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".." talking
'..' thoughts
Sakura talking to Inner Sakura
Inner Sakura
Inner Sakura talking outloud
Protecting The Chosen One
Chapter Six
By: Snow Phoenix-Dragon
The next morning Hinata woke up ealrier than usual. Sighing she got up and walked down stairs and saw that her boyfriend was slurping up some ramen. Gracefully, she glided over to where he sat and wrapped her arms around him, nuzzling her face into his neck.
"Hi-Hina-chan!" Naruto yelped in surprise.
"Good morning Naruto-kun." she smiled. "Are the others asleep still?"
"Only Sakura-chan. Me and the guys are gonna wake her up later, although I'm forcing either Kiba or Shino to wake her." Naruto said. "Hey Hina-chan, if that Draco guy tries to get near you then let me know."
"Yes Naruto-kun." she said rolling her eyes. Naruto was a bit overprotective sometimes.
The other males came down and waited for Naruto to finish eating. Once he was done he and the others went into Sakura's room.
When they were near her the saw her tense up, but she was still sleeping.
"No...don't...not...a monster." she mumbled, her body tensed and shook.
"Oi! Sakura-cahn!" Naruto yelled.
He grabbed onto her to get her to stop shaking.
"Teme grab her legs! She's starting to kick!"
Sasuke did as he was told, although he was reluctant, but seeing Sakura in this state worried him.
Suddenly, Sakura sprang off the bed making Sasuke and Naruto fall face first into her sheets. Her eyes were wide opened and portrayed a look of fear and worry. Her body was tense and she looked to near tears.
"I...I didn't hurt anyone did I?" she asked, her voice shook slightly.
"No." Hinata said. "Sakura-chan, is something the matter?"
"Umm, I...I can't tell you." she said.
Then she changed so fast that not even the ninja eye could follow and she left their dorm.
"Something is wrong with Sakura. And I think the head master knows about it too." Sai said.
"We will confront him when she is around though, we want her to tell us if Dumbledore can't. I'm worried, I've never seen her so fearful. As if she would have hurt herself if any of us got hurt. As if.." Naruto started.
"As if she was some kind of monster." Kiba finished.
There was silence for a while. Pushing this incident into their mind they made their way to the Great Hall for some breakfast.
Months passed and it was finally December. Naruto, Sasuke, Shino, Kiba, Sai, and Hinata didn't get a chance to find out what was wrong with their friend. Sakura seemed to be avoiding them once a month and they noticed the pattern. She would always disappear on the thirteenth of every month. Today was the thirteenth of December and they knew she wasn't going to be here. When they were in Umbridge's class when the door slammed open and there stood Sakura.
The thing was, Sakura didn't look like Sakura. She looked like angry-Saku, or as team seven, Kakashi, and Yamamoto call her: Inner Sakura.
"Umbridge!" Inner Sakura roared. "What is the meaning of your style of detentions?!"
"Hmpf. I'm in the middle of class Miss Haruno. So kindly stop interrupting and get out." Umbridge said smiling sweetly.
"No, either you tell me why you are here in the first place or else I will have the liberty of disposing of you." Inner Sakura hissed.
"Excuse me?"
"Oh, you're excused. Class is cancelled for today. And celebrate, Dolores Umbridge will not be here the next time." Innner Sakura took a hold of Umbridge's collar and poofed away.
"Well, that was interesting." Ron said aloud.
"I've never seen Sakura like that before." Hermione said. "She just might be tolerable."
[ Authoress' Note: Sakura and Hermione don't get along all that well. Hermione didn't like the fact that Sakura was more advanced than her in almost every subject. She also didn't like that Sakura helped Ron and Harry with their homework, she usually does that. She and Sakura also don't get along because Hermione almost used a spell on Sakura to check if pink was really her hair color. Let's just say that Hermione ended up with pink hair just like Sakura for a day.]
"Hermione, why do you hate Sakura so much?" Ron asked.
"Because, you guys pay more attention to her than to me." Hermione said sadly.
"I'm sorry."
The Golden Trio and the shinobis plus one kunoichi turned to see Sakura, this time as herself.
"I didn't know that I was doing that. I didn't mean to Hermione."
"Then how come you yelled at me when I tried to cast a spell to check if your hair was really pink?"
"I'm not fond of spells being cast at me. The most simplest spells end me in the infirmary."
"Oh. I still think that your hair isn't really pink."
"Hermione, it is pink. I will even show you my *gulp* baby pictures if you need proof." Sakura said, she was mentally hoping that they wouldn't need to see her pictures as a baby.
"Show me." Sakura groaned and took out a few pictures. The first was of her when she was born, cleaned up and wrapped in a pink blanket.
"Wow, you look so cute Sakura-chan." Hinata said.
Sakura mumbled soemthing along the lines of, "Of course you would think that."
"So why don't you want people seeing your baby pics?" Ron asked.
"Look at the guys besides Naruto and you tell me." Sakura grinned and pointed to the four other boys. "Apparently when I was little I had this affect, and it works even with a picture taken."
"What is this afeect?"
"Aww! Saku-waku is sooo kawaii!" Kiba cooed.
"The person who is not involved in any relationships start acting like that."
Sakura snatched the pictures out of the boys' hands and put them into her jacket pocket.
"Now, if you'll excuse me. Dumbldore has asked me to kindly return Professor Umbridge back to the Ministry of Magic. I will see you tomorrow."
And Sakura disappeared.
"At least she actually showed herself today." Harry said.
The Golden Trio also noticed that Sakura seemed to disappear on the thirteenth of every month. Next thing they knew, Nearly Headless Nick floated into the room and told the ninjas and the Golden Trio to go to the head master's office.