"Fire, fire!" the neighboring residents yell, watching in horror and dismay at the great Michiko building set ablaze.

"This fire is too out of control. We can hardly contain it!" Anko shouts to the other jounin that were there, watching as the flames grew more with every passing second.

"Yes, I know Anko. But… we have to keep trying. Ninja Art: Water style jutsu!" Hayate yells assuringly, blowing a huge amount of water from his mouth onto the house.

"What happened here?" Kiba's mother, Tsume Inuzuka, asks Anko in shock as she runs up beside her.

"We don't know yet. Were just trying to get the flames under control for now," she replies, making the same hand sign as Hayate.

"Mom, mom!" a young Kiba calls out, sprinting up behind his mother.

"Kiba, stay back!" she tells him sharply.

Kiba comes to an abrupt halt, stumbling forward a bit, and looks with terrifying eyes at the raging fire before him.

"Mom… what is this? What happened here?" Kiba questions, his eyes fixated on the dancing fire.

"Just stay back! You hear me?" she explains, her voice roaring with authority.

Tsume's dog, Kuromaru, stands faithfully beside her giving Kiba a rigorous look.

"What in the world is that!" Anko asks surprisingly, as a massive fire dragon shoots out from the ceiling of the burning home.

The dragon roars loudly, and disappears in a blink of an eye, exactly as it had appeared.

"What was that?" Tsume asks Anko bewildered.

"I don't know. But it was probably signaling that there is someone still in there… still alive," she explains, the last bit to Hayate.

"Yes… your probably right. But it's too dangerous to let any of our men in there. The place could collapse at any second," he states clearly, coughing a little from the smoke.

'What? Their not gonna' do anything? But it's obvious that someone is in there,' Kiba thinks to himself, looking at each of the jounin around him in a perplexed state.

"Kiba! What are you doing! Get back here!" Tsune screams at her son, as he darts past her towards the blazing building.

She tries to run after him, but Anko holds her back sternly telling her, "No. It's too dangerous!"

"I don't care! I have to go and get my son!" Tsume shots at Anko, fully enraged.

"No, Tsume. I will go after the boy," Kuromaru implies, racing after Kiba through the incinerated door.

Kiba's P.O.V.

Cough, cough!

I covered my nose with the sleeve of my jacket, trying to prevent anymore of the smoke to get into my body. My eyes were stinging and watering so much from the intenseness of the smoke rising from the fire surrounding me, that it was hard for me to see where I was going. The fire was so uncontrollable, that I could barely maneuver around the home. And the heat was just too much to bear. It felt as though I had been placed inside of a heated stove.

I made my way down a long passageway, evidently it was a hallway. I turned left and hesitantly walked into the kitchen. I could tell because I still could see the refrigerator in the corner of the room and minor parts of the sink next to it, but as for everything else: impossible.

Cough, cough, cough!

Tears rolled down my face, as the smoke filled up in more in my lungs. I looked around from where I was hopelessly, until I heard…

Cough, cough! 'Help…'

My eyes shot open in disbelief, and my heart raced inside my chest.

'Did I really hear someone?' I asked myself, a bit happy and surprised.

I heard movement coming from over in the direction by the refrigerator. I slowly and cautiously made my way over, watching carefully with every step I took. I glanced over at the side of the refrigerator, and saw a young girl about my age it looked like. By this point, I could feel my heart beating inside of my throat. She tiredly looked over at me, her small amethyst- colored eyes clouded up by death. Her body was shaking all over, and I could tell that she had been crying: badly. Her skin had scorch marks all over, and parts of her body were completely charred away. I gazed solemnly into her eyes, contemplating on what I should do.

'Of course I need to get her out of here,' I thought to myself with a sure nod.

I know I needed to help her out of there, but my body was to frail to move her, and plus I already felt majorly weak from the smoke in my body.

'What do I do?' I pondered desperately.

"Kiba!" a voice called out from behind me.

"Kuromaru," I said wearily.

"Come on! Let's get out of here!" the dog said with a commanding tone.

"No… we have to save this girl," I explained, steeping back a bit so Kuromaru could see her.

Creak, creak.

I looked up at the ceiling above us, my expression sullen. The ceiling was going to fall down on top of us if we didn't get out of there quickly!

End of Kiba's P.O.V.


"Grrr… it's been too long!" Anko says irritably, counting as nine minutes passed by.

"No. They'll come… Kuromaru won't let me down," Tsume states, staring with her eyes narrowed at the burning home.

Creak, creak, creak!

Seconds pass, and the a blazed building tumbles with a deafening CRASH down to the ground. The force of the fall sends massive amounts of smoke and debris waving over the many jounin before it.

"No… but… did they make it out?" Anko asks, covering her face up with her arms.

"Amazing…" Hayate says… amazed! As he stares out at Kuromaru, who was standing in front of the collapsed home, with Kiba leaning exhausted onto the dog's body.

"Hmm? What is this?" Anko inquires, noticing a small figure laid awkwardly over the dog's back.

Many of the jounin race over to the dog, with Tsume in front of them all.

"This is…" Anko gasps out, who was standing beside Tsume, who was looking a bit more unsurprised than she was.

"Alright, what are you all standing around for? Get medical assistance here stat!" she booms to them all, getting nothing but 'Yes, ma-am' in return.