Updated! Phew! Hi guys! Long time no see…haha. School started already, and being the senior in the school, there's so many things to do like taking care of the art club, and the creative writing, and the house's marching, and the class...(paused, stare at readers)

...ahem,hehe sorry!Anyway enough of me talking!

Again, million thanks to those who reviewed!

Joekool- hey, I never thought of it that way…you're absolutely correct! Haha. Humans CAN get along (if they'd stop killing each other first…)

Moonlight Star Phoenix-I'm evil to Tsubasa? Gasp! In what ways I'm evil towards her! Good then! Hahaha…

Twisted irony- You are just like your name, TWISTED. Hahah, jk jk. Happy going back to asrama sista!

Okay…on with the story!

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Cat and Dog

Chapter 3

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"Akamaru, GO!" Kiba shouted.

Tsubasa narrowed her eyes as she watched the giant dog flew towards her. She closed her eyes and performed her Body Flicker Jutsu, disappeared from where she stood and reappearing right behind Kiba.

"Sukiyari!" she shouted and pulled out a kunai, and aiming it at Kiba's neck.

Kiba turned around and stopped her kunai in mid air with his own, "You play dirty,"

"That's not dirty," she gritted her teeth as she pushed harder. "Yue-chan!"

The cat jumped and lunged towards them.

Tsubasa pushed herself off him and landed a few feet away from Kiba. She raised her arm to her side and Yue landed on it. Tsubasa did hand signals with her other hand and smoke started appearing on her arm where Yue had landed.

Kiba narrowed his eyes, what trick was that? The smoke was surrounding her, he doesn't even know where her real location was.

Kiba kept quiet, readying himself for her attack. The smoke was disappearing, and he could see her silhouette. Then she jumped towards him.

Tsubasa lunged towards her opponent, thrusting out her right arm where Yue had landed, "Cat's Claws!" she shouted and aimed her arm at Kiba.

He dodged the attack, studying the new weapon on her arm. Her cat had disappeared, and somehow her arm was connected with four sharp metal claws.

Tsubasa did a back flip right over Kiba's head and tapped her other arm with her clawed one. Four more claws appeared on her other arm and she lunged towards him again.

Damn that cat, she's using her own jutsu. Kiba looked around, "Akamaru!"

The dog barked and appeared beside him. "Beast Bunshin no Jutsu!" Two Kibas appeared standing beside each other. "Let's go!" he shouted and ran towards Tsubasa.

"Gatsuuga!"

Tsubasa saw two tornados-like moving towards her. She closed her eyes again and disappeared.

Kiba's and Akamaru's Gatsuuga missed her and they stop themselves and looked around. Kiba sniffed for Tsubasa's scent and finally found her standing on a tree's branch.

"Scared to come down?" he said, grinning.

"Hah! You wish!" Tsubasa placed her arms across each other in front of her and jumped off the tree. She was running towards him at full speed.

She's fast, Kiba bit his lips, his eyes moving hurriedly to find her. "Ouch!" he felt her sharp claw hit his arm. She disappeared again. One more hit on his knee. Another hit, and another.

Kiba couldn't take it anymore. He looked over and saw that Akamaru was being attack too, until he finally let go of the Beast Bunshin no Jutsu and reappeared as his dog version again.

Damn you, he thought and focused his thought. Another hit, another one, and another.

Blood was pouring from his body from the slashes that she made, but Kiba didn't care, he was deep in thought, focusing on her rhythm of attacks.

"There!" Kiba shouted and grabbed for the air. His arms caught Tsubasa's foot while she was running.

Tsubasa's eyes widened. No one had ever caught her Flash Steps before.

"Found you!" Kiba smirked, pulled her using her foot and spun her around. After a while he finally let go of Tsubasa's foot and she flew over the ground until she finally hit a tree trunk and fell into a pond under it.

Kiba panted, still dizzy from the spinning and fell to the ground.

"Game over!" he heard Kurenai shouted and the next second she appeared beside him.

"You okay Kiba?" the jounin asked. Kiba raised his shaken hand up and showed a thumb up. He grinned and Kurenai shook her head, smiling.

"Kurenai-sensei! She can't swim!" they heard Hinata shouted from over where Tsubasa had fallen.

Kiba's eyes widened, what? Why he was feeling worried for her, he didn't know. Maybe he wasn't thinking straight, with the dizzy feeling in his head.

He wanted to stand up, but Kurenai pushed him down, "rest," she said and disappeared in a poof.

"Akamaru?" Kiba called out and heard his dog barked in reply. The said dog walked towards it's owner and licked him. Kiba studied his dog.

No scratch, no wound. "Hey, you're okay," he laughed sourly. Akamaru barked.

Kiba tried to sit up, his body felt sore, with the number of slashes on it. He looked over one arm which had around three slashes. It was bleeding, but the wounds weren't deep.

Akamaru helped him sit up and let his master leaned against his body. Kiba checked himself. Yes, there were slashes on him, and they were bleeding, but the cuts weren't as deep as he thought.

She didn't try to cut me fully? Kiba thought as he watched his teammates pulled out the Maneki girl. She was soaked to the bone, her black cat outfit sticking to her flesh, strands of her hair came out from its bun and framed her face, and she was panting hard for air.

Shino and Hinata helped carry Tsubasa towards Kiba, Kurenai holding her cat.

They placed Tsubasa beside him and he can hear her irregular breathing. She had no wounds on her body, unlike him, but she was shivering.

"I hope both of you are satisfied now," Kurenai smirked. "The reason I let the two of you fight is so that all of your anger towards each other will be pulled out. Now that that's complete, will you finally able to work with each other?"

Kiba and Tsubasa looked at their teacher. Tsubasa nodded and held out her arms, her mouth moving, but no sound came out since she was still panting hard.

Kurenai understood and handed Tsubasa her cat.

Kiba watched the soaked girl beside him, examining her pet carefully, looking for any wounds. The cat was squirming weakly in her arms.

After noticing there were no wounds, Tsubasa hugged the cat closed to her chest, running her hand through its wet fur and looking somewhat relieved.

She really loved her cat huh, Kiba thought as he looked at Akamaru behind him. He smiled at the dog. He was glad that his dog wasn't hurt too.

"So Kiba was the winner," Shino said. Hinata smiled at the of them, "You both were great,"

Kiba smiled weakly, "Thanks," so he had won the cat and dog fight.

Then his eyes caught Tsubasa trying to stand up, though she was still swaying.

"Sit down, you're still weak," Kurenai told her and held her shoulders when she was almost falling.

"No," Tsubasa was still panting. "Yue-chan took the hit for me, when we hit the tree trunk, I-I need to check her,"

"She was the metal claws, wasn't she?" Kurenai asked, letting go of Tsubasa.

The Maneki girl nodded. "Can I be excuse?"

Kurenai nodded and Tsubasa began walking away. Then suddenly she stopped and turned her head around, "Congratulation," she said to Kiba and continued walking.

Hinata sat beside Kiba and began checking his wounds and trying to heal them.

"These wounds aren't deep at all. They're merely scratches," Hinata said after a while.

"What?" Kiba asked surprised.

Hinata pulled up his arm and pushed his sleeve away so they could see his skin. "See?" the Hyuuga pointed to the wounds.

Kiba looked at his bloodied arm. The bleeding had stopped and he could see the gashes clearly. "Does it hurt?" Hinata asked.

"…not really,"

"Akamaru looks fine too," Shino said, looking at his dog. "I saw him being attack, but he has no wounds at all,"

Akamaru barked in reply. Kiba told them, "He said he's not hurt,"

Kurenai blinked and smiled, "Well how about that, she didn't really hit you Kiba,"

What was that supposed to mean? That she could've won the match easily if she cut him?

Does that mean that he didn't really win?

Kiba bit his lips.

Before he was proud that he had won the match, it showed to him that dogs are better than cats.

But now he felt like a loser. She wasn't being totally serious on the whole match.

He didn't win the match fairly…

…no, he won the match because…

….she was taking pity on him.

"Dammit!", Kiba punched the ground in his anger.

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Yue meowed at her owner. Tsubasa kept walking, holding her cat firmly in her hands.

"What do you mean I wasn't being serious?" the Maneki asked. "I hit him good,"

The cat meowed in disagreement.

"No, I won't take a rematch. He won it," she said, feeling disappointed at herself for losing. Another rematch would end up in the same way again. She doesn't want to be beaten twice.

It hurt her pride as a Cat clan member that she had lost. And that a member Inuzuka had won hurt her pride even more.

It doesn't really matter…I don't care. It was just a stupid match.

Yue meowed again, this time a bit angrily.

Tsubasa sighed, "okay okay, fine! I admit I didn't hit him seriously. Are you happy?" she asked the cat and smiled softly. "I didn't know which was who. I can't injure an animal…you know that…"

And it was true. The reason she didn't cut him good wasn't because she couldn't. She had a lot of openings and opportunities, but it was when she was running quickly in her Flash Steps, she couldn't tell which of the two Kibas was Akamaru.

And it was in her oath—as a person who dreams on becoming a vet soon and as an animal lover—that she will never hit or hurt an animal.

Even if it was a dog…her natural enemy.


Okay, review please! This would probably be the last time I update my stories (I'll try to make it during Chinese New Year though.) In the mean time, tell me what you think ok!

Oh, and if you'd like, read my Soba ni Iru Kara story too! It's a collection of drabbles about the pairings in Naruto. Um, yeah that's all.

Ja ne!