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Chapter 14—The Beginning Of The End

Naruto woke up with his previous cheerful state all gone. He thought that having Sasuke back in Konoha was a good thing, but having the Uchiha serve as your personal bodyguard… NOT cool at all. They were treating him like a child who couldn't do anything to protect himself. Who did they think they were kidding? He was Uzumaki Naruto, the next Hokage!

Naruto sighed. He was not in the mood to think about his own long-term goals right now because his mind was still preoccupied about having Uchiha Sasuke keeping a close eye on him all day. The most irritating thing was that his own bodyguard was still a stuck up bossy bastard like always. His bodyguard even ordered him to meet him at the bridge exactly at 8 in the morning.

From his own intellect, bodyguards were supposed to be the ones who followed the orders of the one they're guarding. Well this was Uchiha Sasuke he was talking about and Uchiha Sasuke never gets orders from anyone… most importantly from his own rival, Uzumaki Naruto.

He got out of bed, getting ready for the day ahead, with complaints coming out of his mouth.

In Sakura's own house, things also weren't turning out the way she expected.

"Where's Yuki?" Sakura asked her three friends from the living room. Tsubasa was seated at the dining table eating some of Kimiko's home cooked bacon and eggs. Kimiko was right beside her doing the same thing.

"He went out." Tsubasa said, replaying all the things that happened earlier that morning.

"Where did he go?"

"Walking around the place to get a closer look at Konoha. He said he wanted to be familiar with the place." Kimiko informed her, taking a bite out of her bacon with her eyes closed.

"I was supposed to be with him."

"Who cares?" Another voice joined into the conversation.

Sakura turned around and saw Yukino jump on the couch. "He probably went out to flirt with some more girls. He didn't want to go with us because he knew what would happen if he did that in front of us." She said, shrugging her shoulders.

"He would seriously get beaten up bad." Tsubasa snickered imagining Yuki getting beaten up by Sakura and Yukino.

Sakura sighed.

"So… we're leaving tomorrow, right?" Kimiko asked in confirmation.

"Yeah," Sakura nodded.

"Did you tell them yet?"

Sakura turned to gaze at Yukino, and then dropped on the couch beside her. "No…" she sighed, "… but I'm planning to tell them today though."

"It's a good thing that we're finally getting out of this place… before it even gets involved." Yukino said.

"But isn't it already involved?" Tsubasa asked innocently.

"No—what I mean is before they find out that you're here. Remember what Sumire told us before we left. We can't involve this place any more than it is already. Staying here will not only invite them to find us, but they (Konoha) would get very suspicious too." Yukino said.

Kimiko snorted. "They're already suspicious."

"We can't afford them to find out about Amaterasu, no matter what. They have already adapted peace here, they don't need any more wars and such." Yukino said seriously.

Suddenly, Sakura got up from the couch and started to walk away from the living room.

"Sakura?" Yukino called out to her making her stop before she could completely leave the room. Sakura turned her head to look at Yukino who had a worried expression on her face.

"Are you okay? I noticed you were kind of down yesterday." Yukino said worriedly.

"I'm fine—really!" She gave her a cheerful yet fake smile.

Yukino just sighed. "There you go again…"

"…hiding all of your problems inside you." Kimiko finished for her.

"You know that were always here for you, right." Tsubasa came up to her and gently put her hand to Sakura's shoulder.

Sakura nodded slowly. She turned around and gave them a warm smile. "Thank you… thanks… for caring."

…no matter what Neji says, stick to your feelings no matter what…

Tenten had been sitting on a bench near the park, trying to straighten out her feelings and her worries. Even though she was still hung up on Neji rejecting her the other day, her mind was off thinking about Sakura's words of advice. Of all the things she could have said—why did she have to put it in that way! Why couldn't she have told her what she should do straight on? Tenten sighed. Oh well, she just had to figure it out by herself.

Neji… she thought with tears starting to form in her eyes. She restrained herself from making her tears fall fearing that she wouldn't stop if it started. She didn't want to remember the incident yesterday, but the scene of him rejecting her kept on playing in her mind over and over again.

She suddenly recalled her conversation with Sakura and Ino days before.

I knew you would give up on Sasuke-kun sooner or later.

I don't like Sasuke.

I love him.

How could she have done that? Sakura told them that she still loved Sasuke after all this… eight years perhaps.

Before he left, I told him my feelings for him. I tried really hard to persuade him to stay, but to no avail. He still left.

Even though he rejected her eight years ago, she still felt the same way for him now. So… she didn't care about what Sasuke felt for her eh? She'll love him all the same. "I can't be like you…" She muttered.

"Can't be like who?"

Tenten looked up, startled out of her thoughts. Looking up, she saw her old blonde friend. "Ino."

"Can't be like who?" She repeated. "Who are you talking about?" She asked, taking a seat beside the weapon master.

"Uh…er-uh…" Tenten didn't know what to say. She was too embarrassed and hurt to talk about the incident yesterday.

Figuring out that her friend didn't want to talk about it, Ino decided to drop the topic. "If you don't want to talk about it, its okay. If you want a shoulder to cry on, I'm here for you." Ino grinned, teasing the girl beside her.

Suddenly Tenten's chocolate orbs were filled with tears and soon she was sobbing. She leaned on Ino's shoulder and let all of her sadness out right then and there.

Ino, who didn't expect this to happen, blinked slightly, confused by her friend's actions. Looking at the girl crying on her shoulder, Ino's eyes softened. She just kept quiet and let the girl beside her cry all she wanted.

Yuki was walking on the streets of Konoha. All he wanted was to roam around the place peacefully, but people kept on whispering about him while he was walking. They kept on gossiping about him being an outsider who cannot be trusted, and some also whispered to others about how handsome and hot he is. It seemed like he wasn't even affected by the gossip going on because he acted as calm and cool as ever.

Getting tired and bored of seeing the same houses and structures and getting tired of listening to the people talking about him, he walked towards the forest.

When he arrived at a place surrounded by bamboo trees, he decided to stop there and relax. He took a deep breath, taking as much fresh air as he could hold. He was enjoying his relaxation when he felt a familiar aura near him.

He looked around the whole place to see where the familiar aura was coming from. He got irritated when he couldn't find where the owner's exact location was. "Argh! Come out, whoever you are."

He heard the stranger emit a cold chuckle. He blinked in recognition of the voice. No way… I know this voice. It can't be him.

Detecting the source of the aura precisely, Yuki turned around quickly and saw the person who he did and didn't want to see. He stared at him wide eyed, but his eyes suddenly narrowed in confusion.

"Seiji…"

Kimiko had been boiling the kettle full of water. Somehow she was irritated by the fact, which they had just been staying indoors with boring house chores to do. Good thing the Sound had invaded Konoha days before. Not that she enjoyed them killing the citizens of Konoha mercilessly. She just liked fighting a lot. She would rather do that all day than stay inside the house.

Suddenly she heard footsteps nearby. She turned her head and saw Tsubasa running out of the door. "I'm going out, okay." Tsubasa said, waving to her.

Kimiko nodded, not really caring.

Instead of hearing the bang of the door, Kimiko heard a grunt of pain coming from the aquamarine haired girl. She ignored it, thinking that the girl only banged her head on something by accident.

"What!"

Again she heard it, but somehow this made her curious. She went to the doorway and found Tsubasa in a state of panic. She rushed to her side and saw Tsubasa looking at her reddish palm, which was almost burned to a crisp. "Ugh, what happened?" She said, somehow disgusted with her now burned palm.

Tsubasa walked away and got a chopstick from the kitchen and went back to her. She turned to face her and coaxed her to watch. She brought the chopstick closer until it was really close to the door. When the chopstick touched the door, a blue light suddenly emerged and burned it to a crisp. Ashes where left in her hand, dust falling towards the floor. "See. We're locked in."

Kimiko cursed. "This can only mean one thing…"

Both turned around and rushed towards where Sakura was, feeling that she was in danger. They ran up the stairs as fast as their legs could carry them.

Rushing towards the direction of Sakura's room, Tsubasa suddenly collided with another figure running towards the same direction they were going. Tsubasa stumbled backwards, but gripped at the railing of the stairs to regain her balance. Both looked at the figure that Tsubasa crashed into and saw a groaning Yukino who was rubbing her head in pain.

No words of apology or retorts were said, as they all decided to go towards the direction of Sakura's room wasting no more time.

Slamming the door open, they saw Sakura sitting on her bed with her eyes closed. It looked like she was meditating.

They rushed to her side to see if she was fine. Tsubasa shook her a bit. "Sakura."

Sakura's eyelids slowly started to open. She looked at them with a blank expression that made them feel very uneasy.

Suddenly, there was a loud 'bang'. Looking back, they saw the door slammed shut. They were locked inside, but that wasn't what they were worried about. Their minds were much too occupied by the woman with waist length raven hair and golden eyes, who had slammed the door shut.

The woman stared at them with a malicious glint in her eyes and greeted them with a smug look. "I see that we have some unexpected guests, huh?"

"What are you doing here?" Yuki growled.

Seiji shrugged. "How's your sister? Is she well, or do you still tick her off as always."

"Don't avoid the question!"

"Why are you so mad? Weren't we friends—"

"We are not friends. We stopped being friends right after you betrayed us." Yuki said, his anger becoming more vital.

"How do you even know if I betrayed you? I just left Mystic Valley a couple of days before you took Sakura back, but then when I came back days before you were all gone. You didn't even bother to wait for me." Seiji smirked.

"Why would we wait for you, traitor?" Yuki balled his hands tightly into a fist.

"How could you even suspect me to be a traitor?"

"The time you left two years ago not bothering to wait for Sakura. Who wouldn't think that was not suspicious?"

"Your sister maybe."

"Don't you insult my sister, bastard!" Yuki glared at him with looks that could kill. He drew his staff and positioned himself for combat.

Seiji blinked and chuckled at his actions. "You think you could beat me—dream on, Yuki! You know there is only one person who could beat me, right…?" He smirked.

"Besides, I didn't come here to fight you. It would be a waste of my time. I've only come here to deliver a message to Sakura, but then since you are the one I've met up with then I'll tell you instead."

"… You're…"

"You didn't think you could hide forever, did you?" She smiled maliciously.

"What are you doing here?" Yukino glared at her.

"I came here to deliver something." She said walking towards the window.

Tsubasa frowned. Deliver something…

Beads of sweat started to form on Yukino's face. I'm getting a bad feeling.

"So you didn't come here to fight?" Kimiko stepped forward.

The woman snorted. "Fight you? I would want that, but that isn't what my mission is. All I need is to deliver one simple thing before we can start killing each other." She licked her lips, liking the thought of killing others.

"If you wanted to deliver something, you could've done it long before they came here." Sakura looked at her seriously.

"But where's the fun in that. It's rather more fun with everybody seeing you suffer, Sakura. I enjoy seeing you suffer, but I would like to share that enjoyment with other people." She ran her hand through her raven hair.

"Shut up… Reya." Kimiko threatened.

Instead of being scared, Reya just gave her a taunting smile, angering her more.

"If you want to see my present for you Sakura, then go to your old parents' bedroom. I think that is the place where your present lies."

Sakura looked at her with a calm expression. Not wasting any more time, she went toward the door and grasped the doorknob, ready to turn it. She looked back to Reya's smirking face suspiciously, then she opened the door. She went out of the room and turned to her left, towards the direction of her adopted parents room.

Tsubasa ran to go with her, but the door suddenly slammed right before she got out. She swiftly turned around and saw Reya right beside her. "I don't think so. You're not going anywhere."

Tsubasa balled her hands into a fist, wanting to punch that smirk right of her face badly. She raised her arm, ready to punch her, but someone lifted Reya up by her neck before Tsubasa could've punched her.

Tsubasa averted her gaze to the pissed off blonde beside her who held Reya up by the neck, choking her. Kimiko lifted her higher and gripped her neck tighter in anger. "Open it." She ordered.

Reya just smirked. "Sorry. No can do."

Yukino growled and punched Reya in the face as hard as she could. Reya turned her head back to look at them with a smug look on her face. "No matter how much you punch, hit, torture or threaten me, I won't open the door. I don't want you to ruin the fun."

Tsubasa gripped her fists tighter, turning her knuckles white. "Why you…"

Suddenly a scream was heard outside the door. This only made the smirk on Reya's face become more visible now that it turned into an evil grin. By the look on her face it seemed like she was delighted to hear the scream.

Tsubasa, Yukino and Kimiko however, became even more worried than before. They knew from whom that voice came from. Sakura… Something must have happened to her.

Yukino glared at Reya ordering her to open the door.

Reya shrugged. With one sweeping motion of her hand the door swung open. Kimiko released Reya's neck, and she fell to the ground on her feet softly. Before they could run out of the door to come to Sakura's aid, Reya spoke. "She must have taken it quite hard."

Ignoring her, they ran out of Sakura's room towards Sumire and Sora's former room. They saw that the door of Sumire and Sora's room was open wide. There they saw Sakura's side facing them with a shock and terrified expression written all over her face.

They arrived at inside of the room and looked at where Sakura's gaze was fixed and the image before them made them gasp and turn their head away in disgust.

"What message?"

"Don't be too hasty, Yuki. Do you want me to go away that badly?" Seiji said coolly.

"Now you're the one wasting my time." Yuki snarled.

"Relax, will you?" Yuki gave him a cold glare, which made Seiji stop annoying him. "Tell her this." Seiji paused, creating a tensing in the air. "This is only the beginning."

Yuki frowned, confused of what he said. "I don't understand."

"Just tell her that. She'll understand it." He said, turning around to leave Yuki alone. He was walking away when Yuki's voice stopped him.

"What are you exactly here for? Why are you doing this?" He couldn't believe that Seiji would do this. He usually didn't act like this.

Seiji turned around and gave Yuki a cold stare, then his mouth quirked into an evil smirk.

In front of them was a big mirror, and a drawer below it. It wasn't the mirror nor the drawer that was bothering them, but what was on the drawer and what was written on the mirror that sickened them.

Sitting on the top of the drawer were two heads. One was a man's head and the other was a woman's head. What made them look really alive was the blood oozing from the place where they were cut. For them (Yukino and Kimiko), it would be quite normal seeing dead bodies being cut of to pieces because that was what their job was mostly like. However, if it was a person they knew—it was a whole different issue.

The two heads belonged to none other than… Sumire and Sora. Both of their eyes were closed with blood dripping from the corner of their eyes. It looked like they were crying. However, their bodies were nowhere in sight. The only thing that indicated of their presence was their heads sitting on the drawer.

Tsubasa turned away from the sight and groaned in disgust.

Kimiko and Yukino kept on staring at what was left of their bodies in utter disbelief.

Sakura who was still on the ground stared at her adopted parents' heads in shock.

But something else was there. There was a message written on the mirror, and the most terrifying thing was that it was written in blood. In big bold letters, the message said…

Welcome to hell.

"Revenge," and with that said, Seiji disappeared from Yuki's sight.

Yuki, who was mystified about their entire meeting, shook his head to snap himself out of his trance. He swiftly turned around and sprinted towards Sakura's house as fast as he could. He had to make sure that she was not in any danger, but what he didn't know was that she was in more danger than he thought she was.

A/N: Woah, I'm scared of myself. Was it really me who wrote this? I hope you guys liked this chapter, um… er, I hope you did. Considering that this is quite a scary chapter.

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