A FRESH NEW START

Previously:

"Did I forgot to mention that Tenten is a specialist in weaponry ." Said Neji with his eyes closed and arm crossed trying to imagine Tenten's wrath upon the pathetic fan boys.

"Whatever.. Lets get to class before we get detention."Spatted out an uninterested Sasuke.

SURPRISE SURPRISE

The guys were adjusting their instruments and preparing their usually band session. Their band was called Shadow Kunai. Naruto was on drums, Shikamaru on the electric bass, Neji on the electric guitar and on vocals. As for Sasuke, he was the lead vocalist and played the electric guitar while Chouji was the manager and Lee was the co-manager. They were all known around campus and they were the best. They won fives times in a row the battle of the bands and this year will be their sixth win.

"Hey this year take no prisoners and show no mercy." Chouji reminded them.

"Yeah yeah so always say the same thing year after year. We are unbeatable Chouji!" Naruto shouted out in merriment.

"Are we going to practice or what?" growled Sasuke

"Ok lets just practice 'Riot'." Shikamaru suggested. Sasuke started to play and soon the others fallowed up.

Sasuke :"If you feel empty, so used up so let down,

If you feel so angry, so ripped off so step down,

Your not the only one refusing to back down,

Your not the only one so get up,

Neji and Sasuke: Let's go riot, riot

Let's go riot x 4

'''knock knock'''

"AH, Who is it now!" Sasuke was furious. They can't get threw a song without anybody interrupting them. He went to answer the door and had his sharingan activated."What the fuck do you want!?" Without evening knowing who was it.

"Thats a nice way to greet visitors." His eyes turned back from crimson to onyx realizing who was at the door.

"Oh Tenten, Sakura, what do I owe this pleasant visit."

"Cut the crap." He was stunned by Sakura's answer. "Was that music I heard from?" Tenten saw a black Fender Guitar in his hand.

"Sweet guitar Sasuke. What you play in a band?" Sasuke thought of a great idea how to mess up Neji again and told them to see for themselves and let them in his dorm. Both girls entered and saw the rest of them by different kinds equipment.

"We have guests. Does this answer your question?" Tenten's eyes had stars on them. Sakura could of sworn she was like a little girl lost in a toy store She just grabbed a seat of greeting everybody with an indifferent look. Tenten ran up to Neji's black and white electrical guitar and admiring it which made Neji uncomfortable. Both Sasuke and Sakura chuckled in the back of their heads. "Hyuuga are you ok? You're shivering" He made a mental note to kill his band mate later.

"Sasuke's right." Tenten reached her hand and placed on Neji's forehead. He was red. "No wonder he said that, your hot and red. You should go the nurse's office."

"I'm fi-ne, that's unnecessary. Uchiha weren't we practicing?" Giving him a death glare.

"Don't be silly Neji, we have guest. So I decided on behalf of the band to take a break." Saying it with a smirk on his face. Sakura decided to play algo with Sasuke by seeing how red was Neji when Tenten touched his forehead.

"Hey Tenten, why don't you show them how you really play the guitar. Neji wouldn't mind lending his guitar to you, right?" Sakura gave him one of her innocent looks.

"I didn't know play the guitar." He asked Tenten.

"Let me show you." Neji handed her his guitar to her and Tenten gave him a bright smile. "What do you want me to play Saku?"

"Why don't you play the intro of 'When Your Heart Stops Beating'. Better yet I'll join you." Sakura turned to Sasuke. "Can you lend me your Fender? Please!"

"Knock yourself out." He handed it to her. Tenten started to play and that was followed with Sakura singing and playing on Sasuke's guitar.

Sakura: Turn it up, I never wanna go home

I only wanna be part of your breakdown

She got caught up by the fool on the floor

that picked her up and she'll never get let down

And now I can't stop thinking about it

All you people at the time know nothing about it

We don't give a fuck what the price is

So leaves to our own devices and we'll live you alone

Both: I'll be there when your heart stops beating

I'll be there when your last breathe is taken away

In the dark when no one listening

In the times when we both get carried away.

All the guys were awed by their performance. Naruto had his mouth wide open but suddenly he snapped out of it and broke the silence. "You should sign up for the Battle Of The Band next couple of weeks" He blabbered out.

"Huh?" Wondered Sakura

"Umm...nothing nothing." stated Shikamaru hitting Naruto in the arm.

"Hey we gotta go see ya and thanks for lending us the guitars." both the Kunoichis said in unison and took their leave.

Right after they left Naruto started to yell. "WHY DID YOU HIT ME!? WHY DOES EVERYBODY HITS ME!?"

"Ooh how troublesome, Naruto do you realize they're good."

"Yea so."

"That means dobe, if the enter we have less chances to win this year. So we don't need completion this year." Sasuke stated out the obvious.

"Ohhh."

"And to answer your second question, it's because your fun to hit." Naruto went to a corner and started to sulk.

"Nobody respects me..sniff...sniff.."

" I respect you, Naruto-san!!" Shouted Lee with his causal thumbs up pose.

"...kiss up.." Neji rolled his eyes.

"And can't you be so obvious that you like Tenten. Today was the first time I had ever seen you blush." Neji was ready to launch at the Uchiha but held back by his friends.

"I SWEAR UCHIHA I'M GONNA GET EVEN WITH YOU, YOU JACKASS!"

"Calm down. She didn't even noticed it but i can't say that for Sakura though."

"..Fuck." Neji muttered.

"Don't worry Neji, I don't think my cherry blossom had noticed your youthful journey towards the road to love!" said Lee with another thumbs up. Both Sasuke and Neji popped a vain from what the innocent ninja have said. Both gave Lee a blow to the head. Poor Guy, he didn't know why did he deserved that and anime tears fell down from this weird elmoish eyes.

"Now thats taken care of lets eat RAMEN!!!!" shouted Naruto. He quickly disappeared and reappeared with boxes of instant ramen. "LETS EAT!" They started to chow down and talk about which song are they going to play in the contest. After that the rest of the guy's left Naruto's and Sasuke's dorm. Both of them started to clean up and put away all of the band equipment. So much things had happened today. Sasuke went to sleep while Naruto decided to have a midnight stroll through the training grounds.

The moon and the stars were illuminating the dark sky. Naruto was enjoying the peace environment until he heard a tree crashing down. He rushed up to see what was going on. He was paralyzed He couldn't believe what was he seeing. "Sakura?" Right before him he saw the kind-hearted pink haired kunoichi he'd meet a few days back with a powerful and darker aura around her. She was different, her eyes had become piercing blood red, small markings covered her right arm and the right side of her face. She had grown fangs and her nails grew which were painted black. Even her hair had completely transformed. The length of her hair was up to her waist. The light pink color turned into a much more darker shade of pink. Naruto was blank. Sakura looked at him and started to walk towards him. Suddenly she let out a shriek of pain and before falling to the ground she called weakly his name.

"SAKURA!"

Naruto ran towards her and caught her before impacting with the ground. "S-akura, what happened to you?." In a few seconds all of her markings started to fade away, retreating back to one spot. Her tattoo It was glowing in a reddish color. Slowly Sakura went back to her usual appearance.

"N-na-rutoo..." she called him in a weary tone. "Please don't tell anybody about this."

"Ok Sakura-chan, but only if you answer my questions." Sakura nodded and smiled in return. Both of them sat down and she started to tell Naruto about her awkward transformation and how her tattoo is really a mark. He was stunned by what she told him. It was like telling a five year-old that your a superhero or something. Sakura let out a sigh after telling the blond her story. There was an uncomfortable silence between. Sakura was afraid that Naruto would think she is a experimental freak. His face turned from a awed expression to a grinning fox. He caught Sakura into a strangling bear hug. Sakura was shocked by the reaction of the ninja.

'Well this isn't what I expected' she thought.

"YEAH! Your just like me and Sasuke!" Sakura eyes went blank.

"WHAT!!! Grabbing Naruto by the collar shaking him for explanations

"He he well you see we also have these weird transformation tthingys..." He said looking down playing with his thumbs. "It's a long story."

"Well lucky for you I have time so SPIT IT OUT!" Naruto let out a big sigh.

"I have a fox demon sealed inside me ever since I was a baby. Thats why I have abundant amount of chakra and sometimes have flea problems." Naruto continued scratching his head. "All I need to do is not to let this demon out. And thats it."

"And what about Sasuke?" She asked impatiently

"Oh... well Sasuke.." Naruto felt uneasy about talking about his best friend's past. It was very delicate. " ...It's not my place to say. However, I can only tell you that Sasuke's tattoo is actually called the cursed mark. This Old snake Sanin did that to him so later on he can use Sasuke's body for his own evil deeds. I think he is dead now but the teme still won't give up 'till he see it with his very own eyes. Also when the curse mark is activated Sasuke completely changes his appearance. Its hard to explain it with words." putting his hand behind his head with an uneasy look on this face.

"Naruto I can take a hint. Thanks for helping me though." Naruto stand up and helped Sakura get up. "Thanks."

"Want me to walk you to your dorm?" still wondering if she was completely ok.

"No thank you, I'm fine. See you tomorrow Naruto." She left waving good-bye.

"Bye Sakura-chan."

SAKURA'S P.O.V.

As I was walking towards the girls dorms I felt somebody's chakra close by. Each time I took a step forward it came closing in on me. It was getting very close within each step. Too close for comfort. I'd looked around and there I saw the spy hiding behind a tree. I couldn't make out who it was so I threw my Kunai intentionally at the tree's trunk to lure out the mysterious person. And to my luck appeared...

Cliffhanger! Dan dan daaaa... who is this mysterious person? Friend or foe? Stay tune for the next chapter.

Shychibinin :3