LIke Anti-clockwise, I decided to revise A blessing in disguise as it didn't flow as well as I hoped it would. I apologise for the lack of updates as I spent the unannounced 'hiatus' to plan and make sure all of Is and Ts were crossed and dotted in regards of the plot. I don't have a clear out come of this story yet but even a compulsive planner like me likes to leave gaps for adaptation in the future.

This story is set in an AU obviously and will be Sakura-centric... Her character will be altered in ways that I had hoped she was turn out as she is a favourite of mine regarding skills, it is quite impressive that she acquired that amount of skill that she has even though she is from a civilian family - personality wise she's like a cardboard... and she is massively annoying in regards of Sasuke -.-. Oh wells this story will revolve around a bond between Anko and Sakura - to be honest I haven't a clue to where and this 'pairing' caught my interests.

Anyway... Rant time: I have to start my revised stories like these XD. What in the world is Kishimoto doing? When 'Gaiden' was announced I wasn't going to read it but I was curious as the first thing I noticed about Sarada was that she looked like Karin... I swear Kishimoto is turning Naruto into a soap opera... I love both Yuri and hetero couples but I do have to say for some reason I feel that InoSaku would have been a better paring than the bullshit created by Kishimoto.

Disclaimer: I do no own any of this...

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Ugh, what happened?

Her eyes flutter open slowly before clamming shut again as a burning sensation shot through her body

Gah! It hurts! Sasuke-kun? Naruto?

"Sakura-chan," A voice sang.

That voice! Where have I heard it before?

Panic ran through the girl as her attempts at opening her eyes and mouth fail. As the pain increased, her eyes screwed tighter together before becoming too much and losing consciousness.

"Sakura-chan…" the luring voice sang again.

A.B.I.D

The pinked haired kunoichi groaned as she sat up, hands automatically grabbing the sides of her head with her eyes shut, like doing so would stop the pain. Freezing she realises that the burning sensation she felt was non-existent.

"Saku-chan…"

Her senses immediately flip to alert, headache long forgotten as she straightens and her hand moved to her weapon holster. Emerald eyes scan aroun cautiously. "W-who's there?" She stuttered.

Chuckling they step out of the shadows, arms crossed loosely over their chest. "Aw, Sakura-chan I'm hurt. You don't remember me?" A smirk makes its way onto the person's face as the pinkette's eyes widen in shock before a look of recognition and disbelief paints its way onto her face.

"I-i-inner?"

"Yes Saku-chan, it's me."

"W-what happened to you?" The pinkette stuttered still in a state of shell shock. In front of her was her inner self, the part of her that she locked away from the rest of the world. The parts of her that she declared were faults and buried deep within. She blinked a few times before rubbing her eyes with fisted hands. A feeling of terror shot down her spine as she felt the coldness, hostility and power coming from her alter-ego. Hate and many other negative emotions seemed to roll off of her inner self in waves. And many of them she recognised, she felt them a lot during her childhood. And she did the only thing she knew, she buried them deep inside which in result created the person in front of her. Her legs shook as they gave out and she dropped onto her hands and knees.

Her doppelganger chuckled bitterly, "Orochimaru's what happened." Sighing at the look of confusion on her 'outer' self's face. "Ya really don't remember what happened?"

A shake of the head is what she got in reply.

"Remember, you tackled Sasuke out of the way before the snake bastard could do whatever he was gonna do to him but he got us instead."

Sakura groaned painfully and grabs her head again as the memories came rushing back.

"SASUKE!" She screamed at her frozen teammate, before her brain could catch up with her body. She was moving in the direction of her teammate with a surprising amount of speed and tackled the last Uchiha out of the way.

Emerald eyes widen as a set of teeth breaks the skin of her neck. A burning sensation spreads through her veins. She grabs her neck and she screams out in pain before collapsing onto the tree branch. The angry shout of "How dare you get in my way, you damned wench! No matter, you will not survive to tell the tale. I'll be back for you, Sasuke-kun," was the last thing she heard before everything went black.

Sakura gasped as the memory came rushing back. "No, no, no!" She whispered as she clumsily yanked the collar of her red dress. "Fuck! This cannot be happening!"

"Oh, but it is Saku-chan."

Fear washed over the pinkette as she glanced back at her inner self. She audibly gulped. Her inner self was now covered in black marks, the marks seemed to move on their own and spread against her others skins as a malicious grin spread across her face.

"Can't feel it Saku-chan?"

Sakura's eyes widen as she looks at her inner self, "s-so much power." She gasped, t-this is more power than I have ever felt before. "H-how did you get so much power?"

"That thing that Orochimaru put on us, I dunno what it does but all I know is that when you passed out. I knew we were gonna die if I didn't do anything. So I absorbed whatever that thing was supposed to do to us. And then this happened."

"S-so m-much chakra,"

"That's right Saku-chan don't fight it, embrace it." Sticking out her hand she continued, "Take my hand Saku-chan."

"B-but its s-so dark and e-evil," she shivered as the temptation grew.

"Yes, maybe, but its power. What have we been from the start of team seven?"

"A burden," Sakura blurted out. Her eyes widened as the realisation hit her like a tonne of bricks. At first she thought it was her doubts but as the scenes of the past two and a half months flash through her mind, she saw just how useless she was.

"You're even worse than Naruto." The comment flashed through her mind, like a sign on an electronic belt.

"Do you still want to be a burden?"

"N-no,"

"Then embrace this gift, use this power given to you - given to us. It's about time the world meets the real us."

Sakura's emerald eyes trail up the out stretched hand up to the owners face. Her eyes stopped at the label 'inner Sakura' that seemed to be branded on the other's forehead. She bites her lip, a habit she's always had when she was nervous or unsure of something. Inner has always been someone I could trust, she would never do anything that would hurt me – correction us. Taking a deep breath, her decision made, forest green eyes meet her doppelgänger as her hand slowly reached out to the outstretched hand…

A/N: From previous reviews people were surprised to read that inner Sakura had an accent and to be honest I don't really know where that came up. it was more of a spontaneous idea and I wrote it in as in this story inner was developed through more of a psychological perspective of repressed emotions and such.