Disclaimer: I'm really tired of putting ones... Is it okay if I subscribe for a chibi Sakura and Neji and especially Sasuke kun!!! Aieee, not good enough. I don't own Naruto hehe, I own this fic . flashes a peace sign... crosses fingers

Memories Unleashed

By: Maya Amano

Summary

They heard a scream...

[Hmmn, as promised in this chappie, you would see Sakura Chan's tournament hehe... I also know that I've made many mistakes keh, please excuse me . But anyway, maybe you have heard of Mitsuki? And Chie? Well, they are really mysterious ne? You will soon see them again, but I don't know when... I want to thank those who reviewed find your names at to... Aiee, well, here's another of my chappie, chappie, hope you don't get bored... RandR and Gomen for the late update, my card... now the card was really ummmn let's say go for broke.

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Metaliczgal- Thank you for leaving a review... I am flattered .

Mint- Gomen ne, mint-chan, if I had wronged some of them... I've kinda done researches, yah Fuuma is fuuton, but wind element is Fuuma I've just copied it in my dictionary... Well, I'd try and change it later hehe. About Mizu and Suiton, Suiton is multiple attacks while Mizu is element... I've reflected yah, I'll use Suiton along with Mizu adds Suiton to my word compilation I've decided to use Mizu, because I encountered something in the net at narutofan.com like this

- Mizu Bunshin no Jutsu /index.php/content-techniques,mizu%20bunshin%20no%20jutsu

But anyway I'd use Suiton much more often... hehehe. Thank you for leaving a review Mint-chan, I greatly appreciate your compliment... . If you think there are any more mistakes please tell me ne? Take care

Chikako- Hmmn, you'll find that out, it's really not a simple genjutsu anyway, it has something to do with the seal itself, but if you want to find out, you hafta read .

Hikaro- Why are you wondering.... It's going to be great promise... hehe, well this would be all going to be read

Cookie6- Thank you for the compliment, I really appreciated it.

eMpErAtRiS- Okay, now I've got the time to update, yes I am delighted to be your friend teehee... I'm pro Sakura everythin' as in everything . from love fluff to torture... because I'm nasty hehehe... but then again, thank you for the leave, I'll be doing this chapter very VERY long okay... so just wait for what could happen... I hope I get updated as soon as I get connected... I'll put all my effort here .

Chapter 10

Contest

They heard screams upstairs and hurriedly rushed off to see what happened.

You could already feel the cold mist that engulfed them once they took step at the stairs... The screams get keeping louder and louder...

"Please.... Ahhhh! Don't do this to me... Please... I beg of you!" The man Screamed, with equal replies with the others...

It echoed all through the house but won't escape its cage, the Anbu outside could not even hear the commotion, and did their job to keep on watch... They saw a moving figure at the bushes and decided one member to follow it....

Back to the first scene, they were able to reach the room where she was being examined. Click.... The door opened and they barged in, they saw...

They saw three of the medic Nins at the ground, it was something like genjutsu actually. They searched and saw that some of them were bleeding, Sakura was sleeping soundly... to the side other side and Tsunade noticed that there was one person that was unfazed with the unknown dementation... "You tell me, what happened here" She said to the woman who was shivering slightly near the equipment cabinet that lies beside the wall near to the window...

"I don't exactly know what happened Hokage-sama, it all happened so fast..."

Flashback

They were checking for some injuries and wounds, they found several scratches at her back, some of them wondered why so... They carefully examined her and took some samples of her blood, kept her in the container of the equipment cabinet...

A little while later, they saw her hand perking up, and seeing that her heart stroke beats was getting weaker and weaker... They needed to do something fast...

"Use the" and they tried the very best they could... She was sweating very coldly, and started panting for breath... She shook her head and both her hands were brought to the sides of her bed.

Her chakra was draining, and they could feel it, the five of them surrounded her and each did the same hand seals. She calmed for a moment and then she finally gave up... Her heart beat fell...

She died...

No she was not dead, after that, they felt her chakra back, but it was really weak, they did the same sequence but this time, she freely accepted it, there was something wrong... She woke up to her daze and opened her eyes, it was gold, with black markings all around it, and her seal suddenly appeared. A shadow appeared at the window and performed another seal...

Too bad that they looked at her in the eye, luckily for the other woman, she was assembling the tools that were needed for the preparation... After that, there were piercing screams heard and the girl fell back to her bed.

She clamped her hands at her mouth to see that the others were already suffering inside their minds... one by one they slumped and fell to the ground...

She hid herself there, hearing the pleads... what was more was they were getting injured... while she was doing nothing at all... "Monster" she shouted, but the girl was still asleep and can never hear the pleads of the people... She silenced herself and braced for her ears to stop hearing the echoes...

It was then that they entered...

End of Flashback

She breathed out a sigh... Tsunade was in such disbelief, she had made up her story well, and yes there was silence everywhere. Sasuke looked at Sakura and calmly brushed off the strands of hair. He heard a sigh, and as soon as it came out the door opened.

They were both surprised to find the Anbu, one badly damaged and assisted by another woman to come towards them, and give dreaded news... "Hokage-sama, we have something for you" The Hokage nodded as if telling him to continue...

The person assisting him let him sit to the chair and slump him to a comfortable position to speak while she, did her job and went back to work...

The Anbu, having his mask all whacked and broken told her through the mask the bad news...

"Someone has slipped off to our defenses Hokage-sama... and I did not believe it at first, I was tasked to look for the suspicious person that was retreating back to the bushes and was caught in a trap, luckily she, I mean they found me... After that, a note was given to us in some sort of scroll..."

The man reached for his pocket and handed the unread scroll. "Before the hooded person disappeared, it announced cough that... this was to be given to the Hokage... cough we still haven't checked it... since the person said so coughs" Tsunade put a restraining hand at the man's shoulder claiming that it was alright...

She began reading it.... And rereading it... for the forth time of the said hour... she read it for them to hear...

"How are you Hokage-sama, no Tsunade-san only... I hope you received our little gift, and we will come back for claiming 'it' sometime in a peaceful manner... We will visit you shortly if we find it worthy... We are sorry for the scroll, we are the ones who took it, for you not to be able to get a grip over 'it'. We would want to tell you to be ready for we strike at the most unexpected times. Oh, and by the way, they would die if she does not wake up for the next upcoming minutes, we had fun with her company. I assume that you might not know about us, but once you do, you will know...

[In this part she haven't read it or particularly skipped it because it would ensure a commodity among them]

We know that you know her secret and her true identity, try as you might, you cannot risk your village in such a selfish act... (True, Tsunade was selfish for her act...) We will get back what was ours since we are the ones responsible for it...

[Okay so back to the part where she was reading it]

We will come and we hope for your accommodation, we would not want such a beautiful hometown of hers be utterly destroyed into nothing. You and all of the people of Konoha will soon know..."

She crumpled the scroll and burned it using a simple Katon element... Based on what she read, she hoped that Sakura would be able to wake up soon...

Sasuke who was bewildered at her looks but still concentrating on every bit of information his ears heard was discontented... Why do they want her, the question sprang into his mind as he took hold of her hand...

Tsunade smirked, but it was hidden since the shadows of the curtains gave a dark presence. He, squeezed it lightly on utter disappointment of finding that truly her life would be in danger. And he would be seeing another loss of a close someone, he had to do something, he needed to be stronger...

There was still agonizing moans that were heard, and Tsunade snapped back up to reality... She studied the situation and just hoped that Sakura was soon up before midnight or tomorrow, since it would make another loss of the shinobis...

Soon rain began to fall, it was a slight drizzle, but it managed to make its way to the windows, giving some kind of mist to everyone inside

"Sasuke, would you mind if you wake Sakura... Now?" Sasuke just curtly nodded and did what he was told, he grabbed both of Sakura's shoulders and shook her lightly, still she was sleeping, but she was shivering... He tried to do it again, this time leaning closer to her and found himself mumbling words on her ear...

At last, his trick had worked... Her eyes flung open and she felt a storming headache... The others who were in pain were now breathing normally, but they were very badly injured by that time... She moved towards the edge of the bed and asked the girl how she felt...

"Why are you asking me that? Don't you know I feel horrible, I did have another dream... yes, Urgh... she said something about Mitsuki... something about soon... Ahhhh!" She screamed a little more afterwards, her head was in agony... what just happened she didn't know, all she knew was that she was close to Sasuke and it did make her feel better, but it wasn't the feeling of a school girl crush, she just felt better, while the others were being tended and...

"Wait, what did you just do to me before?" Sakura jolted up, and her hands curled into fist... This was what Sasuke was worrying about, Sakura, being a female is pretty conscious on what she looks like, and she IS a very private person and she DOES NOT want to be touched as in period. She noticed that she was in a completely white dress... that was more annoying was what she was thinking of... Tsunade had a little twitching-eyebrow-thingy- wished-I-didn't-do-that-look and Sakura flaming with anger...

Before Tsunade could explain anything they did, Sakura fell on Sasuke and slept, since she still is exhausted, she would probably think it was a dream, no, she will definitely remember it. Sasuke just did what he was to do; he tugged her back to her bed and went outside, heading for his house.

Tsunade meanwhile was thinking seriously of what was to happen... 'Prepare for the accommodation once you do you will know... I can't figure everything out, first, the seal appeared, and then the shadow came mysteriously...' Tsunade scratched the back of her head and decided to keep on watch for Sakura... Whoever they are, they are very special...
"Chie, were you able to do it?" She nodded and looked at everyone in the room. "Looks like we are going to pay a little village at the hidden fire, ne?" The other four nodded, one childish voice spoke... "So that means, I finally get to meet her?" They nodded... Every one of them thinking that this would be exciting, very exciting...
Neji on the other hand was greeted by Hinata, who he dumped and went on his way to his own room... The Hyuuga residence was differentiated to the branch and main [which I know you know so I don't have to explain] so they went on their separate ways... Before doing so, Hinata shyly told him.... "Would... umnnn Sakura-chan be alright?" Neji gave a nod "She's with Uchiha, I know she will be, other than that, she has grown strong, not like that somebody I know"

Hinata was relieved but hurt, she had tried her best to prove that she would become strong but she ended up failing, every time... Yes, now she was one of the strongest of the village, but compared to the others, she was still far off. Everyone had been training but she always said to herself that it's not too late; she would prove to everyone that she was not the old Hinata, she changed, somehow.

Neji meanwhile, went for a bath, his slick hair falling, dried it first before taking a usual doze. His white eyes showing nothing at all, he heard from Lee once that there would be a competition, and he would get to fight Haruno there... what he didn't know was what it was about, he planned on joining it... This would result to something interesting...

Lee meanwhile was preparing and he could not sleep so he decided to do some five hundred laps around Konoha, after that, he drank an almost gallon of water, but he was still not exhausted. His eyes burning with passion, as always thinking for the competition. He said that all was enough, and that was already enough training, he would beat Sakura and ask for a date afterwards... 'Yes that would be a great idea, and after that she would really acknowledge me... YES that's it!' he was thinking of plans... many and different kinds of plans... He finally fell asleep.

All Konoha was asleep by now and the only ones up where the Chuunins, Jounins and Anbu who were guarding the village. They all took shifts on who would guard, this was already a routine done few weeks ago.

Morning

Sakura awoke and silently passed from the sleeping Tsunade, but her hand was caught, her head bowed down. She took her hand of hers and took her bath, she was going to train, and this was the day...

She looked at her reflection and noticed that she was in a white dress; she decided not to scream... 'Perverts... I would hunt you all one day... and yes... I would kill you... mwuahahahahahaha' Sakura took her kunai and slashed the precious dress into pieces... It was more annoying because the white robe was familiar with it... Maybe tearing it, no burning it to pieces was enough...

After the small smoke that erupted, she used fuuton to sweep the smoke away, and her surroundings were clean again. She soaked herself into the bathtub, the steam came rising and the luke warm water was refreshing. But she didn't stay on it for so long, the only thing she needed was refreshment, which was all.

Putting on her clothes, she leaped up the window with all of her weapons in place... Minutes later, she arrived at the bridge, 5:30 am, surprised to see Lee, Neji and well, the others there. The news spread like wildfire, but some of them got it wrong. Sasuke on the other hand was silently watching up at a tree.

She was bored so she asked for a sparing match, she picked for non other than Neji Hyuuga.

He silently approached him and threw a kunai aiming for his head which she knows he would easily avoid. "Haruno, what do you plan to do?" "Hyuuga, I want a small warm up, if so you may call it" She played with her hair and her right hand was caught near her hips silently touching the tips of every weapon she had ready....

"Haruno, I would not go easy on you" Sakura nodded and did her calmed look... "Hyuuga, I would not too"

She prepared for her stance, and it all happened so fast... They were now both good and almost equal to speed, but Sakura had to have a little more practice to beat him at this. Neji used Jyuken or Gentle Fist style to paralyze her, and attempt to end the sparring match very easily, since she was almost weak...

Sakura sighed; she had already performed a maneuver for this because she knew that someday they would face each other... She got some scratches and she coughed up some blood. "Haruno, you can already retreat, you cannot fight in the next matches if you continue fighting" She was disappointed, but all of that was all for show, she did not fight seriously and he did not too. They just gathered information for the future battle that would await them and put it to their advantage, some of their closest friends know just what they were doing before...

They waited and at last it was 6:00, time for show time...

One by one, she defeated the genins, chuunins and every time she did, an applause was heard... Some used techniques that she copied and used to others, the others were just so weak... She had mentally told herself that they are weak, don't kill them... Before each match, the longest match was a minute and the shortest was a split second.

Not long after it was 7:00 in the morning, and Lee was going to be the next competitor, followed by Neji and Sasuke... This was going to be a not easy match not like the others because... 'Why did they have to line up that way... Urgh, after I fight Neji, I'd be exhausted, or maybe I would lose...'

Lee was the fastest of them all, so Sakura could only do but defend. She earned some scratches but it wasn't enough. Maybe it was time to use her new technique...

Lee was holding back, but he knew he had to do this. He kicked her at the chin which sent her flying up in the air... wait, it was replaced by water. Sakura was already tired now, of defending and remaining at the same place, the others watched and cheered silently for who else but Sakura... This made her smirk and she decided to put a genjutsu, and attack him from behind...

A little more later, you can see her performing kage bunshin, the others were surprised by this, but then again, being a teammate of Sakura, Naruto and Sasuke knew of this, while Neji, knew this because she performed it once...

Now multiple Sakuras surrounded him, they all did the same jutsu and manage to distract Lee, poof, one disappeared... Sakura managed to kick him from behind, the real one was hiding and preparing for a special attack.

Now the sequence was already planned, Lee dodged, but got hit... from time to time, he was hit more often. He felt his chakra drain and decided to finish this one... "Sakura-chan! I'm not going to lose!" Lee said, and the attacking Sakura's stopped, one moved towards Lee, signaling that she was Sakura, and the others got their Kunais... 'This is going to be fun...' She laughed and grabbed Lee by the collar who in turn punched her but she caught it...

"Lee, I'm sorry if I have to do this, I need to finish this without killing you" She smiled a fake one and caught a kunais at her pocket, dropped Lee on the ground and slashed her neck, the other bunshins did the same but after they did that, they all vanished... Sakura was now dripping with blood. Lee who was so shocked and the others too were, a few others didn't care for they knew the plan.

When Lee was about to embrace her, for he thought that Sakura died like that... a Kunais was embedded at his back with momentary poison... and paralysis took over, the announcer Ten-ten, announced who the winner was... "Haruno Sakura wins again!"

Sakura bowed and looked sharply at the eyes of Neji devilishly; she just used the weakness of Lee so that she could spare some more of her chakra for the next matches...

She leaped up towards the air and did an exhibition, taking use of 5 kunais, she threw it up and one in the mid centre, As soon as she hit the ground, and she smirked. She was just having fun... The others watched silently for what she was up to. "Atsumeru" It is a usual thing for the others of the spectacle that things can be suspended literally from the ground using chakra. Sakura has developed the ability for this kind of technique and she can already control them naturally...

Her hand swung forward and the five kunais stopped moving, [this all happened very fast, since the force of gravity will immediately pull the kunais downwards] and the upper motion of the mid kunai was still ongoing, taking another step, she concentrated on crushing, yes, she closed her hand in a swift manner that air even managed to penetrate... At the same moment, the five kunais pulverized the mid point... "Rakka" The five kunais fell and she grabbed it, earning an applause from the remaining audiences...

She knew she was just showing off because, well it's a part of her personality now... Ten-ten announced the next battle "Okay, the next one is for Neji and Sakura" Neji leapt and took his position, Sakura meanwhile read it and took defense, now she would use her new found technique...

"Go!!!"

In a flash, they were gone; Neji immediately activated his byakugan, while Sakura just stayed focused not to be touched in any part of her tenketsu by the Jyuken which Neji would use. Using the maneuver that she had just compiled to her thoughts earlier this day, which included some spins and unpredictable carefully calculated moves which she can use to attack and defend at the same time...

He knew that the best way to defeat her was to exhaust her chakra since she would fight till the end, which was a bad effect... Let's see who wins...

She knew that Neji would easily see through genjutsu, so the only resort was using taijutsu, ninjutsu and her expertise in chakra control. Swinging a kunai at hand, she appeared in front of him and slashed him near the abdomen, but it vanished. She cursed and wondered off where her opponent could be...

Analyzing her surroundings, she found that Neji was in fact behind her, in a flash, she did a roundhouse followed by a kick towards the gut and a kunais slit to the throat. He responded by dodging them and delivering counter attacks. He now held her hand with a kunai and he used his chakra to touch her tenketsus... But before he could do it, she somersaulted, but got stabbed by the kunai she was holding at her right hand...

She tasted her blood and licked it dangerously; Neji looked calm and prepared for her coming attack. She leaped and dove towards him now using her katana. He delivered a kick to her right leg, but she defended with her left hand. Her katana grew unstable so Neji took the perspective on removing it.

Swinging his other hand, he touched the blade which radiated some sort of energy he didn't know, it came off smoothly and he managed to throw it away. Sakura was preoccupied at the moment since her head was aching momentarily. She was slammed at the tree and her neck is being gripped by both the hands of Neji...

She swung her hand around her left arm, which caught him damage, since her bracelets had them so... A little more later, she struggled to get out from his grasp, since this would be an opening for an attack towards her...

Using both her hands, she got the kunais and damaged his left, which was now dripping with blood. Sakura felt the urge to kill him at the moment, would she go berserk... It was going to be a problem...

She continued to struggle and his left hand moved forward, he noticed her head was bleeding and her right hand was stuck with a kunai, which she pulled out ferociously... "I am not weak" She mumbled those words and lunged an air current towards him...

She released her chakra and went towards his back, which he knew. He grabbed her by the hair and threw her upwards.... It was a very merciless battle, Sakura meanwhile got to pull his hair and drive him together with her. He managed to punch her away and they were doing a steady pace of ground crushing landing if someone didn't do something.

"Fuuton: Shogai no jutsu" She hoped that the technique would work... She knew it would since it would lessen the pressure that was to be given downwards... She used chakra on her feet to stabilize her dive, and she managed to make it all out... While Neji used his expertise to use his hand and enlighten the process.

She panted and began her momentary meditation to heal some of her wounds; she was kicked to the other side and felt a surge of pain coming from her neck... 'Hyuuga, do you want to kill me that badly? No, this is not a game; this is a fight so I'll fight him!'

A little while later, she rushed towards him and performed an elemental attack... "Katon: Senbon no jutsu!" Her eyes were cold, same with his, he shooed it off using the heavenly spin, while he was spinning, she decided to combine it with another attack, now using the wind element, she used "Fuuton: Yari no jutsu" Now, a wind attack with a focused area or spot came hurdling towards his back, he was caught of guard and he was attacked by it, he was still not done yet...

"Are you still going to fight me Hyuuga?" Sakura asked slightly smirking, but she was panting, her chakra supply is less than a fourth by now, she should have not done that, or she would loose to the next match. Her eyes followed and arrived at Sasuke... She does not want to loose to him...

"Haruno, I know you are very exhausted, so I ask you to retreat" Sakura curtly shook his head with anger... "I would not retreat, it is a mere victory for me now and look at you, you are already injured" Sakura pointed, but she too was injured... 'Damn it... now I shouldn't have wasted my chakra that fast.... Keh, let's see who will win, when I lose... I'm doomed...'

She focused her chakra to her feet and bit the kunai with her mouth; Neji performed a defense since he would be able to block her attacks anyway. She smiled a little more and delivered a punch to his back, but he defended it easily. She leaned to him and he stopped defending, he crossed his arms and looked at her... "Tell me, would I win?" Sakura asked seriously...

Neji looked at her, and held his hand to her chin and said "I don't know?" With this Sakura was taken aback, she used the remaining of her chakra to pulverize her opponent... "Odoru no shi" Getting the four kunais in each of her hand, the strategic locations were imprinted on her mind. Letting her forehead protector fall towards her eyes, which made her look like murderous...

Not far away, different spies were assigned, from Konoha, cloud, wind... sand... and of course there are many others, camouflaged, hiding airborne, hiding underground, in water... everywhere. For what reason that is a secret...

"Neji Hyuuga, do you want to die so badly?" Sakura said, still concentrating... "I don't want to Sakura Haruno, but if you insist, then I would have to play your little game" She nodded and took this as a come-and- get-me sign. Using it, she didn't exactly pulverize her enemy, she just made sure that she could defend and offend at the same time...

After seconds, she removed her forehead protector only to see he still was standing... She underestimated him and now she was paying for it.... Now with only a little chakra left, she retorted back to her last resort... Taijutsu... or using her chakra...

They both vanished once again, in different places there were air crushing techniques, some eyes could follow their battle but most of them cannot...

'Sakura, you have really improved' Sasuke crossed his arms and continued to watch the fight, he knew too that she would lose sometime later, if not on Neji, she would lose to him...

"Urgh! Aren't you tired" She blocked the kick by using her left arm, since her right was injured... "I am not, but I think you are" He blew away the air pressure techniqe that was headed for him... "I think you are, look, I found weat at your face" Sakura pointed at the trickles of liqued sweat that was forming at his chin and uncoverd the kunai at her hand, shich was took easily away from her and held it at her neck... "Haven't you got tired of this position Haruno?" Neji asked while the slight droplets of blood made their way to his fingers... "Hyuuga, I am used to this, so I have already known how to counter it"

Her hands were held by his and he was smirking, which she didn't like, if it was to continue this way, she would black out and lose... She wouldn't let that happen. Her left foot swung around and managed to kick off his hands away from her... This tested her skills, since a slight mistake would lead to death. Quickly her hands removed the kunai from his grasp and she was able to damage him more at his leg...

Now she was completely exhausted, her right hand was filled with pain, her neck too was bleeding. She touched her neck and felt the warm blood continuosly dripping, by applying some more of her remaining chakra, it stopped blleding and was back to normal...

Seriously panting, she saw that he had done the same, and her smile began to turn to a frown...

"Atsumeru!" Using her swift moves, she rendered the tips of the points to target him.... The moment she did it, she felt her chakra leave her... Dozens of kunai headed his way... 1-2-3... "Haruno, you lose" He catched it swiftly and looked at her, she was falling again... In a moment, she was already in the arms of Neji and the crowd cheered...

"Because Sakura Haruno cannot continue the fight, the winner is Neji Hyuuga!" An applause was heard followed by some others mumbling words he didn't know, and Lee congratulated him... "Neji... ummnn, ano ne... Arigato... I didn't know that you also liked her, well have fun!" Neji didn't get what that meant, still Sakura was asleep... he needed to know the answer... fast...

He grabbed Lee's hands and asked him-

"Lee, what was this competition about anyway?" Neji asked curiously, Lee was dumbfounded, and he snapped to his senses, he cried... "Neji... sniff I forgot to tell you sniff yah, I told you that you get to face Sakura-chan in the contest, well she'd announced it beforesniffs... Because we keep on chasing her all round sniffs, she declared that we have to beat her first at a matchsniffs... And well, if one of us beat her, cries louder then she would ummnnn you knowsniffs loudly and gets a hanky Urgh...I was supposed to be the one dating HER!!!"

Neji's eyebrow, really twitched... a vein popped from his forehead... He dropped Sakura to the ground and began killing Lee...

The spies were now gone as soon as the match was finished...

The moment her head touched the ground, she noticed Neji was chasing Lee, and everyone was chit-chatting, most of them were still there, while the others were at who-knows-where...

She walked a little dozy and noticed that she was still exhausted....

"I'm going to kill you Lee and you will pay!" Neji had his coldest look that could freeze anyone that was to look in his eyes and did I mention he was murderous... no one dared stop him or they would end up like a crumpled someone; Sakura was smiling a little bit more than usual and was going to do something...

After some more moments of strangling, Neji finally managed to paralyze Lee that Ten-ten immediately called for a stretcher. Sasuke who was watching everything turned his eyes to Sakura who seems to be planning something...

Neji was panting and slowly was regaining back his energy... His wet hair made him look more adorable... A few girls were multiplying on staring at him and he was getting annoyed...

Sakura vanished from the view and reappeared in front of Neji, hands both on her waist... She was waiting for some reply, but Neji just used his cold silver eyes to stare at her... "Neji Hyuuga, I am disappointed with-" Before anything was to happen, he stole a kiss from her lips and Sakura was rather dumbfound, after snapping back to reality, which took time for a matter of ten seconds... She forcefully pulled away from the kiss.

"I thought that was what the winner would get?" Neji suddenly said, Sakura meanwhile recomposed herself and said... "Well it was something like that" Sasuke meanwhile, gripped his other hand... Was our young Uchiha jealous?

Meanwhile...

"So your name is Kaze right?" Tsunade asked and the lad nodded, he was staring off to space oblivious about anything but words... "So tell me, why did you attack them?" Kaze's face suddenly turned into a frown and said lifelessly... "Because we were told to do so"

"By whom?" Tsunade asked curtly "I don't really know, I forgot about-" Tsunade grabbed him at the collar and restrained herself... "Why did you want Sakura" By the mention of her name, he flinched and got shivers from his spine, his face turned into something like I-don't want-this-please-spare- me-thing...

He began to kneel and grab the strands of hair he had, too bad that from the others, he looked handsome... "So tell me, who did it?" Tsunade asked, obviously irritated. "It was the leader, she is a very strong person and she is in charge of us four" He clamped his hands on his mouth... "Don't worry there Kaze, you are in safe hands now" Tsunade sighed and urged him to continue, shivering ever-so-slightly... He began to draw something through air...

In a matter of minutes, a symbol was already formed "So what is that?"

"It is the symbol that they wear, it represents their certain group and our leader is a member of that certain group... They have their own purposes, we get paid, we serve them, we kill and assassinate for our leader... all in all, we are just a branch of their society, which they use as pawns" Kaze explained in a serious tone... he was actually one of the weakest even though, considered strongest at their team...

"So what is this all about, you are still not telling me everything"

After a slight sigh, he gave up and decided to spill up some truth...

"Our leader's name is Chie-sama, her whole name is Chie Sieka Megami" After doing this, he coughed up some blood for some unknown reason... "She is one of the highest classes, we consider her our Lord, since she is very special... All we know is that, she has another friend, and she belongs to the so called group that was formed years ago... She is one of the strongest, and one of the few sole survivors of the said clan..." He managed to voice out a shout...

His head started throbbing dramatically... "They want... ahhhh!" Tsunade sent a couple of medic Nins, but it was no use... "Before I die Hokage-sama, let me be of good use" He managed to remove the medic Nins that were all around him using the fuuton technique that he always uses... Panting, he managed to voice out his words..."What's happening with you" Tsunade asked...

"They know" Kaze coughed up some more blood and slashes were coming out of her whole body... "They want her... because... she is very... special... and..." he coughed some more blood out...

"Go on Kaze" Tsunade was somewhat panicking... "and... she... is..." his head bowed down... and it shot up back again, this time his eyes were black, and his body was limp. She felt someone else's chakra controlling him...

And the dummy spoke... this time it was a female voice... A very superior voice which felt like nagging anyone in its way... "Hmph dummy!" The voice said and the person smacked his right fist into his head... and the dummy left some mark which caused some bleeding...

Tsunade was practically speechless... "Oh, sorry about that, I can't control my anger because my subordinate has just betrayed us, and well, he has to pay for his life when he does that. I hope you don't mind but I've just killed him laughs Gomen ne Tsunade-san, for my insolence, you might have known me now, since the fool has already told you so... My name is Chie, and as told I belong to our little group, I'm the person that Kakashi encountered and may I say that please send my regards to him, I want a rematch, I was holding back then.... Umnnn again, I am sorry for my talkativeness"

The dummy bowed and Tsunade said fiercely "What do you want!" The dummy swiftly moved to her side and managed to secure a tight grip at both her hands and a kunai latched itself to her neck... She was enjoying every moment... "I already said Tsunade-san, I don't really respect you that much, but others do, so might as well play along, oh, to Sakura-chan I mean, we will get her, and that is a promise... Take really good care before that certain day comes, I assume that you would have already known this before... but since you don't know by now, you will soon know"

It laughed and a blue chakra wielded itself out and poor Kaze was lying lifelessly at the ground...

What was more shocking was what was found afterwards, medic teams were shocked at the view. During the process, his chakra was being absorbed and was replaced with someone else's, taking position of the body, all the inside organs have been severely damaged, brain, heart, lungs, kidneys, everything... There seemed to be some more cause of this, a seal was left to his right arm, which was completely covered by his attire... Even though it seemed clean on the outside, it was a brutal massacre on the inside...

'Chie... one of their group, who the hell are you?' by the time she finished, her spy has already reported... After the long interview, she was impressed with the grave difference of skill from the Sakura before and now... "So it seems that Hyuuga won, and the price?" The Anbu spy chuckled... He knew very well what 'it' would be...

Back to Sakura

"So where do you want to go?" She said they were still the center of attraction; everyone was looking at them expectedly. "I don't know" Neji said, while listening to the air... "Neji-kun, I was asking you" Sakura said rather impatiently... Neji looked at her and smirked...

She knew what that meant, in a flash they were gone, Sakura managed to keep up with him... an unexpected follower behind, which Sakura didn't know and Neji noticed from long ago...

"So where do you plan to go?" She asked, coldly... "Training" She grinned evilly and followed caught up with him with a bit more energy... long while, they were in the forest... "What types of training do you do?" Sakura asked, while she was practicing her mastery of weapons. Managing to throw kunais and shuriken pinpointed to an exact point...

"Sakura, just wait" Neji was usually used in meditation, and sparring, practicing byakugan and practicing different jutsus of such. Sakura was practicing on her own... Gradually retaining back her chakra, she was always ready for battle thing, and she will be prepared and alert most of the time.

She noticed some unfamiliar chakra from the upper trees, and decided to climb it using her talent. He flashed her two kunais and targeted it straightly but it vanished... She began looking at it and Neji decided to just smirk...

[You might have the slightest idea on who the culprit might be, but don't worry, I'm already typing the next chappie... well nothing to do with a week without an INTERNET CARD! Urgh... I'm going to be nuts here!!! I'm done with the intro, okay now you have he other slightest idea on who might that be... Other characters are going to appear from this chappie and on. Hmmn... maybe this is the longest chappie I've done, and I did the Neji Saku pairing but I'm not planning on doing so... If you want me to do it please tell me... hehe, if I have something wrong with my grammars or anything, please absolutely tell me, coz even the spelling checker has problems...

Another thing, if you might be wondering about Chie and Mitsuki, don't worry you will see the soon, and next chappie or at chappie 14 or so, you will know why they are after Sakura chan... currently listening to HaRuMoNiA

Thanks for the awesome reviews, I really liked the part where someone corrected me, I'll do my best from now and then and try harder... and please, also tell me if my fighting scenes are ok... coz I'm not really experienced in it... hehe . Hmmn, the current date now is May 31, 2004, in my country... Aieee! I need to type more so stay tuned... Next time, killing spree is open . byuu... oh please don't tell me that I've become bad... hehe I am but anyway, thank you again, cya at the next fic . I luv yah minna!]