Lying to myself (FINSHED

[Kiba Inuzuka]

"So thats what it is..." Kiba said with a grin on his face as he took in the scent again, it put a grin on his face and he couldn't help but laugh lightly as he swung her ponytail in his face. "Now if you ever get lost again, I know what scent to look for." He stated, looking at Akamaru who was a step behind both of them.

"Right, I guess so..." Kiba said softly, blushing lightly, a shade short of his markings on his cheeks. It truly was a little hard to know what to talk about with Ino, but he was just enjoying the walk through the woods. He couldn't help but look over to her ever so often to catch the sight of her bang in her face, it made her look kind of cute in his mind.

"Good, you better, because if ya don't...I might drag you into the woods and make you camp out." Kiba teased. "What do you mean all alone? Don't you think anyone would go with you? That would be kinda creepy, I usually go with Akamaru, so I've never really been alone." Kiba whispered.

[ino]

Ino laughed lightly, swing her arms up she rested her palms against the back of her head. "Who's to say i will ever get lost again" She smirked with her eyes closed. then again, who's to say i wont piss off Choji again? she thought to herself making her open her eyes.

"There's no guessing about it! Ino laughed alittle louder, she turned to him while letting her arms flop down to her sides one again. She did notice his cheeks were flushed which made her giggle. "Kiba do you need to sit in the shade? You look alittle warm." she teased.

"It's not that no body would go with me, I mean cmon who wouldn't wanna camp out with me?" she joked. " It' just everyone is rather busy at the moment, you're lucky you have Akamaru, being alone isn't a the best of feelings." Ino turned back to wards the canine.

[Kiba Inuzuka]

"Wh-What? No, I'm fine..." Kiba said nervously, trying to hide his blush from Ino, it slightly faded as he looked over at her. "I'm not hot..." He said softly, and quickly unbuttoned the top button of his jacket to cool himself off a bit.

"C'mon, you getting lost again? You can't ever say that it won't happen again." Kiba pointed out, smirking again. "Its happened to me before quite a few times, but thats because I like find different places." He explained.

Kiba then began thinking about what he could even begin to say to see what she actually thought about him blushing. "What the heck's goin on? Do I really have a thing for Ino?" Kiba thought to himself. "What if she figures that out?" He thought.

"Well, can you set up a tent or start a fire?" Kiba asked, his voice still a little shaky as he tried to compose himself. "Because if you can't then you're gonna need someone who can, and I only know a few people who can honestly do that very well." Kiba muttered, trying to see if she really meant what she was saying. "And busy with what exactly? Its been quiet as heck lately, I haven't even had a mission in at least a week."

[ino]

"Whatever you say" Ino smiled smugly as she notice him quickly unbutton the top of his jacket. Though she planned to tease hi more she couldn't help but feel happy.

"Okay, i will probably get lost again, but next time I will know better than to get lost alone. " she looked down with a tiny smirk. "I'll just grab someone while I'm running away from Choji." An image of a poor villager crossed her mind.

There was silence for a moment, which made Ino look to wards Kiba, a questioning look in her eyes which quickly turned to a frown, then to a smile, she was unusually happy, must of been the nice weather.

" A camp fire? Isn't it just wood and fire? and I'm sure i can set up a tent if I tried, Hm you make camping sound fun" Her tone changed as if she said something that she wasn't quite sure of. " Well, Choji is too busy eating, Shikamaru is to busy being lazy. " Ino laughed quietly.

[Kiba Inuzuka]

"Wh-What do you mean by that?" Kiba asked shakily, as he tried to compose himself from fumbling around with his words. "Easy Kiba, just chill...Don't make yourself look like an idiot..." His mind screamed.

Taking a deep breath and listening to Ino's plan to avoid becoming cluelessly lost, he couldn't help but chuckle and think about the innocent person Ino would grab. "Poor Villager..." He thought jokingly to himself as they walked.

"Everybody thinks that, and then when they get all set up and try to get it started, either the wood isn't dry enough, or they don't have anything to make sparks, its not always as easy as having a lighter or something like that." Kiba pointed out. "The tent is the easiest thing, its not that bad, and of course, like I said, it is fun...you really gotta try it." He added, looking Ino over, listening and observing her voice and expression.

"Ino, I'm not trying to be weird or invite myself, but if everyone is that busy and you can't find anyone...I'd go." Kiba muttered nervously, throwing the fact that he was cool with her out there. "I mean if you can't find anyone and you're cool with it." He added nervously.

[ino]

Ino's shook her head lightly, a small smile pinching at the corner of her lips. "You just look alittle hot, thats all" she smiled innocently and looked down to the floor, kicking a small stock that almost slid under her foot.

As he explained the complications with making a camp fire, she suddenly felt unsure that she could do it, she had never thought about the wood being dry or where to get the fire, she just presumed she would buy some logs and get a few matches, but she was guessing that wouldn't be a part of the whole' out door' experience.

"camping with Kiba? " Ino thought about it for a moment, it would be a good chance to see what he's been up too and save her from messing up the tent. " Okay, Dog boy!" she smirked, she didn't mean any harm by it. "I'm cool with you camping out with me!, but no funny stuff"

[Kiba Inuzuka]

Kiba looked shocked at Ino's response, "Really? You want to?" He asked, almost falling flat on his face in surprise. "Awesome, that sounds good to me, when exactly do you want to do this thing then? I don't exactly have my stuff on me at the moment." Kiba said with a small chuckle.

"Camping with Ino huh? This should be interesting..." He thought to himself, wondering what hanging around with her for a night would be like, it would definitely give him time to talk with her and see what she was like, everyone's opinion said she wasn't worthy of a shot like this, but Kiba dismissed that.

"We can grab gear when we get back to the village..." Kiba suggested.

[ino]

Ino laughed at his response,she didn't think he would be this surprised, the fact that she didn't expect it made it funnier. " Yes, i want too and I don't mind really, whenever."

Spending a night with Kiba, out in the woods. Ino arched her eyebrow, the sentence felt unusual, she never really thought about hanging round with Kiba at all, from what she remembered from the academy was he was a total hot head, alot like Naruto. Ino turned to face Kiba, he probably hadn't changed but it couldn't hurt to find out.

" Sounds good," she nodded looking to wards the direction of the village, her mind slowly began to wander. "Though i have a few ground rules, which i will lay down when we are set up " She smirked.

[Kiba Inuzuka]

"Uhh, great...then we'll camp out tonight then, besides, someone's gotta show you a decent time right?" Kiba said with a grin. The Inuzuka boy was indeed a hothead like most of his clan, but he had another side to him that others only saw glimpses of, since he too was a jokester himself, not caring too much at the academy, he often was lighthearted and likes to joke around when others think he was a badass.

The question remained on how Ino really was herself though, Kiba liked this little bit of time hanging with her, but was she really like everyone said? Kiba would definitely find out later on.

"Meh, Ground rules are fine...No complaining here..." Kiba replied, showing that he would respect the Kuniochi's wishes. "I'm sure its not like you're going to pin me to a tree or something like that..."

[ino]

Ino placed one hand on her hip while she raised the other to scratch the side of her head. "A decent time eh? you'd better aim high then." she teased, in actual fact she hadn't had a decent time in awhile. Whenever she wasn't doing missions which also had become rare she was in her families flower shop, though it didn't have many costumer's her parents still decided on keeping it open late.

Ino laughed imagining Kiba pinned to a tree, though if he did disobey her rules, that would be the most likely situation. "I cant promise anything, just obey my rules and nothing bad will happen " Ino crossed her arms with a smug smile.

"How far are we from the village now?" She attempted to change the subject, hoping to rid the images going through her mind.

[Kiba Inuzuka]

"Aim high huh?" Kiba muttered playfully. "Heh, whatever you say Ino, just don't be surprised when you have a good time, isn't that right boy?" Kiba asked Akamaru, looking back and then grinning at Kiba as his question was answered by a loud bark.

"Don't worry about it, sheesh...I'll listen to your rules, I'm not gonna argue." Kiba said with a playful grin. "And for your information, we're just outside of the village now, I can hear the people walking around from here."

[ino]

It was true, you could hear the sound of talking and footsteps coming from just in front of them, this only made Ino confused. "Wha? I was in that forest for more than an hour, how did we get hear so fast!" She suddenly fell silent, feeling stupid that she was most likely running around in circles in that damned woods.

"I'm not easy to please " Ino raised her shoulders' with her arms still crossed. At least now she wasn't lying, she wasn't easy to please, nothing would be good enough unless she did it herself, but making camping an exception, best to leave that to the ones with experience.

"Good Boy." She smiled playfully.

[Kiba Inuzuka]

"Well, maybe you just got confused with the trees and stuff, like I said before, if it wasn't for the scent of your hair, you'd still be sitting there, because I've gotten lost in there too, don't sweat it." Kiba pointed out. He looked around as they set foot in the village streets and chuckled lowly to himself.

"Not easy to please huh?" He said to himself. "Well, I'm going to try..." Kiba said with a smirk. "I'll grab some stuff to grill on the fire too."

"Alright, so what should we do? Meet up somewhere in a little while, or do you want to come with me to my house to get the gear? What? Do you have a sleeping bag, you're gonna want to grab it, otherwise I think I have an extra one..." He muttered.

Kiba hoped that this little occasion didn't go awry and screw up his chances to impress Ino, even though impressing females wasn't exactly the easiest thing for him, especially since he always got the dog-boy stereotype, always smelling like wet dog, what was the deal with everyone saying that anyhow?

[ino]

Ino pondered for a few moments, deciding on whether to go to her house and have a shower before going back out to there, then again there would be no point she would just get it dirty again.

" I was thinking about going back to mine to have a shower but there would be no point eh? So I'll come with you to your's." Ino spoke with a grin, proud that she had figured out the obvious. " If i have never been camping what are the chances of me having a sleeping bag?" She arched her eyebrow to wards him.

"Anyhow, I can help you carry some stuff this way " She looked around the village, it wasn't busy, a a handful of villagers out, surprising considering the weather.

[Kiba Inuzuka]

"Alright, thats fine..." Kiba muttered, a bit surprised at the number of people out as well. "Lets head there then and we'll head out from my place when we're ready." Kiba said, thinking this all through.

Kiba looked surprised that she didn't have a sleeping bag, it was a practical thing to have on trips, so he figured most everyone would have one. "It's fine Ino, I'm sure we have an extra one."

"Eh, the gear isn't all that bad, once I grab my backpack, I can carry a lot of junk, and all you really have to hold onto is the sleeping bags." He said, walking along.

Kiba stopped short of his house and looked around, trying to see if anyone was around. He then stuck his head inside the door and yelled into the house, "Hello?!? Anyone around?"

After hearing no response, Kiba shrugged and allowed Ino in. "It'll just be a few minutes, I gotta go dig some stuff out from my room." He said, quickly running upstairs.