"Hell? You mean where demons torture humans as an atonement for their actions?" Sakura exclaimed in fear.

"Of course not, there's no such thing, when I say 'hell' I mean the plane of existence were the sage of the six paths sealed the horrors of the old world. Does the academy no longer cover this?" He asked in disgust.

She shook her head.

"Simply put, the world has more to fear then bijuu's, the sage knew humanity wouldn't survive, so he sealed them away. That's what the church of the holy sage says."

"And what do you think exactly?" She asked carefully.

"That the sage somehow invented 4th dimensional sealing in his lifetime, made an S rank chakra conductor and sealed most of the worlds 'demonic' chakra inside. Do not give me that face, I do not believe in things without evidence for the first hokage himself talked to the sage- no, I have not gone insane, stop looking at me like that, I saw Hashirama's memories first hand and he was not a physic, nor was his brother one. As for the sealing theory, that's the fourth hokage's idea, I merely think it makes sense."

"But what is it? Also do you know why demons appeared when Naruto used the kyuubi's chakra?"

Danzo nodded. "All bijuu's are different from humans thanks to a fundamental quality: awareness. While humans are self aware after thousands of years of evolving, gather enough demonic chakra into one place and no matter what you have it can think. That's how certain swords have self-awareness and why demons can outsmart humans despite never receiving a formal education. Also while I am not fully sure, I suspect that the demons were simple creations and not summonings. The equivalent of a shadow clone jutsu made by the kyuubi."

Sakura opened her mouth. The reply 'but they didn't disappear in a puff of smoke' was covered by the more urgent reply 'but how is that even possible' but both questions were blocked by an even scarier realization 'the kyuubi can affect the outside world?!?' so in the end, she remained silent. Thankfully Danzo could read her mind.

"There's much theory you still have to study in order to participate in this conversation. Just know that Hokage-sama himself made the judgement after seeing Naruto's memories-"

"Wait what? I thought you got rid of everyone's memories!"

"It was by the hokage's orders. The politically inclined are getting the wrong ideas, had they decided to make a fuss you would have possibly lost your career if not your life. Always remember that the previous generation has met the kyuubi." She shuddered in response and nodded. "Where can I study these things?"

Danzo let out no physical reaction, but his hesitation to answer was enough for her to know that he was secretly grinning to himself.

Danzo was wrong. He said that she had been to hell. She had, but she was doing it *now*.

Stacks of incredibly boring books were laid on top of the other. Dozens of shelves filled to the brim with books. Hundreds of scrolls were just lying around. Had this been any other situation, she would have been thrilled in entering the Hokage's secret library.

As it was, she was ready to murder someone.

She couldn't even read what she chose, for some asshole with a stick would hit her hand if she got the wrong book. The bastard would literally smile at her.

She would call him by name but that would give him to much importance. He was probably an anbu or trying to be one, because she had never seen his incredibly pale face before. Although no anbu dresses like he did-

"Concentrate." Said his flat voice.

She turned the page to what she was reading. He wasn't a telepath, thankfully, but he was still incredibly observant, so she had no choice (well, she could always leave, but her sheer curiosity would never allow her to consider such an option) so she continued to read. She frowned to herself as she thought of Naruto's 'turn negative into positive' mentality. What would could she do? She suppressed the urge to grin.

That's how she spent most of the day. By the end of it she was pretty sure she got most of the pieces together.

Sakura, Naruto and Sasuke went to the clearing from yesterday. It was once again night time.

"Hey that's weird, there's nobody here." Said the blond.

"That's good you mean," retorted Sasuke, "otherwise we would have trouble...still, why here out of all places?"

Sakura grinned. "Simply put, it's the last place they will be expecting us." She sat down. "Ok guys get comfortable because I have a lot of explaining to do."

Her skill at sending mental messages had progressed so much that she almost didn't waste any dark chakra anymore.

Despite that, she was incredibly tired once she was done.

Apparently, seals didn't only have to be put on pieces of paper. When they were that is called 'two dimensional sealing' and when they are applied on 3D objects like the fourths rubix cube, that's 'three dimensional sealing'. Nobody had ever been capable of using 4th level, in fact, nobody even suspected it was possible until the previous Hokage suggested it.

The next question that had been asked was 'how did the kyuubi summon monsters.'

That hadn't been easy to explain.

For starters it didn't. Another shocking fact that she discovered, was that the natural energy around humans used to be demonic chakra. Apparently the sage of the six paths found a way to take the toxic part out, and had sealed it.

"Yeah but what's that got to do with-"

"I haven't finished Naruto."

Demons, or technically bijuu's, were simply massive amounts of this energy put together. Apparently the sage couldn't seal everything away for some reason (the fourth thought that it was a hint at the nature of the seal) so the bijuu's could control it quite easily.

Thankfully for them, the seal stopped most of it, but that didn't make the kyuubi innocuous. When they had gathered his energy into the outside world, his murderous intent transformed the energy in a miniature bijuu, with Sasuke's chakra 'splitting' the creations at first (probably: Sakura didn't really know why the first explosion created multiple ones while the final one only one huge one, but considering that Naruto had been alone, the hypothesis made sense).

"Sooo why are we here exactly?" Asked Naruto. "Because we could have easily talked about it in my room, or Sasuke's."

She smiled. "I want to do it again."

This statement was met with looks of confusion and shock, with both boys looking at her as if she was crazy.

"Don't you guys get it? We could make weapons on the par with S-rank shinobi!"

"Sakura we could get killed-" started Naruto, but was stopped by a hand on his shoulder by Sasuke, who had a glint in his eye.

"I have several questions before accepting. One: were do we get the weapons? Two: how do we get back Three: will we be discovered?"

She smiled as Naruto let out a "what!" and "traitor!" for she had thought of those things. She took out a sealing scroll and throwed it at him. "As for the getting back, that's the difficult part." She took out another scroll. "I asked Danzo-sensei if we could have one of those emergency seal things, but someone needs to summon it. Since Naruto has the most chakra and the kyuubi, I think he should remain to summon us back."

Naruto frowned, but nodded.

"As for the discovered part, that's pretty easy: we just need to set up a chakra barrier. And while I don't get the theory behind how they work, I did simply copy and paste what the fourth wrote and I think we can trust him."

The asshole from today had been very inconvenient now, but all she had to say was 'I'm afraid of my teammate' and he relented. She was worried that the excuse wouldn't work but apparently he knew that Naruto housed the kyuubi.

They set up to work.

Naruto was outside the barrier of course, for after he had put his part of chakra inside the bomb, there was no need to keep him on the inside. The bomb was activated and they disappeared.

It was curious, Naruto thought, he had expected for a portal or something to appear but nope, they just disappeared in a flash of chakra. The seal held and no anbu appeared, perfect. Now if all went according to plan, they wouldn't even encounter monsters, for it was the kyuubi that creates them. The question that maybe going back to were a humongous-but-not-quite-bijuu-levels monster had been raised was really a good idea, but Sakura reasoned that the huge monster would be an easy-to-evade threat, plus no other monsters would be found because it would kill them. (They didn't know if they had initially been alone by luck or if that place was always desolated).

Naruto waited an hour, then summoned them back.

What returned was an immensely bleeding Sasuke and an armless Sakura.

What.

There were times, Danzo thought to himself, were he wondered if he should just murder every ninja alive who knew sealing and be done with it.

He had specifically allowed Sakura to learn about these things so she'd realise the dangers of her actions, so she'd never touch seals again.

He overestimated her common sense/greed for power.

Of course she transformed the entire warning thing into a motivating factor to mess with demonic chakra even more.

He had initially wanted to simply prohibit her from doing anything related to with demons, but had stopped himself: Hiruzen had learnt the hard way via Orochimaru that when you say 'no' it just makes the subject even more interesting. So he had thought to do the 'smart' thing and let her realise it on her own. In hindsight he had been an optimistic fool. It was a shame though, for the idea wasn't a bad one (one out of the several weapons had actually became sentient, interestingly enough, it was leaking of dark chakra but a different type from Sakura's) but the how she put her plans into action was needlessly reckless. That was why he had been the first to demand her expulsion from the shinobi corps. She was already too dangerous, best get rid of her.

No not literally rid of her, she was a psychic after all; those abilities were far too useful to kill her, so she could be a counter spy or something.

She didn't take it well. Good, it would send the right message to her teammates who weren't as guilty because it wasn't their idea, but they didn't stop her either. They wouldn't be becoming chunin for a while.

Well, Sasuke had actively helped her but he was the last Uchiha, they couldn't exactly let him be a civilian. He would be punished in some other way.

Now, to study the weapon that they had confiscated from Sakura-

She let the fresh batch of tears out. Again.

She felt so much loathing right now she didn't know were to start. Scratch that she did know were to start.

As she lay on the bed trembling out of anger, she thought about all the stupid decisions she had made. It had all started with the 'turn negative into positive' mentality: how could she turn a boring afternoon into a cool one? By making her research useful for later. What did she want? To become stronger by any means.

It had been easy from there.

Problem was, she didn't think enough. She had been aware on some level that if everything went to hell she wouldn't be a shinobi anymore (Danzo had indirectly said that if she would mess with these 'demonic' stuff again the previous generation which were heavily biased against these things would end her) but in the rush of finding a way to obtain what she wanted, she rationalized to herself, saying things like 'if I'm not a shinobi anymore that means that mum and dad will be happy so that's fine' and not 'hang on a minute, if mum and dad hear me messing with demonic things they will be forever disgusted.'

In hindsight, it was obvious that it had been a terrible idea.

But she hadn't thought of the consequences, not really. The optimistic biases had once again taken control. She had thought that nothing would go wrong...and well, had she been more careful, it would have worked. That was arguably the worst part.

Had she tried it on something low-scaled first, had she been less greedy and simply more sensible, she could have tried it on something small like a pen first.

Then it would have exploded, because inanimate objects are easily destroyed by something with self-awarness, then it would have occurred to her to channel part of her chakra too. Or at least study seal theory before trying anything.

She didn't even need to experiment it: the fourth hokage had already shown what to do, if she had just thought of her teammate instead of herself but no, she only thought about her own desires.

That's how she almost got killed: by a bunch of 2-3 meter monsters exploding from weapons, ready to kill her.

It was only thanks to Naruto that they were still alive.

She continued to cry. Stupid. That's what she was.

And if that hadn't been bad enough, Danzo had comunicated just earlier that she wasn't a shinobi anymore. That's when her parents had came and yelled at her. She didn't want to go home.

She had no life as a shinobi. She had no life as a civilian. What now?

Naruto groaned to himself as he left Sasuke's side. The jerk had been annoyed by what had happened, but seemed thoughtful more than anything.

Sakura wasn't allowed visitors yet but by tomorrow that would change and he'd knock some sense into her. He had no idea how he'd keep her into the shinobi corps but he would-

His thoughts were interrupted as he saw Sakura walk by. Hang on a minute what was she doing out of bed?

He watched her escape from the hospital and into the night. Huh?

"Sakura! Where are you-"

She stopped and turned, angrily.

"Lower your voice," she hissed but without the usual anger that his stupidity brought out. She seemed more defeated than anything.

"Actually, don't talk at all," said a voice inside his head.

"What are you doing? Where are you going? Shouldn't you be in bed?"

"The nurses don't want anything to do with a 'demon-lover' like me, so after they bandaged me up, they left." As she comunicated this, she raised her left arm (or what remained at least).

"That doesn't answer the 'where are you going' question" he observed.

She hesitated. "I can't stay here anymore, I have no future as a civilian, or as a shinobi."

"Sakura! You can't leave! This is your home! What about me? What about Sasuke!?"

"I'm sorry, I know it's selfish, but I can't live there anymore Naruto, I'm not strong like you, i'd rather kill myself then live here a day longer."

"You don't even know if it's that bad! Most people don't even know you!"

Seriously not even a full day had passed (well, technically it had, but she had been in hospital for most of the time).

"It doesn't matter Naruto: the most important people know and everyone except for you is looking at me with disgust. You can take it, you're strong like that. I'd rather die." It certainly raised her appreciation of Naruto's willpower: how he managed to survive under those stares everyday was an incredible mystery to her. She sent more vague concepts about her mental state, something that was making him visibly hesitate. This hurt her a lot and he now knew it.

"Sakura-

"I'm serious. If you try/ succeed to take me back I will just kill myself at the first opportunity. Or try to escape again.

"You could die out there!"

"What do you prefer? A probable death or a certain one?"

He winced. She already knew the answer to that.

"Well?"

"I'm conflicted," he admitted. He then walked right to her.

"Naruto I'm serious-"

"I know, and that's why I'm helping."

She would have laughed."You expect me to believe that?"

"No. I except you to read my mind."

She did. He wasn't lying: he honestly would rather help her escape then see her die. "I honestly didn't expect you to change your mind. My mental model of you would try to punch the answers in me." It made her a bit guilty.

"I don't like the idea of fighting a cripple- sorry, I shouldn't have said that, anyway it's mostly Danzo that insists that I have to think things through, especially if I want to become hokage."

She started crying again. It was too much.

"There there," he said and hugged her. She didn't move.

As he hugged her he made a hand seal behind her back and several clones appeared. "You know what to do," he told them.

At her questioning look, he mentally explained.

Apparently as far as strength was concerned, he had also thought of leaving Konoha. Mostly when Mizuki told him that nobody loved him and that he was the kyuubi. But that had been stopped thanks to Iruka.

The question of how to leave a village full of anbu was still in question though. Sasuke would probably have the skill to pull it off if he chose to do so, but Naruto would have to wait for a mission to escape.

The shadow clone plus substitution technique changed that. The several clones had already hendged into random anbu of course, so civilians wouldn't question and they could disappear into a puff of smoke if they actually did get discovered by other anbu.

"They're in place," he told her. "If you have second thoughts-"

"I don't."

"...I understand. I guess. Goodbye Sakura."

Another tear fell as she felt the pull of the substitution. "Goodbye Naruto."

And in several puffs of smoke that lasted a few seconds at most, she was outside.

Danzo frowned from within his secret hideout as the sword was failed for the millionth time to be diagnosed. It was a simple, not curved, wakizashi. Why was it so difficult to diagnose?

"Sir." Said one of his agents. "We suspect that it has a dark affinity, so we are activating an experimental power fuse to see if it converts the chakra into it's speciality-"

"Approved."

The proper barriers were put in place and the infusion was given. There was a sudden flash and the sword disappeared. Oh shit.

Outside of konoha, Sakura yelped in alarm as a sword randomly appeared at her feet. Huh?

"Sir! We suspect that the sword has returned to the alternate dimension-"

"Do not be so hasty in your conclusions!" Inwardly Danzo was grimacing. That was highly probable actually. Out of all the affinities it just had to have a space/time one. He left for the apartment that the Uchiha was currently in. Sakura had a psychic affinity so it made no sense for the sword to go to her, but the Uchiha could have a hidden space/time affinity that the sword had 'captured'...

Sakura smiled to herself as she placed the sword in it's sheath that she had just made out of ninja wire. She remembered this sword, it's the one that Sasuke had tried channeling chakra in with his sharingan activated once the other weapons had exploded into monsters, so she used her dark chakra out of desperation. Strangely enough it worked, in fact it was the only weapon that had 'survived.'

Danzo scanned the apartment. Nope, nothing. He frowned: the weapon was definitely inside the other dimension...

Tomorrow he would convince Sakura to channel dark chakra into a seal so Naruto and Sasuke's hidden affinity would activate, allowing him to transport to the other dimension. Yes, he'd send a full platoon of anbu there...

No, it wouldn't be good to show the girl that she was still connected to the shinobi world. Especially if she managed to piece what he was doing with her dark chakra. He would ignore her for a week and then inquire about her were abouts. Then he'd make another plan to get her chakra.

Sakura smiled to herself as she was immersed into he surroundings while leaping from tree to tree, Konoha disappearing into the distance. She had felt destroyed at leaving her home at first, but now she felt free.

Perhaps her life wasn't really over after all?

Two days later

Her life was over.

"Perhaps I'm new to this 'free' thing but doesn't it usually not involve being behind bars?"

She groaned.

No seriously. You made that whole conversation about 'freedom' about how 'we are the masters of our own fate' and not even 24 hours later your behind bars. I would comment on your incompetence but the situation is way too amusing for me to properly get angry."

Several drunk men walked closer to her cage. She took a deep breath.

"Or do you simply find the thought of being these pigs cum dump freeing?"

The men opened the cage. She charged.

"Hey wha-"

He stopped talking as his head was cut off. Sakura immediately stabbed the one right next to him in the chest. She used her foot to free her sword and tried to attack the third one but he blocked the slash thanks to a metal gauntlet and ripped the sword from her hands. Sakura channeled some chakra and the sword was once again in her hands. She used his surprise to decapitate him.

"Do you have some sort of fetish for cutting necks or something?"

She didn't reply, concentrating on her surroundings. Shit more men.

"You know, the situation is already boring as it us, the least you can do is answering me."

She made to escape but the old woman from earlier was surrounded by men. She was old by Sakura's standards, but not the bandits. Still this was her only chance to escape-

"Aww and leave that poor poor lady to the mercy of a bunch of rapists? How cold."

She winced. Sword had a point.

"I resent not having a name."

"You didn't exactly give me any ideas."

"Well, think of one!"

"Wait! I'm thinking!"

"Of the name? Good!"

"No! About what should i do-"

"We both know you're going to save her. We also both know you have no strategies. You can't preform seals, you only have one hand, the only thing you can do is leap about and use chakra strings."

It had a point.

She crept upon the men and killed the first one from a stab from behind. She managed to get a good hit from the second one too, but she had to jump back from the first one. She dropped her sword, used chakra strings to make him loose balance and summoned the sword to her hand pointing towards the man immediately, killing him in the process with a thrust to the heart.

Only one remained.

He already had weapons raised though. She dropped the sword again and ripped the weapon out of his hand- unfortunately he was expecting that and used her strings against her, using their attachment to pull her off balance, not unlike what she did a few seconds before.

He stopped mid thrust as a piece of steel decapitated him. Huh?

The piece of steel was actually a sword, held by the woman from earlier. She had a strong stance, obviously experienced with the sword she was using.

"That stunt of yours cost me the mission." She said in an annoyed tone. "I suppose your intentions were good enough to over look them."

Huh?

"Nice job all things considered. The name is Yoshino, what about you?"

"S-sakura," she replied still in shock.

"So the 'defencless woman' is actually a ninja in disguise. Interesting."

The woman pulled up her shorts to reveal a seal on the inside of her thigh. She released the seal and a bunch of equipment came out.

"So what's your story girl?" As she said this she quickly put on her stuff.

Sakura considered what to say to the now revealed Suna shinobi, assuming that the headband that she just put on wasn't fake of course.

"Just say the truth and be vague."

"I used to be a shinobi, but got demoted after I messed with something I shouldn't have and lost my arm in exchange."

The woman whistled. "Not only do they cut off shinobi but they cut your arm off as well? Brutal."

No wait not like that-

"I sort of deserved it. Plus I was never really strong in the first case, I was good at information gathering and team work but not much else."

"Don't sell yourself short. You're quite good at problem solving and very creative."

"I suppose you ran away then. Makes sense." She stared to inspect the area. "What are you going to do now?"

Sakura shrugged. "You're going to give me a name."

"You could come with me if you want. I could use a sidekick."

Sakura blinked in shock. What?!

The woman was nodding with a small smile. "I could use a hand in the upcoming missions. Although you can't follow me to Suna."

"That isn't suspicious at all."

"Why?"

"Why you can't follow me?"

"Also that."

"Heh, well for the second question; I want you as back up: shinobi in Suna have a lot of competition lately, so if I pull off harder stuff 'alone' I get a promotion. You're obviously skilled- you haven't died yet, in the who knows how long of a journey it took you to get from Kiri. What's your first question?"

Sakura hummed to herself. Should she accept? "Obviously, she probably has skills that she can teach you."

"My first question was why you want me: I'm crippled. You can't possibly know how skilled I really am- I could have been just lucky until now."

The woman shook her head. "Being crippled isn't really a problem for the more skilled Suna shinobi. You have a point with the skills though...Tell you what: it would take me a day from here to get back to suna. A day to go, a day to get my stuff and a day to come back. Three days. If you have cleared out all of the bandits from here and know who's in charge plus their base, I'll make you more dangerous and teach you things.

She opened her mouth-

"You're good at information gathering right? Well, I suck at that. Even if I'm good at combat I can't become a jonin until I prove to my superiors that I'm good at information gathering. What do you say? Deal?

Sakura frowned and put her only hand to her chin, sword being sheathed.

It sounded good, but they were ninja. Somehow, she was losing in the offer.

"That is obvious. The real question should be 'can I gain something from this?' Or am I, Sakura Haruno, capable of surviving on my own?"

"She could be hiding something."

"Read her thoughts and see(?)"

Point taken. A quick scan of her surface thoughts and she discovered that Suna used puppets a lot and a skilled shinobi could use pieces of puppets as a mechanical hand. It required perfect chakra control though. The woman wasn't lying however.

"I accept."

The woman smiled. "See you in three days."

3 days later

"Just get rid of a few bandits she said! It will be easy she said!"

"Well, to be fair she said nothing about it being easy."

"She nothing about bandits who could use chakra either!"

Sakura continued to run, a twenty-something bandits following. She swiftly turned to the right and activated a the trap. The floor exploded.

"That little shit!" Screamed one of the survivors.

She activated more traps as rocks were thrown at high speeds hitting them in the face. Sakura took the opportunity to throw a smoke bomb.

The bomb was a pebble with a seal on it, inside was chakra transformed to water in a semi liquid-gas state. She'd call it 'mist' but it was closer to vapor. It had taken her almost 4 hours to make that.

The bomb exploded and no one could see, her included .

Thankfully her mind 'sight' didn't require light. She stabbed the remaining men.

"Nice."

"Thanks." She had recently discovered that dying people's brain worked quite nicely, also their chakra levels were shit since the energy was used to keep a person alive. Unless she decapitated people, she could use their last moments to read their thoughts. As she did that she frowned, same information as yesterday.

There were three main groups and a single hidden one. The main were canon fodder, knew the basics of combat and were harmless unless there were many of them. The hidden one was made out of dozens of genin and chunin, while their leader was a jonin. She had read his profile in the bingo book: he was very good at illusions. She had gotten rid of group one the first day with Yoshino and managed to get rid of the other two in the remaining days. Only the hidden remained.

She senced a presence at the edge of her detection range that she basically always kept activated these days (She couldn't use it for a day straight but she flared it every few minutes).

Yoshino was back.

The jonin landed in the clearing. "I went to the other sites before coming here. You haven't finished. Deal's off."

"You said to kill bandits, not a group of ninjas from every rank."

"There are no kage level opponents," she said with a smile, "but you did well enough."

"Exactly as you asked you mean," said Rayo, the sword she had given awareness to in the other world.

Yoshino unsealed a heavy looking bag. "Ok kid, this is your ticket to not being crippled again." As she said this she unpacked the bag. "Now come here."

It took at least an hour to put on. Sakura had been worried that her wound would get opened again but her fears had been proven wrong. It was similar to a strap, giving her an elbow once more and a shoulder pad.

It took her much longer to learn how to use it, even if she had near perfect chakra control. Yoshino had said that it usually took much longer, so that was a plus.

The prosthesis could even be opened on the top and had a small space which was normally used as a storage device (by using mini storage seals of course). Sakura intended to play with this function later.

It also stored a hidden blade on the bottom part and could be used by using chakra to move to 'hand' part of the prothesis slightly upwards and unleashing the blade. It was poisoned of course. This sort of thing was pretty standard when puppets were concerned. Sakura grinned to Yoshino. Fantastic.

"Now, I'll deal with the jonin, but it will take time to kill him, you deal with the rest-"

"I don't think that's a good idea. I can't last against a small army of ninjas for very long. You, on the other hand, can murder your way through them easily enough and I can probably win against the leader. If not you can back me up-"

"Are you out of your mind! He'll murder you easily! Do you even know who we are up against?!"

"Eisaku Soto, a skilled shinobi in all branches with a special preference for illusions. I think I can handle him."

Yoshino just face palmed. "Look, I get that you feel invincible because you have an arm again, but remember that this guy is a jonin, so suppress your arrogance for a bit and just listen-"

"You misunderstand: the original plan was me facing him on my own: I know I can take him." Mostly because she had a few special advantages but she didn't exactly want to declare that.

"I was joking kid, you weren't actually expected to kill him, I would have failed you if you didn't know anything because your strongest point is supposedly information gathering but that's it."

"Why don't you just-"

"No talking when I'm talking or I'll get confused, we've already discussed this."

Rayo sent a wordless concept to her brain. It took a lot of control to not smile.

"Very well," said Sakura to Yoshino. "This is what I've found out."

They were to attack on the night, the darkness would cover for them, which ment that they had to sleep during the day.

As Yoshino drifted off to sleep, Sakura tiptoed away.

It was annoying to have your judgement questioned, but it made sense since Yoshino didn't know about her psychic powers.

Yoshino didn't know that the dude was actually secretly married to a guy in the second camp she invaded. She probably did know that the Iwa population was incredibly homophobic, but Sakura doubted that she guessed anything. As Sakura murdered the guy, she found out all sort of things, like how Eisaku was actually pretty weak, but was dangerous because he could turn invisible and how her mind sense would make that advantage useless. She didn't know that a bandit had put her under an illusion but Rayo had freed her from it. She didn't know that Eisaku's fighting style involved strategies employed on the spot and that her psychic abilities would nullify any advantages.

So it was prefectly sensible for her to say 'no,' sensible, but wrong. So she went in the middle of the day when security was most lax, using Rayo's teleportation ability to get her by. Had Yoshino abandoned her, she still would have murdered the bastard. He was a narcissist and only cared about his desires, using anybody to get what he wanted. Using the different perspectives of the men she killed, she discovered that the man was a liar, one who didn't have any morals either.

The technical term was a sociopath.

He didn't escape Iwa because he was gay, he ran away to make a small empire, were he was king. The man probably wasn't even gay. From other perspectives, she saw how he sold the village secrets to the other nations, making a small fortune and keeping his money by making a human traffic trade and selling drugs. The guy was incredibly charismatic and manipulative, but those were his strengths. His weaknesses remained in combat. He was faster then her, stronger then her and even smarter, but those advantages would mean nothing with hers.

She approached his house, hidden in the immense foliage. There were 8 different people playing as scouts, while Eisaku slept. She could do this.

She waited a bit and as the two guards nearest to her turned, she threw Rayo into an open window, grabbing on to him as he summoned her just as he was about to hit the floor,not making a sound. Perfect.

She had been practising this a lot, but she only got this 6/10 times. Lucky.

As she walked as silently as possible towards the room, she made sure to escade the few traps that one of the men she had read made. There were probably more but she didn't care. She made it.

Eisaku slept before her. Who knows how many hundreds of lives he ruined in his life time? She stabbed him in the neck.

The mans eyes widened and then his body turned to rock. Ah shit, earth clone.

She took a deep breathe. She could still do this. She turned around and came face to face with the murderous sociopath.

"Now that's not nice." He said with a hurt frown. "I don't even know you and you're already trying to kill me!"

She had several responses for that, but she had seen how his words were dangerous so she said nothing. All he needed was a split seconds hesitation and he would murder her, his surface thoughts confirmed this.

"No reply? How boring little one!" As he said this he disappeared. Via mind sense she felt him move to the right and thanks to his surface thoughts she knew he was silently moving towards her, but the clone that he just created outside, covered by an illusion placed on her would kill her first if she didn't do something.

Rayo waked her out of the illusion, even though it wasn't really necessary thanks to this guy tendency to think so much.

She blocked the clone, jumped back and threw a kunai with an exploding tag and 'missed' (it wouldn't do to tell her opponent that she knew were he was while invisible, because she may have a few advantages, he still surpassed her in every ninja discipline, his arrogance would be his downfall, not her skill).

He jumped towards the side, his clone merely threw a few kunai to distract her. As the tag destroyed part of the building, Eisaku decided that playing with her wasn't worth the damage she was making and ran towards her at speeds she literally couldn't physically react to.

Thankfully her mind wasn't so limited.

In a split second, she commanded Rayo to teleport her in the same spot but a different position, one that had her left arm outstretched while her right hand held Rayo firmly.

She unleashed her hidden blade and struck him in the stomach and used the distraction to attempt to decapitate him.

He blocked of course, he still had better reflexes than her, but the poison within the hidden blade was already in his bloodstream. He'd die soon.

Problem A) she had to survive a few minutes, hours in shinobi time and problem B) the guards from earlier had arrived.

"Get out of here!"

"I want his memories."

"Leave me here, I'll summon you later!"

A good idea actually. She threw Rayo at Eisaku and threw a smoke bomb towards the ground and escaped via shuishin, then started to quite literally, run for her life.

Not for long though. Apparently all the guards except two weak ones had chased after her so Rayo summoned her back.

She immediately stabbed the first, then threw Rayo at the second, grabbing him in mid air as Rayo teleported her to his side. She flipped and stabbed the remaining gaurd in the back.

Eisaku was surprised but quickly gained his wits. "A teleportation technique I see! Godamned Konoha ninja!"

She barely managed to block in time. The right accusation for the wrong reason. How ironic.

He coughed blood. She tried to slash him but he jumped back and casted several illusions.

Rayo woke her from all of them but she still nearly got killed by the fire jutsu sent her way. Apparently he wasn't risking getting close again. Annoying.

"Still, thank you Danzo with your impossible training standards." She thought to herself.

He coughed out more blood and dropped to the ground. Sakura wasn't fooled, thanks to her ability to read surface thoughts: he was planning to lunge at her as she got close. She decided to read his memories from afar as he died.

That's when she discovered a few interesting things.

In the end, Eisaku lunged at her but the poison was doing it's job, so she easily stabbed him. In his last moments she found out quite a lot.

For starters she would have been killed if she had followed through with Yoshino's plan: Eisaku considered his men to be nothing more than grunts, mostly because they didn't think at all and they had nothing except for their instincts and jutsu's. Jutsu's that would have killed her easily.

Having escaped death by a hairs length, she opened his hidden vault with the recently supplied password. It was a shame that she couldn't instantly learn every memory that a person ever had, because apparently the invisibility jutsu was in fact a jutsu and not a bloodline, but he learnt it many years ago and taught no one.

She opened the vault and stole the cash, scrolls and even few weapons that was inside and sealed them away. They would probably sell for something interesting.

"What do you think?" She asked Rayo.

That you need to build your reserves and find a better sheath; this one sucks.

She sighed. "You know what I mean."

"Mission accomplished? Ohh you mean about the women. They must have been in the other bases."

"But everyone thought that there were more here!

"That's a good indication that they were wrong ."

Rayo was probably right. Still, every single bandit had at least a few thoughts about the 'hidden paridise' they this place was supposed to be. Till now she had only seen one house, a big one, that's for sure, but it was still one house.

She shrugged though. No living thing could escape her mind eye, not even animals. They must have already sold the slaves.

That thought hurt her. She had to investigate more.

She searched Eisaku's body now that he was dead, her mind sense confirming this, but discovered nothing of importance. She stole his pouches though.

With nothing else to do she left the building and went back to camp.

As she lept outside she saw a dozen bodies on the floor and an angry Yoshino above them.

"Explain."

Sakura opened her mouth, but at this point Yoshino's thoughts conveyed how close the woman actually was to killing her. Apparently she didn't take insubordination so well. Made sense, she guessed; after all she had done to help Sakura, this is how the girl repaid her?

She needed to justify herself and fast.

"I knew a lot of things that I kept hidden. Their skills, tactics, and so on. I knew I would die against the underlings but stood a very decent chance against the boss. Also he's the reason why I'm not a virgin and don't have an arm. I wanted to end him personally."

Pleasebelievetheliepleasebelievethelie-

Yoshino's gaze softened. Now Sakura wished that she hed been good enough to deep read all of Eisaku's thoughts. The guy was incredibly good at manipulation and the techniques worked for her too.

"But you're right, I should have listened or at least told you what I know, you're the one who gave me an arm after all, I was stupid."

"Quite." Was the stern, not angry, stern reply.

"I just go by hunches, hunches which are incredibly accurate but usually don't have solid proof, so no one believes me."

She wished she could cry, Eisaku usually faked a few tears at this point. She looked down instead.

"I understand if you hate me for being so disobedient...it's just that I really didn't want to die but knew you wouldn't believe me."

"It's all right." Yoshino said softly. "I expect you to tell me what you think you know next time however. I promise I will try to trust you."

Sakura smiled. The lady was actually pretty sweat.

"I wish I had a stomach so I could puke."

"Hush."

"C'mon," said Yoshino, "we have a bounty to collect."

A lot of people write Naruto as being an annoying idiot that would insist forever to anybody he considered a friend to remain at konoha no matter what. I disagree: Sasuke was just being an idiot. There was no reason he couldn't stay at konoha, get strong and go together with Narutoothers to kill Itachi. That was just Sasuke being greedy and having Orochimaru as a temporary teacher. Sakura's situation is different. She has no future within konoha, Naruto gets that (or at least my Naruto trained to think by Danzo gets that). One could say 'yeah but he still helped a cripple leave, she'll definitely die' no she'd probably* die. There's a difference.