I swear to God, school is killing me.

Also, I was flipping through all my old work one day and then I realized that my chapters are really, really short.

I apologize for the fact that they might seem kind of rushed. I'm putting effort into it, I swear. It's just that it's hard writing a full-out 4-page chapter without revealing any more of the intended storyline.

Also, my mom's shit laptop doesn't have Microsoft Word, so I have to make do with this thing called "WordPad".

Can we just assume that I stick a disclaimer on all the rest of the chapters so I can stop rambling now?

"Sarada!"

The Uchiha turned around. Rushing towards the entrance of the training grounds was Naruto, Sakura, and Shikamaru, all looking extremely pissed.

Sarada rolled her eyes. Now what?

Shikadai, from behind her, managed to stagger towards her father. "Sarada... hiden... kagemane... Boru... shealmostkilledmeimdyinghelp!"

"What?!" Shikamaru grabbed her daughter by the shoulders. "What exactly happened between you and her?"

"I was training when she appeared and challenged me to a fight!" Sarada defended herself, but Shikamaru didn't reply as he carefully lay Shikadai down on the grass.

Sakura rushed towards Shikadai. "Here, let me help," she offered, then placed both her palms on the Nara's stomach. A moment later, Shikadai gasped and opened her dark green eyes.

The pinkette, after giving a final check over Shikadai, got up and stormed over to Sarada, who was still standing in the middle of the training frounds defiantly.

"HOW MANY TIMES?!" Sakura raged. Sarada flinched, but her mother paid no attention. "STOP FIGHTING OVER USELESS TOPICS AND OBEY MY DIRECTIONS! SHIKADAI COULD HAVE BEEN SERIOUSLY INJURED, AND YOU ILLEGALLY COPIED A SECRET NARA CLAN TECHNIQUE! NARUTO WILL HAVE THE LAST SAY, BUT DON'T BE SURPRISED IF YOU'RE BANISHED FROM KONOHA FROM THE NEXT 10 YEARS!"

"FINE!" Sarada snarled back at her mother, who shut up in surprise. "I DON'T CARE WHAT I DID TO THAT BITCH, NO ONE HERE CARES ABOUT ME! YOU'D PROBABLY LIKE IT BETTER IF I WENT TO JOIN DAD OUTSIDE THE FIVE SHINOBI COUNTRIES ANYWAYS! DON'T ACT LIKE I SHOULD FEEL GUILTY!"

And with that, Sarada stormed out of the training grounds, leaving three shocked adults behind.

The raven ran to what she thought was the best place right now: the forest.

Sarada slowed down her pace and she entered a row of lush trees. She leaped up onto a nearby oak branch, disturbing a nest of birds. The parents immediately scattered, but Sarada saw three baby birds blink up at her.

Cautiously, Sarada moved to another branch, as not to disturb the precious things. In doing so, she triggered a barely visible wire, which caused a slight disturbance in a nearby bush.

But Sarada had the advantage of the Sharingan. She could spot what was happening as she leaped clear of the kunai trap.

Six knives, with summoning tags attached to them, embedded themselves in the branch that Sarada had just been standing on. With a poof, six Iwa shinobi appeared noisily.

"Where'd they go?" One of them turned in a circle. "In order for the trap to work, there had to be pressure, right?"

"You idiot!" Another one whacked the first ninja on the head. "What if it was just a squirrel or something? Do you think we might be summoned here for nothing?"

The one that looked like the leader grunted. "I don't think there's any squirrels in Konohagakure. If the ninja is hiding nearby, this should reveal them."

Sarada watched silently through leaves of a nearly maple tree. She focused her now red eyes on the leader. She couldn't let him do whatever he planned to do.

"Genjutsu: Sharingan!"

Three tomoes appeared in the Uchiha's eyes as the leader stiffened, lost in her eyes.

"Boss?" One of the Iwa shinobi asked nervously, but was cut off as the leader, caught in Sarada's genjutsu, unsheathed his ninjatō and slashed across his comrade's chest.

The other ninja backed off, but Sarada was ready. She unleashed a wave of shuriken onto the group. Three punctured the leader while the others found their spot on the rest of the shinobi.

Once all except the leader were injured enough to be unable to stand, Sarada canceled the genjutsu and leaped down in front of the one remaining Iwa ninja.

"Next time, stay away from Konoha," Sarada growled, then, before the shinobi could react, she stabbed a kunai deep into her enemy's gut.

The ninja spluttered, a gush of blood coming out from his mouth, and promptly fell off the branch.

Sarada watched from above, a glint in her dark eyes. "Go. Run away like cowards, and report back that you were defeated my a mere Genin. You were fools if you thought you could invade our country."

So last chapter, my beta reader pointed out that if someone used Sharingan to copy a hiden technique, there would be severe consequences, so I had to add that extra scene in.

Just a note: I may not be updating for another two weeks or so, due to a giant pile of homework that I procrastinated on. Sorry about that.

~Snow