Sorry for the long wait guys, I actually wrote this yesterday on paper, but since I was grounded from the computer I couldn't type it up. But I did today, and I have finished the next chapter (which is handwritten) and should be up tomorrow, depending on the amount of homework I have.

Hope you enjoy it, and don't worry I have not given up on this story. I think it's one of my favourites, so yeah. If you have patience, hopefully I'll get this story fully completed by the end of the year. Keeping in mind it will have about 30 or more chapters. So yeah, huge story. ;)

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Chapter 2

It had taken 5 weeks for them to finally be able to master their Shifter forms. Sakura helping them all the way of course, with her egging them on and cheering them on when they got further in the transformation. They were always together during the moon lit nights, for that was the only time they could be together without being caught by either kingdom.

They had been meeting for 30 years from the age of 80 and 70 until the ages of 110 and 100. No one knew that they had been meeting, but a certain cat shifter had noticed that his little sister kept leaving the Haven as night and decided to see what she was up to at that god for saken time. This was his mistake…

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He followed her when she climbed out of her window one night. Stealthily, he shifted into a cheetah and followed her tiger form through the bush.

'Where is she going?' Yuri thought to himself as he followed his sister through the woods.

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Sakura entered the clearing to see Sasuke and Naruto shifting from their animal forms into their human forms.

"Hey Sakura!" Yelled Naruto in greeting as Sakura shifted back to a human as well. Her pink dress swaying in the breeze.

"Hey Naruto, hey Sasuke-kun. How's the shifting?" Sakura asked as she skipped towards them, oblivious to the fact that they were being watched.

"Hn, we're getting better at it. I can shift into my wolf form completely, and Naruto just needs to get the teeth right," Sasuke said as Naruto and Sakura stared at him with wide eyes.

"What?" Sasuke asked as they continued staring.

"I think that's the most I've ever heard you say, teme." Naruto said, starting to laugh. Sakura soon joined in. Sasuke blushed looking away.

"So this is where you have been going each moonlight night, hey Sakura?" Yuri stepped out from behind a tree, glaring at the blonde and black haired boys.

"Yuri? What are you doing here?" Sakura asked fearfully as she stepped towards her brother, hey eyes wide.

"I followed you. I noticed you were always disappearing at night, so I wanted to know why," Yuri stepped forward making Sakura grab his cloak, begging him to leave them alone. "They are dogs, Sakura. Dogs! We do not socialize with dog-shifters. You should know that," Yuri looked at his sister pleadingly. "If we ever see one we are meant to kill them. Stand back, my sister."

"NO! Yuri, don't!" Sakura screamed, clinging to his top, tears streaming down her face.

"I'm sorry, little sister, but it is law. Do not cry," Yuri said looking away. He hated it when his sister cried or was upset, it made him sad and angry. Everytime he saw her cry, he wanted to rip apart the one who made her cry, but in this case, it was himself that made her break.

"Who cares about the law? They are my best friends. I will not allow you to hurt them," Sakura yelled in his face, as she stepped back, tears still falling, but her face was contorted with anger instead of sadness. Yuri was taken back. Never had they fought like this before. They were always peaceful with one another.

"Do not be stupid, my sister, step away," Yuri was also getting mad, being defied over something that should be easy to decide.

"I will stand here as long as it takes for you to turn around and leave. You may be 190 years old and I may be 100, but I will fight you, my brother," and with that said, Sakura crouches, her eyes turning to those of a cats.

"I will not fight you. You are my sister. If you really care about these dogs, then promise me you will never see them again and I shall forget this ever happened." Yuri smiled sadly down at his sister as he grabbed her hand, pulling her up.

"Brother… thankyou," Sakura hugged him and then turned around to face the open-mouthed, shocked dog-shifters.

"I'm s-sorry, but he's r-right. Law is l-law," Sakura could no longer stand there looking at the broken-hearted Naruto and crushed Sasuke. Naruto's face showed his sadness, and Sasuke's eyes showed his despair. She turned away and ran through the woods. Tears streaming down her face as she ran, and her dress tearing on random branches.

"I mean this in the best way: Stay away from my little sister. Only death awaits you if you continue to try and see her. You will only bring pain and misery to her and yourselves. For not you or her can ever be truly together. If you truly care for my sister, you will understand." Yuri looked at them seriously as he turned away to follow his sister. But Sasuke's words made him stop,

"Why do you fight in this war? Because of the past between our kinds, or for your own cause? If it's because of our past, you are a fool, for that was thousands of years ago. Live in the now, not in the past," Sasuke stood tall as he faced off with Yuri. Naruto stood next to him, watching with wide eyes.

"I fight to protect my people. I fight to protect my family. This is my cause."

"What if we did no longer need to fight? We can bring peace between our lands. Why fight when peace can be made?"

"No peace will ever be made. Not while your family rules." Yuri said, staring at Sasuke's now shocked face, "Yes, I know you are the prince. I can smell not only wolf on you, but the whole other dog species just rising to the surface of your knowledge. Soon you will be able to shift into all of them. Sakura is too young to fully know how to unleash all her powers. She can not yet smell this on you, but soon she will be able to. I shan't tell her, but do not speak of things you cannot change. War will always be upon us, nothing you do can change that. So don't go saying nonsense like that." By this time Yuri had gotten so agitated his teeth had sharpened as well as his claws and his eyes were those of a cats'.

"It is not nonsense. I shall make it happen when I am king," Sasuke's eyes were red, but apart from that he was calm.

"I'm sure you'll make your father proud, Uchiha." Yuri said disdainfully as he recalled the day his father died at the hands of the Uchiha king and elder prince, "but at least he took down two Uchiha's with him." Yuri continued as he cut off Sasuke's attempts to talk. "This is also why I fight. So I can kill every dog shifter there ever was for what you've done to my family." And with that said, Yuri disappeared; unaware of the lies he just spoke.