Sakura laid down upon the table she first woke up from. There was a lot less people this time, knowing that in this session they might reach something so dark and heinous, they didn't want it to taint their image of the pinkette.

The only ones remaining were Kakashi, Sasuke, Naruto, Sai, Ino, Hinata, Kiba, Temari and Shikamaru.

"Are you ready, Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked from his seated position.

The pinkette released a shaky breath.

"Y-Yes."

"Just relax, Sakura," Ino stated. "Once I begin, you will lose consciousness."

Sakura nodded and rested her hands on her flat stomach, twiddling her fingers nervously as she stared at the roof.

'Okay, I can do this,' Sakura thought to herself, letting out a breath. 'Just remember, no matter what happens, I know who I am and that it's not real.'

Finally, her eyes drifted close as she thought about those that were important to her. Vaguely she heard someone speaking.

'I know who I love,' she thought. 'I know who-'

Her thought went unfinished as she lost consciousness.

It had began.

Sakura's mind was just as they left it. Slowly, Ino began walking down the path, passing several doors both black and white.

"This place is kind of creepy," Kiba muttered.

"It's only this way because of Sakura's circumstance," Ino snapped at the dog-nin.

"What are these doors that are here?" Hinata asked as they passed another.

"I think they're memories of her time after she-" Ino stopped as she saw the end of the hallway.

They could slightly see the massive door with chains and locks, but its what was in front of it that had frozen Ino in her place.

"What...is that?" Temari whispered.

A large stone statue sat before the door of a woman stabbed through her torso. Her eyes were wide with pain and her mouth opened in a silenced scream. A kama resting in her hand as the other that was attached by a chain lay on the floor, forgotten.

"It's Sakura-chan!" Naruto screamed.

Ino shook her head.

"No," she whispered. "It's Inner Sakura."

"What happened?" Sasuke asked.

"Sakura's madness got the better of her."

Everyone spun around to see a glowing white orb.

"I-Inner?" Ino asked.

The orb glowed brightly, morphing into a transparent and intangible version of the once realistic inner entity.

"Correct."

"You said Sakura's madness got the better of her?" Kakashi wondered.

Inner nodded. "The time with Kuromaru had crippled her mentally more than you could possibly understand without seeing her memories. As madness began to settle in, it started to overcome her mind like a weed, sucking her dry and slowly killing her. To save her, I locked her in the room with her important memories."

She gestured to the door behind her.

"But because of my clash with madness itself, I ended up in this state. Alive but unable to influence this world in the slightest. I only existed because of Outer's memories and without them, I was left without a connection to this place."

She moved to the statue, passing through it like nothing.

"Without the connection, I couldn't free Outer."

"So to help Sakura-chan, we need to help you?" Naruto asked.

Inner nodded. "You need to go through the memories of her time between losing her memories and regaining her mind."

"The time her mind was shattered?" Ino wondered. "But how will that work? I didn't think her mind was in any condition to remember anything."

Inner nodded again. "It wasn't. But mine were and even though I don't possess the same form as before, I still existed here and could see everything. Since I am a part of Sakura, they count as her memories."

Ino hesitated. "Is it as bad as we expect?" She asked.

"Yes but it isn't as bad considering Outer Sakura did not understand. The worst will come when we open the vault Outer resides in and experience her memories and emotions of the time before I locked her away."

Inner moved to one of the black painted doors.

"Are you ready?"

"No," Ino sighed but nodded to the ghostly figure. "Let's go."

Inner nodded and opened the door. Their surroundings blacked out. When things lightened, they realised they were in a cage. Not, not them. Sakura.

"He kept her in a cage!?" Naruto growled.

Sakura bent forward and touched her toes.

'Such pretty toes,' she thought to herself, the thought resounding around them all. 'I wonder if someone will come to play today. They must really like me if they keep touching me. I don't like touching them though. Maybe they will leave me alone. But I get so lonely in here. I wonder if they will feed me today.'

Her thoughts continued on, taking different tangents every couple of seconds until she's think about something completely unrelated.

She heard someone approaching and looked up to see Kuromaru who was smiling at her wickedly.

"Good morning, Sakura-chan."

Sakura shook but she didn't understand why. Her attention span suddenly sharpened as her eyes followed him.

"We're going to play with the chains today."

Sakura looked down at her chains.

"Nobody look," Sasuke growled out as they got a good view of Sakura's body considering she was naked.

Nobody replied and no one listened. Now wasn't the time for him to be worrying about such things.

She looked up again when she heard him laugh. A couple of men entered and like usual, when surrounded by such a number, she lashed out. Throwing herself wildly at the men, they simply watched as her chains kept her bound to the floor. Once she had reached its end, it yanked her back. That's when Kuromaru struck, moving behind her and forcing her down on the ground like a dog. Sakura kicked and yelled, her face forced against the floor. They couldn't see what was happening until he let her go suddenly and then she was being hauled up by the chain until she was dangling hanging up by the chains on her hands.

One of the men delivered a punch to her gut, sending her swinging helplessly. He started to laugh.

"Look, an actual punching bag!"

Her friends visibly grew angry as they watched them beat into the bound and hanging woman who released a grunt or cry of pain every now and then.

She was caught after a while mid-swing and she wriggled as much as her bruised body could.

"Yeah, keep wriggling like that baby."

Her body stilled immediately but she fought the sudden instinct and continued to struggle.

"Kuromaru-sama, can I please fuck her?"

The man in question only smirked and nodded. "I forgot my whip so I need to go retrieve that. Try not to damage her too much."

No more had to be said as he turned and left. The man pulled at his belt and pants, releasing his member.

"P-Please," Hinata murmured. "I-I don't want to see this."

"It's too late to stop," Ino found herself whispering before a wave of hollowed disgust crawled along their skin like slime.

Despite the fact that Sakura had no understanding of what the despicable act being done to her meant, deep down inside she knew.

Sakura whimpered at the pain as the man's arms remained wrapped around her waist as he thrusted up into her.

"Those fuckers," Temari hissed angrily, shaking.

She wasn't the only one.

Her team was releasing steady streams of killing intent. It was only a shame Sakura had killed them before they could get their hands on them themselves.

'I hate them,' Sakura thought. 'I will kill them one day.'

When Kuromaru returned, the man allowed himself to ejaculate within her.

The wave of disgust that hit them was a lot stronger then last time, causing some to recoil and even leaving the Hyuga heiress dry wretching.

The pinkette was given no time to recover as the first of many strikes of the whip to come down on her scarred back. A caught off guard Sakura released a shriek before she could stop it, the sound resounding through to the unknown witnesses.

It was a sound none would forget even though she managed to muffle or suppress others that followed.

The memory faded, giving them time to recollect their focus that had wavered due to the emotions from both Sakura and themselves at such cruelty. Naruto looked to his wife and wished to comfort her physically but due to this all being purely mental, he resigned himself to mentally calming her; thinking happy thoughts and reminding her that Sakura was now with them and that her tormentors were dead, killed by the pinkette's own hand.

The orb of Inner Sakura reappeared, hovering there a minute as if to give them time to regain their composure.

"I'm sorry that you must watch this. If it were up to Outer and I, none of you would ever have known the depth of suffering we endured. We wouldn't wish that knowledge on anyone."

Ino shook her head. "Don't be stupid, Forehead. We would have known something like this had happened and supported her whether she wanted us to or not."

"I know and I thank you but it doesn't change the fact that neither of us wanted you to anguish yourself like this. It's a cruel and harsh thing, having to watch such actions unfold and knowing that there is nothing you can to do to help because it already happened."

No one said anything. Inner formed into her human form and looked around at the friends gathered.

"Are you ready for the next memory?"

No, they weren't. But there was no choice but to go forward if they wanted their friend back.

They just hoped she was sane after remembering all this bullshit.

Sorry for the long wait guys.

I've just been really busy with life and shit.

Let me know what you thought.

Is it confusing? Is it not?

Let me know xD

- Mee 3