Disclaimer: I don´t own Naruto… there!! Now you know it.

A/N:

First Fanfic ever, hope you like it.

I don´t like to describe in too many details the clothes and looks of characters. When I read a fanfic I usually skip detailed descriptions and end up imagining myself how they look. So I will give you hints of how they look and you imagine the rest.

In my Fic all Naruto generation are about 24 years old, so picture them with the clothes from shippuden, but older. If a character needs a more detailed description I will give it.

This will be more likely a NaruSaku, sorry if you don´t like the pairing, but it might be a SakuNaruHina. I don't have anything against any of the girls.

First chapter is told mostly from Sakura´s point of view, second from Naruto´s POV, third most likely Naruto or maybe both.

A woman stood in the Hokage tower, leaning with her hands against the window in the hokage office, with her head facing down, her pink locks covering her face. 24 years old Jounin and medic-nin Haruno Sakura has become a beautiful woman, but her present appearance doesn't help that thought very much, her hair is a mess and dirty and her red dress isn't in a better shape, dirty and torn in various places like her abdomen and her back where unhealed wounds can be seen. Nothing of this is important to her right now because she is in deep thought; these thoughts are mostly questions and the ones that come to her more often are:

- "How?? Why??"

She lifted her head and looked outside where the once lively and proud village of Konoha stood. Right now all that she could see was abandoned and torn buildings and the deserted streets. She was about to start thinking again when the door to the office opened, out of habit she raised her hands clenched them into fists and prepared for fight or run if needed until she saw who it was, there stood Hinata and Moegi looking just as tired, dirty and wounded as Sakura. Instantly Sakura relaxed.

-"Hinata, Moegi… I'm glad you're ok. How did it go?? Found any survivors??"

-"S-Sakura-san, I'm afraid we didn't. But we didn't run into any of them either." – said the white eyed nin.

-"Good, but I guess it's to be expected, they are much more active at night"- said Sakura as she left out a tired sigh at the end of the phrase.

-"Well, we are all tired sempai. And I found some food. I hope this will help us to relax a little"- said Moegi.

-"Great job Moegi!! With this we won't have to leave the tower so often for a couple of days, leaving us enough time to think what to do next."Said Sakura a little relieved that she won't have to be out there for awhile. "Let's seal the rest of the entrances while there is light".

-"H-hai!" "OK"-said Hinata and Moegi simultaneously.

Why has Sakura become the leader of this little group? You could say it's because of her character and you would be partly right, but the main reason it's because she is the only one who can fight alone at a decent level against the dangers that they have been facing recently.

While placing a table and a couple of chairs to block a door Sakura started thinking again about her family, friends and the events that led them where they currently are.

-FLASHBACK-

Konoha had been peaceful for a couple of years, there were still conflicts like Akatsuki, but they were greatly weakened by all the enemies they created for themselves. Even if they did not work together Konoha, other hidden villages, Naruto and Herself and even Sasuke in his search for revenge have taken down at least 6 if not 7 members, one whose body wasn't found. Obviously it wasn't an easy task and there were casualties like Asuma and the disappearance if not death of Jiraiya-sama. Sasuke was another problem; there wasn't information in regards to his revenge, but the important part is that he never came back. She missed him a lot especially the first couple of years, but slowly she came to realize that maybe he would never come back.That he never cared for her as she did for him… maybe there was a time when he saw her as a friend, but that was it. And that way as slowly as she realized that she started to move on until the moment where Sasuke wasn't the most important thing of her life. Of course she still cared for him but she didn't love him as she used to.

Most of her time was spent in the hospital where she gained one of the positions of chief doctor along whit Shizune. She was called the next Tsunade for her combination of beauty, strength, medic abilities and bad temper. This last aspect usually seen against her blonde haired ANBU friend, but he could take it. At least that's what she thought to herself.

So her daily life consisted mainly of work at the hospital, a couple of reunions to eat with her friends, yes! Even ramen, and the occasional mission, but those were rare for her lately.

One week ago she was leaving the hospital after a rather hard day at work when she started to feel something, it was very faint but something in the air felt different, it wasn't the smell though.

She thought that maybe she was sick or exhausted so she didn't mind it too much. Besides no one else seemed to have noticed this. Three days later she still felt the same, even a little worse. She had run some test on herself in the hospital but they all turned out to be normal. She was thinking about this when she reached the door of her apartment, in which she has lived alone for the last 4 years. There beside her door stood a tall man with ANBU clothes, a fox mask and blonde hair.

-"Naruto"?

The man quickly ran to her putting his hand on her mouth while saying:

-"SHHHHhhhhhhhh Sakura-chan!! How many times do I have to tell you that don't call me by my name while I'm on duty?" .-whispered Naruto

Sakura let out a giggle –"Naruto, everyone knows who you are even with your mask on, how many blonds ANBUs do you know?? besides you are the only one who call me Sakura-chan."- Sakura looked their surroundings, seeing that there was nobody near them said-"There is nobody here so at least take the mask off to talk to me""you could be making faces at me and I wouldn't notice it!!"

Naruto let out a little laugh before he lifted his mask from his face to the top of his head. -"You know I would never do that to you Sakura-chan"-.

-"How can I be sure with the mask on"- She said as she looked at his face, being totally honest she liked his face, it was always full of emotion especially when he looked at her. So it was a waste to hide it behind that mask. On the other hand a shinobi shouldn't express any emotions so she guessed it was ok as long as he was on missions. Now, Naruto has grown into a very handsome man and he is a sight very hard to miss by the opposite sex, this much was obvious by the drools and looks he gets when walking in the streets of Konoha while off duty. Sakura always thought that something likes this would never bother her, but it does even if is a little. But she hasn't given this matter a deeper thought mostly for fear of what this could mean.

She was looking at him when she noticed that his expression changed into a more serious one

-"Naruto Wha-?"

-"Sakura-chan, something big is going to happen".- Interrupted Naruto

-"What are you talking about Naruto".

-"I can't be sure, but the Fox warned me. He wants to make sure that I survive, but he refuses to tell me what is going to happen, the bastard! He wants me to go to Iwagakure to do some research of something that he won't tell me until I get there."

-"Are you going to go?" asked a worried Sakura.

-"I have to, if me surviving will help others survive then I'll go even if it is the bastard fox idea." "The worst is that I have no clue of what is going to happen, so coming with me even if I survive could be more dangerous than staying."

-"So you are telling me to stay".- a worried and now a little angry Sakura said. "why do you always leave me behind?"Thought Sakura.

-"Please Sakura. You have to help baachan, I already told her and she gave me permission to go alone. She will try to put the village in Alert but the Fox´s info is too vague, so she will need all the help she can get."

-"O-Ok..".- She said noticing the absence of the suffix, which mean that he was serious.

-"Thanks".Said a little more relieved Naruto

In a last attempt to deny that all this was happening Sakura asked-"Naruto? How can you be so sure that all of this is true"?-

Naruto looked at the sky as if searching for something.-"To be honest Sakura-chan at first I thought the Fox was trying to mess with my mind, but three days ago the air started to feel different just as the bastard predicted and the feeling has been getting worse every day, nobody else seems to have noticed this though"

Sakura´s eyes widened at this revelation.- "I´ve noticed it!!"

-"You did?" asked Naruto a little surprised.

-"yes, I thought I was sick or something"

-"I guess this proves that I'm not the only one who felt the change in the air""but why can you feel it too?" said Naruto as he looked her over. Then he noticed something, it was faint, but it was there a very little chakra emanation, a very little "orange" chakra emanation on Sakura´s left arm. He put a sad face remembering how she might gotten that chakra. A reminder of him losing control to the Kyubi

She noticed his face and said.-"what´s wrong?"

-"Apparently that time many years ago, in the mission on the bridge where i fought Orochimaru and lost control to the Kyubi he left some of his chakra in your system."

-"how can you tell?""I don't feel any different".

-"I can see the chakra in your arm, it's very faint."

-She inspected herself.-"I can't see it, and if it was there all along how didn't you noticed it before??

-"Probably it reacted to the change in the air, I don't have any better explanation"- said Naruto."Don't worry Sakura-chan as I said it is very faint and won't last. But this proves that the Fox can feel that something is happening. I better get going then" He got close to her and grabbed her by her shoulders.-"I know this might be a little hard right now but sleep well tonight you will need your strength, remember to help baachan and most of all take care of yourself".- As soon as he said this he kissed her forehead turned around and disappeared in swirl of leaves.

After a minute a stunned and blushing Sakura managed to say-."You too Naruto." Then she slowly entered her apartment and went straight to bed, but sleeping hasn't been so hard in years; the recent events have left too many things hanging over her head.

The next morning a mildly rested Sakura went to the Hokage tower after waking up.

Being the Hokage disciple she got to her office door without a single interruption of ANBU or secretaries. There she knocked the door.

-"come in!!" came the reply of the Hokage

Sakura entered to the office, there sit in her usual place was Tsunade looking as young as always even though she must be like 61 years old, to her left Shizune was standing with TONTON in her arms, both women had worried and tired looks on their faces.

-"excuse me shishou…"

-"Ah! Sakura good timing!! I suppose Naruto told you about the current problem". Said the serious Hokage

-"Ye-Yes".

-"well, I've put all the available forces on alert, but being on alert 24/7 will be hard especially against an unknown menace. All shinobi are on their toes, but we haven't told the civilians."

-"wha! why shishou? Shouldn't we tell them?

-"that would only cause panic… how do we tell them to be prepared to something we don't know what it is, don't know exactly when will happen and neither if it will really happen."

-"I guess you're right."

-"All available forces are patrolling the village right now. Sakura! Shizune will be in charge of the hospital alone, I will be ready to leave in any moment if I'm needed outside. You will stay in this tower protecting it and yourself."

-"Wha! shishou!

-"Don't misunderstand Sakura. I'm not putting you aside. In case something happens to Shizune and me we need a place with a medic and this place is perfect to hold your ground.""We are just assuming the worst will happen; let's hope it only gets to assumptions."

-Hai. Responded Sakura.

The rest of the day Sakura explored the tower looking for places where to hide, attend patients, place provisions and possible escape routes. She just hoped Naruto was wrong.

When the night came Tsunade send her home telling her to come back in the morning. She did as she was told. She went to her apartment and tried to sleep. Before she fell asleep she thought about the village and how the tension was starting to show, so many shinobi outside at the same time 24/7 was starting to freak out the villagers, you could see their wary faces. There isn't much to do for them right now; I better concentrate on my duty… were Sakura´s thought before she fell asleep.

Sakura was abruptly awaken from her sleep in the middle of the night, loud screams, sounds of the walls of her apartment creaking, things falling from tables, everything was trembling. She had never felt an earthquake so strong before. Her first reaction was to get on her clothes as fast as she could and then run to the Hokage tower.

The sight she met when she left her apartment was something you would only expect to see in a war: the most pure chaos… people running everywhere without a clear destination, crumbled houses, children crying and shinobi doing their best to put some order and evacuate the civilians. Even if this surprised you, it's something expected after an earthquake. What really surprised Sakura was the sky, it was supposed to be night, but the sky was bright red or even blood red. Recovering from the sight she resumed her run to the tower. Amazingly enough most of the tower was intact just some broken windows and a door out of place. When she got to the hokage office Tsunade was there looking outside.

-"shishou!"

-"Sakura! You're finally here, now I can go out there." Said Tsunade turning only her head to her "I guess Naruto was right, but I think this is not all, if that sky is any indication".

-"Hai!…shishou… be careful please.

-"I will… you should be careful too. You know what to do" with that said Tsunade jumped out the window."

Sakura took the place where the Hokage stood previously looking outside, hands together on her chest in a pose full of worry.

A couple hours later the chaos was finally starting to subside. Despite the high number of wounded the hospital managed to take them in, so Sakura didn't have to work in the end. She still could see the shinobi rescuing people outside. Some using doton techniques to move crumbled buildings, other using suiton techniques to put out fire, even Tsunade was using her super strength to prevent a wall from crushing some kids. Sakura wanted to be outside helping too. But she had her orders.

She soon lost sight of Tsunade who went to help somebody else. She was glad everything was relatively ok.

Unfortunately her relieve didn't last much. A couple of minutes after she lost sight of Tsunade the sky suddenly turned black and all lights went off. All that she could hear were the panic screams of the people. While this happened the strange feeling in the air strengthened many times, it was so much that the air felt heavy. When this change occurred the sky turned back to his previous red color and the lights went on again. Looking outside she noticed that it wasn't just her that felt the air heavy this time, everybody was looking around and inspecting themselves searching for any anomalies on their bodies. Sakura could see that there was nothing wrong with them, again she was starting to relax when THAT happened…

Hundreds, no! Thousands of dark red lights on the floor of all Konoha both outside and inside buildings. They were of oval shape and with 1 to 2 meters of diameter. As soon as they appeared something started to come out of them, something that could only be described as hands, one or two per light, those hands were soon followed by heads and bodies. The actual sight was that some kind of "creatures" were crawling from these lights like they were some kind of portal, growling while they did. There were many different creatures, some tall as a man with big muscles and dark skin, some thin and twice the high of a man with long arms, some looked like some kind of wolf without fur and scaled skin. There were many others types, but this 3 were the more common ones. Even with so many different creatures there were four characteristics that all of them shared: fangs, claws and horns that looked very deadly and bloodshot slit eyes that looked like full of fury.

-"wha-what are those things?" was the question that all of Konoha´s people had in their mind at the moment.

-"what's going on??" were Sakura´s thoughts.

Suddenly the attack began; the creatures threw themselves on any person close to them, slashing their bodies, ripping them to bits with great strength and amazing speed, biting their necks, impaling their chests with their long claws. Many humans fell instantly with the first strike.

Sakura´s eyes widened in horror as the growling creatures killed everything in sight, the screams of terror and pain filled the air very strongly.

Sakura´s first thought was to get out there and help anyone she could, however that thought was quickly interrupted by two low growls coming from behind her. She turned around as fast as she could only to be scratched in the abdomen area, thanks to her reflexes it wasn't a deep wound but it drew blood. Sakura fell to the floor facing her attacker, there stood a man sized creature with big muscles, fangs that came out from its jaw and pointed upwards, a pair of horns on its head pointing backwards, further details weren't clear, there wasn't enough light to see. Except for those bloodshot eyes that could be seen even in the darkness. Putting a little more attention Sakura could see another pair of the same kind of eyes behind the creature. A thin and tall silhouette could be seen.

Quickly getting on her feet Sakura prepared to defend herself. The creatures' reaction to this action didn't wait long; both of them threw themselves to Sakura and started to attack her. The smaller one tried to chop her head off with a horizontal slash, Sakura quickly ducked only to see the taller one trying to thrust its claws through her chest, she barely dodged this attack and a wound in her chest would remind her to put more effort on this task. After she dodged the tall creature´s thrust the attack kept going until it hit the floor leaving a considerable crater were it landed. Noticing this Sakura jumped back trying to put some distance between her and them. It didn't work. As soon as she did this their speed increased and they quickly got close again, but she used this for her advantage. Using the momentum of speed they used to get close Sakura punched as hard as she could the face of the smaller one. The hit was a success and the creature flew through the air hitting the wall and leaving a small crater where it landed. There was something odd though; normally one of her full strengthened punches would send the creature through multiples walls and outside of the Hokage tower. Other problem was that the creature was starting to get up again, not uninjured but it wasn't dead. However that wasn't the worst part, attacking the smaller creature left her wide open to the tall one that this time tried to shop her head off, without enough time to dodge she took a step forward avoiding the claws, but getting hit by the forearm of the creature in the head, she spit blood as she flew through the Hokage´s desk and onto the floor. While she was on the floor the smaller creature jumped on the air trying to thrust its claws right through her face. Sakura´s eyes widened at the sight.

-"Noooo! I can't die here I have to do something!! She thought while searching with her hands something that would help her. Suddenly she found something, a wooden stake previously a part of the destroyed desk. Quickly she grabbed it and used it to thrust upwards with both hands and all the strength she could gather and trying at the same time to avoid the beast´s attack.

-"AAAAAAahhhhhrrrgg! She screamed out of desperation as the creature got near while growling loudly.

The result was a bleeding cheek, as she only managed to move her head to the side, and a creature impaled through the chest. The beast instantly fell loose on her. Noticing this her desperation level descended enough to her to realize that she was a kunoichi and kunoichis carried weapons bags. She finally got some control over her thought pattern, from under the creature´s body she searched with her eyes for the tall one while grabbing three kunais from her bag. Her eyes found the creature going to her not even caring that the smaller creature´s body was in the way. Quickly she rolled out from under the dead creature and threw two kunais at the still living one, they hit in the chest and shoulder. The beast stopped in its tracks and let out a pained howl, this was all that Sakura needed. She slashed at the creature with the third kunai and all her strength. The creatures howl became distorted, why?? Because its head is leaning backwards right now and blood is gushing out from where a complete neck once stood. The cut wasn't enough to decapitate the thing, but it was deep enough so that its head fell back to its back and was left hanging there. The horrible and distorted scream continued for a couple of seconds coming only from the creature´s throat, it took two steps forward before collapsing loose on the floor.

Sakura fell on her knees, hands on the floor while panting with her head facing down.

-"Wha… Wha..t the hell… were those… things". She said between pants while she tried to regain her breath.

Still panting a little she got close to the wall leaning her back against it. She put her right hand over her wounded abdomen and tried to heal it... …it didn't work.

-"eh?"

She tried to concentrate more this time, but it didn't work again. She tried healing her chest instead with no luck.

-"damn!! What now!! She let out frustrated.

As many of you might now Haruno Sakura was known for her nearly perfect chakra control, but right now she isn't able to mold even the tiniest quantity of it, in fact she couldn't even draw chakra out.

-"damn!! Damn!! Damn!! She was starting to freak out now.

-"calm down Sakura, losing control is not going to help now. I have to think calmly." She said to herself while taking a deep breath trying to calm down.

She thought about the battle that she just had. Her movement were sluggish, she felt as she couldn't move fast at all. Besides her punches didn't carry her usual brutality, the smaller beast just hitting the wall instead of going through it was proof of this. And now she couldn't heal herself and even more she couldn't draw out any chakra at all. Suddenly she realized that she couldn't use chakra since before the fight even began.

As soon she realized this she stood and went to the window, looking outside she tried to see if her hypothesis was true. In the battle taking place outside not a single shinobi was using any kind of jutsu. She cursed herself for being right this time. She was capable of holding herself against these creatures on even ground, barely, mostly due to her brute strength that she possessed even if not infused with chakra. But most shinobis used their chakra not just for jutsus but to boost their own physical abilities and without this boost they probably won't be able to fight these beasts.

-"arg I really want to get out there and help!! But if I do I will be quickly overrun, there are too many of those things". She thought.

-"damn!!" she let out frustrated again." there's people dying out there and I can't do a single thing to help".

For the third time in the last 15 minutes Sakura had to try to calm herself. All of this was too much for anyone to take in at once.

A little calmer Sakura was preparing for her next move when she heard another growl coming from the hall outside the office.

-"Shit!!There´s more of those things inside the tower." She said as she looked in the direction of the door.

-"That decides it then, I'll prepare the tower to receive any survivors, as shishou told me to do". A still wounded Sakura said while gathering courage and going to the door while grabbing some more kunais from her bag. "At least inside I won't be easily surrounded." She thought as she went through the door to "clean" the rest of the tower.

Meanwhile the events occurring outside could only be described as… Massacre, a horrible massacre. From the beginning the civilians didn't stand a chance, they tried to escape, but apparently for them that wasn't an option. Many of them were killed in the initial attack, a single slash, thrust, bite or even hit from the creatures was more than enough to take the lives of most of them. Some were left with horrible wounds, missing limbs and crushed bones. The unlucky ones that got this treatment were just left there to bleed to dead. For some reason when the creatures realized that the wound infringed would cause the death of the person they lost interest and went for a different target. However this fact didn't prevent them from losing control from time to time and tearing their target apart leaving no recognizable features. Sometimes one creature would grab a villager and take him away alive, the reason it's still unclear

Shinobis weren't faring any better, the initial shock of being unable to use chakra left many of them wide open for the creatures that didn't miss this chance to slaughter them, from the ones that survived this first assault a considerable group died for not being able to keep up with the beasts without their enhanced abilities. The ones that were able to keep up after their chakra system was shut out and even kill some creatures were quickly surrounded and attacked by groups of beasts and effectively taken down. A smaller group noticed that the whole fight was hopeless, and unlike for the civilians, for the shinobis running away was an option; so they took the chance and ran with the creatures quick following each of them, did they survive in the end?? It's still unknown.

It was a very long night, Sakura was again in the Hokage office after she finished "the cleaning" of the building, of course that wasn't an easy task. Right now she was on the floor sit behind a couch that she was using as a barricade trying to recover some strength. The screams of the people have died hours ago. As the night went on the initial red colored sky gave place to a more normal black one, but still with a little tint of red. So most of the night was really dark and silent and could really freak you out if you were alone, especially when the only sounds you could hear were the occasional growl or steps of one creature outside the building. So when the sun finally came out Sakura was grateful that now she could tell where she was going, but when she looked outside the sight was just too much. Most buildings were damaged if not completely destroyed; there were craters on the streets and trees out of their places. Even with the amount of damage on the village Sakura would wanted that was the worst of it, but it wasn't. Corpses everywhere on the streets, roofs and buildings. The walls and floors were almost painted with blood. It looked more like a butchery than a village.

-"oh dear kami!!" said Sakura horrified, a couple tears attempting to fall from the corner of her eyes.

Again as many times during the night she pulled herself together convincing herself that she had to be strong if she wanted to survive.

She searched her surroundings seeing if there were any creatures in the area. Apparently not.–"They must´ve gone somewhere else after not finding anymore people." She thought. Then she jumped out the window and started the arduous task of checking every corpse in hopes that someone might still be alive.

Hours passed with no luck at all. This was a tiresome and depressing task. Sakura´s hope took a hit for every corpse she found without a heartbeat While she continued her search a thought crossed her mind.

-"my parents!! I have to make sure they are ok!! Please kami let them be okay!!"

A couple minutes later she arrived to her parent's house. The first thing she noticed was the broken front door and some blood stains on the floor. Scared of what she might find she entered slowly to the house.

-"Mom??Dad? It's me Sakura is anybody here??

-"Mom??Daaad! oh for kami no!! she said as she suddenly saw two bodies on the living room floor in a pool of blood. Both facing down. The man had a huge 5 fingered claw wound on his back, the woman had a visible hole in her back were here heart should be. She checked their vitals already knowing that was hopeless.

-"No!! no no no!! Why!! Why did this happen?? Dad… mom….-She finally cracked, openly crying this time.

She stood there for a while crying beside the bodies of her parents. Finally her sobs started to subside.

-"what if everyone else is dead?? What I'm going to do?? I've searched for hours and I haven't found a single living soul. "I wonder if they survived, shishou, Ino, Shizune-san, Naruto… Naruto, he must´ve survived right?? He went to that mission for that reason. At least I still have hope if I don't find anyone here I can go look for Naruto"

-"I better go back to the tower for now, but first I have to bury them at least". She said while going in the direction of the backyard. She was getting to the backdoor when something caught her attention. A low guttural growl came from somewhere behind her. She quickly turned around expecting to find a creature even though the growl was different of the ones she heard last night. She was beyond surprised when she saw her father trying to stand up.

-"Dad?? I thought you were dead!! She said while getting close to him. Even as confused as she was right now she approached him with great caution, something was odd in this entire situation. Her father wasn't responding to her voice either, so she stretched her arm to try to touch him to make sure he was ok.

-"Dad?? Are you ok?" while stretching her arm to him. But she had to quickly take out her hand

-"aaaargrrarar!!" he made a fast move to bite her hand off.

-"Dad!! What's happening to you?? After saying this she noticed that now her mother was starting to stand up.

-"What the hell is happening here?" You were dead!! Both of you!!

There stood her parents looking pretty much dead, their wounds still there, the blood still there but dry and dark, pale skin, pupil less eyes and mildly open mouths that let out occasional growls.

Sakura´s confusion reached a whole new level, it was so much that she was paralyzed with the sight before her. Her parents however didn't have that kind of feeling though, so they didn't waste any time in throwing themselves at her in an attempt to bite her.

-"watch out!!"Came a feminine voice from behind her parents, while two kunais hit them behind the head.They instantly fell to the ground, this time not moving anymore.

-"Sakura-san!! Are you Ok?? Pull yourself together!!

Coming out of her daze she looked at the person that right now was shaking her by the shoulders to bring her back to reality.

-"Hi… Hinata?"

-"Sakura-san Did they bite you??"

-"Wha… what are you talking about??" A still little dazed Sakura said.

Hinata was starting to freak out a little.-"Sakura-san just answer me!! Did they bite you?"

-"No, no they didn't. Wh-why are you as…"

She was interrupted.-"And those wounds on you?? How did you get them?? Asked a little incredulous Hinata

-"Fighting the beasts from last night in the Hokage tower."

-"Beast´s??As in more than one??During all night??And you´re still here??Hinata said in an outburst very out of character of her.

-"Ye-yeah. Said Sakura while putting her right index finger on her right cheek while looking up, a little embarrassed of Hinata´s outburst.

Recomposing herself Hinata said.-"well that should be enough, I believe you""Now we have to…"

-"Sempaiiii Hurry!! They are coming!! Said another feminine voice from outside.

-"She´s right!! We must leave now Sakura-san!!

-"Who´s that??"

-"That's Moegi, but right now we don't have time to talk!" said Hinata while dragging Sakura out the house. She could be amazingly determined when the occasion required it.

-"What took you so long??" said Moegi when they got outside.

There Sakura recognized her; she was the girl that always hanged with Konohamaru, the little Naruto living clone.

Finally regaining her focus, she took notice of their surroundings. There was dead looking people everywhere, all walking to where the three were right now, their steps were bizarre, but fast and steady. She had so many questions, but she had to survive first to ask them.

-"damn!! You took too much time sempai!! Now we´re trapped!!

-"you two stay here, I´ll clear a way" said Sakura as she got close to a light pole.

-"I don't know what are you doing, but whatever happens don't let them bite you"

-"sh! Another question for later!" thought Sakura as she used her strength to take the light pole out the ground.

She waited a little with the pole on her arms ready to hit, the growls could be heard from every direction getting close with every passing second. When a little mob formed in the street she shouted:

-"Hinata, Moegi!! Follow me!! And don't stop for anything!!

-"Hai!!" was their simultaneous answer.

Sakura ran towards the mob in front of her followed shortly by her companions. When she was close enough she threw a powerful swing from the right with the pole. Half of the mob was thrown through the air or cut in half at waist level. The upper half of those cut, however, kept moving. A very disturbing sight. But at this point very few things were surprising anymore. They kept running, this time Sakura threw a swing from the left with the same previous results. This was enough for them to escape.

-"That was great sempai!!"

-"Thanks, but it´s too soon to celebrate. There are too many of them and they are quickly regrouping. We must hide for now."

-"Do you have a place in mind?" asked Hinata

-"yes, the Hokage tower has been like my base of operations since yesterday, there wasn´t anybody there except for me and I cleaned the place from creatures last night"

-"That´s amazing sempai!!"

-"haha, thanks" said Sakura with a little smile. She kept looking at her surroundings noticing that in every direction she could see the dead looking people."Can this get any worse??" she thought.

Finally they got to the tower. Quickly they used the window to the Hokage office. Once inside Hinata and Moegi noticed that this place could be called many things right now, but definitely not an office. The desk was destroyed, the walls were torn, there were books on the floor, and some stains of dark blood on the walls and floor, probably not human. The only furniture still functional was the couch, it was surprisingly intact.

-"Take a sit girls" said Sakura pointing to the couch.

-"Ok". They answered.

-"So, will you tell me just what's going on??" asked Sakura still standing looking at her fellow kunoichis

-"Actually, we don't know much ourselves Sakura-san""The Hyuuga household received the alert order from the Hokage like the rest of the shinobi population, but when the attack came we weren´t able to fend them back for long without our chakra. Father protected me and Hanabi and told us to run away to find refuge. But when we were running away I got separated from Hanabi and I haven't found her since then. During the night I hid in a little underground place in the yard of the housefold. In the morning I found the corpses of the majority of the clan in… including Father…bu-but I didn´t find Hanabi". She said the last part while sobbing.

-"I´m sorry Hinata, but there is still hope that she´s alive" said Sakura while putting a hand on Hinata´s shoulder trying to comfort her a little.

-"Than-Thank you Sakura-san" she said calming herself.

Now Sakura looked at Moegi noticing that her face was already sad and tears where soon to fall from her eyes.

-"Eh!?Moegi, if you don´t want to talk about it I understand" said Sakura.

-"No, it´s okay sempai. In fact my story isn´t that different from Hinata sempai. I was with Konohamaru-chan and Udon-chan when the creatures attacked, I was caught with my guard down when I couldn´t use chakra, Udon-chan got me out of the way, but he got a lethal wound in the process. Konohamaru-chan told me to run away that he would keep them busy. I refused at first, but he insisted. So in the end I did as I was told and hid during the night, but I haven´t found Konohamaru-chan either.

Sakura repeated the process of comforting her fellow kunoichi.

-"I´m sorry I can see that we all had a long and terrible night""At least we are not alone anymore, for a moment I thought I was the only survivor".

-"yeah, I´m glad too" said Hinata

-"Before I tell you about my night I must ask you some things that you appear to know that I don't".

-"Hmm??About what??

-"The villagers, what happened to them?? Are they really dead?? If they are why are they moving?? And why I can´t let them bite me beside the pain part.

-"About that…" said Hinata. "They´re really dead, you must´ve checked their vitals". Sakura nodded at this while holding her chin with her right index and thumb.

-"as to why are they moving, we don´t really know. We just know that they were killed last night."

-"Now, about the why they can´t bite you part. It´s just a guess in fact, but when Moegi and I found each other while searching for survivors we found another survivor, a leaf chunin that we didn´t really know well, but he got back from a mission at the time when the beasts had already left. So he was completely unhurt. We went with him to his house to search for his family, there he found his wife lying on the floor, he noticed that she was dead and took her in his arms to go and bury her. Suddenly she went back to life and bit him in the neck; he quickly let her go and got out of her way, while covering the wound with his hands in an attempt to reduce the blood loss. We tried to help him but the wife kept trying to bite us, it didn´t matter how much hits we landed she kept getting up. Out of desperation Moegi grabbed a metal bar that was leaning against the wall and crushed her skull, finally she stopped moving."

-"I see, but that doesn´t explain exactly the cause for avoiding the bite above everything else" said Sakura.

-"We were able to stop the bleeding with some bandages we found in his house, but he was in a much weakened state. We stayed with him to take care of his wound. He was alive, but apparently that isn´t important when one dead looking humans bites you. We saw the whole process, within hours he became paler, I know you should look pale after losing blood, but this was too much. The blood on his body turned dark, his pupils looked like gone, but what really happened is that his pupils went up all the way under his eyelids. The last change was the growling, when he started growling we knew he was gone. And we were right, in the same way that his wife before he started to try to bite us, getting up from all the punishment that we infringed. That was until a well thrown kunai pierced his brain. He fell to the floor and didn´t move anymore. There we did the math, in the first place apparently being bitten by them results in turning in one of them and second the only way to kill them effectively without ripping their whole bodies apart is to damage their brain."

-"That´s a lot of info!! But from your story I agreed with your theory." Concluded Sakura." But there is one more thing to conclude. All the people that are right now walking dead were killed last night by those creatures, but we were wounded by them and haven't changed. So the creatures have to kill us to transform us, but the already dead can transform us just by biting us." Said Sakura with closed eyes and crossed arms while thinking.

-"I think it´s safe to assume that". Answered Moegi

-"Well, now I will tell you what I´ve been doing since yesterday". She said. Then she started to tell them her story from the change in the air, to Naruto´s warning, Tsunade´s order and her "cleaning" night; ending by telling them how she thought that Naruto might still be alive.

-"Na-Na-Naruto-kun might s-still be alive… I´m so-so glad". Whispered Hinata to herself while blushing a little. Not low enough apparently because this comment didn´t miss Sakura´s ears causing a little burst of mixed feelings that she wasn´t going to explore right now. This really wasn´t the right time.

-"Well, we must prepare for our first night after the catastrophe. We don´t know if those things will come back at night and besides there will be walking dead tonight too.""Let´s get some food before the night fall and prepare the tower to be a little more comfortable. The cleaning that I did last night didn´t include any order or preparing places to sleep". Said Sakura.

-"Hinata and I will go outside to look for some food, Moegi go and see if you can find any furniture to bring here so we can use it to rest or to put barricades".

-"Why here sempai?"

-"Because the Hokage´s office location is excellent for vigilance and defense".Replied Sakura.

-"I see, ok then!!"

-"Good, let´s go Hinata!"

-"Hai!"

Saying this they left. A couple hours later when they regrouped they prepared the room for the night. They put some tables to cover partially the windows so they still could look outside. They brought an extra couch and some blankets to sleep at night and some food, canned food to be more precise.

So, finally the night fell, the black with a tint of red night. They took turns to be on guard, while the others two were trying to sleep on the couches. As they expected the creatures came back during the night, but this time walking and not with the strange portal-like lights. They could hear the occasional growls, roars and howls in the distance. And sometimes they could hear them right outside the tower along with the steps of the creature or walking dead man. Some interesting thing they found by watching outside was that the creatures and dead people didn´t attack each other, something important to consider. The night was mostly uneventful with exception of a beast that suddenly decided to enter the building through the barricade. Luckily the kunoichis were prepared and took care of it in a coordinated attack before it could react, quickly throwing the body outside and making as less noise as possible so they would not attract any unwanted attention.

After a very long night the day finally came again and just like the day before the creatures left somewhere else leaving only the walking dead.

Sakura let out a tired sigh when the sunlight hit her face.

-"Good morning"

-"Good morning Sakura-san" said Hinata who was already awake because she had the last guard turn last night.

-"Good morning sempais" replied Moegi

-"Well, I know we are all exhausted, but we need to keep working to survive." Said Sakura in a tired tone.

-"Sakura-san I want to go look for Hanabi"

-"I want to look for Konohamaru-chan"

-"Ok, you go look for survivors, but don´t split up. You know it´s very dangerous.""I´ll stay here to seal the rest of the entrances to the tower"

-"Hai!"Said Moegi while saluting in a military way while Hinata nodded.

After this they left, as soon as Sakura felt she was alone she let her mask fall. Again there were tears attempting to fall from the corners of her eyes. Her parents were dead, and her partner had to kill them again. Of course she didn´t blame Hinata, but even in this new world seeing your parents dead then coming back to life only to be killed again was just too shocking. She wasn´t going to get anywhere by mourning so she went to her self-imposed task of sealing the tower, starting with the first floor. After an hour or so she finally finished sealing the first floor so she went to the Hokage office, leaned against the window and started to think again. She was in this process when her companions returned, surprising her by entering through the door instead of the window.

END FLASHBACK (A/N: Yes, remember it was a flashback)

So she was here again sealing the rest of the tower with her partners before the night came again. Thinking of what to do next and in her friends and family.

-" Naruto… I hope you´re okay"

FIRST CHAPTER END

(A/N:) Man this took so much more time than I anticipated.

My first language isn´t English so I apologize for any error in my fic.

-Next Chapter from Naruto POV

-Explanations of what the hell happened and the chakra sealing

-What´s the point of Naruto´s mission? What dangers will he face??

-Please review, constructive criticism is welcome, no flames though.

NOTE WITHIN A NOTE:

I´ve got some complains regarding the chakra sealing idea.

The chakra sealing has a reason and a plot, It will happen something in the future regarding this issue, but I can´t tell you, that would be spoiling.

I just ask for some patience. The story has just begun.