This chapter is going to deal more with Katya and Naruto, there won't be much with Sasuke and I will throw in some hints about who I'm pairing Sakura up with. I don't really like the pairing myself, but I think it's most appropriate, so yeah, I'll throw some hints in, but she only interacts with one person so…it might be kinda obvious…

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Unwanted

Chapter 14 – You Don't Hate Me?

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"Why did I have to tell him that?" Katya thought as she trudged along in jeans and a T-shirt along an empty path into a pine forest. "I don't hate him…I told him my past that I couldn't even tell Cagalli or Ayame, why did I tell him?"

"I don't know what to think anymore, our mission, is that more important than my love for that Uzumaki boy? No I shouldn't clump them together, Cagalli and Ayame would kill me if they knew I thought that." It was mid-day, it was two weeks until the finals of the chuunin exams, in a mere two weeks all of the ninja that won their prelim matches would be either promoted to chuunin or kept as a genin, she missed that chance to become a chuunin, but Ayame hadn't.

Ayame won her match, and might even become a chuunin. "Will she leave me behind?" she shook her head. "Even if she does continue for revenge, Cagalli will go with her but, why am I following along with them, Orochimaru didn't do anything to me that would make me go after him for revenge. I have no reason to keep tagging along with them."

"Or do I?"

"No, I don't. It's their problem, not mine."

"But if they wanted me gone they would have said so, right?"

"I'm confused."

"I wish I'd never been born…"

"But then I wouldn't have met Naruto."

"My life isn't empty, it's only incomplete."

"I have reason to live."

"I have friends."

"Friends…"

Katya heard footsteps; she turned her head and saw an orange clad boy walking towards her. She pretended to ignore him, but hoped he would talk to her. Her hope vanished as he walked by her, but he suddenly stopped and without looking back at her he spoke.

"Katya?" she turned her head. "Why do you hate me?"

"…" she didn't answer. "What do I say?"

"Katya?" he repeated.

"Naruto," she said after a moments pause, "I don't hate you but…"

He waited a moment until he saw she wasn't going to continue. "But what, Katya? You know you can tell me anything."

"My mission with my friends," she started, "I can't abandon them, and if I did I wouldn't be much of a friend now, would I?"

"No, I guess not." He moved a little closer. "But that doesn't say why you have to hate me."

"I'm sorry…"

"About?"

"I lied to you." She felt moisture in her eyes. "I-I don't have to hate you because of my mission, but…but it's something else. The thing I told you about me having control over the void between darkness and light, and so forth?" he nodded. "Well, if I develop feelings for a boy then the void between the two will start to lean to one side, it's not supposed to do that. If I become cold hearted it would lean further towards the dark side, meaning that it has more power over light. And if I develop feelings for a boy, it will lean more to the light, making the light more powerful than the darkness. It's even right now, they are stable, but if they become unstable, God knows what will happen."

"Oh, I see." He looked into her glassy eyes, and she looked back into his. "I don't care." He leaned over and pressed his lips on hers. She knew it was wrong, and she felt the light growing stronger like it did when she kissed him before, she knew she shouldn't kiss him back, but like Naruto said, she didn't care either.

"Katya?" she pulled away from Naruto as she heard the voice of her friend. "What are you doing here?"

"I could ask you the same question." Two blue eyes blinked as they looked at Katya, confused.

"I did see that, Katya, not that it's a big deal or anything, right?" Cagalli walked up to them so they stood together. "But I did see that!" she smiled at her friend.

Katya and Naruto both started to blush. Cagalli felt like laughing but she just couldn't, and she didn't know why. "Anyway," Katya said finally, "It doesn't matter anyway."

"But what about what you said?" Naruto asked, Katya glared at him and he backed off.

"You told him your past when you wouldn't even tell Ayame and I?" her voice grew harsh.

"Yes I did, Cagalli! And though we are friends I think you are being too nosy! Butt out!"

"Katya," Cagalli's temper suddenly disappeared, "I don't want to fight with you, we promised that we would be there for each other, no matter what, Ayame too, am I not correct?"

"Yeah…"

"It doesn't matter, I know you'll tell me sooner or later." Cagalli smiled. Katya smiled back. "Though I don't know what Katya's past is, I haven't seen her smile before, I've tried to keep a kind mood but around anybody but Ayame and Katayanagi, it's really hard…"

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"Lee-san? Is that you?" She approached the green clad boy as he trained in a grassy area. "I didn't expect to see you here."

"Sakura?" Lee turned around and saw the smiling pink haired kunoichi standing not 10 feet behind him. "What brings you here?"

"I was going to see how Sasuke was making out with his new sensei," she walked up to him, "how is your training going?"

"Great!" he hit his chest with his fist. "Guy-sensei is the most awesome, but he told me to get a new sensei, but I haven't been able to find one better than him so I'm training by myself."

"Oh, cool." she smiled at him, a slight pink brushed over his cheeks. "Anyway, I'll see you later, Lee-san."

"Alright, Sakura! See you later too!"

Sakura walked past him and along the grassy field towards where Sasuke was training. He had told her to stop by and bring some lunch which he had forgotten to prepare for himself; he was too psyched about his new sensei to remember food. Sakura was glad he called her and not Naruto or someone; she smiled as she thought of his face.

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Cagalli stared at Naruto, her eyes half-closed. Naruto felt hate coming from her glare, and he backed up a step. "Is that glare because of earlier?" he asked.

"Oh yeah," she said instantly, "you pissed my off royaly."

"What did he do?" Katya asked.

"Oh it's nothing much, I just like to glare with no reason at people, that's all." she turned to Katya. "Katayanagi, you seem perkier today."

"What do you mean perkier?" she demanded.

"Well usually none of us talk together because we're all so quiet, except for Ayame of course, she could talk the ass off a donkey, but I mean you seem happier."

"I do? Well, so do you Cagalli." she replied, Naruto felt as if he should leave, but he stuck around anyway.

"Yeah I guess I am happier." she looked towards the ground. "He talked to me earlier."

"Really?" Katya's voice went suddenly into a 16-year-old girl's gossipy voice. "What did he say?"

"Well, after Naruto pissed me off I got so rattled up that I started to cry." she started.

"Though she did have a hard past she's never cried before, as far as I know, anyway. It must have been bad..." Katya thought as she glanced at Naruto.

"He was standing close by," Cagalli continued, "and he asked me what was wrong. And seeing as it had something to do with what Naruto said, it had to do with Gaara, by the way, so he asked me what was wrong and I couldn't answer, so…"

"Should I still be here?" thought Naruto. "Cagalli should be mad at me because of what I said, and Katya will ask any moment what I said…I should leave." he turned around to leave but Katya caught his collar.

"Where are you going?"

Naruto smiled. "Nowhere, why do you ask?"

"So I told him, and…" she stopped suddenly, they heard someone coming. The wind started to blow, and they heard a whisper, but they couldn't figure out what was said.

"C'mon guys, let's go, I have a creepy feeling…" Naruto exclaimed.

"It's ok!" Cagalli said sarcastically. "Katayanagi will protect you!"

He felt mad, but then the wind stopped abruptly as did the whispering.

"Well that was sure weird…" the all said in unison.

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"Alright, then!" Anko announced. "Now that all of you had a month to prepare for the finals it's here! We will start the first match as soon as the Kazekage gets here! Please wait patiently until then."

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That's chapter 14, cool, I have typed a lot; I'm proud of myself………anyway yeah…please review and good criticism is always welcome, just don't spaz, anyway I gather you all can guess who I'm putting Sakura with, yep, that's right. Oh and please check out my profile, I'm hiring people to do fanfic writing for me, as well as accepting apprentices and I'm also up for hire on fanfic writing. More details in my profile and next chapter!