A/N: I wasn't sure about this chapter ... I'm a little on edge about it because well ... you will see when you read.

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Naruto sat in the room that Yamato, their new leader, had bought for them to stay in. He should have been in the hot springs with Yamato and Sai, a new member he instantly disliked. But he had a lot of things to think about. Well only one thing in particular but it was a big thing, something his actions had changed completely. Two days ago Ana had used her magic against Sakura and had been in the psych ward of the hospital ever since. Two days ago was the last time he saw her. Two days, yet it felt like such a long time to the blonde haired boy.

Guilt ate at him afterwards but, honestly, he didn't want to feel guilty. He was protecting Sakura, the girl he had known since the academy. The girl he was in love with. Ana could understand that, she could understand that he was worried for Sakura's health. What was he supposed to do? All he saw was his friend torturing his crush. But Ana didn't understand, she didn't even acknowledge him when he went to visit.

He left Sakura in the hospital room, making his way slowly towards Ward 18, and the room Tsunade told him Ana was in. ANBU were posted at the doors, they didn't look at him as he entered the room and he didn't look at them. He didn't want to think about why they were there. Ana was sat by the window, gazing vacantly down at the garden below. She didn't acknowledge him as he entered, he didn't expect her to.

"Hey Ana," he spoke, hesitant to disrupt the silence of the room, "I-I'm sorry about earlier. I didn't mean to disregard you like that or hurt you. I was just worried about Sakura."

Silence met him and still Ana's gaze remained outside.

"Please Ana, I didn't know what to do. All I saw was you hurting Sakura. I mean I love her, what am I supposed to do when I see the girl I love being hurt like that?"

No response again. Naruto remained in the room until Tsunade peeked her head round the door and told him Sakura was awake. In a flash he was gone, eager to check on Sakura's condition, leaving the hokage with Ana alone.

He returned to Ana the following morning, but still he couldn't get a response from her. Though he told her that he understood she wasn't herself. That she was possessed. But still he didn't get a response, it was only as he left that her gaze left the window. Her hauntingly broken gaze followed him into his dreams. His thoughts centred on one thing; what have I done?

oOo

For three days now Ana had been left in the room, the garden below her the only thing to capture her gaze. People had come and gone, trying to get her to speak, to no avail. Naruto's visit had left her utterly heart broken, it felt shattered as if it were a million tiny pieces floating around. The blonde haired boy loved Sakura, he chose her over Ana. He made that doubly clear when he ran out the room to see her. She had never felt so hurt before in her life, not under the power of Voldemort's cruciatus, not even when Sirius had died. She had poured her hope and her faith in the blonde and he betrayed her.

Compared to Sakura, the girl who bullied him and treated him worse than Malfoy treated Ana, she would always come second best. It seemed no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't escape who she was. Ana Potter, that name and the memories associated with it will haunt her forever. She hated Sakura with a fiery passion now, the pinkette had succeeded in taking Naruto away from her. For that, there was no forgiveness. The girl was useless, why couldn't Naruto see that? All she did was mope around, perking up like a puppy whenever Sasuke was mentioned.

Uchiha Sasuke.

It all boiled down to him. A guy she had never even met and yet he was the cause to all her problems. Slowly she smiled, it wasn't a nice smile filled with warmth, it was cold and calculated. Her eyes were mostly green, except for a small ring of red around the pupil and they were lacking in any emotion but determination. She stood from her perch on the windowsill and, with the smallest of cracks, she apparated out of the room. She appeared in a forest, her eyes glancing around. According to what intel she knew, Orochimaru was fond of snakes, though initially this amused her. Bad guys seemed to have a thing for using snakes. The poor creatures. But now she could use it to her advantage.

Finally she spotted a snake, slithering along the ground and after speaking to it in parseltongue, she found the location of a snake who would be able to tell her Orochimaru's location. It took her half a day to find the second snake, but Ana was determined and her infamous luck finally paid off. It was easy work finding out Orochimaru's hideout. All it took was a little respect towards the huge snake and no snake could deny a speaker.

"Go find Orochimaru," it had told her happily after revealing his location, "you would do us all a favour if you get rid of him. The way he disrespects us is degrading, but not you little speaker. You are polite and have to tongue of a serpent. Yes I am sure our leader would be very interested in meeting you Great Speaker."

Ana left the snake to his musings and moved on, heading towards Orochimaru's latest hideout, though she thought hard about what the snake had said. If she got rid of Orochimaru then Sasuke might go back to Konoha, then everything would be fine again with Naruto. She shook her head, as if trying to shake the blonde from her mind. She couldn't think of Naruto right now, it hurt too much. Her fists clenched tightly as her resolve grew. Sasuke didn't deserve redemption.

She found the hideout a day later, a nondescript rock but Ana could feel the illusion around the place. But what she hadn't expected to find was Naruto and his team. She had made one miscalculation in her plan, she forgot the mission Naruto had to meet with the supposed spy. Cursing silently she ducked behind a rock, hoping to keep out of sight. Her luck was running short as she saw Yamato with them, the man who had been training her. Though she was thankful when they disappeared into the hideout, now she only hoped she could find Sasuke first.

Entering the hideout was hard, but with a little magical help she managed to enter unnoticed. Distantly she heard Naruto and Sakura calling out for Sasuke and she tsked under her breath. They were supposed to be ninja, silent and deadly. But at least it would keep attention from her. Slowly she began the meticulous search of each room.

She paused outside another door wondering if he would be inside this one. Praying to whoever was listening that she had enough time before Yamato and the others found her. She contemplated leaving, apparating back to her hospital room. She had expected to go in, kill the Uchiha and leave. Simple and clean. But Naruto being here made it harder. Ana realised there was no turning back, not now that she made it this far. Slowly, concealing her aura she pushed the door open with a small amount of trepidation filling her.

The room was dark, with just enough light that you would be able to make out where things were, it took a second sweep of the room for her to notice the figure lying on the bed. She approached carefully, her wand gripped tight in her hand as it rose pointing directly at him ready to release a spell should he so much as twitch. Two words and it will be over, I can end Naruto's suffering at the hands of this man forever but he would hate me she couldn't bare the pain of Naruto hating her, even though she was hurting right now over the blonde and so she couldn't kill him.

The figure on the bed disappeared and Ana felt a sword press against her neck, a shocked gasp escaped her as she realised just how fast he was. "Uchiha Sasuke I presume," she whispered, trying hard not to let her nerves show through in her voice.

"It's rude to enter a room without permission, I must commend you though because I didn't notice you until you approached the bed," Sasuke said smoothly, whispering into her ear making the girl flinch. He didn't lie, he was impressed that the girl managed to get that far without him detecting her, "even now I can't detect any chakra from you. Though I shouldn't have been surprised, Orochimaru told me there was a girl with no chakra walking about…though I confess I'm at a disadvantage, you know my name but I don't know yours."

"If you've heard of me, then you know who I travel with," Ana said, though she didn't understand why they were whispering, but with the sword pressing against her neck she wasn't prepared to make any sudden movement or sound. She hoped reminding him of Naruto would get him to ease up on her.

"Oh yes, Naruto… does this mean they've replaced me with you?" He seemed amused as if she could never hope to replace him, as if he was better than her. "Do you really think you can replace me? An Uchiha? Heh they haven't even given you a hitai-ate. You aren't one of them."

Ana frowned, his words meaning little to her as she tried to figure out a way to escape from the sword pressing against her. She had a plan but she wasn't sure it would work. Her mind flickered to a conversation she had with Ginny once.

"You're arguing with Dean again?" Ana asked the red head who nodded.

"Yeah he is pretty angry at me, but don't worry he won't be for long."

"Why?" Ana asked genuinely confused about her friend's sudden sly grin.

"You're so innocent, I'm going to seduce him silly and make him forget he was ever angry in the first place." Ginny laughed at the embarrassed blush that appeared on Ana's face. "Men are easy to distract Ana, just rub up against them a little and their lower brain kicks in." She quickly disappeared upstairs to Dean's room, leaving Ana to contemplate what was said.

So with no other foreseeable option to her, not wanting to risk disarming him with magic as it might slice her neck to ribbons. With a sword at her neck and a very skilled shinobi at her back she conjured up every memory she had of Lavender, Parvati and Ginny discussing their boyfriends and slowly released a breath.

Mentally cringing at what she was going to do she turned her head slightly, ignoring the pain of the sword cutting her shallowly and gave him a shy smile. "I know that," She feigned sadness, "Naruto… he was so kind to me at the beginning when I first came here but then we arrived at the village, Sakura said I was a freak for not having chakra and Naruto stopped talking to me as much, it was so lonely. He even slapped me."

She hated herself right now, but a girls got to do what she has to in order to survive, "you know don't you, what it's like," she continued turning her gaze back round to face the bed, her head tilted slightly as she recollected her true pain and loss. Lie with the truth Ana a thought that sounded a lot like Tom Riddle's voice floated through her mind. She wanted to get angry at the thought of him accessing her mind again, but this time he was doing it to help her. "My parents they were killed by a very bad man when I was a child and I was sent to be raised by my mother's sister but she didn't understand my powers and I was abused for it," she almost smiled as she felt the sword waver slightly. "And I hated them so much, I hated their lies and I hated that I was never accepted by them. But I hated him more, the man who killed my parents. Where I'm from I'm famous for the defeating this man the night my parents died but he came back when I was fourteen and I so angry that he had returned. I had friends and a place to belong and he took that from me and once again I was alone but I killed him, I worked hard to train my powers and I finally killed him but my friends were dead. Nothing could bring them back and I was brought here." Sasuke's grip on her lessened as his sword lowered and she smiled in her head as she began to implement the final part of her plan. She pressed herself against him, as if seeking comfort. Good girl Ana, Tom whispered again keep it up like this and we shall have the upper hand. Sasuke's arm came round to rest across her stomach pulling her closer to him, though the hand holding the sword hadn't strayed too far from her neck.

"I'm going to kill my brother," Sasuke whispered to the girl, a girl who shared a past so similar to his it was uncanny and yet he couldn't detect a lie from her. She was an avenger just like him and she had succeeded, she had the power to avenge her parents as he too would avenge his own. "I'm going to avenge my parents like you did," he whispered to her as pulled her tighter to him, enjoying the warmth she gave up against the cold of the room.

"I knew," she mumbled quietly as she turned around, her head tilting back so she could look up at him, "I knew when Naruto told me about you that you would understand how I felt, that's why I came on this mission with them." She hadn't technically come on a mission with them but they had arrived at the same time. "I'm not supposed to leave the village but I told them I had to protect Naruto that I needed to be with him so I could meet you." She placed her hand on his chest, blushing as she realised his shirt was open and she was touching his hard muscular stomach, "I needed someone to understand."

She gasped as she suddenly found herself being pressed against the wall near the door, fear surging through as she thought she had been discovered and he had seen through her plan. You are so naïve Ana Tom laughed in her head it makes you so easy to manipulate. She closed her eyes tightly as he gripped her chin and pulled her head up to his.

"Open your eyes," his voice was deeper this time with an emotion Ana perceived as anger and slowly green eyes revealed themselves and were caught in the red gaze of his sharingan, "tell me your name."

"Ana," she told him and as soon as her name passed her lips she could say nothing more as a pair of lips captured her own roughly. Her eyes widened and she gasped in response to the sudden intrusion of her personal bubble and Sasuke, not one to miss an opportunity swept his tongue inside her mouth.

Sasuke couldn't quite believe what he was doing but he knew from the moment she pressed herself against him that he wanted her, he would figure out why later. Though he couldn't bring himself to regret the decision as his tongue entered the moist cavern of her mouth and he tasted apples on her tongue, the slightly sour taste making him groan slightly. He grinned when he felt her start to kiss back, her tongue rising to challenge his own in a battle which he won due to her lack of experience. His tongue swept across her mouth, tasting and claiming every inch of it as his own as his desire for the girl heightened.

She tore her mouth away from his as the need to breathe overwhelmed her and as she panted Sasuke planted kisses along her jaw and moving over to her ear, he nibbled on the lobe before sucking it into his mouth, delighting in the small moan produced before he released it. "Telling half-truths is just the same as lying Ana," he told her smirking as he licked along the shell of her ear. He hadn't been fooled by her attempt to distract him but he had let her continue with her act, curious as to how it would end. "Though you did well to gain my attention." He moved to her neck, ignoring her stiff body as he lightly licked a path down her neck before sucking on her pulse point, the unwilling moan she released sending his blood south. "We are alike Ana, perhaps that is why I have decided to keep you alive," he mused to her after he released her neck, feeling some sort of masculine pride at seeing the red mark he had made.

"No," Ana said, her voice wavering slightly as she shook her head trying to get the kiss out of her mind. The kiss that made her knees wobble and heat pool into her stomach. Her first kiss with Gaara wasn't nearly this intense. "I'm not like you," she pushed against him, her hands pressing flat against his chest, "I would never betray my friends." She pushed with her magic this time and sent him flying back into the opposite wall, making it crack and crumble behind him. Anger fuelled her body as she watched him stand with a pained grunt, realisation flooding her as she pressed her hand to her lips still feeling the warmth of his kiss. "My second kiss wasn't meant for you!" her magic flared violently around her and as she became angrier the room exploded around her.

As the dust settled Sasuke appeared on the ground above her while she remained in what was left of his bedroom, she knew the noise would have alerted the others and she cursed internally. She was about to be discovered. Sasuke grinned down at her, watching her angry form, pleased that she was as powerful as Orochimaru had told him and that he was the one who stole her kiss, claiming her lips as his own. "You didn't seem to be complaining while I was doing it," he called down to her, amusement lighting his voice as his tongue lightly licked across his bottom lip, tasting the slightly sour taste of the apples. A taste he could get used to. "In face judging by the noise you made, you very much enjoyed it."

"Ana!" A mess of blonde appeared from the tunnel followed by pink as Sakura joined Naruto, "what are you doing here?"

"I came to help you Naruto," Ana said conflict in her tone as she lied to the blonde.

"Were you in a battle?" Naruto asked impatiently, clearly not noticing Sasuke was with them.

"Oh I'd say she was," Sasuke called and all eyes turned to see his smirking face in surprise, "though not what you're thinking Naruto. It got very heated didn't it Ana?"

"Cocky son of a bitch!" Ana hissed, the red band around her pupil growing wider in her anger.

"What did he do to you Ana?" Naruto asked and Ana refused to answer, no way was she going to admit what happened in front of the girl that was majorly obsessed with the Uchiha. "What did you do teme!?" Naruto shouted, his eyes bleeding red as the Kyuubi's chakra bubbled within him.

"I didn't hurt her, unlike you dobe," Sasuke's smirk deepened, loving the fact he able to rile Naruto up so much. Naruto visibly shrunk as the red chakra bubbled into nothing again, the memory of him slapping Ana pushing to the forefront of his mind. "I claimed those sweet tempting lips of hers."

"You kissed!" Sakura yelled at Ana though her eyes showed she was scared of the witch.

"Not willingly!"

"She's lying Sakura," Sasuke called, pronouncing her name in a way that made the pinkette blush.

"No, I'm not and honestly Sakura I don't give a damn if you believe me or not because it isn't important." It was too late, nothing Ana could say would diffuse the situation. The damage had already been done. Ana could only curse herself and her lack of resolve when it came to killing the Uchiha.

A/N: Do you see why I was a little on edge about this chapter? It was the whole Sasuke interaction thing . and the kiss ... though his reasoning behind it does get explained in the next chapter, which I've already written. I just don't know ... I tried to rewrite the interaction between them but it came off as awkward and monotonous so I left it at this. Hopefully I will get better at writing the interaction between Sasuke and Ana so please bare with me whilst I try.

Please review and tell me what you think ... or to give advice on the interaction between Sasuke and Ana, it would be very much appreciated.