There is a reason

Chapter 44: A different kind of recovery

Koomahana

Fubuki was 10 when she met Sakura & 11 when she was taken to the leaf village

Tayuya was 8 when she met Sakura & 9 when she was taken to the leaf village

Sakura was 3 when she was taken and returned to the leaf village

Yagura was 20 when he first met Sakura and 21 when he returned to his body.

Yagura is 17 years older then Sakura

Fubuki is 7 years older than Sakura and 2 years older then Tayuya

Tayuya is 5 years older than Sakura

Fubuki was a genin at 12, Chunin at 14 and Jonin at 16

Tayuya was a genin at 12, Chunin at 13 ½ and Jonin at 16

They are now:

Yagura is now 29 years old—Mizukage

Fubuki is now 19 years old—Jonin for three years (Same age as Shisui—Anbu—and Shikan—Jonin)

Tayuya is now 17 years old—Jonin for one year (Same age as Itachi—Anbu—and Hana—Jonin and Kimimaro—Chunin)

Sakura is now 12 years old—Genin (Same age as Naruto, Sasuke, Gaara, Karin, Suigetsu and Haku)

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Thoughts

Paragraphs are memories


She stared at the girl standing in front of her, pale eyes narrowed dangerously and her face a smooth, emotionless mask. The platinum blond in front of her stared right back, face just as passive but her baby blue eyes showed her nerves and unease. The blonde's teammate's stood on either side behind her, her father directly behind her, his own teal-blue eyes locked in on her worriedly. She could feel her sister to her right and behind, looking at them in confusion; her cousin was standing to her left, half heartedly standing in the middle as if he had yet to decide who's side he should stand on and she knew her own father was standing directly behind her—a near perfect mirror reflection of the group in front of her.

"...Have you forgotten my warning?" Hinata asked levelly, the girl flinched in response, "Why are you here, Ino Yakamaka?"

Nice to know we exist too, Shikamaru thought with a sigh, sharing a worried look with Chōji. They knew things were 'tense' between the two heiresses but the level of tension between them now was almost enough to make the grown men standing behind both girls shift uncomfortably.

"I'm here to apologize," Ino said softly, taking a deep breath and leveling her blue eyes onto Hinata

"I'm not the one you need to apologize too," Hinata replied calmly, voice empty of emotion; indirectly making her relatives twitch at it, as if they were uncomfortable with her voice.

"I know Hinata-san," Ino said, trying to calm her heartbeat down, knowing that Hinata had the strength (and will) to knock her back into the hospital (not that she was supposed to leave anyways). "But... I know that I wasn't exactly nice to you either over the years. I don't want to act any more, not for the clan celebrations, not for the council, not for complete strangers—I want my friends back."

"The monthly clan celebrations were all acts?" Hinata asked, wanting to raise an amused smile but knew she was frowning instead, a look that had her father sighing and rubbing at his face tiredly.

"Yes and no," Ino shifted uncomfortably, "What I meant was... I don't want to pretend to be friends with you and Sakura any more—I want us to be friends, like we used to be."

"...we're a little old to be sharing bathes," Hinata replied as calmly as she could, looking at Ino as if she had two heads.

"That's not what I meant!" Ino said a little loudly, her face flushing three shades of red, "I meant that I want us to be friends for real! Not just acting so we wouldn't put stress between our clans!"

"I know," Hinata smiled, confusing and silencing the blond. "Doesn't mean I forgive you," Hinata added, her eyes narrowing once more and her smile disappearing, "You did a lot of damage Ino." The blond flinched, "It took too many hours to make her tears stop flowing and every year on that day, she still cries." Ino looked miserable, her head bowing and her eyes misting over with the need to cry yet her pride kept her from doing so

"Ms. Yamanka Ino!" a loud shout roared through the air, as one the two groups turned to see a team of medics with furious expressions head straight for them.

"Uh-oh!" Shikamaru spun on his heal, grabbed one of Ino's wrists and pulled her away

"Run!" Chōji shouted, quickly pulling one of Ino's arms over his shoulder as he followed Shikamaru away from the Hyūga compound

"You're supposed to be resting!" the medics shouted, barging past the Hyūga's and Inoichi like they weren't there, frustration ringing in their voices and marring their faces.

"Ino!" Hinata called, just before the blond turned a corner, "Prepare for a spare!"

Hinata swore that Ino let out a frustrated shout as her teammate's ran with her, Hinata couldn't hide the smirk on her face if she tried

"Hinata," Hiashi called, nodding at Inoichi as the blond man spun on his heal and left

"Yes father?" Hinata asked turning to look at her father

"Never do that again," Hiashi ordered, turning on his heal and walking back into the compound, leaving his daughters and nephew at the gates

"Do what?" Hinata asked in confusion, turning to look at Neji and Hanabi in confusion, "what'd I do?"

"I think father meant your moment of perfect heiress," Hanabi answered, staring up at her sister blankly. Hinata blinked down at Hanabi in confusion

"He meant that you should never act like him again," Neji sighed, turning to follow his uncle into the compound, Hinata waited until she couldn't see her cousin before she voiced her next question.

"I was acting?" Hinata asked, looking down at her little sister in complete confusion, her head tilting to the side cutely, "I thought I was being quite serious." Hanabi stared at her sister for a moment before she let out a sigh herself and followed her cousin and father into the compound; Hinata following her in confusion, questions spilling out of her lips repeatedly.

Father, I think Hinata-nee is a secret genius actress


"Alright boys this is it," Jiraya chuckled as he looked out at the city before him, glade that they just might have caught up to his old teammate. Turning he saw that both boys weren't even looking at him, they were staring dejectedly at the ground.

Geez those two have it bad, Jiraya thought as he started forward, the boys following behind him silently. He knew they grew up together but this silence was starting to get at him, he was used to people being vocal around or at him. He looked around the greatest gambling village he knew of, his eyes scanning the buildings and faces, searching for those familiar pale yellow locks he knew so well. When night fell and they still didn't stop to rest, Jiraya stopped in front of a bar and went in side, the boys following behind him silently.

"Will you two make some noise already?!" Jiraya asked loudly, finally having enough he snapped around to glare at the two boys who now looked up at him bewilderedly. Unknown to Jiraya the two boys had left him for a good portion of the day, letting one of Naruto's clones keep an eye on him while they went to eat, train and take a short rest before they returned to him. "Don't look at me like that! I've been trying al—"

"Jiraya?"

"Huh? Tsunade-Hime!" the woman Jiraya called out to was tall with long platinum locks and eyes like carved Amber and a small violet diamond in the middle of her forehead, she wore a dark green coat and a gray kimono top that barely covered her larger then normal bust and navy blue pants. Beside her sat a tall and thin woman with Onyx black hair and matching eyes dressed in an Ashy black kimono.

"What are you doing here?" Tsunade asked, leaning back in her chair as Jiraya let the two boys move in before he sat down across from her and beside them. She recognized the Yondaime's son, noting how he was the spitting image of his father and she was mindedly curious about the dark haired boy silent beside him.

"Looking for you of course," Jiraya answered, smiling when Tsunade turned her eyes on him, her head tilting curiously. "Orochimaru attacked the village and killed Sensei," he saw from the corner of his eye how the two boys flinched at the reminder, still silent as they stared sullenly at the tabletop. "There are some people in the village you need to—"

"No" Tsunade replied automatically

"Wha but—"

"What do you mean you won't come back?" Sasuke asked, shifting his dark eyes from the table to look up at Tsunade with a frown.

"I said I wouldn't return to that village," Tsunade replied, "I'm keeping that particular promise."

"So you're going to let Nee-chan die?" Naruto asked her, his voice soft as he stared up at her with watery blue eyes, "You're not even going to try? You're not even going to look at her? I thought you were the best medic in the five nations?"

"A true medic would look at everyone wounded regardless of the consequences," Sasuke recited to himself, frowning up at Tsunade and ignoring the glare she shot at him. "Dose that mean that you're not a real medic? That you're just trash?"

"What?! How dare you!" Tsunade snarled slamming a hand on the tabletop and making it crack

"L-Lady Tsunade—" Shizune stuttered out

"Calm down—" Jiraya advised

"What makes you any different from Orochimaru?" Naruto asked, not phased in the least by the show of her strength, his words shocking the adults around him.

"What makes you any different then the man that destroyed your home and killed your teacher?" Sasuke asked coldly, "Don't you care?"

"Who are you to question me?!" Tsunade asked, her face twisting into a glare at the boy who seemed to be unaffected by the look that even had Jiraya backing up slightly

"My name is Sasuke Uchiha" Sasuke replied calmly. "My older brother is Itachi and my younger brother is Naruto, my older sisters are Fubuki and Tayuya, my younger sister is Sakura—all but Naruto need your help. Yet you do nothing but raise your voice and crack tables when you're mad and glare at me when I speak the truth to your face."

"He's right" Naruto commented thoughtfully, drawing attention to himself. "You really can't be that great of a medic if you won't even look at your patients."

"Guess we were just wasting our time waiting for you to grow up," Sasuke sighed rising from the table, his feet stepping onto the seat as Naruto quickly mimicked him. It was a jab they had heard a thousand times from Sakura, typically aimed at Ino, but looking at Tsunade's enraged expression, they both now understood why Sakura had said it—it lit something in the receiver's eyes, making them question themselves after they stopped to think about their spoken words.

"Listen here you little brat," Tsunade hissed, reaching forward and snatching up Sasuke by the scruff of his shirt's neck. "I'm Tsunade Senju—"

"The granddaughter of the first Hokage, niece to the Second Hokage, student of the third Hokage, a world renowned medic and one of the great Sanin" Sasuke cut her off with a bored kind of voice, unaffected by the venomous glare given to him. "The Shodaime and Nidaime would be disappointed with your behavior and the Sandaime would be ashamed. The world cries because of the souls you could have saved but refused to do so and as for being one of the great Sanin?" Sasuke reached up and tapped a glowing finger to Tsunade's wrist making her hiss and release him with a harsh jerk

"I don't see anything so great about you," Sasuke sighed standing on the seat and looking down on Tsunade, "I only see a little old woman weeping for her past, to scared to move on and see that those she loved most wouldn't want her drowning herself in a bottle." Sasuke didn't wait for a response; he flipped over the barrier of the seat and onto the floor on the other side, Naruto close behind as they both weaved their way out of the bar and into the cold dark night.

"I'm sorry Tsunade-Hime," Jiraya said as he hurried to his feet, "I'm sure he didn't mean it the way it came out..." Tsunade didn't say anything as she messaged her wrist, ignoring Jiraya as he hurried after the boys.

"Hmm? Hay what's this?" Shizune asked softly, reaching across the table to pick up a small blue bag; Curious she flipped open the bag and looked at the continence. "Oh, one of the boys must have left this behind..." she went to flip the lid of the bag back up but she stopped as a picture sown into the lid caught her eye. Shizune stared at the image, her silence drawing Tsunade's attention.

"What are you—?" Tsunade cut her self off as she looked at the image that caught Shizune's attention. The image was a little larger then normal, taking up almost the complete inside of the flap, covered in clear plastic and rounded in thick material to protect it from the weather. It showed a semi-large stage in an all white room, with several large instruments stationed around the platform with several people in the middle playing them. Tsunade stared at the familiar looking black haired boy, with the scars on his cheeks, on the piano; leaning against the piano beside him was a hot-pink haired girl with an elegant silver flute in hand; a little bit further away was another pink haired girl standing center stage, her hands folding in front of her and her eyes closed with her mouth open with an obvious long lyric—she must have been singing. Beside the singing pinkette was Sasuke, smiling as he played a guitar beside a joyfully laughing blonde on some hand drums. At the end of the platform was a graceful looking midnight haired girl with dancing snowy eyes, in her lap was a large viola, a smile tugging at her lips as she played.

Tsunade took this all in without feeling a single thing but it was the small pinkette between Naruto and the white eyed girl that had her staring. She was sitting with her knees pointed towards her sisters and her shoulders facing the camera, her head was tilted to keep the violin she was playing from slipping, her long cheery locks were pulled back into a high braided bun, her eyes were closed and she was smiling softly.

Even after nearly ten years, Sakura hadn't changed at all

To Tsunade the youngest pinkette looked the same, her small button nose, her smooth jaw and soft cheeks, her aster skin, her almond eyes and even her bubble gum pink hair was the same as the time she first saw her at three years old. Tsunade was even betting that she still had her watery emerald pools she called eyes.

"That's mine," Tsunade flinched back at the arm that reached across her and jerked the bag from Shizune's numb fingers.

"Ah Sorry," Shizune chuckled at Sasuke, blushing and scratching the back of her neck nervously. "You all looked so happy, I couldn't help but to stare..." Sasuke stared dully at her, glancing down at the picture and smiled softly at it. Tsunade watched as he drew a finger against the edge thoughtfully, sighing he flipped it over and tugged it over his shoulders.

"Thanks to you that'll be our last practice," Sasuke said as he started to walk away, "None of us can play without her and you're going to let her die... along with her dream."

"Her dream?" Tsunade asked curiously, not realizing that she spoken aloud

"Sakura's dream was to be apart of the first musical shinobi team that Konoha housed," Sasuke explained, glancing back at her briefly. "She wanted all of us to be the first shinobi band... but her dream isn't going to happen because you're going to let her die."

"You can still become the first—"

"No" Sasuke snapped out, cutting Shizune off with a fridge tone of voice. "None of our practices sound right without her. She started it... of course only she could finish it..."


"How're you feeling?" Takao asked as he changed the bandage on Kabuto's arm, taking extra care not to cause any more pain

"Like hell," Kabuto sighed, "Using my chakra hurts."

"At least you figured out the drawback to the seals," Takao remarked, trying to sound cheerful. "I don't think anyone else would've figured out that they'd have to keep their chakra suppressed even as they used ninjutsu."

"I still can't do much," Kabuto rolled his eyes, "barely even the basics"

"Everyone has to start somewhere," Takao smiled, "Something is better then nothing."

Kabuto snorted and rolled his eyes, "you ready for the mission?"

"I can cover you," Takao bobbed his head, "Where are we meeting Master?"

"tomorrow," Kabuto answered yawning tiredly, "Don't Tremble"

"I don't tremble!" Takao pouted at him, pulling out the 'annoying little brother' card and putting it on high, "You can't say you weren't scared the first time you met him."

"Of course I was scared," Kabuto replied sleepily, "I just watched him slaughter an entire village..."

"And you have the gull to tell me not to be afraid," Takao sighed, finishing his wrapping and tying it off, "Do you need anything? Want any—"

Sn~o~r~

Takao blinked dumbly and looked over at his teammate, finding Kabuto out cold despite the blood staining his clothing. Smiling and shaking his head ruefully, Takao raised himself to his full height and turned to the nearby river. Removing his shirt as he walked, Takao tried to ignore the icy water as he stepped in and then proceeded to wash out his blood soaked shirt.

He highly doubted Orochimaru would be very pleased with seeing them covered in blood from head to toe

Not that he'd be very happy with finding out about Yao but with luck they wouldn't be on the receiving end of his fury


He swept through the tall dark stone room, eagerly moving closer and closer to the only water source he had to work with. He easily slipped into the small pool, letting his sand slip from his body before he jumped back out of the pool and charged almost head first at the first shadow he came across. He grunted as he felt several hits land against his rib cage and one arm get twisted behind himself before he felt a foot land squarely in the middle of his back, sending him crashing to the cold stone floor.

"You're right, your Taijutsu sucks," his teacher commented dryly as Gaara shook his head and pushed himself back up.

"Hai, I need to work on it," Gaara replied pushing himself onto his feet and turning to settle into a low stance across from Baki.

"Just out of curiosity," Baki said as he slipped into his own stance, "Who brought this to your attention?" He asked as he moved forward with a hard Ax-kick to Gaara's shoulder, Who beat you into realizing this fault?

"Two water users" Gaara answered simply, jumping back words to avoid the kick and then blocking the follow up punch

"Why are you interested in using Taijutsu?" Baki asked as he moved fluidity into another string of punches and jabs to Gaara's weak points, not holding back as the boy had requested.

"Because," Gaara coughed, stepping back to rub at his chest and throw an irated look at Baki "A Kazekage has to be well rounded in all forms of fighting. Taijutsu is my worst feature, I'm average in everything else but excel in Ninjutsu," mostly because of his bloodline which he couldn't exactly help, being Shukaku's container and having a strange mixture of his mother's and father's bloodlines 'en all

"You plan to be Kazekage?" Baki asked stopping his attacking and backing away slightly, just to get a better look at the boy in the lamp light of the small room.

"yes," Gaara nodded, recalling a loud declaration from a certain blonde from weeks before, the strong words of an old friend, the questions of a curious woman and the declaration from the youngest sister, voice cold as she spat out facts that he failed to see. "I want to stop the coming war before it begins."

"Not much worry on that one," Baki sighed straightening from his stance as Gaara's sand returned to his body, making the red head sigh as he was forced to take another dunk in the small pool. "The sand and leaf villages are both Kage-less, neither village can move until at least one of us has a Kage."

"The sooner I become Kazekage, the sooner I can request forgiveness from the leaf," Gaara replied, dunking under the water's surface again.

You've changed, Baki thought with a fond smirk, watching the boy rise back out of the pool, the leaf really dose change people.

If Gaara could accomplish becoming Kazekage, then surly the next few years would be interesting in a positive light


"Lady Tsunade..." Shizune called softly as her arms tightening on the folders in her arms. "About what that boy said..."

"Are you really a Sanin?" Naruto asked, having doubled back to meet them outside of the bar, his eyes wide in curiosity and swimming as if they were the gates to an ocean. "Are you really the same as purvey-sage and snake-man? Are you really one of the kids Jiji taught?" Tsunade had no words for him, feeling lost in a pair of eyes so similar to a woman she once knew long ago. "Are you really one of the shinobi of my village—my home? Are you really the woman Sakura-chan wants to be when she grows up?"

Tsunade had no answers for his questions, she walked passed him, not even glancing down at the files in his arms. She didn't look back at him as he passed the files to Shizune, she didn't look back as he let out a restrained sob, she didn't look back when she heard him run away, she didn't look back when she heard him stumble into something when he turned down the road but kept running anyways

"Don't worry about it," Tsunade murmured as they walked down the dark streets of the infamous gambling city; Naruto's expression was one she hadn't seen since Kushina. It was a look Kushina wore when she was feeling over whelmed about being the last Uzumaki or when she was weeping in front of Mito's grave, feeling lost without the elder beside her.

"A Hero!" Sakura shouted her eyes wide and sparkling as she pointed at the blonde who was in shock at the pinkette's out burst. "Mommy says you saived me wong time ago," Sakura pulled back and smiled brightly, "Thank you for saiving me!"

She hated it when parents lied to their children about the 'legendary Sanin'. Honestly they weren't any different then any other shinobi, their hands were just a little more bloody that's all. The only difference was that Jiraya could do seals, Orochimaru was hell on the battlefield (that wasn't uncommon at all) and she could... she used to heal...

They were just an average... front line... team... they used to be a team...

She smiled as she entered the small park, glad that the child she met the previous year was still with them. It didn't appear as if Sakura had aged at all, still hiding behind her horrendously long pink hair and peaking out of the cherry curtain with watery green eyes.

"Hello little one," Tsunade greeted, stopping at the edge of the sand pit of the swings

"Hime!" Sakura shouted out, a bright smile lighting up her features as she jumped off the swing and ran straight for her

"It's been a long time," Tsunade chuckled, catching the girl as she barreled into her legs, "Have you been well?" Tsunade asked as she pulled the girl into her arms and started for one of the nearby stone benches, smiling when Sakura nodded her head eagerly.

"Lord Hokage said that if I cleaned up my speech I cwould go to the aca-dem-ity!" Sakura giggled and wrapped her arms around Tsunade's neck

"Really?" Tsunade asked curiously, sitting on the bench and adjusting her hold on Sakura

"Yeah... but" Sakura sighed and shifted more comfortably on Tsunade's lap, "He said that I have to get at least nin-ty per-cent to enter and if I fail, I have to wait till I'm six to try again."

"That sounds reasonable" Tsunade chuckled

"But I wan'na be with my sissies!" Sakura whined to her, puffing out her cheeks and blowing her bangs out of her way.

"You wanna know a secret?" Tsunade asked with a chuckle, sweeping gentile hands forward and tugging Sakura's hair back from her face

"What?" Sakura asked, giggling when Tsunade tickled her neck as she pulled her hair back into a quick braid

"I didn't enter the academy until I was six," Tsunade said, smiling as she pulled one of her own hair ties loose and used it on Sakura's hair

"Really?" Sakura asked, turning to look up at Tsunade curiously

"Uh-huh" Tsunade smiled as she brushed Sakura's slightly shorter bangs aside to see Sakura's face, "and guess what? I didn't graduate until I was twelve years old."

"Really?" Sakura asked, her eyes wide in amazement

"Really," Tsunade chuckled, laughter dancing in her amber eyes

Tsunade paused in the dark road thoughtfully, turning she snatched up the thin file with the familiar name and continued walking, ignoring Shizune's curious questions.


"So," Shikamaru started, adjusting Ino's IV while Chōji tucked her into bed, "When are you going to try to get to Sakura?"

"Huh?" Ino blinked dumbly at him

"Don't give me that Ino," Shikamaru sighed, turning away from the IV and putting his hands on his hips, "I Know you're planning on entering her head like you did in the chunin exams."

"...Are you sure you don't have a little bit of Yamanaka in you?" Ino asked with a frown at her teammate, earning amused chuckles from both boys. Ino chuckled herself, letting herself and her teammates fall into that familiar feeling of safety before she bothered with answering the question.

"So?" Chōji asked, trying to get his chuckles under control, "What are you gonna do?"

"I'm gonna take possession of Sakura," Ino smiled at her boys, "Every time I do I end up in her subconscious. I figure that she can't tell the difference, if I can get there then I can show her the way out."

"What you mean she's just stuck in her head?" Shikamaru asked

"Yeah," Ino agreed, bobbing her head, "Dad already told me that the doctors here can't figure out what's wrong with her. Her body is in perfect condition and according to Naruto and Sasuke-kun she didn't do anything that would've done a huge amount of damage to her head."

"Well, to be fare she did go flying through a wall," Chōji said with his head tilted to the side, "Could that have done any damage?"

"That blast should've killed her," Ino replied, "But Fubuki-san prevented that and Karin said she let Sakura drink some of her blood. You know the kind of bloodline she has."

"Yeah, I'm surprised some of the doctors haven't tried to take a sample of her blood and make an artificial version of it." Shikamaru added, shaking his head, "Karin's seals are holding up well too, well according to mom they are."

"Oh yeah, she put some advanced seals in Sakura's room didn't she?" Ino asked with a slight frown, "I don't know how that's going to work with me trying to take possession of her body, it might back fire..."

"...we'll figure it out together," Shikamaru sighed, "Don't do anything until we have all the facts."

"Right," Ino bobbed her head

"Until then get some sleep," Chōji suggested, "We've all had a long day trying to out run those medics. Who knew they were so fast?"

"I didn't know you had to be a marathon runner to be a medic," Shikamaru snickered his agreement, Chōji and Ino both laughed themselves, the moonlight from outside lighting up the room and nearly making it glow.


"Well then... since you shared a se-cret with me... cwould I—can I share a sec-ret with you?" Sakura asked, biting her lip as if she wasn't sure of her decision

"You can tell me anything," Tsunade said with a smile

"That's great!" Sakura smiled at her, Tsunade smiled and nodded. Sakura then proceeded to tell her of her adventures with her older siblings for the past year. Telling Tsunade how 'Nii-tan' helped start her with reading and writing and how her 'Nee-chan' helped with her understanding when she read from a book.

"What are their names?" Tsunade asked curiously, smiling as she fixed her own hair, pulling it back into one ponytail

"Nee-chan said her name was Rin!" Sakura giggled, not seeing Tsunade's wide-eyed look

It couldn't be that she was the reincarnate, plenty of girls were named 'Rin' these days... right?

"And Nii-tan said his name is Yagura!" Tsunade felt the blood drain out of her face by Sakura's proud declaration, "And I miss him..."

"Did he go away?" Tsunade asked softly, finishing her ponytail and wrapping her arms around Sakura securely, hoping that no one was near to hear the secret. Sakura would never truly understand just how dangerous that secret was, how it could end her life before it could truly begin... Tsunade prayed that no one else had heard the secret.

"Yeah..." Sakura sighed, slumping in her hold slightly before she smiled a little sadly at Tsunade, jerking the blond from her desperate thoughts and prayers. "He promised to find me though, I hope I don't have to wait too long, I don't want to forget his face!"

After Tsunade returned Sakura to her parents, spent some time with the new members and eventually told the Haruno family good bye, she left to her teacher's office, telling him her decision... and her request...

Damn, Tsunade sighed, staring at the image in front of her. Of course Tayuya would play a forbidden song that shorted her life span and of course Itachi would run across a flaming bird and possibly end his career as a shinobi with never healing burns, and let's not forget Fubuki's little Ice and water stunt that damn near ripped her arm off. Tsunade was impressed that Fubuki wasn't in a coma, the fact that she's only broken her arm and exhausted her chakra reserves was amazing in and of it self.

But none of them were even close to Sakura's condition

That stupid little brat exhausted her reserves until they were barely even standing and because she's always had such 'small' reserves no one could tell if the amount she has is what she's always had or if she's standing at death's door step. Tsunade wasn't sure how the youngest pinkette managed to do it, but she some how managed to put herself into a coma, even after every doctor in the hospital double and even triple checked her body for wounds they've found nothing to be the cause of her comatose state. Yet they were all too scared to send in a Yamanaka, thinking that if her injuries were on a mental level then only she could heal her self and that if a Yamanaka tried to enter her head they might never come back out.

"Amazing right?" Tsunade's eyes locked onto the familiar white haired man sitting in the window beside her, making her briefly wonder just how long he had been sitting there. "The Haruno sisters are truly something else... especially little blossom"

"Has she thrown anything at you for that?" Tsunade asked, rolling her eyes, "Fubuki froze you for a week for her nick-name and Tayuya damn near killed you when you called her 'thorns'."

"True" Jiraya chuckled, settling further into the room, "Sakura actually started to cry, she ran straight to Mebuki and hid behind her while Tayuya and Fubuki laughed at me."

"Amazing" Tsunade chuckled, "oh that reminds me." Tsunade turned and grinned up at Jiraya, her eyes dancing in the morning sunlight, "Sakura told me that Hiruzen made a deal with her, did she really enter the academy when she was four?" Tsunade had no doubts that Sakura could enter the academy at four and pass the exam, especially if she was the reincarnate of Rin Nohara; something she suspected before she left the village and knew since she left the village.

"You mean you didn't hear?" Jiraya asked with a frown, making Tsunade stiffen slightly, knowing that what he was going to say next wasn't good "The day of the test... blossom got kidnapped."

Tsunade felt her heart stop


Sasuke sighed as he sat on his hotel bed; in his lap was the picture from two years before that Shizune had seen the previous night. It wasn't the last time they played, not by a long shot, but the two women didn't need to know that. Any little bit of guilt would be helpful to their cause, and if anyone could make someone feel guilty, it was Sasuke; if anyone could make someone second-guess themselves, it was Naruto.

The two could play mind games that would make Ibiki proud and yet neither were as good as getting someone to talk as Sakura had been—was—is

Sasuke sighed, unable to find the proper words for his own thoughts

"Come on Teme, let's go!" Naruto shouted from the floor where he laid

"Go where Dube?" Sasuke asked with a frown, noting how the blond still hadn't moved

"To a nearby training field," Naruto snickered at him, "We need to work on our Taijutsu! Sakura-chan would kick our butts if she found us slacking!"

Sasuke smirked at the mental image that created; yeah their girl would be furious with them for slacking off. She hated it when people sat around feeling sorry for themselves...

Sasuke's smirk widened and a mischievous glint entered his dark eyes, "Hay Dobe, you wanna try something?"

"You look like you just chopped someone to pieces—and enjoyed it," Naruto retorted with a grin, Sasuke threw a pillow at Naruto, his smirk widening

They were about to ruin someone's day


He sighed as he sat back in the tree, watching a young woman sleep soundly, her dark pink hair pulled over her shoulders in matching braids tipped with little glass beads. It had been two week since the attack on the village, near a full week since she last woke up and only a few hours since Ino started to try to break into her once-friend's hospital room. However, this particular pinkette was older then them by two years, her eyes were hazel instead of green and her skin was darker then her sisters.

Though the girls share no relation—none are from the same country or back grounds and they don't share the same personality—it is startling to see that each one shares the same jaw line, nose, eye shape (Fubuki and Sakura share the same eye color) and the same hair color (though there is slight difference in shade, with Tayuya having the darkest and Fubuki with the lightest). As it is, the three girls act as if they've been around each other their entire life, like they were raised by the same parents in the same house. Fubuki Kakuyoku (9, the eldest) has explained that since their abduction they've had only each other with no adults or other children around (she named one other girl by the name of 'Karin' who was taken away just before the raid) as such they grew very close very fast. Tayuya (8, and an orphan with no known last name) explained that the guards avoided their room as if they feared it to be cursed, she often heard them mumbling curses about their level of the base (the highest and most kept) but she never caught the reason why.

Some of the older slaves had shown us where the 'masters' kept all their paper work, (it was well organized) which then explained to us that the heist level (the one the three girls were kept in) was originally used to entertain 'guests' (buyers) but was changed into their room when Fubuki was discovered (She was found in snow country, where they were originally looking for anyone with a slightly normal hair color—such as red, yellow, white, purple, excreta—she immanently caught their attention). When she was brought there, the 'masters' then made it an almost personal hunt for anyone with pink hair, they sent multiple teams through the larger elemental nations and nuke-nin through the smaller nations. Paying the nuke-nin with money and telling them to 'search' for anyone with unique hair, to take pictures and accurate location descriptions and the like. Their own men already knew what to do and did so quickly, the first team to come to fire nation went straight to Konoha, where they found Kizashi Haruno playing with his daughter, Sakura Haruno (3), in the local park. They immanently followed them home, planned and later kidnapped Sakura Haruno while she was out shopping with her mother (Mebuki Haruno). Even going so far as hiring two Nuke-Nin's; one specializing in earth ninjutsu to make a clone of Sakura so the mother wouldn't notice right away and another to trick Sakura into wondering away from her mother.

It was later discovered that the team with Sakura Haruno was discovered by a patrol and though they were able to kill the earth user (disabling the earth clone of Sakura and alerting her mother) the genjutsu usurer was able to eliminate the patrol and escape to the meeting point with the handlers. He then protected them with multiple layered Genjutsu's and escorted them out of fire nation, after which he was sent to another meet point, paid and possibly re-employed somewhere else.

It was information Shikamaru wished he never knew but at the same time it was information he was glad he knew, Shikamaru was glad his father dropped the large file on his bedroom desk. For some reason it just cleared every question he had of the 'Haruno sisters', why his mother chuckled at the name every time she heard it, why his father sighed or rolled his eyes whenever they were brought up. It explained why Fubuki and Tayuya flew through the academy the way they did, spending barely two years in it before graduating, why they were so protective of Sakura and of each other, why they kept every male their age and up with a ten foot pole with very (very) select few becoming close to them. It explained everything about the older 'sisters' and their personalities, their talents, habits, but it explained nothing of Sakura Haruno. It didn't explain her intelligence, her lack of favoritism in any specific style of ninja art, her accretive personality, the way she greeted everyone and anyone as openly as a new born. It explained nothing of the youngest Haruno. She wasn't like Fubuki and Tayuya, she excelled in anything she put her mind too, she didn't prefer ninjutsu or genjutsu, she didn't have any kind of favorite of anything—other then her violin and foods.

Confusing, Shikamaru thought with a sigh, leaning further back into the tree so he'd get a better view of the sky but a still perfect vantage point of the hospital room below him. He expected the sisters to be reserved and afraid, as if they expected their past to come back and haunt them but they didn't, they smiled and laughed as brightly and loudly as anyone else in the world, like that bleak beginning to their life hadn't happened. Shikamaru's eyes snapped in on Tayuya's hospital room, eyes locking in on the semi-small red haired girl and her elder counter part as they both moved to draw bloody lines on the smooth white of the wall and floor surrounding the comatose pinkette.

Karin, Shikamaru thought, straightening slightly in his slouch, remembering that the file had mentioned a 'Karin' who was taken away just before the invasion on the temporary base. They had assumed that she was sold to a nuke-nin, the reason why none of them could find her. The only question he had was if the 'Karin' he knew was the same 'Karin' who was put in the same room as the 'Haruno sisters'—wait that was a dumb question, Karin and Sakura were closer then just friends, they were practically siblings. Groaning, Shikamaru rubbed a hand over his face; was it a leaf thing to just barge in unexplained, kick butt, take in the orphans and then leave the next generation to clean up their mess or were all the shinobi villages just as messy with their secrets?

He understood that his father was trying to teach him about Sakura's reasons for her actions in the prelims (or something to that effect) but if he figured out that Karin and Sakura was so close because of what happened to them, then who else did? Wouldn't the other villages have monitored the 'Haruno sisters' after all these years? Did that mean that the other villages knew about Karin being that 'missing girl' who was 'sold' the same day as the massive slave-ring-annihilation? Wait, did Karin's mom, Nira, buy her? Did that mean she was a bad guy? Wait a—

Too hell with it! Shikamaru groaned and rubbed at his head with both of his hands, Might as well think of something else... thinking about the mess the 'Haruno sisters' had been through was only going to give him a migraine... what was it that he came to the hospital for anyways?


"Hime-chan..." Sakura called suddenly, staring seriously up into Tsunade's face, "Are you leaving us?"

"Where did you hear that little one?" Tsunade asked, more sighing the question then anything else

"I heard some grown ups come-plank-ing" Sakura answered slowly, "and you have a bag with you," Tsunade looked down and chuckled, she actually forgot that she had brought that with her.

"Yes I'll be leaving soon" Tsunade answered, "I didn't come here to talk about that though..."

"Will you come back?" Sakura asked, her eyes looking like liquid jade

"I'll come back," Tsunade agreed softly, brushing Sakura's bangs back slightly "For you if nothing else..."

The guilt she felt for the lie tripled at Sakura's bright smile and cheerful 'I'll wait for you'

"It was Itachi who saved her that day," Jiraya's voice brought Tsunade back from her memories, "after spending the day with the Haruno's he decided to graduate with his class mates instead of graduating early."

"I see..." Tsunade sighed and glanced at the files on the table in front of her, eyes clouding over with memories and thoughts

"Will you be returning now?" Jiraya asked seriously, "I know you've had a... a connection... to the little blossom..."

"She's the one who had the connection with me," Tsunade corrected, not looking at Jiraya "Who're the other contestants for the title?" my promise...

"Danzo," Jiraya answered bitterly, Tsunade flinched at the memory of the fridge man; she'd die before she left that village to him!

"You're not giving me any wiggle room," Tsunade murmured with narrow eyes at Jiraya, "You know what he'll do to them—to us..."

"Drag you out of retirement or kill you," Jiraya grumbled, "Or at least try to kill you"

"He'll destroy that village," Tsunade sighed, slumping against the table and dragging her fingers through her scalp, "He'll destroy everything those men built... he'll destroy those shinobi... and those children..." all those children... they'll be destroyed!

"You know what he'll do to her..." Jiraya sighed in agreement, not to mention our newest set of Uzumaki's, "What he'll do to her sisters... and those children..."

"He'll kill her for being weak," Tsunade hissed, glaring at the picture of a comatose Sakura

"Or brain wash her" Jiraya added

"He's not touching her," Tsunade snarled at Jiraya with a fierce glare, "We damn near lost half our force for that girl, to lose her to him would be an embracement."

"Then come back," Jiraya said in a voice close to begging, "Please Tsunade-Hime, come back to the village... save it from that man and the darkness he wields..."

"...I don't have a choice"


She curled up beside her friend, placing her head on the small bed beside the girl's chest so she could hear her heart beat and pulled her own hands close to her chest, wrapping one around the comatose girl's stomach to keep herself on the bed and put her feet over the girl's hanging off the other side. She tried to hold back the tears, tried to ignore the feeling tearing her heart apart, the feeling of her eyes being slowly and painfully pulled out of her head. She tried to ignore every sign her body showed in the form of pain, what she couldn't ignore was the feeling of something shifting the bed. Snapping her violet eyes wide open she stared wide-eyed at the boy by her feet and the girl standing solemnly on the other side of the bed.

"What?" She asked with a glare at her white-eyed cousin, suddenly feeling defensive; it was hardly the first time he's seen her sleep with her child hood friend.

"I apologize Hinata-sama," Neji said with a straight face, "you looked uncomfortable so I brought another bed for you to lay on."

"Oh," Hinata moved out of curled up position and quickly moved out of the older boy's way. "Wait, why?" Hinata asked turning to watch Neji pull out the little lamp desk beside the bed and set it aside while he moved to push the extra hospital bed between the wall and Sakura's bed, careful of the breathing apparatus.

"She is precious to you," Neji replied smoothly taking out zip ties and moving under Hinata's bed and zip tying the sides together to keep the beds from moving.

"That's never impressed you before," Hinata replied, watching Karin repeat his process on the other side, except she didn't use Zip ties on the bed, too afraid that something would happen that would require Sakura's bed needing to be moved.

"...My father left me a letter," Neji said rising to his feet and refusing to look at Hinata as he shifted to move a warm blanket over the bed for her. "Uncle didn't give it to me before because he didn't think I was ready to read it..." Hinata was quiet, observing her cousin curiously, knowing that it didn't matter what she said because there were no words to give a respectful reply. She had always known that her elder cousin was always kinder when her friend was around weather he realized it or not. Neji didn't sneer as much as he smiled when Sakura was around; her sarcasm made him smirk, her questions made him ponder, her actions made him curious, her complements made him happier, her smiles always relaxed him.

Weather he realized it or not, Neji was different after meeting Sakura

Weather he liked it or not, Neji was kinder after seeing Sakura

"D-Do you mind?" Karin asked softly, shifting uncomfortably beside the bed, drawing both Hyūga's from their own thoughts

"Mind what?" Hinata and Neji asked together, confused by her random question

"I-if I can lay here," Karin answered with a blush, "We used to in wave and when we...we were..." Karin stopped speaking and regard the two cousins curiously. "Do either one of you know how we know each other?" Karin asked suddenly, tilting her head to the side, her crimson ponytail swishing with the soft movement, her big red eyes blinking at them curiously.

"I thought you were sisters?" Neji asked with a frown, that was how he was introduced to Karin; Sakura herself called Karin 'Imoto'.

"My name is Uzumaki and she's a Haruno," Karin reminded him with a raised eyebrow, "to my knowledge Kizashi is an only child and he's only been married the one time. Plus if you look close enough you'll realize that I share more facial features with Naruto then Sakura."

"So... you're related to Naruto but not Sakura?" Hinata asked with a frown, "I don't understand, Fubuki and Tayuya both call you Imoto and Mebuki-san calls you Mesume."

"Yeah that's because they've unofficially adopted me, kind of like they've unofficially adopted Naruto," Karin smiled at them, moving to put one knee onto the bed she deemed to be hers. "I guess it's not my secret to tell," Karin sighed pulling back the simple knitted blue blanket and crawled into her place beside Sakura, not daring to put her head any higher then the pinkette's elbow.

Neji and Hinata shared a confused look, they've known Sakura since she was four years old; how the hell did Karin know her longer and yet hadn't met them until last month? Knowing that Karin most likely wouldn't answer their questions, her earlier words rang through their minds like bells, Hinata crawled onto her bed and Neji took a seat at the end of Sakura's bed.


"Get back here!"

Huh? Tsunade turned at the familiar sounding voice, eyes widening as she saw three children run right passed her, one with short dark hair, one with short yellow hair and... and one with long pink locks trailing after her like a comet tail.

"You guys are so dead!" the girl shouted out, waving her fist threatening at the two boys who were laughing loudly as they ran from her

Tsunade watched as the laughing children disappeared into the crowd. Curious she turned and watched her surroundings carefully, noting how no one seemed bothered that a group of children just ran passed and then disappeared.


I better hurry, Shizune thought as she ran through the busy streets with Ton-ton in her arms.

"Let go!" Shizune skidded to a halt at the shrill voice, turning Shizune watched with wide eyes as two girls held a small pinkette in place while another girl made sloppy work of the girl's long hair with a pair of scissors. "Ino! Ino help!" the pinkette shouted struggling in vain in the girl's tight hold, looking closer Shizune could see a short haired blond walk away from the group.

"Why?" 'Ino' asked turning slightly to look back at the group, "You have that and so much more coming for you."

"Ino! Ino!" the pinkette cried as the blonde continued walking away, the violet haired girl behind the pinkette smirked and continued cutting away at Sakura's hair.

"Stop that!" Shizune flinched at the shrill voice of a boy as he burst out of the bushes and threw a rock at the girl holding the scissors. "Hurry up and run!" the boy shouted as the girls turned on him and started to swing punches at him, the pinkette didn't look as she ran away, tears streaming down her cheeks like rivers. Shizune watched curiously, as the pinkette ran passed her but once she was a few feet away her surroundings suddenly turned into a perfect all white landscape without anything to get in the pinkette's way as she continued to run in place just a few feet away from her.

"I see," Shizune murmured, staring at the back of the pinkette as she ran, Genjutsu, they're showing me their memories of the girl

Shizune watched how the tiny six year old kept running and crying, it wasn't long before she grew just a little taller and her crying stopped, her hair growing to rest just passed her shoulders. A second later Sakura grew again, her hair a little longer and her clothes just a little more boyish; another second and another year, her hair brushing at her upper arms and her skirt fluttering around her knees and her sleeves around her elbows. Shizune watched, as the little girl kept growing taller and taller as the seconds passed, eventually growing into the twelve year old she was supposed to be this day. Her hair brushed at her hips teasingly, her skirt at her knees swishing flirtatiously, her sleeves long enough to hide her hands but not her fingers.

Shortly after this final year passed Shizune watched as her surroundings changed again, this time in the familiar darkness of training grounds 44. Sakura was still running, this time with Sasuke and Naruto beside her, Sakura through both of her hands out in front of her as if to protect her teammates from something up ahead. Sasuke pulled out his earth scroll and quickly sealed it into the golden flower on Sakura's right sleeve while Naruto mimicked him with a white flower on Sakura's left sleeve. After a while, Sakura stumbled, gasping and coughing, Sasuke swept forward and pulled her onto his back without stopping in his sprint. Then the scene shifted again, this time to show the arena in Konoha, Shizune watched with wide eyes as Sakura fought against a tall-bandaged boy, eventually getting close enough to drag her elongated glowing blade over his right arm, destroying the metallic thing in one swing but at the price of being thrown through a stonewall.

Then the scene shifted again, showing Naruto and Sakura running through the trees hurriedly, never stopping even as poisoned senbon was shot at them. They kept moving until they came into contact with Sasuke, a blonde girl and a red haired boy who quickly revealed himself to be the Ichibi Junchuuriki. The boys fought while Sakura separated from them, after a few minutes the two girls hobbled back over to them; where Sakura proceeded to scold the three boys and then let the boy and girl from sand go while she threatened Naruto and Sasuke into running back to the village. About half way back, Sakura stopped running, she wobbled and then fainted, falling flat on her face on the hard cold ground fifteen feet below her. The boys doubled back and then quickly hurried her back to the village, panic and fear echoing in their eyes as they ran full tilt.


The nurse opened the door to room 403 and immanently stopped in her tracks, her brown eyes widening at the sight presented to her. The room was supposed to house the one comatose patient with no visitors outside of immanent family, however, the room she walked in on was positively filled with children all about twelve and thirteen years old. Two other young girls were curled up beside the comatose girl like frightened children, a young white haired boy was sleeping on the edge of the red haired girl's bed snoring loudly, another brown haired boy was sitting in a chair at the foot of the comatose girl's bed glaring at her warningly and yet another brown haired boy—no another brown haired girl was curled up sleeping soundly behind the red haired girl facing the white haired boy, sharp brown orbs stared in tiered irritation at her.

She blinked at the pile of children and she swore the action woke the girl sleeping closest to the wall, her head rose just enough to reveal frigid violets glaring at her. Obviously, she had awoken the young Hyūga girl without even meaning to.

"Get out," the two Hyūga's murmured together in smooth, calm voices

The door was shut closed in almost the same breath as their order

No one in the hospital was willing to disobey a Hyūga, especially the Hyūga heir


THW~A~ACK!

"OW!"

"You two are idiots!" Tsunade snapped, glaring at the two boys with near perfectly round bumps on their heads, "We were going here to tell you my decision and you go off showing your memories in genjutsu form on the whole damn village! Are you trying to tell every nuke-nin in the country your greatest weakness?"

"We thought you might need some convincing" Naruto pouted, "Sakura-nee really looks up to you"

"Although I don't have the faintest clue as to why," Sasuke grumbled rudely

"You two idiots don't know?" Tsunade asked, straightening in her stance and glaring pointedly at Jiraya as if it was his fault for not informing the two boys, "She's never spoken of a 'Hime' to you?"

"...You mean Sakura-chan's imaginary older sister?" Sasuke asked with a raised eyebrow, he remembered her bringing it up once when they were little but had a bad reaction when he told her that she was imagining the older brunet.

Thwack!

"I'm not imaginary!" Tsunade snapped, too close, sorry Rin

"About ten years ago there was a huge commotion in the village, I doubt you'll remember," Jiraya spoke up with a smirk. "You'd have been three at the time, or maybe two?" Jiraya looked thoughtful from where he leaned against the hotel wall, now unsure of how old the two boys were, much less when they had left to 'heal' the Mizukage

"Are you talking about the kidnapping incident with the Hyūga's?" Naruto asked, "Everyone knows that and then we were taught in the academy how to handle those kinds of situations."

"Every clan head with a kid immanently taught their kid how to escape from such situations," Sasuke agreed, rubbing at his sore head with an irritated look at Tsunade. "Security tightened around the compound and dad was brutal with his training, he didn't let me forget it and mom put Itachi through some special training—with me on his back." His expression said that hadn't been fun and that he properly has a few scars from the experience

"It's not the Hyūga's I'm thinking about," Jiraya replied with a slight frown, still thinking about how old the boys would've been during the mission he had taken part in, "There was another kidnapping episode later that same year."

"Oh you mean the huge man hunt everyone went on?" Naruto asked, surprising everyone, "I vaguely recall being taken to Jiji and spending most of my time listening in on him giving instructions to everyone."

"You remember that far back?" Sasuke asked with a raised eyebrow, you should've been like two—at least. The only thing he remembered from that age was trying to learn how to get out of rope binds and escape tactics that his father still drilled him and Itachi in.

"It helps that it was also the one week Jiji spent almost all of his time with me," Naruto shot back with a pout at Sasuke. Everyone in the village, especially Naruto's 'family', knew that the little blond only remembered things that he deemed to be important and when it concerned such 'important' things his memory could kind of be like Sakura's in the sense that it was trippy.

"It was Sakura who was kidnapped," Tsunade sighed, drawing both boy's attentions immanently "Kakashi, Jiraya and I, along with a few others, saved that girl's life. Sarutobi-sensei made me promise to come back to visit with her, if anything should happen to him I was to take over her training and even adopt her if anything went wrong."

"So why did you reject coming back to the village?" Sasuke asked with a frown

"Automatic reflex" Tsunade answered straight faced, "What'd you expect brat? I was drunk, not thinking clearly and, at that point in time, didn't give a damn."

That's a load of bull sh*t, Jiraya thought, staring at the back of Tsunade's head. Although when he thought about it, the boys didn't know Tsunade like he did, so they couldn't call her bluffs as easily as him.

I knew that girl looked familiar, Shizune sighed, sneaking a glance at the suitcase Tsunade always had beside her. She knew just where Tsunade kept her small wallet of pictures. She had gotten curious after a while on the road; every now and again their communication slug would appear and spit out a photo for Tsunade to see. Whenever her suitcase was taken she'd hunt down the culprit and beat him to an inch of his life and then she'd check that compartment first before looking at anything else.

Every single picture Tsunade owned was of a smiling, well-dressed, pinkette about three or four years old with wide, dancing emerald eyes and aster skin. Each photo was dated and sometimes it came with a little letter attached, they always made Tsunade feel better and she'd actually teach Shizune something new. However, after several months on the road the pictures stopped arriving, which wasn't like the slug to stop sending them. It had put Tsunade on edge when the communication slug suddenly reported that her counter part had returned to the summoning realm with grievance injuries.

They haven't heard a word from Konoha since


Any ideas on summoning animals?

Obviously team seven is going to have main contracts with their original summons but I was thinking about sub contracts, any suggestions?

Examples

Team 7:

Sakura—Main contract: Slugs—Minor contract: Birds and maybe something else

Naruto—Main contract: Toads—Minor contract: Haven't figured that one out yet, should he have more then one?

Sasuke—Main contract: Snakes—Minor contract: Hawks and possibly something else

Team 8: (Do they even need summoning?)

Hinata—main contract: maybe she should have a bird contract too... no that's redundant (Cage bird seal)

Kiba—Main contract: he has Akamaru...

Shino—main contract: He has his family bugs...

Team 10:

Ino—Main contract: pigs? I thought that was a little redundant...

Chōji—Main contract: I was thinking something like butterflies but I don't know if that can be done...

Shikamaru—Main contract: Dear—Minor contract: Haven't figured that one out...

Do you know if any of the Jonin's have contracts? I know Kakashi has dogs and Gai has turtles but what about everyone else? Dose Kurenai or Asuma? Should I make something up for them?

Should Karin and Nira have summoning contracts?

Thoughts are helpful

Opinions are wonderful

Helpful criticismis lovely! Just don't cripple me okay?

Please no cursing!

And don't forget to rate and review!

PS: I just finished chapter 46! I feel so proud of my self

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