Hii guys!

Question for this chapter: Don't you hate it when you found an amazing anime, but it doesn't have a second season? Or a third Season? Or it just stopped without giving you any explanation? Or when it ended with a huge cliffhanger and it doesn't continue?!

Trust me...I hate it!

Special thanks to my beta-reader: GreyHowler

Enjoy:

'What the-? Is this really happening?' thought Sakura. Sasuke broke the kiss for a moment and looked at Sakura. He let go of her hand and placed his own on her face. Sakura was too shocked to say anything. Her lips were slightly parted, her cheeks were turning red, and her heart was beating a million miles an hour.

"Sasuke….why did you do that?" she managed to say after a minute. Sasuke waited a moment to think before he answered. He couldn't figure out why he did it. He was confused by his own actions.

"For you to forget what Kabuto did" Sasuke finally said, when he came up with an excuse. Sakura was skeptical of this answer, but let it slide. It really had worked, she wasn't thinking about Kabuto's kiss anymore. Sasuke's kiss kept replaying in her mind over and over again.

Sasuke slowly let go of her waist and said, "I need to discuss something with you".

"What is it?" she asked.

"Not here. Let's go to our room" said Sasuke rather quickly. Sakura started walking back to their room as Sasuke stood and stared at her back. He was still wondering what the hell he was doing.

xXx

Kabuto healed himself while he walked back to Orochimaru's room. Orochimaru had heard all of the noise and was waiting for Kabuto to come back.

"My my, someone lost her temper. What did you do, Kabuto?" Orochimaru asked.

"I was just testing something" he answered.

"Tell me, Kabuto. Have you acquired feelings for your student? Don't lie to me." Orochimaru said as he stared at Kabuto.

"No, Orochimaru-sama" said Kabuto, a little shaken.

xXx

When she arrived at their room, Sakura immediately went to the bathroom to put some new clothes on-and to get away from Sasuke for a bit. She washed her face and stood at the sink for a bit before she took a deep breath and walked back to the bedroom to talk to Sasuke.

"What did you want to talk about?" Sakura asked as she sat down on her bed.

"I have decided that I don't need Orochimaru's teachings anymore. I'm going to take him out as soon as possible." Sasuke explained.

Sakura didn't expect to hear that from Sasuke. It was quite a relief to know that he really wasn't going to give up his body to Orochimaru. All those things he said to Naruto weren't true. Maybe he really did care about her and everyone in the Leaf Village…

"Can I take care of Kabuto?" Sakura asked with determination in her eyes. She wanted to pay Kabuto back for what he did to her. She wanted to destroy him using the skills he had taught her.

"Hn. He's all yours. It will make it easier for me to get to Orochimaru." Sasuke replied.

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The next day

Sasuke and Sakura had just finished self-training. Sakura was busy in her training room, along with most of her sound ninjas, except she had sent a sound ninja to get Kabuto.

When Kabuto stepped into the room, Sakura immediately felt a shiver run up her spine. The terrible memory of that night flew right back in her head and her hatred for him began to grow again. The sound ninjas noticed the death aura Sakura was throwing around the room and they immediately left.

"What do you want, Sakura?" Kabuto asked and smiled creepily. "More lips?"

"How about….your head." Sakura's voice darkened and she charged toward him with a kunai.

Kabuto danced out of the way and took out his own kunai. "You can't beat me with that, Sakura," he taunted.

Sakura's attack hit the wall behind Kabuto and practically destroyed it. Sakura used the momentary dust cloud from the rubble to cover her as she ran behind Kabuto. Her punch to his kidneys sent him flying against the opposite wall, destroying it as well.

The rubble settled and silenced reigned throughout the room for a few seconds. Sakura let out a breath she didn't know she was holding and wanted to start hoping that it was over, but she knew such a man would not be defeated by simpling dropping a wall on him. Then, the small rocks around the larger boulders that once composed a wall started to shift. A few seconds more and the boulders themselves began to move aside. Kabuto emerged from the rubble laughing like a madman.

"Hahah. Oh, Sakura," said Kabuto, still giggling every once in awhile. "Fine, my little apprentice, I'll show you everything I got, and when I do, you will be begging me for mercy."

Kabuto started to run at Sakura, channeling chakra to his hands. He was planning to hit her with a dissection blade, although Kabuto swung his chakra-charged hands with lightning speed, Sakura was able to nimbly dodge all his attacks. It didn't last long, however, for Kabut stopped attacking abruptly and Sakura immediately collapsed to the ground.

'H-how?! I dodged every attack! How did he manage to hit me?' thought Sakura.

Kabuto started to laugh, walked over to her and said; "How does it feel, Sakura? How does it feel to be weak? To try so hard and always end up failing in the end?".

Sakura looked up at him with enraged eyes, but said nothing. She needed to think of something fast, before he killed her.

"That's what I thought," Kabuto continued, "You're nothing!".

Kabuto raised his chakra hand and thrust it forward, aiming for Sakura's chest. Sakura closed her eyes and tried to regain control of her body. She was able to move, but was not fast enough and the attack hit her shoulder.

"Aaahh!" Sakura yelled out. She fell on the floor again and clutched at her bloodied shoulder. Kabuto walked slowly up to her and kicked her in the ribs, hard. Sakura coughed up a puddle of blood at the impact.

"Come on, Sakura. Is that all you've got?! After all your training?! I guess this proves what a worthless student you've been. Have you even learned anything at all during our time together? If that's the case, I suppose there's no need to keep you around any longer." Kabuto said and was about to finish her off, but suddenly froze in place.

"W-what did you do?!" Kabuto coughed out. He couldn't move and could hardly speak! Sakura smirked and wiped the blood from her mouth. Kabuto looked down at her and noticed that the wound on her shoulder had already healed.

"You can heal your wounds so quickly!? How?! When?! Only people who can-"

"Who can control their chakra well can do it?" Sakura cut Kabuto off.

"I was busy healing myself while you were standing there blabbing how weak I am. As for the answer to your first question..." Sakura paused and showed Kabuto a senbon. The tip of the needle was dyed purple. "A poisoned senbon to paralyze you. You lowered your guard when you kicked me. I was able to stab your foot without you even noticing," she finished.

Kabuto started to curse, yell, and mock Sakura, screaming that she only got lucky this time. He just didn't pay attention. She would never beat him, NEVER.

"You underestimated me, Kabuto. I've watched you these past two years. Learned from you. Observed you. Searched for weakness. I had private trainings to become stronger. To master new things that you did not know I could do. All of this, to defeat you one day, today."

Sakura closed her eyes. Kabuto didn't understand what she was doing. Why did she close her eyes? He frantically racked his brain to figure out what to do next. He needed to get out of this paralyzing situation. He was pulled from his thoughts when he started to cough up blood. He first glanced at Sakura, but her eyes were still closed. Then he looked down...and saw the edge of a kanata emerging from his body. He had been stabbed right through the heart.

"Before you came into the room, I casted a clone jutsu. I also casted a genjutsu around the clone so you wouldn't notice it." Sakura explained with her eyes still closed, "You let your guard down, Kabuto. Like I said, you underestimated me. It's over, Kabuto."

Sakura's clone yanked the kanata out of Kabuto and disappeared in a puff of pink smoke, katana clattering noisily to the ground. Sakura slowly opened her eyes and looked Kabuto lying face down on the floor in a pool of his own blood.

She took a deep breath, picked up her kanata, and ran out of the room, leaving the trashed room and Kabuto's body behind. She needed to find Sasuke.

xXx

Sakura was running down the long corridor when she heard loud crash coming from the end.

'Sasuke must be there,' she thought.

When Sakura finally reached the room where she heard the crash, she gasped at the scene before her. Sasuke was in his Cursed Seal Of Heaven's second stage staring down at the bloody corpse of a gigantic snake behind him.

'So, this is that snake bastard his true form' thought Sakura.

She ran up to him and asked if he was okay. Sasuke, however, gave no response. He slowly deactivated his cursed state and walked out of the room with Sakura trailing after him.

"So now what, Sasuke?" Sakura asked.

"I'm going to go after my brother, but I need to put together a team." he replied.

"Who's going to be on it?"

"Jugo, Suigetsu and Karin, me and you. But if you want to leave...I won't stop you," said Sasuke, stopped and looked at Sakura.

Sakura hesitated a moment to think before she answered. She thought that, after he told her that he no longer needed Orochimaru and was planning to kill him, Sasuke would return to the village. However, just the opposite happened. He wanted to take his own path and go after his brother. He even gave her permission to go back to the village if she wanted to.

Sakura took a deep breath and answered. "I'm going with you. I made a promise to you the night we left the village; I won't leave you."

"Then it's settled. We need to find the others. Let's go." said Sasuke and walked away.

'And so now, the adventure really begins.' thought Sakura as she followed him.

~to be continued~

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