Sakura was really starting to hate train rides even more than she already did. It seemed like whenever she got on one there was something bad waiting for her at exit. "How did it come to all this?" she knew how it all happened. The day she left she thought it was only the start of a new life for her but it was actually a new start for all of them. Each one of her friends started seeing the world in a way they didn't before. Some saw the light like she had but some stayed in the dark. "Kiba…what have I done? What have we done?" she did blame herself for what was happening with the guy but she knew not all of this was her fault. She started this chain reaction the day she left but he continued it even after. "We need to finish this." She had believed that she was the only one who could end all this but she was wrong. It would take both of them, her and Kiba; they together were the ones that could put a stop to everything.
The train doors opened and she ran out of the crowded open doors and out onto the buys streets of her town. She had only lived in this town for a few months but this place felt more like home than her old town, the one she had grown up in, and the very same one where she meet Kiba.
/Flashback/
"Hey Pinkie, where do you think you're going?" Sakura scoffed at the nickname and the five boys that were blocking the exit.
"I'm going home." She hissed at them, green eyes glaring at the boys that stood before her. She recognized one of them, a boy she had seen today and one that tried making a move on her. She had sent him a nice kick to the head and called him a few names. Seems like he and his friends are back for revenge.
"Not before you apologize to me," He grabbed hold of her wrist and Sakura's glare increased. "Now you can repay me with either your mouth or you body, either way I'll be very happy." He had an eerie smile on him and it made Sakura's blood boil. He tried grabbing her chest but she was to fast for him. She slapped hand and grabbed the front of his shirt, twisting her body around she threw him over her shoulder and slammed him hard on the ground.
"I don't apologize to anyone who doesn't deserve it." She hissed again.
"Get her!" the other four decided to attack and jumped her.
They each attacked her at once and Sakura was able to defend herself and land a few hits but she was outnumbered and these boys felt like playing dirty. They would pull her hair or lift up her skirt, anything to make her distracted or to upset to concentrate. She tried hitting them off her but these guys were not playing fair. One of them threw dirt in her eyes and another kicked her in the back of the knees at the same time. She fell to ground.
"Now we got her," they continued there assault on her. Kicks aimed at her head, face, stomach, hands, and legs, they were going to beat her until they got bored or a cop showed up. "Come on, cry already," Sakura was not going to cry no matter how much pain she was in. These weaklings didn't deserve her tears so she wouldn't show them no matter how much they hit her. "If you won't cry then we need to make this more interesting for us." One of them ripped the front of her shirt right off and Sakura gasped. They were going to rape her! She had never faced this problem before, she had always been stronger then her opponents so she never had to worry about this happening. Now she had to.
"Take you hands off me!" she tried getting up to finish the fight before it got any worse but she was kicked in the face before she could even stand.
"Stay down," the boy from earlier was the one that had kicked her. His foot now stepping on her head as he talked down to her. "A stupid bitch like you deserves this. To be groveling like a dog at my feet. So shut up already and accept that this is your new life."
"I won't!" Sakura was not going to let them control her life. She would die first.
"Seems someone still has some hope in her," their laughs reached her ears and she growled. She hated them. "I guess we better get rid of that hope before – Argh!" he was stopped by a punch to the mouth. He went flying off her and one by one his friends followed, each one was sent flying and away from her by a single punch.
"Who the hell did that? You got a lot of nerve to –!" the five boys froze when they saw who had hit them.
Sakura didn't understand what was happening. One moment they were beating her up and the next some random kid came by and saved her. Saved her? No one had ever done that before. "Who are you?" she looked at the back of her so-called savior. All she could tell about him was that he was tall, well built and had short messy brown hair.
"The name's Kiba Inuzuka." He turned around enough to face her, a confident smirk on his face.
"Kiba Inuzuka?" she knew who he was. He was in the same grade as her and was known throughout each school as the strongest fighter. His family was a famous Yakuza group so almost every student and teacher in the school feared him. Sakura was the small percent that didn't.
"I-I-Inuzuka? W-W-W-What are y-y-you d-doing h-h-here?" the five tried sounding brave but their fear was to strong.
Kiba smirked at them; he looked like he was mocking them with that smile of his. "Just giving you guys a simple warning," he took out the jacket her wore and gave it to Sakura. Surprised at his actions she slowly took it out of his hands and onto her exposed body. This was strange. "I don't want any of you touching her ever again," he stepped in front of her, his body suddenly looked like it was glowing. "She's mine!" he growled and Sakura actually jumped at his voice. She wasn't expecting that.
"Y-Y-Yes sir!" the five practically cried and ran out of the schoolyard with their tails between their legs.
"Well this is unexpected," Sakura stood on bruised legs and adjust her uniform enough that it wouldn't be showing anything. "Why did you save me? And what's with this 'she's mine' crap? I don't remember agreeing to being your anything." she knew who this guy was, knew who his family was, but she didn't care about any of that. She wouldn't let something like money and power scare her off. If someone wanted her respect then they would have to earn it.
"You really do have a sharp tongue," he placed his hand under her chin but Sakura slapped it away. If he was trying to make a move on her than she would make regret that he was born as a male. "I like that," he put his hands in his pockets and headed for the school gate. "Come on Haruno, you're officially a part of my gang now so let's get moving."
Sakura did not like how he was talking to her. "Knock it off Inuzuka," she spat out his name like it had burned her tongue. "I don't care who you are or who your family is. I'm going to join your stupid gang or let you talk down to me." That was something she was never going to allow. If she did ever join a gang or group than it would be with someone who treated her with respect and talked to her like an equal.
Kiba had stopped walking and turned around to face her, an amused smile on his face. "You really are a spitfire aren't ya?" he seemed like he was examining her, but not in a perverted way, more like the way a fighter inspects their opponent before a match. "I like that," he walked back up to her, face to face and grinned. "You don't take shit from anyone and you don't give a damn about me or my family. Oh yeah, I really like that," he put his hands on her hips and Sakura didn't hesitate to kick him right between the legs. It would have been a glorious moment if he hadn't stopped her.
"Lucky." She scoffed, crossing her arms and rolled her eyes.
"Lucks got nothing to do with skill darling," he stepped to the side of her and put an arm around her shoulder. "Come on, Sakura, what do you say? Join my gang and I can guarantee you'll enjoy yourself."
"I think you're confusing me with yourself Inuzuka." She shrugged his arm off her.
"Call me Kiba," he put his arm back around her. "You want to be treated as my equal well you are now. Only a few people outside my family can call me Kiba so consider yourself lucky Sakura." He gave her a toothy grin and was already leading he rout of the school.
"Wow, I feel so special." Sarcasm was dripping off her but Sakura still followed him. After all she owed him for saving her so she figured hearing him out wouldn't do her any harm and who knows, maybe she would end up agreeing to it. He seemed like a pretty interesting guy.
/End Flashback/
"In the end I agreed to join and made some of the greatest friends I could ever have," she was running down the narrow sidewalks that would soon bring her to the front of the Hyuga Manor. "Kiba had changed my life than and now it's my turn to change his. No matter what it takes I'll make Kiba see that I won't leave him again. I will get him back!" nothing was going to stop her. She made a vow and there was no force in the world that could get her to break it.
"Just watch me," She looked up at the setting sky and imagined the smiling face of Kiba. She came to a stop and looked up at the first star that was appearing in the sky. The sun was still setting but a single star was already shinning bright. "If wishes do come true then let my wish be granted." She closed her eyes and made a silent wish on the shining star in the sky.
"Sakura?" her eyes opened when her name was called. "What are you doing?"
Sakura nearly cried when she saw Hinata standing outside her house and threw her arms around the shy girl. She was so worried about her and seeing her safe and sound made her heart melt with joy. She didn't looked abused or hurt in any other way and that made her feel a hundred times better. If Hinata, or any of her friends, had been hurt because of her than she wouldn't be able to live with herself. Her friends were the most important things in her life right now and she didn't want any of them hurt. "I'm so sorry Hinata, I never meant for any of this to happen." Her friend was just kidnapped because of Sakura felt like the worst friend in the world. How could she let something like this happen?
"It's alright, Sakura," Hinata smile at her, waving off any reasons for her to worried or guilty. "I-It's actually a good thing I-I was t-taken. S-Shino and I were able to talk better."
"Shino?" Now Sakura was really confused. "You and Shino talked?" what was that supposed to mean? Was Hinata being watched and forced to say these things or was she brainwashed after she was kidnapped?
Hinata nodded her head, "Yes, somehow he o-overheard us at lunch a-and wanted to speak with me p-privately." She took Sakura by the hand and led her through the Hyuga Manor. No matter how many times Sakura has been through here she was always amazed by how big it was. You could get lost if you didn't pay attention.
"Hinata, where are you taking me?" Sakura couldn't help but wonder what had happened while she was away at Nin High and fighting with Kiba. Actually she was wondering what he would do with her request. She asked of him to come back with her to her school and go back to being her boyfriend. "Maybe I should have picked a better wish?" she wasn't sure how he would react to her request. He could always ignore it, there loopholes in every rule they made and she was sure Kiba would find one. She couldn't fool herself into thinking he would just listen to her, Kiba was stubborn and it would take her a while to get him to come over to her side.
"To the dining room. Everyone is waiting for us there." Hinata explained, opening the doors to the dining room, showing Sakura a giant table with seats filled with her friends.
"About time you showed up, billboard brow." Ino was the first to call out. She was sitting next to Shikamaru and Chouji at the table.
"What's going on?" How much did she miss while she was at Nin High? It seemed like a lot had happened in such a short amount of time.
"Sit down Sakura and we'll explain it to you." Neji ushered her over to the empty chair next to Naruto and Shino.
"What's going on?" Sakura was as confused as she could be. What was Shino doing here? Wasn't he supposed to be on Kiba's side? More importantly, why was everyone acting so calmly? Shouldn't they be as freaked out as her? "Did I suddenly enter the twilight zone?"
"By what we've learned from Shino, a lot," Shikamaru held a file in his hand and he didn't look happy. "It seems Kiba is finally starting to crack. With Ino gone and his family treating him like an outside has his mind not working properly and he's been making a bunch of bad decisions," he pulled out pictures from the file and showed them to Sakura. Pictures of Kiba standing in the middle of giant groups of unconscious people and looking fierce. "He's been picking fights with anyone that he sees and he's made a lot of enemies lately. If this keeps up he's gonna end up having the whole Nin High against him soon." The news was bad and it nearly broke Sakura's heart.
"So what do we do?" her voice came out in a low whisper. She was the cause for all this. Kiba was acting like this all because of her. If she hadn't left the way she did or tried harder to get him to understand why she needed to leave than maybe he wouldn't be acting like this. "Kiba…I'm so sorry!" she couldn't let this go on. She had to help him before he destroyed himself.
"I say we go in for the kill," Sasuke suggested and it seemed everyone agreed with him. Everyone that is but Sakura.
"You want to attack him? Now?" she couldn't believe the words that just came from the Uchiha's mouth. Her crush on him was officially over.
"It's an opening that we can't afford to miss," Neji came in, trying to calm her with his logic. "We may not get another chance or if we wait to long then he may end up dead by the time we do act." His logic did make sense but Sakura still didn't like it.
"No way," she wouldn't allow them to do this. "I'm going to let you guys attack Kiba." This was her fault, she made him act this way and she felt horrible so she wasn't going to let her friends do anything to him.
Shikamaru sighed at her, one hand running through his hair. "Sakura, I know how you feel about this but –"
"No you don't," she stopped him before he could even finish that sentence. "You don't know how I feel about this Shikamaru so don't even try and say that you do," she slammed her hands down on the table; she needed for them to listen to her. "I know you're all just trying to help but this is happening because of me and I need to fix it."
"But how can you?" Neji didn't seem too impressed by all this. "You've seen the photos, the reports, and you know what this boy is like. He's a wild animal and I doubt he'll listen to anything you have to say."
Sakura knew he was right, she knew it and she hated it. "That may be true…" she looked down at her hands, her ivory colored hands that at one point only knew how to harm people. "But that doesn't mean I can't try," Before her hands could only harm people but now they knew how to heal. She would use her hands and her entire being to heal Kiba's fragile and crying heart. "I love Kiba," she confessed to her friends. "I love him and I will help him."
"You love him?" Naruto shot up in his seat, shock and disbelief written all over his face. "Sakura, how can you love him? He's crazy!"
She couldn't help but laugh at his words. "Well I can't argue there. Kiba is pretty crazy, I guess you could say he's part beast." She gave a sad smile, her mind flashing her back to times that she spent with Kiba.
"So can you love him?" Naruto didn't understand, none of her friends did.
"I guess it's because I could always be myself around him," her smiled brightened as she spoke. "I was a very angry and very violent girl before, it was who I was, I can't change that and I don't want too," her words sounded strange to them but they made perfect sense to her. "Kiba accepted me, he accepted that I got angry easily, that I loved fighting, and that I was a girl who was angry at her father for becoming a monster and abandoning my mother and I," she had to shake off the tears that wanted to come. Now was not the time to be crying. "I could be myself around Kiba, I didn't have to worry about being judge or him trying to change me because he loved me for just being me," he truly had loved her the same she loved him; it was the same love that she felt for him even now. "I feel in love with him than and I still love him now so that's why I will do everything in my power to help him without having to attack him." Nothing was going to stop her, nothing.
"Then it looks like we gotta get moving," Naruto gave her a bright smile and had his hands into two fists. "If we're gonna help this guy than we have to find him first."
"Naruto's right," Shino spoke up for the first time. "We need to move fast if we're going to catch up with Kiba. As you know Sakura, he moves very fast."
Never in a million years would she believe this would be real but it was and she was once again grateful to her friends. "Thank you." Forever, she would forever care for her friends. They have had her back ever since the start of all this and they would continue to have her back even after this. She was sure of this, just like she was sure that she would help them whenever they were in trouble.
"Well what are we waiting for?" Naruto jumped out of his seat, already pulling Sakura along with him. "Let's get going already!" they were ready, each and every one of them were ready for a fight or anything else that would come at them. They would find Kiba and win the final battle that would help him take the next step forward and onto their side.
"Sakura?" they had all left Hinata's how to get changed into better clothes that would better suit them in case a fight does break out. "What are you wearing?" they were a little surprised by what Sakura had decided to wear.
"Just a little something I threw on," she had red tank top with a white skirt and black boots on, her red ribbon as always but she added in a little something extra for tonight. Her old jacket that she used to were in the gang was no cut to fit her like it was a vest, the sleeves cut off and it was cut just at her waist with a red belt tied around hr waist. "I felt it was appropriate for tonight," She started as a member of Kiba's gang and she would end it as one too. She considered him a teammate and her partner and this jacket, or now vest, was proof of that. "Hana told me that he's been coming to this park almost every night and starting fights. There are a lot of gangs around so be careful." She warned her friends, they were in her old town and it was very dangerous here at night.
"Roger." They all separated at this, each one going off in pairs of two but Sakura went on her own. It would be better for her and everyone else if Kiba found her alone. He would feel more confident and safer to talk to her when she's alone. If she did have a partner than there a big chance he wouldn't lower his guard down or even talk to her.
"This is so strange," As she walked through the dark park she had to stop herself from releasing soft laughs. "Just six months ago I was in a gang, lived only to fight, and never once questioned if what I was doing was right." She really was a wild child back then. Her life filled only with chaos and darkness. "Now I know the difference between a real fight and hurting others," she stopped walking and raised one hand to the full moon that was above her. "It was a full moon than too."
"You mean the night you left us or deiced you didn't want to be here anymore?" his words were harsh and made her cringe by the bitterness of them. She expected him to be angry but not this angry.
"Kiba," she wasn't surprised to see that he had come to her. She had been expecting him to go to her first before going after her friends. "I want you to stop this." He was on the verge of a starting a giant war between so many gangs. She needed to put a stop to this before it went any further.
He smirked at her, revealing one of his sharp fangs. Akamaru was behind him, sitting down in front of a tree and just watching the two of them from his own little spot. "We want a lot of things Sakura but we don't always get them," he took slow and menacing steps towards her but she felt no fear. Any other person would be shaking but she felt no fear towards him, she never did before and she never would. "Like me for instance, I want a good family, some loyal friends, and a nice girlfriend but it seems none of that is possible." he kicked a garbage can out of the way, making it fly right past her and hit a tree.
She didn't even blink went it went by. "You do have all that."
"Is that so?" he stopped walking, he was maybe only three footsteps away from her but the distance still seemed great to her. "You must be blind Sakura because I can't have all that because everyone I ever trusted betrayed me!" he shouted at her, eyes glowing with the pent of rage he was keeping in. "Ino and Shino both decided they were happier away from me, my own family thinks I'm crazy and helps my enemies just so I'll stop fighting, and then there's you," he glared at her, hands balled into fists and his body began to shake. "You left me Sakura. You left me, you lied to me, and then you had the nerve to come back and take away the things I care about," he gave a bitter laugh, one that seemed too covered in frost. "You left me…" he whispered out, face taking off the mask her wore for others and showing her the real feelings he held "You left me! You fucking left me when you knew how much I loved you!" he was screaming at the top of his lungs now. "I loved you! I loved you so much but that wasn't enough to make you stay! You decided to leave because you hate it here or was it because you hated me?"
"That's not it," she needed to stop him there. "I don't hate you Kiba. I love you, I still do."
He scoffed at her words. "I don't believe you," his mask was off and his was showing his emotions. Anger, rage, loneliness, and emptiness were all there. They were all there and she was the cause of them being there. "If you really loved me then you shouldn't have left." He kicked at one of legs of the bench he was next to and Sakura watched as it broke and the old bench collapsed. She looked at the bench and then at the fountain that was next to them.
They were standing in the exact same spot the day she stood him she was leaving.
"What was I supposed to do? Just stay here and be unhappy?" she wouldn't just stand there and do nothing. Somehow she had to reach him and get him to understand that he wasn't as alone as he thought.
"If you didn't like it then you should have come and talked to me, not just get up and leave," he jumped at her, hands grabbing her shoulders and keeping her close. "I would have changed. I would have stopped what we were doing, what I was doing if you had just told me," his hands were shaking and his voice was getting low.
"Kiba…" she put one hand over his shaking one.
"I would have stopped if you just asked me too," he suddenly stopped shaking and froze, he wasn't moving anymore. "But you didn't trust me enough," his grip on her tightened and he was slowly picking her up off the ground. "You didn't think I would listen because you didn't trust me, because you didn't love me," he threw her to the ground; a sharp cry came from her lips as she rolled on the cold ground. "Admit it! Admit that you didn't love me. Tell me you didn't!" he stepped down on her chest, making her breathing halt and her lungs cry out for air. "Tell me!" he seemed desperate and she knew why.
"I…can't…" he wanted her to say this because then he could stop loving her. If he knew that she didn't really love him then he would no longer still be in love with her. If that was true then he wouldn't feel anymore pain and could just live his life in the dark, forgetting everything.
"Why not?" he took his foot off her and pulled her up by her wrist, him going down on one knee so they would be face to face. "Why can't you say it?"
She coughed some more, the sweet oxygen was coming back into her burning lungs. "I can't because I don't want to lie to you anymore," she looked at him, green eyes meeting empty black eyes. "I love you." It was the simple truth. She loved him and nothing would ever change that.
"No, you're not supposed to say that," he jumped away from her, he seemed frantic and confused. "You're supposed to say you hate me. That you were just using me," he put his hands in his head, ripping out his short messy brown hair.
"Kiba…" she went to him, her hands over his to try and stop him before he hurt himself.
He slapped her hands away, sharp black eyes being drowned in tears. "You're not supposed to love me!" he cried out and she had to stop him.
In an instant she wrapped her arms around his crying form and held him. She held onto him, telling him she wouldn't ever let him go. "I do love you. I did then and I do now," her forehead touched his. His tears were being spilled onto her cheeks but she didn't mind, she only gave him a bright smile. "I will always love you." She kissed his shaking lips that were in the shape of a frown. She kissed him so he would know the truth. She spoke the words and now all that was left was to show him.
"No…" he pushed his face away from hers but his hands held her tight. "You're not supposed to…" he seemed so lost. He was lost in the darkness and Sakura needed to get him out.
"I do," she pulled him into an embrace, her head resting over his beating heart. "I will always love you." She confessed to him.
"No!" he pushed her away from him and broke off into a run, Akamaru running after in with soft whines.
"Kiba," Sakura wanted to chase after him but he was to fast for her. He was always faster than her, besides she knew where he was going. "I swear I will not give up on you."
"You seem really determined." Sasuke came walking out of the bushes towards her.
Sakura smiled at him. "Of course," she walked slowly over to the fountain and sat down on the edge of it. "Why wouldn't I be? I love him so I want to do my best." She was grinning like a little kid that was experiencing their first crush.
Sasuke smirked again and sat down next to her. "Glad to hear it." He pat her on the head a few times and Sakura giggled.
"Hey Sasuke," she waited for him to look at her before she continued. "I have to admit when I first came her I had a small crush on you but that's over now. I'm a one man kind of girl and my boyfriend has a jealous side that you wouldn't believe." She started laughing, her mind taking he back to all the times Kiba got jealous over the few guys that he deemed as a threat to heir relationship.
"That so?" Sasuke seemed amused with this information. "Guess I better watch myself when Kiba transfers over. He could get as bad as Naruto if I'm not careful." Sakura wanted to laugh. He wasn't afraid of being attacked but he was more worried about having to deal with another Naruto.
"Well this was fun but I need to head home and get some rest," she stood up from her seat and gave a small stretch. "I have a big day ahead of me tomorrow." She knew what she needed today. Tomorrow morning she was going to go over to the Inuzuka Compound and talk with Kiba face to face one more time.
"You sure about this?" Sasuke asked her. "You know we have no problems coming with you. Things could get dangerous."
Sakura laughed at him and his worries. "What are you talking about Sasuke?" she turned her head up to face the full moon and beamed at it. "When I'm with Kiba I'm never in any danger." It was the pure truth. No matter how angry he was with her Kiba still loved her and would never hurt her. She knew this because she felt the very same. "Once tomorrow comes I'm going over his house and I will get you back Kiba Inuzuka!"