Here's the second one! Kindly review, he he... I'm really not used to writing stories that aren't funny, so I added some fun stuff here...might seem corny...Oh Well!

Chapter 2: Losing those that are not needed - Part I

It was dark. The sky was dark and cloudy. Everything around her was covered by a thick blanket of fog. It was night, but the only visible speck on the sky was the moon, stars didn't appear to be in their places on the plains above her.

She walked around the village since she decided to accept an offer she just thought of answering this morning.

Today was their day off. It was Naruto's turn to train. He really could heal fast, either because of the nine-tails or his body's extremely strange metabolism.

She went to their Kakashi-sensei this afternoon and informed him that she was not going to watch him. He agreed, saying that she's probably not feeling very well and it was better for her to rest. Other than that, Sasuke didn't arrive too because he also wanted to rest, with rest meaning train in the forest alone.

She walked and walked, took a few twists and turns and arrived at an old cottage, just found at the east of the forest in front of Konoha. The cottage was made of wood and was a bit beat up. It was messed with rich, green vines and was illuminated from the inside, which meant that someone lived in that hut.

She knocked three times on the door. She waited for a minute, but there was no response. So, she decided to knock on it again.

The door was suddenly opened by a man wearing a large, hooded, violet cloak, when she was about to knock on it again. His face was shadowed by his cloak's hood, and because of this, his face couldn't be seen. Though, it was still visible that he was probably by the age of fifty already.

She was wearing a dark blue cloak that didn't have a hood like the man, and underneath it was her usual attire with the circular symbol on her back (the one she wears in the manga after two and a half years).

"Sakura…I've been waiting for you. Please, come in." he stated in a sort of melodic voice that sounded creepy instead of welcoming. He outstretched his arms towards the inside of his home, giving way for her to go inside.

She was reluctant, but still entered the hut. The man offered Sakura a seat, but she refused to do so, saying that she won't stay long.

"So, I presume you have made a decision?"

"…Yes…I have."

"Does this mean you will agree to all the terms and conditions I've made?"

"Yes."

The man gave a pause and asked, "Are you sure?". She brought her finger to her lips, bowed down and thought things over. In a short while, she raised her head to face the man and said, "Hai."

"…Alright then…Just get this…You won't be able to ever return things back to normal anymore after this. This is just a warning, but since you have already accepted my offer, we will start right now." he stated, this time, in a very serious tone.

"Anything for…him." she replied giving a solemn look to the man.

"Don't forget to wear the necklace I gave you."

She just nodded in reply, since she already wore the trinket around her neck.

He was about to lead her out to the forest, when she suddenly called to him. "…but…what I don't understand is why you are doing this, why do you want to help me and him? It seems that you won't really be getting anything from this…"

The man stopped when she called out to him. "It's my job to help people, I saw that you were indeed in pain and needed some of my help…It…makes me feel good…" he replied without glancing at her. "Now let's go before we miss the full moon."

This statement made her panic a bit seeing that if they don't do it now, they won't be able to do it as early as possible. It would take weeks before another full moon, and she won't be able to wait that long.

The man was already out in the forest so she quickened her pace to catch up to him. She was finally able to walk side by side with him after a few minutes. They walked and walked, until they reached the clearing in the middle of the forest. The man told her to stand in the middle of the clearing and concentrate. She willingly obeyed and stood there, closing her eyes to concentrate.

The man took out a violet-colored ink that was contained in a sophisticated vial filled with symbols from his cloak. He made a pentagram that was as large as the clearing by using symbols. Strange as it may seem, but the ink inside the container didn't seem to decrease and continued to stay at a constant amount.

The moon was full and was finally hovering over Sakura, exactly on the middle of the clearing. The man saw this and started to chant words unknown to her, while his hands extended in front of him with his palms facing her. Suddenly, purple light emanated from his hands and flowed into the symbols written on the ground.

Sakura felt a stinging pain surge from her toes…then her feet…her legs…stomach. She screeched in pain, but tried to concentrate more and ignore the feeling. The tip of her fingers started to sting…her hands…arms…her neck…then her head. She gritted her teeth to contain the urge to scream.

She was able to bear the aching feeling of her body, but what came next made her cry and yell out her feeling of torture. The pain from her body all concentrated on her chest, where her heart lies.

She was then engulfed in purple light that turned into white. She felt numb as the pain got worse. The light subsided as well as the pain when the moon started to misalign from the pentagram. Symbols drawn on the ground started retreating into her form. It was dragged from the ground, onto her body. The symbols, then all concentrated on her necklace. It looked as if the necklace was absorbing all the symbols into it.

The necklace glowed white for a while, but then turned into a violet shade. She fell to the ground, panting with her right hand clutching the necklace and the other supporting her weight on the soil beneath her.

"The ritual is complete. You may go…whenever you feel an intense emotion it will slowly be contained into the necklace. When it's complete, don't forget to give this 'Sasuke' the necklace."

And with that, he left leaving a puff of violet smoke.

Sakura was left there, tired. Her body hurt so much that she let her body fall down. She lied there asleep the whole night, lucky for her, animals didn't come near her because of some ominous aura surrounding her…

…Next morning…

"YAWN!"

Sakura woke up in the clearing. She stood up and stretched her arms wide.

"I better go home before our training today starts."

She skipped her way to her home and started to change from her dirty clothes. She was able to successfully enter her room through her window without her mother noticing.

After she took a bath, changed her clothes and wore the necklace, she ran straight down the stairs and yelled to her mother before leaving.

"Mom, I'm going to train with my team today! Gotta go!" Then she left in a flash.

Her mother was left there asking herself if Sakura did come home last night.

She arrived at the bridge and saw that Sasuke and Naruto were already there. Sasuke was leaning on the bridge's railing, eyes closed. Naruto, on the other hand, was ranting about how their sensei was always late, wasting their training time.

"OHAYOU SASUKE-KUN!"

Sasuke didn't even flinch. Naruto was yelling his insides out, trying to get Sakura's attention. He was jumping around her and tripped, making him to accidentally get his face on Sakura's butt.

"AAHHH! Sakura-chan I'm really, really sorry! It was an accident!" The blonde boy waved his hands in front of him.

Sakura's face flushed and she turned to Naruto to start her spanking and shouting, but she suddenly stopped dead.

Shing

Shing

Shing…

Her necklace started to glow red and stayed red. Her eyes turned gray for a while, but eventually returned back to its original green shade.

"Uh…Sakura-chan…he he…a-are you alright?" Naruto asked nervously.

"Huh…What?"

"I asked…are you alright?" he tried again.

"Oh! Of course I am! Why wouldn't I be?"

One of her eyebrows raised and her eyes held total confusion.

"Okaay…anyway, can you forgive me?"

"Huh? Forgive you for what?"

Now Naruto's jaw fell and his eyes looked as if it would pop out and jump to another planet. It was as if Sakura was just born today, trying to discover the simple things of the world.

"You know…a minute ago I –" he wasn't able to finish his sentence since Sakura decided to let the topic drop and just wait for their sensei to come.

"Whatever, let's just wait for Kakashi-sensei, ne?"

o.O

Okay…was he really talking to Sakura or was this some prank being played by their early bird sensei? Alright that's crazy, maybe this really is Sakura? Or this could probably be the mark of the end of the world!

Unfortunately, Naruto chose the last one, to him it seemed to be the most LOGICAL one. He started crying out loud 'it's the end of the world!' over and over again, while running around Sakura.

Sasuke and Naruto were both expecting for Sakura to get angry and bop Naruto's head any minute.

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Nothing came.

Naruto fainted, muttering words like, 'end of the world' or 'no more ramen'.

Sasuke saw this as some kind of mood swing of Sakura and decided to not care at all, though deep inside he was a bit curious at what just happened.

None of them seemed to notice the new necklace Sakura wore. It remained red, but wasn't glowing anymore.

POOF!

"Ta-da!"(or in other words "Jang.")

Ah…the mighty Kakashi has arrived. His smile turned upside down seeing that none of them was currently paying attention to his arrival. Sasuke was staring of into space on the bridge, Naruto was out cold, and Sakura was poking Naruto with a stick.

Kakashi scratched his head, thinking that this is what he gets having a weird team.

"So, are you guys ready to train?" he asked trying to probably get attention from them.

Naruto bolted upright, hearing the word 'train'. Sakura was surprised by this and fell back.

"AHH! Gomen Sakura-chan! I didn't mean it!"

"Yeah, whatever. C'mon we're going to train!"

That did it. Naruto fainted again! Kakashi saw this and smile again started to tug on his lips.

"Sakura, Sasuke! You guys go train. I have some business with Naruto here."

And with that, both of them sped off into the woods to start training.

On their way to the training ground, Sakura started to talk to Sasuke.

"Ne, Sasuke-kun, I've brought some lunch for us. We can eat it after we train."

"…"

Sakura frowned, but still held on to her hope of having him taste the food she worked hard on.

They landed on a clearing in the woods. It was the same clearing Sakura went to last night.

"You do your training on your own, while I do mine. Mind your own business."

Then he went to his own side of the circular clearing. His face remained stoic and never feeling. Sakura watched him walk to his side of the area. She faced the ground, closed her eyes and heaved a sigh. She started her training, the same time as him.

With Naruto and Kakashi-sensei…

Kakashi was kneeling in front of Naruto's form. He wore an evil grin while staring at the boy.

"Train."

Naruto bolted upright and looked to his sides screaming 'training'. He looked to his right to find Sakura there.

"It's alright Naruto forget about it."

The blonde boy blinked and remembered that he asked forgiveness before. So…he fainted again, mumbling 'world is ending' and 'my sweet ramen'.

"Train."

Naruto woke up again, but this time stood up and searched the place for his team.

"Whatever. Forget about it Naruto."

He saw Sakura standing on his right. Oh yeah he fainted again.

Kakashi turned back to himself and was snickering. He was enjoying himself WAAYY too much.

He repeated this process again and again.

Now back to Sasuke and Sakura…

Both of them were finally tired and were facing each other lying on the opposite ends of the clearing.

Sakura stood up, deciding that this would be the best time for her to give Sasuke the meal she made and sit with him to eat. She took out two lunchboxes from her backpack and walked toward the raven-haired lad.

His eyes were closed, but he very well knew that she was coming closer. I've no time for this!, he thought, furrowing his eyebrows. He quickly stood up, and accidentally knocked over the lunch that was slowly extending to him.

Sakura was on the verge of crying, but tried to suppress her tears.

"Oh that's okay. Here Sasuke-kun, take mine. I'm not hungry anyway…" She smiled and held out to him the other lunchbox she was carrying.

"I've no time for that. Instead of thinking about my stomach, why don't you mind your own business and train." And with that he left her and started looking for a new training ground. He knew it was harsh but he had no time to waste.

She couldn't take it anymore and broke down on her knees. She felt like her heart was being gripped harder and harder by the second. Tears started forming in her eyes.

Shing

Shing

Shing…

Her necklace started glowing blue and remained blue. Her eyes turned gray for a while but returned to its original color.

When her tears were about to flow, it suddenly stood frozen. She felt like there was this big weight lifted from her shoulders. It was weird though, one minute she felt as if she could cry a whole sea out of her eyes, and the other, she felt nothing. The pink-haired kunoichi thought hard on why she wanted to cry a while ago, but remembered nothing.

Sakura shrugged the thought away and started leaping on trees to go to their sensei and ask if they'd be doing any missions.

Sasuke was tired, most of his chakra was drained and because of that he needed to rest. He started off to go to the bridge and see what the dobe and their sensei was talking about. Maybe he could find out something from their supposed 'business'.

He arrived and he regretted his coming. He was currently hiding behind some bushes and was watching something he called 'horrific'. He saw Kakashi playing with Naruto, like a child who found a new toy. Like what Sakura did earlier, he was currently poking Naruto with a stick after laughing like crazy. Kakashi, unfortunately lost a whopping TWENTY respect points from Sasuke (Can you guess where this is from? He he .).

"You can come out now. Both of you."

Sasuke was surprised to find that, like him, Sakura was there watching the whole scene. They appeared in front of their sensei immediately.

"I'm gonna take him to his house. You two can go home now and rest."

"Oh yeah, um, sensei, are we going to have any missions tomorrow?"

"Well, Tsunade-sama asked for our presence at her office tomorrow at nine in the morning, so we'll probably have one. Well anyway, ja ne!"

"Wait! Kakashi-sensei, what were you doing to Naruto."

"My business."

Kakashi left with a 'POOF'. Sakura shook her head as she smiled. She then turned to Sasuke and waved a goodbye. The girl gave him a smile before leaping out of view.

Sasuke was left there staring at her, hopping on different roofs and trees. Somehow, he had a feeling that something was not right. He had this presentiment that these happy moments weren't going to last.

Something was coming.

…Sakura…

He started leaping on buildings and went home to his apartment.

Please review...or else I'll hold my breath and and ... Oh well, can't reall force you can't I? Anyway thanks for my firt reviewer and my second! Namely...drum roll please

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MoonlightSnow and inuyashaHELP

MoonlightSnow - THANK YOU so MUCH! Thank you for reviewing(currently bowing in front of you). It's an honor to be inyour Alert list. .

inuyashaHELP - First of all, THANK YOU for reviewing! Well, I think that even though Sakura's grown, she still has that side of her that wants to be a child, namely INNER SAKURA. She will probably not appear here but it shows she's still there. Like me for example, I'm a teenager and I still go act like a child running around silly, even though at times, I would act seriously. Sakura would act serious, only when she needs to be and would act like the old Sakura when she feels like it. Anyway, like I said in the first chap, she only asks Sasuke on dates out of tradition. Oke? .

A/N: Please excuse my childishness...Oh and I'm also stubborn, he he...

A/N2: I almost forgot! I need some more emotions like anger, sadness, etc. stuff like that. I need your help people! PLEASE? THANK YOU! You can't seem to refuse can't you? XD

A/N3: Oh yeah! And PLEASE REVIEW! THANK YOU! he he he... XD (Jolly ain't I?)