The Heart of the Cherry Blossom Chapter 4: My Name is Haruno Sakura, it's who I am!, a naruto fanfic

Chapter 3: My name is Haruno Sakura, it's who I am! SHANNARO!

Summary: She was admired, she was worshiped; she was praised. She grew in strength and power, she grew distant towards people. Since five, she had trying to save the people around her, but then she just gave up after her closest friend left her. She had never cried since the slaughter of her clan, but she still smiled, but as soon as he left, everything changed, she stopped smiling, she had forgotten how to. She had saved people numerous times in battle with her knowledge and abilities, she brought them back healthy from the missions they came across, it didn't matter, as long as her whole team came back safely, even if she was on the brink of death, she wouldn't allow her self to die pathetically. She had saved everyone, yet she was the one in need of saving; saving from herself and her decaying heart. Sasusaku. Rated T for violence.

'Thoughts'

'Inner selves'

"Talking"

FLASH BACK…

P.O.V

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto does.

Recap:

"Damn…I must be dreaming" Sakura muttered as her body struggled to sit up "I thought I was in an ice field" Sakura murmured.

"You were in one" Sasuke chuckled slightly at the look of confusion on her face.

"Catch up with the times Ugly" Sai smirked.

"Shut up both of you" Sakura sighed as she fell back to the ground 'It reminds me of when I was younger' Sakura realized as she looked around the fields of flowers, thinking back to the gardens that existed in the Haruno district, of course they were never removed, but the girl had never actually visited them in a long time, so she assumed they were all gone 'Oji-sama, you never told me what our ability was, he broke his promise' Sakura frowned, listening to the conversation of the younger Koyuki and a man which Sakura guessed was her father.

"Believe in the future, if you do, spring will definitely come" the man spoke "Koyuki, what would you like to do when spring comes?"

"I'll become a princess" she answered.

"Hm? What kind of Princess?" the man asked.

"Hmm…a kind, strong one. A princess who believes in justice" the young girl chirped.

"That's going to be very hard work" the man laughed.

"I said that before" Koyuki murmured.

"But if you don't give up and keep believing in your dreams, one day for sure, you will become one" the man smiled as he came towards Koyuki, putting the Hexagonal crystal around her neck.

"Can you see a very beautiful princess standing there?" the man asked.

Without realizing it, tears fell from the actress's eyes, remembering what her father had said and what he looked like.

"But it's undecided yet, there's one more ting I want to become" the young Koyuki smiled.

"Nani?" the man asked.

"An Actress" Koyuki grinned. The man chuckling at his daughters answer.

Smiling a real smile in ages, the actress chuckled with her deceased father.

"And this is one happy ending" Naruto muttered before drifting off into a long slumber.

'Tch, frozen tears…' Sakura glared slightly at the crying woman.

"After all that, the device was incomplete" Koyuki sighed.

"So even after all that it's going to be winter here again" Sai frowned.

"No, we will use the device, study it and refine it, then some day the Snow Country will become the Spring Country" Koyuki smiled.

"But it's going to be a waste. You are so popular, and now you're going to quit acting" Naruto frowned.

"Who said I was going to quit acting?" Koyuki questioned.

"Eh?" Naruto exclaimed.

"As the monarchy and actress of the Snow Country, I will show that I can do both. It's stupid to give up isn't it?" Koyuki smiled.

"T-that's…" Kakashi exclaimed pointing to the green book in her hands.

"Well then, see you" Koyuki smiled as she waked away from the leaf shinobi, minus Sakura and towards a group of young kids begging for an autograph. Naruto smiled at the woman before crying in defeat.

"Nani?" Sai questioned.

"I didn't her auto graph!" Naruto cried.

"If you're talking about the autograph, then I've got it" Sasuke said.

"Eh?!!!!!" Sai, Naruto and Kakashi exclaimed watching Sasuke pull out a small envelope with a rainbow on the corner. Opening up the envelope, Naruto pulled out a small photograph that had been signed by the actress her self.

"Aww…I wish she had used a better picture of me" Naruto frowned, looking at the picture of him in hospital in various casts and bandages, asleep while Koyuki kissed him on the cheek.

"Hey guys…where's Ugly?" Sai questioned, only now noticing that the pink haired girl wasn't any where around.

"Eh?!" Kakashi and Naruto exclaimed.

"I thought she was with us at the beginning" Kakashi frowned.

"That's because she was with us at the beginning" Sasuke sighed.

"Alright, come on, let's go find her" Kakashi sighed.

Away from the festival, leaning on a bridge post, the missing cherry blossom could be found gazing over the defrosted lake and the wild life that swam in it. Around the lake, were various trees, weeping billows, birches, oaks and ironically the one which drew Sakura's attention most was the cherry blossom tree that stood in the middle. Averting her gaze to her hands, Sakura stared long and hard, trying to figure out how on earth she manipulated the water, ice, lightning and fire like that, she had never done it before, nor did she know she could do it. Gazing back at the water, the girl sighed as a gentle breeze picked up her loose and danced with it. It seemed so peaceful, so dream like, it was surreal in the girl's mind; it seemed like ages since she just let her self relax and enjoy the beauty of nature, man she could stay here for hours and not get bored, pity her raging team mates felt other wise.

"Sa-ku-ra" Kakashi glared, sounding each syllable of her name slowly.

"Err…Yea?" Sakura turned her head to where Kakashi was to find four very irritated males, of course each one a member of team seven.

"What the hell are you doing here?!" Sai exclaimed.

"What am I doing here? What the hell are you guys doing here?!" Sakura exclaimed.

"We're looking for you!" Naruto shouted.

"Why? The ship doesn't deport for Konoha for another two hours" Sakura frowned, confused.

"Could you at least tell one of us you're going? So we don't have to spend hours looking for you!!!" Kakashi glared.

"Demo…" Sakura frowned.

FLASH BACK…

"Kakashi, I'm going to go for a walk" Sakura said.

"Hai" Kakashi nodded, not really paying attention to the girl.

…END FLASH BACK

"I did tell you" Sakura frowned.

"Oh…right" Kakashi sweatdropped.

"Well, let's go back to the festival!" Naruto chirped, dragging Sai and Kakashi back to the festival.

"How long ago did you tell him you were going for a walk?" Sasuke questioned.

"Not long…I think…when the festival started" Sakura answered.

"That was three hours ago" Sasuke scoffed.

"Tch. Whatever" Sakura muttered walking away from Sasuke after picking up her gear.

'What's with her?' Sasuke questioned.

'Maybe you haven't noticed, but she had changed a lot over the years'

'I noticed, but I think she's hiding something that should be told to some one'

'Let her tell some one on her own accord, I think she's still dealing with the fact that you're back'

'She's the one who brought me back'

'I know'

End Recap

"Well done Team Seven on a successful mission" Tsunade congratulated. In front of her were all five members of Team Seven as well as Sakura's bird who was residing on her shoulder, sleeping.

"Thank you Tsunade-baa-chan!!" Naruto yelled, waking up the quiet bird, which sent a deadly glare towards him.

"Don't call me that you little brat" Tsunade glared.

"Ano, is it me, or has it suddenly gotten colder in here?" Naruto questioned "And why is Sakura-chan glaring at me?"

"I'm not glaring at you, Guyver is" Sakura answered, pointing to the bird who was ready to kill the blonde haired ninja mercilessly.

"That's ridiculous Sakura-chan, birds can't glare" Naruto chuckled nervously.

"If Guyver can kill I don't see why he can't glare" Sakura sighed "Anyway, is that all Tsunade?"

"Oh, right, well done on a mission complete, and now you may all leave, except, Sakura-chan, I want to speak with you" Tsunade announced.

"Hai" Sakura nodded as the four males walked out of the office.

"Have you taken the idea of ANBU into consideration?" Tsunade asked.

"I have, however, I am still declining, if I wish to be an ANBU I will do what everyone else does and take the exams and work my up from there, however, currently I have no interest in becoming one" Sakura answered, noting that Guyver was nuzzling closer to her face and that his talons were extremely sharp.

"Fine, if that's the best we can get, it will have to do, you may take the second lot of ANBU exams next year" Tsunade sighed in defeat.

"Is that all?' Sakura asked.

"No, a couple of days ago we were searching through the Third's belongings because his grand child had finally allowed us to move things around, and we came across something every interesting" Tsunade spoke.

"And you want me to go through it and make sure it's safe?" Sakura asked, confused at what this had to do with her "Wait, what exactly was this something?"

"Well, we aren't entirely sure because it was locked up in a wooden chest, and it won't open no matter how hard we try" Tsunade explained.

"So you want me to try and open it?" Sakura frowned, still very confused.

"The chest had your picture on it from when you were younger, so we presumed it was yours" Tsunade answered "We believe, if it wasn't yours the Third kept it in hiding to give to you"

"I see…so…" Sakura muttered, still not sure of what was happening.

"I'm going to give it to you" Tsunade said as she leaned down under her desk and pulled up a mahogany coloured chest. On the lid it had a picture of Sakura when she was younger and at the front it had a padlock on it; however the padlock seemed quite odd with an interesting key hole that in the girl's mind resembled a whole sakura flower. On the sides were various engravings, each different to the last making no two alike. If Sakura looked carefully enough she could have sworn that the engraved pictures were of symbols; water, earth, fire, thunder, air, grass, snow. Not knowing what the contents of the box were, Sakura assumed that the box was about the size of one of her many books at home, one of those really big ones.

"This was addressed to me from the Third?" Sakura questioned, picking up the chest from Tsunade's desk.

"Yes it was" Tsunade nodded.

"Interesting" Sakura muttered "Is that all Tsunade?" Sakura asked.

"Yes that is all" Tsunade spoke.

"Okay, ja" Sakura bowed, Guyver doing a little bow as well before both went out of the office with the chest in hand.

"Shizune I need sake!" Tsunade called out.

"Hai" Shizune replied.

"So what's the thing that the third left for you?" Naruto asked, as soon as Sakura stepped out of the office, alerting Guyver, who immediately began pecking at Naruto's skull.

"Itai! Itai! Sakura get your stupid bird to stop!" Naruto pleaded running away from the bird.

"Guyver is NOT a stupid bird" Sakura glared, walking away from him, which Guyver noticed and began following her, landing on her shoulder.

"So what did the Third leave you?" Kakashi questioned.

"A chest" Sakura answered, indicating to the chest in her hands.

"Really! Cool! Let me see let me see!" Naruto exclaimed as he pulled the chest away from the girl's hand.

"Stop being such an idiot!" Sakura glared, punching him with a chakra infused fist, taking the chest away from him before he flew away.

"But I want to see" Naruto pouted.

"Even if you want to see what was inside it, you couldn't, apparently it's been a struggle to open it" Sakura explained.

"All it needs a good bashing!" Naruto smirked, swiping the box away from Sakura again and began attacking it with various jutsus.

"Naruto, would you please stop" Sakura sighed. Instantly, the blonde stopped, waiting for the smoke to be cleared to reveal that the box was undamaged.

"What the hell?! That's impossible!" Naruto exclaimed glaring at the box, Guyver now in the air ready to hit the boy.

"Now that you have had your attempt, can I please go with the box, it is mine?" Sakura glared.

"But I want to know what's in it" Naruto frowned.

"Too bad" Sakura glared taking the box away "Guyver, let's go" Sakura called out as the bird flew behind her.

"So what do you think is in it Guyver?" Sakura asked the bird as the girl sat down on the lake bank, the hawk on her shoulder, who just turned his head in confusion.

"Of course, you have no idea" Sakura chuckled.

"Talking to animals now? Wow, your skills keep improving with the passing days" Sasuke smirked behind the girl.

"I know, I have so many" Sakura said sarcastically as she rolled her eyes.

"I guess that means you haven't tried opening the chest yet?" Sasuke questioned sitting next to her; which seemed to make Guyver angry as he switched shoulders, sitting on the shoulder next to Sasuke.

"No, I tried, it seems the chest won't open until I find the key to it" Sakura answered.

"Then let me Chidori it" Sasuke smirked.

"Naruto has already used his Rasengan on it, I doubt the Chidori is any better" Sakura smirked, as if saying the Chidori was weaker than the Rasengan; slowly the girl stood up, taking the chest with her.

"Well, I'm off to search for this blasted key" Sakura waved, instantly disappearing out of sight.

"What was the Third thinking when he gave me an unbreakable chest with no key to it?" Sakura sighed. Currently she was searching through her spotless house for a presumable Sakura flower shaped key and boy it was provin to be impossible, sure, she understood that when they moved to Suna and stuff, the house got renovated all, but everything was supposed to be returned and put back in the correct places and stuff, but now she had her doubts.

"This is ridiculous, I should be training, or finding out why my chakra was like that in the Snow Country" Sakura frowned "I'll figure it out later, I'm going to the library" Sakura muttered "Guyver you coming?" the hawk made no motion to indicate that he was going anywhere. Chuckling to herself, the girl raced out of the Haruno main house and through the district before coming out of the hidden land and racing towards the library.

"Hi, how may I help you today Sakura-sama?" the librarian asked.

"Hmm? Oh, you can go back to whatever you were doing, I know this place pretty well anyway" Sakura smiled forcefully before she walked through the isles of scrolls and books looking for something in particular 'There! Elemental jutsus! That should have something about what's with my jutsus lately, especially my chakra' Sakura smirked to her self before she pulled the scrolls out, sat a table and began reading the contents of the first dusty scroll, it seemed not many people had taken a good look at them in a while.

"Okay…let's start with water jutsus turning into ice jutsus" Sakura muttered.

'Okay…water jutsus…most need water to work; only very few can create a water jutsu without water near by. Most water jutsus, though hit directly a majority of the time can miss, especially with jutsus such as the Suiton; Suiryudan no jutsu, there is no definite point when it will hit, nor can the water be controlled. Water jutsus have not exact accuracy, but the majority of the times it will hit, mostly on luck, but when they do it, they are quite powerful' Sakura recited 'T-that's not true! I was controlling the dragon! What in the world?! It didn't even have something on water freezing into ice either…maybe fire has something of better use to me…'

'Fire jutsus are created with large amounts of chakra build up and blown from the mouth with the seal of the tiger. Depending on the amount of chakra and age of a person will depend on the strength of the jutsu. Chakra control is part of the many factors involved with fire jutsus. Unlike water jutsus there doesn't need to be an amount of fire to begin with, however like water jutsus, there flames are not controllable'

"Nani? Nothing there either? Maybe thunder jutsus?" Sakura murmured.

'Similar to fire jutsus, there has to be a build up of chakra, however these jutsus are more controllable, but there is no definite control in these jutsus. Usually created with the palm of the hand, these are powerful jutsus that create a long time to master. It also take a long time for the energy build up is sufficient enough to be considered a good amount to fight with'

"Still nothing…Perhaps Wind jutsus will have something…" Sakura grumbled.

'Wind jutsus are the manipulation of wind to create powerful blasts of attacks'

"Here we go" Sakura smirked in triumph.

'However, wind jutsus need a large amount of chakra to be built up and without a device of some sort, it is almost impossible to create strong wind jutsus, however most wind jutsus have not much power to begin with and merely push the enemy away unless other jutsus are added to it, and that's when it becomes a lot more powerful'

(A/N: please don't quote me on these things –sweatdrops- I was basically making that whole lot up, but that's how I see the jutsus anyway)

"Damn" Sakura cursed. Sighing, the girl picked up the elemental jutsu scrolls and walked towards the librarian, pulling out her library card while she was at it.

"Can I borrow these please?" Sakura asked.

"Sure" the librarian nodded, taking her library card and scanning it before writing town the scroll titles.

"Arigato" Sakura nodded before walking out with the scrolls in hand and going towards the forests; it seemed she always focused better out in fresh air.

"Sakura-chan" Naruto called out, trying to find the girl through the village, many hours after she had borrowed the scrolls.

"Oi, dobe why are you making so much noise?" Kiba questioned as he passed the boy, behind him was Shino and Akamaru, Hinata already running to his side.

"I'm looking for Sakura-chan" Naruto explained, missing the fact Kiba had just insulted him.

"How hard is it to find pink hair?" Kiba scoffed.

"Impossible" Naruto muttered "She's never around"

"But she has pink hair, how can you not find her?" Kiba coughed.

"Trust me I ask my self that question all the time" Naruto muttered.

"It's true, she's impossible to find" Hinata sighed.

"Have you guys seen Sakura-chan?" Ino asked walking up to the group, behind her was Shikamaru and Chouji.

"Yes, have you?" Tenten asked "I haven't seen her in ages" Tenten frowned; behind her were Neji and Lee.

"How hard is it to find pink hair?!" Kiba exclaimed.

"Extremely" Ino sighed.

"I have tried using my Byakugan, but even with that on I can't find her" Hinata sighed.

"Temari is in town too" Ino sighed "I was hoping to do an all girls night or something"

"Temari is in town?" Shikamaru muttered quietly to himself.

Suddenly, out of no where, the missing cherry blossom walked passed them in deep thought with scrolls in one hand and groceries in another, not even acknowledging their existence.

'None of the scrolls had anything in them about what is happening to me, maybe one of the books at home have something on it'

'You've gone through all the books already'

'Damn, may be I over read something in one of them, I'm going to go over them again'

'Don't bother, trust me, I read those books with you, there was nothing in those books, absolutely nothing on what was happening to you'

'And you have no idea correct?'

'Yea'

'Damn…they would probably know something, but I'm not stooping so low as to ask them'

'Why not?'

'For one, I have no idea were they are, second, they are missing Nins'

'Oh right, I forgot about that'

'How annoying, if I don't know what's happening, what the hell am I supposed to do?'

'I don't know'

"Matte Sakura-chan!" Naruto exclaimed as he chased after the girl, who didn't even realize that she had passed them, let alone that the boy had called her.

"Sakura-chan!" Ino gasped, chasing after the girl with Tenten and Hinata behind. In an instant, the girl was gone from sight, confusing the ninja who were chasing her.

Shuffling through the bag of the groceries Sakura pulled out an apple as she sat back onto the forest floor, studying the jutsu scroll intently, which was an ice scroll. She had already gone through the basic elements and now she was working on the next lot of jutsus which she like to call the secondary level of elemental jutsus. You see, Sakura figured the four basic elemental jutsus were water, fire, lightning and earth. Then after that you had air (she didn't consider it an actual element per say), grass, ice and any other jutsus what were out there. It was actually quite logical if one looked at it, it was simple and easier to understand in her mind if she separated them into those categories.

"Oi, Sakura, people are looking for you" Sasuke said, looking down at the girl, noting that she eating an apple and studying a scroll.

"Aa" she mumbled taking another bite of the apple.

"Are you even listening to me?" Sasuke questioned.

"Hn" Sakura grumbled after swallowing the piece of apple she was chewing on and taking another bite.

"What are you reading anyway?" Sasuke questioned.

"Aa" Sakura muttered.

"What?" Sasuke questioned.

"Aa" Sakura grunted.

"Of course, because I definitely understand what you are saying" Sasuke sighed, glaring down at the girl who was ignoring him; ignoring him! The great Uchiha Sasuke! Continuing to glare at the girl, Sasuke swiped the scroll out of her grasp and inspected it.

"Elemental jutsu? Ice?" Sasuke questioned.

"Aa" Sakura glared, snatching the scroll back.

"If you want to learn ice jutsus wouldn't it be better if you learnt them while we were in the Snow Country?" Sasuke questioned.

"Aa" Sakura muttered, her eyes racing over the scroll at incredible speeds to make sure she had read everything before cursing and putting it away.

'Why don't any of the scrolls have anything?'

'Maybe it has something to do with your blood'

'My blood…'

'Yea…'

'If you're referring to the blood line traits, well, I'm now beginning to think that's what it is after going through each of these useless scrolls'

'But you know nothing of what the blood line trait is so you can't be certain'

'Each of the things I did, these scrolls say I can't, blood line traits are the only explanation'

'True, but you still know nothing of what your blood line trait is, your Oji-sama never got to tell you'

'But the Third did'

'And the only thing left from him is…'

'That chest!'

'Damn; either they predicted this would happen, or it's just how it always worked!'

'I don't care, because now we have to search for the key again'

"I'm sorry, but I've got to go" Sakura muttered, picking up the bag of groceries and the scrolls.

"Where to?" Sasuke questioned.

"Feed Guyver" Sakura answered, turning her back and walking away before the Uchiha could say anything more.

"Where is it?" Sakura muttered as she fell onto her black covered bed. Currently, the girl was lying on her bed in her room trying to figure out where a Sakura shaped key would be. Turning her head to the side, Sakura became face to face with her team mates…well…a photo of them any way on the wooden bed side table, from when they first became genins, man that seemed so long ago. Her room wasn't anything spectacular, heck Sakura suspected that Sai had more stuff and colour in his room; the guy who had yet to understand the concept of emotions at seventeen. Like most rooms in the house, it was big. Her bed was circular, low and in the centre of the room on the back wall, opposite the two doors to the room. It had simple black covers with the Haruno symbol in the centre of the bed which was a big white circle. On both sides of her bed were small wooden bed sides with small kerosene lamps on each.

On one there was an alarm clock, and stored in each table were various books and occasionally a scroll. To the left of the bed on the wall was a book case which held another set of various books over a study desk. A metre down from the book case and study desk, another set of doors lead into a walking wardrobe, filled with various clothes for the girl, mostly black in colour, ignoring her genin outfits. On the right wall was a screen door which led to the court yard and Guyver's perch which the bird was currently occupying. Next to Guyver's perch on the wall was a calendar, which simply told the girl what dates to dread and which ones she should consider being slightly…her. The floors were wooden boards and the doors were simple sliding doors; basically a traditional Japanese house in you asked Sakura. That was basically Sakura's room, there was no colour; it was black with wooden bits and pieces and books every where. On the desk was the chest that was given her when they arrived back in Konoha from Tsunade, still to be opened.

'How can it be this hard to try and find a key?! I have looked all over this house, even rooms which I had never even seen before!'

'You have only looked through the inside of this house, perhaps it's in the outside'

'Of course! How could I forget, I have like four courtyards to go through and then the Haruno Gardens!' Sakura exclaimed, she had this instinct; this feeling in side of her, that she would find this key.

Searching through the first courtyard after going through the Haruno Gardens, Sakura looked high and low, through the fountains, through the gardens, heck she looked every where, it was becoming quite annoying, who would have thought such a key could be this difficult to find. Getting on her hands and knees, the girl began scraping through the sand stone pavement in hopes that she would find the key. Squinting her eyes, the girl could have sworn she saw something shimmer in the night sky, but as soon as she checked her sight, the glisten was gone. Pausing for a moment, the girl sat on her calves and sighed.

"How can it be this hard?" Sakura muttered as she started towards the centre piece of the garden; a tall sand stone statue. It wasn't something that spectacular, oddly enough it sort of reminded her self of her self in a way, considering it was almost a replica of what she looked like as a child except she was much older, as in a person with a figure of a woman and she had angel wings. Why Sakura had never noticed this before was beyond her, but she didn't care, what caught her attention though was the centre of the statue, where the heart would most likely sit in a real human, in the centre there was a little hole, in the shape of a full sakura, and if Sakura had to make a guess, the exact size of the key hole for that blasted lock. Smirking to her self, she congratulated who ever put it there for making it so difficult to find before going towards the statue and pulling out the little metal piece that was put in it. How odd, what a place to hide a key. Pulling the key out, Sakura was quite shocked at the size of it; it was tiny; like it was only a fraction of the real key.

Assuming that she was correct in saying that there were most likely more pieces to the key, Sakura ran to the other court yards, going to the centre statues and pulling out various pieces of metal from them, which looked like they all belonged together.

Walking back to her room, Sakura tried putting the pieces together only to fail miserably after realizing that there was no way the pieces would attach to each other, with out something holding them together.

'Damn! I've looked every where and this is all I was able to get!' Sakura cursed.

"Why did he give me this if I don't have the key?!" Sakura growled, leaving the pieces of the so called key on her table before walking out of the main house to do some training.

Five hours. That was how long the girl trained for so far, and she basically insisted that she continue even though her body was screaming for the girl to stop, she just couldn't. The amount of chakra she had in her system needed to be released before she became the first human time bomb. Ignoring the pain, the girl got up again and created another water jutsu. Heck, if she wasn't going to find out what was happening with her from what was in that box, then to hell with that, she'll figure it out the normal way, through physical practice. She had already figured it had something to do with elements, now if only she could figure out what exactly she was doing with those elements; she could practice and refine it good enough so she could use it in combat. There had to be some way that she could figure it out with out the contents in that chest from the Third, whatever it was.

Moving towards the port, the girl was going to begin practicing something she had never done before, but sure as hell she had her fair share of eye witness accounts. On the board walk of the more secluded part of port the girl performed the correct hand seals breathed in deeply, building chakra up in her lungs, and with the seal of the tiger made with her hands, the girl breathed out, releasing the chakra that had built up in her lungs in an explosion of fire…which was roughly the size of her palm. Cursing to herself, the girl continued performing the jutsu over and over again, occasionally getting bigger, but most of the time it remained the size of her palm.

Angry at herself, the girl began gathering more chakra into her lungs until it was practically begging to be released, performed the appropriate hand seals and breathed out deeply, creating a massive fire ball, the amount of chakra and pressure pushing the girl backwards. Preparing her self for an impact, earth rose from the ground preparing a soft cushioning for the girl but instead, she landed on something much softer, much firmer, like a body. Feeling an arm snake around her waist upon contact, the girl looked behind her to come face to face with a smirking Sasuke (who was enjoying the position he was in).

"Oh, hi Sasuke" Sasuke blushed slightly, trying to ignore that he had just caught her and that he was most likely watching her trying to create his Katon jutsu.

"Geez what a nice greeting I get from a friend" Sasuke scoffed, looking down into the girl's emerald eyes, noting the anger that flared in them behind the dullness.

"What are you doing here?" Sakura asked, forgetting that she was still in Sasuke's arms.

"I could ask you the same, but I was bored and went for a walk. What exactly are you trying to do?" Sasuke questioned.

"Go get some sleep then, it's late anyway" Sakura answered, getting out of Sasuke's arms. (A/N: Aww….)

"Answer the question Sakura" Sasuke ordered.

"How long have you been here exactly?" Sakura asked.

"Just a few minutes, now, answer the damn question!" Sakura glared.

"Expanding my jutsu knowledge" Sakura answered.

"Like you don't already know enough" Sasuke scoffed.

"If you are referring to what happened in Snow, then I'll tell you I have no idea what so ever on how I did that" Sakura glared "Now, if you'll excuse, I'm going to continue with what I started with" Sakura turned around and began performing the appropriate seals. Breathing in deeply, the tiger seal was formed before the girl breathed out a small flame before a blast of chakra sent another massive flame out of the girl sending her backwards into Sasuke again.

"You're using too little chakra and then too much, I thought you had perfect chakra control" Sasuke mocked.

"Shut up, my chakra is still all over the place" Sakura muttered before pain shot through her lungs and the girl fell to her knees coughing up blood. Falling into a sitting position the girl cursed as she breathed in heavily.

"Perhaps, this is enough training for today" Sasuke raised a curious eyebrow looking down on the girl.

"I'm fine" Sakura muttered, standing back up and creating another 'Katon: Gokakyu no jutsu' which ended up in a tiny flame before the girl fell do the ground in exhaustion.

"Yea, you are so fine that you just collapsed" Sasuke scoffed.

"Shut up Sasuke, if it makes you feel any better, I'm going home now, Guyver is probably waiting for me" Sakura glared before she disappeared into thin air.

Sunlight showered the girl in soothing warmth and light from the screen door as birds chirped and the morning dew dripped off the trees. Insects of all kinds fluttered their way around the garden and courtyards of the Haruno district. Slowly eyelids fluttered open to show the world bright emerald green eyes, brightness that was only viewable for a mere second when the girl awoke from the scheduled slumber. Lifting her self up into a sitting on the circular black bed, the girl stretched slightly and looked around her room for a small moment before she tossed her black covers off and drowsily walked to the bathroom to complete her morning routine; brush teeth, brush hair, have a shower, dry body, dry hair and put back into buns, change into ninja outfit, make bed and feed Guyver before grabbing an apple for herself to eat on the way to her training grounds. Checking her calendar before she left, the girl sighed grudgingly as soon as she learnt the date, White Day.

'Damn! Whose bright idea was it to make up these holidays?' Sakura glared at her calendar. She still had chocolates, cards and bears from Valentines' Day a month ago, even though Valentine's was traditionally a day for females to give chocolates to males, her fanboys as they called them selves had gone all out for her. Heck, she was trying to find a way to get rid of them efficiently. Glaring one last time at the calendar, the girl sighed before walking out of her house with a big bag in hand and towards her first training area, nothing special, it was just a plain field, perfect for practicing taijutsu, especially her chakra styled taijutsu.

Arriving at her the training area, the girl was shocked at what faced her, a mountain about half her size, maybe a little bigger of chocolates, cards, teddy bears, roses and were those cupid plushies? Damn they found her at this training area! Bloody stalkers! Glaring at the mound of presents, the girl pulled out that big bag and heaved each and every single gift into the bag before tying it up and going to her next training area, she couldn't train knowing that they had been here, heck if they knew she trained here, they could storm up to her at any moment whilst training…and fatal accidents could occur.

The girl glared, she couldn't believe it! She had gone to every one of her training areas, and each one had a mountain of presents for her, each bigger than the last. Damn, now she'll have to find new training areas! Cursing, the girl heaved the gifts into the big bag, and carried them onto her shoulder, walking away from the training area and towards the bridge that Team Seven usually met at, remembering that Kakashi insisted that they meet today.

'Damn, so many stalkers!' Sakura cursed arriving at the Team Seven Bridge where Kakashi, Sasuke, Naruto and Sai were waiting for her.

"Sakura-chan! You're late!" Naruto cried running up to her, ignoring the massive bag of god knows what on her back.

"Hello, Ugly. It's so nice of you to greet us with your presence an hour after Kakashi graced us with his presence" Sai sneered.

"Whatever" Sakura sighed "Okay what do you want?"

"Well, ignoring that you didn't get us something for Valentines' we each got you something for White Day" Kakashi smiled as he handed her a book shaped, pink wrapped present.

"Okay, add them to the bag" Sakura sighed, dropping the bag off her back and onto her side, allowing each guy to put their present in, heck even Sasuke got her something…although it looked rather forced, and he had a lot of trouble wrapping the gift too.

"My beautiful Cherry Blossom!" Lee cried as he ran up to the girl, hugging her instantly before being tossed off.

"Okay, what do you want?" Sakura glared, noting that Tenten and Neji were coming up behind Lee.

"Lee wanted to drop off his gift to you" Tenten answered.

"Alright, add it to the bag" Sakura sighed.

"To the bag?" Tenten questioned.

"Stupid fanboys or something giving me gifts" Sakura gritted her teeth in anger.

"My blossom, my present will exceed your expectations and you will love it! And even if you don't I know you will say you will love it because you got it from me" Lee proclaimed.

"Why would she say that when she hasn't received my present yet?" a new voice questioned. Turning around, Team Seven stared in shock, well the original members any way. It was Morino Idate, the guy who they helped in the Tea Country five years ago.

"You want to bet?!" Lee glared.

"I do!" Idate glared back, both with fire in their eyes.

"Okay, just give me your damn present" Sakura glared.

"Oh of course my Sakura-chan" Idate smiled as he pulled out five presents from his back pack, all covered in pink wrapping paper, with a variety of roses, plushies, cards and chocolates.

"Add it to the bag" Sakura sighed as Idate and Lee placed their gifts on the top of the gifts already inside.

"Oh, by the way, Sakura, Tsunade-sama wanted to see you" Neji said.

"Ok, thanks Hyuuga-san" Sakura nodded, heaving the gift bag onto her back and walking away towards the Hokage's office presumably, ignoring the mubles from Lee and Idate who were glaring at Neji since he had gotten a sign of acknowledgement from their blossom and they didn't.

"I can't believe it! That Sakura-bitch got a gift from my Sasuke-sama!" Karin glared, watching Sasuke hand the girl a black wrapped gift.

"He's never given me anything!"

"She'll pay!"

"Ano, Tsunade, you called for me?" Sakura asked as she walked into the office after knocking and bowing.

"Yes" Tsunade nodded.

"What for?" Sakura asked.

"Can you please get rid of these gifts?" Tsunade sort of glared pointing to a mound the size of the girl opposite her.

"I don't believe it" Sakura muttered "Do you have a spare bag or something I could carry these in?" Sakura asked.

"I do, but after you've taken this lot, go to the hospital and get that lot please, it is causing quite a spectacle" Tsunade sighed as she handed the girl another bag for her to shove all the gifts into.

"What to do with them?" Sakura muttered as she glared at the three bags of gifts before her 'I should probably keep some, just my teams lot then' Sakura sighed and dived into the first bag, coming out with the gifts Sasuke, Sai, Kakashi and Naruto had given her and placing them in her kunai holster, considering they all fit aside Naruto's, Kakashi's and Sai's. Well…technically only Sasuke's fitted, but let's not get into detail here; in simple she carried the gifts separately.

"Sakura-chan!" Ino exclaimed as the pink haired girl passed the Yamanaka Flower shop. Turning around, Sakura suddenly thought of a brilliant idea "Some one's lucky today" Ino smirked.

"You could be even luckier" Sakura sneered.

"How?" Ino questioned.

"Please take these bags!" Sakura half pleaded.

"Nah! That's way too much chocolate and stuff for me, heck, too much chocolate for Hinata, Tenten and I" Ino snickered.

"Damn, well then I'm off, I have got to find a way to get rid these things" Sakura sighed.

"How to get rid of this stuff?" Sakura muttered. Currently she was sitting on the peer she was at a couple of months ago, where she tried to practice the 'Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu' which was proving quite difficult to her still, but she reckoned she was getting better. Suddenly, an idea struck!

"That's it!" Sakura exclaimed, running off the peer with bags in hand, the girl created a large crater in her first training area, tossed those blasted gifts in the crater, poured petrol, alcohol and oil over it. Heck she poured everything flammable over it. Running back to her house, she came back with four bags of gifts from the Valentines' affairs and added it to the pile, adding more flammable liquid to the concoction. Man she was brilliant! Absolutely brilliant! Getting in the correct position, the girl performed the fire jutsu she had been practicing and blew out onto the pile of gifts, unfortunately only creating a small flame from the jutsu, which meant it would take a long time before it would blow up into ashes of their former self.

"Damn!" Sakura cursed.

"What exactly are you doing Sakura?" Sasuke questioned form behind her. Turning around, the girl was quite shocked when she found her entire team there, as well as Team 10, eight and Team Gai as well as Idate, standing behind her.

"I found a brilliant way to get rid of these blasted gifts!" Sakura smirked.

"But what about our gifts?!" Naruto cried.

"Oh, I kept my teams gifts, but the rest…well…" Sakura smirked "I wonder, how flammable do you think roses, cards, bears and chocolates are?" Sakura asked.

"B-but my gifts for you my cherry blossom!" Lee cried.

"I thought you loved me!" Idate cried.

"Did I ever say that?" Sakura questioned.

"But couldn't you have kept my present? Those chocolates were expensive" Idate wailed.

"I hate chocolates" Sakura muttered, turning back around, preparing another fire jutsu.

"Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu!" Sakura exclaimed as she blew a bigger flame out of her mouth, sending the pile of gifts alight even more.

"Sakura-chan since when could you use that jutsu?" Naruto questioned.

"Err…not use well…but I taught it to myself a little while ago" Sakura answered.

"My gifts" Idate cried.

"My love" Lee sulked.

"Sakura-chan, I saw you almost twenty minutes ago, don't tell me you added four bags to that lot in that time" Ino frowned.

"No these were from Valentines" Sakura answered.

"You're flame still needs some work" Sasuke smirked.

"Shut up-" Suddenly without warning, a blob of red zoomed past Sakura's nose and glomped it self onto Sasuke.

"Sasuke-sama!" Karin cheered.

"What the hell?" Sasuke muttered, as he lifted his gaze from the ground to find Karin lying on top of him suggestively.

"Oh my, get a room Uchiha" Neji snickered.

"Shut it Hyuuga" Sasuke glared "Get off me Karin"

"Aww…but I was enjoying myself here" Karin whined as she grudgingly got off the Uchiha "Did you get me something for White Day Sasuke-sama?" Karin chirped.

"No" Sasuke answered.

"But you gave her something" Karin pouted and pointed to the pink haired girl who was amusing herself by lighting a match and tossing it into the bon fire of gifts, much to Lee and Idate's shock.

"She's my team mate" Sasuke answered, prying the red head off him.

"So was I" Karin whined, upset that Sasuke had just tossed her off him.

"I wonder, how flammable do you think humans are?" Ino asked Sakura.

"I don't know, have any idea Tenten?" Sakura smirked.

"Not a clue, Hinata, you're smart you should know" Tenten sneered.

"I-I wouldn't know, but if people have been burnt at the stake before…I would assume they could be flammable, with some oil on them or something" Hinata answered.

"You mean like in the Silent Hill Movie?" Sakura answered.

"You've seen that?! I totally freaked me out!" Ino exclaimed.

"Yea, it was a pretty good movie" Sakura nodded.

"So how flammable do you think a human is Neji-kun?" Tenten asked.

"I don't know why?" Neji asked, confused on what the girls were conversing about.

"Just wondering" Tenten smirked.

"Oi, Karin you want to be the first human to be burnt alive?" Sakura smirked "Or would you prefer dead?"

"Tch! Like you could kill me" Karin sneered, hugging Sasuke's arm tightly.

"Aww….never mind anyway, the bonfire of gifts is all burnt out" Sakura sighed when Guyver landed on Sakura's head.

"I hate that bird" Naruto glared at the hawk, who glared back.

"Oh, hey Guyver, what's up?" Sakura asked looking up to the bird, who flew off her head and basically pointed to the North.

"What again?" Sakura sighed "Alright, I'm going, Guyver wants to be fed" Sakura lied before running away from the group.

"Nice timing you have there Guyver" Sakura smirked as she began throwing kunai at random targetsm. The hawk seemed to nod in agreement as he watched his owner train casually for the day. Occasionally Guyver himself would take a kunai and throw it, well he did like to be in some missions occasionally as well, you know.

"You mean your bird flew in because you called it to?" Sasuke asked, appearing behind her.

"Well…not exactly" Sakura smirked, throwing five other kunai into various targets effortlessly.

"I'm curious, at how much better you have gotten over the years" Sasuke smirked.

"And?" Sakura questioned, pulling the kunai back out of the targets.

"How about a light sparring match, you against me?" Sasuke suggested.

"No thanks" Sakura shook her head boredly and walked away, Guyver flying above her head.

"It wasn't a request" Sasuke glared as he threw a kunai towards her which she dodged effortlessly by bending her neck to the left.

"Since when could a chuunin order a jounin?" Sakura scoffed "Don't forget your place Sasuke" Sakura glared.

"You scared?" Sasuke mocked, trying to get her to fight him.

"Me? Scared of a guy who went to a snake pedophile for power and came back with a hair style that is similar to a chicken ass? Please" Sakura ridiculed.

"This coming from the girl who doesn't even know how to control her chakra as of late?" Sasuke jeered. Sakura glared at the boy, Guyver matching her glare and sending it straight to the youngest Uchiha who sent a glare, just as deadly, back to both of them.

"Fine, you want a little spar, you have got it" Sakura muttered "Guyver, go back to the house" Sakura ordered which the bird complied with as he flew away at incredible speeds.

"Weights off" Sasuke ordered.

"You could barely keep up with me on the way back from sound with my weights on, you have yet to prove to me you can catch up to me with them on so don't even think about it" Sakura scoffed.

"Don't underestimate your opponent Sakura" Sasuke growled.

"I'm not" Sakura smirked, before vanishing into thin air leaving a trail of cherry blossoms in her path. Cursing at his mistake, Sasuke activated his sharingan and also disappeared from his place in the forest as their kunai clashed, locking each other in place.

"I wonder, without that sharingan, would you last long in battle?" Sakura mocked. Sasuke glared- was she saying that he was weak? Growling in distaste, Sasuke pushed his weight off the girl, jumping further away from her, leaving a trail of fire in his path from his Katon jutsu. As the flames engulfed the pink haired jounin the distinct sound of the girl evaporating echoed through the forest; where she stood just seconds ago a puddle of water.

"When?" Sasuke muttered.

"Game over" Sakura seethed as she appeared behind him in mid air with a kunai to his neck.

"Not quite" Sasuke smirked as his form exploded into a cloud of smoke, a log in his place.

"I was wondering when you would use that jutsu" Sakura sneered with a bored look on her face.

"I don't underestimate you, can't you give me the decency and at least fight with me properly" Sasuke glared.

"You're not worthy of that honor" Sakura said.

"Me? Your closest friend?" Sasuke questioned, repeating what she had said years ago to him before he left the village.

FLASH BACK…

"So I guess that means you're going right?" Sakura answered, noticing Sasuke take out a kunai "Don't bother Sasuke, I'm not here to fight you, I came from training, and nothing else. I will let you pass"

"Then move aside" Sasuke said.

"Just listen to me for a moment" Sakura pleaded.

"Fine" Sasuke sighed irritably.

"I know you are going, and right now I could stop you if I wanted to, however, I won't. I'd presume that after people have found you left, they will be after you and as a chuunin, I will most likely be one of the shinobi who come after you, however I am not going to do anything to stop you from going" Sakura announced.

"Why?" Sasuke asked, shocked at her declaration.

"Because your revenge is what you have been living for, then I will let you do that, I know what it's like to chase after an ambition, I will not stop you from gaining power. I would guess they'd do a lot of rescue missions to get you, but I promise on my life, that if I am sent with a troop I will only stop the people around you, not you" Sakura declared.

"But why?" Sasuke questioned, not understanding the girl.

"Because you are my closest friend in the village here since I came back" Sakura answered, hugging the boy from the front "You seem to be the only one I have let get close to me, after time, Naruto and Kakashi are close…but I have told you things that I probably would have never told you before" Sakura muttered "And as a friend of yours, I want you to do the best you can do"

…END FLASH BACK

"I severed any friendships I had when we were younger; you and I are merely colleagues as shinobi" Sakura commented.

'That kinda hurt' Sasuke inwardly winced at what she said, an underlying cold tone in her voice.

"Colleagues?" Sasuke questioned.

"And nothing more" Sakura glared, waiting for him to initiate his next move. Glaring back at the girl with as much force, Sasuke disappeared from sight and began to attack her with an onslaught of attacks ranging from mere weapon jutsus to his fire jutsus, heck he was even tempted to use his Chidori a few times since each time he used his fire jutsus she would dispel them unconsciously or not, which was starting to piss him off; but the thing that pissed him off the most was the plain look plastered on the girl's face which was practically screaming bored as she dodged his attacks effortlessly, she wasn't taking him seriously and that's what had pissed him off the most. Sure he had seen the look adorning her features often when he had missions with her, figuring that she didn't take mere newly graduated genin seriously enough and bored with the fights, but giving him that same look was so unforgivable and angering, it frustrated and annoyed him deeply.

"Well is that it?" Sakura questioned, the only hit he managed to hit was a slight scratch on her cheek from his shuriken, but that was it, which he found quite irritating.

"Take me seriously!" Sasuke growled, throwing another onslaught of kunai towards her, which she dodged effortlessly by jumping up into the sky.

"You want serious? I'll give you serious" Sakura glared, plummeting with her head first, fist drawn as she sent her chakra-infused fist into the ground, creating a small crater, just missing the Uchiha, before another wave of chakra was sent coursing through the ground, creating cracks of all sized through the earth.

"Is that it?" Sasuke taunted, repeating what she had said only moments ago. Glaring at the Uchiha, Sakura performed a quick hand seal motion, bringing the seal of the tiger in her hands to her mouth and breathing out fire.

"Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu!" Sakura shouted as flames, tiny ones, but flames came bursting out of her mouth before a big explosion of flames swallowed the surrounding area as she was pushed back from the force of the explosion into a near by tree. Looking up from her position in the ground, Sakura stared wide eyed as flames continued to burn the vegetation surrounding the two. Cursing at her self for her stupidity, she willed her chakra through her arm, and as if she knew what she was doing, directed the flames to extinguish them selves as she pulled them closer to her and away from the trees into a small ball in her palm before she clenched her fist and the flames dispersed. Glancing at her hand, she continued to glare at it, trying to figure out what the hell was wrong with her power as of late, and how the hell she did that.

"Now you can't tell me you don't know how you did that because that'd be a load of bull" Sasuke commented walking up to her, inspecting her hand for any damage to find none, half expecting third degree burns to be imprinted and etched into her skin.

"…" Sakura made no comment, she had none, she had no idea of what was happening, and how she did it, it just happened.

"Now, tell me, what's the name of this kekkei genkai of yours?" Sasuke asked, glaring at her. Looking up at him with a shocked face, the girl was speechless as she fell to the ground, trying to register what Sasuke had just said.

'Kekkei Genkai?'

'Then we were right'

'…'

"Nani?" Sakura muttered, staring at her hands even deeper than she had before.

"I couldn't copy your technique at all, so it has to be a kekkei genkai, so fess up, what's it called" Sasuke ordered.

"No, no, no, no" Sakura kept muttered to her self "I-I-I-I-I don't know" Sakura stuttered quietly before she punched the ground around her, sending Sasuke off balancing while she fled for her life.

Fourteen days; fourteen days since White Day; fourteen days since her 'little spar' with Sasuke; fourteen days since she had confirmation from the sharingan wielder him self that her ability was in fact the Haruno Kekkei Genkai, an ability she had no idea of how to control nor what it was, now fourteen days later was the day she seemed to dread every year, the day that she at times she wished would never draw nearer and nearer, but now, sixteen years since she was born to the day, eleven years since her clan was slaughtered before her eyes to the day was her birthday and the eleven year anniversary of her family's death. The only positive thing about this seemed to be that the inner mind in her had decided to make her presence unknown for the day, as Sakura silently mourned the loss of her family every year.

Beginning her annual tradition, the night before, the girl set out her formal funeral outfit, planning every detail, this year, she was planning on wearing a black and white long sleeved kimono styled top and a full length black skirt which had slits running up both legs, revealing another just as lengthy skirt which fell a few centimetres passed the skirt on top of it. On the top of both skirts was a long black and white scarf which ended mid shin in a point with a cherry blossom imprinted at the bottom. Over the top of the plain outfit, the girl had a big over coat which fell to just past her knees and over her hands by roughly a foot length. Adorning the rim of the black plain coat was a white trimming with a light pink sakura petal pattern decorating the plain attire. Hiding under the lengthy sleeves of the over coat and kimono sleeves were black gloves which reached her upper arms like her usual ninja attire gloves. Her hair was to be in it's usual buns, however half of her lose hair was going to be loosely clipped to the bun and decorated with a big ornamental flower, hanging off her hear lobes were long black earrings and around her neck was her collar.

Sighing to her self, Sakura kept the clothing on their hangers, putting them on her door and feel asleep, the next morning, March 28th; Sakura quickly changed into her ninja attire and ran to the Yamanaka flower shop, slightly surprised that it was open at this hour, but Sakura could care less as she walked around the shop collecting the flowers she would always get on this day. Eight white roses, four red roses and two cherry blossom twigs, making sure the flowers were in full bloom of course, not to mention fresh.

Yawning tiredly, Ino walked out of the back room, slightly surprised to see Sakura there that early in the morning but was expecting her to come in none-the-less. Going to the counter groggily, Ino sat on the stool and waited for Sakura to bring her desired flowers to her. Much to her distaste, the flowers the cherry blossom had picked were the same, white roses, red roses and cherry blossoms, in the blonde's opinion, the colours clashed too much and needed something else to make it look like a proper bouquet.

"You know, Sakura-chan, you always get the same flowers this time of year, you should really try to put something else into your chosen bouquet" Ino sighed as Sakura handed Ino the flowers.

"Your job as a person at the register is to get me to pay for my chosen product, do not sell more to me if I have not picked it" Sakura said coldly, paying the correct amount for the flowers and heading out.

"I just meant you should add something to them" Ino growled "It's such an ugly bouquet!"

"You obviously know nothing of symbolism" Sakura scoffed, walking out of the small flower shop and back to the Haruno district.

Setting the flowers down on her desk, the girl grabbed her earlier prepared attire and quickly changed from her ninja one to the one she was going to wear to the Haruno graveyard to pay her respects to the deceased clan. Making sure everything was in place for her outfit and hair, the girl did a last check to make sure everything was spotless in the house and that Guyver was fed before taking the bouquet and disappearing in a cloud of smoke, reappearing in front of a blank field.

"Ohayou Sakura-chan-" A voice screamed, before pausing, realizing the said person was no where in sight 'Damn he's here' Sasuke cursed inwardly, trying to ignore the loud ninja running towards him and the team seven replacement opposite him 'It seems odd that she's not here yet' Sasuke thought, glancing around at his team mates, taking note that their pink haired kunoichi team mate was no where to be seen.

"Oi, Sasuke-teme, where is Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked as he walked up to the Uchiha.

"Hn" Sasuke grunted, as if to say he really didn't give a damn, when in reality, his head was racing at a million miles an hour to try and find a logical reason behind Sakura's tardiness.

"Hmph! You're so heartless" Naruto grumbled childishly before turning his attention to Sai "Oi, Sai-teme, where is Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked, not knowing Sasuke was actually listening to their conversation.

"I don't know Dickless" Sai shrugged.

"What?!!?!?!?" Naruto exclaimed.

"You heard me" Sai sighed "You should know by now she's never here on this date" Sai grunted.

"On this date?" Naruto questioned while Sasuke raised a curious eyebrow, she was never around on this date? What was so special about today?

"Just so you know what is going on Traitor, Ugly is never around on this day for one reason or another and people can never find her" Sai spoke.

"Hn" Sasuke grunted, leaning back on the bridge post, ignoring the hidden comment about him being a traitor.

"Oh yea, that's right" Naruto chirped, slightly randomly as he went to his place on the bridge and waited for Kakashi to arrive, even if they technically didn't have the student-teacher bond, they liked to meet of a morning and train together.

To the naked eye, it was a blank field, but to the one who had been there numerous times, the blank field was a mere cover up for one of the largest graveyards in Konoha, hidden Village in the leaves. Making sure the flowers were still in her grasp, Sakura brought her hands up into the seal of the dragon, channeling chakra into her palms. Concentrating for a mere moment, Sakura eyes opened fiercely as she undid the genjutsu on the field. Slowly one by one each tombstone reveal them selves, starting with the family members at the back, who were at one stage the branch members of the Haruno clan, before leading into the family members who were closer to the main house, before finally revealing the last two members, her mother and father, their tomb stones before her eyes and before her feet.

'And there goes another year, another year of solitude' Sakura commented inwardly as a light breeze picked up random strands of pink hair. Gazing to the furthest tomb stone and back, Sakura said her silent prayer and paid her respect, gently placing the flowers in between the tomb stones of her mother and father. Glancing back up at the further tomb stones, the blossom took note of the various cherry blossom trees that surrounded this grace yard, making it one or less one of the brighter grave yards Sakura had seen in her time. Condoling, her self quietly the blossom turned her attention to the sky, enjoying the quiet solitude of the peaceful graveyard.

"Yo" Kakashi smiled, waving to his former students from on top of the bridge, looking down on them.

"You're EARLY!!!!" Naruto shouted pointing an accusing finger towards the man.

"I had to help…wait, I'm early?" Kakashi questioned.

"Yea" Sasuke muttered.

"What's up?" Sai raised a questioning eyebrow.

"Tsunade-sama called us to her office" Kakashi answered.

"Hai" they nodded, making their way to the presumably drunk, blonde Hokage.

Turning her attention on the trees which seemed to be directly in front of her, Sakura noticed something peculiar about one of the branches; one of the branches seemed to be pointing to her, as if it were a hand. Rubbing her eyes and blinking to make sure she had seen the branch right, the checked it again, some what puzzled on how the branch looked, remembering that the last time she was here, there were no branches like that. The branch seemed to continue to point towards the girl, but the branch seemed to be pointing to something behind her. Complying with the branch the girl slowly turned around, in the direction of the pointing branch, drawing out her well hidden kunai, just in case. Upon turning around, Sakura's eyes grew wide as her weapon clattered onto the tomb stone now behind her, staring at something she thought she would never see again.

"Hello baa-chan" Naruto greeted, barging into her office without bothering to knock, Sasuke and Sai right behind him carelessly while Kakashi sweatdropped, watching the woman stumble around her office, making her look busy instead of drunk and asleep…what a Hokage…

"You called Tsunade-sama?" Kakashi questioned.

"Hmm…Oh right, yes...wait where's Sakura-chan?" Tsunade frowned.

"Hokage-sama, you should know by now she can never be found on this day" Sai sighed.

"Today's is that day eh?" Tsunade pondered "Well go and find her then report back here, I have a mission for you" Tsunade ordered.

"Why not just give us the mission?" Kakashi questioned.

"It's an A-ranked mission-"

"Then why do we need her?" Sasuke questioned.

"Because she's a medic" Tsunade answered.

"Then get another medic" Kakashi suggested.

"The last time I suggested that and went through with that plan, you refused to let the medic heal you, saying they were incompetent" Tsunade glared at the four males.

"No we didn't" Naruto scoffed.

"Need I get out the mission reports from the medic of your previous missions?" Tsunade threatened.

"Fine, we get the point, we don't like other medics, aren't most missions just simple escort missions anyway?" Sasuke questioned.

"Just go find her" Tsunade sighed in frustration.

"Hai" they all sighed as they left the office.

"Shizune I need sake!" Tsunade called out.

"Hai" a woman called back, inwardly sighing.

Turning around, Sakura was shocked, her eyes grew wide and her jaw dropped to the ground, gaping at the things before her…well things isn't really the correct terminology, the correct word would be humans, but these people seemed see-through, like a memory of the girl. In front of here were two people, one a woman, the other a man. The woman wore a smile gracing her beautiful features. She had silky, long brown hair which was braided into two plaits either side of her head with two others which were rolled into buns on top of her hair with flowers decorating the brown locks and blue eyes and was wearing her favourite kimono. A long, white and pink kimono that had red dragons sewn onto the sleeves while green leaves circled them.

The man, had long hair, but kept it to his lower back, and like Sasuke he had handsome features. Gorgeous emerald green orbs much like her own and long black hair. He was wearing a long blue coat which reached his knees presumably over various layers of different material for the traditional male yukata. Like the woman, his had two red dragons on the sleeves with green leaves surrounding it, but on the hemming of the bottom layer were white kimonos. They were standing proud and tall, they were smiling, as if proud at what she achieved. These people, the blossom never would have thought that in her wildest dreams that she would come across the people once again, let alone in broad day light for people to see.

"Otou-sama, Okaa-sama" Sakura gaped, staring at the two proud Harunos standing before her. Her legs finally giving way as she fell to her bottom, still gaping at her deceased parents, though it looked like they hadn't aged a day since she had seen them before the untimely death.

"Where do you think she could be?" Naruto questioned through the two-way on his ear.

"Hn" Sasuke grunted, a translation to this could be easily deciphered as 'I don't know…dobe'.

"I don't know Dickless, you know it's like she can never be found on this day" Sai answered.

"It can't be that hard guys, I mean we have the strongest here looking for a girl with pink hair, it can't be that hard" Kakashi commented.

"You forget she's an expert on hiding" Sai said annoyed.

"Think of this as training" Kakashi encouraged. To this the three younger shinobi made no comment.

"So you do remember us" the woman commented, if Sakura remembered what her father called her, her name was Sakumo.

"Stop gaping, we taught you better than that" her father scoffed, his name being Hikaru. Shuffling to her feet hastily, the girl continued to stare at her parents which were supposed to be dead.

Slowly both of her parents advanced towards her, making the grass rustle as they moved walked towards her.

'This can't be real! It has to be a genjutsu!' Sakura stared in shock as her hands moved into the seal of the tiger "Kai!" she exclaimed and looked to where her parents were; they were still there, walking towards her.

"Kai" Sakura exclaimed again. Nothing happened.

"Kai"

"Kai" Sakura kept repeating, and still these illusions had yet to go any where.

"That's enough Sakura-chan" her mother smiled.

"T-this i-is a dream! It has to be" Sakura muttered as she began pinching her cheek continuously, shocked that she obviously wasn't waking up.

"It's not" Hikaru said.

"N-no, y-you're d-dead!" Sakura stuttered.

"No shit!" her father bellowed.

"W-what are you doing here?!" Sakura exclaimed, walking back towards the tomb stone.

"To give you something" a new voice smiled. Ahead of her was her grandfather, wearing the traditional Haruno main house male elders' attire. A plain white Yukata with various coloured layers underneath. His hair like her mother and father was long, but his was white, an obvious sign of old age, aside the wrinkles.

"O-oji-sama" Sakura muttered wide-eyed.

"Now I'm really confused" Sakura grumbled. Suddenly pain shot through her system, forcing her to fall to the ground "Damn!" Sakura gasped.

'Before you even say it, it's not me! And please tell me what I'm seeing is a genjutsu!'

'I already checked, it's not, and it's not a dream! I've tried waking myself up!'

Slowly, Sakura's eyes widened in realization, before closing as the girl stood up and glared at the three figures in front of her.

"If you have something you need; then do it, I'm wasting time here" Sakura said.

"Such rudeness!" the grandfather shook his head in disgust.

"Sakura! I never taught you to yell at your elders!" Hikaru growled.

"You're right, you taught me jack shit!" Sakura glared, recounting the total amount of times her father had taught her something.

"How dare you speak to your father like that!" Sakumo shouted.

"Pft, some father he was" Sakura scoffed "If you wanted to give me something, then hurry it up, I haven't got all day"

"What happened to the little girl I raised?" her father frowned, slightly concerned.

"That girl disappeared a long time ago, well if you're done here, good bye" Sakura muttered, walking away from them the graveyard, planning to take a nice long hot bath to recall what the hell was going on.

"Don't you dare turn your back to me!" her father shouted, as he and her mother ran after the girl.

"Pft!" Sakura grunted.

"Your brother and sister weren't like this!" her father growled.

"You're right, they turned out to be absolutely perfect, so perfect they abandoned me in Suna and became missing Nins" Sakura scoffed, turning around, crossing her arms in front of her chest.

"Why are you acting this way?" her mother questioned, sad that her youngest turned out so bitter.

"Who said I was acting?" Sakura muttered.

"What happened to my little girl?" her mother cried.

"I told you, she went a long time ago" Sakura muttered.

"We realize that now" Hikaru scoffed.

"I have gone officially insane…why the hell are you here? I have much more important things to be doing" Sakura glared.

"Such rudeness" her grand father shook his head in distaste.

"And what are you going to do about it?" Sakura questioned rudely.

"Please, Sakura-chan, we don't have much time, here" Sakumo pleaded.

"Then what is it you want?" Sakura asked as kindly as she could through gritted teeth.

"Haven't you been questioning why your chakra has been all over the place?" Hikaru asked. Sakura remained quite, beckoning him to continue.

"I take that as a yes" her grand father chuckled.

"I already figured it out" Sakura said, noting that a slight breeze was starting to pick up.

"You have always been a smart little girl haven't you" her father chuckled.

"Then, if you know what it is, tell us" her grand father asked.

"It's the Haruno family kekkei genkai" Sakura answered.

"How can you be sure?" Sakumo questioned.

"I had conformation from an Uchiha him self, not to mention numerous scrolls which state other wise to what I have been performing" Sakura answered.

"An Uchiha?" Hikaru questioned, slightly liking the sound that she had associated her self with the younger Uchiha.

"That's what I said" Sakura replied.

"Then, why have you not mastered it yet?" her grand father questioned.

"I only discovered it about two months ago, I have no clue of what I am doing myself, I just know it's a kekkei genkai, I presume the chest the Third left me has what I need" Sakura shrugged carelessly.

"Always a book type person" Hikaru sighed.

"I would have tried it out hands on had I known about what it was" Sakura glared "Now, you wanted to tell me something about the family I presume since you brought the kekkei genkai topic up?" Sakura questioned.

"You learnt everything that we wanted to tell you" her grand father sighed.

"Then, if you'll excuse me, I have a key to find" Sakura grunted.

"A key?" her mother questioned.

"You heard me" Sakura muttered, walking away from the three…ghosts.

"What does it look like?" Hikaru asked.

"Sakura blossom I would presume" Sakura replied, stopping for a moment and continuing to walk away. Suddenly all three…err…beings…laughed at the girl.

"What now?" Sakura asked irritably.

"It's just…"

"We have that final piece you need" her grandfather answered. Sakura paused in mid step.

"You were clever enough to learn that you had to find the key pieces in different places of the family house, but even a novice could tell you needed something to put it all together" her father explained.

"I'm not stupid" Sakura glared.

"I never said you were" her father sighed, some how knowing his last comment would be taken as an insult to his daughter, who felt great anger towards them. She had changed from that little five year old girl he had left on the earth, she was confident, emotionless, not afraid, but even with that front up, he could see the fear in her eyes, the need to cry, the want to run away, but something in her seemed to stop her.

"This final piece once with the other pieces will unlock the chest, containing any family secrets you will have to carry on" Sakumo smiled.

"Whatever" Sakura muttered "However, why do you, some one who is dead, have what I am looking for?" Sakura questioned.

"Don't ask questions, just take it" her mother encouraged as her father held out a long key piece that looked like it could be thread through the blossom pieces. Taking the piece, Sakura gazed it, glaring at it at how annoying this thing was to find. Suddenly bird's wings flapped as Guyver came flying out of the house and to the cherry blossom landing on her head.

"Who's the bird?" Hikaru her father glared at how long the talons were on the hawk.

"This is my hawk, Guyver, quite an excellent hawk at that too, especially on missions" Sakura explained.

"Missions?" her mother asked confused.

"I do a lot of solo missions, Guyver provides excellent company and back up" Sakura answered.

"Solo missions? Isn't that a bit much for a girl of your age?" her father questioned.

"Another person to undermine me eh?" Sakura glared "Well this was such a lovely reunion and all but, now I have to say fuck off" Sakura muttered, at that moment, though her parents seemed to be growling at the amount of disrespect she had just held for her parents, she couldn't hear it as her world suddenly turned black, sending her into a world of unconsciousness, the last thing she remembered hearing was "Happy Birthday my dear Sakura-chan" from her father before everything turned black completely.

"I give up!" Naruto exclaimed as he fell onto the bridge before his team mates.

"So do I" Sai sighed.

"How can she be so hard to find?" Kakashi whined.

"I haven't got any idea" Sasuke muttered, reluctantly admitting that he had given up looking for the girl after the four males had searched the town five times.

Alerted that its owner just fell to the ground unconscious, Guyver released its hold from Sakura's head and flew down to Sakura's level on the ground, nuzzling against her face to try and get her to wake up. Nothing happened as Guyver's soft feathers caressed Sakura's pale cheek. Worried that his own made no movement, he pecked her lightly on the arm, hoping that she would wake up, but failed as the girl made no movement to the hawk's actions. Seemingly to be cursing at the girl's unconsciousness, Guyver flew in circles above the grave yard before flying off into the distance.

"What are we supposed to do now?" Naruto asked, picking him self up and leaning on the bridge railing.

"It's either we accept another medic Nin or Tsunade-sama gives some one else the mission" Kakashi sighed.

"I don't like either option" Naruto pouted.

"Let's just go home then" Sai suggested.

"Good idea! Ramen here I come!" Naruto exclaimed as he ran towards the Ichiraku ramen stall.

"Ja" Sai and Kakashi smiled before disappearing into clouds of smoke.

"Hn" Sasuke muttered as he walked away from the bridge. Suddenly a hawk came soaring down to Sasuke, as if beckoning him to go some where. 'Isn't that Sakura's hawk?' Sasuke wondered, watching the hawk flap its long wings agitatedly.

"Aren't you Sakura's hawk?" Sasuke asked. The hawk seemed to nod, but that might have just been a twitch of its head.

"Where's Sakura?" Sasuke asked, slightly concerned that the hawk was flying around with out its owner. At the question the bird seemed to beckon Sasuke to follow him, pulling on his high colour by the talons.

"Is she in trouble?" Sasuke questioned as the bird continued to drag him, the bird seemed to flap harder.

"Show me where she is" Sasuke ordered before the bird released his hold off him and began flying back into the direction he came in.

Running closely behind the bird, Sasuke took note of the way he was heading, noticing the amount of vegetation that he was going through, which lead him to believe she was training and got seriously injured. As the hawk continued to flap its broad wings his speed continued to get faster and faster, hoping that Sasuke could catch up with him. In a matter of minutes both man and hawk came to a sudden stop, the man not expecting a large blank field to be here in the middle of no where. Confused at why the bird took him here of all places, he looked up at the bird to find it circling just in front of him, as if pointing to where Sakura was, the only problem with that is that he could see her. Angered the bird was giving him false hopes, he glared at the feathered mammal.

"Where is she?" Sasuke seethed. The bird continued to point into one spot, angering him further.

"There is nothing there, why did you take me to a blank field?" Sasuke growled. Again the bird pointed to one stop, this time, nuzzling the spot and pecking at it, noticing how the feathers seemed to compact when Guyver nuzzled into something, Sasuke turned on his sharingan, suspecting that he was caught into a genjutsu. Upon opening his eyes and wielding chakra into them, Sasuke's eyes grew wide at the sight before him. Tomb stones, yards and yards of tomb stones, all of one clan he believed after reading a decay inscriptions on each stone, of the Haruno clan.

But what caught his attention the most was the blossom that lay on one of the tomb stones, unconscious, in one of the most elegant things he had seen her wear, ever. Had the pink hair not been there, Sasuke could have easily mistaken the girl for a woman in her thirties or so, mourning over loved ones or friends, if he remembered correctly, today was the day they had all passed onto the world of the dead, this was supposed to be kept a secret…but with his dad on the police force at the time…news eventually leaked.

The attire made her look mature and old in a way, not to mention the thickness of the material, wasn't it too hot to be wearing such clothes on a day like this? But even with the different attire, he thought she look absolutely beautiful, part of her hair was clipped back to the slightly loosened buns with a big ornamental flower on each side of her hair was decoration, hanging off her ears were long, elegant earrings, Sasuke had his suspicions on how heavy they were on her ears. Had he not been the observant person he was, he would have missed the big round circle sewn onto the back of the big black clock that she wore, and if had remembered correctly, that symbol was for the Haruno clan as well, which arose many suspicions about the girl. In simple though, right there and then, she looked elegant, she looked beautiful, she looked magnificent. Like that girl he had seen all those years ago before he left Konoha.

FLASH BACK…

'Itachi's right, there is no difference between us in strength even though time has passed' Sasuke glared out at the window before averting his gaze to the side where a bouquet of roses stood up right in a vase, checking the tag, Sasuke some how knew it was Ino and sighed; tossing away the flowers into the bin; for some reason he had hoped Sakura had brought him the roses, it was odd he admitted to want to receive something from his pink haired team mate. Lifting up the flower vase to put it away, Sasuke was confronted with a small piece of paper, hiding underneath with his name on the top of it.

'Dear Sasuke,

I know maybe I should give you something more than this letter, like maybe some roses or something, but I just wanted to say I'm sorry. Had I not been captured by your brother and used as a hostage, I'm sure you would have been able to complete half of your ambition and get your revenge. I really am sorry; I hope you'll forgive a burden like me.

Sakura'

'Sakura thought she was a burden?' Sasuke muttered as he read the note over and over again; as if checking to make sure Sakura had wrote it, to make sure he read correctly. He did read correctly, his ever confident, strong team mate was considering her self the burden when he fought his brother. Yes he did stop his attack because she was held hostage and had a kunai to her neck; which he wasn't expecting, but she got out of her own predicament without much hassling from any of her team mates. She reckons that first blow could have been a hit if she wasn't there but even if she wasn't Itachi would have used Naruto has a hostage, and he would have still not hit Itachi. Who knew the best genjutsu user he knew was so blind at times?

Crumpling the note into his pocket, Sasuke stalked out of the room and headed towards the Ichiraku Ramen stand where Naruto and the rest were about to begin dinner. Glancing to the side of the hospital, though he wasn't totally sure who it was, Sasuke saw a girl on the top of the hill next to the oldest cherry blossom tree with her palm on it as she watch the sun set, with her long locks released as they swayed with the constant breeze. If he didn't know any better he would have thought that to be Sakura, because the person had pink hair, but that could just be a play his imagination from the sun set. But in his mind, she was absolutely beautiful, who ever that girl was.

…END FLASH BACK

It seemed odd that she would be here out of all places.

"What are you doing here?" Sasuke muttered as he picked up the seemingly fragile girl effortlessly and walked away from the Haruno grave yard, noticing how light she actually was. Taking another note of how he got there, he took her to the only place he thought would be appropriate; the Hokage's office. Looking down to her face, Sasuke noticed something knew adorning her features, aside the tense-ness and stressed released from her being, around her neck was a necklace holding a pendant, a long, slightly key shaped pendant, Sasuke wondering if that pendant was the key she was talking about a while ago.

"Knock, knock"

"Who is it?" Tsunade's voice asked from inside the office.

"Uchiha Sasuke" Sasuke answered.

"Come in" Tsunade seemed to sigh in relief. Nodding in agreement, Sasuke turned the knob and opened the once closed door, the blossom still in his arms.

"What is it you-" Tsunade began to ask before she stopped in mid sentence looking at the pink, black and white bundle in the Uchiha's arms, and Guyver flapping above him; concerned about his owner "You found her" Tsunade stated, though it was rather obvious. Biting back his comment, Sasuke remained quiet.

"Well, now your team can go on that mission" Tsunade smiled.

"Hn" Sasuke nodded.

"Where did you find her?" Tsunade asked.

"I'm not too sure but all I know for sure is that she was in a grave yard" Sasuke answered, sitting down on one of the chairs.

"Graveyard?" Tsunade questioned. Sasuke nodded.

"That's impossible, every where was checked the previous years, and she was not found in any graveyard" Tsunade scoffed.

"That's because she was in a secluded graveyard, which was under a genjutsu" Sasuke commented.

"You mean she was in that graveyard?!" Tsunade bellowed.

"What do you mean by that grave yard?" Sasuke raised a questioning eyebrow.

"If the grave yard you speak of, is the one I'm thinking of, then was in the grave yard of the Haruno clan, the grave yard, apparently has a genjutsu over it, a genjutsu so powerful, no one in the village can break it. No one actually knows the location of this grave yard, but apparently any one who does stumble across it, by accident or not, is put into an eternal slumber or sees images that are so inhumane it's scary to think who created the genjutsu" Tsunade explained.

"It didn't seem she was affected by the images or eternal slumber" Sasuke commented.

"But how did you find her?" Tsunade questioned.

"Her bird made me follow him and he took me to her" Sasuke answered.

"Guyver has always been a well trained bird" Tsunade commented "But it would have been impossible, without the sharingan to come out of that genjutsu unaffected, when she wakes up, bring her back here, she has some explaining to do, she's under your care for tonight" Tsunade ordered.

"Hai Tsunade-sama" Sasuke nodded.

"By the way, I hope for your sake you have some dead mice or rodents around your house" Tsunade commented.

"Why?" Sasuke questioned.

"I would presume that Guyver will follow you since you have Sakura, and let's just say, if it doesn't have a…bloody meal, he gets very agitated" Tsunade smirked, slightly pitying him.

"Hn" Sasuke grunted emotionlessly as he exited the office with Guyver on his trail.

"How can she not be hot in that?" Sasuke wondered as he set the girl down on his bed in the Uchiha district.

"You have one weird owner there" Sasuke muttered looking towards the bird who had decided to settle on his shoulder. At the comment the bird seemed to glare and his talons seemed to clench into Sasuke's skin.

"Okay, okay, I take it back!" Sasuke flinched at the pain of the talons digging into him; slowly the talons seemed to release the hold on him, much to his relief.

"Do you think she'd be angry with me if I took the coat off her?" Sasuke asked; the bird seemed to shrug carelessly.

"Right" Sasuke muttered, wondering how Sakura understood the bird on a daily basis, lifting her into a sitting position to take her over coat off. Slipping the black material off her form, Sasuke was slightly shocked to find that she was wearing a long sleeved kimono top underneath the already thick over coat. Hanging the coat on a near by chair, the boy watched the girl sleep quietly, not at all affected by the thick clothing she was wearing.

Sunlight poured onto the girl in the dark room, heating up the usually cold room, opposite her was a young man, also sleeping soundlessly, enjoying the extra warmth of his bed that wasn't usually there of a morning. Outside, birds were chirping their morning tune as butterflies sailed in the breeze. Eventually his eyes blinked opened as his body awoke from the some what deep slumber, taking note that Sakura was still asleep, he snuck out of the bed and got ready for the day.

As the hours continued into early morning, closed eyes fluttered open as the pink haired blossom awoke from her deep slumber. Taking in her surroundings, stared in confusion realizing that where ever she was, wasn't some where she was normally. Sure it was dark like her room, dull like her room, heck even in the Japanese styled room like hers with wooden floor boards and screen doors, but Sakura knew it wasn't hers. It took a long minute before the girl realized something was off.

'Hold on…'

Instantly the girl bolted up from her place on the bed and landed in an awkward standing position next to the bed, landing with a relatively loud thump.

"I didn't leave the grounds" Sakura muttered to her self, becoming more and more suspicious about her surroundings, thanking that she still had her gown on from the day before. Looking around the room, she found nothing suspicious or anything that stood out to her, the room wasn't anything special, a bed with black covers, a desk, a chair with her coat on it with the flowers she had in her hair on the desk, lamps on the bedside tables and a door to the room, behind her was a full length window.

"Where the hell am I?" Sakura muttered, as she looked around the room for any indication of where she was. Suddenly the sound of a door sliding sounded through the girl's ears as she turned towards the location of the sound, the door. Glaring at the door, she moved into a fighting stance, pulling out her other hidden kunai, it seemed who ever took her where ever she was, was coming back and neglected to notice that she had weapons on her still. Slowly the door slid open to reveal a bored looking Sasuke walk into the room, wearing his ninja attire, on his shoulder was Guyver. Recognizing him, Sakura kept her kunai in her hold as she scrutinized the young Uchiha.

"I see you're awake" Sasuke noted, wondering why she was in a fighting stance.

"Where am I?" Sakura glared.

"My house, so drop the kunai" Sasuke threatened. Glaring at the young man, Sakura released her hold on the kunai, allowing it to clatter onto the floor.

"What am I doing here?" Sakura glared.

"What's with the hostilities?" Sasuke questioned.

"Answer the question" Sakura ordered.

"Tsunade said you were under my care for the night since you were unconscious and we didn't know where you live" Sasuke answered.

"Then why not just shove me in a hospital or something?" Sakura questioned, walking over to her coat and slipping it onto her form as Guyver flew over to her and nuzzled into her cheek.

"Because she wanted me to inform you are to go to Tsunade-sama's office immediately after you wake up" Sasuke replied.

"Whatever" Sakura muttered, walking out of the room, before being stopped by Sasuke.

"Why were you at that graveyard yesterday?" Sasuke questioned.

"What I do in my life is none of your concern" Sakura glared.

"…" Sasuke made no comment as he watched the girl walk away from him, and presumably to Tsunade's office.

"You wanted to see?" Sakura questioned, walking into her office after knocking, wearing her usual ninja attire.

"Ah, Sakura, so glad you could make it" Tsunade smirked evilly.

"What do you want?" Sakura asked.

"You have some questions to answer, and if you don't answer them, you will regret it" Tsunade announced.

"Morino-san you may come in now" Tsunade called out, instantly the door opened as the said man walked into the room, bowing at the woman.

"I have nothing to say to you people" Sakura glared with venom.

"Oh, but you do" Tsunade sneered.

"Sakura-chan, please tell us what we need to know" a new voice pleaded. Turning around, Sakura sent a glare towards her team that was sitting behind her, slightly bored.

"And what would it be that you need to know?" Sakura questioned, crossing her arms, slightly bored.

"Those questions will be answered with me" Ibiki proclaimed.

"I have nothing to say to any one of you" Sakura repeated "Now, if you'll excuse me, I have got training to go to" Sakura muttered, about to walk out of the room.

"You aren't going any where Sakura" Kakashi bellowed as he blocked the girl's path, the other team mates surrounding her.

"You WILL answer Morino-san's questions" Tsunade ordered.

"Whatever" Sakura muttered 'But you'll regret it sooner or later when I become the first human time bomb' she added inwardly.

"Follow me Sakura-san" Ibiki ordered, without complaint the girl followed him down the many halls to the interrogation rooms. Opening up the third interrogation room, both walked into the dark room, the only lighting being the lighting hanging above that flickered occasionally.

'How ironic, I'm back in this room again' Sakura thought sitting down on the chair she sat on eleven years ago, as Ibiki sat opposite her. On the table was a file, presumably hers and a tape recorder.

"Name" Ibiki ordered.

"Sakura" Sakura answered.

"Full name" Ibiki growled.

"You have my file there, check it for your self" Sakura sneered, crossing her arms and leaning back onto the chair, getting comfortable; outside the dark room she could feel her team watching.

"It only has you first name" Ibiki said.

"I know" Sakura smirked.

"I wanted you full name" Ibiki glared.

"Oh come now, we've been through this before, you should know it" Sakura replied, hinting at the last time she and him were in the interrogation room.

"What do you mean?" Ibiki glared.

"I have no comment" Sakura answered. Ibiki growled, glaring at the girl.

"Then let's continue" Ibiki continued "I'll be blunt here, why were you in the Haruno graveyard? How did you get into the graveyard in the first place?" Ibiki asked.

"I have nothing to say to you" Sakura said.

"Answer the question" Ibiki glowered.

"No" Sakura said calmly.

"You were on sacred grounds, further more you have no right to be on sacred grounds, especially when no one has access to those grounds to begin with!" Ibiki shouted.

"Every person has a right to do what they want when they want" Sakura retorted.

"Not on sacred grounds" Ibiki repeated.

"And what's to stop me from doing what I want?" Sakura questioned.

"I'm the one asking the questions" Ibiki replied "How long have you been going to the grounds?" Ibiki asked, as calmly as he could.

"Five years" Sakura answered, it seemed this was the only straight forward answer she was going to give him for a while.

"You are in direct violation of Konoha law, and if you don't explain to me why you were at that graveyard, you will be punished" Ibiki threatened.

"That's fine by me, throw me in jail for all I care, but I hope you realize that you throw me in jail, you have just locked away the second best medic in Konoha and basically stopped my team from doing any missions other than D-ranked missions, you know how stubborn they are when it comes to accepting other medics in their team" Sakura smirked.

"Cockiness isn't getting you any where" Ibiki growled.

"That's good to know, but, what I am saying is the truth, and you know it, I state facts, not opinions" Sakura sneered.

"There are other punishments other than jail I hope you realize" Ibiki threatened.

"Like what, community service?" Sakura questioned "Oh, how threatening" Sakura mocked.

"Like death" Ibiki smirked.

"That'd be Konoha's loss not mine" Sakura replied.

"You ignorant little brat" Ibiki glared.

"Why thank you" Sakura taunted.

"Exiled is also another option" Ibiki smirked.

"That's no loss to me, again it's only a loss to Konoha" Sakura said bored.

"…" Ibiki made no comment before growling and stepping out of the interrogation room, trying to ignore the triumphant smirked plastered across Sakura's face, as if say 'Ha! You lost against a girl with pink hair!'.

"Has she always been that arrogant?" Kakashi wondered, watching the interrogation from the window outside.

"I don't think so" Naruto frowned.

"Why exactly do they want to know why Ugly was on sacred ground?" Sai asked.

"Because no one should be able to step foot on that ground ever, it's forbidden and impossible" Kakashi explained.

"Apparently not entirely impossible if Sakura's been going there for five years" Sasuke muttered. 'What are you hiding Sakura?' Sasuke wondered.

'Let's try this again' Ibiki sighed inwardly as he walked back into the interrogation room, this time armed with food and water.

"Tell me what I need to know, I give you food and water" Ibiki offered.

"I'm not hungry" Sakura replied.

"What have you got to lose? Just tell me what I want to know, and you can go to train" Ibiki said.

"I have nothing to say to some one who should know why I was there" Sakura muttered quietly, almost incoherently.

"You said you and I did this before, what exactly do you mean?" Ibiki asked.

"I have nothing to tell you" Sakura commented, looking away from him.

'A master at the shinobi arts, a master at interrogation tactics' Ibiki mused, watching her just sit bored in the room, if he didn't know any better, he would have thought that Itachi had taught her these tactics.

"Then at least tell me how come the genjutsu didn't affect you?" Ibiki asked.

"Genjutsu specialist, duh" Sakura scoffed.

"Not even the best genjutsu specialists in our village could detect it" Ibiki replied.

"Then the genjutsu level has been dropping hasn't it" Sakura sneered. Ibiki growled.

"Fine, then I'll leave your team to deal with you" Ibiki said as he motioned for the males of team seven to come in, on Sasuke's shoulder Guyver was sitting, it seemed the hawk had grown a liking towards the Uchiha. Instantly as the males came in, Ibiki left the, watching from the outside.

"Tell us why you were at the Haruno grave yard" Kakashi ordered.

"Tell me why you are so concerned" Sakura fired back.

"Just tell us please Sakura-chan" Naruto begged.

"Go fuck off" Sakura glared "I have nothing to say to you"

"What happened to the little girl I taught five years ago?" Kakashi frowned.

"You taught me jack shit" Sakura glared 'Much like Otou-sama'

"Why won't you tell us anything?" Naruto cried.

"I have nothing to say to acquaintances" Sakura replied.

"We aren't just acquaintances Sakura, we are team mates; we are friends Sakura" Kakashi said.

'Not in my eyes' Sakura commented inwardly as she watched her team mates surround her.

"If you won't tell us, we have other ways of getting the information we want out of you" Kakashi threatened.

"I dare you" Sakura challenged.

"…" Kakashi was stunned that she had challenged that he would use the sharingan on her.

"Tch! I knew you wouldn't, pathetic" Sakura scoffed.

"Since when have you been so cocky Ugly?" Sai questioned.

"…" This time Sakura had no comment to make, the truth was she never would be this cocky, but it seemed her defenses went up when people asked her about her self, subconsciously or not.

"Just tell us why you were at the Haruno grounds and we will let you go" Kakashi pleaded.

"No" Sakura growled.

"Why not?" Sasuke questioned.

"Why should I tell you guys of all people why I was there?" Sakura retorted, bangs covering her eyes.

"Because we are your friends" Naruto pleaded.

'Some friends you are, you and Sasuke both left me' Sakura thought angrily.

"You were on forbidden ground to any one in Konoha, you have no right to be on the Haruno grave yard, not even elite shinobi are allowed" Kakashi growled.

"The remaining family had made sure that no one was to come onto that graveyard before they left Konoha and put a genjutsu over it" Sasuke glared.

"So tell us why you were on forbidden ground!" Kakashi ordered.

"No one has any right to be there!" Sai said, as calmly as he could.

"And you are no different" Sasuke scoffed. That did it, she snapped as her bangs covered her eyes and she begun to shake violently before she glared at her team mates.

"So I have no right huh?" Sakura questioned.

"You heard us" Naruto muttered.

"I have no right to visit that grave yard eh?" Sakura muttered, shaking harder than before.

"Like everyone else" Sasuke replied.

"SINCE WHEN DO YOU MAKE RULES FOR WHEN I SEE MY FAMILY?!!!!! DO I HAVE NO RIGHT TO PAY MY RESPECTS TO MY FAMILY?!" Sakura shouted as she abruptly stood up from the desk and stood glaring at her team.

"Family?" Naruto asked.

"I thought…" Sasuke muttered.

"I've given you my answer, now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to train, I have nothing more to say to you people" Sakura glared at her team mates as she walked away from them and towards the door.

"You're lying" Kakashi commented, making the girl stop in mid action, her hand about to press down on the door handle.

"I suggest you move" Sakura threatened.

"You are in no position to be threatening me Sakura" Kakashi said.

"Please, you are no threat to me, neither is this village, now move" Sakura growled.

"There was only two remaining Harunos from the massacre; how could you be family?" Kakashi said.

"Don't you dare speak of that incident ever again, or I will personally kill you" Sakura muttered.

"How could you know of the massacre, the Third made sure no one found out about it?" Kakashi frowned.

"I said don't ever speak of it ever again!" Sakura growled as she through her self towards him with a kunai to his neck, only to be stopped by Sasuke.

"Tch, you aren't even worth my time" Sakura scoffed as she released her self from his hold and walked out of the interrogation room. Guyver seemed to stay put as he watched his owner walk out of the interrogation room, probably figuring that she needed some space before she killed some one accidentally and was quite content on just sitting on Sasuke's shoulder for the time being.

Growling to her self, her chakra infused fist punched the ground, creating a massive crater in the middle of the training around.

'Stupid assholes, what right do they have to order me around?' Sakura growled, as she punched a near by tree out of anger, her mind far from the chest from the Third. Suddenly Sakura felt a presence coming towards her, knowing full well of who it was just by the signature, having only felt it a few times, Sakura threw her kunai in the direction of the presence as red became part of the scenery.

"What do you want Karin?" Sakura growled.

"I told you to stay away from Sasuke-sama!" Karin glared as she raced towards her with her fist drawn back ready to punch the blossom. Instantly the girl disappeared from her sight and reappeared from behind the red headed female.

"I warn you now, I'm in a foul mood, and it would be a great pity if you were to vanish mysteriously today" Sakura seethed as she pressed her kunai to the woman's neck.

"That mere kunai couldn't kill me" Karin smirked as her form disappeared from Sakura's sight and right behind her, now with her kunai to Sakura's neck.

"So you hold some talent after all" Sakura sneered "But a kunai isn't going to scare me" Sakura muttered as she disappeared and reappeared in front of her, glaring a deadly glare.

"Don't underestimate me" Karin growled as she ran straight forward to Sakura, and attempted to kick her in the stomach, only to have the attack blocked, not noticing that Sakura had created a chakra scalpel and had most likely severed many nerves in her leg, forcing Karin to fall to the ground. Instantly Sakura surrounded her as she hit each of her limbs with the chakra scalpel, which stopped her from using any jutsus, or moving plain and simply by severing her nerves, hey, if she couldn't do it the Hyuuga way, she'd do it her way.

"Now do you want to die slowly or quickly?" Sakura glared "I have many ways I could choose to kill you" Sakura smirked, bring out a mere senbon needle.

"You can't kill me with that pathetic weapon" Karin sneered.

"Oh, but I can" Sakura jeered "One poke from this needle and you will be dead in a matter of seconds" Sakura smirked evilly as she advanced forward with the needle in hand.

"Now, where do you want the needle?" Sakura smirked as she looked down on the fallen Karin.

"That's enough Sakura" Sasuke ordered as he appeared in between the two women.

"Sasuke-sama" Karin muttered in relief.

"You are lucky, but the next time you come across me, be prepared to say your prayers, I'm a master of ways to kill" Sakura smirked evilly again as she tossed the senbon to the ground and disappeared into a cloud of smoke. Looking down at where the needle had implanted it self into the ground, Karin's eyes widened in fear as the ground was slowly dying away and shriveling up into a dark brown and diseased looking grass. It seemed Karin considered her self lucky that her Sasuke-sama had come at the right time.

"I guess you really should consider your self lucky Karin" Sasuke said as the remaining males of team seven walked up to the two.

"I would consider yourself very lucky" Kakashi mused looking down at the once alive ground.

"Damn, she really did a number on you and in such a short amount of time" Sai snickered.

"She has gotten a lot better" Naruto grinned.

"Sasuke go after her would you, we'll take this one to the hospital" Kakashi ordered. Sasuke nodded as he headed off into the direction that Sakura had just gone towards.

Continuing to train Sakura growled as she kicked a tree in half, as if it were a mere twig. Sensing Sasuke coming towards her, she punched the tree he was about to jump on, forcing him to fall to the ground and land in an awkward position as the girl ran away from him. Growling at the girl's stubborn nature, Sasuke followed her, jumping in front of her, blocking her path.

"You aren't going anywhere" Sasuke glared at the girl.

"Just leave me alone" Sakura glared, prepared to turn around and leave him.

"No Sakura" Sasuke growled.

"Stop ordering me around" Sakura glared as a wall of earth rose in between them, separating them for a second.

"Is it true?" Sasuke asked as he reappeared behind the girl.

"…" Sakura had no comment, inside her she felt as if she was breaking apart, that the walls she had carefully constructed around her were slowly crumbling into millions of pieces.

"Are you or are you not a Haruno?" Sasuke repeated.

"I have nothing to say to you" Sakura glared as she broke down the earth wall and began to race away from Sasuke at incredible speeds, going to one of the only places she no found comfort in, the house she had grown up in.

"Get back here!" Sasuke shouted as he chased after the ever fleeing girl.

"Just leave me alone!" Sakura shouted back at him.

"That's what we always do! Haven't you had enough of being alone?" Sasuke questioned, continuing to chase the cherry blossom.

"I said leave me ALONE!!!" Sakura shouted as she punched one of the trees in her path and kicking it towards Sasuke.

"Stop running away from me!" Sasuke glared.

"Why won't you just leave me alone?" Sakura muttered.

"Because as much as you think you need to be alone, you know as well as I do that you don't want to be alone" Sasuke commented as he reappeared in front of Sakura, catching her in his arms.

"Let me go" Sakura grumbled as she struggled to get out of his hold.

"That's enough Sakura" Sasuke ordered as he held the girl closer to him.

"I said let me go!" Sakura screamed as she pushed him away with as much force as she could possibly muster and ran for her life. Without any choice, Sasuke watched the blossom run away.

'She can't keep running from everything forever' Sasuke commented inwardly.

'You know, you can't keep who you are hidden from the people around you forever'

'Why not, it's what I've done best almost my entire life'

'Maybe it's time to stop'

'What would you know? You had kept your self hidden'

'…'

'I made my point, now get lost'

'Are you going to get rid of everyone who has tried to make a connection with you?'

'Why shouldn't I? I live better like that'

'You won't soon'

'Just get lost'

'You'll regret what you have done one day'

'Just get lost'

"Are you done being alone?" Sasuke asked from a branch above her. Currently the two were on a standing on two separate branches on the one tree, secluded away from any human society. Angry that he found her, Sakura made no comment as she turned her head away from him in disgust and slight embarrassment.

"Are you a Haruno?" Sasuke asked calmly.

"I have nothing to say to the likes of you" Sakura muttered with venom seeping from her voice.

"What the hell is that supposed to mean?!" Sasuke shouted.

"We maybe a team as you guys call it, but we are nothing more than colleagues, now if you'll excuse me, I have got more important things to be doing" Sakura glared before she disappeared into a cloud of smoke.

"What are you hiding Sakura?" Sasuke muttered before he too disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

A low 'poof' erupted from inside the blossom's room before the girl her self fell onto the bed, feeling completely drained from the day for some strange reason. Averting her gaze to around the room her eyes fell upon the wooden chest that she received from the Third, next to the chest were the pieces of the key she had found through the various courtyards. Peeling herself off the black round bed, the girl stumbled over to the table, bringing out the key piece her 'parents' had given her which was tied to a piece of string that hung around her neck. Fiddling with the pieces of the key, she slipped each piece one by one onto the main piece making the mysterious puzzle complete.

Slotting the complete key into the key hole, the girl turned the lock as the padlocked 'clicked' indicating that it was unlocked. Taking the padlock off the chest plate and setting it aside, anxiousness bubbled through her as her thoughts raced at a million miles an hour as to what could possibly be inside the mysterious wooden chest. Swallowing the lump in her throat, the girl opened the chest as her eyes widened in excitement, like a child opening their present during Christmas. Opening the chest fully the girl stared in shock as she continued to gaze down at what was inside it, for what was inside this mysterious wooden chest that was left behind for her from the Third, and was presumably something to do with her bloodline, was….

"Teme did you find Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked running up to Sasuke.

"She ran away after I caught her" Sasuke confessed as he sat down at the Ichiraku stand and ordered a miso ramen. Sitting on his shoulder was Guyver who was glaring at Naruto.

"What is she hiding?" Kakashi sighed.

And inside the chest was…a set of scrolls. Sakura nearly fell over in annoyance. Taking the first scroll out, the blossom slowly unrolled the mysterious scroll and read the contents.

'Hello my little blossom-chan,

It would seem that you have finally come to the age where you have discovered the Haruno kekkei genkai bubbling inside you at this very moment and knowing you, you have not mastered it yet because you prefer a written description of what something is. So here it is. The Haruno clan kekkei genkai is the ability to manipulate, control and wield elements. Out of the four elements, the ones as a Haruno that you can control will be either Water, Ice, Fire, Lightning, Grass, Earth, Ground or Wind, by the rare occasion you maybe able to use all of the elements, then you are truly talented and deserve the title of an Haruno prodigy, a title not even your respected onii-chan and onee-chan could obtain, and knowing you, you will most likely get that title in due time.

The other scrolls have the respected elements incased in them, with inscriptions on how to wield each element and techniques you can use for each element, the only thing in common with each element is that it requires mass amounts of chakra, and excellent chakra control is also a benefit when using these techniques. Remember you are strong already my little blossom-chan and don't you forget it. You are Haruno Sakura, and I believe you will be a Haruno prodigy. You have great strength bubbling in you, even at a young age; make me proud blossom-chan.

I love you dearly,

Your Oji-chan'

Smiling to herself the blossom looked through each scroll, knowing full well that indeed her grandfather was right, and that she could wield each element, unlike many other Haruno who could only wield a maximum of two. Pinking up the water scroll her eyes scanned the contents of the blue coloured scroll.

'Water and Ice:

Like water jutsus, there must be a source of water in the area for you to conjure up to use in battle or for anything else. In conjunction with water, the side element, Ice, is also capable for you to use when manipulating it. To use water or ice, treat it like an extension of your form, allow it naturally flow off you when using it, apply strength when you need to at the last second, but other than that, make your movements with water fluid like water, move as if you are dancing with it. To control water or ice, most find it preferable to use hands as it is easier to control water or any other element like that. First, will chakra to your arms and then with your mind control the water, however though your mind speaks the motion, your body must move in time with your thoughts for you to control water and ice perfectly. For water to freeze into ice and ice to melt into water, just think about it'

"Fire and lightning" Sakura muttered pinking up the red and yellow scroll.

'Fire and Lightning:

Fire, just as their jutsu partners requires a large build up of chakra, preferably in the hands region, but others have been known to blow out of their mouth and made using their feet. Fire unlike water, does not need to be there to be used, all it requires is chakra, or in a beginners situation, a spark. Fire, also unlike water, requires power from start to finish, it needs to be strong constantly; you must apply power to have power. It is not an extension of your body; it is part of your body. Lightning, however is similar to water in the sense it is an extension of your body, and requires the free flow of your movements to work. However, like fire elements, it requires power from start to finish, making this a hard element to master. Like fire, all that needs to happen is a chakra build up or in a beginners place, a spark, however, unlike fire, lightning is the raw chakra that is being molded and controlled, to make lightning, as soon as the spark has been made, control it, even a second to late and it will form into a fire, which also makes it difficult to master. Think about the element, the movement and then do it, the simplest advice for this element manipulation'

'Grass, Earth, Ground:

Depending on the exact type of element, it will either be raw power by chakra and an extension of the body. However unlike Water, ice, Fire and lightning, this element is never in the hands of the manipulator, the manipulator in this particular case is a conductor and controller, giving the elements movement to attack. The technique is much harder to master for these elements but is known to be one of the much stronger ones. To control and use the elements, think about the movement, the strength, apply chakra and complete the action physically.'

'Wind:

An element which is ultimately a pathetic element unless a great deal of power into the attacks. However though the element appears useless, with much practice and work, this element is considered to be one of the more deadly elements that you as a Haruno can wield and manipulate. Chakra is the basis of these attacks and all it takes is a small amount of chakra to give off a powerful blast to blow enemies away. Though the element is single compared to other elements, wind can be used to move other elements, thus seen as a strong element. Like any other element, use chakra, form the plan and complete.'

"I don't believe it" Sakura muttered.

'You better start working on these things'

'I know; what should I do first though?'

'I reckon start with water; you are closest to that element than any other element'

'Good plan'

Slowly Sakura stood up from her place in her room and disappeared from sight, appearing back at the docks where she practiced the Katon jutsu. Breathing in deeply, she relaxed her tense muscles as she concentrated, allowing chakra to move through her system and into her arms, thinking about the movement she was about to do. Remembering an old dance her mother had once taught her, she moved freely and carelessly. Slowly water rose to her hand in a line, forming into a long string-like form, moving with the girl like ribbons on a stick, flowing carelessly and smoothly, as the scroll had said; an extension of her self. Realizing how easy it seemed when she knew what she was doing she began moving in intricate and difficult movements, experimenting in which ways she could move, and which she couldn't.

Suddenly feeling a cold breeze rush passed her system, the water whips froze into an icy form as she continued the ancient dance which was being brought back from the dead. The ice seemed to move just as smoothly as the water, if not smoother as Sakura began putting more power into the moves, occasionally actually using the ice as whips on random trees which broke them in half effortlessly. Wondering if water had the same affect, her mind focused on ice melting before it defrosted into the fee flowing liquid and whipped another tree which also snapped in half like a twig.

Smirking to herself in triumph the girl continued the water dance with her kekkei genkai, each time adding more and more power to the whips, eventually moving into different forms that the water could mold into like balls, spears, even needles, each times experimenting on how hard she could use them with both ice and water and it seemed with her ability it was a very strong hit each time.

Sasuke glared at her and when he glared he sent death glares that could kill thousands of times over before you could say 'mercy'. With Naruto, Sai and Kakashi he had been casually observing the girl from a distance. To them it wasn't spying, they were merely gaining information on the girl that she refused to tell them, and now this was more than enough proof that she didn't trust them at all. On his shoulder sat Sakura's hawk, Guyver, his talons closing in on his shoulder, as if saying 'stop glaring at her or you won't have a shoulder left', damn that bird could pull a threat very well, much like his owner.

Even from a rather long distance, all four males could tell she was quite talented with what ever her ability was, but when they had asked about it, she claimed she didn't know what it was. Yes it was a possibility that she had just discovered what her ability was, but because it was her, they didn't believe it, I mean, she knew everything! Even as a genin, she knew what was needed of her and how to do it, she was in a way, perfect! At everything!

Though even though he was angered with her for lying to them, to him, he couldn't help but admit that she did move gracefully. When ever she moved with her technique it was like a dance, her foot work was smooth, her movements were like water, always flowing with beauty, and in a way, like a lot of her jutsus, she was like them, she was like water, smooth, graceful, beautiful, but inside the beauty held great power, like water did, in great masses water could kill, some times in the most cruel ways he had ever seen, but he still admitted, she was like that. Seemingly innocent, always enclosed by some barrier which kept her in check, but if released could create great damage, people loved her when she had the barrier around her, they liked to be with her, much like little children who adored her like they adored playing in water, but as soon as she would kill some one like a big wave, they would hate her before she calmed down again.

Noticing the other scowling males around him, he couldn't help but smirk inwardly at how his little blossom managed to keep her little talent a secret from everyone else, especially her team, the one with two sharingan users, one of them supposedly her closest friends, a loud mouth who could get some thing out of any one and that other guy who was a former ANBU member, how she thwarted them and kept her secret from exploding was beyond him, but he did indeed congratulate her. Looking over to Kakashi, he received a nod as an indication before all four males stood from their hiding places and moved to have a little talk with the innocent little blossom.

Not noticing the glares and whatever else that were being sent in her direction, the girl continued to focus on her training, mainly working with water and ice needle forms because she had found that the needles would be a very effective tool in battle, but I just didn't have the power at the moment to be used in any battle water so ever. Instantly water flew up ito the air, spraying everything in its path with salty goodness before forming tiny needles. Narrowing her eyes, Sakura focused on the movement of the needles, sending them through various obstacles to determine how much strength each could take before they would break and become useless. By the end of the little obstacle course there were only a few former-water-now-ice needles left that were still moving around and were now actually returning to the blossom as she prepared to make a full 180 degrees turn.

As if in slow motion, her team appeared behind her as she turned around with the needles which were flying towards the four males at incredible speeds. Startled, she gasped slightly before he needles came to an immediate halt, just in front of their noses no less. Holding the needles in place, she watched the four males glare at her, or sneer at her, waiting for them to say a word before she released them, if she wanted to, she could have hit them with the needles, thus basically killing them, seeing as if they hit and penetrated the skull into the brain, they could possibly be dead, it was lucky for them that she has excellent chakra control. Noting that none were going to speak, she glared at them.

"What do you want?" Sakura asked, growling.

"Oh, you almost kill us and all you say is 'what do you want?'" Sai scoffed. Glaring at Sai, Sakura dropped the needles, allowing the ice to melt as it splashed onto the wooden board walk.

"Oh, I'm terribly sorry" Sakura spat "Now let me ask again, what the fuck do you want?!" Sakura growled.

"Don't you dare speak to your sensei like that!" Kakashi reprimanded.

"You never seemed to be a sensei in my eyes" Sakura scoffed "Now, I'll ask again, what do you want?!" Sakura glared.

"Tell us how you were able to do that Sakura-chan! I want to do it" Naruto pleaded, very excited at the thought he could learn a new jutsu.

"You would never be able to do it" Sakura scoffed.

"I can do anything! Believe it!" Naruto smirked as he moved into the nice guy pose.

"Please, you would never be able to master my technique" Sakura scoffed.

"And why is that?" Kakashi asked.

"It's called a kekkei genkai! Ever heard of it?" Sakura spat disgustedly before walking away with hands clenched into fists, Guyver flying right behind her, happy to be with his owner again instead of the Uchiha.

"What the hell was that about?" Sai asked.

"I think we are getting on her nerves a little" Kakashi thought aloud.

"No matter! I will learn her technique! What ever a kekkei genkai is never stops me!" Naruto proclaimed. Just then all three males hit Naruto over the head.

"You dobe, kekkei genkai is a blood line trait, you can't do the technique because it's not in your blood unless you have some distant blood line relation with Sakura, which I highly doubt" Sasuke scoffed.

"Why didn't she say that?!" Naruto cried, upset he couldn't learn Sakura's awesome techniques.

"She did Dickless" Sai sighed.

"But, if that is a blood line trait, what blood line is it?" Kakashi asked aloud.

"There can only be one possible answer for that" Sai said.

"The Haruno kekkei genkai" Sasuke finished.

"I guess she really is a Haruno then" Kakashi sighed, obviously upset that he was wrong, what a blow to an ego…

"And you didn't believe her, maybe next time you should" Sasuke scoffed, walking away from the remaining team seven, in hopes that Sakura hadn't killed something yet so he could talk to her.

Growling to herself, in anger that her team never did believe her and for the idiocy of Naruto, she punched a tree in half before she calmed her self down a slight fraction and began on earth and grass manipulation. Technically, she figured with grass, under that category came things like trees, plants and flowers, and perhaps weeds if she was some what lucky. Breathing in to calm her self down more, she continued her training, not minding that her arms were basically crying and begging her to stop after all the chakra what has passed through them.

Watching her train, he saw some of the most amazing moves from her that he had ever seen. Controlling water was one thing, but controlling ground, earth and plants and such was another! It looked a lot more straining on the body and required a lot more focus than when she was with water. Movements had to be perfect and not free flowing like water, it was, in a way, looked hard, strong and powerful, while water looked like it could barely snap a fly in two, earth had power. Maybe Sasuke would have to rethink his philosophy of the blossom; maybe she was, as her ability, like all elements. She was calm like water, powerful like earth, destructive like fire and lightning but also soft and gentle like wind. Jumping down from his hiding spot in the trees, Sasuke slowly and cautiously approached the girl, not really wanting to face her wrath while was in one of those moods.

Sensing a presence coming towards, her cautious side had brought roots out from the ground and grasped the unsuspecting person in her roots hold, tightening its hold around the person as they grew closer to each other. Slowly as the final tree had separated the two beings from each other, Sakura gasped inwardly when she realized she had caught Sasuke. Glaring at him for a moment, she released him and allowed him to defend himself if he chose to.

"A little paranoid don't you think?" Sasuke questioned, massaging his slightly sore limbs from being in that strangle hold of roots.

"Tch. What are you doing here?" Sakura asked, keeping the anger inside her from busting out and hitting him.

"Just wondering if you had killed anyone yet" Sasuke said, though he was inwardly asking if she was okay. Knowing what he had basically asked, she played along with where he was going.

"No, not yet. But if that little prep of yours comes crawling around the insect she is, I may accidentally injure her with one of my poison needles" Sakura smirked evilly, liking the thought of killing the little witch, which was oddly enough sending a cold shiver down the Uchiha's back just looking at her evil smirk.

"Right…I tell her to stop by" Sasuke nodded.

"Don't mind if you do, maybe send those fangirls here to, I've been meaning to squish them lately" Sakura cackled. Boy that was scary.

"Can't have to many deaths there, those fangirls make up half of the Konoha population and an eighth or so of the ninja power in our village" Sasuke shook his head.

"What really? I could have sworn it was less" Sakura muttered, remembering that last time she had seen any fan girl they had this miniscule amount of strength…oh well it was just another body to jump in front of the Hokage to take a hit.

"Does this mean you have control of your power again?" Sasuke asked.

"That would seem quite obvious Uchiha" Sakura scoffed.

"So you are a Haruno then?" Sasuke asked. Suddenly the rest of her team appeared, as well as the other rookie nine teams appeared with Team Gai.

"…" Sakura made no motion that she would be speaking any time soon, and before they knew what was happening, she had disappeared in a cloud of smoke with Guyver on her head.

The next day, it seemed to be so quiet, even Naruto was quiet. Upset that the girl he treated like a sister wouldn't tell him anything, for that matter anyone anything. Right now, the rookie nine, Team Gai, their teachers and the two remaining legendary Sannin sat in Ichiraku, eating ramen while trying to understand the pink haired girl they seemed to know for what seemed like forever. Sighing heavily, Naruto continued to slurp his noodles unenthusiastically like any one else in the Ramen stall, who all held a very glum mood.

Suddenly, without warning, a hawk came flapping into the shop, landing on the Uchiha's shoulder, on his leg was a little messenger box which had a piece of paper in it. Noticing the bird had a message on him, he undid the strap of the messenger pouch and took out the message as Guyver waited for him to read it.

"What's it say Sasuke?" Naruto asked.

"Hn" Sasuke grunted as he unrolled the note.

"To whom this may concern,

Yes. What you asked is true. My full name, to answer Ibiki-san's question, is Haruno Sakura, the youngest and only non-traitor Haruno left around. Which is why I was at the Haruno graveyard on the anniversary of their death, and if you ever accuse me of doing something wrong ever again, all the Haruno children will become missing-nin, I have no problem becoming one.

Yours sincerely,

Haruno Sakura

Haruno Prodigy" Sasuke read out, reading the note over and over again, surprised that the blossom he had known since his genin and academy days actually gave a straight answer for once, but of course, she had to end it with a threat…how like her…

Notes:

-So how'd you like that chapter...it seemed a little longer than my other chapters as of late, and slightly better I think to, which I am extremely happy about :)

-I am so sorry about the lack of updates lately, I have had no time what so ever to write anything, and when I say anything I mean anything! It's quite depressing :( But I have been writing every now and again when I have a miniscule amount of free time :D So I hope that will suffice for now .'' I don't really want to post one of those chapters which say 'OMG I am lyk so SORRY!!! I can't post 2dAY becasue I am lyk so busy! So sorry!' or something along those lines, don't want to get your hope up and all e.e;

-I hope you like this chapter, and sooner or later I will post a HNiS chapter, I promise!

-RxR, no flaming as always

Chapter 4: My Gifts are My Curse