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Just to avoid any questions, Sakura is training under Tsunade already, but she hasn't learned anything past healing minor cuts and bruises. Well, here's the 3rd chapter to Times Up!

Chapter 3: Awaken

Sakura opened her eyes to bright sunshine. The suns rays went into her eyes and she closed them groaning. She turned around and her head hit something hard.

"Ouch!" Sakura yelped as she got up clutching her head. She rubbed her head muttering incoherent words under her breath.

"Ow Sakura-chan, that hurt." Sakura turned around to see Naruto blinking sleepily while rubbing his head as well. Sakura eyes widened.

"NARUTO!! What are you doing in my room?!" Sakura screamed.

"Ow Sakura-chan. You don't have to be so loud." Naruto said covering his ears with his hands. He looked around. "I don't even think we're in your room." He rubbed his eyes and blinked.

"What do you mean we're not in my room, of course we're in my…" Sakura didn't finish her sentence. She had finally looked around at her surroundings. Her eyes widened even more. All around her were walls of dirt and when she looked up, about 30 feet up was sunlight. They were in a giant hole in the ground.

"AHHHHHH!!" Her voice rang out everywhere. "Oh my god! Where are we Naruto? What are we doing down here? Where is…" Sakura looked around and saw Sasuke lying a few feet away unconscious. "Sasuke-kun!" Sakura ran to Sasuke and dropped to her feet next to him. She grabbed his hand and felt for a pulse. It was there. She looked at him and saw his chest rising up and down. She exhaled a breath she didn't know she was holding.

"Sasuke-kun…Sasuke-kun." Sakura said shaking him slightly. Sasuke eyes opened and looked at Sakura. His eyes met hers and held her gaze for a few seconds before Sakura turned away blushing. "Uh… it's a good thing your awake Sasuke-kun, we were worried." Sakura said awkwardly.

"More like you were worried." Naruto grumbled. Sakura shot him a glare and he immediately shut up. Sasuke started to get up when he sat back down with a wince.

"Sasuke-kun, what's wrong?" Sakura asked with concern. Sasuke lifted up his arm to show a deep gash on the back his arm. He winced in pain. "Oh my god. Sasuke-kun, be careful. That's really deep and it could get infected or you could lose too much blood. Wait, stay right there." Sakura looked around for something that could cover the wound. When she was sure there were none, she held the edge of her dress tightly with one hand and used the other hand to rip of a piece.

"Oy Sakura-chan! What are you doing?" Naruto said alarmed.

"I need something to cover Sasuke-kuns wound or it'll get worse." Sakura said as if it were the simplest thing in the world. She kneeled down beside Sasuke and motioned for his arm. Sasuke looked hesitant then he seemed to get over it and he gently gave Sakura his arm. Sakura took his arm gingerly and put it on her lap. She took the strip of her dress and laid it down on her lap. She took the cloth and laid it gently on the back of Sasukes arm. Then she carefully wrapped it around his arm. She tied it up.

"Done." she said. Sasuke took his arm back and started to get up. "Sasuke…" Sakura said as she tried to help him up. Sasuke shrugged her off and got up on his own.

When he was steady on his face he said, "We have to get out of here." He said as he looked around. Suddenly the image of all of them falling into darkness flashed through Sakura and Narutos mind.

"Let's go!" Naruto yelled as he put both feet on sides of the holes walls. He started running up the wall. Next Sasuke ran towards the wall and as he reached it, he started running up the length of the wall.

Sakura sighed, "Boys. One of these days..." Sakura rolled her eyes, and then started running up the wall. When Sakura reached the top, she found Sasuke and Naruto staring at a big cage a few feet away from the holes opening. She walked over to it and examined it.

"It was attached to a cord, probably the one that Naruto tripped over. A trap for anyone passing." Sakura said gravely. "Although it looks like it was planned poorly. We could still get out of that hole. We better get back. I need to tell Tsunade-sama that there's traps out here. It could be serious. Let's go." Sakura started to leave, when Naruto called out her name.

"Uh…Sakura-chan!" Sakura looked at Naruto annoyed. "Do you know how to get out of here?" Naruto asked.

Sakura was about to answer when she paused. She thought for a minute then sighed. "Okay I don't. Does one of you two know?" She asked hopefully. Naruto shook his head wildly.

Sasuke opened his mouth to say something, when something burst through the trees above them. Five men in with animal masks covering their faces sailed over Team 7.

"ANBU!" Sakura said excitedly. "They could lead us back to the village!"

"Shut up." Sasuke said quietly. "They might be enemies." Sasuke stood very still staring at the ANBU as they passed them. "Let's follow them. They'll lead us out of here. Maybe not to the village, but at least out of this forest." Sasuke started running after the five men. Sakura and Naruto nodded then started following Sasuke.

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Twenty minutes later, Sasuke, Sakura and Naruto were still following the ANBU. They were masking their chakra and staying thirty feet behind them. They were getting tired, their energy already low as it was, because of their training and the blackout. Sakura speeded up and was running side by side with Sasuke.

"Do you think we're near the village or near the fence at the end the forest?" She asked him, still running.

Sasuke stayed silent for awhile. Sakura was about to give up, when he answered. "We should be near the edge by now. When we get out, stop and let them leave." Sasuke finished.

Sakura nodded slowly then returned to her previous position. A few minutes later Sasuke signaled them to slow down. "We're at the edge." He said. Team 7 watched as the ANBU exited the forest and disappear out of their sight. Sasuke signaled them to keep going. Team 7 burst past the trees and saw the fence surrounding the forest of death. They all jumped over the fence at the same time. They stopped.

"This is the place we entered from, so Konaha's right there!" Naruto yelled.

"We know that Naruto!" Sakura scolded him. She looked at Sasuke. "What's wrong?" She asked worriedly when she saw his face.

"Where did those ANBU go?" he said suspiciously. He looked around and his eyes widened a little. "MOVE!" he yelled. He ran towards Naruto and pushed him aside. He clashed kunais with an ANBU from before.

Sakura gasped as a kunai was pressed to her throat. She heard Naruto and Sasuke struggling against the other ANBU and she stayed still in fear of the kunai slitting her throat. She felt another ANBU tying her wrist with what she thought must have been chakra strings. Nearly unbreakable. She struggled, but they only held her still. Finally she heard Naruto yell, then he was silent. She saw at the corner of her eye that Sasuke had been tied up too on his hands and legs, and he was scowling. She couldn't here Naruto, but she could hear him struggling against his captives. She then was pulled toward Konoha by the ANBU.

"Who are you and what were you doing in the forest of death?" she was asked. "We see you have a leaf village headband. No one in Konoha except for the elite are aloud in there."

Sakura stayed silent. She didn't know if these were enemies, so she didn't answer their questions. She soon realized that the ANBU were taking her to Konoha.

"Where are you taking me?" she asked forgetting her oath of silence.

"Hokage-sama will want to know that there are people going into the forest of death. That area has been restricted for 15 years." was all the ANBU member said.

"Your Konoha ninja! Let us go! We're leaf village genin! I'm the apprentice of the Hokage!" Sakura said loudly.

"Shut up little girl. The Hokage has only one apprentice, and he certainly isn't a female." The ANBU said. "Here we are." They had all arrived at the Hokage Tower. All eight started walking up towards the Hokages office. A minute later, they were at the door to the Hokages office. The ANBU knocked.

"Come in." All eight walked in. They found the room empty except for a person sitting in the Hokages chair facing the window.

"Hokage-sama, we found these three kids wandering around in the forest of death."

"I thought I told these kids to stay away from there." The Hokage turned around and gasped.

Sakura, Sasuke and Naruto stood very still staring at the person in the chair, because in front of them stood Uzumaki Naruto.