Sakura no Ceres
She was the last hope, he was her love. She needs to erase herself from them, they were her only family when she was alone. He saved her and died, she was yet alone… or not?
A/N: I do not own Naruto. Flames are allowed. Read & review, thank you.
::.. Chapter I: Lavender..::
"You will escort a Princess to her palace," a blonde woman said as she fixed her gaze in front of her.
There stood eight anbu teenagers. They looked back at her with questioning looks pasted on them.
"We're in anbu baa-chan! Why do we have to escort a Princess?!" A blonde boy beside a raven haired woman.
"She's no ordinary princess, Naruto," Tsunade frowned.
"If you don't mind me asking Hokage-sama, why so plenty to just escort this princess?" a question rose by a chest-nut haired man with pearl eyes.
"Akatsuki's hunting her…" she paused.
Seeing their faces, a raven haired man activated his Sharinggan, an angered Naruto, Neji and Shikamaru stoic and the others shocked.
"She's the lost Princess of the Flower Kingdom. She's a descendant of a celestial clan. She's the only tennyo alive, and she consists of powers that can kill everyone." Tsunade explained carefully.
"What?! A Tennyo?! Isn't only a myth?" Naruto shouted.
"Yes, it was, when we found out she's a tennyo, Orochimaru and Akatsuki started hunting her." Tsunade banged her fists on her desk, which caused it to break into shreds and the others to back away and sweatdropped.
"You will only know her by a lavender cloak she wears. That is all," Tsunade stood from her chair and turned her back from them.
"That's all?" Shikamaru asked.
"We can't reveal her identity just yet; we can't risk losing her." Tsunade's face saddened, fortunately they did not see.
"So where will we meet this Princess?" Neji asked.
"Tomorrow, by the southern gates. You will leave at sunrise, dismissed." Tsunade handed out to Neji a mission scroll.
They bowed then exited the room and left the saddened Tsunade.
Tsunade placed her hand on the window glass and a tear rolled down her cheek.
Somewhere inside the Hokage Tower, a lavender cloaked woman stood there staring outside – lost in her own world.
'I'll be leaving Konoha, my "home", my senseis, my childhood and my family…' she thought as tears rolled down her pale face.
In Konoha, the sun rose as eight teenagers just came back from their meeting with the Hokage and approached their eating place – Ichiraku.
"I was wondering," Ino whispered.
They turned their face to her - except Neji and Sasuke who remained stoic.
"If Forehead-girl's fine," Ino's eyes stared at a certain cherry blossom tree.
They were quiet, birds chirped, leaves softly glided with the wind and-
"We'll find her, and she'll be the same Sakura-chan! Kind, caring, sweet, strong and…" Naruto's annoying voice stopped.
Everyone waited for him to continue.
"And?" Ino was getting irritated.
"I think not happy; she never did show her true smile since… her parents died after a month of teme's departure five years ago." Naruto munched on his ramen as Sasuke turned to his idiotic ex-teammate.
Neji gave Sasuke an its-all-your-fault glare and Sasuke sent him his famous glare and they broke eye contact later on.
"Where'd she go Naruto-kun?" Yes, Hinata stopped stuttering with the help of a certain pink haired.
::..Flashback..::
"He-he-hello Sa-sa-sakura-cha-chan…" she stuttered as she stared down to her toes.
"Hinata-chan, look at me," the said girl looked up and saw a smiling pink haired.
"You know, you will never be able to talk to Naruto with all your stuttering," Sakura smiled again.
"Bu-bu-bu-but Sa-sa-sa-sakura-chan… Na-na-naruto-ku-kun and I-" she was cut off with Sakura's pulling.
They ran to the old meeting place of team seven, the red bridge.
"Wh-wh-why a-a-are w-we he-he-re?" Hinata panted as they stopped.
"I'm going to help you to stop stuttering." Sakura swirled around and used Henge no Jutsu to transform into Naruto.
Hinata's face turned into a tomato, and she almost fainted but kept her stance.
"Now talk Hinata-chan," Sakura smiled, or I must say, "Naruto" smiled.
"He-he-hello Naru-ru-to-kun…" Hinata stared once again to her polished toes.
"Look at me Hinata-chan." Sakura/Naruto lifted Hinata's flushed face.
"Ye-yes?" Hinata looked up.
"Inhale and exhale Hinata, and don't think of your fears of talking to people." Sakura/Naruto pointed out.
"Ha-hai!" Hinata did as what she was told.
"Hello Naruto-kun," Hinata spoke up, without even stuttering and Sakura turned back into herself and clapped her hands and hugged Hinata.
"That's the way Hinata-chan!" They both giggled and talked to each other more and got a lot closer to each other.
::..End of Flashback..::
"I don't know, she didn't say goodbye to anyone," Naruto answered as he went for his 5th bowl.
"Oh," Sasuke whispered to himself.
"Lee c'mon, let's spar." Tenten pulled Lee and out to the restaurant.
"Yes my sweet spirit of Youth!" Yes, Lee and Tenten ARE going out.
"Shika, I want to go shopping!" Ino then pulled Shikamaru from his comfortable position.
"How troublesome," and yes, Shikamaru and Ino ARE going out as well.
"I'm leaving," Sasuke put his hands in his pockets and left.
"Hinata-sama," Neji spoke.
"Yes, Neji-nii-san?" Hinata looked at her cousin.
"May I have the permission to go?"
Hinata nodded and smiled at him as he bowed and left the two.
Neji walked to his favorite place, a garden filled with cherry blossom trees.
Neji smiled at the scene before him, He sat on the grass as he smelled the wind, then he heard a twig snapped and searched for the intruder.
There in front of him – a lavender cloaked woman whose face was covered with the hood of the cloak.
'Lavender…' then he remembered, he bowed down at the woman before him.
"Hime-sama," he said raising his head.
The wind blew hard when the cloaked princess' hood was blown, she gasped and then she performed a jutsu and disappeared.
Neji's eyes widened, ' I thought I saw Sakura, I might be hallucinating.'
Inside the Hokage Tower, the cloaked princess panted as she appeared inside her room.
"He almost saw me," she took her cloak and placed it on her chair.
"Then again, even though my appearance changed a bit, who else has pink haired besides me and that subordinate of Orochimaru?" she faced her desk mirror and brushed the curly ends of her pink hair.
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