Well I would have gotten this chapter out earlier but I had a Trojan on my computer along with a few thousand Spyware and Adware programs so I was a little busy to say the least. But the next chapter is out!

Author's notes: This chapter is a lot darker than my previous ones but those who read this for the comedy don't worry! I will be bringing it back but for now enjoy a darker side of Not Another High School. It's team 7 like you've never seen them before: broken.

Chapter 3: Beasts

Sasuke had been asking the man questions but he couldn't get any information out of him.

So, do we have any idea who this guy is? Or why he was targeting us?"

"No he seems to be silent about what's going on around here. I'm leaning to the fact that he is most likely working for one of the gangs. I guess we will have to take him with us."

As soon as Sasuke finished his speech the sound of police car sirens could be heard in the distance.

"Dammit! Naruto, Sakura follow me quickly" yelled Sasuke. He lifted his hand and hit the gang member in the back of the head causing him to lose consciousness immediately. He put him on his back and begins to sprint away.
"This gun design is quite unique it had chidori written in italics on the side of it I guess I should keep it for good luck" said Sasuke pocketing the gun as he made his way through the crowded streets praying Sakura and Naruto were right behind him.

Sakura heard the sirens. 'Someone must've called the police.' She watched Sasuke pick up the guy who was slightly larger than himself. They rushed off and Sasuke put the gun in his pocket. 'I hope to god we don't have to use it'

Sakura wasn't big on major violence. She herself was violent but she was ok with that, verbal and combative. But with weapons... she never liked guns. Ever since the day she ventured off without her parents. She got lost in the wrong part of town.

: Flash back:

Sakura was in the fetal position hiding behind a dumpster. She was only 5 or 6. She had curiously followed a little calico cat, but as it walked into a woman's arms Sakura realized she had no clue where she was. The woman was dressed in dirty clothes and most of the homes here, weren't in the best shape. She crawled behind the dumpster, and resumed her current position.

Just in front of the dumpster she heard voices. One a low husky voice another a higher, more feminine. Sakura peeked just an inch out of the side of the Dumpster to see it was a husky man, bulky and very scary looking, the woman from earlier with the cat. She looked quite scared.

"I'm sorry, I don't have the money...I had to pay more for the rent and my shops not making much profit."

"Shut it lady! You ain't got the cash...you know how it goes."

"No, Please can't you make and exception, I have children...YOUNG CHILDREN!"

The man pulled out a handgun he pushed the lady until she fell backward into a wall. He pointed the gun at her.

"PLEASE! DON'T DO THIS! PLEASE I'LL DO ANYTHING! I DON'T WANT TO DIE! DON'T SHOOT ME!"

Sakura closed her eyes as a loud click sounded then a bang. It was almost in slow motion. She sat and watched as the woman was shot. He fired six more rounds then left. Sakura sat for awhile crying behind the dumpster then she ran out to the woman. Her clothes soaked with blood and the thick puddle on the floor had begun to cake. Sakura began to shake the lady.

"Wake up...It's ok now. He's gone. Wake up! WAKE UP!" she began to shake harder then she finally accepted it. She knew by the first shot, but she didn't want to believe. The woman was dead. Her children would be starved by the end of the week, if they didn't suffer the same fate as their mother before then. Sakura stood and said a small prayer to god that she rest in peace and her children be ok. She walked out of the alley and saw the cat from earlier. Now the cat was alone. Sakura picked up the calico and carried it back the way she followed it. She found her parents within the hour. They had been worried sick and were happy to have her back.

Sakura never told them but she would always remember. And this was what developed her hatred of guns. She still had the cat. Only Sakura knew why she named it what she did. her parents just figured it was nothing. 'Sai zo Boutuo' 'Remember the Bang.' And she did. She always remembered, every time she came home to pet her cat. Every time she saw children homeless. Almost every time she slept.

:End Flashback:

Sakura was teary eyed but she came out of her thoughts and the tears fell away. 'Yes, I hope to god we don't have to use it.'

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Sasuke had to run down an ally way to avoid detection and Sakura and Naruto fell to a stop as Sasuke had done.

Two men in gang clothing had now stood in there paths and had guns drawn toward Sasuke. The ally way was short making the possibility of dodging the bullets low. Sasuke put the guy on his back down and asked slowly,

"The cops are right behind us so if you try to do anything they will get you."

They seem to not pay Sasuke any attention their focus was on Sakura.
"Hey cutie how about having some fun with us?"

One of them pinned Sasuke against the wall and then pistol whipped Sasuke making him lose his site from reality. The other started going after Sakura.

Sasuke you fool your to weak.

"Who is talking to me where am I?"
Sasuke then saw a figure of himself but he was shrouded in a dark some sort of seal.

"You still lack hatred."

"Hahahahahahhahaha just stay still."

"Ugh"

Fake Sasuke had stuck his hand inside of real Sasuke's chest and began to go inside of him.

Sasuke's eyes slowly opened as his vision which was blurry at first became better than usual. It was almost like his vision was amplified and he felt different.

"Hahahah.." Sasuke started laughing manically as the thugs stared at him in awe.

He then rushed at the thug that was closest to Sakura and grabbed his arm and begin breaking it. The man screamed in pain but Sasuke didn't care.

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Naruto thought that Sasuke had lost his mind. Charging at the other two thugs and laughing like a moron. But then Naruto saw the eyes. Those eyes looked so different and familiar at the same time...

Those eyes had the same hatred as Naruto when he became his other self.

"Sasuke what have you just done?" wondered Naruto aloud as he ran behind him. Naruto could barely control his own second persona if this was Sasuke's first time they could all be in trouble.

"Dammit there are guns everywhere." commented Naruto as Sasuke just popped up in front of one of the gang members and broke his arm.

Naruto decided that he had no choice, he had to put the situation under control and fast before the bullets started firing...and Sakura got hurt.

He felt the change begin his muscles bulged and the sudden and seemingly infinite energy that Naruto had felt so many times before coursed through his body. The other guy started to fire his gun at Naruto. Everything went into slow motion and the bullets passed by Naruto's head by inches.

"Rooar!" cried the Demon as Naruto kicked the man into the air the man cried out as Naruto leapt up after him. Appearing above the man almost out of nowhere Naruto brought his leg down and kicked him into the ground causing a crater. The rendan always did the trick. Naruto could see that the man was unconscious even from the air above.

As he landed Naruto popped out of his second persona, looking around to see what had happened Naruto cried out, "Sasuke snap out of it!"

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Sakura stopped when Sasuke did. Then, before she could ask why, she saw the gang members. 'Probably backup…In case something went wrong.'

"Hey cutie, how about having some fun with us."

Sakura knew it was less of a question then it sounded. These men would rape her if the chance was good. She began to back away slowly. She looked to Sasuke with 'help me' eyes. He seemed lost in his own thoughts. She turned to look at Naruto, then she heard Sasuke laughing. Laughing maniacally he was breaking the gang member' arm, the one who was holding him against the wall. 'He's breaking it, REALLY! HE'S GOING TO BREAK IT!'

"Sasuke...what are you doing? He's a thug, but he doesn't deserve it." The look of pain and regret in the thug's eyes made her flash to the day. That was the same look the woman had. They would do anything to get out of that situation. Sakura was fighting the tears, then in one moment, the tears poured down and she screamed stepping forward one foot "SASUKE! STOP IT!"

Naruto launched forward, this wasn't the same Naruto. He launched forward passing bullets. He launched a guy into the air. "YOU'RE BOTH ACTING CRAZY!" She was hysterically crying now. Her hands went over her ears and she shook her head violently. It was all ricocheting off the walls of her mind all the sounds echoing. The cries of anguish, fear, terror flooded her eyes. Sasuke's laughs, Naruto's roar, and the gunshots. Finally she snapped. With every ounce of her strength she had left. She focused all she had and she screamed, loud as she could "STOP IT!" She fell to her knees at the loss of her energy. She looked up at it all, it was a war zone.

"Look at this, your killing them! There's...blood. YOUR BOTH MONSTERS! YOUR ALL MONSTERS! She stood and ran off to go hide away. She ran and ran, literally running on nothing. She finally fell, her body refusing to go any further. She lifted her head and saw a dumpster. She crawled and squatted behind it, going into the fetal position she cried silently until her world went black.

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"No what is happening to me?"

"I have given you power to become a god."

"Wait, you fiend! You're taking the form of my brother... The traitor I swore to kill...but I'm alone I can't beat you by myself.

"Yes, that's right, you can't destroy me, you don't have the hatred or will too. Fuwahhaha."

"Please stop..."

"What is happening to you Sasuke...?"

"Those voices…its Sakura and Naruto…I understand now, I must help my friends. I will not let this thing control me I must fight it!"

Sasuke begin to regain his normal eye sight, everything was coming back to him. He already noticed Naruto had finished the other thug. Sasuke let go of the other thug's arm as he did the thug fell down. He was ko'ed from the pain, it was too great for the man to handle. Sasuke grabbed his head as it throbbed painfully.

"NARUTO where is Saukra? If she got shot I...I will never forgive myself... "

His attitude had changed about the boy that stood in front of him. He wasn't weak in fact he was just like him in many ways. Sasuke begin to stand up then he felt a sharp stab of pain in his legs. He cried out in pain. "Dammit! Naruto can you help me here" said Sasuke as he felt his balance was too shaky and he needed someone to support his body.

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Naruto was shocked by Sakura's outburst.

"I'm a monster?" wondered Naruto looking at his hands. He felt like a man waking from a dream. He knew that what he did was for good, to try and stop them from getting hurt, but had he just done an even worse evil? How did he let it happen?

Naruto heard Sasuke's voice through the mist. Naruto looked up to see a shaky but normal looking Sasuke but Sakura was no longer in sight. To make matters worse Naruto did not know where Sakura went and Sasuke looked like he needed help just to move. He even confessed as much to Naruto.

Then the sirens blared through it all making Naruto wonder out loud "how the hell it could get any worse?"

Naruto came over to Sasuke and threw Sasuke's arm around his neck to help support his weight. "We need to move fast so if you feel that you can go it on your own tell me immediately. We need to find Sakura as well."

Naruto hurried down the ally way down the only direction Sakura could have went. Naruto had always had a good sense of smell and he could catch a faint whiff of the perfume Sakura was wearing. He only hoped that he could get to her and time. And that he could get them out of the mess they were in now...

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Sakura was lying behind the dumpster still, when she came to. She could hear voices. 'Sasuke and Naruto?' She stepped out and soon found she was very mistaken. Two of the gang members were right in front of her. One grabbed her arm and tried to pick her up. She tugged and pulled until she got loose, she turned to run away, but he grabbed her hair this time.

He had her hair and it hurt. It was rumored Sasuke loved long hair so she had kept her hair long. He was holding onto her hair and pulling her along. She could tell Sasuke and Naruto were close. The guy holding her hair continued to drag her. 'I hope I don't regret this...but it's only a weakness.' She pulled a pocket knife and chopped off a good length of her hair leaving it short on uneven. The other guy launched for her and grabbed her. She bit down on his arm with all her might. She could taste the almost metallic, bitter tang of blood. It made her want to throw up, but she would hold on. Naruto and Sasuke were here now. The length of her hair now lay across the dirty asphalt floor. She was still crying, the tears were rolling into her mouth and mixing with the blood. The whole thing was sickening. To add to it she could feel the guy's heavy breathing on her neck. It was unfamiliar since her hair usually covered that area. It was all different and Sakura just wanted the ground to open up and swallow her.

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Right now Sasuke and Naruto were taking down the other thug. He was huge, bigger than the guy currently holding her, twice as bulky.

Naruto kept moving, Sasuke had not yet fully recovered for the last fight so Naruto was the one doing most of the fighting. Naruto caught a glimpse of the other guy on Sakura trying to hold her down. Naruto had hoped that he wouldn't have to rely on his Kyuubi personality again since Sakura's outbreak...

However the only other alternative was much worse. Naruto called out his inner self and again for the second time this day he felt the rush of energy, the unimaginable power and the bloodlust pour through him. Lasting only a few seconds Naruto had knocked the other guy literally through the concrete wall leaving only a huge gaping hole using only his right hand.

Then before the other guy who was attacking Sakura had realized it Naruto was already on him. Roaring like a tiger Naruto picked the guy up even though he was at least a foot taller and hurled him right into the trashcans. The loud clang echoed through the alleyway. Naruto then regained control and sighed. Then he looked at Sakura...

Her hair had been butchered probably trying to escape from the potential rapist's grasp. Her mouth had a trickle of blood running down from it, whether from an actual strike from the men attacking her or from the bite on the man's arm from which a small pool of blood was forming around the unconscious body was anybody's guess.

Then before he even knew it an unending tide of rage swept over Naruto. And he knew exactly why and he couldn't stop himself from screaming it out despite the fact that the sirens continued to get louder and louder.

"That fucking old man!" screamed Naruto out loud turning to the others, "that moron has screwed us there is no way in hell that you two could pull off this deal. What the hell kind of principal would do this to us?" Naruto went over to the wall and slammed his fist into it as hard as he could cracks started racing out from the strike.

"Sakura your much too kind hearted and if you haven't already figured it out from the last few little attacks you are not ready for the streets. Sending you out here is suicide in itself. Sasuke, you have only been in 3 fights and you can barely stand anymore."

"And those fucking sirens won't stop!" cried out Naruto. "I know why they chose me for this job but it is beyond me why the hell they thought the two of you could be street material much less have the ability to pull it off."

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Sakura felt exposed, like someone pulled the sheets off her bed. She had no idea where this came from, but that's how she felt. She had no doubt that those two men would've taken her away, raped her, and murdered her, then dumped her in the very dumpster she had hidden behind. She cried and sobbed. Naruto seemed to be shrieking about something. The shrill of anger in his voice scared her. It shook her and made he want to run. She could still taste the nasty tangy blood in her mouth mixed with her own salty tears. She spit to the side and wiped the blood from her face.

Naruto may not know why she had been assigned but she did.

Sasuke -a smart fighter yet not street-wise. He pushed Naruto to new limits because they were rivals, as Naruto did with him.

Naruto- a street-wise fighter. Very skilled and hard to beat. Though a bit head-strong with his tactics.

Sakura- she wasn't prone to violence. She didn't like it at all. She was brightest in her class. She wasn't there to help with fighting. She was there to keep the two boys in check. It was her duty to make sure no one was killed or harmed more then necessary. The boys could get out of hand and lose it, as she had witnessed. Though Sakura was seeing whole new sides to them (sides she didn't exactly like) she knew it was them. It was a part of them and she would be a true friend and respect it.
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Turning away and facing the flashing lights Naruto spoke in a calm and even voice that everyone could hear. "I can't baby sit you two out here all the time and there is no way you, any of you, are ready for all of...this." said Naruto pointing to the two unconscious gang members in the ally way.

Turning to the others Naruto decided that it was time to lay his cards out since this might be his last night. "I was hoping to tell you everything but it looks like I won't get the chance."

Turning to the police sirens and the lights which had now become so bright that Naruto's shadow had flooded the alleyway, it gave the look of a giant fox with nine-tails.

"Sasuke," spoke Naruto, "Take Sakura back to her house; make sure you stick to the alleyways as much as possible. When your a couple of blocks away just start walking and pretend like you two are out for a walk the police probably aren't looking for either of you anyway."

"Sakura," said Naruto, "I promised never to use you again but I'm making one more promise. I will protect you no matter what."

The police had finally arrived, "Sasuke go I'll distract them!" Sasuke tried to say something but Naruto cut him off. "NOW!" screamed Naruto.

He jumped out of the alleyway like a cannonball the police were taken by surprise as Naruto bowled them over. The various cops that Naruto barely had time to see fell over unconscious as Naruto continued on his way and kept running. Naruto didn't need to fight he just had to keep them running...

The police cars came screeching around the corner as Naruto took off running the air seemed to explode from Naruto as he sprinted down the street. But it seemed to work, no car ever stopped at the alleyway that he came out of.

"Sasuke you better make sure she is safe." thought Naruto as the chase continued.

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She watched as Naruto plummeted out of the alleyway to distract the police. 'Please, don't let him be hurt.' She and Sasuke made their way through the back of the ally. "Sasuke? When we get to a safe place to stop…I want to make sure your ok, I want to be sure you didn't sprain anything." She was concerned. She was worried out of her mind. Naruto could possibly be being shot right now, and Sasuke was pale and not looking to well. This wasn't going to end well.

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Sakura and Sasuke walked for a while before they reached Sasuke's house.

"Sakura I'm sorry. I don't think I'm going to make it."

Sasuke's body fell limp and he passed out and his body collapsed to the ground. His body was under to much strain from the continuous battles to go any further but he was glad to know that he took Sakura to a safe place for now at least.

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Sakura tried as best she could to ease Sasuke's fall, but only ended up with him laying over her unconscious. She crawled out of the awkward position and attempted to lift him. She managed to half lift it. She made it to the door and searched Sasuke's pockets for a key. A smiled tugged at her lips when she finally found it. She unlocked it and helped him in. Then made sure to lock it back, no one would suspect to look here.

She dragged it through the house to find a bed, and then laid him down. She began to check his legs for sprains or broken bones. He seemed okay. He pulled his hamstring, but that would be fine, and would heal by the time he woke up. She walked out of the room and sat on the couch. 'I sure hope Naruto is okay...' with that last thought she drifted into a well deserved sleep.

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"I have lived the best I can does this make me not a man?"-Korn Alone I break.