Twisted

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

Konoha medic nins were running about from one room to another as more and more injured civilians and ninjas arrived at the hospital. It wasn't long until Konoha's Hospital's hallways were filled with people of all ages. Men, women, and children were begging the medic nins to heal them and to ease their growing agony, such was the state in Konoha Hospital. People were crying out in pain, begging the medic nins to help them but there simply wasn't enough medic nins for everyone. The medic nins were also in panic, they were running low in medical supplies, and tiredness has begun to take toll on them. Soon, they are forced to choose on whom they would heal.

When Haruno Sakura exited the Operating Room, the first thing that she had seen were people bathe in their own blood, moaning in a painful and sickening way that would make your stomach twist. Sakura motioned for her assistant to follow her before she started healing some of the patients in the hallway. She was tired but she knew that she can't relax since a lot of people are depending on her for their survival. Noticing, that her assistant still did not follow her, she turned around to look at Keiko and said in a strict manner, "Keiko, what's taking you so long? We can't afford to lose anymore time."

Keiko stood petrified as a patient gripped her arm firmly. She was shaking, her face was pale and her eyes were wide while looking in a horrified way at the patient, who had one arm and no legs, blood dripping from the decapitated parts. "Please, help me. Help me!" the patient pleaded at her.

Sakura went towards Keiko and shook her. "God damn it, Keiko, this is not the time for you to panic or become traumatized. We need every medic in top condition and moving," Sakura said in a frustrated tone. But Keiko just won't budge from her position even after all the times Sakura tried to snap her out of her shock. I don't have time for this. People are dying. Seeing that it was useless, Sakura called another medic nin under her command to take Keiko away. "Tsubame! Tsubame!" Sakura called out.

"Sakura-sama you called?" Tsubame asked bewildered wondering why her superior would call her in a time like this.

"Take Keiko to Ren with the other traumatized people. She will handle it. Then come back here as fast as you can," Sakura ordered.

"Hai, Sakura-sama," Tsubame said politely before going away.

Sakura then went to get some medical supplies stored in a cabinet on the wall. Damn it. Where the hell is it? She scanned the cabinet and got some bandages and other medical supplies. Knowing that she can't keep on using her charka, she would just have to heal the others using the ordinary methods of healing. She went to the nearest patient's side and started to clean the said patient's wound. Sakura was just about to stitch the patient's wound when she heard a loud blast coming from outside causing the ground to shake a little. What the hell is going on? Sakura quickly went towards the window and looked outside where the battle between Konohagakure and Otogakure was ensuing. I hope that everyone is okay. "Naruto, Kakashi-sensei, Sai, Tsunade-shishou, everyone, please be safe," she whispered softly.

"You should think about your own safety first, Sakura," a cold and emotionless voice whispered in her ear.

She quickly turned around and saw Sasuke standing before her, looking straight at her eyes. She gasped then whispered is barely audible voice, "Sasuke…" To say that she was shocked by his sudden appearance was an understatement. She was overwhelmed by all the emotions she felt for the boy who had left her behind almost eight years ago. Love, Hatred, Happiness, Sadness, all of these she felt for him in just this one moment. Recovering from her shock, she narrowed eyes at him and said harshly, "What do you want, Uchiha?"

"We're using last names now, Sakura? What happened to Sasuke-kun?" he asked her in a mocking way.

"What do you expect that I'll hug you and say I love you after leaving us all behind? I'm no longer a fan girl of yours, Uchiha. And you still haven't answered my question? Now tell me, what you want?" she told him venomously.

Sasuke's face remained blank as he took a step closer to her. "No you're no longer my fan girl," he said in affirmation before taking another step. "Do you really want to know what I want, hmm, Sa-ku-ra?"

"Just answer the god damn question so that we can finally end this reunion," Sakura said, trying to act brave although she knew her defence was slowly weakening.

Sasuke took another step, looking directly at those haunting emerald pools but it was not a lost to him when Sakura took a step back causing him to smirk. So, I still do have an effect to her. "Alright, I'll tell you what I want. Remember my second ambition," he paused, watching as realization hit her full force before bending so that his lips almost touched her ears. "What I want is for you to be by my side from the moment you marry me and have our children until death."

"I don't love you anymore. Find somebody else who would cater to your needs," she said turning away from him. Why now? Why now when she was just about to let go? It still hurts, the way he had left me behind with merely two words. Not caring at all about me or our friends and Konoha.

"You don't love me anymore? Yet your eyes and actions says a different thing," he told her while cupping her chin. "You are mine, Sakura. Mine alone. No one else is allowed to touch you but me."

"I belong to no one, you jerk. Let go of me you bastard!" she spat at him while trying to get away from his hold.

Sasuke pinned her to the wall. "You belong to me," he told her arrogantly. "Do you know why you can't move on with your life without me, Sakura?" Knowing that she wouldn't answer he continued. It is because I claimed you as mine the day we have met each other for the first time."

Sasuke was about to kiss her when he felt a kunai going straight towards him so he moved out of harm's way bringing Sakura with him. He looked at his opponent who turned out to be the Hyuuga prodigy.

"Hyuuga," Sasuke said while glaring at the intruder.

"Uchiha," Neji said with equal animosity.

Sasuke turned to Sakura holding her immobile with the intensity of his gaze. "I'll let you go this time but the next time there would be no moment that your are not by my side. I will be back for you, Sakura. I'll find you wherever you are. You can run away from me but you cannot hide. After all, an Uchiha never goes back on his words," Sasuke solemnly told Sakura before letting go of his grip on her arm.

He activated his Sharingan then dodged a kunai that was heading to him. Neji appeared suddenly behind Sasuke and tried to give him a swift kick but Sasuke blocked the attack with no effort at all.

"Is that the best you can do, Hyuuga? I must admit I'm quite disappointed," Sasuke said tauntingly, smirking as he gave Neji one of his own kicks, which sent Neji flying to the wall. He then turned and saw Ino standing a few feet away from him.

"Sakura get away from here. We'll take care of him. Take Naruto and Hinata with you. They're at the front porch," Ino said preparing to fight.

"But--" objected Sakura.

"There's no time. Naruto's injured. Take him away from here to a safe place. We will follow after you. It's the Hokage's orders. Now go," Ino shouted at Sakura. Sakura nodded and quickly ran away to the front porch.

"You think you can stop me, woman?" he asked Ino.

"Go to hell, Uchiha!" she screamed at him then she performed some hand seals.

"Too slow," Sasuke said appearing in front of her.

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Some of the villagers were screaming and running as they try to get out of the village for sanctuary. Blood and death was everywhere. You could hear the mournful cries of those who lost their loved one and the sound of metal hitting clashing together as it echoed in the battlefield.

Orochimaru and Kabuto was standing on one side of a clearing near the forest of Konoha while on the opposite side, facing the traitorous duo, was Jiraiya and Tsunade.

"Let's end this once and for all, Orochimaru," Jiraiya said seriously.

"You have always been a fool Jiraiya. But I couldn't agree more," Orochimaru said maliciously, grinning evilly at his ex-friend and teammate.

"Perhaps, but at least I'm not an evil bastard," Jiraiya retorted gathering his chakra in his hands forming his dreaded signature technique. "Rasengan!"

Orochimaru also gathered his chakra on his hands were two chakra-infused black orbs.

They then started to run towards the other and attacked at the same time, which cause the two powerful techniques to clash with one another, forming a purple light that surrounding the two sannins.

"Why? Why did you leave us and betray Konoha? Is it just because you were not named Hokage? Do you even remember what it was like when we were still a team, when we were still friends?" Jiraiya asked as he tried to match Orochimaru's attack.

Orochimaru fell silent for awhile before he spoke to Jiraiya in a cold voice filled with malice, "I don't care about the past. The only thing I care is power and immortality. Of achieving things that was never achieved by any other ninjas before. To survive in this world you have to be powerful."

It wasn't long till the unstable force created by Orochimaru and Jiraiya's techniques caused a huge explosion causing everything in its path to fly in different directions.

"Jiraiya!" Tsunade screamed as she killed Kabuto with one last strike. She ran to where they were fighting a while ago. When the dust cleared she found herself in the middle with Jiraiya on her right and Orochimaru on her left.

"The gap between two former friends," Tsunade whispered while switching her mournful gaze between her former teammates. When had the gap between us become so great? How did we end up like this? Orochimaru if only you didn't leave then... She then ran towards Jiraiya, whom she had noticed, was still breathing. She tried to heal him but she was still losing him.

"You should stop, Tsunade. Let's face it, I'm dying and not even you can fix this after Orochimaru's last attack," Jiraiya said with blood trickling from his mouth.

"I won't allow you to die. I can't lose another important person in my life to death," she said with determination while healing him at the same time with a renewed vigor.

Jiraiya smiled a bittersweet smile at her. "It is no use, Tsunade. The black fire would eat me up. There is no stopping it. Orochimaru told me so. There are still other people who need your help. It is your sworn duty as the Godaime Hokage," Jiraiya said straining to speak.

"Don't speak. You should save your strength for your survival," Tsunade said while wiping the tears forming in her eyes.

"I have a final request to ask of you, Tsunade."

"What is it?"

"Help me go to Orochimaru. The three of us just like the old during the old days, you, me, Orochimaru and Sarutobi-sensei, for the last time."

Tsunade nodded then she helped Jiraiya in standing up. They both wordlessly walk towards the last member of their team, who was lying in a heap on the ground.

"I have fulfilled the oath that I have given you years ago. Tsunade don't waste your life mourning for us. Live for me, for the three of us, Live for Konoha," he said weakly, his voice fading to a void, his eyes slowly fluttered close as he took his last breath.

Tsunade didn't hold her tears any longer. At that moment, she let her tears flow freely from her eyes leaving hot trails of tears on her cheeks. The three of us are together again after so many years. We fulfilled our greatest desire, Orochimaru by causing destruction to Konohagakure for vengeance, Jiraiya by bringing back Orochimaru, and me? My wish is that the three of us would be together again but at what price? Now, I'm alone again to pick up the pieces of my already battered and broken heart and soul. Why…? Rain poured down on her but she didn't care, at that moment she didn't care at all. She slumped towards the ground, crying all the pain away.

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Sakura ran towards the front porch of the hospital, grabbing her personal medical supplies on her way out. She opened the door and saw Hinata sitting on the floor beside an unconscious Naruto.

"Sakura!" Hinata called out to her.

"Hinata, what happened to Naruto?" Sakura asked the timid girl while bending over Naruto's injured body.

There's a deep gash on his stomach with a few minor wounds scattered all over his body but other than that he was fine. Sakura then check his pulse, which was beating irregularly. When she bent over closer to Naruto, she noticed his shortness of breath and that he was burning up from fever causing her to get confused. Fever? But this kind of wounds doesn't cause fever. Sakura's eyes widens in realization after a few minutes of studying Naruto's condition. Unless, the wounds he had were inflicted by poisoned weapons.

"He's poisoned," Sakura said aloud as she looked at Hinata, who began to worry.

"Don't worry Hinata; your fiancé would be okay. I have an antidote for this certain poison. So don't worry," Sakura reassured her while taking out from her medical kit a small bottle filled with purple liquid. Sakura opened Naruto's mouth and forced him to swallow the bottle's contents. After cleaning his wounds, she started to heal him using her chakra.

"Would he be okay?" Hinata asked her.

"He will just like he always does. He just needs to rest," Sakura said looking at her surroundings. "We have to go now before the enemy nins find us. Naruto holds the village future. We can't let them have him."

Sakura then started to carry Naruto on her back but Hinata stopped her from doing so. "No, let me. You also need to rest. I know you are tired and you're already low in chakra. Besides, it's now my turn to help.

She studied Hinata, contemplating on whether or not she could really carry Naruto before hesitatingly nodded her assent. "Okay, now let's go. You do know where the safe house is, right?"

Hinata nodded then she ran to the forest with Sakura trailing behind her, who was glancing at Hinata from time to time.

It's raining. She looked up at the darken sky. What great timing. Now it would be so much easier to run on the trees, NOT.

Sakura sensed some Sound nins heading their way. "Hinata watch out!" she screamed at Hinata. But Hinata didn't see the fifty kunais heading her way. Sakura jumped in front of Hinata effectively defending her friend but at her cost.

"Sakura!" Hinata watched as her friend fell towards the ground. She felt helpless since she can't help her with Naruto on her back.

"Hinata run before they capture you," Sakura managed to scream before she hit the ground. After that, she didn't know what happened anymore as she fell into a peaceful darkness.

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"Kabuto and Orochimaru are dead. Konoha has won the war," a leaf nin announced from the field.

Sasuke heard what the nin said then he turned to Neji and the others. "Well, it looks like I no longer have any business here," Sasuke said before disappearing in a burst of flames.

"Where did he go?" Kiba asked sniffing the air around them for any sign of Sasuke.

"Byakugan! I can't find him anywhere near him," Neji said, scanning the entire area.

"It's no use looking for him. We need to find Sakura, Hinata and Naruto first," Shikamaru told them.

"What if something happened to them," Ino said in a worried voice.

"That's why we need to hurry up. This is just way too troublesome," whined Shikamaru.

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Sakura opened her eyes and felt confused as to what she was doing in the middle of the forest. The events earlier rushed back in her mind when she heard some of the Sound nins approaching quickly to where she was. Damn. She got up and saw a dark figure finishing off the enemies before they even attack or reach her. "Hey, thanks I owe you o—" Sakura began as she was about to thank her savior but stopped as she saw the spinning red wheels of the Sharingan before fainting once again.