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Matches Burn Twice	By : BreathingInTheSoundOfYourLies Category: Naruto > Het - Male/Female Views: 1925 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Before I start this chapter, all of you have to go and read http:// www. Fan fiction. Net /s/3043386/1/The_Truth_About_The_Wildness
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3043386/1/The_Truth_About_The_Wildness
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Only one person ever saw that Inuzuka Kiba is Hana�s strongest protector, loudest supporter, staunchest ally, best friend, and first love.

He is now dead.

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Standing in the dark bathroom in her bra and panties, her hand to her mouth, she held back her tears, held back the sobs that threatened to come forth. Strange noises came from her, grief unfurling from some dark place inside her almost beyond her ken, noises she had never made before in her memories. And yet, at the same time, her mind was racing. It determined, almost independent of her, that she must immediately get beyond what had happened. She reasoned that he had not threatened her life, had not borne a kunai or any other weapon. Getsugakure was an unfamiliar place. If she left now, where would she go? What would she do? She would fail her mission if she left now, in any case, and she could possibly be stripped of her rank. Most of all, she became instantaneously determined that she would not suffer from this�she would avoid the post-traumatic stress she had seen firsthand as she studied to become a Kunoichi. She would accomplish this by ignoring, by attempting to discard, the few distinct images that had managed, somehow, to make inroads deep in her mind, into memory.

Her naked feet trod back across the tile. In his bedroom, she pulled back the covers, slid back in bed with him, beside him.

In the morning, she awoke once again, finally, fully, if groggily, to sunlight: a bedroom painted white, nice furniture, a bookshelf full of jutsu scrolls, blue-striped sheets. And to his face. His green eyes stared across the pillow at hers. He smiled.

He moved his naked body toward her, pulled her closer to him, and tucked his body into hers. Once again, his hands crept over her. This time, she let him inside her willingly.

Unprotected, once again, he climaxed. They lay there, side by side. As the room filled with morning light, they talked, enjoyed each other's company. They had sex again.

Again, he finished inside her. At last, well into the afternoon, they got up and dressed, she in the same clothes from last night, he in a fresh pair of clothing.

He told her he would like to see her again, and how much he had enjoyed her. To the man she was sure a few hours ago had raped her, the man with whom she was about to embark on a three-month relationship, she said

�Me too.�

What ended their relationship was Kiba�s teeth through his throat and his fist through the man�s chest once Hana finally told him what she believed had happened. And from then on Hana had had no more dates.

Until Naruto.

Understandably, Kiba was a little worried about this turn of events.

You have to forgive him if he wasn�t willing to be kind right away.

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By the end of the day, Umino Iruka would have tattooed a note to himself on the inside of his eyelids if he had been able to read it. Never mind that Iruka hated tattoos or that he would not go near a needle to save his life. He would willingly sit still and even watch as they tattooed the inside of his eyeballs so he could read every night, every single time he blinked-

Field trips are a bad Idea.

The day started out incongruously well. Naruto had not made a fuss on the bus, no one had stuck gum in Ino�s hair, Shikamaru stayed awake mostly on his own (Iruka conveniently didn�t see Ino pinching him or Shikamaru�s subsequent glare), no girl had tried to climb in Sasuke�s lap, Kiba had not teased Sakura or Hinata, and all in all, things were going well. Up until lunchtime, that was. That was when the pandemonium started.
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Kiba brought the ice cream over, assisting Iruka in handing them out. By luck of the draw, Iruka had chosen their seating arrangements, and as he looked at his chart, he sighed. At eleven thirty-seven the night before, he�d been sure that putting Sasuke and Naruto together would not affect much. Now, looking at the two of them sitting next to each other, Naruto staring at the Uchiha, his eye twitched slightly.

Kiba sat down next to Hinata, Shino across from her. It wasn�t that much different from how they sat in class, Kiba thought, but didn�t say. Across the room, he watched Ino and Sakura fighting over some hidden object, and turned to Hinata with a small smirk on his lips.

�Hey, Hinata, what are they fighting over?� Hinata blinked.

�Oh, well, I-I don�t-�

�You have Byakugan, don�t you?� Shino interrupted. �I�m sure Kiba intended you to use it.� Kiba glared slightly at the impassive Aburame, but sighed, smiling slightly when Hinata nodded and decided to do it. After a moment, Hinata flinched and turned off the Byakugan.

�They are fighting over a double mirror compact and a laser pointer.� Kiba grinned.

�So, do you ever, y�know� � Kiba smirked at the Hyuuga girl suggestively, �Use the Byakugan to look through anyone�s y�kno� clothes?� Hinata had been innocently eating her ice cream, but when the sentence finished, she sputtered, and the contents of her mouth, ice cream, spoon and all splattered onto Shino�s forehead. Kiba slapped both hands over his mouth the keep from laughing, while Hinata made a scene of trying to help the stoic Aburame, who ended up only stalking off to the bathroom.

Naruto stared at his silent, brooding bench mate in silence, barely even eating. Don�t you do anything? he wanted to yell, but refrained from doing so as the raven simply ate his food and ignored the blatant staring.

Ino aimed the laser into one of the compact mirrors, letting it bounce off the other mirror and hit across the room. Sakura tried to take the compact away with little luck.

�Ino, what are you doing?� Sakura asked, struggling to steal the compact before they both got into trouble.

�I�m going to shine the laser into Sasuke�s eye. That way, he�ll notice me.� Sakura made an indignant noise, supposedly because of the harm it would do to Sasuke, but really because she hadn�t thought of it first.

�Oh yeah, then he�ll really like you,� Sakura said sarcastically, trying again to snatch the compact, surreptiously reaching for the laser as well. She pushed the blonde off course, but only slightly, and both girls froze when a loud, annoying voice said,

�Hey Sasuke, there�s something red on your forehead!� Sasuke slanted a look at him out of the corner of his eyes before lifting his head slightly, rolling his eyes up to look in an instinctive way. The red of the laser pointer landed on the tip of his nose, and Naruto burst out laughing, as did Kiba at his table, watching the antics since when Hinata had mentioned it.

Sakura finally managed to steal the compact mirror an instant before it would have hit Sasuke�s eye, and as he looked over, she pretended to be engrossed in her food. Sasuke shrugged and looked away, and Ino reached between Sakura�s legs to steal the compact back, making the pink haired girl blush. Shikamaru flicked part of a peach off his table annoyed, and saw it land on Sakura�s cheek. She wiped it off, it fell with a plop to the table, and she glared back at Shikamaru, who looked back with a bored expression. She wrenched her gaze from him just in time to see Ino�s laser hit Naruto's left eye.

Naruto had just lifted the milk carton in front of him to drink when the laser light hit his eye. Naruto paused, put the milk down on the table, then, with much theatrics, yelled,

�MY EYE!!!!!!� he clapped both hands over the afflicted body part and proceeded to fall off the chair. Sasuke snorted and hmphed. Sakura proceeded to stick the straw from her milk carton into the peach slice that had landed on the table. Ino watched her take aim and throw, hitting the -sleeping- Shikamaru in the ear. He jolted, kicking Choji�s chair and causing the peanut butter half of one of Choji's peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to land in Hinata's hair, peanut butter side down. Shino, seeing the whole thing, had opened his mouth to mention this to Hinata, but thought better of it, sitting behind the high collar of his coat with a hidden smile.

Naruto, recovered from his terrible ordeal of temporary partial blindness, picked up his tray and threw it in the garbage, passing behind Hinata just as Iruka did. Iruka lifted a finger and proceeded to try to pick the half sandwich out of Hinata's hair. She whirled around to look at him, and Iruka put both hands behind his back and whistled, for as long as those Byakugan eyes were focused on him. When she turns back around, Iruka finishes picking out the sandwich and gives it to Naruto, with the instruction to throw it away.

Naruto does, simply throwing it over his shoulder. It hit Chouji, coincidentally enough, in the eye. The left eye, in fact, the same eye that Naruto had been howling about on his own body earlier. Choji had no moment of pause, however, as had Naruto with the laser, instead, the rest of his tray splattered over both Shikamaru and Kiba.

Shino had a moment of smacking satisfaction that rang in his ears for the rest of the day.

Karma will get them every time.

Kiba, very annoyed, proceeded to throw what was left of his lunch at Choji, but missed, hitting Sasuke. Silence reigned, a silence in which Shino thought Kiba must have done something very bad in a past life to have been caught on the receiving end of the murderous look on the lone Uchiha�s face. Naruto had quietly managed to sit down in that time, and as food slid down Sasuke�s front, he could feel the waves of anger that came from the Uchiha, cooking the food for a second time.

Sakura and Ino hid under their table just before pandemonium broke loose. Sasuke launched at Kiba with a roar, knocking his food over into Naruto�s lap before tackling the Inuzuka to the ground.

Instants later, Sasuke was up against a wall. The impending food fight has been stopped by her appearance, this brown-haired girl with murder in her eyes that eclipses even Sasuke�s earlier anger. Hana Inuzuka is here, and Iruka just sits back and watches. He knows that one word can have her putting Sasuke down, if he says it in the right way, so he is not worried. He isn�t worried much, anyway.

Her eyes are arctic, Sasuke thinks, and his skin prickles with a thousand sharp frost flakes. A fist curled in the thin material of his shirt and he could hear the fabric rip from sharp fingernails. Kiba�s eyes widened and he struggled to stand, even though Sasuke�s knocked the breath clean out of him. Sasuke recognizes the girl as an Inuzuka, the upside-down triangles on her face a giveaway, even if her similarity to Kiba was not.

�What� do you think you�re doing?� Hana�s voice is soft, and Iruka does not interfere, though he longs to, he sees the murder in her eyes but stays away. Naruto doesn�t, however, his arm latches to hers and gently detangles the fingers and nails free from the fabric, talking all the while. Soft, soft, as to a wild dog or a wolf, and he keeps her- he and Kiba, once he�s regained his breath, they keep her- from killing Sasuke. Sasuke�s eyes still register fear, he�s still pressed against the wall and he slides down to flat feet slowly, never losing that look of terror. [because Itachi looked like that, didn�t he, Sasuke-kun? Right before the Mangekyou entrapped you, he had such hate in his features, hate as he killed your parents, you could see it in his eyes, just a cold, emotionless you-are-in-my-way-I-do-not-care-if-you-suffer-just-die kind of hatred that could kill a soul and you remember. You remember, of course, don�t you? Because there is no way to forget such evil.]

Her eyes are even the same shade of dark�so black that any light made them look silver�as Itachi�s, and Sasuke�s breath still comes in shallow spurts.

�Hey, hey, sis, it�s alright, Sasuke just over-reacted a little, and it was my fault, really.� Hana hears Kiba�s voice as if from far off. The warmth of Naruto is more immediate, and the warmth of her brother [and she has put a man before Kiba only once before in her thoughts and is not aware she�s doing it again] rather than the soothing voices that calm her heartbeat.

�Hey, it�s okay, Hana-sama, really, Sasuke just has a short fuse, but he wouldn�t really hurt Kiba. He�s not like that.� Naruto rubs her back with one hand, and Shikamaru's full attention is on the trio, watching the way Hana and Naruto especially, interact. So is Ino�s, and yet still, everyone, including Kiba, is surprised when she turns into Naruto and kisses him full on the lips.

Hana�s arm is still around Kiba�s waist, she�s still hugging him half way when her head turns to the side and her other hand cups Naruto's face. Her fingers slide into his hair and undo the back to those stupid goggles he wears. She lets them drop to the ground. Her eyes close for the kiss, a kiss she�s not sure, why she�s giving to him other than to cool her blood.

His eyes close as though he�d expected it, as though he�d done it before. A hand rests on her face, cold fingertips sending a light shiver [so easily misinterpreted] down her spine. And he kisses like he knows what he�s doing, how to do it, and even why she�s doing it. It makes Hana tremble to think he might understand [understand as even Kiba does not].

And Kiba�s hand clenched into a fist at his side, drawing blood as they kiss, his anger confused and simmering, and he�s not even sure why he�s angry. [And no one will tell him there�s a distinct undercurrent of jealousy in there, will they? Because there isn�t any jealousy there. What�s there to be jealous of, Hana? He�s not jealous of Hana; he doesn�t want to kiss Naruto. And it doesn�t occur to him that he could be jealous of Naruto. No one is ever jealous of Naruto anyway- that�s a stupid idea. but he is. He is jealous of Naruto and doesn�t know why.]

Hana�s decided to take Kiba home, and Iruka only nods. He knows he�s lucky, and somehow lucky for Naruto to have been there. He knows he won�t hear from Tsume over this, since Hana�s taken matters into her own hands and is taking Kiba home early, but something�s not Right. And he saw the anger in Hana�s eyes, and the confusion in Kiba�s, but he doesn�t see the hatred present in both of their eyes.

Naruto misses the hatred from Kiba also, but only because he�s turned away. He understands bonds, and he would understand the jealousy in his eyes. He would understand Kiba�s helpless anger; the fact that he feels Naruto is taking Hana away, if he would only turn around. It would take only a look to soothe the hurt, a look Naruto knows how to give, but he doesn�t turn, and so he can�t give it. And Kiba goes on hating him. And by the time Naruto sees the hate in those eyes, it�ll be too late. He won�t see the jealousy. He won�t see the anger. He�ll just see the hate, and he�ll shove Kiba on the list of people who hate him for no reason that he knows of.

Hana glanced back at Sasuke, and one word flits through her mind.

Prey.

The accompanying thought, he was born to be doesn�t form, because Naruto�s at his side and helping him up like no one else dared. Hana should feel scorn, she thinks, she should feel irritation, but she doesn�t. She doesn�t even think of Naruto as prey, because only prey helps prey, but she sees him as a predator. Naruto�s whole being is primal predator; it�s not only Kyuubi within him that makes it so, not only the unnamed monster that no one is allowed to speak of. She feels Kiba�s blood against her palm with their linked hands, and she knows that there is now a secret between them once again.

Outside, she hugs him to her fiercely and he returns the hug with as much force as he can muster, thinking only one word, with no accompanying thoughts. The word has always applied to his sister, but only for him, damnit, and no one else could call his sister�.

Mine.

The thought blazes a path deep into Kiba�s subconscious and touches something feral and primal, and he feels like he will never let go. He doesn�t know how she knew to be there, but he knows that she always will be, just like- Kiba squeezed his eyes tight/shut- just as he will never fail her again.

Kiba�s never really let that guilt go, you see.

And he�s never admitted to himself how he feels about other men around his sister.

He feels�.

But that would be telling.

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A/N: Okay, not my fault this is out so late. My beta was being an ass about this whole thing. I was sick for a while and he refused to give it back until I slept, and then my internet went out for a while, and oh, I�m going to cry.

I love this chapter. Serious, humorous, and back to serious, you know. I like all of Matches Burn Twice, so far, but if you think I can improve, don�t hesitate to tell me so. I�m not frail.

I hope to finish matches before January, but if not, then I will get back to it in March/April. I have so much to do and so little time- how dare he make me sleep? That jerk actually forced Tylenol PM�s down my throat and tied me to the bed. Can you believe the nerve of him? But since I�m staying at his house, I guess I do have to abide by his rules.

For now.

Grrrr. It is Monday, December 01, 2008, and I still have no internet. This chapter has been done for almost a week now.

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