And it's finally here... Moonlight! Please enjoy the first chapter:
Enter: Haruno Sakura
A little girl entered her room, excitement written all over her face. She was soon followed by a young woman, her mother.
"Come on mom!" the little pink haired girl shouted at her mother, smiled.
"Calm down sweetie" the woman said pulling a chair next to the girl's bed, while she jumped in it.
"Mommy please!" The girl cried out, "I want to hear the story NOW!" Her mother just rolled her eyes and smiled more at her daughter. "Fine, I'll star now, but only if you promise to stay quite."
The girl got in her bed and sat still, shutting her mouth. The woman chuckled at her daughter's actions, and started her story."Ok once upon a time, there was this beautiful princess…"
"Mom I don't want to listen to some silly princess story! I want you to finish the other story!" the girl pouted at her.
Her mother stayed quite, unsure of what to do. After all, that story was, well…
"Ok I'll tell you that one." She smiled down at her daughter. The child flashed an even bigger smile.
"We were talking about moonlight right?" she asked the little girl. The girl nodded at her. "Oh well…" she thought about what to say without spilling anything.
"You told me that moonlight was a secret organization" the girl said "and they were the protectors of our world" The little girl smiled at her mother waiting for her to keep up.
"Yes that's right" the woman said, surprised that the girl could still remember of something like that. Well, this was her daughter after all…
"And you said that in their group were any kinds of creatures: werewolves, talking animal, wizards, and the best…Vampires!" the girl shouted in excitement.
'Ha, of course she remembers that…' "You said you liked vampires right?"
The girl nodded. "Yes. They're so cool!"
They stayed like that, the mother telling her story and the daughter listening with fascination, until she gave a long yawn and the woman decided to stop there.
"But I'm not tired yet, pleeeaaassse" The little girl begged and begged but her mother was stronger. She tugged her in bed, kissed her forehead and walked towards the door.When she was about to open it and get out, she heard her daughter's voice.
"I love you mom"
She turned around and saw the shining smile of the little girl. She grimaced, thought it wasn't visible to the girl and replied,in a sad tone.
"I loveyou too Sakura"
A tall figure made its way trough the busy streets of Konoha. People where coming and going from places like the mall or the movies. Everyone seemed to be enjoying their free time that Saturday.
The said man kept on walking, ignoring the happy people around him. He was unaware of it or just didn't give a damn, the latter being the most possible. He was rather more interested in the building he was in front of. Is this one...
However his thoughts came to a halt when he bumped into someone. " Ouch!" the person with said. But then he realized it wasn't just a person, it was a girl. A girl with pink hair.
The man was impressed by such a rare color of hair but tried not to show it. He quickly mutter an "I'm sorry" and crossed the street. The girl just stood there, looking at the back of the man. For some reason he seemed so… odd.
Shrugging it off, she continued on her way to the entrance of building in front of her.
She walked trough the lobby and entered the elevator and pressed the 3 button. She waited silently until the engine reached its destiny. The door slowly opened to reveal an all too familiar hall for her. She made her way trough it, until she stopped in front of a door with the number nine marked in it. Upon knocking in the door, she entered trough it after hearing an "it's open"
"Tsunade-shishou you can't leavethe door open like that!" she yelled as she set her things aside. The interior of the house was a little messy but it gave the impression that their inhabitants treated, with great effort, to fix it.
A woman who looked like in her late twenties came out of a door, looking a little worn-out. "Hi Sakura, how was your day?"
The pink-haired girl gave an irritated sigh as she walked toward the kitchen. "Don't hi me shishou, an adult like you should know that it's risky to leave the door open like that." The young girl lectured her guardian, inwardly asking herself if their roles weren't changing a lot more often these days.
Tsunade, or Tsunade-shishou, how she became used to call her was, her custodian. She had been a friend of her mother some years ago and had agreed to take care of Sakura after her mother's death four years ago.
After moving in with a complete stranger, Sakura soon realized she didn't felt like a stranger at all. In fact, this woman reminded her of her mother so much it almost scared her. Sakura started to like her only after a few months of living with her, what may look like a normal thing for someone else, but not for her only having a few real friends.
The blond woman just shrugged. "Whatever, if someone tried to break in I'll take care of it in a minute. Anyway, how was shopping with Ino?" Tsunade asked.
"It was fine I guess," she said as she collapsed in one of the living room couch "the same as always, Ino dragged me all over the place, tried what seemed like twenty identical but for some reason different kind of clothes, commented on the look of some boys next to us in the restaurant, the usual." She replied dully. "And how were things in the hospital?"
The woman sighed, a little too similar to the way the teen previously did, and sit in next to her with her face buried in her palms. "Guess that means it was a bad day at work." She heard the teen say.
"You have no idea" the woman grunted. The teen could only chuckle at the woman actions. She really wondered…
"You know, it's really annoying when people laugh at you." She muffled from between her fingers. Sakura couldn't help but laugh more.
"Yeah, laugh of the poor old woman with too much work and a teenage girl to maintain." At this point Sakura was laughing really hard and was soon joined by the blond.
"Oh please! I'm not such a menace" she said, wiping away her tears away. Their laughing came to an end when they heard the bell rang. Sakura got up and started walking to the door.
"I wonder who that is." Tsunade exclaimed, also standing up.
The teen made it to the door and open without even bothering to look who it was. They both froze at the sight of the man at their door.
He was a really tall man, she could say he was old by his white long hair, his clothes just regular pants and a big coat. Sakura and Tsunade remained in their places eyeing the old man.
Thought she wasn't really someone to judge any person by their looks, Sakura couldn't help to feel nervous about this man. The way he stand there and how he was looking at her and her master. "There was something really strange about him" she though, "no doubt."
As it seemed nobody was going to say anything, Sakura gently utter a "May I help you?" to the man, only he didn't seem to have listened her. She coughed to call his attention but the man simply ignored her again. "What a jerk!" her inner self yelled while she tried to not yell the same at him. In her attempts she failed to notice his gaze was meant to someone else.
Behind her, Tsunade gaped at the old man in front of her, as millions of questions raced her mind, "why is he here?" being the main one. She quickly shifted her gaze to the girl in front of her. "Sakura"
Her train of though came to a halt when she heard the man utter her name. "Tsunade…"
"Jiraya!" the woman replied in surprise. The man in front of them smirked.
"Glad to see you still remember me" The man said grinning.
The blond women smirked. "Yeah it's kinda hard to forget an idiot like you Jiraya"
He smirked. "Oh, and here I tough you'll be nicer to your old friend" he said,trying to sound hurt. "But I guess some things never change" His gaze then went down to the confused girl next to her. "And who's this? Shizune's relative or something?"
"Ah iie, I'm not a relative of Shizune-san" the girl answered him, "I'm Haruno Sakura and I livehere with shishou"
Jiraya looked at her strangely for a moment, or so she thought because he now was looking at Tsunade again. "We have to talk" he said in a serious tone.
"Sakura" she turned around at the mention of her name, " please make us some tea and perhaps you could bring some snacks too." The blond's face was dead serious as the man's.
"ok" she suddenly felt really out of place and went to the kitchen, but not without hearing a "I can believe you did this..." from the man.
"The tea is ready!" she said as she enter the living room.
She walked to them, a tray in hands and on it two cups and teacup. She placed both cups in front of them and carefully pored the tea on them as she tried to listen to anything they were saying. but unfortunately their attention was now focused on her. 'I heard them talking before, but now it's like they don't want me to hear anything.' They hadn't talked about anything interesting anyways. Just old friends, jobs and life, not anything she'd liked to find out.
"Don't pay attention to me, keep talking" she tried with her best, innocent smile. "Oh don't worry Sakura, we were just saying nonsense, you didn't interruptanything" Tsunade told her. 'yeah, I kind of noticed...'
She prepared to leave but tripped and almost fell on the floor. She cursed at her clumsiness and looked up. "oh shishou!"
Aparently, when she slipped the teacup fell from her hand and landed on Tsunade together with tea inside. "Shishou I'm so sorry! I'm so stupid" the girl tried her best to sound like she mean it but... 'this is just perfect!' inner Sakura cried.
"Don't worry Sakura, I'll just go change" and with that she got up and started to walk to the hallway. She still regretful look in her face, but on the inside she was jumping of happiness. This was her chance and she had to take full advantage of it.
So once the woman leave the room, the pink haired girl jumped over the man, determination written all over her face. "Are you one of them?" She asked with a dead tone.
"One of them?" The confused man asked her. The girl gave him an irritated look but shrugged it of trying to focus in her mission. 'I must get him to talk before Shishou comes back…'
She sighed "Look, my mom already told me everything about everything so you don't have lie, and I promise I won't tell anyone." The girl told him.
The man frowned, confused. 'What is she talking about' he thought eyeing the girl. Realization then hit him. 'Wait! Does she know?'
The pink haired girl looked over at him once more, directly into his eyes. "I won't tell anyone" she started never leaving his gaze, "about your group."
He stared at the girl in front of him, his eyes wide open and his mouth a gasp. "What…" He tried to say, but the girl kept looking him with a stern face. The two stayed quite until they heard a noise from behind them. The pink-haired girl quickly turned around to find her master looking straight at her, her face firm.
The three remained silence until Tsunade spoke.
"Sakura,"
The sound of her name made her tremble "Kami-sama, I'm so dead" she thought, as she waited for her master to speak.
The women inhaled deeply before talking, "Sakura, we've talked about this before and I've told you-"
"I'm sorry Tsunade-sama!" The girl suddenly shouted, tears filing her eyes. "It's just… I… I just…" she stuttered.
The old women signed again and cast a small smile at her student. Sakura looked astonish at her master actions. "Tsunade shishou?" She said between sobs.
"I'm sorry I didn't tell you before Sakura," she started, "It's just that I didn't want to see you hurt." The girl couldn't help but look at the older women with disbelief. "I thought that if you got involved in this you will end like your mother. She made me responsible of you and I promised her nothing would happen to you".
Sakura looked shocked when her master finishing talking. She wiped away her tears and smiled at Tsunade. "Tsunade-sama…" The women smiled back at her.
"Jiraya was about to inform me of an important matter, and I think I should need the opinion of someone else…"
Sakura's face lit up. "You mean I can stay?" the girl exclaimed, not believing her ears. Tsunade grinned at her.
"Yes Sakura, you can stay".
And here ends the first chapter. I hope you liked and I'll really appreciate your reviews ;)
Ok, so this is my first fanfic EVER so it will be really nice to hear/read your opinions. Oh, and also two things 1) I¡m sorry for any mispelled word or any other mistake i may have made and 2) english it's not my first language so it's kinda more hard to write it and even more to do it whitot making mistakes.
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