AN: I don't own Naruto.

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Chapter 6 –Some History Revealed…

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"Hey Neji. This place sucks." Sai said as he looked through the collection of swords with boredom.

"This can't be it." Neji said as he opened a large brown chest.

"What kind of diabolical king keeps all this crap within his walls?" Sai said as he picked up a small dagger of gold. Sai just sat down on a wooden stool and twirled the small dagger in his hand.

"Stop fooling around Sai." Neji said as he looked through more chests.

"I'm not fooling around." Sai said as he started to slice through the air with the dagger.

"Yes you are." Neji said with a stern look. Sai just gave him a stubborn look.

"Che, I don't even think it's here." Sai said as he threw the dagger behind him.

"Hey, don't-" but Neji stopped when the dagger went straight threw the curtains and made a small 'thunk'.

"What the hell?" the two said in unison.

Neji walked over the curtains and moved them aside. The dagger was sticking out of the stone wall behind it. "How can this dagger cut through the wall?" Neji said as he reached for the golden blade. HHHHe grabbed the handle and pulled on it, but Neji found it surprisingly difficult. "Son of a-"

"Here I'll do it." Sai said as he reached for the dagger. After a tug or two, he just turned to Neji and asked, "I couldn't have thrown it that hard could I?" Neji just let out a sigh and activated his byakugan.

"Hmph. It's a small painted chest with charka around it." Neji said as he deactivated his blood line. "Clever bastard."

"See, I wasn't fooling around." Sai said as he took out his sword. He felt the dimensions of the chest and slowly started to wedge his sword's tip against its sides.

"I wonder if Sakura-chan and the other's are having this much luck." Neji said as he opened the small chest.

"Hey Hinata-chan, how are you holding up?" Naruto asked as he and the Hyuuga princess looked around the treasury.

"Alright." Hinata said as she looked through a couple of scrolls.

"Hey! I found it!" Naruto said excitedly as he pulled out a scroll from under a large pile. "Perfect, it's all he-" but the blond knight was pummeled by the pile of scrolls. "Kuso…" he muttered out.

"Oh Naruto-kun…" Hinata muttered as she sweat dropped.

"I think they're gone." Sasuke said as he and Sakura stood next to the door. Sasuke pushed the door open and stepped outside.

"We have to tell Neji-kun and the others about Orochimaru's plan for all these people." Sakura said as she walked down the hallway.

"They don't concern our mission. Who cares if a bunch of nobles or other royals get what they deserve." Sasuke said as he walked in a slightly quicker pace.

"How can you say that?" She said a little surprised at the Uchiha's coldness. "They're people too, and they're in danger. On top of that, if Orochimaru gets his way, who knows what the heck he'll do!" Sakura said.

"What can we do then? You tell me what to do with those damn royals." Sasuke asked as he stopped walking.

"If you forgotten, Neji-kun, Sai-kun, Hinata-chan, and I are royals." Sakura said as her temper started to rise.

"Your four have no power over these people, how can you call yourselves royals? You are also an orphan. Both you and Sai. Royalty comes by blood. You don't know the life of a true royal."

"I've been living with the royal Hyuuga family and Sai for almost my entire life. I may not be family by blood, but they are my family nonetheless."

"Well excuse me my lady." Sasuke said as he bowed. "I didn't know that you were so ignorant, that you can't understand that no matter how much you may think the Hyuuga's are your family, they can't ever truly be your family." Sakura looked at him with anger. "Those damn pests who think they all own everything that men stand upon. Those vermin who only pleases the wealthy and leave the poor to die…those bastards that…that are so pathetic that they would send an army to kill everyone you knew and loved just because they fear a small uncertain threat towards their power?!"

"Sa-Sasuke…Is that what happened to you?" Sakura said as tears were at the brim of her eyes. "Did the Hyuugas kill the entire Uchiha guild, except you and your brother?" Sasuke looked straight into her eyes. Sakura couldn't help but feel vulnerable under his blood red sharingan staring at her. The tension grew uncomfortable as Sakura waited for his answer.

"Yes. But unfortunately, my brother was one of the ones that help destroy my guild." Sasuke said as he looked at the floor.

"I'm sorry Sasuke…" was all Sakura managed to say. "Why would his own brother kill everyone they both knew?" She thought. "My family was killed too, but by rogues and bandits. I was just old enough to remember everything. Houses were on fire, the ground itself glowed with the villager's blood. I didn't know people could bleed so much. Everyone was screaming, and crying. My father's head was severed while trying to protect me and mother. I was able to get out of the chaos and into the forest with her, but we were being followed the whole time."

Flashback

"Please don't kill her, she's only a child!" Sakura's mother begged as the bandit pulled his sword out of her stomach. Blood oozed onto the floor as Sakura's mother moved over to where the frightened girl stood frozen. She wrapped her arms around her in a tight embrace muttering 'it's going to be ok' over and over again in shallow breaths.

"Mother!" Sakura cried as she hugged her.

"There can't be any survivors from this village." Said the rogue with an emotionless tone. "May you find peace in the afterlife."

"NOOOOO!!!" Sakura's mother screamed as she turned her back to the rogue and covered Sakura. The sword cut through her once more, but missed Sakura. In he last moments of life, Sakura's mother knocked Sakura out hoping to fool the rogue. Before falling into the world of darkness, Sakura remember her mother's last and final words. "Live a good long life Sakura. Like a Haruno should."

End flashback

"It seems that our pasts are alike, but our paths are different." Sasuke said sadly.

"I guess so…I remember a soldier taking me to the castle the night it happened. There was a boy there too. It turned out we were two surviving children during the rampage. The other child was Sai, but the weird thing was, I've never seen him before. We lived in the same village, but I guess I never met him." Sakura said with a sad smile as Sasuke looked at her. The two started to walk forward as she continued telling about her past. "While waiting in a large, most beautifully furnished room I've seen in my life, I heard a couple of guards mention two things, White Fang and Yamato. Those two were the leaders of the bandits. I can never forget those names."

Sasuke just looked at her with emotionless eyes. "It's funny, I've never told anyone about this, not even my part of the story to Sai." Sakura said as she turned a dark corner. "Here it is. We finally got to the weapon's storage." As Sasuke held the huge wooden door's handle he turned to Sakura. Sakura's eyes shined from the held back tears, as she managed to suppress them. Sasuke then moved away from the door and gave Sakura a small warm embrace. Sakura's eyes widened as her body froze.

"I know exactly how it felt to lose them." He said as he kept her close to him.

"Sas-Sasuke…thank you." Sakura whispered as released his embrace and turned back to the large door. Sasuke started to push the door, as it slowly opened.

"This door's really heavy." Sasuke said as he paced both hands against it and push it.

"This storage is huge so we might take a while to fin-OH SHIT!" Sakura said as she and Sasuke stood there frozen.

"What the hell is that doing here?!" Sasuke said as he kicked the door closed.

AN: Sry if the chapter's short, but I'm trying to work up and ending on some of my other stories. Thx again for reading, and I'm always up for any suggestions!