Collision, A Naruto Fanfiction

Disclaimer: Naruto+me=no own-y

A/N… there seems to be some confusion...no Sakura is not emo, she just had what I like to call an 'emotional overload' She is still basically herself she just tried to get rid of her emotions when she joined the elite so she wouldn't die quite as fast…kks? …hope you enjoy the read….

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Her eyes swiftly ran around the room, searching for something. 'There.' She thought…her kunai. She picked it up and drifted to her bed. She sat and sat staring at the weapon. She experimentally drug it across the thin flesh in her arms, watching the crimson liquid run down her arm and staining her white sheets red. She did it again, and again, and again and each time she reveled in the liquid. Her life essence it seemed, running out of her body and covering everything with its warmth. Finally she couldn't take it anymore, she held the kunai away from her body with both arms, and she plunged it into her chest, making sure to hit the vitals. Red blood began to flow freely, enveloping every inch of her. Her vision blurred and she could feel herself falling out of consciousness. She felt herself fall off the bed and her face hit the cold wooden floor as the liquid spread around her. In her final moments of clarity, she only heard three words.

'What a waste'



A pair of lovely emerald eyes flickered open to see a white, sterile room. She sat still for a moment to let her eyes focus. 'Where am I?' She wondered. She picked up her head and studied everything she could see. The room was completely white and simply furnished. She could quite easily tell it was a hospital room from the bars on the side of the bed and the cheap furniture. Finding no harm she let herself relax slightly. Every ninja knew you were to never relax fully in unknown territory, it was even taught at the academy.

Just then, Sakura realized her hair must been a mess from lying in a bed for some time. She began to lift her arm to brush the stray hair out of her face when she felt a sharp tug on her wrist. She glanced down only to let out an anguished groan. 'Damn it all! Restraints! You have got to be kidding me!' The cherry blossom yelled out in her mind. She tried to summon her chakra to break the restraints, only to fail. She then realized that her body felt oddly hollow. It took her a moment to figure out why. She could no longer feel any chakra in her body! The woman knitted her eyebrows together in confusion. She attempted to focus her chakra in her forearm but couldn't. She tried again with the same result. Then it hit her, the restraints weren't normal, they were chakra restraints! She moaned and threw her head into the pillow again.

It was then she realized there was a searing pain flashing through her chest and a lesser, but equally annoying pain in her arms. Sparing a glance, she discovered that her arms were bandaged and from what she could see so was her chest. She wanted to get a better look but there was a blanket covering half of her torso and the rest of her lower body. She sighed and dropped her head back, glaring out into space.

She had no idea how much time had passed when she heard footsteps leading down the corridor that must have led to her room. She tilted her face towards the door in the corner of the room. She concentrated all her focus onto that door. She felt…uneasy at the approach and that alone would have made her hyperaware had she not been restrained to a hospital bed. The footsteps came to a halt outside the door and a few seconds and a muted sigh could be heard. Just then, ever so slowly, the doorknob shook a little and then began to turn hesitantly. Finally, it clicked into its place. A moment passed by and the door squeaked open, the hinges protesting at a startling volume. A blond haired woman walked into the room, anxiety written across her features. Seeing that Sakura was awake, the gaze hardened in an instant, any and all hint of emotion was immediately concealed. Tsunade was obviously in a very foul mood and all of her fury seemed to be directed at Sakura. The young woman almost flinched but managed to resist the urge. She hardened her glare to meet the eyes of her sensei.

"What the FUCK were you thinking? You would have killed yourself if I hadn't sent Kakashi to find out why you didn't show up to work! He found you lying in a puddle of you own blood and barely breathing! You have no idea how scared I was!" The kuniochi shouted at the girl. Sakura just stared at her, unblinking.

"What did you think I was trying to do?" she retorted scornfully. She mentally noted that the coolness of her chakra was starting to reappear in her system, although she wasn't quite sure why. Tsunade just stared at her with a look of horror.

"If you just admitted to trying to commit suicide you will lose the title of shinobi."

"And so what if I do? You're going to lock me up in an asylum? Huh? Is that your ingenious plan? Lock me up because I've become a liability to the village? Because I'm stronger than you and you're afraid of me?" Sakura sneered at the older woman. "I know all about that plan, I heard you discussing it with the elders a few weeks ago. You can't kill me, no one in this pathetic excuse for a village can!"

Tsunade just stared at the girl and muttered "How did you find out? I would have sensed you if you were anywhere near us!"

"Are you really that sure?" Sakura questioned. "Or are you just so far behind my skills that you didn't even notice?"

Tsunade openly blanched at the girl and muttered "I can't handle this by myself" and exited the room very hastily. Sakura just lay there smirking at the door.

And with that she focused the small amount of chakra she had mysteriously regained and broke the restraints. She guesses that the chakra restraints allowed a small amount of chakra to the person so that they're body could still function. Whoever came up with that idea never met someone like Sakura, with perfect chakra control. The metal easily cracked under her strength and she threw the small pieces of metal on the floor before rising from the bed. She quietly crept towards the window and sought out an escape route. She mentally made a mad and quickly got dressed into her bloody clothes from when she first came in; they had been sitting on top of her small bedside table.

When she finished dressing she leapt out of the third story window and plummeted to the street side. A few pedestrians gave her a glance as they passed but none of them said anything. She scanned the area and darted off in the direction of her house. As she travelled she saw a few of her old friends, but they never noticed her. She finally reached her home and she didn't even bother with the door. She ran straight up the side of the building and into her bedroom. She pointedly ignored the large puddle of dried blood covered in footprints at the base of her bed.

She went right to her closet grabbed a bag. There was no way she was staying here. Obviously Kami-sama didn't want her to die yet so she was going to make a run for it. She hoped she'd be able to get out before Tsunade realized she was gone. As she randomly started grabbing clothes and weapons in her bag she began to formulate a plan in her mind for after she left the village. She grabbed her half filled bag and ran to the kitchen and started to shove rations in it. Finally she raced to the bathroom and grabbed as many pills as she could fit in her bag and grabbed a kunai. She changed her clothes into clean ones and zipped up her bag. She grabbed some soldier pills from her counter and swallowed them with no water.

She then grabbed her forehead protector and took the kunai in her hand. With one sure movement of her kunai there was a slash through the leaf symbol. And her fate was sealed. Sakura tied it around her neck, putting it on display. She threw her bag over her shoulder and relished in the feeling of her chakra being restored. And with that she jumped out her window and tore towards the gates.

In her head she was reciting half a million different prayers to Kami that she would make it through there before the guards would be notified. But with her luck that was impossible. There were at least 15 people standing at the gate, all armed, all ANBU. Groaning outwardly Sakura cursed her wretched luck and began making handsigns.
Suddenly there were millions of cherry blossoms surrounding her, each edge sharpened like a knife. They created a shield to Sakura while flying out to give her opponents nearly lethal wounds. As she expected, a few of the more experienced shinobi managed to get through, five of them to be exact. Sakura readied herself into an offensive position and prepared for any oncoming attacks. One of the shinobi, she didn't recognize, charged at her while creating a massive ball of flames in one hand. He thrust it forward and Sakura barely dodged it. She did a back flip and then punched the ground with her chakra-enabled strength. The ground under her enemies' feet cracked and splintered and caved in on itself. Where they were standing only seconds ago was now a seemingly bottomless pit. She glanced around, looking for the unconscious bodies of the nin that fell to her earlier attack. She counted, and counted again, and again. She could only see nine bodies. She did the math in her head. There had been fifteen to start with; five were in the hole so there should be ten above ground. She crouched down, anticipating an attack. The last shinobi seemingly appeared out of nowhere and tried to thrust a kunai into her abdomen. She easily dodged and threw a chakra-enhanced punch at the unsuspecting ninja. It hit him dead on and he flew backward two hundred feet, until he slid to a stop. He was obviously out for the count. She managed to fix the gaping hole in the ground and threw the ninjas towards their fallen comrades.

There were now fifteen bodies laying in the ground unconscious, complements of Sakura. The kunoichi surveyed the battleground with a small feeling if satisfaction. She gave them one remorseful look and walked away, completely unscathed. She bowed her head as she walked away from the village that no longer wanted her. Away from the only place she had ever known.

Tsunade put her face into her hands as she leaned onto her desk. 'How could she leave! She's a danger to every shinobi from this village. She needs to be eliminated.' She drawled in her mind. Just then a knock sounded on her door and she wearily lifted her face up to see it. "Enter" She called out. The door burst open to reveal Team Seven minus Kakashi. For a moment all the Hokage could do was gape at them because they actually used a door.

"WHERE IS SHE?" Naruto demanded loudly. It took Tsunade a moment to answer,

"Where is who?" She asked, obviously drunk.

"Sakura-chan! Where is she?" Tsunade stilled for a moment before abruptly becoming serious.

"She's gone" was her simple reply.

"Gone? What do you mean gone? She's not dead so where is she?" The demon container demanded.

"She tried to commit suicide yesterday afternoon but Kakashi found her and brought her in before she died. But early this morning she woke up and admitted to attempting suicide, which you all know means she was to be stripped of her ninja ranking, so she defected. I just sent three teams of hunter-nins after her to try to retrieve her, though I doubt they'll get her. She's far too powerful but I can't spare any more shinobi and I'm not sending any of you. She'll probably try to kill you all." The Hokage admitted.

"Why would she do that? We're teammates! Doesn't that matter to her?"

"It didn't matter to you."

"Wait, What? Of course it mattered to me!"

"Then why did you leave her all alone here for five years? And by the way, she is no longer is part of Team Seven. She is one of my specialty nins, so I cannot tell you anymore than that, just that she's not the person you remember. She's not even comparable to the person you used to know."

"That's different! I left for the team! I didn't abandon it! And what do you mean she's not on our team or the same person? Sakura-chan will always be Sakura-chan!"

"That's not the ways she sees it, she thought that you left her here because she was too weak to keep up with you. And ask Kakashi, he'll explain to you how she's changed."

Sasuke then chose to speak. "How is she going to last against those hunter nins? They almost caught me half a dozen times."

"Sakura is…was the strongest shinobi in Kohona. She surpassed me years ago and is in every bingo book on the continent. She won't be caught by the likes of hunter nins. They won't even be a warm-up to her." Tsunade explained.

Sasuke just stared at her like she was crazy while Naruto's mouth was agape as he stared bug-eyed at her. Sai kept his usual face because he already knew this; he just didn't feel like telling the two idiots.

A large explosion rocked the ground and a mushroom cloud emerged into the sky. Deidara smirked in satisfaction at his beautiful artwork. There was a small tremor that passed through the air and then random bits of debris were thrown to the ground. His smirk grew as the wind tore through the trees, ripping many leaves off their branches. As he reveled in the beauty of his creation he felt the all too familiar chakra gather in his ring. The explosions expert grumbled in annoyance that he could no longer admire his work. Resigning himself, he created the hand seals and activated the communications jutsu. The always hazy image of Pein appeared in front of him with a grim expression on his face. Deidara bowed respectfully at the holographic image.

"Leader-sama" He greeted. There was a moment of hesitation before Pein finally spoke.

"I take it you have heard of the defection on one Miss Haruno Sakura, am I correct?"

"She was a Kohona shinobi as well as the killer of Sasori, was she not?"

"She was all of these things and more. I need you to replace Itachi and Kisame on their mission. They had falsely assumed that Haruno was dead while she was not. Your mission is to recover her and bring her to HQ. You should be able to locate her near the southern border of Fire. You are to recruit her by any means necessary; she is the prime candidate to fill Tobi's old position before he died. Sin other words; she will be your new partner. If she puts up a fight and subdue her as necessary. That is all." Deidara could only stare at the Rinnegan user for a few moments and then hesitantly mutter "Hai."

The imaged flickered then faded leaving a slightly annoyed Deidara staring at empty space. He had to have another partner. It wasn't that partners were necessarily bad, it's just every one he seems to get always dies. He groaned aloud in frustration and crated a large clay bird to fly on. This day was going straight to Hell.

Hope you liked! Review and give me some pointers! I'll try to update as soon as I can!

D.H.