A/n Hello friends. Sorry I haven't updated lately. I've been busy as of late, and finally got a little free time so I decided I'll update. Hope you enjoy. -Bandie24x7.

So here I am. I just defeated the Genius of the Hidden Leaf. Now I'm laying in a hospital bed, with injuries from head to toe. I looked over at Akamaru and saw that he was beat up himself. I wanted to go watch the rest of the finals fights, but they refused to let me. Said that I was too injured. Dammit, I was gonna use the time to be around Hinata. I know they won't let her back here. Otherwise she'd already be back here, right? I laid back down on the bed and relaxed, I was gonna be here awhile. I wonder how the next match is going. It was Shikamaru going against that female ninja from the sand, what was her name... Temari?

Shikamaru stood in the center of the arena. Lazy as always. He didn't truly want to fight, especially against another female. He moved slowly examining the arena. He looked at Temari who was itching to fight. She was moving before the word "begin" even finished. She was a feisty one. Shikamaru was gonna have some trouble with this fight. He threw a kunai with a paper bomb connected to it, which she easily blew away with her fan. He waited until the very last second before leaping backwards. She pulled out her fan and with a quick flick sent a bullet of air towards him. He threw another Kunai and paper bomb under the bullet of air, then crossed his arms, preparing for the attack. The paper bomb went off before hitting the ground, causing the wind attack to stop and Temari to lose her guard. Shikamaru landed and with a quick handsign his shadow went creeping towards her. Right before their shadows connected she bounced away, shooting more bullets of air towards him. He dodged expertly. Shikamaru was a true tactical genius. He knew that an upfront attack wouldn't work. He had to trick her.

"As long as I watch the shadows, this fight is over," Temari said as she flicked her fan again.

Shikamaru nodded and dodged the air, "This is such a drag," he whispered under his breath as he threw more kunai, and pulled one for a physical attack.

More air blasts pushed the kunai back towards Shikamaru. He dodged them all, and threw down a flash bomb. The light nearly blinded everyone in the arena. He made a quick handsign and his shadow moved very quickly through the light. It reached Temari and with a smile, Shikamaru nodded.

"It's over," he said as the light vanished. The crowd grew deathly silent when they saw the shadow.

"Not quite," Temari said as a gust of wind came from behind Shikamaru and sent him flying towards her.

The jutsu canceled on contact, and he pulled his kunai preparing to strike. As he got closer, Temari closed her fan and swung at him. The two's weapons clashed expertly. Causing a loud clash to fill the stadium. The fan flew open sending Shikamaru to the ground. Temari began flicking wind at him very quickly. With each blast more and more blood would fly up from Shikamaru. He was forced into a small hole. He crawled out of the hole and looked at Temari. He smiled as a paper bomb went off underground. The small hole grew into a large crater. He dropped a few smoke bombs and hid in the smoke. Kunai flew from the smoke, there was at least twenty of them. Temari blew them away from her with the fan. Some went flying past her, and some quickly went into the arena walls. Shortly afterwords, she jumped up into the air sending more wind downwards. She barely dodged the shadow. Shikamaru got a look of disappointment, until Temari started to land. She landed perfectly in between several of the kunai. Shikamaru quickly tugged his left arm backwards, causing a wire to become visible. He started spinning his arm causing the wire to wrap around Temari expertly. When the kunai itself came near her face, she noticed it. There was a paper bomb connected to it. She was wrapped up and unable to move. She shouted something but was cut off but the explosion. She landed on her back, sliding across the ground and slid into the hole. Using the fan she saved herself at the last second. She tried to stand up, but the ground started falling around her. In a panic she stood and jumped. Shikamaru appeared above her smashing her back into the hole. When she landed the ground fell through and lead into a large hole that obviously had been dug out. Shikamaru stood at the mouth of the hole smiling.

"The smoke proved to be more useful than I at first expected!" He shouted down to the hole.

Temari's voice was muffled and no one besides Shikamaru could figure it out. He laughed as he dropped into his special pose. He jumped back from the hole with a backflip as a huge wave of wind flew out of the hole, creating a small tornado. Everyone in the crowd was amazed. Temari came up slowly standing on her fan, using the tornado to lift herself out of the hole.

"Now, shadow boy. I will kill you!" She shouted as she grabbed the fan from under her and with a flick the tornado started heading towards Shikamaru.

Shikamaru tried to dodge but the wind sucked him into it, and slammed him against the wall. He fell with is back to the wall. He bowed his head and spit up blood. There was a slight indent on the wall from where he was slammed into it. He made a quick handsign and a shadow shot out of the hole grabbing Temari. He stood up, blood coming from his mouth and his head bobbing from exhaustion. The shadow picked Temari up and lifted her off the ground, then slammed her into it. Afterwords the shadow vanished and Shikamaru raised his hand.

"I quit. I'm out of chakra," He said walking towards the exit. Temari stood up and just looked at him in surprise.

"Winner. Temari!" The proctor said as Shikamaru continued back to the spot he was in.

I laughed. I looked over at Akamaru his tail was wagging. "Knowing Shikamaru he'd probably just give up, right boy?" I asked as I laid back down. I heard the cheering from the stadium and heard "Winner. Temari!" I knew then that Shikamaru didn't lose, but gave up. Next was Shino's fight against the other sand kid. Kankuro I think it was?

Shino began to walk down to the center of the arena when his opponent raised his hand and began to say that he forfeited. Shino looked at him. His opponent was the puppet master. He was looking forward to this fight. He didn't want his opponent to just forfeit, that meant he didn't get to show what he could do. It meant that he wouldn't make Chunin. He warped into the middle of the arena and looked at his opponent.

"Don't be afraid to lose. I'll take it easy on you," He said as he gave a cold smile to his foe. His foe appeared in the center as well.

"I won't lose," He said as he looked at the proctor.

"Begin!" The proctor said as Shino moved his hands out and several bugs had already made it to Kankuro who was pulling out his puppet. The bugs went inside of the puppet, and Shino punched Kankuro. Kankuro jumped backwards and the wrapping of his puppet came off, "Say hello to the Crow!" He said as the bugs came from inside the puppet chewing on the chakra strings. Shino punched again, sending Kankuro flying backwards. He landed on his feet and tried the puppet again, but it fell softly to the ground. The bugs surrounded Kankuro again and he shouted his surrender.

"I forfeit!" Kankuro screamed.

Shino's bugs vanished and Shino looked upset. He wanted more of a battle, he wanted to crush his opponent. "Just when I was getting serious!" He shouted heading up to his area. Kankuro appeared next to Gaara and Temari.

"You took it too easy on him," Temari said with a laugh.

"Don't worry, this just means that next time, he won't stand a chance against me. He'll underestimate me and I'll kill him," Kankuro said with a cold laugh.

Gaara appeared in the center and looked around, "Where is my opponent! Where is Sasuke Uchiha?" He shouted.

I heard the shout all the way in the hospital it was full of bloodlust. I fell out of the bed, upon landing on the ground I felt a small amount of pain. "What the hell," I said standing up and petting Akamaru. Some of the med ninja rushed into my room and started asking if I was okay. I nodded and asked them if they could provide details about the Chunin exams, and who won each battle. They gave sufficient details. They gave me some meds and told me to lay back down. It was time for Sasuke and Gaara's fight. That was the centerpiece of the Chunin Exams. Everyone wanted to see it. The rest of the fights were just warm ups. It was time for that fight. I was even excited about it and here I was laying in the hospital. I heard a knocking on the door. The door clicked and shot open. It was Hinata. She smiled at me, realizing that my condition was getting better. I laughed as she walked up to me and hugged me. She sat down next to me, and started telling me about the fights. I already knew about them, but I still acted surprised, made it seem like she was the first to tell me. She laughed then stopped and got very serious.

"Kiba, Neji... is... he wants revenge." She said scared.

"Ha, let him come. I beat him once. I'll gladly do it again," I laughed.

"Neji won't give up, he'll win. If he has to die trying," She said fear obvious in her voice.

"Hinata, don't worry about him, I'll deal with him. He won't ever hurt you again," Before I could finish she wrapped her arms around me and held me extremely tight.

"I-I... I love you Kiba," She said shyly.

"I love you too Hinata," I wrapped my arms around her and returned the hug.

The noises from the arena stopped us. It was extremely loud cheering. I knew what had happened. Sasuke Uchiha had arrived to the arena. I sighed as Hinata stood up, and I followed her.

"Let's go get some Ichiraku. I'm hungry, unless you wanna go to the arena and wait for me. It's gonna be a hell of a fight," I say as we walk out of the hospital.

Hinata turns with a smile, "Ichiraku sounds good."

A/n Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. So far the Kibahina love is very little, but it'll grow as time goes on. I have made Hinata less shy. It's kinda annoying in the story her more or less stalking Naruto hahaha. :P Love you all -Bandie24x7