Sakura walked into the classroom and quickly found her seat and waited for her teammates, looking at the dry erase board she could see the words "Team Building!" Written across the white board in bod red letters. She sat silently watching the other filter in the room, she lit up a little as her teammates walked in the room. Over the last few weeks they've gotten closer and closer, she seemed to fit perfectly into their little trio. She seem to balance out them out, she was a healthy mix of the two, she could be fun and loud just like Naruto and then retreat into herself and come up with a plan just like Sasuke.
While she was strong in some place she was still weak in others; as they sat down Anko appeared in place of their regular teacher.
"Oh shit." She leaned back in her chair, "Something tells me its about to go from team building to extreme team building."
Sasuke smirked, while Naruto tried to hide his laugh; she was right. Anko wasn't going to make it an easy team building project, she had to make it harder on them.
"While some of you are going to think this extreme, but it is necessary. The people on your team are going to be the people you work with the most and if you cant fully trust your team, you will suffer for it. Learning each other's flaws, biggest fears, and biggest weakness will help you understand how to work as a team better." She held up a stack of paper, "Each of you will send a member of your squad up and you will draw a piece of paper and on thank paper will be you assignment."
They looked at each other, "You go Sakura."
"You only want me to go up there because you're scared of her." She retorted, making Naruto cross his arms.
"Well, so are you." Her brow rose as she looked at him, "And your point would be?"
She scooted her chair back and walked up there, she turned around and stuck her tongue out at him; one by one they grabbed a folded piece of paper and walked back to their seats. Slowly unfolding the paper they sat silently, and stared at the words the boys seemed to know something she didn't.
"What the hell is this?" Osore the world played over and over in her mind.
"It means fear, they have this giant machine that pries in your mind and reveals your biggest fear." Sasuke leaned back in his chair and sighed, he hated that thing.
"Oh, I'm sorry" she folded the paper up and set it on the desk.
"It's not like you knew what you were grabbing, I don't know why you're sorry." He patted her head lightly, and looked around the room, no one seemed to like what they got.
As they walked down the hallway, Sasuke stopped in front of a sliding glass door and knocked on the glass lightly; as the door opened she could smell chemicals immediately. A team walked out in front of them, one kids arm was bandaged as she was followed out by her two teammates looking a little worn but unharmed.
"What the hell?" She repeated, "Can you give me a little hint on how bad this going to be?"
"I can once you come inside." Tsunade appeared in the doorway, ushering them in, "Sakura I take it you know something about the powers these hold right?"
"Naruto has a nine tailed demon fox sharing his body and Sasuke has the visual powers of the Sharingan." Tsunade nodded, and looked at the two boys.
"this test is the ultimate battle of the mind, it makes you confront the things you fear the most and with the powers they hold; they could lose control at any second." Sakura watched as they both lower their heads, "This makes a little more dangerous than any other team walking in this room, even with your powers Sakura; you could lose control at any moment but you're fighting style makes you a little easier to stop than them."
"I'm sure we'll be just fine." She said confidently, smiling at the two as looked up at her.
"Let's start the mood, who's going first?" She walked over and picked up the pads for the monitors.
"I will." Sasuke stepped forward removing his shirt and sitting the chair, she placed the little white pads on his chest and a few on his forehead. HE took a deep breathe as she grabbed a metal ring and placed t around his head she hooked it to the monitor and he closed his eyes.
"I still don't understand what's going on." She. Whispered, scooting a little closer to Naruto as she watched Tsunade finish hooking up the machine.
"It basically traps you in genjutsu, though it is easier to snap someone out of it with less brain damage. You're physically here but your mind is somewhere else and you fight against your biggest fear."
"Why do we even need something like this." She hissed, she watched the rise and fall of chest; it was slow and steady even though his heart was trying to beat out of her chest. She felt a little bit of panic as Tsunade flipped the little switch and Sasuke flinched before he went completely still.
"They said it will help us, sometimes teammates hide things and if they team had known they would've been able to help their teammate. We've lost a few good people that way, and theyre trying to prevent it for happening so often." She grabbed his hand as she watched the screen, he squeezed it lightly, "He'll be fine."
The monitor flicked to life, they watched the memory flicker across the screen; pain showed in his face as he sat there. Orochimaru stood in front of him, snakes flying out of his sleeves Sasuke frantically looked around and finally landed on his friends trapped by two large snakes he turned back around, anger surging through his veins.
"They'll die, there is nothing you can do about it." Sakura saw Naruto but didn't recognize the other face starting back at him.
"Naruto?" She looked up, her green heads held sadness and confusion.
He looked away when sasuke cried out, the villain sinking his teeth into Sasuke's neck as he slowly fell to his knees; she watched the unknown boy attack the snake master.
"Lady Tsunade, don't you think this going a little too far." Kakashi appeared feeling a fluctuation in Sasuke's powers.
"They need to people to stop each other if they lose control, Orochimaru is after Naruto and Sasuke for their powers. He doesn't know the extent of Sakura's powers but she's on his radar as well, and she needs to be ready for what happens when they lose control." He felt bad, this was the last thing she wanted to put them through but with the threat of a take over she needed to speed the process up a little.
Sasuke let out a painful yell as he twisted out of the restraints and pulled the ring off his head taking the little pads with it, ripping the wipes from their places on his body he stepped forward. His eyes blood red and filled with fear, anger, and sadness as he stepped slower to them Naruto pushed Sakura behind him causing her to stumble a little bit.
"Naruto who was that?" The image froze of a boy that looked like Sasuke, his hair was longer and tied into a ponytail. He looked back at Sasuke knowing he was about to die and smiled at him.
"That was his brother, Orochimaru killed him." He still blocked her from Sasuke line of sight as he stood there cracking his knuckles, "You took his spot. Sasuke didn't want a third person, he wanted us to remain as a duo because he was afraid he couldn't protect another team member. His biggest fear is losing those closest to him."
Back markings covered his pale skin, the angrier he got the faster they spread, she could see him trying to fight it but he was losing; stepping out from behind Naruto she called his name.
"Sakura wait!" He called out to her, she held up her hand and it seemed to glow with a little soft light.
"Sasuke!" She yelled again this time full catching his attention, the power rolled off him in waves making it harder to get close to him.
"Get away!" He roared as she grabbed his arm, swept his legs causing him to fall. She placed her glowing hand on his forehead.
"Purify." She whispered, her hand grew brighter.
He let out a pained grunt and her wrist painfully causing her to yelp, "Naruto help me keep him still!"
He was her side holding his shoulder, neither saw the growling sword lodged in the ground; purifying the ground allowed her to use the powers of the Archangel to calm his mind.
"Did she just?" Kakashi watched as the marks disappeared from his body, slowly she sealed the darkness away.
"I didn't know she had that." Tsunade stepped forward in awe.
"She can stop him from fully losing control." Kakashi stated, impressed by the young girl.
Sasuke's eyes went back to their normal color, he released her wrist as she removed her hand both Naruto and Sakura fell back. She rubbed her wrist painfully as the red mark appeared around her wrist, Sasuke sat up and looked down at the floor before speaking.
"I'm sorry." He looked at her wrist, and then at her.
"It's okay." She smiled, waving her hands the sword disappeared and she took a deep breath.
"What's wrong?" He moved by her side, her magic power levels had dropped severely in such a short time.
"I haven't had a chance to use that one all the much." Naruto was on her other side.
"That was insane!" Naruto smiled widely as they helped her to her feet, "How did you do that, and what did you do exactly."
"It's called the Archangel, by placing into the ground the area was purified making it harder for the darkness inside of Sasuke to keep brewing; it slowly suppressed it. The sword will let you use it's powers if your intentions are pure and void of any malicious intent, since all I wanted to do was protect Sasuke and make the memory stop it allowed me to push the darkness away from his mind." The both stood dumbfounded.
"Impressive Sakura, I didn't think you had something like in the your arsenal." Tsunade stepped forward patting her head.
"I actually just got it a few days ago." She smiled innocently.
"So you had no idea how to use that thing?" Sasuke looked at her she laughed awkwardly.
"Not a clue." They all deadpanned as she laughed.
"Then why did you use it?" Naruto asked.
"IT was the only thing I had that wouldn't pissed him off even more." She held her hand out, calling the sword back. The sword was made of a pure white light, the glow hid the beauty of the blade and it's handle.
"It's so warm." He walked closer, as he got closer to the word the warmer it got, "It feel so peaceful."
Waving her hands the sword was gone, "That's why I used it, it's got a strong peaceful aura."
"Sakura, why would seek something like this out?" Kakashi asked, stepping forward to look at his student.
"I've been keep tabs on weird occurrences, odd weather patterns, and random killings and they follow the time line of someone trying to unleash the Demon Hunter. It's a sword made up of pure darkness, all the sounds of angry demons are trapped within it's blade, if the user doesn't have a strong mind; it'll kill them from in the inside out." They looked stunned as she spoke, "The only thing that can nullify it, is the Archangel."
Naruto pulled Sasuke aside, "Are you okay?"
"Hn." He looked away putting his shirt back on.
"I want you to know that what happened to your brother isn't your fault, I know it feels like it's your fault, but its not. You didn't kill your brother, and you're not going to get one of us killed; I know you're worried about having her on the team." He looked at the girl conversing with the older pair.
"I don't want her involved in this Naruto." He looked at the girl, her heart was heavy, "She's already been through so much, I don't want her to het hurt because of me."
"I don't think we have to worry about her all that much, when you lost control; she didn't even hesitate. She knew what she needed to do, and you heard her. All she wanted to do was help you, and she the little power she did from the weapons wiped her out completely." He looked over as Sasuke's face seemed to soften under the dull lighting.
"Exactly why I'm worried, she'll do anything in order to protect someone she cares about; it's how she was trained and raised. Her life is something that's expendable to her, and I don't want her to be put in a situation where that could be a possibility; I've seen her hit you enough times to know she can protect herself." Naruto hadn't thought of it that way.
"I guess I understand a little bit more now." They watched as she laughed and looked over her shoulder at them, something inside he chest seemed to break, "But at the same time, if we left her behind, I think that would hurt more than anything."
It was a lose, lose situation for them; if they tried to protect her then they would still hurt her in the long run. She didn't know just how much they valued her life, she didn't know the extent they would go through, to protect it.