Well I don't own Naruto and I'm sure you all know that by now so lets just get to the story...

Sakura starred at her reflection in the mirror that was hung on the wall of the small tan room. She was a complete mess! Her cloths were torn and she still had dried blood and dirt all over her body.

Just as Sakura was about to grab for the door handle to find somewhere to get cleaned up, it turned. And a skinny tall blond haired maid came walking in. The maid gave Sakura one look up and down and her gentle smile turned to a small frown of disgust.

"I think we better get you into a bath right away, miss." said the women putting a bonny hand on Sakura's back to lead her out of the room. Sakura was lead down the large hallway to a small bathroom with blue tiles covering the walls.

"Ok, I'll start to fill the bath for you miss." said the young maid as she turned the bath handle. Steaming water rushed out the pipe and filled the bath to the top. "Hope it won't be to hot for you." said the maid.

"No it looks fine." said Sakura. When the maid left the bathroom Sakura started to peal off her dirty cloths. Sakura looked at her wounds. Her use to be deep cuts were only small scars now. Sakura having the demon inside her could now heal much faster then any normal human. She slide into the steaming water. Sakura started to scrub off the dirt and blood but when she looked down at the now dried blood it only brought back awful memories. Sakura's head was filled with all the times the wolf demon had taken full control of her body and she had killed women and children.

Sakura's thoughts were cut though as she heard a small knock at the door. "Are you almost done, miss?" said the skinny blonde outside the bathroom door.

"Um yes. Just a minute." said Sakura as she stepped out of the big tub and pulled the hanging towel off the hook and wrapped it around her small body. The small room was filled with foggy steam. Sakura walked over to the window and pushed it open to release the stream. As she was about to turn and walk back she saw Neji down below her training with an old man. She could not help but watch them train. Just as Sakura was staring at the back of Neji's head he turned to look up at the window she was standing at. Sakura quickly ducked to the ground hopeing with all she had he didn't see her staring at him.

Another knock came at the door as Sakura was still ducking under the window. "Miss are you decent?" asked the maid outside the door. Sakura moved away from the window and checked to see if her towel was covering all of her and then opened the door.

"Now you look much better." said the blond maid walking into the bathroom. "I'm very sorry miss. I looked all over this house but I'm afraid we have no cloths that would fit you."

"Well that's ok I can just wear my old cloths." said Sakura even though she didn't want to put her dirty cloths back on.

"Well your breakfast is done now. While you are eating I can try to scrub some of that dirt off for you." said the maid as she walked over to a little white closet and pulled out a very large white maid dress. "Here while I'm cleaning your old cloths you can wear this for now."

Sakura pulled the large dress over her head. The dress fell to the ground and the sleeves were almost to her knees. The maid helped Sakura roll up the sleeves before she took her to the dinning room.

In the middle of the large room was a long wooden table that looked like it could fit at least a dozen people at it. Sakura sat at the front of the the table as the cook came walking out of a side door with a silver tray in her hands. The cook set the tray in front of Sakura to reveal a huge breakfast that could have last Moto and her at least a day in a half. Moto was never a rich man and his little money only bought them enough to servive.

Sakura stuffed the food into her mouth as if it would disappear any moment. She was chewing on her last fork full of egg when Neji walked into the room.

Neji was sweating and breathing a little heavy from his tough training outside. The cook came out soon after Neji walked in with a cup filled with water. Neji gulped the water down just as the tall skinny blond maid came walking into the dinning room with Sakura's old cloths draped over her left arm. The maid set the now sort of clean cloths in the chair next to Sakura.

"Oh, Neji sir." said the tall blond walking over to where Neji stood. "Don't forget you have a meeting with the chief in the town hall today." Neji just nodded his head in agreement. "And sir if this young lady is to stay with us. Might I add that I think we may need to buy her some new cloths. Her old cloths are sort of dirty." said the maid.

Neji glanced over at where Sakura sat. "Well I'm heading to town any ways I guess I could take her along. Would you like to come Sakura?" asked Neji with a small grin on his face as he looked at the huge maid dress she wore at the moment.

Sakura ignored his grinning face as excitement and fear both came over her. She was excited to be able to go to a town in her human form and not be looked at with hatred and fear. But at the same time her last visit to a town almost cost her, her life.

But excitement won the small battle in her head and she agreed to go to town with Neji. Sakura changed back into her old cloths that the tall maid tried to clean but lots of the blood still remanded. The maid gave Sakura one of her long traveling coats so at least most of Sakura's blood stained cloths were covered.

After the maid was done with braiding Sakura's long pink hair down her back. She lead her out the two large doors to meet a white and blue carriage waiting for her. A tall man was waiting next to the open door on the side. He held out his hand and helped Sakura inside. 'wow I could get use to this!' thought Sakura as the light blue haired man lifted the small train of her coat into the carriage after her.

"Ready to go?" asked a formilier voice behind her. She turned around to see Neji seating on the other side of the carriage. Sakura nodded her head in agreement. Neji knocked on the front of the carriage wall twice to tell the driver they were ready. And a second later the carriage was off down the road. Sakura looked over at Neji. She found Neji was still looking at her with his little grin still playing across his face. Sakura turned her head to face the small window next to her. She starred out the window all the way down to the town. They finally stopped and the driver was at the door again ready to help Sakura down. She stepped out to see a huge building infront of her. There was a wide sign standing next to it reading 'Town Hall'.

"I will only be a minute." said Neji behind her. "You can wait over there." he said as he pointed over to a small wooden bench under a large maple tree." With that he left her and walked over to the iron doors of the town hall. Sakura made her way over to the wooden bench and sat down watching the blue and white carriage turn a corner to go park.

Sakura watched the white puffs of clouds float above her as she tried to make out what they looked like. Just as she decided that one of the long wispy clouds looked like a dragon with wings she felt someone staring at her back of her head. She turned around but all that was there was the tree trunk. She looked up but there were to many leaves and branches to see anything. She sat back in her seat. 'wow I'm must be getting paranoid now a days.' thought Sakura.

"Sakura.." said a voice that sounded like a child whispering a song in her ear. The whisper sent a cold chill up Sakura's back. She turned around again but still nothing. Then high in the maple tree something started to shack the branches as if something heavy was moving up there. Sakura jumped from her seat and ran to the town hall building. Grabbing one of the iron door handle's she flung her body into the building. Sakura's chest met something hard and the next thing she knew is she was on her back. She opened her eyes to see a very irrated looking Neji.

"Sakura what the hell?" said Neji still looking irritable. Neji looked into Sakura's face. Sakura's eyes were still huge with the whole tree thing and Neji saw that something was wrong with her. "What's wrong?" asked Neji sounding a little concerned. Sakura glanced back at the large maple tree but nothing was there and the tree stood perfectly still.

Sakura cleared her voice but she still could not find words. She picked herself off the ground and rubbed her soar back where she feel on. She closed her eyes trying to calm herself down. "I'm sorry. It was nothing I just wanted to check when you were going to come out. That's all." said Sakura as she turned away from Neji's searching eyes. She was not about to add creepy voices and trees shacking with no wind, to her being a demon. She could just imagine Neji's big grin if she told him. He would thing she was going crazy.

Sakura could still feel Neji's eyes on her. "So is it time for me to get new cloths now?" asked Sakura in the happiest voice she could make at the moment. She turned back around to face him again. He still looked a little suspioses but he nodded his head.

They walked down together in complete silence till they reached a clothing shop for women. They opened the door to the cloth store as Sakura's eyes went wide. There was so many cloths all over.

"You can get two new pairs of cloths." said Neji seeing how excited Sakura's face looked at all the pretty cloths. Right as Neji finished with his sentence Sakura was off looking at all the cloths. After ten minutes Sakura was already in the dressing room with a dozen different cloths to try on. Neji leaned on the wall next to the counter till Sakura finally came out with a jade green dress on that came down to her knees and gold embroidery flowers in the hems of the dress. She was caring another dress draped over her arm as she walked over to Neji.

"These are the two I want. Does this one look ok on me?" asked Sakura.

"Yes." was all Neji said as he turned to the lady standing behind the counter. But Sakura smiled to herself cause she could see a small blush on Neji's cheeks. The lady rang up how much the cloths were and Neji paid the bill.

As they were walking out of the store Sakura's stomach gave a loud growl.

"Hungry?" asked Neji .

"Yea just a bit. But I can wait till we get back to your house." Sakura said but Neji was already walking down the street to a near by restaurant. The restaurant was small and quiet. A lady wearing an apron came walking up to them.

"How many?" she asked.

"Two." Neji replied. With that the lady turned and motioned for them to follow her. She sat them down near the window.

"My name is Shari, and I'll be waiting on you today." she replied with a fake smile as she handed the menus out. Shari left and soon came back with two glasses of water. "Are we ready to order now?"

Neji just starred at Sakura waiting for her to answer.

"Umm I guess I'll get the mushroom ramon. What are you going to get Neji?" asked Sakura.

"The same." he said as he handed his menu to Shari's waiting hand.

"All right those will be out in a couple minutes." said Shari turning to walk over to the kitchen.

Sakura looked down at her fidgeting fingers in her lap. It had been a while since she had to have a conversation with anyone other then Moto. She tried to think of something to say but Neji's voice suddenly filled the silence.

"So how is your leg holding out? You have not even complained once about it today." said Neji. "That's not really the Sakura I remember." he said with a grin.

She knew she would have to explain it to him sooner or later. Sakura pulled the hem of her dress up a little to revel her cut free leg. Just some red looking bluches were the wound use to be. Neji's eyes opened wider but he quickly regained his clam look.

"Me, having the demon inside me it allows me to heal much faster then any normal person." said Sakura putting the hem of the dress back down.

"So how exactly did you get this curse in the first place?" This was defiantly not the story she was hopeing to have to tell him but he had already helped her with so much and sheknew he deserved to at least know the truth about what happened to her.

Neji sat and listened as she told about the mission she and her team were suppose to have done. How they failed and the princess had died...

"...then the lord guy ordered his knights to kill me. I don't remember much after that though to much was happening." said Sakura bring another spoon full of ramon to her mouth that Shari had just brought them.

"But I'm confused. Where was Naruto and Sasuke at this time in your story?" said Neji looking confused.

"Oh them..." said Sakura " Well. They were...they were right next to the knights trying to kill me." said Sakura looking down at her ramon not wanting to look up into Neji's face.

"They what?" said Neji his voice dripping with disbelief. "They were just watching as they tried to kill you?"

"No,.. they were helping." Sakura said but her voice was bearly above a whisper. She still hung her head low, scared to look up.

Sakura heared Neji make a small growl noise. When she finally looked back up Neji's face was back to it's calm look but his gray orbed eyes looked hard and blank.

"How did you excape then if your team mates and the knights were trying to kill you?"

"Well, I blacked out and I guess they thought I was dead. But all I really know is that I woke up to see dark storm clouds covering the moon. And I was human again. I was so scared cause I didn't want the knights to come back to look for me so I got up and ran as best I could with my wounds though the woods. I don't know how far I ran but I tripped over a root and fell to the ground. I stayed there the rest of the night. Shortly after that Moto found me and took me in." said Sakura finishing up her story.

While Sakura and Neji finshied their rest of their ramon Sakura told Neji about Moto.

"So Neji..." said Sakura when they were finally back in the cariage heading to Neji's house. " Why are you here? I mean why arn't you in K village?"

"My grandfather who is the head of the family asked me to come train with him for a while. And since my family only chooses the strongest son to be the next head of the family my grandfather wants me to be the strongest I can be. He secretly wants me to be head instead of my older male cousin. But even if my grandfather says I amstrong I still have to pass my family's test." said Neji with a scowel.

"So what is the test?"

"Well it starts off with all the sons of the family who are over 16 get together. Then the head of the family puts all the sons with partners and make them fight it out. Who ever is still standing by the end of the fight wins." said Neji shrugging.

"Hmm.." said Sakura not really knowing what to say. "But how long have you been training with your grandfather?"

"Two years. I remember I left the same day you left for your mission."

"Oh.." said Sakura. She sat quiet all the way back to the house. She had so much on her mind at that moment. What did Naruto and Sasuke tell everyone when they went back to the village without her? Did anyone even search for her?

When they got back to Neji's grandfather's big house Neji jumped out turning around holding his hand out for Sakura. Sakura hesitated for a second but then reached and cluched his hand taking his help. His hand was warm circled around hers. She tried to pull her hand back when both her feet were planted on the ground but Neji just held tighter. He walked to the main door both of them not talking. He finally let her hand go when they were both inside. Sakura felt like she could breath again. That was about the first time she ever held a boys hand before. And she liked it. But it left her feeling confused. Was Neji starting to like her? Was she starting to like him? She could not tell. With Sasuke it was more of a stalking fase that she went though.

"Umm.. I'm going to go put my new cloths in my room. I'll be right back." said Sakura turning around to walk to her room. She had to get out of his gaze it made it so much harder to think when he was looking at her.

Sakura put her new outfit on her bed and went to the mirror to look if she looked ok before she went back to Neji's side. She brushed though her hair twice before she thought she looked decent. Sakura was just about to turn the corrner to enter the room she had left Neji in when she heard a name that still brought shivers up her back.

"Koda?"said Neji. "What does my dear cousin Koda want?"

"The note only says he wishes to talk to you immediatly. He says he has much important issues to discuss with you. And he wants you to leave for his castle as soon as you can." said one of the maids to Neji.

Sakura's heart started to race. She knew this all was to good to be true. Moto was right she should trust no one. Who knows what Neji would do with her. Or worse what if Koda knew about her he would surly kill her this time! Was Neji just pretending to like her so he could bring her to Koda's place?

Sakura's mind was starting to sworm with panic. Her breathing was short and fast. Sakura ran back to her room not sure what to do. She shut her door pacing. Planning.

"Sakura?" came Neji's voice outside her door. "Is everything ok Sakura? You didn't come back."

"I..I'm fine." Said Sakura trying to clam her voice. "I think I'll go take a..a bath." she said as she walked out of her room past Neji and into the small blue bathroom.

Neji could tell something was wrong with her but could not figure what. So he watched her walk to the bathroom and shut the door.

Sakura shut the door and turned on the water letting it run into the bath. She knew she could not stay here. Not if Koda knew where this place was. Not if Neji was his cousin!

With the water still running she opened the window. Slowly not to make any noise she jumped the small distance to the ground. Then not looking back she ran into the darkening woods...

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