Haseo Aurion: Welcome to chapter 3 of Sakura: Ninja Contractor X Hunter. I hope that you will enjoy this chapter as well as the other 2 chapters. I'm going to skip the part of the whole team test because we know what happens anyways with the team test. Another part that will be skipped will be the pet cat part and also, some parts will be short. So now, let's start with the chapter! I apologize about the late update, but I was thinking about the whole situation. So, if someone could tell me if it's too close to cannon that would be great.

Warning: Language and the same warning on chapter 1 and chapter 2.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, Darker than Black, or Devil May Cry series, or any of the songs that are used, they all belong to their representative owners.

Sakura stood in the Hokage Tower with Naruto and Sasuke on both sides of her, while Kakashi, Dante, and Li stood behind them. She was glad to have passed the team test as well to finally see her new senseis. She knew that they didn't come for the introduction and her team exam, but she exclaimed the good news of joy when she came home.

Flashback:

Sakura ran through the door of her house smiling in joy. She saw her mom setting up the table calmly and she knew that it was pizza night…again. She then exclaimed, "Mom guess what?"

"What dear?" Saiki asked her as she continued setting up for dinner.

"I passed my gennin exam and starting tomorrow I can go on missions. Isn't that great?"

Saiki looked over at her daughter and hugged her in joy as she had tears coming out of eyes. They then heard Dante yell, "Is the pizza here yet?"

"Sakura, why don't you bring Dante and Li here, then you can tell them what happened. Okay dear?"

Sakura nodded as she walked in the living room to see Dante sprawled out on the couch and Li sitting in another chair. She then gave off a small cough, but they didn't pay any attention until Sakura yelled, "Pizza is here guys!"

Dante immediately sat up and Li just stood up with a kind of grace that a person can't really describe. Sakura gave off a small laugh as she saw the looks on their faces. Dante gave a small glare towards Sakura and asked, "Oi brat, you looked excited about something?"

"Yea I am." she gave a huge smile. "I'll tell you guys at dinner."

The two males looked over at each other and they then followed Sakura to the table where the trio sat down and ate the pizza together. Part way through the dinner, Sakura said with a huge smile, "I passed my team test!"

Dante gave off a small sigh and said with a kidding tone, "Ah man, I can't believe that you passed. This is going to be really long now, and I hate long things. I was joking. Congratulations on passing. Now, we can finally start on the training."

"Yes congratulations on passing definitely." Li congratulated her with a smile. "And yes, now we can start on the training."

"What training?" Sakura asked with curiosity.

"Well, this training involves you're complete cooperation, if you know what we mean. First thing that we would like to ask you or test you is what are your weaknesses?"

"My weaknesses? Well, I'm pretty bad at tai, nin, and stamina. I'm only really good in genjutsu and charka control. Why?"

"What do you know, jutsu wise?"

"Basic Academy things and that's pretty much it."

"If you can learn one jutsu, what would you learn?"

"Well, I would love to do a variety of jutsu, just so that I can up on my skills."

"Congratulations, you passed our test." Li gave off a smile. "You'll start training tomorrow!"

"What about missions?"

"Oh yea, you can do those too."

End Flashback:

Sakura was so excited about actually start the missions and training when she heard the Hokage say, "OK listen up guys. I know that you're really excited and all, but I want to tell you all something about what'll happen after your first C-rank mission. Each of you will go on separate missions. Naruto, I would like for you to go with Kakashi and Sasuke so that you can meet up with Jiraiya. When you meet up with him, you will then travel with him to meet Tsuande. An ANBU will be there later on after you meet up with Tsuande. Sasuke, after Naruto goes off with Jiraiya, you will go with Kakashi to find a very important scroll, which has some of the Uchiha Clan's greatest secret on your blood limit. While Sakura, you will travel with Dante and Li to find the tombs of the past Hokages. When all of this is done, all of you will return to Konoha. Is that clear?"

"Yes sir." Sakura, Naruto, and Sasuke replied. While Kakashi, Li, and Dante gave off a nod of their heads.

The door opened to revel their client who was drunk. Sakura just scrunched her eyes and muttered under her breath, "Ew. That's so disgusting."

The man then introduced himself as Tazuna and he told the crew that he was a bridge builder who was building a bridge back in his country so that they can do some trading. Sakura just looked over at Dante and Li who both had different faces, she noticed that Dante looked really excited while Li had a frown on his face. She then looked over at Sasuke and Naruto as well as Kakashi. Sasuke still had the same cold look on his face while Naruto had a huge smile on his face. She mentally frowned, 'I can't believe that I'll have to do this stuff. Stupid Uzumaki and Uchiha, they want everything to themselves and they don't think about others.'

Finally, after a few minutes of complete silence, it was time for the group to leave the village. In front of the line was Naruto, followed by Tazuna, who was in between Sasuke and Kakashi, while Sakura remained in the back with Dante and Li walking next to her. Sakura looked over at Dante and then to Li and muttered, "Why do we have to do this? I really don't feel ready for this type of stuff."

"Life's not fair kid," Dante shrugged off. "Besides, the duo up there would make you do stuff like this. Don't worry; we'll start the hard core training later on, when we get to the Water Country. After that, you'll be able to train as hard as you can. We'll train you so hard that you'll forget all of the troubles that you're going through. By the way, did you bring the pizza and strawberry sundaes?"

"I couldn't bring either."

"What is wrong with your team? Pizza and strawberry sundaes are the best! Not this crappy ramen thing that they eat all the time. I can't stand this we MUST finish this mission as fast as possible. I want pizza and when I can't have pizza, I get so pissed off that I quickly kill off all my enemies."

"Isn't that a good thing?"

"No it's not. I prefer to toy with all my enemies until they get more pissed off then I do."

Sakura became quiet as well as Dante as they saw a puddle. Li turned to Sakura and whispered in her ear so that no one else could hear, "This puddle is not a normal puddle am I right?"

She then nodded her head, "Yea, it's a ninja puddle. I think that it is, but I really don't know that much. Must be a jutsu to hide in the water and the pop up out of nowhere."

Before she could finish, two ninjas popped out of nowhere. Her eyes widened and she hissed, "Shit, I can't believe this happened."

She pulled out a kunai and stood in front of Tazuna while Naruto charged forward trying to attack his enemies, however, Dante grabbed the back of his shirt and threw him to Sakura who caught him and muttered in his ear, "Do you want to look like an idiot? Stand here and protect the client."

Naruto gulped and he then followed Sakura's orders as he stood there to protect the client. Sasuke, however, charged straight forward and began to attack his opponent using tai, nin, and Uchiha techniques all at the same time. The opponents however, were quick enough to evade his attacks and charged forward towards the other two. Dante looked over at Sakura and he then threw a sword towards her. Her eyes widened and then she understood what she had to do. She ran towards the sword that fell on the ground, and she then went back to block the two enemy ninjas. Of course, this wasn't really her, but her body moved quickly just like an experienced fighter. However, before she could advance, Kakashi came and quickly knocked the enemies unconscious.

After the fight, Tazuna explained about Gaito and how he wants to destroy the bridge keeping Water Country in poverty. Sakura however, wasn't really paying attention as she gave Dante back his sword. He sighed and shoved the sword back to her, "Listen just take this sword. It's a beginner sword, so anyone who wants to use it can, but they must use this sword for protection only. Not just for fun ok brat?"

"Thank you." Sakura replied with a nod as she then gave him a hug.

Naruto looked over at Sakura and he gave her a small glare. He wanted that sword so badly and to be the strongest so that every ninja will respect him. So, he walked up to her as he remembered the Law and said happily, "So, Sakura, can I have the sword?"

"No." Sakura stated coldly as she let go of Dante turning towards Naruto. "You can't have this sword. This sword is only used for specific people and not just you."

"Everyone made fun of me my whole life and…"

Before Naruto could continue his little sappy speech about how his life sucked, Sakura interrupted, "I don't care about your stupid life story. We get it, but you're not getting this sword. The only thing you think about is wanting to be better then everyone else. You know what though? You and Ino are exactly the same. Being Hokage does not mean that you are better then everyone else and that you are superior, being Hokage means that you care for the people. Not just yourself, but for everyone in your village, and yes, that includes all the people that hate you. You can't use the Law for your stupid reason. The only way the Law would be available is in Konoha only, and by the way, I wouldn't give you this anyways. So go back to 'Hinata' and tell her all about how I made fun of you. Get OVER it."

She then stormed off on her own followed by Dante who gave a glare over at Naruto while Li just agreed, "That was a bad move, you must be jealous of Sakura, but in reality, she's jealous of you. You have people who pile up to you and who want to train you. No one would want to train Sakura because she's just a normal person and weak. You may not think it, but your sensei would rather train you over her."

He then walked away leaving a gasping Naruto, smirking Sasuke, drunken Tazuna, and frowned face Kakashi. When Li caught up to Dante and Sakura, a giant sword was thrown at her. She automatically blocked the sword with her sword, and the sword was thrown into a tree. She ran towards her sword and picked it up, while a man hopped on the sword. She gave a glare at the man who gave her a smirk, "I admire your sword skills girl."

Before she could answer, a bunch of disgusting looking things popped out of the woods and charged towards her. Sakura, Li, and Dante, formed a triangle they saw the creatures attack them head on. The trio began to attack back using force and the man on the sword gave a small smirk. Dante hissed quietly to himself, but then he smirked as he took out his two guns and the other two caught on. So, they pulled out their weapons, which was the sword and a dagger. Dante then began to fire off his guns at the creatures while Sakura blocked the attacks that came at her with her sword. Li threw his dagger towards the creatures and then he drew the dagger back by a string that was attached to it.

All of a sudden, a lightning bolt flew down the string and electrocuted the enemies that were there. Sakura looked over at Li and gasped, "You…you…can shoot LIGHTNING at people?"

Li saw Sakura's shocked look, but he saw one of the creatures advance on her and he threw his dagger at the creature, and he then told her, "You need to pay better attention to your opponent rather then stare out into space at something new."

She saw him continue to attacking the enemies and she then shook her head getting back into the fighting action. Of course, it wasn't really her fighting the enemies; it was the sword doing all of the work. She then saw the man hop down from his post that was originally his sword, and saw him walk towards her. She immediately pulled her sword in defense position and before she could react, Kakashi stood in front of her with a kunai blocking the sword. She mentally growled, 'I hate this. I can stand up on my own and what happens? He comes to save me. I don't need to be saved.'

The fight continued for a little while as Sakura continued on thinking while protecting Tazuna with Dante and Li. Naruto and Sasuke went off to save Kakashi and then the man who Kakashi said was named Zabuza, fell unconscious by a senbon and was taken away by a masked person. She then saw Kakashi fall unconscious as well and she gave Dante and Li a look. Dante shrugged and walked ahead while Li followed him. Sakura then turned to Naruto and Sasuke saying, "Alright you guys. You're carrying Kakashi-sensei. Have fun while doing that."

She then walked away mentally having the biggest smirk as she slowly turned her eyes to see Naruto and Sasuke having trouble carrying Kakashi. She saw that Naruto went up to Tazuna to ask for help and she began to mentally crack up, 'This is so hilarious. I thought that they were stronger then this. Oh well.'

She then walked in front of the line with Dante and Li on either side of her while Naruto and Sasuke were in the back with Tazuna dragging Kakashi with them. As they continued to walk towards the village, Li pulled Sakura back while Naruto, Sasuke, and Tazuna continued on while carrying Kakashi. Dante saw what Li did, and he backed up too. Naruto saw what was going on and asked, "Hey um. Are you guys going to the village?"

"No we're not." Li shook his head. "We're going to be camping here for a while until we feel that Sakura can go into the village with you guys. Oh, and when Kakashi wakes up, tell him that Sakura won't be training with you guys because he might be doing a charka control training exercise."

Sasuke gave a quick nod and he walked off with Naruto and Tazuna trailing behind him with Naruto carrying Kakashi. Sakura gave a small growl, "Um hello. I could be in a house having a bath and I'm stuck out here?"

"It's for survival training." Li pointed out the obvious of the training. "This is a good opportunity to see what real ninja life is."

"OK." she gave off a small sigh. "I have a few things that I want answered. One, what were those creatures that came after us and two, how the heck did you have lightning pop out of your hands?"

"I'll answer the first one." Dante replied before Li could. "The first answers are devils and demons. While the second answer is well…Li, you answer this."

Li nodded his head and continued where Dante left off, "The second answer is that I'm a Contractor."

"What the hell is a Contractor?"

"A Contractor is a person who has powers, but they made a pact with demon from the Underworld. With each contract comes the agreement that each time a person uses the power, they must do something to pay the contract off. For example, my end of the deal is that I have to eat loads amount of food. Some people have to smoke to pay their bargain."

"Oh. So that's why you can shoot lightning out of your body?"

"Yes, and that's why I brought tons of food with me too."

Sakura and Dante looked over at Li who sat down on the ground taking out a scroll. The duo then went to stand over his shoulder and they saw a small scroll on the ground. It then had smoke around it causing a whole feast pop out of there. Sakura's eyes widened as she saw him eat all of the food that was there and Dante glared at him while he had pizza. Li looked over at the duo and he offered them some of his food stating, "I'm only going to eat half of this anyways."

Sakura hugged Li while Dante grabbed a box of pizza sitting by a tree. She then took a small dish of food and took a small bite. She closed her eyes, "This is as if I was in heaven."

Li then remembered about Sakura's old "diet" and he placed more food in front of her. She gave off a look of "why are you placing this much food near me" and he just gave her a smile, "You need to have a healthier lifestyle then trying to starve yourself to death."

"Fair enough." Sakura shrugged.

Dante ignored what was happening while the others sat down and ate in peace. After dinner was over with, Sakura sighed as she leaned back against a tree and Li stated, "We should do night watches. How about Dante can go first, while I go next, and Sakura can go third. That way, we can all have a good rest?"

"Fair enough." Sakura once again shrugged.

She then fell to the ground and leaned against the tree falling to sleep. Dante then gave Li a nod telling him that he can rest and soon, it'll be his turn. Li gave a small "thanks" and went to sleep. Dante grew extremely bored, so he decided to polish his two guns, Ebony and Ivory.

Sakura's Dream:

Sakura saw that she was in the streets of Konoha. She walked by the different shops where people were talking and just hanging out until she saw Sasuke and Naruto talking. She heard Sasuke say, "Sakura is so annoying and weak."

"I guess that I kind of agree." Naruto gave a nod. "I mean, she stood there and did there while we did all the work. She can never do anything right."

Tears began to form in Sakura's eyes as she continued to hear their conversation. She backed away and swept into the crowd where people began to mutter explicit things about her that no one else knows except for her. She turned a corner and saw Hinata training with her dad who then said to her, "You are excellent Hinata. I thought that you would have been worse off then before."

Sakura then ran as fast as she could away from the duo and continued to run seeing the many faces of Konoha past her muttering and whispering on what a failure she is to the ninja community. She continued to run until she saw some demons come close to her and she screamed loudly.

Outside Sakura's Dream:

Dante continued his watch until he heard Sakura scream loudly with tears flowing down her face. He also noticed that she was tossing and turning in her sleep so he went up towards her and he began to nudge her. He heard a small grumble and turned to see Li waking up. He shook his head telling him to go back to sleep. He listened and dozed back off into a light slumber. Dante then smacked her over the head.

Sakura's Dream Continue:

Sakura sat in a small corner shivering in sadness as she saw people crowd around her with glaring eyes stating, "Naruto deserves a better life then you. He was all alone for his whole entire life so why don't you die."

She then began to mutter, "No. Please don't do this to me. I didn't do anything."

"Oh please." another person stated while rolling their eyes. "You dumped Naruto on constant repeat. He didn't mean to like you, but you ditched him for some stupid little boy. Yes, you NEED to die for all the wrongs that you've done. You made Naruto sad, you made Sasuke angry, you made Hinata be shy, you made Ino your rival. That's why you need to die!"

She then felt a warmth go through her body as the people began to back away from her when she heard, "Oi brat, wake up."

End Sakura's Dream:

She then felt a smack across her head and she muttered, "Ow. That hurts a lot."

She looked up to see Dante with a sort of worried look on his face. It wasn't very noticeable, but she knew that it was there. She then heard him ask, "Are you ok?"

"I just had a dream."

"What was it about?"

She then gave him a sigh and explained to him about her dream. He gave her a small sigh, "This is why we need to start training quicker and get this mission done. Come on, let's wake Li up and head to Tazuna's place."

She went to Li to wake him up, but he was already up so the trio packed up and went to Tazuna's to spend the night.

The next day, Sakura went out with Naruto and Sasuke to do some training with Kakashi and the training was charka control, so she managed to get out early because she did excellent. Kakashi told her to protect Tazuna and that's what she did until she trained a little with Dante in using a sword. Of course, she caught on quickly and tried to use the sword, but she kept messing up. She was using a wooden sword instead of the sword that she got anyways.

After a while, Sakura became pretty good and it was time that she went with Sasuke and Kakashi to the bridge. Naruto slept in because from what Kakashi told her, he was tired from training. Of course, Dante and Li stayed behind not wanting to get in the way because they knew that the demons wouldn't come after what happened to them before.

At the bridge, two ninjas, Zabuza and the mask boy attacked them. Sasuke went to go near the mask boy while Sakura protected Tazuna and they fought until Naruto came who talked to the boy, Haku, and Kakashi killed Zabuza, except he hurt Haku a little bit, but before Zabuza died, he killed Gaito and he told Haku goodbye finally dying.

Sakura saw that Haku had tears in his eyes as he cried for his lose mentor and they decided to bury him. Naruto hugged Haku and told him that it was okay. He also asked Haku if he wants to travel with him, and he replied with a yes to Naruto. He was excited to have Haku training with him, and Haku was the same.

Sakura gave a frown as she saw Dante and Li walk out with a smile. She told them the whole thing and they were relieved about no demons being there, but they didn't tell her that. She also told them about how she felt and Dante answered her that in time, she'll be able to help out as well. She was happy when she heard that and so, they waited for the bridge to be built.

A few days later, the bridge was built and it was named in honor of Naruto as well as team 7. Naruto smiled at Inari who smiled back at him and Sakura saw this. She gave off a small laugh, but went ahead of the group as she walked off into the horizon. Dante and Li followed her onto the new mission that they were to do while splitting up away from Naruto, Haku, Kakashi, and Sasuke.

Haseo Aurion: Hope you guys liked this chapter. Sorry if it's kind of short, but most of what happened in this chapter, if not the beginning, was mostly cannon, so in short, I explained in short terms so that I wouldn't be copying the main story. Now, this is where the part turns away from cannon and onto the main plot. So yes, I cut a lot out. Again, sorry for the late update. I don't when I'll update again, but I would like to update after DMC4 comes out. That way, I can use the main character in that to be part of the story as well. Or maybe I might use someone else.