Laruku-chan: MORE REVIEWS YES!!! *punches a fist into the air* ALL HAIL ME!!!

Sasuke-kun: NANDA YO?! What is this world coming to?

Laruku-chan: *starts singing* My oh my isn't it a wonderful day?

Sasuke-kun: Yea well zipidi-doo-dah. *grumbles* Be grateful usuratonkachi, you're last chapter was pretty sloppy if you ask me. I for one am still surprised people still even bother reading your fic.

Laruku-chan: *scratches her head* heh heh sumimasen! Ma, at least I revised it so that chapter three is a lot better ne?

Sasuke-kun: *blinks* well. . . depends on your definition of a chapter being better when this whole fic is SCREWED!!

Laruku-chan: *sweatdrop* I can never get a straight answer from can I? Mou. Ma, again domo arigatou to minna! I'm really glad ppl are actually enjoying this fic. And sorry that it took so long to update, I've been real busy that's all. Well truth be told, I've been busy downloading and watching Naruto so that it would help me write this fic a whole lot better. Plus I've been reading off ThienZ naruto mangas and have critically spoiled myself. Mou yii. Right now I've finished watching all the episodes that have come out and man naruto really is a helluva anime series. ^^ But to make up for it I've posted not one (drumroll please!) but TWO yes TWO chapters minna-san. All because of your great reviews!

Sasuke-kun: *animefall* oh goodie. . .

Laruku-chan: When I received a review from Bloodstain saying to update my fic, I finally picked up my lazy ass and started writing. so thank you for that. It really seemed like I was going to abandon this fic. And yes thanks again to Kenhime for leaving another great review, okini! Lol, Shirayuki, thx for seeing my flaw. I really don't know what jap peeps put in their bentos, sashimi just popped up into my head. And yea arigatou Silver Ruby, I my jap kinda sux so I'm glad you corrected my error, lol I was wrong instead. Lol, I went on Ceres site "Shinobi Cave" and asked her to r&r my fic on her chatbox. I'm glad you left a review Ceres-chan. Rohanonn, yea I am going to use that CCS concept for my couplings for this fic, the romance factors of this fiction follow closely to the CCS one. YEA TOUMA REVIEWED FOR ME!!!! *blushes*, gomen it's just that you're one of my fave authors on this board, and yea sou desu, you got the idea of my casting right on target. Li Syaoran will indeed be played by our dear Sasuke-kun, while the infamous Ino-pig will hold the role of Li Meiling. See aren't I a genius?! The characters fit perfectly!!

Sasuke-kun: *eyebrow twitches* NANI?! So that was your plan for me in this damned fic?!!!

Laruku-chan: *shrugs* yea it wasn't too hard to figure out, I was sure you'd know probably by now anyways. Hora! If you haven't read the revised version of chapter three yet, I suggest you do or else this chapter might seem confusing.

Sasuke-kun: *popping vein* THAT'S IT!!! I'LL KILL YOU!!!!

Laruku-chan: ACK!! WHY ARE YOU GETTING ALL PISSED?!! CHOTTO MATTE!!! *holds up an oversized stop sign* don't kill me just yet, I still get a few last words don't I?

Sasuke-kun: *pauses while still holding a huge fuuma shuriken* growls, alright, but only until you're done. *strains himself from slaying her right away*

Laruku-chan: ahem! *still glances nervously at the shuriken* I found this really good sasusaku fanart page check it out, the artwork is fantastic:

http:// members15. tsukaeru.net /mitona /illust /illust-top. htm

Drawn by the wonderful Mitona-san! Demo, it's in nihongo, but then again I'm sure that won't stop our dear fans from seeing it anyway. ^^

Sasuke-kun: *eyebrow twitches while blushing madly* That, was your big shout?!!!

Laruku-chan: *swells up her chest with pride* Yup! And I'm sure damn pleased with myself for saying it. SASUSAKU4LIFE! ^^

Sasuke-kun: *eyes turn to daggers* PREPARE TO DIE USURATONKACHI!!!!

Laruku-chan: ACK!! SASUKE ONEGAI, DON'T HURT ME!!! Uh g2g, remember peeps Naruto does not belong to me. JA! *performs a Kawarimi then vanishes* ------ ---

GASP! OH NO NOT ANOTHER CHAPTER OF:

SCROLL SEALER SAKURA

A LARUKU NARUTO CREATION

CHAPTER FOUR: The Magic Revealed! Spirits are Everywhere!

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"Yosh! Everyone is here. Satte, we will now begin the Henge no Jutsu test," announced Iruka as soon as he finished with the attendance.

Hinata sighed as she glanced at Sakura once more. She definitely wasn't herself at all ever since the incident that occurred during the lunch break. Hinata frowned as she wrinkled her brow still tried to comprehend what had happened.

Sakura yawned once more as she lay her pink head resting it on her arms as she began to slowly drift to sleep. Hinata frowned once more as she shook her awake trying to keep her alert. Iruka was already starting the test and he would announce for them to start any minute now. Sakura was acting extremely strange, even though she had been acting strange all day but this was even worse. She knew better than to fall asleep before a test. What was with her? Maybe she was just exhausted from their practice with the Henge no Jutsu.

Iie, Henge no Jutsu shouldn't have worn her out so easily. It was such a basic skill that didn't require that much chakra. Demo, Sakura fainted right at the end of the lunch break and now was even more exhausted than she was from this morning.

Sakura picked up a piece of paper as she began to draw, ignoring Iruka as he began to go into the details of the test. Hinata watched her as she absent mindedly picked up a pencil and started doodling a small little fox with nine tails on it's back. A Kyubi? Hinata cocked her head so she could have a better look.

"Ne Sakura-chan, it's really kawaii," Hinata commented with a smile.

"Arigatou," Sakura replied exasperatedly, "He was from one of my stupid dreams you know."

"Eh?" Hinata blinked and stopped smiling.

Sakura turned towards her and grinned sheepishly, "It's nothing to be worried about Hinata-chan, I told you so. It's just a dumb kitsune I've been dreaming about. That's all."

Hinata inwardly groaned in annoyance but said nothing as she returned a fake smile of reassurance. It took all of Hinata's will power not to strangle the truth right out of Sakura that very moment. Now even she was losing sense of her normally gentle self. She sighed as she clutched her head absolutely now fed up with Sakura's behavior. Mou! She was getting a headache. . .

"Minna! Line up at the front of the classroom and I shall call you out one by one when it is your turn in line," Iruka announced.

"Hai!" the whole class replied back as everyone began to rise from their seats. Sakura groaned as she dragged herself along with everyone else as she began her long descent down the isle from the back. It looked like Sakura was having her final steps before entering hell as she hung her head while she walked. Hinata sighed but couldn't help but smile as she followed Sakura along side her. She quietly whispered as she passed by her a quick, "Good luck, Sakura-chan."

~*~*~*~

SHYAANAROU!!!

She was going to die to moment she reached the front of the classroom.

Crap and she knew it.

Iruka, you bastard.

"Good luck, Sakura-chan," a voice quietly trailed by.

Sakura smiled as she continued to walk absent-mindedly with her long pink bangs dangling in front of her face covering her path. She didn't need to look to know who said those words. It was obvious from the start. Hinata still had faith in her.

But she was going to die anyway.

Okaa-chan would probably whip her to death before dying of shame first. Ha, the thought of her ever failing a test was funny but now she knew,

That it could happen.

"Yosh, Sakura you're first up."

NA- NANI?!!!

Sakura finally looked up eyes open with shock and saw that she had reached the bottom of the isle. Standing right in front of Iruka at the front of the classroom. She glanced. Everyone else was already in line and had already claimed the spots where Sakura had wanted to stand in turn to the test: right at the back of the line. Yappai.

SHIMATTA!!

Too late. She had taken too long brooding in her mind and ended up being the first in line to take the test. Sakura blinked and then sweatdropped as she faced Iruka nervously with a sheepish grin.

CHIKSHOU!! Her inner voice was screaming with fury as she clutched her head with grief. This is what she got for starting from the back of the classroom to end up being first?!!

"Ano. . . Sakura-chan?" asked Iruka noticing her twitch furiously in her spot, "Daijoubu desu ka?"

Sakura immediately stood up straight and had a smile plastered on her face as her eyebrow twitched in pain, "Uh. . . Hai Iruka-sensei!"

Iruka gave her a strange look, "Then, um will you please perform the Henge no Jutsu for me?"

"Uh, hai sensei!! Ano, right now?"

"Yes now, Sakura-chan."

"Can Hinata go first?!"

"Dame. Hayaku Sakura, you're holding up the test," Iruka said through gritted teeth.

Sakura sweatdropped while trying to think of another excuse, "Ahaha, demo I do better after someone else has done it first, so I think that."

"HARUNO JUST DO IT!!"

Sakura sweatdropped and gulped, then replied in a defeated voice, "Hai."

She took a deep breath and formed her hands into a seal. She closed her eyes and drew in a deep breath. She anxiously glanced back towards the line where she spotted Hinata giving her a peace sign. She smiled, and started to focus her chakra, when suddenly. . .

Masaka! Instead of what should have been Iruka-sensei. . .

A Kyubi was standing in his place!!

Sakura stood back gaping with shock at what she saw before her eyes. She rubbed her eyes furiously and blinked wondering it was a dream. Uso! Her eyes must be playing tricks on her. Sou, it must be some kind of genjutsu trick! It couldn't possibly be the Kyubi from before. Right, that just wasn't possible. It wasn't really a real spirit. . .

"Haruno Sakura. Osoi, they're waiting. Isoide."

She gasped in horror as the creature spoke. Sakura let out a scream and something knocked her senses back to reality. Not knowing what had gotten into her, she released a sudden outburst of chakra in surprise from the Kyubi's presence. A poof of smoke enveloped her as she transformed into an exact replica of the kitsune in mistake of what should have been Iruka. Everyone gasped in confusion as she smoke cleared leaving Sakura in a shocked form of a small nine-tailed Kyubi. It took awhile before the silence of shock cleared and everyone started to laugh hysterically at Sakura's idiotic performance. Quickly another poof of smoke appeared as Sakura released the jutsu and stood there blushing with embarrassment.

"Haruno. . ." Iruka began with his aggravated eyebrows twitching.

"Gomen nasai sensei!" Sakura tried to fight back but ended up cowering under his gaze, "Watashi. . ."

"YOU FAIL!!!"

"IIE!! ACK!!! I'M DEAD!!! [SHYAANAROU!!!!]"

~*~*~*~

"MOU!!" Sakura yelled slamming the table with her fists, "KUSO!! I'VE NEVER FAILED A TEST BEFORE!!!"

"Sakura-chan. Onegai, calm down! People are starting to look at us," Hinata pleaded in a hushed voice while trying to sooth her angered friend.

"DAME HINATA!!! THIS IS UTMOST SHAME TO ALL KUNOICHI!!" Sakura hollered loudly ignoring Hinata's protests, "I CAN'T FACE ANYONE AGAIN!!! INCLUDING MY DEAR KAKASHI-SENSEI!!!"

"S-Sakura-chan! Yamerou!" Hinata begged as Sakura started to rage on and on in front of the whole restaurant she had taken Sakura to after school. Everyone one in the restaurant were now looking at the pair with strange looks.

"IIEEE!!! THIS CAN'T BE THE END!!!!"

"SAKURA, SHIKARISHTE!!!"

SLAP!!!

Sakura finally shut up, as she stood there in shock. She looked up to face her friend with widened eyes. Her friend likewise stood there in the same amount of shock on her face panting to return her gaze. The whole room went silent staring at the two until finally Sakura moaned clutching her face.

"Ite!!" Sakura cried out in pain gingerly touching her red cheek, "H-Hinata- chan! You slapped me. . ."

Hinata gasped back in horror clapping her hands to her mouth, "G-Gomen nasai Sakura-chan!! I-I don't what I did that for!! Omigosh what was I thinking!! Are you hurt?! Should I get some ice?! Yappai! Tasukete!!"

Sakura sweatdropped as Hinata began to run frantically across the room asking for ice, running towards strangers for unneeded help, "Shimatta!! Onee-san does it look like she's bleeding?!! OH NO! SAKURA-CHAN!!"

"H-Hinata!! Anshinshirou!! I'm just fine!!"

"Dame Sakura-chan!! Don't touch it!! You might make it worse if you do that!!" Hinata shrieked.

"DAIJOUBU HINATA-CHAN!! MATTAKU!! IT'S ONLY A LITTLE SLAP FOR GOD'S SAKE!!" Sakura bellowed while grabbing her friend's shoulders.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN LITTLE?!!" Hinata hissed back, "HALF YOUR FACE IS ALL RED BECAUSE OF ME!!"

"HINATA GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF!!" Sakura yelled vigorously shaking Hinata's shoulders until the both of them couldn't take it anymore and Hinata let out a cry.

"G-Gomen," Hinata wimpered with sudden tears, "I'm such a terrible friend!"

"Iie Hinata-chan," Sakura cried back, "You're a wonderful friend! It's all my fault for not practicing!"

"Sakura-chan. . ." Hinata cried fighting back the tears forming in her eyes, "Let's never fight again."

"Promise," Sakura replied back with tears in her eyes as well. The two started crying hysterically while everyone in the restaurant sweatdropped at their awkward behaviour. They customers sighed as the owners watched the two with strange looks. In all they're history of opening their shop they had never had such strange customers as those two before.

~*~*~*~

It took awhile before the pair left the restaurant. The shop owners had even bribed them to leave with having to pay for their meal if they didn't stop crying. They were already scaring away most of their customers with their bawling.

Sakura and Hinata made their way down the tree-lined street heading back for home. The sun was shining now, it was such a beautiful to time to take a stroll along the streets of Konoha. Sakura and Hinata were now in happy conversation until Sakura brought up an unexpected subject.

"Kyubi? What are talking about?" Hinata asked with a puzzled look as Sakura fell silent. Then Hinata thought back in class when.

[Hinata watched her as she absent mindedly picked up a pencil and started doodling a small little fox with nine tails on it's back.

A Kyubi? Hinata cocked her head so she could have a better look.

"Ne Sakura-chan, it's really kawaii," Hinata commented with a smile.

"Arigatou," Sakura replied exasperatedly, "He was from one of my stupid dreams you know."

"Eh?" Hinata blinked and stopped smiling.

Sakura turned towards her and grinned sheepishly, "It's nothing to be worried about Hinata-chan, I told you so. It's just a dumb kitsune I've been dreaming about. That's all."]

and then.

[ A poof of smoke enveloped her as she transformed into an exact replica of the kitsune in mistake of what should have been Iruka. Everyone gasped in confusion as she smoke cleared leaving Sakura in a shocked form of a small nine-tailed Kyubi.]

This wasn't just coincidence. If this Kyubi was troubling her this much, then it definitely wasn't something to just simply ignore.

Hinata kept walking in pace with her friend, keeping silent for awhile as this all went through her head.

"Sakura-chan, what did the Kyubi tell you in your dream?"

Sakura blushed as she kept her mouth shut. She had already said too much, this was going insane. There was no point in telling Hinata anyway. Sakura looked away with a far off distant gaze.

They still weren't too far off from the patch of cherry-blossom trees.

"Sakura-chan?" Hinata glanced at her companion's sudden silence, "Daijoubu ka?"

No reply. Hinata sighed and also looked off towards the distance, as if to follow Sakura's gaze. It was strange, what was the significance of a nine- tailed fox? It reminded her vaguely of something she had been told before. The kyubi was a feared demon, until it's sudden disappearance but it no longer existed ever since then.

"Sakura-chan, do you remember when Iruka-sensei told us about the legendary Kyubi that attacked Konoha twelve years ago? It was defeated the year we were born."

Sakura finally left her gaze and was now looking at Hinata in turn with a confused look. What was she getting at?

"They say that the nine-tailed fox would have led Konoha to destruction, it was a massive beast of extreme power. It killed many shinobi of the village, but the Hokage at that time stood up to the demon. Unable to completely kill it, the elders of the village say he sealed the beast. Yondaime-sama died in doing so, but strangely no one knows where he sealed Kyubi. The fourth was our village's greatest hero because of that."

Sakura's furrowed her eyebrows and frowned, "Hinata-chan? What are you trying to say?"

"Sakura you've been acting really strange lately," Hinata began, fiddling with her fingers as she spoke, "A-and, I just thought it was strange that you dreamt of a Kyubi, which was the village's most dangerous threat ever. S-so I was wondering if you remembered about that. It seems it has something to do with you."

Sakura said nothing and returned to her far-off gaze. What Hinata said was true, it was awfully strange to dream of a Kyubi. It had such an influence on the village of Konoha. If she had dreamed about the nine-tailed demon, surely those dreams would have been nightmares instead of pleasant thoughts.

However.

The Kyubi showed her no harm in every dream she had. Almost as though it was her friend. An old friend of time. . .

Maybe it was time to pay that "friend" its long-awaited visit.

"Hinata, would you like to come with me? There's someplace I'd like to show you. . ."

Hinata blinked in shear confusion, and then gave a shy nod in reply.

~*~*~*~

"Matte Sakura-chan!! Wh-what's the rush anyway?!" Hinata called after her.

Sakura didn't stop to listen. For some reason she was running towards wherever she was taking her. It even seemed as though she had forgotten about Hinata altogether. She ran faster, swiftly along with the wind. They speed that they were going at it felt as though Sakura was chasing something. Hinata could hardly keep up anymore; she never had seen Sakura so concerned about something this much before. She doubted the normal Sakura could ever last this long in a run. Stamina wasn't really her gift.

Hinata finally came to a stop and collapsed to the ground. She sat there panting in exhaustion, watching Sakura's figure continue to run until it had become nothing but a mere shadow. It was no use catching up to her now, she had lost Sakura.

What a wonderful day this was turning out to be.

Hinata groaned as she began to heave herself up. It was awfully windy for some reason. The winds felt too gusty for a spring day, at this rate it seemed like a tornado.

"SAKURA-CHAN!!!" Hinata hollered as loud as she could in her tiny soft voice, but the wind just drowned her call. She sighed and began to turn around.

"There's no need to yell, she won't hear you anyway. . ."

Nani?!

"W-Who's there?! Show yourself!"

The wind began to spin rapidly. It was impossible Hinata was going to get blown away, the spirals of gust were too strong. It was a violent maelstrom; the terrifying winds were surrounding her. She couldn't escape, the air was slicing away at her.

"Sakura-chan, doko na no?" Hinata whispered as she felt her whole world swirl away.

~*~*~*~

She was getting close.

Her heart raced with excitement. The pounding of her heartbeat was ringing in her ears. She couldn't wait.

The wind was now blowing hard against her face, she long hair flowed behind her. It felt so pleasant, she couldn't remember a time she had ever felt this alive. As she ran the wind flew with her, and together they ran towards the cherry blossom patch.

Faster, and faster the wind spun, and the faster she ran. The wind gave her speed, as the spirals of air accompanied her. As she approached the cherry blossoms, Sakura rushed deep into the trees followed by the gale. The trees swayed vigorously with the tornado of wind Sakura's presence brought. The petals rained down upon her like a typhoon of pink.

"I'M HERE!!" Sakura halted and yelled into the wind with outstretched arms, "YOU WANTED ME TO COME, RIGHT?"

The wind grew stronger, as the cherry blossoms began to envelope her. Faster and faster, they span around her leaving her trapped within the circle of storm.

"I SAID YOU WANTED TO SEE ME!!" she screamed once more, "NE?!! SOU DESHO?!"

The gale accelerated and the tornado became almost unbearable. Sakura shivered in the wind, suddenly feeling alone and afraid. Why was it that she didn't feel right? Why was she afraid? Sakura wrapped her arms around her squeezing her shaking body, wishing that it would all stop, but somehow the wind swirled faster. Tears started leaking out of her eyes, all she felt was fear.

"Sakura-chan. . ."

Nani?! Sakura opened her eyes with shock. That was Hinata's voice!

". . .Onegai. . . Tasukete. . ."

Masaka! Sakura had forgotten all about her. She was in trouble!

Suddenly every single feeling of fear had been replaced with bitter anger. Playing around with her friends? That was disrespectful and completely unacceptable. Hinata didn't even know anything about all this. It was as though these spirits had lured her into this trap. Sakura burned with rage as she felt a flame of heat burn in her soul.

"ANTA ITAI NANIMONO?! WHO ARE YOU TO TAKE AWAY THOSE PRECIOUS TO ME?!"

An intensified warmth suddenly surrounded her, as if to block away to roaring of the wind. The storm started to die down in as if in fear from her screaming. Sakura looked down and gasped seeing light was coming from right beneath her. A great circle of glowing light was illuminating the scenery and Sakura felt as her body was lifted right into the air among the now floating blossom petals. She couldn't believe that this was happening.

It was just like her dream. If this was what she thought it was then. . .

She knew what she had to do.

Sakura closed her eyes began concentrating to convert her stamina into chakra. She focused all her might to clear all outside thoughts and accumulate spiritual energy. Sakura started to circulate chakra throughout her body and took a deep breath. Slowly she formed her hands into a seal and let her thoughts be washed away by the light.

"RELEASE!"

Suddenly without warning the wind came back stronger than ever. Sakura shielding herself with her arms and opened her eyes with a small peek. It was happening so fast, the petals began forming themselves into twelve giant shapes. Each one distinct yet unbelievably real and alive. Sakura gasped whirling her head to meet the eyes of all twelve animals. It was just like her dream.

Timidly she began to approach their surrounding bodies, but as she took a step closer they all started to back away. What was wrong? Were they afraid of her as she had been of them? Something was not right.

And then they all started to run away.

"No, please. COME BACK!!" Sakura shouted after their retreating bodies, "DON'T LEAVE!!"

Sakura collapsed onto her knees and began to cry. It was all like her dream, they were all disappearing. And what about Hinata-chan? Now she didn't even know where she was, or what they might have done to her. She somehow felt betrayed by the entire thing, as though she had been used.

"Itai. . . My head hurts. . ."

Sakura whirled around at the voice. Someone was there, she hadn't even sensed anyone coming.

"And I was having such I nice sleep too. Kuso. . ."

There sat a young boy wearing orange clothing, about her own age. His blonde spiky hair gleamed in the sunlight as he clutched his pain. On his face were whisker like marks. . ."

Like a fox.

The boy then opened his eyelids to reveal sapphire blue eyes. They met hers and he jumped back in shock. The two of them stared at each other eyes wide with amazement. They both remained silent until. . ."

"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?!!" they shouted in unison.

~*~*~*~

TBC?

Japanese terms used: (no repeats)

Yosh-good, Minna-everyone, shimatta- oh shit, dame- no, Osoi- you're late, Isoide- hurry, Shikarishte!- get a hold of yourself!, Yappai- This is bad!, Tasukete- help!, Onee-san- miss, matte- wait up, doko na no?- where are you?, ne?! sou desho?- isn't that right?, anta itai nanimono?- who (the hell) are you?,

Laruku-chan: FINALLY DONE! Damn this took a hell long of a time to write. Now quit wasting time, go on to the next chapter!

Sasuke-kun: I' M GONNA KILL THAT USURATONKACHI WHEN I FIND HER!!

Laruku-chan: *shudders* yappai, I'd better leave. Ja na!