Ok, well this is something that I had just come up with on the spot, so I hope you like it! I know I do, a lot!! I really think that this first chapter turned out well!! So, thank you for reading this before story opening!!! Now, on with the story!!!

Bloody Flames

Chapter 1:

Remembering the worst

She opened her eyes and stared at a white ceiling. Smells of anesthetics filled her nose and she knew that she was in a hospital.

'Does that mean that it happened again…?' She thought and then slowly turned to her side, she saw Tsunade asleep with her head on the table. But something was missing. The usual ten bottles of sake were nowhere in sight and the smell of alcohol didn't waft in the air.

She smiled at the fact that Tsunade wouldn't even drink anything, so she could be fully focused on her.

'Was she really that worried about me?' She thought and giggled. She sighed and then went back to staring at the ceiling. She felt very uncomfortable. It wasn't that she didn't like hospitals, i mean, she worked in on after all. She just didn't like being one of their patients. The bed sheets were too crisp. The smell reminded her of death, and the feeling of utter helplessness, kept rearing over her. She wanted to get out.

She analyzed her heart monitor; it was fine, and her IV drip was proper. So she began to self analyze her body, probably doing a better job than the nurses at Konoha hospital. She felt a sense of another chakra signal slowly coursing through her body.

She recognized it as Tsunade's.

'Tsunade-shishou did analyze me.' She smiled. 'How motherly.' Sakura's mother had died in the attack by Orochimaru on the leaf village years ago, when the third hokage was still alive and Sasuke was still in Konoha.

'Sasuke…' She was still extremely attached to Sasuke, but at the same time, she hated him so very much, due to his betrayal of Konoha. When her mother had died, she didn't tell anyone, because she didn't want anyone to feel bad for her, when they had just lost their hokage. But they all found out, and in the most horrible way.

Flashback

Orochimaru and all enemy ninja soon disappeared. The village was in shambles. She had just woke up and remembered about the battle with Gaara. She jumped up only to find that everyone was alright. She sighed and then met with Naruto and Sasuke on the ground.

Later, she was running home. So afraid for her family. She knew that something had happened. She saw her house in the distance. It was broken and in ruins. She ran up to it and smashed the door open.

"Mom! Dad!" She cried into the darkness. "Mom! Dad!" She cried again as she started to walk through the house. Tears formed on her eyes and she shut her eyes tightly, the tears slipped from her eyes. "Mommy! Daddy!" She called sadly into nothing.

"S-Sakura…" She heard a very faint sound. She turned to her left and ran over to where the sound came from. She saw her father caught under a heavy peace of the roof. She gasped and then used all her strength to lift up the piece of ruble. She yelled and managed to throw it out of the way, and then she grabbed her dad's hand and slung him over her shoulder.

She quickly ran outside and rested him on the ground.

"Dad! Dad! Oh dad, wake up, talk to me!!" Her pleas were answered when his deep brown eyes fluttered open. She smiled brightly while tears were running down her cheeks. "Dad! Oh dad, I'm so relieved, what happened to mom!? Where is she inside the house!?" Her dad just looked at her, with no glint of hope in his eye, and as a single tear rolled down his cheek. Her smile faded and her face became horror stricken.

Her breaths became shallow and uneven. She jumped back up and looked at the broken house. She glanced back at her dad, who was back to being unconscious.

"No…" She said once quietly, while her face was still horror stricken. "No." She said a little louder. "No!!" She cried again while her hands slowly went up and clutched her head. She closed her eyes and grinded her teeth, then she screamed, "NO!!!!" She rapidly shook her head back and forth.

Then she stopped and looked up quickly, she managed to force her legs to move and then ran back into her crumbling house. She ran through the front door and looked around the entire first floor. She ran to her crumbled and shattered stair case. She pulled chakra to her feet and jumped to the second floor.

She stood up and ran through all of the rooms, until she only had one left. Hers. She ran to it and was about to open the door when a dark voice inside her head whispered,

'You do not want to go in there.'

'What!? Why not!?!' Her hand wavered in front of the handle.

'What is in there, you should not see.'

'I don't care, nothings going to stop me!!' She ignored the deep voice and kicked the door open. She quickly walked in a few steps, and then turned to her left, she stopped and her breath hitched in her throat. The sight she saw then was immediately burned into her mind. Forever. Her body began to tremble, but no matter how much she wanted to turn away, she couldn't. Her eyes grew wide and her breath got more rapid and brisk.

She felt a wave of nausea hit her and then she dropped to her knees and gagged. She held her hand protectively over her mouth and then when she calmed down slightly, she managed to shakily turn back to the image of the ceiling beam, having fell on her mothers petit form, and crushed her, instant death. Her blood was splattered everywhere, and it ran down the floor boards, sinking into the wall. But the worst of it was, her mothers once beautiful and perfect porcelain face, had not been injured terribly.

Her mother stared at her with listless eyes, as a fierce trail of blood ran down from her forehead. Her mother was smiling, and held in her outstretched hand, was a picture of her that was smashed. She thought that it had probably fallen and instead of following the rest of the villagers to the safe tunnels, her mother had run back up here to retrieve the fallen picture. She smiled and was ever so happy. But in doing so, her father had also stayed, but her mother was killed and her father was terribly injured.

She managed to shakily stand up, and slowly walk over to the corpse.

'This is…not a Genjutsu. Please be a Genjutsu…' She thought horrified in her mind.

'Sakura stop!' The harsh voice that told her not to enter the room commanded. She ignored it and continued to walk to her mothers' corpse. She got there and fell down onto her knees. Slowly her quivering hand reached foreword and touched her mothers' hard, cold one.

"Mother…" She quietly said. She then dipped her fingers in her mothers' trailing blood and slid it up, and then she slowly brought it across her mothers' smiling face. She waited, and then shakily held her hands up into a seal.

"Release." She said quietly. But nothing happened. Her wishes of this being a genjutsu were shattered and she knew it was real. Her hand quickly came up to her mouth again and she just stared. She wanted so badly to close her eyes, but she knew if she did; the image would still be there, of her mother smiling as her eyes were wide, and empty. As blood trailed off her and was splattered in that corner of her room.

She then screamed and jumped back but landed on he butt again, everything was so strange, and nothing seemed real, she thought that someone, was hugging her, or comforting her, maybe. But it was so strange.

She set up the funeral, all alone. She went through all the procedures with one of the workers, all alone. No one to comfort her. She was almost tempted to tell Ino one time but then thought it was selfish. She had been noticing strange occurrences with her father. She knew he was going insane.

Flashback within a flashback

She walked into the kitchen in their temporary apartment that she had gotten for them.

"Hahaha! Yes, I love that joke." She was confused at who else could be in the house, and why didn't she sense or hear them? She walked up and glanced around the corner. She gasped, and her eyes widened.

Her father was sitting across the table with a plate of breakfast in front of him and his news paper like he always did. But across from his things, there was another set of breakfast, and coffee. She knew it as ginger; it was her mothers' favorite. But what he said next killed her.

"You should eat it before it gets too cold, honey." She gasped again and then went back around the corner. Her hand over her mouth. Her dad was insane now. He was going mad.

End of flashback within flashback

She set up two funerals, one for her mother, and one for her father. Later that night, she sent a kunai through his throat, and another one through his heart. With out a second thought. The only thing she did think was,

'Now you can both be together. Be happy please.' She had gathered what she could through the rubble of her house and brought it with her to her new apartment. She now always would gaze longingly at the picture of her happy family.

The day of her parents' funeral, she dressed in all black, as she had two days before at the third hokage's funeral. She walked down the long dirt road, towards the funeral spot, but froze when she saw the familiar blonde headed ninja and the raven haired ninja as well. She stopped and gasped out. They both looked up, first at her shocked face, then her attire.

They both quickly looked back up at her, Naruto was about to say something, but she darted into the Yamanaka flower shop, only to be greeted by Ino's mother. She bought two simple cherry blossoms.

She tried to run out of the shop and away from Naruto and Sasuke, but to her dislike, they waited for her. They stared at each other for a moment, before she grumbled,

"Sorry guys, I have to be somewhere." She tried to walk away but stopped when she felt a grip around her arm. She didn't look back.

"Sakura. What's the matter?" She heard Sasuke ask her.

"Yea, Sakura-chan, why are you in black… what happened?" She opened her mouth to say something, but then the image of her mother flashed in her mind, and she just stood there, her mouth open, and bottom lip quivering, and her eyes shook with the on-come of un-fallen tears.

She knew they exchanged glances behind her, and then she felt one pair of arms wrap around one of her arms, and another wrap around her other arm. She turned to both Naruto and Sasuke as they both stared seriously ahead. She looked down and went were they led her, which to her surprise, was her parents' funeral grounds. She stared in awe.

Then they both let go of her arms and walked in front of her, they all stared at each other for a moment. But then Sasuke was the first to break the eerie silence.

"Sakura, I want to know what's wrong. You haven't been, you."

"Yes, Sakura-chan, you can tell us what's bothering you!" Naruto stated proudly. They both stared at her, Naruto was smiling, and in his good guy pose and Sasuke just stood like he always does. She stared at her two teammates, without any sign of knowing on her face, but finally said,

"My, mother, died. In the attack. My father went insane, so I-I, k-killed him also." She dropped her flowers and held her face in her hands crying. She only saw their extremely shocked expressions. She trembled and then doubled over and fell onto her knees. Then she heard them run towards her. She felt Naruto warmly embrace her.

They were both lost for words, so she jumped in again.

"T-There funeral is t-today, and i-its here."

"Sakura-chan, I am so sorry. I had no idea. But don't worry, everything will be fine. Don't you worry; we're going to get through this." Naruto whispered soothingly into her hair.

"Sakura, I am sorry. But… Naruto's right." Sasuke said, which she thought meant exactly what Naruto had said.

"Thank you, Naruto, Sasuke-kun." She spoke and finally cried the un-fallen tears for so many weeks, that she had to hold in as not to worry her friends.

End flash back

Sasuke soon did leave. And Naruto had promised, that no matter what, he would get Sasuke back. So she made this her mission as well. She too would train and get stronger, so strong. Then she would be able to truly help bring back Sasuke to Konoha.

But her struggle was in vain, one day while she trained with Lee, something inside her just snapped, and not in a good way. She had heard it. She had felt it. She had fell to the ground and started to cough, and soon enough, blood started to drip from her mouth.

Lee had quickly run to the hokage tower, in search of Tsunade to heal her. Shizune and Tsunade were both shocked to see the state she was in. Tsunade immediately began to heal her. Tsunade never stopped until she said that the strange feeling had disappeared. Tsunade sat down, worn out, but happy that she had saved her apprentice, and now almost daughter.

Ever since word of her being the only Haruno left, Tsunade, who had been training her for over a year, pretty much adopted her. She loved the thought of almost having a real family again.

Tsunade's first treatment had worked very well, until it happened again. This time, she was with Naruto at the ramen hut. As Tsunade was finished healing her the second time, she finally asked,

"Tsunade-shishou, what's wrong with me?" This particular question, had been bugging her for a long time. It was a long silence, before Tsunade had finally said,

"You are putting too much of a strain on your mind. With all of the recent events, that have passed, you are weighting yourself down with stress, and your brain is trying to relieve itself, by sending the stress to your body. But since there is so much, your body is weakening, and not able to withstand the stress, and pain, but instead of killing you, your body has seemed to find a different way to stabilize, at least for a while. This is by relieving the pressure being built up of blood and bursting into your lungs, thus you're coughing, and the built up blood, is escaping through that means." She nodded understanding, while Naruto was so very confused in the back.

"Whaaaaat! I didn't get any of that!" He whined. She smiled and turned back to him,

"Basically what she said Naruto, was that, because of stress, my body needs to relieve itself, the stress has created a built up blood, storage, if you will, and it is sent into my lungs, so that's why I am coughing, and blood is coming out." He nodded now understanding.

"But! Tsunade-baa-chan!! Is Sakura-chan going to be alright!?" Tsunade sighed and looked at the tall piled of work on her desk,

"Honestly, I don't know, I will try to find a medical cure for it in the time being, but for right now, all Sakura is able to do, is fight it herself. I am sorry." Sakura smiled and stood up, bowing to her sensei.

"Arigatou, Tsunade-shishou. I will fight my hardest." Then she turned and walked out with Naruto, who gave one last worried exchange with Tsunade, before following her.

'Ok, so basically, these 'attacks', we'll call them, will only get worse, the more strain I put on myself. So all I have to do, is keep my mind calm, which means, I can't think about six different things at once, so if I just choose one to think about at a time, then the attacks shouldn't be so bad.' She then began to suck in deep breaths, and exhale them.

She had been simply training under Tsunade, but when her attacks continued, Tsunade started to train her in the medics, so she was able to properly heal herself, if she had an attack alone. Tsunade had told her that she was going to teach her medics eventually, but when her attacks started happening, she decided to pull it in then.

Tsunade was beginning to wake up when she was unhooking herself from her empty IV.

"Oh! Sakura! Are you feeling better?" Her sensei jumped up and hugged her tightly. She nodded and hugged her back while smiling.

"Yes, thank you for taking care of me Tsunade-shishou." They hugged each other for a while, until Tsunade finally broke it, they smiled at each other, and then she asked,

"Tsunade-shishou, where is Naruto?" She remembered that Naruto was also with her this time and was the one who brought her to Tsunade. Tsunade smiled her devilish smile,

"Oh, he might be in the waiting room, he was very scared when you fell unconscious you know." She just smiled, and then said,

"I know!"

Ok! Well there was the first chapter!!! Please review me with stuffs!! Oh and I will need, at least ten reviews before the next one goes out!! But I also want to know what you think of the story!! Just in case it's bad! I don't want to waist my time!! So please review me, please! Well, thank you!! Ja ne!!

And, now its time for an after story skit!! Part 1

Naruto: Hey, hey!! Sakura Blossom17!!

S B17: Eh?

Naruto: Is Sakura-chan going to be alright?!

S B17: ...…I don't know...

Naruto: Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mysterious figure: She had better be.

S B17: WFT!! Where the hell did you come from?!?!

Mysterious figure: I will never reveal my secret!!!

S B17: Yes you will!!! (And thus Sakura Blossom17 pounces on the mysterious figure and thus tries to remove his mask, as Naruto just watches in amazement and confusion.)

(After the beating, Sakura Blossom17 was unable to retrieve the mask of the mysterious figure, so he is still the mysterious figure.)

S B17: Ya. Ya that are right, you walk away.

Mysterious figure: But… I didn't move-

S B17: DO NOT QUESTION MY EXISTENCE!!!!!!!!! OR BE BURNED ALIVE!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mysterious figure: …?

Naruto: (Cowers behind desk.)

( ' : ' )- meow!!

Look!! I drew a cat!!!! Worship it!!!