|✔|Konoha Academy's Betrayal |Sakura x Kiba|

33.) One, Two, Three, Study!

Dear Journal,

It's gotten a lot calmer now that the soccer season is over. The only thing that I'm not happy about is Naruto. Ever since the night Kiba and Naruto fought tension has been high between the two. Every time Naruto sees Kiba with me he gets this pissed off look in his eye, causing Kiba to do the same. I have almost had it with these two. December is here and winter break is just around the corner, but now exams are here. Well I need to go, it's the final week before exams start and I need to get the house ready for study groups. Ttyl

Sakura

I sigh and shut my journal slowly as I stand and walk to the window. I watch as the small snowflakes fall outside my bedroom window. So white and so pretty. Winter is my favorite time of year. I love the snow that much.

Kiba, Hinata, Shikamaru, and Choji should be here in two hours, and honestly I wish they weren't. I feel like crap, being that time of the month and all. I promised though, so I can't cancel now. I should have enough time to throw some stew on and take a shower. I set my journal down and head down stairs to the kitchen.

"Hi honey." My mother says warmly to me as I open the fridge. "Would you like me to make something for you and your friends tonight?"

I smile at her. "Actually I was thinking of making a stew." I say shutting the fridge and facing my mother. "Choji is coming so there should be lots. If I want to get him to study that is."

My mother chuckles and nods. "I think I can manage that honey." She says busing herself around the kitchen now.

Well at least now I can shower and clean up the living room, I muse as I make my way back upstairs to gather clean clothes and a towel. I rummage through the drawer of my dresser looking for something to ware.

I want something comfortable and baggy, but I know that there are only two things that fit that description. I pull Kiba's sweatpants and hoodie out of my bottom drawer. He had made me ware them home the next day after I had stayed the night at his house. They will have to do, hopefully Kiba doesn't mind.

I can smell the stew throughout the house as I vacuum the living room. I really couldn't ask for a better mother to be honest. She understood right away why Sasuke wasn't coming around anymore and has welcomed my new friends into her home with open arms. Yes, my mother is quite amazing. As I am putting the vacuum away the first knock sounds on the door.

Putting the vacuum away quickly I call out. "One second." I hurry over to the door and open it, a rush of cold December air sweeping over me. Kiba stands on my front porch in a gray fir lined coat grinning. "Well you're here earlier." I grumble, slightly annoyed that he's here thirty minutes early.

Kiba grins at me from under his damp snow covered hair. "Nice to see you too Sakura." He says stepping into the house and shedding his coat.

I take his coat and hang it up on the coat rack as I shut the door. "You had a hood you know." I say turning back to him with a sigh.