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Chapter 4

"Sasuke Uchiha, I have chosen a mission for you," said Tsunade.

"Hai,"

"Since you don't know the story before, I'll tell you. Weeks before you returned to Konoha, Sakura had always asked for my permission to leave Konoha for a short period of time. She refused to tell me her reasons but I still give her my permission. After you came, she stopped leaving Konoha but just now, she did the same thing. Now, I want you to follow Sakura and find out why she wants to leave Konoha," Sasuke shivered a little when he heard Sakura's name because of his last meeting with her.

"So... my mission is to stalk her?" Tsunade chuckled a bit.

"If you put it plainly like that, yes. She will leave Konoha tomorrow at 5 in the morning so I expect you to prepare for your mission before 5. Oh, and you have to hide yourself from her. She doesn't know about this,"

"Hai,"

"Okay, you may go now," and with that, Sasuke poofed into smoke and disappeared.

The next day

'Where the hell is she?!' thought Sasuke. He was leaning against a tree outside the Konoha gate, waiting for Sakura. He had waited for her about an hour.

After a few minutes, he heard a few rustling sounds. He looked at the gate and found Sakura walking out of the Konoha gate. Sasuke immediately jumped on a tree a bit father and covered his chakra signature. When she passed the tree Sasuke was hiding in, he followed her from behind.

'Ugh. Now I know how it feels like being a stalker. It sucks,' he thought.

After 3 hours of walking and stalking, in the middle of the forest, they have reached a wide area without any trees.

"This is okay I guess," she muttered. Sasuke was still hiding in a tree. 'What is she doing?' he asked himself.

Sakura felt a strong pain in her chest again. She clutched on her chest.

"Ugh. Got to do it fast," she said. 'What is she talking about?' Sakura stood and tried to relax and concentrate on her chakra.

"Sasaga," a ball of bluish reddish chakra appeared on her left hand.

"Sukua," another ball of chakra appeared on her right hand.

"Kerara," she clasped her hands together. The chakra slowly spreading around her body and the pain in her chest slowly fading away.

"Kosumi," she made the same unusual hand signs.

"Aikuso," she pointed her index and middle fingers to the ground in front of her.

"Sarake!!" all the chakra which surrounded her body immediately released on the ground, causing an explosion. The ground exploded and a huge, enormous, giant hole appeared. It was 50 storey deep and it took an area which is like around 20-30 football fields.

"Ah~ I feel much better now. I hate it when Ryuruno's chakra is moulding inside of me," she said.

Sasuke couldn't believe what he saw. It took him 15 minutes to recover from the shock. When he was still in shock, Sakura ate her breakfast she brought along in her back pack.

'Is... is that the same Sakura from before?' He couldn't believe that it was her who had made the hole in the ground. But then, he noticed that her eyes changed into dark green and her voice also changed. Because of curiosity, he gathered all his bravery and decided to ask her about it instead of guessing. He jumped off the tree and walked towards her. She saw his approach.

'Shit. Don't tell me he saw everything! Calm down Sakura. Act normal,' she thought.

"Sasuke-kun. What are you doing here?" she asked innocently. She even added the suffix.

"Don't act like you're innocent Sakura. What the heck happened just now?"

"What do you mean?"

"What's with the chakra just now?!" he's obviously mad.

"I don't know what you're talking about," Sasuke sighed in frustration.

"Look, Sakura," he took a deep breath if he's gonna blurt out everything. "These past few days I noticed that you've changed. Your eye colour changed, your voice changed and you have one heck of a strong chakra. But from what I know, chakra like that takes about 5 years to get and I only left for 3 years! Stop hiding it from me!" He glared at her really hard he could burn holes into her.

"I don't have anything to hide Sasuke-kun," she's starting to get annoyed.

"Don't lie to me Sakura!"

"Why shouldn't I? You left me on a cold bench 3 years ago. You betrayed Konoha. Why should I tell the truth to a betrayer?" she replied.

Sasuke was furious of her attitude.

"Oh? So you DO admit you're hiding something. And by the way," He stomped towards her and grabbed her by her by the shirt and pulled her upwards to make her face to face with him.

"I am no longer a betrayer of Konoha,"

"But you were," Sakura was not scared of him.

"Just tell me the truth or I'll report to Tsunade what really happened," Sakura took this moment to think.

'Should I tell him? Will I regret it? Damn, I hate choices,'

'We can tell him. If he decides to tell it everyone, just kill him. He's already scared of you,' said the inner.

'Well, from this point of view, he doesn't look like he's scared of me since he's yelling and glaring at me,'

'Yeah, but he will be if we tell the truth,'

'Oh yeah~' She made the decision.

"(Sigh) No point in lying, is it? Fine you caught me,"

"Explain," he let her down and she was dusting invincible dust from her clothes.

"But don't freak out. It's really unbelievable,"

"I'm an Uchiha Sakura. We DON'T freak out,"

"Whatever. Anyway, what you see in me when we were kids is my false self,"

"What are you talking about?" He was really confused what she's talking about.

"Let's just say... what I did in the past is just pretending. I pretended to like you, I pretended to be weak and annoying... all that shit,"

"But why?"

"I wanted to keep a low profile. I have a demon inside. The name's Ryuruno. It's more powerful than Naruto's nine-tailed fox. It acts as my inner. That's why my voice and eyes change,"

"And you were pretending to be weak when we were kids?"

"Yeah,"

"But, when we were fighting Zabuza..."

"Yeah, at that time, I can kill him easily but it's too early to show my strength so I just pretended that I couldn't help you guys,"

"And in the chunin exams, when we fight Orochimaru..."

"I pretended to be paralysed by fear when he made the illusions,"

"And when you fought with the Dosu and Zaku and Kin?"

"Yeah, I also pretended to be defeated by them,"

"But, when you fought with Ino—"

"Don't you get that I pretended to be weak from the start?! Sheesh, and you said I'm annoying,"

"But... why did you also pretend to like me? You can just act you're only weak and annoying,"

"(Sigh)Don't you get it? Most of the girls in our class liked you so it wouldn't be normal if I didn't. Besides, why did they like you anyway? You're an arrogant jerk who always thinks about getting power for your revenge against your brother. Heck, you even tried to kill Naruto so that you can get a higher level in your Sharingan," That hit him deep.

TBC

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