The True Haruno Sakura Chapter 7: They're Not Alone Anymore, a naruto fanfic

Naruto: HELLOOO FAITHFUL READERS! Sidney is veeeeerry sorry for the looooong wait. But don't worry this chappie is jammed packed with awesome stuff.

Jackie: True dat! Plus you won't believe the people we got up in here.

Both: On with the sh-

Sakura and Sidney: YOU IDIOTS!!!

Naruto and Jackie: What's the problem?

Sidney: I'm not done wit da chapter yet!

Jackie: What!

Naruto: Oh no! What do we do? We already did the intro!

Sasuke: Nice going, Dobe.

Jordan: Way ta go, Jackass!

Jazz: Everybody, CHILL! Now Sid, didn't you make a spare beginning for the chapter?

Sidney: Oh yeah, I almost forgot. I started one awhile ago but I thought you guys wouldn't like it.

Lotus: What are you talking about?! We read it and it's awesome!

Jazz: Ya, so Sid put it up, we'll take over from there while you finish the rest of the chapter.

Sidney: I'm on it!

T H E T R U E H A R U N O S A K U R A

Everyone was back at the hide-out. Sakura looked up from a book she was reading to see everyone laughing on the couch area. She couldn't believe how much her friends were getting along with the idiots that betrayed her. Although, she had to admit she kind of missed hanging out with them.

'NO!' she shouted in her mind. Don't think like that! They betrayed me for that red-headed whore.'

She shook her head and went back to reading her book. How could she forget something so important? They're the reason why as soon as they got Onyx, she was going to be locked up in Konoha for who knows how long.

And that damned Uchiha. How dare he be so bold and steal a kiss from her? And not just any kiss, her first kiss. The men back at Konoha never really appealed to her so she had never been on a date before. He was lucky that she didn't claw his eyes out as soon as he stepped through the door and gave her a smirk.

But how could she when her friends and family were right behind him? If they ever learned about what he did to her, she'd never hear the end of it. So she couldn't risk starting a scene with him.

Just as she had turned the page in her book, a black clad butt plopped onto the arm of the chair she was currently occupying.

"I'll give you three guesses." said inner Sakura.

The outer's eyes followed the torso of the body to meet two onyx ones.

"Aren't you a little lonely over here all by yourself?"

"Aren't you getting tired of stalking cat-eared girls?"

"Now Kitten, you really shouldn't be so hostile."

"How many times do I have to tell you? Stop calling me Kit-"

A loud beeping sound cut Sakura off and Jazz quickly ran over to her computer. She typed on her keyboard for a few seconds and her eyes widened.

"Shit!" she yelled. "We got a problem. Octavio wasn't too happy about losing his men to Onyx and Toph. He hired some guys called the Blue Viper Gondola Gang to take out Onyx. Right now she's on her nightly patrol out on the canals. She's surrounded by nothing but water so she's completely defenseless! Angel, you better get out there. Angel…ANGEL?!"

The pink haired girl looked up with a brow raised. "What?"

"Did you hear what I just said?"

"Dude, I'm a cat and there's water out there. Do the math. Plus, we have the elemental of water with us."

"Oh yeah, I forgot."

"Smarty."

"Shut up! Lotus, get out there!"

Onyx was floating along one of the canals. It was pitch black out so she had turned on the flashlight to her gun. She shivered at the thought of not being around her element, but she was a cop and she wanted to take this Octavio guy down. Plus, the sooner she got done with this, the sooner she could head out and go with her sisters. She just hoped that they didn't do anything drastic when they found out she wasn't back home at Sydney.

A few canals down, three men each on their own gondola were getting their weapons ready to take down the latest target. One of the three jumped when he heard a splash.

"Did you guys hear that?"

"Don't be stupid, just hurry up and get your gear rea-AHH!" his partner screamed as a big wave of water came up and took them under water. The last thing the assassin saw was a light blue fish tail before it all went black.

"Lotus, did you get rid of them?" asked Jazz through a waterproof communicator.

Lotus came out of the canal sitting next to Gaara, who had the Blue Vipers tied up in ropes past out next to him. Instead of her usual attire, Lotus had a baby blue tube top that stopped a few inches above her naval and her legs had turned into a light blue scaly mermaid's tail. Her hair had a few sparkling blue streaks in her ebony colored hair. It was clear that as the elemental of water, she possessed the spirit of the mermaid.

"Yeah, they're all tied up and ready to be delivered to the Venetian police station."

"Great, now everyone else, get ready to take some photos. Octavio should be coming out of his hiding place soon. There's no telling what we might catch him doing."

As soon as Jazz said that, a middle-aged looking man came out of a fancy looking building. He had long curly blond hair going past his shoulders with a long beard to match and amber colored eyes. He had on a phantom of the opera mask on his face and a fluffy white blouse on along with a striped dark purple suit on. He ran down the street softly singing, 'The Hall of The Mountain King' with the Payne sisters hot on his tail from the rooftops. He stopped at a valve on a building and started to turn it. The fountain in the middle of a park he was in started to spew out black tar.

"That's disgusting!" said Jackie.

"I know, hurry up and get a picture before he finishes," said Jazz. She and her sisters started to snap some quick photos of Octavio and he started on his way again. This time he stopped at a bird bath and turned a valve that was secretly hidden under it. Instead off clear water, the bird bath was now filled with disgusting black tar.

"Sac le bleu! That poor bird bath," yelped Jade as small tears started to form in her eyes. Sai looked at her and then to Octavio. He didn't know what was happening with him. He had only taken one look at Jade crying like that and he wanted to tear Octavio limb from limb.

Shrugging off the feeling, he took some pictures of Octavio and made a mental note to get some advice about this new discovery later from Sakura.

Once again Octavio was on the move. He went to the side of a building and started turning a valve. On the top of the next building, the Konoha 11, minus Sasuke, was snapping some photos off Octavio. Naruto had a puzzled look on his face though.

"Okay um, Jazz? We see him turning a wheel, but where's the tar?"

"Oh…My…God!"

Instead of Jazz's voice, Lotus's came out instead. She was staring dead on at an outdoor mini aquarium being filled with tar. She watched in horror as innocent little fish slowly died within the tank. She suddenly started feeling light headed and fainted backwards into Gaara's arms.

Now where are our two little love birds?

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"How the hell did I end up with you?" yelled Sakura. You see, back at the hideout, everyone paired off in groups while Sakura had been too engrossed with her book to notice. By the time Jade had called her, she looked up to see that everyone was leaving. While running to catch up, the ballet dancer filled her in on what was happening and pointed to the only partner that was left, which was Sasuke.

'Life sucks!'

"Fate wanted us to be together, Kitten." He really enjoyed torturing her. Throughout this whole trip, Sasuke had seen Sakura in a new light. He saw her as a strong, independent and beautiful young woman. She was the ideal Uchiha matriarch needed to help him restore his clan. Even when he was with Karin, he would secretly steal glances at the pink-haired beauty. He never really pictured himself making Karin his wife. She was just a substitute, and he still couldn't believe that at night she would willingly-

"Hey, heads up you two! Octavio just got on the Ferris wheel, and he's on his cell phone! By the look on his face, it must be an important conversation. Get in there and record it," Jazz's voice rang out through their communicators. They both looked over to see that Octavio had just gotten onto the Ferris wheel. They both jumped down from the rooftops and ran under the Ferris wheel car he was in and latched onto the bottom.

"Hello, Giovanni? This Ferris wheel was a great idea. The little kiddies have there fun and we get our tar pumped for us. Remind me to pay you more than minimum wage. Well, got to go. Carnival and all of that, you know. Ciao!"

And so Octavio jumped off the wheel and ran off, unaware that the two tape recorders just got the whole message. Sakura and Sasuke jumped off and met the group near a box next to the ride. Jordan turned her fist into iron and smashed the pad lock attached to it. Jazz then took her place in front of it.

"Look away if you must, you're about to see the evils of mechanical engineering."

When she started on the control panel, the Ferris wheel started spinning more rapidly. Soon it got so fast you couldn't even see the ride's cars anymore, so when the support beams started to give way, everyone ran for it.

The wheel started working like a tire and went right into the canal, luckily not hitting any buildings of hurting anyone. They all left the scene before civilians came to investigate, and headed towards the police station.

"LET GO OF ME, YOU BAFFOONS!! I DIDN'T DO IT, I SWEAR!" came the cry of Octavio as the Venetian police dragged him out of his mansion. Onyx looked at him with disgust; they had enough evidence to put him away for years. Imagine her and Toph's surprise when a bag full of evidence showed up on the police doorstep early this morning. They immediately called their commerads and stomped down to Octavio's mansion, and she had an annoying gut feeling who was to thank. She looked to the right and did a double take.

Lo and behold, all of her sisters and even her cousins were standing there with another group of people. She motioned to Toph to follow her over to there.

"Not that I'm not glad to see you, but when my gut tells me, I know you all are up to no good and my gut has been yackin' for the past 3 days" she said as soon as she and Toph finished giving they're hugs. Sakura laughed nervously. She knew her sister hated it when she interfered with her missions.

"W-well you see, we wanted this case to be over with so that we can finally leave."

"Is that so, well I'd just love to break it to you so it's gonna take a while for me and Toph to finish booking this idiot. So you got about 5 hours before we can leave."

"Of freakin' course." She groaned. Onyx chuckled.

"Well come on Toph, we gotta-Toph?" Toph was standing in front of Shino with her hands on his chest.

"Dude, do you know you have, like, a billion bugs inside your coat?" she said with a confused look on her face.

"Toph, that's normal for him. I'll explain later," said Sakura.

And so, everyone used the remainder of the time to explore the city some more. The elementals, Sing twins, Sayuri, Renji, Ty-Lee, Whinnie, the Sand siblings and the Konoha 11 all walked around together through town after the sensei and Tsunade left to visit a café. They started to walk past a large club when Lotus stopped them.

"Hey! Look at that poster!"

They did and saw three girls on said thing. One girl had long knee-length blond hair pulled up into two side ponytails and baby blue eyes. Another had long knee-length black hair and bangs in front of her black eyes. Lastly there was one that had shoulder length pink hair and emerald green eyes.

Now performing at the 'Hot Spot', Midnight Ride! Featuring, Haru Hara Haruko, Nightmare Nadeshiko and Four-arms Utau!

(A/N: Haruko is from Fooly Cooly, Nadeshiko and Utau are from Shugo Chara.)

"That's our cousin Haruko and the girls!" said Lotus.

"Let's go in already!" said Whinnie. They did just that while Sakura whispered quietly to the Payne triplets.

"Should we really be going in? I mean, Naruto and Sasuke are here with us."

"Mac, they were gonna find out sometime. This isn't something we can keep hiding from them when they deserve to know. It's about time they knew the truth." whispered Jordan putting a reassuring hand on Sakura's shoulder. Sakura reluctantly nodded and they all went inside and sat at a table. The lights dimmed signaling the beginning of a show.

"Alright, the moment you've been waiting for, Midnight Ride! Let me introduce you to the band. First up on the drums, 'Four-arms' Utau!" the announcer shouted through the mike and the crowd went wild.

The light on the stage shined on the blond from the poster sitting at a drum set. She did a quick drum solo and people could easily see where her name came from. When she played the drums, she played so fast it looked like she literally had four arms. The crowd erupted in applause.

"Alright second on guitar, 'Nightmare' Nadeshiko."

The lights then showed the ebony haired girl in the poster. She hit a few chords on her black electric guitar and got immediate approval from the audience.

"Finally, let's here it for the girl on second guitar and mike, 'Haru Hara' Haruko!"

The lights were now all on and a pink haired version of Onyx showed up on stage with a ruby red guitar and a mike.

"Hello, Venice Italy! Are you ready?" she yelled into the mike. The crowd gave an obvious answer and the girls picked up their instruments.

'Misery Business' by Paramore

I'm in the business of misery, let's take it from the top
She's got a body like an hourglass that's tickin' like a clock
It's a matter of time before we all run out...
When I thought he was mine, she caught him by the mouth

I waited eight long months, she finally set him free
I told him I couldn't lie, he was the only one for me
Two weeks, two weeks and we'd caught on fire
She's got it out for me, but I wear the biggest smile

Whoa, I never meant to brag
But I got him where I want him now
Whoa, it was never my intention to brag
To steal it all away from you now
But God does it feels so good
'Cause I got him where I want him now
And if you could then you know you would
'Cause God it just feels so...
It just feels so good

Second chances they don't ever matter, people never change
Once a whore, you're nothing more, I'm sorry that'll never change
And about forgiveness, we're both supposed to have exchanged
I'm sorry honey, but I passed it up, now look this way!

Well there's a million other girls who do it just like you
Looking as innocent as possible to get to you,
They want and what they like, it's easy if you do it right
Well I refuse, I refuse, I refuse!

Whoa, I never meant to brag
But I got him where I want him now
Whoa, it was never my intention to brag
To steal it all away from you now
But God does it feel so good
'Cause I got him where I want him right now
And if you could then you know you would
'Cause God it just feels so...
It just feels so good...

I watched his wildest dreams come true
And not one of them involving you
Just watch my wildest dreams come true
Not one of them involving...

Whoa, I never meant to brag
But I got him where I want him now...

With the song over, the crowd was even more wild than ever. Utau got up from her drums and switched positions with Haruko. The band then started to play again, causing more screaming and shouting. Utau took a deep breath and started to sing.

'Meikyuu Butterfly' by Nana Mizuki

Open your shiny eyes in the silent night
fushigi na yoru maiodorita
ashiototatezu shinobiyoseru
nayamashige na kuroneko no PO-ZU

Open your shiny eyes in the silent night
A strange night has befallen you
with footsteps crawling behind you,
and the sluggish pose of a black cat.

tsuki akari wo sei ni ukabu SHIRUETTO
"kocchi he oide" to hohoende temaneki

From the moon's light, a Silhouette surfaces,
beckoning with a smile to "Come here".

As she was singing, the melody started to change and pick up tempo. The blond then started dancing as she sung.

yokubou no kage ugomeku machi
tenshi no furi de samayoi
taisetsu sou ni kakaeteru
ikiba no nai ai no KAKERA

The shadow of desires starts to move into town,
the appearance of a wandering angel
carrying something important,
the fragments of love with no destination.

nemuri ni tsuku koro anata mo doko ga de
shiawase na yume wo miteiruno?
hoshizora ni KISU wo shite iiko ha mou oyasumi

When you're sleepy, where do you go
to see a happy dream?
Kissing under the starry sky, the good girl is ready to sleep.

mitsumenai de tsukamaenai de
mayoikonda BATAHURAI
jiyuu utau dare ni mo mienai hane
kakushiteruno anata no mune no oku

Don't stare at it, don't grab it,
it's just a drifting butterfly.
The song of freedom from the invisible wings,
are you hiding it deep within your heart?

"N-naruto-kun, is something wrong?" Hinata asked her boyfriend. He had been looking at Utau with a puzzled expression.

"That girl…I don't know how, but I think I know her from somewhere."

Sakura and the Payne triplets shared expressions with each other. It was only a matter of time now.

kagami no naka omokage ha
nakimushi datta ano koro
dakeredo mou kodomo janai
nobashita kami wo hodoita

The face inside the mirror
used to be a crybaby…
But it's not a child anymore,
the long grown hair is untied.

mune wo shimetsukeru amai FUREGURANSU
yuuwaku shiteru kidzuiteiru
kotoba wo nakushita kuchibiru ni mahou kaketa no

The sweet fragrance tightens my chest,
I realized, it is tempting me…
It casted a spell on me and I lost my words.

mitsumenai de tsukamaenai de
mayoikonda BATAHURAI
itoshii sugite taisetsu sugite
kowareteshimau watashi no mune no kagi

Don't stare at it, don't grab it,
it's just a drifting butterfly.
The precious, beloved key
of my heart regrettably broke.

sagashi tsudzukeru jibun no SUTO-RI-
unmei ni me kakushisaretemo
kono kumo wo tsukinuke arukana asu he to habataku

I continued to search for my own story
even if my destiny is hidden from me.
I'll break from this cloud and fly into the far off future.

mitsumenai de tsukamaenai de
mayoikonda BATAHURAI
negai matoi tobitatsu mienai hane
kakushiteruno anata no mune no oku

Don't stare at it, don't grab it,
it's just a drifting butterfly.
The prayer clad into the flying invisible wing,
are you hiding it deep within your heart?

The song ended and Utau and Haruko switched places again. This time Nadeshiko took the mike.

"Alright, here to help us do this is me and Utau's little sisters. Give it up for Yoko and Amaya!"

Two girls walked on stage looking just like Utau and Nadeshiko. The one that looked like Utau had her short blond hair in a choppy style while the one that looked like Nadeshiko had her long black hair pulled into a high ponytail and had side bangs framing her face. The blond had a violin with her and started to play while the brunette took the guitar from Nadeshiko. After the violin solo the group started to play while Nadeshiko sung.

'Black Diamond' by Nana Mizuki

ichiban no negai goto oshiete
"anata no hoshii mono"
BORYU-MU furi kireru hodo tsuyoku
ooki na koe de sakendemite

Tell me your greatest desire.
"The person you desire"
With strength strong enough to shake down the volume,
try shouting with a loud voice.

taiyou ga mesamenu uchi ni
hajimeyou sekai ha
hikari ni tsukimatou kage to odoru
sou kimi no te wo totte

The sun doesn't wake up to me.
This new world's
light has a dancing shadow under it.
Yes, your hands can take it.

saa nani ga hoshii no? nani wo motomeruno?
atsumeta kagayaki sono tenohira ni
subete sukuitoru yogoreta yozora ni
kuroi DAIYAMONDO BURAKKU DAIYAMONDO

So, what is it that you desire? What is it you seek?
The assembled radiance in those hands,
from the disgraced sky, they'll scoop up
the dark diamond, the Black Diamond.

furueru te de inori wo sasagete
"ANATA NO HOSHII MONO"
ishi no nai ningyou no you jane
namida datte nagasenai

With my shaking hands, I dedicate this prayer.
"The person you desire"
Is like a doll with no purpose, because
it can't shed any tears.

kizutsuitemo usodarake demo
kesshite kusshinai
honmono dakega kagayaiteiru
mienai chikara ni sakaratte

Even if hurt, or full of lies,
I will never yield to them.
Only my truth is shining,
my defiance for the unseen powers.

saa nani wo utau no? nani wo shinjiruno?
mayotteiru dakeja GARAKUTA ni naru
subete furi kitte yuganda yozora ni
kuroi DAIYAMONDO BURAKKU DAIYAMONDO

So, what will you sing? What will you believe?
If you're just confused, it'll become garbage.
From the distorted night sky, shake off the
dark diamond, the Black Diamond.

saa nani ga hoshii no? nani wo motomeruno?
atsumeta kagayaki sono tenohira ni
subete sukuitoru nejireru yozora ni
kuroi DAIYAMONDO BURAKKU DAIYAMONDO

So, what is it that you desire? What is it you seek?
The assembled radiance in those hands,
from the disgraced sky, they'll scoop up
the dark diamond, the Black Diamond.

The song ended and the crowd cheered like they never did before. Sakura and the rest hung out at the club until everyone left and then they went up to the band. The girls took one look at them and ran up to hug the elementals and the Paynes.

"Holy hell! We haven't seen you guys in 6 months!" exclaimed Haruko. She looked over to see Nadeshiko, Utau, Amaya and Yoko staring at Naruto and Sasuke. Nadeshiko and Amaya had blank expressions while Utau and Yoko wore surprised ones. Amaya finally stepped forward to Sasuke.

"A-are you Uchiha Sasuke?" she timidly asked. He raised a brow.

"Hn." He nodded. Yoko then excitedly jumped up to Naruto.

"Then you must be Uzumaki Naruto!"

"Hehe, that's me!" the ninja replied as he scratched the back of his head.

"Then that means you're our-"

"Yoko!" snapped Utau as she covered her sister's mouth.

"No Utau, we should tell them." said Nadeshiko. Now the boys were really interested.

"Wait! We should have everybody for this. Let's make one more stop before we go to my family's temple." said Sakura.

They all went outside ready to go get Onyx, but when they looked down the road they saw men repaving it.

"Oh well, looks like we'll have to take the canals." said Ty-Lee.

"Damn that! I'm takin' the rooftops." said Sakura. She hopped up only to see the streets being paved on the other streets as well.

'You want me to say it?' said her inner.

'No, I got it. Life sucks!'

And so everyone was on a gondola, well their own gondolas. Naruto and Hinata were in one. Neji and Tenten were in another. Ino and Shikamaru. The Payne triplets, Yuri and Chouji, Yura and Kankuro. Temari and Renji, Kiba, Akamaru, Shino and Whinnie. Ty-Lee and Lee, Gaara and Lotus. Nadeshiko Utau, Yoko, Amaya, and Sayuri. Sai and Jade, and finally, Sakura and Sasuke.

"This sucks!" groaned out Sakura. Not only did Sasuke keep scooting closer to her, but their gondola had gotten stuck with an accordion player that wouldn't stop playing. He was irritating the hell out of both her and the man next to her.

"Hey man, you can get off here. I'll take over." She said to the man rowing the gondola. He got off on a nearby plateau giving her the rowing staff. She then asked Lotus if she could make the water currents pull the boats by themselves.

"Sure sis, but what about the staff?"

"I only need it for one thing."

Sakura twirled the staff a bit and knocked the accordion player into the canal. Everyone started laughing while Sasuke, Neji, Nadeshiko and Shino smirked. Sakura did a mock bow but the boat rocked a bit and she yelped, quickly sitting down.

"Wow Sakura-chan, I know cats don't like water but sheesh!" said Naruto.

"She can't help it. Onee-chan is afraid of water."

"Shut up, Lotus!"

"Afraid of water? Why?" said Tenten.

"She can't swim." said Nadeshiko.

"What are you talking about? We once went to the Land of Waves and Sakura-chan swam perfectly." said the knuckle-head ninja.

"That wasn't her, it was me." said Jordan. She then stood up and took a white triangle from Jazz. Her whole body glowed white and when the light died down she looked like Sakura's twelve year old self.

"It's another one of my inventions. I call it the disguise pyramid. You just think of who you wanna be and you're transformed into that image." she said as Jordan turned back to normal.

"But Sakura, shouldn't you have learned how to swim by now?" said Ino.

"We tried to teach her, but the girl sinks like a brick!" said Jordan. Sakura hissed at her.

"The thing is, when Angel was six she tried to learn by herself and almost drowned. She's been afraid of large bodies of water ever sin-AH!" yelped Jazz as she ducked from a fire ball.

"Alright that's enough of my life story." said Sakura juggling three other balls of fire in her hand. Lotus smirked and made a small wave rock her sister's gondola a bit. The elemental of fire yelped and glowed pink.

The Uchiha prodigy was very surprised to have a small pink glowing object jump into his arms. He looked down to see a small, white and very frightened kitten trembling in his chest.

"Oh dear, Lotus I think you over did It." said Jazz.

"What happened to her?" asked Temari.

"Every time an elemental gets terrified, we unwillingly turn into our animal spirit forms."

"Hey! We never did find out what your animal spirits were." said Naruto. The triplets looked at each other and then shrugged. They then each began to glow a different color. Jazz glowed teal, Jordan glowed silver and Jackie glowed yellow. When the lights stopped, three German shepherd puppies appeared on the gondola.

"Aww!" cooed Ino, Hinata, Tenten and Temari.

"Ain't we just the cutest little things?" said Jackie with a wide grin on her puppy dog face.

"Oh yeah, you guys are some regular Lassie look-a-likes." said Sakura sarcastically.

"Says the one who is snuggled up against the man she claims to hate." said Jordan with a smug look.

Everyone got a good laugh out of that and Sakura finally realized what she was doing. She looked up to see that Sasuke was smirking and currently enjoying keeping her in his arms.

"You really are adorable when you're like this, Kitten." He said stroking her back. She immediately jumped out of his arms and ran to the other side of the boat.

They soon met up with the Sensei along with Onyx and Toph. Dojo grew in size and everyone got on his back when…

"WAIT!! SASUKE-KUN, WAIT FOR ME!" shrieked Karin as she hurriedly got on Dojo's back and sat right behind Sasuke, much to his utter disgust. He had enough of her bull.

"Karin."

"Yes, Sasuke-kun?"

"What part of 'It's over' do you not understand?"

"W-what?"

"I thought you would get it by now, leave me the fuck alone."

"B-but Sasuke-k-" she stopped when she saw his sharingan glare at her. He turned back around to focus his attention on Sakura.

"Hey, aren't you guys getting on?" yelled Whinnie. Onyx and Toph were still on the ground.

"Toph doesn't like flying so much." said Onyx.

"It's the worst way to travel." grumbled Toph as she reluctantly climbed up to Dojo. The earth-bender felt around in front of her till she grabbed Shino's coat and pressed her ear against it. She raised her head and smiled.

"Well if it isn't bug-boy. I hope you like me cause I'm gonna be clinging on to ya through this whole rollercoaster." Shino merely looked at the girl still gripping on to his coat and held in his surprise as she clenched on to him for dear life as the giant green dragon flew into the sky.

Soon after about an hour of flying, the sky suddenly started to turn pitch black causing confusion in the Konoha residents. After all, it was only eleven in the morning, so why in the world was there a night sky out complete with a full moon?

Dojo landed in the middle of a forest and shrunk back in size to jump on Jackie's shoulders.

"Okay. Naruto, Sasuke you're coming with us. The rest of you stay here with the triplets, they'll explain everything." said Sakura as she was followed deeper into the forest with her team mates, Nadeshiko, Amaya, Onyx, Utau and Yoko. They had walked for about five minutes when Naruto couldn't handle the silence any longer.

"Sakura-chan, where are you taking us?"

"Just keep walking, Naruto. We're almost there."

"Hn, he's almost as impatient as you Utau." said Nadeshiko with a smirk.

"Yeah, you said it Desh-Hey!" said Utau. "Take that back, Nadeshiko-ama (bitch)!"

"Just try and make me, Utau-busu(extremely ugly girl)!"

"Both of you, quiet!" snapped Sakura. Both girls 'hmphed' and turned away from each other.

"By the way Sakura-chan, what's up with the sky around here? I mean, it's already dark and it's only noon!" exclaimed the male blond.

"Oh, didn't I tell you? We're in the Land of Darkness. It's a secret country located on the outskirts of the Land of Fire. Only a few thousand people live here."

"Then who heck could we be here to see?"

"Trust me Naruto, you want to meet these people." She said as they finally stopped in front of a rather large house in the middle of the dark forest. Sakura took a deep breath, hesitated and finally knocked on the door. She quickly turned to Sasuke.

"Okay Sasuke, before you start to freak out or anything, I want you not to jump to any conclusions until we all are done explaining." The pink-haired girl said with a serious expression on her face.

Now Sasuke was really interested since he noticed that the object of his affections didn't call him 'Chicken-ass', so what ever was about to happen had to be important. The door then started to open.

His breath was caught in his throat as his eyes widened greatly. The Uchiha felt his heart rate start to accelerate rapidly and he felt as if he might actually pass out. Why was Konoha's ice-block acting like this? It was because standing in front of the door way, with an equally shocked expression…

…

…was his mother, Uchiha Mikoto.

(A/N: Okay, most authors would be mean and leave you hangin' with this cliff-hanger, but I've been in your position before so I'll be nice and continue right here. You can thank me with some nice reviews!!)

"Oh…dear…Kami! Sasuke-kun!" she exclaimed and hugged her son tightly.

He finally snapped out of his shocked state and hugged her back only to realize that he couldn't fully wrap his arms around her because something was blocking his way. He looked down to see her stomach very large and concluded that she had to be pregnant.

That is when all types of thoughts ran into his mind. When did she get pregnant? How far along was she? Was she having twins, triplets? Who was the father?

Dear Kami, HIS FATHER!

How could he have forgotten about something so important? Was he alive? Is he alright? WHAT THE HELL WAS GOING ON HERE?!

"Mikoto, what are you doing out here? You should be inside, resting." came the deep male voice he thought he would never here again. His father, Uchiha Fugaku, came out to fetch his wife and stopped dead in his tracks when he saw who she was hugging.

"S-sasuke!" Said man saw something he never thought he would see. His father started to smile as he gazed at his son. After a while, he turned his attention back on his wife.

"Mikoto, please be careful of the baby." He said as he gently had her loosen her grip from the other male. He then turned to the others.

"So this day finally came. Come inside Sasuke, everything will soon be clear."

And so, the presumed dead Uchiha couple led everyone inside the house. Once inside the seemingly normal house hold, the Uchiha patriarch opened his mouth to speak, but was cut of by a voice that seemed to have come from the kitchen.

"Father, what is all the commotion out here?"

Just when Sasuke thought that he had finally calmed down, the one and only Uchiha Itachi walked in the living room from the kitchen. He immediately jumped up from the couch and lunged at the wide eyed man only to have Sakura and Onyx hold him back.

"DAMN IT SAKURA, LET ME GO!" he yelled with his Sharingan blazing.

"I CAN'T!"

"WHY!"

"BECAUSE ITACHI DIDN'T KILL YOUR CLAN!"

His struggles came to a complete stop at Sakura's outburst. He looked at her with disbelief in his eyes. She calmed her breathing a bit, and continued. "At least, the real one didn't anyway." She pushed Sasuke back down on the couch and sat down next to him.

"Why don't we start from the beginning Sasuke?" said Fugaku. "You see Sasuke, even before you were born; Mikoto and I have always been good friends with Sakura and her sisters' mother and father. Along with the Payne triplets parents as well, so we had known they were elementals. Because of that, when the temple was attacked 13 years ago, we would make sure that Sakura's her aunt and uncle could claim that Sakura was their child. I used my position at the police station to make the documents believable, while Mikoto made up a reasonable excuse as to why no one has ever seen Sakura before."

"Around that time, the council was telling me that the Uchiha clan needed to be executed." said Itachi. "Little did I know that I had four little spies listening in on our conversation." He looked over at Sakura while she laughed nervously.

"W-well it was Jordan's idea to test how well we can sneak around."

"Oh calm down dear, it was thanks to Sakura and the girls that we found out what was actually happening." said Mikoto, saving Sakura from the Uchiha glare.

"The truth was that I had no idea that the clan was planning on taking over Konoha. They had planned it entirely on there their own, so imagine my surprise when the girls rush into the house screaming at me with Izaioi right behind them." continued Fugaku.

"We had everything cleared up by the time Itachi had gotten home, but it didn't end there." said Mikoto. "Before Itachi-kun left the meeting, Danzo had managed to grab a stand of his hair. He used it to make a permanent clone of Itachi-kun with a forbidden jutsu. It was that clone that killed the clan, not him. Luckily for us, Izaioi was there to open a portal for us to escape. She also made some clones of Fugaku and I to take our places. It was then that we realized that you were still at school. By the time Fugaku-kun and Itachi went to go get you, the clone had already traumatized you. We were going to tell you when you turned 13, but by that time you decided to take matters into your own hands."

"It was a struggle for us to only be able to learn about you from Sakura, but we managed." said Itachi. "We convinced her and the Payne sisters to sniff after you after your retrieval squad came back without you. They found you and kept watch over you, and made sure that Orochimaru never did anything to seriously hurt you."

"Basically, I protected your anal virginity from Gay-Lord." said Sakura bluntly. "After you killed him, you were on your own."

"Which reminds me, Sasuke-kun you're not still with that…girl are you?" said Mikoto with disappointment clear in her voice. The man finally found his voice through the conversation.

"No mother, I'm not."

Mother. God, it felt good to be able to call someone that, and not just any someone, his mother. The Uchiha matriarch breathed a sigh of relief at his statement.

"Thank Kami-sama! I swear, I would have pulled my hair out if that whore had become the next matriarch." He smirked at his mother's words. He then turned his attention back to her swollen belly.

"Mother, how far along are you?"

"Oh my, I've forgotten completely about that! I'm seven and a half months dear; this will be my fourth and last child."

"Fourth?" The female Uchiha smiled.

"I found out I was pregnant just a few days after the masacare. Your brother Diasuke is in the forest right now training. I swear he looks just like you Sasuke-kun, right down to your adorable spikes."

"Adorable, abnormal, whatever you wanna call em'." said Sakura.

"Also Sasuke, I would like you to meet your cousins." said Fugaku. Nadeshiko and Amaya jumped onto the couch and landed on either side of Sasuke.

"What's up, cuz?" they both said smirking. He looked to see that both of them were looking at him with the sharingan, proving that they were of Uchiha blood.

"We were living in Brooklyn, New York for about 13 years so we had no idea about the massacre." clarified Nadeshiko.

"But it was fun hanging out there though." said Yoko.

"So, how were things here cuz?" said Utah to Naruto.

"C-cuz?"

"You didn't think that you were brought you here for nothing did you?" said a new voice. Everyone looked over to see a red-headed woman with two high pigtails and baby blue eyes perfectly matching Naruto's.

"Naruto, do you know who I am?"

"Uh…I don't think we've met, but I feel like I know you."

"That's because my name is Kushina, Naruto and I'm your mother."

"W-w-WHAT! If you're my mother, then where the hell were you?!" he yelled standing up. He seemed angry, but you could tell that he was excited also.

"Please Naruto-kun, let me explain." She took a seat next to the boy on the couch after she pulled him down.

"The night the Kyuubi was sealed inside you; I had gotten knocked on the head and lost all my memory. The only thing I did remember was my name. I wondered around until I was found by Iziaoi. She allowed me to live in the temple, and 5 years later I remembered your father, Minato, the 4th Hokage."

"The fourth was my father!" Naruto exclaimed, clearly thrilled.

"Yes Naruto-kun, and a damn good one. We had always wanted at least two children, and if anything were to happen to him before we did, he had a special reservation at a sperm bank. I immediately went down there and after that, I had your little brother Marucho (Ma-roo-cho)."

Naruto's eyes widening even more. He had a little brother. He grinned, with the practice he had from Konohamaru, he'd be fine.

"When I held Marucho in my arms, something clicked. I started to remember that I had another son, and that he was born the night the Kyuubi attacked. Sakura looked at some records at the hospital and brought copies back to me to help me find you, but they were no help. It was only until last month that I finally remembered your name. Sakura showed me a picture of you, and everything instantly came flooding back to me. I even remembered your cousins and contacted them, letting them know we were alright."

Kushina's expression started to look sad for a moment. It was as if she was guilty, or even mad at herself.

"The only thing I can't remember is where your father is. He told me the night he sealed the Kyuubi, that the justu he wouldn't let him die, and that he would watch over you."

Naruto just stood there, and seeped in the all the astonishing information, along with Sasuke. Suddenly, they both jumped up and hugged Sakura, both of them giving kisses to her cheeks.

"Hey, hey, HEY! Let go already, would ya! I swear, if you two don't stop right now! Ugh, Naruto your breath smells like ramen! Let Go!"

Neither of the boys paid the girl's protest any mind. They were too thankful that she brought them here, that she gave them back their families. Everyone smiled as Team 7 had their moment.