Ok well this is my very first story on this site sooooo please be nice ^^ And I know I'm not the greatest writer, or speller in the world =P I do NOT own anything!!! Well ok lets get started shall we? ^^

Inner Skaura: "HELL YEAH!!"

Me: "Ok but your not appearing til chapter 2" ^^

Inner Sakura: "WHAT?!?!?"

~START~

"I-I'm sorry...Naruto"

Sakura apologized to the now fully covered bandaged Naruto as he laid on the bed. She stood right next to her teammates bed with her head down in shame. She had once again failed to protect her friend, yet herself having Naruto come to her rescue.

"Sorry? What have you got to be sorry about for Sakura? This is nothing!"

Naruto said in his normal voice, but knew perfectly well he was indeed lying just to make her feel better as always. Yet it only made her feel worse.

"Nothing?! You Nearly Died Naruto!! And It's All My Fault!!!"

Sakura cried out to her injured friend as she clenched her fists. Sakura and Naruto were both sent on a mission with there sensei when Kakashi was busy fending off most of the enemies, Naruto was busy trying to protect Sakura...while Sakura...couldn't do anything. Kakashi made it out ok, just minor injuries. But the only one who really suffered was Naruto.

"Sakura! Calm down, It's not your fault! You know no matter what I'll always protect you!!"

Naruto reassured as he tried to put on the biggest smile he can get out. She always admired Naruto, how strong he was, how he always cared and protected his friends no matter what. The only problem was...why couldn't she do the same?, why did she have to be so weak?, why can't she be strong like Naruto?.

"No Naruto!! I'm tired of being the weak, scared little girl in the village!, One day Naruto I will change and be stronger!!"

"But Sakura-…Ugh!"

Naruto stopped as he clenched his aching stomach, and from when Sakura turned her back to him as she headed for the door. She then opened the door and took one last glance at her teammate and gave him a small, yet confident smile.

"I swear the next time you see me I will become stronger Naruto! So you don't have to protect me anymore...That's a promise..."

And with that Sakura walked out of the room lightly closing the door behind her not giving Naruto enough time to even have any say in it. Sakura then leaned on the wall next to the door and sighed closing her eyes, letting her short pink hair cover her face. She sighed as she started walking down the hallway of the hospital. She wanted to talk to Tsunade, she knew she was still here since she had just finished bandaging up Naruto not to long ago.

"So your saying she should quit?!?"

Sakura froze as she heard the voice of Tsunade's assistant Shizune yell out through the door, almost like she's in shock. Sakura decided to listen in on what there talking about.

"It's not official it's just a suggestion. I mean Sakura is a hard worker, but so far every mission she's been on she has failed!"

Sakura gasped quietly hearing the voice of the Fifth Hokage. She was right, she did fail all her missions, because Naruto is always protecting her instead of finishing the mission.

"So...Sakura should...quit as a shinobi then?"

Sakura's eyes widened as she heard the low disappointed voice of Shizune as the argument continued on.

"I tried helping her but she is still not improving on any of her missions...so...yes I think she should quit as a shinobi..."

Tsunade said in a low, upsetting voice making Sakura gasp, louder this time. Her hand shakily fell from the door handle as she stood there with her head down. A small tear formed in her eye as it slowly slid down her cheek. Sakura then ran off, out of the hospital not looking where she was going as she pushed away everything, or anyone that got in her way. Her heart felt as if it just shattered into pieces, like glass, as if her heart was made of she knew it, Sakura was running around Konoha, with tears leaving a small trail, and a shattered, broken heart.....

Itachi

Itachi and his partner Kisame were walking along a long, deserted looking path, close to Konoha. With there hats covering there upper faces, and dark, black and red cloaks blowing in the wind.

"So Itachi once we get to your old village how do you suppose we find the nine-tailed brat?"

Kisame asked, breaking the awkward silence between them. There was a short pause after his question as Itachi finally answered.

"We'll find a way, You just have to be patient"

Itachi responded in his monotonous like voice. Kisame then sighed as he carried his giant Samehada on his shoulder. Before they knew it they were both in a forest, very close to Konoha. There was a deathly silence between the two, until they heard small thuds, as if a kunai knife had hit a tree. They both stopped dead in there track.

"What was that?!?"

Kisame questioned in a sort of irritated tone. More thuds could be heard, it was very close to them. Before Kisame could say something else Itachi was already walking past him, towards the sound of the kunai, leaving Kisame.

"Hey Itachi! Where are you going?!?"

Kisame yelled after him as he then followed him into the deep forest. They walked for a short while until Itachi came to a stop, Kisame followed a stood behind his partner.

."Itachi why did you-"

Kisame didn't finish what he was about to say as he looked up to a see a short, light pink haired girl, a couple years younger then Itachi throwing kunai knives at targets hung from trees. Which explains the thud noises.

"It's just a kid"

Kisame said as they both watched in silence as the young pink haired girl kept training. She looked very bruised, her eyes were all red and swollen, as if she had been crying for a long time. Itachi watched closely as the pink haired girl trained herself, until she then fell on her knees to the ground, dropping her weapons.

"Pathetic..."

Itachi mumbled lightly making sure the girl wouldn't see them, and if she did, he'd probably have to kill her.....

Sakura

Sakura huffed, and panted as she fell on her knees from total exaghstion. She couldn't go anymore, she had been training all day non stop. She wanted to be stronger, even if she did have to do it all alone.

'I'll show you Lady Tsunade! I'll show you I can become a true ninja, I don't need yours or anybody's help! I can do it on my own!!'

Sakura thought to herself with confidence. She then tried to stand back up, but only fell back down, making her gripe onto the grass as she tightly shut her eyes.

"I'm pathetic...I can't even stand up!" Sakura cried out.

"You got that right kid!"

Sakura gasped wide eyed hearing a voice she had never heard before. She then shakily turned her head to where she heard the voice only to see two tall black and red figures. They were both wearing some type of black cloak with red cloud designs. The tallest one had bluish skin, while the shorter one, she could only see black hair, and blood red eyes that look as if they can pierce your soul.

"W-Who are you?" Sakura asked in a slight mumble.

"Oh so you haven't heard of us yet, maybe we can help with that!"

The taller one said as he then raised his sword looking as if he were going to attack her. She gasped with eyes wide, she couldn't even save herself.

"Kisame! Enough! We don't need to cause any unwanted commotion around here! Besides maybe this girl can help us find the Kyuubi"

The shorter one said. To come to think of it, his eyes reminded her of Sasuke's cold eyes. Wait...could he be...?

"Y-Your-..."

But before she could say anything else, she past out from exaghstion.....

Itachi

Itachi stared blankly at the now unconscious girl showing absolutely no interest, nor emotion. Kisame sighed putting his sword down.

"Do you really think a weak brat like her could possibly know where the Kyuubi is?"

"I don't know for sure, but maybe she might. Come Kisame! we must leave, we've wasted to much time here, some one will be coming soon!"

Itachi ordered calmly as Kisame sighed and did as he was ordered and followed his partner out of the forest. Yet the whole time he was walking away, he eyed the young girl with his eye, until they were completely gone from view.

"Hey Itachi...ITACHI!!!"

Kisame yelled trying to get his attention. Itachi then took his glance off the young kuinochi and looked at his partner.

"What is it Kisame?"

"Nothing! I'm just trying to get you to stop focusing on that little brat. I mean you keep staring at her, almost like your checking h-"

Kisame stopped what he was saying when Itachi looked at him with his red eyes spinning. Looking as if he was trying to break his soul.

"Would you like to finish that sentence, Kisame?"

"...Uhhh...No..."

"Good, Now we need to find a place to hide, we'll search else where for the Kyuubi"

"Ummm right"

Kisame sighed as they both looked straight ahead as they were now jumping from tree branch to tree branch at high speed.....

Sakura...A few hours later...

Sakura slowly woke up on a soft surface. she opened her pail green eyes to find herself in a hospital room. Sakura gasped as she quickly sat up on the bed looking around, remembering what had happened before she past out.

'Those guys, from the forest...They looked familiar, with those cloaks...especially the short one...he..he looked like Sasuke...could he be...Itachi? His brother who slaughtered his entire clan letting Sasuke live'

She thought to her self with her head slightly down as she stared at her now bandaged hands. She then looked up at the window seeing it was probably mid day, not too light, not too dark. Though there were dark clouds forming, as if it was about to rain.

'I can't just sit here in this hospital bed, I need to get stronger, so I can help Naruto, and bring back Sasuke, I just have to get stronger!'

Sakura thought with confidence in her eyes as she then pushed away the hospital blankets and quickly got up off the bed, stumbling a little, she was still weak from training so much, but that won't stop her. Sakura ignored all the pain she had in her whole body as she slowly walked over to the door, being careful not to fall down. Sakura opened the door as she took a few glances to see nobody was around a walked across the hallway to her left. She continued to walk as she then started to hear voices.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOUR GOING TO MAKE HER QUIT?!?!?!?"

Sakura heard a yell from behind the door next to her. She immediately recognized the voice as Naruto's voice. She then walked over to the door slowly to try and hear what he's saying. She immediately knew there was more people in the room as she put her ear to the wall.

"Sorry Naruto but Sakura isn't making much progress in being a ninja, despite her intelligence, this is the best way, her body isn't strong enough!"

Sakura gasped lightly hearing the angry voice of the Fifth Hokage. She couldn't believe what she was hearing, even Tsunade says she is weak.

"JUST BECAUSE SAKURA ISN'T AS STRONG AS THE OTHERS DOESN'T MEAN YOU HAVE TO MAKE HER QUIT GRANNY TSUNADE!!! SHE JUST NEEDS MORE TRAING!!!"

She heard Naruto's pleads and yells. But it didn't help, even Naruto admitted she was weak, her own partner. Sakura's head then went down as tears started forming in her eyes even Naruto thinks she's weak.

"Calm down Naruto, This is probably for the best, Sakura can't defend herself, And neither me or you nor all of us in here want to see Sakura get hurt...or worse..."

Sakura's eyes widen as she heard the voice of Kakashi, even he thinks she should quit being a ninja. Even her sensei thinks she's weak. Sakura couldn't take it anymore, without another word being heard, Sakura ran off down the hallway with her tears leaving a small trail behind her as she made her way out of the hospital, despite the pain she had. The only thing that hurts the most is her heart, and pride.

'Everybody, everybody thinks I'm weak!. Lady Tsunade, Kakashi-sensei, even Naruto!'

Sakura thought as she ran around the village not caring who sees her. She felt the cold, wet rain drops hit her head as it started raining. Before she knew it Sakura was running through the dark, wet forest, she was now out of the village.

'Maybe if I run away, Naruto won't have to protect anyone, and everyone will be happy! I'll become a rouge-nin!'

Sakura thought as she opened her tear filled eyes and looked around her surrounds as she jumped from tree branch to tree branch. She wiped away the tears from her tear stained face as she continued with no intention of ever turning back.

'The next time they see me, If they ever do I'll become much stronger!, And I'll do it on my own, I don't need them! I don't need anybody!'

Sakura thought as she was now a good distance away from the village, that even if Neji or Hinata used there Byakugan they wouldn't be able to find her. As of right now to them, Sakura was no considered a missing-nin.....

Itachi

Itachi and Kisame were both sitting under a tree across from each other, The rain was beginning to fall harder as they both kept there hats on as a sort of cover from the rain. Itachi sat silently with his eyes closed as Kisame sat with his arms crossed and his sword sitting right next to him.

"Hey Itachi!" Kisame started making Itachi open his eyes to look at him. "What are we going to do about the Kyuubi kid?, I mean It's been awhile now and we haven't got a single trace on the little brat, do you even think he's still at that old village of yours?"

Kisame questioned as there was just a slight pause for a few seconds until Itachi finally spoke.

"You must be patient Kisame, I'm sure we'll both get a lead on the Kyuubi soon"

Itachi said bluntly as Kisame was about to say something else, there was a few rustles in the trees near them, as if someone was running. They both turned to the direction to where they heard the noise, as Kisame smirked at grabbed his Samehada.

"Heh! Looks like are is about to change, Lets go!"

Sakura

Sakura continued to run from tree branch to tree branch as the rain got harder and harder, she was sure she heard a few thunders here and there. But knew she had to keep moving, by now they probably found out she was gone.

'If they think this little rain is going to stop me! There wrong! I'll prove to all of them that I can be strong, and take care of myself'

Sakura thought to herself as she finally reached a clearing in the forest. She then stopped at the huge clearing, looking around as her whole body shook from the cold. She wrapped her arms around her upper body, wishing she at least had brought an umbrella.

"W-What am I going to do know?" Sakura shakily said.

"How about telling us where the Kyuubi brat is?!"

Sakura gasped in shock and surprise hearing a familiar voice behind her. She then shakily turned around to see the same two men from before, they wore there black and red cloaks, but they were no longer wearing a hat. Sakura's lip began to quiver, not just from the cold, but from fear. she knew she couldn't take them both on her own.

"W-What do you want, Leave me alone!!"

"Awww looks like we got ourselves a missing-nin brat. You shouldn't have left home kid there are a lot of dangers out there!"

The big one with the blue skin said with a smirk as he then raised up his big sword about to attack Sakura. Sakura couldn't do anything, is this how she was going to die, right after she had ran away from the only protection she had.

"Stop Kisame!, We don't need to resort to violence"

The shorter one said, the one who looked a bit like Sasuke said making the big one freeze as he looked at him looking pretty annoyed. Sakura couldn't just stay there and wait to be killed, so she did the only thing she could do...run.

"Aww Look! Now we have to chase after-..Hey!"

Kisame yelled out as his sentence was interrupted with Itachi running at full speed to Sakura. Sakura had no idea where she was going, it was getting really hard to see, and rain wasn't helping. She heard crashing noises echoing from the entire forest, she knew it was thunder. She could hear someone was chasing after her, she couldn't run for long, she was still pretty weak from all her training.

"Please! Just leave me-...-gasp-"

Sakura gasped as a tall dark figure stood right in front of her. She looked up at him in fear as the only thing she could see was a pair of dark red eyes staring down at her own. She could see the dark pupils of his eyes start to spin. And the next thing she knew, she feel to the ground...unconscious.

Itachi

Itachi stood over the young kuinochi as she laid in the ground motionless and unconscious. He knew she knew where the Kyuubi child was. He knew she was now a missing-nin from her village, he had an idea, an idea that might even cost her her life.

"There you are Itachi, Whoa! what did you do to her?"

Kisame said coming into the scene as he was now staring down at the unconscious Sakura. The rain was beginning to calm down, as the thunder was resting. Itachi then bent down and picked up the unconscious kuinochi with one arm as he turned around starting to walk.

"Lets go Kisame!"

Itachi commanded as the rain was now turned into a light sprinkle.

"Wait! Your taking the brat with us?!"

Kisame complained as he irritably followed his partner as he eyed the young girl in annoyance.

"Believe it or not Kisame she can be useful to us. She knows where the Kyuubi is and is a rogue-nin anyway, so no matter what she won't be returning to that pathetic village...and maybe...just maybe...she can join us..."

Well thats the end of the first chapter...If you liked it thats good ^^ if you don't thats ok to ^^ Everyone has there own opinion ^^ And I know my English/Grammer stinks but hey a story can't really be perfect ya know 0.o . Anyways...you may review if you like...And I'm still new here and I don't really know much about how to do anything 0.o so you have any tips that can help me that would be great! =D And I edited this an reposted this because I didn't like the original one I wrote because of the underline thing -___- But I took it off so it's all good ^^ Please review and Itachi will give you a hug ^^

Itachi: "....I will?...."

Me:" Yup" =]