I'm going to give this fic my all until it's complete!

I don't own Naruto.

This begins during the wave arc, I thought I would try something different so please give it a read~ I'm aiming for 2000+ words a chapter and no less!

UPDATED: 3/09/13

Sakura's P.O.V.

"Please move." Sakura said, pushing past yet another group of ragged looking villagers begging for money and food. She did her best to ignore their pleading stares and the pity she felt for their circumstances while she picked up speed. Tears prickled the corners of her eyes again as she attempted to put as much distance as possible between herself and her team.

'Why did they react like that? We're meant to be a team!'

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"Well it looks like the girl of the team has the best chakra control. Maybe the "great" Uchiha clan isn't so great after all hmmm?" Kakashi said to his students from his vantage point above the two boys while Sakura gazed at him questionably. "It also looks like she has a better chance of becoming Hokage than any other genin here, right Naruto?"

As soon as those comments left her sensei's mouth all Sakura could do was watch in shock as her teammates turned their glares towards her before charging at their respective trees.

Getting her sensei's attention, Sakura requested that she be done for the day and headed towards the village before he could see the tears welling up in her eyes.

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'I know that Kakashi was just trying to motivate them but, they turned on me so fast! Just a few petty words and I feel like I have to watch out for kunai being aimed at my head. That's the first time I've really seen them angry with me...' Sakura made her way out of the village and headed towards the misty beach she knew was just around a cluster of trees, hoping for some time alone to think of a way to make up with Sasuke-kun.

'Kakashi! He knew that would happen... come to think of it he didn't even congratulate me on getting it right. He's always so focused on Sasuke-kun and Naruto that he never even pays attention to me.' Coming to this realisation, her pent up tears spilled over and began to freely fall down her cheeks as she let herself drop to a sitting position in the sand. Drawing her knees to her chest, she rested her head on her crossed arms and cried.

"Sasuke-kun, Naruto." she mumbled to herself, for the first time thinking about her teammates in a non-fan girlish way.

'Sasuke-kun is the last Uchiha as well as the number one rookie of our year and Naruto... he may act like a dobe but he's a real power house. I mean, all those missions and the spars him and Sasuke always get into, he's so strong. It's fair to say that I come out last on our team. I'm not as strong as them, all I have is my knowledge and that won't get me very far as a ninja. It's Kakashi's job to help me though, how many times have I asked to join in on spars and jutsu training! It's always "You don't have enough chakra for this kind of thing yet." or "You should just observe for a while."!' she admitted to herself, her expression hardening for a few seconds before crumbling again. 'No, I can't pin this on Kakashi, it's my own fault. I'm not strong enough to keep up with them, my chakra reserves are nowhere as big as theirs, and I'm physically weak compared to most of the other ninja that graduated this year.'

So focused on her thoughts, she didn't even notice that the large chakra signature that had been hiding in the nearby trees suddenly appeared a few feet in front of her.

Madara's P.O.V.

It was shocking to see a weeping pink haired girl race past his hiding spot- completely oblivious to his unsuppressed chakra signature - and collapse into the sand. Now he may be a supposedly dead s-class nuke-nin but he was raised as a gentleman and gentlemen don't leave females that are in a state of obvious distress alone.

"Well, I never could stand seeing a girl cry." he whispered to himself before putting his mask securely in place and appearing a few feet from her. 'Let's get this show on the road.'

Sakura's P.O.V.

"AHHHHHHHHH!" was exclaimed a few feet in front of her followed by a loud thump. Sakura's head snapped up as she clumsily reached for her kunai holster only to freeze at the sight of the whimpering man kneeling on the ground clutching his right hand to his chest.

He was clothed in a black, long sleeved shirt, black gloves, and long dark blue pants with white bandages wrapped around the bottom, covering the top of his dark blue open toed shoes, a long dark green scarf covered his neck. He had spiky, long black hair that looked like it reached just below mid back; the most shocking thing though in Sakura's opinion was the bright orange lollipop like mask with only one eye hole.

'What the hell?' Sakura thought before snapping out of her daze and wiping her face clean of tears. Leaning a bit closer to the man and seeing the tear in the fabric of his glove, Sakura carefully crawled to his side, keeping a wary eye on him for any sudden movements, before gently reaching out and offering her hand to him awkwardly.

"Um, ex-excuse me, do you need some help? I have bandages and first aid supplies with me if you do." She offered, wincing as her voice cracked and keeping an eye on the man as he lifted his head to look at her while gingerly resting his injured hand in hers.

Madara's P.O.V.

Observing her closely, Madara couldn't help but think that he'd seen her somewhere before. Pink hair and green eyes weren't common, but he dismissed the thought as he watched her take a bandage out from her back pouch and begin wrapping his hand after removing the torn glove covering it.

"It's only a small cut but you might want to avoid moving it too much for the next day or so, just in case." She advised him while releasing his now bandaged hand and looking uncomfortably at his masked face. "How did you do that anyway?" she questioned, gesturing to his hand, this causing a smirk to come to his face as he reached over suddenly and glomped the pinkette, knocking her over.

"Well Tobi saw pretty girl rush over here crying so he just had to cheer her up! But Tobi tripped, he does that a lot, but Tobi thinks pretty girls like you shouldn't cry. What's pretty girl's name anyway? Tobi's name is Tobi!" he announced in a rush before dislodging himself and settling down next to her.

He could tell he had shocked her. The way her eyes widened, a blush blooming on her face, and how her chakra spiked was almost enough to make him snicker. He loved the shocked reactions 'Tobi' got.

"Uh, my name is Sakura, Haruno Sakura. It's nice to meet you Tobi." she said while sitting up, her eyes taking on a confused glint as he gave her another glomp, this time however, she was able to stay upright.

"Oooohhhh~ you're so cute Cherry-chan! Tobi wants to know why you were crying! Was someone mean to Cherry-chan? Don't worry, Tobi will give them what for!" he yelled the last part jumping to his feet and punching the air above himself a few times, mentally sweat dropping at himself. Watching her giggle a few times he smirked again, eyeing her headband with obvious distaste while waiting for her to reply.

"It's ok Tobi, I wouldn't want to burden you with my troubles-"was all she got out before he interrupted her.

"Tobi thinks that talking to others is the best way to sort our troubles out-" he internally winced at the bad taste that comment left in his mouth "and talking to complete strangers is the best way to get advice!" he stated while sitting down again and resting his head on his folded hands, facing her direction. "Go ahead Cherry-chan, tell Tobi what's wrong."

"Well... I suppose so..."she relented and began. "Me and my te-friends were doing an exercise our sen-older friend gave us, climbing a tree without using our hands- we had to use chakra instead- and I made it to the top on my first try but when they didn't, our older friend tried to egg them on by saying a bunch of stuff. They turned on me after just a few words, Tobi; two or three sentences and it looked like they wanted to kill me! What kinds of te-friends do that! And our older friend didn't even give me any encouragement, I'm always forgotten in these types of things, I'm not strong enough to be recognized by any of them." she finished in a whisper, tears forming again.

'Ahh, so it's problems with her team then. Hmm, she must have powerful teammates and she gets ignored, Konoha always seems to have problems like this. If she did do the tree climbing exercise on her first try then she must have extraordinary chakra control and a vast potential, her sensei must be a fuckwit to miss it.' he thought to himself, rubbing an imaginary beard on his masked face and garnering a few watery giggles from the pinkette.

His eyes widened as it hit him. 'That's why she seemed so familiar! How could I forget something like that, kami, why didn't I recognise her sooner?'

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"So these are the Kyuubi brat's teammates?" Madara mumbled, more to himself than to the other two people in the room, while eyeing the pictures lay out in front of him.

"Yes Madara-sama. Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto, and Haruno Sakura will all be on Team Seven, lead by one Hatake, Kakashi. I can't wait to take a bite out' a pinkie!" said the bi-coloured man licking his lips.

"That's enough Zetsu, you're dismissed."

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"Tobi thinks your sensei should go fuck himself. Your teammates should do the same." He finally said, shocking the girl next to him.

"B-but-"he cut her off before she could even get started.

"Tobi was a ninja too but he quit. Cherry-chan doesn't have to hide anything from Tobi, ok? Tobi is just here to help!" he said, giving her a thumbs up.

Sakura's P.O.V.

Warily watching the man that was now known to have been a ninja, Sakura couldn't help but feel stupid for not noticing his chakra earlier.

'I really am weak aren't I? Sasuke-kun would have noticed that right away, hell, Naruto probably would have too!' Continuing to mentally berate herself, she didn't notice him moving until Tobi wrapped his arms around her and started petting her hair.

"It's ok Cherry-chan. Tobi's here and he'll make it all better." He whispered to her childishly and continued patting her long hair. "Tobi wants to know what your teammates are like Cherry-chan! So he'll know who to beat up for hurting his new best friend's feelings!" was stated accompanied by a squeeze.

"Well...ok...um..." she looked at him slightly from the corner of her eye 'why did his voice just get a little deeper?' "Sasuke-kun is the last Uchiha" she could have sworn she heard him smother a chuckle "he was also top rookie of our year. He's really strong and wants to kill his older brother for murdering their clan." there it was again "Naruto is a baka. He loves ramen and never shuts up but he's also really strong from what I can tell. Kakashi-sensei is a pervert but he's funny too sometimes." She looked over to see him rubbing an imaginary beard again.

"Tobi will tell Cherry-chan a bit about himself so she doesn't feel so wary of him anymore!" He said. She was not surprised that he noticed, he had said he used to be a ninja after all, but she was at the fact that he was trying to calm her down and comfort her.

"Hmmm, Tobi is really tall, he likes dango a LOT. Tobi always keeps his mask on. Tobi quit being a ninja after he had a fight with his teammate." Why did he sound so smug while saying that? "Tobi is around 20 he thinks, he REALLY likes dango, dango dango dango~ and Cherry-chan is Tobi's only friend now, he's all alone." He finished on a disheartened note.

Madara's P.O.V.

"Tobi, I think you're my only friend too." She whispered to him quietly before looking up at the sky.

"Really Cherry-chan, why is Tobi your only friend? Cherry seems like she would be very popular~"

"That will have to wait until we run into each other some other time Tobi; I need to get back to my team, it's getting late." She stated sadly, tucking a piece of pink hair behind her ear and standing up. "I hope I see you again Tobi, I really do."

"It's ok Cherry-chan; Tobi will be here for a few more days! We might just run into each other again! Tobi sure hopes so~" he sang, waving goodbye as she turned and left "Tobi is glad he could cheer you up Cherry!" he called after her, watching her still for a second before she giggled and skipped away, lost in thought.

Leaning back on his arms Madara sighed, the slight tilt to his lips that was usually brought on by death and Konoha related destruction widened a fraction more as he spotted a pink wallet on the ground. Reaching over and picking it up with his bandaged hand, he couldn't help the evil little chuckle that escaped his lips.

'You have a lot of unrealized potential girl. It looks like we WILL be meeting again in the next few days.'

'Tobi' just can't wait.'

First chapter done! Gosh this is fun to write~

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