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that i want you to see, i'll just put (POP) for "picture in profile". thanks and on with the story!!

"Run..."

"What?" He thought.

"I can't hear you..." He said in a breathy whisper, "Say it again..."

"Run, and cling to life..."

"What?"His voice was clear and indignant now. "Say it to my face you cowardly scum!" He roared.

"I said..." The voice faded.

"Run." The voice was right behinde him, clear and maliciously familiar.

He whirled around and screamed. Splurt. Blood oozed from his stomach. He stared into the refective surface of the katana that was coming
out the other side of him (A/N; that means it's through his back and out his tummy)

Sasuke shook from his place on the ground. "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!?" Naruto screamed. He had just witnessed his best
friend and rival fall to the ground and scream like a 5 year-old girl! He was horrified.
Sakura watched as Sasuke fell to the ground, her eyes staring at him with fear and panic. Shit, she thought. She didn't mean to do that! She
didn't mean to! Breaths were comming in ragged pants, as the girl hyperventilated. "Gomen nasai!" She shouted, clutching her head. "Gomen
nasai! Gomen nasai!" "Not now!", She thought panickedly. "Not just yet!" And then she screamed.
"What in Kami's name was that?!" Tenten thought wildly. At the moment, Team Gai was speeding through the trees to the bridge to meet
Team 7 for a group training excercise. Kurenai and Asuma were not far behind them, Team 8 & 10 in their senseis' wake. "Hey Kiba, you
catch that?" She yelled over her shoulder. "Sure did!", the shaggy boy said, shouting his reply. "Shika?" He called, "You?" The boy in
question glanced at the dog nin user and nodded curtly, knowing the fourth member of their inside conversation was already 'in the know'.
The remainder of the nins' teams had no idea what was going on. Shocked after glancing at her cousin, Hinata slowed her pace through the trees
to speak with her other teammate. "Shino," She whispered, "Look at Onii-sama! He's got his Byakugan activated for no reason!" Shino turned his bespectacled eyes to where she was pointing, and
gasped. Peircing white eyes were already transfixed on him, their owner mouthing:

"I SEE YOU"

Blood.

It is a normal thing.

It runs through our veins and gives us life. It will definitley stain white material. It's red, but when we see it from the outside, it looks blue.

Donors often give blood to hospitals, so patients can undergo a surgery safely.

One thing can be sure though:

THERE IS A LOT IN THE HUMAN BODY

This is a lesson that came all too soon for Taisho Sakura, and it is a lesson that she never forgot. Blood was just a part of her life. Training
with Daddy in the makeshift arena that took up the back yard was one of them. Beating up the big kids at school that tried
to pick on Tenten at the local academy was another. And there were other times, to be sure, that she had witnessed the spilling of blood.
Sometimes not her own, but there were others...

If we fast track ahead, we would be seeing Sakura stradling her teammate, her hands aglow with healing ch'i. This is where the highlight of
the day began.

"Naruto, Sasuke, I'm sorry. Especially you, Naruto. Seriously, I don't know what happened just then, but I couldn't stop myself. I'm sorry.
And Sasuke, I can't imagine a way to apologize to you for what just happened, but please try to believe me when I say I didn't mean to."
The young girl looked both her teammates in the eye after her apology.

"Kami, that was so cheesy Gaki " A familiar voice chuckled.
"Don't call me a brat, teme." Sakura said warningly, all the solemness in her voice was gone. Out of the trees hopped a grinning Inuzuka,
a smirking Hyuuga, a smiling brunette, kunai twirling in her fingers, and a lazy nin wearing the patented Nara smirk.

"Don't tell me you started the melee without us!" The weapon mistress cheerfully yelled, charging ahead. Teams 10 and 8 were just
emerging from the canopy when they heard the shouted inquiry from Tenten.

Kurenai shouted at Kiba. "Don't run off ahead like that!" She
scolded, "Be polite and wait for us." Gai and Asuma generally had the same sentiments for their teams, chastising them accordingly.

"Uhh, yeah, s-sure, whatever..." Kiba drifted off, scanning the area, trying to pick up the Taisho's scent. "Excuse me?" Kurenai asked
incredulously. Kiba had never disrespected her like that before! But before the Genjutsu genious could get another word in, her pupil was
already walking away, his eyes intent on finding the one he searched for.

"Hey Lee! Chouji! How ya been holdin' up? Hinata! You look great! I hope we get a chance to spar! Shino! How ya been dude?" She
kept on greeting people like nothing was different about her. Smiling from ear to ear, she made her way through the group of conversing
ninja to find a certain person.

"Hey Tenten!" Sakura called, waving her over to an area a few feet away from the rest of the group. "Wow."
Tenten said in an awed whisper. "How long has it been since the last time I got to play with that mop of hair?" The two kunoichi sat down
under a tree a few feet away from the other nin to "talk" amongst themselves. Tenten sat behinde of Sakura and started doing her hair in little
braids.

"So..." The Weapons Mistress started, "when do they see the real suprise?" Her voice held a mix of anxiousness and reminiscing.
"Really soon..." The Taisho girl said. "Very,very soon...Hey," Sakura started again, a bit more demurley than before, "I'm thinking of telling
them everything...the claws, the Family, even the six of us."

Tenten blanched for a moment and paused in her braiding.

"W-what?" She asked in a small voice.

Glancing to her side, Sakura spoke in a whisper that was somewhere between shocked, apologetic, and panicked. "G-gomen Tenten-chan! Gomen!" "No, no, it's alright. It's just that I didn't think that you would want to tell everybody so soon! I'm not mad at you at all!"

"Okay Tenten, tomarrow then. That's when I'll tell them!"