Lashing her whip back through the air she caught the Kunai's Sasuke was throwing at her, and tossed them back. He quickly began forming the hand seals for a jutsu Sakura didn't recognize. Looking over at him she saw that she'd done a good amount of damage to him, in relatively few moves, she'd managed to slice his face, burn his entire side, and she'd shocked him senseless all in all, she was slightly proud. Naruto would be proud of me, she thought to herself, a small sad smile growing on her face as she looked over at the prone body of her lover. Looking at his unmoving form just made the anger already coursing through her veins grow stronger. As the anger grew the power of the kyuubi leaking out through her body grew as well, causing two tails to sprout from her tail bone, and the whiskers on her face to appear more pronounced.

"This is gonna be a rush." Sakura said in a feral growl. In her hands she quickly began to form the rasengan, but instead of just hitting Sasuke with them, she threw them at him. Grabbing twenty senbon out of her pockets she duplicated them and threw those at Sasuke causing him to become distracted. He quickly pulled out a kunai to block Sakura's attacks, but she had one more waiting for him, bringing in hands together she formed the hand seals for Doton Shinjuu Zanshuu no Jutsu. Pulling Sasuke under the ground, Sakura just glared down at his form.

"Ah now if this doesn't bring back old memories, eh Sasuke? If only Kakashi was here to see you at my feet. After you left, he would always tell me that that was where you would end up. I think I probably just made that old perverts day." Pulling out her twin katana Sakura got into the stance for her two handed Mikazuki no Nai.

"Sasuke!" An annoyingly high pitched female voice shouted from the sidelines. "Billboard brow what are you doing to Sasuke-Kun!" Ino stared in shock at the katana in Sakura's hand. Shockingly enough she'd yet to notice Sakura's killing intent, or the fact that she now had two tails and ears. Ino gave blondes a very bad name indeed that day. "I won't let you hurt Sasuke-Kun. Wait a minute……..Sakura, why do you have ears, and a tail, and where is Naruto?"

"Well Ino, your lovely little Sasuke-Teme here killed my fiancée. So I figured in return I'd kill him. If you can't figure out the tails and ears by yourself, then you're probably the dumbest person I've ever met, and I'm not just saying that because you left Naruto and me out here to die." Sakura growled out angrily. "Now get the hell out of my way, Uchiha and I have some unfinished business."

"Now, now Sakura, you know I can't let you do that." She suddenly heard the voice of Kabuto speak out from the tree line.

"And may I ask why the hell not?" Sakura was really getting angry, she wanted to kill that Teme for what he'd done to her Naruto, and everyone was getting in her way about it. "Since when do I have to have your permission anyway?" Sakura said as she punched the ground with a chakra enhanced fist, causing the earth to split in two. Kabuto, Sasuke, and Ino could see the Kyuubi gaining more and more control over Sakura's body as she gained an extra tail. "No matter what you say, Uchiha, Sasuke shall pay in blood for this mistake."

"Um, Uchiha-sama, I suggest you run from the extremely pissed off Haruno girl before she makes you into her new flesh coat. I'll take care of her for now." Kabuto said as he turned and smiled sadly at the girl before him. To be quite truthful Kabuto admired her. He thought her strong, and brave. Now with the kyuubi in her she was just set to become stronger, but the heartbreak it took for the demon to change souls may just be too much for her to handle. He would feel terrible if she died. Follower of Orochimaru or not, Kabuto couldn't help but like the spunky girl. "I'm sorry for your loss Sakura-Chan, but now is not the time to take out your anger. I request that you save your rage for a later time when your body is strong enough to hold up to the demons chakra." Kabuto stated before grabbing Sasuke, and disappearing into the air with him.

As she noticed there disappearance Sakura fell to her knees and let out a heart wrenching scream of anguish. She'd lost her love, and now she couldn't even get revenge. Nothing seemed to be going right for her anymore.

"Naruto, I'm sorry I couldn't stop him, I couldn't save you. Naruto I'm so sorry. I love you Naruto." Sakura began rocking back and forth and crying. "Uchiha Sasuke must die for what he has done here. I must be the one to kill him. For Naruto, my wonderful Naruto." Sakura said as she rose up to her feet and wiped her eyes.

Sakura brushed the sweat out of her eyes and kept running, it had been weeks since she'd gotten a lead, but she'd had a major break in her mission that day. Spotting her target she grabbed her ANBU mask off of her back and slid it on over her face. A fox's face had been painted across her mask in red, and carefully carved into the mask on the side just under her left eye was the letter N. It was her reminder of Naruto and what he would have been. It had been a year now since that fateful night in the forest, and she missed him, but she knew he'd have wanted her to be happy. Even now as she was chasing down her next kill she could pretty much feel him smiling down at her from his place up in heaven.

"Kit as much as I love the silly lovey dovey crap your spouting, you're losing your target" the un-bodied voice of the Kyuubi rang through her head yet again reminding her of the task at hand. Kyuubi had become something of a strange loving father to her after the death of Naruto.

"Sorry," She told him. "I won't do it again I promise." She blinked her eyes once, reached down to grab her twin Katana, and rushed the target. Tapping him twice on the shoulder she watched his eyes widen in fear. "Hey don't worry!" she told him "This is gonna be a rush." She smiled as she hit the pressure point in the back of his neck that would knock him out.

"Okay, that so wasn't even fun. I wonder why Tsunade even needs him, seems like a weak idiot to me. The only thing he had going for him was being fast." Sakura bent down and hoisted the prone body over her shoulder, pulling her hands together in front of her face she formed a few hand seals and vanished.

"Oh Tsunade-sama where are you?" Sakura sang out as she walked up the tower into her ex mentor's office. "Aww look your sleeping on your desk again. Your drunk again aren't you, poor baby." Reaching over Sakura punched Tsunade's desk to wake her up.

"Oh its you, couldn't have let me continue my nice little nap now couldn't you, no you had to wake me up! What's this about anyway dear?" Tsunade asked as she wiped the ink from one of the reports she'd slept on off of her cheek. "Oh don't tell me, I see the unconscious body, you've completed your mission then. But let me guess, you're wondering what's so special about the man I asked you to catch. You always were the curious one."

"Well yeah, I mean of course I'm wondering why you asked me to catch this idiot, there's nothing special about him, he wasn't any fun, the only thing he had going for him was running." Sakura rambled out as she shoved the body off of her shoulder and into one of Tsunade's hard wood chairs. "Do I wake him?"

"Well of course, what did you think I was going to do with him? Feed him to Tonton?" Tsunade asked holding her pet pig high in the air.

"It would be more interesting I'm sure." Sakura said as smacked the man across the face to wake him up.

"So Mr. Elusive-san my Shishou wishes to speak with you, I expect you to pay a lot of attention, unless of course you wish to see why they call me the demon fox." Sakura smiled brilliantly at her target.

Walking home she thought about how things had turned out. Life had sucked for awhile, but as things had gone on she's remembered that to Naruto life was the most precious thing, if she started wasting it now, she was killing everything he'd once stood for. She had started dating again, and she wasn't sorry for that fact. Naruto would have wanted this, it would have made him very happy. Now she just had to find a man who, while not ever measuring up to Naruto, could still make her love him, and still make her happy.

"Ohayo Sakura" said a voice from behind her.

"Ohayo Shikamaru, how was your mission?"