K.L.K- uhh... it's chappie ten. WHOOT! and some of the typos and such are the site's fault. I am typing on Notepad because I like it. ;D
Sakura- another flashback in a dream is coming!
K.L.K- yup! BEWARE TEH FLASHBACK! XD
Sakura- uhh... -.- yeah...okay then! K.L.K doesn't own Naruto!
K.L.K- and to the Dedicatee, Earthsoftenstheflame, it just MIGHT end up SasuNaru...I will try for you. YOAI RULEZ! also: nice idea...hmm... but it won't fit with the plot I'm using. O.O or...WILL it?!
Sakura- O.O y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-YOAI?!
K.L.K- uhh...hehe? and I have been making the chappies longer, if anyone is grateful, no prob! this used to be a plotless fic. NOW it isn't!
Sakura was now a very fair distance from her village... the leaf vilage... she clutched the spot where her heart was as it sent painful shocks, and felt like a fist was slowly but surely squeezing it tighter...tighter...and tighter. she gasped as she fell to her knees.
'ow...my heart...oww...' she thought, but placed healing chakra on the spot, yet it did nothing.
'It's okay Saku.' her inner thought, going through the same pain as her. 'I'm going through the same thing...ow.'
the Outer self smiled bitterly. 'yes. I know... we're doing this for everyone in Konoha. we have to. they're not safe around us anymore... we're monsters...'
Inner cried a bit. 'we are, aren't we? we killed our own parents... we buried our clan... we're no better than scum.'
the Outer personality nodded. 'hai. we have to see if we can control that demon before anything else... I don't wan tto hurt anyone else!'
'me neither.'
'soo...' a mental smile from the outer Sakura. 'how about we go search for her?'
'agreed. I thought I saw her once or twice... she's probably in a cage.'
'Aa.' with that, the Outer hopped into a tree, and started meditating on a higher branch that was well-sheilded and more than big enough.
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Sakura opened her eyes, and saw she was in the shadowy depths of her brilliant mind. she turned to her Inner, the black and white version of herself with the kanji 'Inner Sakura' aptly naming her so. she grinned.
"ready to find that damned demon?" she asked.
"Hai!" Outer Sakura nodded. they walked through the many pathways, then had to jump out of the way of some speeding thoughts that were blurred. they went past them, then around a corner, and out of sight.
"what in the hell...?" Sakura asked.
"those were fighting strategies. they hurt like hell whenever you use me as an example, though. they go REALLY fast." Inner twitched, as if remembering the last time that had happened.
"ohh... eh, I'll try not to do that too much..."
"thank you."
"now, comeon... I feel like a presence is that way." Outer pointed to a darkened hallway, but against the walls you could see a flicker of light. possibly a... torch of some kind? well, the flickering was akin to one, so she supposed it to be true.
"okay! I know the way there!"
"alright. I didn't realize how confusing it is in here..." Outer shook her head, but followed her Inner down the hallways. fifteen minutes later, they came upon a room that had a cage door in the center. Outer sakura walked nearer to the bars, and saw a black, huddled mass in the cage. she looked at it, before it suddenly sprang to life, it's eyes glowing.
the eyes were a bright purple-reddish colour, almost as if they were crimson with the purple mixed in enough to change the colour noticeably. they looked exactly like the Kyuubi's eyes, though. ten black, but sleek tails swung behind the giant demon-kitsune, as the animal lowered her head down, and to the bars so she could see out of them.
"Ah." it said. "you're the brat I'm sealed into, aren't you." she asked.
"Hai. I am sure that you are Usui, then." the girl nodded, and was alone since Inner had taken off screaming bloody murder at the thing moving.
"you are not afraid, kit." the fox observed. "why do you visit me?"
"I have left the village. I am a monster. I...I killed my parents, then watched the rest of my clan die. why must my life be full of such torments?" she asked, a note of sadness to her hallow tone.
the demon paused. "I don't know myself why some are cursed, some not." she set a paw to the bars, which were held with the Cherry Blossom's late father's Chakra. "but myself, I chose to be a demon like this, a prisoner. this way, if I play things right, I wont' die like my kin had, and like the Kyuubi will when his container probably will. I've stayed hidden all these years, because I did not want you to be feared or well, been made to go through more cruelty."
the girl nodded. "Hai. Arigatou, Usui."
she chuckled. "no problem! you see, when I was just a kit, my kin were all killed, but I was left the sole survivor. Kyuubi had been born the same place as I, but we aren't related much. he became crueller, and I became stronger by getting over it and accepting humans as living creatures. they can overcome us demons, because they have something we don't. Mortaility. that makes them different, they act on thier feelings more strongly, they have the ability to feel emotions, or even just kinship with someone very differed from themselves. I chose you as my container because I could sense that you were different. you were more accepting of people, you didn't and wouldn't push other containers away, although you had no idea you were also one. you've become insanely strong on your own human abilities. I envy you, just a small bit, but you are the bravest human I have ever met. also the strongest."
"A-Arigatou, Usui." she bowed.
"well, I have to ask you this... are you ready for me to put my own mark of you being a container on you?" the demon sighed.
"Hai." she took a deep breath. "but... am I-I a monster?"
the demon looked over her. "no. you aren't, but as a shinobi, you sometimes have to act the part."
she smiled and nodded. "Hai, that is true."
the demon flinched as she remembered something. "um...this is going to be unbearable pain. can you handle it?"
she grinned. "Hai!"
the demon grinned back. "Alright then!" she made many handseals with her clawed paws, and then a bright reddish, purplish glow covered the whole room.
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a scream ripped through the forest a second after the pinkette had gone to her rightful place as the Outer personality.
With the Snake and Medic in sound, they were having a...well, I can't say enjoyable, now can I? Kabuto's having a hell of a time, that's for sure.
"Orochimaru-sama! please get down from there!" the silver-headed man desperately begged the chibi-fied sannin that was currently on a very high shelf, getting some cookies.
"no, Kabuto-kun! I'm getting sssssome cookies for ussss to sssshare!" the little snake pouted, then finally reached the jar, but didn't get a grip on it and went toppling over, and fell on top of Kabuto.
"Orochimaru-sama... please get of of me." Kabuto asked, his eye twitching as the mini-fied sannin cuddled into his chest.
"but I don' waaannaaa!!" he whined, snuggling even more into the man's chest.
"..." Kabuto gagged once, but then sat up stiffly, and picked the chibi-Orochimaru by the armpits, and marched ot the Lab. he mixed an antidote feverently, then splashed the sannin with it.
"ARGH!" was all he heard, before POOF! Orochimaru was standing there, same as ever. "Kabuto-kun?" he blinked.
"Hai, Orochimaru-sama?" the man asked, relieved it had worked. in his frenzy of pouring, mixing and such, he had created the antidote to that... whatever the hell it was the girl had used on his master.
"...what happened the last few days?" the man asked, then sat in a chair, his limp arms hanging to the sides, brushing the dirt-floor.
"well," the medic hesitated. "I just got you out of a poison-induced coma. that person who took Sasuke-kun poisened you with a different one than me, so I had no cure until now."
the man smirked. "ah. thank you, Kabuto-kun. now we go after Sakura-chan." the man licked his lips. he swore he could still taste the blood of her clan upon it even then.
"Why, Orochimaru-sama?"
he grinned malevolently. "why, to put my plans into order, of course!" he laughed insanely, then got up, and the two went to the throne room, for the snake man to plot whatever he had planned for the Blossom.
With the aforementioned Blossom, she was writhing in pain, before she passed out. even in the haze of comforting daerkness shrouding her senses, she could just barely feel the changes in her, but didn't pay it any heed, she wanted, and needed to sleep...
Back in Konoha, Sasuke was crying, yes crying, in his apartment, curled around a pillow covered with the shirt she had left him with. he breathed in her scent. it was a mix of herbs, vanilla, a hint of peppermint, and then there was the faintness and sweetness of the flower she was named for. he soon cried himself to sleep.
Naruto had, surprisingly, fainted and hadn't wokn up just yet. every so often, there was a murmer of 'Sakura-chan' coming from his slumber. he figited every so often also, and he had been placed in the hospital. no doubt he would go nuts once he woke up, so he was placed in the special bonds that the Uchiha had been put into also.
Kakashi went out to drink with Genma, and his other buddies, including the other senseis, who were just as devastated. the rest of the rookie nine was silent. they couldn't believe what had happened to thier sweet, innocent cherry blossom. they just couldn't...
Tsunade went over the note. it said this;
/\/\/\To Shishou./\/\/\
I am sorry to have to inform you of this... I am leaving Konoha. why? well...it's because of my past. I hadn't even remembered, because of the seal I have on my back. you've never seen it... I hid it from everyone. don't take it personally, okay? well...where do I start?
one day, my mother and father were talking to me, and suddenly mother did somethign so bad that I snapped. I slashed her across the face with...claws I had somehow aqquired. I couldn't control myself, thanks to the demon Usui. she had chosen me as her container... father tried to stop me, but I put my hand through his gut. he sealed away the memories, and the demon inside me, hopefully to never emerge again, but that would have been too much to ask.
after Orochimaru had walked in, he threatened to tell my little secret. he wrapped me in his god-awful snakes, which you'd betetr believe I did everything, I even bit the damn things! but... he killed my family. my clan. we were a secret clan, I am the sole survivor. you know this isn't a joke. it's much too real, Kami-sama, I hope it just WOULD be a twisted dream!
...but it isn't. I will come back in two, possibly three years. I am going to trake control of this damned demon, or I will kill myself. it's better than killing the ones I love, my precious people. I... I have to go now. tell Naruto I'm sorry, tell Sasuke and the rest I am Sorry too. I'll kep an eye out for Orochimaru... I hope I'm able to kill him someday.
/\/\/\Ja Ne, Sakura Haruno/\/\/\
Tsunade shed a few tears, and rested her head against the smooth, cold wood of the desk she currently sat at. she guessed she'd see the girl in a few years, then. it was no use going after her now.
K.L.K- wow. note to self; never write things while I'm half asleep.
Sakura- agreed.
K.L.K- well, please review! oh! here's the thingie!
(1)- a eye-type, that has to deal with the eyes. (Doujutsu)
(2)- a type where she can control elements.
(3)- a shadow ability- (EXAMPLE: like the Nara clan, but different)
(4)- something to do with animals. (AKA special summon or other)
(5)- having a demon- (a family bloodlimit demon- a Kitsune)
Sakura- there. (YAWWWWWWWWN.)
K.L.K- ugh... I'm goin' to bed. School starts in eight days. T-T yippie-kai-yay! hahahaha NOT.
Sakura- well anyway, please review!