Mood Color Meanings
Red – Anger
Orange– Paranoid
Yellow – Happy
Green – Envy
Blue – Sad
Purple – Lazy
Pink – Love
Black – Depressed
White – Neutral
X
"Sakura!" the loud cries of Naruto could easily be heard over almost half the village and that only caused them to wince in pain at the volume.
"Here comes, Naruto." Sai gave a small wave to his fast approaching teammate.
"What gave him away, the loud screaming or his bright clothes?" Sasuke just rolled his eyes and leaned against the bridge railing. He was already used to Naruto and his screaming.
"Sakura!" Naruto cried again once he finally reached his team and the bridge.
"What Naruto?" Sakura sighed; already her ears were starting to ring from Naruto's loud screaming. She's realized by now that no matter how many years go by, he will always be screaming something out of his big mouth.
"Happy Birthday!" he held a nicely wrapped package in his hands and a big grin on his face.
"Oh, thank you," she happily accepted the gift, already forgetting about his screaming. "You didn't have to get me anything though." With great care she unwrapped the present that was given to her and gasped in joy when she saw what it was. "It's beautiful." She stared happily at the necklace, a thin sliver chain and a white pendant. It was simple but still very pretty.
"I must say Naruto I'm impressed. Usually your gifts are not as impressive so I give you my congratulation son picking a nice gift." What Sai thought to be a compliment was really an insult in disguise.
Naruto was able to see through the fake compliment but he was already used to say insulting him without really meaning it. The guy was still learning so he would be patient and not scream at him. "Yeah…whatever." The best way to get Sai off this was to change the subject and fast. "I picked it up at a new shop in town. They sell all kinds of cool things." He explained how he got the gift and everyone was glad to know he got it at a real shop and not some prize from the ramen stand.
"Well whatever you got it doesn't matter," Sakura threw the package in the garbage nearby and put the pendant on. "I'm happy with my gift." She thanked her teammate age and looked at her reflection in the water with her new piece of jewelry.
"Glad to hear it, Sakura. Maybe after training we can all go by the store and I can show you all the cool things they have," Naruto perked up, thinking back to the new store he discovered. "When I bought the necklace it even came with a cool key chain!" he cheered, taking out the gray oddly shaped key chain from his pouch. It was shaped like an awkward raindrop with a row a colored buttons at the end and a white gem stone in the middle.
"What kind of necklace comes with a key chain?" Sasuke questioned, his eyebrow raised in a questioning fashion. The gift suddenly didn't seem too safe to him anymore.
"A cool one." Naruto frowned. Sasuke was always trying to take away his fun and make him look like a fool.
"Whatever," Sasuke only rolled his eyes and held out his hand. "Let me see that key chain." He wanted to make sure that this gift wasn't anything that could cause them harm. After his days with Orochimaru and Madara he's learned that you can never be too careful.
"No way." Naruto turned his back to Sasuke, blocking him from taking away his key chain.
"I said let me see it." Sasuke went to grab it but Naruto dodged him, moving away from his grasping hand. "Damn it, give it to me Naruto!" Sasuke shouted hands grabbing Naruto's clenched ones and tried pulling the key chain out.
"Not happening!" Naruto shouted.
"Let go!" Sasuke shouted back.
"No, you let go!" Naruto tried kicking him but Sasuke was blocking him.
Unknown to them but while they fought their fingers started pressing the colored buttons and with their attention on each other they failed to notice that Sakura's necklace started to glow a different color.
"Wahh!" their fighting only stopped when Sakura fell to her knees and began crying.
"Sakura…? What's wrong?" Naruto and Sasuke hadn't moved from their spots, they were too shocked by their female teammate to move.
She sniffed, tears falling freely from her eyes. "I'm sad. You guys are fighting and it's all my fault!" her hands flew up to cover her tearstained face. "It's always my fault! I'm so useless!" she wallowed in shame, body trembling from her tears.
They were so focused on her crying that they didn't notice her stone was now the color blue. "No! It's not like that, Sakura." Naruto tried moving to console Sakura but he forgot that Sasuke was still holding his hand and pressed another button, the red button. "Everything's fine," he walked over to her, one arm around her sudden still form. "See, Sasuke and I aren't fighting because of you. We're just acting how we always do so it's not your fault. " He gave her a bright grin, hoping it would cheer her up.
"You're damn right it's not my fault!" Sakura screamed, punching Naruto in the face and sending him flying. "It was because of you two screaming at each other that I got a freaking headache!"
"Who's screaming…?" Sasuke and Sai both thought as they looked at the suddenly very angry Sakura.
"And what the hell are you two losers looking at?" Sakura snapped her attention on them in a flash.
"Nothing." Both boys said quickly, hoping to avoid a beating.
"I'm going to go check on Naruto." Sai said quickly, jumping into the trees and following after where Naruto went flying.
All that was left was now Sakura and Sasuke and the Uchiha hated to admit it but he was a little apprehensive about being left alone with his only female teammate. Her sudden mood changes frightened him.
"Well…!" Sakura tapped her foot impatiently, waiting for the Uchiha to make his move.
Sasuke didn't say anything, only made quick hand signs and disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"Fine! Run off you coward!" Sakura screamed into the open sky and with a long huff walked off the bridge where she deemed her so-called teammates abandoned her. "Wait till I get my hands on them." she marched her into the streets of the village, her new necklace glowing a bright red.
X
Naruto finally landed deep inside the forest of the Leaf and his head was spinning. He's taken a lot of hits from Sakura in the past but this one topped them all. He's never flown so far before in his life and while it was fun to fly the landing always hurt. He could feel his that his back was bruised and bleeding, and he was sure his shoulder was dislocated. He was in pain but it would be so much worst without the nine-tail fox. He hated having a demon inside him but if having amazing healing powers to help him recover after taking a blow like that, he'll take having a raging demon living inside him. It would come in handy if Sakura was going to be acting like this from now on.
"Looks like Ugly really went all out on you." Sai was crouching down above him, their two faces only a few inches apart, but Naruto didn't have it in him how creepy and wrong it really was.
"What the hell are you doing?" Naruto didn't have the energy but Sasuke. He had just arrived and what he found disturbed him. They really needed to have a talk with Sai about personal space.
"I was consoling Naruto after being punched by Sakura." Sai explained, seeing nothing wrong in what he was doing.
"Right…" Sasuke wasn't going to argue with the ex-root member but instead reached out to help Naruto up. "So, any ideas as to why Sakura sudden freaked out?"
"Not a clue," Naruto rubbed his head as the pain shot through his body but it was slowly starting to decrease with the help of the fox's healing powers. "I mean, I've seen her get mad before never anything that before." When he thought back to how she acted he had to say that it wasn't anything normal.
"I agree," Sasuke may have missed a lot in his old friend's lives when he left the village but he could remember enough about them when he was on the team in the past. "Sakura's never acted this way before."
"You think she's under the influence of some weird jutsu?" Naruto suggested, thinking maybe an enemy snuck into the village late last night and put her under some type of mind control.
"Maybe?" Sasuke thought about it but wouldn't someone have picked up on the presences of an enemy if there was one. "Or she could be suffering from an old attack that could be causing her to act this way?" he knew all about how tragic battle could scar even the coldest of ninjas and change them into completely different people.
"But the only really tragic thing was the war and that's been over for a while." Naruto added, taking that theory away.
"Excuse me?" Sai raised his hand sheepishly, almost as if he was worried to give his opinion. "But I was wondering if anyone else noticed that Sakura's necklace color changed?" his question only caused more confusion.
"What are you talking about?" Naruto wanted more detail so he could understand better what Sai was trying to say.
"Well," Sai cleared his throat, getting ready to give his explanation. "I say when you two were fighting that Sakura's necklace changed from white to blue suddenly and that was just before she broke down crying." He raised his arm, one finger out and pointing at Sasuke. "Then it changed again to the color red and that's when she got angry and punched Naruto. In fact her necklace is matching the color of the key chain perfectly."
Both Sasuke and Naruto froze for a moment, thinking back to Sakura and her new necklace before looking at the key chain and confirming that it was indeed the color red. "Way to go, Naruto." Sasuke groaned, he should have known it would be all Naruto's fault.
"Hey, don't blame me. I didn't know that stupid necklace would do this." Naruto wasn't about to let Sasuke start scolding him like he was a stupid kid. "Let's just turn Sakura back to normal." He grabbed the key chain and pressed another button, hoping it was the one to turn Sakura back to her old self. He pressed the blue one.
"Don't press random buttons," Sasuke reached for the key chain, in the process pressing the black one. "You don't know what it'll do." He growled, trying to push Naruto away.
"Back off!" Naruto growled himself, pressing the orange button this time.
"Knock it off already!" Sasuke head butted him, pressing the purple button.
"Why don't you!" Naruto went to bite his shoulder, pressing the green button.
"Grow up!" Sasuke kicked him and hit the red button.
"Why…don't…you!" Naruto finally had enough and pushed Sasuke off him and in the process hitting the final button, the pink one. With the key chain in both hands of the two boys it went flying with Sasuke but instead of landing on the soft ground it collided with a nearby tree and broke.
"Hmm?" Sai pieced up the broken pieces and started at them long and hard. "Well this can't be good." He got the feeling that even with the controller broken Sakura still would be acting up.
"Oh man! Sakura's going to kill me!" Naruto paled, already thinking of the punches that would come from Sakura and her rage after she learns what he did.
"Speaking of Ugly, I wonder how she's dealing with all this? " Sai looked up at the sky, his mind thinking about how this would now affect Sakura and her mood swings.
X
Sakura growled as she walked into one of the open training fields, she didn't know why but she was really angry and she needed to take her anger out on something before she exploded. She hoped doing some training would cool her off but so far she was still angry. "What…the hell…is wrong…with me?" she cried, punching the tree with a fist full of chakra and making it snap in two and fall to the earth with a loud thud.
"Whoa, looks like someone is really worked up." Her attention was off the tree to whoever was standing behind her.
"What do you want, Kiba?" she crossed her arms and stared down at the Inuzuka and his companion. He better have a good reason for interrupting her.
Kiba frowned at how she was talking to him but he brushed it off. "Everything ok, Sakura? You seem upset?" he knew about her crazy temper and so far he had yet to receive one of the monster punches that she always gives Naruto and he wanted to keep it that way.
Sakura just scoffed and looked away. "It's none of your business but if you must know I'm pissed off because of my stupid team." At the thought of her group and how they just left her the anger she was feeling boiled over and she kicked down another tree.
"I see," Kiba could on wonder what her team did that could piss Sakura off so much. "Well forget about your team, I didn't come here to talk about them anyways." He gave her a bright smile and she finally noticed that he was standing with his hands behind his back.
"What are you hiding, Inuzuka?" if he wanted to fight her then she would give him a battle to remember.
"Relax, it's nothing deadly." His grinned only widen as he showed her what was behind his back. "It's a present. Happy Birthday, Sakura." He and Akamaru both cheered for her, the gift was from both of them after all.
Sakura only rolled her eyes and moved to take the present. "Yeah well –!" she fell to her knees, tears falling from her eyes and hands going up to wipe away the tears but too many were falling. "I'm so sorry!" she cried out, feeling suddenly so sad.
Kiba jumped into action, he wasn't sure what caused her to act this way but he wanted to console her. "Hey, it's fine. Everything's alright. There's really no reason to cry, Sakura." He didn't even see a reason for her to cry in the first place.
"Yes, there is," she sniffed, looking up at him with glossy green eyes. "I was so rude to you before and yet you were so sweet to me. You even got me a gift and I don't have anything for you. I'm a horrible person!" she cried even more.
"No, it's not your fault." Kiba had to fix things before they really got out of hand. "You said you were upset because of something your team did. It's understandable for you to e upset," he rubbed her back with one hand and held her present in the other. "Besides it's your birthday, it's tradition to give gifts on days like this."
"Kiba?" the Inuzuka jumped when he saw his two teammates looking at him and the crying Sakura. "Is everything alright?" Shino asked, one eyebrow raised in confusion as he watched the crying girl ball her eyes out.
"Did s-something happen to S-Sakura?" Hinata asked, worry showing in her bright eyes.
"I'm not sure," Kiba answered honestly. "She suddenly just started crying."
"I'm so sorry!" Sakura apologized again. "I'm totally embarrassing you in front of your friends. You must think I'm so stupid!" she turned away from him, so he couldn't see her pathetic face as she cried her eyes out.
"No, that's not it!" Kiba was starting to freak out himself. "I'm not thinking that. I could never think that about you, Sakura."
Sakura's cries finally stopped but in there places she let out a long sigh and curled into the fetal position. "You're sweet to say that but let's face it, I'm pathetic. A waste of the air and I don't deserve to call myself a shinobi. I shouldn't even be allowed to leave myself if I'm this awful." She went from crying to being depressed in a matter of seconds.
"No, you shouldn't say things like that." Not letting her depressing talk get to him, Kiba was determined to cheer her up. "You've been through so much; of course you deserve to be a ninja. An amazing one at that!"
"Really?" Sakura finally turned her head around to look at him. "Do you really mean that?" her eyes shining bright with paranoia. "Cause I'm always making such rookie mistakes. I cry at every chance and I'm always losing my temper and I'm too quick to use my fists. Not to mention my wide forehead and unnaturally pink hair. I mean really, who has pink hair. Freaks that is! I'm a freak. I'm betting that's what everyone is saying about me. Only they're not saying it to my face but thinking it instead to avoid hurting my feelings but that makes it even worst because than I don't know what I'm doing wrong and if I don't know that then I'll just keep making the same mistakes and –!" she finally stopped after Kiba put his hands over her rambling mouth.
"Why don't you take a deep breath and calm yourself down before you give yourself a heart attack?" he suggested and was beginning to wonder if he should take her to the hospital or Tsunade? She was acting very strange and it worried him.
Sakura only shrugged and sighed again, removing Kiba's hands from her mouth. "No way man, doing all that would take too much effort and effort is such a drag." She looked lazily up at the clouds, finding comfort in how the just easily floated on by, going wherever the wind takes them.
"Um…?" Kiba wasn't sure how to respond to that. "Have you been hanging out with Shikamaru?" he's only ever heard the shadow-nin talk like that. "I wonder what's wrong with Sakura today?" he's never seen her act this way before and he was starting to get really worried. By the looks his teammates had said they were all thinking the same thing. There was something wrong with Sakura.
While he was thinking of what would be the best way to get her to calm down when Akamaru started to whimper. "What is it boy?" his companion so his own worries for the pink-haired girl to his master. "I know, Akamaru, I'm worried about her too."
"Your so lucky, Kiba." His attention went back to Sakura and he saw a look of envy in her green eyes. "You're so lucky to have Akamaru. I wish I had someone as loyal as him by my side."
Kiba was honestly surprised. "You really mean that?" most people don't usually say that to him. He had to say he was a little embarrassed by it, his cheeks turning a light shade of pink.
Sakura nodded her head. "Yeah, I mean he's always with you and by your side," she side again before clenching her fist in anger. "Unlike my stupid good-for-nothing teammates that can't wait to leave me!" she growled, anger starting to rise in her once again.
"I told you just forget about you teammates and whatever stupid thing they did." Once again he handed her the present. "Now open your gift before Akamaru does it for you." He was only slightly joking, he knew his buddy loved opening presents and he could already tell that he was itching to open this one.
A soft giggle escaped her lip as she gratefully took the present. "Why thank you so much, Kiba." He gulped at the way she said his name. It sounded almost like she was flirting with him, so soft and seductive.
"But there's no way Sakura could be flirting with me? Or could she?" he didn't a chance to ask because she turned her attention back on him once the gift was open.
"It's beauitful!" she squealed in pure joy at the cherry blossom bracelet shined brightly in the sun. It was a pure white bracelet with pink cherry blossom designs running all over it and in the middle was her name engraved with pink crystals. "I love it," she leaned in close. "I really do love it but not as much as I love you." Her hands held his cheeks as she placed her lips over his and kissed him.
Kiba's mind shut down, he couldn't believe what was happening to him and knew there was only one thing to do at this point. Kiss back. His arms went around her small body and kissed her back with as much passion as she was showing him. His teammate forgotten as he kissed the loving woman before him. "Sakura," finally when air because needed he gasped out her name. "I love you."
"I love you too." Sakura leaned in again, allowing the man she suddenly felt such a strong love for hold her in his strong and warm embrace.
"You have no idea how long I've been waiting to hear you say that!" Kiba laughed out in pure joy and laid them both down on the ground so they could cuddle some more.
Akamaru wasn't sure what just happened but he was happy for his master and rested down next to both ninjas.
Shino and Hinata on the other hand were utterly shocked by the recent events that just took place.
"S-Shino?"
"Yeah?"
"W-What just happened?"
"I have no idea."
They stared at the two ninjas happily whisper words of love to each and thought back to how Sakura was acting before but their minds couldn't come up with any explanation as to why Sakura suddenly acted like that.
"We should probably talk to her team." Shino suggested, hopefully they would have an explanation as to Sakura's strange behavior.
"Yes." Hinata agreed, wanting an explanation just as badly as Shino.
So with message to Kiba and Akamaru about where they were going the two jumped through the trees and searched for the members of Team Seven and hopefully find some answers.
