Chapter 14: Trying to understand

The next day came quickly for the ninjas and there was Naruto and Kiara waiting for the rest of the team. Naruto was silent the entire morning and it began to scare the blue haired beauty. She tried to make a conversation with him once in a while, but he would only just respond with just one word. Kiara just sighed and began to pray to a god that she didn't believe in that Ryu and Sakura would come soon. It was still early in the morning and they were in no rush, but she just wanted to get through with it. Even if it would be the most agonizing three days of her life, because of awkwardness and silence the whole way there. Yes, this was going to be her prediction on what will happen and she is sticking to her prediction more and more as the time went by.

"Where could Ryu be?" she asked as she fell to the ground to wait comfortably. Naruto then shrugged and replied, "I don't know, but once he gets here then we can leave." This caught her attention she turned her head towards him and she knew that he was being serious. Kiara stood up from her spot and responded, "Look I know that you and Sakura had a fight, but would you really leave her behind?" Naruto didn't answer all he did was snort at my question and turned his head somewhere else. Well there was her answer right there. She didn't like Sakura at all, but after the fight with her she knew that she was wrong to act like a twelve year old girl with her. Then after last night when Ryu told her that she was innocent, she sort of believed him and decided to give her some slack. As it looks like Naruto would give Sakura enough pain from the both of them anyways. Ten more minutes passed by and suddenly Kiara could see both Ryu and Sakura walking towards us. That's when Kiara knew why Ryu was so late. He knew that once we were all here Naruto would leave and leave Sakura behind.

None of the teens spoke, not even a good morning. All they did was look at Naruto and he began to head out. Before they could all leave though Ryu suggested that he would carry Sakura. Sakura got offended at his offer thinking that he was telling her that she was going to hold them back. Ryu then smirked at her reaction and explained, "Sakura-san, we demons are much faster than any human and since Naruto has the Kyubbi's power he has the same speed as us. For us demons it took about three days from the village to Kohona. I think that if a human would travel that same distance it would take about a month or two to reach the village of demons." Sakura's face then blushed from embarrassment and whispered out an alright then got up on Ryu's back. Kiara snickered at the flustered rosette and began to depart as well. It had been a couple hours and the team began to get hungry. The team had stopped at the sand village and decided to eat there, while Naruto wanted to meet up with his friends.

Kiara and Ryu were sitting down at a nice family restaurant, eating some of their favorite food, while Naruto looked for his friends. Ryu then turned his head towards the silent kounichi sitting down besides a tree getting shade. He had already tried to talk to her, but no words came out. She was so shut out that he began to worry. His eyes then averted towards Kiara sloppily eating her curry and rice. He knew exactly what would get Sakura to open up and it was by getting Kiara to talk to her. He knew all too well that girls will open up to other girls more easily than to a guy. He leaned towards Kiara and said, "Kiara I want you to go and talk to Sakura." Kiara then began to choke on her food and spit out, "What?" Ryu rolled his eyes at her childish antics and repeated himself, "I want you to go and talk to her." She stared at him with her steel grey eyes in confusion. She looked out of the window where Sakura was sitting. There she was with her knees close to her face as she stares off into a deep depression. Kiara sighed and asked, "Why should I talk to her?" Ryu then shook his head and looked deep into her eyes so she could fully understand, "Girls will open up to other girls more easily. Besides you know exactly how she feels." Kiara then looked down on her food, while she remembered the feeling. She actually did know what Sakura was going through. Getting her heart broken by her true love because she had to do what she was told to do.

Kiara then picked up a bowl of miso shrimp ramen and slowly walked towards the depressed cherry blossom. As she began to get closer she soon noticed that there were marks of dry tears on her rosy cheeks. There was also a tint of red on the tip of her nose, she must have been crying recently. Kiara then felt pity for the pink haired teen. With one last sigh she walked in front of her and smiled holding the bowl to her face.

"Are you hungry? I brought miso shrimp ramen. Naruto told me it was your favorite, when we were at the demon village," She tried at starting the conversation. Sakura looked at her pondering at why she was trying to be nice to her. She then turned her head where Ryu was sipping on his hot tea. She then mumbled back, "You don't have to try to be nice to me because Ryu told you to." Kiara was shocked at the statement and thought, This Haruno girl is smart, but so sad. I can't actually let her be like this. Kiara then sat down next to her and set the bowl down on her right.

"Look I am not doing this because Ryu told me to. I am doing this because I actually know exactly how you feel," she explained as Sakura's attention was now all on her. "I want to know your side of the story, but I also want you to listen to my story first so you can actually know that I do know what you are going through." After that Kiara Netto began to tell her story.