Anything, But Ordinary.

Chapter Sixteen: Second Exam! Over!

Sakura's back pressed deeper into the bark the tree that she was hiding behind. Her green eyes staring at the entrance to the building. She gulped, it was now or never. She glanced nervously to the hiding spots where she knew Naruto and Sasuke had been hiding. They had split up the scrolls. The heaven scroll sat safely in her bag, while the earth scroll was in Sasuke's.

Now! She pushed off her back leg and sprinted to the passage that led to the inside of the building. As soon as she passed the thresh hold she let out the breath she had been holding the entire run there. She turned around and smiled seeing that her two teammates had done the same.

"Yeah! We did it! Shannaro!" She screamed triumphantly before doing a few punches and kicks in the air. Naruto laughed and started jumping up and down in excitement. Sasuke glared at the two of them before moving forward down the darkened corridor.

"Hurry up," he mumbled stuffing his hands into his pockets. Sakura stopped celebrating and started at the younger Uchiha's back. Ever since… ever since it happened, something had changed. She shivered remembering how he had acted in that fight. His smile. It was like he was happy to kill someone. When Orochimaru had bitten him…

"Sakura-chan?" she blinked, before her eyes came into focus on the tanned hand that waved in front of her face.

"What Naruto!" she yelled pushing his face away from her's. Naruto blushed.

"So-Sorry Sakura-chan. I was just trying to get your attention. Sasuke-teme already left us." Sakura nodded.

"Its fine. Let's go." Naruto nodded before following her down the corridor and into the separate room.

"We need to open the scrolls at the same time," Sasuke said, looking at Sakura. She nodded quickly before taking her backpack off. She reached into her bag and pulled out the heaven scroll.

"Wait," she said quickly. "Anko-san said we needed to wait until after the exam was over to open them." Sasuke sighed before sitting down.

"Fine," Sakura sighed, her green eyes watching over him. Her eyes wondered down his neck and to the base of it. She clinched her fist. What was that snaky bastard after? Her eyes widened when she saw him wince and grip his shoulder. She moved over to him.

"Sasuke are you—"

"Shut up." He said grabbing her hand that had been reaching for it. The two looked to where Naruto stood off to the side minding his own business completely oblivious to what was going on. She gulped before turning to look back up at him. "Don't think about telling anyone what happened."

"But Sas—" she winched when he gripped her hand tightly.

"I mean it Sakura. Keep your mouth shut," he glared at her before pushing her arm away giving her a slight shove. She stumbled backwards before looking back up at him wide eyed. Tears began to form at the edges over her eyes. She bit her lip and looked away from the Uchiha.

What did she care what happened to him? He was just some big jerk. Who made her cry. Made her hurt. "I hate you," she whispered. Sasuke turned back to look at her shocked.

"What did you say?" he asked.

"I said I hate you Uchiha Sasuke," she glared at him before getting up and moving to the other side of the room. She leaned against the wall and let her hair cover her eyes so he wouldn't be able to see her cry. Her mind drifted to Itachi. Had they already made it to the building? Of course they had that was a silly question.

A loud bell rang through the room signaling the end of the exam. "Sakura-chan! Come help us!" Naruto called to her as he reached to pick up one of the scrolls.

"You do it, I don't want to move." She whispered. Naruto's smile faded as h realized that there was something wrong with Sakura. Naruto nodded slowly before picking up the scroll. He looked at Sasuke and the two pulled the scrolls open. With a loud bang the room filled with smoke. Once the white smoke disappeared Iruka stood in front of them a large smile on his face.

"Iruka-sensei!" Naruto cheered.

"Congratulations! You three passed to the next round." The man smiled. His eyes looked at the smiling face of Naruto, and then to the smirking one of Sasuke. "Where's Sakura?" he asked. He looked up and saw her standing a good way away from them.

"I'm here sensei," she whispered.

"Are you hurt?" Sakura scoffed. Was that what everyone thought of her. That she was some weak little girl who always got hurt.

"I'm fine," she said standing up. She walked over to the two boys placing her hands on their shoulders.

"What happened to your hair?" Iruka asked, his eyes searching over her for scratches.

"Oh this?" she smiled touching her hair. "It was just getting in the way." She smiled.

Iruka smiled. "As long as you're okay," Sakura had to resist the urge to roll her eyes. "Now, there was more teams that passed than they thought there would be. So we have to set up a preliminary round."

"What does that mean Iruka-sensei?" Sakura asked her eye brows frowned slightly.

"Basically, they are going to set up one on one fights to eliminate candidates that are left. Now lets move cause they're going to start now," Iruka said. The three nodded before following him out of the room until they reached a large battle arena.

When the group walked in, they noted that teams were already lined up in rows of three. Sakura's eyes landed on Itachi and her heart skipped a beat. She knew he would make it there was no doubt in her mind, as she pushed forward until she stood next to him, Sasuke behind her and Naruto in front of her.

She heard a cough and turned to look up at the man who was talking. He was wearing standard jonin clothing. He coughed again covering his mouth as he did. Sakura couldn't help but thinking that the man looked sick.

"Since there are so many of you—" he coughed again. "We're going to start a round—" cough "Of preliminary rounds—" cough "If you and your team would walk up the steps we can get ready—" cough "You'll meet your jonin leader—" cough "Up there as well."

Sakura turned and looked at Itachi one more time before the two tuned and walked towards the stairs. Sakura smiled when Kakashi came into view. "Kakashi-sensei!" she waved. Kakashi smiled and waved back.

"Well look at you three," Naruto and Sakura grinned while Sauske just smirked. "Looks like this is about to begin," Naruto nodded before moving to the bar to stare down at the arena. Sasuke followed after him. Sakura sighed before leaning against the wall that Kakashi had been leaning against. "You know you can drop out at any time Sakura."

She looked up at Kakashi completely shocked. "What?" she asked.

"I was just saying you don't need to stay in for their sakes—"

"I'm doing this for me Kakashi-sensei. Not for them." Sakura bit back. She looked out across the way and saw her mother, Konan unlike the boys didn't need a henge since she wasn't a missing nin from anywhere. Her amber eyes stared back at Sakura's.

"The first fight—" cough "Will be Inuzuka Kiba and Temari,"

Sakura blinked and moved towards the hallway that lead to the bathroom. The moment Sakura moved so did Konan.

Sakura looked at the door as her mom walked in. Tears already streaming down her face. "Sakura?" Konan asked before brushing a hand through Sakura's dirty hair.

"Mom," Sakura cried into the woman's chest. "My sensei told me I could drop out at any time, I'm not weak." She cried clinging to her mom.

"You're not weak at all sweetie. He's just a man." Sakura sniffled. "When will dad be here?" Sakura asked looking up at her mother with hopeful eyes.

"He's already here," she whispered kissing her daughters head. "Come on now, wipe those tears and go kick some butt."

Sakura nodded before following her mom from the room. When the two reached the arena again Sakura watched as Kiba and Akamaru were taken off the field by a stretcher. Her eyes widened.

"Uchiha Sasuke, Tenten." Sakura watched as Sasuke walked down the stairs with easy. The battle hardly took anytime and Sasuke came up as victor. Making sure to rub it in Naruto's face. Hinata and Neji Hyuga fought next resulting in Neji winning who was a total dick about it pissing Naruto off. After that it was Naruto against Deidara.

Sakura watched in nervousness knowing that any member of the Akatsuki was more than Naruto could handle. It shocked her completely that Deidara threw the match letting Naruto win. After that was Kankuro against Shino. Leaving Kankuro victories. Sakura gripped the handle bar nervous for the next battle.

"Yamanka Ino, Haruno Sakura."

A/N

I know. Awesome ending right? Lol Yesterday I posted a new fic. It's an KakaSaku fic so for those of you who like that paring check it out

EmyBlossom93: I wanted to put Lee in, but the fingers said no as I was typing so I didn't get the chance to add him.

I know a lot of you want me to make Sakura like super strong. I would really love to make her this awesome kick ass better than everyone, but I don't want to make her into a Mary Sue that's why I've made her stronger by not like crazy unbeatable strong. Sorry!

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