RECAP-Sakura's thoughts: Tomorrow will be one hell of a day I don't even know if my allies for tonight will still be my allies tomorrow.

Chapter fourteen. Battles.

Sakura, Tenten, Shino and Ino went to wake everyone up so they could talk and decided what they were going too do, stay allies or go against each other as enemy's. After talking which in Sakura's opinion got them no where, she and the four other girls went to change into swimsuits or bras and underwear to bathe and the guys just stayed in there underwear.

"Naruto if you even try to peek I'll make sure you won't see Ever. Again." Sakura threatened knowing Naruto would try to peek at her changing.

"Y-Y-Yes Sakura-chan." Naruto stuttered out as Sakura walked towards the lake with the other girls who were currently glaring at Naruto or attempting to peek.

The guys met the girls at the lake a few minutes later and saw the girls shedding the cover ups and clothes. Naruto came up with a brilliant idea and all the boys agreed it would be fun.

Sakura was currently sticking her toes in the water testing it's temperature, while Hinata had her legs in the water and Tenten and Ino were standing on Sakura's sides and asking how cold it was when Sakura sensed a presence behind her and turned around to come face to face with Naruto. Naruto tried to push her into the water but failed miserably when she switched positions with him and he ended up soaking wet.

Sakura didn't notice the second presence and got grabbed by two strong arms and through into the cold water. When she surfaced gasping for air she realized Sasuke was the one to push her. So she decided to pull her own prank.

"H ... Elp can't... Swim." Sakura gasp out as she flailed her arms and splashed up a storm. Sasuke reacted first and dove into the water and wrapped his arms around her and kicked them close to the edge and Shikamaru pulled her out of the water and saw her laughing and she giggled out "Got y..ou." Sasuke let out a puff of breath he didn't know he was holding. While all the other boys frowned and Narutompushed her back in the water yelling something about scaring him to death.

After everyone was in the water Sakura suggested they play Marco polo and Ino suggested they play Truth or dare and then convinced everyone to play it.

"Okay Sakura truth or Dare." Ino asked with a evil like grin.

"Dare." Sakura said.

"I dare you to..." Ino leant in towards Sakura and whispered the rest in her ear, ignoring Naruto's whines for him to know.

Sakura blushed at what her dare was and swam over to Sasuke and wraped her legs around his waste to where he had to kick his legs to keep both of them above water,and Sakura bent her head and met his lips in a hot and passionate kiss and Ino counted out loud to thirty and then Sakura pulled back blushing. All Sakura saw next was water surrounding her and she was being pulled farther and faster towards the bottom of the lake.

"Where'd Saku go?" Ino asked looking around.

"Haha Sakura jokes over come out." Naruto yelled.

Sasuke went under water and saw Sakura being pulled down by some underwater plants. Sasuke resurfaced and told the others to "stay on guard and he'd get Sakura out, they have company."

I was losing air fast and was struggling with everything I couldn't breathe and I couldn't see I felt someone touch me and jerked away, then I saw Sasuke and he kissed me giving me some air and the cut the deadly plant and helped pull me out as we swam to the top. I broke the water gasping for air and saw three ninja from the Village Hidden in the Rain.

"Guys.. This is where we split up, go back to camp pack your stuff and do us a favor, and pack ours for us while we fight them, good luck hope to see you in the tower." Sakura said with a beautiful smile.

"Saku are your crazy, we're not leaving you there's strength in numbers." Ino stated.

"No she's right they can handle it plus with all of are Chakra together we are easier to sense and more likely for attacks. It's time to split up." Neji said. While the others nodded agreeing.

"Who said I was going to let them go?" the leader or so Sakura assumed was the leader said.

"Me." Sakura said simply and lunged at him. He jumped backwards to avoid her kick but she appeared there and kicked him into the water which he fell through and Sakura as sensing for his chakra he popped up and sent a kunia at her head and she caught it and through it back but before it could hit it transformed into three shuriken and two pierced his skin while the third wrapped around him and a tree.

He tried to struggle but found himself incapable of movement and he realized he had Wire strings tying his body to the tree. Sakura approached him and pressed a kunia to his throat and then pressed her hand to his chest and then started draining his Chakra and absorbing it into herself.

It felt so right taking his Chakra and some part of her was begging for more but the logical part of her was telling her to stop or she'd kill him. When she started to pull her hand away she realized how hard it was to contain the craving, but she managed to stop and staggered back a few feet to get kicked in the gut by another one of his team mates.

Sakura flew into a tree and was knocked out, When she awoke she was being carried by Sasuke and Naruto was holding her bag. They took care of those ninjas, Naruto bragged about how they scared them off and took there heaven scroll. They now has the two scrolls they needed to pass the exam and they had a day and a half to get to the tower.

Sakura whimpered in pain her ribs hurt from the powerful kick she had taken. Sasuke had set her down on the ground and Naruto gave her pack back and Sakura started to sit up but was stopped by Sasuke's hand and he told her to heal herself. Sakura did but she was still sore and had a bruise. Sakura reached for her pack but Sasuke grabbed it before she could and slung it over his shoulder and started walking away.

After an hour of traveling and it being around three they took another break and Kabuto came out of the trees alone. Sakura readied herself and slightly whimpered. Sasuke noticed and stood in front of her in a protective manner.

"I'm not here to fight." Kabuto said holding his hands out in a surrender way.

"Then why are you?" Sasuke asked.

"Did you get both of your scrolls?" Kabuto asked.

"I'm not inclined to answer that." Sakura piped up.

"I'm not interested in stealing them I already have my teams, I'm on my way to the tower to meet them now." Kabuto said while holding out a Earth scroll.

"You see, there are teams that wait to ambush others at the tower and being alone doesn't help. Maybe if we traveled together towards the tower we'd both be safer." Kabuto half asked half suggested.

"I'd rather die, literally." Sakura answered.

Kabuto sighed and was about to leave when Naruto put his thoughts in and told Kabuto he could travel with them. Sakura was furious at Naruto and Kabuto. Kabuto and Naruto traveled in the front while Sasuke traveled by a angry Sakura, he made sure to keep his distance.

"Sakura-chan what's wrong you look angry?" Naruto said looking back at his female team mate. Sakura lunged at Naruto while growling, Sasuke pulled Sakura back on the ground and wrapped his arms around her waste in a secret meaning way but also looked like he was restraining her. The second Sakura felt his arms around her she relaxed and only growled at Naruto to "shut up before she decided to rips his jugular out."

They reached the tower and Kabuto's team mates appeared. They successfully managed To make it to the tower. They were all exhausted and Sakura and Sasuke read the writing on the wall and opened there scrolls when Iruka sensi popped out of it and told them they passed and they were off to the third test.

They walked into a gymnasium like area and saw The Original nine standing in the center of the room chatting quietly, Sakura also saw Gaara and his team and a few other ninja she didn't recognize.

"The second test is over, onto the third." A announcer announced.

"I'm Hayate Gekkō." Hayate said and then proceeded to explain the rules and such to the participants.

"Well lets begin." Hayate announced and the names of the first participants appeared on the electric board. The names were SAKURA HARUNO & INO YAMANAKA

"Good luck." Naruto said and Kakashi nodded while Sasuke Hn'd.

Sakura jumped off the railing and landed gracefully on the ground where her fight would take place. Ino walked down the stairs and met Sakura in the center circle. "Begin." Hayate called.

Sakura Didn't waste time and lunged at Ino and through four kunias with wire string at the ceiling and four around the bars on the railings and jumped up on them and Flipped and cartwheeled on the wires in tell she reached the top of the wires and preformed three hand signs and water burst from the pipes and flooded the ground and started turning into ice freezing Ino in place.

Ino was using her kunia to get her out of the ice and Sakura waited patiently and proudly, she hadn't relied on her powers to fight. Ino got out and jumped back sliding a little on the Ice. Sakura and Ino went head on head in tiajutsu, Ino landed a few good kicks on Sakura's upper torso. Sakura made three shadow clones and mixed up her feet so Ino couldn't block her and tell where she would come from, Sakura and her clones punched Ino three times and Ino went flying backwards and then slowly got up.

Ino ran around Sakura and then cut the end of her ponytail off and through her hair towards her, Sakura was shocked that Ino would do that. Ino started three hand signs and then did her famous but very risky jutsu. Her Mind Transfer jutsu. Sakuras head hung and raised again she raised her hand and started to say "I Sakura Haruno." but was interruptedby Naruto's yelling about not giving up.

Ino clutched her head in pain as Sakura and her inner struggled to release the jutsu. After Ino dropped to the ground in pure pain Sakura got out and took her body over again and Ino was forced into hers.

Sakura and Ino both rose and ran head on at each other and brought back their fists and Sakura's fist collided with Ino's face while Sakura use her other hand catch Ino's fist. Ino flied backwards and was knocked out, Sakura fell backwards on her butt and sat there for a moment in tell Hayata announced her the winner.

Sasuke went after Sakura and passed easily, and Naruto faced Kiba and it was more difficult but he managed to pass. Neji, Gaara, Temari, Shikimaru, Shino, Kankuro, and Kabuto passed.

Now the only thing that was left was finales. They began right away and Sasukes match with Gaara was first right after Sasuke got a seal oh his curse mark. In the middle of there fight Konoha was attacked by Oruichimaru. (sorry not going into detail everything happened exactly the same as in the anime besides Sasuke helped more to save Sakura.)

Half The village was destroyed and the Third Hokage died fighting Oruichimaru. Oruichimaru and his men retreated when the Third disabled his arms. The village immedently started cleaning up and searching for dead or hurt people.

Tomorrow would be a long day with a lot of work.

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