Chapter 1

She felt the anger boil up within her, the rage the pure power of sheer determination and will. Yes, for once in her life she felt the blood lust that became of a true shinobi. She felt for once in her life that she could hold the world in her hands and destroy it with just a flick. She knew now what she wanted, her hopes and dream for the future and all of it amounted to destroying the world.

Sakura jumped up from the incoming kunai into the safety of the air, she flipped and rolled back a chakra shield forming around deflecting the incoming weapons. For once in her life she felt truly alive, no longer caught between her loving and merciful self no longer stuck between that and her true potential to succeed. She ripped out a scroll from her side pocket copying the exact moves that Tenten was trying to pull on her. She felt a shiver go down her spine as she watched the enemy fall. So this is what it felt like to have power. She dodge an incoming kick from Rock Lee, an amused smirk play on her lips as she return the blow hearing the satisfying crack of his femur bone shattering within his left leg. She relished the sound of his resounding scream.

So this is what it felt like to be free. "Sakura-Chan!" came the cry of a familiar voice, she turned to the sound the blood of her enemies splattered across her clothes the bodies of the fallen nin at her feet. It was Naruto, but that no longer mattered she had forsaken the concept of friendship all that mattered now was the destruction of the world. The end of humanity the end of everything, "Naurto." She said back a slight amused tint in her voice. She looked down to her latest victim Lee she experimentally put a foot on the injured leg and relish in the sound of that tortured voice.

She heard the split second whir of shuriken in her direction. She frowned and dodged Naruto in her previous place with Kakashi leaning over the fallen comrade, in worry. She wondered when was the time she would have worried over that as well? Sakura smiled that's right, maybe a little over five years ago when she had left the village to find herself, only to come back from the mission heart broken to find that she had been betrayed. Framed, and accused she would not stand for it not anymore.

She watched from her perch on a tree as Kakashi flipped up his head band revealing his sharingan eye. Sakura stood her arms crossed a happy smile on her face, good he knew that reasoning with her would be of no use. He was going to fight her full force, and she would fight him full force, she guessed she would play with him for a while though, after all it had been a while since she played with her former sensei, some time was required on her part.

"Its been a while hasn't it sensei?" she said it in a happy tone one that didn't fit the present conditions and location. She saw a visual shudder, she knew what she looked like to those mismatching eyes. A chakra signature that could outclass Naruto in his kyuubi form, fluctuating and twisting wildly like a restless dragon, an amused smiled on her face, while the blood of his comrades decorated her clothes in red splatters. But she knew that he could see that the old Sakura was dead, and there wasn't a chance in hell that she was coming back, even for the sake of her falling comrades she had already proved that theory when she had downed, Tenten, Lee, and Ino.

Sakura wanted to kill them all, all of them who turned their backs on her and let her fall so easily into the clutches of the enemy. "I have to thank you sensei, this power Orochimaru put in me feels great." Sakura looked at her blackened nails, the perfect painted nails contrasted with her flawless white skin. She looked back him and watch as he had a flicker of guilt in his eyes. That's right they all knew what they had condemned her all except for her. So in turn she would turn her back against the world, against the kami in the sky, and burn it all to the ground.

The flames of her rage powered her, and when this was all done she would end herself, and meet them all in hell to repeat this never ending hate. She spun letting herself drop from the tree trunk and let herself free fall from it as Kakashi set his dogs on her. She turned to face them running back wards and sent them a wave of cutting Sakura petals, the clearing cleared revealing all of his familiars to be dead. They were animals, she liked them well enough but not enough for her to spare them in her quest for humanity to be wiped off the earth.

She saw the mourning look in Kakashi's eyes the rage in Naruto's but she knew he was torn between killing her and trying to save her. She pushed her chakra radar to its limits, more were coming in them Sasuke, Tsunade, Jiraya, Azuma, and Shino, along with the whole of a Konoha nin army. She was willing to take them on. Beside her, her familiar, appeared. It was a dragon in the shape of a human form by the name of, Ryuuren. "My lady, preparations for your introduction with the Akatsuki has been arranged they are waiting for you." Sakura looked away from the enemy for a moment to thank the dragon and send him away. He bowed respectfully his white Chinese robes flowing around him his short clipped white hair a halo around his head, the red earing flashing brightly setting off his equally red eyes.

Sakura turned back to the field, although she had taken her eyes off of them for just a moment she wasn't stupid enough to not keep tabs on the enemies positions. She wasn't surprised when she found herself facing the brunt of the Konoha army. She smiled at her old comrades, each held a piece of rage in her heart. Tsunade stepped up, "Sakura, as order of the Hokage I command you to cease your actions!" Sakura scoffed at the little inspirational speech, how could she expect her to fall for that one? "I'll cease when I've finally destroyed the world Tsunade."

She smirked as Tsunade stiffened never had Sakura not called her shishou, but that was the past, and such a thing would never come again. Sakura watched her train of thought she would try reasoning next. "Why are you doing this Sakura? Why wont you come back home?" Sakura kept the smirk on her face, those words fell flat to her, she was not moved by such an obvious tactic. Maybe if she were the sentimental shit she was before then maybe it might have worked.

"Why? For kicks of course Tsunade, I can feel the power flowing thorugh my veins. I'm actually happy that I absorbed Orochimaru and Kabuto. I now know what they know, and how to use it all to my advantage." Tsunade stiffened, Sakura knew she hit a sore spot. In actuality she didn't think the old woman could flinch at that, even after she had willingly sent her star pupil into the clutches of Orochimaru unarmed and un aware. Sakura chuckled to herself, "You create your own enemies Tsunade, it just so happens that you created me. Thanks for releasing my potential, now I can finally get what I want in life."

Sakura saw the hope of negotiation die in Tsunade's eyes. Finally she gave the order. With the wave of an arm, all of them sprung up at once to take her down. Sakura took out a scroll she had filched from the fallen Tenten, and let loose the bombing brigade, making a clean get away. She would be back, and no matter how many times they would try and kill her she refused to die.

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The blinding light didn't surprise her, the sounds of the resonating booms filled her ears a wave of nostalgia hit her. She knew that Sakura had gotten away. She had taught her student well, and now it was back to bite her. The bombs weren't meant to hurt them, no in fact Tsunade knew very well why Sakura had spared them, for the most part, and that was to make them suffer, they would all now witness the monster they had set upon the world thirsty for vengeance.

She looked around and surveyed the damage, she knew that Sakura had absorbed Orochimaru, he had taken her in place of Sasuke, and when his need for a body heightened he went to Sakura. She walked among the fallen all of it reminded her of one of the great wars she had already fought in the one that bestowed her the name of one of the Sannin. Tsunade, watched with detatched feelings struggling not to cry out, wondering why she had sent Sakura on that mission knowing very well that she would have a brush with Orochimaru.

What had taken her sanity away long enough not to realize that even Sakura wouldn't get away unscathed? Tsunade looked at the devestation her pupil had caused in just a matter of a short battle. The trees were scarred, some charred completely black ready to fall over and create dust storms of charcoal, the ground disturbed and upturned into an unrecognizable mass, weapons lie everywhere. She watched as they rushed the fallen to the hospital ward, they were alive, which meant that Sakura was merely playing with them crushing their wills in each decisive battle.

Tenten, was fallen by her own weapons, Lee his legs broken almost beyond repair, and Neji had his eyes slashed, his fingers and wrists broken, it was hard to say whether the young shinobi's would ever recover from such devastating wounds. To Tsunade it only proved how far gone Sakura was from them, but Tsunade could understand why though, why Sakura had the right to be this angry.

She had trusted them with her life, and they had smashed that into millions of pieces.