Leaf Academy. It was a high school known for many things. The students who went there were all there to study and make their dreams become a reality. Every class was to help the students better themselves and prepare them for the future. It taught the students many things about what goes on in life and changes them. For others though, it was more then the school that changed them, it was a single student that changed not only themselves but their future.

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I've liked you for a very long time and want to be with you.

You can give me your answer after school today in the park.

I'll wait for you there.

Sign,

Kiba Inuzuka.

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Sakura Haruno stared at the note that was placed inside her locker. She wore her Leaf Academy uniform with consisted of a plain white short sleeved button up shirt with the schools leaf symbol on the right sleeve, with a dark blue tie. A light blue skirt that was just above her knees, with a red ribbon in her short pink shoulder length hair. In her left hand was her school bag and in her right was the note she found sitting on top of her books. When she opened her locker she was surprised to see the note and wondered who had placed it in there. She never expected to ever read that particular message inside.

Her mind was racing as she re-read the note over and over again. There had to be some mistake. There was no way this note was for her. It just couldn't be! She was only fifteen but she felt like she going to have a heart attack.

"Sakura." Her attention was still on the note but she knew who was next to her. It was one her best friends, Naruto. "You better hurry. Homeroom will be starting soon." Naruto looked at Sakura wondering what she was doing. She was never one to be late so this was different for him.

"R-Right." Sakura closed her locker and went to homeroom with her friend. The whole way her mind was thinking of only the note.

"Sakura?" Naruto gave a worried look to his friend. They were in homeroom but there were only a few students in the class. Their teacher, Kakashi, was always late so the students didn't race to get to the class. "Is everything ok?" His desk was right next to Sakura so he could easily see the confused and somewhat worried look on her face.

"Not really." Sakura sighed handing Naruto the note. She didn't really want word to spread around about the note but she had to tell somebody about it. If she didn't, she'd probably go crazy.

"Whoa! What the…?! " Naruto gasped as he read the letter. He looked back and forth between the note and Sakura, silently asking if this was real.

"I know, it's hard to believe isn't it." Sakura asked taking the note back.

"What's hard to believe?" A voice behind them caught their attention. Sakura and Naruto turned to see their other friend Sasuke looking down at them. "Why do you two seem so out of it?" He asked taking his seat behind Naruto.

Sakura sighed again and gave Sasuke the note. Since she let Naruto read it then she had to let Sasuke read it too. They were her best friends and she trusted them, besides they might be able to help her.

Sasuke read the note and looked to Sakura. He seemed to look a little worried. "And you're sure it's from him?" He asked her giving her back the note.

"It looks like it." Sakura sighed again and placed her cheek in the palm of her hand. "Who would have thought that Kiba Inuzuka, the school's bully would ask me out?" It was a rhetorical question but she still wanted an answer. She didn't even really talk to Kiba, only if they had to work on a project, so why would he like her?

"You think it's someone's idea of a joke?" Naruto asked thinking over other possibilities. He wasn't friends with Kiba but he had never seen or heard anything of the boy liking his pink-haired friend.

Sakura shrugged. "Maybe. I mean it's not like we even hang out so why would he write me a love letter?" All three of them agreed. Kiba and Sakura were almost never together, only during some of the classes they shared, so there was no way he could have written it.

"Argh!" A shout was heard out in the hall and the students all gathered around to see what was happening. Sasuke, Naruto, and Sakura were some of those students. They stood out in front of the crowd and watched as Kiba hold Ukon by his throat to wall lifting him up off the ground.

"Bastard!" Kiba growled out making a fist to punch Ukon right in the face.

"Uh Sakura, maybe we should get out of here." Naruto grabbed hold of Sakura's arm, trying to pull her back in the classroom. He's seen Kiba in fights before and knew they can get bad, very fast. Also, he was worried that if Kiba did write the note then he might try and do something to Sakura.

At the mention of Sakura's name, Kiba turned to look in the direction of where Sakura was. He held her gaze for a moment and his cheeks turned a bright red. He let go of his hold on Ukon letting him fall to the floor and kicked him away. He had his gaze to the floor but he kept moving it back and forth between Sakura and the floor. He had his hands shoved into the pockets of his pants. The boy's uniform wasn't that much different from the girls. They had the same shirt and tie but their pants were a darker shade of blue then the girl's skirts. Kiba had a black headband wrapped around his forehead to keep his bangs from falling in his eyes and had two red upside down triangles on his cheeks.

"You…you don't think?" Naruto looked from Sakura to Sasuke to back at Kiba. The way he was acting was only confirming their suspicions.

"Could he have really written it?" Sasuke wondered watching Kiba's every movements. He didn't miss the glare that he was sending over his and Naruto's way.

"Then that means the school bully just asked me out." Sakura suddenly felt very dizzy. Her mind was going into overdrive. Not once in her life did she ever think something like this would happen. It was all too weird for her.

"Ok, that's enough." Kakashi suddenly appeared behind the three girls. "You all need to get to class now, and Ukon you need to go to the principle's office." Kakashi instructed closing his book and looked at every student.

"Yes sir." They listened to what he said and made their way back into the classroom.

Naruto took this time to drag Sakura and Sasuke back to their seats. They all sat down and looked at one another. "Ok, we pretend that nothing happened. Like we never saw the note." He instructed watching Kiba enter the room. He saw his gaze land on Sakura and knew that he had to act quickly.

"Hahaha! Oh man, Sakura that's so funny." He suddenly started laughing in a really loud fake laugh. "It's no wonder you stayed up late to watch that show, it sounds so funny. It was worth almost being late too! It's such a shame that you couldn't go to your locker though!" He gave another fake laugh again pretending that Sakura had said something funny.

"Uh…Naruto?" Sakura gave her best friend a weird look. Her and Sasuke had no clue as to what he was laughing and weren't really sure if they wanted to know.

"Sakura! You know you don't have to ask; of course you can borrow my book for your next class. I know that you didn't have a chance to go to you locker and get yours." He knew that he probably sounded like a psycho but it was all he could think of to do. If Kiba thought that Sakura didn't see the note then maybe he wouldn't bother going to the park and bother her. He was worried for her friend and didn't want to see her get hurt.

Naruto looked quickly to see Kiba gave an annoyed glare their way and moved to his seat. Luckily his seat was in the front and theirs were in the very back.

"Idiot." Sasuke muttered taking out a book to read. He understood what Naruto was doing, he wanted to help Sakura too, but the way Naruto was doing it was just stupid.

"Hey! What'd you call me!?" Naruto made a fist and glared at Sasuke. "I'm just trying to keep dog-boy there away from Sakura." Naruto started to explain his plan. "If Kiba thinks Sakura didn't read the note then maybe he won't bother with the park and leave her alone."

"And you really think that would work?" Sakura asked not convinced with this plan. It sounded way too easy for her and she knew that nothing was ever that easy.

"Of course!" Naruto gave them her best smile. "We just have to keep you away from Kiba." It sounded simple enough. He knew that Sakura and Kiba shared a few classes, but Sakura had much more advanced classes then Kiba so keeping them apart should be easy enough.

"Alright, settle down everyone." Kakashi walked in, his lesson plans were in his hands. "Before we start, I'm going to change a few seats. After today's incident I've been told to do what I can to stop anymore violent acts that may happen." He spoke from behind his mask, none of them knew why but he was always wearing a mask. "Now then…" He looked over the room and finally spotted what he wanted. "Kiba, move your stuff and take the seat behind Sakura." He pointed towards the back.

Sakura, Sasuke, and Naruto all stared up at Kakashi with disbelief as he spoke. He didn't know it but he just made their lives a lot more complicated. Sakura looked behind her and saw the empty desk that would soon not be so empty. This was not her day.

Kiba didn't say anything, he gathered his stuff and moved towards the back and took the seat behind Sakura. He put everything on his desk and moved his gaze to stare at what was in front of him, which was the back of Sakura's head. He placed his cheek in the palm of his hand and just kept staring straight ahead.

She could feel his eyes on hers and Sakura gave a sweat dropped at this. 'Well this is awkward.' She thought trying to concentrate on what Kakashi would telling them.

Naruto looked at Sakura and felt sorry for her. He knew how Kiba was and was worried about her safety. 'Hang in there, Sakura.' He thought glances at the clock. He hoped for his friend sake that class would end soon.

Sasuke watched Kiba's movements once again and glared. He saw the way he was looking at Sakura and saw all sorts of emotions running through his eyes. 'Well this has gotten complicated fast.' He thought bitterly trying to think of a plan that would help Sakura.

Sakura kept trying to steal glances behind her but she was too scared too. She knew that Kiba was watching her, she could still feel his eyes on her. They already confirmed that it was Kiba that wrote the letter so things felt weird for her now. She's been in the same class as Kiba since grade school but she never once thought he would like her. She wondered why he did like her. Maybe he would tell her today at the park.

Even though she didn't want to go, she couldn't just stand him up. She couldn't do that, it wouldn't be right. 'I'll just go and explain to him that I don't have the same kind of feelings that he has.' It sounded simple enough. Who knows, maybe Kiba will understand and will be cool about it. 'Yeah right.' She rolled her eyes at the thought.

Homeroom continued from there and Kakashi explained what the schedule would be like for the nest few days. Spring break was coming up soon and that meant classes wouldn't teach. All the teachers knew that it would be impossible to teach anything to students that had their minds on something else, so they would just pass out worksheets and leave them to themselves.

RING!

The bell to homeroom finally rang and all the students gathered their things to go to their next class. Sakura had all her stuff in her bag, ready for her next class, turning around to leave she was stopped when she bumped into someone.

"Oh. Sorry about that. I…" Whatever she was about to say died before it could reach her mouth. She looked up to see that she had bumped into Kiba. He was at least a head taller then her so he was staring down at her.

"Sakura…" He reached his hand out to her. She wasn't sure what he was aiming at and she never found out.

"SAKURA!" Naruto was by her side and was pulling at her arm. "Come on! You're going to be late for class." He pulled her out of the room before she could even utter a word.

Sasuke watched his blonde haired friend pull Sakura to her next class and sighed. Naruto really was a big idiot sometimes. He shook his head and turned his attention to Kiba. He was just standing there glaring at Sasuke.

"Something you wanna say to me?" He had his hands in his pockets. He looked Kiba right in the eye and waited for a response.

However he didn't get one. Kiba merely grabbed his own bag and walked past Sasuke to his own class. He was surprisingly very calm about everything and that worried Sasuke. Kiba had a temper almost as bad as Naruto's, so for him to be calm did not bold well for him.

"Better kept an eye on him today." He said to himself as he walked into class.

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"Naruto! Let me go!" Sakura smacked Naruto on his head making him release his hold on her arm. She had enough of him dragging her around.

"But Sakura!" He held his head in pain. He was used to Sakura hitting him but it was still scary how much strength she had. "I was only trying to help." He whined like a little kid.

"I know that but I can handle myself, Naruto." Sakura told him moving to the door or her class. "Look, you and Sasuke don't have to worry. I'll be fine." With that said she closed her classroom door, not waiting for Naruto to give a reply. She walked to her seat and sighed, resting her head on her desk. She wished she say that she really would be fine but she wasn't so sure. She had no clue what Kiba's reaction would be when she rejected him. She wished she had more girl friends to talk to.

Because of her friendship with Sasuke and Naruto, many of the other girls in school hated her. They viewed her as a slut and drama queen because she got to be with the two most popular guys in school. Sasuke because of his good looks and strength and Naruto for his personality and like Sasuke his strength too. The girls made sure to always at least once during the day remind her of their hatred. The only girl who didn't hate her was Hinata and she was out sick today.

"Man, life stinks." She sighed deciding to take a nap. She was in history now and the teacher liked her enough to let her sleep in class. They even made a deal, whenever Sakura decided to sleep in class she would have to get a 100 on her next three tests. It was easy enough for her to do since history was one of her best subjects. And it was yet another reason why many of the girls hated her.

"Taking a nap, I see." Sakura turned her head in her arms to see Shikamaru taking the seat next to her. He was another friend of hers, maybe not her best friend like Naruto and Sasuke, but they got along well together. "Rough day?" He asked putting his arms behind his head to stare up at the ceiling.

"You could say that." She sighed once again. She might as well tell Shikamaru too. He was a genius after all and she hoped he would be more help then Naruto and Sasuke had been. "Kiba Inuzuka wrote me a note today asking me out." She said loud enough for only him to hear. If word spread then she was sure that rumors would starts and things could only end badly for her if they did.

Shikamaru jumped in his chair at the name and looked towards her. "Inuzuka? Really?" He may have been a genius but that sounded too unreal to him. Even he couldn't wrap his mind around that.

Sakura nodded. "I found the note this morning in my locker. He wants me to meet him in the park today after school." She looked at the note again. It was written on plain white paper but had some designs of wings and stars on the sides of it and the handwriting was very nice. She could tell that he worked hard on it, not just because of the drawings, she's seen his handwriting before. It was almost like chicken scratch but you could tell that he worked hard to make it come out nice.

"So what you gonna do?" Shikamaru asked her bringing her out of her thoughts.

She wasn't sure herself. "I guess tell him that I don't like him that way and hope for the best."

Shikamaru snorted at her answer. "Yeah right. You tell him that and this whole school will be in hell." He said just thinking of the rage they would have to face.

"Well what do you want me to do? I don't want to date him just because you are all scared of what he'll do." She crossed her arms and stared at Shikamaru. Whatever nap she wanted to take was no longer an option. She needed Shikamaru's advice.

Shikamaru actually seemed to be thinking carefully about this. Normally he would just ignore a problem, saying it was too troublesome, but this time he seemed really focused. "Just tell him that you don't have feelings for him like he does you, but say that you would be willing to hang out with him to see if you could develop some. If not then he'll know it wasn't meant to be." He advised her more quietly now. The teacher had walked in by now and was looking as the two talked.

"But…" She hated to admit it but it sounded like a good plan. Too bad Kiba freaked her out. It wasn't she was scared of him, it was that she was afraid of what he could do. She has seen enough fights to know that if you possess strength and power you can hurt someone. And he did possess them but he never really seemed to control them and that's what scared her.

"Would you relax." Shikamaru told her. "He doesn't seem like that much of a bad guy. Just don't piss him off." He smirked at his joke about the short-tempered bully.

"Not funny, Shikamaru." Sakura muttered looking towards the board. She might as well copy down the notes; it may help her take her mind of things.

School came and went faster then it ever did for Sakura, she was in her last class of the day, science class. Their teacher was letting them watch a movie today so it was pretty clam for the most part. Too bad for Sakura she had class that class with Kiba who sat directly in front of her. More then once she had caught him turning around to look at her.

Like he had done in homeroom to her, she had watched him for most of the class time. He seemed to be really stiff and was abnormally quite. Not only that but he was awake, whenever a teacher played a movie in class he would always take a nap but this time he didn't. She wondered why.

RING!

The bed rang signaling the end of school. Many of the students would race to the door to escape, but Sakura patiently gathered her things waiting for the exit to clear. When she had everything ready and the exit was cleared, she made her way to the door but stopped when she was cut off by Kiba.

"Uh…?" She didn't know what she was supposed to say. He was blocking the doorway but he wasn't facing her. She was stuck staring at his back. "Kiba?" She called him wondering what he was doing.

"I…I'll see you later?" It was a question. He wasn't sure if she would really show up or not. Which wasn't a surprise; she basically spent the whole day avoiding him because of Naruto dragging her away every time they saw the boy. He probably thought she was already rejecting him.

"At the park right?" She asked trying to sound as calm as she wished she was.

Kiba only nodded his head. His hands were in his pockets but she was able to tell that they were balled in fists. He seemed even tenser then before.

For some reason seeing him like this it made Sakura smile. She wasn't as nervous now. "Do you want to meet by the park bench that's near the ice cream stand?" She asked him. In the note it only said the park, not a specific meeting spot. She thought it would be best if they decided now instead of searching the whole park looking for one another.

Kiba nodded his head again. "Yeah…that sounds good." He walked out of the class at that and took off towards his locker. He looked like he was in a hurry to Sakura.

"Guess he's nervous too." She said mostly to herself.

"Is everything alright, Sakura?" Her science teacher, Kurenai, walked up behind her. She had witnessed the event that took place between the two teens.

"Y-Yeah. Everything is fine." Sakura reassured her teacher and left the classroom. She made her way to her locker, making sure to avoid the legs that many girls had out to try and trip her. Jealous girls really were pathetic.

As she opened her locker she found yet another note. She opened it up and smiled at what she saw.

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I'll see you soon,

Kiba. =)

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Sakura wanted to laugh as she read it. "When did he do this?" She wondered closing her locker and left school. She was making her way towards the park and sudden felt really nervous. Whatever calm feeling she had before was gone and now she wanted to do nothing more then to runaway. She wanted so badly to run but she didn't. She would go and tell Kiba the truth. That she didn't have those kinds of feelings for him.

'Okay Sakura, you can do this. Just go in there and tell him what you need to say. You can do this!' She told herself standing in front of the park entrance.

She made her way into the park and slowly walked towards the bench that was near the ice cream stand. Very slowly she placed one foot in front of the other and was soon greeted with the sight of Kiba. She wanted to burst out laughing when she saw him. The usual cool and calm bully was busy pacing back and forth and seemed to be talking to himself.

'Probably giving himself a pep talk just I was doing.' She giggled thinking of what he might be saying. He looked almost cute to Sakura at this moment.

Though her giggled wasn't necessarily loud, Kiba somehow still heard her and stopped pacing to stare at her. He cleared his throat trying to act cool and not like the nervous boy that was just pacing seconds before.

"Um…hi." Sakura walked towards him trying to look everywhere but at him.

"Hi." He had one hand in his pocket and the other behind his head. Like Sakura he was looking everywhere but at her. There was a blush staining his cheeks.

As the two stood in front of each other, there was an uncomfortable silence. The only sound that was made was the wind that blew by them.

"So, what's your answer?" Kiba finally broke the ice and looked at her.

"Huh?" For a moment Sakura forgot what he was talking about.

"Your answer? To the note?" He asked again with a shy smile on his face. He seemed more nervous then she was at this point.

"Oh. Right." She looked towards the ground trying to find her words. She knew what she had to tell him, she had thought about it the whole day, so why couldn't she say them? What was stopping her? "Well you see…I…Uh…I…" She stole a quick glance at Kiba and her heart almost exploded. He was looking at her with a hopeful look in his eyes. A look of hope that she would say yes and not hurt him. A look that spoke volumes of the fear and anxiety he was feeling. "I…" She had to give him an answer. If she didn't she didn't know what would happen.