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Warning: This is rated M for blood, language and possible a lemon but who knows?

Author's Note: Eh, I hope that you liked the extremely vague prologue! Let me know what you think of this chapter please!

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She was in pain, that much was obvious. Trying to sit up, Sakura gave a cry, then fell down to the bed with a small 'oomph'. This brought the attention of the only other person in the room.

" S-Sakura-chan?" The voice said, Sakura jerked her head in the direction and her jade orbs met cerulean.

" Naruto." Sakura croaked. He was at her side in a flash.

" Oh god Sakura-chan! Don't you ever scare me like that again!" He shouted, angry that she had almost left him. Sakura looked a little shocked, then the memories came flooding back to her.

" I'll go and get Tsunade." Naruto said softly, looking over at what his best friend used to be.

Sakura nodded and reached over with shaking limbs to grab the cup of water at her bedside. Lifting the glass cup with both hands Sakura gently lifted it to her lips, taking greedy gulps of the life-sustaining substance.

She could remember everything now, why she was in the hospital, why she had sustained such injuries.

Sakura was just to curious for her own damn good.

A few minutes after Naruto had left, someone was knocking on her door, she told them to come in.

" Sakura. . . oh thank god Sakura." Tsunade said with a relieved look on her face after shutting the door behind her and Naruto.

" We were so scared that you weren't going to make it through the night." Tsunade said, giving Sakura a quick scan with her chakra. " Hmm. . . it seems that you're completely healed. . when we left you last night you were covered in cuts and bruises." Tsunade said, noticing that her student was without a scratch.

" Did you try to heal yourself as soon as you woke up?" The Hokage asked with a stern look in her eyes.

" No ma'am." Sakura answered quietly, she was telling the truth.

She knew why she had healed completely. She also knew why she had been forced back into the realm of the living while she was in a brief comatose state.

But she wasn't going to say anything.

" Now Sakura," It was then that the pink haired kunoichi realized that her teacher had been talking to her for the past few minutes, "Can you tell me what happened? Who attacked you?"

" I. . . I was blindfolded. . . then they just attacked me. It was probably just a band of rogue ninja. ." Sakura answered slowly. She hated lying, she really did but this was important, if anyone found out then she would be out casted, hated. . . but most of all, feared.

" I see, well you should be ready to leave the hospital in a few hours. You should go home and get some rest. . . and Sakura?" Tsunade asked, looking at her student to make sure that she was listening. "No more missions for the next week okay?"

" But. . . yes ma'am." Sakura answered dutifully. Tsunade just smiled and nodded as she walked out of the room, probably to go and finish the paper work for Sakura.

" Sakura-chan, when you get out of the hospital I'll treat you to some ramen!" Naruto said brightly, trying to cheer his friend up.

" Oh. . . no thanks Naruto, I need to get some rest remember?" Sakura said wearily.

He nodded with a sad smile. " Well, I gotta go Sakura-chan pervy sage told me to meet him an hour ago." The blond said with a small smile at the familiar nickname.

Sakura nodded and smiled as he hopped out the window, and out onto the busy streets of Konoha.

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Sakura had been released about an hour ago, and she was slowly making her way to her apartment. Tsunade had been so worried that she forced Shizune to walk Sakura home, and she had nothing against that but she really wanted to be alone right now.

" So Sakura, will you be coming in to work at the hospital tomorrow?" Shizune asked, trying to make the awkward silence comfortable.

" Well, Tsunade-shishou said that I should get some rest, so I probably wont be in until later this week. . . unless you need me to come in and work?" Sakura said with a false smile that couldn't fool anybody.

" Oh, no. . . I'm sure that I can find someone to fill in your shifts. . ." The dark haired woman said with a smile, not noticing that face Sakura pulled.

" Well, thank you for walking me home Shizune." Sakura said shortly as she walked into her apartment, waving goodbye to the Hokage's secretary.

" Bye, Sakura." Shizune said with a smile, looking at Sakura as if nothing was wrong.

Closing the door and locking it Sakura sighed, why had she done it? It wasn't as if it were going to help. . . she had been tricked.

And by who you might ask?

The god of death.

Jashin.

Well, that is if you could actually call him a god, he was more like a devil with his sharp words and scrutinizing stares.

But she had agreed to his terms anyway.

Sakura had searched out the devil at a shrine in the Hidden Village in Twilight on her way back from a scroll retrieval mission.

She had been brash and demanded that he stopped the decaying of Naruto's spirit, and that she would do anything in return.

" Alright," He had said, " but you must become my messenger. . . my servant. . ." He had said that he could stop the spiritual decay if Sakura had followed out with becoming one of his followers.

Sakura had agreed. And she was now branded with his symbol a circle with an upside down triangle.

It was branded on both of her wrists.

It was true about Naruto though. The demon fox was slowly taking over, it was becoming more and more powerful, trying to break free of it's flesh prison.

And if it broke free, then Naruto would surely die. . . and Sakura didn't think that she could take another of her friends dying.

After Sasuke had been caught and brought back to Konoha, he had been sentenced to death, she missed him so much.

And she would inevitably see all of her friends die, all thanks to the fact that she was now immortal.

Immortal. . . as in no dying.

What the hell was she suppose to do for the rest of eternity?

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Author's Note: -sigh- yeah yeah I know that whole Sakura made a deal with the devil thing is stupid and all but I mean come on, how else is she suppose to have anything in common with Hidan? And I'm already writing out how they meet... ku ku ku.. this will be fun!