Disclaimer: I obviously don't own Naruto.

This is my first story so don't be too hard on me. But I do except critics and improvements will be made if you tell me.

Thank you.

Chapter 1

She stood their motionless staring at the deep blue sky, the wind gently caressing her long pink locks. A sudden thought came to her, the sky reminded her alot of herself actually. How it often changed from the vibrant orange and red to the calm clear blue and pale pink, these colours were like her moods.

Smiling at the sky she turned her gaze to her surroundings, she was standing in a beautiful field which had a few of her favourite sakura trees standing firm and strong near the fence. A sudden gust of wind suddenly made a few petals from different flowers get pulled off, they gently flew around her and were soon carried out into the sky.

They were starting a new journey, travelling through the air with the current going into the unknown. There was another gust of wind which caused some sakura petals to fall off, they were now flying around her like a tornado. One petal fell into her oustretched hand and a pink light engulfed her.

Gently smiling she closed her eyes and accepted the pink light, it was time to wake up.

She bolted up from her bed, eyes wide open. Looking around and relaxing when she realised that she was in her room lying in her warm bed.

I had that dream again

I wonder what it means , yawned inner-sakura

sakura blinked

where have you been?

i was on vacation stupid, anyways what have you been up to?

nothing much, just working at the hospital and training with the rest of the gang

has sasuke come back yet?

sakura looked down ,tears threatning to come down

i guess not

oi!

don't tell me you still love that teme, i thought you had gotten over him. We don't need him and besides we are probably way stronger then him.

sakura smiled, her inner always knew how to cheer her up

yeah, you're right, i mean while he's gone to train with that perverted snake bastard, i've been training with Tsunade-sama the Hokage herself

you go girl! and we have super strength so we could beat that chicken hair anytime, shouted inner-sakura who was doing a little hyper dance.

Sakura chuckled at her inner's antics and went to take a shower. Today was her day off and she had promised the girls that she would go to ino's sleepover and not stay at home doing paperwork like she usually did.

Wrapping a towel around herself she opened her wardrobe.

"Hmm, what should i wear?" she said, thinking aloud.

Grabbing a long white gypsy skirt and a strappy pink top she quickly got dressed and ran a quick brush through her waist length pink hair. She soon found some white pumps and ran downstairs for breakfast.

"Hey mom, hey dad," she said to the picture frame on the mantlepiece.

Sakura's parents had tragically died on a mission together, they had been ambushed by sound nins on their way back from delivering an important scroll. On the day of the funeral Sakura refused to cry, and was comforted by her friends. It was strange actually how close they had all ended up.

Herself, Ino, Ten-Ten, Hinata, Naruto, Shikamaru, Neji, Sai, Kiba, Shino, Choji and even Lee had grown to be very close friends, and often trained together. Sakura often wondered how they all came to be such great friends, ever since sasuke left she and naruto were having a hard time coping with the loss. They were falling apart and becoming more distant. Everyone else quickly recognised this when Naruto refused a bowl of ramen and quickly took action. They invited them both for dinner at Ichiraku which ,after being persuaded by Ino and Kiba accepted.

It turned out to be very fun and sakura still gigled when she remembered Naruto accidently spilling a bowl of ramen on Neji's precious hair, Naruto ended up in hospital for a month thanks to him. But the memory of having fun with everyone and catching up on gossip with the girls, stuck in her mind. She temporarily forgot about her troubles and acted like her old self, laughing and smiling.

By the end of it, her and Naruto were all-smiles and thanked the gang for cheering them up. They both left for Sakura's house where they ended up having a talk about their behaviour recently. Thats when they decided to not mope over Sasuke and carry on with their lives, thinking about Sasuke wasn't going to bring him back and she seriously doubted that he would be thinking about them or else he wouldn't have left.

Naruto was now like a brother to her, he often stayed over at her house to keep her company, talking and laughing. He had helped her alot, to get back on her feet and encouraged her on becoming a medic-nin. After some encouraging from Sakura and his friends he finally plucked up the courage in asking Hinata out. They had now been going out for 3 years, at first Sakura thought that Hinata wouldn't be very happy with her and Naruto being so close but to her suprise she accepted that Sakura and Naruto would always be close and Sakura had assured her that they only had a brother-sister realationship, nothing else.

She grabbed an apple from the fridge and picked up her red satchel bag, munching her apple happily she lef the house with a smile on her face, occasionally greeting people she knew. She waved at Shikamaru and Ino who was watering some flowers in her parents flower shop, Ino waved back but it seemed that Shikamaru had dozed off. She could see Ino punching his arm and Shikamaru opening his eyes while rubbing his eyed muttering something which looked from his lips like "troublesome woman".

Chuckling at Ino who was now giving a lecture to him about being lazy she carried on through the village. Ignoring the lustful glances she was getting from many males, she even had her own fanclub now. It was true ,Sakura had blossomed into a beautiful 17-year old with pale skin (not the sickly pale colour) and a body all girls envied, her hair was now grown to her waist and she had grown into her forehead. But the one thing that had captured many hearts was her eyes. They were now a beautiful emerald green colour that sparkled like the stars, they showed her emotions even if the rest of herself didn't show it. You could always see how she felt through her eyes, she may sometimes look happy but her eyes betrayed her. There was always a hint of sadness and longing trapped in there.

She had finally reached her destination. It was a field that had a a lone sakura tree planted near a lake, some of its petals drifted onto the laked surface causing tiny ripples to be formed.

Sitting underneath the branches she crossed her legs and closed her eyes, she loved this spot because not alot of people came here, it was very calm and a great place to meditate and Sakura used it to strengthen herself and she sometimes used it to remember memories and think about things.

She suddenly shifted uncomfortably and opened her eyes, something wasn't right she could sense it.

What happened next caused the hairs on her neck to stand up.

A blood-curdling scream was heard in the woods which wasn't very far from where she was right now. Grabbing a kunai from her bag (you have to be prepared right?) she strapped it to her leg and gripping another one she quickly ran into the woods, to the source of the scream.

Not realising that what she found their would change her life forever.

TBC

So how was my first chappie?

i hoped you liked it, please review and i'll probably add another chapter in a few days

Till next time.