Hii guys! I'm back! I'm so sorry for being so late. It took longer than I expected to fix my chapters along with the help of my Beta-readers. I don't blame anyone. Everyone has their own life and busy schedule. It just need time.

I'm happy that I was able to upload it on Christmas. So enjoy!

Merry Christmas! Have a wonderful day!

Special thanks to my beta-reader: GreyHowler

Everyday held the same routine for Sakura: Eight hours of training and learning about the different types of poison. Learning new Jutsus from Kabuto, fighting against Sasuke (and losing all of them). At least she was able to have small conversations with Sasuke which, bit by bit seemed to be lasting longer.

And those sound ninja who promised Sakura they wouldn't die, really did keep their promises. Sakura was relieved to see them and immediately gave them a lump on their head, ordering them to never do that again. They worked together, helping Sakura learn her poisons. She learned how to make them, how to cure them and how to recognize them. The two ninja soon became attached to Sakura, telling her that she was the nicest person in Orochimaru's hideout.

She was also allowed to go outside the hideout as long as she had a sound ninja or Kabuto tagging along to make sure she wasn't seen. And before she knew it, three years had gone by.

xXx

Today was Sakura's oh, so infrequent day off. She found it rather suspicious, but let it slide as she was glad she finally had a day to rest. She was actually humming as she walked down the hall to the room she and Sasuke shared.

She wasn't surprised to see Sasuke resting on his bed when she entered the bedroom. She walked over to him and looked down at him. He opened his eyes and stared back at her,

"What is it?" Sasuke asked.

"Kabuto and Orochimaru left a half hour ago and cancelled our training", she answered.

"Hn, whatever", he said and closed his eyes. Sakura started to walk towards the door to take a walk, but Sasuke grabbed her wrist and pulled her down next to him.

"W-what the he-" She was cut off by the door creaking open and a black figure taking a step into the room.

"Who's there?", Sasuke asked.

"Caught me red-handed. I originally came here in order to kill you, but now i want to take you back to Konoha. I want to save the bonds between you and Naruto" explained the figure.

"That's why you're here? That's why you woke me up.", Sasuke asked. Through this exchange, Sasuke was getting more and more mad and let his violent chakra leak out and permeate the walls around them. Soon, the three ninjas felt a small tremor shake it's way through the room and the wall around them crumbled. Sasuke and Sakura jumped on the ledge that overlooked a destroyed base.

"You just had to go that far and destroy not only our room but the entire base", Sakura paused, sighed and continued, "That's the fifth time already and only because someone disturbed your sleep….Orochimaru is going to be mad."

As the dust and smoke cleared, the man, who had kneeled to keep his feet during the earthquake, slowly stood up and looked at Sasuke and Sakura. He opened his mouth to say something, but was interrupted by a loud voice from the corridor.

"SAI!"

Suddenly a streak of purple and white appeared and slapped Sai away. Sakura was confused and stood rooted to the spot, speechless. She couldn't believe her eyes. It was Ino!

Ino started to yell at Sai, but she was interrupted when a familiar voice called her; "Ino…"
Sakura whispered and she saw another streak, this one was orange and quickly slapped a hand over her mouth.

"Naruto? You came too. Then that means Kakashi's here as well" said Sasuke.

A fourth figure entered the room and answered Sasuke's implied question. "Unfortunately, Kakashi-san couldn't be here. I, Yamato, am here in his place," he introduced himself.

"We are here to take you both back home!" yelled Naruto desperately.

"Back? Don't make me laugh" said Sasuke.

Meanwhile, Sakura observed the team. A three-man squad including a sensei. 'That guy Ino called Sai might be Sasuke's replacement. Ino already has her Team. That means they haven't replaced me yet, huh,' Sakura thought.

"Why are you even here, Ino?" asked Sakura. Ino didn't answer. She had asked to be part of this mission, she wanted to bring Sakura and Sasuke back, but she had never thought of what she should do or say when she finally faced them after all these years.

"Sasuke, if you come back now, your charges for leaving the Leaf Village and joining Orochimaru will be dropped", Yamato paused, looked at Sakura and continued, "We don't really know what happened to you Sakura. Were you forced to leave? Or kidnapped?"

"Neither" answered Sasuke, "She followed me. She wanted to gain power what she would not be able to learn back at the village."

"No! Both of you can get strong at the Leaf Village." yelled Naruto. "You just have to come back." Naruto continued to try to convince them to come back for several more minutes before Sakura interrupted him.

"ENOUGH!" she shouted, covering her ears. "You don't know what I could have had if i stayed at the village. So shut up!" Seeing him again had brought back memories and she used this opportunity to let her frustration out of her systeem.

Everyone stared at Sakura after her outburst which no one had expected, especially Sasuke. Sakura sighed and continued;

"You want me to come back? Sure, why not...but on one condition" Sakura paused, waiting to hear what Naruto's answer might be. Sasuke glared at Sakura, wondering what she was planning. Would she betray him? Was joining him and Orochimaru all a trap to help the others to bring him back?

"Only one? Name it! I'll do anything for you! Just come back" Naruto answered with a smile, happy to hear that she might come back.
However, his smile died down immediately, when she told him about the condition.

"That day we left the village, some Sound ninjas were helping us reach Orochimaru, before you caught up with us. One of them was my friend, the fat guy, Jirobo. Did you kill him?" She paused and looked at Naruto. The expression he was giving her showed that he knew exactly whom she was talking about and knew she wouldn't like the answer; so she continued;

"Then that means that you were not alone. My condition is…..", Her voice darkened as she gave him a death glare, "I want you to kill the person who killed my friend. If you are too afraid to do it then tell me who did it and I'll kill him myself."

Naruto was sweating nervously. He saw how serious she was about this and he knew whom she wanted dead. That day when everyone was in the hospital, saddened about their failure, Choji had told Naruto what happened and how he thought that he might have killed a friend of Sakura's.

As much as Naruto wanted Sakura to come back, this was the one thing he could not do. He couldn't kill Choji nor let her kill him. He shook his head softly and looked at Sakura, hoping she might still come back. Sadly, the way Sakura was looking at him gave him her answer. She was not coming back, not until he told her.

Ino was frightened; this wasn't the Sakura she knew. "S-Sakura, what happened to you?" Ino asked softly.

"You want to know what happened to me?" she paused and with her quick speed, she stood in front of Ino, "I got stronger. I grew up. I'm no longer the immature, naïve child that left the Leaf Village."

Sakura threw a punch at Ino's face and was send flying into a wall, smashing a hole through it. Naruto was startled, everything happened too fast. He wanted to stop Sakura, but wasn't able to move. Suddenly, Sasuke appeared next to him and drew his katana.

'They're fast!', thought Naruto frustrated. Yamato used his woodstyle and tried to captured Sasuke as Sai pulled out a scroll and drew on it. Two tigers appeared and ran towards Sakura. She dodged one, threw two kunai at them and the tigers exploded into puddles of ink. Before Sai could draw more tigers, Sakura appeared behind him. She focused some chakra into her leg and kicked him into the same wall as Ino.

Naruto tried to grab Sasuke as Yamato was busy with his woodstyle. He failed miserable when Sasuke used Chidori_nagashi and released lighting all over his body, shocking Naruto and breaking Yamato's wood. Sasuke tried to stab the unguarded Naruto. However, Yamato was able to block Sasuke's blade, but the kunai Yamato was holding broke under the force.

"Damn it" cursed Yamato as Sasuke's kanata cut through him. Sasuke smirked and released waves of lighting thought his katana. He heard loud noises coming from Sakura's direction and saw she was done with Sai and Ino. She noticed he was looking and jumped along with him back up to the ledge.

"Why don't you get it! Orochimaru wants to steal your body! He had to wait for a few years but he could take it anytime now! You know that too, Sakura-chan! Why aren't you helping us!" Naruto yelled desperately hoping one of them could come to their senses.

"I don't care what happens to me nor my body. As long I can have my revenge, then he can have my life" Sasuke explained with no hesitation,

"I'll end this quickly", Sasuke said and raised his hand, but Sakura stopped him.

"Don't use that, Sasuke. It's not worth it", she said softly.

"She's right, Sasuke. Don't use that wonderful power of yours to kill off something that doesn't deserve to die by it" said Orochimaru. "Besides, he might take out Akatsuki for you, giving you a better chance to kill Itachi. Now Sakura and Sasuke, let's leave this place."

"WAIT! Sasuke, Sakura-chan! Don't leave again!" begged Naruto.

"Sorry, Naruto" whispered Sakura, before the four of them disappeared.

xXx

Sakura and Sasuke, along with Orochimaru and Kabuto, arrived at their new base a little while later. The ninjas-in-training found their way to their new room and walked inside. Sakura hesitated at first to enter the room, but noticed Sasuke was glaring at her. She could see that he wanted to talk to her. She sighed to herself and continued through the open doorway. As soon as Sakura closed the door, Sasuke pinned her against the wall.

"Why did you stop me?", asked Sasuke.

"I- I just thought it was not worth using that Jutsu on them" Sakura stuttered. Trying not to blush, she avoided his eyes. "Now, please let go"

"Hn…" As soon as Sasuke accepted her answer and let her go, Sakura walked out of the room. She walked down the hall for a few minutes, when she was far enough from her room, she put her back against the wall and slid down to the ground, pulling her knees to her chest. Then the events which had just happened caught up to her. Naruto had found them. She hadn't seen him nor Ino for so many years. She fought against Ino and found that she became much stronger than her old friend.

Sasuke had wanted to use that Jutsu...he had wanted to kill them...but what was worse was that she totally forgot about the 'Orochimaru wanting to take Sasuke's body' part. It really was almost time for him to be able to do it. As she continued thinking, she realized that it got even worse: Sasuke told Naruto that he didn't care what will happen to him nor his body….

'That means he really doesn't care about me' she thought sadly.

"Are you okay, Sakura-sama?" asked a Sound Ninja A, one of the sound ninja who is working with Sakura. The one who Sakura saved back at the first hideout.

With a fake smile, Sakura answered, "I'm okay. I just need some time alone to think, that's all".

The ninja left, but only a few minutes had passed when someone interrupted her 'alone time'. She was pulled out of her thoughts when she heard footsteps coming down the corridor.

"I told you, I'm fine. Don't worry about it. I just-" She stopped when she looked up to see it wasn't the sound ninja, but Kabuto. "Sorry. I thought you were someone else."

"Someone else already came to check up on you." Kabuto said as he crouched down next to her.

"He was just worried about me. He wanted to show me my new training room, but i didn't show up." she explained.

"I'm jealous. You're showing your weak side to everyone" Kabuto said as he pushed his glasses up.

"What do you mea-" Sakura was cut off when he suddenly grabbed her and yanked her up against the wall and laced chakra strings around them. Before she could say anything, she suddenly felt his lips onto hers while he pulled out a kunai and cut her shirt, revealing her bra.

The worse part of this whole thing was, was right when he kissed her, was someone standing in front of them. The one person she didn't want to see this, was standing in front of them, witnessing everything.

xXx

(A few minutes before the kiss)

One of the sound ninjas came by the room, searching for Sakura. She hadn't show up when they wanted to show her, her new training room. Sasuke was a little pissed at him for interrupting his sleep, but let it slide when he heard Sakura didn't show up and decided to go for a walk and search for Sakura.

He continued down the hall and heard two people talking and walked to the corner. What he saw froze him; Sakura was pinned against the wall by Kabuto. His hand holding her wrist and his other hand on her waist. Her bra was showing and Kabuto was kissing her.

xXx

Sakura's eyes widened when she saw Sasuke standing in front of them. Kabuto was too busy to notice there was anyone else standing there. Sakura, who was already mad at Kabuto for doing this to her, but now she is furious.

Sakura used her new strength to stomp on the ground beneath Kabuto's feet. The resulting creak caused Kabuto to lose his balance. He dropped her wrist and stumbled away from her. Sakura broke it free from the Chakra strings and slammed her fist into the wall behind her, killing two birds with one stone by letting out a little frustration while giving Kabuto a warning. Kabuto saw the plaster crumbling from the hole in the wall and noticed Sakura was glaring. Then he finally noticed that Sasuke was standing in front of them.

While Kabuto was distracted by Sasuke, Sakura ran to him and slammed him into a wall, breaking a few bones. He was gone when the smoke cleared. Sakura, even more frustrated now, punched two more holes in the walls.

Sasuke tried to calm her down, but failed miserably. Once Sakura lost her temper, it would be while before she was back to normal.

"Leave me alone!" she yelled and started running down the hall, searching for Kabuto or anyone whom she could do a little damage to. Sasuke ran after her, grabbed her waist and wrist.

"Go away!" she yelled, struggling in his grasp.

"Sakura...calm down."

Tears started to fill Sakura's eyes as she put a hand to her lips. Kabuto kissed her. She still couldn't believe it. She wanted to find Kabuto and kill him. She focused chakra into her free fist and swung it at Sasuke.

Sasuke dodged it and grabbed her waist again. Sakura froze when she felt something warm on her lips.

~to be continued~

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