The next day Sakura cautiously got out of her bed and walked out to her bathroom. Looking at herself in the mirror she groaned. She looked horrible. After an hour or two of attempting to make herself some what decent she prepared to leave for training. She grabbed her stuff and headed for the door but hesitated.

"What if Itatchi's out there waiting for me?"

Knowing she had no convincing excuse to skip she opened the door and headed out.

Arriving late she sat down in the grass a little further away from the group then usual. Naruto glanced at her.

"What Sakura are you too cool to sit by us?" he teased.

Putting on a fake smile she scooted a little closer but kept her attention elsewhere.

"Now that everyone is here." Said Kakashi appearing out of no where, "we'll start. Today we're not doing anything special today. Just basic training. I'm feeling a bit on the lazy side today."

With that the team separated to their tree of choice and began practicing. After a while Sasuke couldn't help but notice something was wrong. Sakura wasn't the best of ninja around when it came to combat but how she was training today was just sad. And she hadn't said one word to him the whole time. Not that he cared. It was a relief not to have her distracting him from his training but…

After training Sakura immediately went to Naruto.

"Naruto…" she said quietly averting her eyes from Sasuke who was watching. "Would you…walk me home?" she asked.

For a second Naruto, Sasuke, and Kakashi were shocked. Why hadn't she gone to Sasuke? As a matter of fact, why would she even need some one to walk her home?

Naruto gave her a look wondering what had gotten into her. "Why me?" he asked. "You scared of something?"

She looked away. Truth was she was terrified. She would have asked Sasuke but she couldn't bring herself to do it. After Itatchi's little visit, she already felt like she had betrayed him for talking to him. She should have stood up for Sasuke. Insisted that Itatchi told her why he wanted Sasuke up on a roof top alone. She felt like she had already led Sasuke to his death even though she had no intention of telling him to go there at all.

"Naruto, Sasuke, would you escort her home? What ever reason she had for asking is her own reason." Kakashi said suddenly realizing Sakura was in fact scared of something. He would have done it himself but his first priority was to find out why his student was scared.

The two ninja nodded, picked up their items, and began walking towards Sakura's house with her practically attaching herself on to them her eyes darting here and there. As they walked she caught a glimpse of a figure in a tree. Her eyes widened in fear as she realized it was Itatchi smirking.

"Oh my God he's watching me!" she thought panicking. She hugged closer on Naurto's arm shifting her eyes fixed on the tree. Noticing Sasuke looked in the direction she was but seeing nothing sighed. They got to the door and opened it.

She entered her colorful home as if it belonged to a stranger with a bad attitude. Naruto's stomach growled therefore he paid no attention to her.

"Well Sakura your home, I got to go eat or I'm going to die." Naruto said cheerfully disappearing into the trees.

Sakura frowned having forgotten all she asked them to do was take her home. As soon as Sasuke left she'd be alone with the peering eyes. Who was to say he wouldn't just deicide to kill her right then and just tell Sasuke himself? Why would he even bother himself with following her if he didn't have something in mind to ensure she told Sasuke? With these thoughts she moaned and began closing the door.

"Sakura, wait." Sasuke said his eyes fixed upon her facial features.

"Yes." She said unable to look back.

"Something's wrong. Since when are you afraid of your own home?" he asked.

She shrugged. "What makes you think I'm afraid? I'm just a little tired that's all." She said still avoiding his face and trying to shut the door.

He pushed it back open. "Well whatever it is your afraid of stop. It only makes it worst. If you need anything Naruto is close by." He said. He wanted to say he was to but as it turns out her was all the way across town. What ever she was afraid of worried him slightly for a certain reason.