With much difficulty Sakura and her team finally made it to the tower. They swerved around traps and older teams that Sakura saw coming and were actually able to make it to the tower before the deadline. The sun was shining bright and a small breeze rolled by making Sakura's bubble gum hair blow around her face. She reached up to her hair and pulled part of her bangs behind her ear as Sasuke pulled out the scrolls. He looked at them and Sakura quickly pulled him inside the building.

"We can't open them yet. We have to be inside," Sakura urged as Naruto held the door open for them. The three of them stumbled in to a big empty room. It was quiet the air seemed fresh but that wasn't what Sakura was worried about.

"Sakura now what?" Sasuke asked. Naruto flung around and grabbed Sakura's shoulders trying to find some answers.

"Why does he always ask you what to do?!" Naruto asked like an idiot, "It's not like you can see the future or anything!" He paused, "Can you?" Sakura took one of his hands off of her shoulder and held it with both of hers. She knew that she would have to tell him soon.

"Naruto," Sakura said calmly as Naruto's face began to turn red, "I can. Like Sasuke I have a special ability I can see the future. I saw Orochimaru coming I saw Sasuke get hurt like I did. I saw what would happen in this test. I didn't want to tell you because I thought…I thought that you'd…Oh what's the use?!" She began to pull away but Naruto held her firm.

"You didn't trust me," he said, she stopped, "I wouldn't of asked you to see things for me. Where's the fun of growing up when you can see everything coming at you." Naruto smiled at her with the big warm welcoming grin he would always have waiting for a sad moment like this. Sasuke handed Naruto a scroll and they opened them both. The wind began to blow and there was a large puff of smoke. The smoke engulfed them and Sakura coughed into her arm trying to see through the smoke. A tall dark figure stood in front of them and the smoke suddenly vanished.

"Iruka!" Naruto said with surprise. Iruka looked at him and smiled. Naruto rushed into his arms and with surprise he flung him around like a rag doll. The team had many questions for him and he answered them all along with explaining the reason for everything. He ended with a speech on how proud he was of all three of them. But his expression suddenly grew dark and he looked at Sasuke.

"Sasuke we need to talk," Iruka said. Sasuke followed him into a room off to the side that they had never seen before. Sakura and Naruto made their way across the big room and to the waiting room that held many of the ninja's who had completed before they did. Sakura scanned the room for anywhere she could lay down at. Her head was starting to pound and the curse mark wasn't helping either.

"Sakura are you okay?" Naruto asked, "You look pale." He raised his hand to her forehead and it felt a little warm to the touch.

"I feel fine but it seems like Hinata doesn't," Sakura said as she pointed to unconscious Hinata in Kiba's arms with Akamaru licking her face. Naruto hurried over and Sakura sat on the seat closest to her. She didn't see the boy sitting next to her look over at her with a death stare. She put her hand to her head. It was warm.

"Hey you," he said from beside her, "Who are you?" Sakura jumped and looked at the boy sitting next to her. Garra glared at her with death in his eyes. Sakura smiled at him and his blonde sister looked over at her.

"Sakura, Sakura Haruno," Sakura said as she stuck out her hand to him. He looked at it with disgust and he turned forward. "Sorry," she said quietly to him. He reached for his chest in what seemed like pain. His sister began to back away in fear.

"Garra?" she said as he looked up at her. He didn't have the death in his eyes for a few seconds but he suddenly hardened and looked forward.

"Garra?" Sakura said, "Are you okay?" He looked at her and she began to sneeze. Sakura could see pits of sand in the air around her. She sighed remembering the time when her mother and father took her to the beach. She could suddenly feel the warmth of the sun on her pale skin and the sand beneath her toes. She began to walk towards the cold water where her mother and father were playing.

"Sakura! Snap out of it!" Naruto yelled. She snapped out of her daydream and realized that she was walking towards the window in a trance. She gripped her head as the room began to spin like when you stand up too fast. She wobbled around for a few seconds and caught herself before she crashed to the floor.

"Sakura Haruno," Iruka said quickly as he rushed through the crowd to her. Sasuke appeared in her head cold and dead as her eyes turned red and she gripped her head.

It was dark and Sakura was inside a painted circle with markings on her body that sprang up from the floor. She could feel Kakashi's cold hand on the curse mark and he began to mumble words. She began to scream as the markings from the floor and the rest of her body began to shoot up her skin and surround the curse mark. The pain seemed to flow everywhere in her body and there was no way to stop it.

Her screams stopped and Kakashi watched helplessly as Sakura fell to the ground exhausted from wasting her energy. He then reached down to her pale face and stroked the side of it.

"I promise on the memory of my lost friend that I'll make sure that Naruto, Sasuke and I won't loose you either,"

Sakura woke up on the ground of the waiting room exhausted. She looked up at Sasuke's and Naruto's worried faces. She reached up for something but found Sasuke's hand. Iruka softly pushed Sasuke aside and lifted her into his arms. She couldn't seem to get Sasuke's dead picture out of her head. Sasuke grabbed her hand again; it was warm and so full of life to Sakura that his picture in her head seemed like a figment of her imagination. She looked into his dark eyes that were filled with mysteries that she desired to solve.

"We need to talk Sakura," Iruka said, "Naruto and Sasuke you come too." Sakura looked up at him and nodded, not like she had a choice. They began their trip through the room towards the door weaving their way's towards the door. Iruka had chosen a way that took Sakura back to Garra. She made eye contact with him and she smiled again. Garra couldn't believe that this girl was being nice to him after all he was a monster. The walked out the door and to the bottom floor

"What's going on Iruka?" Naruto asked as the Third Hokage came out from the shadows. He walked slowly over to Sakura and felt her head. Naruto and Sasuke sat down on the farther couch from the door under a window. They sat down on opposite ends of the couch as Iruka shut the door.

"She's in the first stage," he said as he pulled his hand back, "Naruto, Sasuke you have met Orochimaru yes?" They both nodded and the Third pulled a cloth from his robe. He set it onto Sakura's, now asleep, face. She began to glow with her dark red chakra and the cloth absorbed most of it. The rest just dissolved into the air.

"Orochimaru is a traitor to the village," Iruka said as the Third pulled the cloth from her forehead, "He did something that he wasn't allowed to do and he tried to over throw the village. Now that we have proof that he's back we have to have you under strict surveillance. You will be allowed to continue the exam but you must have a Chunin or Jonin with you at all times." Sasuke rolled his eyes, 'I don't want someone else moving in. I can handle Sakura and maybe even Naruto but no adults. Please.' Sakura groaned in her sleep and she sat up.

"You need to rest Sakura," the Third said as she swept past him and next to Sasuke. She looked back at the two men and smiled.

"If I could take on Orochimaru, a legendary ninja, I can take on anything this exam can throw at me,"

I'm so sorry! Everything seems so much longer on Microsoft Word but when they stretch it out like this it really screws me up.

So what do you think of Sakura's new attitiude do you think she can do it? Why is she being so nice to Garra, can she see the light inside of him that no one else can see? Please R&R!!!!

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