A/n: Alright everyone the new chapter and it is INTENSE. The wheels of fate are finally turning and what on earth is going to start happening?! Who knows you'll just all have to wait! MWAHAHAHA anyway I do have to say this is a really awesome chapter.

Please review and I'd like to give a thanks to Sakuraangel1327 she gave me an awesome Idea for the story and I think she might know what's going to happen but the rest of you DON'T HAHAHAHA!!

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Forbidden Fruit

Sakura stared out the window of the passenger's side. Ino looked over at her as she drove down the highway. She looked in the rear view mirror at Tenten and she looked at Sakura. "You ok Sakura?" Tenten asked leaning forward.

"I'm fine" she answered without turning to either of them. Ino pulled onto a dirt road and parked when it ended.

"Alright were going to have to walk from here" she said killing the engine and getting out. Sakura got out slowly and both Ino and Tenten stared each other for a long while.

"It's about Gaara isn't it?" Ino assumed placing her hand on Sakura's shoulder.

She nodded and looked to her friends, "I don't get it he said he was sorry and then he told me it was too dangerous and that he couldn't. I don't even know what that means!" she yelled slapping herself on the head.

"Just forget about him" Tenten smiled getting in Sakura's face.

"Yeah, like you said my brother's a Skank!" Ino smiled as well all three of them broke out laughing. Ino and Tenten died to a stop and stared at each other. Tenten tried to smile and it wasn't fake at all. Ino smiled back and they both met each other with the same look.

"Well let's go!" Ino cheered leading the way up the forest path. They all hiked up laughing and joking with each other and Sakura smiled brightly when she saw Tenten and Ino actually touch!

"Its right up here" the blond assured and as she said they came to a beautiful clearing with a clear river.

"Wow" Tenten gaped. Sakura had her mouth hung open and looked all around the place.

"This is amazing Ino! I can't believe it! This is your secret hide away?" Sakura was in total awe. Ino smiled brightly and then froze, Tenten stared off into the distance and Sakura just looked at the two.

"Um is something wrong?" she wondered.

"You've got to be kidding me . . ." Ino snarled.

"And after all we did to try and keep her out of it" Tenten said angrily.

"Sakura," Ino began but did not look at her. Sakura just stared at the two, why were they so tense? Sakura felt a cold sweat wash over her. "Please don't hate me for this" she said sadly.

Up ahead where the forest took over the clearing three huge wolves emerged. One was a rusty brown color, another was plain white, and the last was black. Sakura went wide eyed and shook with fear. "They aren't yours are they?" Ino spoke to Tenten this time.

She shook her head and growled, "They smell like the dirt bags from the coast" she said her knuckles cracking as she moved them. "Sakura, stay back" Tenten warned. Then she looked as if something else was wrong.

"What is it?" Ino asked.

"It's just odd. I've never seen an odd pack. We always have even numbers" she said still glaring.

The black wolf growled and ran forward. Tenten snarled and ran forward; it looked as if a wolf just exploded from her. Sakura went wide eyed seeing the chocolate brown wolf that had saved her life. They collided, grabbing mouthfuls of hair in their powerful jaws. Sakura looked at Ino but she just smiled. Her canines grew long and pointed and she placed her hand out in front of her as the white wolf ran towards her.

"Bring it on dog" she smiled madly and disappeared. Her leg made contact with the side of the animal and it flew into a tree breaking it in half. She landed lightly on her feet and stared down the last remaining wolf.

She wrapped her arms around herself unable to find words to describe how horrified she was. Yet it wasn't fear for the fact that her friends were indeed monsters but that they were fighting. A whine awoke her from her traumatized state and she saw Tenten thrown to the side with a gash on her side. The black wolf turned his hateful glare at her and she felt numb. But before it could advance towards her Tenten jaws chomped down around his neck.

And then before she could do anything a black and white wolf jumped out of the woods beside her. Sakura went wide eyed when she saw Ino's hand around its throat. She squeezed tighter and her nails dug into the skin drawing blood that her eyes were truly delighted by. She grabbed it with her other hand and brought the bloodied one to her face licking off some.

Her face was disgusted and she spat out the red liquid. "INO!!" Sakura screamed but it was too late the brown wolf had its teeth in her. Her hand shook and she dropped the now dead wolf and the brown one dug in harder.

He pulled out and Ino fell down on her knees. She turned to look at it and then slumped over keeping herself up with one arm. The wolf look like it was smirking and she was staring at it with never ending hate. "You bastard," she muttered. "You used your own comrade" Ino said disgusted. "I would have thought you were at least that dignified" she seethed.

He crouched down and got ready to jump when a dark grey wolf jumped over Ino taking down the brown wolf. Sakura winced as she heard the neck snap off and it turned it head to see Tenten and the black wolf circling each other. Blood still visible on Tenten and just like the brown wolf the black one was now on the ground underneath the grey one.

Tenten sat looking a bit disappointed and started licking her wound. The grey wolf walked over to Ino sniffing her and still looking cautious at the same time. It went in front of her and laid its head down in front of her. He whimpered and his eyes flashed from hers to her wound.

"Don't worry. Remember I'm immortal" she said falling forward but being caught by the wolf's side. Tenten trotted over and pushed Ino up on his back, he looked at Tenten and then his black eyes looked at Sakura. He walked off at a fast pace as was gone.

Tenten started walking toward the woods and Sakura went wide eyed. "You're leaving me?!" she panicked. Tenten looked at her and almost looked as if she were smiling. She shook her head in a no and disappeared between the trees.

Sakura waited and then she saw her friends face as she came back with a huge t-shirt on. "Hey Sakura" she smiled waving. She stopped in front of her and waved her hand in front of her face.

"What the HELL is going on!?" she shouted making Tenten wince. She rubbed her ears and laughed.

"Well now you know why we hate each other although that Ino isn't too bad. I was worried when I saw that brown one lunge at her I almost had a heart attack and that bastard wouldn't let me be. It's a good thing Kiba came" she nodded.

"Kiba?!" Sakura was wide eyed and shocked. "He's one too?!" she asked holding her head with her hands.

"Yeah. Ino's not the only vampire either," Tenten said stopping to see if Sakura would figure it out for herself. She stood there shocked,

"Y-You mean . . . Gaara?"

Tenten nodded, "Ino, Gaara, Sasori, Deidara, Temari, and Kankuro. Then both the parents are vampires too, the head doctor at the hospital, Tsunade. And her husband Jiraiya" she finished. "They out number us by two but soon it will only be one, Naruto has started the change" she smiled.

"You mean that really nice blond guy?!" Sakura asked. "Who . . . who else?" she questioned.

"Well there's Kiba, Me, Neji, Hinata, Shino, and Shizune, you know the secretary at school" she finished. Sakura was truly amazed she couldn't even speak. "It sucks though cause there is another stupid family of vampires. I mean I really only have a problem with the killing ones, Gaara and them only drink animal blood. It's the same with this other family but still you have to know how uncomfortable it feels" she sighed.

"Wait if you guys hate each other then why did Kiba immediately save Ino instead of you?" Sakura wondered.

"Well that's really complicated. You see both werewolves and vampires have ways of marking people . . . I'm not sure what it's called for vampires but they know when someone's smell is unbelievably tempting. Well their blood. But for werewolves it's called imprinting and well an easy way to say it would be love at first sight."

"Kiba was the first werewolf to ever imprint a vampire. At first no one knew because he didn't tell anyone because he was ashamed but he can hardly stop thinking about her. When he told me and the other, well the others didn't take it so well . . ." she said sadly.

Sakura was in awe it was like a romance, she smiled liking that there was still love in this weird world. She looked at Tenten's side and saw everything was healed. "Tenten your wound!" she gasped.

"Oh yeah, we heal fast"

Sakura let out an exasperated sigh. Wow, this was almost too much. She thought about Ino and her thoughts lead her to Gaara. " . . . " Sakura's eye twitched as she realized why Gaara was being a, well, Skank.

"Tenten, do you know where Ino and the others live?" Sakura asked calmly.

"Yeah, you want to go see Ino?" she wondered.

"Yeeah, Ino" she said turning back to the way they came. They made it back to the car and Sakura let Tenten drive. She watched the road ahead as Tenten was telling about the fight that had apparently made her anxious for another.

She turned down a nearly invisible drive and they traveled all the way up till a huge house came into view. Sakura was out as soon as the car stopped but Tenten was slowly. Sakura pounded on the door and as she was about to knock again it opened. Sakura blinked and saw it was the Ino's sister, "Um hi is Ino here?"

"Yes" she said her voice lighter than air. She stepped aside and let Sakura and then saw Tenten who had stopped on the porch. "The other dog is with Tsunade" she said her voice hard and uninviting. Sakura walked past her and saw Gaara come out from a room that looked like the kitchen.

He froze seeing her and tried to go the other way but she grabbed the back of his shirt. "We need to talk" she said seriously.

"There's nothing to say" he retorted and broke away from her.

"Are you just going to keep pushing me away? I'll just keep coming back even if it kills me!" she yelled at his back. This made him stop; he turned his head slightly,

"Don't say things like that" he said quietly.

"Maybe I'll just go back out there and wait for some kind of weird mythical creature to come and kill me. Yeah actually I think I'll go do that and I'll cut my hand so I can spread my blood around so they can find me easier" she said turning to the door and making a dramatic exit.

She felt a strong grip on her shoulder and looked back. "Fine," he grumbled and grabbed her by the arm and took her up the stairs. Sakura stared at all the thing in the beautiful house. There was another flight of stairs and they went up swiftly, Sakura almost tripped.

He opened one of the three doors and she walked in seeing his room that had a whole wall simply made out of windows. She looked around and asked about the stupidest question you could ask, "Where you ugh bed or coffin or what ever it is you rest in?"

Gaara sighed as he closed the doors. "We don't sleep" he said simply. Sakura made an 'Oh' and nodded, she looked all over the place noting it looked just like a normal room.

She placed a finger on her chin and examined things that caught her interest. She finally looked back at him to see that he was staring at her. She blushed slightly before looking away. "I didn't want you to be apart of this" he said breaking the silence.

"Its better then a broken heart" she said. "You just tore the poor thing to shreds. Leading me on and then rejecting me twice and calling it 'Protecting me' I mean seriously did you think I was just going to disappear?" she wondered.

"You don't understand-"

"No it's you who doesn't understand. I want to know how you feel about me right now" she said crossing her arms. He sighed and suddenly he was behind her.

"You're like a drug to me" he smirked pressing his nose into her hair. "I don't think you realize that you smell absolutely delicious to all of us, but especially to me. I can hardly resist" he whispered into her ear and trailing down her neck. He stopped and was struggling against himself.

"It was YOU!" she pushed away and pointed an accusing finger at him. He stood there confused but glad that she was further away from him. "You were the one in my room that night!" she huffed.

He looked to the side to stubborn to admit he was embarrassed. "I may have been around your house" he admitted looking back at her as she scoffed.

He felt her hand smack him across the face, "You pervert! I was naked! I thought I was going to be raped! I almost had a heart attack!" she screamed. "It explains why I couldn't catch you the WHOLE time, my dad even ran in with a shot gun" she glared.

He just smiled knowingly, "I know. It was fun watching you; your thoughts were pretty funny too. Hectic and panicky"

Sakura twitched, "And how may I ask do you know that?" she wondered tapping her foot on the floor.

"I have special powers" he said simply.

"Like?" she pushed him on waiting impatiently.

"I can read people's minds" Gaara smirked loving the fearful look on her face. "Don't worry I can't always read your mind. Especially deep things like stuff you don't want people to know or anything like that. I can barely read yours" he sighed.

Sakura gave him a skeptical look and turned away. "You know what you are too much trouble. Reading minds and being a vampire, besides you don't even want me around" she made a pout on her face so Gaara couldn't see

"Finally you understand you don't want anything to do with me" he said gratefully. He stared at her back wondering what expression was on her face.

"So you just liked my blood," she asked but not really wanting to know the answer she was sure she knew. There was a long silence and Gaara rubbed his temples with his hand.

"Yes." He forced out, hoping she bought his lie.

She took a deep breath to try and make her voice sound strong, "That's good to know" she choked out. She grabbed the door knob and unintentionally slammed the door behind her.

Gaara stared at the door and then quickly turned towards the window. He walked over and gazed down into the huge backyard. There was the dark grey wolf running around Ino happily wagging its tail. "Well you mangy dog you've at least gotten her attention" he sighed.

The door opened and a white haired man walked in, "Hello Gaara" he smiled but frowned when the red head didn't respond or turn around. "Well the werewolf girl says that the boy doesn't have any cloths and was wondering if he could borrow some. I thought it might be alright since he saved my precious little Ino" he smiled again.

"I don't care, Jiraiya. But I don't want them back they'll smell like dog" he said rather harshly. Jiraiya sighed and rummaged through the dresser and then left the room.

Gaara saw Sakura out with Ino and she pat Kiba's head as he rolled on his back and made the two girls laugh. Sakura scratched his stomach and found his itchy spot. Jiraiya then walked out showing the clothes to Kiba. He rolled onto his legs and took them carefully in his teeth before disappearing.

-

"Ugh these things smell like him," Kiba plugged his nose as he came back.

"Well they are his clothes dumb ass" Tenten rolled her eyes. Sakura laughed a little and turned to Ino who just had a small smile.

Sakura looked up for a moment catching Gaara's gaze on her and looked away quickly. "I'm really tired" he laughed, wanting to lead on the fact she wanted to go home.

"All right then let's go" Tenten said already heading for the way out.

"Thank you" a beautiful, busty blonde smiled. "I'm so glad that Ino is alright she lets herself go sometimes. Just thank you" she smiled a beautiful yet somehow dangerous smile.

Kiba kneeled down in front of Ino taking her hand, "Alas fair vampire maiden I must leave the, but your knight in shining fur will return" he gave her a charming grin and kissed her hand. For the first time Sakura actually saw Ino blush. He stood up and waved before heading off after Tenten, Sakura glanced up once again to see Gaara with an irritated look.

She looked back down and followed the two werewolves out of the vampire house.

-

Gaara stalked down the stairs stopping in the middle when he saw Ino at the foot of the stairs. She had her arms crossed over her chest and tapped her foot impatiently on the ground. "Well did you and Sakura make up?" she asked.

Gaara ignored her and pushed past the blond. "How can you do that?!" she yelled. He stooped and glared at the ground but then turned and shot it at her making her freeze.

"Because I'm not lucky like you" he hissed baring his fangs and walking out the back door slamming it. Ino glared after him and turned around bumping into Sasori. "Sorry Sasori" she sighed walking around him and up the stairs.

"You need to stop this idiocy Ino" he said softly but sternly. She stopped in the middle of the stairs and looked down at him. "Follow Gaara's example and stop involving this human girl. It's bad enough you brought werewolves here," he said his facial expression still not changing.

"Excuse me?! I wouldn't be talking about falling in love with humans if I were you. Don't be a hypocrite" she hissed back storming up the stairs.

He growled and walked angrily into the kitchen to see Tsunade drinking a red liquid from a glass. "Want some?" she asked seeing his angered state. She held up the glass and he took it draining it down.

"What's wrong? You want to talk about it?" Tsunade ask folding her hands and resting them on the counter.

"It's Gaara and Ino, they're being idiots. He had to go and like the human girl and then Ino became friends with werewolves, am I the only one who sees the problems brewing?" Sasori asked completely infuriated.

"Well from what I heard Ino was friends with the girl and does smell different almost like Deidara did" she said with a smug look. Sasori's eyes flickered toward Tsunade and slanted into a glare.

"This has nothing to with her," he said facing away.

"Well of course it does. A cute little vampire boy with red hair had a crush on the cutest little human blond girl," she smiled.

"18 years old is hardly little" he retorted.

"It is too me young one" she smiled back. "But I recall the same situation minus the werewolves though. Couldn't stop talking to her and couldn't stop following her. She had an unbelievable love for him too but you know teenagers and one thing lead to another," she laughed remembering the time.

Sasori had the tiniest tint of red on his cheeks as she continued, "A bad little vampire took a poor human's virginity and bit her without her consent, so don't be too hard on them" she smiled and pat his head.

"You have been just as bad" Tsunade laughed and headed for the door.

"Tsunade why were you so shocked when you saw the human girl?" Sasori asked.

Tsunade let her head fall forward and stared at the ground. "She just . . . reminded me of someone I knew is all," she said looking back up and pushing through the door.

Tsunade walked through the house looking around for Ino or Gaara. She saw Deidara come from the art room covered in paint and laughed. "New master piece?" she asked.

Deidara nodded happily, "I think its coming along nicely" she smiled.

Tsunade returned the gesture and looked into the room, "Any chance you won't blow this one up?" she wondered.

Deidara grinned and shook her head, "Sorry Tsunade you know true art is only brief"

"Yes your strange philosophy, anyway have you seen Gaara or Ino?" Tsunade questioned the messy blond.

"Oh yeah, Gaara left awhile ago and Ino went upstairs after her and Sasori-danna got in a big fight over the human and the werewolf" she said pointing up towards the ceiling.

"Thank you" Tsunade said happily and made her way up the stairs. "Ino!" Tsunade called knocking on the door to the other blonde's room.

"What is it Tsunade?" she asked opening the doors.

Tsunade walked into the sky blue room. "I was wondering if you could tell me about your friend, ugh, Sakura was it?" she wondered.

"Um sure what do you want to know?"

"Tell me about her family," Tsunade said looking at the things around Ino's room.

"Well I don't know much; just that she lives with her dad. Gaara would probably know more about her family then I do. I mean he practically stalks her" she sighed and then went wide eyed covering her mouth.

"How long Ino?"

"Since she got here, it was about the same time Kiba and Tenten stared hanging around her. It's almost like she's a magnet to us all"

Tsunade tried to keep her expression back but Ino saw the shock on her face. "Tsunade are you alright?" Ino asked.

"I have to find Gaara" she said simply before closing the door behind her.