Fugutaiten

Haruno Sakura, she had been training with Tsunade since she had entered the academy.

When the fourth died, the third did not become the Hokage again but instead he gave the position to Tsunade. And Sakura wanted to be a medic so she became Tsunade's apprentice at a very young age. Tsunade also taught her super strength.

She was not allowed to use those techniques until her training was complete, and it never came up in conversations with friends so no one ever knew.

Even during the Chuunin Exam, it was so hard for her to hold back the techniques she was learning. She always thought that Sasuke would've liked her better if he knew, but he never did.

She finished her training the day before Sasuke was leaving for Orochimaru.

When Sasuke was leaving for Orochimaru, she told him how much she loved him. He didn't return her feelings and his parting words were "Thank you."

He had no idea what he had done. And neither did she.

The only thing that kept the curse at bay was the hope that the Sasuke Retrieval mission would bring him back and he would return her feelings.

All naïve hope.

Tsunade had sent her on a mission to get her mind off Sasuke. And when Sakura came back, Naruto had already left on a training mission with Jiraiya and Kakashi was away on a long S-ranked mission, so she had to hear what had happened from Tsunade.

She locked herself in her house with no one to comfort her, because her parents had died 3 months ago and her team was away.

And the curse fully activated.

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Sakura always thought of it as a childish bedtime story. Never taking it seriously. She always thought of the pink cherry blossom petal on her left ankle as a joke tattoo put on by her mother, not a curse seal.

Her parents never confirmed if it was true or not because she never asked.

The only copy of the book explaining the curse was in her possession so no one other than the Harunos knew about it.

The curse was supposedly given by a sorcerer a thousand years ago. He fell in love with Sonia Haruno, a brilliant scholar.

She was his first love, but she never returned his feelings much less gave him a chance.

It destroyed him; he was never able to love another. He was so enraged that he wanted her to feel his pain. Sonia and all her girl descendants were cursed.

The curse was that if a Haruno couldn't get her first love to return her feelings, she would no longer be abler to feel love again.

Never…

So basically, all female Harunos only get one chance at love.

But the sorcerer made it worse than just that.

All Harunos would bear a pink cherry blossom petal on their left ankle, (No surprise that Sakura became a common name in the Haruno family) and when they fail to get their love to love them back, the petal would turn black. As would their hair and their eyes world turn bright red.

Sakura didn't have many pictures of her relatives but her mother and grandmother did not fit the description of the curse.

So it all came as a surprise when the curse happened to her.

But instead of her hair turning black, her hair grew down to her knees the pink short hair she had was the last foot of hair, and the rest was black. Her eyes did turn bright red and she lost a very important emotion.

She looked in the mirror and then remembered the curse. She looked at her ankle to see that the petal was black.

'So it is true…' She thought to herself.

Surprisingly she wasn't sad, she really didn't care. Probably part of the curse.

She looked at her hair it looked weird. So she took a pair of scissors and cut most of the pink hair off leaving her hair down past her waist, black and pink tipped. The pink was a small reminder of who she used to be. She wondered why her hair wasn't all black like the curse said, but she let it go, not really caring.

She took her headband off her head and put it around her neck.

She didn't think that her current outfit would suit her now, so she found some material and spent the rest of the night making a new one.

It turned out to be a strapless black top that had a foot long midriff that revealed her strapless fishnet undershirt. Plain red armbands that matched her eyes were on her upper arms. She had a red skirt that also matched her eyes with two big slits on the sides to relieve a pair of black shorts that were about the same length of the skirt. She had the traditional ninja sandals, only black with fishnet stockings that went up to an inch below the knees.

She went off to her mirror, shook her head and laughed bitterly.

"Oh god, I look like a vampire." When she sarcastically said that she noticed that even her voice had changed. Her voice used to be so happy and cheery, and now you could hear the emptiness and depression in the words.

She was very curious to see how her friends would take her makeover the next day.

A/N: I started a second fanfic. Sorry if Sakura's outfit doesn't sound good or emo. I'm not very good at designing outfits and I'm not emo (But I have nothing against them). Sorry its so short, this is just the introduction the rest of the chapters will be longer. There was one night I couldn't fall asleep and I came up with like 5 fanfic ideas, this was my favorite so I put it up first. If you're wondering what the title means you'll find out later because I'll be sure to explain it in another chapter.

So is it a good introduction to a story? Sorry if the details on the curse are kinda sketchy or hard to understand, it should become clearer as the story goes on. Please Review!