Hey guys

so im not too happy with this story, i think its a little confusing and the plot starts to late so i am re-writing it! The new one is called BORN TO DIE and it'll start way back when she gets in team 7 in the first place. here is the link

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or you can find it on my profile. i may keep this story going if enough ppl want me too. but keep in mind my new one is the same concept just with about 5-10chpts of background story

PLZ PLZ PLZ READ MY NEW STORY!

Previously:

Suddenly her limbs froze, her body locked up and her heart stopped for a moment. In the midst of seven sound shinobi was a single being, his inky black hair stuck to his face with sweat, suddenly a plume of flames shot out from his mouth, "Fire style: Dragon fire technique!" he called.

Sakura's heart began beating again, only this time it was beating about a million times faster than it should've. Slowly he turned his head, being the only one to sense the Kionochi's presence and his eyes widened "S-Sakura?" he gasped, contacting her through mental telepathy.

"Sakura, it's him!" her conscience shrieked causing Sakura to snap out of her shock induced trance and run headlong into the mass of shinobi, eyes now blazing wildly with anger.

"Crystal style: Jade crystal blade Technique!"

"Damn! I just cant get a break from these guys can i?" sakura growled mentally, barely dodging an air wave as it shot past her side.

"Let's face it! We are just too popular!" Inner screamed while cheering her outer on.

"GAH! SHUT UP inner! I'm trying to save both our buts so if youd kindly shut up that would be great" Sakura hissed, managing to land a chakra-enhanced punch on a unsuspecting sound nin pummeling him into his own new crater.

"FINE! Just kick some sound ass for us!" Inner raged before stomping back to her little corner.

Sakura smirked momentarily at her success before watching a kunai go whizzing past her cheek, narrowliy missing her, "Damn!" She hissed, quickly jumping into the air before finding one of the six remaining sound Nin.

"Slicing sound Wave!" Sakura whirled around mid-dive to see another sound nin shooting a deadly blast of air at her- not good.

Sakura quickly brought up her arms to protect her face, "Crystal Style: Crystal Armour Juutsu!" immediately a layer of crystal coated Sakura's entire body as she smirked at the sound nin and gathered chakra in her fist "Cherry blossom impact Juutsu!" Sakura roared while slamming her fist into the ground, watching with satisfaction as the entire battle field erupted like a volcano.

"You Go Girl!" Inner squealed, "You totally kicked his sorry- Uh-Oh." Inner's sudden silence caused Sakura to whirl around only to come fact to face with none other than the two air streaming palms that torutured lee in the Chunin exams.

"Hm, Shame I have to waste my time on such a weak little Kionochi. Oh well, Supersonic Slicing Sound Wave!" He yelled, shooting out a huge amount of bone-crushing air straight into sakura's chest sending her flying into several trees, snapping them all in half on contact.

Sakura winced at the growing pain in her chest, managing to squeeze an eye open as she raised her hands allowing her cool green chakra to heal the broken ribs. "C'mon, C'mon!" she growled, pumping more chakra into her hand as she watched three sound nin close in on her.

"Heheh, well what do we have here?" Sakura looked up, eyes narrowing with hostility as she watched the darkness clad forms of three sound shinobi hover over her.

"Too late-" she thought, smirking at one of them with a 'hah? What are you gonna do?' look that obviously pissed him off to no ends because the next thing she knew sakura was being held up by her throat, with the cold, deadly steel of the melody arm pressed against her back.

"It's the same little brat from the Chunin exams!" A shinobi taunted from behind her. Sakura's body began to quiver with rage as she looked up from behind her shield of bangs, watching as the two sound-nin uncloaked themselves.

The Kionochi felt a small line of blood begin to trickle from her mouth as the grasp of her unhealed injuries began to tighten. She tried to squirm but stopped as soon as a burning hot pain shot up her back.

"Fuck, I mustve damaged my nervous system." She thought before glaring up at her captor.

"What the fuck are you bastards doing here?" she hissed, desperately trying to keep a hold on her emotions as she remembered Team Dosu and the Chunin exams, not the most comforting memories when you're being held in a death grip- literally.

Dosu chuckled darkly, "Well Pinky hadn't expected to see you here, but this is good. Now we finally have our chance to kill you now that your precious Sasuke isn't here." As if on cue two of the other sound nin appeared in front of her, and their faces were all to familiar for comfort.

"Alright let's finish this now Dosu so I can eliminate that other ass." Kin said, her voice strangely monotone and dead of emotions. Sakura could tell that Dosu and zaku were grinning with revenge under their cloaks of darkness and she couldn't take it anymore. She couldn't stop the almost non-existent flow of tears from falling anymore, in truth she didn't want to die.

"Aww to bad pinky, crying wont save you now!" Dosu taunted while he nodded to his two partners signaling them to get into position.

"Air Assassination formation!" Time seemed to run in slow motion, she watched as the final words left the lips of all three ninja, their hands placed in six different spots around her head. She felt the pressure begin to build around her head and knew that they were literally going to blow her mind.

"Fire Style: Burning Ash!" Suddenly the area was engulfed in a cloud of smoke and ash, and then it exploded, erupted, burst into a paroxysm of burning fire. But sakura was not in it.

Neji, Shikamaru and Yamato were running as fast as they could, trying to follow the path of Neji's summoning owl Kashi in hopes of finding Sakura.

"Neji-Sama! I have located Haruno Sakura like you requested!" chirped Kashi who was now flying steadily over her master. Neji stretched out his arm, allowing Kashi to land on it.

"Good Kashi, elaborate." He grunted, eyes still trained forward on the horizon.

"Yes Neji-Sama, Haruno was engaged in battle with one shinobi that appeared to be from sound, there were two dead shinobi already and five alive." Yamato suddenly felt the urge to violently sware when he heard that sakura was fighting five sound nin and Shikamaru suddenly didn't feel so lazy.

Neji actually had to fight to keep his emotionless façade on, "Was there anyone else there?" he asked, his tone suddenly sounding a tad bit desperate.

Kashi nodded slowly, "Yes but he was a-"

Suddenly the ground began to tremble causing the shinobi to stop, only to watch as the sky erupted into a flurry of flames and destruction only a mile away. Shikamaru allowed fear to flicker in his eyes as the he watched the explosion unfold, and without a doubt knew that was where sakura was. Yamato only clenched his teeth in anger; he was letting down his student-again.

But amazingly it was Neji who made the first move, " Don't just stand there! Move!" He grunted behind him as he bounded forward on his own accord, not caring whether his team followed or not.

In all honesty, I didn't have one fucking clue as to what the heck just happened. All I knew was right before the sound nin were about to blow out my brains, that nin-horse flickered in front of me and used a Juutsu- burning ash and the grabbed me and flickered away.

I passed out when he began to flicker again, and now I watch as the same familiar blossom buried, Hokage peak comes into view.

"Raiden we should leave soon." Women called, her red hair so faint it appeared pink and milky eyes immediately calmed me as I watched the memory unfold.

"Mom." I whispered to myself, a sudden grief filled my aching heart as I watched her.

"Well, alright just let sakura play a little longer. It's going to be almost five years again before she can come back to see this place." He mumbled into her scarlet tinted hair as they sat in one of the cherry trees, hands intertwined in a loving grasp.

Suddenly the bushes at the edge of the clearing began to tremble violently, and both parents instinctively jumped down from their perch. But Raiden held out his hand, stopping his wife from interfering. "Hiruka it's fine." He whispered to his worried wife.

Hiruka nodded nervously as she watched the bushes trembling become stronger. And all of the sudden a gangly, tan mass came stumbling out of the woods, almost like the bushes had puked it up. "Hahahahah!" Raiden bellowed, slapping his knee as he laughed.

The little tan mass finally stopped stumbling right in front of the little girl, and revealed himself to be a gangly little foal. "Aww! How cute!" Hiruka squealed, her face lighting up with excitement as she watched the little colt lean down to nudge her daughter.

The colt was quite interesting when it came to nin-horses, his body was tan and his forelegs were black up to his knees. His hind legs had a strange zebra-striping all the way up to mid-thigh and the zebra print was also seen from the mid-forearm to knee in the front and He had a single black stripe on his withers. The colts face was quite interesting, he had black mask on that covered his nose and then stretched out to his eyes into the shape of a wing. His frizzy little mane was jet black as it ran all the way down his back, connected with his tail, and then ran down his hind legs. The colt had amber colored eyes, the same as raiden's summoning animal who was also a horse.

"Hey there! My names Kemuri no kage and I'm going to be the leader of all the nin-horses when I grow up! What's yours!" he asked speaking through the mind, but anyone could hear it, as the young Kemuri couldn't yet control his speech enough to isolate it.

Raiden grinned and walked up to the colt, which bowed in respect. "Well hello their Kemuri, this is my daughter Sakura. I assume you would be Kasai's son?" He asked, smiling broadly down upon the colt that in return grinned back with pride.

"Yes sir! My mommy told me that her master had a kid too! And since you're the coolest ninja ever in the history of ninja's I figured your kid would be cool too! So I came right away in search of her!" Kemuri said proudly while Raiden messed with his forelock, chuckling at his summoning animal's offspring and his bold nature.

"Well Kemuri, thank you but you should know there are many ninja who are greater than I. But I understand you have come in search of a ninja to serve?" Raiden questioned, narrowing his eyes in attempt to block out his wife's squeals of joy.

Kemuri nodded feverishly before lying down right next to sakura who in turn snuggled up to the young colt. "Yes sir! Sakura is awesome! She's got pink hair that's so cool!" Hiruka gasped, this young colt was the first stranger to compliment her daughter's special hair instead of ridicule it. Raiden nodded happily, poking both his daughter and her new partner animal in the forehead.

Kemuri snorted at this, "Hey!" he whined, "What was that for!"

Raiden laughed a little before scooting closer to the colt, "Kemuri, a good ninja or his partners never show emotion. This is my way of showing it!" He said before grinning slightly as he watched sakura clamber onto the young colts back.

"Yes! First rider ever!" He whinnied before slowly starting forward careful to make sure that sakura wouldn't fall off. Suddenly the bushes began to rustle again, and Kemuri stopped. "Don't worry sakura! I'll protect you!" He said while pawing the ground, his mane suddenly flared up and turned into fire but yet it wouldn't burn sakura. A sign of their bond.

Raiden chuckled because he knew it was just a squirrel and returned to Hiruka who was smiling softly, "Sakura will always have a friend now, and they will always be connected you know that." Raiden said, snaking a hand around the waist of his wife as she leaned into him.

"They will always be connected." She spoke softly, and then the memory started to fade. And I cried.

Suddenly Sakura's eyes flew open, the first thing she noticed was one- she wasn't dead, two- she was watching about five sound nin run about in chaos, and three- there was a nine foot tall horse standing to her left. Sakura squinted at the animal and then suddenly lit up, her eyes sparkling with happiness as she glomped onto him. "KEMURI! Is that you?" She squealed into his neck, breathing in the scent of cinnamon as she did.

Kemuri gasped in surprise before curling his neck around sakura in a hug, "Ya, Sakura it's me! Man I thought you'd never recognize me." He nickered, talking to her through the mind as any talking animal would.

Sakura pulled back out of the hug and smiled, "I can't believe it's you! Thanks for saving me!" She said, ruffling his forelock as she patted his head.

Kemuri's smile turned into a mischievous grin, " Anytime Sakura, but now id like to see if you've grown as much as I have. Care to join me in kicking some sound ass?" He asked, eyes glinting with a challenge.

Sakura returned the smile and placed her hands on her hips, both glowing with green chakra. "Your on pony boy!" She said, sticking her tongue out childishly as Kemuri rolled his eyes.

"Alright well hop on then, we are going to do this together!" he said before turning back to the now re-grouping sound, pinning his ear back against his head with anger.

"Ugh, conscience how do I get on?" sakura asked sheepishly.

"Clueless ninja just grab his man and pump chakra into your feet and swing on!" She said, a tone of bitterness easily heard.

Sakura's eyes sparkled with excitement, "Alright Pony boy! Let's do this!" She shouted as she grabbed a sizeable amount of his slick, black mane in her hand and propelled herself onto his back.

Kemuri glanced back at her; both eyes and smile were alive with newfound courage and comfort of reunion. "Hold On Pinky, I hope you remember what I can really do." Suddenly Kemuri reared up high, thrashing out with his legs as his wild mane suddenly turned into fire, but didn't burn her.

And in an instant the flaming pair was off, Kemuri's speed made it impossible for anyone but itachi to see them. "Sakura, how do you want to do this?" Kemuri asked, glancing back at his rider with a mischievous look once again.

"Well, the enemy uses a lot of wind based attacks so if we surround them with fire then the minute one of those bastards tries to attack they'll simply just cause an explosion." Sakura said, analyzing the situation in something she called 'Shikamaru style.'

Kemuri's eyes lit up again before he jerked around in the opposite direction, putting on even more speed "Fire style ninja art: Running Fire!" He commanded and then grinned as his feet were engulfed in flames causing the ground to burn anywhere he ran.

And just as quickly as it started, the duo's pair was finished. Kemuri came skidding to a stop as they watched the flaming circle effectively trap the sound Nin. Sakura snickered, " Those bastards had it coming. I can't wait till my team gets here." She said while patting Kemuri's neck that in turn snorted in agreement.

And this was the scene that the rest of team Ichi came upon, five sound nin trapped in a swirling vortex of flames, and a smug little pink haired-Kionochi sitting atop an equally smug nine foot tall horse, that was on fire. "SAKURA!" Shikamaru yelled, wanting to make sure that it was she ON the horse and not trapped in the burning prison.

Sakura's ears perked up immediately and Kemuri whirled around, narrowing his eyes at these new ninja. The Kionochi immediately felt her companion's distress, "Don't worry Kemuri, that's my squad! Let's go!" she squealed telepathically to which Kemuri groaned.

"Pinky, I do way to much for you." Sakura giggled before holding on as he burst into a gallop arriving at the group within seconds.

"Shikamaru! Yamato!" she said happily, eyes sparkling with delight until they landed on Neji, "Neji." She spat, making sure to add an extra dose of attitude into it. "Sorry I ran off on you guys, but I sensed Kemuri's Chakra and then saw the sound ninja and-Ya." She grinned sheepishly before scratching the back of her head.

"Sakura, as much as I'd love to talk we need to kill those otogakure Nin before they have time to escape." Yamato said, his voice returning back to its typically serious nature.

Sakura nodded, "Hai Captain Yamato, but what's our strategy?" she asked, cocking her head to the side in question.

Shikamaru grunted slightly, "Easy, since the sound shinobi are pretty much trapped ill use my shadow Juutsu to make sure they stay that way while Neji uses his vacuum palm technique on the entire circle forcing the flames inward to burn the enemy." Shikamaru then turned to sakura and Kemuri; sakura was leaning on her elbow for support while she slouched on Kemuri's neck with a bit of drool leaking from her mouth.

"Kemuri, I understand you have considerable speed correct?" Shikamaru asked.

"Considerable? I'd say amazing!" Kemuri answered, now behind Shikamaru as if to show off with a very agitated looking sakura sitting on him.

"God, go be another Naruto why don't you." Inner said while sweat dropping.

"Good, Neji will need to use that speed to make sure that the fire blows in from all side so sakura will have to help you." Neji grumbled in protest until sakura and Kemuri walked up, and sakura then promptly picked him up with three fingers and placed the now pissed-off Neji behind her.

Shikamaru turned to yamato, "Yamato-sensei, if you could create a dome to trap the whole attack in we would be sure to kill off our enemies." Yamato nodded to a very accomplished looking Shikamaru.

"Smart ass." Sakura mumbled earning a loud laughing whinny from her horsy counterpart.

"Shishou! We're back from our mission!" Sakura chirped as she strolled into Tsuande's office followed by her much less enthusiastic team.

"What?" Tsunade bellowed in disbelief, "your back two days early! Not that I'm unhappy to see you but how on earth did you make it to the mist and back in four days!"

Team Ichi shot each other nervous glances, all except for Neji of course. "WHAT! What do you mean I'm not allowed in! I'm just as much a part of that team as sakura is!" Came an obviously pissed off voice from the other side of the Hokage's door followed by the sound of utter chaos.

Tsunade raised a questioning brow at her student who sweat dropped in response, " Your 'how' Shishou would like to be let in." Sakura said nervously.

"SHIZUNE!" Tsunade roared which was followed by its customary 'what!'

"LET WHOEVER ELSE IS OUT THERE IN! AND BRING ME MY SAKE!" Shizune hastily flung the Hokage's door open and scurried off to the Sake stores.

"Thank you Hokage- OUCH!" Kemuri whined as he hit his head on the doorframe with a loud thump causing the everyone to burst into laughter to burst into laughter.

Kemuri shot sakura a 'you better help me-NOW' look to which sakura quickly ran over to her companion and literally picked him up before facing Tsunade.

"Shishou, I'd like you to meet kerumi." Sakura said, beaming at the Hokage with pride. "And Temuri, this is the fifth Hokage. Tsunade-Sama also happens to be my Shishou."

kemuri rolled his eyes at the somewhat absent-minded Sakura. "Ya, I noticed. Hokage-sama the answer to your question is that I, Temuri no Kage am the ruler of the ninja horses and as such I posses the greatest ability out of them." Sakura jabbed Temuri in the ribs attempting to cool his on fire ego.

kemuri shot his partner a dirty look. "My most notable being speed as I was able to copy myself and flicker team Ichi here in a matter of hours." kemuri said, pride flickering in his voice that caused Tsunade to groan a little.

"Well, I thank you kemuri for helping team Ichi. As for the rest of you I except a full report on this mission on my desk tomorrow morning!" Tsunade said, grinning slightly as she watched everyone but Kemuri groan with irritation.

"You are dismissed!" Tsunade raged as soon as she saw Shizune come running in with her precious bottle of sake. Everyone immediately glomped onto Temuri who flickered out of the office like his life depended on it.

After a couple of hours of wandering around, introducing Temuri to sakura's friends and trying to pry tenten off of him who kept squealing that he was the 'ultimate weapon.' Or something likes that.

"Well, I think I'll go tell my parents-" sakura stopped abruptly, she couldn't say it now. Sakura couldn't find it in her to call any Haruno her 'parents' anymore because it was true, her parents were dead.

kemuri shot her a worried look before she playfully punched him in the shoulder, "I'll go home and tell everyone I'm okay. I think you should go talk to Shishou okay kemuri?" Sakura said, playfully slapping kemuri on the hindquarters.

kemuri shot her a playful glare, "Alright pinky, call if you need me!" and with that he flickered off and sakura just blew a stray piece of hair out of her face.

"For once," She started, a small smile creeping its way onto her face, "For once mom and dad, everything seems… right." She whispered, a single tear falling from her cheek as she walked up to the front door of the Haruno residence.

As sakura opened the front door, she was completely oblivious that something was horribly wrong. Sakura was completely oblivious to the unwelcome, and evil chakra that hung lightly in the air. Sakura was oblivious to the pair of eyes that followed her every move and sakura was oblivious to the forked tongue that flickered out and the mouth that opened revealing two fangs poised and ready to strike.