(A/N: Here's chapter thirty-four! The final round of the Chunin Exams has begun! Let's enjoy it, shall we?

There's also something I would like to say. Please do NOT threaten or demand me to post a chapter. I have had several people threaten me to post a chapter, as if my life depends on how fast I post one. Hahaha! No, I will not post a chapter just because you demand me to do it. I'll post a chapter when they are READY to be posted, thank you very much! For those of you who waited patiently, I'd really like to thank you!

Okay, onward to the chapter!)

Defying Fate

The time has finally come! The third round of the Chunin Exam was about to begin.

Kira couldn't be any giddier with excitement. She finally gets to see the results of Naruto and Sasuke's training. It was almost like a mother watching her child going through one of the earlier stages of adulthood.

Yudai mewed happily, intoned with her mistress's cheerful mood. In fact, she seemed more jovial than usual.

The feline walked faithfully by her owner's side as Kira gleefully marched inside the Rakki, Rakki Hachimitsu Bakery, which was the bakery Akari owned. She finally got its name down.

"Hello!" Her cheerful voice resounded through the small store.

The sound of her voice startled the only noticeable resident in the area. Surprised, emerald eyes glanced over to the door and recognized the familiar dark haired kenjutsu user.

"Kira," Sakura blinked. "What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be heading out to the stadium like everyone else?"

Kira smiled brightly. "I was on my way when I realized we may not be given any snacks or refreshments, and I can't be entertained while I'm starving to death. So I'm stopping here to buy some melon pans and cookies and perhaps a bottle of lemon iced tea."

The pinklette almost rolled her eyes at her teammate's ridiculous reasoning. It's always about food with her. Can't go a day without stuffing her face into a jar full of cookies.

"What are you still doing here by the way?"

"My mom asked me to help stack freshly baked trays of castellas into the pantry," Sakura answered simply.

"Cool. By any chance, is your mom coming to the Chunin Exam finals?"

The pink haired girl looked thoughtful for a moment. "I don't know. She never told me. Maybe not, she'll probably be busy managing the store."

Kira let out a small pout. "Aw, that's too bad, because I'm sure she has a BIG surprise for you," she pronounced in a cheeky manner.

Pink eyebrows scrunched up in confusion. "What's that supposed to mean?"

The other girl looked away. "Oh, nothing."

"Tell me, Kira!"

She got an innocent whistle in response.

Just as she was going to knock Kira upside the head until she got a coherent answer, Sakura's mother came out of the kitchen with a tray of fresh peach tarts. She was covered in flour from head to toe.

"Sakura dear, could you take the rest of the tarts from the over?" Akari asked her daughter, as she set the tray down on the counter.

"Okay, mom!" Sakura sent an 'I'm not done with you' look at Kira before disappearing into the kitchen to do as her mom had asked.

Akari finally took notice of her daughter's dark haired friend. "Oh, Kira… I didn't see you there." She straightened up in a professional, businesslike posture. "What can I get you?"

Sapphire blue eyes glanced over at all the different assortment of sweets. "I'll have a half a dozen castellas and apple tarts, please? And a couple of bottles of lemon flavored ice tea."

"Give me a minute to get your order…"

Kira waited patiently as the brown haired Haruno woman went to go fix her sweets up. Yudai stretched and relaxed on her shoulder as her mistress gently scratched her back.

The kenjutsu user watched as the door swung up, revealing her pink haired friend. Sakura let out an exasperated huff as she nearly slammed the tray of peach tarts on the counter.

"Be careful with that, Sakura," Akari lightly scolded her daughter.

"I know, mom," Sakura replied with some annoyance in her voice.

Kira could tell by the look on her face that she wasn't enjoying this. Sakura looked completely tired and displeased. Maybe baking just wasn't her passion. She can see why she doesn't work part time in her mother's bakery.

The black haired kunoichi snapped out of her musings when a couple of small bags were handed to her.

Akari smiled sweetly at her customer's beaming face, almost like looking at a child's eyes widen in wonder and fascination when opening a new toy.

Kira gingerly wrapped her hand around the paper bags and placed the estimated amount of money in the woman's hands.

"See you again, Kira!"

Hearing her mother's goodbye, Sakura turned her head towards the door to see Kira departing. "Hey!" she shouted at her. "I'm not done with you yet!"

A swift 'goodbye' was yelled back at the pinklette, causing her to fume in irritation at being ignored and kept in the dark. Kira obviously knows something and she's going to find out what.

When she entered, Kira was amazed by the view of the stadium. It was huge! She's seen stadiums like this on TV, but actually being one was a whole different story!

The black haired kunoichi was sitting on a third row seat by the stairs at the east side of the stadium. So few people were here at the moment. She must have arrived a bit too early. Just a few seats behind her, she could hear spectators having giddying conversations about matches that were on all the watchers' pamphlets that they received at the receptionist. Kira didn't pick up one because she already knew what the first round matches are.

She heard Yudai let out a stifling mew from her perch on her mistress's head.

"Bored already, huh, Yudai?" Kira mused. She reached inside her short's pocket and pulled out a bag of the leftover stripes of bacon she made for breakfast this morning, remembering to bring snacks for the feline as well.

Yudai's ears perked up as the savory scent of the thin-sized pork waft through her nostrils. Inching forward, she took it from her mistress's hand and playfully chewed on the succulent meat.

"Finally! I've found you, Kira!"

The dark haired kunoichi turned her head at the sound of her name being called to meet with an annoyed Sakura and a slightly perplexed Ino.

Sakura shook her fist at her teammate in an angry manner. "You've got some nerve running out like that!"

Kira feign innocence. "Why, whatever do you mean, Sakura?"

A tick mark appeared on her head. The pinklette stomped down the stairs until she was face to face with Kira. "Don't try to sweet talk your way out of this," she growled.

Kira simply offered her ticked off friend a sheepish smile.

Ino glanced between the two female members of Team Seven, starting to feel fed up of being left out of…whatever was going on between the two.

"Okay, you two, mind telling me what's going on?" Ino asked impatiently, hands on her hips as she leaned forward, slightly glaring at the two accusingly.

Kira didn't know how she was going to escape the interrogation of two hotheaded girls. Luckily, she was saved by the participants of the finals finally making themselves known.

She gave the two girls a victory smirk. "Ladies, the forceful and insistent questions can wait, can't it?"

The pinklette sent a hard glare at the smirking dark haired kunoichi. She let out an exasperated sigh. "You win this round, Kira, but I'm going to find out what you're hiding from me one way or another," Sakura declared, determined to not let the subject go. She slid across the aisle to take the seat next to her teammate, with Ino following and sitting beside her.

As the minutes started passing by, the seats in the stadium began filling in. It was long afterwards, that the participants for the final round started making their appearances. When Kira spotted Gaara, she inwardly flinched, the events of last night flashing through her head. She subconsciously gripped the edge of her skirt.

"Is something wrong, Kira?"

She turned her head to be met face to face with a worried Sakura, all traces of her irritation from moments ago disappeared.

The dark haired kunoichi offered her friend a lopsided smile. "It's nothing, Sakura. Don't worry about it."

The pinklette didn't seem convinced. "Are you worried about Naruto?" It's Sakura's turn to offer Kira a smile, and this time it was genuine. "I'm sure Naruto will show up. He's an idiot. He probably just got himself into some kind of trouble again."

Kira giggled, her mood brightens up by Sakura's upbeat attitude. "Yeah, you're right, Sakura. What am I worrying about?"

"But it is kind of strange that neither Naruto nor Sasuke are here yet?" Ino added, her eyebrows scrunched up in concern because of Sasuke's absence.

The pink haired kunoichi nodded her head. "Yeah, it's strange. I understand Naruto being late, but Sasuke? Something must have happened."

As Sakura and Ino went off to their own world, Kira felt a little nervous. What happened to Naruto? Why isn't he here yet?

She felt the urge to get up and go look for him. However, that decision was shot down, as the Uzumaki entered the arena in a hilarious fashion. He was thrown off from the back of an angry bull and landed face first in the ground.

Kira tried her best to stifle her giggle. What the hell kind of entrance was that? Leave it to Naruto to make a fool of himself. He may be her best friend, but even she can admit he acts like an idiot sometimes.

She really wasn't concerned about Sasuke showing up. In fact, she desperately wished the Uchiha wouldn't appear at all. That way, he'd be spared from fighting Gaara. She couldn't bear the thought her friend being mutilated, especially if there isn't anything she can do about it.

"Please, just don't show up, Sasuke," Kira thought, entreatingly. "There's nothing wrong with throwing in the towel. There's always a next time."

After the crowd and everyone else got their bearings together from witnessing Naruto's uncannily, dramatic entrance, the Third Hokage, began to announce the start of the final round.

"Welcome all and our deepest thanks for coming to the Village Hidden in the Leaves for this year's Chunin Selection Exam!" His voice boomed throughout the stadium. "We've come to the final competition between the eight candidates who've made it through the preliminaries. We ask that no one leaves until all matches have been completed. Now, everyone enjoy!"

Kira raised an eyebrow. "I didn't know you could raise the volume of your voice using chakra." She sighed, disinterested. "Chakra seems to be for more mundane purposes the more I think about it."

She half listened to the proctor, Genma Shiranui, announce the same rules as the preliminary matches before declaring Naruto and Neji the contestants of the first match and dismissing the others.

"Hey, Sakura." Both Kira and Sakura turned towards Ino, whose face was scrunched up in incredulity. "I know you're worried about Sasuke, but c'mon… Don't look so down, aren't you going to cheer for Naruto?"

The pinklette's worried frown turned into a vague smile. "Yeah, you're right."

"That's the spirit!" Kira exclaimed excitedly. She pumped her fist in the air, feeling hyper and energetic all of a sudden. "Go, Naruto! Kick that arrogant Hyuga's ass!"

Yudai mewed from her spot on her mistress's head, imitating her eagerness.

Both Naruto and Neji were staring each other down, one condescendingly and the other in anger.

"You've got something to say to me?" Neji egged on, smugly.

Naruto clenched his shaking fist, then threw his balled up hand out in front of him. "Only what I told you the last time," he growled through clenched teeth. "I vow to win!"

In response, Neji activated his Byakugan. "He has the look. He's calmer now, more sure of himself." He smirked, getting into the Hyuga taijutsu style stance. "That's good for me, because I can't wait to see the look of despair on your face when you learn that your foolish vow is impossible to keep."

"Are we going to stand here talking all day? Let's get going! Show me what you've got!" the blond challenged.

"Alright, now let the first match… Begin!" Genma declared.

Seconds passed and nothing was happening. Naruto and Neji were simply staring each other down, analyzing one another, waiting for one of them to make the first move.

Of course, Naruto, being impatient as always, was the first to strike.

"You idiot!" Kiba shouted, furiously. "Don't attack him head on!"

Kira simply face palmed and shook her head in annoyance at Naruto's injudicious impulsiveness.

The blond threw a punch at the Hyuga, only for him to block it. Neji smirked as he got Naruto within range. The orange clad genin, realizing his mistake, barely managed dodge the Hyuga's two fingered blow to his arm by back flipping out of them.

Kira sighed in relief. "That was close. One hit and it would've been over."

Naruto wiped the sweat that was forming on his brow. Just seeing Neji's irritating smirk was enough to tick him off. He clenched his fist to keep himself from doing anything rash.

Taking a deep breath, he held his hand into a familiar hand sign. "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Five clones appeared next to Naruto. With a snap of his fingers, all five clones charged at Neji.

The Hyuga gave a condescending smirk before jabbing his fingers into the clones' chakra points with such accuracy and grace, making them vanish one by one without getting a single scratch in return.

However, instead of feeling devastated about his clones' demise, the blond boy lips turned upward into a triumphant smile. "Gotcha!" Naruto declared, proudly.

Neji blinked in confusion before his eyes widened in surprise when kunais flew at him in place of the destroyed shadow clones.

Out of reflex, the Hyuga spun around at high speed, a barrier of chakra forming around him. "Rotation!" The weapons effortlessly bounced off the barrier.

Naruto tsked. He almost had the bastard!

Neji stretched his hands in his usual Gentle Fist style. "I told you, any trick you can come up with is completely useless against me," he smirked. "You are fated to lose the battle. Face it, you were doomed from the start!"

The blond growled in frustration. "I've heard enough of your destiny crap!" His hand formed their signature sign, and this time the entire stadium was filled clones of Naruto. Without a moment's hesitation, all the clones charged at the Hyuga with a mighty yell.

The Hyuga made a sound of annoyance. "This jutsu of yours is useless against me!" He proceeded to attack the clones, hitting their chakra points and making them vanish, one by one. However, to his surprise, when the clones poofed away, kunais came showering at him from the cloud of smoke.

"Damn," Neji clicked his tongue in frustration. Without wasting a spare moment, he quickly spun around, a chakra shield forming around him in his Rotation technique. Unfortunately, he was nicked in his face, arms, and legs before the Rotation jutsu could be formed.

He didn't have time to relaxed though, as clones were charging at him, left and right. He flipped backwards and the clones crashed into each other onto a pile of orange flesh. The Hyuga took several kunais and shurikens out of his pouch and tossed them at the clones before they could react, obliterating a lot of them.

Neji was starting to tire himself out, if his moderately heavy breathing was any indication. He didn't think defeating this loud loser would take this long. Nevertheless, he knows he'll win in the end. Destiny says so. He just needed to find a way to bypass all the annoying shadow clones and get to the real Naruto.

The Hyuga gazed upon remaining six clones left, knowing full well that the original has to be amongst them. Neji didn't know what the unpredictable knucklehead would do. He jabbed his hand inside his pouch, picking up a few more kunais. He tossed them towards the remaining clones.

Using that as a distraction, since all the clones were trying not to get impaled by the sharp weapons, Neji dived right in the midst of the fray, focused chakra into the tips of his fingers, and destroyed the clones one by one until there was one Naruto left standing. The real Naruto.

He needed to act fast! He had the blond right where he wants him and he's within range, too. The Hyuga wanted to finish this right now, while he still has some chakra left. Those two rotation jutsus took most of his energy out of him.

Neji stood firmly as he got into position for his next technique, his arms outstretched on either side of him. "Let's end this!"

Before Naruto could make a move of any kind, Neji already begun his technique. "Eight Trigrams: Sixty-Four Palms! Two Palms!" He jammed his chakra coated fingers into Naruto's torso. The blond made a grunt sound of pain as the Hyuga continued his assault. "Four Palms! Eight Palms! Sixteen Palms! Thirty-Two Palms! Sixty-Four Palms!" He struck all the chakra points in Naruto, knocking him over.

The orange clad ninja coughed up blood as he struggled to stand up, but to no avail. "What the hell did he do to me?! I-I can't move!"

Cerulean blues glared up at his opponent as he smirked down at him, condescendingly.

"You shouldn't try moving. I blocked all your chakra points," Neji informed the incapacitated blond, tiredly. He looks like he's at the low points of his chakra reserves himself. "I told you that you, a failure, was destined to lose to me, a gifted genius. Once a failure, always a failure."

He turned to face proctor, ignoring a growling Naruto. "You should call the match."

Kira watched the battle unfold with mixed emotions, as she was watching the battle between Naruto and Neji. Of course, she wanted Naruto win, but something felt…off. She couldn't place her finger on it. It was the same subtle feeling of animosity she felt before in the Forest of Death.

The dark haired kunoichi tried stay as calm as possible, while voicing cheers of encouragement to ensure that people around her wouldn't sense her unease.

"C'mon! Naruto! You can do it!" Sakura yelled out, pumping her fist in the air.

Sapphire blue eyes gazed around the stadium. Her instincts were almost never wrong. She just had to find the source of her apprehension. She didn't want anyone she knows getting hurt because she wasn't prepared for the worse case scenario.

Kira glanced over to the tower podium where the Hokage, and another guy donning a similar robe, but in blue instead of red. She learned that he was the Kazekage, the leader of the Village Hidden in the Sand. However, there was something…unsettling about him. She tried to squint her eyes to get a better look at him.

The black haired female almost froze on her spot when the Kazekage tilted his head in her direction. In that instant, the feeling of dread overcame her. Those eyes… She recognized the same malicious intent in those eyes as the one's Orochimaru possessed. And he was staring directly at her? A subtle wave of menacing chakra hit her like a thousand bricks.

No, it was worse!

It felt like she was trapped in a black pit. It's been so long since she felt this amount of killing intent that she nearly choked on the sensation. Only prior experiences held her together.

Kira quickly averted her eyes, hoping that no one noticed her anxiety. Those few seconds felt like an eternity.

"Is something wrong, Kira?"

The girl in question nearly jumped out of her skin, but she managed to maintain herself. She turned to face Sakura and Ino, who were both looking at her in concern.

"Oh, it's nothing," Kira answered, sending them a reassuring smile. Ino seemed to be convinced, as she shrugged her shoulders and focused her attention on Naruto's match once again. However, Sakura didn't seem satisfied, as being closer to her than Ino is, she has feeling that her teammate was genuinely worried about something. The pinklette doesn't know what it is though, but still… It felt like Kira was trying evade something…whatever it is. It's hard to explain…

When the pink haired kunoichi was about to question her friend further, a massive wave of chakra hit her full force. She forcibly turned her head towards the battleground to see Naruto's red chakra sprouting out from him.

What a second… Red chakra? That isn't natural! Chakra isn't red! For all intents and purposes, chakra is normally blue, not red! What the hell was going on? Did Naruto possess some sort of kekkei genkai?

Out of the corner of her emerald eyes, she watched, as without warning, Kira stood up from her seat. Upon closer expectation, the pink haired kunoichi noticed her dark haired friend staring intently at the battle. At Naruto. Her eyes were vacant, as if she was seeing something that wasn't there. "Kira! Is something wrong?"

When Kira didn't respond, it worried Sakura that something must be really troubling her friend. When her dark-haired friend began to tremble, that's when the pinklette started to panic.

Sakura jumped out of her seat, trying to comfort her hysterical teammate. "What's wrong, Kira?! Please, tell me!"

Kira didn't respond, instead, she held her hands towards her ears, covering them, as if she was desperately trying cover up a noise only she could hear. Her lips began trembling and her sapphire blue eye widening in fear.

"Naruto… He's…"

"Naruto's what?!" Sakura asked Kira, frantically. "Is something happening to Naruto?"

"Naruto… The Fox…isn't happy… Don't use…"

The pinklette was hopelessly confused and frightened by her friend's broken speech. She doesn't know what to do. She wished Kakashi-sensei was here. Despite how laidback he was, their sensei was reliable when they needed him most.

Fortunately, Kira started to calm down, her rapid breathing shortens to light gasps of air until her breathing returned completely normal. "I'm…okay now, Sakura." She gently removed the pinklette's arm from her shoulder. "Sorry for making you worry." Her lips stretched into a reassuring smile. "But I'm fine now, Sakura."

Sakura was hesitant for a minute. "Y-You sure?"

The other girl nodded her head enthusiastically and popped right down into her seat.

However, Sakura didn't seem convinced in the least. Something was troubling her friend, and it kind of made her feel useless that she couldn't do anything to help her. Ever since she became a member of Team Seven, she has never done anything to help or support her teammates, has she? She always fell in the background, a nuisance, waiting to be protected by Sasuke, Naruto, and Kira.

"Something wrong, forehead?"

Emerald green eyes met concerned cyan blue ones. It almost surprised her. It's been so long since Ino showed that level of regard for her wellbeing, not since they first met.

Sakura sat back down in her seat. She watched with admiration as Naruto delivered a powerful blow towards Neji's jaw. The Hyuga flew through the air and landed on the ground in loud heap, completely knocking him unconscious.

The pinklette could practically feel the audience's complete awe and disbelief that the clumsy, good for nothing, dead last defeated a brilliant prodigy from the prestigious Hyuga clan.

"Man, Sakura, your team is amazing!" Ino squealed out excitedly. "First, Naruto surprises everyone by beating Neji. And after her preliminary round, Kira is becoming quite popular as well. Plus, to top it all off, Sasuke, the number one Rookie in Konoha, is on your squad, too! How does it feel to have such a superstar team?!"

The pink haired kunoichi knows she should feel flattered by the blonde girl's compliments, but she just felt even more depressed.

"Yeah, I guess so…"

"Forehead, what's the matter?" Ino's face scrunched up in worry and unease.

Sakura sighed, dejectedly. "It's just everything you said about the other three is true. Naruto, Sasuke, and Kira are advancing so fast, I feel like I'm just a burden to the team. The Forest of Death reminded me just how dependent I am on those three. Just dissolving into the background, waiting for them to make things better. Sometimes I wonder if I'm really cut out to be a ninja…"

A soft, yet fierce slap to her face cut her off from her depressive monologue. However, the slap left the pinklette absolutely stunned as she stared wide eyed and speechless at her former best friend turned rival, who was glaring at her in return.

Ino gripped onto Sakura's shoulders tight, her fingernails digging into her skin. "Why would you think something like that?" Ino hissed, angrily. "Why are you having these doubts now? Yeah, Sasuke is great and Naruto and Kira are becoming aspiring ninjas in their own right, but isn't it a little too early to be calling it quits just because they've grown faster than you have?"

Cyan blue eyes glinted with sincerity and encouragement. "Don't you remember our battle? How you showed me that you weren't the same crybaby Sakura I knew in the Academy?" A small laughter erupted. "Hell, even when I had the advantage with my mind transfer jutsu, you still managed to turn the tables and we ended up having a draw." Ino shook her head, trying to clear away her thoughts, a bright smile gracing her lips. "I told you, forehead, you've blossomed into a beautiful flower. And I mean it!"

Sakura was deeply touched by her best friend's touching and heartwarming speech. She had to hold her tears at bay to keep them from falling down her face.

"Thanks, Ino! That really means a lot coming from you!"

"Glad I could help!" The blonde haired kunoichi turned away and cheered loudly as Shikamaru clumsily made it into the battlefield for his match against Temari, thanks to Naruto pushing him over the railing.

"Say, Ino?"

"Hmm?" Ino tilted her head towards Sakura in curiosity.

The pink haired girl bit the bottom of her lips, indicating how nervous and unsure she must be feeling at the moment. "After the Chunin Exams are over, do you mind training together? With me?"

Her friend simply smiled at her. "Sure!" Her eyebrows then scrunched up in determination. "But don't think that I'm ever going to lose to you again, forehead!"

That comment fired Sakura up with resolve not to be outshone by her rival. "I wouldn't let you beat me either, Ino-pig!"

(A/N: Here's the end of chapter thirty-four! I want to say once again, sorry for the long hiatus! About half a year since I've last updated, huh? Heesh! I whole bunch different plot bunnies and story ideas having been running around in my mind. I needed to sort them out.

Okay, this chapter originally was going to showcase the full-out battle between Naruto and Neji, but I decided to skip over at least half of it. Honestly, it didn't turn out much different than in the manga or the anime. Only difference is that Naruto knows some very basic fuinjutsu as shown when he can seal kunais and shurikens. It's not much for sealing techniques, but as for now, I wasn't really planning for Naruto to learn very many sealing jutsus until after the three-year time skip, and we'll get to that later. Plus, giving the fact that fuinjutsu is extremely difficult to learn, even just the basics and with Jiraiya being the only person alive and willing to teach Naruto, you can see how challenging it will be for him. But him being able to master sealing his weapons into…well...seals are a feat in itself, as I said before, even the basic fuinjutsu is very tough to master.

But back to the topic on why the battle between Naruto and Neji. Yes, one of the reason it became out of focus during the second half was because I was a repeat of their anime battle minus some minor changes, like Naruto using fuinjutsu, but also because I wanted to focus a little bit more on Sakura. You can obviously see that Sakura begins having some doubts about her ninja abilities. And I wanted to give her more of a reason, a motivation to get stronger. Plus, I wanted to her to start rekindling her friendship with Ino, which is why I gave Ino the role of that motivational speech to cheer Sakura up. I also hope I didn't OOC Ino though. Honestly, I never actually believed that Ino and Sakura rekindled their friendship after their fateful showdown during the Chunin Exams. They still seemed very antagonistic towards each other, no different than their first appearances together in the anime. All that battle showed was that Sakura was no longer living in Ino's shadow, no friendship recovering whatsoever. Minus all the fillers. It didn't really seem like they became friends again until after Sasuke left the village. With the object of their rivalry gone, they didn't have much to fight over. So, instead of making Sasuke an excuse on why they break off their friendship and rekindle, I've decided to do it my own way. Honestly, what would have happened to Sakura's relationship with Ino, if Sasuke never left the village? Like any old good friend/rival relationship of the Naruto universe by making Sakura and Ino sparing partners, and see where it goes from there. At least, until they each find their own personal sensei to train them.

I hope this explanation helps! I'm sorry to say this, but this story will have to suffer through another short hiatus. I know, you guess just went through a hiatus until this chapter just to suffer through another one. The truth is, I've been obsessed with the anime series 'Monster'! So obsessed that I can't think straight on plot ideas for this story and my newest fanfic is a crossover between Naruto and Monster, where Sakura dies protecting Naruto during the Fourth Great Ninja War and gets reincarnated into the World of Monster. I would say it's my first M-rated multi-chapter story, so if you don't like nudity or any dark or sexual themes, adult content in general, don't read it. I don't want you reading it, then complaining and/or reporting it just because it showed that sort of content, even though it's rated M, so you should know what to expect and I've warned you not to read it unless you are prepared to read limes and lemons and other stuff.

P.S., Johan is the best villain ever! If he was in the Naruto universe, he would be the one responsible for the wars, not Zetsu, Madara, Kaguya or whoever is the true culprit. Everytime I watch Naruto, I just can't help but to think, if a villain like Johan was in the series, the show would be much better! *shrugs* Just saying!

Anyway, read, review, and comment! I like to hear what you guys think and see you next time!)