The Huntress

Chapter 10

Finally eh? Let's get into the actual, canon, Naruto.

Ilya walked into class, excited. Graduation was very soon, and if the author permits, she could be on a team with Kiba and Hinata. Maybe Naruto.

She sat at her seat beside the ravenette, who thankfully had a distinct lack of fangirls around. At least, until Sakura and Ino came stomping into the classroom, screeching about who got here first and Ilya rolled her eyes. They may be acquaintances, but that didn't exactly mean she had to tolerate them when they're like this. That role belongs to their families.

They crowded around the poor boy beside her, and then all of the fan girls took that as their cue to come around. This was an everyday occurrence, that greatly irked everyone other than the fangirls. Ilya frowned at Ino when their eyes met and Ino gulped.

Okay. Maybe Ilya was glaring.

Naruto came into the room next, they normally walk together to school but today he said he had a big prank coming up soon that he had to prepare for, so she went by herself. He came up to Sakura and tried to get her attention but was pushed away by all the raging fangirls. Ilya frowned at the boy the on the floor, then at the crowd of girls. She was pretty sure a bunch of these girls were actually from the other classes.

"Move it," she said monotonously, standing up. "Go back to your own class," she said as she moved to help up Naruto from the floor. The girls moved out of her way, but did not go to class.

She picked Naruto up and glared at the girls, "Well?" she asked and they dispersed, mumbling to themselves. She talked with Naruto for a minute until Iruka arrived, then sat back in her seat and she was almost sure she was dreaming when she saw more than heard the emo boy mumble a thanks.

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School was as boring as usual, she now saw why Naruto and Kiba might ditch to do something better. There was next to point in ditching though, the graduation test was in a few days and not even they were ditching anymore. Although Naruto still had a prank planned apparently, so she could be wrong.

Ilya invited Hinata and Kiba to dinner at her place, and they both agreed. After dinner Hinata suggested they do some training and Kiba enthusiastically agreed, urging Ilya to as well.

At the training grounds they decided to do 1v1 spars with taijutsu only, Ilya barely won against Hinata, Kiba won against Hinata and barely won against Ilya.

  "Y-you're so strong I-Ilya-chan.." Hinata said, pressing the tips of her fingers together in embarrassment. Ilya was about to wave her off but Kiba voiced his agreement.

  "And that weird taijutsu thing ya do? Pretty rad. I don't think I'd a beaten you if ya hadn't been distracted by something," he said, Akamaru adding a few barks of agreement.

  "Uh.. yeah.." Ilya said hesitantly, she could tell Kiba was practically begging to ask where she learned it, and she didn't really wanna talk about it right this moment, so she gave a sigh.

  "Soooo," he said, bouncing on the balls of his feet, "where'd ya learn it?" He asked, the started to wave his hands around a little hesitantly, "I mean... it's so cool and all and.." he blathered on, continuing for a good few minutes as Ilya turned away from him, a little more towards Hinata.

  "K-Kiba-kun.. i-I think you sh-should stop n-now," Hinata said tentatively, reaching her hands out and Kiba looked to her and nodded. Hinata turned to Ilya, place her hands around Ilya's forearms. "Are you o-okay?"

  Hinata and Ilya murmured to each other, Kiba hanging back. Eventually they all ended up sitting, and then Kiba ended up laying in the grass, watching as the sky turned orange.