Two weeks after that fateful day...

Police Officer Gaara slid a single cigar in between his lips as he reread the suicide bomber's profile for the tenth time that day. Since all the suicide bombings he had dealt with in his career as a policeman, they had all been set up by a cult or organizations of sorts. Hopefully, by learning more about this suicide bomber when he was alive, Gaara could find out who set him up to it and start a search to arrest.

'Hmm...Orochimaru. A Caucasian male, around 40 years old. He's a registered sex offender, for kidnapping and raping a young boy, and had lived in several other places before having moved here about 5 years ago. He usually stayed held up in his home, and he was barely ever seen by anyone. But, then he disappeared a few weeks ago, and then reappeared without notice and blew himself up inside Konoha High...how strange.'

Gaara threw his head back and sighed as he stared up at the ceiling. 'Dammit...things are just too confusing nowadays. Where's a simple bank robbery when you need one? What could have driven a perverted recluse like him into doing something like that? Well, alot of things, actually...'

Suddenly, his inner monologue was interrupted when Kankuro burst into the room, with a worried look on his face.

"GAARA, SOMETHING TERRIBLE HAS HAPPENED!" he exclaimed.

"...What is it?" Gaara asked. Sometimes, he found it hard to believe that he and Kankuro were actually related.

"THAT GIRL...YAMANAKA INO...SHE'S GONE!"

And all that was left in her place...was a single flower petal.


Ever since Hinata had come out the hospital, she spent all of her time at home in a deep depression. Sakura visited her hilltop estate every day, but not once did Hinata ever open the door for her or even come down from her room to speak with her. Sakura couldn't tell if Hinata was still too traumatized to speak to her...or if the Hyuga girl was avoiding her on purpose.

'Well, I can't really blame her...she was raped, after all. And by one of MY friends, of all people! I'll never forgive Ino for what she did!' Sakura thought to herself as she walked away from the Hyuga mansion after being turned away once again.

As Sakura passed by the school, she looked up and stared at it for a while. Konoha High was now under tight police surveillance during the reconstruction, and a funeral for Nagato-sensei was also being held that day.

Sakura tried her hardest to remember, but she never recalled seeing a 'Nagato-sensei' at their school at any time before his death was announced.

'Meh...I probably just forgot about him...' she came to that conclusion as she continued to walk on back to her house.

The entire time she was walking, Sakura never noticed the man with half-black/half-white skin following her, tracking her every move...


Hinata was curled up like a ball, lying on top of her bed and crying silently to herself. She was shaking violently and her inner emotions were running wild. She had a chair and her desk barred up against her bedroom door, to keep anyone from coming in. Yes, she was still terribly traumatized, but the thing that really scared her...

...was that she actually somewhat enjoyed being dominated like that. She wanted to go through that painful, yet intoxicating, sexual experience again.

That very thought made Hinata feel like she was losing her mind.

'I...I have to do something soon...' she thought to herself as she crawled off her bed and made her way to the door. With relative ease, she pushed both the chair and the desk to the side, and slowly made her way downstairs to the front door...


Inuzuka Kiba was reading some erotic fiction on his computer when he heard the doorbell ring. Since his parents were out, and his sister was hanging with her friends, Kiba had no choice but to answer the door himself.

The doorbell rang again as the dog boy dragged his feet across the floor. "Hold yer fuckin' horses! Jeez..." Kiba snapped when the doorbell rang for a third time.

When he finally opened the door, he was surprised to see Sasuke and Naruto standing in the doorway.

"Eh? What do you two dorks want?" Kiba asked, scratching his neck.

Bowing so far that his glasses slipped off, Sasuke exclaimed, "Umm...uh...MAY YOU TEACH US THE ART OF FIGHTING, INUZUKA-SENSEI?"

Naruto nodded and, bowing as well, added, "WE WANT TO BE STRONG AND BADASS LIKE YOU...SENSEI! WE WANT TO FIGHT LIKE GANGSTERS, SO WE CAN PROTECT BOTH SAKURA-CHAN AND HINATA!"

Both Kiba and Akamaru were completely caught off-guard by this sudden request.

'This is a load of bullshit!' Kiba thought, 'These two losers actually think they can learn to fight like me? I mean, shouldn't they ask Shino? He's beaten me 18 out of the 20 times we've fought...but then again, by training these guys I can prove I'm actually SUPERIOR to that Aburame bastard! Hell yeah, it'll be so sweet when I rub it in his face!'

Barely able to keep his overconfident laughter inside his head, Kiba smirked and replied, "I've made my decision. Sasuke...Naruto...you two shall be my apprentices!"

Akamaru let out a whimper of disapproval, but Kiba ignored him.