Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Naruto mangas but I have borrowed my friend's (a lot)

Summery: Sakura gets fed up with always being the weakest and runs away. Six years later the Hokage of the town of Konoha is holding a tournament for a mysterious weapon. What happens when a certain missing nin finds her way back? How has she changed? What will her ex-teammates think? (little sasusaku, itasaku)

AN: This is my first fic so please give me feed back thankies!

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Chapter 1: Nightshade

Again I stood cold, in the rain, alone, looking at the dark, wet gates ahead. It rained harder as I approached the gates; it always rained when I came here. The guards didn't notice me, they never did. And why should they? I hadn't worked all those years not to be able to hide my self from some half-minded twits whose only job was to simply stand there.

No. I came here for a propose. I always came here for the same propose. Every year.

I walked through a silent town as the cold hard droplets of April's harsh showers washed over me. No one recognized me. No one ever did. I didn't care it made my visit easier. I was here for one thing, two people…

My feet stopped as I reached my destination. There embedded in the muddy ground before a sakura tree lay two small, square stones. My parents, they had gone far before their time on a mission. I stood there and the rain just pored harder, but I didn't mind the cold water running down my face it hind my tears. I knelt down and placed the bouquet of flowers I had brought on the stones. The bouquet was of roses and cherry blossoms and lilacs and other pink flowers, with the exception of one small black nightshade flower drowning in the mist of pink.

I got up and walked back through the town; it was then that the hunger stroke me. I had been traveling for two days strait without food or rest to make it here on time. I suppose a few more minuets in this sad town would not harm me. After all it would be a difficult task to travel on an empty stomach. So I walked into a ramen bar I had been passing and sat in the corner so as not to draw unwanted attention to my self.

I decided to amuse myself by listening in on the conversations of the towns people whilst I ate. There was one table that caught my eye, it had several all sitting together watching and loud blonde and an angry raven-haired man argue…