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Visitors, Part One

"Kiba."

"Sakura!"

"Akamaru is in my pond." She points at the hound, who is muddying up the usually still waters and barking at unsuspecting frogs.

"Ah, sorry!" Kiba gives a sheepish grin and goes to struggle with his dog, it takes a moment to pull the seemingly ever-growing beast from the water. Akamaru shakes himself off, upset at the loss of relief from the sun, and wanders off to take a nap under the shade of some nearby trees.

Kiba moves to catch up with Sakura; who has gone off towards the greenhouse, holding a basket full of trimmings on her hip. He follows her inside, as she begins to hang the herbs to dry.

"How come you're back here so soon?" She asks him.

"Oh? Gaara didn't tell you?"

She furrows her brows, continuing to clip the mint leaves on to some string. "Tell me what?"

"Oh..." Kiba is unsure of what to say; maybe his husband is right, and their relationship really is just... well, nothing at all really.

She turns to him, raising an eyebrow. "Kiba?"

"Ah- well. Gaara sent some kind of note to Kakashi. Then his wife gave us all a massive lecture about how we don't visit here enough and that none of us have any real excuse note to come, so..." He trails off, moving forward to fight with the mint leaves.

"Oh." She states, "I don't expect you to come here." A frown finds its way on to her face, and she appears lost in thought for a second.

Kiba feels at a loss for what to do, with no idea on how to cheer up his sister-in-law. "Nah, it's true. We don't come enough. Hana needs to get to know her aunt and uncle, anyways!" He grins, hoping this would lighten the sudden weight of tension.

"Right." Sakura says, moving on to press basil leaves in between the pages of a heavy book. "So where is she?"

"Um... Kankarou took her to see Gaara."

"Yes. That would make sense." They are both silent for a few minutes, as Sakura continues to work on doing God-knows-what to her basket full of herbs. Kiba tries to think of something to say or do-

"-Ah!" He remembers suddenly. "Naruto' coming here straight from his mission in Ame!" He pleads with himself that this news will make her at least smile.

"That's nice." He hardly even hears to words come out of her mouth as she flutters around the greenhouse, obviously lost in her own thoughts. "Look, Kiba. I'm really busy-"

"-yeah. Don't worry, I can see that." He raises a hand to begin to wave goodbye. "Sorry for distracting you. I'll catch you later then?"

"Yeah..." She replies, she knows that she has buried herself in far to much work to socialise.

Kiba beckons for Akamaru to follow him as he leaves the garden, feeling well and truly defeated. He's almost overwhelmed with guilt and decides he's needs to find his husband. Maybe they should have never moved to Konoha?