This takes place after chapter 343 in the manga and has some spoilers in it. Ok this is my first fanfic some of the flashbacks in this chapter might not have happen in manga but I will try to make it has close as possible to it. This may make it to a M rated fic but that may be a while if the story goes well. Also the story as been redited so hopefully it will be better then the last two times.

REDITED AGAIN WITH A FEW CHANGES IN THE STORY VERY LITTLE BUT BETTER

INNER SAKURA - NINE TAILS TALK

Flash backs- inner talking

AT THE AKATSKI HIDEOUT

Zetsu was moving has fast has he could to get to there hideout to inform the leader in person what had happened to Hiden and Kakuzu after they were assigned a mission to get the Kyūbi from that jinchurki but they were killed. The reason for this he used a jutsu to take a image of what happened to them mainly Kakuzu because of the massive created that was created by that demon brat which he had no idea what the jutsu was. After he got into the cave through the ground when there was Tobi and that Deidara with the leader behind them. They all noticed he was breathing heavy and was even sweating when he came in. Zetsu spoke to the leader after catching his breath, "Leader I have a report on the fight with those blasted leaf nins".

Tobi was getting annoyed at what toke him so long to read his report and then said, "So are you going to tell us what happened to them or are you going to stand there like a fool all day". While he was stomping his foot. Deidara was nodding as well and said, "Yeah out with it already".

The leader looked like he was about to kill those two but that would be a waste of two members so. The leader then said, "WOULD YOU TWO BE QUIET OR YOU WILL BE DEAD YOU GOT THAT! NOW GIVE ME THAT GOT DAMN REPORT NOW YOU HEAR ME!" The three could feel the killing wrath coming off of him in rage. That caused all three of them to gulp and stayed quiet.

Then Zetsu spoke after 3 minutes scared, "Ah yes the report. Here it is the two members Hiden and Kakuzu were killed in the battle they were separated from one another. Hiden was killed in explosion by a Chunin by the name of Shikamaru Nara in the fight. Has for Kakuzu he was fighting Ino and Choji in the fight along with the famous Sharingan Kakashi or his full name Kakashi Hatake were losing the battle but until my clone was destroyed in the tree near them by Yamato and the brat but before it went I got an image of the Nine Tailed Fox boy and there was Sakura Haruno who trains under the Hokage we heard about and some guy that has some issues in clothing were there. When I finally got there I found that Hiden was killed and has for Kakuzu he was in a 25 foot created and all hearts were destroyed his main heart was destroyed by a lighting jutsu and the others two were destroyed by that one move. Here are the images from the trees above them". He handed them to the leader and walked back to sit down on a rock. The other two were looking at each other at what jutsu could do that to Kakuzu of all people. The leader then spoke.

Then the leader said, "Ah what interesting development we have here looks like the fox brat his going to trouble from now on. Here we taught he only had the variants of the Rasengan and those shadow clones of his well I am going to have to inform Itachi and Kisame of this and you are all dismissed for now". As the leader walked away Zetsu walked in the opposite direction to get out of the cave and sleep has for the other two.

Tobi then began talking to Diedara and said, "Man way does the red eye freak and shark face get to go after him its not right here".

Deidara said after he was finished, "You do know that if they were here they kill you for that but I am just has pissed as you are they made be lose my arm in that battle with that fox brat and that one red eyed freak".

Tobi said in a sleepy tone in his voice, "Well I am going to sleep now I am so fucking tired that I just wants to laydown and sleep you got that Deidara and don't you dare come in to my room you got that! "

HIDDEN LEAF VILLAGE

It was a beautiful day outside with not a cloud in the sky. In side the room where the Hokage let her live in since it was close to the hospital and the Hokage tower. Sakura was sitting in bed with her knees to her chest . She was thinking about everything that has happened since Naruto returned to the hidden leaf village with that Ero-sennin of his. When the time he had just came back from his trip came back to her.

Flashback

Sakura: "Naruto you have gotten taller then me" Has he was checking his height she was looking at him with a little blush on her face.

Sakura: "So Naruto do I look more womanly now" With a finger near her face with a blush visible on her face.

Naruto: "You haven't changed at all" Which caused her to turn around with her arms crossed and her eyes closed.

Sakura: "HIMME!" Which confused Naruto to why she was mad at her.

End of Flashback

"Sakura if he didn't say anything about the perverted jutsu of his I would have thought that he was all grown up but he wasn't." said Sakura. She was a little disappointed but somehow back then it relieved her some how but she didn't know how it did at the time. Then when Naruto said something about her strength that she acquired through her sensei from training it made her angry by the way he said it that made her think back to when he had said it to her.

Flashback

Sakura and Naruto had just passed the bell test when he said.

Naruto: "Wow Sakura that was awesome with the way you found out where he was hiding in the ground Sakura and with that Monster strength of yours was incredible I can tell that"

But before he could finish what he was saying he was halfway across the training field in the hole she made earlier.

End of Flashback

She was giggling at that because in some way he was right about her in someway that she was super strong now then when he had last seen her. She had been noticing that he was no longer the a loudmouth and annoying person he use to he was now more composted then when they were twelve years old. Then her mind swifted to the guys you were after him to get the demon fox from. Then she remembered that Naruto had been more mature when it came to Akatski because for him it really meant life or death to him but to everybody else if they ever got there hands on the demon inside of him. Then a memory to when she learned something that totally changed her view of Naruto.

Flashback

Kakashi: "Naruto I said we had to hurry you don't need to get ahead of us".

Naruto: "Even I know why they are after me. You still don't know do you Sakura-chan

I have the Kyūbi sealed in me."

End of Flashback

Sakura expressing did a 180 and she started to cry because of the hard life he had to endure because of it and it hurt her even more once more that she had hurt him too by asking him to bring Sasuke back for her and him getting hurt in both ways from Sasuke and from herself when she they were twelve years old and that fact that she never recognized him for all his growth and potential he had because she also was looking at Sasuke and never gave Naruto the time of day to really get to know him or see what he was capable.

At that moment she felt so bad that she could have been that selfish back then to Naruto to want to bring back Sasuke to her with out even taking in to account of his feeling she felt ashamed of herself. "The next time I see him I am going to have to say how sorry I am for what I did back then to him he deserve that plus so much more". Then her mind drifted back to Garra who had the a demon in him too before it was taken from him and when that happened Garra had died and she knew that if that group that wanted Naruto and actually got him he would die as well and that no one else knew the jutsu in this village and if they did they weren't going to tell her about it because they probably knew that she would use it on Naruto if they to save him .

She was crying even harder now knowing that if did get the demon from him he would die and she would be all alone again but unlike the trip he went on there was no change of him coming back if they actually got the demon from him. Then more of the more recent memories of what had happened between the two of them since he cam back like that bastard snake ninja making Naruto go in the four tailed state to try and kill the snake ninja so that way they could get Sasuke back and he and her suffered for it.

For him he was so worn out and exhausted and injured then she had ever seen him before. For her she still has a scar from that day on her left shoulder from the battle but she didn't worry about it because it made her remember that day. Sakura then said something "He even tried to make me feel better when I was worried about him when he said that he was okay when he wasn't at all". But the thing that got her even more upset was the fact that at the end of the mission was a failer because they weren't able to beat Sasuke and bring him back and to top that off they were both to weak still to get Sasuke back when they trained so hard for it when the time came.

She knew that she had to move on because the coldness in his eyes showed that he didn't care if he had to kill her and everybody else to get what he wanted and that was power to kill his brother. As a result of the failed mission Naruto actually went so far in his training that he learned the new jutsu of his but it came with a drawback and that was it broke Naruto arm in so many places from the sheer power of it. She then started talking to no one in particular in her room.

"He is pushing him self so far to learn the new jutsu of his that he is going to kill him self at the rate he is going and maybe Yamato was right about m having some feeling for him but I can't be sure because I know I don't like him in that way". Then her inner self decided to finally come in to say some words. "Even you know the answer to that question Sakura".

She was a little curious to why her inner self decided to butt in on this especially when it came to Naruto of all people. "What are you talking about?"

"Don't deny it you know you are crazy about your NARUTO-KUN before he left on his trip with the pervert sensei of his".

She was a little shocked at the way her inner self said the "your Naruto-kun" part of it. "I was not and what is up with the kun at the end of his name you know that I don't say that at the end of his name so why do you".

"Because you know you want to add to it to his name and it is true you liked him before he left and I should know I am the inner you after all".

She was getting mad at her inner self at this point and time. "Why am I even talking to you in the first place huh I haven't talked to you all that much until Naruto came and that was two weeks ago".

"It is because you can't handle your true feeling for Naruto since he came back because of how much he has changed from when he was twelve and you know he looks hot and you know it so stop denying it already ".

Sakura was blushing a little and then said "What are you talking about like you would know anything!."

"I DO KNOW ALOT MORE THEN YOU KNOW AND YOU SO WANT TO HIM TO BE YOUR BOYFRIEND SO YOU CAN BE ALL LOVELY DOVEY WITH HIM THAT YOU HAVE BEEN LONGING FOR ALL YOUR LIFE AND CARE FOR YOU THAT IS THE TYPE OF MAN HE IS AND ALSO MIGHT I ADD DO SOME VERY NAUGHTY THINGS WITH HIM AS WELL THAT IS ON THE TOP FIVE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO WITH HIM I CHECKED!" At this point she was waiting to see what Sakura would do because what ever did happen it was going to be funny has hell"

Sakura got right off her bed and was standing up on her floor with a really bright blush all over her face and then absent minded said the next part out loud that half of the village could hear her. "I DO NOT LIKE HIM THAT WAY YOU HEAR ME AND YOU MADE ME SOUND LIKE A DAMN PREVERT! WHY DON'T YOU SHUT THE HELL UP MY INNER SELF FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE WHEN I DON'T NEED YOU!".

Inner Sakura was laughing her head off at what she just made Sakura do and out loud of all the things was even better. "Well I will leave you be for now but I know sooner or later you will know that you are head over heals in love with him. To end are little conversation you had better hurry or you are going to be late to meet with Ino for lunch and oh yeah have some sweet about Naruto tonight like you have been lately. Good day Sakura."

"I TOLD YOU TO SHUT THE HELL UP YOU HEAR ME INNER SELF!." She said it will such anger that all the tailed beasts and all of people in the world would wet them self ten times over. Just then her mom came busting through the door with a worried face on to see what was the matter with her daughter. Which surprised Sakura a lot because she didn't know her mom was home.

"Dear are you all right I heard you down stairs yelling are you all right".

After Sakura toke a long beath of air into her lungs and breathed it out she spoke. "I am ok mom I didn't know you were home and I am fine just was thinking about something's is all don't worry about it and I will be back later so we can catch up because I have some plans with Ino for lunch if you want we could go out for dinner together if you want mom".

Her mom was taken back by Sakura gesture and then remembered to her encounter with someone this morning and then said, "I would love to but you won't be paying I met up with someone today and he will be joining us if you don't mind do you".

Sakura was wondering who was it and then said, "Mom who is going to be there with us and I really don't mind but mom I do not want you to try to and find me someone to date I will be the one to choose who I want mom ok".

Her mom just looked at and then smiled and then said, "You know I would never do that Sakura plus I saw Naruto the other day your teammate of yours he must have been hurt badly on the mission and he said you have been healing him even if he can heal faster then normal people can"

Sakura was pissed because she just made Naruto sound like he wasn't human and that he was a demon. Then very loudly that it made Naruto former loudmouth self seem like a chew toy she said, "MOM HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT ABOUT HIM. HE IS A HUMAN AND NOT THE NINE TAILED FOX MOM"

Her mom was shocked that her daughter just yelled at her face to face and that she knew about the fox as well. Then responded to her daugther."Sakura I was not offending Naruto in anyway and I am not mad at you for yelling at me but when did you find out his secret".

Sakura was shocked that her mom didn't hate Naruto at all which was a big surpise and then said very kindly after she breathed out her anger she just had and said, "Sorry mom I didn't mean to yell it is just that I hate it when people talk about him like he isn't human it pisses me off and I found out a day or two after he came back from trying with that ERO-SENNIN OF IS".

Sakura mom nodded and then said, "I am still surprised you don't hate him for having the fox sealed in him and who is this Ero-sennin of his Sakura".

Sakura then said, "I could never hate Naruto for something that he can't control and that would be Jiraiya the biggest pervert in the world I swear Naruto always as perverts as trainers".

Sakura mom did not like the idea of Naruto being with perverts because there was a change he could be doing something like spying on her daughter but knowing Naruto he wouldn't be one of them she had to make sure of that and then said, "Sakura has Naruto been acting like one when you are around I just wondering?".

Sakura looked at her mom like she was crazy then said, "No mom Naruto is not one and actual he hates perverts in the first place he isn't like them and how in the hell do you know Naruto so well by the way you said that it seemed if you knew him ".

Sakura mom was happy to know that Naruto was not a pervert so she said, "I know him well because I use to cook for him when he was little and that I was best friends with his mom and dad since we were kids that is how".

Sakura looked at her mom then she was shocked for a few minutes then she said, "Then you knew who they were. Could you tell me there names please I am sure this would make Naruto so happy please tell me".

Her mom then said, "No dear I can't I have to wait until he is sixteen years old before I tell him because that is what his parents wanted me to do should I have lived that long. and that not for a while so sorry maybe later. But you had better hurry up or you are going to miss Ino for lunch with so hurry up and get back before five o clock okay and have a good time with Ino see you later dear". As she walked out of her daughter door to get washed up for tonight and she had a huge smirk on her face as she left which her daughter couldn't see. Sakura was a little mad at her mom for not telling her what she wanted to know but it must have been for Naruto own good so she would let it slip for now that is. She quickly changed into some nice looking cloths and left through the window to meet up with Ino.

This was the first chapter I will try and get the next chapter up ether tomorrow or Saturday and if not then Monday please review and email me if there should be any improvements I should do. Thanks for the advice from Where I Belong by AzureBalmonk