Okay, I just put a chapter for "drowning" and now I'm gonna allow myself one more chapter before getting back to studying.

I'd like to post for my "What the accident caused" but I haven't written out the next chappy. Hard (and time consuming) for me to juss type at the top of my head.

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Begin

The eleven witnesses to the hit-and-remain-crying incident retrieved their backpacks and headed to sixth period. The first day of school and this happens. All of them even missed their fifth period class.

Kiba entered his sixth period tardy.

"You're late," said the teacher as she heard the door open.

"Umm, I," Kiba didn't know what to say. I'm late because my friend got hit by a car and now his limbs are broken and then I had to talk to the police? Kiba was going to give bits of what happened, but just not in front of the entire class whose eyes were glued to his stuttering state. The dog lover swiftly moved to the teacher's desk. "There was a terrible accident and I was told an e-mail would be sent to all the teachers informing them—"

"Ah. Hai. I just began reading the e-mail. What's your name?" she inquired without once looking at him.

"Inuzuka—"

"Kiba?" she finished for him as she read his name in the e-mail.

"Hai."

"My, my…terrible."

"Hai." Gravity seemed to be having a huge effect on Kiba's lips. As the corners of his lips dragged down slowly, tears wanted to fall from the dog lover's eyes. He bit his bottom lip to prevent himself letting out any noises. "It is," he said sadly, remembering his friend's nearly-lifeless body.

Anko-sensei looked up. She pushed forward a box of tissue towards Kiba. "Clean up, if you'd like, before turning around. Unless you'd like your peers to see you in such a saddened state."

Kiba quickly grabbed some tissue and dabbed at his eyes. He threw away the soiled ones, took a few more, and stuffed them in his pocket before turning around and bravely facing the class who stared harder at him than before. Kiba quickly turned around again with a question mark on his face.

"Sit anywhere you'd like today," Anko-sensei said, knowing what was on the boy's mind.

"Hai. Arigatou."

Kiba looked for a seat near the back so nobody could see him if he started to breakdown and found one. Sitting down, he put down his backpack on his desk and rested his arms and head on it.

"Okay," Anko-sensei began, "we seem to be missing one person." She shook her head while lightly flicking her tongue on the top of her mouth, showing some sort of annoyance. "Uzumaki Naruto?"

Kiba's head shot up. I forgot we had sixth period together!

A girl—a very attractive girl—raised her hand.

"Yes?" asked the teacher.

"He's probably late. I saw him this morning."

"Hai," nodded the teacher slowly. "Really late."

Kiba shot his hand in the air.

"Kiba-kun?"

"Um, actually." A knot formed in his throat. "Uzumaki Naruto won't be here because, he was, involved in that thing."

"Oh!" responded the teacher, shocked. "Hai, hai. Okay, class, it seems the class is complete today. Nobody's tardy."

"Hey, what about that guy?!" one male student yelled.

Kiba glared at the back of that guy's head. He's talking about me, isn't he?

"What guy?" inquired the teacher.

He turned around. "That guy who was fifteen minutes late! He was tardy."

"No, he was not. Now, can you please not disrupt the class? Or would you like a detention?"

The boy instantly shut his mouth, crossed his arms, and sulked in his seat. Snickers were heard around the room and he glared at anybody who looked at him.

"Today we will…"

The bell signifying the end of the school day rang and the students jumped out of their seats.

"Finally" and "YES!" could be heard everyone.

Most of the class left, but Kiba still remained, moving slower than he ever did in his entire life. Naruto he thought. Dammit! Why did this have to happen?!

"Are you okay?" asked the girl that raised her hand earlier during class.

Kiba opened his eyes and looked at the girl. Hot outfit he thought as he eyed the brilliant red corset shirt and the short black skirt.

"Are you okay?" she repeated.

"Oh!" Kiba said as a blush crept onto his face. He shrugged and whispered, "Not really."

"Oh? What's wrong?"

He looked into the girl's eyes. "Are you friends with Uzumaki Naruto?"
She made she they were talking about the same person. "Bubbly character. Likes the color orange. Blond hair. Loves ramen. That Uzumaki Naruto?"

"Hai."

"I just met him today and I like him. I think we're going to become friends."

Kiba nodded as he was contemplated. He could always sense if someone was good, or bad. Like that damned Uchiha Sasuke. He clenched his fists and shut his eyes in rage.

"Hey, what's the matter?" the girl asked, noticing the sudden change in the other boy, the same reason why she asked him earlier if he was okay.

"You won't hurt, Naruto, will you?"

"Nani? Why would I?"

"I can trust you?"

"Hai."

"I'm Inuzuka Kiba. I met Naruto eight years ago. We were five and in kindergarten. In short, we've been friends ever since kindergarten. He's one of my best friends. I care about him and I love him as I do all my other friends." He sighed. Naruto… "Today, there was an accident."

The girl gasped. Oh, my God she thought. Did Naruto die? "He didn't, die, did he?" she asked slowly.

Kiba looked up at her quickly. "No, no…but he is in the hospital. The medics say he'll be fine…"

"That's good. I'm sure he'll be fine. He's got a great spirit. Believe it!"

That caused Kiba to chuckle, which was good for him because he didn't want to be sniffling in front of this girl.

"He already rubbed off on you?"

"Believe it!" she repeated and they both laughed. "Oh, by the way, I'm Ugada Kotone." She extended her hand.

"Oh, right. Sorry I forgot to ask." Kiba shook hands with her.

"Look," she began as she took out a piece of paper and a pen, "this is my phone number and cell number. Could you call me to tell me how he's doing?" She handed him the paper.

Kiba took it. "Sure, of course! Um, do you have time to talk now? Or do you have to leave?"

"What do you want to talk about?"

"I thought I'd just inform you of what happened to Naruto."

"Ah! Sure, I have time. Hey," she lightly touched his shoulder, pushing him towards the exit, "I think we should go. I think Anko-sensei also wants to leave and she can't if we're still here."

"Oh! Yeah. Right," he chuckled.

They exited the classroom.

"Where do you want to talk?" Kotone asked.

"How about over there?" he asked pointing to a table under a tree.

"Sure. Could you just give me a minute, please? I have to call someone."

"Sure," he answered before heading to the tree.

Kotone took out her carnation-colored cell phone and called her friend.

"Hey, Nanami!"

"Kotone! Where are you? The girls are waiting for you."

"Gomen! Something extremely important came up."

"Eh? You're not ditching us are you?"

"No! Of course not!"

"I'm just kidding," her friend laughed. "I know you, Koto-chan. I know you'd never lie. Well, be safe at your 'important' thing. I'll talk to you later. Tell me what happened!"

"Hai," Kotone said to her best girl friend. "I'm sorry for making you wait! Tell everyone I said 'I'm sorry!' I just really—"

"Maa, maa (1). No need to explain now. Tell me everything later, Koto-chan. No big deal!"

"Arigatou!"

"Ja!"

"Ja!"

Call ended.

Kotone closed her phone and smiled. Nanami-chan was always understanding. Kotone headed over to Kiba.

"Hey, sorry about the delay," she said.

"No problem. Anyway," he with a huge exhale, "are you ready?"

"I think so."

"Last year, Naruto would probably say he had 12 close friends. This year, right now, I think he'd say he has 11 close friends. They are: Aburame Shina, Hyuuga Hinata, Rock Lee, TenTen (2), Hyuuga Neji, who is Hyuuga Hinata's older cousin, Sabakuno Gaara, Sabakuno Temari, Sabakuno Kankurou, Nara Shikamaru, Akimichi Chouji (3), and me. Sorry for giving all those names at one time….Anyway, yeah, one person is missing. The others wouldn't want me to tell you his name—the guy that we all hate. I don't know how Naruto feels about him, but all of the people I just mentioned hate him, and if we could get away with it, we'd… He used to be best friends with Naruto. They were friends before I met Naruto! But, this year," Kiba nose and lips scrunched together in rage, "he, hurt Naruto."

"What did he do?"

"Naruto, he's a semi-sensitive guy. This guy was Naruto's first friend. So you can imagine how Naruto's bond might be with him. Anyway, today, TODAY," Kiba clenched his fists again. I should have done something. "Today, he probably broke Naruto's heart."

"What did he do?"

"He acted as if he'd never seen Naruto before. He acted as if they haven't been friends for NINE DAMN YEARS. He, physically injured Naruto. Then he stopped and then his friend hurt Naruto. TODAY. It all happened today, and I, I didn't do anything." Kiba swallowed hard. "I could see the tears in Naruto's eyes as he was talking to that guy, as that guy later nearly broke Naruto's wrist!"

"He didn't!"

"He did! Naruto left the cafeteria, running, blinded by tears, running to where his feet carried him." Kiba paused and took a deep breath.

This is it Kotone thought. The devastating news…

He blindly ran out into the street, at the same time a speeding car was coming.

Kotone gasped and covered her mouth with her hands. "No!"

Kiba nodded sadly. "He got hit. Hard. Freaking hard." Kiba hit his fist on the table. "He..." Now it was hard for Kiba to talk. He swallowed hard again and willed himself to not cry. "There was blood everywhere. His body," Kiba shook his head at the thought. "Broken."

"No," said the girl in disbelief.

"His arms, his legs, a lot of body parts."

"Oh my gosh."

After a minute of breathing in through his noise and out in an 'O' of his mouth, Kiba informed, "He was taken to Leaf Hospital. A bunch of us are going to visit him later today. Would you like to come with us?"

"Oh, I'd like to, but I have some work to do to today. I think I'll visit him tomorrow."

"Hai," Kiba said, understanding.

"Hey, Kiba?"

"Yeah?"

"You probably wanted to call 'that guy' something other than 'that guy,' right?" she asked, attempting to slightly lighten the mood, but also curious.

"Hehe. Yeah. I think all of us would."

"What's his real name?"

Kiba wanted to tell her, but knew Naruto wouldn't want word of this to get around. He didn't want word that his former best friend hurt him. The dog lover shook his head. "Gomen. I can't."

"Hai. I understand."

They both stood up.

"I better let you go," Kotone said sadly. "He'll be alright," she assured Kiba.

"'Believe it', right?" Kiba asked.

"Yes," she replied with encouragement. "Just believe it."

"Hai. I believe it."

End Chapter 9

Reviews appreciated!

(1) I know I've heard/seen this before, but I have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHAT IT MEANS. I thought it just sounded realllllly nice at that part in the convo lol. neone know what it means?

(2) hahaa DOES TenTen have a last name?

(3) ehh! Sorry, I forgot what CHouji's last name is…what is it?