Disclaimer: Sugar, I don't need to own Naruto to write fanfiction.

Penname: LiveLoveLaugh

FanFiction Story: Such Sweet Sorrow

Summary: Sequel of Backstabbing Love In the Wheel of Fortune, Sakura tries her luck on men. But it also seems everyone else is putting up bets.

AN: Oh god, Neji fell into a ditch, Ino thinks Shikamaru likes other women, Hinata said 'I love you', and Naruto accidentally said the wrong thing. What has gotten into everyone? Anyway, there wasn't enough Sakura in the story—so here you go!

Bugging Her: 7:00 am

She could easily feel the flow of chakra glide their ways to her gloved hand, stimulating such perfect manipulation. With fixed muscles at work, she began to arch her back, throw back her arm, and sent her fist flying to the ground.

Crack!

Her eyes widened.

Her knuckles were ripening to new blisters and bruises, only with a hit that painful could have broken her hand. She lifted it off the hard dirt ground with a loud high-pitched squeal and held it lose to her chest as she ached with such mind-blowing pain. It was almost suicidal, doing something like that. She groaned and kicked the untouched ground with irritation.

"That fucking hurts! Ow! This is so stupid of me!" She clenched her teeth, danced around like an idiot.

Shino had watched the pink-haired kunoichi from afar with sympathy behind his lens, he had been watching her train for last thirty minutes. He didn't know of Sakura's skills, or of her records, he absolutely had no idea why she kept dispensing her chakra flow whenever she kept pounding the earth to smithereens. And he knew, from many experiences with Hinata, something was bugging her.

"Sakura-san, I think you should rest," he offered.

"N-No, this is a-alright!" Sakura waved off the pain like nothing, and grimaced when she did some quick medical Ninjutsu hand signs. Shino watched with interest as she performed a one-hand movement, her fingers snapping to green chakra while she traced at wound across the fabric of her ruddy glove, healing herself immediately. He had always wondered about medic-nins, and just watching one at work had him completely attentive.

Sakura wiped sweat from her brow, completely annoyed that she couldn't even perform one Taijutsu move in the last half hour! This was stupid!

What the hell was wrong with her?

Why can't she do something this elementary?

She was a JOUNIN for heaven's sakes!

She let out a battle cry and ran with inhuman speed, toward a lone tree. She thrust forward her fisted hand and smashed the bark with fierce concentration. When she let go after the huffing and puffing for desperate air, she had only saw a small round crater that only imbedded the tree by a few useless inches. Her hand hurt so terribly. She fell back on her behind, breathing resignedly as she winced at the sunshine rays that glared into her dull green eyes. What happened to her?

With such a move like that, she could have turned the tree to wood powder!

With a punch to the ground, she could've created earthquakes!

She closed her eyes, trying to shut out reality. Something happened to her, and she couldn't stop it from ruining her vision. When she opened her eyes, a boyish tan face appeared in front of her with a worried look.

"What's wrong Haruno-san?" Tobio asked, his eyes sparkling with curiosity. He had obviously arrived a second too late to see that ridiculous punch to the tree. When she didn't seem to be able to answer, he propped himself on the ground with those dark brown eyes of his.

When she noticed he was staring too long, she glanced at him with a raised brow, "Why are you looking at me that way…?"

Tobio snapped out of his reverie, scratching the back of his head with a nervous laugh, "Sorry, I just didn't think you'd be so pretty…"

Sakura was flattered, "Thank you, Tobio. You're not bad-looking yourself…"

"Of course," he nodded, then turned slightly serious, "But honestly, I can see why many men are infatuated with you."

A brow rose in his direction, "What do you mean by that?"

"Well…many of the men in the village had been very eager to see your face."

"Huh?"

"Uh, well, ever since you broke up with the Uchiha guy, you'd been very popular…"

Sakura blinked, "I still don't understand."

Tobio screwed his face into concentration, "Well, let's say many men want to date you."

"What—"

"Sakura, I need you to spar with Shino, right now," Hyuuga Neji had blocked her train of thoughts, putting his authority to scrutinize the two teammates. He was the captain after all, and needed to see the progress of his comrades.

"But I—"

"No buts Haruno, just get to the field now," Neji muttered, his ears burning.

Sakura picked herself off the dirt, dusting the backs of her training skirt and shorts. She breathed evenly and stood up to walk further to the middle of the dry dirt and gravel. She spot the small useless lump on the earth, she grimaced when she saw Shino looking at her through his dark lenses. He cocked his head to a small fraction and moved his hands out of his coat pockets. He twisted his body, twining the gray jacket to fold around his middle abdomen to show that he was lean and well muscled. He lifted his hands in front of him curling it. He spread his legs apart only slightly, the gleaming of the sunglasses burned blinding white in Sakura's direction.

"Whenever you're ready, Sakura-san," he replied, his furrowed brows narrowed to such vigor.

She was literally trembling. Never had she ever faced an opponent like an Aburame. She already knew that millions of their signature Kikai bugs had crawled underneath his skin, and a user can wield them at any possible time. She had heard from Hinata that Shino was not a man to be messed with, any sensible person would give up then die an unsightly death. She wiped the nervous sweat from her large forehead, also knowing that this was just a spar and the fact Shino would not dare send her a gift of chakra-eating insects to her deathbed.

But still…it was creepy.

She nibbled on her lower lip with her front teeth, and slipped her hand into her pouch that was strapped on her belt. She fingered at least two scrolls, three explosive tags, two dozen shuriken, and only about ten kunais. Her head began to calculate the many jutsus she could possibly use against Shino. Okay, he's good at Taijutsu and Ninjutsu, but he's a little weak in Genjutsu…she had advantages in that. He most likely would need to get close to her for the bugs to take control of her chakra. She would not be able to securely use offensive medical techniques because then she has to get close to the Kikai…so it must a mid-range or long-range fighting. But how to avoid the bugs…

Sakura blew away an annoying pink hair, and bent her legs, shifting her sandaled feet towards a stoic Shino. Neji and Tobio speculated the two fighters, patiently waiting for her to start. Neji had long ago snapped on his Byakugan. The jinx watched with wide eyes and a childish, quite foolish, curiosity. With concentrated breathing and chakra flow in her veins pumping in her entire system, she closed her eyes.

Quick movements of her gloved hands began immediately, as black bugs began to appear from Shino's thick sleeves. She murmured the hand signs of each traditional Zodiac animal: "Boar. Sheep. Bird."

And ablaze with green chakra surrounded her hands, she growled out the words, "Chakra Detachment no Jutsu!"

A Medical Ninjutsu, Neji thought to himself, a risky move Haruno.

She ran head first towards Shino with glimmering hands. Shino swiftly moved to his left and skillfully threw his horde of bugs on her form. She disappeared to her right and came running towards him with fierce emerald eyes. When her hand came close to Shino's chest, aiming to detach all his chakra vessels from his chest, he quickly unzipped the front of his coat. Hundreds of buzzing insects flowed out like a black tsunami breaking a dam.

Sakura widened her eyes and turning on her hands, slipping between Shino's spread legs. Not a bug got on her.

Scraps of nails on the earth had her Ninjutsu hands create deep creases into folded dirt like scars.

Dust surrounded her, making her cough and wheeze in an unpleasant way.

When she threw herself back up, she was faced with two new Shinos. His bugs began to form his Kikai Clones. She looked at each clone, not a single mistake on each one. They were impeccable clones. From the vast blow off of chakra spurts she had felt in the atmosphere, she began to realize what he done. By a mixture of his Kikai release and Ninjutsu, he had created two clones with the same chakra quality as the real Shino, having only one-third of Kikai. He eased his chakra carefully and equally amongst each clone, his bugs spreading the small storage of chakra from their bodies to make an almost human spiritual feature.

Neji blinked in amazement, his veined eyes almost thought they were real.

Must have taken him years to perfect each clone, he thought.

Before she had realized, two Shinos ran to her with quickness and agility.

She pulled out four kunai and six shuriken, throwing two kunai and three shuriken at each clone. The weapons went through them towards the real Shino who dodged them sharply. It had created large holes in each clone's body, which his bugs had to collect and connect together like a pattern. Since the chakra spread took so much from both Shino and the Kikai to make, it took longer for just two clones to pin themselves back together. They stopped in midway, giving her much time to perform anything necessary.

She switched to scrolls, grabbing a special one from her pouch. She placed it in between her folded fingers.

Sakura made her hand signs: "Bird. Sheep. Bird. Dog."

"Petal Rapture Summon!" she snarled, her hair flying to her face that had brought out the deep color of her eyes.

She had quickly unrolled the scroll, a large fog of pink petals came forth from the parchment. They moved to her chakra manipulation that she had mastered, molding it outside her skin. Each petal unraveled with every click in her mind, bringing to full force on the two clones.

"Bird. Dog. Sheep. Bird." she cried. "Petal Senbon Technique!"

Sweat came to roll off her forehead, as she mathematically numbered all the petals in the air. With her strong flow of chakra she had send into the scroll that concentrated on the petals, she controlled each and every one of them in the blossom flood. The petals had reeled themselves into shapes of finely rolled pink cigarettes, sharpened into rosy colored needles sending full speed like senbon through the fixating bodies of the Kikai clones, dispersing them into scattering bugs. And through the fake bodies, not only did she break the chakra build in the clones, but the pink needles had sent towards Shino.

Shino's brows creased, and threw himself round in a twirl to miss them. He skidded across the dirt ground, still being able to control the bugs at a distance. The petal needles that send straight into the earth like acupunctures on old rough skin, miraculously unfolding themselves to become their normal beautiful shapes again.

He became cautious of himself, only having one-thirds of Kikai in his own body.

Shino looked forth at Sakura, who was dispatching herself off the ground when the Kikai came to attack her at their slow yet fleeting pace. She flew behind herself into a tall branch of a tree. This was a disadvantage, this action had given her more time to do her Ninjutsu. He recognized that he had get close to her.

For some reason, he began to feel quite woozy. But he ignored it.

Shino began to perform his own set of hand signs.

He had decided to try out his new jutsu. A jutsu he worked on for half a year.

She should be lucky.

"Dog. Rabbit. Bird. Boar. Bird. Dog." He achingly whispered, already feeling a splintery feeling in his two arms. He brought forth his chakra flow, holding out his own arms. Sakura watched him as he clasped his hand on his right elbow, holding wrist up. With sweat pouring from him, those specific movements of his hands, and the long list of animals he whispered, she realized he was summoning.

But what? What could he summon besides his Kikai?

Shino groaned, began tracing his middle and forefinger on his right arm invisible kanji. The fabric of his coat began to snag and a large lump something buzzing and fidgeting angrily. Neji and Tobio's eyes widened. What the hell was he doing?

The fabric of his coat exploded, bringing a spurt of his blood that smeared the front and collar of his coat. The sunglasses slid slightly from his eyes, the knuckles and tendons in his arm began to tighten painfully. Sakura gasped, literally taking an involuntary step back on the tree branch. Neji and Tobio did nothing about it, except just watching.

"Metamorphosis Fly Dispatch no Jutsu," Shino whispered, slightly trembling.

What they saw was not pretty, quite frankly scary—

Angry buzzing and fidgeting awoke, a giant sized insect arose from the very enclosed flesh of Shino's right arm. Giant wrinkled watery blue hue magnified to each glassy plate sets that circled each bulging lidded eyes, a snapping clasp of its green drooling mouth that clicked its feelers, a hairy wrinkled body brought forth four wet beating wings, its grasping pollen legs looked more like lobster swimmerets then its average fly cousin's limbs, and a black and brown hive formed body was rumbling and glimmering with fresh gloss like a clear armor.

Sakura gaped, immediately leaping off her branch to another tree when Kikai bugs came too close. She could not stop watching that disgusting fly that was covered in Shino's blood and tatters of his inflated coat.

The fly sent its gooey eyes in her direction, flying instantly towards her.

Sakura tried to send distraction genjutsus towards the insect, but didn't seem to work when it kept avoiding each chance she had. When it came close to her, with its buzzing and fidgeting wings, with a click of its frothing fangs, the brown and black bug had exploded into a spew of yellowy substance.

She yelped, waiting for the guck of the bug's inners to spray on her, but instead when she closed her eyes and fallen off the tree, what's left of the disgusting fly had changed into a rain of Kikai bugs that fell with her body. She was too surprised to avoid them. The insects had landed on her body, crawling around and around, inserting themselves on her pale skin and quivering within her clothes. When Sakura had landed ungracefully, all she could feel was the tiny legs of each bug on her sensitive flesh.

She gasped and closed her eyes, frightened to death.

It was just then Shino walked up to her after collecting the last two-thirds of his Kikai back into his body, he call back the rest from Sakura's trembling body. Each insect left her skin, she breathed more evenly instead of her rapid shakes of her lungs. She felt like she had just lost ten years of her life there.

A long bloody arm aid on one side with the ruin sleeve of his gray coat, Shino adjusted his sunglasses with his other hand as the Kikai began to repair the damages on his body. He watched as Tobio walked from behind him and extended a helping hand towards Sakura.

The Danno grinned lightly, smirking at the same time, "You did good."

Intermission

It was then the next day, Cell Twenty-Six got their first mission.

For the daimyo.

Addressed 'crucial' and possibly assigned A-type mission.

But what they weren't expecting, was that they have to—

"BIRDS!" Sakura yelled, throwing her hands on the Hokage's desk top, "WE HAVE TO FIND HIS FUCKING BIRDS?"

A hundred birds that the daimyo had lost, and had also cost him a fortune, to be exact.

To Be Continued

I hope no one was creep out by the fly.

The bug part did freak me out a bit when I reread it, but it had inspired me to write about it because of a fan art drawing of a disgusting fly that dispatch itself from Shino's arm. It was good, I decided to write it down as a summoning.

Until next time!

Metamorphosis Fly Dispatch no Jutsu – Since Kikai bugs can't fly, and only move at a slow pace to a victim by the scent of a female bug or wielded by the user. Shino summons a giant fly from his arm by creating signs on his arm with tracing two fingers, a creepy insect comes forth and flies to a designated victim. Though it doesn't last long like most Summoning Animals, it carries a certain amount of an Aburame's bugs and by exploding, ending its life, it brings the bugs on top of the victim, immediately the Kikai eat away their chakra.

Chakra Detachment no Jutsu – a strong medical Ninjutsu, a user has green chakra glowing hands and when they place any hand on any part of an opponent, they are able to rip off the chakra from the chakra vessels of theirs and the opponent is unable to use that section of their chakra for molding. And, if effective, could cut their chakra supply in half.

Petal Rapture Summon – A Summoning Jutsu, Sakura calls forth a large shower of pink petals from a scroll controlled by her chakra she controls quite powerfully. Since she is able to mold chakra outside her body, she is able to control the petals at her will, putting them to Ninjutsu or Genjutsu.

Petal Senbon no Jutsu – Added with her perfect chakra control and powerful chakra molding, Sakura is able to twist every petal in the blossom shower and turn them into sharp needles in a short amount of time. With each calculated decisions in her mind, Sakura is able use them like Senbon at her will and send them at any opponent. When they cut through something, they become back to their regular petal shapes and create scattered piles of pink petals.