I'm SOOOOOO sorry! I didnt have mood these past few weeks, nothing came! Hope you didnt stop believing in me... But I've been pretty busy with school and all, not much time now so I'll update as soon as I can. and Yes, I've been gettting reviews saying 'Mary Sue' yeah... you're probably right, I AM probably focusing too much on Sakura. what do you guys think...? but please, enjoy for now.

Disclamer: It's not mine!

Previously…..

"Suirou no Jutsu" panted Sakura with the blades trapped in a water sphere.

Sasori rolled back his blade-less metal hose and smirked "Interesting…."

Sakura's jutsu broke and the blades clanged onto the floor. Her eyes were still bright green with chakra dancing in them, She winced an eye.

"There's no time for you to rest, child" said Sasori, he pointed two gun barrels that were sticking out of his hand at her.

Suddenly water shot out of the barrels, Sakura dodged it by flipping back and landing on a big rock.

To her surprise, the water cut through the earth like a laser, Sasori moved it up and it sliced through the walls and some of the leftover ceiling too.

"Highly pressurized water" gasped Sakura, then the water swung at her like a sword, she quickly flipped over it as it passed under her, she pushed her hands against the ground and flipped back to her legs.

"That's right, if you pressurize the water to a certain extent, it makes the ultimate slicing weapon." Said Sasori, he aimed his hands at her.

Sakura's pupils shrunk, the water shot right at her, she flew back and rammed against the cave wall and made a huge crater, her body was pushed back against the wall by the water, she wasn't moving. A scowled appeared on Sasori's face.

Sakura looked up, she winced an eye, she was still holding on to her kaiho. Her limit is just about up, Sasori knew that, but her stubbornness was getting on his nerves.

Sakura was holding a wind element chakra coated kunai against the water, so it looked like she was being sliced through, but in reality she was blocking off the water, but to be able to hold herself together as the pressure hits her requires great strength.

Her hands trembled as she pushed against the water.

"Ngoh…. she should've been crushed by the pressure" Sasori muttered.

Sakura let out a breath and close her eyes, she cleared a breathing then her eyes shot open, a spark of electricity ran through her kunai, then it exploded, sparks flying everywhere, then they traveled up the water that was connected to Sasori.

He quickly ceased his connectivity, thus freeing Sakura, she slipped off the wall and landed softly on the ground, she refused to go down and attacked immediately. She charged at Sasori with her kunai, heading straight for him.

Sasori's water supply seemed to have ran out, he switched his weapon to a different element, the two barrels in his hand still pointing at Sakura, but this time instead of water, concentrated flames shot from his hands and engulfed Sakura.

Meanwhile….

Sasuke panted heavily, his cursed mark and sharingan activated, his Kusanagi no Tsurugi stabbed into the floor, several detonated cut up clay creatures laying around him.

"Oi, Naruto. You still alive" he panted.

Naruto's body twitched then he chuckled.

"Heh….. an attack like that…. Won't be enough….. to kill me" he said while getting up.

Deidara scowled "Stubborn, aren't you.

"Kakashi-sensei's not coming, is he" said Naruto.

"Why do I get the feeling that he's not late on purpose this time" said Sasuke, pulling out his sword and straightening up.

"Oi! robo-eye guy, what have you done with Kakashi-sensei!" demanded Naruto.

"Heh, why should I tell you" said Deidara. 'Tobi that bastard, what's he up to'

Sasuke dragged his sword on the ground as he ran, Deidara quickly stuffed his remaining hand into his bag of explosive clay.

Just when Sasuke was under the flying creature that was carrying Gaara and Deidara, he swung his Chidorigatana upward, it sent a spark shooting up at the creature, Deidara avoided it and raid Sasuke with a shower of explosive spiders.

It came down as spiders and it landed as sliced up pieces of clay, a spark ran through Sasuke's sword, it was so fast, it didn't look like he did anything at all.

An army of Naruto jumped Deidara, some of them managed to grab hold of the flying creature, but Deidara dropped bombs on them and they exploded into smoke.

In the end, they all ended back on the ground, and Naruto was getting frustrated.

"Let go of Gaara, you bastard!" he shouted.

"I'm not going to make it so easy for you" said Deidara, he formed a seal and the ground beneath all the Naruto exploded, thus destroying his clones.

Naruto fell on his knees, all his clone's fatigue returned to him.

Sasuke clenched his hands then ripped them apart, a chidori sparking in his hand, then he held his chidorigatana, fueling it with electricity.

"Let's go, Naruto" he said.

Naruto got up and made more clones.

They all jumped after Deidara, stepping on one another to get more air, but Deidara was too fast. None of them could get a hold of him or even the creature.

Naruto rubbed the sweat off his cheek with the back of his hand as he panted "He's too fast…" just when he was about to move again, a voice came from behind him.

"I'm lending your head, Naruto"

"Okay" Naruto paused "Wait what?" before he managed to turn around, he felt something knock on his head then pressing it down, then his head became light again.

Sasuke shot up into the air, with so much speed that Deidara's pulse to react hasn't reach his brain. With one slash of his lightning coated katana, the flying creature's wing was taken, along with Deidara's remaining arm.

Deidara's eyes widened as his pupils shrunk. Blood sprayed everywhere, the creature was detached from his legs, he floated off as Sasuke held on to the clay creature and fell with Gaara.

"Move it Sasuke!" yelled a voice from below.

Sasuke turned and looked down as Naruto ran with his rasengan, he was charging straight at two of his clones, once he reached them, they gave him a boost up and he shot into the sky.

"Rasengan!" he jabbed his attack into Deidara's gut, he shot diagonally downwards, crashing into the trees, but he wasn't dead, he was still moving as they were falling.

"Don't underestimate me, you freaking brats!" his eyes filled with rage "Katsu!"

Naruto immediately turned to Sasuke, thinking that the creature was going to explode. Sasuke had stabbed his chidorigatana into the falling white creature. "Sorry, but you lose" said Sasuke, pulling his sword out of the creature, he sheathed it and went over to it's mouth and freed Gaara, he paused for a moment when he touched Gaara's body, but he quickly got him out and jumped away from the creature before it landed.

Sasuke laid him down on the ground, Naruto ran over to him and knelt down next to Gaara.

"Oi, wake up! Open your eyes, Gaara!" shouted Naruto.

Sasuke stood next to him with his head hung low.

Sakura stood amidst the flames, her body showed no sign of affect to the flames, her eyes closed, a bead of sweat rolled down her face.

Flashback

"Don't fight the fire, accept it. Then bend it at your will" Sasuke told her, as he stood on the wooden walkway in the lake, his hand held a seal as flames started to rise around Sakura, she stood on the silent water, taking deep breath.

The flames circled around her, they started to close, with Sakura in it, they shot up, burning ferociously. Sasuke narrowed his eyes, his own flames were too big for him to see through, he had to activate his sharingan, Sakura was fine, but her chakra was dying down, he waited.

And soon his flames became uncontrollably huge, then a stream of fire shot at him, it was so unexpectedly huge he had to jump into the water to dodge it.

Sakura stood on the water laughing at Sasuke's reaction.

"Are you ok? Sasuke" she said between giggles.

Sasuke was mad at her, for a few seconds before he notices her adorable she looks when she laughs. Sakura offered him a hand which he took hesitantly. He stood on the water, now covered in water, he shook his head a little of the water off his hair, then something soft was pressed against his cheek, he paused for a moment and turned to Sakura, who was tapping her handkerchief gently on his face. He stared deeply at her beautiful face.

The silence was broken by Sakura "So, How was I? Sasuke" said Sakura, with smile.

A light tint of red showed up on Sasuke's face "Impressive, you could catch the technique immediately. Nothing less from Sakura" said Sasuke.

"I was worried for a moment when the flames closed in" said Sakura, she rubbed her arm that had a burn on it.

Sasuke touched her arm softly "You ok?" he asked worriedly.

Sakura jumped from his contact, but she eventually nodded and smiled at him. "B-Baka, go get that treated…" he said quickly.

End of Flashback.

'These flames are soulless, there isn't any emotion, yet they burn so furiously without a reason…' thought Sakura.

Sasori's eyes widened as his own flames were shot against him, he jumped out of the way and the flames burned into the wall behind him.

Sasori was speechless "A…a…a" was all that escaped his mouth, he turned to Sakura, she collapsed on her knees, panting. There were a few burns on her body.

As she panted her eyes slowly dimmed back down to her normal jade eyes. Sasori clenched his fists "Persistent brat….." he pushed himself back up and aimed his flamethrowers at her "Take this!"

The flames shot at her, she tried to stand but fell back down in exhaustion, she squeezed her eyes closed. But just before the flames reached her, they changed course and headed the other direction.

"Sanbo Kyukai (Three Buddhist Treasure Inhaling Defeat)" said Chiyo.

Sasori's attention was directed to the three puppets standing in a pyramid as they absorbed his flames. "Kh…. Damn hag" he cursed.

Chiyo stood with a seal on her hand and seven other puppets surrounding her.

"I promised myself I wouldn't use this technique again, but I'll have to use it one more time" said Chiyo.

"Shirohigi, Jukki Chikamatsu no Shu (White Secret Technique: Ten Puppet Collection of Chikamatsu) used during the shinobi wars to conquer a castle. Impressive….. but I used these…." Sasori trailed off as he pulled out a scroll from his scroll holder, then opened a small door in his right chest. he threw the scroll aside as it unraveled, he formed a seal and hundreds of explosion occurred and smoked the field, chakra strings came out of his right chest and connected to his puppets.

"To conquer a whole country" said Sasori.

Sakura felt her body go numb as the number of puppets grew to an unexpectable number, a scowl remained on Chiyo's face. Sakura took a step back and clenched her teeth.

"Don't be frightened, Sakura. I'll back you up" said Chiyo.

Sakura shook her head and started chuckling "This is getting exciting…" she muttered loud enough for Chiyo to hear.

Chiyo smiled a little "Let's go!"

Sakura shot off, straight into the army of puppets, both sides clashed and Sasori has already began losing puppets. Sakura was aiming at Sasori, but she was completely surrounded by puppet, she stopped and looked around, they had their hands pointing at her, about to shoot sharp projectiles at her, they fired altogether, they didn't make it through her chakra barrier, she jumped up and stepped on the puppets to get out of the army, once she was out she formed a set of healseals " Raiton, Rairyuu no Tatsumaki! (Lightning Style, Lighting Dragon Tornado)"

Electric started building up around and soon it became a huge lightning tornado with a dragon head on top, engulfing the puppets that were it's way, it disappeared after Sakura landed on to the ground. Then she heard someone call out to her.

"Sakura! Take out Sasori, I'll cover you!" shouted Chiyo.

Sakura nodded and ran at her target with two of Chiyo's puppets protecting her and taking out the puppets that were trying to attack her, but suddenly a huge wave headed for them.

'Too many…!' thought Sakura, then she leaped to the side and rolled over then back to her feet, she watched as Chiyo's puppets tried to hold them off.

In front of Sakura was another raid of puppets, she decided to fall back and take the longer way the puppets followed her through a little gap in the wall and ended up getting stuck, she took that chance to destroy them.

After that, she jumped up and being impaled by a huge spear, she threw multiple kunais at that puppet and destroyed it.

Sasori's puppets were decreasing, making the remaining ones more deadly.

'Sasori's army is decreasing…. But now he's starting to focus more on the remaining ones, I'd better be on my guard, if one of us gets grazed by his weapons, he'll gain the immediate advantage' just when Chiyo stopped thinking, a puppet came from behind her and grazed her arm, she panicked a little and quickly destroyed it with her protector puppet.

Sakura paused and turned to look at Chiyo "Chiyo baa-sama!"

"I'm alright! You just worry about yourself!" shouted Chiyo as another puppet was destroyed beside her.

Sakura nodded and turned before one was heading straight at her with a huge blade, she took out her kunai and countered it, the sounds of metal clashing filled the ceiling-ness cave.

After Sasori's puppets were reduced to a mere 10, Sakura finally got face to face with Sasori, she aimed a punch at him, but his puppets protected him and surrounded Sakura, she formed some handseal "I won't let you!"

"Katon, Kanryuu Endan!"

The puppets totally engulfed her, Chiyo was panting with fatigue as she waited for something to happen.

A fire dragon shot up from the puppets, scorching them till there was nothing left, it looked down at Sasori, who took a step back before the dragon stream down on him, his puppet body was reduced to ash, Sakura panted as the flames disappeared.

She panted for awhile before collapsing to her knees.

"It's…. over?" she said.

Chiyo's breathing became abnormal, just when she was about to say something, she felt something rise behind her, she gasped as she turned around.

Sakura perked up and turned to the direction of the elder.

A puppet was rising all by itself, he glared at Chiyo then shot straight at her, it's bladed hand pointing at her.

Blood sprayed everywhere.

"S-Sakura…." Said Chiyo.

"Brat"

Sakura was coughing blood as Sasori's blade stabbed through her side, hitting a fatal spot of her body, her gloved hands was holding the blade, she had begun healing her wound as the blade was still stuck into her.

'She's already begun healing the wound? She's…. skilled' thought Sasori.

"Sasori… but how…." Said Chiyo, then she noticed the cylindrical thing stucked into the puppet's chest.

"His heart…. He must've switched body right before my attack collided" said Sakura.

Sasori tried to pull out the blade, but Sakura just wouldn't get go.

'She's strong….'

"I'm –cough- not letting go…" said Sakura.

"tch" exclaimed Sasori before he pulled his whole arm came off and revealed another blade arm inside.

"Then die!" he shouted at Sakura.

Something was stabbed, but it wasn't Sakura, Sasori stood motionless as he looked down at his chest, two blades was stabbed through is heart, then he looked at the two puppets who killed him. It was his own parent puppets.

"Hag…." His voice trailed off and he fell to his knees, right in front of Sakura.

"Kid…" he muttered, Sakura looked down at him.

"I'll commend you for being able to make an antidote for my poison, I'll tell you a little something for beating me... Orochimaru….. he's planning to resurrect the dead legends and create…. The ultimate army. And the akatsuki….. they're going to start the third shinobi war….." Sasori's voice faded and the light in his eyes disappeared.

Sakura herself collapsed, panting and pulling out the blade, she clenched in the pain, when it was finally out, she began coughing blood again.

Chiyo looked at her hand that was holding the antidote.

"Hurry, take it, I won't die that soon, I'll just get back to the village and make another antidote" said Sakura.

Chiyo stabbed it into her arm.

Sakura was healing herself 'I won't be able to completely patch up the wound, my inside organs are damaged, I won't be able to heal those in time, I still need to catch up with Sensei and the guys…' thought Sakura, frustratingly. Chiyo placed her hand on Sakura's wound "Kisho… Tensei (Reincarnation Technique)"

Sakura felt her wound close up at incredible rate, Chiyo's hands glowed bright blue.

After a few minutes, Sakura could move around again, but something about that technique was wrong. Sakura didn't like the feeling.

"A-Amazing….what incredible healing rate" said Sakura, inspecting her wound. Chiyo started coughing uncontrollably. "Chiyo baa-sama..!"

"Sakura…. Bring me to your teammates….. there's something important I must do" she said.

Sakura nodded and help her up, she helped her stabilize herself before jumping off, Sakura shut her eyes as she scanned the forest for her teammate's chakra.

Kakashi landed down and met up with his two students, "I'm sorry I'm late. Something had caught me in a genjutsu, it took awhile for me to get out" he said, then Sasuke gave him a look, full of sympathy and frustration. Kakashi looked down at the yelling Naruto. "Gaara! Gaara, wake up! You can't do this! You can't be gone….!" Naruto's voice trailed off.

"I'm sorry…." Kakashi apologized, then he sensed something "Where's the Akatsuki…" he said in an almost alarmed voice. Sasuke perked up, he turned behind and looked, they scanned the area and finally their eyes fell on Deidara's figure… walking to them, armless and a desperate-angry look in his eyes "I've already told you right….." he took a step closer to them, Sasuke and Kakashi got ready for battle, Deidara's eyes were wild now "Don't underestimate me…!" Sasuke's sharingan noticed something, chakra was building up in his build, he looked over at the falling white creature, it had bite marks on it, that means…. Sasuke panicked. Kakashi understood.

"Get down!" Kakashi shouted.

"Katsu!" Deidara's body went up in explosion, blowing away most of the trees in the area, Sasuke and Naruto remained unharmed along with Gaara's body, they looked up at Kakashi, his forehead protector was lifted, revealing his sharingan, but it wasn't a normal sharingan. His tomoe pattern was different, more complex.

"Mangekyou Sharingan…" Sasuke muttered.

Kakashi had directed the blast into another dimension, but it was an extremely powerful blast, even he was tired, he looked down at his students "I've told you right…. I've learned a few new tricks too" he said breathlessly.

Sasuke smirked a little, but then their attention was directed back to Gaara, what were they gonna do, he was the Kazekage of the sand, what's gonna happen to the village and more importantly, how were they gonna break it to Sakura…..

As if on cue, Sakura and Chiyo landed in, at first Sakura noticed the huge crater in the middle of the trees, then she noticed Gaara's body on the floor with Naruto kneeling beside him. Sakura slowly let go of Chiyo and made her way to Gaara, tears were stinging at her eyes, she'd already known…. Ever since they entered the cave, she'd known. Gaara's chakra was gone, but she'd still refused to believe it, she refused to cry. But now, she was at her limit, she broke down. Her soft sobbing sound would break any man's heart, this was what they were so afraid of. No one wanted Sakura to cry.

"Gaara….." she sobbed as she knelt down at the same place Naruto had been kneeling at, she clenched her fists as they were on the floor, grabbing a handful of grass and dirt, her hair falling around her face on both directions, blocking their view of her face as she had her head down.

"Sakura-chan…." Said Naruto, Sasuke raised a hand, stopping him from saying anything to Sakura, nothing they said would help her now, they just have to wait till she stops crying.

Sakura's shoulders trembled as more tears rained on the ground next to Gaara, then a gentle hand was placed on her shoulder, She looked up and looked at the hand on her shoulder and tracing it back to Chiyo, she was a wise look on her face. Sakura moved aside and let Chiyo kneel next to Gaara's body.

Her jade eyes watched as Chiyo placed her hand on Gaara's limp body. Her hand glowed light blue like the time where she healed Sakura. Sakura knew what was coming, she looked down at her hand and shut her eyes for a moment. Gaara's chakra was slowly reviving, but Chiyo's was fading, she opened her eyes and saw the fatigue on Chiyo's face, Sakura put her hand on top of Chiyo's "Please….. Use my chakra" said Sakura, Chiyo looked at her with her wise look and nodded. "Are you sure you want to do this…. Chiyo baa-sama?" said Sakura.

Chiyo nodded "I've lived long enough…. I am of no use to the sand, but he is" Chiyo finished softly. Sakura held in her tears "Alright" she squeaked.

Sakura's green chakra broke out, lashing in all directions. Chiyo could feel it giving her a push and supporting her firmly.

Her three teammates watched closely as the Gaara's chakra was restored. Sasuke had activated his sharingan, his red and black eyes were narrowed, he could see Chiyo's chakra wanning as Gaara's grew. Finally the chakra dimmed down and Chiyo's body fell backwards only to get themselves held up by Sakura's arms, Sakura's tears rolled down her cheeks. "Thank you….. Chiyo baa-sama…." She sobbed bitterly.

Gaara groaned a little and sat up, then rubbed the back of his head then turned his head and saw Sakura, crying with Chiyo in her arms "Sakura? What happened" said Gaara.

"Gaara! You're alive!" shouted Naruto.

"Uzumaki Naruto. What's going on here" said Gaara.

"That baa-chan did something with her medical ninjutsu and brought you back, she just passed out, but she should be coming round soon" said Naruto.

"Naruto" Kakashi began.

"She's not coming back" said Sasuke.

Naruto froze then decided to laugh it off "What do you mean, she's not coming back. She's fine, right Sakura-chan" he said, he said nervously. Then his eyes fell on the sobbing Sakura and his confidence fell "Sakura-chan….?"

Sakura shook her head and looked at him with her wet eyes.

"That's…. i-impossible" he said and fell to his knees next to Chiyo "Oi…. B-baa-chan. Wake up….." said Naruto.

"She's not coming back…. Naruto" Sakura said breathlessly.

Naruto punched the ground "Dammit…." He cursed.

Gaara took a step towards them, then noticed the people surround the clearing. It was the people from the sand.

"Look! Gaara-sama's alive!" one of them shouted.

They all cheered, Team Guy was there too. They had just arrived from their battle with clones of themselves. "That's a relieve, Naruto-kun and the others made it on time, Gaara-kun seems to be fine" said Lee.

"I'm so proud of you, Kakashi!" shouted Guy, giving him a thumbs up. But Kakashi didn't even look up from the ground.

Neji narrowed his eyes "Somethings wrong…. I dun sense any chakra from Chiyo baa-sama" he said.

"What do you think happened" said Tenten.

The cheers faded and everyone crowded around Team Kakashi and Gaara. "Everyone" Gaara finally spoke "Let us pay our respects to Chiyo baa-sama. Who gave me a new life….. in exchange for hers"

The crowd fell silent and everyone was praying in their heads as they looked down. Sakura laid Chiyo's body down softly and stood up, wiping the tears away from her eyes. Sasuke approached her "Sakura….. I" before he could finish his sentence, Sakura turned and cried into his shoulders. "I couldn't do anything….." she muttered into his white jacket.

Sasuke wrapped her arms around Sakura "You did well…. Sakura" he said, stroking her back.

They all brought her body back to the village, where they have to confront her brother about what happened to his sister. Neither did he cry, nor did he faze from the sight of his sister's unmoving body, "This isn't one of her jokes…. Is it…. she's not going to wake up and say 'Gotcha' like she always does…. Is she…." There was a light quiver in his voice. Everyone stayed quiet.

"Nee-chan….." his trembling hands reached out and brushed a strand of stray hair from her face then moved down to hold her hand.

They gave her an honorable memorial, and buried her next to her son and daughter-in-law's grave.

But after that, Kakashi collapsed, looks like that mangekyou took a little more out of him than expected. His team were a surprised but his sudden flop onto the floor. The next day when he woke up in the hospital, Naruto was first to greet him "You're getting old, Kakashi-sensei" said Naruto. Sasuke and Sakura snickered.

"Being old doesn't mean I can't beat you anytime, Naruto" said Kakashi.

"Oh yeah? Let's see you try" challenged Naruto.

"Naruto, Kakashi-sensei's a patient" Sakura said, firmly.

Naruto flashed a cheeky grin. Kakashi threw the covers off and got on his feet "I'm fine, we'd better get back to the village and report to the Hokage" he said.

"Bushy-brow sensei's team already left, we should be going too" said Naruto.

"Alright then" said Kakashi.

They were seen off by the Kazekage himself along with the rest of the village, they lost count on how many thank you's they had gotten along the way to the gate.

"See ya, Gaara" Naruto shouted from a distance, Sakura smiled at him and waved. Sasuke just gave him a stoic look, in his language it should mean 'Good luck with the village' Gaara should understands that language perfectly.

Kakashi waited for his student to finish waving then they set out back to the village…..

Next Chapter

"Hiroyama Takuya, and you bastards must be the two boys Sakura-chan has told me so much about"

"Don't touch her"

"Why can't they get along…."

"Fighting isn't going to help save Sakura"

"I still don't like you"

Soo~ What'd ya think, was it as horrible as i thought it'd be? Review and let me see. OMG I MADE A FREAKING RHYME!