A new story! ;) I've had this sitting on my laptop for some time. Well… the basic idea for it, anyway. There are a lot of changes from the canon time-line, such as Sakura's heritage, the Hokage, and others. It's still not fully fleshed out, but quite frankly, none of my stories ever really are. But that's fine, it's how I write. :P
Notice that I'm changing my user name in the new year!
Disclaimer that I don't own, and enjoy!
Flawless
Prologue – Tears Of A Child
When she realised how wrong it had all gone, she wept. Glassy tears filled her eyes and she cried desperately into her pillow. Here she was, a nineteen year old in a four year old's body, crying not over the fact that she was back in time, but that this was the wrong time line. Somehow, she'd ended up in an entirely different reality to her own, with no way to get back to her own, as the method used to power her trip was one that was no longer available to her.
How had she realised that she was in the wrong reality? Simple. She'd looked out the window. The house she'd lived in as a child had been positioned perfectly that when she stuck her head out her bedroom window and looked right, she could see Hokage Mountain. When she'd done that mere moments after landing in this reality (she'd been feeling nostalgic) she'd immediately noticed that the Hokage faces were wrong. Senju, Senju, Sarutobi, Namikaze. That was how it should have gone. Instead, it was Senju, Uchiha, Sarutobi, Namikaze.
In this warped and terrible world, somehow Uchiha Madara had ended up as the Nidaime, and not Senju Tobirama. The whole day after that had been a maelstrom in her mind as she'd gone over what could have gone wrong, and in the end, could only conclude that somehow, a boundary that was not calculated for was crossed, leading her to this dimension instead of her own. She held it in until her parents here tucked her in for the night, then she cried herself to sleep.
Naruto was gone. Her Naruto. Her Sasuke. Her Kakashi-sensei. Her Ino-pig. Her parents. In their place was someone else's Naruto, someone else's Sasuke, Kakashi-sensei, Ino-pig. That wasn't her kaa-san that kissed her goodnight on the forehead, not her tou-san who'd carried her up to bed. So she'd cried and cried until she'd slept, and then she'd dreamt of Naruto, his bright, sunny smile. Of Sasuke, his brooding, good looks, and of Ino, gossiping with her as they did their nails.
And in the morning when she woke, she steeled her shoulders, stared herself down in the mirror, and determined that if she ever found a way to go back to them, she would do it in a heart-beat. In the meantime, she'd suss out this new world, make the best of her life here, and if it ended up that she was permanently stuck here? Well then, Haruno Sakura would make sure that in this life, she wasn't a weak little girl, and would kick the ass of anyone who dared to mess with her!
So what did you think? Review please! :)