Hauled behind and beyond

Summery:

16 year old Sakura Haruno one day picks up a book about scrying, and out of curiosity follows the steps in the book, but instead of scrying into the future, she scry's into the past and is suddenly dragged back through time on an adventure. Pairing to be decided Kakashi or Itachi?

Note: Just so everyone is aware this will follow some of the story line, may skip bits and then go completely into my own.

Chapter 1 – Familiarity

"Hmmm… I wonder which medical text would be best to use…hmmm…." Sakura hummed to herself as she searched through the books on the shelf. Slowly, she turned her head behind her as she heard her name shouted in the distance.

"Sakura!" a distant voice shouted

"Naruto?" questioned Sakura, a confused look breaking out amongst her features as Naruto burst in through the doors.

"Sakura, there's a two for one offer on at Ichiraku's, come eat with me" grinned Naruto as he huffed trying to gain his breath back from his earlier exertion.

Quickly Sakura's features were contorted in a frown of annoyance as she began to stalk up to Naruto. Naruto who was familiar with the expression slowly backed up towards one of the many book shelves, holding his hands up in front of his face in defense, slightly peaking over his hands to watch Sakura's next actions.

"Naruto…" Sakura began in an eerily calm voice, that soon built into a rage. "HOW DARE YOU DISTURB ME TO TELL ME ABOUT AN OFFER ON RAMEN!"

"But Sakura…" began Naruto, only to be cut off as he continued to back up.

"Naruto, you can clearly see I am busy searching through these medical texts for Lady Tsunade…NOW GET OUT!" raged Sakura

And then without another word Naruto quickly turned only to push the book shelf behind him and knock it over with the force he used to turn tail and run and then in the blink of an eye, the book shelf collapsed onto another, to another and to another, successfully creating a domino effect. Naruto's eyes enlarged as he took in the chaos, one look at Sakura had him running out the door, with Sakura's voice shouting his name.

Scene change

"Finally!" smiled Sakura has she stood from her knelt position on the floor "Stupid Naruto, I didn't get to search for the medical text I needed for clearing his mess"

Then out of the corner of her eye she spied a torn and dusty looking book, that was thick with literature.

"Oh…what's this?" Sakura asked herself curiously dusting the book off with her hand "Scry?"

Scene change

Kakashi sat straight against his headboard of his bed reading his Icha Icha Paradise book, only to lay his book down on his lap and let out a long sigh. As of late he had been thinking a lot about Sakura, he admired her greatly for the vast improvement she had made with her skills as a ninja, but within one moment of him testing Naruto and Sakura's skills he had gained a glimpse of his past, gaining a major sense of déjà vu.

Flashback

Sakura's arm came crashing down into the ground creating a major fissure within the ground, Kakashi's shock was clearly shown in his eyes.

"Kakashi-Sensei, I've found you" Smirked Sakura

End Flashback

'I know I've experienced that scene before' Kakashi thought to himself, unfortunately he just couldn't place where he'd seen it and ever since that moment months ago he hasn't been able to get Sakura out of his head, which created many emotions that conflicted within him.

Scene change

The next day team 7, which consisted of Kakashi, Sakura, Naruto and Sai were sent on a simple retrieval mission. They jumped from tree branch to tree branch silently as they made their way back to Konoha, Kakashi glanced at Sakura from the corner of his eye, the sudden familiarity he got from that one glance had his heart racing. He frowned mentally to himself and berated himself for the improper way his heart was racing for his student.

Suddenly, through the bottom canopy of the trees came a great mass of fire in the shape of a fireball. Team 7 quickly evaded and jumped back several yards landing on the forest floor, the mass fireball creating a vast clearing.

"It's Itachi!" exclaimed Naruto

Kakashi instantly lifted his hitehatei up revealing his sharingan eye, whilst Naruto and Sai automatically covered Sakura from view, from Itachi and his companion Kisame. For some reason Kakashi felt an odd sensation as though he had a sense of rivelary and jealouy as well as an urge to pull Sakura into his side to ensure her safety and hide her from the Akatsuki in front of them. Then, without warning, Itachi released another fireball from his mouth as he raced forwards, his partner staying completely still. Within moments team 7 split, Sakura and Naruto jumping to the left, while Kakashi and Sai the right. Kisame smirked at the way Itachi had easily divided the team up. Itachi darted towards Naruto.

"Sakura!" shouted Kakashi

Has Kakashi shouted her name, Sakura grabbed Naruto by his jacket and flung him backwards behind her the force propelling her forwards. She jumped high into the air and slammed her fist down into the ground, creating the familiar fissure in the ground that team 7 had grown accustomed to. Itachi stunned for a moment that Sakura had pushed herself forward and had aimed to punch the ground rather than himself, but quickly caught himself and jumped into the air avoiding the attack, his partner jumping onto a tree branch to watch from above.

'I've seen this move before' thought Itachi to himself 'But where?' was his main question.

The debris from Sakura's attack began to clear, all combatants were still, just watching their opponents. Itachi looked at Sakura, her short pink hair blowing gracefully in the wind, while her sharp emerald eyes focused on their enemy. 'I've seen eyes like those before….but softer, more gentler' thought Itachi, then an image of an unknown girl shadowed from his eyes spun around to face him cheerfully. "Thank you for being there Itachi" she giggled. But as soon as the image appeared the quicker it disappeared. Then without a word, Itachi turned his back and walked off into the forest, a confused Kisame following his retreat.

Team 7 began their journey back to Konoha.

"Oi Kakashi-Sensei, why was Itachi staring at Sakura?" asked Naruto confused but at the same time curious, but before Kakashi could answer Sakura answered instead.

"He was probably just surprised…but in saying that for some reason I feel a sort of familiarity to him" She said more to herself than her team

"WHAT!" Shouted Naruto "You can't be serious?"

Kakashi glanced over at Sakura, his eyes slightly narrowed, he could feel the jealously bubbling up inside of him, he was beginning to wondered about these emotions he was having towards Sakura.

"It's probably because he reminds Ugly of the Uchiha" answered Sai

Naruto looked over to Sakura to see if what Sai had said was true.

"No I don't think it has anything to do with Sasuke…." Replied Sakura "Hmmm…it's like I've known him before….but that's impossible right?" she asked rhetorically.

Scene change

Itachi and Kisame were walking silently through the forest heading to a nearby cabin to take refuge from the elements.

"So Itachi, are you going to explain what happened back there?" asked Kisame

Itachi just stared at him.

"No answer then?" asked Kisame rhetorically, chuckling quietly to himself.

Itachi frowned to himself, that girl was very familiar but he couldn't place where he had gained famillirity with her or even remembering that movement, she obviously had great physical prowess.

"Kisame!" began Itachi, "Find out what you can about that girl"

Note: Okay everyone, that is the end of the first chapter, I hope it was okay, if you have a preference for who you prefer a pairing with I will consider this as I build my story up as it could go either way at the moment.