I Do Not Own Naruto


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The Blight


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It was the night of Naruto's eighth birthday when everything went to hell.

Kakashi had left on a mission with Guy earlier that week, he was due home in three days from today. He had left her in the capable care of Itachi and Sasuke before leaving, but that wasn't where she was tonight. Tonight she was at the Uzumaki house that night, it was a rare exception for her to sleep over here because it was Naruto's birthday, the Uchiha family had been happy to drop her off at the Uzumaki house for the night. Tomorrow she'd be back to the Uchiha home again. She was happy to be here, it was her 'brother's' birthday. The Uzumaki family teased her that Naruto had a big sister, and that was fine with her, she thought of Naruto as her brother anyways.

"Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday Dear Naruto! Happy Birthday to you!" Everyone sang as the cake was placed before a drooling, grinning Naruto.

"Make a wish!" Sakura ordered. Kushina chuckled, and Minato grinned as Naruto blew out the candles then.

"Cake Time!" Naruto declared as Kushina cut the cake then.

"Can I have my wish now too?" Naruto asked.

"And what would that be?" Sakura asked blandly.

"A kiss!" Naruto snickered.

"No! You idiot!" she yelped as she whacked his head then.

"Ow! Ow! Ow! Sakura!" he whined, everyone was laughing as she scowled at him.

"You're worse than Sasuke," Sakura grumbled as she bit into her cake. Though Sasuke would never ask her for a kiss or something, he'd punch her if she even tried to kiss him; and Gaara would never dare to ask for a kiss either. Not that it mattered, only Naruto was so bold as to ask for it and since he was pouting she sighed, Sakura gave him a quick peck on his cheek as she finished her cake and stood up with her plate.

"YES!" Naruto screeched, she rolled her eyes then as she put her plate in the sink for Kushina. They continued playing their games until she and Naruto passed out.

The explosion shook the house as she and Naruto leapt into each other's arms as they frantically looked around.

The Fourth Hokage was out of the house then as she grabbed Naruto and hauled him with her. they looked out the window at what had happened.

"Kushina, get the kids to safety!" Minato shouted.

"What's going on?" Naruto whispered.

"It's not the Nine Tails," Kushina announced as she checked Naruto's stomach, Sakura blinked at the sight of the seal. "Alright, Naruto, Sakura, into the cellar, stay there until we get you guys," Kushina ordered as she shoved her and Naruto into the cellar.

"Wait! Sasuke!" she panicked.

"Stay there, the Uchiha will be fine!" Kushina stated as the door was slammed and locked.

"NO! Lemme out!" Sakura screamed as she pounded her fist on the door, but there was no answer. Sakura's heart slammed mercilessly in her ribs as her eyes widened, her body pressed to the door and the panick set in.

"I can't, I can't, I can't!" she whispered. The walls and darkness were closing in on her, she screamed then. Bloody memories surfaced as she screamed into the darkness.


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"Wait Sasuke!" Itachi screamed, but he didn't slow as he slid beneath the tangled feet of a Cloud-nin who reached to grab him. Sasuke pulled the enemy's kunai as he stabbed him in the leg and then he was up and running again. He had to get to the Uzumaki house! He had promised Kakashi he'd take care of Sakura!

"Get back here Uchiha brat, your Sharingan will do," a cloud-nin grabbed for him. He saw the moves though he knew he shouldn't be able to see the moves. He moved on reaction for a child, his arm hooked around the man's arm, he was lifted into the air then, he slashed his weapon then, the man fell back onto the ground. Scrambling to his feet he ran through the chaos towards the Uzumaki house as he ran straight to the house. He saw everything around him as he slipped around everyone and got to the house.

He leapt at the shut door of the battered Uzumaki house, he slashed through the door.

"AAAHHHH!" a girl screamed.

"Sakura!" Naruto screamed, he leapt at the door, slashing through all the wood as he landed into the darkness atop the pinkette.

"I can't! I can't! I can't!" she screamed and then she scrambled away from him as she darted out of the cellar and towards the front door.

"No Sakura!" he and Naruto shouted as they leapt for her, he crashed into her, wrapping himself around her as he pulled her away from the tattered door.

"Lemme go! Lemme go! I can't!" she screamed.

"Sakura!" he shouted as he pulled her under him and glared into her green eyes. They were wild eyes, he had never seen her look so scared.

"We… we can't stay here," Naruto huffed out.

"Sakura, calm down," Sasuke snapped. "We have to stay calm and stay together. You cannot panic."

"Your eyes…" she whispered.

"What? What about them?" he demanded as he pulled away from her and looked at his reflection in the window, oh… they were red, a single tomoe spinning in them each.

"I've got one!" someone shouted as they appeared in the Uzumaki house, Sasuke grabbed Sakura's wrist.

"Stay away!" Naruto screamed as he leapt over them to slam into the intruder.

"Back door!" Sasuke shouted. Sakura yelped with another man appeared behind the one Naruto slammed into and leapt to stick on the wall. He slashed at them. "Out the front door!" he decided as he dragged her and Naruto out after him.

"Don't kill the one with the Sharingan! We need him," someone shouted.

"I got the real Byakugan brat!" someone else shouted as he slid to a stop when he found himself staring at a squirming Hyūga girl who looked terrified.


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"Let her go," Sasuke ordered as he released her wrist. Sakura stared at Hinata, she didn't really talk with Hinata but she knew who the girl was.

"Hey, I got another Sharingan brat!" the captor shouted.

"Don't kill this one," someone shouted.

"Move!" Sasuke shouted, she grabbed Naruto with her chakra infused hand as she leapt onto the wall. Naruto swung his legs, he slammed into the one who had Hinata. Sasuke slammed into him and Sakura released Naruto as she landed on her feet, grabbed the unconscious Hyūga girl as she dragged her off. She was terrified about this but she wouldn't stop running as she leapt over the wall.

"After the pink girl!" the enemy shouted.

"Keep running! Get to Itachi!" she heard Sasuke scream as she ran up onto the wall, then she decided to go for the wires which would be too weak for heavy men, she darted up the telephone post then. She moved as the wire was grabbed, a snap had her leaping up with the dead weight of the other girl

"What the hell is up with these kids!?" Sakura looked over to see men on the telephone poles then. She was trapped.

"Cut the wires," the man on the other pole ordered.

"Catch!" she screamed, she dropped the Hyūga girl as she stepped off the wire, Naruto caught the Hyūga girl and ran, Sasuke ran after Naruto as she fell to the ground after him and ran on the walls.

"What the hell do they feed the kids here?" a man behind her shouted.

"Just get the damn Sharingan and Byakugan! Orochimaru made a deal with us!" a man shouted. Sakura leapt up, she caught a flimsy tree branch, and when they were in striking range released it, they howled in pain.

"This way!" she called to Sasuke and Naruto, they leapt over the wall to join her.

"Where's Itachi?" Naruto demanded. Sasuke's whirling red eyes scanned the area, Sakura's breath hitched at seen the Sharingan, but they remained silent.

"That way," Sasuke whispered as he pointed.

"Kay, wake the Hyūga girl up!" Sakura hissed, as she peeked over the wall. She didn't know anything about the Byakugan, but she knew it was what these guys were after, she knew that they were also after her friend's Sharingan.

"Pst, Pst! Wake up!" Naruto hissed.

"What do you see Sasuke?" she hissed in the Uchiha's ear. His red eyes were whirling, almost like his eyes were discombobulated or something, disconnected too, they whirled around taking in everyone and everything around him.

"Everything," he answered.

"Where do we go?" Sakura hissed.

"That way, get the Hyūga girl awake; they're after the Sharingan and Byakugan," he whispered.

"Naruto? Is she awake?" she hissed down the wall.

"Coming 'round!" he answered.

"Keep quiet dobe!" Sasuke hissed. Sakura leapt down to the girl as she gently shook her, bleary pearl colored eyes opened.

"Hi, I'm Sakura, that's Naruto, and he's Sasuke, we're all going to get through here together," Sakura whispered to the girl with a smile. Though she was scared she'd hide her fears, old nightmares swirled in her mind's eye but she'd look past it all.

"The Cloud!" she gasped.

"Yeah," Sasuke answered. "Let's go!" he hissed.


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Sasuke grabbed Sakura then and pointed.

"We're going that way, we're taking the walls," he whispered.

"Kay," she nodded. He looked to the dobe and the small Hyūga girl was looking confused and terrified as she came to.

"Sakura, take Hyūga, take the walls," he hissed.

"Yep," she nodded, he watched as Sakura grabbed the Hyūga girl onto her back then they ran.

"Where are we going?" the Hyūga girl asked.

"Itachi," Sakura answered then and he nodded as he took the lead, Naruto the rear and they covered the girls. "Hang on!" Sakura shouted as she leapt onto the wall, they ran through the thick of the fight, he wove their path through the battle field, the screams and battle cries could be heard, he saw Sakura's fears, and Naruto's uncertainty as they ran but they didn't slow. The Hyūga girl clung to Sakura, her veins were pulsing as her Byukugan was used, he didn't know what she was seeing but she gasped suddenly.

"Beside us!" she shouted, the wall was crashed through as a shinobi tried to grab Sakura. the pinkette and the Hyūga girl screamed when the hands grabbed for them.

"No you don't!" Naruto shouted as he slammed into the shinobi then. Sasuke came from behind as he stabbed the falling man, grabbed the dobe and resumed running. Sakura leapt down, he watched as she landed on the head of a shinobi then was up in a tree again as he darted after her. Naruto was hot on his heels as he caught up to her.

"Sakura," he shouted as he caught up to her.

"The enemy is heavy that way, but if we go around we can get to the Uchiha manor," the Hyūga girl explained. He nodded, his eyes were still whirling around as he tried to adjust to seeing everything. This range of vision was scary to him as he ran with Sakura and Naruto.

"Watch out for the enemy," Sasuke ordered as they ran together. They made it to the roofs then and didn't stop. The dobe slammed into the girls, knocking them to the ground as he leapt, spinning into the air then as he released his only weapon into the head of an enemy as he fell to the ground after Naruto and Sakura.

"Sasuke!" they all looked up at the call of the voice then, they saw Izumi then as she landed before them.

"Kami, we've looking everywhere for you!" she scolded, her own Sharingan whirling around wildly.

"Get out of here," he heard his father shout, Sasuke turned just as a kunai with a paper bomb slammed into his father's shoulders.

There was a flash of light as he was knocked off his feet and back into the rubble.


That's all for now folks!

Enjoy Blooming in Darkness! =)