Mother of the Morning
by Goggleplex
Summery: When Sakura turned 14 she was kidnapped by order of Orochimaru and was never seen again. Seven years later she finally escapes his lair with her life and children. All ten of them. The Haruno Clan is very, very powerful...
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or the characters from the manga/anime. I did however create Sakura's kids. So please ask if you ever want to use them.
Prologue - Birthday Present
Far more than living people, Kabuto spent the majority of his time around the non-living. Inside his private lab, a gift given to him by Orochimaru as a gift for his loyalty 34 bodies were laid out on dissection tables. Legs and arms had been dissected down to the bone. A few of their internal organs are gone. Bodies. Bones. Human remains are resting on tables, in cabinets, all around the room. Waiting to be pieced back together, analyzed, laid to rest. A 14-year-old girl murdered and dumped along a dirt-side road near Iwagakure. A badly scavenged body found scattered in a nearby Rice Country field. A woman found dead in a bag discarded near a river three years prior.
Kabuto loved to work almost exclusively with the remains of people who have been murdered or who had died under mysterious circumstances. If there was a corpse and a mystery, he would almost always offer to help solve the puzzle. So he reads the story of a living life written on every person's bones. Bone remodels under the stress of our activities, the bio-mechanical habits of living (the way we brush our teeth, the labor we do routinely for work, our nutritional habits) leave clear markings on our skeletons. With those markings, he identified sex, race, age, physical stature and physique, and often occupation. He learns the time and cause of death. And he found out who the person was.
However he also was Orochimaru's top agent in the field of biochemical engineering and genetics. He could take apart and put together genes and DNA strands as if he were playing with blocks and gears.
In the late evening on March 29th he sat holed up in his lab, concentrating on the dissection he was preforming. As he was carefully removing the skin from the arm of a mutilated little boy there was a sudden impatient knocking on the door before it opened to reveal Sasuke who had a body heaved brutally over his shoulder.
"Is that a birthday present for me Sasuke-kun?" Kabuto asked with a gleam of excitement in his eyes. "It's almost a month late."
"feh," Sasuke snorted with a cold glare, "Orochimaru says you are to keep her alive as well as healthy and provide useful creations by studying and testing her. You are becoming useless Kabuto. Don't mess up."
With that he firmly removed the girl from his presence and left without another word. As he approached her Kabuto recognized the girl as Sasuke's ex-teammate from Konoha. He lifted her onto an unoccupied table and proceeded to read up on the file he kept updated on ninja from Fire Country.
Name: Sakura Haruno
Birthdate: March 28
Age: 14
Rank: Chunin, Hokage's Apprentice
Bloodline: None
Ninjutsu: Average
Taijutsu: Advanced See: Other Skills
Genjutsu: Advanced
Other Skills: Certified Medic Nin, Chikara Extension Technique, Chikara Nerve Attack, Beginner with Sealing Techniques.
Now the only question for Kabuto was what to do with her. Orochimaru hadn't been specific and that gave him a bit of creative freedom but at the same time he had been ordered to keep her alive as well as healthy and that limited his choices as well. He glanced angrily at the door and glared at it. Damn that Sasuke Uchiha. He walked around so sure of himself because he was from a special bloodline. Everyone who lived in the Sound Village was at least a renegade from another village. Sound was a young village. It didn't even have a clan of its own.
Kabuto paused before he suddenly smirked. Sometimes he was surprised about how ingenious ha had become. He would engineer a new bloodline and it would be the best and most coveted in the world. And this little girl. This Sakura Haruno would be the matron founder of the most amazing bloodline in history. It would be absolutely legendary...
But who would be the second parent? It couldn't be himself, nor any other Sound Ninja, none were powerful enough to be of the first generation. He glanced around his lab hoping for a spark of inspiration. Feeling nothing he turned to look at the body he had previously been working on. He really did like taking them apart. Finding the inner intricacies of the body was a sort of spiritual revival for him. The human body was powerful. It was wonderful. It was an art to take them apart.
Kabuto looked over the posters on his walls. No inspiration there. Just charts and old medical research scrolls, two of which were decorated with fish and their tenketsu points. He looked at the file in his hands and absently folded it into quarters, making an envelope. Why couldn't he be creative!?
Frustrated he crumpled the file and aggressively threw it across the room. There was a muffled thud and a sudden crash, causing Kabuto to groan in impatience. There went the clay vase he had picked up in Iwa. He liked it too. It had hummingbirds and golden clouds painted on it. To bad it hadn't lasted a month before it was destroyed. He went over to the broom closet and brushed aside several black and neon green spiders that spun freely on their webs before picking up the broom and dustpan.
He nearly knocked over his poorly watered Dionaea muscipula with his arm but caught it just before it fell to its doom. He then cleaned up the vase and emptied it into the garbage before once again pacing and pondering how to create a clan that would have powerful members. It was just such a pity he lived in such an uninspiring place...How did anyone ever come up with good ideas in a place filled with dead bodies?
to be continued...
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