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Chapter 2

The night before

"Mummy I'm tired" Sakura said as she rubbed her eyes, they had been at her uncle's for a few hours and Sakura wanted to go to sleep. "Alright honey go give grandpa Saburo a hug and kiss and we'll go home" Sakura nodded her head and tiredly went over to the aging patriarch of the clan who looked bored out of his head with the males of the clan talking about politics.

Saburo was an easy going man who liked getting out and mucking around even though he was now 90, politics wasn't his forte but he was political when it was needed. For this he was Sakura's favourite relative, and because Sakura was a sweet well mannered child she was Saburo's favourite grandchild. They shared a strong bond, and spent a lot of time together. Saburo was the only one besides her favourite cousin who were teaching her how to do ninjutsu, genjutsu, and taijutsu even though she hadn't awakened her blood-line.

"Ah my little cherry blossom" Saburo greeted as the girl dragged her feet over to him, he picked her up and placed her on his knee. Sakura smothered a yawn and rubbed her eyes before she spoke "Mummy and daddy are taking me home now" she yawned again. "But you hardly spent any time with me tonight" Saburo said as he began to tickle Sakura who was now in a fit of giggles. "Gr...grandpa" she was able to get out through the giggles "S..stop".

Luckily for Sakura Shiro came to her rescue "Don't tickle her too much father, or we'll never get her to stop laughing...again" Saburo stopped and looked at his youngest son who was the only child with his eyes and hair, granted Saburo's was grey and dull from age. "okay, okay you win...but why don't you put Sakura to bed in my room and stay the night so we can have breakfast together in the morning" Sakura jumped off her grandfather's lap fully awake and dove into her father's arms "Please daddy I really want to stay here for the night" she pleaded with her big beautiful green eyes that no one could say no too.

Shiro looked to his father who had the same eyes as his daughter 'So that's where she gets it from' he sighed "You know it's not fair when you do the eye thing father, it's bad enough you have my baby girl doing it but then you go and do it too" Saburo laughed "I know someone else who has my eyes as well and did the eye thing when he was young...and you still do it"

"Yeah, yeah. But we aren't that far away you know...we do live only three doors down" Shiro said with a roll of his eyes. The look on Saburo and Sakura's faces made his heart ache 'I wish they wouldn't pout like that' "But that's not the point...you know I am 90 now and anything could happen to me and you'll never get to see me again" Saburo knew how to lay the guilt trip on his children "but where would we all sleep, four of us can't sleep in your bed and Asuka and Shou only have their bed" Shiro said.

Saburo winked at his son "You, Aki and cherry here can have my bed and I will make my own" Shiro shook his head "No Shou doesn't like you using your wood jutsu's after what happened last time and he'd kill me if I let you" Saburo chuckled again "What your brother doesn't know won't hurt him and I've been using it for the last three years and he hasn't found out yet. So no more discussions, the matters settled" Saburo gave the famous Haruno smile as he took Sakura from Shiro's arms and walked towards the house.

Shiro had a look of horror on his face at the thought of his father using his wood style, considering the last time anyone knew he was using it, it got out of hand and everyone in the compound had been stuck in the walls of an extension to his brother's house for two hours before the women that where shopping came back and got them out. 'If it wasn't for Hashirama for showing him how to do that' a chill went through his body at the memory.

A few hours later everyone retired to their beds, eventually after many people ganging up on him, Shou allowed Saburo and a few of the other males to add an extension to his house-thanking Kami that there were no backfires-and everyone stayed there as a birthday wish to Saburo.

It was about three in the morning when Saburo awoke to noises and a chakra that felt very familiar but he couldn't remember who it was, but he knew it wasn't good.

He made his way over to Shiro and shook him gently as to not wake the pinkette in his arms. Shiro woke up and Saburo shushed him before moving to Aki and waking her. After tucking Sakura in the three adults made their way into the next room where other adults were awake after sensing the chakra as well.

"Who is it?" one of the women asked as they stepped outside away from the sleeping children, just in case whoever it was had ill intent. No one had an answer to her question as no one could recognise it and the strength of the chakra was too great to even tell where the person was.

The atmosphere was tense as the chakra came closer, everyone was in a fighting stance as a chuckle was heard on the breeze.

"Ah, Saburo Haruno how nice it is to see you...and with your clan" a sinister voice said. Everyone was looking for the owner of the voice but couldn't see anyone.

"But where are the children?"

Sakura awoke to an empty bed 'Where's mummy and daddy?' she thought as she rubbed her eyes sitting up in bed.

"Mummy daddy?"

She was answered by silence. Getting out of the bed, she made her way to the door. Just as she reached the knob the atmosphere became cold and a sense of danger filled the room. Sakura backed away from the door, something in the back of her mind telling her to run and hide.

She found a small door in her grandfather's closet, sort of like a hidden room. As soon as the door to the secret room closed Sakura heard the bedroom door open and she felt a dangerous yet familiar chakra came into the room. The only problem was she was too scared to concentrate on who the chakra belonged to, and something told her not to go and find out who it was.

The chakra signature moved about the room for a few minutes, as if they were searching for something. They stopped at the bed and was there for a moment before moving again. When the person stopped at the closet Sakura help her breath but her heart was pounding so loud that she knew they would be able to hear it, but the person began walking away.

As soon as the person left the room Sakura let the breath out she was holding, she started to violently shake silently crying for her mother and father to come find her.

The presence was moving towards the lounge room where all of her cousins were sleeping when Sakura felt a very powerful chakra outside, along with the flaring of all the clan adult's including her parents and grandfather. "Mummy...daddy" Sakura whispered as tears streaked down her face. She would have been a fool to say she wasn't scared, but in actual fact she was petrified.

"AHHHHH!"

The scream came from the lounge where the other kids were, Sakura froze 'What's going on' As soon as the scream sounded more were heard and Sakura's cousins chakra's along with some of the adult's outside began to flicker out. Sakura put her hands to her ears trying to shut the sounds of the screams out, as she curled up into a ball 'Mummy...daddy please help me' she said over and over in her head as the screams and dying chakra's became scarce.

Sakura sat up as the menacing chakra left the house, there was not a single sound coming from the other room where her cousins were supposed to be sleeping and safe from danger, but she knew what had just transpired. More tears streamed down her face 'It's all my fault I should have fought them and saved the other's'.

'Don't be such a pathetic cry baby who's feeling sorry for herself, there was nothing you could do!' A voice in the back of her head almost shouted.

'W...who are you?' Sakura asked

'I'm what you could be if you ignored that weakness called fear...I'm the kunoichi you could become to save them' the voice said.

'I...I...you...what?' Sakura didn't know what to say, she had never heard this voice before. Why was it speaking to her now?

'I can help you save your parents...just let me help you' her inner voice almost pleaded.

'I...I don't know' Sakura didn't know what to do, she knew the voice was right she was a pathetic cry baby. But she also knew she wasn't yet strong enough to do this on her own but the need to help her mother and father were greater than her common sense and self preservation 'O..ok what do I have to do?'

'Let the fear go first...I will guide you through this child' inner said in a soothing tone.

Sakura closed her eyes and took a deep breath and calmed herself as best she could. The voice in her head was encouraging her to go out and help her loved ones, she felt the fear leave her and she felt brave enough to get up and exit the closet.

She made her way to the door and put her hand on the knob for a second time, closing her eyes and taking a deep breath before opening the door and exiting the room.

The only noise that was heard was weapons outside stating the adults were fighting two different chakra's, one being the person that was in the house not fifteen minutes ago and the other the same one from outside. Sakura let her fear creep up on her as an aunt's chakra blinked out leaving only her parents and grandfather to fight the enemy.

'Please be okay mummy, daddy and grandpa'

As soon as she entered the lounge Sakura wanted to turn around and run back to her hiding place. For what was in front of her was a blood soaked room, more importantly it was her clan's blood. The bodies of her cousins no matter the age were scattered over the floor where they were cut down.

Sakura took a step back 'I...I can't do this...I...I'm just a kid what can I do' she was beginning to panic.

'Get a hold of yourself...you can do this...you have the power inside you, I will be with you to help you' inner said.

Once again Sakura could feel her fear leaving her body, was it the voice in her head's doing? She didn't know but she was glade it was there, she began moving again tears escaping her eyes the whole time. As she moved across the room her eyes never left the door, for fear of seeing her kin staring at her with empty blank eyes.

Finally making it to the door she pulled it open just in time to see a sword being plunged through her father's stomach, but not killing him. Her mother was not there with him.

The other adults including her grandfather were now laying on the ground still and lifeless.

'No...no'

"NOOO!"

All able bodies turned to look at the girl, tears streaming down her face. Her vision blurry, she found it extremely hard to breathe and was unable to move 'Mummy, daddy, grandfather...n...no'

There was movement and a thud sounded in front of her, causing Sakura to look ahead to where her father was to find him now laying on his side with the katana still embedded in his chest.

A deep menacing chuckle brought Sakura's eyes to the two figures standing just ahead of her fallen father. It was the first time since she got there that she looked at the enemy.

There in front of her was a man who looked to be in his thirties with black spiky hair and red eyes that had three comas slowly swirling around the pupil. But the one next to the strange man had her full attention, it was Noki one of her older cousin's. To be exact the only other family member that was almost as close to her as her grandfather was, that spent a lot of time with her when he wasn't on missions with his team.

He had hair a shade darker than her father and his usual crystal blue eyes were now replaced with crimson red eyes and three electric blue lines swirling around, it was the Haruno clan kekkei genkai but not the full tomokugan. But in his arms was a sobbing Aki who had cut's everywhere, but didn't look too hurt thank Kami.

"Noki w...what's happening?" Sakura whispered her eyes falling back to her father then to her restrained mother, her body freezing up again. Noki stayed silent as he watched his younger cousin.

The dark haired man stepped forward towards Shiro and chuckled crouching down and whispered something in his ear.

"Y...you leave...h...her out...of this!" Shiro growled.

The man chuckled looking at Sakura "She will watch her parents die before her life is taken...so this whole retched clan can enter the next life damned" he whispered as he reached for the sword embedded in Shiro's chest. Sakura made a dash to protect her father, but was too late as the man ruthlessly pulled the katana out of Shiro's chest causing him to scream in pain.

The man jumped back as Sakura lunged at him "Foolish child you will soon join him"

Sakura felt a power grow from within her and her fear disappear as she glared at the man and the now stranger next to him who did nothing to stop the man from destroying their clan. The wind started to pick up around Sakura and her fallen father forming a bubble around him, but her mother was still with those monsters but now in the dark haired man's arms.

"Why...why Noki?" Sakura asked looking to the sixteen year old. Noki looked at her with emotionless dead eyes "They were holding me back" he simply stated, his voice as dead as he looked.

The power growing inside of her flared, she looked to her father who was barely alive, then to her mother who was staring at Sakura not taking her eyes off her precious daughter. She closed her eyes and spoke with such an angered growl that anyone would think she could kill with just her tone of voice.

"They were holding you back...so you just thought you would kill them!" she turned back towards her cousin and opened her eyes, Noki gasped and his eyes widened a fraction. Looking back at him was the fully formed eyes of the tomokugan. Sakura's vision became clearer and she could see every movement that was made, she could see the chakra running through the three men and woman that were still living. Granted one was weakening rapidly, this made her new power soar and the swirling bubble of wind was joined by lightning.

The power that Sakura was producing was felt throughout the village by most of the ninja save a few, causing a number of them to head towards the cause of the power.

"I will never forgive you Noki!" Sakura yelled, a burst of her protective bubble shooting out towards the pair who just escaped being hit by it. The dark haired man sensed the ninja heading their way, "Noki we must leave, we will come back soon" Noki looked towards the older man and nodded. He stepped closer to the man that held Sakura's struggling mother "Sakura RUN!" she screamed but Sakura paid no mind to her mother's frantic cries.

The dark haired man chuckled as he placed one hand over Aki's mouth and the other on her lower abdomen "We have one last thing to do before we are to depart" he said with malice intent.

Shiro managed to sit up a little "Pl...please let them live, I beg y...you" his plea was unheard.

"Child if you wish to save your mother...kill your father"

The area became deathly silent as the man brought a kunai up to Aki's throat, Sakura's eyes turned back to their emerald green as she watched frozen and unable to do anything 'H..he wants m...me to k..k..kill daddy' she looked to her father with tear filled eyes. Shiro looked at his daughter with calm green eyes "It's okay baby girl you can do it" Sakura shook her head and hugged him crying "I...I can't"

The dark haired man looked on in amusement as he held the woman that was violently struggling and trying to talk if not for the hand that was currently over her mouth, he of course had other plans with the woman and that wasn't letting her go or live for that matter...but the girl didn't need to know that. He also had other plans for the child who had the fully formed tomokugan unlike his pawn, she would be very valuable as she grew older and her kekkei genkai became stronger.

"As touching as this is...you need to decide my child...your mother or your father?" Sakura started crying more as she looked from her mother to her father, both adults looked to their daughter as if saying it was okay for her to choose the other. Which she couldn't, how could any child choose between two loving parents...it was impossible.

"I...I..." she couldn't get any words out as fear overtook her body, not even the voice inside her head could help her. The dark haired man chuckled "I'll make it easy for you" Sakura looked at him as he tightened his grip around her mother "I was hoping to see Saburo's grandchild kill his son before I left...having you watch him die slowly and take your mother for my own personal gain is enough pain for him to take to the next life is enough for me" he said darkly.

The fear vanished from Sakura as quickly as it came, she got up and with a blood curdling war cry she ran at them.

"I will kill you before you get a chance to leave!" she yelled chakra sparking and swirling around her again as she rapidly approached them only to be stopped by a wall of wind caused by Noki "Sakura you are too weak..." he said "Become stronger and then come for us so I can test my strength and power on someone who is worthy of my time" The older man chuckled looking at his student "Good idea my boy we shall see who is worthy to wield the tomokugan" he turned and looked at Sakura "We'll be keeping an eye on you...and thank you for your mother" and with that they disappeared, all that was left was the scream of her mother.

"No...NO! I will find you and kill you...NOKI!"

Sakura sat there fists pounding the ground until her hands bled "I will find you...Do you hear me!" she screamed at the top of her lungs as she brought her hands down again slamming into the ground causing a slight crack. "Mummy come back...please" she whispered hoping she would be able to get away from the man and cousin that she promised to find and kill.

"Sa...Sakura"

Sakura whipped her head around to find her father looking at her with half lidded eyes, she rushed back over to him "Daddy" she whispered as she cradled his head in her lap. "Sa...Sakura...I'm s..sorry I'm n...not going t...to be there...for you" Shiro said weakly raising a shaky hand to his crying six year old daughter. His heart clenched at the thought of his daughter going through this at such a young age.

"Daddy pl...please, you're going to be okay...mummy" she couldn't finish what she was going to say.

"Mummy and I...w..will never leave y..you...we will a..always be in here" Shiro said placing his hand to her heart, knowing that Aki wouldn't be returning to their daughter. More tears spilled from her eyes as her father struggled to breath. She could feel the approaching ninja but they would get there too late to save anyone.

"I...love y...you baby...girl" Shiro said with his last breath as he closed his eyes for the last time, he could hear Sakura frantically calling for him to come back but he was being pulled towards a light and couldn't fight it. As the light pulled him closer, a figure stood at the end of the light. When he got closer he could make out the red hair of his wife, he came to stand in front of her and could see she cradled a small infant in her arms with bright blue hair and emerald green eyes. It was the son they never got a chance to have.

"DADDY!" Sakura screamed, but there was no response her father had left her alone. As the first of the ninja got closer the wind circled around the broken child and her father not letting anyone near them. One of the ninja who stood back not sure what to do with the sight before him bent over and threw up everything in his stomach. Other ninja made their way into the house in search of any other survivors but found none.

Everyone was silent watching the girl cry her heart out, waiting to be told what to do. The rest of the ninja came to the sight along with Itachi, who looked on in shock. A few minutes passed before he could move, he stepped forward making his way slowly towards the child he just met yesterday and his ANBU captain.

When he got a little to close the wind sent him flying back throwing him into the side of the house, Sakura looked up with dangerous eyes tomokugan swirling violently. There were many gasps as Sakura glared at each and every ninja there, whispers also accompanied the gasps.

"What is that?"

"I think it's the tomokugan"

"The what?"

"Tomokugan...it is the legendary kekkei genkai that defeated Madara Uchiha almost 70 years ago"

The ball of wind once again was joined by lightning, keeping everyone away as Sakura mourned her fallen clan members.

Half an hour had passed before the Hokage came to the sight as they figured how to get Sakura away from her father and to the hospital where she could be checked for injuries. Everything they tried to do didn't work, and they were about to resort to trying to inject her somehow with a sedative when the protective bubble started to dissipate before disappearing and Sakura collapsed from chakra depletion.

Medic ninja rushed to the pair one taking Sakura and disappearing in a puff of smoke, and the others checking the vitals of Shiro only to find they were too late in saving the man.

Sarutobi shook his head as the medic's and ninja lifted all of the deceased Haruno clan members and slowly walked towards the hospital. "That poor child...to whiteness this horrific scene at such a young age" everyone silently agreed with him "Itachi" he called, said boy was relieved of carrying his dead captain and stood before the Hokage "I want you to gather a team and find out what happened here...where is her mother?" "I'm not sure lord Hokage...she could be...among the dead" Itachi said a little hesitant with the last part "Find her" Itachi nodded his head "I don't think the girl will be up to questioning for a while" he mumbled to himself as Itachi disappeared to gather his team.

Back To Present

Sasuke was silent for a few minutes taking everything in before he spoke "I want to see her" he demanded looking from his brother to the Hokage. Sarutobi gave the boy a sad smile "You may see her but she has yet to wake up" Sasuke nodded his head in understanding.

When they reached the room that held the last living member of the Haruno clan, Sasuke's chest tightened not knowing what he would find on the other side of the door. Itachi opened the door and stepped in first followed by a hesitant Sasuke. Sasuke stepped away from Itachi and looked to the bed, where a small body was hidden by covers.

Sasuke moved closer to the bad and looked down at his sleeping only friend, a sadness and tremendous pain welled inside of him as he watched her jerk and whimper as if she was having a nightmare. He placed his hand on hers only for her to jerk away from the touch.

"What's wrong with her?" Sasuke asked not taking his eyes off the pinkette, "Sasuke she has been through a very traumatic thing at a very young age" Itachi said as he could remember the events of the second ninja war that he was dragged through leaving a deep impact in his mind "It will affect her greatly and she may not be the girl you remember when she wakes up".

Sasuke stayed with Sakura for the rest of the day and some of the night not wanting to leave in case she woke up, but when Itachi came to get him he had no choice but to leave the girl alone. A nurse was made to promise she would stay close to Sakura in case she woke up, by a very worried Sasuke before he and Itachi left the hospital and headed back home avoiding the Haruno compound all together.

"Saakkuurraaaa"

That voice was very familiar.

"Saakkuurraaaa" it sang again as Sakura walked down the dark hall in search of the sing song voice.

"Saakkuurraaaa...come to us" it sang again becoming more familiar as Sakura came to a door at the end of the hall. As she stood in front of it she heard a loud click before the door creaked open. A bright light spewed from the crack as the door opened wider.

Sakura had to close her eyes from the sudden brightness, but when she opened her eyes the light had dimmed and there stood two very familiar people one with light blue long hair and emerald green eyes with a warm smile. The other had deep green eyes and long red hair with her arms open reaching for something.

A smile broke across Sakura's face as she ran to her parents.

"Mummy, daddy...I missed you!"

She was so happy to see her parents, it had felt like a life time that they had been separated for. Sakura was half way to her mother's arms when something happened, the smiles on her parent's faces fell and they stood up straight with dead looks on their faces.

Sakura stopped running and looked at them with a questioning look.

"Mummy, daddy...w..what's wrong?"

The only answer was a dark chuckle as her parents were pierced through the chest with a blade. Sakura was frozen with horror as she watched her parents fall to the ground and where they were standing were two new figures.

She recognised the two as Noki her cousin and the other she didn't know his name but she knew she would never forget his face with those red eyes looking back at her.

A smirk appeared on Noki's face as he watched Sakura struggle to break free of the trap she had to be stuck in. Sakura looked up when the dark haired man with red eyes started to chuckled, Noki joined in. "You were too weak to save them...you will always be too weak to save anyone" Noki whispered as he and the other man cackled as they began to fade into the darkness.

"We will be watching you"

The last part of the two she could see in the now dark room were their red eyes, one pair with black coma's swirling slowly and the other three electric blue lines sparking around. Both set's watching her as they disappeared along with everything else, including her parents.

"N..no mummy...daddy!"

Sakura sat straight up in the bed with tears streaming down her face and her body wet with sweat, she looked around the room noticing that she wasn't in her home. The smells of the hospital filled her senses as she looked around again 'it was just a dream...just a dream' but then the memories of the night before and the two faces that haunted her mind came back tenfold.

Sakura clutched her head in her hands trying to get the pictures and sounds of her clan dying out of her head when she heard nurses talking outside the door.

"Poor kid did you hear she's the only one left" one said

"Yeah...I heard she watched them die" a gasp

"Did they find her mother yet"

"No...no signs anywhere"

Sakura's heart clenched at that.

"And at such a young age, imagine the mental damage"

"Yeah but I was also informed by Ami that when she and the others got there, the girl and her father were in a wind created shield"

"How can that be there isn't any protective jutsu like that" the other said in disbelief

The first hummed an agreement "If Ami hadn't said that that young Uchiha boy was thrown back by the force I wouldn't have believed her myself" she said "But when the girl looked at them Ami said she had some weird eye thing going on called tomokugan"

Another gasp "That's the same blood-line that defeated Madara Uchiha's sharingan all those yea..."

Sakura couldn't listen to any more of what was being said having slipped out of the window and headed to her home. 'My family, they can't be gone' was the thought running through her mind as she made her way to the compound not even aware of the stares as she walked through the main part of the village.

The gates to the Haruno clan had a police tape on it stopping people from entering...or so they thought. Sakura made her way through the compound expecting a hug from an aunt or uncle or a cousin running up asking for her to play with them, but none came. Everything was silent except for the wind and Sakura's footsteps.

As she passed her uncle Shou's house she could see the damage done to it from a fight or from what the women said it was where she had thrown Itachi. She ignored the pang of guilt in her chest and kept walking towards her home hoping and praying that her parents were there waiting for her.

There were no signs of life as she entered her home, walking through the empty house until she found herself at the door to her parent's room. She entered the room and made her way to the bed as tears welled up in her eyes.

'Mummy and daddy aren't coming back are they?' she asked herself not expecting a response.

'No my child they aren't' came the voice of her inner

Sakura didn't respond as she crawled up to the head of the bed and laid in the middle letting the smells of her parents enter her senses. She was unsure of how long she had been there minutes, hour's, days even she didn't care. As she made a resolve to become strong only to destroy those who took her family away from her, even if she lost her own life.

She shut everything out including the voice within her, even harshly sending her one and only friend away. She would continue with the academy only to become stronger and when she no longer needed it she would go after them, because as of that day Sakura Haruno became an avenger of the Haruno clan.

Two years after the Haruno massacre, Konoha was hit with another tragedy. For reasons unknown to anyone but himself, Itachi Uchiha became an s-ranked missing nin after slaughtering his clan leaving his little brother the only one alive. After torturing him in the mongekyou sharingan with their parents and clan members deaths, Itachi demanded Sasuke acquire the same eye technique so he too like Noki could test his ability on his kin.

This left Konoha with a handicap of no longer having two of the three most powerful clans in fire country and two very alone children who were once the only friend each other had. Before one turned their back on the other and friendships were forgotten, not knowing each other were what they would need to hold onto their humanity.

Okay so I hope you guys liked this chapter as much as the first one, good guess caga2007 on Itachi's dad Fugaku on being the bad guy lol. When I wrote that part in the last chapter I knew people would think that lol.

A hint to who the person is, is in the first chapter and up top if you guys haven't already guessed it.

Remember if you have any questions or are confused about something don't hesitate to ask me and I will try to answer it as best I can.

Thank you for taking the time to read my story:)

An even bigger thank you to cowgirl137, caga2007, christiansrose,

and a special thank you to my friend Tenchi who was the first to reveiw

I couldn't wait to update just for you guys. I hope I don't disappoint you guys.

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