AUTHOR'S NOTE: Well here is the last chapter before school starts, want to thank everyone for reviewing the chapter, I now finally have 100 reviews!! Yeah!!! So to honor that, here is a chapter before I start school!! Also it seems that there will be a time skip. So this is going to be the last chapter before the time skip.
ENJOY IT!!
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"Oh my god!" Sakura whispered under her breath, while her whole body bolted up into a sitting position.
Sakura looked around to see she was tangled in her comforter, sweat was poring down her face, and she was crying silently.
'So all this time, it wasn't Itachi at all. It was Takashi.'
'What do we do?! We know the reason why Itachi killed everyone, does that mean that we should tell everyone?'
'Who would believe us?! Yeah lets go up to people and say "Hey we know why he killed the whole Clan and honestly I can't blame him?!" That is like committing suicide!'
'So we should just stay quiet about this then, huh?'
Sakura nodded her head to her inner-self's question. Wondering what time it was she looked to her left to see that her clock read 3:30 A.M.
"Geez. Could I have woken up any earlier? I guess I should get out of here and go do something to clear my head of this murder."
With an empty mind Sakura got dressed and leaped out her window, only to run on the tops of everyone's roof's. Her steps were very quiet, making sure that the residence in the houses she passed, wouldn't wake up.
After running from rooftops to rooftops, she found herself just wondering the streets. As Sakura looked around she could see how much space the streets actually held, since there was no markets and shops parked outside.
'What do I do? I'm just so mad that Takashi did that, but I owe it to NeeChan that I don't take revenge. Besides, if I did I turn into Sasuke, and even though he is my friend, I don't want to be like him.'
'We would be a walking zombie.'
'Yes that is true.'
Sakura made her way to the forest and lowered herself down easily, having her lean up against the tree. Looking around her Sakura took a deep breath in and a deep breath out, trying to relax her nerves.
As she looked around the place looked very familiar, it was the place where her flashback showed her when San was fighting the bastard. When Sakura looked to her left she saw a patch of faded grass, it was where her sister was buried.
'They said they never found her body, so in a way she has two graves. NeeChan, I promise you that I will not turn to revenge but I will tell everyone what happened, when the time is right.'
Before she knew it, Sakura drifted off into a dreamless sleep. Having no reminiscing on her nightmare/flashback.
------Later that Day----
Sasuke and Naruto were making their way to where their Sensei's told them to meet them. After the two saw each other going the same way, they realized that they were going to have a combined lesson.
"Great, I'm stuck with the Dobe."
"Teme! What's wrong with sparing with me? I could kick your ass! Believe it!"
"Yeah. What ever."
As Sasuke and Naruto approached the training grounds they could see Jiraiya and Kakashi, to their uttermost shock, standing there waiting for them.
"Hey Kakashi-Sensei! Why are you here on time?!"
Kakashi simply shook his head and Jiraiya snickered at the blonde.
"It doesn't matter Naruto, but lets resume where we left off."
Unfortunately for them, they got interrupted again. Tokie, Tai and Rain came running to them.
'Why do we keep getting interrupted?!' Jiraiya shouted in his head.
"Rain. What are you doing here." Kakashi asked.
Rain looked at him and slightly smiled. Tokie and Tai simply nodded to him.
"Hey! Where is your team?!" Naruto asked/shouted.
Rain looked at the blonde and sighed. "Because I'm not here on official business, I'm here for family business."
"And speaking of family, have you seen Sakura? Again?" Tai asked.
Jiraiya and Kakashi had a huge sweat drop in the back of their head and Sasuke and Naruto shrugged their shoulders.
'The girl likes to leave her family a lot.' Jiraiya thought.
"Um, Haruno-San listen, it's 7:30 A.M. and we all know Sakura isn't a early bird, so she must be back at the house." Kakashi stated.
Tokie shook her head. "No she isn't, all three of us went to check up on her at 6, just to make sure she was ok. Ever since last night, you can call me perennial."
"Sakura-Chan probably left to go see Ino or someone." Naruto suggested.
"Dobe, even Ino would kill Sakura if she woke her up at 6."
"Why do you need to find the girl anyway?" Jiraiya asked.
"We need to ask her a few questions, ever since last night, we need to see something." Rain answered.
"And that would be?" Jiraiya asked.
"Classified." Tokie answered, while she glared at the Sannin.
'They think that Sakura is remembering things even more than she did when we were in Cloud. Now that they mention it, I wonder where she is.'
"We will help you look for her." Kakashi said.
"Why? They can find her themselves." Sasuke said.
"Teme! We need to find Sakura-Chan!"
"Sasuke, listen, think of it as a stealth lesion." Kakashi said, trying to sway Sasuke into looking for Sakura. And to his surprise Sasuke didn't argue and they all left in different directions, trying to find the pink-haired girl.
Two more hours passed and no one had any luck on finding her. They looked everywhere, ranging from the markets to where Naruto's apartment was.
"How hard is it to find a girl with pink-hair?!" Jiraiya complained.
"Let's look in the forest." Sasuke suggested.
"No, my Sakura wouldn't dare go in the woods without someone with her." Tokie said.
"Sakura isn't a baby Tokie, the Uchiha may be right."
Sasuke was getting fed up with this family calling him by his last name. First off he had no idea what he did to them, and second he didn't like being annoyed.
"Why do you call me Uchiha. I have a name and it's Sasuke." Sasuke said turning to the three other adults.
Tokie looked at him with a stern look, Tai simply sighed, and Rain glared at him.
"It is none…"
Tokie was interrupted by Sasuke. "It is. It has to do with my Clan, so there fore I am involved."
"It isn't against you, it is against someone from your clan." Tai said, trying to get the boy a clue or two.
"Who." Sasuke said.
"Look we don't have time to say, lets go in the woods and find Sakura." Rain said.
Sasuke grunted and soon the seven of them were jumping into the forest. They would widen their search by expanding their chakra, so they could all stay together. For a good 10 minutes they didn't get any indication that Sakura was out there, that is until Jiraiya shouted.
"Hey, I think I got her."
With a nod from just about every person, they had Jiraiya lead the way and in a few minutes they could see Sakura's back. She was leaning on a tree and across from her was a beautiful Cherry Blossom Tree.
"Where are we?" Naruto asked. He has never seen this place before.
"In the woods Dobe."
"Why would Sakura be all the way out here?" Tokie asked, mostly to herself and not to anyone in general.
"I don't know." Rain and Tai said to her.
"Come on lets get Sakura and then we can get back to training." Kakashi said, seeing that no one would move.
When everyone popped out from the trees, they all made their way to Sakura. As the got closer and closer to her they saw that she didn't move. It was like she couldn't even sense them coming.
"Sakura-Chan?" Naruto said in a soft tone.
They looked to see if she stirred, but there was no luck.
'What happened to her?' Sasuke thought.
As the rounded the tree, they saw Sakura asleep. Why she was asleep in the woods, they would never know. Jiraiya looked around. No one was going to move, not even Naruto or Sasuke. Taking it upon himself he approached the girl and placed a hand on her shoulder.
Sakura was slightly awake and when she felt someone put their hand on her shoulder, her eyes snapped open, vision a little blurry, and brain not fully awake.
Jiraiya saw that she opened her eyes and smiled towards the young girl. But what she did next would of never crossed his mind.
"You will not kill me too!" Sakura yelled. Grabbing his wrist and flipping him over her shoulder, having him land on the ground a few feet away from Sakura.
Sakura had tears rolling down her face and when Rain approached her, Sakura looked up to see her Aunt and just about everyone else looking at her. Even the pervert that she flipped.
"Sakura. Are you ok?" Rain asked, studying her niece, trying to see if she remembered anything.
Sakura looked up at her and whipped her tears away from her face. "Yeah, I'm fine. I just had a bad dream that's all."
"So you came out in the middle of no where. Smart Sakura." Sasuke said as he grunted.
Sakura looked over to him and nodded her head. "I guess you can say it was stupid, but at the time it seemed like the only place to clear my head."
"Sweetheart, come home. We need to ask you a few questions anyway." Tokie said, grabbing her daughter. Rain and Tokie took off leaving Tai with the men.
"I would like to apologize for cutting into your training time, and I would like to say thank you for helping us find our daughter."
Kakashi and Jiraiya nodded their heads and with that Tai disappeared with a poof of smoke.
-----a month later----
A month has passed since Sakura has figured out her puzzle. She found out why Itachi killed his clan, why her family would hide everything from her, and who killed her sister. For the past month Sakura has read every single book she could find on things related to her family. She didn't dare go into the ANBU library for there was to much security. The funny part is that they never caught her, well not yet.
Also during that month her friends have been training for the Final Part of the Chunnin Exam. The battles were invigorating. Both Naruto and Sasuke won their matches, and their opponents were no pushovers either, so Sakura saflty stated they won them fair and square. They shouldn't be disappointed at all. Sakura couldn't be even more proud. Now she was waiting for them in the waiting room.
'They did awesome today! I can't believe how much they have learned.'
'We better catch up!'
'We need to find a Sensei first and look at it this way, we now can at least control our Kekkei Genkai.'
'Yeah that is a plus.'
Sakura stopped talking to herself because her teammates were walking in. Naruto had a huge smile plastered on his face and Sasuke had a smirk across his face.
"You guys did awesome!" Sakura shouted jumping up and down.
"Thanks Sakura-Chan!"
"Yeah." Sasuke said nodding his head at her.
Over the last month Sasuke realized that he did form a crush on the ex-fan girl. Naruto and him have competed secretly and Jiraiya got so much information and soon his new book came out. That book was his best seller. He later thanked Kakashi for letting him meet the team and when Kakashi read the book, he was shocked yet found it funny that it was about his team, but they were older, much older.
Sakura smiled at them and hugged each of them. Naruto blushed a deep red when Sakura hugged him. But of course Naruto did hug her back. When Sakura went over to hug Sasuke, she was surprised that he didn't twitch or pull away. No, he just stood there and let her hug him.
Naruto glared at him and Sasuke smirked. The two had a huge staring contest going on and when Sakura was done with her round of hugs, she saw them glaring at each other.
"Guys….You ok?" Sakura asked.
The said boys turned to their crush and one grunted while the other smiled brightly and nodded his head. Time was short though because their Sensei's took them and they were off again. Without her.
'This is a reason why I need a Sensei.'
'But who? I mean come on, there aren't any Jonin that could train us. I mean Ino's teacher doesn't have anything we could learn from and Gai, ah he would be a no. And Kakashi is with Sasuke.'
'What about Hinata's teacher. She is the best with Genjutsu. And we are good with it.'
Sakura smiled as her new idea formed into her mind, and when the Chunnin Exam was over Sakura made her way over to Hinata's teacher.
"Hey Hinata!" Sakura said as she came across Hinata, while on her way to see Kurenai.
"H-Hey S-Sakura. W-Where are y-you h-heading?"
Sakura smiled at her. "I'm looking for Kurenai-San, have you seen her?"
Hinata looked at Sakura with question. "Why would you be looking for Kurenai-Sensei?"
Sakura blushed at her question. "I was gonna ask her if she wanted to tutor me in Genjutsu for a while, unless she is your Sensei, then I won't ask. Since she is your Sensei."
Hinata looked down. "S-She is t-tutoring me. S-sorry S-Sakura."
Sakura looked down at her feet, feeling depressed. "No. It's ok Hinata. I'll find someone else. See you around." Sakura said as she started to walk around again.
'Ah! I can't find anyone to be my Sensei! Damn it all!"
'Hey don't turn into me here. Who else could we ask?'
'I ran out of ideas! There is no way I would ask Anko, I mean the woman is crazy. And I don't know anyone else that might want to take me.'
'I hate it when we are unnecessary to everyone. I mean even Ino-Pig has a Sensei and her Dad is it.'
'You know I would ask Mom, but she wouldn't teach me anything, I would have to use my brain more than anything. In a way it's a good thing, but still.'
Sakura wasn't paying attention at all and she ended up in the forest.
'Why the forest every time?!'
Sakura didn't have time to think because she could sense a foreign chakra signature and she took out a kunai to get ready for a attack.
The tree tops started to shake and soon the Chakra signal went right past her. Not taking any time to think clearly Sakura jumped into the tree, gathered Chakra in her feet and ran after the chakra.
Meanwhile deeper in the forest, Naruto, Sasuke, Kakashi, and Jiraiya were training. (AN: not together That is until they felt Sakura's Chakra running and some foreign chakra in front of her. Taking action they all ran to the Kohana gates to see Tokie, Tai, and Rain waiting there.
"What are you three doing here?" Naruto asked.
Tokie smiled his way, Rain smirked, and Tai nodded his head. "We are waiting for a friend." Rain said.
---With Sakura
Sakura saw that the Chakra signature was going closer to Kohana and with putting more chakra into her feet she flew right by him and landed right in front of everyone.
Sakura was a little confused by this. "What are all of you doing here?" She said a little out of breath from running extremely fast.
"We sensed you running and followed you." Sasuke said, looking behind her.
"Your mom and Dad and I are waiting for a long time friend that I think you would like to meet." Rain said rather cheerfully.
"Who could that be?"
"That would be me, little Sakura." Said a voice.
Sakura stiffened at the voice and turned around only to see a man clad in a ANBU like suit and mask.
"Ah. I see you're already here." Tokie said with a smile.
"Who is this guy?" Naruto asked Jiraiya.
"I don't know, but he is strong. What do you think Kakashi?"
Kakashi looked at the man close to Sakura and nodded his head. Sasuke also was watching the man.
While everyone was watching the man Sakura was frozen on the spot. The voice in front of her sounded so familiar. But yet at the same time it sounded more mature.
"You can take your mask off, your in Kohana now." Rain said.
The man nodded and removed his mask. Causing Sakura to gasp. Everyone looked at her with confusion.
"What's wrong little Sakura? Miss me that much?" The man said, moving his hand to rest on his shoulder.
Sakura wouldn't have any human contact with the man and soon her flames activated and they spun around her in a act of protection.
'So she has it to. Maybe I should of disposed of her as well. To late now. And judging by her chakra she is weak, so it won't matter.'
"Sakura! Put that away! Takashi is our friend! Not an enemy!" Tokie yelled at her daughter.
Sasuke, Naruto, Jiraiya, and Kakashi saw that Sakura was scared shitless that the man was close to her. Yet they had no idea why.
"Little Sakura, why are scared of me?" Takashi said as he knelt down to Sakura's level.
Sakura's eyes widened when she realized what she was doing.
'Shit. If I wanted to act like I didn't know anything, this would NOT be the way to go.'
'No shit Sherlock, now put those flames away before they figure it out!'
Sakura took a deep breath and soon the flames disappeared. "Now what was that about little Sakura?"
Sakura looked up at Takashi with a secret glare, that wasn't missed by Naruto and Sasuke. The adults on the other hand were watching the man.
"Sorry. I just…I just don't you who you are." Sakura said innocently.
'The jutsu hasn't cracked at all. Good, I can't have her spill everything. That would suck.' Thought Takashi as he patted the girl on the head and made his way over to Rain, Tokie, and Tai.
Tai turned to his daughter and nodded at her. "Sakura come home now, we have a guest you need to be home."
Sakura simply nodded and then they left. Leaving Kakashi, Jiraiya, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura behind.
"Sakura. Do you know him." Kakashi said. He was a little suspicious.
Sakura turned to her Sensei and frowned. "If I tell you four, promise not to say anything about it?"
They nodded their heads and Sakura smiled slightly at them.
"They don't know that I know he was my sister's friend."
"Wait Sakura-Chan.." Naruto ran over to her and placed his hands on her shoulders. "Why don't they know that you know something about the dude? And since when do you have a sister?"
Sakura smiled at him. "Because Naruto, they don't want me knowing. And I had a sister, but she died during a mission, or at least that is what my mom sayes."
Sasuke was glaring at Naruto and Naruto could feel it. Soon Sasuke was up next to Sakura too and he grunted. Sakura turned her attention to Sasuke and smiled at him. Naruto crossed his arms and Sasuke had a hidden smirk on his face.
Kakashi and Jiraiya were in the background watching everything. Laughing to themselves at how the boys acted and how clueless Sakura was.
"Sakura, I think you might want to go home, before you get in trouble." Kakashi suggested.
"Hai." Sakura said and with that she smiled at her friends and then ran off to her house.
---The day at Sakura's house---
When Sakura got home they all sat down to talk, Rain and Tokie introduced Takashi to Sakura and Sakura acted like she never meet the guy. While on the inside she wanted to rip his eye balls out.
"So little Sakura, how are you?" Takashi said.
Sakura looked up into his eyes to see emptiness. He was playing an act. Why? She had no idea.
"I'm fine Takashi-San. I'm fine. Am I Genin and you saw my team earlier."
Takashi smiled an empty smile at her. "Well do you mind me asking if we could spar a little?"
Tokie and Rain gasped at his question and Tai studied the man. "Takashi-Chan, why would you want to spar with Sakura? I mean you outmatch her." Tokie said.
"I know that, but I want to see how good she is."
"Ok, just don't hurt her badly." Rain said.
Everyone put their drinks down and they made their way to the backyard. Tai stood in-between them and once he said Go, Sakura was off charging at Takashi hand pressed into a fist.
'I guess I can extinguish anger without them knowing it.'
Takashi smirked and blocked each of Sakura's attacks. Sakura took out two kunai and threw them at him, only resulting with him blocking them without breaking a sweat.
Sakura grunted at him and preformed a few seals and soon rocks with lightning came flying at him. Her parents, her aunt, and Takashi were surprised she could use the technique and the rocks caused Takashi to develop a few cuts on his skin.
Takashi ran at a fast paste and hit Sakura rapidity until he sent her flying backwards, even though she was out of breath, Sakura pushed off the tree and went flying at him, conjuring up another jutsu. When she released her jutsu, they all gasped again.
They looked up to see that Takashi was incased by a wind tornado with fire inside it. Sakura smiled at her work but it faded when she felt him using his bare chakra to break out of the jutsu.
Sakura was going to attack him, but her dad told them to stop. Once they stopped she could see that Takashi escaped into his thoughts.
'I don't know if that is a good thing or bad, but damn he hits hard.' Sakura thought as she cringed at the pain he caused.
'So San's little sister is even stronger than her, I should of disposed of her when I had the chance, now I will have to watch out. For if she ever found out later in life, I'm dead. I better get all her techniques and everything from her family.'
With those thoughts in mind the Haruno's spent the rest of the night, talking and eating.
----While Sakura spent the day/most of the night in her house Naruto and Jiraiya were hanging around the village. And Sasuke was confronted by Orochimaru's henchmen and they convinced Sasuke that in order for him to avenge his clan, he needed more power. Now it is close to midnight-----
Sakura was sitting in her room. She didn't enjoy today, after coming face to face with her sister's murderer and seeing everyone think that he was all innocent, got her mad. Not wanting to stay in the house any longer, she jumped out her window and started to walk to the park.
'Ugh I just can't believe them! Why would they let a murderer in the house?!'
'They don't know he is a murderer. I mean they think Itachi is it, duh!'
'I just can't shake this feeling off that Takashi wants to try to get ride of me.'
'Yeah, that dude is like a walking robot, he is so empty.'
Sakura was going to answer her inner self, but she saw Sasuke walking over to the gates.
"Sasuke!" Sakura yelled, running over to him.
'Shit Sakura. It is already harder than it is. Why did you have to show up now.'
"What do you want Sakura." Sasuke said emotionless
Sakura looked him over to see that he had a backpack on. "Sasuke. Are you leaving?"
'It's like DeJaVu when Itachi was telling San that he was leaving.'
'Does that mean we are going to die to?!'
'No! Are you stupid?'
"What does it look like Sakura." He said again in a sharp tone. But on the inside he was breaking, but he brushed it off as fast as it came.
"Why are you leaving." Sakura said as she walked closer to him.
"Sakura, you, Naruto, and I will take different paths. And it is my time to take mine. I am a avenger so I am destined to kill my brother. There is nothing you can do to stop me."
Sakura smiled sadly at him. "You know Sasuke that is the first time I think you talked so much around me."
Sasuke looked at her and grunted. "Your annoying."
"So we are going to get into that again? But your going to Orochimaru aren't you?"
"Does it matter."
Sasuke sighed and started walking away. Sakura wouldn't have any of it and grabbed his arm.
"Sasuke don't walk away from me!" Sakura yelled at him. "Sasuke, you can stronger here in Kohana."
Sasuke turned around to look straight into her emerald eyes. "No I can't. I'm weak here, I need to go to get stronger. And I need to leave to obtain it."
Sakura sighed, and a tear escaped her eye. "I guess I can't say that revenge isn't the way to go."
While Sakura was rambling he went to get her hand off his arm, but when she said her sentence Sasuke stopped in mid-action. Now they were holding hands.
"What do you mean." Sasuke stated, glaring at her with suspicion.
Sakura smiled at him. "Sasuke. You don't see it? Everyone, at one point or another wants revenge for something. Look at Neji, he wants revenge on Naruto for kicking his ass in the Chunnin Exam. Kakashi must have some revenge thing going one, and even Naruto. Naruto he is mad that everyone finds him revolting, and so he is going to show them that he is just as good as them. In a way his is a different twist on revenge, but you get the point."
Sasuke was surprised at what she said. She wasn't going to tell him it is bad or anything like Kakashi did?
"Why are you telling me this."
"Because Sasuke." Sakura squeezed his hand. Another tear escaping her eye. "Revenge is a strange path and depending on the type of revenge it is unfulfilling, you can lose someone you care about the most. And well your special to me Sasuke, along with Naruto and Kakashi."
Sasuke looked at the girl in front of him. She basically told him to be careful and not get killed. Sasuke let go of her hand and disappeared from her sight.
Sakura felt his hand leave and so she turned around only to feel his presence behind her, his breath tickling her ear.
"Sakura….Thank you."
With that he knocked her out. Sasuke caught her before she hit the ground, cradling her in his arms. He studied the girl before he placed her on the park bench.
As he was exiting the gates of his village, he looked back at the pink haired girl. Making sure no one moved her from her spot.
'Sakura. You maybe the first person that made sense. I promise that once I kill that bastard I will come and get you. Even if I have to battle the Dobe for you.'
As his last thought crossed his mind, Sasuke took off into the woods, not looking back and only thinking on what the future will bring for the both of them. And how he would forever be claimed as a missing-nin.
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Authors Notes: Ok so if Sasuke is fucking OOC I'm sorry, but I don't know how you could make it any more obvious that he likes her. And I am sorry for any grammer stuff, I'm bad wit grammer and I'm sry.
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