IK: Konichiwa everyone. Today I have Sakura in the studio.

Sakura: I like your nails. Acrylic.

IK: Thanks. They're not my fave style (I like them sharpened into points) or color (white) but my older sis did them.

Saku: Cool... Where's Sasuke-kun?

IK: He was banned from the studio f-

Saku: WHAT! THAT'S NOT COOL! I'M-

IK: Shut up! Its just for this chapter because of... um... well...

Sasuke: Because of?

IK: What the... How'd you... But I... NYAHHHHHH!!

Sasu: Nevermind that. Why was I banned?

IK: (Still trying to figure out how Sasuke got in)

Saku: We're not gonna get anywhere with her.

Sasu: Might as well do the disclaimer.

SasuSaku: ItaKure does not own Naruto and thanks xGloryHartx for betaing her stories. Although she does own the emo sayings throughout the story.

IK: (Background) There's no possible way he could have gotten in!

Saku: (Sigh) Lets just get on with the story.

Sasu: Hn.

(Sasu POV)

I was jumping from tree to tree at a fast pace and I was very excited. I had blood on my clothes but didn't care. My pace quickened and my excitement grew... I could see Konoha, the place where my friends and memories live... My home.

'Itachi's dead, the sound village is destroyed, and I finally get to see her.'

I was now at the gates, the guards were asleep so I jumped over. The person I saw in front of me was the only survivor in Oto... "Hydra".

She turned around, saw me, and started running. Of course I ran after her as she ran towards Ichiraku's ramen shop. A group of people dressed in black cloaks with red clouds was there and Naruto was talking to them. 'Why is the Akatsuki here?... Oh great now I have to deal with the dobe.' Hydra ran up to the group and sat next to the large blue shark man that I've come to know as my brother's partner. He obviously noticed her presence being that he turned to her. He went wide eyed when he saw the tears in her eyes, and he knew something I didn't.

"Whats wrong Kure?" the half-shark man asked. Hydra just hugged him crying into his chest, no doubt getting his cloak wet, and he hugged her back.

'Kure? But the only person with that nickname is-'

"Kurenai, whats wrong?" he repeated.

"He's dead Same! Tachi's dead!" this gained the rest of the Akatsuki's and the dobe's (Ichiraku's only costumers at the moment) attention.

"Hydra." It was a force of habit "You can drop the gen-jutsu already. You're not going to trick me."

Just then I was tackled. "TEME!!"

"Get off me dobe." I got up to find that Hydra was replaced by Kurenai.

"When you asked if I ws in the Akatsuki I lied." she stated simply tears still flowing.

"Hn. I have to go."

"You're not leaving again are you teme? If you are then you'll have to go through me first. I'm not gonna let you hurt Sakura again! She's changed because of you!"

This shocked me and my eyes widened for a second. "How?"

He sighed and had the second saddest look I have ever seen, first being from Sakura. "Come on. I'll tell you somewhere else."

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(Saku POV)

I can't think at all and I'm bored. Hmm. What to do when I can't think, am bored, and am alone at my house. I look all around my house for my favorite kunai and finally find it. I reach under my bed and once I touch it... I'm not really sure what I'm doing. Then I hear Orochimaru's voice all around me. "Let sanity slip through your fingers and caring voices become distant... Let your breathing become shallow and your heartbeat fade... Let time stop and your blood flow as the world falls around you..."

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(Sasu POV) Training grounds

"She's meaner (not much but meaner), she wears nothing but black and blood red (mainly black) including nail polish and make up, her favorite saying is "There is no life and happiness... only death and sorrow", she wears fishnet all the time, she doesn't show much emotion any more and it's rare when she does although nowhere near as rare as from you..." Naruto's expression went from his usual ranting look to one of sadness beyond his expression earlier, as if I didn't feel bad enough. "Sasuke,"

'Now he's using my actual name. this is bad'

"She even started..."

"Started what?"

"..."

"STARTED WHAT NARUTO?!" I howled.

He started to cry slightly and one word escaped is lips "Cutting."

My heart and breathing stopped, I stumbled backwards, and there's no doubt my eyes were wide.

"She says she's stopped and has regained just about everyone's trust. Even Neji and Kiba believe her. I don't believe her but theres no proof, not really. Her lower arms and wrists are never seen, she's even had suicide attempts. Kakashi's been on a three year mission so he doesn't know..." he sighed. "People have to force her out of her room to train, even to eat and she doesn't sleep. She's not Sakura anymore Sasuke. Sasuke? TEME!"

I was already gone. I was running as fast as I could, heart pounding, towards the one house that could possibly bring me any comfort. It wasn't the house but the person inside that would bring me comfort to a certain extent.

I got to the door and knocked. There was no answer for a minute, and I was getting worried. I opened her door and all I saw was a pink and black strand of hair that the moonlight reached. It was a full moon but it was still pitch black in her house. I walked in and I felt something wet and sticky on the floor. I reached out and touched her skin, but quickly retracted... she was cold to the touch. Then my heartbeat quickened as I heard Orochimaru's voice. "Look around, all that is left... is her ice cold body in a pool of her own hot blood."

This was where my nightmare ended every night. I half expected to wake up in Oto screaming her name, but this was real and I knew it. Orochimaru's voice still echoed in my head as I knelt next to her. She was gone. I didn't want to, no, I couldn't accept the fact that she was dead. There was a note next to her that said 'Suicide is painless' but it was not her handwriting, it belonged to someone who was dead, someone I killed about two hours ago... Orochimaru. The writing smeared as I touched it, but there was no way he was alive. I didn't care though, all I cared about was that Sakura was dead and shouldn't be.

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(Naru POV)

The Teme wasn't at his place this morning and now I'm going to Sakura-chan's to drag her to training. I knock on her door and, as usual, there's no answer. She usually doesn't answer and if she does it's usually with "Go away", but something doesn't feel right. I find her spare key in her black rose bush by her door that still has the thorns, (She refuses to let them be cut), and opened her door. (IK: The wind blew the door closed and it locked... creepy.) I don't like what I find. Sakura and the teme laying on her floor...dead. Sasuke is holding a strand of Sakura's pink and black hair in his left hand and a kunai in the other. Then I hear Orochimaru's vioce resound through my head, maybe even the room.

"He returned to her just to find that she was gone... It's all his fault... He had lived years without her and could no longer... Soon, he was gone as well..."

Saku: That was creepy... I mean really creepy... Where's Sasuke-kun?... And Red?

IK: (runs past) AAAAAAH!!

Sasu: I'm gonna kill you!

IK: Sakura! Press the black button! Please!

Saku: (presses button)

Tachi: (appears) Hey! I was watching the Matrix!

IK: Help!

I: (sigh) Mangekyou Sharingan!

Sasu: (fanfic happens in head)

I: I'm not putting the mask on you know.

Sasu: (comes out of Mangekyou)

I: (holds Orochimaru mask up to Sasu)

S: AAAAAH!

I: Foolish little brother.

IK: Say bye everyone!

Saku, I, IK: Ja ne, review! (Sasu: still trying to get over mask)

IK: Oh and thank you sasusakufangirl15 and xGloryHartx for reviewing. Never got to thank you guys.

I: (Leaves to watch movie)

Naruto: Do you have any ramen?

All: (sweatdrop)