Set right after Tsurdue tells Team 8 he's their new sensei.

( 'You can't be the victim forever.' )

[[takes place pre- new sensei amazing funtimes]]

It was simple. Go into the store, search around just a little for a reasonable size and price, make the purchase and leave. This in particular was simple: it wasn't for a present or an ill-defined need with multiple possibilities.

( It was buying more cat food. Not exactly the hardest mission at the desk. )

To say she didn't want to be here was an understatement ( Read more... )

[[backdated; directly after Hoshino's visit to Asuka and before Team 8's visit to Kureno.]]The house was quiet ( Read more... )

[[after the team decides they really need to get together and see Kureno, shortly after Hoshino assassinates visits Asuka in the hospital]]None of them really looked... well ( Read more... )

[[set just before Team 8 lays siege to the Yuuhi stronghold.]]

It was different than not liking the hospital because Kiba was in it. She still wasn't one-hundred-percent behind the hospital existing, but there wasn't that acute sense of something being wrong. It was different; Asuka wasn't her teammate, or even her sensei.

Not that she had a ( Read more... )

[[backdated to the day before Chiriku takes her leave.]]

( Strange to see an Aburame in the temple, but her business was her own. )

Once Kiba had gotten word of the Hokage's return, she had wasted no time in asking if there was anything more he could tell her. She had expected another no, not yet, keeping waiting, I will when I can... but instead she had gotten a yes and an instruction to find her team as soon as she could. Hoshino had already been close by when Kiba had gotten ( Read more... )

Aburame Hoshino was not worried about Yuuhi Kureno, because he had explicitly told her not to worry about him ( Read more... )

[[ooc: More backdated fluff before the proxy server eats my computer. Hoshino needs to get out more. o.-;]]

( (The back of her mind noted that the sound of the bottle made the kitten flinch a little. Good. It was developing a fear of God.) )