Starting off a little short and slow as I get back into this after my computer, I lost my iPad which is what I was writing on and I just got my computer fixed, so bear with me as I jump back into this.

Thank you for all the love and support this story has gotten so far, I appreciate you all.

Snow the snow was fresh under her feet, the cold ran through her light clothing as she searched for her missing teammate. Her hoodie did little block the cold, but she ran in the direction Naruto ran off in, she followed the food prints until the suddenly disappeared.

"Don't tell me he can fly now." She whimpered turning to see if she had missed the footsteps.

She could still hear his cries as he pried the device off his head.

-Flashback-

"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Sasuke stepped forward as she walked through the door, her jeans a little wet from the falling snow, she shook the snow of off her boots as she stepped into the room.

"What's going on, I thought we weren't going to do this again after Sasuke." Pushing her long hair out of her face she looked at Naruto who was pulling his shirt of his head, his eyes held a sadness she hadn't seen before.

"I understand why you guys don't want too, but it's important you know how to handle each other if one of you loses control." Kakashi looked away from the monitor and looked at her.

"I know you have been training closely with them but there are things about them you just don't know yet, and should the day come you'll be prepared." She was confused by everything that was happening.

"Prepared for what?" she couldn't take her eyes off him as he started typing.

"To kill your teammate." Horrified she looked at Naruto, confused she stepped forward but Sasuke stopped her.

The machine played the memories of the last time he lost control of the demon that he shared his body with, the forest around him was ablaze, people running in terror as he ripped through the town. Her heart sped up as she saw Sasuke standing in the middle of a dirt road waiting for him.

His eye was cut, a thin line of blood ran down the side of his face, his eyes spun wildly as he looked at his teammate.

"This is why they wanted to do this, he's been guilt ridden since this happened and he's afraid it's going to happened again. He wants you to know about the possible danger you would be in if he lost control, it was his idea to do this." She looked up at Sasuke, he held his chest as he watched Naruto rake his claws across it.

"I don't want to have to fight him, is there no other way to calm him down or get through to him?" she looked away when he let out a pained cry, "No more, I don't care what he is. I don't want to see anymore!" She yelled, the tears couldn't be held back anymore.

Naruto opened his eyes, and that was the last thing she remembered.

-end-

Grinding her teeth, she picked a random direction and sped through the outside forest, out here there were no safety nets, no cameras, and no teacher. It was just her and the wild beast Naruto had become, she was afraid of him, but she still wanted to protect him and help him. The few months had been hard on all of them, emotionally, physically, and mentally. They had been pushed to their breaking points, they were the top team to beat but no one would step foot in the ring with them, they were gearing up for a fight they knew nothing about and over time the pressure had slowly started eating at them.

She felt like they were lying to her, she felt like they were lying to her; she knew they were pushing her to see how far she would go to save them. She was the outsider looking in, and although she knew that they trusted her as much as she trusted him; she knew this was a test. There was only one thing that could stop him and she couldn't control it just yet.

"Naruto!" she shouted, as time went by the snow began to pile up but she pushed on through the thick snow.

All she had to do was get close to him and she could chase the darkness away just like she did with Sasuke, the cold wind was slowly breaking her down as she pushed through the snow and ice. Her hair was wet from the melting snow and falling ice, her hood and jeans were slowly getting soaked through, her teeth clattered. As she rubbed her arms to generate just a little bit of heat.

Stumbling though the clearing she stopped when she spotted him, his eyes were red and wild as he looked at her; his claws seemed to grow as he became more feral. He looked nothing like the Naruto she was knew, she slowly stepped forward but stopped as he growled at her.

Her cheeks were red from the cold, tears flowed over her cold cheeks because she had found him but had no idea how to help him. She summed what strength she had left and summed the Archangel, he rushed forward as the sword changed shaped into a staff, the handle was a soft gold as it spiraled around the top and a gem in the middle glowed bright.

"Purify the darkness from this lost soul!" she yelled as the ground glowed around Naruto was trapped in ropes of white light, the warmth started to seep in slowly calming him down. Soon the staff was gone, she fell to her knees panting, she looked down at her hands and they were burned. Six months later and she still couldn't control its power or use it longer than a few minutes.

"Sa-Sakura, what are you doing out here?" he shook the dizziness from his head, slowly standing he walked over to where she was kneeling on the ground, he dropped next to her., "What happened to your hands?"

His face was pained, "I still can't control it, this is was happens when you try to use more power than you can handle."

She put her hands in the snow cooling the burns on her hands, she was too tired to heal them, "What are you doing out here?"

"I came to find you, isn't that obvious?" she offered a soft smile.

"You didn't need to do that, why did you?" he helped her stand up, his arms were warm around her as she shivered.

"You guys keep saying this is to help us or build a bond, but I feel like you guys are testing my loyalty to you." She looked away, her lips were chapped, and she was ready to go take a hot shower, "You guys already know how far the other is going to go for you and then there's me, I'm an outsider. You guys wanted to see how far I would go to help you, or to see if I would run and if that's the case I understand."

"It's not like that Sakura." He went to grab her shoulder, but she shrugged him off.

She walked through the snow ignoring his calls and walking right passed Sasuke, ignoring them both as she walked towards the destroyed building. Part of the ceiling had caved in around them, when she came too Sasuke had been on top of her taking the force of the blow.

She ran past the building, she soon made it to her dorm room and locked herself inside, she shed her wet clothes. Switching into sweats and a tshirt she climbed into bed and wrapped herself up in her covers. Her hands still burning, as she cried silently to herself.