*Sasuke practices with his shuriken, stops noticing someone's presence*

Sasuke-kun: *blinks* L-Laruku-san!

Laruku-chan: Hisashiburi ne?

*Sasuke stands still with a look between relief and agony*

Laruku-chan: -_-? Ano, doushta no?

Sasuke-kun: *shrugs then goes back to practicing* Nanimonai. . .

Laruku-chan: @.@?? What's up with him?

Anyways, I'm finally back. Took me awhile to continue this story again. Gomen minna, I hope I didn't have you all scared that I wasn't going to update in months like the last time. ^^;;; Had a couple of issues that left me a little depressed (hopefully that won't effect my writing, even though I've developed an alter ego) but here I am writing again, hopefully I'll be able to update sooner. Keep checking my profile for updates, I update from time to time, but sometimes it might go unnoticed.

Sasuke-kun: *blinks* and that's a bad thing?

Laruku-chan: uhh well you know the way with me, I just kinda. *blushes*

Sasuke-kun: uhuh yea, *coughs* idiot . . .

Laruku-chan: *glares* anyways, arigatou minna. Keetra says I blab too much in each update, but that's just me (even tho she's right, I kinda stall the story don't I?) but other than that thx for the support. And Kairi, I'm not exactly a gothic lolita but I thought it'd be cool to use one as an alter ego, I really do have a dark side sometimes even tho I don't show it.

Anyways what else has been keeping me busy was that I went to CN Anime Expo last weekend, my first time at an anime con, so I had a pretty good time. I got an autograph from Fred Gallagher and Seraphim of the Megatokyo webcomics. ^^ You won't believe how many people were cosplayed as characters from Naruto. Most of them were all playing the role as our Uchiha Sasuke. Seriously there had to be at least ten of them at the con. ^^

Sasuke-kun: @.@?? Now I'm really scared . . .

Laruku-chan: Saw a ton of good anime there. I watched different animes, Witch Hunter Robin really caught my eye, and I'm thinking of doing a crossover with that later on (I kinda see some character match-ups from those characters to Naruto). It's a fantastic anime, dark kinda gothic feel to it so it's my kinda anime. I'm obsessed with the music. I think Taku Iwasaki did the soundtrack from what I've heard. She's one of my faves. "Shell" and "Half Pain" the OP and ED themes performed by Bana really fit series. I'm like addicted to those songs at the moment. Well anyways enuff rambling. ^^;;;

Ma, minna-san here's your next chappie and keep the reviews coming. This event in the story will probably last about 5 parts or more until I can finally end it and then move on. Right now here's the third part of "Of All Young Shinobi Lives, You Were Chosen: THE FIRST ENCOUNTER" enjoy!

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IF ONLY KAMI-SAMA COULD GRANT ME THE WILL TO WRITE MORE:

SCROLL SEALER SAKURA

Chapter Eight, PART THREE: Sensing Something Wrong, In the Presence of Someone's Dark Shadow

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"WHY DID YOU COME HERE?!"

BONK!!

"ITAI!!!" Naruto screamed in pain as he started rubbing the lump that had grown on the back of his head, "I said sorry already! I didn't mean to, I just got really worried about you and then I . . ."'

"Hai USO!" Sakura spat back, "BAKA! Are you a STALKER?! I said not to follow, but you still keep coming after me!"

"Demo, I get bored easily! This human stuff's no fun!"

"Sakura-chan?" Hinata squeaked quietly, "Don't you think you're being a little rough?"

"If you don't listen to me," Sakura went on ignoring Hinata, "I swear I destroy every single bit of human you actually possess!"

"But I'm not human!"

"It's all the same when you're dead!"

Hinata watched the two bickering at each other in utter confusement. It was already the lunch break hour but they still hadn't started eating. Hinata was afraid that she wouldn't be able to present Sakura with the special lunch that she had made her. Yet still, here she was with her best friend fighting with this complete stranger. She doubted they even realized that she was even there. Right now seeing these two together made her feel uneasy being with them. Hinata somehow felt strangely out of place in this fight. But the same question just kept hacking away at her.

What was going on?

"Look, I'm your guardian you know!" Naruto shouted back, "It's my job to watch over you!"

"Well can you do it without letting the entire world knowing?!"

"What's wrong with that? You should show off the fact that you're a Scroll Sealer! It's an honor! Do it just like me, shout it out LOUDLY and PROUDLY!! Otherwise people won't know, then that's no fun!"

Nani? Hinata blinked. What was a Scroll Sealer? What on earth were they talking about?

"Screw that, I told you already that I'm not ready for something like that! I can't even do Henge, and it's already trouble enough trying to keep you out of sight!"

"Well I never said it was going to easy! Besides, you don't think I've got troubles? It sucks being human! If only I could get out of this stupid temporary form. I'm no good being like this . . ."

Sakura opened her mouth to shout out another protest but she paused at these words. Surely he didn't mean what she thought he meant by saying that . . .

"Masaka," she began, "Don't tell me you can't become Kyubi?"

Naruto rubbed his head sheepishly as he tried to face Sakura fearlessly, "Uh. Well yea I meant to umm, tell you about that. I err, well until you capture all the scroll spirits then I'm going to be stuck like this. I'm only allowed my true form for protecting the scrolls, not to use my full power against them."

"B-but I thought you said you were going to help me capture them!" Sakura stuttered in protest, "What about all that "I AM THE ALMIGHTY NINE-TAILS KYUBI" crap? Now you're saying you really can't use your powers?"

"Well it's now like I'm powerless! I'm just a little restricted on my powers right now! Besides you're the Scroll Sealer anyway! Most of the work's supposed to go to you! It's your duty!"

"But now you're saying that I've got a whole load more of crap to deal with than I thought I was going to handle."

"Uhh, well you know I didn't exactly put it that way. . ." Naruto sweatdropped.

Sakura stared in disbelief before collapsing onto the ground onto her knees. Hinata immediately gave her a look of usual concern and frowned seeing her friend like this once more. Yesterday was horrible, but she couldn't stand having to deal with this today. But still she couldn't make heads or tails of what they were discussing. The desire of truth inside of Hinata was almost about to overload but somehow she couldn't really bring herself to ask the questions she had told herself the other day to ask. It was her weakness, the fact of how shy she was. And she couldn't ask them, especially not in front of that boy.

But seriously, who was this boy?

He was one of the strangest people she had ever met.

"A-ano, Sakura-chan?" Hinata broke the silence between the three with her soft voice, "I-I don't think you've introduced me to this person yet. A-and it seems like you two know each other. Who is he?"

Sakura glanced up and finally in about five minutes noticed her friend sitting right beside her. She knew Hinata was always quiet, but she didn't realize how sometimes she could be just as unnoticeable as a rock. Was it gifted ninja ability, or just because of her timid self? Yet still how could she have not known Hinata was listening to their conversation?!

She gasped and searched through her head trying to think of a sensible reply, but somehow the words just snagged in her throat and made her mouth dry. Her mind raced quickly back and forth but somehow she couldn't think of an answer to such a simple question.

Naruto glanced at a Sakura and noticed her awkwardness. He just couldn't understand her at all sometimes. He looked along beside her to see the girl who spoke with the tiny meek voice. She was a dark girl, but somehow she didn't really stand out at all. He blinked in confusion, seeing Sakura becoming all silent. He sighed. Maybe if he was going to get her to start liking him he should start filling in her frequent strange sudden silences.

"Sakura-chan?" Hinata asked once more now puzzled by her quiet self.

"My name is Uzumaki Naruto!" Naruto announced with a grin.

Sakura stared at him with shock. Were her ears deceiving her? Did Naruto actually just give a sane normal reply to a questioning of his name without giving away his real identity?

Maybe finally her shouts and punches had finally come through!

"But that's not who I really am. I'm Sakura's new guardian into becoming a Scroll Sealer. We're going to capture the lost scroll spirits that she released!" Naruto continued on with a proud look on his face.

Sakura fell to the ground with an anime fall. She knew he was being too smart for his dumb self.

"Sc-Scroll spirits?" Hinata stuttered back, "What is he talking about Sakura?"

"Uhh, nothing Hinata!" Sakura chuckled nervously trying to laugh it off, "He's really quite stupid, just ignore him!"

"Sakura released the twelve scroll spirits from the Legendary Kage Scroll which have been sealed by the Yondaime himself," Naruto went on with a new eagerness in his voice, "Sakura has been receiving visions from the spirits themselves in her dreams and she followed their voices to the hidden cherry blossom patch. They all escaped and now she and I are gonna save the world by getting them all back!"

"Huh? Ano, I really don't understand what you're saying," Hinata stammered, "You've must have been mistaken."

"Oi! You're the one who's mistaken! I'm saying the truth you know!" Naruto objected, "Isn't that right Sakura-chan!"

"Naruto! Quit confusing her!" Sakura bellowed, "She won't understand. This isn't something she's meant to know!"

"No, go on!" Hinata exclaimed.

"Eh?" Both Sakura and Naruto looked at Hinata taken back by her outburst.

"Uh I mean, please I'd like to know!" Hinata begged Naruto to continue.

Naruto grinned and opened his mouth the share some more of the tale but suddenly he recalled seeing her face before. He looked at the dark haired girl and scratched his head trying to recollect exactly where he had seen her back in his poor short-term memory . . .

"Hey wait a minute!" Naruto exclaimed in realization, "Now I remember who you are! You're that girl who tried to follow Sakura into the cherry blossom patch!"

Hinata blinked in surprise. What was he talking about? She had never met him before until this day. How was it that he knew who she was? And how would he know about that time?

She blushed as he jumped down from his spot and crouched right next to her. He stared at her and examined her milky white eyes. She found herself meeting his blue ones and flushed at how close his face was to hers. But somehow she couldn't help noticing . . .

He had the most liveliest sapphire blue eyes she had ever seen. She wasn't used to how much life they held compared with the pale dead ones she had to live with for the majority of her life.

"You passed out though when I tried to lure you away," Naruto went on, "But I guess I kind went about the wrong way of doing it. I didn't think you'd pass out from just a little wind."

Just a little wind? More like a tornado, Hinata shuddered. Never had she experienced such strong winds before.

But how could he have the power to control winds like that? Just exactly who was he?

Chotto matte, he had said before that:

["I AM THE BEAST OF THE SEAL!! GUARDIAN OF THE LEGENDARY KAGE SCOLL OF SEALS!! SAKURA'S ONE TRUE LOVER AND NAMED AFTER THE FOOD OF THE GODS!! SEALED BY THE FOURTH HOKAGE HIMSELF: THE ALL POWERFUL NINE-TAILED KYUBI!!"]

Before when he had mentioned those words in the classroom they had sounded foolish and absurd. Yet now they were all starting to make sense. From what she had heard from their discussion this Naruto wasn't human at all, what he had said before might actually be true. Could it be that, he really was Kyubi?

Hinata thought back to yesterday:

[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.

"Ano ne, Hinata-chan."

"Nani yo?"

"You know about what happened in back in class right, about how I accidentally transformed into a nine-tailed fox?"

"I'm sure none of us could forget that," Hinata chuckled.

"I've been dreaming about a Kyubi lately. Every single day for the past week."

"Eh?" Hinata paused.

"Yet somehow everytime I see him, I feel like he's like someone I've known for a really long time. And somehow, there's this strange feeling whenever I'm near it. And I hear it speaking to me, in my dreams."

Nani? Hinata pondered.

"Kyubi? What are talking about?" Hinata asked with a puzzled look as Sakura fell silent.]

Masaka, could he be Sakura's Kyubi?

"Gomen ne!" Naruto smiled with another one of his sheepish grins, "When Sakura finally arrived at the cherry blossoms, she lacked the power the spirits needed for her the release them. Sakura told me that she had heard your voice back when she was there. The spirits must have used you to their advantage. I think it's because whenever someone who possesses a high level of chakra, they won't be able to release at full power unless they get emotionally excited. Hearing your cry of help triggered that power in Sakura. You really got wasted though. Sakura had to carry you back home unconscious!"

Hinata blinked still slightly lost at what he was saying. Yet somehow the way he explained it made him seem different than the goofus he seemed like he was.

Sakura stared blankly at Naruto. It was really hard for her to believe that Naruto really did know a lot more to chakra and spiritual energy than she did, despite the idiot he was. She really would need every single bit of help he could offer. She knew that even though he was now currently weakened from his original state, she was sure he'd provide a lot of help and support later on. He really did seem like a reliable guy.

Naruto gave a look a curiosity and took a step closer towards Hinata. Sakura blinked. Hinata blushed and tried to back away however what Naruto did next took her completely by surprise.

To both girls' horror, Naruto began sniffing Hinata.

Sakura stood there jaw hanging in disbelief while Hinata was blushing uncontrollably. Naruto continued to sniff her for awhile. Sakura could barely hide the popping vein throbbing in her temple as she clenched her fists in anger.

"YOU ECCHI!!" Sakura screamed as she punched Naruto square in the jaw he flung backwards and crashed into the base of a tree.

"ITAI!!" Naruto hollered once more, "WHAT DID I DO WRONG THIS TIME?!"

"ARE ALL BOYS PEVERTED LIKE YOU?" Sakura shouted back with daggers in her eyes, "STOP HITTING ON MY FRIENDS!!"

Naruto rubbed his sore head once more and ignored Sakura as he sat down. He faced Hinata once more. Hinata blushed when his eyes met hers again.

"Your chakra level is pretty high for someone of your rank," he spoke taking her back in surprise, "There is something in your blood that strengthens it from normal shinobi. A sort of potential for inheriting special jutsu."

"Eh?!" both girls' gasped in unison.

"And plus," Naruto continued as he approached a blushing Hinata once more, "Somehow before I sensed something strange about your eyes. It seems like you can expel chakra from them. That's quite a rare talent from what I'm told. How is it that someone like you is capable of these abilities?"

Hinata tried to reply but the words were somehow held back. She blushed once more but yet at the same time she was surprised. The extent on her abilities and the secret of her family blood was something that was kept quite secret. It was not possible for someone on first glance to already be able to tell that she was from an advanced bloodline.

"Oi! What's your name anyway?" Naruto asked cheerfully.

"Uhh," Hinata tried to reply.

"Kikoenai yo! Say it louder!" Naruto complained.

"W-watashi. . ." Hinata began.

"Dame, dame! Motto ookina!" Naruto demanded.

"Naruto, will you quit you're whining? This is my friend Hinata-chan!" Sakura explained for her shy friend, "Hinata's last name is Hyuuga. She's from Konoha's Hyuuga clan. They're clan members are known for the talent and strength. That must be the reason why you sensed something potential in her blood."

"Sou ka," Naruto said thoughtfully, "My nose is always right!"

"Nextime keep your nose to youself," Sakura grumbled.

Hinata sighed as Naruto finally backed away to join Sakura. She looked at him with astonishment. He had even sensed her eye technique. Most people didn't know about the Hyuuga's most useful and sacred tool. If her father found out that her chakra had been analyzed like that, she would have to meet unforgiving punishment.

She'd have to find out something in exchange for his knowledge of her.

"You know Sakura," Naruto went on, "She could become a really powerful ally. Maybe we should make her one of us!"

"Naruto!" Sakura hissed, "I don't want to cause anymore trouble for my friends or family. Hinata would be burdened by this all."

The two glared at each other, ready to start up another debate when Hinata interrupted them with her soft voice.

"Ano," Hinata began once more, "If, if Sakura-chan is now a Scroll Sealer, then it's a really big role right?"

"Hai!" Naruto said proudly, "You should be really impressed! Of all young shinobi lives out there, Sakura was chosen!"

"Then how is she going to capture them?" Hinata inquired timidly, "Wouldn't she need some sort of strong sacred force to aid her if she is going to fight powerful spiritual beings? It seems like normal chakra isn't capable of sealing a demon of power."

Sakura glanced looking first from Hinata then to Naruto, yet both girls were staring at Naruto for an answer. He looked back at them with strange looks wondering why they were looking at him like that. But he merely smiled and gave them a response. It looked as if he still needed more explaining to do.

"Ma, Sakura!" Naruto declared with a grin on his face, "Looks like now's a good time to give you you're first jutsu lesson!"

"Jutsu lesson?" Sakura scoffed, "An idiot like YOU teach ME jutsu? As if."

"Oi! Who's the one who failed her Henge no Jutsu test?" Naruto smirked back at her. She glared back at him in reply.

"Today I'll teach you how to summon. If you don't know how to summon then you'll have no hope in controlling scroll spirits, or sealing them," Naruto explained, "Becoming the master of the Legendary Kage Scroll of Seals is not only being able to maintain a high level of chakra, but also being able to summon different spirits to grant you with special abilities and techniques to use in battle. All of the many different types of jutsu that were sealed are all forbidden techniques. Before you can use kinjutsu, you must have a contract signed to the spirits allowing you to summon."

"A summoning contract?" Sakura repeated back in bewilderment.

"Here watch this," Naruto said and slowly formed his hands into a seal. Hinata blinked completely baffled but Sakura could somehow sense what was going on. She could feel him slowly pulling out chakra from deep inside his body and releasing it into the air. Yet somehow this chakra felt strange, it almost seemed like it had a red colour to it. She watched as he bit his thumb letting the blood flow loose. He then quickly began performing hand seals and slammed his right hand onto the earth.

"KUCHIYOSE NO JUTSU!"

A sudden jolt shook the ground as seals appeared on the earth surrounding his hand. But instead of touching the earth, a poof of smoke revealed in his hand he held an enormous scroll. He sighed and wiped off some sweat from his forehead and grinned. He picked up the scroll and unraveled it revealing to them blank white panels. There was no writing at all.

"This," Naruto said with a proud beaming face, "Is the Legendary Kage Scroll of Seals! Right now it's useless because all the scroll spirits seal inscriptions have been erased since they have been released. Each time you seal a beast demon, a new inscription will appear on the scroll. Sign the scroll in your own blood underneath it to show your ownership. This is the way you hold your claim on the spirit."

Sakura blinked and stared down looking at the scroll. It was really quite plain, so far there was nothing "legendary" about it. Yet it still held a sort of strange feeling to it. Almost like some sort of regal importance. But she continued to look at it, pondering at what it's true power really was like.

"Satte," Naruto sighed as he stepped up towards Sakura, "Seal me."

"Nani?" Sakura gasped, what was he doing?

"Once you released the spirits you released me as well so you'll have to re- seal me into the scroll. It is my duty to aid you, the Scroll Sealer, in returning back all the scroll spirits. In a real scroll spirit battle it won't be this easy. You and the opposing spirit must fight to the death. There is no giving up, for either side. So both sides must fight with their lives at stake."

"Demo," Sakura protested, "You never told me it was going to be that dangerous!"

"What did you expect? Searching for them in some kind of kiddy scavenger hunt? This is serious!"

"But, why do I have to seal you, if I already can trust you as an ally? It's not like you can use you demon fox powers, so the world isn't in danger even if you aren't sealed. You could just live a normal life as a shinobi."

"I can't, I'm destined to the fate of Scroll Spirits. Whatever happens to them, I have to make sure they're kept sealed."

"Demo," Sakura went on, "Once I seal you, you won't exist in this world once you're imprisoned in the scroll again!"

"Actually you broke me free," Naruto explained, "You broke the sacred seal that keeps us all locked together. But now that there's no twelve scrolls to protect, my purpose of protecting them has been taken away by you. Besides, I can't be sealed permanently again; you still don't have enough power to do that.

Normally a scroll spirit won't last long if they're not sealed, so they need the scroll to reside so that their powers are preserved. When you begin sealing scroll spirits, they will immediately be imprisoned permanently in the scroll once more. They will become under you're complete control and you can summon them at will. However as the guardian of the scroll spirits, I don't need a scroll to conserve my powers in because I can draw infinite amounts of power from the Sun. With this power, I can live in my temporary form with out running out of chakra and ceasing to exist."

"But I still don't get why I have to seal you," Sakura said with a skeptic look, "There wouldn't be any point."

"There is. Once you have sealed my soul I can still exist outside of the scrolls because I have the ability to maintain myself with the chakra from the sun's energy. However once you sign the summoning contract, this means no matter where I am on this earth, you will be able to summon me in times of need. This special jutsu is a way to keep us connected just in case you meet a scroll spirit and I'm not around. It'll be really useful later on. Plus you need a spirit to practice on anyway."

Sakura sighed and then stood up to face Naruto.

"What must I do?"

"Mazu," Naruto started off, "Gather chakra to your hands in the form of a seal. Concentrate to get in controlled in the right place. Accelerate your chakra throughout your body until you feel it being intensified. Don't release it until the right moment. This could be really difficult in the beginning but as long as you do as I say, you shouldn't have a lot of trouble."

Sakura gave him an unsure look. She wasn't sure if she'd be able to do this. Sakura sighed, but then gave a definite nod as she held her hands in a seal. Sakura closed her eyes and began pulling out her chakra and letting it circulate throughout the veins in her body. She concentrated on clearing her thoughts as suddenly she felt a great force inside of her awaken. The light shone and she felt a warmth rise from beneath her. The same glowing circle of light appeared and she knew it was the right to release her power.

"Now, use your blood the way I did," Naruto shouted over the light, "Preform the seal of flames, Tora no Rim. The tiger seal is the symbol of the Hokage's power of fire, use it whenever you summon or seal a demon. Release you chakra at full power and focus it towards me."

Sakura nodded took her thumb and bit it so the blood flowed loose and quickly changed her seal. She began accelerating her chakra at full speed. She used her chakra to create an incredible force; she never knew she had the ability to do this at her own will. Sakura let out a cry and finally released her chakra aiming directly towards Naruto. He spread his arms wide letting the force hit him. Sakura watched as suddenly words started to form in her head. Sakura closed her eyes as shouted out the feelings inside.

"COME TO ME KAGE SCROLL SPIRIT! LET YOUR SPIRIT BE REGAINED ONCE MORE!

RETURN TO THE SHADOW SCROLL: FOX DEMON!"

At once it was as if Naruto's soul was being sucked right from his body and into the blank scroll. Great violent winds appeared once more and it took all of Sakura's might not to be blown away by such a powerful force. She held her stance although she could feel her body vibrating to the fierce energy surrounding her. It was hard to hold onto. The winds of Naruto's "soul" began swirling straight into the scroll and it was as if an invisible hand began to paint in bloody words, the characters of the demon fox. Sakura felt a slight pain slicing away at her fingers. She looked down and noticed, that the blood that the words were written in, were nonetheless her own.

The name written on scroll was complete. Sakura felt as the winds began to recede and both she and Naruto collapsed towards the ground in exhaustion. Sakura panted trying to catch her breath. The force was so overwhelming it almost felt as thought her life had been sucked right out of her. She clutched her beating heart, and all of a sudden she felt as warm blood being forced up through her throat. She coughed up all the thrown up blood as Hinata quickly jumped towards her friend in concern.

"I . . . told . . .ya . . ." Naruto laughed weakly, "I knew it wasn't . . . gonna be easy for you the first time . . ."

Sakura gave him a glare yet this time she didn't have the energy to make it count. She felt her head become all weary as suddenly she felt her eyes droop and she collapsed back towards the ground once more.

"Sakura-chan!" Hinata gasped in worry and quickly caught her friend's fall.

"Were you trying to kill me?" Sakura tried to yell back but her voice came in short gasps, "I . . .I can hardly breathe . . ."

Hinata cried in concern, "We should get you a hospital right away! No, the ANBU MEDICS!"

"H-Hinata!" Sakura wheezed back, "You're . . . over exaggerating again . . ."

"Daijoubu, you . . . just need rest," Naruto panted back, "I'm not doing . . . too well either. I didn't expect you to do . . . so well the first time. I doubted, you'd seal me properly. I wasn't ready for this part . . ."

Naruto got down onto his knees and began coughing up some blood but then sat back down with a foolish grin.

"Good job, Sakura-chan!" Naruto said in his most cheerful voice possible, "Now, all you have to do is, sign your name in blood underneath my inscription. Then press your fingerprints below it to complete the sealing."

Sakura looked down upon her bloody hands and then glanced over to the scroll. She felt her head become all dizzy again but instead she took and deep breath and tried to crawl towards the scroll. Hinata quickly gasped and brought the scroll towards Sakura instead. Sakura gave a grateful nod and below Naruto's Fox Demon inscription she wrote the characters to her name.

Haruno Sakura.

Sakura paused as she stared down at the scroll. It was almost hard to believe, that she had done all this.

Releasing this much chakra the nextime might kill her.

Sakura smiled and slowly gave into the weariness in her body and collapsed onto the scroll absolutely worn out.

"Sakura-chan!" Hinata whimpered as she quickly picked up her fallen friend.

"Aww darn, I still didn't teach her how to summon yet, and now she's already passed out. Heh, she's tougher than I thought though," Naruto sighed. Hinata looked at him and looked back at Sakura in sorrow.

"Don't worry she'll get through," Naruto laughed in a raspy voice as he lay down in exhaustion.

"What happened to her?"

Naruto and Hinata whirled around to meet two dark eyes and silver spiky hair. Hinata gasped back in horror to see them being found. Naruto said nothing but stared back at the jounin with suspicion in his eyes. How could he have not sensed him coming? His sense of chakra could spread out over miles yet he couldn't detect this person's chakra approaching them? Maybe it was because of his current exhaustion. No, that wasn't it. This person was no normal shinobi . . .

"Ka-Kakashi-sensei!" Hinata stammered.

"There's blood on the ground!" Kakashi said in surprise, "What have you three been doing? Why is Sakura unconscious?"

Naruto and Hinata said nothing. Hinata was desperately trying to think up of a reply, while Naruto continued glaring at Kakashi as though he was some sort of unexpected enemy. Kakashi looked from one to another trying to pick up something comprehendible between their silences. He rest his gaze back on Sakura. Her body lay out spread across an enormous open scroll. It was almost completely blank except for one panel. In which it wrote . . .

[NINE-TAILED FOX DEMON: KYUBI]

[Haruno Sakura]

Kyubi? Somehow this looked like some sort of summoning scroll. They weren't possibly trying to summon the demon fox here? No, that would be impossible. Where would they get such a scroll anyway? But still, if they weren't trying to summon Kyubi, then what was the enormous amount of chakra he felt being released. He had never sensed such a powerful force before. Yet somehow no one else but him had sensed it.

Kakashi stared down at the scroll once more. The words were all written in someone's blood. And by the looks of it, that blood belonged to . . .

"I'll take Sakura to the infirmary. You two just stay here until you're called," Kakashi instructed as he began to gently lift Sakura into his arms, "It looks like she released too much chakra, yet she should be fine soon enough."

"Hai sensei," Hinata replied, Naruto kept silent.

As Kakashi stood up he noticed him staring at him with a strange look. Kakashi stared back at him in a same silence. The two locked eyes as Kakashi could sense something strange coming from the boy. Somehow, something about him seemed out of the ordinary. His could sense his chakra, it somehow reminded him of the spiritual energy he used to always be able to sense back at the cherry blossom patch. This boy certainly wasn't who he seemed.

Naruto watched as he began to leave. He somehow reminded him of someone, he just couldn't remember who exactly it was. Could he possibly be him? He wasn't sure but from now on . . .

He'd have to keep a close eye on him.

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Something wasn't right.

And she could sense it.

Sakura was now leaping from building top to the next. Swiftly keep watch. She made no attempt to be unseen but instead searched on and on frantically. What she was searching for, she didn't know. But somehow she knew it was there. She could sense it's presence as clear as day.

And she was getting close.

Sakura took off with another leap but then paused. Somehow the chakra she was sensing disappeared. It was gone, she couldn't sense it anymore. But how could it have vanished so abruptly? Sakura twisted her head around trying to pick up some sort of sign, but it had somehow vanished without a trace. It was nowhere to be found.

This wasn't right. Something was going on here.

Feeling uneasy Sakura quickly loaded her fingers with several kunai and stooped low in place. Could it possibly that the enemy was right where she was? It could be hiding from her at the very moment.

It was too quiet.

Sakura kept her senses at full alert and waited. But as the seconds ticked by nothing happened. Resuming back into a normal stance Sakura decided it was probably nothing. She should probably continue searching. Maybe if she moved around more she'd be able to pick up some sort of signal.

Sakura began to take off but all of a sudden she felt her entire body freeze up.

She couldn't move.

Sakura dropped her kunai in surprise and began struggling to try to get at least one part of her body to move, but it was no use. She was completely immobilized. She body was trembling in place but somehow she couldn't get a single muscle in her body to move.

She couldn't move at all. She was trapped.

But that wasn't possible, how her body just freeze up. Surely this wasn't the enemy's attack?

This was bad, if she wasn't able to move soon, she was in a very vulnerable position. If the enemy started attacking now she'd be in great danger. Sakura began to panic as she frantically tried to sense anyone approaching, but everything was dead silent. She grew anxious. It was disturbing have to wait like this. Almost like waiting for death itself.

But something else came to greet her instead.

A cold chill suddenly began to appear, thickening the air with its unpleasantness. Sakura gasped as suddenly she released what was trapping her. She stared down and saw, that it was in fact her own shadow. Masaka! The enemy could manipulate shadows like this? It must someone's ninjutsu. It was starting to grow dark and Sakura couldn't tell where it was coming from. This wasn't good. Now she had no chance of sensing where the enemy was hiding.

Sakura watched as out of the blue, dark shadows started stretching towards her feet. The same terrifying force from her dream before! But now she couldn't defend herself. There was no escaping them. Sakura screamed in horror as the shadows once again took shape and began twisting around her body. She felt her entire body being squeezed in pain. It was no use, she wouldn't last . . .

~*~*~*~

"KYAAA!!!!!"

Sakura awoke and jumped up in bed as she began panting. Cold sweat was now streaming down her head. She panted in short raspy puffs of air until finally she gathered enough strength to calm down. She placed a hand over her chest as she tried her best to finally catch a breath. She inhaled once more and took a final deep breath as she finally took in her surroundings.

She looked down and noticed to see her clothed in white shirt and finally realized where she was. This was the academy's infirmary.

"You finally woke up Sakura."

Sakura quickly turned around to her side to see Kakashi right beside her. She felt her cheeks warm up as he gave her a pleasant smile. It was hard for Sakura not to squeal out in pure joy to just see the look of him but she clamped that squeal down with a gulp. She tried her best to smile back in a normal casual smile back but ended up scrambling her face into a mixture of emotions making it impossible to read. Kakashi sweatdropped as he watched the girl struggle, but then sighed.

"I was getting worried, I thought maybe you released too much chakra," Kakashi said, "It's almost near the end of school. You'd better hurry up get to you're class. I'm sure even though it is one of Iruka's err, long lectures you wouldn't want to miss out on it. Knowing how you are one of his good students. He might be outside right now with your class doing training exercises."

Sakura blushed. Well she used to be top of the class but now she wasn't so sure about that anymore. Sakura gave a nod as she began to try and pull herself up. She raised her body when suddenly a stitch of pain stung on her side. She winced as the sting slowly passed but still made her body sore. Sakura crouched down and hugged her stomach twitching uncomfortably.

Kakashi watched her as she began trembling trying to make the pain go away. It was strange. What could they possibly be doing at the time to make her so weak right now? He had already squashed out the summoning idea in his mind but he knew whatever it was, it had caused Sakura to release an incredible amount of chakra. He had sensed it coming straight from her. Yet for some reason that Naruto boy had be close to unconsciousness himself. What was going on? Kakashi wanted to know exactly that, but he thought it would be best not to ask Sakura of it right now. It would make her feel uneasy and suspicious of the close eye he was keeping on her. He had always sensed something strange about her ever since she had joined the academy, not counting her sudden blushes whenever he was around her.

"Sensei," Sakura panted as she tried another attempt to get up, "Do you know where Hinata and Naruto are? I need to speak to them about something . . ."

"About what?" Kakashi asked gently. He knew better not to ask, but he couldn't help it.

Sakura blinked and faced him once more. Despite the fact of how happy she was whenever they were alone, she couldn't help but wonder whenever she was in some sort of trouble, Kakashi was usually there. Just like yesterday. She remembered times when she was little that Kakashi had helped her around the academy, but what was strange connection between them? Was he a stalker like the way Naruto was? She knew Naruto only did it out of protection, but was it the same with Kakashi? Did Kakashi know too much about her?

Sakura sighed. Even though it was a bit queer it was a little comforting knowing that. She smiled and replied, "It's nothing really. Just a dream that's been disturbing me for awhile."

"Would you like to talk about it?"

"Well . . ." Sakura began, "Maybe it's time I told somebody . . ."

~*~*~*~

"Alright minna-sama," Iruka shouted over the countless pants of exhaustion, "I wanna see 50 more push-ups and then we'll move on to the obstacle course for tests of speed!"

Again?! Naruto was practically screaming in disgust. He said that 15 minutes ago when they started training, but now he couldn't take this anymore, it was like reliving the horror of the day when he first got sealed into the scrolls. That time he had sworn revenge on Konoha but even though he hadn't given that up, now that he was released he was close to wanting that revenge so badly because of this torture.

"MOU!" Naruto panted along with the rest of class, "WE'VE DONE LIKE A HUNDRED ALREADY DAMMIT! AND NOW YOU WANT US TO DO A FRIGGIN OBSTACLE COURSE?!"

"DAMARE UZUMAKI!" Iruka barked at Naruto and he fell silent while giving a glare back.

"Keep you're voice down Naruto-kun," Hinata begged, "If you make Iruka- sensei mad, he'll force us to do more."

"I don't know how you can stand it," Naruto retorted, "This sucks! Even I take this any longer."

"Then you better shut the hell up you troublesome bastard," a voice snapped at him at his side.

Naruto whirled around to see a boy with a hairstyle not too different from that of Iruka's (N/A: seriously that's what I thought when I first saw him) except he had a sour expression on his face that gave him a look well beyond his years. If he hadn't been doing push-ups before without collapsing Naruto could have sworn he was an old man who failed the ninja academy exams for the past five decades.

"It's not like you're any different from the rest of us you know," the boy bellowed, "I can't stand this either, too much troublesome strain. But what I can't stand even more is you're girly whining. Just looking at you pisses me off. I knew I wouldn't like you when you barged into our class this morning."

"Who the hell are you to speak to me like that?" Naruto glared at him insulted by the way he was being treated, "Do you have any idea who I am?"

"An idiot from what I've seen so far."

"WHAT?! WHY I OUGHTA . . ." Naruto shouted back.

"N-Naruto-kun!" Hinata pleaded more than ever, "P-Please! Just ignore him! Shikamaru just doesn't want you causing trouble!"

"Nani?!" Naruto hissed at her, "Me shut up to this Big-Mouth Idiot?! No way!"

"Hah! Big-Mouth Idiot?" Shikamaru scoffed, "You're one to talk."

"What did you say?!" Naruto glared at him while Hinata tried to hold him back, "I'M GONNA MAKE THAT BIG COMPLAINING MOUTH OF YOUR'S SHUT THE HELL UP!"

"Naruto-kun! Yuurasen!" Hinata pleaded.

"I'm gonna BEAT YOU TO A PULP!" Naruto hollered as he ran at full speed straight at Shikamaru, fists clenched tight.

"NINPOU: KAGE MANE NO JUTSU!"

Naruto immediately stopped in his tracks as he suddenly felt his entire body freeze up. He grit his teeth as he stared down in surprise to see that his shadow had somehow been pinned down in place to the ground and was attached to Shikamaru's. Was this the boy's jutsu? Naruto struggled as he tried to get at least one part of his body to move, but he was completely stuck. A shadow binding technique? He had seen this before, but where was it from?

"Heh. Dou da? Ugoku nai desho?" Shikamaru chuckled as he watched Naruto cursing to get himself to move, "Guess you can't beat me to a pulp then eh, you big-mouthed idiot!"

Naruto growled in fury as he tried throwing off the shadow's grip but he was totally paralyzed from head to toe. Then suddenly to his horror, his body began to move on it's own. Naruto quickly glanced up to see Shikamaru's smirking self doing the exact same pose he was in right now. He then realized,

He was moving the same way as Shikamaru was. Like someone's shadow . . .

"I'm the GREAT NARUTO! I'M THE ONE WHO THINK'S HE CAN BECOME A SHINOBI!" Shikamaru laughed as he began forcing Naruto to do stupid poses, "I'M SUCH A DUMBASS WHO BELIEVES THAT I'M ACTUALLY KYUBI ITSELF!"

"N-Naruto-kun!" Hinata cried in worrying in the crowd as everyone began hysterically laughing in pain. Hinata closed her eyes trembling wishing that it would all stop.

"THAT'S ENOUGH YOU LITTLE IDIOTS!!"

Everyone immediately stopped laughing as Iruka came storming towards the two in absoulute fury. He was now a fearsome menace instead of the kind normal gentle self he was. Hinata gasped as he stopped right in front of them practically panting like a rhinoceros. Shikamaru stopped but still appeared calm and cool while Naruto was still trying to escape his jutsu.

"NARA SHIKAMARU!" Iruka yelled, "RELEASE YOUR JUTSU AT ONCE!"

"Hai, Hai. Wakatta," Shikamaru said putting up his hands in surrender but still remained normal and calm, "KAI!"

Naruto fell the ground with a thump in surprise as he glared up at Shikamaru. Shikamaru gave him one final smirk before he turned towards Iruka as though nothing out of the ordinary had happened.

~*~*~*~

"For the past week I've been having these weird dreams lately and I keep wondering to myself if it's all real or not. Then right just now I had this freaky nightmare that I was trapped in someone's jutsu. These strange shadows just appeared out of nowhere and suddenly they start binding me so that I can't move. But for some reason these aren't ordinary shadows. It's like they can take shape and become real! These shadows, they kept grasping me so tightly. They grabbed me so hard, that I could hardly move or even breathe!"

Kakashi stared at her, and then gave a couple of seconds' silence giving Sakura's account some thought. It sounded a lot like the Kage Shibari no Jutsu he had once heard about, but he wasn't too sure if what Sakura had dreamt about really was the Shadow Binding technique. But whatever it was, it obviously didn't sound like it had happened for real.

"Why do want to tell your friends about it so much?" Kakashi asked, "It's only a dream after all."

Sakura paused. He was right. It shouldn't matter so much if it really was just a normal dream. Dreams could sometimes be as freaky as her's had been. Yet still she knew this wasn't an ordinary dream. All the other dreams she had before weren't ordinary,

Because they had really became true.

But still just because of what happened in the past could really reflect what was going on with these dreams. Just last night she had gotten the same kind of dream. But did that mean that it really was going to happen? She didn't know, but she felt like she had to find out. And the person that seemed to know all the answers to all her countless questions,

Was that little demon idiot Naruto.

Naruto would probably know what was going on. She had to find him, before she'd end finding out for herself in the same deadly fate she always awoke from.

"Kakashi-sensei," Sakura said as she began shifting out of bed, "I really ought to be going now. I feel like I really need to talk to them about it."

Kakashi said nothing, but then gave another warm smile and a nod of approval.

Sakura sighed as she rest her feet against the cold floor and hoisted her up aching body. But as she tried to stand, her wobbly legs gave way and she lost balance only to fall towards the ground.

"Sakura!" Kakashi gasped as he quickly swooped out his arms under her and caught her fall before she reached the cold floor. Sakura blushed as she felt her face being buried in his chest. She glanced upwards with a shy peek to see his smiling face. Never had she ever come this close to him before.

"It looks like you won't be able to move for awhile," Kakashi laughed, "But it seems like you really want to see them about this."

Sakura blushed uncontrollably as she suddenly felt herself being scooped up into by him into his arms as he lifted her from the ground. She gasped she he held her surprised and shocked self in his warm arms. This was more than what she could have ever expected. Kakashi-sensei was actually holding her!

"I'll bring you there personally myself," Kakashi smiled. Sakura felt her heart skip a beat.

"I-Iie Sensei!" Sakura stuttered as Kakashi began to take a couple of steps out of the room, "Y-You really don't have to-"

But Kakashi paused as he stood in place. Sakura looked up at him to see his face wrinkle into a frown as if something wasn't right. He reeled his head across the hallway as if he were searching for something yet nothing was there. Sakura glanced at him in confusion wondering why he had become all silent. She followed his gaze in front of them at the hallway up ahead. She saw nothing at all, but suddenly it came to her: strange feeling jolt inside of her. The feeling as though a part of her had suddenly froze. It had somehow temporarily vanished abruptly out of the blue. Almost as though it had been held in place. It was hard to explain but all she could say was that,

Someone was trapped inside, and something wasn't right.

Was someone in trouble?

Without warning, Sakura suddenly felt Kakashi take off down the hallway towards the academy training grounds. It was hard for Sakura to hold on, Kakashi's jounin level lightning ninja speed was a little too much. Sakura cried as she grabbed a hold of his shirt, clutching it to try to hold on. Yet somehow it was strange. Was what he sensed, exactly what she had felt?

~*~*~*~

"Sensei," Shikamaru replied with a lazy sort of tone in his voice, "I told you already. I was only trying to stop this troublemaker from causing too much trouble for the rest of us. I was only cleaning up his mess. I thought I'd better teach him lesson on his first day here at the academy. He's a annoying troublesome idiot after all."

"That doesn't permit you to use that kind of ninjutsu at school," Iruka scolded back, "If I were you, I'd keep a better watch over my own behavior. You're ninja grades here at the academy aren't going to improve even with that technique of yours."

"Hai. Hai," Shikamaru replied not changing his tone, "You've told me more than once already. Geez, don't have to shout at me like that. It's annoying."

Naruto rubbed his head at where Iruka had punched him for causing such a hassle for him already. Seriously he just couldn't stand living as a human. He glared up to see Iruka giving Shikamaru one of his usual scolding lectures yet Shikamaru was hardly fazed by it at all. Bah, he was just an idiotic big-mouthed lazy bum who liked complaining about stuff. His stupid demonstration of that shadow binding jutsu probably earned him the most attention he'd ever get for being such a dull looking boring guy. But still that jutsu seemed a whole lot like something he had seen from before, but what was it?

Naruto glared at Shikamaru with daggers in his eyes as Shikamaru sneaked a hateful glance at him. Something coming from him wasn't right though, other than his looks. A strange sort of dark chakra. But then again, he was a manipulator of the shadows. That sort of cold dark chakra would probably come naturally. But this was different. He was only a genin, he couldn't possibly possess chakra like that. And by the way Naruto was sensing it, somehow this chakra reflecting off of him didn't seem like his own. It felt like it belonged to someone else. That bastard could somehow control shadows very well, yet somehow behind that jutsu was a sort of different kind of force empowering it. That boy couldn't be capable of that kind of power, unless it was from some kind of strong spiritual source. But where could he have obtained that source?

Masaka, could he possibly be-?

"IRUKA-SENSEI!" an approaching chuunin was racing towards them, "TAIHEN DESU! PLEASE COME QUICKLY!"

"Eh?!" Iruka whirled around in surprise. Everyone stopped as the chuunin hastily whispered a few urgent words into Iruka's ear. Naruto watched as his face grow into an alarmed look.

"Training session is now over!" Iruka announced to everyone's surprised faces, "Something has happened. I must go check out the situation. Everyone do not move until I-"

"Hey everyone look over there!" a student cried out in excitement, "Look at the academy! Man, it's totally wasted."

Everyone spun their heads and gasped out in shock. Naruto's eyes popped out wide open in surprise by the sight before his eyes.

"Oh my god -" Iruka muttered under his breath.

The main academy building was in ruins. It was as though some kind of force had suddenly taken over the school and had wrecked it without anyone noticing. It almost looked as though someone had ran a cannon through the walls. Crumbling pieces of rock were littered all across the yard. Debris was scattered on the ground. It was amazing that no one had noticed it until now. An enemy attack? No, Naruto thought as he sniffed the air. He couldn't sense any threats or opposing forces.

But who could have possibly done all this?

Iruka stared in silence but then without hesitation he began to make for the academy, "Minna-san! We'd better go see if there is anyone injured. That looks like a big explosion, people could be hurt."

The class nodded and followed in pursuit dashing at full speed towards the academy. Naruto ran along with the rest of the class but suddenly he realized something.

Sakura was still lying injured in the academy. Did she escape? Where was she now?

Naruto panicked as he paused and tried to calm down. He immediately tried to sense whether her chakra was still active. He closed his eyes and tried to concentrate on searching for her presence. He focused his tracking senses on the academy. Getting close he could sense it the familiar warm glow when suddenly . . .

His senses were blocked by some kind of barrier. He tried once more, but he couldn't detect Sakura's chakra beyond this strange wall. It was almost as if Sakura was being held inside it's shielding chakra. But who could be the one putting up this kind of force? Was it guarding Sakura or kidnapping her?

Dammit this couldn't be good.

"Sakura-chan!" Naruto cried as he began dashing towards the ruins of the academy at full speed.

~*~*~*~

BANG!!!

An explosion-like noise crashed into the walls of the academy. Sakura shrieked out in shock as debris began flying across the hallways in midair. Kakashi grunted as he quickly shielded it off and rolled out of the way. Sakura trembled as she felt his arms wrapped around her tightly in protection. Kakashi swiftly dodged the rest of exploding boulders of brick wall as he quickly ducked behind a corner. He panted still keeping an eye out for any more hazards; keeping his tight grip on Sakura's scared self.

"Wh-What was that?!" Sakura whispered in a worried voice.

"I don't know," Kakashi replied, "It could be possible that we're under attack . . ."

"An attack?" Sakura repeated in surprise, "On the Academy? But why?"

"I'm not sure," Kakashi panted as he began to stand, "But don't worry Sakura-chan. I'll protect you no matter what."

Sakura flushed a deep scarlet, touched by his words. He really did care about her!

"A-Arigatou."

Kakashi smiled and began walking towards what once was part of the wall and stood upon the edge. Sakura looked down to see scattered brick pieces all over the ground. The damage had been great. But it had been so sudden. It seemed like it had come out of nowhere.

Like those shadows from her dream.

Was this the doing of a scroll spirit?

[Like I thought, weak . . .]

Eh? What was that? A voice from the darkness?

Sakura whirled her head around staring straight into the shadows. She could have sworn that voice had come from there.

[Scroll Sealer. You must be the one who released me. And for that I am grateful for.

Because now I know I'll never have to return there again.

A weak shinobi like you could never have the power to seal me.

My freedom within the Shadows is definite. I am free.]

"CHIGAU!" Sakura screamed back, "YOU CAN'T DO THIS! I WILL FIND YOU!"

"Sakura," Kakashi looked at her in concern, "Daijoubu desu ka?"

"Eh?" Sakura gasped a little shocked by her own outburst, "Didn't you hear that voice?"

"What voice?"

"That voice I just heard," Sakura cried back, "It sounded so familiar though . . ."

Kakashi glanced down at her slightly worried. Whatever had just happened, he couldn't help but think that the target to that explosion,

Was the girl he was holding in his arms.

"Look, it's the rest of your class," Kakashi spoke tilting his head towards the ground below, "They've probably come to check to see what had happened. We'd better go join them."

Sakura nodded slowly as Kakashi leapt from the ledge and landed with a flash onto the littered ground. Iruka and his class rushed towards them. The students began circling around them forming a small crowd. Iruka pushed his way to the front through the chattering students shouting out random questions.

"Daijoubu desu ka?" Iruka asked he began checking the two to see if they had been wounded.

"Hai, daijoubu." Kakashi replied as he set Sakura onto the ground gently. She sat crouched on her knees, her muscles were still sore.

"SAKURA-CHAN!" a pair of voices cried out as a blonde boy followed by a concerned Hinata popped out from the crowd.

"SAKURA-CHAN I WAS SO WORRIED!!" Naruto sobbed as the anime waterworks came flowing while Naruto grabbed Sakura out of Kakashi's hold, "I THOUGHT YOU HAD DIED!"

"B-BAKA!" Sakura hissed at him with red cheeks glowing, "Why would you think that?!"

Hinata paused seeing that Naruto had prevented her from the usual hug of concern she usually gave whenever Sakura was in trouble. But this time it was Naruto's arms who were embracing Sakura instead of hers. He had reached her first. She gasped trying to speak, but suddenly felt a little out of place trying to get Sakura's attention away from Naruto's senseless bawling. It was a little disturbing.

A boy stood out from the crowd not joining in on the action, his shadow looming out beneath him. It was too troublesome anyway. She was the least of people he'd care about being injured. The first major assault had been successful. He had gotten her when she was in a weakened state, but still wasn't able to crush her. That troublesome jounin had been protecting her. He knew had been noticed by someone. But how could he have been noticed so quickly by that silver haired jounin? Well at least he was able to do some damage. Yet still, she was like an annoying target right in the way of his fun. Before he could fully enjoy his freedom,

He'd have to get rid of her first.

~*~*~*~

TBC?

Japanese terms used (no repeats):

Kikoenai yo- I can't hear you, Motto ookina- More louder, mazu- firstly/first off, damare- shut up, Yuurasen- don't do it! Wakatta- alright I know, Taihen desu- It's a disaster!

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Laruku-chan: *browsing through the chapter once more* Suge! This is my longest chapter yet! 9000 words! Last time I think I had about 6000. I am counting in the words from my updates, but still it's still a hefty load of words. My chapters get longer and longer. I'm pretty pleased with myself, hope it's keeping other peeps pleased to know too. ^^

Sasuke-kun: -___-## And it's like I don't matter anymore? I can't stand this!

Laruku-chan: hmmm? Did you say something?

Sasuke-kun: Forget it. . . *leaves storming out of the way*

Laruku-chan: o__o?? You know I really can't understand him anymore. I don't know, but to me it's like he's somehow a little nicer than he used to be. . .

Or is it Curse Seal mood swings?

Anyways, as we all know skool's coming up (oh the horror) and I'm pretty excited but it might be possible that I will be held up again. Hopefully not, but what I'm kinda aiming for here is weekly updates. What do you guys think about that? Don't expect too much out of me, I'm usually wasting my time watching anime instead of other important stuff (like writing fanfics) but I'll try spending more time on this fic. Anyways I glad this is going well. Thanks for all the support. I'll keep you guys updated whenever I post something new. Keep tabs on this there's hell more to come, Ja ne!