Anything But Ordinary

Chapter Twelve: Second Exam Starts! Everyone Around Us Is An Enemy!

It had been a week since Sakura had met her family again. And she did everything in her power to go and spend time with them. She had even gone so far as to tell her fake mom that she was spending the night on the training field training for the up coming forest of death that they were actually meeting for in few hours. She sat at the small table that was in the hotel room. Her mother sat in front of her a worried look on her face. Itachi and Hidan sat on the other sides of the table completely shocked at what the pinkette had said.

"I don't want to leave yet." she said. Konan was almost in tears that her daughter didn't want to leave with her.

"Why?" she couldn't believe this. She had waited years to see her child again. And here she was not wanting to be with her.

"Dad already has a plan. If I leave now Konoha will send people to come look for me. If we wait until the attack... well... we could fake my death and they'll leave us alone." Sakura said. She was sure of herself. This was the best plan. If they did this she would never have to worry about it. Konan closed her eyes. Relief washed over her. She was so thankful that her daughter still wanted to be around them.

"That's a good plan." Itachi said, Sakura smiled at him. Over the past week he had hardly left her side at all. She blushed at his approval. Konan nodded.

"I'll send word to your father. You should get going though. You don't want to be disqualified for being late. The whole lot of you." Konan said looking at Hidan and Itachi. The three nodded and stood up.

"I'm gonna go find Deidara before we're disqualified ourselves." Hidan said leaving the room before hinging into his other form known as, Hideki. Sakura turned back around to be enveloped into a hug by her mother.

"Be safe. Kick some ass." Konan laughed as she placed a kiss on Sakura's forehead.

"Don't worry I will." Sakura laughed as she pulled away from her mother. She stared at the woman before her. It was so hard to walk away even if it was only for a little while. Now that she found her, she didn't ever want to be away from her mom again. But she needed to. It wouldn't be long before she could be with her family as a whole again. She couldn't wait to see her father again. She always remembered missing him would he would leave for long periods at a time.

"Go on now." Konan said. Sakura nodded turning around she met face to face with Itachi who had already hinged into Itsuki. She smiled at him before the two walked from the room.

"So Itsuki. What exactly is the 44 area?" Sakura asked as they stepped from the building and into the busy streets of the Konoha.

"The 44 area is...well it's called the forest of death." Itachi said plainly. Sakura stared at him.

"Forest of... death?" she asked, her voice betraying her calm exterior.

Itachi chuckled lightly. "Don't worry Sakura-chan. We will be watching you closely."

"I don't need you to watch over me. I'm a kunoichi. I'm strong." she countered. Itachi smiled at her.

"Yes of course you are. How foolish of me to think other wise."

"That better not be sarcasm." Sakura said, sticking her tongue out at him. Itachi smiled at her for a moment and than he was gone. Sakura looked around for him but stopped when she heard someone yell her same. Turning around she saw Naruto running towards her.

"Sakura-chan!"

"Oh hey! Naruto!" Sakura called as she waved her hand above her head. She smiled when he finally caught up to her. He grinned slightly out of breath.

"Have you seen Sasuke yet?" he asked.

"No. I haven't gotten to the meeting point yet." Naruto nodded and the two slowly started to make their way to the 44 two stopped when the forest came into view. Sakua stared. Maybe she shouldn't have talked so big to Itachi and just let him have the pleasure of being stronger than she was. Her and Naruto stared at the large fence that went around the whole building.

"Hurry! Up get together!" Sakura and Naruto turned their attention the purple haired woman who was yelling at them.

"Sasuke!" Sakura yelled seeing the dark haired boy arrive. He just slowly walked up to greet his two teammates.

"Hey! You two!" Anko yelled pointing at Naruto and another ninja. "Pass these out." Anko said handing over a stack of white papers. "What's being passed out is a waver saying that you don't care if you die." Anko smiled at all of the horrified looks from the younger ninja. "Now this is the 44 area, more commonly known as the forest of death."

"Why do that call it that?" a random boy said.

"Cause... people die in there." Anko's smiled became even larger. The horrified looks got larger. Sakura looked around the field trying to find Hidan and Itachi. She smiled seeing the none worried expressions on their face. If they weren't worried neither would she. Looking back up to face Anko she let out a muffled scream as a man stood next to her and Sasuke. He smiled down at her. His grass headband shown at her. She moved close to Sasuke suddenly happy that he was there. Sasuke turned and glared at the man.

Sakura looked back to where Itachi and Hidan had been standing moments before to find they were gone. She looked around her trying to find them again only to find them behind her. She gave them a questioning look only to find them glaring at the hidden grass ninja. She turned back around to focus on what Anko was saying.

"Now. The objective of this mission is for each team to collect both scrolls." she said holding up to schools one had the kanji for earth on it. The other had the kanji for heaven. "And than make it to the check point before three day is out." she said holding up three fingers.

"Three days! What are we supposed to do for food!"

"You're ninja! There are tons of animals in the forest." Anko smiled. "Now make form a line with your teammates! Bring your release forms as well. We will be passing out the scroll to your teams in these booths. Let get a move on maggots!" she yelled. Sakura and Sasuke quickly moved to the area that Naruto was standing at in his hand he held two extra white papers for his teammates.

"Here you guys." Naruto said handing them over. "Can you believe this! This is crazy! We could die!" Sakura rolled her eyes.

"Of course we could die! We're ninja Naruto." Sakura said glaring at the blonde. Sasuke just rolled his eyes at the group not even bothering to put his two cents in.

"So how do we want to do this? I want to hold the scroll." Naruto said with a smile.

"Naruto! Shut the hell up! We don't want people to hear our strategy!" Sakura yelled punching him in the face.

"Oww Sakura-chan!" Naruto whined nursing his cheek. The three continued on in the line until the received and earth scroll. And were directed to a random gate around the area. Sakura looked from both her teammates. She was nervous. Her whole body shook with anticipation. She had to give her all. There was no backing down. If she backed down now there would be no point in being a ninja. She needed to make her parents proud. She would show everyone how strong she was.

She stared at the chunin who was staring down at his watch waiting for the time to open. Sakura bounced up and down trying to stop herself from freaking out. She wanted to know were Itachi was. There was just something about him that made her heart leap into her chest and made her stomach do back flips. And the crazy thing was... she never wanted that feeling to stop.

"Alright." she looked up at the chunin as he walked to the gate. He pulled out a set of key to unlock the chain. Pushing it open. "Good luck." he smiled as the three walked into the forest.

A/N

I'm sorry it took so long to update. I've been working a lot on my fic Not That Different rewriting it and what not cause it my favorite. But! Since this is my good friend (Karatekid-Ninja)'s favorite of mine I decided to update it cause she's awesome! So everyone thank her! lol I might even update another chapter tonight cause I told her I would lol. Also if you guys are a big fan of the ItaSaku paring I suggest you read Not That Different. So yeah... thanks for reading and reviewing! I'm still shocked that this fic has reached so many reviews! So extra thanks to the reviewers!