Hidden blood: THE FINAL MATCHES

It was the morning of the exam and Sakura was just waking up from her sleep. She had fallen asleep really late sine she was thinking of what she had read in the Yamanaka library, she simply could not get her mind of it and it bothered her that she couldn't.

Sakura sighed and thought back on her week.

FLASHback

Sakura was walking along the road, not really knowing where to go. She looked around and spotted the library, she walked towards it. She figured that she might just go look to see if there was anything on the Yaman Aku or the Haoko but she, for some reason, doubted that there was.

She went in and bowed politely for the librarian who smiled at her and gave her a wink. Sakura went further into the library, she knew it like the back of her hand, she had been there almost every day all her childhood.

She found the shelves that she was looking for, the ones with the old history of the lands. She figured that a great fight, like the one the Yaman Aku and the Haoko had, would be written in one of those books but she knew not to get her hopes up too high.

She looked around at all of the books, took those out that might contain some info and ignored those that she thought insignificant.

She sighed after going through one of the shelves and looked at the table with books that she had found useful. She frowned at the large mass of books and figured that she might as well begin to read, so she did.

She had been through the first half of the books when she was just about to give up but one word held her eyes to the books page. Or it was more like a sentence and a picture. Her breath hitched when she looked at the figures on it, her eyes were wide but she kept on inspecting the picture.

The fight between the clan heads of the Yaman Aku and the Haoko

Were the text under the picture. Her heartbeat was fast and she felt as if she was being strangled. The girl she supposed was from the Yaman Aku had bright blonde hair, it fell to her waist and was in a high ponytail, the girl had bright blue eyes, sparkling with anger, her face was set in a frown, her hands held a sword and she was wearing some kind of purple garment that Sakura could not recognize.

Her first thought of this person was that she looked so much like Ino, it either had to be fake or Ino was some kind of reincarnation of the woman. Sakura looked closer at the blonde girl and saw something pale white hanging behind her, she figured that it could have been a earlier state of the shintenshin.

Then she averted her eyes to the other person on the picture. It was a woman again, she had long hair and it was bright pink, just like her own, her eyes were green and fiery, her mouth was set in a hard line, her hands held a sword and she was wearing red robes. But she looked like she was regretting something, she looked like it hurt her to fight that other woman.

She thought that this person looked a lot like herself. She looked closer at this person too and saw a dark shadow looming over her, looking like it wanted to take over and kill the other woman.

She thought that it was strange, the Haoko was supposed to be the gentle clan while the Yaman Aku were supposed to be the "killers". But this picture made her uncertain. Wouldn't the Haoko have the lighter shadows instead of the dark and wouldn't the Yaman Aku have the dark shadows instead of the light ones?

She bit her lip but could not come up with a answer. She felt a headache coming and decided to borrow the book for later inspection. So she put all the books that she had found back and took the other book under her arm and began her long trek home, all the while thinking of that picture.

FLASH

She found herself training the day after that. She hadn't seen Kakashi, Sasuke or Naruto for a while and felt as if they had forgotten her. She wasn't sad about that, she was more angry and felt betrayed that they would just abandon her like that.

Wasn't she worth something? Was she really just a nuisance? Was she not worth training? Was she not worth remembering? Did they hate her? Would they be sad if she disappeared? Would they even bat an eyelash if she was badly wounded or dead?

All kinds of questions kept on swirling in her head and she almost began to cry, but she just managed to hold her tears back and she wiped her hand over her eyes angrily. She would not cry because of them, she had already cried too much.

´That's how they should have it, show then what you can do little girl.´ her inner yelled and it suddenly hit Sakura that she had been unusually quiet these last couple of days but she didn't dare ask why.

´You are wondering were I have been are you not girl?´ Saku asked quietly and looked to the side. Sakura nodded and narrowed her eyes at the trees in front of her.

´I have been in here all the time, I can't get out as you know, I was looking through the memories passed onto you but it is memories that you will not be able to see, not before you are ready. And when that time comes, the Yaman Aku will fall and the Haoko will rule.´ Saku said in a dark voice.

Sakura froze as she understood the words, she would fight her rival and with some kind of memories that she knew noting about, her inner claimed that she would kill her rival. Sakura didn't understand, wasn't she supposed to be from the gentle clan? Not from the one who hurt people?

She figured that her clan had something to hide, that she had something dark in her, something so dark that the Haokos wanted no one to know of the existence of their inner characters. The ones that clashed with their outer appearance, the appearance of a goody-two-shoe, someone who didn't want anyone to be hurt and would do almost anything to help.

But she figured that, that might have been the side effect of being a Haoko, that she would have a inner who wanted to kill everyone while the outer were peaceful and wanted nothing more than to see everyone happy.

She began her training.

FLASHback END

It was with great reluctance that she stood in front of her opponent, Sabaku no Temari or Temari of the sand, daughter of the Kazekage and older sister to her two teammates, one of them using puppets and secretly – for now at least – liked all kinds of girls and a redhead who seemed to want to kill all the people who was in the way for him.

She figured that he would be great friends with her inner, both of them wanted nothing more than to see death and destruction.

But she ignored the girls two brothers in fervor of concentrating on the girl in front of her. She had a scowl on her face and looked as if she wanted to be all other places than here at this moment.

She figured that the girl in front of her was another one to think her weak and pathetic, a little snot nosed kid who should just crawl home to her momma. All the people on the tribunes were buhing, they wanted to see the Uchiha fight as most of them yelled.

As the two girls went to shake hands, Sakura let a little of her inner seep out and whispered to the girl who seemed surprised and at the same time afraid, Sakura figured that she would connect that kind of voce to her brother, the killer.

"Let's give them a show shall we." Sakura had said evilly and with a feral look in her eyes. Temari grinned then, she wouldn't back down from the challenge, she would take it up and she would not lose.

They stood in front of each other, both of them looked determinated, people on the tribunes were still buhing, yelling for the Uchiha to fight. Sakura and Temari looked angry and glared at each other for no reason. Then they were given the sign to begin and both blurred into motion.

The onlookers gasped, they hadn't expected that. They heard weapons clashing but never saw the two girls. They heard a loud clang and then the two girls appeared on either side of the stadium, both of them was panting hard, Sakura was panting a little harder then Temari.

Sakura realized angrily that she still had a long way to go before she was in a really good shape, she cursed herself for having been too infatuated with Uchiha Sasuke and secretly blamed him for her not being in a good shape. She knew, of course, that it was entirely her own fault for not being fit and going too much after the Uchiha.

Then they flew at each other again, this time Temari had her fan ready and was already swinging it. Sakuras eyes widened and she tried to get away but knew that she was at a disadvantage as long as she was in the air. She couldn't evade so she braced herself for being hit instead.

And get hit she did. She landed hard on the ground and rolled a little, pain erupted from her right arm and she figured that it was because of the hit that she had taken and the landing that she had made.

"Good job Sakura, destroy your own arm by throwing your fat body on it, great idea." Sakura grumbled irritably as she stood holding her right arm to her body, she looked up to see the smirking sand girl and she felt anger flare through her veins, but she tried to squish the feeling as soon as it came but it was too late.

Her inner had noticed.

And she wanted to play.

Sakura grabbed her head and sank to her knees as her inner took over, it was a painful experience since her other half tried to take over by force. Temari was smirking, she clearly thought that she had won, Gaara looked closer at the kneeling girl when he felt something malicious appear around her.

"Hehehehe, think you can win little suna girl?" Saku mocked and looked up at Temari. The other girl to a frightened step back and looked fearfully at the girl in front of her, she reminded her too much of her brother and it scared her.

Saku attacked, she was faster than before, Temari noted as she looked for the girl. She felt a hit to her side and stumbled, a hit from behind, side, side, front, side, faint for the side but hit her in the back. It continued like this, Saku beating Temari.

Then the blood came and then, all of a sudden, they heard someone roar. Both of them looked up to see the blondes youngest little brother clutching the side of his face, sand was circling around him and he looked angry.

Then he attacked.

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Author's note:

I am so sorry that this took so long but I am afraid that I have been hit by a writers block and I am doing all that I can to get it away so that I can write again.

Hope you like the chap and will gimme a review, they always help ^^