(Little disclaimer I'm gonna skip the fight with team dosu just so you know that part goes exactly how it does in canon and I really don't wanna wast my time writing all of that.)

Sakura was on her knees trembling with her eyes widened in fear at the scene going on before her. After team ten, the same team that consisted of shikamaru, choji, and her ex-friend and rival ino had came to her aide.

Sakura was happy upon their arrival but even they seemed to have encountered problems dealing with the sound ninja. Just as things looked bleak, sasuke finally woke up. This made sakura feel happy and relieved until she saw that sasuke's body was covered in marks and felt an ominous dark chakra that was cloaking him.

After she watched him ruthlessly break zaku's arms sakura was paralyzed with fear. 'T-this is n-not sasuke. S-something is wrong with h-him' sakura thought trembling. She wanted to stop and help him terribly but something was keeping her from moving. Her mind kept screaming at her to move and help him but it was useless. No matter how much she tried her body wouldn't move.

With no other option, sakura went over to naruko and said in a shallow voice "naruko wake up. You've gotta wake up. You have to stop sasuke." Naruko woke up as if she could heard sakura's plea.

Naruko got up and ran towards sasuke. Naruko pulled sasuke into a hug to make him stop. Sasuke stopped walking and listened to what naruko had to say. "Sasuke stop! This isn't you. Please stop before you kill someone" naruko pleaded.

Sasuke turned his head to look into naruko's eyes. Sasuke came back to his senses as the marks on his body started to disappear. Sasuke turned around leaned forward and pressed his forehead against naruko's.

Sasuke was glad to see that naruko was ok seeing how last time he saw her naruko had been knocked unconscious and discarded like a piece of garbage by the same person who gave him his new source of power.

Dosu gave them his team's earth scroll then grabbed his teammates and left. After that naruko suddenly felt lightheaded and dizzy from overusing her blood jutsu. She could barely keep herself conscious. Naruko used a lot of blood for her blood jutsu when she was training for the chunin exams, mainly trying to work on controlling her blood bend jutsu.

"Hey naruko are you ok? You don't look so good" choji said. Everyone looked at naruko, who seemed to be a little pale. Naruko then passed out and fell forward. "Naruko" sasuke and sakura said worried. Sasuke quickly caught naruko before she could hit the ground.

Sakura rushed over to naruko and sasuke. "I-is she ok? What happened?" Sakura said scared and worried. "I don't know what happened" sasuke said. "She could have passed out from blood loss, look at her shoulder" shikamaru said.

Everyone looked over and saw the naruko's shoulder was drenched in blood. After a bit of talking everyone decided that they should leave before more teams showed up. After a couple of hours sasuke and sakura found a place to hide so they could collect themselves and to let naruko recover.

Naruko woke up the next day still a little pale. Although she didn't feel weak anymore, she still felt lightheaded and dizzy. The next day they ran into kabuto and he offered to help them find the other scroll they still needed. After a couple hours of running, naruko would have to stop and take a break 'cause her vision would go blurry, she would feel queasy, have trouble breathing, or she felt like she was going to pass out. Naruko was having these problems because she went over her limit with her blood jutsu.

Whenever naruko had to stop and rest sasuke, sakura, and kabuto stopped running and waited for her to get up again. They were worried about her and something bad could happen to her if they leave her behind. Sasuke and sakura were sitting beside naruko to make sure she was ok and to know when she's ready to get back on the move while kabuto gave them their space and stood by a tree waiting for them.

Because of the condition they were in sakura suggested that they forfeit and retake the chunin exams another time. Seeing all that has happened sasuke thought that forfeiting would be the best option especially for naruko's sake. The girl was badly injured and she could barely run for an hour without having to take a break. As sasuke opened his mouth to speak naruko beat him to the punch "there is no way we're quitting no matter what!" Naruko said.

"What! Naruko look at yourself. You're badly wounded and you can't even run for more than an hour without having to take a break" sakura said mad and worried. "Sakura's right, if you're in this bad of a condition now how are you going to pass the rest of the exams?" Sasuke said.

"I think that you guys forget that I accidentally wounded myself training before I came here. Look I'll admit it it's all my fault that I'm badly wounded, if I hadn't gotten carried we wouldn't be in this situation. I get that you guys are worried about me and I get that it sounds dumb and selfish for me to say that I wanna continue on with the exams. But… it goes against everything I stand for to just give up or run away. It may solve some problems but not all of them. Look if I have to run away I will but if I have the choice to either give up or continue on and possibly die I'm willing to take my chances rather than to be a coward because that's who I am" naruko said with pride.

Sasuke and sakura were speechless. It was obvious that they weren't gonna get naruko to forfeit. No doubt naruko was extremely stubborn and she doesn't give up easily but that was something that they loved about her. At least she has the guts to own up to her mistakes and to have other people realize and own up to their mistakes.

Both of them realized that nothing they could say would change her mind. Sasuke couldn't help but smile. He got up and said "fine dobe we'll continue on with the exams, just don't get yourself killed." Naruko smiled and said "I'm not gonna get myself killed teme." Naruko stood up. "Ok let's get going before we get attacked again."

After a bit they ran into team oboro. Naruko offered to distract them. They originally wanted to say no because of her condition but of course naruko managed to convince them into saying yes. Naruko distracted team oboro while sasuke, sakura, and kabuto snuck up behind them and knock them out.

When the members of team oboro were knocked out, team seven got their scroll and headed for the tower. While naruko was distracting them, one of them threw a kunai at her which cut her ankle.

When team seven got both an earth scroll and a heaven scroll they immediately made their way to the tower. Because of the cut on her ankle and the side effects from overusing the blood jutsu naruko couldn't run anymore, so sasuke and sakura had to help her get to the tower.

When we got to the tower we were greeted by Iruka-sensei. When he saw me he immediately took me to some medical ninja to get my wounds treated. At least I had a couple of days to rest up and get ready before the next part of the exams started.