they had been before, but thanks to the dog boy himself, they reached his place in no time.

When they arrived, Kaoru noticed three grey dogs in the yard. Kiba had told them in the way that his sister Hana was home.

A wonderful smell came from inside the house, when they walked in, Kiba pulled Kaoru to the kitchen. The sand kunoichi saw the other girl. She had some similarities with her brother, like the red tattooed fangs in her cheeks, but she didn't seem so wild. The Konoha vet looked at the sand shinobi and warmly smiled.

"Hey you found them," she said.

"Yeah they were lost... go figure," Kiba joked, "Well this is my sister Hana, and this Kaoru-chan. I think you remember Kankuro for that time he saved me from the evil twins."

"Ah yes, I remember!"

The Inuzuka brothers talked a lot during dinner, Kaoru remained silent and only talked when Hana asked her something. Kankuro was also in silence. The tension between the Suna nins was undeniably awkward. But neither of the dog lovers, wanted to ask about it.

"So Kiba, I'm going in a mission tomorrow early and I will only come next day. I'm not going to be in the village, so you will be alone. Mom will come in the end of the week. So you have to take care of the house and our guests," Hana said.

"I know, that's what I've done the last days," Kiba answered.

After dinner, Kaoru offered herself to help Hana in cleaning. To her pleasure the Konoha kunoichi didn't ask her about her seals, she was indifferent to it.

Kankuro disappeared into Kiba's room, and Kiba walked the dogs.

"Kiba cares about you," Hana said while passing the wet cleaned dishes to Kaoru, who was drying them, "He rarely cares about someone else besides himself. Especially someone from another village."

"I care about him too, he's really nice to me," Kaoru replied, trying not to blush. She couldn't tell his sister she had feelings towards him, she only met him 3 days ago. It would sound to childish and not shinobi-ish at all.

"He's a rough boy, so don't get offended if he does something... impolite. Still, you better settle boundaries. He is a teenager you know?" the Inuzuka said laughing.

"Yes, I understand," Kaoru laughed too. That was one thing Hana didn't have to worry, Kaoru would never give her body to the dog boy. She was too embarrassed of herself to do it.

Even though, next day she didn't have to work on her mission, Kaoru wanted to sleep. That day was too exhausting. Kankuro was right, the mission was mentally tiring.

'Kankuro...'

Kaoru thought about the puppet master. The small tie she had with him, was now permanently gone...

She took a warm bath, and changed her bandages. She couldn't really know how they were progressing, because the wounds were looking strange. The cuts were now a purplish blue color, but it was the same color of the ointment Sakura made her buy. The stab wound was however, looking badly infected. She cleaned it the best she could, because of the pain and the angle of the wound. Then put her pajamas on and went to her room.

When she arrived, she saw Kiba lying in her bed. He was shirtless, and with his arms behind his head, exposing his upper muscles. Kaoru gasped at the sight. Kiba was so hot.

Trying to not show her thoughts in her features, Kaoru dried her hair with the towel, then threw it (neatly) in the back of the chair. She then started to comb her hair slowly. Kiba watched carefully every movement she did. He loved how she acted, every movement was graceful. After being done with it. Kaoru glanced the boy in her bed. And as if her body was controlling her, instead of her mind, she crawled in the bed next to the boy. She sat right in next to him. He immediately grabbed her wet hair and pulled her head to him. He kissed her lips furiously. His free hand caressing her neck.

Kaoru felt a tingling sensation inside her. That kind of contact was so powerful, so addictive.

Unconsciously she laid on top of the dog boy, her hand resting in his bare chest. His arms wrapped around her, making her moan in pain. The boy stopped.

"Is everything okay?" he asked concerned. Kaoru nodded and laid next to him. He turned around to face her. His eyes still worried about the sudden hiss. Kaoru crashed her lips on his, making the boy forget about what happened a second before. The kunoichi's hands traveled his arms, his skin felt amazing in her nude hands. She continued exploring his skin, her hands touching his shoulders, collar-bone, his chest and tracing his muscles in his abs.

He moaned by her touch, those delicate hands were sending electric vibrations through his body and he could feel his pants starting to getting tight. Kiba slid one leg between the kunoichi's and with his hand he pulled her upper leg around him. Instinctively she wrapped her leg around his waist. Kaoru knew she had to stop what was happening before going to far, but it was harder than she thought. Kiba was now completely lost in the moment, he didn't care about anything else but the girl entwined with his body. He wanted that girl, no, he needed the girl.

A small knock on the door made them startled like they were doing something wrong. Full realization came to both shinobis as they blushed madly noticing how they were positioned.

Hana yelled across the door.

"Kiba! Akamaru wants to come in. Get out of there, you are not gonna spend the night over there!"

Both shinobis smiled at each other. Kiba kissed the kunoichi once again.

"'Night" he whispered.

"Goodnight," Kaoru replied while watching Kiba leaving and letting Akamaru in. As she put the blankets over her body, Kaoru couldn't help but smile.

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The amazing smell of pancakes flowed through the house. Kaoru woke up and ran downstairs to enjoy that marvelous breakfast that waited for her. Akamaru followed her with the same excitement.

Kankuro was already there eating. He looked at the kunoichi and then looked down at his food, continuing to eat like she wasn't there. That attitude somehow made Kaoru feel bad. Kiba was at the counter preparing some tea. He noticed the girl and Akamaru, and he smiled.

"Good morning!" the girl said sitting down, and serving some pancakes to her plate.

"Good morning, babe," Kiba said, feeding his dog, "Slept well?", he asked looking at her.

"Oh yes! But wake up even better with this amazing smell!" she gave a big bite, and moaned with her eyes closed when eating the pancakes. Both boys stared at her, it was the most erotic sight they ever saw. And the sound she was making, was... let's say "pants tightening".

"Kiba-kun, I love your pancakes, I think they are my favorite thing to eat in the whole world!" she said eating. Kankuro smiled to himself.

"I'm glad you like them," Kiba said leaning forward and kissing her lips. The puppet master kept looking at his plate, suddenly he was not hungry anymore. He got up and put his plate on the sink. When he was about to leave.

"Oi Kankuro! What are you going to do today?" Kiba asked.

"We have the day off, I'm going to work on my puppets," he said.

"Don't you wanna do something. Like... I don't know we could go to the onsen. I think today is mixed bath day."

"Kiba-kun, there's no way I'm going to the onsen."

"Why not?" Kiba asked, Kaoru gave him an obvious glare.

"Okay, okay I get it... but I wanna do something, I feel like these past days I've done nothing... oh I know! Let's train!" Kiba said.

"Sure, fine by me," Kaoru responded.

"I'm gonna work on my puppets," the puppeteer repeated and then left.

"Jeez... he sure is moody when he wakes up," Kiba said.

"He's moody all day," Kaoru stated.

"That's what I'm realizing. Well, so we'll train, I heard your taijutsu is not that good."

"Kankuro-dono told you that?"

"Yeah..."

"He's so stupid... I can handle you Kiba-kun," she smirked.

Less than an hour later both shinobis were ready to fight, in the large yard behind Kiba's house.

"I'm not gonna use Akamaru, because he stubbornly doesn't want to fight you," he said giving an accusing glare to the dog. Akamaru whimpered and went to the corner of the yard, to watch the spar.

"Don't take me lightly. And don't bother using ninjutsu, it won't work on me," Kaoru said taking of a kunai from her back pooch.

"Okay, ready?" Kiba asked, the girl nodded, and in less than a second they started to fight. Kaoru was surprisingly faster than the dog boy thought. Kankuro made her look weaker than she was.

Kaoru mostly attacked Kiba and didn't want to stop the attack. Kiba thought seriously in using his clan's technique Shikyaku no Jutsu (Four legs technique), but the girl didn't give him the time to even perform a kawarimi for distraction. She was just too stubborn attacking nonstop. Then she suddenly stopped. It was the perfect chance now.

Kaoru stopped because her back hurt, it wasn't too bad, but she knew she was forcing her body into something that it couldn't bear. However stopping now, would be dangerous, because Kiba would ask a lot of questions. Speaking of the boy, she saw him across the yard concentrating his chackra. His features changed, his eyes got wilder, his fangs and nails grew, looking wilder. He smirked at her showing his big canines and ran towards her, but as he advanced his features started to fade away. Kaoru ran towards the confused boy.

"I told you, chackra doesn't work near me," she said attacking with her kunai. Kiba counter attacked with a kunai too.

"But... this is different, I'm not using in you," he said crossing kunais with the kunoichi.

"But you were using it against me..." she said, dodging down, as she did she felt a high pitch of pain. She was almost certain one of her wounds had reopened in her back. She lost concentration for a second and that was enough for Kiba to come from her back. Kaoru knew she had to stand up, but she couldn't.

Kiba saw his chance to attack she was distracted kneeling down on the floor, he ran towards her and hit her with the kunai, but instead of hearing the clash of metal, he heard a scream. He hit the girl right in her back, not only hit but he slashed her.

While trying to dodge the hit, Kaoru had wrongly turned around, so what would be a small cut turned to be a huge cut across her kidney area.

Kaoru fell completely on the floor. She could feel blood flowing out of her like a water tap. The pain was so unbearable she couldn't even see. Her sight started to turning black. Faintly she could hear the dog boy's voice.

"Kaoru! KAORU!"

The girl passed out. Kiba put his hand on top of the bleeding wound. There was so much blood, he was shaking.

"Kaoru! Wake up!" he panicked.

"KANKURO... KANKURO!" he screamed enough for the whole neighborhood to hear. In less than 30 second Kankuro appeared.

The puppet master gasped when he saw the horror in front of him.

Kiba was holding Kaoru, she was in her stomach, and with her back up. And there was blood everywhere. She was...dead?

"KIBA WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU DONE?" the puppeteer screamed, running to the girl. His heart racing in a hurtful speed. There was so much blood, he tensed up when he picked up her wrist and waited to feel her pulse. And he did felt it, weak, but she was still alive. He pressed his hand on the bleeding wound where Kiba's was.

"I-I... we were... f-fighting and she didn't dodge it... I-I..." Kiba was in complete shock.

Kankuro pulled the girl to move to the house, but the more he moved her, the more she bled. So he was only able to reach the porch of the house. Kiba was entirely speechless, until Akamaru barked, catching his attention.

"Akamaru go as faster as you can and bring Sakura or Ino or even Tsunade-sama, the closest one. GO NOW!" Kiba didn't have to repeat because the dog ran right away to find some help.

Kankuro cradled the fragile body of Kaoru. Kiba noticed how protective he was holding her like she was precious.

"I-I don't understand how my kunai made her bleed so much," Kiba said with his voice shaking.

Kankuro's hand pressed firmly in the wound, but it didn't seem enough he could barely see the wound, so he pulled her shirt up. He frowned when he saw the bandages. They were soaking in blood. Kiba watched intensively too. The cut Kiba made, cut through the bandages, and Kankuro started to take them off.

His eyes widened when he saw what was underneath, he slowly kept taking off the bandages with his free hand, the other was pressing the bleeding wound.

"What's... that?" Kiba asked incredulous.

"I don't know..." Kankuro whispered.

He only knew it was too fucked up.

To be continued...

(Notes- (1)- Death God a.k.a. shinigami, it's the being summoned in the Shiki Fujin. This is the jutsu, Sandaime used against Orochimaru, and the jutsu Yondaime used against the nine tailed fox, resulting in both Hokage's death.

(2)- Kinjutsu- Forbidden Jutsu)

Note: At the time I wrote this story there were no info about the Shiki Fujin, except what Sandaime told before he died. In the recent chapters, Orochimaru was able to "unseal" from the Death God seal. So please ignore the manga and recent plot and bear with the story's theory =) Thank you.