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Summary: Story is set after Pein attacks the village but Itachi has not been killed by Sasuke yet. Tsunade acts as Sakura's mother and Kakashi as her big brother/father figure as her civilian, merchant parents were killed by bandits on an expedition to sell their wares. Sakura Haruno is now a twenty one year old ANBU medic-nin whose team captain is Itachi Uchiha and other teammates are Shikamaru Nara and Neji Hyuuga. She still trains and goes on missions with her first team consisting of Kakashi Hatake, Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, and Sai Uchiha. She and her comrades have returned both Uchihas to the village before she had made ANBU but after she discovered an old scroll in the archives. They discovered after assassinating the elders responsible for the Uchiha Massacre that Sai was in fact Sasuke's twin brother, given to Root at birth to protect him from the Uchiha elders who kill any second-born twin born within the clan. The five nations had banded together to defeat the Akatsuki after information provided by Itachi Uchiha proved that Madara Uchiha was the leader of the organization. They managed to kill Madara during what was known as "The Akatsuki Conflict" and the members who were not killed disappeared never to be seen again. Tsunade decides that she wants grandchildren so she sets about a mission in which Sakura has to choose someone to marry and have kids with. Sakura does not approve of this but has no choice in the matter, as she cannot refuse a mission given to her by the Hokage. Tsunade had interviewed all of the available Shinobi in the village prior to giving Sakura her mission. She therefore has a list of candidates for Sakura to choose from. The new council of elders, which contains all the clan heads, have added their requirements for the mission as well since they had to approve the mission before being assigned.

"blah blah" normal conversation

"blah blah" inner talking

"blah blah" thoughts

Flashback

Inner Flashback

Chapter 1: The beginning

It was a beautiful, quiet spring day in Konoha and twenty one year old Sakura was on the way to training with her team. She was an ANBU medic-nin now but she still liked to train with her first team every now and then. If Sakura had only known what her beloved, Shishou had in store for her she would have hidden in her apartment never to come out again. She enjoyed days like this the most. The weather was perfect in her opinion neither to hot nor to cold. The sky was sunny and a bright blue with no clouds in sight.

"Poor Shikamaru," she thought to herself as she giggled a little bit.

She knew that her best male friend preferred fluffy clouds to be drifting by for him to watch. She was smiling to herself over how troublesome he would find it when she heard a voice calling her name. She flinched a little when she recognized whose voice had just called her. She looked over her shoulder at her blond teammate and noticed he wasn't alone. He was walking with Sasuke towards the training grounds.

It had been two years since they had brought both Uchiha's back to the village. Team Kakashi had brought back Sasuke and Team 8 and Team Gai had brought back Itachi. Sasuke was back on their team and Itachi was her ANBU captain.

Naruto jogged up to her and grabbed her in a fierce hug. "Morning Sakura-chan, how are you?"

She drew back a fist and promptly bopped him on the head.

"Ow, ow, what did you do that for Sakura-chan?" Naruto whined as he rubbed his now growing bump.

"You knucklehead, how many times do I have to tell you not to grab me without permission." At this statement, a small chuckle was heard from behind her.

"Dobe, won't you ever learn," Sasuke drawled out with a smirk on his face.

Naruto of course started arguing with Sasuke as they started walking to the training grounds again. While they were walking, Sakura thought back to when they had gotten Sasuke to come back to the village.

Flashback:

Sakura was bored watching the battle with Team Kakashi and Team Hebi and wishing that it were over already. It was an intense battle that had raged for several hours now. Their mission was to find and capture Sasuke Uchiha and return him to the Village hidden in the leaves, alive if at all possible. It was Sakura herself that was the primary reason they were there, being that it was her clumsiness that found the scroll. She had thought back to that moment when everything that they had all believed in was shaken.

Inner Flashback:

Her Shisou had sent her into the mission archives to retrieve a specific report and she had knocked down a shelf in a clumsy moment. When she was putting the scrolls back on the replaced shelf, she had noticed an older scroll with the Uchiha symbol on it. Curiosity getting the better of her she had looked at it. She had scanned it for only a brief moment before gasping and taking both scrolls promptly to Tsunade.

She had rushed into her Shishou's office panting and out of breath. Tsunade had turned around in her chair, looked at her with a raised eyebrow, and waited for her to report.

"Tsunade Shishou, I have the scroll you requested," Sakura, panted out while putting said scroll on her shishou's desk. "I also found another scroll that I think you should take a look at. It might alter many people's thinking about our village's elders."

Intrigued Tsunade took both scrolls and opened the one with the Uchiha symbol on it first since that was the one that Sakura was holding out during her little speech. She had scanned it quickly and as she read, her forehead started to furrow. She glanced at Sakura with an intense frown on her face then read the scroll a second time as if to make sure she read correctly. "Shit! If this scroll is correct, Sakura, than we have some serious issues to deal with."

Sakura lowered her eyes to the ground scuffing her shoe back and forth on the floor, "I know Shishou that is why I brought it to you."

Tsunade started chewing on her fingernail while she thought of what to do. After several moments, in which Sakura became more nervous, Tsunade shouted for her assistant Shizune.

Shizune rushed into the room carrying her pet pig TonTon. Shizune glanced between the nervous Sakura and the tense Tsunade and wondered what was going on. "What is it Hokage-sama?" she inquired.

Tsunade looked Shizune straight in the eye and shouted, "Shizune set up a meeting with the village elder's immediately! And bring me some sake, NOW!"

Shizune ran out of the room to do as Tsunade ordered. She came back fifteen minutes later carrying a bottle of sake. After setting the sake down she said, "The elders are on their way to the council chambers now to meet with you Hokage-sama."

Tsunade picked up the bottle of sake and downed it in three gulps. She had then grabbed the scroll off her desk and stormed out of the room slamming the door and cracking it on the way out.

Shizune had looked at Sakura and asked her, "Sakura do you know what this is all about?"

Sakura had nodded her head and replied, "I found an old scroll in the archives that stated that the elder's ordered the Uchiha Massacre and Itachi to join Akatsuki as a spy for Konoha."

Shizune gasped at the news she had just heard and thought, "I do not envy the elders right now."

Several hours later Sakura was summoned to the Hokage's office. When she got there the rest of Team Kakashi, Team 8, and Team Gai were there. They were all briefed on their missions and why the missions were a top priority and ranked as S-class missions.

End of Inner Flashback:

Sakura came back to the moment and noticed that her teammates were starting to slow down marginally meaning they were getting tired out Since she was the team medic she was supposed to stay on the sidelines and not participate unless absolutely necessary. She had already broken that rule by taking out two of the Uchiha's teammates by herself. The red-headed bitch with all of her "my Sasuke-kun's" had gone down to easily in her opinion and she had been totally disgusted with not only the bitch Karin, but also her younger self. She had never before given thought to what she had looked like to other people when she had run around the village trailing after her teammate calling him Sasuke-kun. It was just pathetic thinking that she had been the same as this girl going after a guy that didn't want either one of them. She almost felt sorry for the bitch, almost. Then she had fought the orange-haired guy who, she discovered, had the curse-mark like Sasuke. He had been more difficult to take down and it had taken her about twenty minutes to finally knock him unconscious with one of her chakra packed punches to the head. She had received a few wounds of her own but being a medic-nin had its benefits, one being the ability to heal one's self.

She glanced over at her teammates again and noticed that Kakashi and Sai were just about done with their battle by the looks of it. They had been fighting the light blue-haired guy that had Zabuza's sword. Sai had used his ink snakes and now had the guy, she had later learned was named Suigetsu, bound and out of commission. She had walked over to her teammates to check for any injuries. Kakashi had a few superficial cuts that she healed quickly while Sai had no wounds but was low on chakra. Nothing a little rest wouldn't take care of. After making sure she had not missed any injuries on her two teammates she informed Kakashi of the two people she had battled and had restrained with chakra ropes. Kakashi had given her a stern look and told her that she wasn't supposed to fight, as she was their medic. What if she had been injured and couldn't heal her teammates than where would they be? She had told him that she wasn't injured, now was she, to which he replied that it was only because she had gotten lucky.

She had scoffed at him and told him, "fine next time I will let the bad guys just beat your asses."

Kakashi had given her a disbelieving look and just shook his head at her and proceeded to bind his prisoner with chakra ropes.

They had all then gone over to help Naruto with his battle.

Kakashi had looked over to her and told her, "no matter what stay on the sidelines unless one of your teammates will be killed if you don't help out. I have a strong feeling we will all need some healing after this battle so we will be depending on you to have enough chakra for healing everyone. Sai, stay here with Sakura until I signal for you."

After giving them those orders he jumped into battle with Naruto and Sasuke. It had taken both Kakashi and Naruto another two hours before they had managed to get the upper hand in the fight. Kakashi then signaled Sai to bind Sasuke with his snakes.

After he was bound by ink snakes we told Sasuke about what we had learned about the Massacre and Itachi. Sasuke had not believed us at first so we showed him the scroll that had been found and given to Sakura, just in case it was needed. He read the scroll to himself first and then read it aloud, as if he couldn't believe what he was reading.

Mission: Extermination of the Uchiha Clan and spying on Akatsuki

Mission Rank: S-class

Mission Priority: Top Secret

Client: Elders of Konoha Danzou Shimura, Koharu Utatane, and Homura Mitokado

Reason for Mission: Clan planning a takeover of Konoha

Shinobi Assigned: Itachi Uchiha

Mission Specifics: Itachi Uchiha will eliminate the Uchiha Clan and then leave the Village Hidden in the Leaves as a missing-nin to join Akatsuki as a spy for the village. Nobody is to know the details of his actions except the Sannin Jiraiya, whom will be his contact in relaying information.

Mission Details: Itachi Uchiha has been a double agent spying on the clan for the honorable Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi. He brought information to the Hokage stating that his father, the clan head, the elders of the clan, and most of the shinobi of the clan, were planning a takeover of Konoha. Their reasons were given, as they didn't believe they were being treated fairly by the village. After several negotiations have proven futile it has been decided by the elders that eliminating the clan is the only way to keep peace. Itachi went to the Hokage to ask that his little brother, Sasuke Uchiha, be spared from death stating that he could not kill his beloved little brother whom was totally innocent and in return he would complete the missions with no complaints and would not return to the village under persecution of death. The Third agreed to this against recommendations of the elders promising his protection to Sasuke Uchiha.

Mission Status: Completed successfully with assistance from Madara Uchiha

After reading the scroll aloud Sasuke fell to his knees with tears streaming down his cheeks. He then agreed to return to Konoha peacefully.

Sakura glanced at him suspiciously not believing that he would let the matter with the elders go without some form of retribution.

Sasuke asked that his teammates be allowed to leave unharmed, as they had not done anything, and were not missing-nins, but some of Orochimaru's experiments that he had released from captivity.

They had agreed with his request telling his teammates to stay out of trouble and not make them regret setting them free.

It was a four-day journey to home after that.

End of Flashback:

Sakura came back to the present realizing that they had reached the training grounds where she saw Sai waiting for them with his fake smile but no Kakashi in sight. At least he wasn't so pale anymore, being he spent more time above ground in the sun. She acknowledged her teammate with a nod than sat down to wait for, who knows how long, Kakashi.

Later that day

Team Kakashi was in the training grounds resting after their sparring sessions.

Sakura, who had sparred against Kakashi with taijutsu, and then Sai with her Katana, was under a cherry blossom tree reading her copy of Icha Icha Paradise with Kakashi close by reading Icha Icha Tactics.

Sai was across from them, sketchbook in hand, drawing a scene from his imagination.

Naruto, who of course sparred against Sasuke, was practicing gathering nature energy for sage mode.

Sasuke was leaning on a tree being as aloof as ever.

They were all content in their own ways not thinking anything was amiss in their beloved city when an ANBU appeared in a poof of white smoke.

They all glanced up at the ANBU waiting to hear what he was there for. "Sakura Haruno you are to report to the Hokage's office immediately," he stated and then was gone again.

Her teammates glanced at Sakura wondering what their Hokage wanted with her.

Sakura calmly got to her feet and placed her book in her weapons pouch before looking at them and shrugging her shoulders, stating she had no idea why she was being summoned. She made the appropriate hand signs and disappeared in a swirl of pink blossom petals.

Twenty minutes later shouts of "SHISHOU WHAT IN THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING" and "I ABSOLUTELY REFUSE TO DO THIS" were heard all over Konoha.

Kakashi glanced at his teammates with his signature eye crinkle and said, "I guess Tsunade just informed our cherry blossom about her next mission."

The boys just nodded their heads and shivered at the thought of the violence that they would have to endure until this was all settled.

All of them also had other not so nice thoughts running through their heads like,

"I will seriously hurt any male that thinks about hurting my blossom." (Kakashi)

"I hope Sakura chooses to help me rebuild my clan. That could be a lot of fun for me." (Sasuke)

"I can't wait till Sakura-chan chooses me. That will show that Teme." (Naruto)

"I hope Ugly chooses someone worthy of her." (Sai)

End of chapter 1

Obviously the males on her team knew what was going on. Poor Sakura-chan what does Tsunade have in store for her. Read the next chapter and find out. Please review.