Chapter 1

Sakura Haruno was crying... Over Naruto's dead body... She was crying so hard her eyes were burning...

"Why?" She was talking to no one and no one would reply... Sasuke was gone...Naruto was dead... No, Sasuke had killed him... She stood up... she fell back down... She could no longer walk, Sasuke had teamed up with Akatsuki after he had killed his brother. They were after the 9 tails, and they got it... Sakura only arrived at the Akatsuki base after they had extracted the Kyuubi from Naruto... And now he was gone...Forever...

"Sakura?" Sakura turned her head around to see Kakashi, her previous mentor... Also Naruto's... And Sasuke's... "What's the Situation?" Sakura's eyes started to burn again. But to cry in front of her mentor... That would be crazy... She coughed.

"Akatsuki extracted the Kyuubi from Naruto, and he's..." Her head turned back to the still figure lying on the floor. Kakashi finished the sentence for her

"Dead."... Sakura Nodded.

Sakura headed back to Konoha with Kakashi who had been fighting Kisame so Sakura had gone on ahead to find Naruto.

"Kakashi-san, why was Naruto still alive after Akatsuki had extracted the Kyuubi. If it was anything like the other cases he should have died as soon as it was extracted. So why did Sasuke?..."

"Naruto's case is a strange one... It's like you said, he should have passed away as soon as the Kyuubi was removed from him. But the Kyuubi seemed like the strongest of the tailed beasts, it always has. So maybe some of the Kyuubi's chakra remained in Naruto, it's just a theory but maybe we should check in to it." Sakura's eyes followed her feet, she couldn't bring herself to look up at her old teacher. Sakura only had one thing, One word that she could get out of her mouth...

"No..."

"Huh?"

"No..."

"Sakura you do realize that you don't have a choice, it's your job as a kunoichi to do this. It's like an ordinary mission, your one of the smartest chuunin that Konoha has."

"I won't do it... Ask someone else..."

"Sakura!" Kakashi's face was stern. Sakura didn't care. She wasn't going to let him take her pride away from her. Her eyes rose from her feet and she looked Kakashi in the eyes.

"Kakashi. I can't do it because I am going to find Sasuke and avenge Naruto." Kakashi let out a sigh.

"I knew this was coming" Kakashi turned his head away from her and looked ahead of him. "Sakura you and Naruto have been going on a wild goose chase up until now. You should know, Sasuke isn't coming back. He has chosen his path. You must also choose yours." Kakashi Turned to face Sakura. "You could be a great ninja" Sakura wasn't having any of it, she was tired of listening to his crap.

"Kakashi, I'm going after Sasuke. When we get back I'm finding a new group of chuunin and taking them with me for this mission. And there will be a mission. You can't say anything to stop me." Kakashi let out another sigh, Sakura had won, He wouldn't argue any more.

Sakura and Kakashi arrived back at Konoha 2 days later. When they arrived Sakura went straight to Tsunade to ask her for permission to do her desired mission.

"Tsunade-Sama, the mission to bring Naruto back...It failed..." Tsunade asked Shizune to leave and get her a glass of water.

"What happened?" Sakura's eyes fell to the floor "I'm not asking for the details, I'm asking where Sasuke and Naruto are!"

"Naruto Is dead. Sasuke killed him." Silence filled the room and was only broken when Shizune walked in, closely followed by Kakashi. He was the first one to talk

"Tsunade-Sama, Sakura has a request" Sakura was shocked, she knew Kakashi wasn't happy about the idea of his one remaining pupil going to fight Sasuke, It was practically a suicide mission. They both knew that. And yet here he was, trying to her convince Tsunade to let her go.

"Tsunade-Sama, I have a mission request." Tsunade looked bewildered. "I want to go after Sasuke. May I go?"

"Sakura, we all know very well that Sasuke wont come back to the village. He's a rogue Ninja now. He betrayed his village."

"I'm not going with any intention of bringing Sasuke back." Tsunade bit her lip, what choice did she have? Sakura was one of the if not the best chuunin medical ninjas that Konoha had... And now she was going, and possibly not coming back. Sakura read Tsunade like a book.

"Tsunade-Sama, you know that death is inevitable. It's how a ninja life goes. Many people before me have died in battle. I'd rather die standing. Than live in a world of grief on my knees. So please. Let me assemble a team and go after Sasuke."

"Very well...Please...Try and come back alive though. Preferably with all of your team mates too."

"Yes, Tsunade-Sama."

Sakura left Tsunade's office, if she wasn't surrounded with uncertainty and worry then she would have jumped in the air and screamed "yes!" but she just couldn't bring herself to do it...

She wanted to leave as soon as she could, so she would just find whoever she could and leave at sunrise.

That night she was in her apartment getting ready. She had found her team. Neji, Hinata, Kiba and Shikamaru. When she heard a knock at the door. She stood up, who would be calling at her house at this time of night.

"Who's there?"

"Sakura. It's Ino. Let me in!" Sakura opened the door as soon as Ino had started talking. "I'm coming with you!" Ino looked all though she was about to cry.

"Ino... Are you sure?" Ino nodded and let herself in to Sakura's apartment. "Sakura, I hate Sasuke for what he did more than you know...He left, and now this...I've also lost someone close to me, My teacher Asuma died 3 months ago remember?" Sakura couldn't speak. She took a step forward and hugged Ino. The girl who she had hated for years, all she could do was hug her...

"Thank you, Ino" Ino smiled.

"You don't really think I'd let you go and see Sasuke without me did you"

"it'll be dangerous" Sakura looked very worried.

"You think I don't know that!? Come on lighten up!" So Ino joined Sakura's team on the mission to... Kill...Sasuke.