Chapter 1

Our story is about how Haruno Sakura became Uchiha Sakura. It wasn't a fairytale by any means, it was better. He wasn't a white knights on a stallion, she wasn't a princess captured by some evil monster that needed to be rescued. He was however a man that gave her a family, that made her smile, that made her laugh, and most importantly of all he was a man that she couldn't live without, just like he couldn't live without her. It was a love that nobody expected, not even our unsuspecting couple. But enough of all that, on to our story....

I grew up with my father, my mother having passed away when I was young, my father was a civilian merchant but he'd always bring me with him on his trips whenever he could. When he couldn't, he'd always bring me back these amazing stories about the things he saw and the people he met. We use to have a big map in our living room, every time he'd return we'd put a new push pin on the map to show where he'd been.

We had it all set out, when my dad would go somewhere alone we'd mark it with a blue push pin, if I got to go with him it was green, and later on when I became a nin and started traveling with my team we added a new color; red since it was my favorite color.

My father never spoiled me, but I certainly didn't want for anything. He made sure of that. A few years ago though he got sick, and even Lady Tsunade couldn't cure it. She was able to prolong it though, and we'd spend endless hours talking about all the places we'd been together in the past and all of our happy memories. My favorites were when he'd tell me how he met my mother. He said it was when he was returning from a trip to the Waterfall Village. He was staying in a small town for the night on the way back and went out to eat something at one of the restaurants and she was his waitress. He says it was love at first sight, he asked her then and there to marry him; apparently it was the same for her because she said yes.

Two years later I was born, and well as they say the rest is history.

You know whenever my dad would tell me how he met my mom I'd always see my dad as like the prince who came in and swept her off her feet. I always hoped I'd find my own prince like that, I never thought I'd find him until one day. There is was he just walked into the hospital doors, I don't think he even noticed me, he walked over to the desk I was standing next to and informed the nurse there that he was here to see Doctor Mizumi for his standard physical.

He was gorgeous, he has dark onyx eyes and short blue black hair that spiked out in the back, fair skin tone, and a handsome face that would make women swoon. His voice was rich but reserved, deep but emotionless. He stood a couple of inches taller than me and wore very casual training gear in a dark blue short sleeved shirt and white shorts, he also wore standard ninja sandals. He was for lack of a better word, dreamy.

He was then told what room to go to and proceeded to leave, I then noticed there was a large red and white fan on the back of his shirt. Must be a family emblem, I thought at the time, I never paid much attention to lineage so I didn't know any better at the time. I mean how was I suppose to know that the man I'd just spent the better part of 5 minutes ogling would be none other than the famous Uchiha Sasuke?

After that I seemed to see him more often, he was in and out of the hospital a fair bit. Visiting what I'm guessing are friends and family, as well as for treatment of his injuries from missions. I'd only ever see him from a distance or in passing, but then one day all of that changed...