1 Wishes Can Come True, They Just Take Time.
Chapter one : A New War
Disclaimer: Naruto does not belong to me. On the other hand...Sasuke might! Lol jk but seriously, I don't own Naruto.
It was late.. And there was a full moon.. Tears ran down my face as I tried to convince the one I loved not to leave.
"I know what happened to your clan. But...with revenge alone...you will not be able to make anyone happy. No one... Neither you, nor..me" "I know that." shocked that he finally spoke.. I turned towards him, waiting for him to continue. "I am different from you guys. I follow a different path then you guys. The four of us together..It's true that I thought of that as one possible path. But despite having the four of us been together, my heart as chosen revenge. That's why I go on living. I can't be like you or Nar- "Aren't you going to be lonely by yourself!?" I asked cutting him off, "Sasuke-kun you told me being alone was painful! I understand so well that it hurts...I have family...and friends...But..if you leave, for me.. To me, it's the same thing as being alone!" a puddle of tears formed at my feet, grasping my own hand I try to keep from sobbing even more. "From this point on, new paths will start." "I..! I love you more than anything! If you are by my side, I make sure you will not regret it! I will make every day more enjoyable and..you will be happy! There's nothing I wouldn't do for you...That's why..I'm begging you please stay!"I was getting desperate now, "I will even help you with your revenge! There must be something I can do! That's why...please...stay here with me...And...if that's not possible.. Please..take me with you." My vision was now all blurry from my tears, so I stayed silent and waited for his response..but what he responded, was not what I expected. "After all this time..you're still annoying." And he started walking again. "Don't go! If you go I'll scream -huh?" He disappeared..and I felt his presence behind me, "Sakura...arigato"
My eyes shot open. I was in bed. Woken up in the middle of the night just like everyday since that incident happened. 'Damn him for making me have these damn nightmares' I thought silently to myself. I looked at my alarm clock next to my bed, 4:52am, perfect, 8 minutes before I usually get up. Yes, my normal time to get up now is 5am because Tsunade wants me in her office by 5:30am when she goes into her office and starts her paperwork.
So I got out of bed and headed for the shower, got out around 5:05 and got dressed into my normal dark pink dress with shorts under. Got all of my equipment ready and ate a small breakfast(which was a piece of toast and some orange juice to those of you just wondering) brushed my teeth and headed off to the Hokage's tower.
'Right on time' I thought as I saw a clock just outside of Tsunade's office, '5:30'and I walked inside. "Hmm?" Tsunade looked up from her paperwork, "Oh, right on time Sakura, just like you. Alright lets get started on some higher training." "Um..what do you mean 'higher' training Tsunade-sensei?" "I mean more advanced stuff obviously." I glared at her, "Relax Sakura, I'm only kidding around. Now then, I need to you go and practice on your own and I want you to be practicing non-stop got it?" "Yes ma'am. What exactly is it that you want me to do though?" "Well, go into the forest, and start practicing focusing chalkra into your hand to break down trees. Just don't harm any buildings got it?" "Okay. See you at 2!" and I walked out. Shizune passed me on my way out and she seemed to be in a hurry, all I heard was a muffled "good morning" when she paced past me. 'Hm, wonder what the rush was about'
"Tsunade-sama! I have a few things that you need to see." Shizune said. "Well then lets have 'em" Tsunade said. "Here's the first one, I suppose this one isn't important but it's a report from Jiraiya about how Naruto is doing." Tsunade read it, and set it to the side, "Give me an important one, please?" Shizune responded by giving her a letter. She stayed silent as she watched the Hokage's eyes widen when she got to the middle of the letter. "HE is coming HERE!?!?""Yes Tsunade-sama." "Oh no..."
Back to our favorite pink haired nin, man is it just me or ever since Sasuke left to Orochimaru, and Naruto had no one to annoy, or did it get quiet? Then again, Naruto is gone too, he left to train with Jiraiya-sama. Yeah, that's it, it's because Naruto AND Sasuke aren't here. "HE is coming HERE!?!?" I swung around and looked at the Hokage tower. "I guess it must have..REALLY been important for her to act like..that." I said to particularly no one, and continued on my way to my house, completely unaware of what might happen very soon.
"Get the village to a safe spot NOW all available shinobi must prepare themselves for a battle! Call all available Jonin and Chunin here at ONCE" "Yes Ma'am!" Shizune replied and went off to do exactly what she asked. Five minutes later Tsunade was explaining the situation to the Jonin and Chunin. "For those of you who don't know him, Gendou is a very dangerous man who travels around with a gang of his who are about ANBU level, but he has been off the map for about a year now. It's amazing that he would send me a letter first, but he is coming to attack the village, and he apparently wants a good fight if he wants us to know he is coming." "How large is his 'gang' as you referred it Godaime-sama?" She hesitated, "It's...100 people including him." "WHAT?!" mummers were exchanged. "Now do you understand? We must get the village people to safety, where can we take them without being too risky?"
"The Underground Mines." "Hmm... that is a good proposal Kakashi. The Underground Mines entrance is hidden with a genjutsu so it wouldn't be likely for someone to find it." She paused, "Very well, start gathering people now, I don't want anyone else harmed."
And so they fanned out going to get everyone and taking them to safety, and when they told Sakura to go as well, ..well lets just say she wasn't happy about it. "What do you mean it's for my 'protection'? I am a NINJA TOO!! I can help fight!" "I'm sorry but...uh.." she gave him a death glare. "LOOK. I am the Hokage's APPRENTICE, you cannot tell me to 'go to the underground mines' because I am being PERSONALLY trained by TSUNADE-SENSEI and I can HELP FIGHT in this WAR!" "Please miss calm..." and he waved his hands in front of himself to hopefully somehow shield himself. "Sakura." I turned around, "WHA-uh Kakashi sensei, what are you doing here?" I said calmly again, and the Chunin who was about to be killed by Sakura looked back and fourth between Kakashi and the temperamental woman who almost killed him before deciding to run away. "Doing what everyone else is doing. Sakura I know you want to help but I need you to go to the underground mines." he said a little too seriously it was scary. "But Kakashi-sensei.. You don't understand..I need to help!" "No you don't, now go." She was silent for a minute with her eyes closed. Her head down, bangs covering her eyes. "If I don't help... then I will never find a way to make up for not being able to bring back Sasuke. He is a threat to this village now, and it's all my fault because I couldn't stop him. So please.. I need to help." Kakashi's eye widened a little bit.
That's what she thinks? That it's her own fault that he left? That he is a threat? That she needs to make up for it? All of these thoughts and more ran through the poor Jonin's head as he looked down at his student. "Sakura..it's not your"– "YES IT IS" she shouted, which startled him. She looked up, holding back tears, "it is my fault and don't try to tell me otherwise. I am going to fight in this war because I do not want anyone else to get hurt, I don't want anyone to lose anyone precious to them, no one is going to die, and I am going to make sure of that, even if I have to give my own life."
There was a long and uncomfortable silence between the two. "Fine." Kakashi finally said, "Now help everyone gather villagers." She lit up, "Yes sir!" And the two of them helped get everyone to the Underground Mines. Once everyone was safe, the ninja's who were going to fight were all lined up and ready at the gate, in the village hiding, and ready to fight just about anywhere in the village.
Sakura noticed she was posted near Kakashi Damn them for thinking I'm weak. It didn't take long before "Gendou" and his "gang" showed up and the war had begun.
Certainly the village had way more shinobi than Gendou had, but, not all of them could beat an ANBU level ninja!
A man dove in on Kakashi and knew who he was. "Ahh..the copy ninja, what a surprise. I thought you would have been on a mission or something." the man said "I finally get to battle with you..heh..lets see how good u really ARE!" and he attacked him. Kakashi dodged and threw a mix of shuriken and kunai at him. But he was behind him. "Is that all you have? Come on I expected a good fight." Kakashi looked at him from the corner of his eye. "Fine...have it your way..you'll get a good fight..just remember, you asked for it" he said as he lifted up the part of his headband that was covering his eye, to show his Sharingan eye.
"Well, well, now we are getting somewhere." but right as he said that, someone attacked Kakashi from behind with a ninjutsu that trapped him in a diamond, like the one from the time Sakura and Naruto went to get Sasuke and naruto got imprisoned in that diamond.
Sakura looked over from the dead man in front of her at Kakashi, her eyes widened. That was the exact thing that happened to Naruto! She had to get him out of there and FAST. But as she thought of how, someone attacked her, and out of the corner of her eye she could see a man about to attack Kakashi with some really weird jutsu that she had never seen before. She studied him closely from afar, while fighting this other guy, oh no he's going to.. NO "Ugh I don't have TIME FOR THIS!" and she killed him in an instant and ran to Kakashi-sensei's aid.
"KA!" she yelled as she released the genjutsu the man placed on Kakashi. "Why you little- "Strong Kunoichi? Hmph. Stole the words right out of your mouth huh?" she mocked. He just growled. Kakashi struggled and struggled but couldn't get himself free from the prison he was in, and it just kept getting smaller. "Stop it Kakashi Sensei!" the more you move the tighter it gets until you are crushed" she yelled. And he looked up at her, "Sakura what do you think you are doing?! Get out of here now!" "NO! I'm TIRED of people thinking I'm too weak to handle myself! I got this. He's just a pathetic kid who likes to play around anyways."
That did it. He was furious. This little girl stopped his genjutsu somehow, AND knew the secret to the diamond seal jutsu! (a/n: I forget what it was called so I'm just gona call it that xD)
He growled again. "Well then little miss 'strong kunoichi' lets go, shall we?" and he disappeared only to be right behind her, but by the time she realized that, it was too late. He struck her with a kunai knife in the back. "Ugh!" she yelled as she kunai left a bloody scratch mark on her back.
"Come on, your making this too easy." "Hmph...easy for you to say!" and she used the one major thing Tsunade had been teaching her. Putting a whole mess of chalkra into her punch, and she struck the ground. The man flew in the air, only to be bombarded with kunai, shuriken, and a random sword that was on the ground.
He dodged the kunai and shuriken, but just as he looked up to insult her again with an "is that all you got?" the sword went through him, and Sakura went to Kakashi and his problem. The man had to let go of Kakashi if he was going to dodge Sakura. So she did the exact same thing Naruto and Sasuke did back when fighting Zabuza. Distract him with one kunai, then throw another at his arm.
He fell for it.
Kakashi sensei was released from the prison. And so the war went on, Sakura being a great help until, 5 men decided to ambush her.
She and one guy were going at it, but the others were fed up with her beating them, so then a second came, then a third, then a fourth, then a fifth. And because she's a girl, they decided to be nice about it.
"I'll tell you what girly, we'll make a deal with you." one of them said. Oh great what now? They gona ask me if I want it quick or slow? Hmph
"Yeah, why don't you dump this crappy village and join us? We will train you and provide everything you need as long as you provide your services." Her eyes shot open. A chance to leave the village, be trained something different, and be accepted as a good fighter! Everything I wanted and I don't have to worry about money and everything else...maybe I should consider this. Then again, it would be betraying the village..but if it looks like I was forced, I wont have that problem.
"We'll give you till tomorrow to think about it. If you consider it, we will be in the Rice country for a few days. Remember, this you only have till sunset in 3 days. Until then."
And they were about to retreat, along with everyone else. Kakashi had been watching Sakura carefully, he wanted to make sure his student stayed safe, so he decided to go over there once he was finished with his current battle. But then, the person he was fighting retreated, and he looked over to Sakura again, just to make sure, and saw them putting her in some kind of box thing!
"Sakura!" And he rushed over, but it was too late, he saw how she struggled, but he just didn't get there in time, they had her, tied up, in a box, with a seal on it, and were retreating with everyone else.
"Kakashi stop!" Gai yelled, "They have Sakura!" and he went after them, followed by Gai and Kurenai. A flash of lightning went through Konoha as Gendou's group left. It was so bright that everyone had to stop in their tracks and cover their eyes. It lasted for about 10 seconds. And when the light went away, they were gone. And so was Sakura.