Disclaimer: Some people are wondering and they are really wondering and thinking about this... I know you do too... "WHY THE HELL ARE THERE DISCLAIMERS EVERYWHERE? I DON'T GET WHAT IT MEANS, HELLO WE KNOW YOU DON'T OWN NARUTO SO DON'T PUT IT THERE, IT IS NO USE! HECK" I know that you are thinking about some things like that... but I hope some don't... keh, I'll just explain it all to all of you! When you are watching movies as in Disk or anything, if they are original or maybe pirated at times, you notice that there is a Disclaimer thing there, don't we? Well, some people out here were the first ones to ever think of the idea to put their own disclaimers and well, it spread like WILD FIRE. So now, I will type my appropriate Disclaimer from now on...

Publish date: May 11, 2004 Copyright 2004–2005 [this disclaimer would appear always until chappie 16 which I will change by then]
This fic is copyright to owner and anyone who tries to steal a copy of it shall be given a certain punishment. If you must do so as to save into your hard drive for reading, please drop a message to me . saying that you did so, and I'll approve it... keh, the disclaimer is no use anyway, disclaimers are only used in Movies and legal properties[Urgh] Another thing, I don't own Naruto...

Memories Unleashed

By: Maya Amano

Summary

From News Part 1, we have known the slight news, messenger Chuunins were sent to each team, mostly chuunins though, but some genin teams were there, exceptionally for they are special. It was then that the Senseis appeared....

[Hey, I'm really bad, I know that my story has been finished, but I won't let it out until I get some more reviews... mwahahaha... but my reasons are pure, I have been adding up some more color to my fic, it wouldn't be always the other team who would win, Konoha strikes back!

To:

Chikako- This would be a much better chappie... I promise, but then again, it is one of my faves... This would shock you a little . care to read . arigato for it .

Hikaro- Hmmn, Gomen ne, but this would be another update hihihi, yah, think so... Kakashi is good in controlling his emotions... Wahhh! Gomen, yah, I also think like that, but the fluff makes the story even cuter, I almost forgot about the aspect, because well there were so many who liked it! More action next chappie... Here are some of my morbid things, managed to do this in two days . I was currently experimenting at the past 2 fics, but now I have to do this right. I'll make Sakura straight forward, hmmn, the other characters would nearly show up

Hmmn, please tell me if I need to improve some more of this, I greatly appreciate it, arigato ne!

Frozen25– Well, I think I'll be doing that, keh, I promise ne?]

Chapter 13

News part 2

"Ehem" Tsunade appeared in front of the speakers. Chuunins surrounded the area, they were in this round air-conditioned room... and so called stage was set up at front of them.

"So what do you think are they planning" asked a random Nin... "Still don't know, but to summon all of us like that, we must be having something big" Jounins meanwhile where scouting outside, watching for intruders.

One Anbu squad was located inside; the other group was at the gates of Konoha...

Kakashi already knew what she was talking about, Gai, Asuma and Kurenai learned from him too. Of course, he only told them what was told of him and not more than that...

"You may have already noticed the strict policy that had been implemented from the past weeks" She paused and waited for the reply

She received nods and murmurs "Lately, there was a ninja that was able to pass our gates"

There was another murmur, Sakura flinched at her thought... the image of the woman appeared at the back of her mind...

"We also have received the latest report that the latest chuunin team composed of four of our Konoha chuunins were found death near out border, they have delivered the message" A sob was hysterically heard from the back and it silenced after some time...

"They have died fighting and their names are being carved to the memorial"

Sakura felt some pity on whoever that was, but found herself slightly smiling. She was beside Lee, and Lee was so preoccupied on starring at the Hokage and at her, she decided to not CARE about it, and every now and then, she was quietly observing her surroundings while listening really carefully at the words the Hokage said...

"The names are" Tsunade coughed and let the messenger say it...

"Saya Ekisho, Komoko Nohara, Hayame Nohara and Tsukiyo Kejimen" The moment Saya Ekisho was said, the sob grew louder that the said person's teammate escorted her too her house... Keiko Ekisho was a younger of Saya Ekisho, and the given picture of her once she was found was.... Dreadful, she was tortured to death; her clothes were ripped apart... Marks of burns and poison were found by the medic Nins... Her hair was all cut and her heart was no where to be found...

"They were the first to encounter the said opposing group, which poses a threat, they have set an example, for us, to be afraid of them, but we are not, we will fight"

Applause was heard, the messenger was continuously reading the lines...

After an hour of searching, trained medics have found a trail of blood leading to an animal... that was found dead... but there were separate blood samples, one from a human, and one from the said animal. They made a guess, her heart was fed to the animal, after that they killed the useless animal. They are cruel...

"We will find out who will win or lose, but whatever happens, we must be prepared, for anything and for everything"

The other girls had the same faith, tortured to death... Hayame has a rather more serious encounter... She had lots of stabs, they preferred to kill her physically, and marks of explosion notes were there. There were some writing around her body, and that was done by carving it to her skin... It said... 'Foolish ninjas of Konoha, next time, we shall meet' in hiragana... It seemed before she died, her limbs and bones where to be broken first...

"Saya, Komoko, Hayame and Tsukiyo"

Tsukiyo seemed to have been the least tortured, or they could say it like that. There were multiple stabs around his body, and he was in state of shock when found, water all around him, blood flowing freely from his head. It seemed that he blocked an attack some say. After further study, they had defined that an Ice element was done to him, and he was not the least tortured... He was frozen without air, conscious for an hour... but he was exhausted and gave up...

"We shall remember you as brave waorriors"

It also seemed that the multiple slashes were done by a sword or a ken, it made matters worse, it had a 3 centimeter deep cut precisely on each slash. Continuous bleeding and due to paralization and harnessed temperature augment, his consciousness was taken away, together with his life.

"For you have proven your loyalty to Konoha through your acts, may your should reach the Eden in peace"

They decided to burn the bodies... Their parents were devastated at the report but they need to know.

After the bowing of heads and short speech, Sakura looked bored... She accidentally yawned, which caught attention of some boys and some girls... Neji was in the same boat, mourning for the dead was hard, and he didn't want to bring back the memories of 'those'

Sasuke slightly had a picture of his bloodied family in his mind, he started shaking off his thought and tried to concentrate on the about to speak Tsunade.

Naruto was meanwhile analyzing everything in his brain, from the past few weeks; he has gone from little to little steps on becoming as mature as his age. He noticed Sakura sigh for the fourth time, and decided to ask her if she was alright.

"Sakura-chan, are you alright" with an automatic reply, Sakura said "Yes Naruto I am" muttering under her breath she said, with only Lee and Naruto, who grew terrified of her she said... "Next time they do this, hihihihi I will kill them... hihihihihi I'm bored... hihihi" Sakura said with an evil grin...

She looked up her eyes being covered with her hair... Doing this, it made Lee shiver a little bit. Naruto sighed; he gave up and turned around.

They didn't notice it but one did, Neji saw Sakura make her move and chuckle a little while for what she did. She was too unpredictable...

Ino was glancing to Sakura then too Sasuke then to Neji then to Shikamaru then to Tsunade, she couldn't make up her mind... "Oh Gods Ino, don't be worried... This is so troublesome" Shikamaru insisted but it was as if Ino was in another planet called 'inside her mind' She was worried about Sakura yes, she liked Sasuke, and Sakura was with Neji which made her crazy, Shikamaru was blabbering words she didn't understand, and Tsunade... wait Tsunade is speaking...

"Due to these circumstances, we are in great need of force of ranging from spying, offense and defense. I have done the necessary preparations, another thing, you genins and chuunins at the middle, stop blabbering with each other and pay attention!" Tsunade ordered...

Seconds later everything was quiet, only the slight sound of the tapping of her fingers were heard. "Okay" She started...

"Every one of you here would be classified from different teams, yet you still remain in your group. We have already decided to do the pairs and it would be shortly announced tomorrow. The second test examiner, Anko, will be the one who you would meet... Be here on exactly 5:20 AM" There were nods around every corner of the room...

Sakura was getting excited as she was burning from slight pressure... Naruto flashed a dangerous look to Sakura... Both hands were burning with chakra, a few sensed too, but didn't actually care.

She felt guilty, that she was the one to cause the disoriented chuunins; luckily they didn't notice her... But her eyebrow was twitching every time she looks around hearing her name in a barely audible whisper from guys to gals...

"Haruno Sakura" When Sakura heard her name, she smirked... "Will be temporarily removed from her team" Sakura was dumbfounded... "Why?" Tsunade sighed... "It is a direct order from the Hokage, come here" Sakura from her position at the back followed the orders... She marched in front...

The others were also questioning why... Shikamaru raised his hand... "Hokage- sama, we need to know" Shikamaru IS an intelligent person, and he is considered to be a genius... He had stated his statement wholesomely so that she would not be able to refuse. "I would have to do something on her... not much more?" Sakura stared at her with a smug look; she also knew she was keeping something, a strange sense.

She reappeared in front of her and touched her back; she was gone by a puff of smoke. "Haruno Sakura, come down from there this instant!" Tsunade exclaimed...

Sakura from the ceiling pouted [do you know she's kawai when she's pouting] She was silently sleeping while maintaining her chakra great, and to think that was upside down.

She walked lazily towards the place where her clone had been extinguished. She finally made her way towards Tsunade. "I'm sorry Hokage-sama, because I slept, I was getting bored" Naruto looked sheepishly at Sakura... 'When did she become so open?'

"Why did you become bored? Why? We were in the middle of the ceremony and... and..."

"And what foolish chuunin" Sakura smirked as she saw who spoke of that...

Mizuuna, a teammate of the said Ekisho... She thought it was pathetic... and she saw her retreat...

Sakura bowed her head and Tsunade patted it, now it didn't disappear, she moved back a little as her hair fell off and her forehead protector fall, she was just in time to catch it.

Tsunade who was observing Sakura noticed some scratches on the forehead protector and Sakura managed to force a small smile. Those who had keen eyes noticed it, those were Tsunade, Kakashi, Kurenai, Sasuke and of course Neji, and Hinata.

Hinata was shocked as she looked from Sakura to Naruto, hoping that Naruto didn't actually see it. It was evident because the light really fell on top of it, revealing some of the scratched marks.

"Haruno Sakura" Her head snapped but her bangs were still falling lazily following her rhythm like chakra patterns as she managed to make it flow to relieve some of the pain.

"You can let go of the jutsu you used, we will take care of you" Tsunade silently said, she called for some medic Nins to prepare a stretcher...

"Hai" she had momentarily used this jutsu to relive the pain at her head, from time to time, its pain was getting really intense, but it was very unpredictable, as if it was playing with her. She crouched towards the ground and felt her head was about to explode, a dark green pattern was encircling it.

Tsunade whispered words to her ear... "You will momentarily be taken off your team, special training for you, and how to cope up with the seal..."

Sakura nodded and felt a slight thing to easily ease the pain "I think I should do this now" Sakura silently said as she slowly stood up, ignoring the pain.

She let her past scar bleed again, and the pain stopped momentarily to be replaced by another pain...

The others just stared questioningly... "Haruno Sakura will be temporarily off team 7, she had already agreed on it"

Naruto had his jaws wide open, Sasuke meanwhile was staring at her seriously, because he wasn't as weak as Naruto, he knew it had something to do with the seal.

"This meeting would resume tomorrow, all chuunins would be trained in every level, from chakra controlling to ninjutsu and healing jutsus"

Just moments later, there came another visitor. The Anbu squad 12 has appeared...

"Hokage-sama, we have news" Tsunade nodded "Mera Asanagi had been assassinated" Tsunade understood, in her insides she was shocked...

Sakura sighed, she didn't mean to eavesdrop, and it just so happened that she was so close to her so much.

Naruto picking up some tone, spoke to Sasuke... "Did I just hear what you just heard... I mea, Mera-san... dead?" Naruto was sad, since she was one of the best people that he had known.

Sasuke silently nodded...

"Remember 5:20 AM"

She excited the room followed by the jounins, instructors...

The others sighed...

"Hey, what happened to Sakura?" Ino said worriedly, wanting answers, she choked Shikamaru who was analyzing something. She finally kicked him and he stumbled at the ground, it seems that she was so serious that if she had to kill, she will. Panting, Ino said once again, in a ravaged voice... "WHAT.... DO... YOU... THINK... HAPPENED... TO... SAKURA... FOREHEAD... BAKA... CHAN..." She panted heavily afterwards and Shikamaru rolled to the side. The other chuunins were staring at them, and seemed to have stopped walking while other thought it was nothing.

"I don't really know Ino, now, would you please leave me alone?" Ino's ears started to register some voice... 'Leave me alone... leave me alone... leave me alone... leave me alone... leave me alone... leave me alone...' Tears started to swell at her eyes and she had a vein popping from her head and well, she was might mad...

"Oops..." He muttered, he thought... 'First Ino would wail and after snapping back, she would go steamy... and then... she would curse me for being an ignorant naïve person... and she would kill... kill me' being a genius, he started to run for his life while Ino was throwing kunais and shurikens at him.

Back to Sakura

"So what do I do now?" Sakura said questioningly, her bangs covering her eyes. "Sakura, we have to ask you something" Tsunade said, frowning slightly...

"Would you betray Konoha?" She looked down and up, nothing shown in her eyes... Tsunade hugged her and it didn't even startle her, Sakura looked down and pushed Tsunade away.

"You are hiding something" Tsunade's head snapped, Sakura looked back and swayed her hands lazily. "But then again, I won't force you to say it, I'm happy enough to be the center of attention, to be able to counter my seal, and well to die with an unknown reason" Sakura said and simply smiled.

Tsunade slapped her, she let it all happen, and the jounins stopped walking and decided to see what was going on. Sakura never let her emotion conquer her, she decided to keep walking... walking forward to where 'she' is headed.

'I've been a fool, huh, all this time I've expected someone to understand me, well, I was wrong, this is what I get' Sakura pulled back her Konoha forehead protector into its place and her emotionless eyes became cold. "Let's go"
"It seems that Konoha is preparing most of them for training, ne?" The masked woman silently bowed down. "We have already assembled, Yon Akurei is complete once again"

The 'Leader' laughed and turned to her other subordinates... "Let's just wait and see, we have all the time in the world, don't we"

"I don't really know, I want to visit her now, as in now!" the young teen laughed and disappeared into smoke...

"How troublesome, she would never learn ne Mitsuki?" Mitsuki nodded and turned to the remaining of them... "Why don't we test your little group Chie, let's see if they are still worthy of the name 'yon akurei' and I will be fighting alone"

Chie nodded and said to Mitsuki... "Minna, Gomen ne" Turning to Mitsuki, she smirked evilly "I assure you that they have become far more better than before, if I were you, you would have to face them in a one on one battle to win, since a team would work better"

"Chie, stop blabbering"

"Okay I get it, whoever wins receives a price ne?" Chie said and ran her hands at her finders, she touched her ken... and swung it around, then put it back to place... "Chie, stop playing with your sword"

'I know what I am doing" She pouted and headed off to her next destination, spying is her expertise... Mitsuki sighed... "Kyohu introduce your new comrades, and after that, it is automatically a go"
"So, where do you want to go?" Naruto said, but he was obviously not in the mood, after all the happening, he rather would have to stay in his apartment and stare at the ceiling, be at Ichiraku and or train...

"You decide Naruto-kun" was Hinata reply...

"Do you want to spare with me Hinata?" Naruto finally gave his point, Hinata nodded and followed Naruto to the forest. While...

Ino decided that Shikamaru was no use... so she decided to head for Sasuke, who was training...

At last, she found him, skipping happily and smiling very lightly, she ran in a sing song manner yelling... "Sasuke-kun! Sasuke-kun!" Ino went towards him...

In a moment or two, twelve shuriken were headed for her... and pinned her to the tree. "Sasuke-kun... it's just me, Ino'' Sasuke gave her a serious look as if telling her to get out or state her purpose.

"About the early thing, you know, about Sa... Sakura" Ino said worriedly as she saw Sasuke was in front of her pulling off the kunais. She fell hard at the ground, her head was aching, and she was pinned at the top of the tree...

Sasuke stared at her dumbly, he expected her to do tree climbing skills

He gracefully landed down and stared at her disgusted, annoyed for a fact.

"I want you to tell me about Sakura, I don't know ay more, ever since the mission, she got strange, and well, she even told me before about those vision she had..."

A pink haired shinobi entered his mind... he spoke the words

"...Sakura..."

"I want you to tell me something about her"

"Ask her yourself"

He continued his training with only one thing in mind 'to get stronger'

Meanwhile

"SAKURA-CHAN! I WILL RESCUE YOU!" Lee said, as he was being pulled by both Neji and Ten-ten.

Seconds later Gai appeared... "I'm sorry" Lee stopped his shouting and turn to face their sensei...

"You'll find out sooner or later" he flashed a V sign which means peace, and turned around wiping his tears...

In a puff of smoke he vanished... "What was that for" Ten-ten asked, as he let go of Lee and took a seat at the ground.

Neji also let go of Lee, who was reminiscing, he was wondering of what would happen tomorrow.

All was left in confusion...

Back to Naruto

Naruto fought Hinata but he wasn't going all out, Hinata was too, going easy on Naruto...

"Hey Hinata, don't go easy on me right?" He received a kick towards the face

"Hey no fair"

Hinata apologized and turned to Naruto... "Would I go easy then?" She asked shyly

"Just go hard" Naruto said as he blocked the incoming fist, but stumbled off the ground since it was just a trick to not let him see the next attack.

Swinging her right hand she had almost paralyzed Naruto's right leg, which she was almost going to do.

'Hinata had really improved, this is going to be great'

Hinata rushed forward towards him to give him a jab at his fist, which resulted to air friction, it was a very hard punch, Hinata kicked Naruto and did the same maneuver, but then again, she failed.

"Hinata, you must always do other things, once your opponent knows how you fight, you will fail, like what happened to Sakura and Neji'

She nodded and quickly did her plan. She jumped high into the air and landed on his shoulders...

"Kage bunshin" Naruto shouted, and Hinata kicked the Naruto, which was a clone. She grabbed for all her kunais and managed to make five of them disappear. Ten more to go...

She scanned around the area and noticed Naruto was hiding at the tree, she knew it of curse since she was using byakugan.

"Naruto-kun, Gomen!" Hinata forcefully made her way towards Naruto, who was only paying attention at the scene before him.

Seconds later, he was knocked out.

"Na... Na.. Naruto-kun?" Hinata shyly said, it has been an hour since he was out... "Ummn, you knocked me out Hinata, you are great" Naruto made Hinata blush, he congratulated her, and then he noticed it was already night time, more or less 6:00 something...

"Hinata... do you want me to walk you home?" Naruto sighed, it took him twenty seconds to answer, and she was constantly playing with her thumbs thinking that something bad might happen... her decision was...

"Yes" Naruto smiled and walked Hinata to the Hyuuga household.

Others were still practicing still preparing for the day tomorrow...

[So this chappie was done to stabalize things, Yahoo! Finally I finishd it! I'd never play with my characters again ne? Next chappie would be about training . hehe, I hope you liked this one, I'm sorry if I ended it in Naruto and Hinata's place... I was kinda lazy hehe... but anyway, if you want more info about the one who died. They really have sncountered the group, they were sent to spy on it, and that sums it up...

I want to thank reviewers who pinpointed what was wrong with my fic... wahh, sometimes I just get too caried away, (sometimes I find Kakashi cute when he yells... I kinda think he was kinda joking around... OOC neh... ihihi... and Neji and Sakura kawaii... well, I'd try and do my best to not let my thoughts reach that place) oh and another thing yah, Gekkou Hayate was already killed ne... hihihi

Gomen ne for my update, I promise a much better fic, next coming chappie, you would meet another member of the group and I know you would like her so much . but you would have to wait for 4 days or so... Hehe, but I'm not entirely sure yet .

My authors note is just so long! More characters coming up ahead... especially dangerous ones... Keep tuning on .]