Kakashi stayed up most of the night researching Sakura's family. It was hard since they both weren't ninja. He managed to find a few documents but they weren't much help. Kakashi could remember when Uta Zetsumei (Poem of Death) moved to the village. She came to the gates and claimed that she couldn't remember anything as to why she was there. The Fourth permitted her to stay and she changed her name to Mai Kyuuka (The Brightness of Summer). Soon after she met Kaemon Haruno (Joyful in Spring) and they were married. They had Sakura around the same time of the Nine Tailed Fox incident. She had gone into labor when she had heard that Kaemon was going to go and protect his new family. Of course Kakashi was only fourteen at the time but there was talk of the only man that wasn't a ninja that bravely stood up to the demon.

"It was so long ago," he said to himself. His last fight with one of the Zetsumei clan was only five years ago. His mission was to retrieve a special document form a high council man and take it straight to the Hokage. But he had the misfortune of running into a Zetsumei that was hired to kill him. He had difficulty trying to kill the ninja but succeeded by doing something that he would never have done. With the ninja off guard he quickly did away with him and was able to complete the mission.

"Are you done sir?" the librarian asked as she yawned. Kakashi snapped out of his thoughts and nodded. She smiled and watched as Kakashi stood and stretched.

"What time is it?" he asked. The librarian looked at her watch with her tired blue eyes and then looked at Kakashi.

"12:03" she said as she yawned again.

"I'm sorry about that," Kakashi apologized. She smiled at him and they both locked up for the night and said good-bye to each other.

Sakura woke up that morning still in the hospital. She was supposed to be released today. She eagerly got out of the bed and looked out the window. The sky was magenta and the clouds were a golden mist that covered most of the sky forming shapes that Sakura smiled at. She heard the door opening and she quickly jumped back into her bed. The nurse pulled her sheet back and held it open for the doctor.

"You should be fine now, Miss Haruno," he said as Sakura jumped from the bed and onto the ground, "But please take it easy." Sakura didn't hear the last part as she dashed around him and down the stairs. She ran out the doors and into the fresh air. She had a hard time with the horrible smell of hospitals. She took a deep breath and then began walking towards her home. She passed by the Yamanaka flower shop and she took a moment to smell some flowers that were sticking out from the shop.

"Sakura," a familiar voice called as she stood up from the lilacs. Ino came walking out of the shop with flower petals in her hair and water running down her apron.

"Ino," Sakura responded as Ino stopped in front of her. Ino seemed to have sadness in her eyes as she stared into Sakura's emerald eyes.

"I heard about what happened," she said quietly, "and I just wanted to let you know that if you need a shoulder to cry on I am always there for you. I know that we are rivals but your parents were almost as close to me as my own are. I know the pain you feel hurts but I feel it too." Sakura looked to the ground and then looked up with a big smile on her face.

"Thanks Ino," Sakura said. Ino smiled back with tears filling up her eyes. Sakura's eyes suddenly turned to a dark red and Ino gasped in shock.

The pale sanin watched as Sakura and Sasuke sat frozen in shock unable to move. Sakura began to cry and shake with fear. He smiled evilly as his neck sickly popped out of its joint and flew straight towards Sasuke. His sick mouth widened and sharp fangs priced Sasuke's skin. Sasuke began to scream in pain as he fell to his knees.

"Sasuke, what have you done to Sasuke," Sakura yelled at the sanin as she broke free and rushed to Sasuke's side. A dark mark appeared on his neck.

"I just gave him a little parting gift," he responded licking his lips with his incredibly long tongue. Sasuke groaned as his hand flew to over the mark and Sakura grabbed his hand.

"But why?"Sakura cried into the now darkening light.

"Sasuke will seek me out and desire my power. In the meantime I enjoyed the demonstration of the powers you have possessed." he said ignoring her cries. He began to laugh and from the light that was left Sakura could see him sink into the branch.

Ino didn't know what to do as Sakura once again began to cry with her red eyes staring into oblivion. She began to poke Sakura's shoulders, pat her cheek, wave her hand in front of her eyes but nothing worked. Ino heard her mother calling for her but she was hesitant to it. Her mother walked out of the shop as Sakura began to regain concisions. Her eyes turned back into a green as Ino's mother began talking to her.

"Sakura, honey I know that your in pain but please remember that we are always here for you," she said as she put her hand onto Ino's shoulder. Sakura nodded hearing the last few words and then sprinted down the road towards Sasuke's home. She had to make sure that he was alright

Sasuke sat in his bedroom thinking about what Sakura had told him. That he was going to leave? Thoughts buzzed around in his head like bouncy balls in a small compressed space. There was a sudden frantic pounding on his door. Sasuke dashed down the stairs and opened the door to see Sakura there. She grabbed his neck and bent him over. He froze in shock and then heard Sakura exhale with relief. He then grabbed her small wrist and dragged her into his home.

"Okay Sakura what's all this about," he said as he rubbed the back of his neck. Sakura stuck her lower lip out and looked at the ceiling then back at Sasuke.

"I don't really know," she said, "I've been getting sudden flashes of…well…I don't know what they are and they concern you." Sasuke dropped his hand to his side and wrinkled his brow in confusion.

"What sudden flashes? Do you mean when your eyes turned red yesterday?" Sasuke asked. Sakura leaned her head slightly to the side.

"My eyes turn red?" she asked. Sasuke nodded and pulled out a hand mirror from the drawer of a nearby table. He handed it to her and she looked into it. Her eyes began to shift and form around her pupils with a small red line streaking around it. But within less than a second it was gone. She handed it back to him and he took a small glance at it before he put it away. He liked to make sure that he didn't have any zits on his face. He always acted like he hated having fan girls but it made him feel somewhat better inside knowing that he was loved but then again it got annoying really fast being constantly called and having girls swoon as he walked by.

"It really scared me yesterday," he admitted avoiding eye contact, "because I thought that you had the sharingan and that would of meant that we were related somehow."

"And that would have been bad why?" Sakura asked. Sasuke froze he finally realized that he had said too much.

OUCH!!!!!!! Sasuke you really need to learn to keep your mouth shut!! Sakura's catching on to you!!!! Heh....sucker. Anyways here's the next chapter as I said before I'm going to take the other one down when I hit Ten so read up!!!! R&R!!!

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