Okay here is Ch. 4 …..

What? Did you expect a longer Author's note?

Discalaimer: I don't own Naruto or Bleach or anything else of copy-righted material. (God haven't done that in a while)

The next day was uneventful as the party walked along on the road toward their ultimate destination, which when Sakura asked was revealed to Kusa. When she asked Yusuke why Kusa he answered saying for two reasons. First it was where the ancient seal where the hollows were originally stored was and it was in the middle of the elemental nations so it was easy for the family to get together for the ceremony. Around midday they came upon a river that ran through road and it was crossed by a bridge. Ryuken decided that it was the perfect place to stop and have lunch. Sakura wandered around meeting new people and talking about different things. Mostly she just wanted to sit with her teammates and talk to them. They were pretty much her family now along with Kakashi and Rin-sensei. Her mother and father, ooohhh how she hated them. The reason was in the past….

Flashback

Sakura was reading a scroll on human anatomy when her sensei arrived. The woman wasn't tall like her husband but she was a good height. Sandy brown hair topped her head and two red tattoos adorned her cheeks.
"C'mon Sakura time to see if you learned anything." Said Rin getting into a stance.

"You mean taijutsu wise sensei?" asked Sakura

"Yes this is a test to see if you can apply your studies to your fighting style. Find a way to neutralize me easily without killing me."

Sakura nodded and got down into her stance and took off running at her sensei. Rin took a right hook at Sakura's head. Sakura dodged sliding underneath her sensei hitting the back of the kneecaps forcing her sensei to the ground. She got up and tried to hit her sensei on the pressure point in the neck. Rin spun around and got Sakura in the chin with a vicious uppercut. Sakura fell back spitting up blood as she landed. She sat up spitting more blood. Rin walked over and looked at her.

"You almost had me Sakura. You should've attacked my kidneys and then go for the neck. You need to immobilize your opponent before going for that pressure point. Open your mouth. It looks like you almost bit through your tongue." Said Rin.
Sakura did as she was told and opened her mouth. Rin's hand was engulfed in a green glow and she moved it close to Sakura's mouth. The effect was felt immediately and Sakura sighed in relief.
"Sakura open you mouth wider…" said Rin sternly. Sakura did so and Rin looked inside her mouth specifically at the roof of her mouth.
"Shit… I can't believe they were that stupid." Said Rin under her breath.

"What do you mean sensei? Who was stupid?" Sakura asked
"No one. All right I want you to show me how far you have gotten on your chakra control…"

The rest of the day was spent on how to use the mystical palm technique. That night Sakura collapsed on her bed exhausted and sleepy. Who knew that using so much chakra could be tiring? She was about to fall asleep when she heard raised voices downstairs. She got up alarmed and silently she got off her bed and put her head to the floor. There were three voices arguing. She could distinguish her mother father and sensei's voices arguing.
"What the hell is there a seal doing in your daughter's mouth!?" yelled Rin

"What seal?" said Sakura's mother

"You damn well know what seal. I go to heal Sakura's mouth and I see a containment seal on the roof of her mouth!? Now what the hell did you seal into her?" asked Rin

"A tool that will help the Haruno clan rise up from the bottom of ninja society to the top in power thanks to her." Said Sakura's father.
"What… the… hell… is… it… for the last time!!" yelled Rin. Rin is a patient women. Hell if you lived with Kakashi you had to be so you wouldn't kill him for making stupid excuses why he was late all the time. However seeing the smug look on the Haruno clan leader's face was too much. Over the past weeks Rin had grown attached to Sakura much like Tsunade had grown attached to Shizune. That smug look spelled trouble that Sakura shouldn't be put through.
"It is a demon captured and sealed into Sakura. It was a mid-level demon and hard to capture, but it will be worth it when Sakura either produces a bloodline for the Haruno clan or she marries into a prestigious clan for being so powerful!!" said Sakura's father. Sakura's head snapped up from the floor.
"I have a demon inside me? And my parents sealed it in me?" she thought

"Well what the hell do you think I was because I definitely ain't split personality disorder." Said Inner Sakura.

"Great so I've been living with a demon inside my head for most of my life?"
"You betcha. Your parents are lying by the way. I'm not a mid-level demon. In fact I wasn't hard to capture. I just happened to be very knowledgeable of humans and very smart. Where do you think you get your brains from? Not from those two down there that's for sure. Do you know how much I had to do to get you as smart as you are?" said Inner Sakura.

"So are you friendly?"
"What a stupid question. No, I'm a demon for crying out loud. I only help people to help myself. I only did it because I just wanted to have some fun."
"Okay that backfired. Just try not to do anything else I like the way I am just fine thank-you but thanks for helping."
"You're welcome now what do you intend to do?"
" I don't want to live with these people after what they did. I'm leaving them."
"Where are you going to go?"
"To live with Rin-sensei. She'll help."
"I agree that women feels something for you." Sakura nodded and got out her bags. She packed up the essentials and other things. She took a last look at her room and took off into the night.

Flashback End

"That's the last time I saw my parents."
"Well look at their actions. They kept a devastating secret from you. They tried to take you back from that Rin woman by force and then when they couldn't they sent an assassin so that you couldn't reveal their secrets. Even my parents treated me better and they're demons." Said Inner Sakura

"Do you have a name? I mean I can't just keep calling you "Inner Sakura" because you're not."
"Well let's think. No I don't have name. The only demons that have names are the powerful. As I told you I'm sadistic, get angry very easily and very smart but not powerful. So just keep calling me "Inner Sakura" it's better than just to be known as "demon"."

Sakura nodded ending communication with her demon. After learning the secret from eavesdropping she went straight to Rin and had lived with her and Kakashi from that point on. She was happy to have Sakura and the Hokage had granted custody of Sakura to Rin after the Haruno's had hired an assassin to try to kill Sakura. The assassin had been caught by Kakashi and had confessed. The Harunos now enjoy cells in Konoha's jail. Neither of her teammates knew about the incidents. Naruto just thought that she got to practice early when he came to learn from Kakashi. She sighed. She didn't like keeping secrets from her teammates. Sakura started to laugh. Oh how she had changed for the better. Not even a month ago she would've called Naruto a good-for-nothing dead-last and Yusuke a usurper of Sasuke. Now she was calling them her teammates and thought of them as family. She stopped laughing to take a breath when she heard music. She snapped her head towards the direction of the noise and she started to walk stealthily towards it. She peered through some bushes and saw Yusuke strumming a guitar playing different notes chords and rhythms but it didn't sound chaotic at all. Instead it sounded peaceful, soothing even. Sakura walked up to him without making a sound. His face was content almost blissful as he played his guitar. Sakura stood there for a couple minutes entranced by it. Soon Yusuke stopped and opened his eyes. Sakura gasped. His right eye was black with a pentagram for an iris. His eyebrows rose in shock.
"Sakura what are you doing here?" he said his hand covering his eye. Sakura put up her hands in protest.
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to see it… I was just entranced by your music that I came over to listen." Said Sakura apologizing profusely. Yusuke sighed and put down his hand the black eye still present.
"Well what's done is done. You can come out now Naruto." Yusuke said. Naruto appeared from behind some bushes with three steaming bowls of ramen in his arms.
"Well I came to give you guys your lunch." Said Naruto
"I'm sure you have questions right?" said Yusuke.
"No not really." Said Naruto

"What!? I do!!" said Sakura.

"Well think about it Sakura. I told you what happened yesterday right?" said Naruto
"Yeah you did Naruto."
"Well doesn't it seem odd that a four-year-old just barely trained killed a full grown man without any wounds?" said Naruto eating his ramen. Yusuke pointed a finger at Naruto while looking at Sakura.
"He's actually right. This eye is fake. Do you know what my dad does on the side? Besides running the Urahara Shoten?" said Yusuke. Both shook their head.
"Well let me tell you and I want neither of you to repeat it. This is an SS class secret. Under the direction of the Hokage my father has been experiment with artificial limbs. Not just any artificial limbs but organic limbs."
"That sounds like what Orochimaru was doing." Said Sakura. Yusuke shook his head.
"No it isn't really. Orochimaru experimented on live fellow leaf ninja. My dad can create limbs. He found a device in ruins from before the Great Breaking of the World that synthesizes proteins. That device is what he uses to create artificial limbs." (A/N: On a side note that device is the only thing that will come from the ancient past no guns or missiles or armor or anything else of the like.)

"So why is your eye black?" asked Sakura.
"Well back then my father didn't know how to use the machine very well and he typed in some errant commands. Those commands gave birth to a great power that has only been seen because of this eye." Said Yusuke

"So what is it?" asked Naruto
"Spatial transference." Said Yusuke

"So what you rip holes in existing space and bring them together?" asked Sakura

"Kinda it's a bit more complicated than that or so my dad says and he said not to worry about it."
"Well that sounds like a pretty useful ability." Said Naruto finishing off his ramen. Yusuke nodded and began to eat. Sakura looked at her reflection in the ramen and sighed.
"Guys I have a secret to confess." Said Sakura

"What is it?" asked Yusuke

"I have demon inside me." Said Sakura closing her eyes quickly so that she didn't see their reactions. She expected yelling, shouts of disbelief but when all she heard was silence she opened up her eyes. Yusuke was stuck with noodles half way into his mouth and Naruto stood there with a calm expression on his face. Yusuke finished eating his noodles.
"So the bastards did do it. I had heard a rumor that the Haruno's had done something like that but I never thought to confirm it."
"I knew" said Naruto

"WHAT!?" yelled Sakura

"Yeah I knew because of Kakashi-sensei. I pestered him about why you were staying with them so often that he caved. He made me swear not to say anything until you were ready to say something."
"Oh." Said Sakura

"And I also made up my mind that if you were willing to share that secret I would share mine with you." Sakura looked at Naruto. Naruto took a deep breath.
"I have the Kyuubi sealed inside of my stomach." Said Naruto. Sakura paled and fainted. Naruto looked at Yusuke.
"Well she took that better than I thought." Said Naruto

"Well what did you expect?" asked Yusuke.

"Screaming, punching. That was very Hinata-ish."

Sakura woke up some time later. She looked around groggily at her surroundings. She was in one of the carts that Gifted had brought with them to hold all of their possessions that they were bringing to the gathering.
"So you finally up?" came a voice. Sakura looked forward and saw Anko
"Oh Anko-sensei. It's just you."
"The boys told me about your little heart-to-heart session that you three had." Said Anko
"Oh."
"So, how are you taking it?" asked Anko. "The Kyuubi being sealed up in Naruto?'' Sakura thought for a moment.
"Well it makes sense. The whiskers, the looks, my former parents telling me to stay away from him when I was younger but…"
"But?"
"I don't believe that what my parents said was true. Naruto is Naruto. He isn't some giant fox bent on destroying everything and if he was the demon he wouldn't have been so nice. Besides if Naruto was the demon he would've destroyed Konoha by now." Said Sakura.

"Very good. You saw the "underneath the underneath" as Kakashi would say." Said Anko. Just then her radio cackled to life.
"Anko-sensei?" came Naruto's voice
"We have a situation out here. Pakkun says that he smells another ninken coming this way."
"It may be that dog from your class." Said Anko

"Akamaru?" came Yusuke's voice

"Yeah. Last night I sent a message to Hokage-sama about the bandits. I guess he thought that we need another team." Said Anko.
"All right." Said Naruto

"Roger." Said Yusuke. "Let's see if I can speed up his progess a little bit."
"What?" asked Anko but just a the words were coming from her mouth a sort of portal opened up and out came a small white dog.
"Arf?" barked the dog as it looked around it surroundings clearly confused.
"Akamaru?" asked Sakura looking at the dog. The dog spun around and launched itself at Sakura with a loud bark. Naruto and Yusuke soon joined the three of them in the wagon taking a rest for the time being. Anko looked at the two boys with an angry look on her face.
"What made it okay for both of you to come in here?" asked Anko low and dangerously. Naruto started to laugh nervously scratching his the back of his head with his hand.
"The fact that both Yusuke and I have shadow clones surrounding the party?" he said nervously. Anko immediately brightened.
"Okay." She said in a normal voice.
"So kiddies where's Pakkun?" she asked

"Right here." Came the pug's voice as it jumped into the wagon. He walked over to Akamaru and held up his paw to him

"How's it hangin' kid?" Akamaru hit the paw like a high-five and barked. Pakkun nodded.

"He says that team eight isn't that far behind us. Just about an hour or so." Pakkun said.
"All right. So I imagine that Kurenai-chan sent Akamaru ahead because he could smell you Pakkun?" said Anko. Akamaru barked and nodded.
"Okay so Yusuke, I think that you can help us here." Said Anko looking at the youth. Yusuke sighed.
"I had a sneaking suspicion that you were in the tree above us." He said "The eye right?' Anko nodded.
"All right fine. I'll stay behind. Here." Said Yusuke taking a piece of paper with a seal on it and handing it to Anko.
"What's this?" she asked.
"It's a seal that will let me transport to you. My eye's range is infinite but I don't like going farther than I can see. Who knows maybe one time I could end up stuck in a tree. However that seal is made from my blood and I can always sense where it is. This will help me transport to you." Said Yusuke.

"okay and you're not staying behind. Sakura I want you to stay with him." Said Anko

"Why not Naruto?" asked Sakura

"Because Naruto is a one-man army with those shadow clones of his. He'll be able to keep this group guarded til you two get back." Said Anko

"All right. So I guess we'll see you in an hour." Said Yusuke grabbing Sakura and jumping out of the wagon

"Hey what a minute!!!" she said screaming. The group moved on and soon was out of sight from the two genin.
"Great so what now?" asked Sakura. Yusuke pulled a pack of playing cards from his pouch.
"Know how to play Texas Hold 'Em?"

"Man when are we going to catch up to them?" whined Kiba. Kurenai's eyebrow started to twitch.

"Kiba for the last time we'll catch up to them when we catch up to them" Normally Kurenai was a patient women. Hell she had to be to put up with Asuma's smoking habit but if one thing got on her nerves it was a whiny brat. Why had she become a jounin instructor? Oh well thankfully the other two were silent.

"Kiba-kun I think that we have caught up to them." Said Hinata byakugan blazing.
"What do you mean Hinata?" asked Kurenai

"Because I see Sakura-san and Yusuke-san up ahead." She replied

Sure enough within the next couple minutes team eight came upon the two genin but they were surprised at the scene before them. In the middle of the two was a large pile of money and four cards. The two genin had two cards each and were glaring at one another. Yusuke was breaking the patent law by using the patent "Uchiha emotionless glare" while Sakura chose with the classic "Grinding your teeth because you want to kill the guy across from you" glare.

"Team eight is here you know." Said Sakura through grit teeth.
"I noticed. So the winner of this hand wins it all?"
"All right throw down the last card." Said Sakura. Yusuke pulled a card from the deck and put it next to the last card. The cards were a ten of hearts, jack of hears, eight of spades, a four of spades, and a queen of hearts
"HA! King high straight!" she said showing a nine of spades and king of diamonds.

"Beat you. Royal flush." Said Yusuke throwing down a king and an ace of hearts as he raked in all the money. Sakura looked longingly at the money.
"Jeez Sakura you're almost as bad as the Legendary Sucker." He said putting the money away and standing up. He turned and looked at team eight.

"Okay so just stand there and we'll be with the group in a couple of seconds." Said Yusuke drawing his sword. He put the point in the dirt and walked around the group drawing a circle in the dirt. He stepped into it and started to draw kanji in the dirt.
"Ah Yusuke-san wh-wh-what a-are y-y-you doing?" asked Hinata.
"Instant spatial transference." Said Yusuke not looking up.

"Okay hold onto your lunches boys and girls because here we GO!" said Yusuke as he put his hand on the kanji his eye turning into the black eye with the pentagram. The group disappeared in a flash of light

Elsewhere…

Anko was humming a tune walking. The day had been uneventful no bandits or anything else. She then felt something hot warm up next to her hand. She grabbed the warm object and brought it out of her pocket in front of her face.
"What the hell is…. SHIT!" said Anko throwing the seal down on the ground before her. Naruto ran up to her.
"Anko-sensei what's wro…" his words were cut off as there was a flash of bright light and Naruto was instantly flattened by an object that appeared out of thin air. In fact five other objects materialized as well. One landed on Anko, two landed on their own feet and two landed in an undignified heap.
"GOD DAMNIT YUSUKE WHY DIDN"T YOU WARN US!!" yelled Kiba getting up.
"YEAH WHY DIDN'T YOU!?" yelled Sakura

"Please Kiba-san Sakura-san it is not Yusuke-san's fault that you two were not quick enough to land on your own feet." Said Shino adjusting his glasses with a finger.
"Kurenai-san as much as I value our friendship GET THE HELL OFF OF ME!!" yelled Anko. Kurenai wiggle her butt around.
"I don't know Anko you make a comfortable seat. WHOAH!!" she yelled as Anko threw her off of her. Naruto felt the object that fell on him shift and sit up.
"Hinata-chan do you think that you could get off of me?" said Naruto.

"I landed on Naruto-kun? I did oh what is he going to think of me oh no." Hinata's face started to turn bright red and with a small "eep!" she fainted. Naruto turned and saw everyone looking at him.
"What?"
"Nothing just that you have to carry her since you made her faint." Said Yusuke.

"What!? I didn't make her faint she fainted on her own!" Guys!" he said as the others turned around and headed down the road…

Preview…

Team 7 and Team 8 finally make it to their destination … the place where the ancients sealings took place… Kakura town.

A/N Okay there you guys go the next installment of the Rookie of the Year. So onto business two things. C'MON GUYS!! WHEN I SAY THERE'S A POLL I WANT YOU TO PARTICIPATE IN THEM. Oh well to those that did thank you and I have figured out where the story is headed and I have figured out the powers that the characters are going to get. (No thanks to all of you who didn't send me a PM or review.)… ANYWAY I'm looking for a Beta just someone who writes well and when I get a chapter to them get back to me within the next couple of days. Just send me a review or a PM and I'll get back to you ASAP. Thanks and as always read, review, be happy. Sayanora!