I'm sorry I took so long, but the truth is I got addicted to an anime called Special A. It was really good but I hated the ending so I started reading the manga. SO SORRY! So I dedicated my whole week off from school to finish this chapter!

Sasuke: You should be sorry. You made so many people wait.

Me: Like you care.

Sasuke: I don't, Sakura made me read from this card.

Me: Oh okay. WELL I'M SO SORRY SAKURA-CHAN! PLEASE FORGIVE ME!

Sakura: I do Kumiko-chan it's okay.

Me: -sniff- Thank you Sakura-chan can you please say the disclaimer.

Sakura: Sure, Kumiko-oneechan doesn't own Naruto.

Me: YAY! Start the story!

"Talking"

'Thinking' Dream

"Jutsu"

Inner

Recap:

My eyesight was slowly getting fuzzy and I found myself flat on the ground. The last thing I saw was Sasuke staring straight at me in surprised and Anko just came and looked at me before I completely blacked out.

My eyes fluttered open and I saw right in front of me was Naruto, who was looking at me with concern. I held my head in pain and slowly got up.

"Nice job kid, you just killed an S-ranked criminal." A voice said. I looked up and saw Anko smirking at me.

"Thanks, but I have a feeling it's not over." I said weakly. Her smirk turned into a frown as she asked,

"What now then?"

"Keep an eye on Kabuto." I replied. She nodded and disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"What was that?" Naruto asked confused.

"You don't have to worry Naruto, let's just keep on going." He shrugged as we started walking towards the tower. Sasuke stayed quiet the whole time. He would sometimes steal glances at me but that's it.

I expected he'd come and ask me questions but he didn't. I just shrugged it off and looked forward. All three of us kept quiet for about an hour. We then stopped and set up a campfire for lunch. When we finished cleaning up the Sound ninja found us.

"We have come for Sakura Haruno." The guy wrapped in bandages said. The boys suddenly got in their fighting stances and stood in front of me.

"Like hell we'd give her to you." Naruto sneered. I wanted to help them but my chakra was low and I was still beat up from fighting Orochimaru. I cursed silently as I tried to get up.

"So be it." The bandaged guy said. He jumped at Naruto as the other guy and girl jumped at Sasuke. I watched helplessly as Naruto and Sasuke were slowly losing to the Sound ninjas. I felt tears in my eyes as I watched them both get knocked out.

"Stop it." I whispered. I started feeling like I did before I started training with Tsunade: useless, helpless and weak. As they were coming towards me, I closed my eyes and waited for death, but it never came.

I opened my eyes and saw Lee in front of me. He flashed a smile at me and gave me a thumbs up as he got into his fighting stance. He then started fighting the Sound-nins and was having a hard time. I felt a tear falling down my cheek as I watch Rock Lee fall as well.

"Stop it." I said louder but no one seemed to have heard me. Then Ino's team came out of their hiding place and went after the Sound-nins. Ino looked at me and smirked. She then mouthed,

"I'm going to win" at me. I just looked at her with blank eyes as her whole team got ready for the fight. My tears then started flowing down my cheeks as I watched my best friend and her team get beat.

"STOP IT!" I yelled. This time everyone heard me and turned their attention towards me. I suddenly felt a burst of chakra go through my body as I slowly stood up.

"I will not watch helplessly as my friends die again!" I yelled at the Sound-nins. I felt my eyes on my bloodline as the Sound-nins looked at me with fear. I transported in front of them and did a round kick on all three of them.

They all slammed into a tree. One of them stood up and said,

"That was a lucky shot but let's see if you can dodge this." He did some handsigns and yelled,

"Zankuukyokuha!(1)" A burst of air came out of his hands as he directed it at everyone. I quickly put everyone under a tree before the air hit any of us. I went in front of the cocky boy after his jutsu as he stared at me in surprise.

I transported behind him, bent him down, put my foot on his back and brought his arms behind his back. I pulled his hands forward as he screamed in pain.

"You are too cocky for your own good. You will die quickly if you keep this up. I wonder how you'll do without your precious hands?" I told him. I was about to break his hands but I heard a voice plead,

"Stop Sakura! This isn't like you!" I realized the voice was Ino's as I loosened my grip on the nin's arms. I quickly knocked him out and transported five feet in front of the Sound-nins. The bandaged guy picked up his teammates and said,

"You are too strong for us but I will fight you again."

"Just go before I change my mind and kill you." I replied bitterly. He jumped away and disappeared into the forest. My chakra went back to being low as I ran to Ino. I hugged her and started crying on her shoulder.

She was surprised but wrapped her arms around me and said nothing. My crying stopped as I said,

"I'm so sorry Ino but I couldn't watch my friends die too." She grabbed my shoulders and made me look at her straight in the eyes.

"What do you mean 'too'?" She asked as she furrowed her eyebrows in confusion.

"My parents died, they were murdered." I answered. Ino gasped and hugged me. She knew not to say anything about it. I let go of her and looked at the boys.

"Thank you guys, I couldn't have done it without you." Naruto flashed his smile that I love so much, Sasuke grunted, Lee did the Gai pose, Choji just shrugged and Shikamaru muttered troublesome.

I playfully rolled my eyes and gave each of them a hug and a kiss on their cheeks. They all blushed as Ino and I giggled.

"We should go forehead, but friends again?" Ino asked. I smiled and answered,

"Friends, Ino-pig." We laughed as I grabbed Sasuke and Naruto.

"See you later Sakura-san!" Lee yelled. I giggled and said,

"Bye Lee." We left and walked silently again to the tower.

"Let's rest." I said as I looked at the sky. The boys nodded and set camp near a lake. After we finished Sasuke said he'd keep watch. Naruto shrugged and fell asleep. I sweatdropped at Naruto and then shrugged too. I lied down on the ground and rested.

~Dream~

I started running towards my house. I felt something wrong in my gut while I was at the hospital. I ran in front of what's left of my street and stopped outside my door.

The outside of my house was fine but when I opened the door I found something horrible. My parents lied dead on the kitchen floor and in front of their dead bodies was Orochimaru.

'I'm too late.' I thought as my eyes watered.

"Ah, Sakura-chan, it seems I killed your parents. My bad, oh well." Orochimaru said to me. My eyes flashed in anger as I attacked him straight on. He dodged it easily and smiled a creepy smile.

"Now I won't kill you or your precious friends. I'll leave that for Sasuke-kun. Ja ne." he said as he disappeared. I quickly ran out of my house and started looking for all my friends. I then found Naruto and Sasuke fighting.

Then while Naruto was down all of the Rookie 9 and Team Gai went up against Sasuke one by one. And one by one, they were getting killed by Sasuke without a hint of emotion.

Ino, Shikamaru, Choji, Neji, Tenten, Lee, Kiba, Shino, Hinata, and even Akamaru were getting killed as I watched helplessly. I knew I was crying as hard as I could when I saw them fall.

Naruto got back up with blood and tears mixed in his face as he saw everyone dead. He looked at Sasuke with wild eyes and attacked him.

~End Dream~

I shot up and started panting hard. I felt sweat and tears mixed on my face and quickly wiped them off. I looked around and saw Naruto still fast asleep and Sasuke still taking watch. I looked up at the sky and saw it was about an hour that I've been asleep.

'Man but it felt like forever.' I thought I got up and sat next to Sasuke. We sat in silence until he asked,

"How did you do that?" I got confused but remembered and answered,

"I have a kekkei genkai too." He nodded and we went back into silence.

"I want that kind of power, so I can kill my brother." He said bluntly. I gave him an are-you-crazy-look and said,

"You think I like all that power? You think I like killing people? Well I don't, I hate it. I hate having blood stains on my hands, I hate that I don't feel like myself anymore. You saw it yourself! I wasn't me when I was fighting, I was blinded by anger. Trust me, you'll regret killing your brother."

His eyes flashed in anger and he roughly asked,

"How do you know what it's like?" This time I got angry as I yelled,

"Didn't you hear me at all when I was fighting Orochimaru and the Sound-nins? They took everything from me! Even though Orochimaru was an S-class criminal in Konoha I still didn't feel right about killing him!" He stayed quiet as I walked back angry to where I was sleeping.

You lied, you know you felt good about killing Orochimaru.

'Shut up, I was trying to make a point. Leave me alone.' I said to my inner. I laid down and went back to sleep.

Next Day

I opened my eyes and quickly put my things away. I looked at Sasuke and glared as he glared back. Naruto looked at us both confused but shrugged it off. Sasuke and I walked in silence while Naruto was rambling on about ramen.

'Thank Kami-sama we are almost to the tower. I love Naruto but he's giving me a freaking headache.' I thought to myself as I was rubbing my head.

"Naruto! Can you please be quiet for 5 minutes?" I pleaded. He just nodded and became quiet. I sighed in relief but he started singing again. I groaned and covered my ears. I looked over at Sasuke and saw his eye twitching.

The only good thing that was coming out of this is that Sasuke was suffering too. We finally made it to the doors as Naruto said,

"Thanks Kami we finally get to get out of this crappy forest." Just then Kabuto and his teammates came out of the shadows. I growled as he smirked and said,

"Don't worry Sakura-chan; we didn't come to fight you yet."

"Kabuto I've been meaning to tell you…your precious Orochimaru-sama is dead." I said smirking. He widened his eyes and growled at me. My smirk widened as I came face to face with him.

"How could you kill him?" I ignored his question and said,

"There are no remains of him so you can't attach him to your body." He growled again as I continued,

"Don't worry Kabuto; I'll kick your ass too. Just wait and see." He smirked again as I gave his a what-are-you-planning look.

"I'll be waiting Sakura-chan." He turned and went through his door in the tower. I did the same, not bothering to look back at my teammates. We opened the scrolls and Iruka came out.

He did that whole speech thing and then let us through the doors to inside the tower hospital. We rested a bit and ate. Then we went into the arena where we stood in line waiting for the next test.

When the Hokage asked if anyone would like to leave, Kabuto raised his hand and glared at me while he left. While the Hokage told us this was a preliminary exam, Kakashi, Anko and the Hokage were looking at me.

"I'd also like to thank a certain participant who has killed an S-class criminal. We will not name that person." Everyone looked around amazed by the news while I was frozen. Naruto and Sasuke just looked straight trying not to give me away.

"Let's get on with the preliminaries." The Hokage said. Everyone turned their attention to the board that was randomly selecting names.

"Uchiha Sasuke vs. Yoroi Akado."

"Will those two *cough* stay in the arena *cough* and the rest go up into the stands." Said Hayate. Everyone obeyed as the senseis met with their students.

"Naruto stay here, Sakura you and I have to talk." Kakashi commanded. I nodded as I followed Kakashi to a hallway.

Thank you all for waiting! I hope you liked this chapter and I hope you forgive me for taking so long!

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