The Promise of Forever
DG32173
Sarah: this is gonna be … odd.
Naruto: tell me about it! Your scary!!
Sarah: you mean my imagination is scary.
Naruto: same difference.
Sarah: whatever. I don't own the Naruto anime, manga, or cast.
!!!WARNINGS!!!
ALTERNATE UNIVERSE! M-rated for violence, deaths, some smut in the distant future, etc. If you do not like gruesome detailed scenes of battle, don't read.
SUMMARY
She is a time sorceress from nearly five millennia in the future. Upon finding her name in the historical records, she must travel to the era her name is mentioned in; for history cannot be rewritten just because she is scared of the events that happened in that era.
He is a simple ninja of the era. He is her genin 'teacher,' not knowing that she is from the distant future. He slowly falls in love with his beautiful 'student'. Within a few years, though, he finds out that she is not from his time.
Can a relationship happening between two beings from different times work out successfully between them? Or will her knowledge of future events tear them apart before they even have a chance? Can her promise of forever keep them together in the difficult times to come? (Kaka/Saku; Genma/OC; Anko/OC)
NOTE
(Authors note)
"Talking"
'Thinking'
Scene change
POV change
Memory, reading or writing something, etc. (you'll figure it out)Scene change in memory
TRANSLATIONS
Nee-chan: sister
Okaa-san: mother
Otou-san: father
DESCRIPTIONS
Alex
Name: Haruno Alexandra
Age: beginning of fic: 15 end of fic: 40
Height (beginning of fic): feet: 5'5" centimeters: 165
Hair color: pink
Hair length: waist
Hair style: wavy
Eye color: emerald
Temperament: more volatile and emotional than Sakura
Kaz
Name: Haruno Kazuo
Age: beginning of fic: 10 end of fic: 35
Height (beginning of fic): feet: 4'8" centimeters: 142
Hair color: auburn
Hair length: shoulders
Style: straight
Eye color: emerald
Temperament: very calm, even-headed; hard to anger, but downright vicious when angered
Prologue
Six-year-old Haruno Sakura flips the pages in an old, faded history book; she wants to test the limits of her sorcery powers, especially her time sorcery powers, and is trying to find a time to go back to and experience. But she has to be careful not to alter the past while she's there. Her ability to take control of time and ages sets her apart from her peers in the sorcery school. Only the most gifted and powerful of sorcerers and sorceresses can manipulate time, and it's not a learned skill. It has to be passed down in your bloodline through centuries on centuries of generations.
When she reaches a part in the ancient book about a war that happened around five millennia ago, she gasps as she spots her name. She hates violence with a passion and will only use her sorcery in combat when there's no other option. But the book states that she was a war hero who was trained by two of the most famous people in Konoha's history.
"Saku-chan? You find something?" her friend, mentor, and sister, Alex, asks. Haruno Alexandra is nine years older than Sakura, being fifteen, and is basically her tutor in the arts of sorcery; but she can teach her little sister only so much longer before the younger roseate will have to move on to a much more powerful tutor. The child's powers far exceed the strength of her older sister's.
"…Alex-nee-chan, could you look at this?" the eight-year-old whispers. "I want to make sure I'm reading it right…"
Alex frowns. Sakura is never unsure of herself when reading. Whatever is in the book must scare her greatly for her to want it verified. "Lemme see," she says, taking the book. "What do you want … oh Kami no," Alex starts, ending in a horrified whisper, her skin so pale it makes the snow outside the library windows look black.
Sakura slumps in her chair, knowing that what she read is really there. Alex looks up into the young girl's eyes and nods ever-so-slightly slightly, letting the child know she had read correctly. Sakura slumps even further in her chair. "So I have no choice in the matter?" she asks softly.
Alex shakes her head. "We can't change the past just because we don't like what happened then. It could drastically change the here-and-now; you know that, Saku-chan," Alex says softly. She gives the roseate a soft grin. "You are one of the best and strongest Sorceresses Konoha's put out ever, and you are also an extremely talented ninja, even as young as you are. You will be fine, I'm sure. The book even says you will be."
Sakura sighs. "But I hate killing," she whimpers.
Alex sighs as she gathers the younger girl in her arms. "I know," she whispers into Sakura's hair. "I know. But you must travel back." The older roseate reads further into the tale of that particular war in Konoha's past and becomes even more pale. "I have to go back with you," she says softly, horror and anxiety evident in her voice.
Alex hates time travel. She can't control time and ages as well as her little sister, and so has to let Sakura handle all time travel between them. She knows from the book that Sakura will have to reduce their ages as well. Alex can do that as well, but can't make the person retain the memories of the years they lost by growing younger. Sakura can; she can also use her sorcery powers, even at six-years-old, to alter the memories of other people around her to make them 'remember' or 'forget' what she wants them to, placing false memories in their minds for them to 'remember'. Not even Alex's teachers are capable of that. Only three people in all of Konoha in this era can do such a thing: the Hokage, the girls' mother, and Sakura.
Sakura sighs, a melancholy smile on her lips. "At least we'll have each other," she says softly. Alex nods. "Well, we better go talk to okaa-san and Hokage-sama about this," she says softly. "Let's bring the book as proof. I'm sure Hokage-sama will want to confirm what we tell her."
An hour later, Hokage's office
Lady Tsunia, many times great-granddaughter of Lady Tsunade and Jiraiya (nobody really gives him a fancy title because his Icha Icha series is still in circulation today, five millennia after he died), examines the article in the history book on her desk. The daughters of the second most powerful sorceress kunoichi in Konoha of this time stand in front of her desk patiently, their unease evident in their posture and facial expressions. Finally, she sighs and hands the book to their mother, allowing the other woman to read it. Haruno Simari reads over the excerpt from the book and pales. The two older women exchange a look and a nod.
"It seems you two will have to go back to that era," Lady Tsunia says softly. "That war was a major turning point in Konoha's history. It must stay as it is if we don't want anything to happen to this era of peace. You will have to go back to a time when they would believe you two are the ages you are now, if you place 'memories' of you two growing up in their minds." Lady Tsunia turns to Simari with a questioning look. The roseate mother of the two girls beside her sighs and nods. Tsunia sends a melancholy smile towards Simari before turning back to the girls. "You will also have to place 'memories' of both your parents' deaths in their minds."
Sakura gasps and looks at her mother. "But Okaa-san can come with us, right?" she asks in disbelief.
Simari shakes her head. "Sadly, I can't, Saku-chan. The history book shows that your father and I died when you were just a year old in that time, sweetie," she says softly. "You can still live in the Haruno Manor back then, as it was built only a few years after Konoha was founded. It may not be the same as the home you know of today because of buildings being added and expanded over the years; but it will be your home."
Sakura's emerald eyes start tearing up. She wraps her arms around her mother's waist and starts sobbing into the older woman's Jounin vest. Alex watches, several questions coming to the forefront of her mind. "Okaa-san, will we have to alter their memories about yours and otou-san's names?" she asks.
Simari smiles lightly. "Actually, there was a Haruno couple back then that had our names who both died on a mission," she says lightly. "You do remember you late otou-san and I were sixth cousins, right?" she teases.
Alex frowns slightly in thought, then nods. "Yeah," she murmurs.
"Well, your otou-san and I were named after them," Simari says with a smirk. "Do you have any other questions you'd like to ask?"
Alex nods. "Yeah," she says softly. "The book also mentions Kaz in the book, so he'll have to come too. But what if we happen to fall in love with people from back then?" she asks timidly.
Even Lady Tsunia looks at the elder Haruno daughter in surprise; her sister's tears stop as she turns to look at Alex strangely, while Simari is shocked. "Alex-nee-chan, what do you mean?" Sakura asks, being the first to recover her voice after the strange question.
Alex shakes her head and points at the book with a wry smile. "Read the next few paragraphs after the end of the war," she murmurs. Lady Tsunia, Simari, and Sakura lean over the book to read the specified paragraphs. Sakura leaps back and lands on her butt when she reads the second paragraph after the end of the war: Haruno Sakura soon married her ex-sensei, Hatake Kakashi. Her older sister, Haruno Alexandra, wed Shiranui Genma just a few months later. Their brother, Haruno Kazuo, wed Mitarashi Anko three weeks after Alexandra's wedding.
Simari and Tsunia exchange glances. "Well… if the book says so, it will happen," Tsunia says softly after several minutes of silent deliberation.
Simari sighs softly, knowing she will miss both her daughters' and her son's weddings. She pulls both her girls into a hug. They hug her back; all three know the girls won't see their mother again for a long time, if ever. "We'll miss you, okaa-san," Sakura says softly.
"We won't forget you," Alex adds.
"I know girls, I know," Simari whispers, hugging her girls closer.
Tsunia watches the sad scene of one of her closest friends saying goodbye to the daughters she might never see again. After a few minutes, she sighs. "I'm sorry to break up the moment, but Alex, Sakura, you girls need to go pack, get your brother, and come back here immediately."
One hour later
Sakura, Alex, and Kaz stand before Lady Tsunia, traveling packs on their back and suitcases around them. Their mother had said her goodbyes at home before sending them back to the Hokage's office. Tsunia sighs. She hates to lose the three strongest ninjas of their generation she has, but she has no choice. She cannot change the past just to keep them here. That will drastically alter the here and now. "I wish you well," she says softly to the Haruno siblings. "Sakura, you may start."
Sakura nods. She pulls out a large bag of special powder used in time-jump spells and walks counterclockwise in a circle around her siblings and the baggage, leaving a thin circular trail of powder as she walks. Once it's complete, she puts the powder bag back in her travel pack and withdraws a bag of purified water and walks around the circle, counterclockwise, again, leaving the trail of powder dampened with purified water. Then she moves to the center of the circle. "Bye, Hokage-sama," Sakura says softly. Her siblings also give their goodbyes. Sakura kneels in the exact center of the circle, closes her eyes, and concentrates. She puts her hands on either side of her facing outwards. A soft blue glow moves from her hands and the circle she had made until everything within the circle is standing upon a blue glow. In a bright flash of blue-pink light, the siblings are gone.
Sarah: well, if no one likes this much, or I don't get at least five reviews, I won't update. I will continue the fic for myself to see where it goes, but I won't upload it. Five reviews, people; that's all I ask for.