Thank you for all the comments, and thank you for telling me about the curse mark or else I would have not mentioned it at all. I hope this is good.

Disclaimer yeah that says it all not mine

This means inner voice

This means regular

Chapter 3

Sakura was lying in her bed where all the built up thoughts came into her like a crashing wave. Her mind was jumbled up and she was trying to sort them all out. One; she was worried about her former friends, two; she was wondering about Orochimaru's plan. She had heard him and Kabuto whispering behind closed doors, but when she knocked they started talking louder about something random and trivial.

Sakura flipped onto her stomach and groaned all this worrying was going to drive her insane! "Who says we're not already?" Inner asked laughing mischievously. " Oh shut up I'm going to sleep don't bug me till I wake up." Sakura replied curtly, ignoring inner as she gave her a rude gesture. Sakura closed her eyes and buried her face in her pillow. Before she knew it she was asleep.

Her dream was of the day she got her curse mark. It had been very painful. Orochimaru told her that she fared better than three/fourths of the others who had been tried with the curse mark, but that didn't make the pain any more bearable. She saw Orochimaru walk towards her and told her that it wouldn't hurt for long and it would all be over soon. He leaned over her and bit her neck. She inhaled sharply; his teeth were still lodged in her neck she could feel the venom coursing through her veins. He withdrew his fangs and stood up to his full height and looked down at her. She was feeling slightly disoriented Orochimaru was blurring from her vision she felt her legs go weak and that's when everything went black. She woke up on a test table with a paper like blanket draped over her, she sat up and looked at her surroundings; she was in Orochimaru's testing lab. She didn't know whether to be worried or grateful that he hadn't left her on the ground. She tried to get off the table but her legs failed her, just as she was about to hit the ground a hand snaked out and caught her, it was Kabuto. "I'm sorry, how long have I been unconscious?" She asked drowsily. "Only five hours. That is four hours shorter than usual. I think your body is taking handling the curse mark well." He said giving her an approving glance. "Let's go talk to Lord Orochimaru, and then you can go to the kitchen and get something to eat before you train." He said and turned to Orochimaru's room obviously expecting her to follow him.

She woke up with a start and absentmindedly touched the curse mark. She could feel the three indentions in her neck. Orochimaru had trained her with the curse mark. When she "transformed" the markings looked like falling cherry blossoms scattering across her body, but she didn't transform often. Even though the first stage is pretty when she transforms completely she looked like a winged, pink, bat-rat, slash bacon-hawk (1). As the previous sentence states it wasn't very pretty, but Orochimaru LOVED it which should tell you how bad it looked. Sakura got out of bed and dressed into loose black pants and a red shirt and jumped out of her window and into the training grounds.

Kabuto was throwing kunai at a tree; he hit the bulls-eye each time he threw. When he heard her land he threw a kunai in her direction Sakura caught the blade of the kunai an inch from her face. She didn't even realize she caught it. Inner was passed out; Sakura smirked inwardly, o yeah she had skills, outside though she didn't even blink. Kabuto looked at her approvingly; again. What is up with this boy and those looks? I have no idea and I don't want to change that anytime soon. "So Kabuto I was thinking about training a little bit." Sakura said trying to get him to take a hint and leave so she could train in peace. "Oh, I'll train with you then." He said not missing a beat. Training with Kabuto YAY! Let's go inside before we get killed. Shut up. "Sure." She said out loud getting in a fighting stance, Kabuto did the same.

Three hours later they both were on the ground of the field panting. No one won, it ended with, "Dude I need air!" on Sakura's part. "You have improved greatly." Kabuto said between pants. "You'll be ready to face your old team soon." At that Sakura's mood dropped, a lot. "Yeah." She said quietly. "Don't worry if you need help lord Orochimaru and I won't mind helping you dispose of them." He said as if he was talking about taking out the trash and not killing her teammates- former teammates she corrected herself. She sat up. "Kabuto thank you for this spar it was useful I'll see you for my medical lessons." With that she jumped to her window and slipped inside her room in one graceful motion. She lay down on her bed and closed her eyes and let the exhaustion of the train pull her under.

She was woken by a knock on her door. "Sssakura? It's time for your testing." Orochimaru said with a hint of impatience. She sat up immediately, "I'm sorry Orochimaru." She got out of bed and followed him to his lab. He softly closed the door behind him.

Sakura's "testing" was being injected by multiple needles filled with goo that she didn't want to know what it was. Most of it made her feel sick and weak, but others made her feel stronger and more energetic; but those were rare. Today was like any other day she sat down on a reclining chair and relaxed. The first couple of times she didn't know what to do, but soon she learned that if she didn't relax that it hurt a lot more later on. Orochimaru was sticking a needle filled with green goo that was dripping through the needle tip and onto the concrete floor. She sucked in a relaxing breath and closed her eyes. This goo was worse than the others. She could fell in being injected into her veins, and felt it travel to her heart where she felt her heart beat faster to keep the goo in her system. She arched her back in pain, Kabuto quickly grabbed hold of her arms and Orochimaru grabbed a hold of her legs. Her breathing was in fast rapid breaths and the more she tried to calm it down the more unstable it became. Orochimaru got a scared look on his face which was very rare. He cared for this girl, well as much as he could, even though he would never let her know. Just as he was about to inject her with an antidote and a saline, she stopped squirming and her breathing and heartbeat slowed. She opened her eyes and looked around in awe. "Sakura, are you alright?" Kabuto asked worriedly. She looked around at her surroundings and then said, "I feel…different; more powerful, and everything is clear. I can see all the chakra threads and how much it has, it feels…..wonderful." she finished still looking around. Kabuto and Orochimaru exchanged looks, they knew this was the most powerful yet. They had tried this same injection on some of the prisoners and they all died within five minutes, then they tried it on some of their sound nin; they died an hour later after being in pain, lastly they tried it on Sakura hoping she could withstand this injection. Luckily she did, and her body accepted it with good side-effects. This meant that Sakura had far more potential than the other Nins and that was saying something.

They let Sakura go to her room while the conversed. After they knew she was gone they started their conversation. "She has much potential." Orochimaru said first. Kabuto nodded his head in agreement. "I think she is almost ready to face Sasuke, Naruto, and Kakashi. Don't you?" he finished looked at Kabuto. "I think that she needs to learn that jutsu then she will be unstoppable." Kabuto replied with a smirk forming.

Yeah sorry this was really late, and it was still short. School has been hectic and very stupid. So comment and tell me what you thought.

On and when I said bacon hawk, I heard it from these hilarious guys on YouTube, DesandNate. If you don't know them you are missing out!

`Barbie