Like Moths to the Light Chapter 3: Revelations, a naruto fanfic

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Chapter Three Revelations

Never grown preserved gently
A bronze moth dies easily
Unknown to others weak to me
Broken hands never ending

The shadows of three weary figures passed under the shadow of Konohagakure's gate just as the sun reached it's peek seven days later. The first of the figures was a tall blond with blue eyes, each of his cheeks bearing three whisker like marks. His name was Naruto Uzumaki container of the legendary and powerful nine tailed demon fox. His normal black and orange jumpsuit was greatly wrinkled with a few cuts and tears signaling that he was in a fight. His wild golden hair was a mess as dirt clung to his limbs and cloths from the fight he was pulled into.

Trailing close behind him was an ex member of the now-defunct Root, an independent subdivision of the ANBU, Naruto's teammate Sai. His black hair and dark coal eyes reminding many of the traitor Uchiha Sasuke who's place he now filled. Sai groaned a bit rubbing his soar shoulder that was recently healed by the second dark haired team member Shizune. He guessed that her healing abilities weren't bad but he sorely missed the pink haired Kunoichi that could heal so much better. Well at least she didn't have to come with them and risk herself on their mission.

Shizune was trailing behind the two boys with half lidded eyes that desperately needed sleep. The mission was a failure due to the corrupted information they received. The small detached sound base that they were suppose to infiltrate was really a trap set by Orochimaru. "Sakura chan would have done much better than me." She thought with a sigh remembering her poor kills and the lack of help she provided.

Lastly hanging behind the three was Hatake Kakashi, the infamous copycat ninja of over a thousand jutsus. His spiked silver hair hung limply as his one visible dark eye drooped obviously tired. Who wouldn't be after a major ambush while being outnumbered a dozen or more to one? As much as he hated to admit it Sakura would have been a huge help during the attack considering she was a much better fighter than Shizune who was mostly just a medic and not much of a experienced fighter. At lease she wasn't hurt or worse. He knew he babied the pink haired kunoichi but he'd die a thousand deaths before he let any harm come to her.

Sighing the retired ANBU rubbed the back of his head and stopped. "We need to report back to the Hokage before any Ramen stops Naruto."

Naruto sighed letting his shoulders drop, he was planning on sneaking a quick trip to the ramen bar before having to report to the Hokage on their failed mission. "Just a quick stop?" He asked with a sheepish voice knowing his intentions were found out.

Shizune laughed lightly despite her tired and weary state. "But Naruto, Sakura chan might be there filling in for me with Tsunade sensei. You might get to see her when we hand in our report."

Naruto seemed to cheer up a bit as a bright smile tugged at his lips. Sai and Kakashi seemed to brighten at this thought as well picking up their pace.

"Yeah I get to see Sakura chan and then I can treat her out to Ramen and go on a date!" He cheered suddenly filled with energy. Kakashi and Sai both frowned at his statement but chose to remain silent as Shizune just laughed.

The dark eyed female medic nin who was now in front led the small group towards the Hokage's office where they knew they would find the first female Kage. After knocking they received a sharp grunt signaling them to enter.

"Thank goodness you guys are finally here I've been waiting all day for you four." Said Tsunade as she shuffled a few stray papers into a semi neat pile. "So…mission repot!"

"Tsunade Sama the infiltration mission was a failure. The small detached sound base we believed to be a private training grounds for sound ninja was in reality a trap set up for us." Shizune briefly explained before going into detail about their mission, Tsunade all the while nodding her head and added an occasional 'hmm' to confirm that she was actually listening. You could tell she was disappointed in hearing that it was really a trap. If Their theory was correct then they would have a much easier time finding Sasuke and the sound base.

After Kakashi spoke up to confirm all had said Shizune the Hokage was about to dismiss them when Naruto spoke up loudly.

"Hey, hey, hey, wait a second baa chan, isn't Sakura chan suppose to be working here with you, where is she? I didn't see her coming here."

Tsunade looked up from her desk and blinked back at the loud blond as a brief silence set over the small group. Suddenly her eyes lit up remembering something as she stood up and rushed over towards the bookshelves.

"Tsunade sama?" Shizune asked tilting her head as the female Hokage went through books and scrolls throwing the onto the floor before finding whatever she was looking for and bringing it down.

"I forgot all about this until you just mentioned Sakura chan. She hasn't been with me at all during the past week, she requested to be left alone all week and told me to open this package after a week was up. The only person that asked about her was Neji before he left on his mission but as far as I know she's still at her apartment." She answered starting to unwrap the package Sakura left behind for her. Lifting the lid up so that only she could see it's contents the woman visible paled as a look of horror came across her face.

"Tsunade sama?" Kakashi questioned noticing the distress look that came over her once she opened Sakura's package. If he wasn't so concerned with the look on her face he would have asked about Neji asking about Sakura but that wasn't the case.

"….Quick! You three to Sakura's apartment room now! Use forced entry if you need to I don't care just go!" She screamed standing up so fast her rather large chair fell backwards. "GO NOW!"

Instantly three blurs leapt from the Hokage's office out the window towards the pink kunoichi's apartment, their path already memorized. At the present moment, after seeing the Hokage go from friendly to horror stricken in an instant due to Sakura's package, a worse case scenario was running through everyone's minds. Would could have been in the package to make the Hokage snap like that? What was wrong with Sakura?

The three ran through the apartment building taking a sharp corner arriving at her room. Sai tried the door but it was locked just as they expected. Switching to plan B Kakashi backed up before lunging at the door with his shoulder lowered. A loud crack echoed throughout the halls as the two met resulting with the wood crashing inward as the Jonin stumbled through the newly made pathway. Sai and Naruto rushed in after him to stop suddenly when they saw state of the apartment building.

"…Wh…what happened here?" Naruto asked bewildered as he stared at the overturned chairs, broken lamps, and shredded drapes.

The apartment was in shambles with almost everything in disarray. There was a bit of dried blood here and there staining the floor that all three knew somehow, that it once was Sakura's.

"Sai knelt down at the crater inn the floor and inspected it, frowning at the blood he knew belonged to Sakura. "This was made without chakra by several punches, I'm judging by the bloodstains she must have beat her fists raw until the cement shattered." Sai mused feeling he inside of the hole. "What I don't get is why?" He mused.

"I think this might explain it." Naruto stated calling the silver haired Jonin and the artistic boy ninja over to where he was standing. A piece of white paper was gripped firmly in his hands as he glared daggers at the scrap of parchment.

Kakashi frowned seeing the dark look come over her former student's face but received the piece of paper from his shaking hands regardless. It was a note or rather letter from Sakura herself, he could tell due to the unshakeable handwriting he knew to be her own. Clearing his throat be began to read the letter out loud to both Sai and Naruto.

To whom it may concern,

To whomever is reading this right now I humbly apologize and beg your forgiveness for the mess my apartment has been left in. I am truly sorry you had to see what you saw, you must have thought a fight or some terrible event took place here but alas it was only me throwing a tantrum.
If my assumption is correct than the first people to be reading this letter are Naruto, Sai, and Kakashi sensei then after them Tsunade sensei and then my other friends. You guys are all probably wondering what in the world is going on and why I can not be found. The answer is simple, I have left. Yes your eyes are still in proper order and you read that right. I left, I left my home, I left my friends, I left my village, simply put: I left.
Now if you are still reading this and haven't stormed out of the village to track me down and find me stop. Please don't bother with your useless attempts to find me. By the time this letter reaches you I will be a weeks journey away from the village, give or take a few hours. Do not get me wrong I love my village and would never abandon it but I simply can not stand living here anymore.
I don't know if you hate me personally or think I'm so useless I can't help with anything but I know I'm either unwanted or unneeded. And if either one is the case it would serve everyone better if I just left for a while to train until I can be of some small use. Until then I will remain away from my dear sweet and oh so precious village. I eagerly look forward to the day when I will be strong enough to return home and aid my motherland in some small yet meaningful way.
Naruto, Sai, Kakashi sensei, and Tsunade sensei I humbly beg you apology for being so weak and useless to you before this and I am sorry it had to come to this but I needed to do this, if not for you than for me. I may be selfish of me to say this but I need this for myself as well. Being useless and a hindrance is worse than death and sometimes I believe the cold dark abyss would be a better place for me that this kind loving earth where I have all of you. Thankfully I am still alive and can tell you this. I don't know if you can understand my feelings now but it hurts so very much that I can not take it anymore. I can say with little doubt in my heart that If I were to continue living here the way I have, nothing would be strong enough to stop me from thrusting the bade into my heart thus ending my meaningless life in the process.
I hope I have convinced you to not utterly hate and despise such a filth as I for all eternity and will except me back into my home when I return whenever that shall be. Until then I doubt a nuisance such as I will not be missed very much,
Sakura
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Kakashi stopped reading as his arm fell limply to his side, the small parchment still caught in his lifeless grasp. "She… left…"

"She said she thinks we hate her." Sai simply stated in a cold emotionless tone, his dark eyes hallow from any sigh of emotion. "How could she think that?" You couldn't tell by looking at him but his insides felt like they were all tied up in knots of pain and…regret. These feeling confused him to no end and in a way scared him since he only got these feelings around the said pink haired kunoichi from his squad. Somehow the thought of Sakura thinking he hated her hurt him on the inside. Why it did he didn't know, all he knew was it hurt.

"H…how could she? How could she leave like that how could she?" Naruto asked angrily. Sakura was his best friend and not so secret crush since their academy days and to know he may not ever see her again killed him inside. She was out there all alone, without him next to her to protect her from everything. The pain utterly killed him inside and the only way to hide it was to either remain silent or burst into rage and kill someone.

"I didn't know she felt that way." Kakashi murmured looking back at the part when she spoke of the cold dark abyss and ending her life. His whole body shook with rage at the thought of his precious little student killing herself. A life without her bright smile to light up his dark reality was worse than death, he already lost everyone close to him and no one was closer to him now that her. If she were to die…

"Why…?" Naruto asked again his voice still holding anger.

"I think this may be why." Sai called from the living room. The other two quickly trotted over to where the artist nin stood dead still, a shadow covering his eyes.

On the wall painted in dried blood, Sakura's blood, were the two words that explained her departure more than anything. Painted in big bold red letters the words DEAD WEIGH stared back at them menacingly.

"I wonder if the found it yet?" Sakura though rubbing her nose after a sneeze. Remembering the little message she left for her team she smiled slyly. It took a lot of blood and by the time she was done she was pretty weak but not weak enough to effect her behavior too much.

Hopefully when they saw that they would understand that she was listening when they were being assigned their S rank mission without her and heard what they called her. Since dead weight was the only word they all said to describe her it should get the point across, hopefully they now knew and were regretting it.

Right now she was on the outskirts of a small non shinobi village that offered her a soft bed and a warm meal. Not that she slept but still, a bed would be a much better place to rest than the inside of a stiff hollow tree. Her back was still sore from staying so long in that same balled up position.

Her thoughts were cut short when her stomach growled loudly in hunger begging for nutrition. She giggled sheepishly to herself rubbing the back of her head. The last time she had something to eat was sometime around yesterday morning. Needless to say she needed something now to keep her strength up. A second growl from her noisy gut only encouraged her on this matter.

"Okay, okay, okay, I'm going," she laughed heading over towards a small restaurant.

Her abnormally small sandal clad feet swiftly carried her into the small wooden dwelling where waiters and waitresses occasionally rushed back and forth to fill an order. Good it wasn't crowded. She hated it when it was crowed and noisy. She much preferred this restaurant to the first two she checked out.

She smiled when the cook nodded in her direction signaling he would be with her in a moment. Even though it wasn't as crowded as the other restaurants at this time didn't mean it was completely empty, after all it was around one o clock.

Taking a stool at the small four person bar she let her brown cloak fall around her legs once more. Her hood was pushed back enough to revel her face and still conceal her hair from behind.

Sakura sneezed once more and received the feeling that someone was talking about her. Maybe they were now talking with the Hokage about the letter she left for them or maybe the state they found her apartment in. Tsunade would most likely send a squad out looking for her regardless of her wishes so she made a mental note to keep an eye out for leaf ninja.

Either way it mattered little to her. They still thought she was that same weak twelve year old girl that nod nothing but cry and complain. I sickened her how they treated her like some fragile doll that would shatter at the slightest touch.

"May I take your order miss?" A eighteenish looking waiter asked coming up to her with a small pad of paper and a pencil ready to take her order.

"Yes, I'd like a glass of water and some Odango please." Sakura replied smiling a bit making the waiter blush as he quickly scribbled down her order, taking it into the back.

Sakura chuckled at the waiter's strange behavior remembering the waiters back in Konohagakure who acted the same way for some strange reason she was still oblivious to. "O well, I guess some things never change no matter where you go."

A glass of water was set down in font of her by the same waiter but before she had the chance to tank him he quickly ran off with a very red face. "I wonder if he was sick?" She mussed taking a sip from her glass. The door in front of the restaurant slid open and Sakura could hear a pair walk into the room, she didn't bother to turn around and look at them but she kept her ears open just in case.

Taking another sip from her glass she listened as the first person talked to the second one. "I'm glad we found a place that wasn't so crowded, right sama."

Sakura listened for a reply but it seemed the other person wasn't very talkative. The first voice seemed oddly familiar but she couldn't quite place it.

The same waiter that took her order approached the pair that were seated a few seats down from her and pulled out his pad asking for their order.

"Oh yes, I think I'll have some Oshiruko today," the voice from before stated in a charmingly pleasant tone, though it was defiantly masculine.

"And what about you sir? What would you like to order?"

"…I'll have some Tonkoro ten soup." The second voice stated in a cold, less than pleasant tone clearly stating that he didn't like talking. ( XD Tomatoes!)

Sakura's eyes widened as her pupils shrank in shock hearing that voice, her breathing suddenly becoming irregular. That voice that haunted her dreams so many times before the sweet joy of slumber was taken from her.

That was the voice she would never forget no matter how long she lived.

That first was the voice of none other than the infamous Kabuto of the sound in the company of iniquitous and well known Uchiha Sasuke, traitor of the hidden leaf village.

It's been I busy week but I managed to get this out there before my faily takes me on a week long road trip. T.T So I won't be updating untill I get back. sorry for that but it can't be helped.

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