K.L.K- okay, eighth chappie! WHOOT.

TITLE: Heartbreak Follows Her

RATING: T

SUMMARY: Sakura is secretly with Ino. when she decides- right before the Chunin exams- to break up with her, is that it for these two girls?

AUTHOURESS'S NOTE: Well, sorry for not updating but I've been a little stressed out. nothing that I can't handle though, just school. hmm... Ah, yes, and Drama Club starts on the Tenth, so don't expect me to update on tuesdays or thursdays, because we meet then. well, this chapter will be interesting... heheheheh Ibiki is awesome, ne? the first exam will be in this chapter, and expect Anko's entrance to be hilarious! and Ino's trying to keep it hidden still that she was Sakura's girlfriend. uh-oh. I wonder how long THAT will last? and HOW does Sakura know the Sand Sibs? I know, but you guys have to wait until next chapter for the rest of the answers. (grins)

Disclaimer- nope. don't own. so don't sue, ya vultures! (no offense to lawyers)

Sakura's eyes sparked with recognition. "huh. Morino Ibiki." she muttered under her breath, as her eyes then looked deadened, but with a edge of cold calculative-mindedness that she possessed, and she looked the man over. muscly, tall, a bit tanned, skin mostly covered. he looked the same as the last time she'd seen him, that was for sure.

Sasuke glanced to her. had she said something? he'd heard something, but he didn't know what she had said. it had come from her direction, so he could only assume she had only sighed.

"Line up! take a number and then go to your seats! and fighting is now prohibited without the exams calling for it or a proctor giving consent!"

everyone groaned and then got in line, each taking a slip of paper handed to them by a chunin and they found thier seats silently.

Sakura groaned as she realized Ino was directly behind her, and her half-Aniki was slightly behind her, and was still staring at her, his blue-green eyes sharp and felt like they were trying to study every bit of her soul down to the darkest bit of it. Tiita was still glaring pitifully at Natiko, as she was sitting two rows behind him, and Mitzuru was fiddling with his fingers as he was in the first row.

the pinkette sat down and felt Ino's heartbroken stare prying into her back, and she sighed. this would be a very long written exam.

"LISTEN UP!" the man boomed. everyone's attention was immediately on him. "this exam consists of ten questions- nine are on the papers being passed out at this moment. the tenth question will be given out at the end of an hour! the chunins around the room are specially trained to spot cheaters. you will all start with a total of ten points each, equaling thirty points for each three-man squad! if you are caught by a chunin on the sidelines, you will have one strike against you, costing you two points for each strike!" he smirked. "the teams will be disqualified if one person reaches zero points! you have to get at least one question right, otherwise you will automatically be disqualified! the exams will start...NOW!"

everyone picked up the sharpened pencil they were provided with after their paper had been passed down, and wrote thier name as they read the first question.

Sakura smirked as she read the questions. too easy.

'damn, these are easy!' Inner cheered.

'I know, right? Inner, do they think we're all idiots?' the Outer snorted.

'you're smarter than the regular genin though.' Inner snickered.

'This is true, Saku-chan.' another voice responded, and Inner jumped, as Outer's eyes widened a bit.

'WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?!' Inner screamed as she readied some mental kunai.

'...never mind that. I'm just here. remember me, Saku-chan?' the darkened voice, a deep voice with a definate female lilt, came through, vaugely registering as a familiar voice in the rosette's instincts.

the outer personailty shook it off mentally for the moment; there was a written test to take, after all.

she wrote down the answer to the problem in her neat writing, and then placed her pencil down with a small sigh; there was at least fifteen minutes left. she'd taken her time, knowing that she wanted to take her time because she had alot of it in the exam.

the elder Sabaku male raised his hand, and Ibiki sighed.

"yes, what is it number sixty-two?" he droned.

Kankuro grinned slightly. "I have to go to the bathroom."

Ibiki sighed. "have a watcher-chunin go with you."

Kakuro stood as a Chunin got up that was near the door, and they walked out the door.

Sakura smirked a bit. that was no chunin; it was a puppet! Kankuro was a puppet-master, it seems. she filed that away for later; she needed all the knowledge she didn't know already.

the boy returned fifteen minutes later exactly, and the small clock on the front wall ticked to eleven as Ibiki stood from his seated position.

"STOP WRITING!" he shouted out in his booming, gruff voice, and everyone placed thier pencils down. many of the teams had been disqualified, but many still remained. "it's time for the tenth question! if you get this wrong, this is a heavy price..." he paused for effect. "if you get this question wrong, you will lose your ninja status!"

frightened murmurs ran through the room, and Sakura rolled her eyes. obviously this guy was trying to get into thier heads, since he was the top intimidator and at the head of the interrogation unit in ANBU- the only rosette was the only one who knew that in the room though- and more teams bailed.

soon, it was only five or so teams that left, and Naruto stood.

"do you quit?" Ibiki asked the boy, smirking.

the blonde slammed his hands down on the table. "I'M NOT GOING TO QUIT, Dattebayo! I'll become the Hokage someday, BELIEVE IT!"

Sakura sweatdropped, and Sasuke sighed. typical Naruto. but it seemed to give the others courage, and nobody else conceeded.

"alright, all that are here..." everyone waited for the Morino to continue, with bated breaths. "Pass."

outcries rose in the room, and everyone quieted when he held up his hand.

"Morino-san," Sakura spoke up. "may I explain?"

the man nodded. "Hai, Haruno."

she smirked. "sometimes with or in a mission, you'd have to make a rather difficult choice. to take a mission that was of the upmost importance to the village, or not take it due to what it consists of. to make a decision that may fail or pass the mission. to leave somebody behind, or take them with you and possibly handicap yourself in a fight. make a decision between life, or a horrible death." her eyes were a minty green, and she could feel everyone's confused stares burrowing into her skin. "this is what the tenth question represents."

Ibiki nodded. "Hai, Haruno." he then took off his hitiate, showing his bald, scarred and marred head. "some of us pay the price for protecting the village. and--"

a purple and green ball flew through the window, shattering the glass, and kunai pinned a green banner with the words 'Miterashi Anko- Second Exam Proctor' in messy purple paint right in front of Ibiki's face up, and a woman jumped through the window.

"I'm Miterashi Anko! The second exam proctor." she grinned, and Ibiki- who was a tad annoyed- stepped out from behind the messy banner.

"you're early, Anko." he said, gritting his teeth.

she looked at him. "oh well." she counted up the teams, and frowned slightly. "you're getting soft, Ibiki! there are too many left."

he shrugged. "one brat gave them confidence for the tenth question."

she looked over them, and spotted a familiar pink head and green eyes. in a second she was on the desk in front of Sakura, leaning close to her. "Hey, Sakura!" she greeted cheerfully, as Sakura smiled back.

"Yo, Anko." the rosette replied.

K.L.K- (sweatdrop) and HEEEEEEEREEEEEEEE's Anko!

Anko- yup! this is gonna be wierd!

Sakura- MMM-hm~!

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