Naruto smiled. Not only did he have a roommate who loved to hangout with him, but also cared about him. That night Naruto lay snuggled up in his blanket thinking about Kiba. Thinking about Kiba made Naruto happy.
"Hey Kiba, you never did tell me why you wanted Naruto as our roommate." Shikamaru spoke Kiba closed Naruto's door and smiled.
"Just having known what it feels like to be treated the way he was I felt like we could really teach him what it really feels like to have someone care about you." Shikamaru nodded.
"Yeah, I guess… But was just curious."
"Well, also it's because I've known Naruto for a little while." Shikamaru looked at Kiba confused.
"I knew him back in grade school. We were actually really good friends, but it got to the point where he refused to talk to me… or anyone for that matter, but played it off like nothing was wrong." Shikamaru frowned.
"I just never wanted to give up on him, even now I still feel like were good friends, I want what's best for him." Shikamaru nodded.
"Well, there is always the small problem that he doesn't remember you." Kiba frowned.
"Yeah, that's a bad part about this, and I don't want to start telling him that he should know me, it might bring up more problems that should be there."
I jolted awake, glancing around the room eyes wide. Sweat pouring down my face with a mixture of tears. I started to shake Soon I berried my face into my pillow and continued to cry. The tears falling down my face continued to fall landing on my pillow.
"Hey Naruto, you okay?" I looked up over at the door and tired to make out the person standing there. Kiba frowned walking over to the bed Kiba looked down at me and I continued to cry. Soon I felt a hand on my shoulder, looking up I saw Kiba smiling at me.
"Hey, you okay? We can hear you crying in the other room." I looked at Kiba and continued to shake. Kiba placed an arm around me; I snuggled up to him and continued to cry.
"You have a bad dream?" Kiba looked over with a sympathetic look on his face. I nodded my head.
"I thought so, you want to talk about it… or write about it?" I laughed.
"You have a cute laugh you know that right?" I looked up at Kiba and smiled through all the tears falling from my face. I brought my hands up to my face wiping the tears away.
"You going to be okay?" I nodded.
"Okay, well I'm going to go back to my room, if you need anything just let me know." Kiba got up from the bed and walked towards the door.
"Hey Kiba…" Kiba turned towards me and smiled.
"Yes?" I looked at Kiba and smiled.
"Thanks…" Kiba continued to smile and nodded his head.
"No problem, again I'm always hear for you, if you ever need to talk about something or just need someone to hangout with let me know." My heart started to grow slowly warmer. Never before had someone tired to be so nice to me… Except for that one kid back then.
"Need anything else? If not I'm kind of tired and want to go back to bed." I laughed.
"No, though we should talk tomorrow…" Kiba smiled.
"Sure, just let me know when." With that Kiba walked out of the room closing the door behind him.
I woke up and smiled. Putting my feet on the ground I looked out the window at the sun shining, glancing at the clock I smiled.
"Wow, slept till eight, I guess I've just been tired…" I thought as I heard a knock on my door.
"Hey Naruto, you up?" Kiba spoke lightly.
"Y…yeah I just woke up." Kiba laughed.
"Were heading down to get something to eat if you want to join us."
"Oh, uh sure just give me a minute to get dressed."
"So Naruto, what do you want to do today?" Kiba spoke taking a bite of his eggs.
"I don't know, we can really do anything, I'm not too picky." Shikamaru laughed.
"Well, we have to do something, we have been kind of just staying at the hotel the past few days." I nodded my head.
"When do classes start?" Shikamaru lowered his head.
"… Really… you're wondering when school starts?" Kiba punched Shikamaru in the arm.
"School starts in about a month, really I don't know what you have against school…" I sighed.
"You guys always fight over this topic, I don't know why I even bring it up." Kiba smiled.
"It's okay, Shikamaru just doesn't like school all that much." Shikamaru rolled his eyes.
"I know I'm good at it and everything, but it just feels bad being one of the smartest people in our grade. Kiba smiled.
"That's nothing to be worried about, you being smart is great. It means that someday you will get a great job." Shikamaru smiled.
"I hope so."
"Hey Kiba, can I talk with you in my room?" Kiba looked up from the game he was playing with Shikamaru.
"Oh, uh sure." Shikamaru glared at Kiba.
"Oh, it's okay, we have all the time in the world to play games." Shikamaru shook his head. Kiba walked into the room after me closing the door.
"What's up?" I was looking down at my feet while sitting on the bed. Kiba walked over to the bed and sat down next to me.
"I… I want to talk to you about before." Kiba looked at me confused.
"I'm talking about a few years ago." Kiba looked at me and nodded his head.
"I… I should have never started to ignore you, I know you were just trying to be a good friend and find out what was going on at home." Kiba smiled and nodded his head.
"I… I'm really sorry about that." Kiba shook his head.
"It's okay, I know something was going on at home, and even though you didn't want to tell me or anyone else what was going on I never really did stop being there for you." I nodded my head.
"I'm also for just not talking to you guys when I got here, I've just been hurt so many times for many reasons that it's often better I just keep to myself." Kiba shook his head.
"You should always talk to someone if you're ever feeling down, there are people out there who care about you." I nodded.
"I know, it's just really hard for me."
"Hey, how about we go somewhere today?" I looked up at Kiba.
"I don't know, I… I'm just not really ready to do much of anything." Kiba grinned.
"Well, do you know about the pool in the building here?" I looked up at Kiba and shook my head.
"They have a really great pool here, I think we should go swimming sometime, it would be fun." I looked at Kiba shaking my head.
"Fine, I'll go swimming…" Kiba's smile grew even bigger. Even though things in our past caused us to grow apart I could feel our friendship growing even stronger… and maybe a little of something else.
Well, I think that will do it for this chapter. Really I'm surprised I actually got something written. I haven't been in much of a writing mood as of late, but getting reviews do change that. ;)