Title: Konoha U.

Summary: AU Sakura is new to Konoha Combat University and suddenly all the boys are getting injured just to spend some time with the new med. student. SakuGaa SakuNeji

Rating: K

Status: 1 chapter written, 1 chapter posted

Review count: 0

Pairings: Sakura x Gaara, Sakura x Neji

Notes: This is my first Naruto fanfiction and be warned, I have skipped a load of episodes...I've seen most of the chunin exames, episode 1 and 3, a couple of fillers, music videos of WaterfallNaruto vs. Sasuke and all 5 shippuden episodes. I know who most of the characters are and there pasts and they will be modified for this story. If the characters are really OOC then I apologise.

Also, if you suggest any pairings don't make them Yaoi or Yuri...I have nothing against them it's just that I'm sick of the stick I got for YAOI pairings in the Yu-Gi-Oh and Harry Potter sections while I wrote fan-fics for those genre. Now, on with the story. :D

"Sakura, I have made arrangements with your uncle, your mother's brother-in-law, for you to go to Konoha."

The man's words were interrupted by a coughing fit that caused a small trickle of blood to leak from the side of his mouth.

"Stop farther, this cannot be good for you," Sakura cried softly as she clutched her father's hand tighter. Tears pricked at her eyes making them burn and she bit her bottom lip trying desperately to steady her voice.

"It is my dieing wish that you finish your training. You will take your brother and go to Konoha, Iruka will take of you."

"No father, don't speak like that, you're not dieing." It was a lie and she knew it but she clung to those words just as tightly as she did his hand.

"I am sorry I cannot do more for your future Sakura. I am sorry I could not protect you like your mother wanted. She would be proud to see how you've grown."

"Father," tears leaked silently down her face from her shimmering bottle green eyes.

He turned his glazed eyes to her, flickering like real emeralds in the candle light, "I am proud of you," his whispered.

Then his hand went limp and Sakura collapse at the side of the bed still holding his hand and crying out anguished sobs. There was no point calling for a doctor, the best in the village had been only an hour before. There had been no hope of saving her father.

Once she had composed herself she leaned up and kissed her father's still warm forehead. The furrows of his brow had relaxed slightly and for the first time since he was injured so badly he looked at rest. Gulping heavily to keep a fresh bout of tears away as she felt the warmth leaving him she pulled the white sheets of his bed up over his head and blew out the candle.

She made for the door and looked back, "I will make you proud father."

She opened the door, outside, his small hands fisted at his sides and his red hair hanging in front of his eyes, was her brother. His shoulders were shaking and there was dark blotches on the floor at his feet. Without a word, Sakura dropped to her knees before him and wrapped her arms around him, he lifted up his hands and gripped the red dress she was wearing as tight as possible and both cried till their were no tears left in them.

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The funeral was a private affair, Sakura and her brother, no one else. There were others who had staked a claim to come to the funeral as a final insult to her father but she had prevented it with all her might. She would do as her father wished. She would take her brother, Syaoran, and go to stay with her maternal uncle, Iruka where she would finish her medical training.

Short I know, but it's only a prologue and chapters will get longer. Yes I know that Iruka is not related to Sakura but if you've paid attention you'll notice I said mother's brother-in-law. Meaning that Iruka married into Sakura's mother's side of the famiy. And to be honest, it's just an excuse to get her into Konoha. :D