YAY! Chapter 6!

This chapter took long to right because it's more about what the curse mark is doing to Sakura than anything.

Sasuke is in this chapter but nothing really happens with him. But he does make his first appearance.

Next chapter will be more exciting.

Disclaimer: yeah... I don't own Naruto...

Orochimaru's voice in bold

Chapter 6

I woke up the next day, feeling much better than yesterday.

"Sakura-chan!" a voice came from the right side of me. I looked over to see the who the voice belonged to; my brain was a little fuzzy.

"Naruto…." I stuttered out.

I shook my head to try and get rid of the fuzziness that was going through my brain, I couldn't think completely straight, about anything for that matter, I saw Naruto but it was more like it was a dream and it wasn't real.

Then I remembered that the Naruto in my mind was dead.

The lines between reality and my hallucinations blurred.

Now I didn't feel any emotions though. So I faked it.

I gave him a smile.

Naruto leaned over in my bed and gave me giant hug. I was shocked a little bit a taken back that he hugged me so tight.

"I thought I was going to lose you Sakura-chan!" he said into me, he still didn't let go from me.

"I'm fine, Naruto." I told him. There was no sound of emotion in my voice, and I still felt nothing. Was this what the curse mark did to you? I wondered if Naruto knew about the mark.

"I didn't want that bastard Orochimaru to take another away from me." he grumbled.

"I'm completely fine, really." I told him.

"Granny wouldn't tell us anything about you." Naruto said. "I was really worried."

I gave a fake smile, one that Sai would have on his face. "Just a few bruises and really tired. I needed rest more than anything."

Naruto kept his gaze. And gave me a smile but then it turned into a frown.

"What's on the back of your neck?" he asked worriedly.

Since he saw me from the side I guess he was able to see it clearly. Damn it.

"Oh… it's nothing Naruto." I felt uncomfortable talking about the mark that was new to my neck.

"Don't lie to me Sakura-chan."

"Really, it's nothing."

"It's almost like…." He trailed off mid-sentence and then rose from his seat coming closer to me and then made me sit up by pushing me forward roughly.

"Ow, Naruto."

"It…" was all he managed to get out.

"Naruto…."

He backed away from me in complete shock.

"It's the mark, the same that Sasuke has…."

"Naruto, listen to me."

"No! This is a dream, you can't have it!"

"I do, Naruto, but will you listen to me?!"

"This is a dream…. It has to be… a terrible nightmare…" he said with a nervous smile. "Right, Sakura-chan?"

I didn't answer at all. I just stared at him. My anger was starting to get the best of me.

"Or it's just a bruise right? And I'm seeing things, right?"

"Naruto, STOP!" I yelled. I lost control of my anger. This stupid curse mark was making me crazy! It was making me so fucking angry. I stared straight forward realizing I just snapped for no reason at my best friend and shook my head to snap out of it.

He looked up at me in shocked eyes.

"Yes, I have the curse mark, having it so far, it sucks, I'm angry all the time, I…" hear voices in my head, have hallucinations, I finished in my head, I didn't want to worry him. "But, I'm trying to control it, right now I rather not even talk about."

Naruto looked at me still with the shocked expression.

"Naruto… I don't want you to tell anyone."

"Why? What do you mean?"

"I don't want people to look at me different, or talk to me like I'm a bomb waiting to go off."

"Okay…." Naruto sighed. "But… you're not going to…"

I didn't understand at first what he was talking about and then it clicked. "No…."

He was asking if I wanted to leave, to go off to Orochimaru. At this point I couldn't tell if I was lying or not.

"Tsunade, what is this about you sending in Haruno Sakura to Ororchimaru?" Koharu said barging into Tsunade's office.

Tsunade did not answer her, she just continued writing in the file she had sprawled on her desk.

"Tsunade, we believe this mission should not be carried out." Homura chimed in.

Still Tsunade did not say anything.

"Tsunade."

"I'm carrying out this mission, as soon as I talk to Sakura about it, we will begin to carry it out." she snapped taking her eyes off her papers and up to the two advisers.

"We do not think this is wise." Koharu said. "We have already done this once, before you were kage and it seemed that we caused more harm than good."

"What are you talking about?" Tsunade insisted.

"Uchiha Itachi." Homura said.

"Oi." Came from someone in the dark room. 'Oi!" it came again when the person that accompanied him in the same dark room. "Oi. Sasuke."

"What?" he snapped coldly.

"You're so out of it, I asked you when you're planning on leaving?"

The other voice was coming from a tube in one of the very mysterious rooms of Orochimaru's hideout. There were many other tubes around just like this one, but this one was different. Instead of having some type of strange creature or monster it was in fact a person.

"As soon as I kill him." Sasuke said. "I told you this how many times before."

The man in the tube scoffed. "You're gonna' get me out and take me with ya' right?"

"Hn." Was all that came from Sasuke and he left the room leaving the man alone with all the monsters and creatures that were used for Orochimaru's experiments.

"I think he likes me." Said the man to himself.

"Kakashi," Tsunade started. "I need you to seal up the curse mark put on Sakura, it'll probably stop her from feeling so angry."

Kakashi nodded.

The seal, wasn't really necessary. She knew that if Sakura would take this mission, which Tsunade knew she would, that it might look a bit strange if the seal was placed on Sasuke and not Sakura. She knew Orochimaru wouldn't be too suspicious, but he might think about it more than she wanted him too. She was just taking extra measures. There was no harm in that.

"Also, Kakashi, use the same seal you used on Sasuke."

He nodded again and then left the Hokage office.

Tsunade sighed. She really was over loaded with work. The village should have more than one Hokage at a time.

She took a bottle of sake out of the drawer in her desk, and began to drink right from the bottle not even bothering to get a glass.

"Good morning! Sakura-chan!" Naruto yelled entering the room. "I brought others with me today too!"

Naruto wasn't the only one who entered, along with him came Ino, Shikamaru, and Lee.

"Sakura-san!" Lee cried out and then hugged me after he came barging through everyone.

I was already starting to lose my cool.

"Lee," Ino started. "You should get off her, she's probably sore."

No, just getting angry the more he holds onto me. Lee released me and stood on the left side of the bed.

"It's good to see you're okay, Sakura…" Ino said with a smile. "I brought you some flowers." She put the vase of daisies that were put in a blue vase on my nightstand.

"Thank you, Ino." I said to her trying to control the anger I now had to deal with thanks to Lee.

"What happened to your neck?" Shikamaru asked pointing to his own.

He wasn't referring to the mark, I wrapped my entire neck up in bandages so no one would see anything. It was what I wanted, even if the wrappings were really annoying to deal with.

"Oh," I put my finger up to my collarbone and moved it up to my chin. "Kunai wound." I told them. "It should be gone in a week or two."

Shikamaru nodded.

Ino looked at me worriedly.

And Naruto looked down to the floor ashamed that he was being a part of this lie.

"It doesn't hurt much, but that might be because of the pain killers." I said with a smile. It was so easy to lie to them; it shouldn't be this easy I told myself. Was this also what the mark did, make you feel like you could lie about anything, no matter the person, and make you an emotionless brick, no matter the situation.

"You look pretty tired, should we come back later?" Ino asked.

"No, no. You can stay." I told them. I didn't want them to leave and then come back that would be to much hassle and another chance to get me angry.

I smiled at all three of them. Pretending nothing was wrong.

"You don't need them…. Power, is everything. Friends and bonds mean nothing."

A massive headache came along with the voice.

"You deserve more than what you have… you could be great, and prove to everyone that you're not a useless little cherry blossom."

My eye twitched by the voice while all four of my friends stood around my bed talking to each other.

"Don't you want to feel powerful? Invincible?"

The headache was getting worse. The room began to spin.

"Sakura!" came a cry. I couldn't tell who it was. Everything was now blurry. I was getting nauseous.

"Your nose it bleeding! Lee get a tissue!"

"Of course Ino-san!"

"Should I call Tsunade?"

"Yeah, Naruto go!"

"I guess I should get the nurse in the mean time?"

"Good idea!"

A tissue was put to my face and I tried to push it away, but my arms where heavy.

The mark started to burn and sting. I tried to hold back the scream and my anger amplified tenfold.

"STOP!" I screamed at everyone in the room. I held the back on my neck that was burning up and I was beginning to sweat. I took a deep breath and breathed out. Calm down. I told myself.

Lee pulled the tissue away and Ino walked back and starred at me. I felt the mark start to spread but I held in back with the energy I still somehow had. I took a deep breath and burning started to calm down.

Why the hell is this happening?

"Sakura, what's wrong?" Ino asked me

"Nothing, maybe you guys should leave." It sounded rather rude but I couldn't help it with all the anger pent up and when all four of them came to the rescue for me was driving me crazy because the voice in my head then sounded more true. That I couldn't take care of myself.

It was the day I was leaving the hospital. I still had the bandages wrapped up my neck to hide the mark. Tsunade told me Kakashi was coming to walk me home. Why was beyond me.

"Sakura." Kakashi said walking in the door of my room. "How are you feeling?"

"Fine." I one worded him.

He sighed. He didn't have his orange book with him so he must be serious about something. "Tsunade told me about…." He hinted at it, the mark on my neck, and then pointed to the spot on his own neck. "I'm going to make it better, by sealing it."

I said nothing. But starred at him.

"Come on, no one will find out. I won't tell anyone." Kakashi said with a smile.

I nodded and followed him out the hospital.

We came to an apartment building that was a couple blocks down from the hospital. "This is my apartment building, but we're going to use the basement because then no one will hear your screams."

He began walking into towards the building.

"Wait…What?"

"Did you think the sealing was going to be couple hand signs and that's it. Oh no, you'll be in a pain, and will most likely be put back into the hospital because of the stress on your body." Kakashi said. "Don't worry it's not like I'm going to rape you."

"I didn't even think about you raping me." I mumbled to myself as he started walking in front of me.

We walked into the apartment building and walked downstairs to the basement. And then he took out a kunai, I honestly had no idea what he was going to do with it.

He made circles on the ground with he kunai he took out and put more kunai, in almost was like in random spots in the circle. "Okay, Sit down in the middle."

I did what I was told.

Before he made his circles and put kunai in places he asked me to take my top off because he had to write the seal on my back and part of my collar bone.

I sat down in nothing but wrappings over my breasts and the black skirt. I had already taken off the wrappings I had around my neck.

He took the kunai and slit a cut in his palm. The blood poured down from his palm and he spent the ten minutes writing the formula for the seals on the ground and on my body.

"Okay." He said when he was done. "Ready?"

I nodded being a little nervous since he said this was going to be painful.

He made hand signs behind me and put his palm on the curse mark. Light emitted from his palm and went into the curse.

And then the pain came. It was like ten kunai were being forced into the one spot at the same exact time.

The burning that would sometimes happen with the mark started burning more than ever and all of in increased as the sealing went on. I screamed out in pain and the pain grew more and more. I saw the formula he made move up and in the direction of the mark and I still cried out in pain it was starting to dull suddenly and it wasn't hurting as much.

I felt Kakashi's palm leave the area and the pain heightened suddenly and I screamed out in more pain. I doubled over on the ground supporting myself up with my arms.

"If the mark ever acts up again, trying to take control, the seal will stop it in it's tracks." He told me.

I was breathing heavily and the pain finally ended and it felt so much better.

"However, this seal I used uses your will as its main source. If you lose faith in your power and your will decreases the mark will activate, and you won't be able to control it."

Everything became blurry, and the room was spinning around and around.

I felt like I was going to throw up. And I did but not vomit, blood.

And then I fell to the ground, blacking out.

Beep.

"When do you think she'll wake up?"

I couldn't tell who the voice belonged to it was all. Underwater sounding...

Beep.

Where am I? I can't remember anything...

"I have no idea when she'll wake." it was a different voice this time.

Beep.

I'm in the hospital again…..

That's right Kakashi-Sensei said I probably would be….

I didn't even have strength to open my eyes.

Beep.

"What even happened?" it was the first voice that spoke... I think.

Beep.

Beep.

I'm so tired... I want to sleep...

Beep.

But... I... Am I dying...?

Beep.

Damn beeping.

So that was chapter 6!

Yepp. I don't really remember what episode it was when Sasuke got the seal but I remember the title of it had to do with his lion combo... I'm to lazy to look it up.

Last chapter I complained about Sasuke, it felt better to get that out, sorry if you're all pro Sasuke being the next Hokage but I still want Naruto to be the Hokage.

I'm currently working on The Survivor, my profile has more details about that one.

It's been a long day

BAHHH It's so hot! I unfortunately do have to get move on, on my summer reading... Ugh... Work...

Sorry this was a short chapter! Next one is much longer!

Please Review it makes me smile, seriously it does make me smile :)