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Not My Life

Chapter 1

Sakura let out a breath she hadn't realized she'd been holding. That had been close, too close. She knew Naruto hadn't fully recovered from being in the 4 tails state. For him to come that close to hitting a branch…she watched as he shook his head as if the motion would bring back his focus and clear away the weariness. She remembered how angry she had gotten when Yamato-taichou had said they would leave Naruto behind. Her brow furrowed with worry, but now she found herself wishing they had listened to him. How were they going to face Sasuke with him in this condition?

"No!" She whispered fiercely, not even realizing she had spoken aloud. She felt her fists clench as if preparing to fight off the doubt she had been feeling. She wouldn't think like this. Not about Naruto. Not when he tried so hard to keep his promise to her. A small smile graced her lips and her worry disappeared with her doubt. They would bring back their teammate together. Naruto wasn't giving up and neither would she.

Lost in thought she hadn't noticed that she had fallen behind Naruto and Yamato-taichou. Her newfound resolve put extra power in her step as she determinately tried to catch up with them. She reached for the branch preparing to make the next jump that would put her a little ahead of Naruto. The pain that shot through her arm when her hand connected with the limb, took her breath away and she felt herself let go. It seemed in that second the whole world slowed to watch her fall. Everything was a mixture of colors and sounds. The green of the trees, the whooshing of the wind as it whipped through her hair and clothing, and the blinding sun that in small shafts of light filtered through the holes in the canopy. But there was one thing she saw clearly, his face as he tried desperately to reach her. She saw his mouth move and read her name on his lips but the sound was lost in the wind. She saw distinctly each whisker that marked his tan skin. But it was his eyes that drew her in. She couldn't remember a time when she had seen them so blue. Sakura wished she never had to stop looking into those beautiful blue eyes, but the darkness claimed her and she saw no more.

Pain. It was the first sensation she recognized as she fought her way slowly out of the darkness. Her head felt like it had been split in two. On instinct she reached out to touch it to find the reason for her agony. The touch was like lightening sending shockwaves through her system. She cried out. She heard movement to her left, felt the cool, soothing sensation of healing chakra, and heard the voice of someone murmuring to her softly. She tried make out their words, but the pain was not allowing her to focus on anything else. This time she welcomed the darkness.

She woke a second time the pain in her head was still there but dulled significantly. With the pain no longer clouding her thoughts she tried to focus on figuring out where she was. The sounds and scents were familiar to her, but she wasn't sure from where. Slowly she opened her eyes, but quickly closed them again to protect herself from the painful brightness of the room. Sakura put her hand over her eyes and groaned.

"I'm sorry is the room too bright? I'll close the blinds just give me one second, okay?"

Sakura turned her head toward the cheerful voice, but did not remove her hand from its protective position.

"It's alright now. You can open your eyes."

Not completely trusting the cheerful stranger, she kept her hand over her eyes and opened them slowly peering through the space between her fingers. Satisfied that the light in the room had dimmed to a safe level, she removed her hand from her face. Sakura blinked a few times the clear away the fuzziness and was immediately met with a pair of kind, brown eyes.

"Sakura-san I'm so glad you're awake," The girl said sincerely. Her hair was short and spiky and a beautiful shade of red. Her brown eyes appeared much too large for her small, round face. She was dressed in med-nin attire Sakura realized with a start because she couldn't remember seeing this girl before. She looked around taking in the familiar sights of a Konoha hospital room. What was she doing here? Her gaze drifted back to the girl who seemed to be waiting for her to say something.

"Oh um thanks."

The girl gave her a small smile, "Is your head still hurting?"

"A little, but not as bad as before." Sakura said truthfully.

The girl took the chart from the end of her bed reading it over as she spoke, "You must have taken quite a nasty fall. That's a pretty bad gash you got on your head."

Sakura cautiously reached up to touch her head and found it wrapped in gauze. Pulling her hand back she noticed for the first time that it was covered in cuts and bruises. "What happened to me?"

The girl looked up from where she'd been writing in surprise, "You don't remember?"

"No," she said slowly.

The girl returned the chart to its rightful place and sat at the edge of the bed. "You were found in the training grounds by one of the patrol. You were bleeding from the large cut on your head and both your arms and legs were covered it scrapes and bruises. No one was really sure what happened. It didn't seem like you'd been attacked so we assumed you had fallen. We were hoping that when you woke up you'd be able to tell us." She patted Sakura's leg comfortingly. "Don't worry I'm sure it'll come back to you soon. Sometimes with head injuries people aren't always able to remember things right away." The girl rolled her eyes and gave a small snort, "Look at me giving Haruno Sakura medical advice. As if you don't know!" She stood up from the bed and walked to the door stopping in the doorway, "I'm going to let Tsunade-sama know you're awake. I'll be right back."

Sakura frowned as she listened to the girl's footsteps disappear down the hall. Something was bothering her about the story the girl told her. It didn't feel right. Were they hiding something from her? How had she known who she was? She quickly dismissed the thoughts about the girl and tried to focus on remembering what happened to her. The training grounds, that's where the girl had said they found her. She closed her eyes trying to picture the training grounds, but just as soon as she saw it the picture morphed into someplace completely different. There was a bridge she could see perfectly. She could feel the wind blow through her hair as she stood at one end. She could see there was something happening on the other side. She squinted trying to make out what it was, but it was too far away. She began walking towards it because something told her she needed to be there. With each step she took she felt herself get more and more panicked. She needed to hurry or else she wouldn't be able to…

"Sakura!"

Sakura sputtered in surprise as she felt two strong arms envelop her in a motherly hug. She opened her eyes just in time to see Tsunade pulling back looking slightly sheepish.

A wide grin broke out on her face, "Shishou!"

Tsunade wore a matching grin as she sat on the edge of the bed. Her face turned serious though when she asked, "How are you feeling?

Sakura's grin too disappeared as it turned into a look of confusion. "Alright I guess. I can't remember what happened to me."

Tsunade nodded, "That's what Miya told me."

Sakura turned to the med-nin that had taken care of her, who was standing to the side of Tsunade and smiled. "Miya that's your name. It's nice to meet you Miya-san, although I wish it had been on better circumstances." When she finished speaking she noticed both Tsunade and Miya were looking at her strangely. "What?" Her gaze jumping from one to the other, "What's wrong?"

Tsunade was the one who spoke first, "Sakura you don't remember Miya?"

"No," she shook her head feeling herself start to panic, "Should I?"

The two shared a look increasing Sakura's frustration, "What's going on?" she cried, her eyes shimmering with unshed tears startling both Tsunade and Miya. She reached for Tsunade's hand and held it in her own. "Please," she begged, tears she could no longer hold back streaming down her face. "Please tell me what's wrong with me."

Tsunade quickly grabbed a tissue and handed it to her. She allowed Sakura time to get her emotions under control before she spoke. "Sakura what's the last thing you remember?"

Sakura's watery gaze met Tsunade's, "I don't know. Every time I close my eyes all I can see is myself on this bridge. There's something happening on the other side that I need to get to because if I don't…" She stopped feeling slightly embarrassed, "I know it doesn't make sense because Miya-san told me I was found in the training grounds, but that just doesn't feel right." She started playing with the sleeves of her hospital gown feeling uncomfortable under their penetrating stare. She felt her fingers brush against a rough patch of skin on her shoulder. She quickly pushed the sleeve aside and that's when she saw the three thin lines that marred her milky white skin. It was in that instant that everything came back to her; the mission, Sai and Yamato-taichou, the Heaven and Earth Bridge, Kabuto, Orochimaru, Naruto, Kyuubi, her injury, and then her fall.

She gasped, "I remember." Sakura whispered excitedly, "I remember everything. We were on the mission to bring back Sasuke-kun. Yamato-taichou, Naruto, I were following Sai, Kabuto, and Orochimaru to his hideout. I had gotten hurt earlier when Naruto…" She stopped suddenly looking at Miya, "I got hurt earlier and when I reached up to grab a branch my arm hurt so bad I had to let go. That's when fell and I must have hit my head." Her excitement quickly changed to bewilderment as her eyes met Miya's. "But then they couldn't have found me in the training grounds. You must have been mistaken. Naruto and Yamato-taichou had to have brought me in. Find them they'll tell you what happened."

"Sakura," Tsunade no longer tried to hide the worry in her voice. "The mission you're taking about, the one where I sent you, Naruto, Sai and Yamato on, it happened 5 years ago."

Sakura waited for a smile, a smirk, the sound of a muffled laugh anything that would give away their joke. It never came. "That's not funny shishou."

"Sakura how old are you?"

Sakura gave her a strange look before replying, "15."

Tsunade turned to Miya, "Go get me a mirror." Miya nodded and walked away in search of one. Tsunade turned back to the pinkette, "Listen to me Sakura, you're 20 years old. The mission that you're remembering happened 5 years ago."

Sakura started to shake her head, but stopped with a wince. "I don't know why you're doing this shishou, but please stop."

"Sakura I'm not joking. You need to listen to me. I'm telling you the truth. You're 20 years old and…" Whatever else Tsunade had to say was drone out as Sakura closed her eyes and placed her hands over her ears in childlike defiance. Why were they doing this? Why would Tsunade lie to her like that? Had something happened while she'd been sleeping? One thing was for sure, she needed to get out of here and find Naruto and Yamato-taichou. They would be able to clear everything up. Before she could figure out how to get to either of the two, someone pulled her hands away from her ears. Sakura opened her eyes in surprise and saw her own self staring back at her. Only the image in front of her wasn't one she was used to seeing. For starters, her hair was long. Someone had put it into a braid and when she reached back to feel it, she was shocked to find it fell almost to her waist. Her face was slimmer and her cheekbones more defined. Her lips were surprisingly fuller and her eyebrows, which had always been a great source of annoyance for her, were perfectly plucked. Her eyes were the same emerald green they'd always been, but there was undeniably different about them. There was wisdom there, the kind that only comes with age, that hadn't been there before. The face looking back at her was not the face of a 15 year old girl. Sakura managed to break herself away from the mirror Miya was holding, to meet the sad gaze of Tsunade. "How?"

Tsunade shook her head, "I don't know Sakura. Maybe the fall caused you to lose some of your memories. I'm afraid I can't give you a straight answer until we've run a few more tests."

Sakura knew this was the kind of answer doctors gave when they didn't know what was wrong with a patient. Even if they did run a bunch of test they might never find out why she had lost 5 years for memories. "I haven't been in a coma all this time, have I?"

"I'm sorry Sakura-san but, you've only been here 2 days."

"I guess that would have been too easy," Sakura said with a slight smile. She was trying to ease the tension in the room. Tsunade and Miya kept looking at her as if she was going to fall apart at any minute. It seemed to help too, because Miya beamed at her and Tsunade let out a small chuckle while patting her arm appreciatively. Truthfully she had no idea how she wasn't. Maybe it was the shock. She just couldn't wrap her mind around the fact that clearly wasn't 15 anymore. Her memories were so clear, like it had just happened yesterday. But that mirror didn't lie and both Tsunade and Miya insisted that she was 20 years old. What was she…

"Tsunade-sama?" Sakura turned to see a med-nin approach Tsunade.

"Yes."

"Sakura-san's husband is asking to see her."

If Sakura had been paying attention she would have noticed how Tsunade's face darkened at the word husband. "Let him in."

All Sakura's attention was focused on the simple gold band on her ring finger. Married! She was married. She had been engaged, walked down the aisle, and gone on a honeymoon with a man she couldn't even remember. She felt herself start to panic. How was she supposed to be married to a man she didn't know? Would he be understanding of her memory loss? What if he expected everything to go back to the way it had been before? More importantly, who was this man?

Someone clearing their throat brought Sakura out of her thoughts. She looked up and at the sight of the person in front of her all the blood drained from her face.

"Sasuke-kun?"

Since this idea has been bugging me for some time I've decided to try out multi-chapter fics. If you like it I'll continue, if you don't well we'll see… I promise this is a Naruto/Sakura fic it's just going to take some time. Thanks for reading and reviewing!