Pink Cherry Blossoms and the Black Crow

Summary: Sakura has been acting strange lately...Being Very cold and distant to Team 7 and always looking back behind her. Like she expects someone or something to be there. What's wrong with our young pink haired ninja in training? Will Sasuke and Naruto be able to figure it out before it's too late? And too late before what...?

Disclaimer: Have I ever owned Naruto? Why yes I have, in fact right now...::Men suddenly come and begin to drag Cattie away to an insane assaylum:: ONLY IN MY DREAMS!! I SWEAR ONLY THEN!!! ::The men suddenly drop her back on the ground with a thud:: Whew...that was close...TOO close. "

Authors Note: Sorry if the characters seem OOC...but then again I'm not. 'Cuz I mean this is a fan fic after all...so never mind. I'm not sorry if they seem OOC. I might end up changing the title of my story...also, just a reminder or something kinda like it. " This fan fic takes place a little later on in life. So everyone is at least maybe around 15 or 16. Somewhere between their middle teens. Oh, also, sorry about having the beginning go so slow. Gradually it won't be so boring, I hope, and more Sakura Sasuke moments WILL happen. I just needed to get the plot moving and so on and so forth. Hope you all enjoy my story!! .

Extras ' ' = Thoughts

" "= Someone talking

Bold = Someone saying or thinking something with great...expression.

Italics = Flashback ==========================================

"Mom...? Dad? Are you guys in here?" Sakura called out into the darkness.

She didn't dare step in because if they were...doing...the...thing...

"Sa...Sakura?" It was her mother.

But it didn't sound as though "the nasty" was being done. It sounded more like a beaten and wounded voice.

"Mother?" Sakura again called out this time more frantic and stepping into the room.

She searched for the light switch, and found it. She switched it up and then wished that she never had. Her mother was lying on the floor next to the bed. She had about five kunai in her; all vital areas. Dark crimson blood was everywhere in the room. On the floor, walls, ceiling, and her mother...Sakura's sea foam green eyes widened with fright and sorrow. What had happened? Who had done this? Tears started to stream from her eyes.

Her mother slightly turned her head so she was facing Sakura. She gave her daughter a weak smile. This was not the way she had expected to die... she had been expecting to die in a warm bed...to see Sakura's children and even perhaps their children. Though that wasn't going to happen...still... she had to say her last good byes to her daughter. Her sweet wonderful daughter that should have never had to see this. Her eyes also filled with tears...oh...how she loved Sakura...

"Sakura...::cough cough:: Please...don't...::cough::...cry...I'll. . . ::wheeze:: be alrig..." Sakura's mother whispered.

Though she never did finish the sentence. Her mother's beautiful gray blue eyes slowly went pale until there was no sign of life left in her fragile body. She looked like an android, a lifeless one at that. Her mother's body went limp and deceased breathing. Sakura gave a weak cry out and rushed to her mother's side. She sat down and picked her mother's corpse up into her lap. Blood slowly went and seeped onto Sakura's clothes too, though it didn't matter to her. Her mother! Why her mother?! Fresh tears fell from her eyes and she wailed helplessly.

"M-m-mommy? Mommy? Mommy...please! Please don't die on me! Please!!! Mommy!!" Sakura cried out to her mother while slightly shaking her limp form.

Tears ran down onto her mother's face. Covering up the ones that her mother had shed.

"Come on Mommy! Wake up! This...this is a joke right? You... your gonna bounce up in front of me...laughing. Saying how silly I was to fall for a joke like this, right? Ri-right?" Sakura's bottom lip quivered and she couldn't hold it in any longer.

She wailed at the top of her lungs like what three year olds did when they thought they saw a monster. This wasn't true! This had to be a dream! Her mother...her mother wasn't dead! It was a joke! A nasty one at that! Tears ran freely down her delicate face, she didn't bother to wipe them away. She was in too much astonish, pain, and sorrow. Who had done this? Did her father know? Sakura's head shot up from her mother's ...Father! Was he here too? Maybe he could explain this!

Sakura put her mother's body gently back onto the floor, wiped away, or at least tried to, some of her tears, and then hastily got up and out of her parents' room. She hated the smell, taste, and color of blood. It was such a dark crimson that it was almost as if once you looked at it you became entranced by it. The young ninja shook her head.

She shouldn't think about that. She wanted...no...needed to find her father. Her feet led her down the hall and to the den. That place had always been her father's favorite place to be, besides by her mother. The teenager had found that, also like where her mother was, the light was turned off. Of course, then again, so was every light in her house. How she moved around in the pitch black with teary eyes was beyond her...

She quickly switched on the light and, to her surprise, found her father sitting in a chair. His back was facing her but at the moment, she didn't care nor think about it.

"Dad? Dad...what are you doing? Didn't you see Mom?" She inquired in a shaky voice.

"Heh...Yeah I did...I was doubting they were going to kill that wench..." Her father whispered, turning around to face her.

Sakura's sea foam eyes widened. New fresh tears began to roll over her old dry ones. What had her father just said? No...that wasn't her father...Her father...he loved her mother. And vice-versa. Nothing would ever come between their love for each other and nothing would ever separate the family. Or at least...that's what Sakura had thought. Rage filled Sakura's body. Mind, soul, heart...everything. Her hands clenched together into fists. They were so far down from her rage that her nails pierced her skin and made her palms bleed. But she didn't care. Rage shook her on the inside and out. Her head was foggy and even she knew that she wasn't thinking straight.

"Who are you?!...You mimicker!! Bring me back my father! My mother! I hate you! Bastard! What did they ever do to you?!" Sakura screamed at her "father" with all of the rage that had built up inside her.

The man gave a mere chuckle then retorted, "So...you saw right through my disguise? Heh...I should have known since you are the most intelligent out of Team 7, ne? Sakura Haruno."

He released his form of Sakura's father. And that was when Sakura knew that nightmares could come true. The man was hideous. He had raven black hair that was down to his shoulders. It was choppy at the end and had the hint of midnight blue in light. His skin color was almost an albino white. He was about 5'11" and had blood red eyes...His eyes...those were the things that burned into Sakura's mind. Most girls that would see him as a passer by on the street would porbaly swoon for him. Not Sakura. She hated him and even he knew it. Because he gave a wicked laugh that made Sakura's hairs bristle.

"You hate me, don't you Sakura-san?" He asked giving her ominous smile.

Another thing that was now burned into her mind. That smile...those teeth...they were...hideous. They were almost all a razor sharp row expect for a couple that were ground down from God knows what. Sakura felt her eyes well up with tears. Of course she hated him! Who in bloody hell wouldn't hate the murderer of their parents?! Her lip quivered and she shouted at him, tears running down her face,

"OF COURSE I HATE YOU!!! YOU KILLED MY PARENTS! YOU KNOW ABOUT ME-"Sakura gave a sharp intake of breath...He knew about her!

How did he know her name? What more did he know about her?! She almost just felt like breaking down there. In front of this murderer...the one that killed her parents...! Tears, again, fell from her eyes and down her delicate face. She would get revenge. Her blood began to boil as it had before and she felt that just yelling would not help her this time...

"BASTARD!" She yelled running towards the man fist raised as though to strike him.

Big mistake. He quickly dodged it and was suddenly behind her.

'What? I never saw him move...! He's overwhelming with power!' Sakura thought in shock.

But her actions at the moment were quicker then her brain and she began to do a backwards side kick at where she thought the man was. And actually thought she was going to at least hit him when...

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Cattie: A cliffy appeared! Don't cha just loooooooooove cliffies? Mwahahaha I know I do! At least...when I'm writing the story! Teehee!

Dannee: ::sighs:: Aren't you forgetting something?

Cattie: ::Magic light bulb appears above her head:: Oh yeah! Thanks to my six reviews I actually decided to continue this story! ::Huggles the reviewers:: I wasn't sure if I had wanted to even post this story...But...

Dannee: ::pushes Cattie away:: Ok, that's enough of her. I don't think you all want to hear her life story...

Cattie: ::pops back:: Oh I know they do! It all started when my mom and dad...muff keekle mough...

Danee: ::covers Cattie's mouth hastily:: Ok! That's definitely enough! ::drags Cattie away:: Well...review some more for Cattie and maybe by that time she'll be done with her life story! Ja ne!