~*~ Chapter 1 ~*~

The sun was bright on this early Monday morning in the lands of the fire nation. Men and Women alike were waking up, stretching and heading out following the same old routine that they usually do. Heck even the rogue ninja followed there morning routines. Today was going to be just like any other day, or so a certain Pink Haired Kunoichi thought.

Haruno, Sakura age 19 woke up earlier that morning from a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, but as the day progressed she chocked it up to nerves and figured it was just because of all the extra hours she puts in at the Konoha Hospital. She had been working non stop, with no sick leaves for the past year and a half and her best friend, Yamanaka, Ino was the one who broke it to her, that if she didn't slow down the bags under her eyes would cause her to look like Gaara before to long.

"Shut it Ino-Pig," Sakura had snapped.

Ino had glared in response.

All in all it was a typical Monday morning. As Sakura walked the bustling streets of Konoha towards the hospital she thought,

'Maybe Ino was right, maybe I should ask Lady Tsunade for the day off.'

Then she shook her head and decided against it. She was a medic ninja and she was stubborn. However, over the last couple of years things had changed a little bit, she was no longer the child she used to be, she was mature, she always carried adult conversations, even with Naruto who would just look at her as if she had grown another head. Her body had shaped up to, it was no longer this flimsy little twig, she turned out to look more and more like her mentor everyday. Hell it started when she turned 17. She went to the store with Ino and found out that she needed to order larger clothes because her boobs had grown a lot. She was now, not only slim, but she had the curves to complement it. A lot of male ninja's noticed the change and attempted to ask her out, but she always turned them down.

Naruto was starting to worry about his female team-mate, hell even Sai showed a little bit of emotional concern when no one was looking. She worked herself to the bone for Tsunade, and when she had free time she would train till she passed out. Hell she wouldn't eat unless someone was there with her to make sure she did. Naruto understood though a little bit. Ever since the war, after witnessing so many deaths and after the death of her mother, the only family she had left, Sakura closed off her heart and grew up in a hurry. However, not long ago Naruto noticed that for a period of 7 months Sakura was always jumpy, never hugged anyone except her female friends. He also didn't know why every time Sakura walked passed a pregnant woman or a baby she got all emotional. Although it wasn't until Tsunade announced that they would no longer search for the rogue Sasuke, when he really saw Sakura shut herself down. He was all she was holding on to and then he was gone, and Sakura fell into this must work, must train, and must freeze my heart in time attitude. Even Naruto took that command pretty hard, but he stopped after a while, his heart still not giving up on Sasuke. Every time he had a mission he would search and gather in tell on the Uchiha.

Sakura on the other hand, pushed herself to work, day after day, train night after night till she just couldn't push her body anymore. Now as she walked down the streets towards the hospital Naruto noticed that she was super thin, hell she looked like Nagato, a tad anorexic. Groaning to himself he looked down at the band on his left ring finger. A year after the war he had proposed to Hinata and they had been married for 3 years. They already had a two year old son. Sai was even married, to Ino, none the less, hell even Kakashi Sensei was married and had children. Naruto was growing tired of seeing his friend like this. Looking at the Hokage tower he took off to talk to Tsunade baa-Chan.

Deep in the forest somewhere between Konoha and Suna there was a soft singing. It sounded like a child, one that had serious problems,

"We will chop off there heads,

Turn it to bread,

Sing in there blood,

Till we drown in the flood….

Oh me, Oh my, what time is it Mr. Fry?" he sang, but trailed off to ask the question to a small sock puppet that rested on his right hand.

"Oh right, it's time to unwind," the child giggled and then started chuckling a bitter sweet laugh that would turn any mothers blood to stone.

Naruto stopped halfway to the Hokage Tower when the ground started to shake. He was confused, but something seriously wasn't right. The village shook and shook. People screamed and ran to avoid all the falling debree that the buildings were shaking off. He looked around and ran on unsteady ground. It was too risky to run on the roofs while they were shaking everywhere. He ran to where he and his wife and son lived to see if they were okay and if they had made it out of the house okay.

Sakura was thrown off balance and onto her knees when the ground started shaking. Pushing herself back to her feet she saw everything shaking and parts of buildings falling to the ground as people screamed to avoid being crushed to death. Pushing herself into motion she headed for the hospital to help those who came in with serious injuries. She was almost there when she saw a woman, about five months pregnant, trip and fall, a support post about to break loose and crush her. Sakura ran over to her and braced herself against the beam,

"Hurry up and find a safe place," Sakura shouted to the woman who nodded and ran with the crowd.

The blasted beam was heavy and weighing down on her. Sakura channelled some charka into her hands and arms as she through it off of herself and jumped out of the way as the building collapsed around her. Looking around Sakura shot forward but came to a stop as the sky caught her eyes. It was bellowing black clouds storming into the village in such rage it would make the strongest ninja cry for his/her mommy. It crackled and shot a streak of crimson red lightning to the earth. Sakura gasped, but then her vision went black and she fell to the ground. Pain ripping through her body as she trembled on the cold dirt roads, this was so not an everyday Monday morning occurrence. This was something way out of the usual.

Sasuke was walking with his new team of Juugo, Karin and Suigetsu when the ground started shaking and throwing everyone off there feet except Sasuke who grabbed a nearby tree to steady himself. Looking directly up at the sky his eyes narrowed as black ominous clouds soon engulfed the baby blue sky. He knew that something felt off today. It looked like he was about to find out what fate had in store for them now. It had a funny way of plaguing Sasuke, fate did, it gave him something he loved and then took it away, first it was his brother, then it was his faith, and then his friends and now it seemed it was coming after his freedom.

Flash Back!

It was 4 years ago that Sasuke had lost his brother and was manipulated into fighting Konoha, he still remembered the pink haired Shinobi woman who was fighting with one of the Akatsuki warriors. She looked so much like Sakura, only older with the same bright green eyes, and smile, only her hair was down to her mid back and wavy. Her body was that of a more mature woman. He still didn't know what came over him that day on the field with the pink haired Shinobi and his most unbearable secret. She had dodged and attack and came at him full force only to stop in front of him and gasp,

"Uchiha, Sasuke," she stared in shock and joy.

Sasuke looked at the woman with confusion and anger.

"It is you, you look so much like your father," she said with sad eyes.

Sasuke grew even angrier at the reminder of his family.

The woman continued on, "have you finally come home?" she asked.

"This is not my HOME!" Sasuke shouted.

The woman froze in shock then smiled, "No I suppose it isn't, that is a shame, my clan did everything we could to help your clan so long ago, time changes many things, even the faces of allies to enemies."

Sasuke glared, this woman made no sense what was she blathering about, and he was in the right. Konoha took everything from him, so he would take Konoha. Why did this woman look at him like he was being led on a short lease? He was so mad now he could spit. If there was one thing he hated more than Konoha it was being confused. So he was a bit caught off guard when the woman smiled at him and giggled a soft sound that brought back to many painful memories of Sasuke's mother. His anger flared at this woman and without thinking he activated Chidori and attacked. When he saw her drop her Kunai and smile at him with arms open wide for a hug, he tried to stop but it was to fast, and to late his hand went right through her chest and she choked as blood gushed over her bottom lip she trapped Sasuke's head with her hand and whispered something into his ear that made his blood run cold. He watched as she fell to the ground with a sickening thud and looked at her. It couldn't be true, but somehow he knew it was, and it angered him all the more, this time it wasn't at Konoha.

End Flash Back!

The breeze was nice and cool, the sun was bright and warm, what really caught Sakura's attention though was that the ground stopped shaking,

"Was it all a dream?" she asked herself groggily opening her eyes.

Standing she looked around and noticed she was in a very unfamiliar place, the trees were 10 times larger and the grass felt wonderful on her feet. Shaking her head from side to side she walked over to the stream that was near her left and was about to wash her face when she caught sight of herself in the waters reflection. She screamed!