Prologue - white paper

Dear Uchiha Sasuke,

I doubt you will ever discover this letter, as I will never send it to you. So I feel at ease divulging the secrets of my pathetic life to this letter-version-of-you. Though I implore that the contents should really be kept to yourself, lest you want rabid nukenin's coming to rip your eyeballs out and squish them harshly in their filthy hands. Just joking; only about the latter though. In all honesty this wasn't written solely for your eyes, nor was it for any other curious, inquiring minds. It was for me, a way to let out my fears and hopes and travesties and important things. Feel free to do whatever you wish with it (perhaps burn it with the matches in the dresser beside my bed?). You can use the last of the box to burn your perfect, arrogant hair while your at it. Hm, that was a little off track, but hey I haven't got a one-track-mind so what the 'ell!

Honey, how are you? Are you behaving well? Have you let your sanity slip from the carefully re-stiched seams? I hope you haven't. That boy would be so very disappointed. He'd probably cry watching you scream and mutter (which you never did) and grin. Scarecrow-sama would be very sad and reclusive, even more so. That book of his would have his undivided attention. That's to pitiable for that man. Make sure he's never like that when he's Hokage. Alright? Thank You.

I suppose the first thing I should divulge is secret number one. Or maybe you would like it to go in reverse order, save up the most suspense filled utterances for last? Maybe you can figure the order for yourself. After all, you were a snake's apprentice.

I am an unofficial akastuki member. Though I loathe to admit it. It was a result of my first noticed kill. Gyokunyo was the ring he present to my bloodied fingers, after he'd told me his own secrets. I wouldn't have taken the thing if not for that. I'll admit I was curious. That was the extent my feelings roamed and I kept his death-filled whispers.

I am not afraid of death. In fact, I am enamored by the very thought. It intrigues me. Where do you go when you get impaled by an enemies kunai or rained down with a fellow shinobi's senbon? Heaven, Hell? A field with an abundance of red (red moon, red sky, red people). I have enjoyed the red far to many times to be scared. Heaven, I believe, would be full of law-abiding civilians, and 'good ninja'. It would be filled with white, and blue and silver, because that is all I can imagine in that particular afterlife. Hell, I had always imagined at a depth-less cavern full of never-ending orange fire, the flame licking at your dead throat. We face death all the time, why not love the beauty it shows?

I knew the truth about Uchiha Itachi. A council member recited the mission to me while I was young, younger that I am now. Uchiha's are slaves to their bloodied eyes, honey. They'll forever search for power that teases them, within their reach, just never quite able to yank it towards themselves. I still do not know why the man, Homura-sama, I believe told me the classified mission. It was likely he thought he was to die soon, but still? Me? Hapless, whinny-and-weak child. How very thoughtful of you Homura-san.

I'm strange, I think. We were strange. Team 7 was strange. I'm sorry. This doesn't make sense, but as previously written, I doubt this thing will ever cross your path (I hope you will understand it though).

With Love,

Haruno Sakura

A/N : This basically occurred because of the lack of Sakura and the recent manga chapters. I'm going to try to keep it canon, only because I hate it when people change things too drastically. Meaning Sakura is the eldest Team 7 member, Sasuke the second youngest by five months and Naruto is the youngest by eight months. Things like that. Itachi will probably play a pretty sizable role in this fiction (although he's dead), because I love his character and I believe that if he and Sakura ever met, they would hit it off splendidly.

Homura- a Konoha council member or elder.

Gyokunyo- the akastuki ring Sasori wore, meaning Virgin.