There she was, in the Valley of the End. Besides her was the orange masked Akatsuki member. She had no idea if it was her father, or Tobi, or Obito, but certainly it wasn't going to end well. Her identity and shape was concealed well enough by the bamboo hat. The shadows of her former teammates were clashing against each other.

"Tou-sama...why am I here?" Sakura asked quietly as soon as they arrived. The masked man chuckled darkly.

"To see yourself a display of tremendous power, my child. The 'Last Uchiha' and the 'Kyuubi Container' fighting to death. What do you think of the show? Do you enjoy it?"

All she saw down there were her cousin, her blood and kin, aiming to kill his best friend. Not only his best friend, but hers as well. She was sure they all severed their ties when they discovered her betrayal but she couldn't bring herself to do it. No, she couldn't, and she would be damned if something happened to them if she had a word against it. Her teeth gritted in frustration behind the tall collar of her cloak.

'They...they will kill each other...'

'Do you think you can do something to stop this to happen?'

'I can only try, Matatabi...'

"SASUKE! NARUTO!"

"NANI?!" Her cry brought their attention to the pink haired Akatsuki member.

Sakura tried whatever she could to stop it. To stop the clash between the Chidori and the Rasengan. She did, she really did, and blew her cover for it. The Akatsuki cloak, silky and black with red cloud prints flying in her pace as she dashed on the bridge. The bamboo hat flew over from her head. Madara's eyes widened in shock and anger.

"Stupid brat.." She was going to get killed but he didn't care. His only child disobeyed him, and now she was going to suffer the consequences. With a quick handsign he disappeared, leaving the full Team 7 meet once again.

"S-Sakura...?" The blonde's head turned towards the waves of pink which clouded his vision. While the blue orbs were filled with shock, the Sharingan held nothing but pain, hatred and betrayal. All meanwhile the onyx lone eye of the Copy Nin was just as dumbfounded as the Kyuubi container. Sakura felt the world spin. The air drained her alive as the chidori went through her body.

'I...I won't let them kill each other...I won't allow it!' She screamed in her mind as she collapsed in the arms of his former teammate.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING, NARUTO!?" Sakura heard her cousin yell as the sound of thousand of chirping birds were heard behind her. She coughed up blood as the blonde shielded her. He disappeared along with Hatake Kakashi, leaving a disgruntled and angered Uchiha behind to be taken care of by the rest of the Sound Four.

"Why do you think she did that, Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto was carrying the pink haired nuke nin as they made their way back to Konohagakure. His mind was puzzled. Sakura had left the village. She had lied and decieved everyone, all while playing a double agent for the Akatsuki. She had betrayed the Leaf. Why would she show up to stop their quarell? Unknown to him, Kakashi was asking the same thing about his former student.

"Ibiki will try to get out what he can out of her, I'm sure of that. I'm as puzzled as you." The pink eyebrows furrowed under her slashed hitai-ate.

"Forgive me...please forgive me...' Unknown to them, a tear rolled off her cheeks.

The sun set and finally, the village gates got closer and closer. The lights of the houses were still lighting up the dirt path of the village as the two shinobis were jumping rooftops and entered the office of the Hokage Tower through the window. Paperwork keeps the Hokage busy so it wasn't surprising to find the Godaime Hokage, Senju Tsunade dealing with tremendous amounts of paperwork which came with being the protector of the village.

"Hokage-sama. We have brought a guest."

"Kakashi, how many times I told you to not-"

The hazel colored eyes rose up from the paper she was signing to look in Naruto's arms. She blinked for a few seconds before sighing.

"You know where the dungeons are." The Slug Princess looked at her former student one last time. Naruto sighed and gulped the lump in his throat as he locked the cuffs around Sakura's wrists and ankles. A medical nin took care of her injuries and had made sure the shackles were draining her chakra well enough to escape.

"Sakura...chan..." The jinchuuriki let the Nibi Container in her cell before going back in the Hokage's office.

Sakura felt her head throbbing. She opened her eyes and her Magenkyo Sharingan spinned wildly in the dark. Her coat was discarded on the dirty, cold floor.

'Now I'm dead...I shouldn't have exposed myself but I couldn't let them kill each other...'

'You did it with your own hand, kid.'

'Don't remind me, Matatabi...I promised Itachi nothing will happen to Sasuke...all I hope is that the Akatsuki won't think I betrayed them...losing the trust of my family is the last thing I want right now...'

Sakura rubbed her wrists as the cat demon stayed silent. Heavy footsteps reached the door of her cell.

"Stand up, Uchiha." It was no mistake that the infamous Torture and Interrogation Division master was here. Ibiki Morino. A tall, scary man, with piercing black eyes and bald head full of scars was ready to escort her to her doom. She also remembered him as an instructor in the Chuunin exams. The one in charge of the written part.

The pink haired missing nin stood up, looking straight at him, fearless. She had no regrets. A strand of lighting which had as source a candle lit her beautiful facial features just slightly.

"I have no idea what your intentions were but I'm intending to find out. Along with information on the Akatsuki whereabouts." The cell was opened, and an ANBU agent came behind her to tighten up the shackles so she wouldn't run off. The grinning hyena mask was looking at her mockingly as she marched on the ugly green linoleum corridor.

The sadistic man opened a door which creaked loudly. She sat down on the chair motioned for her. The door closed and Ibiki stood in front of her.

"We will start off simple. Name?"

"Uchiha Sakura." He nodded.

"Age?"

"16."

"Birthplace?"

"East Blue." Waves of shock went through her body as the electric chair she sat on acted up. Her body shook and her teeth gritted.

'Matatabi...lend me your strength'

"Try again, Uchiha." Oh, right. Her Konohagakure birth certificate had Konoha, Land of Fire as her birth place. She coughed up a bit.

"K-Konohagakure no Sato."

"See? The questions are not going to be so hard. At least not for now." He said in a cruel but cold, mocking tone.

"What were you doing out there?"

"Saving...Sasuke..." she sighed and looked up at him.

"That's ironic, since you were Uchiha Itachi's accomplice. Why would you do that?" Sakura stayed quiet. She had made a promise. A promise she wasn't intending to break.

"Well?" Ibiki was getting obviously annoyed as he received nothing but silence. The room turned dark as the genjutsu was activated. Spiked chains were wrapping around her limbs and torso, biting in her flesh and bleeding out through her clothes. She kept silent. Matatabi was absorbing the pain for her and released it into small balls of chakra she will have to regurgitate later, just like how cats would do with their hair balls.

The jutsu dispersed as Ibiki left the room, leaving Sakura panting. The torturer returned with a tall blonde man.

Inoichi Yamanaka followed the tall interrogator and his gaze softened. He had to interview his daughter's former best friend. The one which had her crying after departing from the village.

"She's not reacting at all?" Ibiki shook his head negative.

"She's very stubborn. She won't talk, she won't scream, she won't yell."

"I'm not surprised at all. We are dealing with a S-class missing nin, albeit a young one. But she wouldn't be the only one. I still don't get it why she had stopped young Uzumaki and Uchiha Sasuke."

"That's what we are trying to find out, Yamanaka." Inoichi nodded and walked closer to her.

"I won't hurt you. Ino misses you." He whispered enough for her to hear. Sakura had to hold back her tears and nodded, opening her mind for him. Everything else was classified. But she left one memory open for him. Guarded by the Guardian of her Mind, Matatabi.

The blonde haired shinobi was looking for whatever it could be useful. He could find himself in a damp corridor, with the floor flooded and the walls covered in metal boxes of folders. Walking through the maze, a flash of blue fire appeared before his eyes. A green eye and an amber eye stared down at him.

"Uchiha-san has allowed me to show you only one memory. But it's important it will be left between you and Morino-san." The cat demon spoke lowly dangerously as it eyed him.

"I...understand." He had never been so close to a Tailed Beast before, even though he was aware it wasn't nothing but a projection in her mind. The chakra was still so strong...

The large blue paw with black swirls opened a drawer which held one lone scroll. It was of medium size, thing, white with purple edges. With black kanji was written boldly CLASSIFIED. The cat demon handed it to the shinobi.

Inoichi opened the scroll and read it. His blue eyes got wide as he was reading it. The executive order of the ROOT. Signed by Shimura Danzo. The subjects were Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Sakura. The former was just 13. The later was only 8. He had to tell Ibiki about this. The teenager in the electric chair was in the wrong place. The teenager in the electric chair has saved the village from a raging civil war. He would have said the same about Uchiha Itachi, but he wasn't sitting on the Throne of Death at this very moment.

The blonde haired ninja nodded and handed the cat demon the scroll before getting out of her mind.

"Ibiki, we have a lot to talk." The Head of the Yamanaka clan lead the Interrogator Chief out of the room while Sakura rubbed her nose in the collar of her shirt.

"I didn't want them to know but...it's important if Sasuke is left out of this.'

'Sasuke this, Sasuke that. I understand he's precious to you but you're your own being! Grow a backbone and don't let Itachi play with your life!' Matatabi scolded her host and Sakura sighed. Pretty puzzled, she watched the men get back in the room holding a strange scroll.

"You're free, Sakura." Inoichi smiled slightly and she just looked at him confused as they removed her shackles.

"Yamanaka-san has told me everything about the mission, Uchiha Sakura. Would you want us to talk to the Hokage about this?" He asked much gentler than how he would do with one of his victims. Ibiki Morino looked down at her weak and weary self.

Sakura shook her head in horror.

"N-No, Morino-san. The Godaime can't know about this. Naruto-kun can't know about this and certainly can't Sasuke-kun. It would break his heart to know that Konoha indirectly murdered his clan."

"Do you really think that Uchiha Sasuke would turn his back on the village and slaughter the home his loving brother and cousin tried to protect?"

"Sasuke-kun is not always right in the mind when it comes with avenging what he thinks is right, Yamanaka-san." Sakura shook her pink head.

"Well this will stay between us then. Do you know what is this, Sakura-san?" The said kunoichi eyed the scroll in the blonde's hand.

"It's a transportation jutsu. You see, the shinobi world is heavily guarded by protecting genjutsus which keeps it apart from other civilian countries. Except for-"

"Land of Iron...Wano Country." Sakura answered for him, sighing.

"Yes. The Samurai still communicate with both the Shinobi world and the seas. This seal will get you over the seas. You can't stay here, Sakura-san. You will be hunted down, you can't leave the village undetected and you can't hide here either." He looked at her sadly. Sakura nodded.

"I...I'm so sorry for everything!" She started crying and wailing, the death of her mother flashing before her eyes once again. Ibiki felt a migrene coming soon, but he also felt slight pitiful about the pink haired kunoichi. Inoichi patted her shoulder. Her body shook as she finally broke down after 9 years from the incident, the incident which marked her life when she was manipulated into murdering her clan by the ROOT. "I..."

"We will keep the secret to our graves, we can promise you that. Ready to go?" An ANBU walked inside, giving her Akatsuki cloak. Sakura managed to drown down her hiccups and crying and took a deep breath as she shivered. She took the long coat in her arms and nodded shyly, rubbing her eyes dry."Yes, Yamanaka-san." The said shinobi applied chakra on the scroll and unsealed it. Darkness veiled her body. She felt her muscle tissue tear up as every inch of her body burnt. She felt like throwing up, her stomach was twisting in dangerous angles, until the pain stopped. She was unable to open her eyes or hear, but all she felt was free falling before splashing as her body sunk underwater.

Ibiki looked at the empty electric chair, save for one red ribbon which was left in her pace. Inoichi recognized it immediately. He tucked it in his pocket and left to find his daughter. Meanwhile, Morino Ibiki sat down to fill down a report.

NAME: Uchiha Sakura

AGE: 16

SEX: Female

CLAN: Uchiha

STATUS: Missing Nin (dead)

CAUSE OF DEATH: Executed for treason.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: No information surfaced after the interrogating process. Body was discarded and burnt.