Key

"Talking."

'Thinking'

My note

"Good Bye..." 14 year-old Sakura thought staring through the gray and cold sky towards the gates of Konoha.

A whole year had past since she left. All Sakura had done is train, If you had seen her a year ago and now, you probably wouldn't have recognized her. Her once bright and happy emerald eyes have reduced to a faded, sad forest green.

Her shoulder length, and neat shimmering pink had turned into a lighter bottom length pink hair with several strands over shadowing her forehead and snow white on the edges of it all.

Even her clothing had changed, a red high-collar belly shirt with white edgings a white circle in the middle of the back and a white shirt under with pink edgings. A red skirt two inches above her knees with white edgings and a zipper in the middle, slit to her waist where a belt is. A scarf and hood covered practically all her face and all her hair. (Even her eyebrows.) Finally knee-length white boots.

But the major change was the furry large pink cat ears with snow edgings perched on top of her head. Plus the fluffy pink/white tail that reached her ankles. She also had a HUGE Battle Axe.

Sakura sighed and rubbed her head looked around her hotel room.

"Why did I even leave Konoha… Oh yeah, almost everyone hated you remember?" She thought answering her own question. "Why did I even let that demon infuse with me and to take care of it's Kits, oh yeah, I was near death?" She mused once again answering her own question. Why couldn't I be as strong as everyone else? "Why, because I was an actual demon, Gaara and Naruto only had demons sealed inside of them..."

(Flash Back)

Sakura sat in the middle of a clearing picking herbs and groaning from having to bend her back.

"Owie, ow, ow, ow, ow!" Sakura groaned. "Stupid herbs!" She muttered massaging her back. "I am so gonna kill Naruto for having to make me get herbs for his injury because we couldn't cure it with chakra cause I don't have enough!"

Just then she noticed something stir far away.

"Huh? A CAT!" Sakura cried running over to the near dead cat. It was large and white with a HUGE gash on it's chest. "Oh, god!" She screamed when she saw something large towering over it. It had drool dripping from it's sharp chipped fangs, and was splattered with blood. Probably not it's own.

With out thinking she jumped in front of the hyperventilating cat and sent a blast of chakra to the already wounded demon. Unfortunately she had taken a hit for the cat too.

"Crap." She moaned holding the freaked out cat and clutching her bleeding stomach. Sakura let out a ragged breath. Then she blacked out.

'Wake up' A calm and elderly voice murmured.

"Shumnifge?" Sakura asked groggily.

'Child you must listen carefully.'

"Uh-huh?" Sakura mumbled.

'I have gave you a gift and a curse at the same time, but…" The voice paused. It almost sounded sad. "I… Without thinking I adopted two kits. They.. If you don't protect them… Then I'll never forgive you.. You owe me your life. But I can't go on, you must take them…"

"'Kay?"

'Goodbye.'

"Wow that was a weird dream." Sakura said as she got up from the cave? With a cat or fox in her lap along with a wolf in her lap? "HOLY S IT WASN"T A DREAM! But they are cute.." She thought looking at the silver and blue wolf along with a red and white fox cat... Thing.

"How about... Ai-chan for the fox, cat thing... and Rai-chan for the wolf cub..." She giggled happily, but remembered "They're demons."

"What am I gonna do?" Sakura thought swishing her tail... TAIL!

"EEYYAHH!" A longseries of "OMIGOD!"s and "WHAT THE H!" filtered through out the air, oh yeah, and a few "DAMN YOU NARUTO!"s too.

(End of Flashback)

"Heh, and after almost the entire village was either afraid of me or just plain hated me." She thought with a bitter smile. "That's what I get for trusting Tenten and Ino... I can't stay here too long..." Sakura muttered scooping up Ai and Rai jumping out the window and running through the forest.

Leaping through blurs of green and brown Sakura grinned "Demon speed is cool." After running for awhile she stopped rather abrubtly, nearly knocking Ai and Rai off her shoulder.

"What the heck?" She mumbled looking over her shoulder feeling the heavy and unusual chakra. "This is so not normal." she muttered hopping to the clearing where, a thin rusty chain with a small round pendant was.

"Where have I seen this.." She muttered. She suddenly, remembered something she had forgotten long ago.

"Shit." She mumbled squeezing shut her eyes fearfully and clutching the rusty necklace. "Mom… Dad.." Her voice cracked and her eyes blurred.

(Flash Back)

"Mooommmyy?? Daadddyyy?" 5-year old Sakura asked.

"Hmm, Sakura?" Her mother asked giving her a wave.

"Will you promise not to leave me, like, forever?" Sakura asked. Her father just grinned and said.

"Forever." Sakura looked at him suspiciously and asked.

"How do I know you're not lying?"

"Um... Oh! We'll give you this." Her Mom said with a smile, and handed her a small round ball that seemed to be made of glass, or metal, dangling from a thin white chain.

It seemed simple enough, but it immediately captured Sakura's eyes.

"Pretty..." She whispered as it constantly danced through bright colors, it started out white then pink, green, blue, and so on.

"And.. Well.. Since we're never gonna leave you, when your 15 you'll have to give it back to us, kay?"

Sakura shook the ball. She didn't seem to care that she'd have to give it back, for a five year old, fifteen seemed like something that'd never come. "It sounds like a bell!" she said with a squeal.

(End of Flashback)

"Then you guys left me alone and I threw this in the river." She whispered desperately trying to get the rust off. "No… I threw this away.. I don't want the burden of memories.. I should have never… Went.. To Konoha…" Crystalline tears dripped and splashed on her shirt.

"I can't stay here." She mumbled. Suddenly, the ball cast warm glow. Haruno Sakura disappeared with a flash.