Ok this is my first Fan Fiction so please read and review! I will try and get a new chapter out soon!

'Italics' Sakura thinking (or Inner Sakura if you like!)

It was a hot summers day in Konoha, the sun had risen right to the highest point in the sky and even the bugs had calmed down to relax in the shade.

Team 7 had just finished their morning's training and as usual the energetic Naruto has steamed off for his lunch of Ramen, most probably barbeque pork, he had his tickets kept safe under his forehead protector. The collected Uchiha had slinked off to the nearby stream to think about life, the universe and how to get away from those damn fan girls!

Kakashi had been sitting under the towering pine tree reading his lasted addition to his collection of 'unusual' books for 30 minutes or so now. By this time he had completely forgotten that he had 3 students in his care waiting for his help, also hoping that he would stop Naruto and Sasuke from breaking into yet another fight.

Or at least this is how the young Sakura felt.

They had all aged now and were hitting 18 but she felt that she was just a little ahead of them age wise, actually scrap that, she felt like she was Way ahead of them age wise. Every training session she worked hard enough for her knuckles to bleed just to try and improve so that she could help others and be a good ninja (and prove that damn Ino Pig wrong!). But the other two . . . she sighed thinking of they way Naruto only wanted to get stronger so he could beat up Sasuke and how Sasuke took the sessions too easily and lazed about as if he was too good.

How she could ever have fancied him she didn't know. She pitied the fan girls who chased him round and remembered with a shudder when she used to be one. Getting turned down so many times made her think carefully about what he was truly like and how if he didn't care for her then she needed to just move on. It took many months and it was hard but now as she lent against the huge log gazing the way he had sloped off she realised that he no longer had a hold on her and she could concentrate on her training.

As she turned to resume her punches she caught Kakashi sensei looking up from his book at her, it didn't last long, and by the time she had realised and turned back round to see if he was really looking at her or just day dreaming he was buried back in his book still leaning lazily against the tree.

"Now Sakura" she thought to herself, "I think you've spent too long in the sun"

From this she sought a small patch in the shade were she could rest until the heat had ebbed off a bit, knowing that is she continued in this weather she would make herself ill, maybe even sun stroke.

She spotted a patch under a maple near where Sasuke had disappeared which had luscious grass and a small amount of dry moss.

"Perfect" she thought happily and started to make her way over, she loved the smell of the air in summer, everything about it made her feel happy and calm, but when the time for a fight came her blood was already warm and rearing to go!

She sat with her back against the rock and just watched 2 birds perch on the log she had been punching earlier that day. They preened and sang before finally one flying into a nearby tree and the other circling into the sky riding the thermals.

She closed her eyes briefly to breathe in the warm scented air and without knowing it calmly drifted off into a deep sleep, comfortably lying among the warm grass and cushioning moss. Dreams drifted across her eyes like leaves across a river, dreams of fighting for her village and being with one man that she could love, not yet knowing who he might be, a stranger? A close friend? An old love?

When she finally opened her weary eyes all was dark and the noises of birds and cicada's had near all stopped.

"Oh No" she cried out immediately standing up and searching round for signs of Sasuke or Naruto. Nothing.

Her hands flew to her head desperately clasping handfuls of hair and running her hands hurriedly through it. Her breathing increased and her eyes burned; not out of fear or sadness but anger at letting herself fall asleep for so long and in such a careless place.

"You really needed to sleep huh?!" a calm voice came from the darkness, it sounded mildly light-hearted, as if this person found it funny that Sakura could get so flustered.

From the voice she figured it was a male, or a Very butch female! "Who the hell is that?! Do you find this funny?!" she cried into the darkness into the rough area where the voice had emerged from.

"Weellllll . . ." the voice replied, calm again. This time it had slight hesitation as if trying to choose to reply with a jokey insult or a comment that might calm this young aggressive teen.

"Well?! O for gods sake! That's it you just sit there mocking me! I'm going" She turned and went to storm off in the opposite direction, the direction in which she hoped the village lay. But due to her eyes being still unaccustomed to the dim light, near none in fact, she didn't see the root sticking out of the ground in a loop shape. Her foot was soon tangled and she fell to the floor in a heap.

Stifled laughter came from the same place. It was obvious that who ever this was could see perfectly and had watched Sakura's desperate attempt to stay upright before finally crashing to the ground landing on her front.

Her breathing was short and stunted, Sakura knew she was winded; the pain in her lower chest was dull and throbbing. As she tried to draw in any breath her lungs and throat disallowed any air to pass.

"Please . . . don't hurt . . . me . . . please" the young candy flossed haired girl gasped. Tears came to her eyes and her throat started to burn, many emotions went through her mind; anger, she must look like such a fool sprawled on the floor gasping like a fish out of water, disgust, how dare this person be so mean to her she was only 17, 18 in 2 days, and fear, this person could do whatever they wanted right now, cause her pain, murder or much much worse.

The voice from the shadows was followed by scuffling, who ever it was was getting up and walking towards her, Sakura tried to get up to get away from this person. They were scary and she didn't like this at all but as she tried to lift her body weight, her lack of oxygen took affect on her mussels which were already weakened from waking up such a short time ago.

The person started to walk towards were the young girl lay, and they were laughing, not an outright cackle but a soft under breath smirk. Some how this seamed all the more Terrifying to Sakura who lay helpless on the floor.

"Please don't . . ." the tears fell in more force now as the realisation that this person was getting closer and was defiantly heading towards her, each step made her heart rate increase and the terror flow even more forcefully through her veins. "Please . . . Please . . . Don't . . . . Please . . . . Leave me . . . please. . Plea . . . pl . . ." with this, words escaped her as the person came with in 2 meters of her. She lost all hope and lay sobbing on the floor, sprawled with her ankle wrapped round the root twisted at a funny angle, with the person within one meter of the young helpless teenager . . .

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