Okay guys, there were requests for me to continue on with this story, and instead of starting a whole new area to this story I just changed it to a WIP and added in this chapter. I'm not too sure how to follow through with the first chapter and I realize, yes it's mighty boring so far, but I am hoping to add in some actual fighting next chapter! So hopefully I don't bore you too much till then. I'm a lot like Sakura right now in this thing, I don't know what I'm doing with this. But I thought I'd try anyways, after all, when asked so nicely how can I not?

You are way more than welcome to throw ideas at me in review, in fact... I beg of you too. Your insight might back this a little more interesting then what I could do on my own! If you also see any error's, don't hesitate to throw those out too, same with criticism, just don't be mean to me. Thank you for your support!~ Kitten

Sakura's Memory

Sea foam eyes snapped to the crack in the wall, the crack in the wall that had seemingly gotten smaller than the last time she was in the Hokage tower in the records room. The crack in the wall that was about the height of a doorway and the top crack was about the length of a door way too... her eyes blinked slowly, milky, porcelain skin covering her vibrantly colored eyes for a second before she walked over to the 'crack'. She had always felt a draft she had just figured it was an old window that had been sealed shut because who puts windows in a shinobi's records room? She put slight pressure on the area that was cracked for the first time and it swung open easily, almost too easily. She looked around carefully, she didn't detect anything wrong, but she wasn't exactly willing to run in either. She took proper precautions anyways, releasing any possible genjutsu, simple to Hokage level (the beauty of being the Hokage's assistant) and then grabbed her candle off of the floor in the records room and took a daring step into the room. Pushing the door shut almost completely behind her.

You shouldn't go places you're not supposed to go Sakura! She blinked as the voice in her head reappeared, she had lost inner quite a long time ago, as soon as she made the vow to become stronger, the first time Tsunade praised her for her skill to be exact. In a way it had probably always been her adjusting her subconscious to get the desired effect but it was never her itself.

"If I don't do it, will you go away?" Her voice was a breathy whisper, afraid of someone hearing her talking to herself and then coming to find out what she was doing. It wouldn't be the first time her mouth got her into deep trouble.

No. The voice reverberated around her head and she nodded, continuing to slowly walk down the pathway way, checking for any signs of traps her eyes wary and alert. A hidden hallway located in the Hokage's tower, now wasn't that weird? It could be an old escape tunnel, long forgotten from when the first Hokage had the thing built, but one would have to assume that they would know enough not to put all of Konoha's records in a room that links to an escape tunnel, no matter how well hidden, things and people tended to find their way into their tunnels. It took her a minute to realize that the tunnel was curving and sloping downwards, she blinked slowly and lazily and picked up her speed, content that there wouldn't be anymore traps (even though she kept a close eye out anyways).

There was a cold draft in the dark hallway that caused the pink, short haired girl to shiver and get goosebumps. "This place creeps me out." Her voice seemingly echoed even though it was nothing but a small whisper barely audible. The hallway was musty, and the smell of it was extremely strong as she walked further down the hallway, each step seemingly making the scent stronger and stronger. Her sea foam eyes widened as she saw light slipping in the hallway through a crack was someone already down there? She was insanely glad she always concealed her chakra signature or else she would have been revealed immediately. He blew out her candle, giving it a second to allow her eyes to adjust to the darkness around her before she approached the door, pressing against it and listening in. There's not a single sound in there, we should leave, like five minutes ago.

She pressed against the door slightly, willing it to open and luckily, it did without a sound. She peaked in and looked around. Every single inch of wall space, minus where the door was located, was lined with scroll shelves, and the shelves were filled with scrolls. Each little diamond shaped cubby had plaques above them stating whose information was in it she assumed, there was a center table and above it a large light fixture that was illuminating the room, but she saw no switches, perhaps it was doomed to remain on forever? She pushed the door open all the way and walked in, there was no one else in there. The room looked like it hadn't been touched in years. What was this hidden scroll room?

She shook her head and sighed, maybe it was all because she stumbled across that room, the room that gave her everything she needed to know and then some. Every single file on the one and only Uchiha Itachi was located in that room down the creepy tunnel that she had found, files that were allegedly stolen by the Uchiha Itachi when he ran away, and that... that was the first eye opener she had. Then as she read through her accidental find, she had put everything together. Especially when it came to reading around the room, a room that had been stored with every single file on all of the Uchiha's. The Hokage, whichever one designed the room, was a sneaky bastard and she wanted the truth, behind everything.

Hence the entire reason why she started investigating the older Uchiha brother, Sasuke had no information, obviously, or else his views on his brother would be altered. But was it the fact that she had started investigating that had caused problems arise? The words still echoing in her head as if he was saying them out loud into her ear on repeat. " I do not expect you to listen to me, but you mustn't return to Konoha. The council elders... they have ordered your assassination." She didn't want to believe him, after all, she couldn't right? He was still her enemy, he had killed Konoha shinobi, he had fought against them.

Self protection doesn't make him an enemy, Sakura. You know that.

She sighed and her shoulders sagged as the gates came into view, she was 'home', but with thoughts of the Uchiha's warning in her head she couldn't feel comfortable acknowledging it as her home. She shouldn't feel so doubtful about her village, she should be able to trust blindly that they wouldn't actually do anything like that, but she couldn't. She shouldn't have any thoughts about the criminal being correct, that her death was near and she was blindly walking into a trap. Damn it! Why did she have to notice that crack, everything would have been fine if she hadn't gone snooping! "Hey Izu-"

Sea foam eyes widened immediately. Go! Get the hell out of here! Now! She spun on her heel immediately, Izumo and Kotetsu weren't there and she knew today was their shift, she knew they were supposed to be there for another two hours because she had scheduled it! If they were off the schedule something was definitely wrong. If the gate was unguard something is definitely, definitely wrong. Why are you so obtuse? She felt chakra signatures coming from behind her (inside the village) and she booked it, small shouts of 'restrain her!' echoed into her ears and she added to her speed. She needed to stop running for her life sometime that day.

"Haruno-san!" She recognized that voice, Nara Shikamaru, "Don't stop! But listen to me!"

"I'm done listening to people today!"

"Look! It's ANBU coming after you! Run to your special place! We will meet up with you later!"

She side glanced to see the Nara struggle slightly to keep up with her, next to him there were two other's. Sea foam eyes widened as she watched Hinata and Neji running with him. Trust them, okay? Give them a shot, your chakra detection capabilities are too powerful for them to fool you. There are about seven places to escape from and they only know three, do it. "You have one shot, I find out you're working with them I will kill you."

She took off running, going the same direction she had just came from. The older Uchiha was correct, and there was a small spark of pride in him and- no not in him, in yourself, for believing he had the capabilities of being good. You were correct on some levels. Maybe our luck will let us run into him again on the way there, to let him know of the outcome, to let him know where you will be? She shook her head, she didn't want to let him know where she was going to be, that could be disastrous, he helped her out this time. Or it was all a ploy. She needed to stop second guessing herself. Her ears picked up the whistling sound of kunai coming from her right, so an ANBU managed to slip through or was let through. She growled under her breath as she gripped shuriken and launched them at the ANBU, as could be expected he had dodged them easily. She was getting aggravated, doubting her comrades, trusting her enemies, what was next? Proposing to some random civilian?

She twisted out of the way of a kick as he reappeared in front of her, bringing her to a stand still. "Haruno Sakura."

"Oh my, ANBU-san, I didn't realize it was you trying to kill me. Whatever did I do wrong?" Her voice was sugary sweet, it disgusted her so she hoped it was having the same effect on him, "You see, this little birdy told me that I shouldn't go home, but I did because I trusted my village to not slay me. But I see that the little birdy was right, oops!" She giggled and her eyes narrowed, her voice becoming cold immediately, "I suggest you get the fuck out of my way before I kill you."

"You are not allowed to be left alive, Haruno-san. Council's orders. My sincere apologies, I had believed we could be good friends when you started your ANBU training."

She knew who was in front of her, why wasn't it clicking. "Where's my team, ANBU-san?"

The man in front of her snorted unceremoniously, his ruff bass voice echoing around them, "They too, have fled."

"Shino, most girls don't like bugs, why would I want to be your friend?"

She swung a high kick, hoping to catch him off guard but it was easily deflected. "I do not want to kill you, just detain you."

"You still have a heart then? Wow!" She jumped back a few feet, hands flashing with jutsu. A simple displacement jutsu that made her poof into a log when shuriken rained into her back. "Nevermind! Here I thought you would fight fair."

"Sakura-san!" She knew that voice, sea foam green eyes looked up just in time to see a the same cloak as earlier, only this time he had picked her up and dodged two jutsu that were aimed at her. Told you we'd run into him again!

"Uchiha-san!" She was, for the lack of better words, speechless as she gently set her back down, facing her opponents, all of them this time. His hand was on her shoulder, keeping her body close to his, her back pressed against his front, at any other time she would be focussing on the closeness, but she didn't have time. He saved you. He stuck around to make sure you were okay. That's cute. "I am so damn confused!" She screamed in frustration, her small, delicate pale hands rubbing her temples. Only god knew how it looked to the ANBU in front of her, probably wondering if she was working with the Akatsuki all along.

Three other people joined her side, staring at her in confusion, "S-Sakura-chan?"

The sweet voice of Hinata reached her ears easily and she huffed. Itachi's hand tightening minutely on her shoulder as he held her close. "I can't believe this shit. ANBU-san, relay my message to the Hokage and the council. Any attempts at assassinating me, or my comrades will end in failure, by attacking me when I have done no wrong you are starting a war that you will not win. Even if I, Haruno Sakura, have to take the entire village myself."

Her hands rolled through a few handsigns and she disappeared from sight, the four shinobi following after a few seconds. Sakura hadn't sounded herself when she spoke, what was wrong now?