K.L.K- okay... well, I have no idea if this will be the last chappie or not... hmm... if you want me to write more chapters, and instead of posting another story, just use a timeskip, PLEASE tell me! I don't own Naruto, sorry to dissapoint.

Sakura- well... she's going to tell more about the Haruno family. greeeeeeeeat. T-T

K.L.K- yes, well, this chappie is to give a more... insightful approach to this story. it explains how the Demon got into her, and how her parents reacted, all the way up until the massecre. enjoy!


0o0-FIVE YEARS BEFORE MASSECRE: IN THE HARUNO HOUSEHOLD-0o0

a baby's cry rang throughout the birthing room. the heads of the clan, Hitari and Kanaki Haruno were sitting there, marveling at thier baby daughter. she had pink hair, with the Haruno green eyes. she looked more like Hitari than Kanaki though.

"she's so... beautiful." they breathed.

"Dear, what should we name her?" Kanaki asked, her long red hair put into a slightly messy bun on the top of her head.

"her name should be... Sakura Haruno." the man smiled.

"hai, it suits her." the woman nodded.

Skip three months. Sakura is laying in her crib inside her room, while her parents sleep. a woman- at least it appears to be one- comes through the window, and smiles gently, slight fangs poking through her soft pink lips. she has redish-purple eyes, with black hair streaming like silk ribbons in the breeze as she walked over to the crib.

she has beautiful pale skin- but OH! what's this? she has two black fox-ears and ten tails tipped in white swing behind her, as the soft, shiny hair had just done a moment before. the whisker-marks on the kind-looking woman's cheek flex with the slight smile she gives the tiny, pink haired infant, who is smiling brightly back.

Sakura, even though just a baby, nows that the woman isn't here to hurt her, or take her, or anything of the sort. the calm arua soothes the little Haruno, much like cool water on a fresh burn, or milk after spicy salsa.

"hello, little one. I am Usui, the Ten-tailed demon kitsune. I am here to make you my container. you are strong willed, and will be very powerful one day, even without my help. I am sorry if I am going to cause you any grief, but I will protect you and heal you, and even sometimes help you in any way possible. I promise, and demon's keep to thier word." she smiled, and caressed the infant's cheek. she put her hand on the head of the infant, and turned into a crimson-purple chakra, that flowed into the girl, taking place in a cage that was somehow inside.

the baby Sakura just made happy noises, much like a baby does when it is content with something. she felt the calming arua of the kitsune, and her young eyes fluttered closed, and sleep set in.

0o0-FOUR YEARS BEFORE THE HARUNO MASSECRE: THE HARUNO HOUSEHOLD-0o0

one-year old Sakura Haruno blinked as she made tiny cooing noises at the white buterflies that fluttered to be about her on the flowers inside the secret garden her family had in her home. her Otousan and Okaasan were very proud of the girl, but had no idea of her...uh, lets just say, demon buddy she had inside her young but still very brilliant mind.

her Okaasan and Otousan were laying together, under a cherry blossom tree, snoozing under the shade of the pink blossoms, when they stirred, and looked at thier daughter, playing in the sunlight and foliage they had grown there.

"K-Kitsune." the young girl stuttered out after many tries.

they both looked in shock. "what did you say, Saku-chan?" Hitari asked, rushing over to his sweet young daughter.

"Kitsune." she squealed happily. "Kitsune A-...Are S-Saku's f-...-friends." the young girl spoke in a broken sentence.

"what do you mean, Sakura-chan?" her mother asked while smiling after she had kneeled by the young girl.

"Usui-c-chan i-...-is m-my friend." the young girl squealed happily.

"U-Usui?" her father asked. this just... COULDN'T be THAT Usui! only the Haruno knew of that demon.

"yeah! U-Usui-c-chan has t-this many pretty tails!" the girl squealed, then held up all ten of her fingers.

"Saku-chan..." they said shocked. they drew away from the girl a bit.

"she's a monster..." the woman spoke in a broken tone. "she's a demon... a demon..." she turned hateful eyes on the young blossom. she repeated this, muttering it as she got up and ran into the house.

"Saku-chan...you're a container." her father whispered as he turned and left the young child in the garden, confused to as what she had done.

"w-what did Saku-chan do wrong?" she asked the empty garden, and then cried silently, her head down.

'Saku-chan... they're right. I am a demon. I'm sorry for not telling you sooner... this could have been avoided. I'm so sorry!' Usui cried out from the girl's mind.

'no! it's fine, Usui-chan. it's fine... they would have figured it out sooner or later, anyway. I'm sorry too. now they'll try to take you away from me...'the girl cried even more, fisting her hands in the grass. ' I messed up very bad.'

she could hear her mother's shouts and cries, and her father yelling on a sort of hushed tone. she blinked the tears from her young face, and put on a happy front. they'll probably pretend that nothing ever happened.

0o0-THREE YEARS TILL HARUNO MASSECRE: THE HARUNO HOUSEHOLD-0o0

"Saku-chan?" Hitari Haruno called out to his sweet young daughter. he had forgiven her, in aspects to the demon, and he treated her the same.

his wife, Kanaki... she had gone a little nutso, to put it bluntly. she called Sakura 'monster' and 'abomination' or even 'thing', never by her name. she was deathly afraid of demons, though. she'd nearly died in the fight against the Kyuubi, as her younger brother wasn't so lucky.

he had died, a direct hit by the giant kitsune, and she had been splattered by his blood. she had always been teetering on that edge between sanity and the opposite, since that had happened.

she walked up to him, wobbling slightly as she was still young and her head was, like most childrens', a bit too big for the body it was on. "Hai Otousan?"

"I want to start to teach you how to read, is that okay?" he asked.

"Hai. I would like that." she smiled. "Arigatou."

they went to the library, and he picked out a rather easy book for her to learn from, and a few books made just for the purpose.

skip five months, and you'd see the little Cherry Blossom sitting in one of the large, worn chairs that resided in the library, and she was flipping through a good-sized book that had many pages. she had taken immidiately to reading, as she had in talking, and she even knew the alphabet, a infinate amount of numbers and how to spell words that a average fifth-grader may not even know how to begin.

her father was very proud. his daughter was a genius! she was reading, writing, knew the alphabet and spelled better than a average ten-year old. he was very proud, but was worried about his wife's attitude toward the little girl. he had walked in on the woman, and she had been yelling and screaming at the little girl, who was crying and rocking herself in a fetal position in a corner as her mother's verbal onslaught insued.

"YOU'RE A MONSTER! A ABOMINATION NOT WORTHY OF THE FAMILY NAME OR EVEN OF LIFE! YOU ARE A DISPICABLE, DEGRADING CREATURE TO EVEN BE AROUND!"

"M-Momma... p-p-please... p-p-please s-stop." the little girl whispered over and over. she rocked herself, trying to mentally get away from her ranting mother.

"YOU'RE A DEMON! A SICK, TWISTED CREATURE! YOU DESERVE TO DIE!"

"p-please..." she sobbed, her entire form racked with terrified sobs. her green eyes were wide, unseeing and unfocused as streams of salty tears ran from them much like a river does after a heavy rain.

"YOU AREN'T HUMAN! YOU'RE A ATROCITY TO THE HARUNO FAMILY! I'M SORRY THAT YOU WERE EVER CONCIEVED!"

the pinkette's lips trembled as she rocked herself more.

"Kanaki." Hitari's deep voice resonated off the walls. "stop. you're scaring her."

"H-Hitari..." she gasped. "sorry.. I walked in here, and she w-was surrounded by crimson-purple chakra.. demonic chakra... she was playing with it... I snapped, I'm sorry!" she cried out, then flung herself at the man, and after she had pretended to pass out, and he was carrying her over his shoulder, and she could see the room, she gave the little girl a vicious snarl/smirk before the door shut behind her.

she had gotten away with doing it for the first time in the young pinkette's life.

0o0-TWO YEARS TILL HARUNO MASSCRE: THE PARK IN KONOHA-0o0

Sakura wistfully smiled at all the playing kids around her. she would never be one of them, she was what her mother had said, others shunned her because of her strangely-coloured hair and piercing green eyes. many called her a demon because of that very reason, not knowing that they were partly right.

Usui had made some changes in the small three-year old's appearance, such as her eyes being slightly tilted, and her nails a bit sharper and a tad longer than other childrens'. her teeth were a teeny bit more pointed than most thought normal, and she talked in third person, because she liked to. it made her feel like she actually exsisted in a world where she was majorly ignored by anybody but her father, or screamed at by her mother.

she had one fucked up home-life, for sure. she saw the other kids in her clan, they were treated with love, respect, kindness. she knew she didn't get any of that love and care because of what she was- rather what was inside her that made her so- and she hated it. she hated it so damn much... but she always took a deep breath, perked up, and tried to be optimistic.

she was incredibly mature for her age, while she saw the other clan kids beign, well... KIDS. they laughed, they had friends, they played with thier siblings, which she had none. -her parents had been trying to have a child way before she was born, and had ultimately failed until she had been born- and she sometimes wished she did.

she looked up to the sky as she half-heartedly pushed herself on the swing she currently sat at. she bearly moved at all, not much at all, so she was barely pushing herself. she heard the hateful whispers of the group of bullies.

"she's a demon!"

"she supposedly shouldn't have been born!"

"I heard that she drove her mother crazy!"

"she doesn't belong. she's a freak of nature!"

she lowered her head, and the tears coursed down her cheeks. she gripped onto the chains holding up the swing she resided on for the time being. the tears made slightly dark spots on the mulchy ground, with little speckles that were slivers of grass that had taken root sometimes catching the salty tears, then letting them fall down while they glistened in the bright, cheery sunlight.

"oh LOOK! the Demon girl is crying!"

"she's pathetic!"

"she's WEAK!"

"she's such a freak!"

"she doesn't deserve to have unmarred skin! GET THE DEMON GIRL!" a boy bellowed, and the little girl who had been trembling slightly was pushed hard from the back, and she landed heavily. they started kicking and punching at her.

this continued for longer than the -now beaten and bruised- girl could count. 'Usui-chan! HELP!'

'I...do you want them to die? I do not want anymore accusations of you being a demon, okay Saku-chan? they'll try to kill you if I defend you.'

the small girl weped on the inside. 'o-okay Usui-- OW!' she winced from the well-placed kick on her sore ribs.

"OI! leave her alone!" a deep, emotionless voice commanded, and all the children scuttled away in fear. the little girl was about to thank the person, but thought it better to get up, so she got on ehr hands and knees and tried to stand, then was forced down with the force of the coughs racking her small body. she spit the red substance she knew was blood onto the dark brown and green, it contrasting deeply.

she wiped her mouth and got up shakily. she turned to see the person who had saved her. it was a kid only a few years older than her, he had coal-black eyes, pale skin, and long black hair in a loose ponytail.

"A-Arigatou Gazimasu sir." she bowed. "I appreciate your help."

he nodded, his face blank. "Hn. they looked like they were trying to beat you to death. why?"

she flinched, and then her hair moved to cover her eyes from view. "they s-say I'm a d-demon... I d-don't know why they're cruel... my family hates me too." she said just as emotionlessly as ever as she did, and peered at him through her pink bangs. "oh! forgive my bad manners. my name is Haruno Sakura."

"mine is Uchiha Itachi. you're awfully well-versed at a young age." he observed.

"I've a-always been that way. father says so." she nodded.

"what about your mother?" he quirked his eyebrow.

"she..." her voice faltered. "she and I don't really get along."

"Aa." he nodded. "would you like to meet my Ototou? he needs some more friends."

she flashed a bright, but fake smile. "sure! Sakura would like some friends too." she flinched. "oh, I'm sorry. I talk in third person alot. I apoligize Itachi-san."

he chuckled. "it's alright. please call me Itachi, though."

she nodded. "okay, Itachi." the name without the honorific felt strange on her tongue, not bad, but still... strange. he walked over to a tree where she could see a small boy sitting under it. he had a look of childlike innocence about him, and his hair was as black as his onyx eyes, and his hair was in a style somewhat similar to a cockatoo, and he had slightly odd-ish clothes on, a black high-collared t-shirt with white shorts and simple blue sandals liek they all had on his feet.

"Aniki, who is she?" the boy asked.

"this is Haruno Sakura. she was getting beaten up by other children older than her, and I stopped them. she want's to be your friend, Sasuke." he nodded ,a very slight smile on his face.

"Hi, Sakura-chan!" the boy waved enthusiastically. "my name is Uchiha Sasuke!"

she nodded. "Aa. nice to meet you, Sasuke-san." she bowed slightly.

he smiled brightly. "please just call me Sasuke! are you going ot go to the Academy when you turn five? I am! Aniki told me he'd help get me ready for it!"

she smiled softly. "my family wants me to be a kunoichi, and I think it would be a good career choice. I dont' want to be more than a burden than I have to be." her green eyes sparkled. she had a friend at last! they chatted and played, and then a boy came wandering over. he had on a shirt with a leaf-symbol on the front, he had blonde hair and slightly sadened sky-blue eyes with three whisker-marks on his cheeks.

he walked over to the swing on the tree and sat down. they two young kids walked over to him.

"Hi!" Sakura greeted. "I'm Haruno Sakura, what's your name?"

he looked at her. "Uzumaki Naruto." he droned. he looked... sad. just like Sakura usually was.

"what's wrong, Naruto-san?" she asked as she sat cross-legged in front of him.

"the villagers hate me... they threw rocks at me." he frowned. "they called me a.. a monster, a demon."

she nodded. "I know what you mean, Naruto-san. they do to me too. but you don't look like either of those!"

he smiled at her. "you don't either, Sakura-chan! do you want to be my friend?"

she nodded, and gave a soft smile. "Hai! I'd love to be your friend. I usually had no friends, but I have two! OH!"she looked over to Sasuke.

he smiled at the blonde, and plopped down next to the smiling pinkette. "my name is Uchiha Sasuke."

the boy grinned. "glad to meet ya, Sasuke!"

while they chatted, Itachi watched them with a slight smile.

"OI! Demon girl, why are you by Sasuke-kun?!" two girls schreeched at the pinkette, and attacked her. they landed a few punches, and it was five minutes before Itachi could help the young girl, but... he didn't have to.

"GET THE HELL OFF ME!" the young girl screamed, throwing them off her, then her eyes widened in surprise. "I-I mean... Gomen-nasai. I-I..." she flinched and turned away from all of them. the girls launched themselves at her, and kicked her once in the face, then another time in her sore and bruised ribs. she flew into the trunk of the tree, and when she landed she spit up some blood, and coughed some more. she wiped her mouth again. she was silent.

"Sakura-chan? are you okay?" the two asked at the same time.

she nodded. "H-Hai. they do that alot. whenever I retailiate they think I'm even more of a demon... I'm just a regular girl though." her lips wobbled a bit but she forced them in a fake smile. "W-What time is it, Itachi?" she asked the older Uchiha.

"it's around three p.m, why?" he asked with his eyebrow quirked.

"well... my father is going to teach me how to use kunai... I have to g-go now. I'll be here everyday, okay?" she cheerfully smiled, but it hid her pain. she got up and had a slight limp that she hid very well, and she raced out of the park, dashing inbetween kids and parents thant tried to spit on her or throw things onto her.

they all looked after her with slightly concerned faces.

A few weeks later, and she had stopped getting beaten up, at least when she was with Sasuke, Naruto, and most of the time Itachi. she had friends for the first time in her life! she was really, REALLY happy. she was just talking idly with them all about what type of jutsu they would probably be good in, when all of a sudden she was jerked up, and she let out a cry of pain.

a bully twice her size had yanked her up, and she looked fearfully into his face. he had a ugly snarl across his common features, and he shook her roughly. "what, little demon girl? aren't you going to kill me?" he snarled.

"I-I haven't k-killed anyone!" she stuttered in fear.

"So? that doesn't mean that you aren't a demon!" he snarled, then threw her into a tree and her body made a slight indent.

"O-OW!" she cried out. "W-Why a-are you d-doing t-this?" she sobbed. "I-I've never h-hurt a-anyone i-in m-my l-life!" she hunched over, both from the pain and suffering.

"oh yeah? I heard that you made your mother go insane! that you constantly hurt your family! what do you have to say to that, demon girl?" he sneered.

"I-I haven't h-hurt a-anybody!" she cried, then she was jerked up by her arm. "O-OW!"

"oh yeah? I bet you have a LOT of bloodlust, then! I bet you want to kill the whole DAMN VILLAGE!"

she shook her head furiously side to side, her salty tears flying everywhere. "NO! I DON'T WANT TO HURT OR KILL ANYONE! WHY DOES EVERYBODY TORTURE ME?! WHY CAN'T YOU LEAVE ME ALONE!" she screamed. all of a sudden, two different hands punched the bully. one was Itachi's, and the other's was... a boy that didn't look more than a year older than her.

he had pearly-white eyes, and his hair was in a loose, long ponytail, the chocolate-brown strands held back by bandages in his forehead.

he nodded at the small girl. "are you okay?"

she nodded shakily. "H-Hai." she shakily got up. "my name is Haruno Sakura." she bowed respectfully.

"I am Hyuuga Neji." he bowed back.

she flinched from the bow. "please, do not bow to me... I'm not worth it." she had her eyes hooded from sight. "I really dont' have much worth." she smiled so fakely anyone could see it.

"you do know if you smile fakely, it only hurts the people you are close to." he said sagely.

the smile dropped from her face and it turned emotionless. "Hai, I know." she whispered.

he coughed. "yes, well your father sent me to come get you. he's been looking for about fifteen minutes already. he said something about a... 'clan ceremony'?" he raised a brown eyebrow.

the other three gaped. 'clan ceremony?!' they didn't know she was from a clan at all!

she gasped. "oh! that ceremony! I'd better get going, my cousin's ceremony is taking place today! Gomen-nasai for your troubles Hyuuga-san!" she bowed, and then she ran off, back out of the place. she met with a silver-headed man, who had green eyes and white robes. he smiled at her before htey headed back, away from thier line of sight.

the three friend's of the Blossom looked at each other. unspoken words rang through thier minds, as they all went to thier homes as well.

when the chery blossom got home, she cleaned herself up, and dressed in her black ceremonial robes, with her short hair pinned up, and makeup covering her bruises. she smiled at the mirror, before the door opened to reveal her mother, snarled look on her face.

she walked ot the blossom and started the verbal abuse she had uysed for over a year, and when that had no effect, what happened?

the first hit was landed.

0o0- ONE YEAR BEFORE THE HARUNO MASSECRE: UCHIHA HOUSEHOLD -0o0

Sakura threw the kunai and shruiken with presicion that many genin would be envious of. they all hit the bulls-eye, and Itachi smirked.

"very good Sakura. see, that time you cleared your mind, correct?" he nodded down at her.

"Hai." she nodded, and gave him a soft smile she only gave to her closest friends, Naruto, Sasuke, and him, along with Neji. she met a kid named Shikamaru and played Shogi against him, and she was really good. they almost always had a tie or close win on either side. Chouji was his friend, and she had made a friend out of him also, and Neji's cousin Hinata was her first female friend, other than Usui.

Sasuke went up, and got nearly all of them. "aww." he frowned. "I have to get them all!" he exclaimed, then got all of them.

"clear your mind, Sasuke!" she called ouyt to him.

he nodded. "I'll try Sakura-chan!" he threw them, and they all hit bulls-eye.

she gave a smile to him. "great job!"

"hn." his brother grunted, and poked him in the forehead.

"Aniki!" the boy whined.

the girl chuckled.

"Sakura-chan!" Mikoto called out.

"Hai?" she asked, looking to where the woman was and bowing to her.

"it's time for you to go home." the woman smiled.

"Hai, Mikoto-sempai." she mowed slightly, then pretty soon she had said her goodbye's and was walking home. she felt the hateful stares and heard the even more hate-filled whispers of the villagers as she walked down the street, her training dress was black instead of red today.

someone threw rotten tomatoes at her, but she kept on going, dodging the projectiles as she walked odwn the street, slightly whistling like Itachi had taught her to do. she went inside her home, and immidiately her mother picked her up by her hair, and dragged her into a random room for her little 'talk' with her daughter to begin.

0o0- THE DAY OF THE MASSECRE -0o0

Sakura opened her eyes and nearly jumped from her bed, as she pulled on her clothes, along iwth her gear her father had given her. a black kunai holster and a pouch too, and she wore her usual black Haruno training dress, with her usual black shorts and black sandals, with her hair hiding her forehead and hanigng over her eyes a bit.

she walked out of the house as quickly as she could, grabbing a granola bar and water bottle, before racing to the academy. she got put into Iruka's room, and she sat down in the second row, to the left, when a bunch of girls came in, and they started to sit next to her before they looked at her and screeched, "IT'S THE DEMON GIRL!" and ran to the other side of the room.

the pinkette sighed, and her green eyes unfocused as she slipped into a daydream.

pretty soon, she was out of her trance, and they were learning what you needed to know to be a shinobi. she got good marks, and she knew she would because she was a unclaimed, unknown genius. she smiled as she got out, with her first paper that got a A-plus, and she said her goodbye to her friends, before heading home. she walked in, and went to her room. she was just smiling, looking at her paper before her door opened, and in stepped her mother.

"Saku-chan! be careful! your father is strict about these things!"


K.L.K- and there, ya have it. the mysteries of her past unsolved are now solved. sorry for the wait. I know what classes I have now! (grins) YESHH! but my Homebase or Homeroom teacher is upstairs and my LOCKER is downstairs...(sigh) yeah, THAT'LL be SOO fun. (sarcasm)

Sakura- well, please review!

K.L.K- should she have a bloodlimit, or should the demon be enough? she hasn't helped Sakura fight yet! sorry if I made her mother too mean.. but it was neccesary. her ya go!

(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)

K.L.K- I took away number five because she already has a demon...

Sakura- wow. I didn't expect half of these twists! O.O

K.L.K- (nervous laughter) uhm.. neither did I!

Sakura- (gaping at K.L.K) WHAT!?

K.L.K- O.O uhh... gtg!! (runs off)

Sakura- DX K.L.K!! REVIEW readers! please. I'mma og catch her! K.L.K, GET YOUR ASS BACK HERE!

K.L.K- runaway, runaway! (gets chased)