Hey everyone! This is my second story here, so I hope it turns out somewhat good. I've been feeling a little betrayed and stabbed in the back, so I feel I could relate to what Sakura would be feeling in this chapter. Also I'm super nervous cause lacrosse tryouts r comingsoon and i'm going 4 freshmen!! So i might not post for a while on this story or Somewhere I Could Belong, so just bare with me!
"My life is seriously fucked up." Sakura said as she stared down at the village she had sworn an oath to protect, but had ended up betraying her.
Sakura sat there, looking, and remembering what had gone wrong.....
Sakura had just gotten back from a mission that had lasted about a week. She was sent on an S ranked mission to go assassinate a lord that had been causing Konoha some trouble and had almost started a war against Konoha from an uprising group of rebels.
Tsunade had figured that if you took out the leader, the organization will disband when they didn't have a boss to order around a bunch of low lives.
If not, she was just going to send Sakura in to take the rest of them out.
After Sasuke had left, then Naruto when he had been gone for 2 years to go train, she had thought to herself that she had to get stronger.
She had spent two years training her strength, along with her medical ninjutsu as to develop into a better kunoichi with Tsunade.
When she was 16 and Naruto had returned to Konoha, along with the new arrival of teammates, Sakura had gotten stronger as to not be a burden and have to rely on others to help her out of trouble.
After a year or two, she had taken the exam to become a Jonin and passed with flying colors. After another few years, she had made her way up the ranks, getting bored with only A ranked and B ranked missions, and had made it into ANBU.
When she was 20, she had become a hunter-nin and worked any special, high ranked requests under the hokage, completely devoting herself to protecting the village, while still working at the hospital as the chief, taking over for Tsunade so she could get more paperwork done.
As all this was going on, taking exams, the missions, training harder, working, trying to keep her social life intact, and having a love life, some things had to give so she could excel in her work.
Sakura didn't really have that much of a love life, sure, she had a thing with Kiba but they had both gone there separate ways, and then she had a little something with Naruto, to see if there was anything there. But Naruto had noticed Hinata's affection to him after a while and they were more brotherly sisterly now than anything.
Sakura decided that if she couldn't find love now, when would she, so she focused more on other things.
Then, Sakura had started to let go of her social life. It wasn't really her fault, but she may have ignored a few of her friends by accident, when Tsunade had wanted her to read up on some report or a new jutsu that was on need to know basis's, and Sakura had fit the bill.
Ino and her had made up there long dispute, after they both realized that Sasuke was a bastard, and had become better friends than ever.
But after a while, Ino had hooked up with Shikamaru and couldn't spend a lot of time with Sakura, and Sakura began to focus more on her work.
The same thing happened with all her other friends, TenTen, Hinata, and Temari had all found there someone specials. Even Lee and her other guy friends that she would spar with sometimes had found other people and had begun to see her less and less.
When she would walk down the streets, the cherry blossom of Konoha was barely even noticed any more.
Even though Sakurawas trained to now be a cold hearted killer, she still had those moments when she would turn back into her naive 12 year old self that had gotten crushed when she had been made fun of or been rejected by Sasuke when she went on ignored by some of her closest friends.
Now every time that she would say hi to someone she knew, they would act like they didn't even know her, or worse, not even acknowledge her.
Sakura could deal with everyone in her life pushing away from her, but she had finally reached her breaking point.
When all of her friends didn't even know she existed anymore, she had looked to two people she thought would never betray her.
This was where everything fell apart.....
Tsunade was the first one to set a crack in her already fragile heart.
When Sakura was still a Chunin, there had been an attack on the village. Sakura didn't know about this because she had been sent over to Suna to go over some political business with Gaara, the Kazekage of Suna.
When she had gotten back, she had found out that her parents had been killed in the attack, as they were both sent to the front lines of battle when the attack had happened.
There names had gone down on the same stone that Kakashi had visited, and now, she visited it everyday, at midnight, to look upon the names of the most important people in her life, the ones that she had failed to protect.
That had helped fuel her to become stronger and she had already been studying under Tsunade. Tsunade had accepted Sakura as a daughter of sorts, and helped Sakura in the best motherly way that she could.
But after a while, when they had also started to spend less and less time together, and people had started to talk about Sakura behind her back, that they began to grow apart.
Tsunade had abandoned Sakura for a new apprentice, Karin, who had wandered to Konoha after Sasuke had disbanded his Team Hebi, even though Sakura had far surpassed Tsunade in skill, but she had abandoned her on the eve of her parent's death which Tsunade should have known was the one day a year where Sakura was her weakest.
"Sakura, front and center." Tsunade had said that day. 'This is weird; Tsunade never talks to me that way unless it's for a mission.' Sakura thought as she walked and stood up straight in front of her desk.
"As much as I hate to say this, I will have to let you go as my apprentice. I have found someone better and who is more willing to learn from me then you are. You may keep your job at the hospital, but you will no longer be my apprentice and therefore, may only report here for mission debriefings and work. You may go." Tsunade had stated coldly, no emotion or regret in her voice at all.
At that, Sakura had stilled and put one of her masks on to shield the hurt written on her face. This Karin had turned even her friends against her, and now she had only one person left the she could turn to.
With a bow and a "Hai, Hokage-sama." Sakura turned and walked out of the building, and then made a mad dash towards the memorial rock and cried all night.
Ever since Naruto had failed to bring Sasuke back for her, they had become so close that she never wanted to be apart from him. They both relied upon each other to lean upon if one of them had 'one of those days', where every thing they did seemed hopeless.
A few days ago, Naruto had struck her deep.
She had run into Naruto in Tsunade's office when she was reporting back for a mission. Naruto had popped in right when Sakura had finished and he had talked quietly to Tsunade.
'What is with everyone, they're not themselves lately.' Sakura thought. 'Have you ever thought that maybe it's you that has changed?' Inner Sakura replied.
Sakura thought about that. She had changed her outfit to black baggy capris, a black belly shirt that fit her curves she had received when she turned 18 with a fishnet shirt that reached her elbows, and had black, fingerless gloves on. She had a blood-red scarf that was wrapped around her pale neck that reached down to her hips and flowed evenly. She had also changed her red headband to a black headband.
She had become more solitary, taking time to only go out of her apartment when she wasn't on a mission or working, which was rare if she had any alone time.
'Ehh maybe you're right, but why would Naruto act so different, I spend as much time as I can with him.' Sakura wondered. 'No clue.' Inner Sakura responded.
When Sakura was excused at the same time Naruto was, she automatically fell into step with him, but received a glare that made her steps falter.
"Is something the matter, Naruto?" Sakura asked quietly.
After a while of walking, Naruto turned around and stopped, all the while glaring at her.
"Why the fuck are you even in this village if you hate it so much?" Naruto snapped angrily.
"Ehh?" Sakura responded, not even knowing what he was talking about.
"Karin said that the reason you haven't been around was that you were meeting secretly with an organization set to kill everyone in this town, you traitor." Naruto replied furiously.
Sakura knew that anyone accused of being a traitor by Naruto meant that he was seriously pissed off and would have to, at that point, hate that person with a passion.
"And you believe her, Naruto? I would never betray Konoha, you of all people should know that." Sakura responded.
But Naruto was too furious to listen to how ridiculous he sounded and said, "Karin has been accepted by everyone here and you just treat her like shit. You're just like she said. Why don't you just follow after you're precious Sasuke-kunand get the fuck out of this village, better yet, why don't you go join the Akatsuki and help them kill me, because I never want to see your face again."
Sakura stepped back a bit, and winced at the harshness in his voice, not believing what he just said. It had turned out then, that Karin had taken away everything that was ever meaningful in her life. Naruto stormed off in the other direction leaving Sakura there with an intense look of pain on her face, alone on the street.
The last part of Sakura's heart had just broken.
So there Sakura was, staring at her village that she had just left, obviously not needed anymore by her friends, so she had packed her things.
Sakura couldn't believe that her friends would want that of her. After all she went through to help protect her precious people, she had none left to protect...
With one last look, Sakura took out a kunai and made a slash through her headband, marking herself as a missing-nin.
Sakura sped through the woods, trying to get as far away from her past as possible. She knew that as soon as Tsunade knew of her departure, she would have a lot of people chasing after her trying to kill her.
Sakura had gotten into the bingo book when she had reached Jonin, like Kakashi had, because of all the missions that she had taken on and her knowledge of classified jutsu's.
Sakura had even spent time creating her own jutsu's once she had gotten the hand of them. She focused more on wind and earth based jutsu's, which combined with her monstrous strength and medical knowledge, made her a dangerous enemy to anyone.
And so the story begins, where the exiled cherry blossom of Konoha makes the fatal decision to fall in love with a dangerous criminal that could possibly mend the heart that was once broken by the ones she used to love.
Sorry i had to cut it short guys! I'm uber tired and i wanted to get this story up before i forgot about it. Reviews r awesome, and you'll get free cookies if u do!!! hope you liked it, tell me if i should keep with this story in ur review! promise that there'll be more ItaSaku in the next chapter.
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