Taking a break from my GW fanfiction. I have two chapters left to write….and I suddenly get hit by the Naruto fandom bug.
I was re-reading my old Naruto fanfiction and that will be the next edit project I go about doing it. It needs to be cleaned up and edited (I saw some silly mistakes). In that time I will connect the story better and write the next chapter.
As for this story! It is something I've been seeing. There have been a lot of time-travels stories. I am not sure if anyone has told a time traveling story like this one before.
Personally I haven't read any of them so if they seem similar, it just means great minds. As some simple facts
It will be a re-telling of Naruto. It comes from the What-If movie, Path to Sakura. I really like what they did with it so I want to go along the same lines.
A key note: Some events will remain the same, some will be different. I reserve the right to decide what has been changed! So if I say Orochimaru killed off all the Uchiha's….then he did.
By the way, that was joke.
Pairings: This will be Sakura-POV but the main couple will most likely be SakuraxSasuke with hints of SakuraxNaruto. Of course there will be a ton of NarutoxHinata.
In the end this will be a Team 7 centered fanfiction for the most part.
Disclaimer: I don't own it…..if I did, I would fix Sasuke's personality. It sucks.
Summary: It wasn't supposed to be like this, this wasn't their fate. Naruto was sure that this wasn't how the story ends. It couldn't be! All the pain, all the death….everything he had done was to change fate. Yet, this wasn't the fate he wanted. This was after all the last thing he wanted.
In order to change fate, Naruto made a choice and took a chance only offered once in a life time. He re-ordered the future and the one to pay the price….was none other than the one he wanted to save. The world not redone how would team 7 do with this new chance? Will history repeat itself? Or will that happy ending actually come to pass?
Fate of Choice
Chapter one:
What is fate?
It was a cruel joke, Sakura laughed bitterly as she coughed up blood. She hugged the wound on her side as she lay near the man who caused it. There he was, fallen on the ground, blood soaked and wounded. It was the universe, it hated them, Sakura reasoned again as she stared into his blind eyes.
The area around them was covered with fallen shinobi. The war as it stood would be over today. Whoever survived will have to carry on. Sakura thought of the rules and laws of being a ninja, there had to be one for this situation too.
"S-Sasuke…" Groaning, Sakura half dragged herself to his side. The attack landed a deep cut to her intestines and she would bleed out slowly, both internally and externally. "You weren't…suppose to jump in front of me." A little smile crossed her red stained lips.
"Shut up." The blind man growled out closing those broken eyes.
"It is…a little too late to tell me that sort of thing, we are both dying." Sakura laughed bitterly before letting her hand fall onto his bare chest. Funny, she suddenly remembered the last time she did this. It was that C-rank mission to the little village in the mist. Since then, they had many near deaths, many caused or inflicted by each other, and this was only the second time her head found his chest. Her mind snapped back to the events just before.
It had happened too fast.
It was the final show down. Naruto was busy ending this war … It left Sakura to handle Sasuke, and the others on his team fought with Shikamaru, Shino, Ino, and Chouji.
Sasuke had just handled a critical injury that she could have healed if it wasn't for a mysterious new comer. First he attacked her blocking her charka and before landing the finishing blow Sasuke had engaged him. For some strange reason the Uchiha was beyond livid.
Apparently only he had the right to kill her.
Too bad the fight with the mysterious man left him on death's door as well.
"Who said you can put your head here you twit." Sasuke grumbled but his breath was shallow…just like his words.
"After all this heartache….I want to die with my head rested on the man who ruined me." Sakura said softly wincing as the blood continued to spill. She was really going to die this time, and Sasuke was going with her.
Again Haku flashed in her mind as well as the demon known as Zabuza. Had they found each other in the afterlife? What was it like to be with the one you loved?
"you are an idiot."
"I know….I should have fallen for Naruto." Sakura felt tears stinging her eyes. "He'll be mad…you know." The words here soft as her head began to spin. It was coming death. Her body already felt heavy and cold.
"You should have…. idiot."
"We both are….hey Sasuke….?" The cold had crept to her chest now; she couldn't feel her legs anymore.
"hn?"
"I'm going to kiss you." With the remaining strength she had left Sakura moved to press her bloody lips to his. "Life's not fair….but" Sakura stared down at him and noted that he had stopped breathing. "It…it really isn't Sasuke-kun." The tears began to fall now as she burrowed her face into his chest. This time he wasn't going to wake up. This time neither was she.
And that was how her life ended.
In the arms of the man she loved Sakura had died in a bloody battle. It was a death most Ninja's would find romantic.
As the battle ended and survivors were accounted for, Naruto roamed the battle field. His team, he had to find his team. Walking among the dead he found them, a grin that went ear to ear as he raced over.
They had made up, Sasuke would say something about Sakura being annoying, and they would go back to Konoha as heroes. Yet, there was something unsettling in his stomach.
The man stopped and knelt to the ground, "hey guys! Guys! What are you two doing on the ground like this? Come on! We gotta go see the old lady…guys…Sakura this isn't funny…..Sakura really!" His voice choked as he touched their cold bodies.
"Sasuke…get up you bastard! You can't be dead! I SAID GET UP!" The blond screamed, "Sakura…Sakura really….I promise I won't play anymore jokes if you just open your eyes!"
He continued to scream shaking their stiff bodies.
They were dead.
He was alive.
And again he was alone.
"NO! NO NO NO NO!" Tears fell freely as he watched the shells of his friends. "THIS ISN'T HOW IT IS SUPPOSE TO BE! THIS…THIS…..this….."
"Do you want to change it?"
Naruto whipped around to see an old lady. She wore a thick gray cloak and carried a wooden staff. The old woman had soft curly gray hair and really looked more wrinkled than the 100 year old grandma that lived down the street from him.
"What do you mean…'change it?'" Naruto rubbed his eyes glaring at the old woman.
"Fate is nothing more than a chance happening and the choices made in those chances. This is your chance. Make the choice, do you want to change it?" She smiled at him, and Naruto should question this. She was a random old lady in the middle of a war field. Yet he didn't, he just stared at her before nodding.
He had lost too much.
The one thing he wasn't supposed to lose….the one thing that was supposed to survive this blood shed….hadn't.
"The price will be heavy… but you will not be the one to pay it." The old woman leaned forward looking into his blue eyes. "Choices and chances have to be re-ordered, the flow of time will change, this ending may come to pass or it may not. Will you risk it? Will you change their fates….will you change yours?"
Naruto blinked at her words but after a moment, nodded. "If I am there, I will help them with whatever price they have to pay!"
That was when the old woman smiled, "So be it. Change the fates, move the stars, let what has been done, be changed…..may this be the chance that will change what has been done."
She tapped the earth with her staff and before Naruto could question her, the world fell away. The last thing he saw was her laughing face.
OooooOoooo
Sakura felt warm.
She felt safe.
She floated within the white abyss that found her after her last breath. It wasn't like she thought of. There was nothing and was everything. She felt nothing but at the same time everything.
It was here she found herself at peace. Until in the milky haze she saw a face from her childhood. It was strange for some reason she thought it'll be Sasuke she saw first. That bastard would always leave her behind!
"H…Haku?" She mumbled softly floating towards the young man who changed her life as well as team 7.
"Hello….it seems you came to join me in the afterlife." His smile was warm as he gently touched her face. "What a pity….you grew up very beautiful."
Sakura blushed and stared at him for a long moment, "What…has happened?" Wait if he was here then where was Zabuza? She blinked a few times looking around in the white endless haze.
"This is where I have been since my death….I suppose it is something we call limbo. We are waiting for our souls to be judged." Haku withdrew his hand and floated backwards.
"Really?" Sakura hummed softly. "I like it here…Where is….Zabuza?"
She stared at him expectantly but a pain gripped her heart. Did he not make it? How long had Haku been here alone?
"So do I, it might be why I haven't passed on." Haku chuckled avoiding her question. "I don't think I will ever move on." So, Sakura thought to herself, He'd wait for Zabuza even in death. The nin just smiled at her, "Things are changing though, it is as if the restless dead have been vanishing. I only felt your appearance…along with that black hair boy. "
"Changing?" The pink hair woman echoed. Then for a moment Haku grew tense as he looked around the white haze.
"…what has he done?" Haku faltered a moment. "That boy….Sakura…"
And then he was gone, Sakura was once more alone.
Yet, she wasn't alone long, suddenly an old woman appeared. She smiled at Sakura and walked to her floating spirit.
"It seems the gods are with you three, this will be your one chance. Live well Sakura Haruno."
Before she could say another word Sakura felt a strong pull. It was like gravity. It pulled her soul back down to earth.
Gasping for air, the nin sprung up in bed. Breathing labored she grabbed her side for the wound that was no longer there. Eyes wide and unfocused she got out of the bed. Stumbling she tripped on some clothes left on the floor. Recovering quickly she whipped around at the strange room. Everything looked bigger than normal, the ground a mess with scrolls and notebooks, and a picture of one Sasuke Uchiha on the far wall.
She cringed at the image and went to rip it off the wall. Sakura didn't have a picture of the Uchiha since she was 14. Clenching the picture and ripping it apart she turned to figure out just where the hell she was. Her search was stop short though.
There in the full length mirror was a young twelve year old girl with long rosette pink hair. On her cheeks were thin markings that made her seem cat-like. A shaking hand went to touch the long three marks of her right cheek; her face reflected her emotions perfectly. It was pure terror and confusion. It was impossible.
This wasn't her.
Hands quickly lifting up the hem of her night shirt, her fears were confirmed.
The seal of the fox demon stood out on her pale white skin.
What the hell was going on?
TBC
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Note: Chapter two is about 90% done, and I will be going through and editing it. Thank you for reading!