Loving the Past

"Talking"

SHOUTING

Thoughts

Summary: Sakura is sent to the past and ends up staying with the Uchiha's.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto unfortunately. Wish I did but I don't. But I do own this story so read and enjoy!

CHAPTER 1

Everything was blossoming in Konoha. Not one flower was still budding. Everything had gorgeous flowers on it signifying it was soon to be summer and that the world was still moving on.

It has been two years since he left and not much has stayed the same. Everything around her was moving so fast that it was absolutely nauseating. She hasn't seen Kakashi in a while since he went on a mission a few weeks ago. Naruto is gone. He's been gone from her world for a long time but not as long as he was. He only stayed four months longer than had left with Jiraiya to train. Leaving her completely alone; sure she had her friends but she didn't want to stay behind while the guys kept going further and further away so she couldn't keep up.

Sakura had asked for help. She went straight up to one of the three sannins, Tsunade. She has been under her wing for what seems like ever but only one and a half years. She did non-stop training especially with Hinata and Ino. They wanted to be stronger too, Hinata because her clan looks down upon her as a disappointment. With Ino it's because she has a chuunin teammate, and especially when she slows down her team when they do missions and they wait for her. She doesn't need them to tell her that she needs to train more that's just a fact.

So they started to train together in the mornings before they all went to Tsunade for their medical lessons. Tenten tends to stay training with her team but she does come to train with them once in a while. The three of them usually go to the hospital to go help out there with the wounded but its still doesn't feel like it's ever enough for her. That's why a year ago she had asked Tsunade to train her in more than just being a medical-nin.

Now she's stronger and wiser. It's true what they say with age comes more responsibility. She has begun to work at the hospital as a part time doctor and gets to help with some surgeries. The other time she dedicates to training with friends.

Sakura was walking by to the red bridge already reminiscing about the past with the whole team seven; Naruto's chatter about ramen, Kakashi reading icha icha, and sometimes Sasuke telling her to go away. It's just not the same with everyone back home in Konoha. Everyone was gone but would be home soon. Naruto was coming home in six months. That's not too long to go without at least part of team seven, right?

She stopped in the middle of the bridge. Right where she always stood waiting for Kakashi-sensei to arrive, admiring Sasuke as his once fangirl, listening to Naruto about what he had for dinner which was always ramen. Sakura stood looking down at the person who staring right back at her. The past is always so hard to let go of. That's why Sasuke had such trouble letting go of his. She understands now. She understands how the people you have called your family aren't there for you anymore. The people she called her family have disappeared on her too but at least the people she calls her family isn't gone forever.

In the distance there was a man dressed head to toe in black with a black mask going over half of his face. He was wearing a Konoha insignia on his head band with a scratch going straight across it. He was staring at Sakura but she was too lost in her own world to notice the chakra presence until it was a meter away from her. She whipped her head around so fast that her shoulder length hair whipped in her face as she held out a kunai in front of her as she looked at the missing-nin straight in the eye.

Green clashed with the enemy's baby blue eyes. They stared each other down waiting for the other to make the first move. He took the first step towards her and before she blinked he was right behind he with his own kunai pointing at her at the base of her spine. He had her cornered and they both knew it.

She was the first to speak, "what do you want form me?" she spoke with confidence but on the inside she was slightly trembling but she wouldn't let the missing nin know that.

He didn't answer her right away. In fact he evaded her question with a question of his own. She heard the tenor in his voice when he asked her, "What do you most want from the past?"

Questions where flying through her head; why does he want to know? Is he going to hurt me? What is he going to do once he finds out? "Why do you want to know?" she asked in return.

He pressed his kunai a little firmer in the direction of her spine until she realized that he was the one in charge and he was the one that was going to be asking the questions. "Just answer the question little girl."

"I am not little. And I'm not going to answer you until you answer my question first." After that came out of her mouth she realized how childish it sounded and she wanted to smack herself because of it.

"I just want to help you make a dream come true."

Sakura was wondering what he was talking about. She didn't understand anything he was saying. What did he mean by making my dream come true? Is he going to help me get Sasuke back? No he wouldn't know about Sasuke. But he did have a Konoha headband. What could that mean?

She was shaken out of her reverie when he pressed his kunai against her spine with even more pressure causing her to arch her back. With the slow drawl of the missing-nin's voice he said, "I suggest you answer now."

She decided to play it smart and just answer him. Besides he sounded like he really would hurt her if she didn't do anything. "I would want to save one of my comrades before something bad happened to him." She made it general so he wouldn't get what she was talking about, but what she didn't know was that he knew exactly what she was talking about.

Before she knew what was happening he dropped the kunai on the ground and when she no longer felt the pressure and heard the 'clink' of the metal making contact to the ground she turned around to see what was going on. She was what he was doing and he was making hand seals almost as fast as Kaka-sensei. She was wonder what he was doing but before she could react to do anything to stop him the world shifted around her.

Everything was going blurry and the colors of the trees and grass were mixing with the redness of the bridge and the blueness of the water. She held on to the bridges railing and felt the world twisting around her as she grasped on to what she hoped was something stable to help her clear her mind.

She had tried everything to get rid of the dizziness. From closing her eyes to holding on to the bridge with an even tighter grip, that had caused nothing but for a little piece of wood to break off. The world was still spinning but when she turned to where the missing-nin was standing before she just saw the moving trees and grass still spinning inside her head. 'Where could he be?' she shot her head around a few more times but it did nothing but cause her to head to spin even more than it already was.

She didn't feel his chakra signature so she sat down on the bridge and lie down and closed her eyes hoping that this would help her spinning head calm down. Now she had a huge headache to go with the dizziness of her head.

Sakura felt sick. It wasn't a good feeling. From her head pain it caused her stomach to become slightly queasy making her feel like vomiting any second now. She took in deep breaths and tried to calm down to get rid of this sickening feeling.

Suddenly she felt someone's chakra signature but she just didn't know whose it was. She felt a reassuring hand resting upon her shoulder and she tried to crack open her eyes to see who it was. When she finally did open her eyes she couldn't see who it was the sun was blaring down at her too much for her to be able to tell who it was but she could tell it was a male from the shape of the jaw.

The person said, "Shhh… close your eyes; It will be over soon." From the sound of the male's voice she knew it was the missing-nin from before. She tried to sit up but her almost dizzy free mind returned with vengeance causing her to lie back down on the bridge.

She felt his reassuring hand go to her pulse in felt him press down hard enough to make her go into unconsciousness. The missing-nin took off his mask down and let it hang around his neck.

He looked down at his daughter and wondered if he did the right thing. He was sending her back to help the Uchiha who had hurt her. But even if he wanted to, he couldn't stop what was happening. He took his hand and stroked her face, 'just like her mother,' he thought as he took in her facial features.

This man was her father; the one who had supposedly died 4 years ago on a mission. He felt five strong chakra signatures coming towards where he was. He looked down at Sakura and noticed that her arms and legs were shimmering in and out. When the ANBU arrived they wouldn't be able to tell that she had even been there or if they do pick up her left over chakra signature they wouldn't even know where she had gone too.

He stood up and picked a white cherry blossom and went back to Sakura. He tucked back a piece of her hair and tucked the flower into her hair. He kissed her cheek then quickly put on his mask and left her lying on the bridge shimmering out of her time and back into the time where she was twelve. He quickly ran to the forest and hid his chakra signature to watch his daughter fade out then he ran deeper into the forest.

When Sakura woke up her head wasn't spinning anymore and when she looked at herself to make sure that the man hadn't injured her she noticed that the clothes she was wearing was very loose on her now. She was the river and crawled to it. She noticed that her headband was the same but it was when she looked at herself that was what had shocked her. She was literally back in her twelve year old body with the mid back length hair and everything.

'That man had sent me back to help me stop Orochimaru cursing Sasuke-kun.' She thought. She was thinking of all the methods she could use to stop him from giving the curse seal until a voice from behind her said, "who are you and what are you doing in Konoha?"