Cherry Blossom Tree
Summary: Sakura joined the mission to retrieve Sasuke, but when Naruto and Sasuke clash, she steps in and something strange happens. Time travel in a whole new way.
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It wasn't suppose to be like this...
Sakura had never felt more helpless. Her two team mates were fighting on the lake, and all she could do was watch. Sasuke seemed to grow colder and more cruel with every word between blows, while Naruto grew more furious, going totally ballistic, and that strange red chakra...
She could do nothing, save for watch on the banks of the river, tears in her eyes. For all the good she did so far she might as well have stayed home. All the others had stayed behind to let the two of them get here...and now Sakura was helpless.
Something snapped then, as she saw Sasuke spread strange hand shaped wings and Naruto's chakra tail flare out behind him. To hell with it, she was stepping in. she ran fast around the edge of the lake, and up the statue on Naruto's side. Trying not to be seen, she actually slipped out behind the waterfall itself. There was a empty area beind it which they had not noticed. Now she was right between them, ready to...
To what? Sakura knew she was no mach for either one of them normally, let alone like this. Through the water, where it grew thin, she watched, and...
'What am I doing? I can't stop them...why am I even here?'
'Were they about to charge at each other? With those attacks? And with all they power they put into it, they might...'
Sasuke flew, Naruto leaped, Sakura just jumped. She didn't even think, her body just moved on it's own. Through her peripheral vision, she saw Naruto with a look of horror on his face, suddenly looking much less animal-like. Sasuke looked shocked, not comprehending what was going on. A split second later, the attacks hit, Sakura in between them, and it didn't matter anymore.
She was so sure there would be pain, some form of agony, but there was noting but a sense of everything faiding away. As the combine attack's shpere expanded around them, she looked down and saw that she was disappearing, starting at the point of impact outward, she simply turned into light and vanished.
"It's ok...I don't hold it against either of you..." She manages to say. Neither can respond.
The light covers her head, and she knows no more.
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Am I dreaming?
Where am I?
Who am I?
Am I even alive...
I can't remember.
Something's wrong.
...So tired...
Sleep now, figure...out...la...te...r...
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The Shodai Hokage walked through the forest. True he did not carry an escort with him, but he wasn't the strongest man in the village for nothing. Besides he had been working hard for months establishing the new vilage, and he had earned a break. Anything to get away from the paperwork.
A good deal of the land was not fully explored, and that was a perfect excuse to go on long walks though fire contry. Sometimes just getting away from it all was so satisfying.
He heard the sound of rushing water, but it was a bit much for just a river. Deciding to check it out, he was greated with a magestic sight indeed. A massive vally stood before him. A waterfall, borderd by two massive shapeless rocks, fed the lake at the base of the vally. It was large indeed.
Something caught his eye, in the exact center of the lake was a large grass covered mound that rose out of the water, and out of it a massive sakura tree rose to dominate the center of the vally. It's branches seemed to arc in an almost artistic pattern, it's blossoms thicker than on any other of it's kind, it's size grander than any other such tree.
After a moment, Shodai noticed something. An almost endless shower of pink pedels fell from the tree, yet the tree never became bare. He could only stare in amazement at this strange thing. He felt like he had found the grove of some forest spirit, like this was something sacred.
Who knows? It just might be.
After looking at that tree for what seemed like hours, Shodai decided to head back. While walking away, he glanced back one last time...
There was a girl sleeping at the base of the tree, a girl with long pink hair.