Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. I do not own any of the characters from the franchise. I do not own the series, even though the thought is nice. I do however, own this plot, and the original concept behind this plot.

I've decided to come back to the site after many years (/cough. Like eight.) of being away. So, please cut me some slack if I'm not entirely up to par. Haha. I've decided to rework a novel that I am currently working on, into a piece of fanfiction in hopes to get some decent feedback. I've attempted to fix my original characters into more of the characters from the franchise, so please forgive me if they seem a little out of character. (I've based my original characters off of people who I know.)

So, here's an AU of the Naruto universe, with different twists and turns around each corner. All characters are in their early 20's, and yes, they're just about all in college.

He looks so peaceful while he's sleeping, and that's why I didn't have the heart to wake him up.

I gingerly climbed out of the full sized bed that he and I had been sharing, grabbing my black bra and his large black button down shirt off the floor and putting them on in an effort to get ready for my long day of classes. Normally, I would wake him up and he, my best friend and roommate Ino, and I would all head off to the campus together since we all had about the same schedule for the day, as well as sharing our first class together. But I didn't have the heart to wake him up after seeing him stumble into the apartment that I share with Ino at three in the morning exhausted from having to take a longer than normal shift at his job. Even though in his exhausted state he went on a very tangent (which was surprising for him, being a man of few words) on how I needed to be sure to get him up this morning, because he did not want to miss my big presentation in our English class that I had been working on for the past couple of months.

I heard Ino exit her room and head to our kitchen to make the two of us our morning coffee as I threw on a pair of underwear and navy blue skinny jeans. Finishing up putting on my makeup and fixing my hair, I exited my room to find a cup of coffee waiting for me on our small kitchen table as well as a fresh plain bagel with cream cheese.

"Forehead, you've skipped one too many breakfasts and I'm not going to let you skip the one right before your big presentation." Ino said while taking a bite out of her own bagel. "You need something in you. For someone who wants to become a doctor, you sure don't take very good care of yourself."

"Thanks." I muttered, sitting down.

"Are you just going to let him sleep in?" she asked, motioning towards my bedroom.

"That I am."

"He really needs to stop stumbling in here during the night at those goddamn ungodly hours." Ino began, throwing a glare at my bedroom door in annoyance. "I understand that he works and it's easier for the three of us to all do the commute to campus together, but he really has no respect for anyone in this apartment when he just waltzes in here whenever he damn pleases and makes a mess out of everything."

"I'm sorry," I quietly said, looking down at my feet and gripping my hands together. "I'll say something to him about it again later. You know how he is."

Noticing my discomfort, Ino reached over and grabbed one of my hands, giving it a light squeeze and me a huge smile. "It isn't your fault, forehead. You did nothing wrong. He's just an inconsiderate asshole when it comes to certain things. Most men are. If you need me to say something to him I will because I know he refuses to listen to you when it comes to life choices. I don't know how you deal with such a stubborn asshole sometimes!"

"Thank you," I mumbled, unconsciously gripping her hand harder. "He grows on you after awhile."

"He grows in other ways as well, from what I heard the two of you doing the other night," she said, wiggling her eyebrows as I felt my face heat up. "Well, since the asshole is sleeping in today, we actually can leave on time for once and get some relatively good parking on campus since he's not going to be so insistent on driving us in that death trap of a car of his. At least we won't be late today." Ino said as she stood up and picked up my car keys. "So, why don't we get going now if you're ready?"

"That's fine!" I said a little too quickly. "Why are we taking my car when we could just take his and kill the rest of his gas?"

Ino laughed at my statement, knowing I was trying to find some humor in what I found to be in my mind, an awkward situation. "I know for a fact that you just filled up your car and have a full tank of gas and I really don't want to have to deal with him screaming later on how I took his car without asking him. Plus, I really don't want to die this morning even though I drive his car better than he ever will."

I smiled. "Alright, that's fair enough. You can drive. I'm not really feeling too up to it. My mind is elsewhere."

"I figured as much."

The drive to our college campus seemed to go by quicker than usual. I don't know if it was because I didn't have to listen to the constant bickering between the two of them about what a terrible driver the other one thought that the one driving the vehicle was, or if it was because we actually left at a decent time for once and didn't hit the amount of traffic that we usually ended up hitting. Either way, our usual twenty minute commute ended up being a ten minute commute, but that is also taking into consideration how Ino drives since she tends to have more of an idea of what she's doing behind the wheel than my boyfriend does and has much better control over a vehicle. Regardless, we reached the campus with surprisingly plenty of time to spare and we got good parking, which was also pretty surprising considering the amount of people who went here.

"Are you ready for your presentation?" Ino asked me as we began our walk towards our building.

"I don't think I'm ever going to be ready for it."

"Why do you say that?"

"I feel as though I could be more prepared. You know how Kakashi-sensei is. He always likes to ask the most random of questions that you are never prepared for."

"Oh stop it! You're going to be absolutely fine. There is no way in hell that you are going to fail this presentation after all the work you've put into this. Kakashi-sensei might be a total asshole that never even bothers to show up on time half the time, but even he isn't dumb enough to realize that even though this is just a regular English class, this is something that you are super passionate about and that this is something that you really enjoy studying. If he gives you a bad grade on this I'm going to go and march right up to his office and give that jerk a piece of my mind because clearly he must either have some sort of brain damage or something severely wrong with his eyes and ears if he doesn't see and comprehend this."

As we walked into the classroom, I shoved my hands into my pockets. "I just feel as though everything that I've managed to find is just at this point common knowledge."

"I'm sure that's not the case, forehead. You'd be surprised how many idiots there truly are in this world," she said as we took our usual seats.

"Good morning class! I hope those of you who are presenting today have come prepared. With the amount of time you have all received for your research, I have the highest expectations out of all of you. Who wants to begin today?" Kakashi-sensei announced as he walked into the room.

I took a sharp breath in as I felt Ino grip my hand for the second time today. "You'll be fine, Sakura," she said quietly. "The sooner you get it done, the quicker it will be over and done with and then you won't have to worry about it anymore."

"Nicely stated, Miss Yamanaka!" he said loudly, obviously hearing her soft words of encouragement to me. "Miss Haruno, I have been looking forward to hearing your research about your findings in the found texts on the royal family. Why don't you begin today? I am interested in seeing if what I have overheard your friends saying has been true about the amount of time you have put into this. Hopefully you won't disappoint me like others have done in the past when I've given them this topic."

I took another breath in and stood up, making my way to the front of the room. "Well sir, the one thing that everyone knows about me in comparison to others is that I put my all into whatever it is that I have to do. I think that this topic is something that everyone needs to be well informed about because even though it was a past incident, it is still a current issue and even still a current happening. I personally do not understand why someone would not care about what is going on in our government, because it will end up affecting them one day, if it is not already. Obviously, whoever you gave this topic to in the past, pardon my language, clearly did not give a shit."

"That was nicely stated Miss Haruno. Now, if you don't mind, you can begin."

Pulling out my paper, I looked up at the class and noticed Ino giving me a small nod of reassurance. I took a deep breath in and began. "The last known piece of text dating back to the royal families rule was a letter. It was with this letter, the royal family ended up meeting their demise. This letter was written from the princess to her old lover. Within this letter, the princess explained to her old lover that all ties had to be cut between them. Not because she did not love this person, because she loved this person with all of her heart and soul, but because it was something that she had to do for her family, and for the people that she was to soon govern alongside the prince, who at the time she had also fallen in love with. This is not to say that the princess never loved the prince, who she had been betrothed to for her entire life. That would be a false statement. History shows us over and over again throughout all of the known and found journals, letters, and even books written throughout that period in time that the princess and the prince truly did have one of those fairytale love stories."

I looked up, catching Ino's eye as I noticed how interested the class looked so far in what little I had begun to tell them.

"Miss Haruno?" my professor said, cutting me off.

"Yes, Kakashi-sensei?"

"Before you continue, you would not happen to have a copy of that letter that you would not mind reading to the class, would you?"

"I do have a copy," I began, ruffling through some scattered papers inside of my binder trying to locate what information I did have. "But I was unable to translate it from the ancient language that it was written in. I also was unable to find any type of translation device anywhere either. It seems as though all prior information has literally vanished. It almost seems as though someone does not want anyone knowing what was being said here."

"Thank you Miss Haruno. You may continue with your presentation."

Silently sighing, I placed the papers back into my binder and proceeded to take a seat on the stool in the front of the room, the realization hitting me that this was going to end up taking much longer than I had been hoping that it would. Regardless of the amount of research I have done, I was hoping to be able to get away with the possibility that he would ask me for a brief overview and specific points and a couple of details to support my findings. The only reason he would be this intrigued I feel is if he either has something hidden away up his sleeve, which would not surprise me.

"All we know is that after this letter was sent, the royal family and all that resided within their court had been massacred by the princess' prior lover. It is also known at this point that even though it has been many centuries, the souls that were lost that day have yet to be reborn. This has puzzled many scholars and many people who have been working on recording each soul rebirth, because the memories should have already appeared to those who are the reborn court. Also, it is against protocol and against our laws to go around just testing civilians who could possibly match up with some of the possible traits or markers that the prince and princess had. It is also against protocol to go around to every couple that matches their markers and forcibly bring their past memories back to the surface to see who they were in their past lives. With this being said, if one person has reported that their memories have returned, and has gone through our protocol and it is proven that they were part of the royal court, then it can be said that the rest of the souls that were lost on that fateful day have also returned."

Ino raised her hand halfway and I proceeded to give her a quick nod as our professor groaned. "With the genetic markers, what are they exactly looking for in each couple? Also, do you know if anyone has made any type of reports about this?"

"What is known about the princess is that she had green eyes. The significance of the fact is because of how uncommon that eye color is. If you look around the room, you will notice that more than half of the people here have brown eyes. Then there will be more than a few of us here that have blue eyes, and maybe one or two of us that have green. As someone who studies science, you should know that green eyes can be quite a rarity. Not too much has been released about the prince, and for that reason I am not too sure of. There is more information about the princess than there is him."

"You have green eyes, Sakura."

"That is true, as well as it being a nice observation." I said as I raised an eyebrow at her, wondering why she was deciding now of all times to be a pain in the ass.

"So maybe your asshole of a boyfriend could be a part of this royal family as well, being that no one really knows too much about him other than the fact he comes from a butt-load of money."

"That is also a nice observation, Ino. What are you getting at?" I said, throwing her a look while trying to ignore her obvious train of thought, which I also figured at this point, was an obvious train of thought that was circulating throughout the classroom.

Kakashi-sensei held up a finger to silence our banter. "Miss Haruno, have any of the documents that you have gone over stated what would happen if it was to be found and proven that the souls of those lost that day have finally been reborn? Would they be reinstated back into power or would we leave society the way that it is today?"

"Recent articles and journals have stated that if in the case that the royal family has been proven to return, that our society would reinstate them to power. That is one of the reasons that the palace that they resided in during their reign has been preserved now for all of these centuries. The way our society was built and even how it is still running today is because of what that family had instilled and what laws they had made while they were in power, and we owe a lot to them. During their reign was the time that everything was at its highest. Because of how times have obviously changed over the years, it would be most beneficial to our society if they were put right back into power since one of the many great skills that they had was adaptation."

"How sure of you that this information is correct?" he asked me, raising an eyebrow.

I sighed, recounting many night's lost sleep that were spent going over countless texts and sources looking for even the most simple of answers. I double checked, triple checked, and even checked every single piece of information that I was able to find up to five or six times, even putting them side by side for comparison to see if everything in them matched up in the timeline that I was making for myself of who did what and where it all occurred. Even though there is a lot known about this family, there was still so much left out of the common person's knowledge back all those years ago that they either wanted to keep out of the public's eye, or the political business that was going on between them and others. It was not until that fateful night that I had ended up finding the missing link that ended up tying everything together that everything ended up making sense. I screamed so loud I thought Ino was going to end up killing me since it was "five in the fucking morning and we have to get up for school in less than three hours."

"I'm pretty positive that all of my findings are accurate, sir. I did not leave anything up for question before I put it all together."

"I see," Kakashi-sensei drawled out, tapping his pen against the desk he was leaning on, looking very lost in thought. "Speaking of your significant other, where is he today? It is not like him to miss class, and I would not assume he would purposely miss today's class of all days."

"He wasn't feeling too well this morning," I lied. "I can always let him read the final copy of my research when he's feeling better and has a good amount of time to devote to actually reading it."

"Sakura, when have you ever seen that boy pick up an actual book? Like, one that doesn't have pictures in it that's actually real literature?" Ino cut in, sounding annoyed at the mere mention of my boyfriend. "Let alone actually read something that was not on a computer screen. For all we know he could be sitting there reading about those stupid online games that he likes to waste all of his leftover free time on instead of being a productive member of society like the rest of us. All that kid does is come over to our apartment and mooch our wifi because ours is better than the one at his parents' house because his stupid gamer friends all like to go over there and hook up whatever they got their hands on to it. He eats all of our food and acts like he owns the damn place the way he parades himself in at ungodly hours of the night. That kid seriously makes me worry for the people in our generation of today."

"That will be enough out of you, Miss Yamanaka. Miss Haruno, before I ask you to take your seat, I do have one final question for you. Have there been any sort of recent developments or findings that the royal families' souls have been reborn into today's world?"

"Evidence has been pointing in the direction that they have indeed returned, since from the few things that I have been able to find, there have been a couple of reports that have been confirmed. The names of those have not been released because of course obvious reasons, but then our government would also be breaking protocol by intervening with the other peoples' lives that they are surrounded with to see who else from their families or friends is also part of the royal court. What is frustrating about this though is that time is of the essence when it comes to certain factors, which we are all aware of. This means that we can only hope for the best if that is the case, and hope that the rest of those who died that day, that their memories return to them soon, or else we're all doomed," I stated this solemnly, looking down at the ground shuffling my feet in an awkward manner.

"That is very understandable Miss Haruno. You may take your seat. Thank you." He said while the entire room started clapping.

"We can only hope for the best." I said quietly with Ino placing her hand on my shoulder while I proceeded to take my seat.