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"Er...okaa-san this is Uchiwa Suke..." Sakura mumbled, Haruno Mebuki did not believe her and shook her head.

"Haruno Sakura, this cannot be a joke. If he was a normal person, he wouldn't be in the Haruno palace and why does he look like that?" Mebuki asked her daughter.

Sasuke hid his eyes behind his bangs and looked away, "Just tell her the truth Sakura... I can't hide in the shadows anymore." He mumbled.

Sakura looked at him sadly and asked "Are you sure?" Naruto glanced at Sasuke apologetically and scratched the back of his head awkwardly.

"Yes..." He said and hid his face even deeper into the shadows of his long bangs.

Sakura took a deep breath and faced her awaiting mother. "Okaa-san, you remember that before the Haruno's ruled Konoha, it was the Uchiha clan, right?"

Mebuki nodded her head and said "Yes, in fact I was close friends with Queen Mikoto, she had quite a pair of lovely young boys. It's sad how they both disappeared off the face of Earth. Especially Sasuke-kun, he looked so much like Mikoto and was such a sweet boy..."

Sasuke cringed visibly and moved back a few inches. Sakura shook her head and asked "You were friends with Mikoto-sama?!"

Mebuki nodded "We were like sisters... Along with Naruto's mother Kushina..."

Naruto whistled and said "Well that just makes things even harder to explain."

Sakura then said "Well... Let's say... The time I disappeared for a two days without a say, I was actually trapped in a cave, that was sealed off by Orochimaru..."

Mebuki's eyes widened and she exclaimed "What?! You were trapped by Orochimaru?! What did he do to you?!"

Sakura shook her head and said "Nothing, I only met this...er...dragon... He was kind to me and allowed me to stay, since he was trapped in the cave for 7 years already... Although I can't say he was pretty cold to me too..."

Sasuke said nothing but glared at Sakura for saying that.

"You met a...dragon?!" Mebuki exclaimed. She could not believe what absurdities her daughter was speaking.

"Oh and he can turn into a...uhm...demon in the morning till evening..." Sakura added, and she coughed awkwardly in her hand.

Mebuki shook her head and said "So who was this...person?"

"You sure you want to know?" Sakura asked. Mebuki nodded seriously, and Sakura sighed before she said "That was him." She pointed to Sasuke.

"But what about him turning into a dragon during the evening?" Mebuki asked. Sakura shook her and and retorted "Apparently he never told me he could change to his normal form using chakra." She gave Sasuke a dirty look and he glared back.

"So...he can use chakra...then he's a ninja who trained under Orochimaru?" Mebuki asked as she pieced the facts together.

Sakura nodded and said "Yes... And his name is Uchiha Sasuke..."

Sasuke looked away and stayed still, Mebuki gawked before she exclaimed "You mean he's Sasuke?!"

"Yes... I found the second prince of the Uchiha clan." Sakura answered solemnly.

"Sasuke, why haven't you said anything. You do remember I used to visit your family quite often when you were younger." Mebuki scolded Sasuke, as if she knew him well, which she probably did when he was younger.

Sasuke stood up and said "Hn, I'm not supposed to show my face to the world, or I'll be punished." He then turned around and faced the wall, unable to look at the expression plastered on Mebuki's face.

"Well look at how much you've grown. You would be quite handsome if Orochimaru hadn't cursed you." Mebuki said kindly, in fact she wasn't disgusted at how Sasuke looked, as long as he was still the kind boy before.

Sasuke looked down at the ground and said nothing. Sakura stared at him confusedly, and Naruto awkwardly shifted around.

"Er...well...should we let Sasuke have some time alone?" Sakura started nervously. Sasuke immediately looked up and said "Iie, it's fine... I'm just not used to letting someone I used to know see me like this... Besides I'm running out of chakra, I need to change forms soon."

He stood up and walked out of the window, flying up to the roof. A few moments he came back in as an onyx dragon, his raven fur swaying slightly in the wind, camouflaging in the starry midnight sky. Sakura was astonished at how beautiful the scene looked, it would be perfect for the palace artist, Sai, to draw.

"Sumen." Sasuke muttered, as he slipped into the room. Blood dripped off his scales as he winced painfully, suddenly the breathtaking view was gone, leaving a horrifying scene in front of the trio.

Trickles of blood dripped off his scale, staining the floor and Sasuke's wings were drooping uselessly on the floor, the muscle that were supposed to keep it aloft and working were weakened and bloodied.

"This...is the kind...of punishment I face...if I disobey...Orochimaru..." Sasuke ground out, as he hissed in pain when he tried to lift up his wings.

"Oi...Sasuke-teme, you ok?" Naruto asked, as he tried to move forward to inspect Sasuke's wounds.

"Yes...I'm fine..." Sasuke muttered, Sakura's eyes flashed angrily and she yelled "No you're not, stop acting all tough and everything in the world is fine to you because you need medical attention, NOW!"

Sasuke's tail whipped forward and he slammed it on the wooden floor, making it groan and crack slightly. "When have I said everything in the world is fine, my family's dead and I'm reduced to nothing but a monster that no one knows!" He bit out angrily.

The cuts under his scales continued to trickle out blood and deepen, but he ignored it and continued "I don't need your useless help, you know you're weak right? All you do is care about how I act, I choose to do my own decisions not you. So stop your uselessness because I'm FINE."

Sakura was quiet and Naruto and Mebuki slowly backed away from the duo. Suddenly she surged forward and punched Sasuke in the jaw. Her hit made him fly backwards and destroy the wall behind him.

Her eyes flashed in fury and she screamed "Fine, I'm useless! Okay?! Are you happy?! I shouldn't have forgiven you last time, I only pitied you. I hope you die in hell Uchiha, oh and don't think about anyone helping you with your wounds then, Bastard."

With that she stomped out the room, slamming the door off it's hinges and ran off. Naruto sighed and looked sadly at Sakura's disappearing figure.

"Sasuke-teme, you really messed up this time..." He muttered and he left the room to comfort Sakura.

Mebuki stared at Sasuke, unable to comprehend how Sasuke was so ill tempered and rude now, although Sakura had hit a nerve. "I'm disappointed in you Sasuke-kun, what would your mother say now. I guess everyone changes..." She said sadly and she walked out the destroyed room, calling some servants to inform the builders about the wall Sakura destroyed.

Sasuke stayed silent, but he flinched as his deep wounds further deepened, he hacked out blood as internal bleeding started to affect his body. Slowly he shifted onto his legs and walked away from his old home.

Halfway to the closed off cave, he finally gave into the pain and collapsed. A silver haired and bespectacled shinobi appeared and carried him off with the help of a few other ninjas.

Tears trickled down her face as she ran away from her room. Naruto soon caught up and said "Don't worry about Sasuke-teme, he's always been socially awkward and emotionally retarded. Don't take the words he said to heart, because most of the time he actually doesn't mean it."

"Yeah but that doesn't mean he should call people useless, especially someone like me. I don't want to sound self conceited but I've worked so hard under Tsunade-sama and Kakashi-sensei, and then being judged weak because I'm a princess, really hits the nerve..." Sakura said softly.

Naruto shook his head and said "Well tell ya what, let's go train with Kakashi-sensei tomorrow, that'll take your mind off of teme."

Sakura nodded her and head said "Yeah...sure. Arigatou Naruto. I have to move to guest room since I destroyed my room."

Naruto grinned and said "No problem, and don't give up!" With that he left to his own quarters.

Sakura sighed and walked into the guest room she was assigned to, half an hour later, she was sound asleep, dreaming about meeting Sasuke in his human form and spending time with him.

Sasuke awoke to the dim lights of the operating table, he felt cold metal beneath his bare back. When he opened his heavy eyelids, he noticed that he was positioned on the table, shirtless. There was blood spattered everywhere and syringes piled up in a neat bundle next to him, a single scalpel coated with blood sat in a tray.

When he lifted his hand to touch his temples he noticed that his skin was scaly and something around his eyes pulsed with chakra. He was in his cursed form, but every kind of serum Orochimaru had injected in him was activated, leaving him scarred with recently healed cuts and all kinds of monstrous protrusions sticking out.

He sat up slowly, not in pain but more of the weight of the heavy protrusions and his grogginess.

He then stood up and walked into his temporary quarters, inspecting himself in the mirror, Sasuke's heart sank. He was horribly disfigured, his face was fine except his cheekbones had a lining of scales covering it and he had Orochimaru's purple markings accentuating his eyes.

His hair had streaks of raven lining it, almost like highlights, and a pair of small horns poked out at the top of his head, while his ears had become pointed like an Elf's, much to his dissatisfaction.

The part of his body that was disfigured was his upper body, because of all the protrusions sticking out of his back. He had become more muscular, instead of being lean and muscular, his body seemed to be more like Naruto's yet slightly having more muscle mass. Though the Fuin no Ryuu was still marked at the bottom left of his stomach and pulsed with dark chakra.

He preferred to be more built for agility than power but now he was forced to be like this, his gray, high collared and normally loose shirt, seemed to hug close to his body, making him feel very uncomfortable, once he struggled and managed to slip it on.

He still had his hand-shaped wings but there were those bone protrusions sticking out from his spine and he had a pair of snakes also connected at the bottom of the base of his wings, they slithered around his wings and curled up to rest there.

He once again also had the strange tail and it also had bones sticking out along with flame like marks covering his legs when he pulled up his pant legs to check. All in all, one word could describe him: Monstrous.

The only thing that was better was that all his wounds were treated. Walking out of the room, Sasuke decided he should head back to the cave rather than stay here with that pedophile.

As he walked down the long hallways, he heard murmurs of gossip coming from the Sound ninjas. He caught words like "horrifying", "disgraceful" and "shameful", his fist clenched tightly and his claws dug into his skin and he grit his teeth as he exited the hideout.

Why did everything have to be directed at him, not some other person. He seemed to attract bad luck and hatred and it was leaving him emotionally and physically in pain.

Walking past a small field near his cave, he heard clanging of kunais and the sound of a punch reverberating around the field. Sasuke moved in closer and saw that it was Sakura, Naruto and his old mentor Hatake Kakashi.

He stood in the shadows for awhile and watched the trio duel, until Kakashi threw a kunai straight at him and said "You've been watching us for quite a while, come out now...Sasuke."

Sasuke inwardly muttered about Kakashi's Sharingan and how it wasn't helping him with the situation, but he stayed put and didn't move from his position.

"Sasuke-teme, come out already it's fine." Naruto called out, but Sakura stayed silent.

Sasuke clenched his teeth and snarled "No it's not fine, I was just experimented on by that stupid snake bastard, why should I come out looking like this."

He pulled out a cloak from one of his sealing armbands and covered it over his head, effectively hiding him. He stayed silent, but he was pushed out when something behind him gave a soft kick behind.

Looking behind he saw a shadow clone of Sakura right before it dissipated. Sakura then proceeded to take his cloak off and he flinched away from her. But the piece of cloth still slipped off, revealing his horrific form to everyone in broad daylight.

Sasuke looked away when he saw Sakura's horrified expression, a piece of his already hatred influenced heart broke. He had truly lost a friend now, there was no way she would forgive him like last time.

It surprised him when Sakura rushed forward and embraced Sasuke tightly, her petite yet muscular frame shaking slightly, as she cried onto his shoulder.

"How could you do this to yourself..." She whispered as she pulled him in even closer. Sasuke's features softened slightly, as he reluctantly pulled into her embrace.

Naruto and Kakashi moved out somewhere, to leave the couple alone, but they spied on them behind some bushes.

"I'm...sorry..." Sasuke muttered out as he buried his face in Sakura's pink locks and his snakes entwined around her arms. Sakura pulled away and smiled slightly.

"You're just lucky, I'm forgiving you." She said quietly and with that she turned around and walked away, leaving a very stunned Sasuke behind.

Yay, done with chapter 10, hope this was good enough for you guys :D I hate it when I make Sasuke OOC, but I guess this kinda fit the scene. The normal him, would've pushed her away and left or he would probably tease her indirectly, like in Naruto Gaiden when Sakura asked him for a kiss lol.

Anyways, R&R Ja!