Sasuke stopped kissing her. Maybe she was still asleep enough to not realizing he'd been doing that.

That's when Sakura realized she might be able to get out of it. She yawned and turned over. When she opened her eyes, she took that second a waking person would take to realize something. In that time, she had her fun of taking a kiss from Sasuke on his lips and saying, "Good morning, Sasuke-kun," turning over again, then shooting up pretending to realize what she did.

Karin watched amused as Sasuke's face went bright red.

As Sakura shoot up her eyes bulged and she screamed, then cradled her head like she was thinking. "What the hell? Why am I in bed with an Uke? Was I out drinking with Tsunade last night? I must have been...no! I was out training!" Sakura turned back to him and punched him square in the jaw, sending him across the room and getting up. "You ass! I was minding my own business and you abducted me!"

"I did not!" he protested, getting up and rubbing his jaw. When did she get this strong? Oh yeah! She had that chakra-control and she trained with Tsunade AND she had--if he was to believe Karin--that weird chakra-blood-fusion-thing. "I took you in after the Akatsuki attacked you!"

"How did you get into Konoha anyways?" Sakura demanded, fuming. Actually, how DID he and the Akatsuki get into Konoha? They had Jounin at the gates that night.

"Shikamaru and Ino were watching the gates. I waited until Ino was yelling at Shikamaru for falling asleep and we just waltzed right through. I'd assume the Akatsuki did the same."

"No way! They came like an hour after you. Which means...Hey, Uke, you've had sex before, ne?" she asked.

That itself almost made him turn fifty shades of red. "Of course," he lied. he was waiting for Sakura. He would always wait for Sakura. "And not with guys. I'm totally straight. Why, do you want to lose your virginity now? I can make Karin go away and spend the day taking it away from you," he offered, inside hoping she'd say yes. That would be a very fun day for him.

"So can you really fall asleep less than...knowing those two...ten minutes after you climax?" she asked. "And dream on, Uchiha. I'd rather suck your cock than give that away to you!" she yelled. Then she realized she slipped up. "Shit! What did I just say? I meant I'd never let you touch me!" she lied. She'd rather do both.

Sasuke turned bright red as said part of anatomy started to get hard. He could very much enjoy that, too. Why did she have to grow up so much, too?

Now in place of a chunky and gawky pink-haired girl that he liked for her clumsy cuteness, was a bloomed Cherry Blossom. She was slender with curves in all the right places and didn't seem to have an ounce of fat. Even her breasts--full and decent--seemed to be all muscle, and her butt was just enough, but not too much.

Amazing how people can change so much. he wondered how much he changed.

"Knowing Shikamaru, he was asleep again in the next minute," Sasuke answered, slyly ignoring the question that would prove he was still a virgin.

"I guess. That'd mean the Akatsuki had just knocked Ino out to get in," Sakura said to herself aloud. Then back to Karin and Sasuke. "Thank you, I guess, for watching out for me. But now, I'm going back home. Last night Shannaro and I were finally separated, and now I need to find out what happened."

As she started to leave, Sasuke stopped her. "Hey! You can't just leave! We took you as a hostage. You'll be staying here for quite a while. Besides, you told Naruto you would leave if you have to. It's late enough that when they couldn't find you, you left. No matter your intentions, you're now a missing-nin. Welcome to the club, Sakura." He smiled. "You're one of us."

"Fuck!" she yelled on the stairs to leave. "Why the hell do bad things always happen to me?" she yelled. She needed to yell, or she'd never vent anything. "All right, Uchiha. I'll stay here with you, but right now I'm leaving. There's something called training that I'd like to get done," Sakura agreed.

"Ugh!" she screamed as she took down yet another tree with her anger.

Sakura couldn't believe she could ever get herself into this predicament. Really, how could she just blatantly let herself do something that'd be regrettable later? And now she didn't have anything to take it out on.

'Hiya!' a cheery little voice echoed in her head.

'Who are you?' Sakura asked in her mind.

'My name's Sakura-hime. Who are you? You're so BIG!' the voice replied.

That was her! That was the way she talked when she was seven-ish. The voice she used to have in her head! Her real Inner. 'I'm Sakura. Are you my Inner?'

'I suppose. But I thought Inners grew with the person!' Sakura-hime replied. 'And the last thing I remember was letting you use your title-thing. Was everybody so unoriginal to call you the Last Master? Really! Just because you're the MOST POWERFUL, doesn't make you the Last!' she squealed.

'Silly! The clan name was Rasuto! Last. I don't think it's that strange anymore. Maybe the fact that Shannaro locked you away is why you're still so young!' Sakura rationalized.

It made sense. Sort of.

Sasuke walked up behind Sakura as she was training and watched her. She was smiling and seemed to be talking to something in her head.

Suddenly she yelled, "Rasuto no Jutsu: Hireki!" ("hireki" in this jutsu means "reveal")

Suddenly he saw a young little Sakura there, standing with an adorable smile and a cute little crown. he walked up to the older Sakura and smiled. "Hey," he greeted.

Both of them shrieked, and then the older Sakura laughed. "Sasuke-kun! You scared me!"

He was confused when the other one nodded her agreement. "I just wanted to say hello. And who is this cute little princess?" he asked, bending down and smiling at Sakura-hime. He always wanted kids, or a little sibling--he knew how to treat them and how to be. He was good at it too. "Is she going to be staying very long? I'd love to know her.""Hiya!" she greeted, smiling. "It's up to me if I can stay." She looked at Sakura.

"Definitely," she replied, hugging Sakura-hime. "Sasuke-kun, this is Sakura-hime. She's my true Inner. Most Rasuto when they're young learn how to make their Inners semi-permanent beings outside of their bodies. Sakura-hime, this is Sasuke Uchiha. he's Itachi-niichan's baby-brother."Sakura-hime squealed. "Really? Weren't we supposed to be--" Sakura-hime caught Sakura's warning and shut her mouth before she could say anymore. "So, he isn't Sasu-niichan? he looks a lot like Aniki." She pouted and squished his face, making Sasuke's eyes go wide and Sakura laugh. "You look really funny," Sakura-hime told him, kissing his lips with a quick child's kiss, like a daughter would give her parents. "I guess Aniki would be a lot older, too. Sakura-neechan, hold are we?"

"I stopped counting birthdays so long ago," she replied honestly, looking down. "I think we're--"

"I'm eighteen now, and Sakura's almost eighteen," he replied, thinking fast. He watched the shock on her face. "What? I turned eighteen July 23. It's March 23 now. Your birthday is March 28, right?"

Sakura was stunned he remembered, but Sakura-hime only squealed. "Yay! My birthday's coming up! My birthday, my birthday, my birthday! I'm gonna be eighteen! Wait..." She frowned. "I'm only gonna be eight. You'll be eighteen. If Shannaro disrupted this whole thing, then I'm only aging one year since the clan."

"Well, we'll do something special for you. I promise," Sasuke told her, smiling.