A/n: Ok so to be clear since someone didn't get it I used bits and pieces of Stephanie Meyer's book and my views on vampires are the same as hers so don't bit my head off about that. And it's not like this is going to be published work its fanfiction jezz.

Well anyway I'm really glad a lot of you really liked the story and I finally finished the second chapter!!

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Forbidden Fruit

Sakura handed in her slip and made her way out of the office. It took her a minute to realize she was holding her breath and she gasped trying to get air. "You alright Sakura?" she heard a familiar voice and saw Kiba.

"Hey." She smiled. "No I'm fine I just didn't realize I was holding my breath" she laughed. Kiba seemed like he was a really caring guy. She was glad that he was one of her first friends.

He laughed and shook his head. "I can't tell you how many times I've done that" he patted her on the head with his hand and sighed. "Hey me and Tenten were going to go grab a pizza you want to come with us?" he asked.

"Sure" Sakura said smiling.

"Cool you want to just follow us there?"

"Yeah sounds perfect. Which car is yours?" she asked looking out at the parking lot. Kiba pointed over towards a silver car and claimed it. "Alright" Sakura smiled and waved to him before hurrying to her car.

She pulled out her keys and then froze. She had the oddest feeling and slowly turned her head around. She went wide eyed seeing Gaara glaring at her before he got in his own black convertible. Sakura gulped and immediately turned to face her car. 'Oh god. Oh god' she repeated in her head and tried to unlock the car.

She slammed the door and locked it and then looked up. The black car was gone and she let out a relieved sigh. Sakura looked over and saw Kiba's car pull out and started her own. She followed him down the high way and tried to breathe evenly. The worst part was she couldn't tell if she was breathless from fear or something else.

They pulled into the parking lot of a promising looking joint. Sakura got out and was attacked, "Oh my god, Sakura! I'm so glad you came!" Tenten yelled hugging her tighter. Sakura let out a small laugh and was relieved when she was released.

"Well lets eat I'm starved" Kiba smiled and went ahead of them. The two laughed and Sakura walked to the door opening it and freezing. Her gaze met with the angry glare of Gaara.

"Excuse me" he said almost sounding like he was trying to be polite. He squeezed past her since she was too paralyzed to move out of the door way. He tried to move around her but her shoulder touched his making him stiffen and hold back a hissing sound. He then rushed out as fast as possibly.

"Sakura are you alright?!" Kiba asked shaking her shoulder. She shook out of her trance and looked at him.

"Yeah. Why?" she wondered looking at him curiously.

"He didn't hurt you did he?" was his reply to her question.

"Ugh no. Why would he?"

"Heheh. No reason" he rubbed the back of his head and sweat dropped. Sakura looked back quick enough to catch Tenten throw him a glare.

"How about we just eat" Sakura suggested breaking up the tension.

"Of course" Tenten smiled and walked in. Sakura followed and Kiba trailed behind. They ordered a pepperoni and sausage pizza and Kiba ate practically half of it.

"Does he always eat so much?" she questioned Tenten. She nodded sadly.

"He's practically a weirdo in all factors" Tenten sighed twirling her hair around on a finger. Sakura laughed and then her eyes locked with the pizza clock on the wall and went wide eyed.

"Oh my god! I didn't know it was so late!" she yelled grabbing her hair. Tenten looked up at the time and sighed.

"Wow it is late. I didn't even notice it was 9 o'clock" she smiled and looked back at Sakura.

"Well it was really fun guys. I'm so glad you invited me. I'll see you tomorrow" Sakura waved and slide out of the booth. She hurried out to her car and got in. It started it; she pulled out and drove onto the highway to head home.

She turned up the radio and bobbed her head a bit getting lost in the music until something in her rearview mirror captivated her attention. There was a black convertible right behind her on the highway.

Sakura was now wide eyed and breathing loudly. "No Sakura your being stupid it's just a coincidence that the person headed home has the same car as him." She told herself shaking her head.

Her stomach dropped and she could feel her hands sweating. She was relieved when she saw her house and pulled into the drive way behind her father's car. The convertible speed by obviously not concerned with the speed limit. She grabbed her school bag and got out almost falling to the ground.

Sakura sustained her balance and hurried to the door. She slammed it behind her and let out another relieved sigh. "Sakura?" Kakashi blinked and looked at her as he know stood in the hallway. "Are you ok? Where were you? You look scared to death" he said looking worried.

Sakura tried to put together a sentence that wouldn't make her dad freak out. "Ugh no I just met some new friends today and we went out for pizza after school. Then I remembered I had homework so I rushed home" she said leaving out her paranoia.

"Well alright, did you have fun?" he asked. She nodded and pushed past him. "Alright well I probably wont see you till morning so good night" he called.

"Yeah, night" she said. Although she had no intention of doing the homework she had received. Sakura yawned and threw her backpack in her room. "I'm so tired" she said to herself and mentally decided she would take a shower and then head to bed. She stepped into the bathroom and turned the hot water on which only made her drowsier. After the quick rinse she stepped out and wrapped her fluffy towel around her. She grabbed her other towel and dried her hair.

Sakura grabbed her brush and brushed the tangles from the shower out and barely made it to her room before falling on the bed. "I should change" she mumbled to herself. She hadn't even bothered to turn on the light and her eyes closed before she could force herself to get dressed.

-

The house was silent and dark. A dark shadow loomed over the sleeping pink haired teen. His fingers traced her open hand lightly, her small slender fingers weakly grabbed his and he didn't pull away. His grip tightened and this was all it took for her to wake up.

Her eyes shot open only to be met with complete darkness. She felt some weight on top of her and then realized she was holding someone's hand. Sakura also noted there was a hand covering her eyes. Panic swept over her and she was about to scream. But she stopped hearing a growl.

"W-What do you want?" she asked tears forming in her covered eyes. He didn't answer but she felt him lean forward and then felt hot breath on her neck. She tried to free her hand from this mans but he wouldn't let go. He pressed his lips against her neck making her wince.

He opened his mouth and his teeth were pressed against her neck making her heart beat rapidly fast. Then suddenly it was gone. She looked up at her ceiling and around the dark, but in fact empty room. "What the hell?" she looked around wide eyed.

She stood up holding her towel close to her and ran to turn on the lights. There was indeed no one in the room. She hurried to her dresser and began searching for clothes to wear. She slowed her searching and turned her head to look out the window. She walked over and looked everywhere she could but saw no one.

She opened it shivering against the cold but forced her head out and looked around. She sighed and closed the window, "Was I just dreaming about that?" she asked herself rubbing her hand on the space of her neck where the strangers mouth had been.

Gaara stood on the edge of the roof looking down at the window. "Don't even start I know I was being stupid" he answered an unasked question. He turned his head only a bit to see Ino standing a little behind him.

"I knew you would be here" she said with her arms folded across her chest.

"Why am I not surprised?" he said turning back to looking forward.

"That was stupid Gaara" she hissed.

"It's no big deal its not like she saw me. She thinks she was being raped"

"You were going to bite her!!" she almost yelled. "You were about to destroy everything Tsunade worked for! She saved you and you were the first you haven't had human blood in so long. Why would you do something like this?"

"Her smell"

"What?"

"Her smell" he repeated. "I could barely restrain myself at school. She smells absolutely delicious. Cherry Blossoms and the purest sent of blood" he said as if it were absolutely mouthwatering.

"Gaara you stalked her all day, didn't you?" Ino asked tapping her foot on the roof.

A smirk came across the red head's face, "Yes. She is so frightened of me and yet for some reason she won't stop thinking about me. Even right now she's dreaming about me"

"That's an invasion of privacy Gaara" Ino smirked. She shook her head and walked beside him. "Just don't lose control again" she warned.

"Don't worry. That will never happen again, it was a bad situation. I mean she was practically naked. What was I supposed to do?" he asked looking down at her.

"Thank you I SO needed to know that" she rolled her eyes and stretched. "Well be good I'm gone don't stay too long" she said.

"Yeah whatever" he gave her a joking look.

And as she came she was gone. Gaara jumped down silently and landed beside her window. He slid it open and looked inside. She was on her bed again this time under the covers. He gave a small smile and slipped inside. "I wonder what you're dreaming about now?" he asked himself and closed his eyes.

His eyes shot open and he actually fell backwards startling Sakura awake once again. She looked around with narrowed eyes and slowly got out of bed. She grabbed the bat she placed beside her bed and held it up tightly. Gaara looked through a crack in her closet shutters and held back a chuckle.

She looked over to the closet and a small sense of panic shot through him. She threw the doors open and looked side to side at the empty closet. Sakura relaxed and let the bat fall to her side and climbed back into bed. After he was sure she was asleep once again he dropped down from holding himself at the ceiling of the closet. "What a light sleeper" he said to himself quite aggravated with this fact.

He went beside her again and looked down at her sleeping face. "Night" he smiled and went to the window. He opened it silently and climbed through. Sakura shivered in the cold air and her eyes slowly open.

Gaara froze hearing an ear shattering scream. He looked back still seeing his foot barely out the room, "Shit" he cursed. Sakura jumped out of bed and ran to the window. She looked around horrified as no one was there. She got out of the window herself and looked around from on the roof.

"What the hell is going on!?" she yelled pulling on her pink hair.

She heard her door burst open and the cocking of and shotgun. "Sakura! What's wrong?!" Kakashi yelled. Sakura slid back into the room and saw him.

"Dad I don't know what the HECK is going on!" she yelled throwing her arms up in the air. "I think I might have finally snapped. I'm seeing things and feeling things! I don't want to be crazy!" she cried.

He went over to her and hugged her, "Oh sweetheart you aren't crazy this is just after shock from what happened. I knew it was bound to happen sometimes don't worry I'm sure everything will be all right"

Sakura nodded and hugged him back. "I really just want to sleep" she said. He nodded understanding that she was just releasing kept up feelings. He led her to her bed and pulled up the covers kissing her forehead before he left.

-

The next morning . . .

"Hey Sakura . . . whoa you don't look so good" Kiba said his mood changing from excited to worried.

"Ugh I didn't get ANY sleep last night. It was THE weirdest night of my life" she sighed. "At first there was this . . . this guy on me and I think he was kissing my neck and then all of a sudden he was gone. Then I woke up again because I heard a thump and THEN I saw him leave! But he was gone and out of sight before I got to the window to chase him! I don't know if I've gone insane or there's some psycho rapist out here" she said sounding miserable.

She looked up at Kiba to see a horrified look on his face. "What's wrong?" Sakura asked waving her hand in front of his face. She was started when he grabbed her wrist and looked more serious then he ever had.

"You said he was near your neck? The whole time?" he asked.

She nodded and thought about last night, "Yeah, first he was just like I guess kissing it and then I thought he was going to bite me"

"I'll see you in first period Sakura. I have to go do something" he said dropping her hand and rushing off.

"Ooook," she said awkwardly. Sakura made her way down the hall not paying attention as she thought about Kiba's reaction. She slammed into a wall, or so she thought. She looked up to see the red head, Gaara, and she turned completely red.

"I'm so sorry" she mumbled grabbing her bag that had slipped off her shoulder.

"Its fine," he said, yet he still had his glare set in place. That's when she noticed it.

"Um if you don't mind me asking, did you get colored contacts?" she asked noting his pale sea foam green eyes.

"No."

"But . . . yesterday . . . they were black"

"No they weren't"

"Yes they were" she said so sure that the other day they were black.

"No they weren't what were you doing staring at them?" he taunted.

Sakura blushed at the statement, 'Crap. Caught' she looked up seeing a smug look on his gorgeous face. She then realized he wasn't glaring at her anymore. 'Wow this is really weird' she thought to herself and then blurted out the question.

"Do you hate me?"

He stared at her utterly perplexed. "Why would I hate you?" he wondered.

"Well . . ." she trailed off feeling utterly stupid now. "I mean yesterday you looked like you wanted to rip me apart or something . . ." she stopped hoping this didn't make her look as crazy as she felt.

He paused for a second and stared at her. She almost melted when a small smirk came to his face, "I can assure you that I do not hate you, yesterday I was very . . . on edge" he said choosing his words. Sakura began breathing faster as she noticed how closely they were standing together by now.

He stared down at her with his smirk and she felt the blush burning her cheeks. His look shot up and he looked directly over her head, "Um" he began and looked back down at her "I'll see you later I guess. But I have to go now" he said moving past her gracefully.

Sakura turned around and saw him walking toward the older red head. He was gorgeous as Gaara was but his glare towards her sent shivers down her spine. She saw them exchange words and Gaara clearly ignored the older brother.

"Wow . . . this place is more then crazy" she sighed and continued on her way to her first period.

"Hey your Sakura right" she heard an angelic voice from behind her. She turned and saw Ino, Gaara's adopted sister. Sakura nodded and watched her as she came beside her.

"I'm Ino" her smile was beautiful and she held her perfect hand out to her. Sakura took it and they shook, "It's very nice to meet you. How do you like it here?" she asked still in her angelic voice.

"Oh well it's very nice to meet you too" Sakura smiled, finally feeling comfortable. Ino's presence was relaxing it almost felt like they were destined to be friends. "And it's ok, a little different. I've never not seen the sky" she laughed.

Ino nodded, "I would assume so. So I was wondering would you like to sit with me at lunch today. Gaara and I would be overjoyed to have you grace us with your presence"

Sakura blushed hearing the overly attractive red head's name. "Sure, I would love to sit with you guys" she smiled.

"Fabulous!" Ino clapped her hands together and gave the warmest smile Sakura had ever seen. "This is great Sakura I really wanted to become friends with you. You were just hanging with those people yesterday. I didn't want to interrupt and start something" she sighed and then her eyes darted to the side of Sakura.

Tenten walked up right beside Sakura almost looking as if she was placing herself between her and Ino. "I didn't know you were friends with her" she tried to hold back the hiss. Sakura looked from one to the other feeling the tension between the two.

"Yes, Sakura and I are friends. She's going to sit with me at lunch today. I hope that's ok with you" she said making the question apparent with sarcasm.

"Maybe its not" the brunette glared.

"Then get over it" Ino said, her smile turning into a sinister smirk. Tenten twitched and her hands balled into fists. "Don't get to angry dog" Ino held back her snicker as she walked off into class.

Tenten glared after her and then turned to face Sakura. "I really hate her" she huffed.

"Why?" Sakura asked. "She was really nice and I liked her? What's the deal?"

Tenten rolled her eyes, "She might be "nice" but I know what she really is . . ." she trailed off glaring at the wall.

Sakura looked at her and waved her hand in front of her friends face. It got her attention and she returned her gaze to Sakura, "And what exactly is she?"

Tenten locked gazes with Sakura and there was a long pregnant pause. "She's a blood sucker" she spat out making Sakura go wide eyed.

"You mean . . ." Sakura trailed off. Tenten nodded with hard eyes, Sakura's mouth dropped "She's one of those weirdo's who drinks the blood of her lovers cuts?! Like when they do it?!"

Tenten almost fell back as she staggered to recover from Sakura's thoughts. "Sakura no I meant-" but the bell cut Tenten off and Sakura had already rushed into class.

They were writing down the vocabulary on the board but Sakura's eyes always found their way over to Ino who was working diligently. There was no way a nice girl like that was a freak. But then why had Ino called Tenten a dog. Tenten was nice too and really fun to be around. She didn't do anything that would seem well doggish. Sakura groaned as she leaned back in her chair when she was done with her words.

This was really weird and for some reason this little feud seemed more then just high school cliques. She sighed and tapped her pencil impatiently on the desk. She really wanted to talk to Ino about what Tenten meant. The bell finally rang and Sakura grabbed her things and headed out of the room.

-

Sakura laughed with Kiba and Tenten as he had just been telling a joke. She paid for her lunch and turned straight into Gaara, "Hey" he said with a charming smile.

Sakura blinked and smiled back at him. She felt the stairs on her back and turned her head to see Kiba and Tenten almost glaring at Gaara. "Ugh I promise to sit with you guys tomorrow but I made Ino a promise" she gave the two a warm smile.

Tenten rolled her eyes and walked to their table with Kiba close behind her. She looked back up at Gaara who gestured to a table where Ino sat alone. Gaara and Sakura sat down on one side and Ino smiled up at her.

"Hey Sakura, so how has your morning been?" she asked kindly.

"Pretty good," she began taking a bite of an apple. "Same boring subjects and all . . ." Sakura sighed and then remembered about her conversation with Tenten. "Hey Ino I was wondering if I could ask you something" she said swallowing her apple piece.

"Anything." The blond assured.

"Well this morning I heard you call Tenten a . . . dog," she was almost positive she saw Gaara throw a glare in Ino's direction. "And when you left . . ." she took a breath and looked her friend dead on "she called you a blood sucker."

Ino's eyes slanted and her eyes focused on something behind her and she knew she was glaring at Tenten. "Really now?" she said closing her blue eyes. When she opened them again she was staring Sakura down, "And what did you think of that?"

"Well I can't imagine you being on of those weirdoes, who enjoy stuff like that. I mean it's gross to cut someone and then lick their blood" she was interrupted as Ino broke out laughing.

"Oh Sakura, sweet Sakura I can assure you I do not do that. That's weird and sadistic," she sighed and Sakura felt so relieved.

"I knew that wasn't true. But why do you guys hate each other?" she wondered.

"It's a long complicated story" Gaara said finally entering the conversation. Sakura couldn't help but stare at him, he was just so gorgeous. A smile came across his face and his words made Sakura turn red, "Sakura, you're drooling" he teased.

"Wow Gaara, could you be any more conceited?" Ino asked rolling her eyes. Sakura tried to force down her blush as she stared down at the table.

"What I can't help but notice the obvious" he smiled sheepishly and shrugged. The bell rang releasing the students to their next class and Sakura sighed.

"Well see you in class" she said to Gaara getting up and making her way to throw out her stuff. Both Ino and Gaara looked at each other they got up and followed Kiba and Tenten with their eyes.

They walked out into the hallway and the two brunettes stopped and turned around. The tardy bell rang and Gaara and Ino stood beside each other facing Tenten and Kiba.

"Any particular reason you told our new little friend about blood suckers" Ino seethed looking at the two.

"I heard that you had to follow a rule of keeping your existence a secret. If someone knew than you might have to be killed" Tenten glare back.

"Oh how very kind of you, werewolf" she snapped back.

"Sakura is our friend and it's dangerous for her to be near you" Kiba said crossing his arms.

"Being around us is safer then her being around you" Gaara said sternly. "We can control ourselves our anger and emotions don't rule us" his smirk was taunting.

"Don't even start vampire I know you were practically hunting Sakura yesterday" he said getting angrier by the second. Tenten let out a low growl and Ino hissed baring her fanged teeth at the two. Gaara held out his hand in front of Ino holding her back as her angry gaze met his.

"Don't stoop to their level Ino, if Sakura wants to be-friend us she will and if these idiots blow our secret we can easily remove them from the picture" he threatened looking at the two.

"HEY! Get to class!" a teacher ordered. They all looked at him and then went off in opposite directions.