You. Yes, you. I like your face :D. Now that I have your attention, hi. I'm kinda new to this website and all...Soooo what do people usually write in their disclaimers? You may have noticed that I didn't have one in my first chapter, sowwy _. So, maybe some life background ? Well, I'm girl in her third year of High School with five siblings (actually seven, I just live with four...don't ask, it's kinda complicated). I love reading manga, or just reading in general, watching anime and drawing; Oh, and eating n' sleeping :}.As for the background for my story...uuhh...I really don't know. It just came to me a couple of months ago and I kept thinking about it. I've always thought that Kabuto was pretty cool and cute before he came a snake-sage-dragon-that's-pregnant-with-Oorochimaru-...thing. As for Sakura, I never really liked her. I mean she's okay, but...So I decided to articulate that idea into a story 'cause, you know, why not? Maybe writing it will propel me to try and understand Sakura and like her better. This my first time writing a fan fiction also so please go easy on me. Now, I present to you Chapter Two of "Change Me" (does anyone else think of a baby with a soiled diaper when they read that...or is it just me?)

Were the woods always this creepy? She tried to ignore the constant rustling from nearby bushes and the spooky hoots from the owls. Sakura clutched the cloak closer to her body, her slow breaths making small puffs of fog. The young woman felt a bit uncomfortable traveling alone by herself, especially in forests at dark.
"I didn't come all this way for nothing, get a grip, Sakura", she scolded herself. And it isn't completely dark, the moon is shining very brightly today. There was another rustling sound.
"Who's there" Sakura yelled, her kunai already in hand. She strained her ears and listened closely while trying to sense if there was a human presence around besides her own. Silence. She sheathed her kunai and continued walking. She picked up her pace, hopefully she could find an Inn after a few miles.

After about two and a half hours of sprinting she caught sight of a small village a few kilometers up. It was just a few hours away from sunrise she could only hope that there was an inn open at that time of day. She slowed her pace, fatigue was already setting in. It took her a little more than twenty minutes to reach the village. Most of the stores were closed, only night lanterns and occasional stragglers remained. She walked up to one of them and asked,
"Excuse me, would you mind telling me if there's an inn open at this hour please?"
"Well, the Yama Yuri hotel is open for twenty four hours a day, it's straight down that way" the young woman replied.
"Thank you so much!" Sakura hastily bowed in gratitude and headed in the direction which the stranger pointed in. The inn was only a couple hundred feet away. It was yellow building about three stories high with the words "Yamayuri Inn" written in black on a billboard.
"It's not that bad" she said to herself as she entered the building.
"Welcome to the Yama Yuri Inn, customer."
"Good evening, are there any rooms available just for one nights stay?" Sakura asked politely.
"Yes, I could give you room 31 B on the second level if you would like?"
"Yes, please."
"That will be 4,500 ryō please." Geez, that's the pay for a D-rank mission. Sakura reluctantly forked over the cash and took the room key the employee held out to her.
"Thank you for choosing the Yama Yuri Inn". I wonder how much she gets paid to recite those words every day, hopefully her pay is as much as this room cost or else it'd be a waste of time to work here, Sakura thought bitterly as she opened her room's door. She took off her backpack and set it down on the floor. Next she took off her sandals and unloaded all her gear onto the table. She walked to the futon placed in the middle of the room floor and collapsed onto it. She closed her eyes and let exhaustion lull her to sleep.
Sakura opened her eyes as rays of sunlight shone through her room's window. She quickly got out of bed and washed herself within minutes. The quickly equipped all her gear and went down to the main lobby. She briskly returned the key and exited the building. She noticed that the village was bustling with life at daytime, it reminded her of Konaha. But this was no time to get nostalgic. She looked around and headed towards a food stand and ordered a couple of onigiri for the go. Then she proceeded to continue her journey. If I can maintain a quick pace then I'll reach there before dusk, Sakura thought as she maintained her sprint.

Sakura slowed her sprint along the ledge to a steady jog when she reached a clearing. The red-orange sky matched the dirt of the barren, fruitless land that went on for miles. This was it. This barren wasteland was where they'd confronted Sasuke after two and a half years. She clenched and unclenched her fists and took a deep breath. She closed her eyes and summoned her memories of the previous time there. There was a tall, odd looking rock that parted into a gate and contained a tunnel. She scanned the vast area and instantly found it.
"That's the entrance" she said to herself as she jumped down from the ledge and ran to it.
"I thought I'd sensed someone." Sakura stopped in her tracks and turned. Her teal eyes met deep black ones behind thick rimmed glasses. He was only five feet away from her.
Sakura's face hardened as she put all the malice she felt for him into one word,
"Kabuto." He towered over her by at least a head. Despite his ash-grey hair being tied behind his head his bangs, that framed either side of his forehead still covered his eyes a bit. What Sakura hated the most was the look of his face when he smirked. Somehow the slight upwards turn of his lips illuminated his eyes with sheer madness. Sakura stifled the slight shiver that slithered up her spine.
"I didn't think you people would come back so soon, it's been less than a month since your last failed rescue attempt for Sasuke. It's obviously too hard for you guys to realize that he never wants return back to the Leaf Village." His eyes moved left then right.
"Where are your other team mates? Are they perhaps planning a surprise attack by using you as a distraction?" he inferred as he pulled out a kunai.
Sakura slowly pulled out a kunai from her sheath as well and got into a stance.
"That's right, they're hiding and waiting for the right time to ambush you from behind," Sakura replied in feigned confidence. She tightened her fingers around the kunai. As Kabuto turned to look behind him in alarm Sakura pounced him and aimed fast blow to his jaw in attempt to knock him out. Despite the surprise Kabuto managed to twisted himself and roll out of the way as her attack made a small crater near his head and cracked the right lense of his glasses. Damn it! I missed, Sakura cursed inwardly as Kabuto quickly got on his feet and dodged her next barrage of attacks. Kabuto found an opening in her last punch and aimed a precise jab at her right elbow with his chakra scalpel.
"Ah!" Sakura exclaimed as pain traveled up her arm as it went numb and cramped up. She cradled her arm with her left and jumped back as Kabuto threw a punch her way. Her knees buckled. What's happening, Sakura thought in panic. The numbness was spreading throughout her body.
"...you poisoned me.."
"It would seem as if your team mates aren't here to help you. Looks like you got a little impatient and strayed too far from them, and look where that got you," Kabuto drawled as used a finger to push his glasses over his nose. With his right eye seemed as if there were five different Sakuras but that didn't matter.
"Let me see Sasuke," Sakura croaked. Kabuto tilted his head at an angle and raised an eyebrow.
"I don't think you're in the position to ask that right now." Sakura squinted as her vision blurred and she was glaring at three different Kabutos. Dizziness and nausea was overcoming her. Her eyelids felt heavy.
"You won't get away with this." Kabuto took a few steps closer and knelt down until he was at eye level with her. His face was just inches away. She was already starting to lose consciousness.
"And you won't get away with damaging my glasses." He raised his index finger and pushed Sakura's head back.
Thud.