Author's notes: Wow! Thanks for all the reviews on the first chapter ! Well, sorry it took so long but I'm also working on another story. So here's the second chapter. Hope you like it. !

Chapter 2: On My Own.

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His eyes began to open as Naruto looked around the room. He slowly sat up, his head was throbbing. He looked over and spotted another bed a few feet away from him with the blankets ruffled, he figured someone was laying there not too long ago. He spotted something on the desk behind him. A note. He picked it up and slowly unfolded it. He read:

Naruto,

We've known each other ever since we were young. We've shared both good and bad memories together. You have always been there for me no matter what. I knew I could always count on you to help me or to just listen. I don't know where I would be without you. You are my best friend and that's never going to change. This note however is not of good news I'm sad to say. I am nothing but a nuisence to you and everyone in Konoha. I do nothing but get in the way of people. You are a great ninja and I...I am nothing compared to you nor anyone else. I don't deserve friends like you and Sai and Kakashi-sensai and everyone else. I always bring you down during a mission making you stop so that you have to come and save me and then when I get the chance to save you and Sai I blow it by fighting Sasuke and almost killing us all. I'm so sorry Naruto, but things are best this way. Ino's in training to become a medical ninja, she can take my place. By now I'm far away from Konoha, somewhere where you won't find me. Please don't come looking Naruto, just keep me as a memory, nothing more and your life will be so much better. I love you Naruto, tell the others I say goodbye. I'm sorry. Goodbye forever.

Your Cherry Blossom,

Sakura Haruno.

Naruto clutched the note tight in his hand as tears rolled off his cheek and onto the paper. He looked over and saw her headband on the table as well. He picked it up noticing the line through the insignia. He held it tight as he closed his eyes and more tears fell. He finally threw back his blankets and left the hospital the headband and note in his hand.

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Tsunade lifted her head from her desk, papers stuck to her forehead and drool dripping off her lip. She put her hand on her forehead as she had a huge headache from all the sake she drank. She looked at all the paperwork on her desk as Shizune walked in and added more. "Ughh." Tsuande moaned. "Where's Sakura?" she asked. Shizune simply shrugged. "She hasn't been in all morning." she answered.

"Well get her in, this paper work won't finish itself." "Hai Tsunade-sama." Shizune said turning to leave.

"You won't find her." a voice said from the window. Shizune stopped and Tsunade turned and looked at the window. "Sai?" she said. "What do you mean ?" she asked. "She's gone." he simple said while sitting on the window sil. "Gone..how can she be gone." she asked still confused.

Just then the door to her office brust open and a certain hyper-active ninja walked in. He looked at her. His face wet from tears, his hands bleeding from him squeezing his hands so tight. "She's gone." he said.

Tsunade stood from her seat pulling the paper off of her forehead. "What happend. Where is she!" Tsunade said frustrated at this point that she knew very little. Naruto walked over and placed the note on her desk along with the headband. Tsunade looked at him at first confused but then picked up the note and slowly read it over. A few moments passed and her expression changed. She placed the note on the desk and slammed her fist against it hard splitting it in half.

She sat back in her chair. Her head hung low and she closed her eyes, tears threatening to fall but they wouldn't, she wouldn't let them.

"I want to go look for her." Naruto finally said. "No." Tsunade replied. "Why not!" he yelled. Tsunade didn't answer as Naruto drew closer. "Why won't you let me go after her!" he yelled.

"You remember last time you went to go look for Sasuke! You all came back on deaths bed! " "I don't care! We have to get her back... we have to!" he yelled tears in his eyes.

Tsunade sighed. "I will not permit it, Sakura is an s-class criminal, a traitor to the leaf village." she said. "No.." Naruto said clutching his hands into fists. "If she is found...she is to be killed." "No.." he repeated once more. "She's a coward and a traitor...she deserves to be killed." Tsunade finished.

Naruto looked at Tsunae infuriated. "How can you say that ! This is Sakura we're talking about. Our Sakura!" She was your student! You were like a mother to her and a daughter to you, how can you say that! I will never forgive you for saying this!" he yelled grabbing the note and headband and storming out of the office.

Sai left as well as Shizune and Tsunade were the only ones left. Shizune stood silent. Tsunade leands foreward and rested her elbows on the desk her head in between them. She closed her eyes tight as she fought to keep the tears back. She hadn't cried since Dan died and she promised herself she would never have to again, that she would protect those close to her. She failed once more. She couldn't hold it in any longer and the tears began to fall. Tears from many years, for her brother, for Dan and for Sakura. Shizune stood behind her, her head bowed low and her arms to the side as they shared a moment for Sakura.

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Sakura stood atop a tree. She wore a black mask and a black ninja suit to hide her identity. She had used some sort of coal to darken her hair and her eyes. She jumped silently from tree to tree.

She didn't have any exact place in mind to go to, just somewhere far away from Konoha, as far as possible. She jumped down from the treetops and walked through the forest. She heard footsteps as a group of men surrounded her.

"What do we have here? A lonely maiden with no man to protect her." they said as one of them took out a knife and twirrled it around. Sakura didn't move. There were about eight men, all armed and surrounding her. Another man spoke up, "We could protect you, and call you our own." he said with a smirk. One stood directly in front of her as he smiled and looked at her whole body.

"How about you come back to my place and I'll take goood care of of you." he said grabbing her wrist. They were all dirty and their breath smelled of cheap alchohal. "Let go of me." she said coldly as the man laughed and tightened his grip putting his knife up to her throat. "Or what?" he said.

"Or I'll have to hurt you." she said as the men began laughing. "How sweet, a young woman thinks she could take out all of us." he sneered. She sighed as she looked at him in the eye. "I'll count to three." she said. " One.. two.." she started. "Three." The man said with a smirk testing her. "Alright, you asked for it." she said.

She raised her free wrist and grabbed the mans wrist that was holding the knife to her throat. She snapped it back as a crack could be heard. The man let out a cry of pain as he released her wrist. "That bitch broke my wrist! Get her!" he yelled stepping backwards as the other man moved in to attack her.

Sakura got into a fighting position as they attacked her with their weapons. She blocked their attacks and pulled out a kunai countering them as well. She slashed a mans throat and stabbed another. She grabbed two men and jumped into the air as she fell back to the ground she outstretched her arms while holding them and smashed them into the ground creating a small crater.

Sakura stood and smirked. What was this feeling, this feeling of blood and death, she never felt this way before. The other four men dropped their weapons and began to run. Sakura took out four shurikan as she threw them all with speed and precison, they all tore through the back of the four mens necks.

Sakura stood amongst all the dead bodies. Her bloodlust had dissapeared and she returned to normal. She held her head, she had never felt that was before, what was happening. She asked herself.

Little did she know that someone was watching from a treebranch above.

She sighed and continued through the forest leaving the mess behind. She jumped up into a treebranch and travelled through the trees once more. Night came and she stopped to rest. She noticed someone leaneing against a tree up ahead. A trail of blood behind them.

She slowly walked over to them as she couldn't make out who it was because of the darkness. She heard his uneven breath as she drew nearer. "Are you okay?" she asked as the person looked up at her, his eyes glowing red for an instant before they became a dark colour.

He didn't answer as he just stared up at her. "You're bleeding..why don't you let me take a look." she said kneeling beside him. He hesitated for a minute before pulling his arm back. Sakura lened in closer and removed his cloak that he was wearing, she couldn't see if there were any designs on it.

She saw the deep gash on his side. "You've been hit in a major artery. I'll take care of that for you." she said as she pulled off her gloves and held her hands above his wounds, her hands began to glow a pale green as his wound began to immeadiatly heal.

He watched her heal his serious wound with such speed. Thunder roared through the sky as the rain began to fall claiming new victims as it did. Sakura and this man were up against a tree so they were protected from the rain.

She finished healing him as she pulled her hands away and looked up at him. "There, all better." she said with a smile. The rain fell through the leaves, and because Sakura wasn't totally against the tree the rain had claimed her as thier new victim.

It began to wash away the colour in her hair and her pink hair was visible again, the dark make-up she wore washed away as well. The man beneath the tree recognized her. Her mask fell off as she watched it fall to the ground and then looked back up at him.

A few moments of silence passed as the man finally spoke up. "Sakura Haruno." he said in his monotone voice. Sakura looked up at him as his eyes began glowing red again. "How do you know my name.." she said as there was a flash of lightning and it lit up the area for a split second and Sakura's eyes widened. She now knew who this Uchiha was. "Itatchi.." she said slowly as he stared at her.

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Author's notes: Well, there you go. Another chapter. Review and let me know what you think. The next one will be out soon. )