A/N: A new update! Yay! I really liked this chapter. And next chapter is going to be sooo different. Kind of. You'll see. Well, I hope you'll like this, please review!

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or its characters. T.T

"She'll be alright… Won't she?" Ino asked quietly from the Hokage. The younger woman had been sitting right next to her friend's bed for hours now. She was scared for her friend.

First they had rushed Sakura into the hospital after realizing that she had taken a bottle of sleeping pills with some alcohol. She had also lost a lot of blood. After stomach pumping, the nurses had realized there was something else wrong, too. Her body was covered in weird bruises, as if she had been in a fight in a burning house. She had a small fraction on her cheek bone, second degree burns all over her body and fractions on her rib bones. And now, she was in coma.

"Honestly. I don't know", Tsunade sighed and sat next to her student. She touched her healthy cheek carefully and breathed in deep.

They both were silent, lost in their thoughts. The younger woman kept thinking about all the small details and everything that had been happened in past months. She didn't understand why her friend tried to kill herself when she was getting better. She went over every second and every detail of the evening before when they found her. But nothing made sense to her.

"Tsunade-sama", she said quickly, "why did she say things like why am I covered in blood? I don't see any blood on my clothes and these are the same clothes as yesterday."

The Hokage didn't say anything, she just looked at the younger ninja, her thoughts running. She had had an idea of what had been happening to the pink haired ninja but the evening before and Sakura's condition didn't match the symptoms of the idea she had. She turned her gaze to her old student and to her burns then she realized it.

"Oh my", the older woman said quietly, "Blood Wash."

"What? Blood wash…? Isn't it—"

"—yes, In the end the victim loses him- or herself and becomes just an empty being. They forget what they want and why did they want to live in the first place. And, in the end of the jutsu, their vision is covered with blood. Not like when you look and everything you see is red, everyone and everything you see is covered with blood. And we have to hurry", the Hokage interrupted Ino and she was already on her way to her office. The younger ninja had to run to catch her.

Kakashi watched the gates of Konoha with a bright smile on his face though it was hidden by his mask. He was happy, his short mission had been successful and now he was home again. He liked having short missions but short missions usually were dangerous at his rank.

As his gate pass was checked he decided he'd quickly go and write his report of the mission and then he'd make a surprise for Sakura. And, as he walked to the Jounin Headquarters he tried to come up with the perfect surprise. The problem was he wasn't really a romantic person and his lack of imagination of love and romance didn't help. He had been in love a few times, he did have women when he wanted to but he hadn't been in a steady relationship many times, two to be precise.

I'm making myself go crazy… Suprises? I don't do surprises. I didn't used to do at least. Romance and love? I don't do--. But I do.. I'll just buy her a flower and take her to the roof of my house and… and… whatever. he found himself thinking and planning more than usual.

Kakashi was spontaneous, not a planner, he was a ninja, not a normal civilian, he was a killer, not a romantic boyfriend. But the fact that he was planning a surprise, a romantic one, contradicted everything in him.

Ino never bit her nails, she never lost her cool and she had never been as afraid of a mission as she was now. The Lady Hokage had told her all about a secret jutsu, Blood Wash, and she had been going into small details and telling everything what she should expect and do inside her friend's mind.

The more she heard, the more nervous she got. The more she listened, the more she bit her nails. It was one of the most dangerous missions she had ever had and will ever have. She knew that if she screwed it up, it could cost her friend's life. And, she knew that what she would be facing inside of Sakura's mind, could kill her.

The Hokage had taken her to her office and into this small room full of book shelves. The shelves were full of scrolls, jutsus mostly. And most of the jutsus were either secret or forbidden.

It hadn't taken long for Tsunade to find the scroll written about Blood Wash. But it had taken a little too long for Ino to learn the hand signs and the counter jutsu. The more time she had spent messing up with the jutsu the Hokage was trying to teach her, the more scared she became. It wasn't the most complicated jutsu she had ever tried to learn but it was the most difficult by far.

"Ino, you just need to perform this jutsu perfectly before anyone touches you. And, I know it's complicated and hard but we don't have a lot of time… So, did you get the hand signs?" Tsunade asked.

"I-I… I think so", she stammered still shaken from the realisation of the current situation. The pressure, responsibility and her stress level were too high.

"You have to be sure."

"I am. I am, just—"

"—scared", the Hokage finished her sentence. The blonde kunoichi nodded, "okay, we have to get going back to the hospital."

"Alright." she said and tried to pull herself back together. She knew that worrying and stressing about the situation didn't help, it would just distract her and it wasn't something she needed. Distraction could cost her friend's life.

It was dark in the way it's dark when you turn the lights out, listen to the silence on your bed and fall asleep. But it wasn't quiet. There were whispers, voices of the people she once knew, music, conversations, and plain chaos.

It was cold in the way it's cold when you wake up in the morning and leave your bed. But she wasn't shivering. She felt comfortable and somewhat normal and she didn't like it. She felt like she was in a place she wasn't supposed to be and that she was seeing things that she wasn't supposed to see.

She started looking around trying to picture the place she was in. Though it was dark she could still see a bit. She was on a weird road she couldn't see where the road went but every now and then there were some small, round areas either right or left of the road. They were also lit but there weren't any street lamps or fires. There was just light coming from… nowhere. There were also these statue-like things which looked like bubbles glued together. There were white ones, black, blue, light green and even transparent ones. They all emitted some light.

She decided it would be better to walk along the road to somewhere so she could find out where she was and how she could return home. She couldn't walk very fast because it was dark and she didn't see where she was going very well. Something about the place scared her a little and though she didn't want to stay there for long, she didn't want to run into some sort of situation.

As she walked forward, some voices got stronger and some of them disappeared. It was like she was passing by the people who she heard but still she didn't see anyone. So, no wonder it came as a shock to suddenly realize there was someone standing in front of her. Someone she knew very well, herself.

The girl in front of her must have been around 14 years old. She was shorter, her hair was as short as it had been when she was 14 years old and she seemed more like a child than a woman. She was crying and before Sakura could ask anything from her younger self, she saw that younger version of her had bloody hands and she was holding on to something. Something that was dripping blood, a heart.

"Oh my God", the older woman said in a pure shock. All the memories of her parents, of finding them dead and in pieces took over her mind. She saw flashes of the walls, covered in blood, organs all around the house.

"I didn't do it, it wasn't my fault… they were in pieces, just blood… Everywhere and everywhere. I don't know who did it", the girl cried in front of her lifting the heart on her hands up as if she was offering it for her older self.

The older pink haired woman couldn't say anything, she felt sick and hopeless. She felt as if she was falling back to her old dead self. She couldn't fight against the memories which poured into her mind and she couldn't block the girl in front of her. She tried closing her eyes but she still sensed her, her terror, she could still hear her crying.

She turned around and decided it would be best to run away where she couldn't see her old self but another version of her blocked her way. She was wearing a white dress. Her lower abdomen was bleeding through the dress, her hands were covered in blood again. There was no sign of life in her eyes, they were dead.

"He… raped me", she whispered, "he raped me."

Sakura felt like she couldn't breathe, she didn't want to remember, she didn't want to see what she was like, what she used to be. She looked closer at the white dressed woman. She was also bleeding from her hands, they were covered with new cuts. There were small rivers of blood running down her legs.

The older kunoichi took a step backwards as the woman in white started coming closer. "I feel empty. There's no fire anymore, it's cold. He did it again but he was careless… He did it in a public place. Someone saw him. I… It didn't hurt much, I felt nothing. Nothing… I could taste the blood, it was like iron. Bittersweet", the woman kept on going but the real Sakura was confused. She knew it was her in front of her and that she was talking about her memories but she didn't remember those things she kept on saying.

"What are you talking about?" she heard herself asking. Before the woman in the white dress could answer, everything went black.

Writing the report about his mission was easy, nothing out of the ordinary happened. His mission had been simply to escort a man from Konoha to the Hidden Village of Sand. They hadn't encountered bandits or even random civilians. There was nothing to report about, he just wrote shortly what his mission was about and that was it. It was one of the easiest reports of his entire ninja career.

Happily he took his report from the table he had been writing it at. He walked to the desk where the Chuunin in charge of reports were and gave it to him.

"Pretty short report, are you sure you're done?" the younger ninja asked looking at the report curiously.

"Yea, I'm sure. Boring missions always have boringly short reports", the copy ninja laughed. And, as he walked from the Jounin Headquarters back to his house, it made him wonder, why did he take those boring missions. It wasn't like he didn't have money, because he had and the bank was trying to give him more, his father's inheritance. He didn't want it. Dangerous and long missions were rare these days and he wasn't sure if he wanted to risk his life that much anymore. But he knew that whatever happened, he'd still love his village and he'd still do anything for it. So, maybe it was love towards his village.

He bought a bottle of red wine on his way home hoping that it would cheer up a certain pink haired woman.

Ino was sitting on her friend's hospital bed and the Hokage was behind them at the doorway. Ino breathed heavily and her hands were shaking a bit. She closed her eyes and breathed deep in and out a few times.

"I'm ready", she said finally.

"Good, I'll be here the whole time and if anything goes wrong… Remember that nothing in Sakura's mind can kill you, it's not your mind or your thoughts."

"Yeah", the younger woman said and started making hand signs. Before she knew it, she collapsed to the bed next to her friend and entered to her mind.

She had never been in anyone's mind as completely as she was at the moment. She had lost all control of her own body in the "real world" and never before had she been able to do jutsus while she was in someone's mind.

She blinked a few times so her eyes would get used to the darkness. She was on a dark path, she couldn't see where it started or where it ended. She started walking forward hoping that she would find someone or something, anything that would help her accomplish her mission.

There was some noise, she could hear muffled conversations, cries and some drumming. Every time she tried to concentrate on some conversation or voice she was hearing, it ended.

She knew her jutsu would last approximately 15 minutes so she shouldn't waste any time. She walked as fast as she could in the darkness hoping that Sakura's mind would open up to her soon.

She saw a glimpse of something pink ahead of her. It wasn't moving and it looked like it was on the ground. She quickened her pace and reached the girl quite quickly.

There she was, the girl she had known almost all of her life. She was lying on the ground, unconscious.

"Sakura?" the blue eyed kunoichi asked. She carefully touched her friend's cheek and realized that it was cold. Before she could do anything else, she felt someone putting a hand on her shoulder.

She could feel all the warmth of her body escaping somewhere, she could feel her thoughts being ripped away and she could taste iron in her mouth.

"Sasuke", she said quietly and found out that she couldn't move. She realized he was keeping her under control by his hand. It was a jutsu.

"I see you seem to have it all figured out", he laughed coldly and pressed his hand tighter on her shoulder.

"Let me go… Let her go."

"No, why would I do that?"

Before she could answer anything, the most unexpected happened, Sakura woke up and rose to a sitting position. Sasuke hadn't expected it and absentmindedly he let go of Ino. The blonde kunoichi took her chances and she grabbed her friend's arm and leapt away from him. She let go of the pink haired woman and immediately started making hand signs.

"Do you honestly think that you have enough time to complete the jutsu? Do you even know how it works?" he asked and started running towards her. As he leapt towards the women, Sakura also leapt, but towards him and they collided in mid air.

The blonde's hands started glowing red, it wasn't chakra glow. Her hands also felt warm and suddenly she noticed that her hands were in flames. But the fire didn't burn her.

Sakura flew past her and landed on her back several feet away from Ino. She could see Sasuke now standing a few feet away and his hands were as flaming as Ino's were.

The walked towards each other and when there were 10 feet space between them, both of them started walking left, circling each other.

She knew her chances of winning were slim, she didn't know about the jutsu she was supposed to use, she wasn't as strong or quick as Sasuke was and she had a lot to lose.

"For Sakura", she quietly whispered and ran towards the onyx eyed man.

She had a lot of adrenaline in her body and a lot of determination. For a short time, neither one of them could land any kicks or punches on the other.

The feeling of being so scared started fading from Ino's mind as she realized that she could land kicks and punches on him, that his skin got nasty burns and that he was getting weaker by every punch and kick she landed on him.

For a moment she was sure she'd win and everything would be as before… Then something got over the man in front of her, he gain more speed and more power. Before she realized what was going on, he pressed both of his flaming hands on her and her jutsu to try to save Sakura was undone.

Tsunade had been in the same room with the two kunoichis all the time. First it had been okay but then Ino had started getting the same kind of bruises than Sakura. Every now and then she got a normal looking wound and she started bleeding. The Hokage had healed everything she could but somehow she knew it had been a mistake, sending the younger woman into Sakura's mind.

Suddenly the blond kunoichi screamed and opened her eyes. Before the Lady Hokage could do anything, Ino's eyes closed and her heart rate dropped.

It took many nurses, many medics to secure Ino's status from critical to almost normal and they couldn't prevent her from falling in coma...

A/N: Now my story has started. I've waited 21 chapters for this moment. Hahaha. Nah, but really, I'm really looking forward to write the next about 10 chapters. Anywho, I'll be updating quite sooon but first I have matriculation examinations and then the.. testweek. -" Please review! 3