The Real Story Of Sakura Haruno

"So you're not PMSing" Sasuke asked his natural smirk slipping back onto his face, she smiled at his joke and slowly shook her head in amusement.

"No Sasuke I'm not PMSing, now get your butt in gear and let's get out of the sand covered wasteland" she laughed the sound echoed off of the high stone walls as she lead the way out of the village.

Chapter 20:

"Kakashi-sensei where do you want me to put the fire wood?" Naruto asked, carrying the heavy bundle into the group's camp area.

"Just over by the fire is good" The older man called unrolling his sleeping bag. The group of four had traveled through the night and were now in the safe covering of the forests that spanned out over the land of fire. Sakura and Sasuke had gone out to get fresh water and food leaving Kakashi to set up the camp, Naruto had muttered something about Kakashi not being too old to help with the work, but the others had ignored him. Sakura had been happy to get the time away from the boys, to give her some time to think over what had happened on the bridge after Kankuro had left her.

"I can't just forgive them" She muttered to herself as she filled one of the groups water bottles, she was currently kneeling beside a small stream in the forest that wasn't too far away from the campsite.

"But it's pointless to keep on acting like some moody teenage girl" She countered, she growled at herself "Why does life have to be so complicated!" She yelled ignoring the fact that the boys had probably heard her. She could picture Sasuke just about to kill some kind of animal for their supper just as she screamed making him miss his mark, the thought made her giggle, but she quickly stopped after realizing that the Uchiha boy had slipped into her thoughts for the millionth time that day.

"Ever since I talked to Kankuro and had that stupid emo moment on the bridge he's all I can think about" She muttered angrily submerging another one of the group's water bottles in the ice cold water, ignoring the sounds coming from behind her.

"So who are you infatuated with this time" She heard the drawled tone and turned to see her black streaked silver haired ex-sensei behind her leaning against a large oak tree with a knowing smile on his face.

"I'm not infatuated with anyone and you know it Kakashi" she sighed turning back to the cold stream and pulling out the now full water bottle.

"Well then who is it that is causing you to space out? You've been acting strangely ever since we left Suna, especially when you talk to Sasuke" Kakashi paused and quickly moved beside the female causing her to look over at him "You're not turning back into your old Sasuke fan loving self are you?" He asked a look of horror displayed clearly on his face. Sakura couldn't help the smile that spread across her face or the laughter that bubbled out of her mouth, Kakashi watched her with a suspicious look in his eyes.

"No Kakashi I'm not turning into Sakura the fan girl" She laughed her eyes sparkling a brilliant emerald "Gosh no!" she shook her head at the absurdity of the older ninja.

"Then what's wrong?" He asked, a more serious look displayed on his face, the concern reached his obsidian eye, which only happened when he really was worried.

"I'm not too sure" She sighed "all I know is that something is changing... whether I want it to or not" She gave a small half smile, only one side of her mouth sloping up in a small inclination.

"Don't fight it" He said quickly, she glanced over at him before dunking another one of the water bottles into the frigid stream, her emerald eyes lingering on his face "some times change is good" He said simply, before standing up towering over her crouched body.

"Would you still say that if it hurt?" She asked quickly, catching him off guard as he walked away. He faltered for only a second, turning on the balls of his feet slightly so he could see the girl. She hadn't moved from her spot, still crouched beside the trickling stream, one hand submerged in the cool water the other resting on her lap, one leg tucked underneath her the other out in front of her slightly bent so that if need be she could quickly get to her feet if attacked; her shoulders were sagging due to fatigue, and her head tilting down slightly, her black variegated hair falling around her face. He sighed and gave one of those very scary Kakashi smiles – the kind that don't quite reach your eyes and are meant more to intimidate than comfort- just as Sakura turned her head to look up at him, when he caught her eyes she froze.

"Pain builds character Sakura" He smirked knowing what her retort would be "and I think you could use a bit more character" She glared at him, while he just smiled back, closing his one eye, she knew the smile hadn't reached his eye, that smile never did.

"Don't take too long in getting the water Sakura, you wouldn't want the others to think you were slacking off" He called in a sing song voice as he walked back into the bushes, giving her his normal small wave.

"I should've gone gay" Sakura sighed as she watched the man walk away, She shook her head and laughed at herself. The last few days had been strange to say the least; it seemed like everyone and there dog wanted to give some kind of speech about how she was being stupid, and how she needed to forgive Sasuke and Naruto. She noticed a daisy growing nearby; she reached over and plucked it out of the soft ground easily, and carefully brought it up to her face to admire the fragile beauty.

"To forgive or not to forgive that is the question" She muttered dropping her hand with the flower to her lap and sighed, looking out at the bubbling stream. She raised the flower slowly in front of her and slowly started to pick off the petals.

"Forgive, don't forgive...forgive, don't forgive" She muttered as she continued picking off the petals, letting them fall into her lap. She was just about to pluck the last petal off of the flower when she heard a lot of yelling coming from the campsite. She rose quickly, forgetting about the flower and about what her decision had been regarding the two boys in question. She gathered the water bottles hastily in her arms and ran back to the clearing water sloshing all over her from one of the open bottles. Her bells erupted in a symphony of loud protesting jingles, at their abrupt awakening; she mentally cursed the small metal noise makers, if they were under attack by an enemy then she had just lost the element of surprise.

As she grew closer to the campsite, she could hear the sounds of a skirmish going on and quickened her pace. She burst through the underbrush and her vision blurred, periodically blinded due to the brightness of the area.

"What's going on?" She asked after she had regained her sight, she looked around and saw Naruto and Kakashi fighting off three stone ninja.

"Oh Sakura-chan your back...why are you all wet?" Naruto asked as he knocked down one of the stone ninja without even looking at the other shinobi.

"I heard all the noise, and ran to see what was going on, I guess one of the bottles was still open, looks like ran all the way here for nothing" She smiled as she dropped the water bottles over by their campfire not even taking notice to the three enemy shinobi that were fighting her teammates.

"If you wouldn't mind getting water for the soup tonight while we finish off these three that would be nice" Kakashi sighed as he threw a kunai at one of the stone ninja hitting him in the throat instantly killing the enemy.

"Yah sure" She sighed and picked up the small fold up pot.

As she left the clearing, she could hear Naruto yell something, but she just ignored what he was saying and kept focused on the sounds around her. No leaf ninja was stupid enough to turn their back on an enemy- even when their teammates had them well under control- and not stay alert to the chance that they might get attacked. While Sakura had been picking up the fold up pot, Naruto had been distracted by where she had dropped the water bottles, since one was still open when she dropped it; the bottle had spilled all of its remaining contents onto the fire creating a large cloud of steam and making the fire flicker at the edge of his vision.

While Naruto had been distracted the enemy stone ninja had made a mud clone of himself and the real him had dug underground to attack Sakura. By now the story of the demon cherry blossom was known all over the ninja world, everyone knew her description and they knew that she traveled with Hatake Kakashi, the copy ninja, so it was only natural that the stone ninja would attack her, she was a threat to all enemies of the land of fire. The sound of her jingling bells masked the sound of the stone ninja digging, but Sakura knew the ninja was trying something, she just didn't know what yet, she hadn't figured out from what direction the stone ninja was going to attack her from so she kept her steady nonchalant pace. Just as the stone ninja was, about to attack her from behind a bush rustled to her right; Sakura's head turned ready to attack but was to slow, a dark green blur was seen streaking towards her and the sound of chirping birds rang out through the clearing.

"Chidori!" yelled the dark green blur; the lighting ball hit the stone ninja as he sprung out of the ground right behind Sakura about to attack, his movement was stopped on contact with the glowing blue ball as he crumpled to the ground, a foot behind Sakura. The smell of burning flesh wafted around the campsite, and the cries of pain from the injured stone ninja cut through the air. Sakura stared at Sasuke as he stood hunched over her crumpled attacker.

"You ok?" He asked his onyx eyes quickly darting over to her and then back down to the stone ninja.

"Yah, thanks" She breathed, the whole thing had gone so fast that Sakura hadn't realized that she had been holding her breath she let it out slowly and glanced down at the writhing stone ninja. The wounds were fatal and the man only had a few more minutes before he died.

"If you tell me why you attacked us I can make your last minutes painless" She whispered as she knelt down beside the pained man.

"Go to hell!" he managed through his cries of pain reaching for his kunai.

"If you do not answer my questions I will make this pain last longer than it must, I can keep you alive for at least three days, and those three days will not be pleasant" She kept her voice at a whisper, but she was not named the demon cherry blossom just because of her fighting style, she had taken a few lessons in interrogation from Ibiki and now rivalled the man in ruthlessness; the stone ninja's eyes widened in fear at the thought of the prolonged pain, all thoughts of an attack forgotten.

"I don't know why, we weren't told why, we were just told to attack you and poison you that's all we were told" he groaned between cries of pain.

"Thank you" Sakura smiled, she did a few quick hand signs before her hands glowed green, she moved the stone ninja so he was lying on his right side, she gently touched her hand to the base of his neck and saw his body relax as she severed the main link to his nerves.

"Before you die, what was the poison supposed to do" She asked turning the man so he was on his back again, a smirk slipped on to the male's face as he looked up at her.

"It's a poison that seeps through the skin and attacks a person's chakra system, it's nearly impossible to cure if you don't already have the vaccination" the smirk grew on the ninja's face "Only females are vulnerable to this kind of poison, you would've been fine if you hadn't touched me" he laughed. Sakura was about to ask him another question but his body spasmed and his laugh turned into gurgles as he drowned in his own blood.

All three males turned to Sakura their eyes resting heavily on her.

"Don't over react guys" Sakura smiled pushing herself off the ground to stand "I'm fi..."

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