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(Sakuras' POV)

When I awoke, I found myself staring at familiar white ceilings, white ceilings I knew better than any other thirteen year old and probably eve most adults. Out of the corner of my eye I caught a glimpse of cream-colored fur and felt soft breath tickling the hairs on the back of my neck. I smirked, knowing just who it was before turning to face the deep crimson eyes of my good friend ninetails. For what felt like days, we shared a connection of utter understanding, the understanding of pain, of loneliness. As I finally became fully awake, I realized that everyone was there. Ino's head rested on the bed, her ponytail halfway undone, blond hair flailed out around her. Petal slept at her feet, oddish sitting precariously on top of his green bulb, also deep in sleep. Hinata slept soundly on her other side, squirtle curled into his shell laid on her lap. Matsuri was curled up in a ball on the floor, cuddling her sandslash close to her. Everyone was there, 'everyone except'. I bit my lip, tears forming in my eyes. Before a single tear could slide down my face, a clawed finger wiped them all away. I turned my head back in shock. Magmar laid there, eyes filled with sadness and worry. I smiled at him, bringing my hand up to stroke the side of his face. His eyes widened in shock. I was confused as to why he would make such an expression to such a simple thing until I finally realized that I had never stroked or praised my Pokémon in a physical way such as this. Could this have been what drove charmander away? I lowered my head to try to hide the tears that cascaded down my cheeks. I felt a nose lick the back of my neck and four tails wrap around my waist. I looked back to meet ninetails knowing gaze. Her gaze always had captured her, how she just had a look of knowing, as if she had lived a thousand years, and she very well may have. I began to sit up, my whole body screamed at me to just lay back down, and I couldn't help but wince at the pain. Ninetails and Magmar looked on with worried expressions. Suddenly a knock on the door jolted everyone awake. Magmar pulled me back to the bed. I got the message and began

To 'sleep'. I could hear the others scramble to make themselves look presentable. Then the door flew open and a loud voice call out.

"HAS SHE WOKEN UP YET?" The voice yelled annoyed, it appeared to be the voice of a woman.

"No, officer Anko, she hasn't" Hinata answered quietly.

"WHAT? IT'S ALREADY BEEN TWO DAYS!" she screamed, I nearly broke my façade out of pure shock.

'Two days? Two f***** days?!' I thought

"Anko, have you figured out who that was that attacked us before?" Ino asked

'Us? I was the only one who was getting beaten to a pulp!' I thought angrily.

Suddenly it went stone cold quiet. Too quiet, it was suffocating. I thought I was going to scream until..

"We've confirmed that that people who attacked you earlier were all members of Team Sound." She announced. Every eye bulged every jaw dropped, everyone's breath hitched.

"Team S-Sound?" Ino asked, her voice quivering.

"Yes, we've been doing all we can to find them, I assure you. They have been a pain in the ass for some time now." She sighed, exasperated.

"So your telling me that charmander is in the hands of a group who are probably doing some kind of test on him right now?!" I sat up strait, my façade gone to hell now.

They all stared at me, jaw down to the ground and eyes the size of dinner plates.

"Sakura" My emerald eyes shifted to lock with sky blue ones, I cringed, the bay blue eyes that belonged to my best friend were filled with fear, worry, and worst of all pity. Fear for the safety of charmander, worry for how I would take it, and pity for me having to write another name on the list of friends and family that I cared about that were taken away from me. I shifted my gaze down to my lap, where my hands were inadvertently griping the sheets. Suddenly I felt the pressure of a body and smooth arms snaked around my neck. Then another on my other side. My gaze shifted up, only to be greeted by the sight of blond hair draped in front of my face. They shifted to my left to be met with a short midnight blue tuff of hair. We stayed like that for what felt like an hour before Matsuri finally spoke.

"Well guys, we had better let sakura rest, come on Hinata, Ino-chan!" She called half way out the door. Said two reluctantly unwrapped their arms from my neck and slowly walk out of the room. After I heard the door being shut, I laid my head back next to Ninetails and Magmar. The duo looked up at me, then I could feel a clawed hand laid protectively over my shoulders and a head being laid next to my head. I turned my head to meet the ruby colored gaze of ninetails. I smiled at her before returning to staring back up at the plastered ceiling. Before slipping back into unconsciousness, one thought ran through my head.

'We'll get him back'

(Ino's POV)

I walked through the streets of Lazy village. My head and my heart were both filled with sadness and I was so deep in my thoughts on what had happened only days ago I didn't notice a giant sign 50 feet in front of me before splat. I prepared my back to meet the ground, but it never came. I opened my eyes to see a pineapple shaped shadow. I had to shield my eyes to the sun to be able to see into chocolate brown eyes. It was a boy who had saved me, and a cute one at that. I felt my cheeks heat up at the sight of an attractive boy so close I could feel his hot breath.

"So troublesome" I heard the boy mumble.

Suddenly I broke out of my trance. I pushed the boy away and caught myself before hitting the ground. The boy though wasn't so lucky. He stumbled backwards before falling right on his ass. I turned on a heel and swiftly walked away, leaving the boy dumbfounded and his pride damaged.

(Hinata's POV)

I sat on the bank of the small pond, watching Squirtle swim around happily. He smiled at me with a smile that shone brighter than a blazing fire, which I returned with a small smile.

'Imagine what it would be like to loose him' A small voice in the back of my head spoke.

I shook off the thought, not wanting to even imagine what it would be like. I sighed, looking up at the sky, watching a flock of pidgey fly overhead.

I wanted to be like that; free to fly wherever I wanted to go with no constraints whatsoever, not having someone everywhere she goes whisper 'hey, isn't that a Hyuuga?' or ' I heard that she got banned from the gym because she wasn't good enough' it always made my stomach churn everytime I herd these things said, that was until she came along, the only person that didn't care about my family or my heritage, only smiled at me, I always felt better when I saw her smile. 'Sakura' I thought, 'I couldn't help you back then, I'm so sorry.' Tears fell down my face, I wiped them away quickly as to not let him see me cry. I returned my gaze back to the pond, but squirtle was gone. I began to look around frantically, looking to my left, my right, thoughts of what could have happened to him running through my mind, before I found him right in front of me, looking up at me puzzled by my sudden hysteria. I heaved a relieved sigh, all of my fears going out with it.

"Sorry, I guess I'm just a little on edge after that whole episode with Sakura." I reassured him.

His bright smile returned, shining brighter than ever. I smiled back, hoping that he wouldn't worry about her anymore. Suddenly I spotted a speck of movement behind Squirtle and apparently so did he because he immediately spun around to face the direction of the noise. The bush rustled again, except this time a bloody blue ball made its way through before blacking out. I immediately jumped into action by wiping the blood away to reveal a very deep gash that looked like a dog could have done it. In fact I was sure it was a dog. Suddenly I heard a voice call out.

"Come on, find it, find that poliwag!" A masculine voice called out.

Suddenly I could hear the sound of running paws. 'Dogs' I thought, a Pokémon hunter. The thought of it just made me have a tighter grip on the small poliwag clutched in my arms. I backed away quickly from the bushes, Squirtle fallowing suit, standing in front of me. There was a rustle in the bushes and then it showed itself, five large Mightyanna came out of the bushes. I held Poliwag closer, slowly reaching for Squirtles ball. I knew that with squirtle as slow as he is, there was no chance to get away, except if I could get him back into his ball, then I might have a chance of getting away, but before I had a chance to get the ball out, he had jumped into action, hitting the mightyanna with a powerful watergun. This did nothing but make them angrier and before Squirtles feet had even touched the ground, they had already begun to attack him mercilessly. I felt hot tears run down my face. I avert my eyes down to poliwag, who looks back up at me with both pleading and encouraging eyes. They pleaded for me not to leave her (I made it a her, deal with it), but also encouraged me to protect Squirtle. I returned my eyes to the black mass that surrounded my companion. I was so confused, If I stay here, I could loose Squirtle and if I tried to stop, they would go after poliwag, I was weighing the two options when suddenly I herd probably what was the worst sound I have ever or would ever hear in my entire life.

"Squirtle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I herd him screech. It wasn't a normal screech, it was the kind of screech a creature makes when it is being slowly ripped to pieces. The sound made the small stream of tears evolve into a raging river. I couldn't take anymore of it. I was so unsure of what was happening, I just did the first thing that came to my mind, I screamed.

"STOP IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I blared out.

The entire pack of mightyanna turned towards me. I slowly stood up, glaring at them the entire time. I was about ready to charge at them when a voice chimed in.

"Wait" It spoke. Out of instinct, I turned my head towards the sound, revealing a tall, brown haired woman glaring down at me. I cringed at the intensity of the stare, which only caused her to smirk. She raised her hand to the mightyanna, a command to stop obviously because they immediately dropped squirtle and came prancing over to her side. I rushed over to squirtle, praying that he was alright, but before I could even move, a hand reached out and grabbed him by the shell. I looked up to see a young boy, no older than me, a large smirk written across his face. Two red marks ran along the side of his face and just like the woman had teeth like that of a wolfs.

"Kiba, lets go!" The woman commanded him. Kiba turned his head towards the woman, annoyance, plain and clear written all over it. The woman growled lowly in response and Kiba immediately went to join her at her side. The woman's look of annoyance quickly turned to a fake smile as she stretched her arm out towards me.

"Now, will you be so kind as to hand over that little cretin your holding, please?" She asked, fake politely.

I looked down at poliwag. He returned the look with one that showed nothing worse than utter terror. Her smile became more forced, as if she was using all of her self- control to not just kill me now and take him by force.

"Please hand him over quickly, my dogs are hungry." She spoke through gritted teeth.

"Screw off, old hag!" I spat at her.

Kiba's mouth dropped open out of sheer shock before forming into a small smirk. The woman's self- control finally broke, her fake smile forming into a deep scowl. Raising her hand up towards me, she ushered her dogs to attack. I turned on my heel, running as fast as my legs would take me. I could hear the sound of paws trailing after me, getting closer, and closer, and closer. Hot tears flew out of my eyes and trailed behind me. I saw a glint of light among the shadows of the trees as if it were the light of heaven standing out against the darkness of the world. I reached out towards it, hoping that it would be like a fairy tale and my shining prince would show up and save me. The light soon surrounded me, I shut my eyes, bracing for the imminent impact of my face to the gravel road, but instead of the ground I felt the warmth of a body . I opened my eyes to be met by a blinding orange fabric. I looked up to meet with the face of a god, hair brighter than the sun and eyes bluer than the sea. I quickly stood up from his lap, bowing in shame.

"I-I-I-I'm sorry!" I stuttered out.

"don't worry about it" He grinned. I thought nothing could be brighter than his hair but I was wrong, there was one thing that could outshine his hair, and that was his smile, I smiled back at him, and there we stood, smiling at each other. That is, until-

"Sorry to interrupt you two" an icy voice chimed in. I turned towards the voice to reveal a dark haired boy with eyes blacker than coal and colder than Ice. I felt his penetrating stare fixated on me and subconsciously winced and immediately punished myself for doing so, because this caused him to smirk. Suddenly he was inches in front of me, black orbs staring into lavender ones. I was scared stiff by this boy and couldn't do anything about it except widen my eyes. He brought my chin up with his index and middle finger, his smirk growing bigger with my fearful expression. Suddenly a jet of water shot out, catching the boy off guard, which caused him to fall flat on his ass. I turned my head to face an injured but happy poliwag jumping up and down. I giggled at his playfulness before walking over to the dark haired boy, outstretching my hand to help him up. Refusing my kind gesture he stood up, glaring at the blond haired boy who looked like he was either going to laugh his guts out or explode trying to hold it in. I smiled, these boys must be really good friends.

"Hina- chan!" I herd a familiar voice call. My smile got even bigger as I saw the long- haired blond rush over to my side. I felt the dark haired boy turn stiff beside me. I side- glanced at him to see a small shade of pink had covered his face. She began aimlessly gossiping about what she and Matsuri had bought that day. I looked over her shoulder to see an exhausted Matsuri unloading about ten bags from each other onto the ground. She rambled on for about twenty minuets before being interrupted by the handsome blond boy.

" Hey, you guys wanna go get something to eat?" He asked. I could tell Ino was about to retort with a defiant no but I really wanted to get to know this boy, and I'm sure the dark haired boy wanted to get to know her.

"Sure!" I answered maybe a little too enthusiastically.

Ino looked at me with skeptical eyes. I gestured with my eyes towards the dark haired boy. Ino glanced at him, quickly glancing back with hopeful eyes. My smile grew even bigger which she returned with a smile of her own. We returned our eyes to the two boys.

"Alright." Chirped Ino

"Oh and by the way, I'm Naruto and this tomato is Sasuke." Stated Naruto

And so the four friends walked off to dinner, leaving an oblivious Matsuri behind. Said dusty blond lifted her head at the loss of chatter to see the four silhouettes happily leaving her all alone.

"Wait, hina- chan, Ino-chan!" She called out to them. The four friends didn't even turn around to face to girl. The long haired blond turned her head over to the side.

"Oh, could you just take those to the room? Thanks!" She called over her shoulder before disappearing from view. The short haired girl stood there, staring at the spot her once roll- model had stood, tears welling up in her eyes. Wiping them away with her sleeve, she began to pick up the dozen or so bags of stuff Ino said she just had to have off the ground, but before she could pick up the last five a porcelain hand gripped them. Her head shot up to meet the turquoise orbs of a familiar red- head.

"Garra!" She yelped, immediately standing up to face her old friend, a smile plastered onto her face. He turned his head to look at the place the group of four had stood last, his eyes turning into that of daggers.

"So, these are the people you call 'friends?'" he spat, anger laced within every word. Her smile faded and eyes drooped, replaced with one of sadness. The tears she had been repressing started to leak out, dropping to the ground and making small puddles within the dirt and when she was about to break down into a sob, a comforting hand was laid on her shoulder. Onyx eyes shot up to meet love filled turquoise.

"Lets take a walk." He whispered, she nodded simply, too tear stricken to do anything more. He took her petite hand in his large ones before leading her off. Over the past ten minuets six people had stood there, all having made decisions that wouldn't just change their lives, but the life of another. And the worst part was, all six had stood had stood there, and all were more or so oblivious to the pink haired girl baring witness to the scenes, dressed in nothing but a hospital gown, with tears running down her cheeks and a sad smile on her face.

Well, I'm beat! It took me a week to write this and so, I hope you enjoyed it.