Writers block is the one thing all readers and writers fear, I had it for a while but I've broken the chains and I'm free! I don't own Naruto and this is a NON-MASSACRE ITACHI HAS NOT KILLED THE WHOLE CLAN!

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What had he done wrong? She was barely able to walk yet when he carried her she began to struggle and he had to put her down, she was suddenly able to walk on her own as though nothing was wrong, but what irritated him was the she didn't even spare him a glance.
He continued to walk behind her as she made her way home but he kept his distance, she didn't seem to be in a good mood, but was in ear shot in case she should need anything.
Perhaps it was his demon that caused his need to attend to the girl or that is was simple curiosity and a wanting to figure this girl out, either way he continued to try and piece together her meanings behind her responses; instead of giving him answers it gave him a headache. When they reached her home she didn't bother in trying to keep him out, he would probably just break in. Sakura went strait to the kitchen and began working on making herself dinner. Finally he spoke.

"What did I do wrong?" he asked and Sakura paused in chopping the vegetables, she looked at him for a moment.

"What?" she tilted her head, confused.

"When I tried to carry you back you resisted, what did I do wrong?" he clarified, she looked at him for a long while before she exhaled loudly.

"You didn't do anything wrong, it's just… I felt like I was that weak little girl again" she said and began chopping once more, when she glanced up at him his eyes told her he did not understand.

"I was very weak not to long ago, about a month and a half ago I would barely have any skills, I thought I was a great ninja but every time my team was in danger I would just freeze, I would be saved and rescued and eventually I discovered just how much dead weight I was… I-I'm never going to be like that again, so when you carried me I felt like I was just being dead weight again… sorry" her voice turned into a mumble as she stirred the vegetables in the noodle mix, her back to him. If she didn't have her back to him she would've seen how his shoulders relaxed.

When morning came she wasn't feeling the wave of anxiety she expected to feel, she did feel nervous but not enough for her to fidget or anything. She showered quickly and put on her usual shorts, double sports bras and jacket with her Haiti-ate belt and kunai pouches.
She looked in the mirror and finally noticed two things.
1: her hair was longer; waist length now, not that it really mattered.
2: her chakra crystal was a very dark green, almost black and it was very large, about four centimeters wide. She was almost scared what would happen if she broke it. (Break/broke means when she unleashes the chakra in the crystal)

"Hey Sakura-Chan! Come on were heading to the examination room!" she heard her blonde friend yell, she walked to her balcony and looked down at them. Naruto was waving like an idiot while Sasuke just nodded when she appeared, she sealed her house shut and jumped down to join her teammates, they then began walking towards their future.

"Let us in!" someone yelled, a large group around a door. Sakura paused to see just how many people were trying to get in, she paused for a moment, how many flights did they go up? She looked to Sasuke and he nodded, confirming what she suspected.

"We're not letting any weak ninja in, so you might as well go home" one of the kids guarding the door yelled, there were two and it seemed they weren't letting anyone pass. Sakura was about to tell the boys to just move on and not cause trouble but Sasuke just had to be a show off.

"Hey, release the genjustu, this isn't the third floor," he said coolly and Sakura had to stop herself from face palming.
'Sometimes I wonder if its really Naruto who's the idiot on our team' Sakura thought as she stepped to her teammates side, Naruto joining them on Sakura's left.

"Oh~ you ruined our fun!" one whined and Sakura took notice of both of their appearances, they looked familiar… she had seen them before but where?
They were Jounin! They were just pretending, was it for fun or was it a job? Either way it wasn't her concern, Sakura began walking towards the next set of stairs.

"Sakura…?" Naruto watched her move; she turned to her teammates before nodding to them.

"We don't have much time, if were going to get to the examinations we need to move," she said before continuing her journey towards the staircase. The others quickly caught up and the team made there way up the stairs. They reached the doors that led to the waiting room; they stopped when they saw a cloud of smoke accompanied by a 'pop' sound, Kakashi smiled at them and they smiled back… well Sasuke smirked but we'll pretend he's smiling.

"I'm glad all of you showed up, otherwise you wouldn't of been aloud in" he said bluntly, looking at Sakura, she was about to growl at him about how she was strong enough but then remembered he didn't know about the Kurisutarubyū, she kept her mouth shut and nodded.

"So if one of us didn't show then the others wouldn't be able to take the exams," she said and Naruto gasped in surprise but smiled his idiot smile soon afterwards.

"But we're all here, so lets go!" he said and Kakashi nodded, stepping to the side he allowed them through; he noticed the crystal on her skin and will have to ask her about it later, they entered and Sakura couldn't help but feel a little frightened by the amount of ninja there. There were so many and all from different villages too, she heard running and turned around to see Ino running towards them.

"Hey Sasuke-kun! I've missed you!" she squealed, she had long platinum hair done up in a high ponytail with one long fringe of hair covering her right sky blue eye. She looked smugly at Sakura, the female of team seven waved at Ino but otherwise did respond. This threw Ino through a loop.

"Hey forehead, are you not feeling well?" she asked detaching from the Uchiha and walking over to the pinkette, Sakura looked at Ino and smiled.

"Yeah, I've just gotten over Sasuke" she said and Ino smiled triumphantly, standing tall like she won a million yen bet.

"So you've given up! Ha I win!" the other loud blonde exclaimed and Sakura sighed, she should have seen this coming.

"Yes, I gave up Ino, but not because of the reasons you think, I left love in the backseat so I can become stronger" she stated and Ino paused, she looked at Sakura slyly.

"You? Strong? Like that could ever happen" she laughed and Sakura twitched ever so slightly.

"I'm stronger than you Ino-pig!" she retorted and Ino glared, Sakura glared right back… and then started giggling, Ino looked baffled.

"Sorry, it's just it reminds me of the old days, when we used to verbally kill each other" she snickered and Ino smiled before going into her own fit of giggles.

"Yeah, and how we would always race to the academy and say that we beat each other when we got there at the exact same time" they both laughed a little as two other boys came around.

"You girls are so loud, it's troublesome," the lazy genius said, Ino scowled at the dark haired boy. His hair was in a spiked ponytail and made it look like a pineapple, his hands stuffed in his pockets.

"Hey Shikamaru" Sakura waved at him and he nodded.

"Hey, after this you want to play another game of shogi?" he asked and Sakura nodded, she had started playing with the strategist about a week ago and had yet to beat him, but she was getting closer every time.

"Sure, maybe this time I'll beat you, I have some new strategies I want to try" she smiled and nodded to Choji who crunched happily on his chips, he was… large with a white scarf and red swirls on his cheeks, he always had some form of food with him. He offered her some but declined, he smiled ecstatically before digging in to his chips

"Yo Sakura, you saw through the genjustu to?" she heard a familiar voice say; she turned to see Tenten walking towards her with her team following closely behind the weapons mistress.

"Yeah, it was hard to miss" she laughed as the group joined the larger one.

"Yo, so you guys made it through too huh?" some said, as the group came closer Sakura noticed Hinata; Sakura met her through Neji and met Kiba, a member of the Inuzuka clan, and then met Shino, a master of insects and bugs, and got to know them very well.

"Hey Sakura, Akamaru and my sister want you over again, the dogs really like you!" he laughed and Sakura nodded happily.

"As long as your sister cooks Domburi again" she responded and Kiba nodded, everyone gave their 'hello' to each other when a silver haired ninja with glasses came around with a smile that Sakura did not trust.

"You guys should keep your voices down, don't want to attract unwanted attention" he said, Sakura wanted to tell him to 'shove off' but when he pulled out some cards she got curious. He knelt down, pulled three onto the floor and flipped one face up.

"Who are you?" Tenten asked and the ninja in question smiled.

"I'm Kabuto, a sound ninja as you can see," he said gesturing to the sound emblem on his forehead.

"Uchiha Sasuke: top of class done mainly D rank and a few C rank missions, top of class, your elemental chakra is fire and you are very skilled in most fields" he said, after a moments pause he flipped the middle one revealing Naruto's picture.

"Uzumaki Naruto: same as Sasuke in missions but sorely lacks his skill, mainly a head on fighter your quiet good at Kage Bunshin and have a massive amount of chakra" he finished and Naruto looked a little pissed, Sasuke looked smug and Sakura knew the two of them would be the death of her. He flipped the last one.

"Haruno Sakura: D and C missions, excellent chakra control and high intellect, your poor at taijutsu and the more advanced jutsu but you are very good against genjustu" he said and flipped everything back into his deck of cards. Everyone was about to protest to his analyses of Sakura but the pinkette just walked over to the kneeling boy. She knelt right in front of him and smiled a sickly sweet smile at him that promised pain and an almost crazy look in her eyes, she looked very dangerous, evil and the very epitome of scary.

"You might want to update those cards of yours… or they just might get you killed," she said in a cheerful tone but it held an emptiness that scared him as much as his master scared him. She stood up and went back to her group smiling happily, he smirked and stood, he was about to talk but someone went strait for him. A man with his face covered in bandages, except one eye, threw a punch at the sound nin. Kabuto jumped back to avoid the punch but he still ended up hacking blood and had his glasses cracked.

"But the punch never touched him…" Sakura mumbled to herself, she didn't really cared what happened to the distrustful ninja but the knew stranger just showed his hand. Well, a piece of it anyway.

"Alright! I am your first examiner, everyone take your seats in the next room, you cannot sit next to a teammate!" he yelled and Sakura turned back to her group.

"Good luck" she said before she entered the examination room, she took her seat on the farthest right seat in the middle of the center row while Sasuke took a seat in the left row and Naruto had a seat right in the front.

"My name is Ibiki and I will be your examiner, this first examination is a test" the examiner called out "There are ten questions that you will answer in thirty minutes, some of you may have noticed there are only nine on the paper, after your time is up I will give you the tenth question" he finished and everyone was thinking along the lines of 'that's it?' the master interrogator smirked.

"Oh, by the way, if any of you are caught cheating you automatically fail, and if you fail your whole team fails with you" he commented and everyone gasped or complained, Sakura just sighed.
'Of course' she thought before looking at the test sheet; the questions were really hard, at least Chunin level, but not for her. She knows every answer to these questions but… she looked at Naruto.
'I am so going to fail' went through both Sasuke and Sakura's minds, the timer started and Sakura got to work. She created a crystal and sent over to Naruto's lap, converting the answers to him while she wrote; Sasuke had the Sharingan so she needn't worry about him. Along the way she noticed a floating eye made of sand, she smiled faintly and ignored the small orb as she finished the questions. When she stopped Naruto, Gaara and Sasuke stopped, looks like she had three people copying her.

"All right times up!" Ibiki yelled and everyone put their pens down "Now for the final question, before we start I would like to warn you all, if you fail to answer this question correctly then you will never be able to take the Chunin exams again" he said and everyone was in an up roar.

"If you don't want to take the question you can leave now and try again next year, its your choice, but if you choose this your team goes with you" he said and everyone fell silent as they waited for the first to crack.

"I'm out" someone put they're hand up.

"Me too"

"No thanks"

"Next year" many people raised there hand and left the room, by the end of it there was at least half of them gone. She looked from Ibiki to Naruto to se him shaking; she bit her lip as she watched her teammate.
Should she give up for him? What about Sasuke? She moved her hand slightly, but before she could even lift it above the desk Naruto put his hand up. Sakura sighed as she thought about how Ino would brag about her being stuck at the academy; those thoughts were cut short as she heard something slam onto a desk.

"I not scared by your question! I can answer whatever question you got!" Naruto yelled and Sakura had put a hand over her mouth to stop herself from laughing out loud. She inhaled deeply before smiling in relief as the concept dawned on her; the examiner smirked.

"You pass"

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