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Unwanted Encounters

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A pair of liquid emerald eyes slowly fluttered open, despite the heaviness that weighted them down. How long had she been out of it? Sakura groaned and shifted her arm back, forcing her upper body forward. A cold sweat trickled down her body and her breathing was irregular with deep breathes and sharp spikes.

A few of her loose bangs fell in front of her line of vision but she didn't bother to remove them. Her vision was already greatly blurred thanks to that explosion.

The explosion!

As memories came flooding back to her Sakura growled and cursed herself for being so stupid and not noticing it sooner. How could she be so blind? A genin set it for Pokey's sake! She was better that that and yet she was falling for traps an academy student could detect. But then… there was just something about it that…did something to her. She couldn't really explain it, it just was. But that was no excuse! She was the monster hidden in the mountains that was feared and regarded as a legend all over and here she was falling for a freaking genin's trap!

No. That wasn't a genin's trap. There was something about it, being to complex and powerful for it to belong to a genin. There was also something familiar about it that currently escaped her memory. She couldn't put her finger on it but there was something about it that reminded her about…NO! There was no going back there, she wouldn't even think about. It was just a stupid genin's trap that she just happened to fall in to. Nothing more.

Bringing her mind out of such troubling thoughts Sakura looked down and slightly winced seeing her mangled and bloodied body. Her red jacket was gone, most likely burned in the inferno of the explosion, and the rest of her was just a plain old mess. Her black jumpsuit was severely scorched and shredded all over exposing her many second and third degree burns that were healing right before her eyes thanks to Okami. She saw her flesh crawling back together returning to their pale nude tone from the charred and disgusting black they once were. The process was a slow one and took a fair amount of time but was well worth it in the end. There was a lot of blood as well but not much. It was mostly just burn marks that occasionally did bleed.

Sakura inwardly whimpered at her lack of clothing and shook slightly. Her legs were mostly bare of clothing with the fabric ending in a tatted mess a ways above the knees. Both of her arms were completely exposed with only a few tattered pieces handing off her wrists. But what freaked Sakura out the most was that all of her lower stomach was exposed with the remains of her outfit just barely covering her chest in an un-modest way. Her dirtied white bindings were now visible through the pathetic excuse for a modest top and Sakura hurriedly started to tie loose ends together trying to conceal as much as possible.

She breathed in deeply letting her arms fall down to her sides to rest. Her head was screaming like crazy and her vision was still mostly blurry. Could it get any worse?

Panicking she reached up to her face searching for the bandages the concealed her from the rest of the world. She let out a relieved sigh when she felt them still tightly secured around her head. The bottom of it was a bit loose most likely due to the charred marks, but it was still intact none the less.

"Just wait, once I get my hands on the baka that set that trap I'm goanna-ugh!" Sakura moaned falling backwards due the pain in her stomach that shot through out her entire body when she tried to stand up. "…After I heal…"

With those last words falling off her lips, Sakura leaned back and let another way of dreamless sleep wash over her entire being unaware of a trio of shadows that surrounded her with eager eyes.

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Naruto growled as his cerulean blue eyes flashed crimson briefly as he drove a kunai into the gut of another grass nin that made the mistake of stumbling upon him in his angered state. His golden blond hair was wild and untamed and his whisker marks were darker and more defined than normal. His clothes were scorched in many places and a few burns still remained all over his body. Most of the larger ones were already gone, thanks to the nine tailed fox leaving a few first and second degree burns that he didn't even feel. He was numb to the pain as he lashed out again taking down another one of the three grass nin that had attacked him.

After the explosion he was knocked back several hundred feet falling unconscious after hitting his head on a tree's branch a little too roughly. He didn't know where Sasuke was and at the moment he didn't really care, he knew Sasuke could take car of himself. What he was really concerned about was Sakura since she was right on top of that blast. He needed to find her and watch over her. In her state he doubted she could do much of anything. Her state, considering that she was still even…

No!

He wouldn't think about that. She was alive and she was okay and he would find her as soon as he was finished with these damn grass ninjas. Even though it had been many hours since the explosion went off he would find her and she would be okay.

He roared in rage and slashed at another blurred body in his way. There would be hell to pay when he got his hands on the jerks that set that trap if something happened to her. His eyes now fully stained crimson red as anger and rage too root in his heart. There would be a blood bath for certain if he found her severely hurt or worse.

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Sasuke stood tall and static, void of any burn or scorch marks anywhere on his body. The only hints of him being anywhere near a fire or explosion were the black edged holes that dotted his clothes here and there and the smell of smoke that clung heavily to him.

His long navy blue bangs flapped against his face as a breeze passed over him. It was impossible to tell what he was thinking from just looking at him, he was so cold. His arms were crossed over his chest, his back set in a calm posture as his eyes continued to gaze over the dark green landscape.

The clinking of glass tore his eyes away from the scene before him to the one behind him. "All of your burn marks are healed now so you should be good for now as long as you don't hit any more of those traps again. Even being so far away from one when it went off you got pretty beat up. If you were on top of it you most likely would have died Sasuke sama."

"Hn," was his simple reply as he watched the silver haired boy with glasses clean up his small medical set by packing away his set of vials he head just used to remove the infection in one of Sasuke's burns. The empty glass tubes clinked together as they were lowered into a small medical pack.

Kabuto looked up at him and smiled nervously. "Well then Sasuke sama if that is all I need to be going now. If you need anything else just contact me through the curse mark."

"I will." Sasuke grunted gruffly sending the silent message with his eyes that screamed 'Get… lost…. now.'

Kabuto bowed nervously before turning on his heel and disappearing into the thicket of trees leaving Sasuke alone with his thoughts. Kabuto's words seemed to ring in his ears over and over again. 'If you were on top of it you most likely would have died Sasuke sama.' Sakura was on top of that last blast.

Growling to himself he turned around sharply and sped off looking for Naruto and Sakura. He would not dwell on it. The only really bad thing about that was that he and Naruto wouldn't be able to advance to the next part of the exam is she died.

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Sakura's eyes shot open as the choking aura of three nearby chakras filled her weary senses. The pale skinny girl swung her legs under her body and lifted herself into a secure defensive position despite the lingering blurriness that now only edged away at her vision. Her headache was less now too so she was capable of moving faster without getting dizzy.

"I know you're there, show yourselves." She called out into the surrounding forest as her emerald eyes darted from side to side searching for something to give them away.

"My, my the master wasn't joking when he said her senses were top notch." A taunting voice chuckled from somewhere to her left. Sakura tensed but remained still knowing they were throwing their voice around with ventriloquism.

"You were the ones that set that trap." She snapped with venom lacing her every word.

"Smart as well as alert isn't she," a different voice chuckled.

"What is it that you want with me of all people? Come out and show yourselves you cowards!" She growled in anger. Despite the vast improvement she was still exhausted from the healing process she and Okami had gone though some time ago.

"Oh look at that, she's impatience. Well I guess there is no use in keeping her waiting now is there." The first voice called out as three shadows jumped out of the trees around her.

Surrounding her were three identically dressed genin each wearing a knee length gray coat with black pants tucking into their black sandals. The one, she presumed to be their leader, had a evil smirk with coal black eyes and short brown colored hair. The next one was another boy with dark blue eyes and spiky forest green hair. The last one standing behind her was a girl with shoulder length lavender hair and purple eyes. On their shoulders was a crest like design that Sakura recognized with hate. It looked like an elaborate spider web with a few curl like marking coming out of every other string.

"Answer me, what is it that you want with me of all people?" The green eyed demon vessel snapped again at the trio with hidden headbands.

"It's not what we want with you but what our master wants with you." The coal eyed boy replied with a sick twisted smirk that mad her cringe.

"Than what dose he want with me?"

"Tsk, tsk, we won't tell you with that tone of voice. Besides, we don't really want to tell you that just yet. It will ruin al our fun." He replied again.

Sakura growled as her eyes flashed white with anger and rage that was becoming a bit too much for her limited control. Her blood lust was reaching it's boiling point and when it spilled over there would be red everywhere. "Then tell me who your master is."

"You should know better than that dear Sakura, we can't tell you, at least not yet. But I guess we could give you a tiny little hint." The blue eyed boy snickered before pointing up at the star studded sky. An almost full moon was positioned at the end of his finger as the little color left in her face drained. "He knows about your little secret."

"Enough of this you two," the girl snarled speaking up for the first time. "We have our orders now let's execute them!"

Sakura turned sharply as the lavenders haired girl charged at her with a handful of strangely shaped knives aimed at her. Flipping back she dodged her swipes while kicking her in the chin only to be caught in a trap with twin encircling her body.

"What the-?" she cried as the twine tightened around her body. Her senses were extremely dulled and her reflexes were so much slower than what they once were. Her body was still a bit sore as well and would shock her in pain every now and then when she moved in a certain way.

She struggled against the wire as the leader advanced upon her from behind. Sakura could see out of the corner of her eye that the green haired one was holding the wire that trapped her.

"So sad. We were hoping you would be a bit of a challenge but then again few are." Their leader chuckled raising another one of those curved knives above her head.

He never got to bring it down though.

The sound of flesh ripping, echoed in his ears.

"What the- how did you…?" He gasped looking down at his bleeding gut with a kunai lodged deeply within it. Following the weapon he was shocked to see it attached to the end of her bubble gum pink hair.

"Simple really," Sakura comment as her braid pulled her kunai out of his gut and continued to slash away the twine that bound her. "All I had to do was channel chakra through my hair and control it. And that was simple since I have perfect chakra control. As to the knife… It was there before this exam even started."

He cough up a bit of blood as his two teammates rushed to his side. "This isn't over…" he gasped without loosing his cocky grin. "We know what happens in another twenty four hours and we'll be back, you can count on that little Sakura."

Sakura didn't blink as the group disappeared in a cloud of smoke. She was right, they were not genin or at least ordinary genin.

Remembering the crest on their shoulders she shook a little. "H…how did he find me?" Sakura breathed falling back down to her bum, her expression grim.

"…I'll think about this later for now I need to set up some sort of camp for sleep." She thought heading towards a hallowed out log that would suffice for the night. She bent over letting her hair fall over her shoulder exposing her unclothed back where a elaborate spider like crest was tattooed between her shoulder blades.

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Naruto turned around widely grabbing onto someone's collar and slamming them against the nearby tree with an angered growl. "Don't you DARE say that!" He snared in rage.

Sasuke groaned as his back hit the hard bark but kept his pain masked. "All I said was 'I hope she's still alive' dobe. Don't get so worked up over it."

"She is alive teme, and don't you ever doubt it." the blond boy cried as his eyes flashed a deadly crimson for a brief moment before returning to their normal cool cerulean shade.

"You don't know that yet Naruto."

"Yes she is! Stop doubting her, I know she's alive."

"Fine, whatever you say. I'm just thinking if she was, is sorry, why haven't we found her yet?" Sasuke asked keeping a stone calm expression.

"I told you not to doubt it! She is alive, and we just need to find her. She's moving around, that's why we can't find her. Now shut up and help me search." Naruto growled releasing Sasuke from his iron grasp.

Sasuke shook his head and took after Naruto with doubt rooted deeply in his mind remembering Kabuto's words. 'If you were on top of it you most likely would have died.'

Overhead a pale lavender moon hung in the sky a mere days worth before completing it's journey into a full moon unleashing destined to unleash hell.

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"It hurts." A small voice whimpered in sad tone.

A sobbing girl with silky shoulder length pink hair sat huddled up in a ball hugging herself as she rocked her small body back and forth.

"It really huts…please take the pain away."

Her body shook as the clouds moved aside to revile a full moon. As it's silvery white beams fell over her body a spider like tattoo on her back glowed and started to move.

"Please s…stop it….it pains me. I am in pain."

The crest started to open up as the continued to over her entire body in a elaborate design of beautify black shapes that seemed to beat in sync with her heart.

"I…I don't want this. Take it away, take it away."

The snake like designs started to slither up her body reaching her neck. It pulsed as it crawled up over her jaw passing her quivering pink lips ad moving towards her eyes.

"T…Take it…. AWAY!" She screamed in absolute pain as the elegant black designs circled before seeping into her eyes, dying them white, erasing any and every color from her blank orbs. The rest of her tattoos seemed to freeze in place as she thrashed and kicked in pain.

"It….hurts…"

Yes, I'm done! I know it's a crappy excuse for a chapter and Naruto didn't get to find Sakura but…ah I don't have an excuse aside from me being lame. Sasuke is evil! I mad him evil! Bwahaha… Just so you know I plan on making this a long fic so thank you for bearing with me. Please review!