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Chapter Two

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Two hours after the ordeal, Naruto and Sakura were located in the kitchen, eating their morning meal in silence (they're eating ramen). No matter how much he wanted to ask Sakura about what had happened before, he chose to keep silent. He didn't want to aggravate her. When he'd woken up earlier that morning, he taught that it would just be another normal day for both of them. He often spent the morning in Sakura's apartment for breakfast, sometimes Sai, Kakashi and Yamato would also join them. But today was different, today, he'd found his team mate shaking in the middle of her bedroom in fear. He knew that something was bothering Sakura, she'd been so distracted the whole day before.

He was brought out of his musings when a masked ANBU appeared right outside the window. They were both being summoned by the Hokage. They were told to come to the tower in fifteen minutes.

Sakura sighed as she stood up and she lifted her bowl and placed it on the sink and left the kitchen. Naruto got up as well; as soon as he finished his bowl he too put it on the sink, following Sakura out into the hall. Salura grabbed her kunai pouch and put it on, Naruto waited for her by the front door and together they left the house.


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Morning came rather slowly for the three Remnants. Kadaj, still giddy in his excitement was the first to wake. Yazoo woke up only after a few minutes Kadaj did. Loz was the last one to wake.

The Remnants met with Aerith and Zack. All of them made their way to the pools. The pools of the life stream were located at the very edge of the Lifestream hidden by a thick veil of clustered energy. That part of the Lifestream was not often visited by the others that dwell within it. It was dangerous to venture into that area because countless of souls often vanished, most probably pulled in by the currents of the pools, Yazoo mused silently to himself.

After a long journey to the edge, they finally came across the veil. It seemed like a mirror, reflecting their images on its surface. Kadaj was becoming impatient. His face scrunched up in frustration. Why was it taking so long? He wanted to see mother NOW! He wanted to charge through the veil but Zack stopped him. He growled in obvious distaste.

Aerith gave him a meek smile and lifted and entwined her hands together in silent prayer concentrating on the veil. He and his brothers watched as the thick mirror like veil thinned down into to a see through film. Beyond that film was what looked to be a cave filled with different pools, scattered around the vast land area. Aerith let her hands fall to her sides; she stepped through the veil. Zack and the Remnants followed her.

So many pools surrounded them, each representing a dimension different from their own.

"Here it is, the pools of the Lifestream." Aerith said quietly to them. When the Elders had told her of what the location of the pools looked like she already understood that it would seem like an impossible task to find the right pool. She wasn't going to let Kadaj and his brothers down by being intimidated by the endless number of pools scattered around them. Putting on a bright smile she turned to her companions and urged them on.

She approached a nearby pool to her left, squatting down to peer inside. The floating particles that were rising from it allowed her to glimpse inside. She saw a world filled with darkness, it was like a never ending night had descended upon it. She waited silently but no form of life came even she could not feel a single soul there, Aerith pulled back and stood. She looked around and found that Zack, Kadaj, Yazoo and Loz were all doing the same as she did. It saddened her to find that the first pool she looked into seemed so devoid of life but she didn't let it bring her down and so she proceeded to the next.

They continued their search but after what seemed like hours Kadaj and his brothers were becoming impatient and frustrated. Aerith noticed this and beckoned them to regroup. The Remnants were looking grim.

"Hey Kadaj! Isn't there a way you guys can sense Jenova?" Zack asked the young silver head.

Kadaj looked over to his brothers, they used to sense Jenova all the time but after they had come into the Lifestream, it was as if their link to Her was severed.

"Before we came here, we always felt Mother but now we can no longer feel her at all." Kadaj said with a deep frown on his face. He hated being unable to find her.

"But we're looking for a part of her soul… maybe you guys can try to find anything that remotely feels like her…" Aerith suggested to them.

Yazoo nodded to Kadaj and Loz, all of them stood closer together, focusing their minds in finding Her.


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Sakura, Sai and Naruto were in the Hokage Tower. They were waiting for Kakashi to arrive, he was late as usual. Naruto was though he was used to his old sensei's lateness, he was still getting impatient. He was still worried about Sakura, but he didn't want her to get mad at him for being too paranoid about her. Sai was reading a book in a corner while Sakura was talking to Tsunade and Shizune about finding medicinal herbs.

Kakashi arrived after two hours.

When Naruto and Sakura went over to their sensei, Sakura stopped in midstep. She suddenly felt a sharp pain flash through her entire body, flashes of light clouded her eyes; she grasped her head in pain as she ell on her knees. Naruto was beside her in an instant, Tsunade, Shizune Sai and Kakashi also came towards them. They were calling out to her but Sakura couldn't hear them, all she could hear was a shrill ringing high pitched sound while the pain became worse. She gave in to unconsciousness.

Naruto couldn't understand what was going on. Why did Sakura collapse? Why did she seem like she was in so much pain?

Millions of questions rushed through his head.

Tsunade tried to find out what was wrong with her apprentice, she had Naruto lay the unconscious girl on the floor. She scanned Sakura's body using her chakra. She found an unusual amount of energy spreading across Sakura's body. The energy wasn't anything she'd ever come across before. It was mixing into Sakura's chakra. She tried to repress the energy by it didn't work, she was getting worried she didn't know what would happen to her apprentice. She traced the energy source and found that Sakura was actually the one producing the abnormal energy. It was directly coming from her Chakra Core.

Tsunade ordered Naruto to take Sakura to her private treatment room. She had Shizune prepare the equipment she needed. She needed to test Sakura for further anomalies hidden in her body. Once Sakura was placed comfortable on a bed, she took a sample of Sakura's blood which she handed over to Shizune to test, leaving her with the anxious members of Team Kakashi

"Tsunade-bachan, what is going on with Sakura?" Naruto asked the blonde woman, he didn't know what to do.

Tsunade noticed that out of all the member of the team, Naruto seemed to be the most concerned for Sakura and she had a feeling this wasn't just because of his feelings for her apprentice.

"Naruto, has something happened to Sakura?" Tsunade inquired, ignoring the boy's earlier question.

"When I went over to her apartment this morning I found her standing in her bedroom, she was shaking and she seemed so distraught. I asked her what was wrong but she wouldn't say anything…."

"Sakura was acting weird yesterday at training. She was very distracted." Sai inputted.

"When I scanned her body, I found an abnormal mass of energy combining into her chakra. It was not like anything I've ever come across with and I tried to stop the energy flow but it didn't work. Another thing that I found was weird was the fact that the energy was being produced from her Chakra Core. " Tsunade told them.

"I sent Shizune to test her blood for anything unusual, maybe we can find something that will enlighten us when she returns with the results."

Shizune came back after three hours. Tsunade asked her why she took so long and Shizune revealed that her blood contained foreign cells that she could not find any information of.

"I tested the blood over and over but the results were the same, I even compared the results with her past medical checkups but those results did not match."

What could this possibly mean? How can Sakura's blood be different from what it had been? It didn't make sense at all!


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Dream

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Sakura found herself with the silver haired woman again. She had a cruel smirk on her face.

"You really believed that you could get away from me so easily?" She laughed maniacally.

"What do you want from me?" Sakura screamed at the woman.

"I just want to be whole again. I can't be whole without the other half of my soul, its better if you just give in to me or else you'll continue to feel the pain you felt earlier." She now had a serene smile on her face.

Sakura gave Jenova a look of pure disgust.

"I'd rather be in pain for the rest of my life than to allow you to kill and destroy millions of innocent people." Sakura spat, her anger conquered her fear over the woman.

"Very well then… If that's your choice then there is nothing else I can do." She looked disappointedly at the Sakura. Why can't she see things her way? Humans were just disgusting parasites, insects that run around believing their selves to be the superior race.

"Sooner or later you'll give in and I'll be here waiting for you." Jenova said with a sure smile, Sakura was about to retort when Jenova and her dark world vanished. She opened her eyes to find the members of her team staring at her, relieved.


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Chapter 2 is done.

Chakra Core is something I made up and it is basically the chakra's equivalent to a body's heart.

Whenever the Remnants try to reestablish their connection to Jenova, Sakura will experience the same pain that Cloud and the other Geostigma victims did.

Next chapter is when the Remnants finally come to the Naruto verse. I hope that you guys will continue to like this!


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