Back at the main confrontation, Sakura is still on the fight against Elly.

"This is getting pointless," Fei started to approach the former's side, much to her annoyance because she doesn't want interfering the fight to stop her from completing her revenge against the Gebler soldier.

"Stay out of this!" Sakura exclaimed.

"Like it or not, you'll team up with me."

Realizing this, she begrudgingly accepts this proposal.

"So now you joined her, Fei. If that's the case, I'll put you out of your misery now!" the drugged Elly readies her weapon on both of their direction. "Fear not! In return for treating me so kindly, I will kill you painlessly. This goes the same to that girl. Farewell, Fei, and you too, Sakura."

Just as she is about to make another spell that would kill them both once and for all, she started to have a headache that she dropped her rod to the ground.

"Uhh! Aagh... Ah... M-my head..." she puts her hands to her head with pain.

"Um, Fei?" Sakura turns her attention to the man.

"Yes?"

"When you said about her emotions are being controlled by the drug, and that you've been trying to get her to snap out of this, I think I get what you mean."

Sakura now realizes that this is not the real Elly after all, and she believed what Fei has been trying to do. Ending this fight, she gathered large amounts of chakra from her right fist and throws a big punch at the female soldier's head that it throws her to the wall of the canyon and rendering her unconscious. She turns to her squad, who started to run away with fear on what this girl can do with her power. Only Renk doesn't show fear.

Just then, Naruto and Sasuke arrive to the canyon.

"So, did we missed anything?" the former asked.

"Just the fight with this psycho soldier," Sakura replied.

"Sakura!" Fei exclaimed, not wanting her to call Elly that, especially when he has been acting nice to her.

"Well, I recommend we should take her to the Hidden Leaf Village, and let her recover," Kakashi stated.

During night at the Hidden Leaf Village by some house, Elly opened her eyes to look at her surroundings. She has turned normal from the 'Drive'.

"Where..." she muttered in wonder.

"You're at my house," a voice said.

"Fei..." Elly turns to see the person she fought against while being aggressive from the drug then turns her attention to Sakura, the one who said of where she is and is sitting next to Fei. Seeing her just makes her look agitated. "You!"

She tried to get up from the futon she's lying on, but she couldn't as if she's paralyzed.

"You should just give up, Elly. Sakura has placed a paralysis potion on you in case you tried to run off. You won't be able to move freely until it wears off," Fei explained.

"Why do you not kill me?" Elly asked the questions. "Am I not the object of your vengeance for having injured your friend two and a half years ago?"

"Indeed. However, though you may be the object of my vengeance, it wouldn't be right for me to kill you when you were becoming psychotic from that drug known as the 'Drive'. First, recover from your wounds, and after that, I shall have the pleasure of fighting you, but this time, without you using the 'Drive'," Sakura explained.

"Sakura, may I talk to her privately just the two of us?" Fei suggested.

"Sure, go ahead," was the reply before she left the bedroom.

"Elly, why?" the man asked about their fight in the canyon.

"I warned you. I said the next time we met we'd be... enemies," Elly stated.

"But, there's no reason for you to do this to yourself just so you can fight. There's no reason for you and I to fight. None at all."

"But Sakura has a reason. There... was no other choice. I'm a Solaris officer. I can't turn my back on my unit, the mission..."

"Why did you have to use the 'Drive'?" Fei asked.

"I didn't want to... When I use it, I change. I feel like I'm dominated by some unknown power that I never wanted. There's a power in me I don't want to admit. But, I want to protect my allies, so I had no choice but to use... the 'Drive'," Elly explained.

"Anyway, about Sakura... why does she have a grudge against you? I mean, what do you mean when you said you have injured her friend two and a half years ago?"

"Look, Fei, I don't want to talk about it."

"But I need to understand Sakura's reason to fight you. Please, trust me, Elly. Trust a land dweller like me."

"Well, okay. It was about two and a half years ago..."

Elly started telling her story to Fei as a flashback begins.

Two and a half years ago...

Sakura is training with Tsunade so that she can be strong enough to face Sasuke again. Also, her friendly rival, Ino joined in as well for the same reason.

"Okay, that's enough for the day, you two," Tsunade said before taking her leave.

"Sakura, I'll just go get some juice for the two of us," Ino said while she and Sakura got up.

"Okay," the latter agreed.

As she waited and waited, Sakura hasn't got any word of Ino coming back with their drinks.

"Where could Ino be? This is taking too long!"

Sakura rushed through the forest in search of her friend. By the time she found her, she is lying down to the ground injured, and it was Elly who did it. At that time, Elly has used the 'Drive' on herself and with her increased abilities at the cost of going berserk, she took down Ino easily.

"What the...?" the pink-haired girl ran to the blonde girl. "Ino, what happened?!"

"I was just getting some juice, and suddenly, this psycho just attacked me from nowhere," was the reply before going unconscious.

"That's it!"

Sakura runs to the drugged Elly and lands a punch which the latter blocked so easily before punching her stomach.

"Go away. You don't interest me at the moment," the drugged soldier said with hostility.

"You should get interested!"

She makes another run to her and lands a punch which Elly blocked again with ease, but Sakura has one trick that she successfully lands a kick to her head. Getting up from the ground, she pulls out her rod and point it at her direction.

"Before we continue on, I want to know your name," Sakura said with eagerness to fight.

"My name is Elhaym Van Houten, but you can call me Elly," was the reply.

"Well, Elly, my name is Sakura Haruno, but you can call me Sakura."

The two charge at each other for the fight, but with Elly's increased abilities, she has won over Sakura, who has dropped to the ground.

"Well, Sakura. You're quite strong, but it's over for you. You can die with your friend," Elly pointed her rod at the girl's body when suddenly, she is seized by headache that she dropped her rod and placed her hands to her head. "My head!"

The pink-haired girl is confused on seeing this, but the Gebler soldier ran off before she could do anything about this. Sakura had fainted before Tsunade showed and started healing her and Ino.

The flashback ends with Elly finishing her story.

"So that's why Sakura has a vendetta towards me."

"I see..." Fei finally understood. "Elly, you're the same as me."

"The same? Probably... I felt I knew you ever since I first met you. Probably because our problems were so similar," the soldier stated.

"I'm here for you. It may not be much, but at least I can relate to how you feel, Elly," Fei continued.

"What? Are you saying we lick each other's wounds?"

"Well, I guess I am... Sorry..." the young man apologized.

"...I'm sorry. I'm not being fair, am I?" Elly apologized as well, while she looks down.

"No, I'm just pessimistic sometimes. But... even so, it's better than worrying about it by yourself."

"Fei..."

"You won't change your mind?" Fei said, looking so sad.

"Please, don't look so sad. I have no choice. It is my only home," her friend said, turning down his offer gently.

"Anyway, I hope you and Sakura will solve your issues about this."

Unbeknownst to the two, Sakura has heard everything of their conversation.

"You're not the only one who heard that," a voice stated and she turns around to see it is Ino.

"Ino, what are you doing here?" Sakura asked.

"I came by to see you have bought that Gebler soldier to our home," Ino looked at the glass to take a peek. Then she turns to Sakura. "Do whatever you want with her, but don't go too far like Sasuke."

She then left the house with Sakura contemplating on what she will do with Elly once she recovered from her wounds.