Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Naruto mangas or anything but I have borrowed my friend's (a lot)

Summery: Sakura gets fed up with always being the weakest and runs away. Six years later the Hokage of the town of Konoha is holding a tournament for a mysterious weapon. What happens when a certain missing nin finds her way back? How has she changed? What will her ex-teammates think? (little sasusaku, itasaku gaarasaku)

AN: Whew. Boy am I having a hard time keeping up with these fanfics and homework, but it's worth it anywho…

I thank:

little wolf blossom- well Sakura already won…

Shinobi Darkbeak- thanks I'll try and see that sometime

BlackSerpent13- yeah you should have known at the fact that 1 you are my twinnie, 2 he's like my favorite male Character in the series, 3 he's totally HOT, and 4 I have a picture of chibi him in my locker can kinda clue you in…

PrincessSakura98- I'm glad you guessed right! Yays!

Arya Shadeslayer- thankies! And good luck

Hao'sAnjul- Itachi's role will come in soon

Zuan- Thanx! .

animeforever24- nope Sakura's not with Itachi, Gaara has been the mystery man all along and Sasuke first sees him in chapter 10.

Mksanime- I meant for yall to think it was someone it wasn't, surprises are fun aren't they?

neon kun- sorry I love Gaara but I am thinking of doing an ItachiXSakura fic some time cause I'm into that pairing…for now…

xelagirl2- thanks

happy-yume- again the Itachi part's coming and please pick up your jaw on the way out thank you.

Kawaii-Hisui- no, no, not a flame, I totally understand and I'm working on putting up the POV's on the first few chapters. I thought that "(Sakura's POV)" might wreck the mood…

neu chi no nai u- arigrato and will do!

Krista- nah it's fine in fact I brag about your reviews! Hi Tito-kun!

NarutosGirl52- again Gaara Sakura's mystery man, Itachi will be explained, and Sasuke will go through a lot of mental trauma

Fanadict- glad you love the pairing I love it too.

The Shadow Alchemist- -

Nightshadow- cool name, hehe I like making people's assumptions wrong…

InuyashaObsessed101- wow every body thought it was Itachi. I'm very surprised.

iluvanime493- yes I suggest rereading to those who are confused…or those who love Gaara

pat-nosferatu- ok yes in a sense Sakura is Gaara's slave, but their relationship is much more complicated than that.

Darkninjafromhell- yes she is, umm the relationships in this are so weird so umm i.d.k. how to answer you…

Kurenai Chinoumi- like I said complicated but I won't break Gaara's heart…he's too awesome for that!

K a Z a – Q- hehe…sweat drops

kAze-RyU- I'll be doing that one soon cause this story's almost done…I think

naruto fan- thankies I hope you'll read this chapter!

Maze of Mirrors- I love Gaara too! Well you see the person she ends up with sweatdrop you'll see. I hope you'll be happy with it!

Recap: "I think this will answer your question." She pulled her soft pink hair away from her neck to reveal another tattoo…the Japanese character "love" in red…

'Gaara! Damn that bastard!'

Gaara appeared next to her with his hand around her waste and a smirk on his face.

I got up to kill him but just ended up spiting up more blood and falling to my knees.

'It's so pathetic…because of that bitch.'

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"Nightshade is the winner." A judge called. "The next round between Nightshade and Naruto will commence tomorrow in the morning, please exit the building."

Naruto came to help me up but I swatted him away, I'm a Uchiha I don't need any help!

"Sakura…what's going on? What happened? Did Gaara beat you? Why are you dressed like that? How did Ino know it was you? And whmmm…"

Luckily Hina had cut off Naruto in his rapid interrogation. "Naruto-kun we should let Sakura tell us and she can't when your constantly asking her questions…" Hina said quietly. She had gotten over her stuttering a year after being with Naruto but she was still quiet even when she talked.

"Well to answer your questions…Yes Gaara was the ninja who defeated me. After all my hard work I was stunned there was someone out there who bested me. He told me to leave again but instead I followed him wherever he went, as was my promise. He got annoyed and tried to kill me, he couldn't though."

"I explained to him my situation and defeated him in that fight. He said seeing how I beat him in a battle it canceled out our earlier fight and I no longer held any duty to him. I refused to listen, he then ordered me to go off and find Uchiha Itachi as a double agent thinking that I wouldn't."

"A year later I came back reporting my findings, Itachi was planning on kidnapping Gaara, I attained this information I had posed as Itachi's girlfriend for almost the full year."

'Itachi if he wants her then I'll just have to have her. I'll make her mine right before his eyes then kill him.'

"I must admit that I had a hard time telling Gaara this for over the long period of time…I kind of got some feelings towards Itachi…"

'Little betraying bitch.'

"In the end I stood between the two protecting Gaara from a fatal blow…"

"I was in extremely bad condition for months after…Gaara helped me to get back on my feet…and soon after that…"

"She became mine." Gaara stated as he possessively put his hands on her waist, making it perfectly clear that he did not want anyone near her.

'I will kill Gaara than take her as my own. No, she's always been mine, no one else's. She'll live mine and die as mine. I'll make sure of that.'

I staggered to my feet. "You, me, fight now." I choked out as I glared at Gaara's smug face.

"My, my, my, antsy to get in a fight now aren't we. Unfortunately, you're in no condition to fight little brother."

Every one's heads turned. 'Itachi.'

Suddenly Akatsuki traitors surrounded us.

'Oh, shit.'

"Sakura-chan you're looking well since we last saw each other…"

Gaara growled, "This time I'm going to kill you." He said in a threatening voice.

You could tell that he was losing control and that his inner demon was coming out.

'Shit, shit, shit, and more f-ing raspberry-mustard shit!'

'Now I have to beat all these Akatsuki, and a psycho demon who lust for blood is as strong as Naruto's love for ramen.'

'How the hell am I supposed to do this!'

'Why did I wake up this morning.'

I stood in a defense position. But then Sakura put her hand in front of the others and me. "Let us handle this." Gaara stood next to her both in an attack position.

He may have Sakura as his current little whore but there is no way in hell that I'm going to step aside and let him take Itachi's murder away from me!'

All I could feel was pure unadulterated hate it was taking over me. I looked at my hand and saw that the seal was taking over…

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'Oh crap Sasuke's seal is acting up. I knew we shouldn't have told him, I wish he'd just let me and Gaara take care of this…it would be so much easier.'

Sighing I nodded to Gaara and he started taking out Akatsuki men with his stand, the one who managed to dodge his fatal blow I used my vines to kill them.

I still remember when I first got them. Gaara had taught me to infuse my chakra into objects like he did with his sand. He had me try with a cherry blossom first and when nothing happened he simply placed the blossom behind me ear and said let's get moving. The Akatsuki attacked us and I was furious because I had been sleeping and that caused Gaara to get low on his chakra. When I woke my anger was so intense my chakra overflowed and I somehow managed to conjure up these vines and kill the remaining Akatsuki…

And with that thought I killed the last remaining Akatsuki, now all that was left was Itachi-kun. The years I spent being Gaara's spy, being Itachi's girlfriend, they never quite left me…I still love him in some ways. That's right still, I might have lied when it came to me wanting to be an Akatsuki but I wasn't lying about my feelings towards Itachi.

Going back to Gaara was one of the hardest things I ever did. In the end I knew that I had to go with Gaara, I had sworn that my propose in live would be to help him. I walked away from Itachi and into Gaara's arms.

Just than I noticed (finally) the last thing I ever wanted to see. There in the middle of the stadium were the three most important people in my life, all wanting nothing more than to kill each other.

'No. Gaara. Itachi. Sasuke. Don't let this happen! Not now! I…I can't…' my mind was screaming. What would happen if they died? I don't think I could take that! I looked desperately at the others for help, but they seemed to be off in their own little world as if they weren't quite sure this was actually happening.

'Is it? I mean could this all be a bad dream? A very vivid and realistic dream that I can't wake up from?'

That's when I noticed it. Each boy-each man, who stood there fighting so desperately for my heart, was now preparing for his strongest attack. If they succeeded they would kill themselves, and the others, leaving me here without them…

'I can't let that happen!'

As soon as their attacks were released I ran into the middle. A single tear ran down my cheek as I mouthed the words "I'm sorry."

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I had just been standing there, too scared to do anything. So I just watched the three as they tried to kill each other in Sakura's name. They all unleashed their most powerful attacks at the same time. Just as the attacks were about to explode on each other Sakura dashed into the middle.

As the attacks met her body a deafening silence was all that could be heard.

The stadium started to collapse in on itself. We ran for safety. Everyone man it one…everyone but her.

Once the dust had settled and there were no signs of Sakura; Itachi, Gaara, and Sasuke resumed their fighting obviously blaming each other for what happened.

I couldn't take it anymore. "Stop!" I screamed. "Stop. Do you really think Sakura would have wanted you to fight! She died in there to save your sorry asses, and this is how you repay her? By trying to kill the lives she died to save? If you think so then you're just stupid and weak! Come on Shika we're going home!"

And with that everyone left for home, all in grievance for loosing Sakura again, just when we finally had her back…

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'Am I dead? If so why does it hurt so much? And why are there pieces of building on top of me?'

Slowly I pushed the heavy pieces off and climbed out into the open. The sun was setting, which meant I was out for at least four hours.

'That's odd, I thought I'd die after receiving three deadly blows at once…'

"Sakura." A low husky voice called me.

I turned around to look at the man behind me.

"You protected me, at the last minuet, so I wouldn't die, and so the others would think I was dead?"

"Hn." Was all I got as a reply, and all I needed.

I took his outstretched hand; I am his, his forever. This is my life and it is enough…

Fin

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An: all done! That's the end hoped you liked it! Please review even email if you have anything you desperately need to say. And that's all folks (fat lady singing in the back round).

P.O.V.'s go: Sasuke, Sakura, Ino, and Sakura

I'll be updating my other fic soon and writing another one shortly too. Ja ne!