Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

Rating: T, because 'K' seems too young and 'M' seems too old.

A/N: Another shorty 'cause I gotta have my Kiba/Ino fix. Also, I felt like experimenting some with formatting and punctuation.

On Axis

Ino feels like

this

when Kiba looks at her. Singled out. Chosen.

She knows he breathes her. Absorbs her presence.

Centers life around her.

When had she realized he'd been like this all along? Nodding his head down to touch his forehead with hers, eyes focused on something behind her own, so gentle, so attentive- -

He never forgets. He remembers the most trivial things she'd told him sometime…last week? and then he uses them to her advantage. He wants her to have the advantage. He shows his love about as subtly as the sun rising.

- -his love peeks over her dark horizon.

Forces of emotions crashing inside her do not intimidate him. After a horrible mission, where nothing went right, where nothing she did made sense, where there was deathbloodcoldnessconfusion,

it's Kiba

who brings sense to her tilted world.

A/N: So, experiment success or failure? Lemme know! =)