Yeah I don't own naruto or anything so no suing? Is that even spelt right? Oh well...

SummarySakura is growing tired of always being left behind, she wants to feel equal she wants to prove to them all but most of all to herself that she can be strong. That this is her way and she will live up to it. In her quest to become stronger she finds out something new about herself that could affect those who are most important to her. What will she do? How will she overcome this...

Well enjoy!

CHAPTER 1: just the beginning

All day she had been watching them, as in Kakashi, Naruto and Sasuke and their backs. She twitched. Sakura was sick of it not only that but also the annoying persistence of the pain in her lower back. She needed to be protected again last mission and she did not enjoy it she was feeling more like a burden lately.

'I will change that, after this... thing called a mission.' She decided in her thoughts. Today is the day that she would make a change somehow....

She twitched, again and then sighed aloud from frustration drawing a side-glance almost questioning look from her sensei, which she promptly ignored. Today she was just not in the mood for anything and for reasons that she couldn't even understand herself, everything was bugging her.

You'd would think looking for a few cats wouldn't be any danger; hell when you were in team 7 it's never dull. With fellow teammate Naruto accidentally pushing her in a stream because he thought he saw the cat and rushed after it, his annoying voice going something like

'...here kitty, kitty, come here NOW so I can go get some ramen!'

'I can at least get up from this' she thought and so she did.

Slowly Sakura stepped up from the stream, head lowered so you could not see her eyes and fists clinched in anger and then lifted her face just enough to see her eyes which had a steel tint to it.

Laughing nervously while scratching the back of his head, Naruto backed away and then started running in fear of his life. While Sasuke and Kakashi stood out of the way and watched, they expected some entertainment out of this.

They weren't disappointed.

'N A R U T O !!!....' She growled out in anger before giving chase to the running boy eventually coming close enough to punch him hard in the face and send him flying through the clearing. She absently cracked her knuckles and rolled her shoulders a bit to get the kinks out. Feeling slightly more refreshed now that that was out of her system she turned and looked at the other people in her team.

Slightly twitching, she winced still feeling the pain in her lower back and not remembering how she got it.

Sasuke with the im-so-cool-look and the gorgeous smirk, which was directed at the now twitching, swirly-eyed form of Naruto on the ground, stared long at the picture and stored it in his mind for reference in future arguments about how much of a –dobe he can be.

Sakura was glad though, because now....

someone else was twitching.

Looking back at Sasuke she saw him smirk, she really loved his smirk but after the adrenaline of the little battle that only she really fought, she didn't particularly feel like melting right there that moment.

She smiled still though and looked on to Kakashi casually leaning on a tree with his book in front still watching, his face covered with a mask except for one eye, which twinkled with amusement at the scene.

She felt the pang in her lower back and strangely a stinging sensation added to the mix.

'Great...' she thought, groaned and then said aloud, sarcasm clearly shown in her voice 'this is just what I need, more pain, oh joy!!' note: again just to point out –sarcasm.

They were all staring at her now looking at her like she was weird or something and then that's when she realised that she said that out loud and maybe they were waiting for her to continue? Well no she wasn't planning to. She only took her hand ands ran it through her hair tiredly.

'I want to go home...' she thought absently and then her head moved to the side were she saw a movement in the corner of her eye.

She sped of and came back a few seconds with the cat in her hands. It was quite ugly, oh well mission completed!!

'I'm going to go home now, here you go!' and with that said and the cat thrown at sasuke who caught it by the end of it tail while it screeched loudly. She was about to laugh at his shocked expression but settled for a large grin instead so as to not direct his attention towards her.

Sakura walked of quickly hearing scratching noises and stopped for a second, unable to contain her laughter anymore, she burst out laughing clutching her sides as she gasped for air, still laughing. (an: common just picture a cat scratching sasuke, it's funny...lol.)

The pain she felt on her lower back momentarily forgotten as she wiped tears of mirth for the corner of her eyes.

Well I hoped you liked it, any reviews or comments appreciated.

If anyone could please tell me I have no idea how to put bold, italic or underline text in this. Please tell me! Well thanks if you do cyaz,

Alexissilverspun