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Chapter 9

A Storm is Coming

After the training session was over. Sakura watched as Sasuke walked away, as he would usually do. 'I better talk to Sasuke first." She stood up and followed him where he was going. "Hey Sasuke, wait up."

Sasuke turned, as Sakura walked towards him he just smiled. "What's wrong Sakura?"

"Sasuke, we need to talk. It's about us, and Naruto as well."

"Us, and Naruto? What's up?" He looked confused, was there something they did that he didn't know. Did they sleep with each other, no, no way, Sakura wouldn't do that, would she?

"I… well, I'm confused Sasuke, when it finally seems that I have everything cleared out, this happens."

"This?" confused, Sasuke tried to think back on what had happened. 'What's she talking about? What's going on between the three of us.' "Sakura, tell me."

"It's just. I've always loved you Sasuke, always had, and probably always will." Hearing those words made Sasuke feel better. She still loved him, that was ok for him.

"But."

'But? She has another problem? That can't be good.' he thought.

"I… also feel the same way about Naruto."

There Sasuke froze. That was the problem between them, she loved them both, and probably Naruto knew from long ago.

Meanwhile Kakashi had returned to his apartment alongside Naruto, Hinata and Ino. There they waited until being dismissed for the day.

As Naruto walked around the village, his mind was deep in thought. 'Sakura, I promised myself I would let go, I would accept that you preferred Sasuke over me. That that would be ok by me.'

Naruto turned. 'But… I was wrong, I can't and won't give up on you Sakura. I'll give it one last try.' Naruto's fist tightened as he turned and walked towards where Sakura and Sasuke had gone of to earlier.

Unknown to Sasuke and Sakura, a pair of elite Shinobi gazed upon them from a distant. The male Shinobi smiled. "There they are, the boy is truly fearsome. He is one of the last of the Uchiha."

The female kunoichi just looked at him. "Itachi's brother no doubt. What do we do?"

"Simple. We'll see how good he really is."

Before they could move, thought, the stopped. "Someone's coming."

Naruto walked towards where Sasuke and Sakura were at. Seeing them both together gave him a familiar pain, one he had dealt with for quite some time. Sakura looked at him and could see the pain in his eyes. "Naruto."

Sasuke turned and faced the blonde ninja as he said. "Sakura, sorry, didn't mean to intrude." Before Sakura could speak Sasuke cut her off. "No need to apologize, this is also about you."

"Me?" Naruto turned as he faced Sakura. What had she talked to Sasuke about. "What about me?"

"I'm not the one that should tell you, I believe she must."

Meanwhile the kunoichi had left, giving orders to the male Shinobi. She was running at impressive speeds towards where the rest where staying. Ino was preparing herself something to eat as Hinata took a shower. Kakashi was walking through the village as he looked up at the sky. It was getting dark, not because it was nighttime, since it was still morning, but it looked like it was about to rain, heavy.

'Better head back, don't want my book to get wet.' Before he walked he felt a incredible amount of chakra near. 'That chakra, it's far to strong to be anyone of my team. The only way is for Naruto to have lost control under the Kyubi or Sasuke under the curse seal, but, that's not them.'

Before he could even continue, five kunai stabbed onto his flesh as he fell down. In an instant the vile kunoichi appeared in front of his broken body. She smiled as she spoke. "Come now Copy Ninja, you think you can fool me with such a simple trick, child's play." Quickly Kakashi turned into a broken down log and the real Kakashi appeared a few feet behind the kunoichi. "Call it as you like, but it did serve it's purpose. But moving on, who the are you anyway."

"My name is none of your business, since I had one, but that was long ago."

"Ok." Kakashi was a tad confused, but facing people like her was no so unusual to him anymore. "What, may I ask, do you want with me."

"Fool, who ever said I wanted you."

"No."

Meanwhile Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura all stayed quiet, not knowing what really to say, thought the two boys expected Sakura to speak, which made her a tad nervous. 'What do I do, I wanted to end this a quick as possible, but it's harder than I though, but… I can't continue to stall, I must tell them know, for their sakes, and mine.'

Sakura turned as she faced her two teammates. " Naruto, Sasuke, what I'm about to say isn't easy for me to say, but…"

Naruto and Sasuke looked at her in suspense, what was she going to say, is something wrong.

"I… well, I…"

Neither of the boys spoke, as they awaited her to finish.

"I…"

The male Shinobi, still watching them, finally raised up. 'They've dropped their guard, all three of them, foolish teenagers, I'll rip them apart.'

"I feel like I'm in, well, like I lo…"

Before she could finish a sharp blade sliced through the air. As blood spilled through the ground all that could be heard was Sakura's scream echo through the forest.

I updated, I updated. Finally, I get desperate when stories I like take a while to get updated, but I take longer than them, go figure. Review!