"Go!" Sasuke yells, breaking his shield.

Sakura looks directly at Madara. "Yo, Madara!" She yells and he turns towards her.

"What, brat?" He says, making the fatal mistake of turning towards her. She smirks as he stares right into her eyes.

"Han: Dōjutsu!" She yells, and Madara is caught in her genjutsu.

"Naruto!" Sasuke yells, and Naruto nods, starting to form his rasen-shuriken.

However, the unexpected happens.

"Ahhhh! Get away from me! Get away, you monster!" Sakura yells, falling to the ground.

"Sakura!" Sasuke yells, running to her and dropping to her side. "What is it?!"

"Sasuke, make it stop, make it stop!" She wails.

"Make what stop?" He asks.

"So much blood, so much death! Too much pain!" She cries out, burying herself in his chest, tears falling.

"Sakura, you can get through this!" He yells through gritted teeth.

"No! Not Shishou, please not Shishou! I'll do anything! Not my parents either! Oh god, you monster!"

"Rasen-shuriken!" Naruto' voice yells as a giant 'boom' is heard from his direction. Sasuke quickly glances at his direction and smirks upon seeing a giant hole where Madara once stood, but quickly turns to one of sadness and grief upon watching the pink haired kunoichi suffer.

"NOT SASUKE! PLEASE NO! NONONONO!!!!!!" She screams at the top of her lungs.

Sasuke suddenly hugs her tighter. "Sakura, I'm right here. I'm here."

"No... nonononono..." She whispers, tears cascading down her face. "You're an absolute monster... You killed everybody..."

"Sakura!" Sasuke yells, suddenly doing the only thing he thought of at the moment. He slapped her.

Sakura's beautiful emerald eyes shoot open, and she desperately gains her surroundings. Upon realizing she is in Sasuke's lap, she hugs him tightly. "I thought you were dead, oh my god." She sobs into his shoulder. He hesitantly wraps his arms around her.

"No, I'm right here. What happened?"

"Madara activated his sharinigan before I could activate my dōjutsu. As a result, I watched everybody I loved die over and over again." She says, pulling away from him and wiping her eyes.

"Well, Madara's dead now, so you don't have to worry." Naruto says from behind them, and Sakura smiles. Sasuke blushed upon comprehending that Sakura indirectly said she loved him. (A/N: eeeeeekkkkk!!!!!)

"Thank goodness." Sakura replies as Kakashi and Obito appear behind them. Her eyes widen upon realizing Kakashi is unconscious and pretty beaten up. "Kakashi-sensei!" She yells, standing up and running to him. Her hands light up a bright green as she heals the major gash across her chest.

"I think you're forgetting someone." Obito's voice says from behind her, and she stiffens.

She turns towards him, his aurora different. "Arigato, Obito-san!" She says, finishing healing Kakashi. "Let me heal you!"

"I'm a traitor. You shouldn't be near me."

"But you saved Kakashi-sensei!" She replies.

"Yes, but I am also the one that injured him." He says.

"... But you won't hurt me." She says, taking a step closer to him.

"Sakura, get away from him!" Sasuke yells, worried for her safety.

Ignoring him, Sakura puts a hand on Obito's shoulder and heals him. "Arigato." He whispers, and she nods.

Suddenly, a gigantic 'boom' resonates throughout the area. "What was that?!" Naruto asks.

"Don't know, but it came from that way." Sasuke responds, and Obito slings Kakashi over his shoulder.

"Let me help." Sakura mutters, slinging Kakashi's other arm over her own as they follow Sasuke and Naruto.
~
They hurry to the direction the blast was in and eyes widen upon realizing that Kabuto is standing beside an unknown woman.

"Who the hell are you?!" Naruto yells.

The woman nods to Kabuto, who runs off. "Kagura. Remember it when you die." She says.

The pinkette stares at Kabuto before dropping Obito's arm from her grasp. "Forgive me, Obito, Kakashi-sensei, but I have someone I need to kill." The pinkette says and the two nod. Sakura runs off in Kabuto's direction, while her two teammates watch her in worry.

"She'll be fine, you two. She's Sakura Haruno, after all." Kakashi tells his students. Naruto smiles while Sasuke smirks.

"Of course we know, dattebayo!"

~

The pinkette kicks the man from behind. He stumbles to the ground but manages to regain his balance. The man smirks. "To think, team seven's weakest member was sent after me." The pinkette grits her teeth and tightens her hands into fists, aggravated. "Naruto couldn't kill me, Sasuke-kun couldn't kill me, so what makes you think that you can kill me?"

"Unlike you, I have motivation." The pinkette counters.

"So did Naruto, but where did that end him? The hospital."

"That's it, shannaroooo!!!" The pinkette yells, running towards him. She jumps in the air and kicks him from behind, just narrowly avoiding his chakra infused palms.

"Mystical palm technique!" The former sound ninja yells, yet the pinkette dodges and at the last second kicks him in the stomach, sending him flying. The pinkette charges at him again and he dodges. She spins and uses her left arm to throw a chakra-infused punch right in his face.

"Why aren't you fighting at your full potential?" The pinkette asks, getting slightly annoyed with his dodges.

"I should be asking you the same." He smirks. The pinkette rolls her eyes, yet runs at him again. She dodges his sloppy punch and kicks him in the gut. The man spits blood out. She punches him again and he falls to the ground, clutching his side.

"Seriously, why aren't you fighting?"

"Because you can't kill me." He smirks, and the pinkette takes a step back, confused. "If you kill me, all the resurrected will live forever, still abiding to my last wishes." Sakura's eyes widen in surprise.

B-but that could be good... Naruto would have his father, Sasuke-kun would have Itachi...

No, Sakura. They would still listen to Kabuto. They wouldn't change their mindset until every last one of you ninjas are dead.

... You're right, Riu. Sorry.

Hn.

What now?

Beat him to a pulp and then give him to the ANBU.

Hai!

The pinkette kicks him right in the head, causing him to pass out. She then runs back towards Tsunade and the Leaf.

~

"Sakura?!" Tsunade asks.

"Shishou. Take Kabuto. I have to help my team." Sakura hurriedly says, throwing Kabuto to her. "Oh, and don't kill him, otherwise the resurrected ninja will live on and continue to fight us." The pinkette adds before taking off and leaving an awestruck Tsunade behind. Yet, the elder listens and takes Kabuto towards their small prison.

~

Sakura arrives just as Naruto is kicked in the gut and Sasuke misses an attack on Kaguya. The pinkette assesses the scene and quickly heads over to a barely conscious Kakashi, Obito kneeling over him. Her hands light up green and she heals him, despite the exhaustion seeping into her bones.

"How are you still conscious? Your chakra reservoirs should have been depleted hours ago, from what I can tell. You're running past empty." Obito says from beside her.

"Determination. I cannot let my friends die. Yes, I am practically out of chakra. But I need to keep going, in order to save them." The pinkette replies. Obits remains silent. "Kakashi should be fine. He'll probably wake up within the next few minutes." The pinkette informs before collapsing against a tall rock. She closes her eyes and meditates.

"You're pretty strong." Obito suddenly says. At this, the pinkette laughs.

"I'm stronger than who I was in the past, but I'm nowhere near on par with Naruto or Sasuke-kun."

"You're wrong." The man says, and the pinkette opens an eye to look at him. "You're wrong." He repeats. "You're stronger than both of them combined. I see something in you that I have never seen in anyone else, well, at least not to your extent. You're kind-hearted and want to help your friends, which is why you decided to start training under Tsunade. Nobody could ever undergo her ruthless training, yet you did because you're so determined to save your friends; you said so yourself. Your strength is far stronger than Sasuke and Naruto, who fight to gain stronger, Sasuke to kill his brother and Naruto to protect his village." Obits says, and the pinkette's eyes widen, her cheeks turning pink.

"A-Arigato..."

"Don't thank me; I'm just telling the truth." Obito replies, and the pinkette nods.