A/N: I know I should be working on The Cherry Blossom Reborn but this idea kept coming back to me when I tried to write the next chapter so I decided to post it as a story. I'm so sorry for not updating my other story but I've been really busy with practice for a figure skating competition and test and stuff so I'll try to update my other story soon!

"talking"

'thoughts'

'Inner Sakura'

Flashbacks

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A figure walked through the forest. She had long hair the color of her namesake, Sakura blossoms. Her lips were plump, though usually set into a sunny smile, were quivering as if trying to hold back tears.

She had skin the color of porcelain, free of the scars that usually adjourned a ninja's body. She wore simple clothes, a red baggy long sleeve shirt, baggy black capris and her ninja shoes. Her clothes gave to hint as to the body that they were hiding. The only thing that you could see was a small piece of her toned legs, tempting you to want to see the rest of her body.She had her kunai pouch on her right leg where it always was. Two katanas were strapped onto her waist catching the moonlight with their holsters and reflecting it back to the sky.

Her hitatae was in her hand concealing her village symbol. He eyes were a clear emerald, showing each emotion that she felt. Her eyes currently showed the emotion of anguish, the anguish of your loved ones betraying you. She carried a backpack and she looked as though she was just wandering aimlessly down the forest path. Her mind wasn't in the present, it was reminiscing events of the past.

Flashback

"Bitch! Why would you do that? Natsumi would never try to do anything like that!" Naruto yelled at Sakura with a look of complete disgust.

A girl was standing behind Naruto with a look of contempt on her face. She had blonde that was tied back into a ponytail. She wore a red tank top that barely covered anything and black shorts that could be called underwear. In short she was dressed as a slut.

Sakura looked at Naruto pleading with him. "Naruto, you know that I would never try to do something like that! You've known me longer than this Natsumi person, yet you hold her word above my own."

Kakashi, who was standing next to Naruto spoke up. "Shut up! Why would the lovely Natsumi try to do something like that? You're just jealous that Natsumi is better than you in every way! She isn't weak and a burden to the team. She's strong, pretty, and everything you're not!"

Suddenly the memory cut to another one. Now they were in the hokage tower. Sakura was standing in front of the village elders.

The elders looked down at Sakura. "Haruno Sakura, you have committed a serious crime of attempted theft and treason against the village of Konohagakure. As punishment you are hereby banished from this village and are to be considered a missing-nin!"

Sakura's eyes widened in surprise. 'They're seriously going to banish me?!'

The memory blurred and it cut to another memory. Sakura was standing in front of the village gates, with all of her 'friends' behind her.

Tenten leaned towards Neji and asked, "Why didn't they sentence her to death?"

Neji looked at Sakura with a look of pure loathing, "She isn't worth killing besides, even if she is a missing-nin, she's too weak to do anything. She only focused on her looks and not training, I don't even know why she became a ninja. She probably couldn't even beat a squirrel in battle."

Both Tenten and Neji laughed, not caring that Sakura heard everything they had said. Everyone was saying the same type of things, uncaring that their cherry blossom was breaking under their harsh words.

Tsunade stood in front of Sakura looking at her with a look of indifference, "Haruno Sakura, you are hereby a missing-nin and if you are spotted by Konoha you will be killed on the spot."

The elders took Sakura's hitate and dragged a kunai across the village symbol, officially declaring her status as a missing-nin.

Tsunade took the hitate from the elders and turned back to Sakura, "Take your hitate and don't come back. No one wants to see you here ever again."

Sakura took her hitate and Tsunade backed away from Sakura like she had the plague. Sakura walked towards to gates, her bangs covering the expression on her face.

Right before she stepped to the other side of the gate she turned around. With her bangs still covering her face she looked at everyone gathered at the gates, "You people have replaced me so easily. I gave everything for you and in return you replace me with someone else so easily, it breaks my heart. Was I really that unimportant to you that you can replace me with a snap of your fingers? Was I that insignificant that you don't care about me right now? Was I just a toy to play with until I got old and boring? My heart has been ripped too many times; I don't think that I can repair it now. I'm broken and I will stay that way. I will prove my innocence to you people and clear my name, that is my final promise to you. Well, Sayonara."

A gust of wind blew and Sakura's bangs flew out of her face to reveal her expression. There were tears streaming down her face but that wasn't what made almost everyone flinch. No, it was the expression in her eyes, one of complete and utter despair and pain. As if you had kicked a defenseless puppy repeatedly in the same spot over and over and over again.

Before they could examine her expression more though, she disappeared from their sight, leaving everyone thinking, 'did we make the wrong choice?' They soon shook off that thought and turned back to their village to resume their lives, ignoring the feeling that they were missing something.

End Flashback

'No, I won't think of those memories. I fulfill my promise and prove my innocence, even though I don't think I'll ever be able to go back to the life before this.'

'Ne, cheer up Outer-chan. We'll prove to those people that we are innocent and that we are irreplaceable. They'll regret ever banishing us from Konoha, SHANNARO!'

Sakura gave Inner Sakura a small sad smile, though more happy than she thought she could muster at the moment, 'Hai, we will.'

Then, without realizing that she was talking out loud said, "Too bad they didn't know I'm no longer weak, I'm much stronger than they think. The villagers used to tell me I, supposedly, surpassed Tsunade."

Then in a quieter voice said, "And unlocked something I never thought I could, though I never got the chance to tell them since I was banished before I could."

'Hey Outer-chan, we have to find somewhere to sleep, I'm tired.'

'Ok, I see a small cave up ahead.'

Sakura walked up to some rocks. She went around the largest one and behind it was a small cave. She entered the cave and set down her backpack.

She took out a sleeping bag out of it and laid it down a little ways from a small circle of rocks. She exited the cave and soon came back with an armful of wood. She made a small pile of wood in the small circle of rocks. Then she quickly preformed a series of hand seals and whispered, "Katon: Goukakyuu no jutsu."

A small ball of fire came out of her mouth and went to the wood instantly igniting it into flames and brightening the cave. Sakura stared at the fire, mesmerized on how they seemed to be alive. She soon fell into a fitful sleep, filled with nightmares.

The next morning

Sakura woke up and gathered her things. She exited out the entrance and headed toward the forest path. Next to the path was a river, a strong current prevented Sakura from bathing in it.

'So, where should we go?'

'Hmmm…I think we should go to Yukigakure.'

'Why?'

'Well other ninja might be after us, we were in the bingo book last time I checked. They wouldn't think of going to Yukigakure, they think that you hate the snow and cold weather since we lived in warm Konoha.'

'Wow, good idea. That's one of the few good ideas that I have ever heard you say in my life. Well when we get to Yukigakure, we'll think of a way to prove our innocence.'

'Yeah, you go Outer-chan!'

Suddenly kunai flew from the bushes, right towards Sakura. Sakura blocked them and sent them into the bushes. Cries of pain were heard and three shinobi jumped into the clearing. Sakura looked at them, "There were four chakra signatures, where is the fourth one?"

She took a senbon needle from her boot and played with it for a second, suddenly she threw it into the tree that was behind her. The sound of metal on metal rang through the forest and a fourth shinobi joined the other three. He eyed her and then said, "So, is a little kitten lost in the forest? Don't worry we like little kittens, we'll take good care of you."

Sakura just stared at them, "Well this little kitten isn't a little kitten, it's a fully fledged tiger, and this tiger has a mean bite."

She vanished from the four shinobi's views. The four shinobi spread out and looked around them in an attempt to find her. Four kunai with exploding tags attached to them flew towards the shinobi. They jumped out of the way, in the process getting bunched into a group.

Sakura appeared in front of them, already starting hand signs, "Kanashibari no jutsu." The four ninja suddenly found that they were immobilized and were at the complete mercy of Sakura. She jumped into the air and rapidly, so that you almost couldn't see her performing them, preformed hand signs yelling, "Katon: karyuu endan!"

A giant dragon mad entirely out of fire flew from Sakura's mouth and towards the four shinobi. As soon as the dragon was completed she was performing another set of hand signs and yelled, "Suiton: Suiryuudan no jutsu!" A giant water dragon rose from the river nearby and also headed towards the four shinobi.

The two dragons met and, instead of hitting each other and canceling out, created a dragon of both water and fire. The dragon hit the four ninja full force, killing all of them. Sakura landed on the fround next to their corpses and looked at the hitates. 'Hmm… shinobi from Kiragakure. Must be low level considering they couldn't avoid my kanashibari no jutsu.'

'See I told you ninja would be after you!'

'Yeah I know.'

'Well get moving, who knows how many more might come, especially since you're low on chakra!'

'Hai hai, I didn't know that my Chieagan used so much chakra. I have to build up my stamina.'

She jumped up into the trees and started to move away from the four shinobi corpses, unaware of the two shadows that were following her the entire time. "Interesting, performing high level jutsus, I wonder how she would manage with harder ninja."

"Yeah, no wonder we were sent to get her." The two figures stealthily followed Sakura as she jumped from branch to branch towards the edge of the forest. As she jumped from branch to branch she talked with Inner Sakura. 'So, is there anything that we need to get at the next village?'

'We need to get some more senbon needles and exploding tags, and get our katanas that we have in the scroll.'

'Ok, there's a village up ahead, I'll go buy some senbon needles and exploding tags there. As for our katanas, we'll have to wait until I have more chakra.'

Sakura stopped at the edge of the forest. A few yards away there was a small village, not big enough that they needed guards but big enough that they probably had a weapons shop somewhere inside. Sakura preformed hand signs and whispered "Henge no jutsu."

Her appearance started to change rapidly. Instead of her long cherry blossom pink hair, she had black hair that was cut to her shoulders. Her eyes changed from a clear emerald to an azure blue. Her clothes changed also, she now wore a baggy red short sleeve top and baggy white shorts. Her arms were wrapped in bandages and her kunai holster was still in its respective spot. 'There, now they won't recognize me.'

'Nice job Outer-chan, though I like our hair long rather than short.'

'Yes well, it's only temporary.'

Sakura entered the village and soon found the weapons shop. She bought senbon needles and exploding tags along with some more kunai and shuriken and some soilder pills. 'Never know when you might need some of these.'She paid for her things and exited the village. She went back into the forest and canceled the jutsu. 'Ok, now I'm really low on chakra.'

'You shouldn't have used such powerful jutsus on those shinobi back there, a simple Katon: housenka no jutsu or something like that would have sufficed. Even though that dragon combo was pretty cool.'

'It was like my hands preformed the seals by themselves. I never consciously did those hand seals, I don't think I ever knew those jutsus.'

'Well it was still cool, though how long do you think you can stay conscious?'

'A couple hours at most, maybe less.'

As Sakura talked to her inner, she was unconsciously walking. As she was walking she didn't notice the two figures in her path. She bumped into them and fell to the ground. When she looked up the first thing she saw was a cloak with red clouds on it. 'Hey look the Akatsuki…'

'WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'HEY LOOK THE AKATSUKI?!' THEY ARE S-RANKED CRIMINALS, AND YOU'RE NOT EVEN ALARMED!?'

'Why would they want me? I have nothing to offer that they know of.'

She looked to their faces and was surprised at which members she found, 'Hey look it's Uchiha Itachi and Hoshigake Kisame. Wonder what they're doing all the way over here.'

Both figures looked at her though Itachi, surprisingly, was the one who spoke. "Haruno Sakura, missing-nin, you are invited to join the organization known as Akatsuki."

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Katon: Goukakyuu no jutsu (Fire element: grand fireball technique): A technique where the user builds up chakra in their chest and blows a large ball of fire from their mouth.

Kanashibari no jutsu (Temporary paralysis technique): Used to cause one's opponent to lose the advantage of movement. Freezing them in their tracks, this jutsu creates an opening for a more dangerous attack.

Katon: Karyuu endan (Fire element: Fire dragon flame blast): A jutsu that sends an enormous stream of fire towards the opponent, in the shape of a large dragon, from the user's mouth.

Suiton: Suiryuudan no jutsu (Water element: Water dragon blast): Creates a large dragon shape formed from a large amount of spinning water. The dragon form is sent towards the user's opponent for a powerful attack. This jutsu, unless used by an extremely powerful ninja, can only be performed when near a large amount of water.

Henge no jutsu (Transformation technique): The user assumes the appearance of another person or animal. This is one of the basic jutsu taught at the Ninja Academy.

Katon: Housenka no jutsu (Fire element: Pheonix fire technique): A technique wher the user blows multiple fireballs from his mouth. It can also be combined with throwing weapons, which creates weapons engulfed in flames.

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Sayonara: Good bye

Hai: yes, yeah

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Well that's the first chapter, as always review and I'll write the next chapter of The Cherry Blossom Reborn soon, now that this story won't keep interrupting me. Well until next time, ja ne!

High Summoner Sakura