Author note: Another of my old 2014 stories that I suddenly remembered and felt like writing. This fanfiction is going to be a joke so I apologize if anyone thought it would be deep.

Chapter 1

It was hopeless. Sakura balled her hands up into chakra filled fists and sprinted toward Madara, determined to end this once and for all. She was beyond exhausted and it was pure sheer willpower that was pushing her to rescue her best friend, Naruto. Another proof on why a prolonged war is in another league. It was both emotionally and physically draining. This was nothing how she imagined it to be, no, this was a much more worse entity than anything in this world. Having to fight knowing your friends died or will die? The epitome of cruelty was war.

"Let him go!" she screamed, close to striking until he stabbed her in the stomach with his thin cane, paralyzing her. This war... was all the Akatsuki fault... it was ALL THEIR FAULT! If they didn't exist then none of this would have happened. Tears filled her eyes as she glared at Madara.

"You are proving to be troublesome," Madara muttered, slamming his hands on her face and dug his nails into her skin. Strange branch-like markings spread all over her body using her face as it's base. "I'll send you somewhere where far, far away from here. Jigen no Jutsu."

With one last glare, her vision spun into distortion.

Sakura snapped her eyes open, the thought of a dying Naruto was the first thing that crossed her mind.

"Naruto!" she shouted with all her heart, slew of sweat slid down her face as she breathed in and out erratically. The image of a bleeding friend begging her to help him was traumatizing. Sakura quickly jumped out of her bed and run out of the room, ready to look for him even if it killed her. She didn't spare her surrounding a glance because if she did, she would have noticed how she was in an odd room.

"Damn it!" She skipped walking down the stairs and just jumped through the long path. When she landed on her foot, her tiptoes were pressed down tightly, ready to spring her out of the living room.

"Sakura?" Ino's voice interrupted her original plan, making Sakura stagger forward to stop herself, which eventually lead to a graceless fall.

"What are you doing, shouting "Naruto!" in the god damn morning?" Ino raised a delicate eyebrow, clearly confused by her roommate behavior. She thought Sakura found Naruto a nuisance so this was surprising.

Sakura looked up at her blond friend from the floor. She had one of her hand on her hip while the other held a spatula raised. It indicated that Ino was cooking... if the apron wasn't a dead giveaway. What in the world was Ino doing? Did the war end? Was it their victory? She didn't get to ask when Ino beaten her to the punch.

"Breakfast is ready and I got good news!" Ino winked, walking away with an extra spring in her step into the kitchen.

Good news? Seeing how happy she was then it must about their victory. Sakura smiled in relief, so it was finally over. She stood up from her smashed position and followed Ino. Here she was thinking Ino would be covered in wounds but she was fine, never more brighter than today. She wondered how long she been out to not notice all these changes? And since when was Ino in her house? Did lady Tsunade ask her to accompany her?

Sakura sat down across the prepared table, right in front of Ino. If she was honest, she have never seen breakfast like this before.

That was egg for sure but what's this beside it? She sniffed, helping her identify it easily. The sleazy, dry thing was pork -did it always look like this?- while the other ingredients were butter and honey on top of this thin, round flat cake(?) Her eyes fell on the weird instruments right beside her. Where is the chopsticks? What are these? Glancing at Ino, Sakura was able to pick up on how she was supposed to eat. She needs to hold this trident in-between her ring and middle finger and use the blade -wasn't she supposed to use it as a kunai?- to slice through the sunny eggs. It didn't take her more than 15 second to master the art of holding a silverware.

"So," Ino started, pointing the fork toward Sakura's direction as she swallowed on the last crumbs of pancakes in her mouth. "Guess what? The Akatsuki are going to release th-

Sakura's hand halted halfway through eating at the mention of the accursed organization. Her grip on the fork tighten to the point it bent out of shape. Why did Ino sound happy about those criminals?

"-eir 5th full album this year! Isn't that amazing? The best part is they are recruiting a new member!" Ino squealed, her hand shaking in excitement with her body.

Sakura was confused. Album? What the heck was that? A ninjutsu?

"Aren't they all dead? They were all killed except for..." except for Obito and Madara. Her eyes narrowed dangerously at her own remembrance.

"Dead? Killed? Sakura are you alright?" Ino's eyebrows furrowed deep, finding her statement too strange to be coherent. She tried to piece two with two together to make sense of it. "We both love the Akatsuki so you lost me there. Unless you are saying they will kill the charts then hell yeah!"

Love...? Who loves whom? Sakura stood up, slamming her hand down on the table, almost cracking it. "Did you forget what they did to Asuma-sensei? How can you say you love them?" Sakura could feel her blood boiling. After everything they did, she could never forgive them. They killed Gaara once, hurt her friends, chased after Naruto and they just attempted to destroy the world, never mind the fact they also succeed in destroying Konoha before.

"Ummm what about Asuma-sensei?" Ino stopped eating, startled by Sakura's action. She also stood up and pointed an index finger above offhandedly. "You love them too Sakura! I mean, did you see your room? Why are scolding me when you like them? I thought we were in this together?"

Both girls stared at each other bewildered. One in a mixture of offence and being feed obvious lies while the other in anger and pure betrayal. Why was Ino telling her this? She didn't think Ino was bad enough to love the people who killed her teacher so what's going on? It almost as if there was a language barrier that is stopping them from understanding each other. "I don't remember loving them!"

"You know what? Let's go to your room." Ino, not giving up on this fight, took the lead with Sakura following right behind her. Outside the kitchen door was the staircase so they both round a corner to stomp into the nearest room upstairs. Ino didn't have to fling the door open because it was already done from Sakura's early outburst.

Emerald eyes froze when they meet with hazel ones. She almost screamed in horror and tripped back had she not caught herself in time when she saw the familiar red hair. Why was Sasori in her room? Wasn't he dead? She killed him didn't she? Sakura immediately took on a defensive form and got ready to punch him.

"What the heck are you doing?" Ino spread her arm out to stop her from acting stupid. She was probably imagining it but Sakura wasn't going to attempt punching a poster... Right? Yeah, that was her imagination because it's too ridiculous to be true so she gestured for her to stop moving and then went to peel off the beautiful poster of Akasuna no Sasori.

"Ahhh, it was worth every penny." Ino sighed dreamily and showed Sakura the printed part as she held the edges with extreme care to not tear it. This was too precious for peasants like her.

Sakura just tilted her head at the Ino's behavior with her mouth hanged open, getting destroyed with confusion. When she looked around the room, there were more, upon closer look, pictures, NOT HUMANS, of the Akatsuki members. They were so LARGE they were taking the entire wall space. She have never seen anything like this in Konoha. From the corner of her eyes she could see Ino flattening the full body size poster of Sasori back to where it used to be. She then skipped toward Sakura's bed and held up a... what is this?

"You got the limited edition DEIDARA BODY PILLOW!" Ino hugged the living daylights of the pillow excitedly while jumping.

Sakura was getting the biggest culture shock of her life right now. This is wrong in so many levels. Oh god, someone hold her before she faint. Why was the blanket the face of Uchiha Itachi? Why were the pillow case she was sleeping on the face Pein? WHAT IS THIS? A NIGHTMARE?

"This is heaven." Ino's remark passed over her head as Sakura tried to think logically by closing her eyes. Why were pictures of the dead Akatsuki members all over "her" room...no, this is not a room. This was a ritual for the dead, that's right. She got in a funeral ceremony by accident. Sakura nodded and opened her eyes. The Itachi blanket greeted her back. OKAY WHAT KIND PEOPLE HAVE THE FACE OF THE DECEASED ON THEIR BEDS? Did the world deteriorated this much during her absences that funerals were no longer recognizable? She had felt this before but she can confirm it now, with absolute confidence, that something was BEYOND OFF.

"So let's go buy their 4th album. Good gracious, their albums keep getting sold out faster than sound." Ino rolled her eyes, thinking off how she lost her twenty fifth chance in getting it already. Amegakure really need to restock their albums faster and stop putting out few at a time when they are in such high demand. She will have to be 6 hours early today so she can buy one because of them. This was a competition between desperate fangirls. "Sakura, go wear something decent. We need to get our hands on that glorious album."

Ino walked out, forgetting all about the fight she had, leaving Sakura to her trainwreck thoughts. With her hand messaging her forehead, to appease the headache she was getting, Sakura trudged to the closet and opened it with caution... in case their was a jumpscare there, like Akatsuki pajamas. However, seeing the strange clothing in there had her pause. Ino wore the usual purple turtleneck, crop top with matching skirt. While it give off a different feeling from the strange materiel, it didn't raise suspicion but this on the other hand was too different than what they wore in Konoha. What village style is this? Not even Suna ,Iwa, Kumo, Kiri or even Oto, had this...

The only one who knew the answer to this mysterious puzzle was Ino. She spoke about the Akatsuki as if they were alive... Goosebumps evaluated her body so Sakura picked up the closest to her Konoha outfit as fast as possible and practically run out of the room. Having the Akatsuki all over her room is a curse, black magic! Especially when she knew them as dead. Kami-sama, what was going?

The moment Sakura took a step outside she realized... she wasn't in Konoha, Suna or any of the other nations. This wasn't where she is from.

"I'll send you somewhere where far, far away from here. Jigen no Jutsu."

She remembered Madara's words. He mentioned dimension... Was this it? It was a terrifying thought considering Ino was still the same but it would also explain why Ino acted as if passing by those weird... carriages(?) was the most normal thing to do. It gave off a similar feel to what the Feudal Lord would ride on except it's metal, more intricate, fancy looking and could move by its own. Even though they lost their rivalry after the chuunin exam, Sakura still didn't want to seem heavily dependent on her. Yet she also couldn't help but stick to Ino like glue cause she was inexperienced in everything. This was not her world after all.

"Sakura?" Ino just raised an eyebrow as Sakura held the tip of her black cardigan, tugging her along. When the pink haired woman whistle innocently, she sighed. What was wrong with her roommate today? If the Akatsuki album wasn't something she have been looking forward to buy for ages, she would have sat her down and got into a deep conversation. She was acting too strange to be normal, almost as if she was a different person.

Suddenly, one of the cars passing by honked at her in a flirtatious gesture, startling her. "Men!" Ino muttered, rolling her eyes at this. They gave her quite a scare there.

"I swear people these-" She looked back to check on Sakura just to find her nowhere to be found. "Sakura?"

Ino blinked once, twice, where was she?

Somewhere far away, inside someone's balcony, Sakura let out a sigh of relief. That scared her. Her reflex kicked in so she basically jumped into the nearest building. Although they were too high than what she normally is used too so she only managed to jump halfway through. Seeing Ino down below, seemingly like she was looking around for her made Sakura jump down, landing perfectly on her feet even though she was 25ft above. It was dangerous to let her guard down when her chakra is depleted. If an enemy attacked she wouldn't be able to save anyone or herself for that matter. When she thought about it though, Ino's chakra was that off an infant right now too... Every other shinobi or civilians they passed where the same. They either are suffering from this side effects or it just her who did.

"Where did you go?" Ino crossed her arms defensively, giving her the vibe that she shouldn't have done what she did.

"Ino... " Sakura trailed off, trying to think of a solution in this odd predicament. In order for her to understand her situation she needed to go to the one place anyone could find information. "I would like to go to the library...?"

Ino nodded in understanding, knowing how much Sakura loved books and with her hand, she gestured toward the bus station. "I'll go buy the album on my own then."

It didn't take them long to reach the bus station and Sakura, once again, stared in wonder at this thing Ino called a bus. There were many people inside but it baffled her why anyone would want to "travel" in such thing when they could run. She could reach her destination faster with her feet than this slow thing. But she knew not to be reckless considering she was in a place she had no clue off.

The ride to the library was short so Sakura had to convince Ino to drop her off at the exact location before she went to god knows where. It was good that Ino didn't suspect her too much or her plan to keep her secret hidden would have failed. Although the library here was huge, Sakura didn't hesitate to read history books first and got through everything in the selective section. With her limited chakra, Sakura made a shadow clone and transformed them into one of the people who left to avoid suspicion and double her efficiency.

With two of her, she can take in more knowledge quickly. She spent 5 days living in the library. Everytime the librarian would roam around to check for any people left behind, Sakura would hide and then continue her reading hunt during the night. There were too many books to cover but whenever Sakura's chakra increased, she would use it to speed her understanding.

What she found out about this world was a shock because being a ninja is being a fictional character... at least in this century it is. Absurd? Absolutely. Her entire existence is denied in this world without so much of a thought. It was hard to grasp such culture without comparing it with hers. Shinobi exist and she was the living proof. She also found out killing was illegal. For someone who lived in a world where kill or get killed was the most normal thing, this sounded superficial. That was their system and that's how they earned their living, from taking different kind of missions they considered "illegal". Killing wasn't bad so why? This was a life of restrictions but also a peaceful one. It wasn't bad when she thought about how everyone got along. Actually, it was great. How did this world managed to unite everyone? Before the Fourth Shinobi War, they were up against all the other nations, except the Sand, so the humans here may be weaker than her but they were more intelligent than she give them credit.

Another concept she learned was parallel universe. Even though it was a theory that can't be proven-to humans, not her-it made so much sense when she thought about how Ino still had her personality. She was a florist in here too because the Yamanaka family were known for their flowers, just like Konoha. She also came across the Uchiha name in text. They were famed police officers across the globe. The "no murder" policy changed everything she didn't think was possible like the massacre of the Uchiha clan.

Then she found out what cars are, the variety of food, the way this world work, where money comes from, music, phones, how internet network works, et cetera. She was impressed, amazed at this newfound discovery but also felt like her head would explode at how she only scratched the surface of information. This world was so much advance and intriguing but also difficult. She had tried imitating someone on how to use this 'laptop' machine and to her surprise, she found Sasuke and Naruto in this box they called video. She couldn't surpass her tears of joy when she saw them well and kicking. And she couldn't wait to meet them even if they weren't from the same parallel universe she.

Although reading confirmed one thing. This wasn't Konoha, this was Japan and she lived in a city called Tokyo...during the year of 2017.

"Where have you been?"

When Sakura returned from her camping, Ino bombarded with questions.

"You haven't been home for 6 days since I last left you at the library!" Ino shouted while she flailing her arm around to emphasize her angry. "I was going to report you missing to the Uchiha if you didn't come tomorrow but-"

Sakura just stared at her blond friend as she paced back and forth. It's was funny to see her scolding her like a little child. If she was glad for one thing it would be that Ino was here with her through the inner turmoil she is going through. If someone asked her now what she thought of Ino, it would be a blessing in disguise.

"I know you are adult so you could take care of yourself." Ino stopped moving and tried to be understanding, her hand rolled in circles "But you can't disappear like this without tel-"

Ino was cut off with a hug. Her eyes widen, Sakura doesn't usually do that so that surprised her. She didn't hesitate to pat Sakura's back though.

"You could have at least told me," she whispered in a gentle tone and smiled when Sakura broke the hug, all the worry dissipated from her since she was fine. Ino let out a small chuckle at how effective this was as a tactic. "Got anything new?"

Sakura just nodded, ready to tell her everything she did. "Yes, I actually applied for a job."

At that, Ino couldn't stop the grin that came on her face. She wrapped her arm around Sakura, who also did the same, and pulled her along.

"We got to celebrate this!" Ino exclaimed, thinking of drinking alcohol over this special occasion. Sakura had always stressed out about getting a job and since she wanted to be a doctor, it must have been hard. "Did you apply for a hospital?"

Sakura parted from Ino and took a seat in the couch of the living room. "No, I am planning to join the Akatsuki."

There was a moment of huge silence with Ino bluntly staring. "YOU WHAT?" she was screaming it, no longer keeping it quiet.

"I said I'm-" She didn't continue when she saw Ino shaking her head in shock, very in denial. "You said they were recruiting a new member," she pointed out, so why was she acting as if she did the biggest mistake?

"Sakura, you are going to be against thousands, no MILLION of people. The Akatsuki are going to be the judge themselves." Ino shivered as she thought about what will happen. Even though she loved the Akatsuki, she would never ever apply. Did Sakura even know how to sing, dance, or play an instrument? Back in high school, both of them sucked at anything music related so what position was she planning to apply? Their janitor?

"Did I forget to mention that this is a MEN ONLY recruitment?"

Author note: I seem to have nothing but bad luck with this chapter. Everytime I edit it, someone either close my tab when I'm away or the internet stop working when I save it (thus I have to redo everything again). It was just a frustrating process that I'm tired of reading it over and over again to the point I don't know how it turned out. Regardless, I hope people enjoy.