The chunin exams and the invasion were over. Everyone slowly began to leave the grave of the recently departed Hokage, the rain still slightly pouring. A blond haired boy stood with his teammates. His face was gloomy just like everyone's as he sighed. He turned his face upward to look at the clouds. Small crystal drops continued to fall on his face as his own cerulean eyes began to water. The third was dead.
"Naruto," a boy with raven hair said. His onyx eyes were hard and cold as he looked at his teammate's gloomy face. He turned his attention on to their other teammate, and noticed that her jade eyes where glazed over with something, something he couldn't explain. Her sakura blossom colored hair moved a bit, to where it shaded her eyes and distinguished the boy's view of them.
"It's starting to rain pretty hard. I think I will head home," she said in a low whisper. Naruto's eyes turned on her as she slowly began to walk off, her own face gloomy. There was a silece as she began to leave.
"I think I will head home to," the raven haired boy said after a minute as he began to walk off.
"Sasuke wait. Can't you tell? There is something wrong with her. Maybe we should go with her to figure it out," Naruto said as he looked at the onyx eyes of his teammate.
"Let's leave her alone for now. We have tomorrow off so it gives her some time to sort whatever is wrong with her out. She is probably just stressed," Sasuke said as he turned and began to walk away towards his own home.
Naruto looked at the retreating form of his raven haired teammate and then at his pink haired teammate who was nearly out of view. He knew something was wrong.'Something isn't right. I can feel the Kyuubi stirring. But maybe Sasuke is right. I'll check on her tomorrow' Naruto said to himself as he began to walk off in his own direction. He shoved his hands in his pockets and sighed. He knew something bad was going to happen. The Kyubbi was really stirring and he knew it concerned one of them.
Sakuras eyes where glazed as she continued to walk towards her house. Her face was gloomy as she was deep in thought, so deep she didn't see the thing moving in the shadows behind her. She continued to think of what her blond haired friend, Ino, had said the other day during the chunin exams.
"Sakura, you're on the super-star team."
'No. Naruto and Sasuke are the super stars on the team. I'm just a nobody that everyone will forget. Everyone will remember Naruto Uzumaki the Kyuubi holder and one of the greatest ninja in Konoha. Then Sasuke Uchiha, the last surviving Uchiha and holder of the Sharingan. Everyone will forget about me. Naruto is already praised for beating Neji. I am just a person that always gets in the way' Sakura said to herself. The thing in the shadows began to move closer and closer with every negative thought she said.
She continued to talk down on herself as she opened her house door, and began to head to her room. The door turned a black color as a cloaked thing walked through it. It lifted its shadowed head up to where the last part of Sakura vanished up the stairs.
It slowly began to walk up to Sakura, black vine like things covering the stairway as it walked up it. The halls turned a black color as more of the odd vines came out of the walls. The thing walked to an open door and stood in the doorway for a second. It looked at the pink haired girl who sat at her desk and slowly proceeded in. Black vines began to move over the doorway, making it covered except for a few gaps. The things in the room faded away tell the room itself looked like a black void, except for a light that shown on Sakura as she sat still on her chair, holding a small picture frame in her hand.
The thing, whatever it was, slowly began to move towards the oblivious girl. It let its presence be known, dropping its guards as the dark vines let off a dangerous energy, but the pink haired girl didn't notice. She was to deep in thought to notice how much danger she was in.
A blond haired boy quickly turned when he felt a horrible and dangerous energy near. He focused on it and almost screamed. 'Sakura!' he shouted in his head as he took off at the same time a raven haired boy did. He came back to the area they had split up at, and saw that his raven haired teammate had sensed the ominous presence as well. They looked at each other, a look of concern in both their eyes, as they bolted off again, quickly reaching their teammates house. They could fill a deadly energy inside, and they proceeded on knocking down the black door and entering.
Sakura felt herself falling. In her mind she was falling in a black void. She could hear all of her friends, their words echoing in her head. She saw the area around her turn a red hue as each of her friends appeared, their eyes shaded and wicked grins on their faces. In the real world the cloaked thing that had entered her room had put its hands near the sides of her head, and the hands began to glow a black color.
"It's all over for me," she said as her hands fell limp on her lap as she sat there, the picture frame falling to the ground. It hit the floor in a bad angle, a crack appearing in the middle of her in the picture. Her mind faded away, herself becoming an empty shell. Negative thoughts consumed her as she could hear all the remarks she would get from everyone.
"You're so weak."
"Look at poor little Sakura."
"You can't even defend yourself let alone become a chunin."
"You're so pathetic."
"You're annoying."
"Weak link."
"Can't even defend yourself."
"It's all your fault that the people close to you are hurt, Sakura, because you are to weak to even look after yourself." That last one stung. She could see all her friends around her, ranting on how she was so stupid and weak.
"No," she said in a whisper clutching locks of her own sakura blossom colored hair.
"No," her voice rose. She could hear them chanting those stinging words in her head, sanding around her. They continued to chant. Her green eyes flew closed and tightened, trying to get the voices and people out of her mind.
"No," her voice began to get louder. She found a hand on her shoulder and looked up into the shadowed face of her blond teammate.
"You're a nobody. You always hold me and Sasuke back. Why can't you just leave? Go away and never come back. Trust me, your doing the village a favor. We have no use for a weakling like you." Tears fell from her eyes. Slowly a black star began to form in the middle of her forehead, two black dots on each side of it. The darkness was consuming her.
Hello everyone. Well this is my first chapter story so i hope you all like it. Please review, but please don't flame. I'm sorry to say that I will be unable to update quickly, so I apologize in advance. I'll try hard though. Well until my next update. I hope you enjoyed the story!
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