I DO NOT OWN NARUTO! KISHIMOTO MASASHI DOES!

Chapter 1: Leaving

Sakura just came back from collecting herbs, and was on her way to see her favorite sensei Tsunade, (all of them are still genin and Sasuke never left) and she was also looking for her teammates, but she couldn't find them. So she walked into the hokage tower, and was about to knock on Tsunade's door, but she heard her teammates talking.

"She is so weak and annoying; I don't see why we have to save her all the time. She just gets in the way, and she is a deadweight that we should leave behind." Sasuke said nonchalant.

"I can't believe Sasuke would say that about me!" (Trust me Sakura we all can.) Sakura exclaimed talking to her inner. Shhh! be quiet so we can hear what else they're saying about us!" said her inner.

"We all know that Sakura was not cut out to be a ninja from the beginning." Kakashi said her own first sensei.

"Well, said Tsunade, once you think about Sakura is too delicate to be a ninja."

"Well, what do you think Naruto; you haven't said one word since this meeting started." A surprised Kakashi noticed

"To me Sakura is a piece to our family, like the last puzzle piece to the puzzle of our team. Naruto started. "And when you take that puzzle piece off of the puzzle, the puzzle is never complete. I don't want to see a puzzle piece missing that fell off of our puzzle never to be replaced. So for that, I say no to Sakura going on the mission."

"I think it's already decided, Sakura Haruno will not be going on this mission, because of her weakness." Tsunade said making the decision final.

Sakura had heard enough, she ran from the building with tears building up in her eyes. She couldn't believe what she just heard! She ran into her house ran in her room and locked the door.

"I can't believe all of them. Especially Naruto, I would expect him to be there for me all the time. He was like my big brother. What ever he's just like the rest of them. The people who I expected to cheer me on, all turned their backs on me, and just left me hanging." Sakura cried.

"If they think I'm weak, they got another thing coming."

So she waited until it was at least midnight, and she was sure that people in the village were asleep, and made her way toward the front gates. (Sakura lived by herself since her parents died on a mission)

It was easy to walk past the guards, since both of them were asleep.

"Pathetic. Sakura thought as she walked right past them.

She took one look around back to her village, her old home the home she was leaving behind.

"You won't be seeing me again until I'm eighteen. I'll make sure of it." Sakura then was on her way to become stronger and prove to everybody who doubted her, laughed at her, or said she wasn't fit to be a ninja, that they were all wrong. Oh yes they were all wrong. Her name is Sakura Haruno, and she would have the last laugh.