I don't have much to say today but hate me all you want I had family issues but I just felt the urge to write since I need an outlet cause my mom is trying to make me take relaxation classes for my anxiety disorder . , READ AND REVIEW!! Oh and I would especially like to thank Oni-Hime-San for motivatin me with her wonderful reviews .
Weeks later.
Sakura slammed her fist into the ground and watched as the ninja had to leap away in panic to avoid the earthquake created.
Yeah she was definitely Tsunade's student.
A barrage of kunai came from all directions and she dodged them all and sent the back at the Sand Ninja with a force field of chakra.
"Come on", She whispered, the training for the Sand newbies was going…well…shitty -.-.
"Jeez what a waste of time", Sakura muttered under her breath as she simultaneously knocked out six of the wannabe's who tried to attack her at once.
But what she didn't see, was the pair of eyes watching from the bushes to the left.
The sun glinted off rounded spectacles as they lifted their hands and blew a dart from a bamboo shooter.
Seeing it strike its target made him smile evilly before disappearing into the desert.
Sakura felt a slight sting on her neck and brushed it away while sprinting forward to finally end this pitiful session of 'endurance'.
Endurance my ass! These ninja couldn't handle a simple assassination! .
Kicking the amateurs asses was easy but afterwards when she was walking to the Kazekage Manor she felt her vision slide in and out of focus.
Grasping at whatever she could, sakura stumbled into the mansion and swayed in the doorway.
Sasuke came down the stairs with only a pair of sweat pants on and glared at her.
They hadn't gotten along really well after their little 'chat' even though Sakura had finally cracked and told him that she'd slept with Itachi on a mission to get information on Akatsuki. He'd had a fit and she had shut him up by saying it was a Kunoichi's duty to protect her village and she would do whatever she had to keep Konoha city safe.
Sakura left out the part that she had in fact enjoyed her 'interrogation'.
Sasuke walked forwards, "Where have you been, Ive had to listen to Naruto whine about you taking him out for ramen".
She glared at him and started to yell, "Well if you hated it so much why don't yo-!", Sakura stopped as the world spun around her in a sick circle.
"I-Sasu-gasp-ke…", then she fell into darkness, faintly hearing Sasuke yelling her name and his panicked face before an inky black swept across her mind.
Sakura walked through the corridors of her mind, pulled towards a voice that beckoned her.
This way child, come to me.
It was a beautiful voice and calmed her, even as she tried all the locked doors that she came upon in her quest to reach it.
After what seemed like endless walking Sakura came to what appeared to be a throne room and….there was a woman.
She had a waterfall of long hair in a pale white and her eyes were the emerald green of Sakura but they glowed with an inner knowledge.
Her clothes made her catch her breath. A long dress in ebony and emerald flowed around her and danced with an unnatural wind, Sterling arm bands decorated her biceps and she wore many Celtic rings.
The earrings she wore stood for the symbol of serenity…Sakura had a felt like she knew her forever.
"Sakura its taken longer to get you here than I thought it would"
"uhuh…where is here exactly?", Sakura asked as she looked around at the high arched ceiling, admiring the wood that was carved in the shape of the elements.
The woman smiled a little and motioned around her, "Were in your mind, your memories to be exact…do you know who I am?".
She shook her head and waited.
The woman walked towards her and her white hair swished in an unearthly way. She looked at her calculatingly "Haven't you ever wondered why you don't look like your parents, why you always felt misplaced?".
"Yeah", She hesitated to answer, "but I thought that was just because I was an abnormality in the gene pool and I was always out of step with the rest of my family anyway so I didn't really matter. What are you getting at?", sakura felt an anticipation that made her hold her breath and tense.
The woman reached out her hand and laid it on Sakura's head, "Sakura you are not a Haruno, You are a Kuchiana (coo-chi-aww-naa), let me show you". And before Sakura could say something a splinter of pain attacked her brain and images ran through her minds eye like a movie.
"Mommy, Daddy" a small version of Sakura ran to a red haired man and a white haired woman. She was scooped up into her fathers arms and spun around laughing.
She was thrown into another scene…a horrific one.
Blood, fire, screaming was all sakura could see or hear. People were running, crying and dying while trying to saved loved ones.
Little Sakura stumbled out of a house that was burning to the ground, coughing and gasping for air.
A man in in a cloak came up behind the smaller version of Sakura and tried to grab her, "SAKURA GET OUT OF THE WAY!", her father ran through the flames of the deadly fire and yanked her away from the masked figure. "You think you can keep her from me Takenshi?", the figure pulled off his mask and revealed his pasty white face and snake eyes. "Orochimaru", Takenshi hissed violently while clutching his daughter to his chest. "You'll never touch her, I'LL DIE BEFORE YOU DO!".
Orochimaru smiled maliciously, "That can be arranged" and before sakura could blink her father was on his knees with a katana jutting through his back and he was coughing up blood.
Sakura watched in horrified fascination as younger her turned to her fathers murderer, "You're gonna pay for touching my Daddy!".
Small Sakura's eyes turned an electric green and her hair darkened to a ruby color. A strange howling erupted from her mouth and the shadows around her began to form into large wolves and other canines.
She waved her hand towards Orochimaru and the creatures of darkness sprinted towards him, ready to tear him apart…but he vanished.
Little Sakura turned towards her father and fell to her knee's, weeping. "Daddy im sorry, Daddy don't go please don't go!", tears fell from Sakura's eyes as she watched herself pleading with her father to live. "Shhh Sakura, my little blossom you did a good job", Takenshi's fingers glided across her cheeks before falling back to the ground. "Sakura-gasp- im so p-proud of y-you" and then her father died.
The shadows around her, her wolves, began to howl in mourning and as Sakura sat there with her fathers hand still embraced in her own tiny fist the sky began to weep.
Gasping, Sakura looked up at the woman and glared through her tears. Everything made sense to her and she knew just who the woman in the dress was.
"Mother", she spat, "So why is it you left your daughter with strangers to grow up alone and unaware of her heritage".
Her mother, Linia, looked pained, "I had no other choice Sakura it was the only way I could protect you from him, our entire clan died because of our bloodline. Y- she took a deep breath- you were the strongest of the bloodline even at your young age. NO ONE! Could form the shadows into creatures, sure we could control them and fight with them but you were able to give them life! You made them breathing creatures who fought with the strength of seven normal shadow users. Sakura…you were the Leader of the Darkness. The prophecy that was foreseen for as far back as I can remember came to pass the day you were born".
"Under the moon of red a child shall breath, shadows will submit, Darkness shall bow to her command and swallow the sound till all evil is banished", Linia recited while looking at her only child, her baby girl.
"Sakura I love you, I had to leave you with the Haruno's they had known the family and couldn't have children. So they agreed to take you. I always checked in on you and left shadows in places to protect you. They were completely willing, they knew who you were even when you didn't and wouldn't allow you to be killed".
"Why do you think the attack from sound though it scared, never seriously harmed you to the point of a fatality? Why do you think the Hokage sealed away every file containing any information on massacred clans? The Hokage, the Haruno's and your sensei were the only people who knew who you were and I begged them to hide you".
Sakura cried and launched herself into her mothers arms but was shocked when she went straight through her and fell on her knees.
Jerking around she stared up at her mother, "What? Why cant I touch you?!".
Linia smiled sadly, "Sakura I'm dead as well, I only lived long enough to get you to the Hokage for protection".
Suddenly a celestial light exploded next to Linia and there stood her father.
"Daddy", Sakura whispered brokenly.
Takenshi smiled at his daughter, "Sakura I was meant to die there, just like your mother and the rest of the clan. It was all preordained to pass."
Her parents looked at each other then her, "Sakura we've done all we can to show you who and what you are. It is up to you what you do with the knowledge…we have to go now" and her parents started to fade.
Panicking Sakura lurched to her feet, "You cant leave I just got you back!"
But they disappeared, " We love you…blossom" and then they were gone.
After a time of just staring at the place where her parents had stood, Sakura climbed to her feet and began to walk from the throne room.
It was then that Sakura heard the voices of her friends calling her back, making her realize and catalog everything she had just learned.
Her eyes flashed electric green, Orochimaru was going to pay!.
Sasuke tried shaking Sakura again but a shield of sand interfered with his hands and threw him against the wall.
Gaara appeared in a whirl of sand and growled at Sasuke, before going over to Sakura.
He leaned down over sakura's hospital bed and when anyone tried to get close to them he would snarl and sand would start to slither around them.
He leaned down and sniffed her, checking injuries and when he came across the chemical that induced her coma he growled and licked her wound.
(im just gonna point out that his animal side is in control at the moment so ummm on to the story)
Sasuke saw red when Gaara's tongue cleansed Sakura's wound and moved forward to-
Naruto rushed into the room. " WHAT HAPPENED GUYS?! Whats wrong with Sakura-chan?". Naruto only had a split second to dodge the sand that tried to wrap itself around his mouth.
He looked over at Gaara and got the message from the glare ' talk any louder and ill desert coffin your ass' came off loud and clear.
"Sorry", he whispered, "What happened to her?".
Sasuke looked over at Naruto and spoke coolly, "As far as the medics can tell she was hit with some sort of poison to send her into a coma. They say its nothing fatal but they don't know if and when she will wake up".
Naruto's face showed exactly how Sasuke was feeling. Hurt, Scared, Angry and terrified for his friends life.
"Who would try to hurt her?", he spoke quietly as he moved towards sakura.
Gaara allowed him closer, finally calm.
When his lead jonin had come and told him that sakura was in the hospital he'd nearly flew into a rage and was out the of the Kazekage tower before the messenger could finish.
"Whoever it was, is going to pay", Sasuke and Naruto looked up at the raspy tone and stared at Gaara.
His eyes weren't jade anymore but the black and gold of Shukaku and a tail of sand swished behind his Kazekage robes.
When he went to leap out the window and track down whoever had dared to touch his Sakura.
But just when Gaara reached the window seal a hand shot out and gripped his forearm.
They all turned, startled to see Sakura sitting up in bed, her eyes serious. As if she'd never been in the Coma.
"We have a problem", she stated in the voice of a Anbu Captain, the cold killers voice that was not their sweet Sakura.
Sasuke was the first to speak, with Naruto a close second. Gaara just watched her expectantly
"What do you mean?"
"Yeah Sakura-chan what's the problem…besides the fact that someone just tried to kill you?!"
She shook her head to clear it as she climbed out of the uncomfortable hospital bed.
Sakura was grateful that the nurses hadn't bothered to change her clothes yet as she walked towards the door.
Looking back at them she said the only thing that made sense to her at the moment.
"I need a drink".
"So you're telling me that Orochimaru is behind everything that happened and you learned this…from your real dead parents". Naruto said it carefully and wondered if something else was in that poison that had whacked with Sakura's brain.
She sighed, "Look I know it sounds crazy but I mean come on you guys cant claim to be normal either".
And she took turns pointing, "He has a bloody thirsty raccoon inside him, He joined some creepy pedophile to exterminate his brother and you have a looney tune power hungry fox inside you".
When they all made agreeable faces, Sakura leaned back "I rest my case".
But Sasuke had to ruin her little victory, "What else did your parents tell you?".
Sakura's face clouded over before she randomly stood up. "I want to sing", and she practically ran to the stage in the middle of the bar.
Gaara had been quiet the whole time, 'I think there is definitely something she doesn't want us to know".
Sasuke turned to him about to tell him that that was obvious when he felt Naruto's foot collide with his shin…hard.
He hissed out a breath and turned to watch Sakura on the stage, Damn she was beautiful.
But when she started to sing his breath caught and he heard the other two inhale sharply at the voice that echoed around the musty room.
(within temptation-forgiven)
Couldn't save you from the start Love you so it hurts my soul Can you forgive me for trying again?
Your silence makes me hold my breath
All the time has passed you by
For so long,
I've tried to shield you from the world
You couldn't face the freedom on your own
Here I am Left in silence
You gave up the fight
You left me behind
All that stands forgiven
You'll always be mine
I know deep inside
All that stands forgiven
Watched the clouds drifting away
Still the sun can't warm my face I know it was destined to go wrong
You were looking for the great escape
To chase your demons away
For so long, I've tried to shield you from the world
You couldn't face the freedom on your own
Here I am Left in silence
You gave up the fight
You left me behind
All that stands forgiven
You'll always be mine I know deep inside
All that stands forgiven I
've been so lost since you've gone
Why not me before you?
Why did fate deceive me?
Everything turned out so wrong
Why did you leave me in silence?
You gave up the fight
You left me behind
All that stands forgiven
You'll always be mine I know deep inside
All that stands forgiven
Everyone sat in awed silence but Sakura didn't give them a moment to absorb the wonder of the song before she launched into the next one.
(stand my ground- within temptation)
I can see
when you stay low nothing happens
Does it feel right ?
Late at night
things I thought I put behind me
haunt my mindI just know there's no escape now
once it sets it's eyes on you
but I won't run, have to stare it in the eye
Stand my ground, I won't give in
No more denying, I gotta face it
Won't close my eyes and hide the truth inside
If I don't make it, someone else will
Stand My Ground
It's all around
getting stronger, coming closer
into my world
I can feel
that it's time for me to face it
can I take it?
Though this might just be the ending
of the life I held so dear
but I won't run, there's no turning back from here
Stand my ground, I won't give in
No more denying, I gotta face it
Won't close my eyes and hide the truth inside
If I don't make it, someone else will
Stand My Ground
All I know for sure is I'm trying
I will always stand my ground
Stand my ground, I won't give in (I won't give in)
I won't give up (I won't give up)no more denying, I got to face it
won't close my eyes and hide the truth inside
if I don't make it, someone else will
Stand my ground, I won't give in
No more denying, I gotta face it
Won't close my eyes and hide the truth inside
If I don't make it, someone else will
Stand My Ground.
After her voice faded applause broke out.
There was wolf whistling, cheering and many called for more.
Her male companions sat in shock, they'd had no idea that Sakura had vocal chords that could blow out the rafters!
"Well since everyone out there seems to want some more, I"LL GIVE IT TO YOU!" and I can avoid them for a while longer.
"Okay this song is called Runaway by Bon Jovi I hope you all like it"
On the street where you live girls talk about their social lives
They're made of lipstick, plastic and paint, a touch of sable in their eyes
All your life all you've asked when's your Daddy gonna talk to you
You were living in another world tryin' to get your message through.
No one heard a single word you said.
They should have seen it in your eyes
What was going around your head.
Ooh, she's a little runaway.
Daddy's girl learned fast
All those things he couldn't say.
Ooh, she's a little runaway.
A different line every night guaranteed to blow your mind
I see you out on the streets, call me for a wild time
So you sit home alone 'cause there's nothing left that you can do
There's only pictures hung in the shadows left there to look at you
Ooh, she's a little runaway.
Daddy's girl learned fast
All those things he couldn't say.
Ooh, she's a little runaway.
You know she likes the lights at nights on the neon Broadway signs
She don't really mind, it's only love she hoped to find
No one heard a single word she said
They should have seen it in your eyes
What was going around your head
Ooh, she's a little runaway
Daddy's girl learned fast
All those things he couldn't say
Ooh, she's a little runaway
Daddy's girl learned fast
Now she works the night away
Ooh, she's a little runaway
Daddy's girl learned fast
All those things he couldn't say
Ooh, she's a little runaway
Daddy's girl learned fast
Now she was the night away
Sasuke looked at her with narrowed eyes as she finished. Was that how she felt allthis time?
Gaara stared at his lover and felt the unmistakable sensation of fear. Was she falling for the Uchiha again?
Naruto watched with tired eyes. I really wish this would just end already.
Sakura walked off the stage and back to her team…and decisions she wasn't sure she had the courage to face.
That's all I got people I thought the songs fit Sakura in some way or another. And I know you all begged me not ot kill Sasuke and make this a sasu/saku fic but then Gaara might die cause I cant stand to have her leave him and go with Sasuke without him being gone I just love gaa/saku to much!
But if you got some ideas that can help me out I would love you forever and ever and ever -ducks keyboard- OKAY IM DONE READ AND REVIEW!!