A/N: ugh, I had writers block all last week!! So im not especially happy
with this chapter, I hate battle scenes and cant write them worth...anything!
And I tried adding one in here for some reason and it didn't work out -_-;
but I think I covered it up pretty well. Anyway, I think this chapter is
crap, blame the writers block, but read it anyway and tell what you did and
didn't like please, and please remember to report back and typos or misuse
of grammar!! Thank you!! Note: Sakura is a Chuunin in the story because its
set when they're all 13, so I assume that she had past the test by then ^^
oh and at the point in the series I am at, the 3rd Hokage hasn't died yet,
so he's still alive, just wanted to clear those two things up ^^.
*~*~*~*~*~*
Sakura sat up in her bed, dazed and unaware of anything around her. She vaguely heard a rapid knock on her door, then a high, angelic voice float through the door, the voice of her mother.
"Sakura? Sweetie? Are you ok?"
Memories flooded back into her mind from the sound of her sweet mothers voice. Memories of a fraction of her future. Blood. That sweet angelic voice screaming in pain before a sword's blade plummeted through her throat, silencing it forever. The body of her father laying in a pool of blood on the floor, not three feet away from her poor mother.
She pulled herself from this memory of the future, or one of them at least. She couldn't tell her own mother that this was her last night on earth, how do you tell someone that?
"I'm fine Mama...." She mumbled, pulling the covers closer to her body.
"Ok...dinners ready"
"...I'll...be down in a minute..."
She waited until she heard her mothers footsteps depart from outside her door to let out the sob she had been holding in. She sighed and kicked the covers off her body and headed downstairs to the dinner awaiting her.
****
Naruto and Sasuke sat at the counter of Ichiraku Ramen (is that right??), with Naruto slurping ramen noisily.
"Naruto is there a certain reason why you dragged me all out here?" Sasuke questioned, stirring his ramen.
"*slurp* Ya, there is *slurp* actually"
"Well, what is it?"
Naruto sat down his third bowl of ramen and stared down at the counter.
"You know how Kyubi is sealed inside me?"
Sasuke looked up from his ramen.
"...ya"
"Well, I felt a sorta pull in my stomach back there in the forest, like he was, I dunno, trying to get out...like something was provoking him..."
"What do you think it could've been?"
"...That huge amount of chakra we sensed back in the forest, I think it was coming from Sakura..."
"..."
"I have no idea why I think that..."
"But, that's impossible, that chakra was...was huge!"
"I know...but all those bodies...and the fact the that Sakura didn't want us near her..."
Sasuke sneered and looked out the nearest window at that comment.
"We need to ask Kakashi-sensei about this...this, this is too fucked up to just forget about..." Naruto said looking up at Sasuke.
"...I wonder if he even knows..." Sasuke said "I'm leaving, see you tomorrow" he said, getting up and walking out the door.
****
Kakashi look sick. He looked back over at Hokage-sama worriedly.
"Are...are you sure...?"
"Well, not completely, I'm going to have to question the girl, but from what you've told me, I see no other explanation to this..."
"I thought is only existed in rumors, it doesn't seem possible--"
"A demon even more powerful then Kyubi, yes I know, I'm still in shock, we need to get to the bottom of this as soon as possible"
"I'll bring her in tomorrow for you--"
"No, no, I think I'll drop by tomorrow to observe her fighting skills, if he does exist, and the seal has been broken, if there ever was one, her fighting skills will have improved tremendously"
Kakashi rubbed his eyes in exasperation "...of course, come by tomorrow" he said and got up from the table and walked out the door.
****
Sakura sat in silence at the dinner table, along with both of her parents. Her father was eating his fill of food, and her mother was staring down at her hands. The images of her parents' deaths flashed through her mind again. She looked down at her food and felt the bile rise up into her throat.
"Sakura? Are you ok Honey?" her mother asked worriedly.
"Yea...I'm fine...hey Mama?"
"Yes Honey?"
"Why don't you and Daddy take trip tonight? Just you two, like go down and visit grandma down in the country"
"Honey, we can't go tonight--"
"That sounds like a good idea!" her father cut in "You and I need a break, and your mother's been pestering us to come down anyway"
"But tonight?!"
"Sure, it'd be fun!"
"B-but Sakura--"
"I'm fine alone, it'd be nice to have a night to myself"
"...siiigh, alright, we'll leave after dinner...I guess, but we never do this again!" her mother sighed again and got up from the table.
Sakura was shocked that she had actually pulled it off, but it didn't matter, at least her parents were safe now, and might even live a full happy life.
She stood at the door and waved as her father dragged her mother to the car and drove away. Pleased about her victory over her parents, she headed into the living room to read.
****
The next day started like any other day; early. Sakura was the second person at the bridge next to Sasuke.
"Ohayo..." she said wearily, rubbing her eyes.
"...ah" was Sasuke usual response.
He looked over at Sakura, noticing the happy, slightly dazed look she was wearing that morning.
"Hehe..." she giggled to herself, leaning dangerously far over the railing in a dazed fashion.
"...are you ok?" Sasuke asked
"Ya...I'm fine..."
"...whatever...hey, what happened yesterday?"
The smile on her face faded to a guilty frown.
"...I dunno...I don't remember being able to control my body..."
"...um...what did you se--"
"OHAYO MINA-SAN!!" Naruto screamed louder than necessary.
"Hi Naruto" Sakura said softly.
"...hi" Sasuke glared in irritation.
"Sakura-chan! Are you feeling better?"
"Yes, arigato Naruto..."
Sasuke sighed and looked away again, 'grrr, that loud mouth...' he thought bitterly.
Moments later a cloud of smoke appeared and inside the cloud was none other than Kakashi. This was a major shock for the three Chuunin for the simple fact that he was on time. But this mystery was solved within the very same minute because the very next second another cloud of smoke materialized and appearing in it was Hokage-sama.
"I didn't think you'd make me be on time..." Kakashi huffed
Hokage-sama ignored this and walked straight up to Sakura.
"Hello, Sakura-san" he said, ignoring the two boys.
"...hello" she mumbled
He smiled and turned to Kakashi once again.
"I'll be I'll be standing over there, Kakashi" he said pointing to a field beyond the bridge.
"Hai, hai, ok, lets get started, Hokage-sama will be observing our training today"
"What? Training? Don't we have missions?" Naruto asked, flinging his arms out.
"Well, we did, but Hokage-sama canceled them, so we have the whole day to train, so here's how its gonna happen, we'll pair up and battle each other until one of you is down, there wont be any giving up unless I have to stop the battle, Sasuke and I will pair up while Sakura and Naruto pair up, who ever wins gets lunch, whoever loses, gets to watch the winners eat lunch"
Naruto's eye's bulged out and glanced over at Sakura. 'Sakura-chan?! Oh crap, how am I suppose to fight Sakura-chan?! But if I don't, I don't get lunch, grrr, this is bad...'
"Naruto" he turned to see Sakura staring at him "Naruto, don't hold back" she said to him.
"Ok, let's get started" Kakashi said before Naruto got a chance to respond.
They walked off to the field where Hokage-sama had point ed to and were about to start the matches when a ninja appeared in a puff of smoke and ran up to Hokage-sama. Hokage-sama stood up and the ninja leaned in and whispered something in his ear. All eyes were on Hokage-sama as they watched his face darken and then send the ninja away.
He walked up to Sakura with a solemn expression clearly imprinted onto his face.
"Sakura..."
"Yes?" she said loudly, feeling her heart sink into her stomach.
"We just discovered a car on the side of the forest road..."
"And?!" she was breathing very deeply now, glaring at Hokage-sama.
"...your parents are dead, they were found in the car"
Both Sasuke and Naruto's eyes widened in shock, and darted their gaze to Sakura, she was staring blankly at Hokage-sama, hunched slightly, with her mouth hanging open a little.
"...b...but, I...I stopped it..." she stuttered, her eyes began to water and grow until they looked very much like deer eyes caught in headlights.
"I stopped it!!" she screamed, "This wasn't suppose to happen!! I changed it!!" she grabbed her head and collapsed onto the ground.
She suddenly felt a very familiar urk in her chest, as if something inside her was trying to burst out. She gasped and clutched her chest in pain.
'Give up' a voice suddenly whispered in her head.
She was vaguely aware of the boys running towards her, but their voices seemingly melted into the constant pounding of her heart in her ears.
'They don't care about you' the voice whispered again 'go to sleep, no battles, no worries, nothing...go to sleep'
"N...nooooooooo!!" she shrieked.
She looked up at everyone's faces, and found red dots scattered all over her vision.
"Not again!!" she screamed in agony as the pain in her chest expanded.
"Sakura! What's wrong?!" she heard the echo of their voices and soon their faces melted away completely and there was nothing but red, blood red. She felt her mind being seized by a different force and resisted, pulling on her very existence to keep it for herself.
'No!!' the voice screamed.
"Noo!!" she screamed louder.
Suddenly the sharp pain in her chest shot straight through her body and burst forth from her back. The force gave in and backed away into the shadow of her mind, she had one, but just barely. The blood faded from her vision and the worried and horrified faces of her sensei and Hokage came into view.
She found herself flat on her back, staring up at the faces of Kakashi and Hokage-sama kneeling over her. She looked to her side and found the shocked faces of Naruto and Sasuke staring out at her from a good twenty feet away.
"...Sakura?" Kakashi whispered
"What?" she asked, looking back at Kakashi.
Both Sasuke and Naruto ran up to her as she got up.
"Sakura! What the hell ha...ppened...." Naruto's sentence faded out as he stared in shock at Sakura's back.
She looked over at Kakashi and Hokage-sama; their eyes were also focused on her back. She slowly looked over her shoulder and gasped in shock.
A pair of huge, shimmering, black wings were protruding from her back.
To be continued....
*~*~*~*~*~*
Sakura sat up in her bed, dazed and unaware of anything around her. She vaguely heard a rapid knock on her door, then a high, angelic voice float through the door, the voice of her mother.
"Sakura? Sweetie? Are you ok?"
Memories flooded back into her mind from the sound of her sweet mothers voice. Memories of a fraction of her future. Blood. That sweet angelic voice screaming in pain before a sword's blade plummeted through her throat, silencing it forever. The body of her father laying in a pool of blood on the floor, not three feet away from her poor mother.
She pulled herself from this memory of the future, or one of them at least. She couldn't tell her own mother that this was her last night on earth, how do you tell someone that?
"I'm fine Mama...." She mumbled, pulling the covers closer to her body.
"Ok...dinners ready"
"...I'll...be down in a minute..."
She waited until she heard her mothers footsteps depart from outside her door to let out the sob she had been holding in. She sighed and kicked the covers off her body and headed downstairs to the dinner awaiting her.
****
Naruto and Sasuke sat at the counter of Ichiraku Ramen (is that right??), with Naruto slurping ramen noisily.
"Naruto is there a certain reason why you dragged me all out here?" Sasuke questioned, stirring his ramen.
"*slurp* Ya, there is *slurp* actually"
"Well, what is it?"
Naruto sat down his third bowl of ramen and stared down at the counter.
"You know how Kyubi is sealed inside me?"
Sasuke looked up from his ramen.
"...ya"
"Well, I felt a sorta pull in my stomach back there in the forest, like he was, I dunno, trying to get out...like something was provoking him..."
"What do you think it could've been?"
"...That huge amount of chakra we sensed back in the forest, I think it was coming from Sakura..."
"..."
"I have no idea why I think that..."
"But, that's impossible, that chakra was...was huge!"
"I know...but all those bodies...and the fact the that Sakura didn't want us near her..."
Sasuke sneered and looked out the nearest window at that comment.
"We need to ask Kakashi-sensei about this...this, this is too fucked up to just forget about..." Naruto said looking up at Sasuke.
"...I wonder if he even knows..." Sasuke said "I'm leaving, see you tomorrow" he said, getting up and walking out the door.
****
Kakashi look sick. He looked back over at Hokage-sama worriedly.
"Are...are you sure...?"
"Well, not completely, I'm going to have to question the girl, but from what you've told me, I see no other explanation to this..."
"I thought is only existed in rumors, it doesn't seem possible--"
"A demon even more powerful then Kyubi, yes I know, I'm still in shock, we need to get to the bottom of this as soon as possible"
"I'll bring her in tomorrow for you--"
"No, no, I think I'll drop by tomorrow to observe her fighting skills, if he does exist, and the seal has been broken, if there ever was one, her fighting skills will have improved tremendously"
Kakashi rubbed his eyes in exasperation "...of course, come by tomorrow" he said and got up from the table and walked out the door.
****
Sakura sat in silence at the dinner table, along with both of her parents. Her father was eating his fill of food, and her mother was staring down at her hands. The images of her parents' deaths flashed through her mind again. She looked down at her food and felt the bile rise up into her throat.
"Sakura? Are you ok Honey?" her mother asked worriedly.
"Yea...I'm fine...hey Mama?"
"Yes Honey?"
"Why don't you and Daddy take trip tonight? Just you two, like go down and visit grandma down in the country"
"Honey, we can't go tonight--"
"That sounds like a good idea!" her father cut in "You and I need a break, and your mother's been pestering us to come down anyway"
"But tonight?!"
"Sure, it'd be fun!"
"B-but Sakura--"
"I'm fine alone, it'd be nice to have a night to myself"
"...siiigh, alright, we'll leave after dinner...I guess, but we never do this again!" her mother sighed again and got up from the table.
Sakura was shocked that she had actually pulled it off, but it didn't matter, at least her parents were safe now, and might even live a full happy life.
She stood at the door and waved as her father dragged her mother to the car and drove away. Pleased about her victory over her parents, she headed into the living room to read.
****
The next day started like any other day; early. Sakura was the second person at the bridge next to Sasuke.
"Ohayo..." she said wearily, rubbing her eyes.
"...ah" was Sasuke usual response.
He looked over at Sakura, noticing the happy, slightly dazed look she was wearing that morning.
"Hehe..." she giggled to herself, leaning dangerously far over the railing in a dazed fashion.
"...are you ok?" Sasuke asked
"Ya...I'm fine..."
"...whatever...hey, what happened yesterday?"
The smile on her face faded to a guilty frown.
"...I dunno...I don't remember being able to control my body..."
"...um...what did you se--"
"OHAYO MINA-SAN!!" Naruto screamed louder than necessary.
"Hi Naruto" Sakura said softly.
"...hi" Sasuke glared in irritation.
"Sakura-chan! Are you feeling better?"
"Yes, arigato Naruto..."
Sasuke sighed and looked away again, 'grrr, that loud mouth...' he thought bitterly.
Moments later a cloud of smoke appeared and inside the cloud was none other than Kakashi. This was a major shock for the three Chuunin for the simple fact that he was on time. But this mystery was solved within the very same minute because the very next second another cloud of smoke materialized and appearing in it was Hokage-sama.
"I didn't think you'd make me be on time..." Kakashi huffed
Hokage-sama ignored this and walked straight up to Sakura.
"Hello, Sakura-san" he said, ignoring the two boys.
"...hello" she mumbled
He smiled and turned to Kakashi once again.
"I'll be I'll be standing over there, Kakashi" he said pointing to a field beyond the bridge.
"Hai, hai, ok, lets get started, Hokage-sama will be observing our training today"
"What? Training? Don't we have missions?" Naruto asked, flinging his arms out.
"Well, we did, but Hokage-sama canceled them, so we have the whole day to train, so here's how its gonna happen, we'll pair up and battle each other until one of you is down, there wont be any giving up unless I have to stop the battle, Sasuke and I will pair up while Sakura and Naruto pair up, who ever wins gets lunch, whoever loses, gets to watch the winners eat lunch"
Naruto's eye's bulged out and glanced over at Sakura. 'Sakura-chan?! Oh crap, how am I suppose to fight Sakura-chan?! But if I don't, I don't get lunch, grrr, this is bad...'
"Naruto" he turned to see Sakura staring at him "Naruto, don't hold back" she said to him.
"Ok, let's get started" Kakashi said before Naruto got a chance to respond.
They walked off to the field where Hokage-sama had point ed to and were about to start the matches when a ninja appeared in a puff of smoke and ran up to Hokage-sama. Hokage-sama stood up and the ninja leaned in and whispered something in his ear. All eyes were on Hokage-sama as they watched his face darken and then send the ninja away.
He walked up to Sakura with a solemn expression clearly imprinted onto his face.
"Sakura..."
"Yes?" she said loudly, feeling her heart sink into her stomach.
"We just discovered a car on the side of the forest road..."
"And?!" she was breathing very deeply now, glaring at Hokage-sama.
"...your parents are dead, they were found in the car"
Both Sasuke and Naruto's eyes widened in shock, and darted their gaze to Sakura, she was staring blankly at Hokage-sama, hunched slightly, with her mouth hanging open a little.
"...b...but, I...I stopped it..." she stuttered, her eyes began to water and grow until they looked very much like deer eyes caught in headlights.
"I stopped it!!" she screamed, "This wasn't suppose to happen!! I changed it!!" she grabbed her head and collapsed onto the ground.
She suddenly felt a very familiar urk in her chest, as if something inside her was trying to burst out. She gasped and clutched her chest in pain.
'Give up' a voice suddenly whispered in her head.
She was vaguely aware of the boys running towards her, but their voices seemingly melted into the constant pounding of her heart in her ears.
'They don't care about you' the voice whispered again 'go to sleep, no battles, no worries, nothing...go to sleep'
"N...nooooooooo!!" she shrieked.
She looked up at everyone's faces, and found red dots scattered all over her vision.
"Not again!!" she screamed in agony as the pain in her chest expanded.
"Sakura! What's wrong?!" she heard the echo of their voices and soon their faces melted away completely and there was nothing but red, blood red. She felt her mind being seized by a different force and resisted, pulling on her very existence to keep it for herself.
'No!!' the voice screamed.
"Noo!!" she screamed louder.
Suddenly the sharp pain in her chest shot straight through her body and burst forth from her back. The force gave in and backed away into the shadow of her mind, she had one, but just barely. The blood faded from her vision and the worried and horrified faces of her sensei and Hokage came into view.
She found herself flat on her back, staring up at the faces of Kakashi and Hokage-sama kneeling over her. She looked to her side and found the shocked faces of Naruto and Sasuke staring out at her from a good twenty feet away.
"...Sakura?" Kakashi whispered
"What?" she asked, looking back at Kakashi.
Both Sasuke and Naruto ran up to her as she got up.
"Sakura! What the hell ha...ppened...." Naruto's sentence faded out as he stared in shock at Sakura's back.
She looked over at Kakashi and Hokage-sama; their eyes were also focused on her back. She slowly looked over her shoulder and gasped in shock.
A pair of huge, shimmering, black wings were protruding from her back.
To be continued....