Summary: Once upon a time in the ninja world, a sickly baby girl was born… her guardian deity saved her, but she ended up inheriting the goddess' attraction pheromone… For better or worse. Slightly AU, Saku/Almost Everyone

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

Rating: T

Story Genre: General/Humor/Action-Adventure/Slight Romance, Horror, Spiritual, Angst

Chapter Genre: General/Humor

Warnings: …faint yuri?

Page Count: 10

Word Count: 4318

Musical Inspiration: Gyouretsu no Dekiru Erin Shinryoujou (game: Touhou)

Notes: Welcome to chapter two.

Yay.

More… exciting stuff, now, no boring past!

Please don't be offended by any yuri. It's like, funny crap. It can't be even recognized as complete romance. XD

When Kurokami 'speaks' to Sakura, she uses whatever language is being used around her, because it's hard for Sakura to listen to someone speaking the opposite language and listen to Kurokami at the same time.

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Kakurenbo

-Hide and Seek-

:Gennin:

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(Konoha, Haruno Compound Gates, June 16th, 7:30AM)

Today was a nice, warm day. Birds were singing in the trees happily while rabbits below hustled around as they hopped to their burrows. The wind was faintly blowing. The sun shined down brightly, almost happy that there were no clouds to hide it away from the hidden village. People began to open their 

stores for the day, and some early birds were already out for some business. Skies stretched their blue color above anyone below, making the day a beautiful, normal day.

One of the people already out was the young, pink haired (save a lone strip of black) heiress of the Haruno clan, Haruno Sakura. Today she would be graduating from the academy and placed in a three-man squad with a jounin leader.

Sakura was a very pretty girl. Though many people didn't notice her, since she was as silent as a mute and seemed to hide from everyone in her large, red coat with white borders. The coat cut off right before her shoulders and continued as detached sleeves. But her shoulder skin couldn't be seen, since she had gray tinted bandages wrapped around them. The coat ended at the middle of her thighs. But under that coat she wore a black dress that peeked out from under the coat and reached down to her knees. For footwear, she wore boot-like shoes that ended at the middle of her shin. The bottom that covered her foot was red, while from her ankle up it was gray with small buckles on the sides. The boots had small heels to increase her height of 5''4 to 5''6. Yet you couldn't see any leg revealed by the dress, since the rest of her shins, like her shoulders, were covered in gray wrapping.

The only thing you could see was her paper white face. Sakura's delicate features made her cute and seemingly weak. She had two large, soft ruby eyes that sparkled when she was interested in something or happy. She had a cute, button nose that her mother loved poking to tease. Sakura had pale lips that were usually hidden by her large collared jacket. Her large forehead (which had the pink circle—trademark of Kurokami) was hidden by her pink bangs. Her hair, soft and smooth, reached her waist. The black stripe she owned was another trait she inherited from Kurokami, and tended to fall in front of her eye.

The Haruno child walked slowly from the closing gates of the compound. Since she was alone, she kept her head raised, exposing the usually hidden bottom half of her face. Sakura failed at keeping her eyes on the road in front of her and instead let them roam across the green trees.

"How pretty," she commented. Even her voice was soft was sweet. Unfortunately, she was too shy and insecure to speak up. Thus, she never allowed anyone to hear her honey coated voice.

'I'm actually graduating, huh?' Sakura thought with disbelief hinted in her words.

'I though it would never be over!' Kurokami complained. The goddess suddenly smiled. 'But I'm happy for you. It was interesting to see first hand how they train you kids. It's improved a lot since my time of mortality.'

'What did they do?' Sakura inquired softly, not noticing that she raised one of her sleeved hands to her mouth on accident.

'It depended. Back then, the only suitable training was done by clans or people who had a good chance of being successful. But I've seen that some clans were brutal, or others weren't very modern. It differed really.' Kurokami made a sound as she thought. 'Now that I think about it, the old Haruno training plans were somewhat behind…'

"Is that so…" Sakura wondered aloud. She thought about what training could've been like back in the day. The pinkette was so into thought that she didn't notice a presence running toward her in a full throttle charge.

"SA-KU-RAAAA!" the running person called out loudly, causing Sakura to snap her eyes open and hide in her jacket (a bad reflex, she swears). Her red eyes only managed to see the blonde head of the runner, but that was more than enough.

"I-Ino-chan…?" Sakura whispered as the blonde girl rammed into her. The Haruno girl could feel the air rushing out of her like a whoopee cushion.

"Paper-girl!" Ino teased, using her old nickname for Sakura. She had thought of using 'forehead-girl' once, but Sakura cried at the name. "Today's grad-u-a-tion!" Ino sung out the last word as she swung Sakura around and pushed her down the road.

"I-it is." Sakura's eyebrows creased up as she smiled, since she really didn't know why Ino was so… excited today.

"Jeez!" Ino complained, poking Sakura's white cheek. "Just because you only spent three years in that place doesn't mean you shouldn't celebrate!" Looking off to the side, Ino scoffed. "And that too. How unfair… They let you in even though you skipped three years! The latest is only eight months… How did you do it?!" Sakura nervously peeked at Ino.

"I-I don't know. My parents contacted the Hokage personally the day before, so I wouldn't be able to know. They could've bribed him," Ino's ears twitched, "threatened him," Ino's eyes gained a mischievous glint, "or even blackmailed him…" Ino's mouth pulled into a smirk.

"How exciting!" Ino said in a teasing tone behind her hand. "Think about what that could mean!" Sakura looked at Ino with her scared face: a small, open mouthed frown accompanied by two large, watery eyes. Ino cut off her sentence and blushed faintly. "…N-never mind…"

Sakura's countenance melted into a shy smile and looked back at the upcoming buildings. Sometimes, with a being even older than the oldest bijuu inside her, she marveled at the way civilization had developed. Once in awhile the aloof Kurokami would give her own memories to the Haruno heiress, allowing her to see what it was like back when electricity was only in the sky and language was very different depending on the region. She admired the bright colors Konoha was painted in, since she knew that before they didn't exist. But what she really, really liked were the older styled buildings, like her own compound or the Hyuuga compound. They showed that not all history was erased from every day life, and for Kurokami, that was refreshing to see.

"Oh, look, Sakura!" Ino broke Sakura's train of though as she jabbed a finger at a figure in front of them. "It's Hinata!" Sakura gave a little smile when Ino screamed Hinata's name, already used to the blonde's screeching. The Hyuuga girl turned around meekly but fell into a more relaxed position when she saw the familiar colors that represented her friends.

"H-hi guys," Hinata greeted with a smile as Ino hauled Sakura over to the other heiress. The pinkette smiled at Hinata, her only other friend. Since they were so shy, they didn't have many friends or even aquaintices. Sakura remembered how Hinata was shocked to find someone even shyer than herself. The silly memory brought a small, hidden smile to her lips.

"Good morning, Hinata-chan," Sakura cheerfully chirped. The three had been friends so long that they no longer had to strain their ears to hear Sakura, since she grew somewhat louder when with familiar people. Hinata smiled at her similarly dressed friend. Ino switched her eyes from both girls and sighed exasperatedly.

"Anyone would think you were relatives at a glance!" she whined. "Look at you two!" Hinata and Sakura looked down at each other. "You have the same bangs, the same love for coats, the same shyness… You're even as quiet as one another!" Sakura and Hinata both looked down with blushes sprayed across their cheeks. Sakura's was slightly more prominent though, since her skin was shades lighter than Hinata's somewhat healthier tone.

"I don't think they would completely think we were relatives," Sakura protested quietly. They resumed moving towards the academy, and at the speed they were walking, they would definitely have a few minutes to spare. "Our hair colors are on completely different light spectrums… My eyes are red and Hinata-chan's are that pretty white…" Sakura hid in her collar as Hinata blushed at the comment. Ino scoffed mentally.

'Sakura-chan said she only liked the color, not Hinata's actual eyes… Yeah, that's it!'

'S-Sakura-chan thinks my eyes are pretty!' Hinata cheered mentally. She bubbled with mental happiness that transferred as a blush on the outside world. Meanwhile, Sakura looked at her two friends with a tiny smile. She was grateful to have them, because she would have definitely not have been who she was without them. Bravely, she gently grabbed their hands and began to swing them childishly. Hinata's and Ino's heads both swung towards their captured hands and gained small blushes.

"I-I'm so happy to have you two as my friends!" Sakura declared with a normal voice tone—her 'shouting' voice. Ino hummed loudly with little tears in her eyes as she clamed onto Sakura.

"I-I AM TOO!" she yelled, squeezing Sakura. Hinata followed, but did it more gently.

"S-so am I," Hinata added softly. Sakura couldn't see it, but both huggers sported mighty, dark red blushes.

'Oh my god, oh my god, I'm hugging Sakura-chan!' Ino thought with disbelief. Hinata's thoughts were similar.

'Oh, oh my!' Happily, she smiled into Sakura's hair. 'I'm almost there! I'm going to claim your heart for my own, Sakura-chan!'

…They were slightly more devious though.

"I-I need to be l-let go now…" Sakura requested, somewhat worried that she wouldn't be able to get enough oxygen to her weak heart. Ino and Hinata leapt away for a few reasons: they were both wrapped around Sakura's little finger, they were going to do bad things if they didn't, and they knew of Sakura's condition.

Poor little Sakura had a weak heart. Even though Kurokami had been able to regenerate most of her body, her heart remained weak from the strain of keeping her alive at birth. Kurokami did her best to give it the ultimate protection though, since she didn't admire doing things half-assed. Though it wasn't usually a problem, sometimes Sakura had to be extra careful; if something happened where her heart was anyway harmed it could just stop beating like that. The people outside the compound believed this was why her skin was so deathly white and never tanned, but her family knew it was Kurokami.

"Sorry, Sakura," Ino apologized as the pinkette caught her breath and kept a hand over her heart. Hinata did the same, but in a more nervous voice. Hinata worried greatly for Sakura, because they were very similar in terms of body structure, so she knew how difficult it could be for Sakura.

Sakura breathed in once more and began walking. Hinata and Ino caught up quickly, since Sakura walked slowly. "I'm okay. You, you know, you guys d-don't have to worry like that." She shyly glanced to each of her sides (which were flanked by both infatuated girls). "Y-you should be used to that."

"We know, paper-girl," Ino answered. "But we can't help but worry if something will make you go into a spasm of something." Hinata nodded. Sakura frowned a little and looked towards the ground.

"…Am I that troubling?" Sakura pondered sadly. Ino and Hinata shook their heads madly.

"We j-just worry," Hinata consoled the depressed girl.

Sakura's eyes widened as she came to a sudden thought. "Um, do you realize that we… we may not be placed in the same team…?" The three girls twitched accordingly.

"The-they wouldn't do that!" Ino yelled, waving an arm around. Sakura shook her head as Hinata mulled it over in darkness.

"Think about it… S-statistically, the ratio of girls to boys that passed the gennin exams…" Ino dumbly listened as Sakura showed her potential. No one knew Sakura was this intelligent, since she kept herself to the back and hidden. Sakura counted on her fingers. "There's maybe one girl f-for every two boys. Plus, I know that they split t-the teams up to balance it out or to make id-ideal groups."

"What kind of groups would we be on, then?" Ino asked. "It sounds like you already know the teams."

"No, S-Sakura-chan's just smart about the-these things," Hinata defended.

"Well, I guess I kind of do know," Sakura commented quietly. She saw the Academy in the distance, and Kurokami gave her the time. 'So we have a few more minutes…'

"Tell us!" Ino chanted. Sakura blushed and poked her fingers together like Hinata would.

"I-Ino-chan, you would be on a team for interrogating or capture, because of you signature family jutsu," Sakura pointed out. Ino nodded sagely.

"That would make sense, I guess."

"Hinata-chan, you would probably be sent on a team meant for spying or tracking." Sakura put her hands down.

Hinata pointed to her eyes. "Because of my Byakugan, right?" Sakura nodded.

"…Before we go in…" Ino interrupted mysteriously, "…What would you be on, Sakura?"

Sakura froze for a moment. 'I wish she didn't ask that…' Kurokami smiled darkly from Sakura's mind.

'I know what you would be,' Kurokami teased. Sakura sighed mentally.

'I do as well.'

"Please, Sakura-chan." Hinata looked at Sakura's eyes. "T-tell us?" The ruby eyes moved to the front and recognized the next door as their classroom door.

Hope flitted in Sakura's fragile heart. If she could time it right… "I… I would belong to…" They entered the room just when Sakura wanted it. The loud gennin in the room drowned out her quiet voice. "Search and destroy."

Ino pulled at her bang in frustration. Knowing her best friend, Ino know that Sakura wouldn't repeat herself now that she was in the classroom with other people—actually, she probably wouldn't speak for the rest of the day. Hinata, though, had been taught how to read lips from a very young age, and was extremely shocked.

'S-search and destroy?' she wondered in her mind. 'S-Sakura-chan is too fragile for that type of team! She… She could get killed! She could kill herself if she wasn't careful!' Sweat dripped down Hinata's neck at the horrible prospect of Sakura dying.

"Darn it!" Ino mumbled as she realized that the only seats open were scattered around the room. She would have to leave her precious Sakura next to two strangers! Ino knew that Sakura could be independent and stand her ground, but what if they bullied her?! Hinata, like Ino, worried for Sakura's well being.

'Oh…' the pinkette thought gloomily. She watched as Ino directed Hinata to a seat near the one she chose. Quietly, Sakura moved towards the only seat near Ino's… It was the one in the first row in the front by the window, where Naruto and Sasuke were already sitting down. Cautiously as to not alert them of her presence, Sakura sneaked toward the empty middle seat. Naruto noticed though, and shouted it out.

"Eh?! Sakura-chan, you want to sit here!?" Naruto, as clueless as ever, revealed her carefully woven shield of invisibility. Everyone turned to look at the new spectacle with a few wondering who Sakura was.

Sakura nodded faintly and hid herself in her large red collar while playing with her fingers. Naruto blushed and patted the seat next to him, but not before glaring at the boy across from him.

'Dumb Sasuke! She probably only wanted to sit here because of him!' Naruto grumbled in his mind.

Sasuke, as you may already know, was exceedingly popular with the majority of the female population. With his dark looks, he won over many a girl. This was proven by the overwhelmingly large fanclub he owned—with both genders.

Unlike normal girls, Sakura held little to no interest for romance. Her thoughts were occupied by other, more important things—her family, Kurokami, staying alive, and making sure her heart kept beating. Oh, and to make sure she brushed her teeth twice a day. In fact, she couldn't realize two people in love even if they had a tongue war right in front of her. The Haruno clan had taken a vow to keep Sakura as innocent and clueless as possible. It really wasn't her fault—her family probably didn't want to lose either of the girls (Sakura and Kurokami).

This would explain why Sakura was quite clueless when it came to her own fanclub.

Sakura couldn't even realize her two only friends were probably the proverbial presidents. Ranking below them was pretty much every one else.

Many people couldn't fathom how one, shy, secret girl could manage to pull so many affections from so many ninja and non-ninja. And, actually, it isn't all her. When Kurokami bonded with Sakura she forgot one very important detail: the goddess owned a very annoying pheromone especially for attracting every possible mate, both genders accepted. It was a carry over from her demonic side, for which was born with her. Soon after the fusion was complete, Kurokami literally smacked her forehead with her palm as she remembered all the troubles the damned pheromone caused (between fights and constant bundles of gifts).

Maybe Sakura was living proof that irony existed; Kurokami could never figure it out.

As stated above, Sakura had a large fanclub of her own. Though, not stated above, was that both the males next to Sakura were strong standers in the club. Sasuke was very secret about it because he knew that if something like that leaked to his fangirls, his precious Sakura could very well be harassed in all manners possible.

'S-Sakura wants to sit next to me?!' Sasuke squealed mentally. 'This is a dream come true!'

Ah, yes. I forgot to mention that Sasuke was a girl at heart when it came to romance.

Sakura nervously took the seat before her, trying to ignore the heated stares the two boys were giving each other.

"So, Sakura-chan…" Naruto began to converse, choosing his words carefully, "Who's team do you want to be on?" Sakura's eyes widened and she huddled into her coat a little more. Naruto took this as a sign that she was uncomfortable. 'Aw, crap!'

Sakura hadn't really thought about the kind of people she would be paired with. She didn't really want to. So, she was unsure as how to answer Naruto.

"I-I don't know," Sakura replied, making Naruto strain his ears at the quiet voice. Sakura sighed mentally at the face Naruto made, and guessed he couldn't hear her. Being the smart one, Sakura reached into the desk she sat at and took out the standard piece of paper and pen that was in every desk. Naruto looked at her in question as she wrote.

'I don't know.'was written in neat handwriting at the top of the page. Naruto made a sound in understanding.

"Well," Naruto drew out, "I hope I can be on your team!" Sakura fidgeted a little.

'What do I say to something like that?' Sakura wondered mentally to herself. She didn't want to be impolite or anything. Kurokami grunted before busying herself with some sort of activity. Sakura felt a small bead of sweat go down her neck as she tried to steady her hand to begin writing again.

Naruto watched on as he heard the 'scratch' Sakura's pen made. Inwardly he made a happy sound. 'Sakura-chan's handwriting is even cute!'

'What happens will happen, Naruto-san.' Sakura wrote quickly. She turned to look at him and nervously smiled slightly. The blonde felt his heart flutter a little. Sasuke felt a twinge of jealously and murmured, 'dobe,' as if to get the blonde back.

"What did you say Sasuke-teme!?" Naruto growled angrily and for some unknown reason climbed up and onto the desk to kneel in front of Sasuke. 'Gr! Stupid Sasuke! He ruined the moment!"

Sakura watched the interaction with a growing confusion. 'What? Did I miss something?'

'A boy's heart is a confusing thing,' Kurokami answered mysteriously, like she was trying to be useless. Sakura furrowed her eyebrows. 'I thought I would never say it, but I kinda miss being fought over.'

During the small contemplation seminar she had with Kurokami (which proved fruitless) someone knocked Naruto into Sasuke, making the two boys fall on each other… in a most compromising position.

Fangirls screamed at the kiss as Sakura watched in confusion. Being as naïve as she, Sakura couldn't understand the huge problem. Sasuke and Naruto broke apart quickly and furiously wiped their lips. Both thought the same line at once:

'ARGH! HE STOLE MY FIRST KISS—THE ONE ESPECIALLY FOR SAKURA-CHAN!'

'AHAHAHAHA!' Kurokami bellowed out in humor. Sakura listened as the amused woman in her head rolled and slammed her fist on the metaphorical floor. 'I never got THAT kind of entertainment when I was in my body! HAR HA HAR!' Sakura tensed in annoyance.

'I don't get it!'

"NARUTOoOoOo…." The enraged fangirls called forebodingly as they cracked their fists in a harmonious 'CRACK'. The gennin turned and shuddered at the angry glares. Sakura turned away from Naruto's pummeling, only to look straight into Sasuke's black eyes.

Sakura flinched and flicked her eyes back to the desk. Sasuke didn't stop staring, making Sakura blush at the intense gaze.

'Please stop staring,' Sakura thought hopelessly, like she really wanted to say it but was too bashful to.

'I could watch Sakura-chan all day…' Sasuke sighed dreamily while he stared into Sakura's ruby eyes.

"Class!" Iruka yelled, not paying any attention to the beaten up Naruto limping back into his chair. "Settle down! I'm about to read off your new squads!" The group of fresh gennin silenced quickly and waited for their instructor to give them their places. Clearing his throat, Iruka loudly began. After six teams, he finally came to the cursed Team 7.

"Team 7 will be Uzumaki Naruto, Haruno Sakura—"

"AW YEAH!" Naruto yelled as he threw his fist into the air. "I get Sakura-chan!" Sakura smiled weakly.

"—and Uchiha Sasuke."

Naruto yelled out a loud curse, making Iruka throw a blackboard eraser at Naruto's face. Sasuke smirked smugly and glanced at his 'unofficial' soon-to-be wife. 'What a perfect situation! The dobe will never stand up to my good looks!'

'I… I'll never survive…' Sakura cried mentally. Sure, she might've been able to handle Naruto by himself, but now she had to throw Sasuke into the equation… And the product didn't look good for Sakura. Kurokami began laughing at Sakura's misfortune.

By the end of class, Ino felt bad for both Sakura and herself. Sakura got the two most infatuated boys she knew of that wanted Sakura. Herself: because she got stuck with Chouji and Shikamaru… two other boys who both wanted Sakura for their own. But Ino had luck on her side! It appeared to her that Chouji was too interested in his food and Shikamaru was too lazy to chase Sakura like she was able to! Her chances were much better.

Hinata mentally cursed the person who designed the teams. She had been placed with Aburame Shino and Inuzuka Kiba. This was a team full of clan heirs, all interested in one thing: Sakura. She had some tough times ahead of herself, since she knew both boys fought with passion for what they wanted. At the moment, Hinata saw everyone as a potential threat (except Ino, since the two had some form of 

half-truce at the moment) to her own success. As far as she knew, it was quite possible that even Iruka liked Sakura in a more-than-professional way. That thought made her shiver.

"Please wait for your teachers to come and pick you up!" Iruka ordered while he left the room. The student waited, and not before long, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura were the only people left in the room.

Sakura rested her head in her arms to hide her wide eyed face. 'I… I'm going to die! Definitely!'

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Translations:

Yuri—girl/girl

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