Hey everyone, here's an update. Sadly though, I am only making time to update to tell you that there won't be another update until after black Friday. I have a huge essay due then, and I haven't been giving it the time that it needs. Let alone allowing myself time to study for exams. I know it's only like nine days away, but, it's longer than a week from now, when I tried to promise once a week. So please be patient with me. Thank you.

Now enjoy the update.

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Kiba's POV

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It had been two days since the incident. Kiba was still locked in the cage, and the only two people who had come to see him were Choji and Shikamaru. Kiba felt cold, alone, and scared of what he had done. Choji had explained it to him a bit. He knew that he had gone wild, and had really hurt Akamaru, and there was something to do with the cat girl too. She wasn`t as badly hurt, but she was still in shock over what had happened.

Shikamaru typically just came down to see how well Kiba was doing. He was there to make sure that Kiba didn`t try to bust the cage apart or hurt anyone. Choji though, came down to visit Kiba out of the kindness of his heart. Choji would come down with food and talk the incident over with Kiba, and when Kiba didn`t feel like talking, Choji would sit next to the cage and tell stories.

Choji sure as hell wasn`t Kiba`s favourite person, but the fatso sure had a big heart, and Kiba couldn`t help to admire that about him. Plus, there was a reason that Choji was the chef, and the fact that he would bring barbeque down with him on his visits sure made Kiba like him a hell of a lot more.

"So you seriously can`t remember anything from the other night?" Choji asked with his mouth full of barbeque pork.

"I don't know. I guess I remember a bit but it's all a little fuzzy," Kiba finally admitted after being asked the same question for what seemed like the thousandth time.

'What do you remember?" Choji asked as he turned around to face Kiba.

"I don't know, maybe it was just a dream," Kiba back tracked.

"Well, tell me about it anyway."

Kiba sighed before getting into his story.

"I remember waking up next to Tamaki and being annoyed that she was in my bed. I just wanted my space. I thought about telling her to get out, but my mouth wouldn't work, so I hit the bed in frustration. All of a sudden the bed turned into Akamaru and he looks mad. Maybe he looked scared, I couldn't really tell, and I always know what's going on in my dog's head. Anyhow, Akamaru started to howl, it was almost like a warning, but my head was pounding and I couldn't take all of the noise that he was making, so I lunged at him. He fought back, but I knew that it wasn't his full strength, I know what Akamaru can do when he's using his full strength. Something in me just wanted to push him to his limit, to see what he was really made of. All of a sudden everyone was there, then there was the smell of treats, then there was Tamaki. She looked so scared. She looked helpless. I wanted to protect her, but Akamaru was getting in the way, and everyone was coming after her. I didn't know what to do," Kiba explained.

"Has it ever been this clear before?" Choji asked.

"Has what been this clear before?" Kiba asked.

"When you get taken over by the serum, it happens once a month, and then your appearance always stays more wolf like, have you ever been able to remember how everything went so clearly before?" Choji clarified.

"No, I don't know if I've ever remembered anything at all. I know what's happened in the past, but that's only because you have filled me in on all of it," Kiba admitted.

"You haven't asked about her yet?" Choji pointed out.

"About who?" Kiba asked, he looked away as a blush crossed his face because he knew the answer to his question.

"About Tamaki. You seem like you were so concerned about her, yet you haven't even asked if she was hurt or not," Choji explained, even though he knew that his friend knew the answer already. "Are you scared to know the answer?"

"I don't know," Kiba barked as he turned away in his cage. Choji was right, Kiba was terrified that maybe he had seriously hurt the cat girl, he hadn't meant to, but she hadn't come to see him. She was probably too scared to go and see him.

"She's alright," Choji stated. "She has a scratch on her face and arm, and a dislocated shoulder."

Kiba was both relieved to hear that he hadn't hurt her too badly, though he was also very angry at himself for having hurt her at all.

"She's not scared of you," Choji added. "She's actually very concerned for your well-being. Sakura and Tamaki have been working very hard on an antidote for you. That's why she hasn't come to see you. She's wanted to, but they've been so busy working on the antidote that Tamaki has been falling asleep in the lab."

Kiba was shocked to hear this. Not only was the girl not scared of him, but him injuring her made Tamaki so concerned that she was working that hard to try and find a cure for him.

"She said that the major problem for her is that you are neither fully dog or human, so she has to be extra careful what they put in the antidote. She only knows what will hurt a dog, while Sakura only knows what will harm a human. So they've compiled their knowledge to see what they could actually use to cure you. The number of herbs keeps shrinking by the day," Choji further explained.

Kiba sat in facing the corner of his cage. He was an animal, he didn't care about anyone besides himself, what did he do to deserve her to care about him. He kidnapped her, took her away from everyone she loved, and forced her to help him. Now that he had hurt her though, she was working herself to the ground in order to try to help him. Was it out of fear, or was it like Choji said and it was genuine concern?

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Tamaki's POV

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After the incident, Hinata had been really concerned for Tamaki's well-being and made Tamaki stay the night with her and Naruto. This was the first that Tamaki had realized that people in the house had paired off. Hinata blushed shyly as she pulled Tamaki into bed with her and explained that Naruto would be staying in the room that Tamaki had originally been assigned to when she was first brought to the house.

Tamaki felt bad that Hinata had to stay the night without Naruto to protect her in order to comfort Tamaki, but she was also grateful. Tamaki didn't know how she was going to be able to cope with what she had just experienced. She just kept picturing the look on Kiba's face when he finally looked at her. He looked so lost and scared. She couldn't bear to see him like that. Sure Tamaki was hurt and wasn't really okay with the way that things had turned out, but she couldn't stand the thought that Kiba was trapped inside his own body.

Hinata had stayed up with Tamaki the first night and explained that this had been happening on the twentieth of every month since Tsunade had poisoned him. This was the eleventh time that this had happened, which meant that the next time that it did, there would be no coming back after it. Hinata explained that each time Kiba transformed into the beast, he came back looking more canine than he had before. There weren't always super drastic changes, but each time left him worse than before.

The one thing that Hinata was sure to emphasize was the depression that Kiba tended to fall into after each incident. He seemed to hate himself more and more each time that he transformed. After the second time that he transformed, Kiba had set out to stop it himself, but not in a way that had been prescribed. He started to cut out the patches of hair that grew all over his body, and he tried to rip out the claws that protruded from the tips of his fingers.

After that time, Kiba had almost killed himself from the amount of blood loss that he had inflicted upon himself. There were scars all over his body now. Across his chest and on his legs were the worst of the scars though. He had left huge gashes in his skin where hair used to grow.

Eventually Tamaki fell asleep. It wasn't until the sun was rising, but she did eventually sleep. As soon as she woke up though, she got herself ready and called Sakura to come and help her with the antidote. The two worked hard and long, looking for anything that might help even delay the symptoms.

"Why are you doing this," Sakura asked on the second morning of their work. "Why are you wasting all of this energy on saving that bastard? He has done nothing but harm you since you arrived."

Tamaki looked at the pile of medicinal herbs that surrounded her. Each one contained different properties that could either nullify the poison, or make its effects worse. There would be no way to tell which combination would make him human again until they tried them out.

"Have you looked into his eyes while he's changed?" Tamaki asked as she held one of the leaves up to her nose.

"No, I typically prefer to stay away from him when he's like that," Sakura admitted.

"He looks so scared and in pain," Tamaki explained. "He looks like he's begging for help."

"He would never beg for help. That mutt just doesn't care about anyone. He doesn't even care enough about himself to try harder to get better," Sakura scoffed.

"That's a lie and you know it," Tamaki scolded her friend.

"Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, but we only have a month now to get him back to normal, or else we're trapped here forever with that beast that you saw last night," Sakura stated, the fear ringing clear through her voice.

"He doesn't want that any more than you do," Tamaki stated and she started to mix some of the herbs together.

"How do you even know that?" Sakura asked, her voice barely a whisper.

"Because I've been spending as much time with him as possible." Tamaki stated. "I have seen his eyes when he's helping, and I've seen his eyes when he's being a pain in the ass. They're very different. He was starting to appear to be almost happy, before the other night that is."

"So you're helping because you want to see him happy?" Sakura asked.

"I guess so," Tamaki admitted. "I want to see him happy, and I'm willing to do whatever it takes to get him there."

With that said, Tamaki held up the concoction that she had been mixing and glared at it.

"Maybe this time," Tamaki mused as she handed the bottle over for Sakura to drink.

So... What did you all think? Do you guys agree with Sakura? Is Kiba ever going to change? Huh? Huh?

Anyhow guys, please tell me what you thought, and thank you for all of your support so far. I have to go and do stupid homework now, hmph.

Anyhow, have a great day,

Love, Donny