Sakura stepped over to where Ino lay. She stared for a moment, pushed Ino's head with her foot. No movement. She poked her stomach with her foot this time, still nothing. She stepped to the side, leaving Ino unconscious on the ground not caring what state she had put her in 'He's next.' She thought jumping onto a building and hopping off.

Shikamaru ran into the area, he had heard crashing sounds and talking from away. He ran into the field and saw a figure lying in the grass. "Ino!" He yelled rushing to her side; he picked her head up "Ino are you awake?! Are you OK?!" He shook her a bit trying to wake her up, he could feel her breathing though "She's unconscious…" He said in relief.

"Shika-kun what's wrong, I heard you yell…" Hinata's timid voice came in.

"Ya, take Ino somewhere safe and quick, she's hurt badly," He said putting Ino's arm over Hinata's shoulder to support Ino.

"What about you?" She asked quickly before he took off.

"I've got something to take care of…" He said bolting off. When in the air he looked behind him, Hinata was already gone.

'Hinata' stood behind a tree and brought her hands together and smoke appeared around her, when it cleared there stood a blonde man with his hair back in a pony tail and eyes covered, "Heh that was easier than I thought he didn't expect a thing," Deidra said "So this is the princesses best friend eh?" He said looking at the blonde "Hey she kind of looks like me, she could be my sister" He said amused, he took out a walki talki "The first part of phase one of the princesses plan is done." He said smirking.

"Good…" Itachi's deep voice answered on the other line.

"So how's destroying the city going, fun? I can't believe I got stuck with this job…"

"I must go…" Itachi hung up his walki talki.

Gaara ran into the forest, he looked around; this made his eyes widen. It was the same area that the battle between Naruto and him had happened and he had pinned her to a tree, she was so much weaker back then…

"You really are strange did you know that? I can't figure you out"

"Same to you Hurono…" Gaara answered completely unfazed. He didn't face her, even though he knew she was standing behind him.

"It always seemed like you hated me…" He could feel her eyes stab into his back "Do you hate me?" With a flash she was in front of him pouting, "Do you?" He said nothing he just stared at her. Did she become evil? "Are you gonna answer?" She asked still acting like a little kid. The next thing that happened surprised even, Gaara in the oddest manner. He grabbed her shoulder and pulled her into a hug, wrapping his arms around her staring forward "Wha?" Was all Sakura could say. There was an odd silence between the two It must have been strange for Gaara he felt something he hadn't in a long time that day: Heart break.

Sakura pushed him from her softly and reached for the weapon carrier on her leg. She took Gaara's hands into her with a shurikun put in his hand and pointed it at her chest where her heart was "I see what's going on here," She said smirking "You have feelings for me? You wanna kill me don't you? Right?" Her smirk became bigger. Gaara was silent his eyes wide. She than pushed the shurikun into her neck, "If you love me than kill me."

He flinched at the two words: Love and kill. She wanted him to kill her! Sakura just stood there smiling in a devilish manner. What was she doing? Playing games with him?! "What happened to you…" He whispered.

"Well if you wont kill me…" She brought the shurikun away from her neck and put it in the middle of them. She slipped her hands off of Gaara's and right than when she did the shurikun; it fell thru the air and clacked before their feat in almost a symbolizing way "Than I'll just have to kill you." She slipped her hand into the weapon carrier once again and jumped at him the sand swooped in front of her knocking the shurikun out of her hand. She jumped back and pushed herself off a tree trunk smashing her fist into the sand.

'What is she doing?! She knows only Lee can get thru my sand!' He thought angrily.

Sakura kept attacking the sand in the same fashion but it seemed he had to whip the sand out much more quickly as the seconds passed by like stab wounds in his heart. Why did everything have to go wrong with someone who had already felt pain like a daily dosage of medicine? He had already lost the closest person he could ever had been and now the one who had made his heart ach in an odd but pleasing way was now out of his reach. She didn't care about him anymore. He never had a chance. Never. Never. Never.

His head began to pound he grabbed his hair almost ready to pull it out "AAAAAAAAGGHHHH!!" He screamed leaning over in pain letting tears run down his face.

'Got him.' She thought with a satisfied smiled, but right before she was ready with her next attack she was hit "Eh…"

Gaara's eyes snapped back open, he heard a shriek of pain outside his sand barrier; he let it drop with a quick "Sakura!" He saw her on the ground, her eyes were squeezed shut and her hand was on her shoulder. He ran over leaning over her, blood was spilling from her shoulder. He felt another emotional stab wound go into his heart… "W-Why…" He gasped reaching for her wound as if to help.

"Because…" Sakura said in a raspy whisper, she punched him in the head knocking him across the grass just like she did Ino, this time though knocking him completely unconscious "un fair…" She had to fight with her self to sit back up; she placed her hand on the gash in her shoulder almost dropping to the ground again. She had lost too much blood "Sasuke will have to be patient…" She said thru her gritted teeth. She took the time to heal the wound ignoring the pain by taking slow deep breaths as it healed. She stood not bothering to check if Gaara was knocked, he hadn't even fidgeted ever since she had knocked him in the head, she also knew that the punch was pretty hard. She hopped into the trees wobbling a bit because she had just healed herself.

When Shikamaru got there, there was no one at all. All that was left was a small puddle of blood 'Damn it I keep missing her!' He thought in frustration, his attention was quickly taken to Konoha in the distance. Another building had collapsed. 'Man, I knew these guys were good but not this good! Their destroying the whole village and here I am chasing that troublesome girl!' He shook his head and jumped into the trees, right as he got to his second branch he was knocked off, he fell to the ground yelling at first but than just lying there in pain. He looked up and saw the troublesome konichi he had been chasing after standing in the trees "Ya know" She said, "Your getting real annoying…"

I'm sorry to everyone who was hoping for it but Ino is not dead but that's kind of a spoiler, I am sorry but there are only about 2 or 3 chapters left! I am also sorry for any grammar or spelling mistakes I have made and I am also sorry that the battles are so short. Hope you are stilling enoying!

Abby

AKA: AnimeFairyofDarkness