Chapter 2

The Innocent and the Tainted

The second chapter is up and ready to read! Wow it takes so long to update a chapter! i guess now i understand, why authors take long to update, cuz it really takes time. You have to edit and all that, and then you dont know if the chapter was gud enough until u get reveiws saying its good or bad...okay so this chapter is really focusing on Sakuras and Sasukes lives, the next chapter is really more focusing on the plot! oh yea and ATTENTION: I FORGOT TO PUT INFORMATION ON SASUKES CURSE MARK SO I CHANGED THE FIRST PARAGRAPH IN THE FIRST CHAPPIE, SO YES SASUKE DOES HAVE A CURSE MARK AND ITS A VERY VITAL POINT IN THIS STORY!! YEA I KNOW IM STUPID...

Disclaimer: If i owned Naruto i would make Sasuke and sakura a couple! Sadly i dont...

Sakura's POV

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"Who is she?"

"She looks a little strange don't you think?"

"Look at her pink hair! Its so un-usually bright!"

"Yea! Who has pink hair these days?"

Whispers filled my ears as i slowly began to wake up. I lifted my eyes open halfway to see about six pairs of eyes staring down at me. I grumbled and rubbed my eyes, to see a little more clearly and sat up. Opening my eyes fully, i saw children around my age and younger staring at me awkwardly. I noticed that they all had short hair, while my hair reached to my mid back. I smiled at them and spoke "Hi, my names Sakura" Then yawned.

"Look! she has such green eyes!" someone said, everyone kept on staring at me.

My smile faded and i looked at the clock that read 5:50am. Ten more minutes. "Well im gonna sleep for ten more minutes" I yawned and let sleep take me. But then i heard someone speak "You can't, you have to pack up, and be ready for 6:00am" I groaned and creaked an eye open to look at a girl with chocolate brown hair that cascaded down to her shoulders and blue eyes, she looked around 15, 16 and was staring at me weirdly.

"I groaned again, "Ok then, i got up then fell back down on the mat trying to keep my eyes open. I only had 3 hours of sleep.

The girl spoke again "Sakura right? Your new i guess, Im Shiori, and my advice to you is to shape up if you dont want to get beaten to death" I winced "Thanks for the advice, i think" i spoke. Shiori looked at me "You look weird, did you dye your hair or something?" A vein popped out of my forehead "No" i flatly answered.

She eyed me "Liar" she stated rudely and stalked off.

My eye twitched, what reason would i have to lie?? I quickly ignored the statement and put my mat away, and headed to the other side of the wall where all the orphans were leaning against chatting loudly to eachother, i kept quiet and twiddled my fingers nervously, wondering if i should speak to someone or not. Suddenly the room became quiet and a few seconds later Kae-san barged in with bundles of scrolls, in her/his hands. No one was leaning against the wall but standing up straight and quiet, i realized i was still leaning against the wall and stood up straight.

My new master began to assign jobs to do for each person, since i was at the end of the line, i would be last. I sighed quietly and waited patiently for my assigned jobs. It seemed to be taking forever and i slowly closed my eyes, my mind wondered elsewhere.

"HARUNO!" I opened my eyes to see Kae-san glaring down at me. Everyone had gone to do their jobs and i was the only one left in the room. I wished somebody would've woken me up. I looked up to Kae-san wih apologetic eyes "G-gomen Kae-san, it wont happen again" i stuttered. She kept on glaring at me then silently began rolling out the scrolls. I tensed.

This was not a good start to my first day.

Sasuke's POV

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I woke up roughly around 8:00am and began to get ready to return back to my home on the outskirts of the leaf country. I found that i didnt need much sleep these days, nor food for that matter, i remembered that i didnt have anything in the kitchen because didnt exactly live here anymore. I would have to get something once i left my apartment.

I put on my anbu outfit, putting on the blades last and grabbed my mask. Even though i had left the village, i was still apart of it, i had already gotten my anbu status long time, meaning i could still do missions, but i didnt have enough time for that. I grabbed my sword, which was my most favourite weapon.

Checking i had kunais, shuriken etc.. i grabbed my pouch and put it on. Then grabbed my keys and headed downstairs and out the door. I walked dowm the streets of Konoha feeling content, until a loud familar voice called me.

"TEMEEEEEEEEEEEE!" it screamed, i plugged my ears, why was Naruto up this early in the morning, and how comes he was so hyper? He ran up to me and hit me in the back so hard i choked on my own spit. Naruto grinned as though he couldnt see me gasping for breath and spoke "Long time no see teme!"

I gave my imfamous glare and choked out "dobe, hit me again like that and ill kill you"

He chuckled and said "Still an exaggerating bastard i see"

"hn" i said not really wanting to attack that statement. I was trying to ignore the dobe as much as possible, but i knew that my patience would ware out. Then Naruto spoke "Hey, since you came all this way to see me, how about to go get ramen?"

That was the third strike, i growled, "who said i came to visit you?" i seethed. Naruto laughed "Sorry, but its too easy to annoy you, and fun, how about we get that ramen? Its on me! i have a mission after so i need to tank up." I was hungry, and i wasn't going to pas up a free meal from my best friend/enemy, i shrugged and followed Naruto to the Ichiraku ramen shop.

Weirdly enough the shop was just around the corner, Naruto and i went in and sat down to order. "I'LL HAVE ONE MISO RAMEN PLEASE!!" naruto screeched to Ayame, god i swore my ears were nearly bleeding, Ayame looked startled but still smiled, she turned to me and asked "may i take your order?" I sighed and mumbles "Same as Naruto"

Ayame went away and Naruto asked me "Hey, besides coming here to visit me? What are you doing here??" I rolled my eyes "I have to report in every month about Akatsuki remember dobe? God you ask this all the time" Naruto grinned sheepishly "hee hee, i forgot, you know i still don't get why you have to be away from Konoha when, could get missons that involve Itachi" My eyes narrowed "No Naruto, i have to do this alone, thats why i left the village" Naruto scoffed "You and your revenge, you shouldnt make it your whole life you know, you'll regret it" I stayed silent, as Ayame served the ramen. I took my chopsticks and began to eat silently as Naruto yelled at the top of his lungs "ITADAKIMASU!!" and started eating noisily.

The silence was content until, i heard a squeal "SASUKE-KUN!!" I saw a flash of blond then, someone squeezing me into a tight hug, i groaned and pushed the person off. Ino smile "Long time no see sasuke-kun! Did you miss me?" I glared and grunted "hn" This was going to be a long day...

Sakuras POV

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I wiped a bead of sweat as i continued to work in the fields, it was getting un-usually hot, but at 3:00pm that was when it was most hot. I was exhasted and i felt stupid after getting busted three times already. It seemed that i was already making enemies on my first day, that bitch Shiori, tripped me over and made me drop the dishes, and my punishment is i don't get anything to eat. Then Shiori opens the stables so all the horses run out and blames it on me, it seems that all the other orphans agreed evn though they did not see me do it. Which is totally unfair. So now i'm stuck doing my second punishment today, which is to clean pull out all the weeds in this massive patch of a field which is utterly barbaric, pointless and physically impossible, really just to make me suffer under this heat and possibly die of thirst.

I have also learned that my master is indeed a women, though she doesnt take care of herself very well. I have decided to call her the ladyman because she has seemed to have taken a specific liking to me (as in she likes to torture me the most). Everyone seems to gossip about weird stuff, what they would do if the had 1000yen or something like that, i also realized that everyone like to form there own groups. As in they only talk to their group of friends and ignore everyone else. Of course im ignored all the time, but Shioris group likes to get me into truoble.

I looked out into the fields, all it seemed to have stretched on and on with a few trees, there was a dirty road that disappeared both ways horizontally and there was a path that led to the big cottage that i was enslaved in. I was glad that i only had to do one patch of the field, doing all of them would defiantly be physically impossible. I wondered why the orphanage was in the middle of nowhere, could it be so that orphans wont try to escape? It guess it would be since most of my orphanages had high security and alarm systems, this cottage had none.

I continued to pull out the weeds and throw them in a bag, my hands were dirty and sore, I was scorched and sweaty under the sun, and it felt like i had no saliva my mouth. I needed water fast, and once i was done i would be able to go to the well and get some, but i knew i would be finished in another 2 hours or so, so i lay there and tried to look up at the bright sun, but it blinded my eyes so i closed them and tried to cool down.

Even though the grass was cool, the ray of the sun was still burning my face, so i got up and began to work again. As i was pulling out weeds, i saw a worm as long as 30cm and shrieked...sort of loudly. I hated all kinds of bugs except of caterpillars and butterflies. I especially hated long and hairy bugs that crawled or wriggled fast. Luckily i was far away from the cottage, or i would have been beaten. i breathed out a sigh and continued to work.

Sasukes POV

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I dragged my way to the gates of Konoha wearily. After the dobe left me for his mission, i was stuck with Ino, who wouldnt stop talking, then i was called back into the hokage office by Tsunade and was asked to do a couple of D-rank missions since all her genin were doing the chuunin exams. Not really wanting to feel her wrath since she didnt get much sleep, i agreed.

When she pulled a out a scroll and handed it to me, i rolled it and found that i wasn't doing a 'couple' of D-rank missions but at least a hundred. She pushed me out of her office and slammed the door shut before i could protest. Even though i knew i could do these missions...well chores in a heartbeat, it was the time that it would take, which was all day. So i ended up spending all day doing stupid chores for the village. Now i have to make my way back home, and far far away from this village, where there is peace and quiet and no noisy interruptions.

I would finally rest and then get back to fulfilling my dream goal. Oh boy was i wrong...

I quietly walked out of Konoha gates, and began to walk at a normal pace. It was around 6:30, i t would take afew hours to get back to wear i lived, so i may as well take my time.

Sakuras POV

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I made my way back to the cottage with minimum energy, i felt drained, exhausted, and i still wasn't sure if i had gotten every weed out, since it was getting to dark for me to see, and cold. Besides that he/she person won't want to go out in the middle of the night looking for weeds. Besides all i wanted to do was go to sleep, wake up and, try and figure out how to stay away from Shiori. I now i could get her back to what shes done to me. But people would probably support her and it would be a whole mess. it was not really worth trying to get Shiori into trouble.

I reached the door and knocked it quietly, afew seconds later the door swung open to reveal Kae-same/lady-man. i stared up at her, forgeting how frightning she could be up close, she was insanely tall, and looked..well..ugly.

She grunted 'Have you finished?" I nodded silently, she eyed to suspiciously "I will check tomorrow you know, so you better not be lying to little wench" I looked at her innocently "I'm not lying Kae-sama" She grunted again and yanked me and told me to go to bed. I nodded silently and made my way upstairs. The upstairs part was pretty big, i nearly forgot which room everyone was staying in. When i found it, i opened the door and closed it quietly behind me.

Everyone stopped talking and looked at me for a few seconds before looking away and resuming their conversation's. I sighed quiety before getting a mat and positioning it in the far corner like the night before. I lay down on it, but heard more whispers behind me. I suddenly became less tired and more interested in what they were saying. My front was facing the wall, and my eyes were wide open, listening intently on what they were saying.

"I cant belive she let out a whole horde of horses!"

"Yeah, ever since she came here, shes been nothing but truoble, i say kae-san should it her out!"

"Your right Shiori! she has been trouble, but none of us saw her do that"

"I did, with my own eyes! And you know what? Shes been lying about her hair colour, of course she gonna lie about this!"

"I guess, your right, that hair colour is...odd"

"She also doesn't talk much, do you think we should talk to her?"

"And get into trouble? No way! I dont want to get punished!"

"Yeah..i wouldnt want to pick out all the weeds on a massive field! i mean its sort of impossible and it has no point in it"

"If you ask me, she didn't get punished enough, Kae-san is going to soft on her!"

"You think?"

"Really?"

"Hell yeah!"

"SHUT THE HELL UP IN THERE OR I'LL COME IN THERE AND WHIP YOU ALL TO DEATH!"

Everyone eeped and the room was suddenly silent. I was silently crying and i didnt even realize it. So that was what they thought of me? i never thought that i would care of what people thought of me, but it seems that i do...deeply. i was no longer tired, i just kept quiet, and listened to the breathings of the other orphans around me. What would my mom and dad do if everyone hated them? Was it really because of my unusually bright pink hair? if i ever escaped here, and got money i would definatley dye my hair a different colour.

If i ever escaped

Escaped

My eyes shot open and i began to think of advantages and disadvantages.

Disadvantages:

This is place is in the middle of no where so i wouldnt know where to go

I have no money

its to cold outside and dark

Advantages:

i would be free..

I shook my head in confusion. there wasn't enough advantages except the fact that i would be free. Escaping would be extremely easy, except for the fact that you would die in the middle of nowhere because you have no food or shelter. It would be really stupid to just up and go like that without any sense of direction. I sat up and began to fiddle with my hair, my eyes drooping, but my brain wide awake. I wasnt exactly sure if i should leave this place tonight...

If i did go, at least i would die a death know that i was free, and not know that i was forced against my own will to work for a slave-driving, evil, big fat he/she person that has no sense of security. I laughed softly, putting it like that made me want to run out of the house right this second. Maybe..it was a good idea for me, since i wasnt really afraid of death, i woudnt mind running away..

I looked up to check that everyone was asleep. Getting up slowly, i made my way to the door and slowly opened it, trying to avoid it creaking loudly.

Tip-toeing down the hallway, i heard the he/she beast snoring loudly, which was a good sign for me. I slowly made my way down the stairs, nearly half ran to the door, pausing, i turned around to look at the kitchen wondering, do i need food?

I wasn't even sure if i would last the night, though if i wanted to, i would have to pack a few things. I ran to a closet and found a back pack of some sort. I began to fill it with food from the refrigerator as quietly as i could. Grabbing a warm blanket and stuffing it in my back pack, i walked out the door, making sure it was closed quietly behind me. I was for once glad that they didn't have an alarm system.

Walking onto the path, i felt the cold set into my feet immediately as i touched the ground, the wind whipped at my face and rags and i shivered. I began walking slowly and i stared up at the sky, i was glad that there were no clouds in the sky, that meant that there wasn't going to be any thunderstorms, instead, it was lit with stars, the crescent moon was shining bright, and i couldn't help but stare in awe. This was definately what it was like to be free, i couldn't help but smile again, even though i didn't know where i was going, it was nice to know that you didn't belong to anyone but yourself, no one telling you what to do.

My eyes shifted to back where the cottage was, weirdly enough i couldnt see it anymore, had i gone that far and not realized it? I scolded myself for my stupidity and continued to walk. The blew blew through me vigorously as i shivered again. I was sure i would die of hypothermia.

Just then my eyes caught on something big, well a huge hill to be exact. It was so tall that I couldn't see what was on the other side, i became curious and made my way towars the big hill. I felt sudden urge to run up the hill. So began to walk a faster pace then fully i began to run. For some reason i felt joy, and i began to laugh closing my eyes for afew seconds, once i got up my eyes widened. Even though all i could see were hill and trees, i was sure i could see a few houses and lights to be exact. Could i be close to a village. Excitment rushed through me and i began to skip around in circles, humming and singing.

My stupidity kicked in again, i tripped on something hard and began rolling down the steep hill. I screamed Thorns and plants, cut my skin, i kept tumbling and rolling, i closed my eyes shut to wait for my body to stop moving. I rolled into more leaves before fully stopping. i lay there for afew seconds for sitting up and brushing myself off. "Ow...im such a clutz" i mumbled to my self, pulling leaves out of my long pink hair and inspecting my cuts and scars. I looked up to see where i was, and realized that it was almost pitch black here, all i could see were the leaves and branches of the tall trees under the moonlight, i heard a howl and i whimpered.

Realizing i was in the forest, i went looking for my backpack, it must have rolled off when i was tumbling down the hill. How was i supposed to find it in the dark. i plopped down on the ground and started to cry quite loudly. Stupid me for being weak, and such a baby, it was also stupid of me to run away. I decided that whatever happens to me tonight i wouldn't care.

I heard a swift movement and immediately looked up. Fear began to sink when i saw a man, standing in front of me holding a sword in front my face, i couldnt make out his body or face, but all i saw was a pair of red eyes. They had three commas in them and they definitely looked evil. He put the sword to my chin, and i stared up at him, to terrified to speak, my lip quivered. How comes i didn't hear him approach me?

"Tell me" the deep voice spoke "What are you doing here?"

A/N: YAY im done the second chapter and i combined two chapters! cuz..well i felt like it. Oh and remember that SASUKE DOES HAVE A CURSE MARK!...kay i guess thats it..remember to reveiw, and i promise that the next one will come up sooner.

Ja!

Mizu-chan