Disclaimer (whatever that means): I am sosososossosososo sooo sorry. It took me soosososos long to update. I hope this chapter is worth it. Anyways, its not like I'm the best writer in the world.

Sakura whimpered softly as she felt her hard teeth digging into her skin. Her crimson blood poured over her shoulder and onto the threadbare carpet. Her blood began to stimulate and move more freely throughout her body. She moved her arms and shifted her legs off the couch. She stood up and fell down immediately. Damn, she thought. She looked at her bloody and scraped legs and down to her swollen and throbbing ankle. Her stupid ankle was broken. Or sprained. Either way, she was screwed. Her gaze traveled around the room for something to support herself on. She set her eyes on Sasuke and prayed that he would forgive her when he woke up. She made a little flying jump towards him and put her feet on his head. She sprung off his head and fell in a heap on the floor just before the door. She quickly hopped forward and opened the door. She hopped outside in the rain and slipped on her face. Sakura started to cry again but was brought back to reality by the sharp pain in her back. She quickened her speed and went home.

Sasuke woke up to a big bump on his forehead. Her rubbed his head and looked around. His eyes turned to an empty couch smeared with blood. Wait…an "empty" couch? He gasped and saw the open door. He put on a coat and ran outside in the rain. His brain rushed with images of Sakura stumbling somewhere in the rain. He shook his head and took the shortcut. On the roof. Sasuke bounded from one roof to another, getting soaked by the brown puddles of water that his feet splashed in. His heart raced and jumped to the speed of time worrying and thinking only of Sakura.

Sakura sat in her bed with her shirt off gently easing the ice shards out one by one. She winced in pain as the tweezers hit the wrong spot and pinched a vein. "Ouch!" she shouted. Her eyes blinked back angry tears and she shrugged off her anger by thinking of her pain. All the ice shards were gone in a matter of minutes. Her back was bleeding even more and it hurt like hell. She was beginning to feel dizzy, which was a sign of major blood loss. Sakura tried to shift her legs over the bed and found that once more, her blood was beginning to flow less freely, causing her to fall under paralysis. There was a knock at the door and feebly answered. "Come in!"

Someone stepped into the house. It was Sasuke. His black hair was sodden and drenched so much that it was even drooping forward. Sasuke came closer to Sakura and sat down beside her. Sakura felt a flush appearing in her cheeks and a dull rush of blood back into all her veins.

She scooted away from him and froze. She still had no shirt on. She quickly put her shirt on and turned back to Sasuke eyeing him coldly. "What do you want?"

Sasuke almost flinched at the sound of her hard voice. His smiled wavered and turned into a frown. "I just wanted to see I you were okay…"

Sakura shrugged and said, "Well, you saw, I'm okay, now shoo." Inner Sakura was screaming at Sakura for being so rude to Sasuke. She was being so out of character. Usually, she would kiss up to Sasuke. But she was tired of all that shit. Sasuke shrugged and stepped forward. Sakura stepped backwards and tripped on a piece of stray carpet. Sakura tottered on the edge of reality and slow motion then fell. Sasuke noticed her unbalance and caught her. On her frickin' painful as hell back. Sakura cried out a little then couched up a little blood. Sasuke noticed the blood on his hands and the Sakura that he had dropped in surprise. (He was so surprised that he dropped her on the floor.) I-I killed her! Sasuke stood up and picked Sakura up. He dumped her on the bed and sighed. He had to do something. Soon.

Karin sat down on a bench as Kakashi slowly walked beside her. Kakashi sat down next to her reading his little book. Karin snapped her fingers in front of Kakashi's mesmerized face. "Oy! Earth to the perv!"

Kakashi looked around then saw Karin. "Oh! Sorry. Its just this book…"

Karin looked over Kakashi's shoulder and tried to look at the book. Kakashi edged away from Karin blushing. Karin tackled Kakashi and grabbed his book. She flipped a couple of pages before a dull flush appeared in her well-defined cheeks. "Eww…. Oh my…. Ooo…"

Kakashi watched as Karin flipped through the book. After a few minutes, Kakashi grabbed the book from Karin. Karin smacked Kakashi and grinned. "That's a good book."

Kakashi looked at Karin and smiled. "Apparently, you are the first one to think so."

Karin jumped off of Kakashi and chuckled. "Hmm… You always were interesting Kakashi."

Kakashi looked at Karin who was stretching in the fading light. "You too Karin." He looked at her arms stretching over her head and towards the sky and her legs looking as though ready to spring. Karin looked at Kakashi and saw him looking at her. "Hey…"

Kakashi snapped out of it and grinned lightly. "You have really grown up Karin."

"You don't need to tell me that. You are still a great big perv."

In the Undiscovered Village to the East

Music played softly from the stereo and people talked in mindless chatter. 3 cloaked people entered the pub and the whole thing was quiet. One glare from the manager and there was hustle and bustle again. The first person stepped forward with a loud clunk. The cloak fell down to reveal a girl. Her purple hair tumbled out into thick, luscious, locks of shoulder length silkiness. Her eyes were a deepened set of black with brown specks in them. Her face was so tightly set as though someone had shoved a stick up her ass and it had come out through her mouth. Her lips were a deep red with a soft glowy look to them. The other two looked at each other and decided to stay hooded. The second hooded figure went up to the purple haired girl and whispered in her ear. "Chizu, we have a schedule. We must be there on time."

Chizu smiled and flashed her brilliantly white teeth. "Mm.. I understand. Lets go." With a flash and whip of her cloak, they were gone.