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By TwinEnigma
Warnings: AU
Tail Two:
Sakura wasn't very confident – she'd never been – but she was gifted with extraordinary intelligence and she'd developed a pretty keen sense of observation over the years. It wasn't hard to do when people made a habit of ignoring her, their eyes sliding away as soon as they saw her. So, bit by bit, over the years, she tried to reason out the why of this strange behavior.
It always came back to a single day – the day the Kyuubi died and the day she was born. Truly, it had been an unlucky day to be born, she concluded, but the mere coincidence of being born upon the same day the beast died could hardly be a rational reason behind this willful avoidance.
Her parents said it was nothing and told her to ignore it as best she could. Many villagers were still grieving those lost that day and, to them, a child that was born in the rubble represented a reminder of the loss they could never fill.
Sakura wanted to believe them, she did. It almost made sense, too, but there was always something bothering her about it all, something that didn't sit right.
It wasn't until Wave, when the alien red chakra boiled up from under her skin as she clutched desperately to the senbon-riddled limp forms of her teammates and Kakashi-sensei uttered Kyuubi that she knew it had been no coincidence.
She could feel that strange, alien, burning chakra hissing though her veins, as though a stopper somewhere had been removed. This was Kyuubi and the part of her that wanted to know how this was possible was drowned in the deluge of fear, anger and that burning red chakra.
Those bastards who hurt her boys – they'd pay. And as the world bled red with the fox's power, she roared her pain to the heavens.
AN: Sakura is smart - she'd figure out something's off. And without Kyuubi, Naruto would have been knocked out by Haku as well.