Tortured Memories

PoD- "Okay. This chapter is very, very confuzzing. What? What do you mean last minute?! I told you last week it would be confuzzing! Geez!

Bold, italic is Sakura's flash backs(in her veiw).

Just bold is her thought during the flash back.

Bold, italic, underlined is Inner Sakura!

Kay? Now, the first flash back is from episode 3, then episode 108, and finally...episode 8!"

Chapter Eleven

I hummed softly as I stared into the mirror and tied my headband in my hair. I smiled and did a pose when I heard my mother.

"Sakura! Shouldn't you be leaving now?" she called to me.

I turned and glared at my door. "I was about to go!"

Damn it! Stop treating me like a child!

I walked into the streets and stared at the ground as I walked. Yes, I am no longer a student of the academy. I looked up to the clouds and gripped my hand. I am one of Konoha's Kunoichi, Haruno Sakura.

"I'm going!" Ino shouted as she exited from her home.

She stopped and turned to me. I stopped as well and stared at him. I felt my insides starting to boil as I stared at her blonde hair and blue eyes. She smiled and looked straight at me.

"Good morning, Sakura."

"Good morning, Ino."

I walked forward and as I neared her she began to walk too. We walked side by side and all I wanted to do was punch her.

"I can't believe you graduated." she stated.

"The past doesn't matter anymore. Starting today , we are both ninjas. I'm not going to lose to you anymore, Ino."

I took a few stepps forward and smirked happily. That is, until Ino got ahead of me. I toko back my place in front of her and she returned to my side. Then we were running as fast as we could. We both ran down the hall and rushed in through the door at the same time.

"Goal!" we both shouted then began to pant.

"I win again, Sakura." she stated.

"What are you talking about? My toe entered the class before yours by a centimeter." I replied.

"Are you blind?" ino gasped. I looked away from her and smiled brightly as i saw Sasuke. I giggled and ran from ino. "Hey, Sakura!"

Naruto stood up and waved. "Good morning, Sakura-chan."

"get out of my way!" I shouted as I pushed him onto the ground. "Good morning, Sasuke-kun."he glanced up at me and I blushed slightly. "Can I sit next to you?"

"Hey! I'm going to sit next to him!" Ino shouted grabbing my arm.

"First come, first serve," I replied.

"I came into the classroom before you!"

All the sudden the other graduating students stood up and crowded around us screaming that they were first into the room. Like that mattered at all.

Naruto jumped up onto Sasuke's desk and stared at him carefully. He growled as Sasuke stared back at him.

"Naruto! Stop staring at Sasuke-kun!" I shouted.

He looked over to me for a moment then turned back to Sasuke. Naruto glared at him as he looked down at him.

"Sasuke-kun, just beat him up!"

"Yeah!"

"What? For real?" The guy in front of Naruto said as he pulled his arm back and nudged Naruto, that sent him into Sasuke. "Sorry."

"Wha..."

The room went quiet and I stared in shock. Naruto had...had...had just kissed Sasuke!

"Katon, Goukakyu no Jutsu!" Sasuke shouted as flames licked up at Naruto.

His face changed. He no longer looked satsisfied, but surprised. The flames and smoke cleared and I watched Naruto. He had a clone and a orb of chakra in his hand. The clone disappeared and I stared in awe until my admiration of Naruto was broken with Sasuke's words.

"Damn you!" Then his was charging for Chidori. "Chidori!"

"I will win!" Naruto shouted.

"Don't get cocky!" Sasuke replied.

They both went toward each other in anger and rage. I didn't know what to do as I watched them get ready to kill each other. I closed my eyes and found what I had to do.

"Stop it!" I screamed as I began toward them both. I ran as quickly as I could, I needed to stop them or they'd both be killed. "Stop it!"

"Crap," Sasuke cursed.

"I can't stop," Naruto murmured.

Yet I still ran. Suddenly, Kakashi was there. He grabbed Sasuke and Naruto and threw them in opposite directs. I stopped beside him and stared for a moment. They both landed on the hospital roof and I looked at them both.

"What do you think you two are doing on top of the hospital?" Kakashi asked. "Isn't this a little too much for a sparring match?"

Naruto moved his hand and trinkle water poured from a barrel. Sasuke's hand was stuck in one and I wasn't sure what to do at this point. Sasuke pulled his arm from the barrel and a gaping hole poured out emense amounts of water.

"Sasuke, wer you planning on killing Naruto?" Kakashi asked. Sasuke looked up to see him sitting on the barrel. "Why must you insist on being superioir?" Sasuke glared at him without saying a word. "Chidori is not a moveto use against someone of the same village. Why do you act so childish?"
Naruto looked up at Sasuke panting. Sasuke nodded with a grunt and flipped over the fence.

"Sasuke-kun..." I began to cry and tried to wipe my tears. "Kakashi-sensei..."

Kakashi jumped and landed before me. "Sakura." He smiled as I looked up at him. "Everything will be fine. It will be like the old days again. Cheer up. See you."

Kakashi jumped away leaving only naruto and I. I stared in the direction he had left and smiled faintly. Thank you, Kakashi-sensei. I heard Naruto coming toward me and turned around to him.

"Naruto," I whispered.

"Sakura-chan...Don't interfere." he stated without looking up at me.

I flinched at his words. Don't interfere? Why not? I stared at him hoping to hear his reasonings, but he said nothing else.

"However..." Zabuza hissed. Suddenly, there was a second one, the reall one, behind Kakashi. "I'm not that easy to defeat."

The water clone burst and the water flew everywhere until it splashed into puddles on the ground. Naruto's admiration disappeared and was replaced with fear and shock.

"That one's fake, too!" he shouted.

Kakashi turned around quickly and Zabuza swung his sword toward him. Kakashi barely ducked in time as the sword ran over his body. Zabuza hit it into the ground and then kicked Kakashi, sending him flying into the water. Zabuza followed and stopped at the the Caitraps we'd set.

"How idiotic." He then turned toward us but flipped over the traps.

"Sensei!" Naruto shouted.

The Kakashi-sensei was...kicked away?

"His hand-to-hand combat is superb, too," Sasuke stated.

Kakashi surfaced from the water and looked at the liquid that surrounded him. "What's with this water? It's heavy for some reason."

Zabuza ran over the water and quickly made hand signs above Kakashi. "Idiot." he grumbled. "The Hydro-Poison no Jutsu."

Kakashi looked back and cursed, but it was too late.

I touched his arm and he pushed me onto the ground. I stared up at Sasuke with wide, tearful eyes. His blood on my arm and my tears against his. I went to touch his sleeve but he began to walk away, pulling the weapons from his wounds with growls and grunts.

S...Sasuke..kun?

His face was so disfigured. His features so distorted with anger and disgust, sadness and hurt. I didn't know how I was going to fix this mess. I had gotten into it so I had to get out. There had top be a way out. There just had to be!

I could feel them now. Fast and furiously running down my cheeks, leaving burning red streeks across my face. I slowly stood up watching each of the group walk forward from the battle ground. Kakashi was the only one who came back to me.

"Sakura." He still held his poisoned arm and tried to smile.

"Eh?"

"It's alright. Everything will be fine. It will be like th old days again. Cheer up."