Mario11445: Hey everybody sorry about that last story, I lost interest in it. I guess I'm just not good at that arranged marriage crap.

Leon: Just get on with the damn story.

Mario11445: Shut up!

Nereic: You shut up.

Mario11445: Hey everyone this is my inner self Nereic. He's the guy I talk to when I'm ignoring everyone else. He's also a pain most of the time.

Nereic: I heard that. -cracks knuckles-

Mario11445: Um. Lets just get the story over with.

Inner

Sakura looked out her bedroom window, she, Naruto, and Sasuke were on Team 7 of Konoha. Now Sasuke was gone, Naruto had failed to save him from the darkness, or so Neji believed. Neji, Choji, Kiba, Akamaru, Shikamaru, and Naruto had risked their lives to bring Sasuke back. They were still alive, Sakura was grateful for that, but Sasuke had gone to Orochimaru. Sakura sighed, she decided to go exercise or something like that.

Sakura walked around Konoha, looking around for nothing in particular. She saw Shikamaru out on a field with Choji, eating chips and watching the clouds. Kiba and Ino were walking together, Akamaru in Ino's arms. Tenten and Neji were in a resturant, Naruto and Hinata in Ichiraku's, Shino was training with Lee and Gai-sensei.

"Sakura-san!" Lee shouted as he saw her walking by.

"Go Lee! Show her your feelings!" Gai said, anime tears falling.

"Hai! Gai-sensei!" Lee shouted again, Sakura backed away, a ocean sunset had just appeared as Gai and Lee did their 'thing'.

"Lee!" Gai said, anime tears still falling.

"Gai-sensei!" Lee did the same, Shino shook his head and walked away.

"Lee!"

"Gai-sensei!"

"Lee!"

"Gai-sense- AHH!" Lee had been punched by a very angry Sakura.

"Shut up you two!" Sakura shouted, Gai and Lee cringed in a corner.

"Sorry!" They said, Sakura towered over them, fist shaking, eyes white, background turned to fire.

"Sakura!" Ino saw Sakura towering over Lee and Gai-sensei, "Leave that for when they do their 'thing'!" Sakura looked over.

"Thats exactly why!" Sakura yelled back. "They were doing their 'thing'!" Ino's eyes turned white, Kiba backed away, Gai and Lee cringed even more as Ino came over.

"How many times do we have to tell you to stop that." Ino said. Gai and Lee started running away at top speed.

"That was fun." Sakura said with a smile. Kiba just stared at the two konoichi, Akamaru had hid himself in Kiba's jacket. Ino nodded and went back to Kiba.

"Akamaru, it's okay, I won't hurt you." Ino said sweetly, Akamaru poked his head out, Ino was smiling at him, holding her arms out. Akamaru decided it was okay now and jumped into her arms. Kiba and Ino walked away, leaving Sakura alone once more.

"Alone again." Sakura sighed, she didn't know what to do with herself. Sakura just stood there, looking down at the ground, wondering what she should do. Sakura thought about her sensei, Tsunade was busy, Sakura had already found that out today from Shizune. She sighed and left for her home. Everyone looked happy, well, except for Shino, no one ever knew how he felt. Suddenly, Sakura felt someone grab her and put their hand over her mouth, Sakura tried to scream, nothing came out. Sakura elbowed the man in the stomach, he doubled over, Sakura began running to the Hokage's tower. Then, Sakura felt the man hit her on the head, causing her to black out. The man dragged her away.

Sakura woke up, the first thing she knew was the pain in her head. She looked around, there was a man stoking a fire. Sakura's hands, feet, and mouth were bind. She tried to crawl away from the kidnapper. He saw this and got up to stop her. Sakura felt his foot on her back, she looked up, she couldn't see his face from the lack of light. He then slammed his foot on her back, causing her to cry out in pain. He smirked, rose his foot to strike again, he stopped. Sakura looked up, he growled, something had stopped him from moving.

"Kage mane no jutsu, success." Shikamaru said, Sakura's eyes widened, Shikamaru, Kiba, and Akamaru had come to save her.

"Tsuuga!" Kiba shouted as he started his attack. With perfect timing Shikamaru lifted his jutsu and Kiba nailed the man. The man screamed and was sent flying in the other direction. Kiba bent down and started to untie her. "You alright Sakura?" Kiba asked her, Sakura nodded. Kiba smiled and they started back to Konoha.

"Sakura, you're too troublesome. We had to break our backs just to find you." Shikamaru said, Kiba glared at him.

"Hey go easy on her! It's not her fault!" Kiba shouted.

"Whatever." Kiba growled, just then Akamaru jumped over and bit Shikamaru. Shikamaru yelled and tried to shake the angry dog off, Kiba was laughing his head off. When Kiba looked over to Sakura he saw her looking down at her feet.

"Sakura?" Kiba said, Shikamaru stopped shouting and looked over. "Sakura?" Kiba said again.

"I'm sorry guys." Sakura finally said, Kiba glared over at Shikamaru.

"It's not you're fault Sakura, Shikamaru is the only pain here." Kiba said, trying to cheer her up.

"Hey!"

"Shut up!"

"Make me!" Sakura perked up a bit as the two boys began fighting. Finally she began laughing, Kiba was chasing Shikamaru, Akamaru had bitten him again. Kiba and Shikamaru looked over at Sakura when she started laughing.

"You two!" Shikamaru and Kiba flinched, Ino had just appeared, causing Sakura to laugh even harder. "Akamaru." Ino said sweetly, Akamaru stopped biting Shikamaru and jumped into her arms.

"Hey Forehead." Ino said, Sakura smiled. "What are you two doing?!" Ino shouted at Kiba and Shikamaru.

"What does it look like?" Shikamaru said, Kiba backed away. Ino's eyes turned white, Shikamaru looked up and gulped. "Should I start running now?" Ino growled in response, Shikamaru took that as a yes and started running.

Sakura woke up the next day, safe and sound in Konoha. She was embarrassed that Kiba and Shikamaru had to save her from an ordinary kidnapper. Sakura got up, stretched, and took a warm shower to calm herself.

--------------------------------------------------------meanwhile---------------------------------------------------------------

Gaara was on the roof again, watching the sunrise. Suna's view of the sun and moon was truly the best. He thought of his friend Naruto, and of the pink-haired girl who was with him at the time they saved him from the Akutski. He thought about his feelings for her, he didn't know why he felt this way about her.

"Why am I feeling like this?" he asked himself.

'Ha! Like you don't already know!'

'Why are you still here?'

'A part of me is still attached to your soul, you can't get rid of me that easily!'

'Wonderful, I'm stuck with a pervert for the rest of my life'

'Hey it's not that bad now is it?'

'Come on boy don't be like that.'

'Ignoring you.'

'You're no fun at all!'

'You got that right.'

-----------------------------------------------------------Back in Konoha------------------------------------------------

Sakura got out of the shower, dried off, dressed, and plopped back on the bed.

'Hey I'm hungry!'

'So? I'm not.'

'Come on girl, eat something!'

'Why?'

'I'm hungry!'

'-laughs-'

'What's so funny?!'

'Nothing.'

'Come oooooon!'

'You're worse than Naruto.'

'I'm a part of you remember?'

'Oh yeah...' Sakura sighed, she went to the kitchen and grabbed an apple. She took a bite, much to her Inner self's relief. Someone banged on the door.

'Must be Naruto.' Sakura agreed, she opened the door to reveal Naruto's huge grin.

"What do you want Naruto I'm busy!" Sakura lied.

"Sakura, you're a terrible liar, Tsunade-baachan wants to see you." Naruto said, grin getting bigger, if possible. Sakura sighed and followed Naruto to the Hokage's tower. Naruto banged on Tsunade's door.

"Come in." Naruto entered the room, Sakura behind him. "Ah, Sakura, you came. Naruto, you are dismissed." Naruto nodded and was about to exit when he saw something in the corner of his eye. He looked over and saw two locks of white hair hanging down.

"ERO SENNIN!" Naruto shouted, the perverted toad sage looked in and saw Naruto's face.

"Hey Naruto, its been awhile hasn't it?" Jiriaya said. Naruto threw a fit.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, 'IT'S BEEN AWHILE YOU OLD PERVERT?! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?!" Naruto shouted, Jiraiya flinched. Just then Tsunade grabbed his ear and pulled. Hard. Jiraiya landed on his face and Tsunade glared down at him.

"Research." he mumbled, Tsunade picked him up by the ear.

"What was that?!" She shouted.

"Nothing!" he said. "Are you going to put me down anytime soon?"

"No."

"Oh. Well, I can't stay here forever. See ya Naruto, nice seeing you again Sakura." With that he disappeared in a poof of smoke. Tsunade sighed, she turned her attention to Sakura.

"Sakura, the Village of Sand requested a medic come over and help them. I'm planning to sent you. Is this acceptable?" Tsunade said.

"Of course Tsunade-sensei." Sakura said, Naruto left mumbling something about the old pervert and his so called 'research'.

"Good, I was going to send you whether you wanted to or not." Tsunade said, "You will leave as soon as you're done packing, I will get Naruto and Kakashi to help you get there safely." Sakura nodded, "You are dismissed, and if you see Naruto or Kakashi, tell them to get over here." Sakura nodded again and left.

After she packed she started back to Tsunade's office when Kakashi 'poof'ed in front of her. "Hey Sakura." he said.

"Hi Kakashi-sensei, where's Naruto?" Kakashi pointed in the direction of Ichiraku's. "Should've known." Sakura sighed. Kakashi and Sakura went to fetch Naruto. Sakura saw Naruto force his fifth bowl down and, pissed off, grabbed his ear and pulled him away.

"Ow! Sakura! Why?!" Naruto whined, Sakura dropped him on the pavement.

"Pay for your meal and lets go!" Sakura ordered, Naruto cringed.

"Okay, Okay, Okay!" Naruto pulled out his frog wallet and paid the old man. When he was done Sakura grabbed his ear again and pulled him to her house. She dropped him at the step and went in to get her stuff, Naruto whined as he hit the hard ground. Sakura yelled at him, Naruto sprang up and hid behind Kakashi.

End of Chapter

Mario11445: Okay, there's the first chapter, who knows how many to go.

Nereic: I do.

Mario11445: Really? How many?

Nereic: ...

Mario11445: You're no fun.

Nereic: Correct.

Gaara: Hn.

Mario11445: -stares at Gaara-

Gaara: -death glare-

Mario11445: -cringe-

Nereic: -stares at Gaara-

Gaara: -stares back-

To Be Continued...