Sakura happily hurried down the familiar walkway towards the red bridge where her team, Team Seven, had always met since they were placed on a team three years ago. Considering it had been two years since the Sasuke Retrieval misson had been a success and today marked the day that Sasuke could finally leave the village again.

Sakura smiled when she thought of her long time crush. Sasuke had been kept under a careful watch for the first year, never being out of sight from the Anbu and Konoha's Jounin's for very long. The second year he was reinstated as a Konoha Genin and made to do the worst missions, meaning the babysitting jobs, that cat and dog retrieval missions, and the clean up missions. Basically all the ones no one else wanted to do. Today was the exact day that that prohibation ended and Naruto and Sasuke had asked her to come to the bridge.

"Hey guys!" Sakura called as he two teammates came into view. She used some chakra to speed up and was there in a second. She blinked when she saw two full backpacks on the guy's back. "Does the team have a mission or something?" Sakura asked.

Sasuke just gave her a look while Naruto sheepishly scratched the back of his head.

Sakura narrowed her eyes. "You only do that when you kept something from me. Naruto….." she cracked her knuckles.

Naruto held up his hands. "Sorry Sakura, Kakashi-sensei was supposed to tell you before you came today. We are going on a training journy."

Sakura blinked as hurt crept up her throat. "What?" she choked out.

Sasuke frowned at her. "You are too weak to come. You were lucky to even make Chuunin. You will not pass that." he harshly said.

Naruto sighed. "I'm sorry Sakura but he's right. You can't come along." Naruto walked towards the end of the bridge. "Goodbye, Sakura." Naruto said before both of them took off in a flash of chakra.

Sakura stood there for a few minutes, her mind having almost stopped. Her eyes quickly turned to anger and she knew exactly who to direct it too.

Kakashi was sitting with the other Jounin sensei's when all four of them felt a very strong hate coming in their direction. He quickly moved away from his spot in front of the door and just in time. The door flew off its hinges and across the room, revealing a fuming girl. "Sakura?" Kakashi blinked.

Sakura glared at the older Jounin. "You." she hissed out. "You knew they were leaving!" her hand flew forward and Kakashi blocked it. She channeled more chakra into her hand and punched again, this time making Kakashi fly backwards.

Kurenai grabbed the younger girl's shoulders and calmly pulled her hand in. "What's wrong, Sakura?" she calmly asked.

Sakura turned around, some of her tears falling. "Sasuke and Naruto left to train. Both of them called me weak and HE knew that they were leaving!" She glared at her sensei.

Kurenai hugged the girl a bit. Her gaze fell on Kakashi and it turned to a glare. She led Sakura out of the room.

Gai turned to his rival. "How could you hurt that beautiful example of youth by not telling her?!" he yelled before leaving.

Kakashi sighed and looked over at Asuma. "Just go." he muttered as Asuma followed Kurenai.

Kurenai had taken Sakura to Tsunade before going back to where Kakashi was still sitting, nursing his hand. "What the heck are you doing, not telling one of your team about something like that!? And why wouldn't Sakura be allowed along! She is just as strong as them!" Kurenai yelled.

"No she isn't. Sakura doesn't have enough chakra or enough control." Kakashi protested before Kurenai hit him over the head.

"You know nothing about her! Didn't you know that Tsunade was training her?! Sakura is stronger now!" Kurenai hit him again before storming out.

Kakashi put his head in his hands. "What have I done?" he thought out loud.

Tsunade was livid, to say the least. It took Sakura, Shizune, Kotetsu, and Izumo to convince her not to go and kill Kakashi there and then.

"I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!!!" Tsunade shouted. She stormed around the small office angrily. "I should go and demand that they come back and both of them will be put on prohibitation." she ranted, getting ready to go.

"No, Tsunade-sama." Sakura quietly said.

Tsunade turned to look at her student and saw that her eyes had become hard and cold. "Sakura-chan?"

"They will get strong their way." Sakura closed her eyes and sighed. "I'm going to prove them wrong, Shisou."

"How, Sakura?"

Sakura turned around, her eyes hard and cold. "By surpassing them. From today on, the weak Sakura will be no more."