Waking Up As Sakura Haruno

So I guess I should start out by telling you about my life before this happened. I was... Oh, god... was! A woman in my late thirties. I was about 4'8" with a slightly muscular build. I was slender, but not thin, you know?

My hair was a dull copper color, like a dark reddish, but still on this side of being called brunette. And yeah, the carpet matched.

Any time I would feel, well, anything, I would jump on my treadmill. So my legs got beefed. My calves were a little too big, and my thighs while not fatty wouldn't fit in most jeans with my waist size. I had the thigh gap some guys like... But I had no butt to mention. It was as flat as my stomach.

My real redeeming feature in the looks department, had to be my breasts. They were firm, not as soft as some of the women I've felt up, but they were also round and didn't hang as much either. Depending on the brand I could fit into a C or D bra pretty comfortably. And while I didn't really need the bra to keep them up, I would usually wear one to keep them still while I ran or to keep my nipples from showing.

Sometimes I would go without one intentionally to show them off. I had fun with that.

I was married once. But I guess he thought he could do better.

The only thing I got out of the marriage was the puppy we bought together. We got her because her fur was close to the same color as my hair.

I know she's a type of spaniel, but I don't know which specific one. She has these long ears with curly fur on them. They always look like a mess. The rest of her fur lays flat.

I named her Gingersnap.

God do I miss her. I would give anything to have her back now. I cried on her almost every day after my divorce. She was always ready to comfort me. She didn't even seem to mind when I snotted... Though, I was the one who would clean it out of her fur.

I had a great job. I was a programmer at a software company. The name of the company doesn't mater. I'm not even in the same world anymore.

But I guess one public breakdown was enough to ruin that.

After that I worked nights in a convenience store.

I had a lot of good friends too.

But it turns out slashing your ex-husband's tires is a felony offense. He dropped the charges on the condition that I replaced the tires. He's got a restraining order now.

But I earned it, and damn me if I'm not proud of it.

Anyway that's how I began my life as a shut-in homebody. I only ever left my apartment to go to work. I even get my groceries there. So I guess it was a convenient store after all. My apartment complex has a laundry facility so I usually do them on my nights off. If no one is awake and down there.

I started watching shows online. Mostly things that a bunch of my coworkers at my last job told me to watch. Game of thrones, the walking dead, and anime.

I fell in love with anime. And I guess now, that was my saving grace. I certainly wouldn't have been able to cope with this situation if I hadn't recognized the world I'm now in.

I found that my favorite characters were like my best friends. Picolo, Gohan, Chad, Grimjaw, Zoro, Gajeel. I always seemed to like the side guys best. Now I'm not a one way girl... In fact, while I like men well enough to have married one, I prefer women, my dream is to have a harem like I'm in some kind of ecchi.

And with my love of anime came my introduction to fanfictions... I read so many of them I can't even count them. But some stood out to me. One author actually stood out more than the others. He had so many idea's and concepts of chakra mechanics and he was always so animated when he spoke of them.

And he's a fellow divorcee. So he understood some of what I went through. We shared some conversations and then it's like he dropped of the edge of the planet. We never met in person, but I think he was the one who motivated me to try my hand at it... but what I wrote got removed for being too explicit. Hell, the name of it gave it away. Bedroom jutsu's. It didn't even last a full day.

As it turns out, a lot of what he came up with actually worked when I tried to put it to use... but I'll get to that later. I have to thank him for the idea's he gave me and apologize for spoiling anything he may have wanted to be a big secret. But it turns out some of that helped me. His were simple stories. And this... this was as real to me as Gingersnap.

I went to bed that night with a high fever telling myself that if it wasn't down in the morning I would go to urgent care. Gingersnap lay beside me whimpering as if she had been scolded for something. My last words to my only real friend were that she was a good girl and I would see her in the morning...

My last words to my best—no only friend, were a lie.

Waking up was a splitting migraine.

Someone was there with me. I don't know who.

There was a wet rag on my forehead and I could feel a bit of water dripping into my mouth as a cup was pressed against my lips.

I cracked an eye open to see who had entered my apartment but before I could react, words came from my mouth. "Mom? Am I going to be late?"

The woman beside me was tall and worried as hell from her face. Her hair was a dark mango color not quite red but also not really blonde.

"Hush, Sakura dear. You're going to stay home today. You've been sicking up all night, and your fever has only just broke. You need to rest dear."

Wait? Sakura? Was that who she thought I was? And why had I even spoken?

Something was wrong.

I needed to get up and get out of here, I needed to find Gingersnap. I should probably check into a hospital too.

Before I could even sit up, the woman pushed me down. Her hand pressed firmly on my shoulder.

"Rest." She said more firmly. This time it was a command rather than an explanation.

"Huh, I guess she's right, I do maybe need to get better..."

My body jerked as a voice sounded in my head. My eyes widened and I looked around. but there wasn't anyone else there.

The woman's worried frown deepened.

I tried to calm down and closed my eyes hoping I could just go back to sleep and wake up in my apartment with Gingersnap cuddled up against me.

with my eyes closed a kind of, I guess, felt, more than I saw her.

It was a young girl not older than ten. But she wasn't solid per se.

It was as if I could feel her existence and her shape, but there wasn't an actual image in my mind.

"Who are you?" The voice asked in this accusing and judgmental tone. "Where is the real me?"

'The what?' I thought at her.

"You know, the me that you replaced. I'm the inner me, and you... You are where the real me should be."

She sounded as if a had take her spot on the couch and she wanted it back... But something was beginning to click in my h— in Sakura's head I guess?

'Are you the one who spoke earlier?' I mentally asked her.

"Well it didn't look like you were going to say it, and we really need to keep my grades up."

Outside my head, the woman had sat back and was watching my face with a confused interest. "Sakura, If you're trying to figure out how to lower your temperature with chakra, I won't be fooled by it. Even if you are the picture of health in the next ten minutes you are still staying home."

"Answer her!" The voice demanded.

"Sorry, I'm not. I mean I."

That was all I got out before the mouth I was using spoke for someone else. "I'm not trying to get out of it mom, I just feel confused right now, as if my head has someone else in it."

The woman blinked.

I panicked.

The body I was in gave no reaction whatsoever.

Had I been relegated to the inner self position? Did she just give away the fact of my existence?! Oh shit! I was going to be mind wiped out of her brain like some kind of sleeper agent!

"Wow, dear... I never expected you to use the same excuse your father used to. Where did you hear it?" The woman asked amused by the response.

"Wait, so dad has felt like this too? I need to talk to him when he gets home!"

I was horrified. This inner version of Sakura was going to turn me in!

"No I'm not, calm down already!" She sounded so annoyed inside but her outer voice was calm and interested.

"This isn't the first time I have felt like this mom. And if he has the same thing, maybe he can tell me what it is."

"Well okay, I'll send him up as soon as he gets home." The woman consented and stood to leave. "Now you rest some more and I'll go make you some breakfast."

As soon as she was gone I turned my focus to taking back control.

And I had it before I had even prepared to try.

"God you need to calm down, it's not like I want Ino's dad in my head anymore than you do and I know you're messed up and confused or I wouldn't have had to deal with mom."

'What's going on here?' I cried out with all my thoughts.

"Not so loud you idiot! What if a sensor type hears you!"

'Wait they can do that?' Now I was scared again.

"I don't think s, but it doesn't hurt to be careful."

'Okay So what is going on?' I asked again. 'How did I get here and why am I in your head? How do I go home? God why am I even this calm, usually I would be snotting right about now'

There was this sensation of gagging in the back of my mind as if the other girl were actually doing the action. "I was going to ask you a lot of those. But if you ever do that in my body I will rip you out of my head my self got it?"

I guess she got the full concept of me snotting when I mentioned it.

"Okay, so I guess you don't know much about where we are but I'll give you the cliff notes to get you started. Our name is Sakura Haruno, We are eleven years old. We live in Konoha, the village hidden in the leaves. This is a ninja village and we are just starting our last year at the academy. If we graduate we'll become geni—"

'I think I know that much,' I snapped at her. 'We graduate and get put on team seven with Naruto and Sasuke and then we take the chunin exams where we end up being completely useless. And then.'

I stopped listing off what I knew as I felt the other girl's eyes widen and her jaw drop. She was as stunned at what I said as I was to be here.

A moment later and I figured out why.

She was still in the academy. I had been about to narrate her entire part in the anime.

I had just told her the future.

Thank you for reading this.

So I have many of these stories. I plan to do one for each of the main and important side characters, as well as for their Chibi's.

Let me know what you think in the Reviews, and who else you want me to become. As it is fiction, I can be anybody.