VI

Chuunin Exam

Part 3

A/N: I think I'm going to make this into an Itachi X Sakura pairing… The plot works best for them. I'm really, really, really sorry Neji X Sakura fans, and other pairing fans!

Recap: With a thunk, the shruikens's hit her, but they just bounced off. There wasn't a single scratch on her. The truth was, Sakura's body had an absolute defense like Garra. Over her skin, there was an invisible thin barrier that absorbed all of the attack done on her, but at the same time, there didn't seem to be any difference in her skin. Her flesh was still soft and warm because out of habit she kept her heart beating, and the barrier was part of her, it was part of her skin. You could say that the barrier allowed unthreatening things past it, but it blocked everything threatening, including needles.

Itachi, Sasuke, Sai, and Naruto stared at her in shock. Sakura gazed blankly at them.

What is she? The four males wondered.

It seems they found out… Inner mumbled, stating the obvious.

Sakura raised a slim pink eyebrow while asking, "What?"

The four males were still staring at her warily, though Naruto and Sai sweatdropped at her question. Itachi was gazing at her with a blank face, but inside he was feeling a strange sense of curiosity. He couldn't help but wonder how she would fare against the torture of the Mangekyo world. Shutting his eyes, he flashed them open again showing the Mangekyo Sharingan.

Sasuke, who was monitoring his "brother" carefully, felt a pang of fear when he saw Itachi's Mangekyo Sharingan again. "Don't look into his eyes!!!" Sasuke suddenly yelled out in terror, but it was too late.

Though Naruto, and Sai had escaped by lowering their heads, Sakura was already gazing into the deadly crimson eyes. Sasuke could only watch in horror when he saw her and Itachi locked in gaze. Sharingan spinning, he quickly entered her mind to see what kind of torture Itachi was doing to her.

When he entered the crimson world of the Sharingan, he saw at once where Sakura was. Itachi had her strapped to a cross, as he stood in front of her with a katana. Sasuke's eyes bled red when he saw Itachi stab her with the blade. Sakura flinched, but otherwise didn't react. As her eyes closed, she softly panted weakly.

"Leave her alone." Sasuke voiced in a cool voice. Itachi uncaringly angled his body slightly in the direction of Sasuke, obviously stating that Sasuke wasn't important enough to gain his full attention. Sasuke suddenly flashed over to Itachi while pulling out his katana in the process. The two blades met with a clash of metal on metal.

Though it didn't seem like Sasuke did much, he actually distracted Itachi enough for Sakura to break free of the Genjutsu. The red world slowly started to fade as Sakura broke the jutsu. Then with a snap, the Sharingan world flickered out, leaving a battling Sasuke and Itachi.

Sakura was pissed. She couldn't believe that someone, especially Sasuke, saved her, AGAIN! Sai and Naruto had lifted their heads when they had heard the clash of blades from the katanas of the two Uchihas. What they saw sent a shiver of cold terror down their spine. Sakura, the once innocent, kind Sakura, was glaring coldly at the two Uchihas. Her face was a beautiful icy mask, and the aura that surrounded her reeked of power. Naruto was reminded of himself when the Kyuubi came out. Swirling air circled her, whipping her hair around, while her eyes glowed red, then violet.

When the two brothers felt a strange foreign power close by, they froze and turned to gaze at Sakura. The pink haired vampire glared while hissing, "Itachi, take your friend and go." Her voice seemed to strike the elder sibling with a thud as he found himself doing what she said to do involuntarily. Sasuke, Sai and Naruto watched flabbergasted as Itachi quickly picked up the blue shark man, and making a few hand signals, disappeared.

Sakura then turned to the three boys, and while glaring with violet eyes, ordered, "Hurry up and finish the test." With that she disappeared as well. Sasuke, Sai and Naruto were standing there in shock, quite like the time when Sakura had first shown up at the training ground after a year and 4 months of absence. Without another word spoken, the three of them headed off to the tower once again.

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When the pink haired ANBU arrived at the tower to greet the contestants, she saw that Tsunade was already there. "Sakura! Are you all right? What happened?" She asked.

Sakura sighed while reporting, "I'm fine Hokaga-sama, thank you for asking. The two intruders have been chased away so you do not need to worry."

Tsunade sighed tiredly, "Good work."

Sakura gave her a respectful bow before quickly hurrying off to change. The first team to arrive was naturally Sasuke, Sai and Naruto. When they had tried to talk with Sakura, she had calmly ignored them. Soon the five days were up, and only 4 teams had made it in the end.

The third examiner was Kakashi this time, with Tsunade and Sakura watching to make sure he actually did his job right. The 12 contestants were waiting impatiently for the arrival of the examiner. Sasuke, Naruto and Sai saw that Tsunade was fuming and mumbling things under her breath what sounded like, "…burn…book…torture…kill…revive…torture…kill…revive…torture…kill…etc…"

The three of them sweatdropped, yes, even Sasuke.

When the examiner finally arrived. Tsunade gave the poor man a glare that screamed pain, while Sakura just glanced at him. Of course, Naruto had to yell, "YOUR LATE!!!...WAIT! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE KAKASHI-SENSEI?!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Shut up Baka." Sasuke grumbled while slapping Naruto across the head.

"For once I agree with Chicken Ass, shut up Dickless." Sai said with a smile. Both Sasuke and Naruto glared at the artist.

Kakashi sweatdropped and gave a cough to gain his students attention. They completely ignored him. Kakashi coughed louder again… they continued to ignore him. The rest of the contestants were staring at the three with expressions that said, what the hell?

Finally, Kakashi sighed. He knew the only way to gain their attention was through theSecret Double-Edged Tactic but in the end, he always ended up gaining a major headache from the bashing he received from Sakura.

Crying anime tears Kakashi dramatically yelled out, "OH NOOOO!!!! WHAT SHOULD I DOOOO?!!! SAKURA-CHANS GETTING MOLESTED BY PERVERTS!!!!!!!!"

He saw Sakura twitch. He saw the three boys freeze, then slowly turn around their eyes murderous.

"WHO THE F IS MOLESTING MY SAKURA?!!!!!!" They roared, (A/N: Actually, Naruto was the only one who yelled.) while glaring at everyone malevolently.

Everyone in the room, except for Sasuke, Sai and Naruto, sweatdropped.

"Okay then… I'm Hatake Kakashi, and I'm your next examiner. Because there are still too many of you, we will first have a preliminary round."

With that being said, he immediately went back to reading his book. Tsunade sighed as she said, first up is…

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In the end, Sai, Naruto, Sasuke, and three others passed the preliminaries. The other three that passed were all from sand.

As the three contestants glared at the other three, Kakashi just read his,graphic, novel…

"You naughty boy, taking advantage of a girl like that…" Kakashi giggled, a light blush on his cheek, everyone in the room sweatdropped while staring at him in faint disbelief.

"This is the great Konoha copy ninja?" A sand konochi asked her teammate. The boy in her team just shrugged. Tsunade had a vein throbbing on her forehead. "Sakura…" She said through gritted teeth. Said girl smiled gently, the smile that only an angel could have, though due to some "complications" Sakura had one too. Her beauty was like an angel, but truly, she was closer to a demon then an angel by far.

"Kakashi-sensei." Sakura gently murmured.

The silver haired jounin looked up in surprise. "Huh?" He found himself gazing into the face of a heavenly being. Did I die while reading? Thought Kakashi while he just stared dumbly at her. The next thing he knew, he found his hands empty of his precious book. "Wah?" was his reaction.

Sakura was calmly flipping through his, precious, with a bored expression on her face. Then right in front of the bewildered perverted man she ripped up his book with two fingers.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

After 2 minutes…

He was still lamenting his loss while holding his ruined book with a shocked and dazed look on his face. Sakura ignored him as she turned to the contestants and calmly said, "Your next exam will be in a month in front of a large audience. I advise you to use your time wisely by training." With that being said, she calmly pulled out two pieces of paper. The first battle will be Naruto Vs. Kohaku. Kohaku, the sand genin with flaming red hair and coal black eyes smirked at Naruto.

"The second battle will be Sasuke Vs. Kimiko." Kimiko squealed like a fangirl causing Sasuke to back hastily away from her. Girls like her sometimes tried to jump him... She had long black hair and round brown eyes. "The winner of Sasuke Vs. Kimiko's battle will fight the winner of Naruto Vs. Kohaku, and the winner of that battle will battle against the winner of Sai Vs. Toya battle."

Toya, the other sand shinobi just stood there, his face blank, while Sai smiled smoothly. Toya was tall and strong in build. The strong and silent type you could call him. He had dirty blond hair and large caramel colored eyes.

The contestants nodded and soon everyone had left the tower but for Sasuke, Sai, Naruto and Kakashi. It turned out that Sakura hadn't ripped his book, she had just ripped a fake, and when his weeping had started to annoy her, she had tossed it back to him.

Sasuke, Naruto and Sai had filled Kakashi in on what had occurred in the Forest of Death when Itachi had attacked.

"Sakura's different. I knew she became quite stronger then before, but this is impossible. How could she have ended up chasing Itachi and Kisame away?" Kakashi questioned. The four of them frowned, lost in their own thought.

"You know, Sakura's eyes turned purple at one point…" Naruto said.

Sai and Sasuke nodded in remembrance. "Could it be a bloodline limit?" Sasuke voiced.

"Ugly? With a bloodline? I highly doubt that. Her parents weren't shinobis." Sai murmured.

Kakashi answered, "It could be possible, but I doubt it. It may have been a jutsu of some sort… Well, it's getting late, all three of you must be tired from the exam, go home and rest."

No matter how hard they tried, none of them could get a good night of sleep at home, all of them were haunted by the memory of Sakura's beauty, power and mystery.

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Sakura frowned as she sat on her roof staring at the stars. Sometimes she really hated the fact that vampires couldn't sleep, but at least she wasn't tired like Garra…. Glancing at the moon, she felt a shiver go down her spine when she heard a chilling howl from the mountains to the North of the village. She let out the air that she had been holding unconsciously, through her teeth with a hiss.

Clenching and unclenching her fists for some unknown reason, Sakura gazed at the silver lights in the sky. For once, they did nothing to help her calm down. She didn't know what was wrong with her but she felt something happening that made her tense and anxious. Something was coming…

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Somewhere else, Itachi also spent a sleepless night. His face emotionless, he watched as Kisame drowned bottle after bottle of sake. His head was filled with images of the pink haired girl. He knew something was different about her, something not… human.

"I can't believe I was knocked out by a GIRL!!!!" Kisame roared out in anger. With his short rant finished, he collapsed onto the table, asleep.

Itachi turned his gaze away from the pitiful sight, and instead pondered on what had happened to him when the pink haired Konochi's eyes had become violet. All he could remember was seeing her eyes change from green to red, and finally to violet. Itachi remembered gazing at her eyes as she said something, though he couldn't remember what. The next thing he knew, he was out of the Forest of Death with Kisame who was still unconscious. Involuntarily, he had dragged Kisame, and himself, out of Konoha and to safety. Did she put a genjutsu on me somehow? He wondered. Once again, Itachi went over the battle, focusing on every last detail he could remember, but to his frustration, her face kept coming back to haunt his mind. Why…? He wondered.

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At The Castle

"Kamui and Suki-san. The council has heard that you have changed a human, and she is a Royal." Stated a handsome black haired man.

"Your information is accurate as always Tenshi-san." Suki laughed with a cheerful grin.

The said man smirked, and then said, "I'm sure you know the rules, please bring her to register."

"Hai." Kamui and Suki murmured together.

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Back in Konoha:

"Achoo!... Is someone talking about me?" Sakura wondered.

I didn't know vampires could sneeze… Inner pondered.

"…"

Inner… just shut up…

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