Hey guys, its chapter 37 of Akira and Lara. With another episode about the kids.

On the limo ride home to their kindergarten school, the kids noticed Sakura was bringing two lunch bags. They know she takes a very strict diet with the amount of food she consumes, so seeing an extra food bag raised a few questions. "So uh Sakura-"

She interrupted Jin, "I know, why do I have two lunches? Look it's just complicated, okay just stay out of it!"

They stayed silent after that outburst, when they got to the school Sakura just immediately left the limo and speed walked right in. The others came slowly, "Guys I'm really worried about her." Jin said.

"You think we should tail her to see what's and you're already going. Wait for me!" Chara called out trying to run after the others.

They found her waiting in a corner of the playground at recess, she appeared to expecting someone. Someone not nice they presumed from the small look of fear on her face.

"I knew it, someone's bullying her! Why that lousy little-" Jin growled but got pulled into a bush when they heard footsteps coming towards Sakura.

The girl Zero just steeled herself when faced with the most vicious kid in her school. This was a a little taller white skinned boy with a blood red Mohawk, a black sleeveless shirt, black shorts that showed small muscles legs, black boots, two small silver ear rings, and a huge scowl on his face. He was held back for three years and had been expelled from 4 different schools. They call him many things, but his most common name is...

"(gulp) Hey Croli, I see you got a new neck tattoo."

The dangerous looking boy named 'Croli' moves his head to show the camera a tattoo of flaming dragon skull on his neck.

"It really brings out the fire in your eyes." She complimented while hiding one of her lunch bags behind her back.

Croli just stared with that evil stare, "Flattery and two bucks will get you a cup of coffee, you know the drill." He held out a threatening hand. She slowly gave him on her lunch bags.

He looked inside, "Bologna and Swiss cheese, grapes, and extra snack cakes. Just the way I like it, I think you earned yourself a reward. Five pm after school, don't be late." He then left her, lunch bag in hand.

She sighed in relief she made it through. Now don't get any ideas people, there is in no way any underaged s. e. x. abuse of any kind. She was about to leave, when she turned around she saw the worried expressions of her friends and siblings. "(Sigh) Why am I not surprised?"

"You're being bullied!"

"So this kid Croli occasionally takes my lunch everyday, and once put glue on my seat. And sometimes slaps me on the bum when I least expect it." Sakura listed off.

SLAP

EEK

She jumped when she felt an all to familiar sting on her tiny rear.

"Sakura... don't forget to get my homework for that nerd friend of yours. And tell her to get some wrong, Mrs. Hollow Mauser is starting to get suspicious."

"News flash bub," Sakura's friends got up in his face, "Our sister is done taking orders from the likes of you!"

"... who are you clowns?"

"We don't need to answer to you, you over grown mutt!" Jin sassed while pointing a finger close to the jerk.

CHOMP

He then saw a bleeding bite mark on his finger, "Alright that's it!" He then jumped at the bully and then they were now in a little fight cloud. And then the other monster kids except Sakura we're now trying to kill each other.

"...I'm doomed" Sakura sighed.

Later at the mansion

The five kids were now in the living room, Sakura was pacing back and forth while the other four were on the couch with some minor bruises. Brock also had a sling on his left arm. Jin right eye was mildly swollen.

"Well this is just great," Sakura sarcastically said, " because of you four's spying he now wants to actually fight me! Why couldn't you have just let me deal with this myself?" she questioned while pausing her pacing to face them with an upset expression.

"Well what did you want us to do, let our sister be used and treated like a grade a B?" Isis retorted.

"Yeah, I did a lot of research on that kid on the way home." Chara pointed out, "This Croli kid got expelled from his last kindergarten school for stealing the principal's car and driving it off a cliff. He's been to prison more times than there are cities in the Midwest. The boy is a monster, yet you let him take advantage of you whenever he wants. And I'm pretty sure the 'reward' he offered you was not cake."

"Hmmmm, cake." Brock lost thought after hearing the cake part, until Chara snapped him out of it.

"Look guys, I know that you all are looking after me, and I'm grateful for that. But this is just part of a process I'm dealing with." Sakura told them.

"And what process is that, the slave process?" Jin asked angrily at Croli.

Sakura rolled her eyes then sighed, "What do I do now, I can't fight this guy. He's three years older than me, and ripped off a bear's arm. Then beat him with it. I can't fight in my demon form, so what do I do?"

"I think Mildred may have something that could train you."

At Junk Stuff

"So you got problem with delinquent boy in class?" Mildred asked Sakura who just nodded in response, "Well you're in luck, I've got a few trainers that can help sharpen your fighting abilities."

She then whistled.

And out from the curtain came three adult men. One was an old wise Chinese guy with a white gi and a black belt, he had a bandana with the Chinese flag on it. The second one was a tall hillbilly character in a sweaty grey undershirt, red vest, jeans, combat boots, and a red trucker hat. He seemed a little overweight for a professional fighter, but he can still fight with the best of them. And the last one was a rough looking guy with a torn black shirt and jeans, black fingerless gloves, and half of his hair was shaved.

"This is Master Ho Faun Cho, the head Sensi of the most exclusive Kung Fu dojo in the heart of China." Mildred introduced the guy in the gi, who then threw a few fast punches and a big round kick to the air. The kids were mighty impressed.

"Big, tall, and sweaty is Fork. Don't let his size fool you." Mildred then pressed a button, which released a bear. That then charged towards the guy named Fork, who then rolled up the bear and laid waste to it before the bear whimpered and went back to his room.

"Holy mother of god! That was awesome." Jin said after witnessing that.

"And who's the scary looking guy?" Sakura wondered about the last one, who just pounded their fists.

"That's Mack, he was born and raised in the streets. Learned to fight with any weapon he can get his hands on"

Just then a robber burst in through the store, who Mack just wacked with a nearby garden gnome. Then threw him out to the arriving police men that dragged the burglar away.

"Wow, great presentation." Brock commented.

"Actually that one wasn't planned, we almost got robbed. But enough about that, it's time for your training."

And for the next 3 hours Sakura has learned everything about Kung fu from Master Cho, Greeko Roman wrestling from Fork, and picked up some parkour and CGC from Mack. Which is basically hand fighting mixed with weaponry.

After that Sakura felt more powerful and alive, mostly cause she used her siblings and friends as test dummies. Then she had to use everything she learned on the ones who taught her. Which ended quickly due to her diminutive stature.

"Yeah she's doomed." Mildred sighed.

"I'm doomed" Sakura sighed.

The next day, High school gym at five PM.

This is where the fight would take place, it was Croli's idea. The kid gang was waiting there for the inevitable fight between their sister and friend, and her tormentor.

"Okay Sak, we through your training in two days." Isis said.

"Now I know you're scared right now, but we're here for you." Jin said.

"Now we want you to go out there" Brock said.

"And try not to lose a rib". "Chara finished.

When they turned around, they saw that Sakura was not there.

"Sakura?" They looked around.

Said girl was running towards the front door, looking to escape.

BAM

Never mind.

She stopped when she saw a very angry Croli. "So you actually showed up, good." He gave a devilish smirk. He cracked his knuckles, "Because I'm feeling generous, I'll give you a ten second head start. 10. 9."

She then just ran away screaming down a random hallway.

"87654321!" He counted fast before giving chase.

Any time Sakura tried to get some distance, Croli just kept getting closer.

Sakura tried to hide in a janitors closet. She heard footsteps near the door she held closed. Then they just disappeared.

But she couldn't be too safe, she pushed it slightly ajar, to see nothing.

She sighed before going to walk out, but was suddenly pulled back and thrown. Across the small space. She saw the face of an angry Croli.

"How did you get in here?!" She fearfully asked. He pointed to an open vent near the roof. She looked back and shivered as he got closer to her.

Croli pulled out a small knife, "Any last words."

Sakura had one last idea. Probably not a great one, but she's all out of options. This is do or die. She gulped before uttering perhaps her final words.

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.

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... "Who hurt you?" She closed her eyes waiting for her end. And since she's in her human form she can be hurt as a regular little girl.

.

.

... but it never came. She slowly opened one eye, to see that her captor had gained a confused look.

"What?"

Sakura slowly stood up, "I just wanted to know, who hurt you and turned you into a violent monster."

Croli just grabbed her by the shirt forcefully and shouted, "WHAT KIND OF QUESTION IS THAT?! Nobody hurts Croli!"

"But I can tell that you experienced some pain and trauma in your past."

"YOU'RE NOT MY THERAPIST!"

"Listen, you can tell me anything. This is a safe janitors closet, what happens here, stays here." She said in a soothing and calming voice. Trying to break this wall of anger and hate around Croli.

And it seemed to be working. He struggled with this dilemma. It didn't help that Sakura gently placed her hands on his shoulders, and gave him a light peck on the cheek.

He let her go and blushed before muttering, "Kyle Lagrange."

"who?"

He looked away.

Sakura pulled out a giant box, which she sat on and patted next to her as an offer. He wordlessly took it.

Now everyone hold on to your butts, because this origin story is a dous.

"I was just four years old when it all started. I had just gotten a baby sister, I named her Hope. Because, she was my only hope in surviving. My mom died giving birth to her, and on the way to the hospital, my dad got killed in a car accident."

As Croli told the story, Sakura listen closely as she wanted to help him. She really wanted to help him.

"So after that, Hope and I were put in an orphanage. It was mostly nice, but then a couple years later, we got a new member of the orphanage. Kyle Lagrange. A fifteen year old guy, and he was, well, kind of a total butt. He was the biggest bully we had, he stole things, he wedgies us, and just was a total duncebag. Then one day, he crossed the line. Me and Hope were his favorite targets." His toned was getting really lethal. Sakura sensed something terrible and awful.

"Midnight, I found Hope not in the room. I looked everywhere, but then I heard screams, and cries of pain. I followed it to room, what I found made my blood boil. I saw purple. That sick son of a bitch!"

"What did he do?" Sakura was scared, Croli was just seething at the memories.

Wait for it.

"... grrrr... he raped her."

GASP

"My two year old sister, violated and ruined! His lackies jumped me, and force me to watch as my sister was just wrecked by that piece of SHIT! Pardon my language." Croli then surprised by crying into her shoulders, Sakura comforted him.

"It went on till the owner of the orphanage called the cops and they took him away. But the impact was worst than I thought. Hope was raped so hard, she ended up in a coma. (Sniff, sniff) To this day, she still never woke up." He pulled himself away from the girl he tormented to let out his anger and frustrations. He looked into her eyes, "Sakura I am so, so, so sorry for everything I did to you. Every since my little sister got sent to the hospital, I just wanted to rip apart everything I see unilt the pain went away."

She laid a gentle hand on his, and laced their fingers. "It's okay Croli, we sometimes go nuts over the ones we love so much. I'm sorry you went through all that."

"You are so naïve and innocent, yet that's what I always loved about you." he confessed, to which Sakura blushed. "You remind me so much of Hope."

They stared into each others eyes.

Lean in close.

Smooch

They kissed. It lasted 10 seconds before they separated.

"It will be okay, I'll be your Hope." Sakura cooed.

He then made the first ever gentle, loving, happy smiled he had in a long time.

"Aaron."

"Huh?" that confused her.

"It's my real name. It's, Aaron." He admitted.

"... I really like that name." she said, before they shared another kiss.

"Um, can we not tell your friends this?" Aaron asked.

"Promise." Sakura said. Before walking to the door and opened it.

WOAH

And then the ones they were just talking about just fell in, apparently they were ease dropping.

Aaron looked to her, and she shrugged. "This is gonna be hard."

And that's the end of that, gee, what happen in Aaron's past was just horrible. No one should go through that. Sakura really has a way of taming people that turned into 'Croli'. Well guys, let me know what you think.

Sakura made a new boyfriend out of the one that her siblings and friends considered a bully, love works in strange ways.

Until next time, bye.