Disclaimer: I do NOT own Sasuke, Sakura, Naruto... or anyone/anything you recognize or have seen before in an anime. I only own my OC's... and (maybe) Mikazuki Maoi.

Author's Note: There's a part missing that was in the regular Naruto-anime storyline, but this is my story so... Just deal with it, or just not read. Okay? Okay.

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Hi, I'm Mikazuki Maoi, and I'm 12 years-old. I have brown hair that's a little bit longer than shoulder-length, and light pink eyes. As a Konoha ninja, I'm in Team 7 with Sasuke, Sakura and Naruto. I use hand-to-hand combat skills, taijutsu and 2 kodachis to fight. I wear pretty basic ninja clothing, consisting of a fishnet shirt I wear under a black jacket, black capris with pockets, and traditional ninja sandals. There's not much to say about my childhood, and my personality? You'll find-out soon enough!

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I've known Sasuke from a long way back. We've been friends for forever, as long as I can remember. However, ever since Itachi Uchiha killed the Uchiha clan, we've been more distant and talked less. Sasuke himself is more solitary and doesn't seem to share secrets and other important things with me. But that's OK now, because coincidently, we are on the same team. I somehow feel that our connection that was broken a long time ago has now been healed... Well, at least I hope so.

It was only around 3 o'clock in the afternoon and I was lying back relaxing on my bed, when started to drift off into a deep sleep. When I woke-up, it was 9:00 PM. I decided to go and take a walk around Konoha's streets, so I gathered all my epuipment (weapons) just in case anything were to happen. Walking down the streets, I saw a cement bench and was going to take a rest when I saw Sasuke. He was pacing around, with a backpack, as if he was going somewhere.

Before he saw me, I quickly hid behind a tree, near some bushes and small plants. He couldn't see me here. I started to observe him as he walked around.

Then I saw Sakura walking, who she stopped to see Sasuke. Her eyes diverted to where the curse-mark would be if the clothe he was wearing wasn't in the way. Sasuke stopped walking, too and said, "What are you doing... wandering around here at night?" he finished.

"Because in order to get out of the village, you have to take this road," Sakura quietly said while kind of hanging her head.

Starting to walk past Sakura who was in his way, Sasuke ordered, "Go home and sleep."

When Sasuke was around 4 feet past Sakura and still slowly walking, tears formed in Sakura's eyes and started to run down her cheeks. "Why?" She turned half of her body around, enough to face Sasuke who was still walking. "Why won't you tell me anything? Why do you always stay silent? Why won't you say anything to me?"

"Why do I have to tell you anything?" Sasuke shot back at her questions. "It's none of your business!"

Now, really visible and wet rivers were forming and rapidly falling down Sakura's face.

"Stop concering yourself about what I do."

Sakura seemed as if she was about to fall apart, inside-out. "You've... always hated me... huh? Do y-you remember... the day we became Genin and when our three-member team was first chosen?"

"..." No response.

"The day you and I were here alone... you got mad at me, remember?" Sakura seemed to have a flashback of something.

:Sakura's Flashback:

Sakura (with long hair) was standing there near Sasuke and commented something about Naruto. "Oh yeah, you know how he doesn't have parents, right?"

Sasuke squinted his eyes and glared at Sakura, who was totally unaware of it.

"... If you're alone, your parents wouldn't get mad at you." Sakura finished. "That's why he's so selfish."

"... The solitude," Sasuke quietly said.

"What?"

"You can't even compare it to when your parents get mad at you."

Sakura had a kind of concerned look on her face. "What is the matter?"

Turning his head around a bit, Sasuke stated, "You're annoying."

:End of Flashback:

After a few seconds of complete silence, Sasuke said: "I don't remember."

A tear drop falling off of Sakura's face again, she said, "Makes sense... That's something that happened a while back." I could easily tell that Sakura was trying to hide back the shock of Sasuke's response and suppressing the tears. "But that's when everything started..." she said, faking a smile. "You and I... And also Naruto and Kakashi-sensei. The four of us completed a number of missions together. They were tough and a lot of work, but... Above all... It was fun!"

Putting up a smile to try to hide her real emotions, Sakura said once again, "I know about your clan..." She looked away a bit. "But revenge... That won't make anyone happy. No one. Neither you... nor I."

You couldn't see Sasuke's face, only his mouth because his hair was hiding his eyes, and he was at an angle where I could only hear, but not see much of him. "Just as I thought..." was what he said.

Sakura turned to see Sasuke. "I'm different from you guys. I walk a different path from you guys. I tried to think that it was my path to do the things we've done up to now. The four of us did things together, but my heart decided on revenge in the end." Sasuke paused for a second. "That's my purpose in life. I can't become you or Naruto."

"Are you going to choose to be alone again?!" Sakura yelled. "On that day, you taught me that solitude is painful! I understand that so well right now... I have a family and I have friends... But if you're gone, to me, it's the same as being alone!!"

"From here on, a new path will open to all of us," Sasuke calmly said.

"I...! I love you so much!" Sakura screamed. "If you stay with me, I'll make sure you won't regret it! Every day will be fun. We'll definitely be happy. I'll do anything for you. So... Please! Stay here! I'll help you with your revenge! I'll do something!!! So please stay here... with me!" Sakura started crying again. "If you can't stay, take me with you!"

Sasuke just turned around, smirked a bit and said, "You really are annoying!" Then he started walking again.

Running to catch up, Sakura threatened, "Don't leave! If you do, I'll scream!"

At that moment, Sasuke kind of 'teleported' behind Sakura, making Sakura's eyes widen in surprise. "Sakura... Thank you." A few seconds after that, there was a light 'thud' noise and Sakura fell. Before that happened, Sasuke picked her up and laid her down on the cold, cement bench.

I figured right about now was the right time, so I jumped out of my hiding-place and teleported a few feet behind Sasuke. "Sasuke!" I called out.

Sasuke turned around and said, "Mikazuki. What are you doing?" His attitude didn't seem as cold as it was towards Sakura a few minutes ago, so I guess the friendship between us wasn't that bad.

"Sasuke, don't leave. I won't let you!" I said, while pulling out a kunai with my left hand. I stood in position, ready to fight. "If you're going to... you'll have to fight me first!" I was totally prepared. Hell if I'd let Sasuke go to Orochimaru-rapist!! 'I won't let you...!' I thought.

"... You really want to fight?" Sasuke said with an emotionless face.

"Yes! I'm going to fight you! You're not gonna to leave!" I said. Just then, the most retarded thought popped into my head. 'Then again, I might not have to fight him... I could just go along with him to Orochimaru.' Shaking that thought away, I focused on Sasuke. He was pretty strong, I knew that by the missions we've done together as a team.

"Hn. You know what happened to me in my past. I'm going to kill Itachi Uchiha. I'm an avenger, and this is the path my heart's decided. No one's going to stop me..." Sasuke's eyes and nose were hidden from me, yet again, his hair was covering them, giving him a mysterious, deadly appearance. "... Not even you," he finished.

My eyes widened. 'N-Not even me? So he still does think of me as a close friend... or something like it,' I thought.

Being off guard, Sasuke teleported in front of me, and slapped the kunai out of my hand. 'Crap!' I thought. Being quite close to me, Sasuke leaned a bit in my face. I kind of leaned back, almost falling back in the process, whereas Sasuke teleported again behind me and pushed me up with a rough push. He whispered in my ear, "Or... you can come with me. Your choice. I'll be standing near the tree you were hiding behind, come here within 10 minutes or I'm leaving."

He then poofed away with a cloud of smoke.

'What? He actually asked me if I wanted to accompany him on his journey to get revenge on Itachi?! What the hell?!?!' I thought. 'Should I take him up on that offer...? He could just say that to buy himself time. Well, earlier I did think about going along with him...' Just realizing that I has just used-up about 4 or 5 precious minutes thinking, I quickly went back to my house to gather my stuff. I decided I was going with Sasuke.

Back at my house (where I quietly crept back in) in my room, I got my stuff and put it in a backpack I would wear. Like the important things: underwear, a few shirts and pants... Getting my weapon (kodachi), I was about to jump out the window when I remembered something extremely important. Backing up, I looked through a drawer and put a wallet-looking item in one of my pockets. Inside, there was a long list of family pictures. It's a real treasure to me... Then I left to meet-up with Sasuke.

When I was back at where he told me he'd be, I saw him. 'So he really did wait. It wasn't some kind of lie to buy him time so he could leave,' I thought. Walking up to him, he sensed me and said, "Okay, let's go."

We were now walking side-by-side (but not so close) in a forest, Sasuke seeming to know where he was going. It was kind of foggy that night, so we couldn't see more than 2 feet in front of us. Also... it's kind of embarrassing to say, but I think I may've developed a crush for Sasuke ever since I was put on the same team with him and have gotten to know him better. It may not have seemed like it when I was going to fight him, but it's true. I like him. There was total silence between Sasuke and I except for the sound of our footsteps. It made me feel nervous and fidgety, and I didn't want to accidentally trip or fall. 'Don't make a fool of myself...' I told myself.

'Why did Sasuke as me to come with him?' That random question popped in my head. I wanted to ask him that, so I did. It'd be breaking the silence, too. "Sasuke, why'd you ask me to come with you?"

"Because. You're pretty strong for a girl, and we're... friends." Sasuke emotionlessly said. His face was a stoic as ever. "Right?"

"Y-yeah!" I said happily. 'So we are friends. That's good...' A blush was rising on my face, it was good to know that everything between was well, okay, and that he acknowledged me as strong for a female.

FF (Fastforward) Walking

Figuring that we weren't going to arrive until a long while later, I just started to walk in the direction Sasuke was walking in. Then Sasuke stopped, so I stopped too. "Sasuke, are we there yet?" I asked.

"Yes. We're here." he replied.

Just then, someone emerging from the thick fog appeared, he was wearing a hoodie-cloak thing, and he had glasses on. I could also tell that he had grayish silver hair. "Orochimaru-sama is waiting for you," the stranger said. Something then like a floorboard disguised to blend in like the dirt-ground opened, revealing a long set of stairs. The hooded stranger started to walk down the stairs, and so did Sasuke. So I just followed.

The second we were inside, the door slammed shut, scaring the living shit out of me. 'Holy fuck!' I thought. Now, it was totally dark, with no light whatsoever. Lightly grabbing onto Sasuke so I wouldn't trip, we finally arrived at the base of the stairs. There, I looked past Sasuke, to see a large stone-room with lit torches hanging on the sides of the walls. In the middle of the room was a man with light purple eye-shadow looking-thing on his eye lids and a little bit higher, with light green snake-eyes and long, black hair. I automatically recognized him as Orochimaru. We met before in this survival-training test. He was the one that gave Sasuke the curse-mark. Damn him.

Right beside him was a guy shorter than him, with grayish-silver hair in a small, low ponytail. He was also wearing glasses. He looked like the guy who accompanied us in the survival-training test. The one with the scrolls I think... Well, whatever, I may be wrong. I think he forfeited when we were doing the real examination for the one-on-one battles. Oh well, but I couldn't help but be confused. 'Why the hell's Kabuto here!? Is he Orochimaru's comrade?' I thought. Then it occured to me that the hooded figure just outside of this underground hide-out was Kabuto... Well he probably was, anyway.

Orochimaru smirked. "Sasuke-kun... so you've decided to come to me after all..." He seemed really pleased. The bastard...

Sasuke didn't say anything, he just continued looking at Orochimaru, who was smirking. "Now then, Kabuto, show Sasuke and this..." he looked at me with disgust. "Who IS this girl, Sasuke-kun?"

"A friend. Her name is Mikazuki Maoi..." was all Sasuke had to say.

"Hm." Orochimaru didn't seem happy about me being with Sasuke. "Kabuto. Show Sasuke and Mikazuki the room they will be staying in."

Walking down a dark, eerie and creepy stone hall with Kabuto in front of Sasuke who was by my side, we soon arrived at a pretty plain-looking door that didn't look any different than the ones I saw while walking down the hall. "This is where you and... Mikazuki will be staying," as he opened the squeaky door. Inside, there were 2 plain beds (pillow 'n blanket), set side-by-side, but not too close. There was a desk with a poorly lit lamp, a bench-thing, and chair. ... That was pretty much it.

'Oh. Wow, that's less than I expected...' I mentally thought to myself.

After Kabuto left and closed the door, I started to sort out all my things. Like getting all my clothes, folding them neatly and then setting them on the bench-thing. Sasuke did the same thing, except with his clothe. I guess since he was a guy and all, clothe weren't that important. After I was done, I sat down on one of the beds, which was the one I picked to be mine.

'Hmm... there's not much to do around here.' I sighed. I wasn't sure what we'd do tomorrow. My best guess was that Sasuke would get stronger by receiving training from Orochimaru or something. '... But what about me?' I mean, Sasuke asked me to come, but why? Seriously, I had no clue. 'I'll find out soon enough, or sometime in the future,' I reassured myself.

Breaking me from my thoughts, Sasuke said, "Mikazuki." It kinda shocked me. I was so deep in thought.

"Y-yes?" I answered.

"Go to sleep." I nodded as I laid on my bed.

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So yeah, Sasuke and you are at Orochimaru's base, and right now you're going to go to sleep. I personally think that the part with Sakura 'trying' to stop Sasuke from leaving was a bit too long. But I wasn't sure how I'd do the rest of the story without that part, so I just went along and watched the episode that had that in it. Basically, I was copying everything word-by-word in that section... everything belongs to Masashi Kishimoto.

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