I got this idea when I read Nicola19's The Story No One Knew.
So, please, if there are any similarities, it's just because I'm loosely basing this story off of hers. Thanks. Please, do enjoy.
Shade One/ The Lightest Shade/ Cherry Blossom Pink
"Itachi-nii-san, you promised to teach me that new shurikken jutsu!" a young boy with raven hair stuck up in the back of his head in an unusual duck formation yelled, pouting like a little child. "You're a big liar."
The older boy with a long raven pony tail and weird lines on each side of his nose sighed and signaled the little boy to come. The boy smiled, happy because he thought that he got his way. Itachi stuck out his hand just in time for the little boy to run his poor little forehead into Itachi's hands.
"Ouch." The boy mumbled, rubbing his forehead.
"I'm sorry, Sasuke, maybe another time. I have an important mission I have to go on tomorrow. I still need to prepare for it."
"You always say that! Kara-chan," Sasuke spun around to the auburn haired girl, "Can you please teach me the shurikken jutsu? Please, please, please!" The little boy named Sasuke begged with his little hands in front of hid face in a pleading manner.
The girl sighed. "I'm sorry Sasuke-chan, but I agree with Itachi-kun. We should head back now. It's getting late."
The boy sulked. "You guys suck! I'm not going anywhere." He crossed his arms stubbornly and sat down criss-crossed on the ground of the training area. Itachi and Kara exchanged glances. Itachi raised a fine black brow. You try, he said. The auburn haired girl rolled her eyes and walked over and crunched down next to the boy.
"Sasuke-chan, do you remember my little sister?" she asked, ruffling the boy's hair.
"Uhh... I don't think so, Kara-chan."
"Sasuke-chan…!" she giggled and tapped on his forehead with her finger, earning protests form the kid. "You know her. Sakura-chan. She's about yea tall" – Kara held up her hands to a little below Sasuke's head – "And has really, really pink hair and really big green eyes, C'mon, Sasu-chan, she has pink hair!"
He blushed. "O-Oh, y-yeah, I know her."
Kara giggled and looked at Itachi who was smirking at his little brother.
"Sasuke, are you blushing?" Itachi taunted,
"N-No!" the boy yelled, embarrassed that his ni-san caught him blushing, which caused him to blush some more.
"Okay, whatever. I believe you." Itachi smirked grew even wider, while Kara was full out laughing.
"AAA-CHOO!" a small rosette girl sneezed.
An old lady looked up from the scrolls she was reading to look up at her seven-year-old granddaughter, who was currently practicing her medical ninjutsu in the forest just out side of their clan complex. "Are you alright, Sakura-chan?"
"Yes, baa-chan. I have no idea where that sneeze came from." The little girl looked up at her grandmother smiling while deactivating her Shousen Jutsu (a/n: I believe that's what it's called. Its Kabuto's cool little medical hand jutsu thing he does where his hands light up and it's like a weapon or something like along the lines of that.) and scratching her nose.
"You know what that means don't you Sakura-chan?" the grandmother asked smiling fondly at her youngest granddaughter from across the forest.
"No, Amaya-baa-chan. I do not."
"It means that some where in the world someone is talking about you!" The grandmother winked and did a peace sign.
"Oh! Really, baa-chan? Is that true?!" Sakura asked.
Amaya laughed at her granddaughter's naïve-ness. "Yes, my dear. Why does that excite you so?"
"Because! That means onee-san is bragging about me!" The young girl spun around in a circle.
The grandmother roared with laughter. That girl, she thought, is always trying to impress her older sister. A smile crossed her face as she watched Sakura spin around in a circle chanting about her sister bragging about her to someone really important. She is so… strong for her age. She can already use one-third of the jutsus her older sister can do now. My, that girl sure is special.
"Alright!" The grandmother clapped her hand together. "Now, get back to training, Sakura-chan!"
Instantly the girl stopped goofing off and got serious. "Hai, Amaya-baa-chan! I'm going to give onee-chan a reason to brag about me!" She concentrated her chakra and preformed a few hand seals, then yelled out: "Shousen Jutsu!" Suddenly, greenish-blue chakra formed around the seven-year-olds hands.
What… the grandmother thought, looking at the jutsu the young girl had just preformed. What is that? Could it be… she's already mastered it? Well, she hasn't mastered, she still has to do the hand signs, but that's impressive. Not even her sister can do that. She has great potential.
"Okay, Sakura-chan. Aim at the trees; try to take them down in one shot. Don't stop for ten hours! Preserve your chakra, do you understand me, girl?"
"Hai, baa-chan!"
"Good. GO!"
With the command, little Sakura ran off and charged after the trees while her grandmother threw kunai and shurikken at the girl, so that way she'd learn how to attack and dodge at the same time.
"AAA-CHOO!" Kara sneezed, interrupting Itachi from teasing Sasuke.
"Ew, Kara-chan, you sneezed on me! Yuck." Sasuke said, making a face.
Itachi just lifted up one eyebrow and looked between the two.
"Ah. Sorry about that, Sasuke-chan. I don't know where that came from." Kara smiled.
"I guess that means someone is talking about you somewhere." Itachi said bluntly.
Kara smiled at him and looked back to Sasuke, who was still sitting on the ground, refusing to get up.
"Sasuke-chan," – the boy looked up at Kara – "We have to go now."
"No." he said stubbornly.
"But we have to."
"Why do we have to?"
"Because Itachi has a mission to prepare for and you have to rest up because Sakura-chan is coming over to visit tomorrow." Kara said in a luring voice.
"Really? She is?!" Sasuke asked, already up on his feet. With a curt nod from Kara he raced ahead yelling a quick 'race ya there!' over his shoulder. Kara smiled and walked up next to Itachi. He looked at her with a questioning gaze.
"I didn't know that Sakura is coming to visit." He said.
"Yeah, she is. She's coming up with Amaya-baa-chan and father. It seems like father has something he wishes to speak to Fugaku-san about."
He gave a nod in response and started down the trail to home with Kara right beside him.
Kara had been living with the Uchihas for several years now. When she turned seven her clan was ready to enroll her into the academy in Konoha. The problem was her clan's compound was up in the mountains, a complete day's travel away from Konoha. Her father, IchiroHaruno, and Itachi's father, Fugaku Uchiha, had been best friends since their genin days. So Fugaku had offered to let her stay with them until she was finished with her training. She became a genin and stayed so she could train with her team. Now she was a chunin and stayed because she wanted to.
Both her parents came to visit every once in a while, even her little sister, Sakura, but for the most part she spends her time with Itachi. The two of them had been friends since they had been kids. This really pleased their fathers. Kara was her father's oldest child and he is the head of the clan, so whoever married her would be made head of the Haruno clan. When the two fathers found out about Kara's and Itachi's friendship then they had made an arranged marriage between their two kids. Kara would become head of her clan and Itachi of his, but they would have each other for support. It seemed like the perfect plan.
Neither Kara nor Itachi complained when they were told, mainly because when they were told they were too young to even know what marriage was. But when they were old enough to understand it, they still hadn't complained, because Kara had, by this point, fallen for her friend though she hadn't told anyone. Itachi just didn't complain much about anything. In fact, he didn't talk much at all unless it was necessary.
later on (ten hours later)
"Enough!" Amaya yelled, seizing her kunais and shurikken.
The little girl who is now weak and worn, out released her Shousen Jutsu as she looked herself over. She didn't have any cuts or bruises on her, she has her kei kei genkai to thank for that (a/n: more on that later) , her mid-back pink hair was all over the place and her training clothes were torn from where she got hit but got healed by her kei kei genkai. She was desperately low on chakra, but she can deal with that until she got back in to her clan complex.
"How are you holding up, Saki-chan?" The grandmother asked.
"Fine," The girl went over to help her grandmother pick up the rest of the kunai. She surveyed her surroundings. She was in her usual training spot that her grandmother and she usually train at. The forest, once think with trees and greenery is now destroyed. The trees are cut off the ground thanks to Sakura's Shousen Jutsu and the targets that were once everywhere are now torn to bits because of her great aim. She doesn't mean to brag, but hell, she has one hell of an aim. Just wait until onee-san she's all the progress she's made. She'll defiantly brag about her to everyone she knows – heck, she might be so proud of her, she'll brag about how well she is to a complete stranger. Sakura smiled. She can't wait until she sees her onee-san again. She's misses her.
"Sakura-dear," Her grandmother called. The girl looked up at her baa-chan. "Are you ready?"
"Hai."
"Then come along now, girl." Her grandmother called, already walking off in to the direction of the complex. The girl's grandmother held out her hand for the girl to hold. They walked back to the complex hand to hand talking a mile a minute.
"You do know that we're going to Kohana tomorrow, right?" Amaya asked, looking down at her youngest granddaughter, swinging their arms back and forth while the little one skipped about.
"Really?! Does that mean we'll see onee-chan again?!" Sakura squealed.
The lady smiled. "Hai, it does, Sakura-dear. Are you excited?"
"Oh, am I! I can't wait to see onee-chan again! And Fugaku-san! Mikoto-san! Will I see Ita-kun again, too? Oh, my goodness! Will I see Sasu-kun again as well?!" Sakura rambled on and on, jumping up and down towards the end.
Lady Amaya chuckled. "Yes, Sakura-dear. You'll see all of them again. But first, you'll have to get a good night's sleep before you can run a whole day, okay? You can't fool me, youngster. You're chakra is extremely low."
The girl grinned widely. "Hai, baa-chan."
In this chapter you basically find out that Sakura isn't so weak. And you also find out a little about the past of this story. Any questions? Comments?
Information You'll Need To Know:
otou-san :: [formal] father tou-san :: [informal] father
oba-chan :: [informal] grandmother oba-san :: [formal] grandmother
onee-san :: [formal] big sister onee-chan :: [informal] big sister
nii-chan :: big sister nii-san :: big brother
nee-chan :: younger sister nii-chan :: younger brother