Blast From the Past
Chapter One: Back to the Past
No one thought that the fourth war between villages would come soon. Even I, who had left my own village, thought that it was impossible. After achieving my life long goal, killing my older brother, Itachi, I learned that it had been a mistake that I would never forget. I discovered that he had slaughtered our clan under orders by the village, Konoha, the place I had called home. My next goal was to obliterate it for making my brother suffer but I also found out that he had did it to protect it. I knew that if I had destroyed the very place he tried to defend then I may as well threw his efforts out the window. I decided to defend it too, honoring my brother's wishes. I had also learned that before he died, Itachi passed along to me his mangekyo sharingan.
When I had returned, I thought that most would treat me as a traitor but I wasn't. My team, which I believed hated me for the errors I made, welcomed me back as if I had gone a regular trip. I told them everything that I had learned about my brother and they were as shocked as I was but understood. My former instructor said that I had finally chosen a correct path and I was added into their team like before.
After about what seemed 8 months, the conflict broke out within the nations. Multiple villages,who were once at peace with one another, starting fighting. Soon even the main villages were pulled into it. Gaara, who was the Kazekage for Suna, was so busy trying to keep peace within his nation that he couldn't lend help the village of Konoha, which had been already bruised from it's recent events with the Akatsuki member, Pain.
During a horrific fight, I saw deaths that I wouldn't believe if I hadn't seen them with my own eyes. My former classmates had all been annihilated by the enemy. Even Might Guy's team had been a victim of the tragedy. All of the jonin had been killed during the onslaught. The death that had mainly affected me, was the one of my best friend and rival, Naruto Uzumaki. He had been using to much chakra and had tapped into the power of the fox demon he had locked inside of him. I wasn't able to get to him before he was stabbed in the back with a poison kunai.
Even Sakura, who had been studying under the legendary Sanin, Tsunade, couldn't heal and get the poison out before it took the life of the blond-haired jinchuriki. We managed to the draw them back but most of strongest had been killed. There was a funeral for those who had died. I hadn't ever seen Sakura cry so hard. She broke down at the funeral which I had no choice but to console her.
Tsunade, the 5th hokage, had died while trying to protect her village so the people had no one to guide them. The elders had no other conclusion but to choose the 6th before anything else happened. Sakura, who had been trained by the strong ninja, was chosen but had no ceremony. I took it amongst myself to help her when she needed it, having still not recovered from the demise our teammate.
"Sakura, are you alright?" Sasuke rushed into her office after hearing something hit the the ground and crash. When he looked, he saw she was sitting in front her desk in a fetal position with a broken glass picture frame beside her. Even though her head was down, he could tell she was crying but it easy to see she was shaking. Worried, Sasuke went and got on a knee so that he could go to her now small height. "Sakura..."
"I-I tried not to look at it...I tried but... I still saw him..." Said Sakura sobbing between each set of words. She allowed her head to go up more so she could look at him but it didn't stop the tears from falling. "Sasuke-kun...Why can't I get over this? It's been a year! Why can't get him off my head?"
Sasuke's eyes wandered down, not knowing how to answer her questions. What was he suppose to say to her? That it was because she was holding the position that Naruto lived to achieve? Or maybe that she knew Naruto liked her but she didn't return his feelings? He had no idea what he wanted to say to her. Hurt went across his face as he watched her pour her heart out in tears. Out of pure instincts, he got on both knees and pulled her into his arms. He felt her wrapped her arms around his neck hugging him back.
"Sakura...I'm sorry..." Sasuke told her softly closing his eyes. He knew exactly what she was going threw from experience and knew just how much this was affecting her. Though, he had a close idea as to why she was beating herself up about it. "It's alright. I miss him too."
"If only...If only I had trained more.. I could have saved him..." She said in a low tone sniffing slightly.
The black-haired Uchiha's suspicions were put at rest with her sentence. It explained why she felt so bad. She thought that wasn't strong or skilled enough to heal him before he died. She let go and covered her eyes to stop crying. Sasuke released her too and took her hands from her damp and red face. "Sakura, listen to me. It wasn't your fault. It wasn't that you were too weak but we both were just too late. Don't hold his death on yourself. I know for a fact that he wouldn't want you to keep up like this. You gotta try to stay strong for Naruto sake."
The pink-haired teenager pushed her lips together while looking at him before nodding her head slowly. She wiped her eyes to get rid of the remained tears and Sasuke stood up and held out his hand. She looked at him before taking it and standing in front of him. By comparison, he was still taller than her. She smiled at him. "Thank you, Sasuke-kun."
He nodded once with his signature smirk. Seeing her smile made him feel a lot better though he saw her heart wasn't completely into it but it was a real smile either way. "So what were you doing before?"
"I was looking through some old scrolls that I found in a room." Sakura answered sweeping up the glass and picking up the frame. She sat it down before moving behind her desk picking up the box which held about 20 dusty scrolls inside. "Wanna help?"
He shrugged before going beside her and picking up one. He blew on it and the dusty substance go everywhere making them both cough. "When was these things made?" He asked her.
"It's from a long time ago. What did you expect?" Sakura countered fanning the air with a little cough. "Besides that, it was in a room with no windows. You're a smart boy so figure out the rest."
Sasuke shot her a half glare which she returned by sticking out her tongue playfully. Rolling his eyes, Sasuke opened the scroll and glanced threw it carefully. His eyes picked up on immediately what it was about. "This a scroll on forbidden Ninjustu."
She looked up from hers to give him a confused look. "Forbidden Ninjustu? How do you know that?"
"It has the Shadow-Clone technique. Remember when we learned that a very special somebody sneaked and grabbed the Scroll-of-Sealing from the 3rd Hokage which contained multiple prohibited jutsu?" He edged on referring back to Naruto from a few years ago. The Uchiha sat down at the chair at end of her desk and put his smirk back on. "You're a smart girl so you can figure out the rest."
The cherry blossom girl gave him the same glare he gave her while he challenged it with his cocky expression. She darted her eyes back to the scroll giving Sasuke the victory and sat on top of her desk.
After about 4 useless jutsus, Sasuke's eyes fell on one that he had never even heard before. Duo Time no Jutsu. From the looks of it, you need two people in order to do it and a lot of chakra control. However, when got to explain the jutsu, it was worn out so much that even he couldn't read it. Part of him wanted to see exactly what it did while the other half wanted to make sure that it didn't hurt anything.
His eyes glanced up to Sakura who was sitting on the top of her desk with one leg over the other. Her emerald eyes were focused on her reading and going back an forth with the words. A secret blush appeared on his cheeks as continued to examine her. A long time ago, a rumor spread about him that he liked girls with long hair when it was actually the opposite. Sasuke was really into girls with shoulder length, like had she had her hair now. Though up until now he never noticed how grown up Sakura had got...
"Sasuke-kun, did you find any interesting jutsu in there?" She asked him after finishing her scroll and setting it down.
Hearing her question, he shook off the blush he had and nodded. "Yeah, at least I think so." He stood and walked over to her showing her the jutsu. She looked over it and her eyebrow raised slightly.
"This really is interesting but it doesn't say what it does..." Sakura said a little puzzled and partly disappointed. "Though I'm curious as to what it does. Aren't you?"
"A little." Sasuke answered honestly. An idea popped in his mind and he checked it over. There was two of them and they both had excellent chakra control. "Do you wanna try it?"
"What?" Sakura looked at him, surprised by the request. "I don't know, Sasuke-kun. I mean we don't even know what it does and it might dangerous if done wrong..."
Sasuke's eyes shifted to side realizing that she may be right. As he thought deeply about it, there was a high possibility that if they did it wrong then something bad could happen but it wasn't so important? "You're right about that but what more could we lose?" He asked her softly. "The village can't survive another attack. I don't even think we would survive another battle."
Sakura was about to answer his previous question before he listed the facts, which she knew was true. The possibility for the survival for the village was 13% to 15%. She bit her bottom lip thinking about it before nodding. "Let's do it."
They looked at the hand-signs and noticed that it was multiply signs but you had to do them at the once using two different hands. Sakura recognized that type of hand movements was also used in suicide jutsu that kill both the user and person they used it on. It was dangerous to try because you could make the wrong sign but mistake.
"You ready?" Sasuke asked her, mainly making sure he was ready to try to risk. He knew it was chancy that they could accomplish it but he didn't want to force her to it.
She turned her head towards him nodding. "I sure am." She did the first half of the hand-sign and held her hand for him to finished.
They started saying them out loud at once in order to lose track and mess up. They soon started to noticed that light blue aura was surrounding them along with a clock rotating at their feet. Just as they did the final sign, everything in the room went bright along with a strong gust of wind. Sakura grabbed Sasuke arm in pure fear and buried her head in I. He cringed and shut his eyes to stop seeing the brightness.
The sound of birds chirping made him open his eyes back up. They were at the gates of village right besides the bench. Sasuke felt hair on his arm and saw that Sakura's hair was back to long length.
"Sasuke-kun, are we dead?" Sakura asked muffled in his sleeve. She was shaking slightly scared of the answer. When he didn't say anything, she looked up and felt her hair, noticing it was long again. "What the..." She looked up to Sasuke. His eyes were wide and his mouth was slightly opened. Following his gaze, her face turned into the same one as his.
They knew that their village was all in shambles and most buildings were messed up but however the buildings they were looking at were perfectly fine. Even the academy,which had been burned to the ground, was standing tall.
"Sakura/Sasuke-kun, you-" They said at once and cut themselves off when saw looked at each other. They were back to looking like they were when they first became genin. A theory popped up in their minds at once. "We traveled back in time!"
"It makes sense. I mean, the village isn't damaged and we are genin again so we must have done the jutsu correctly." Sasuke explained in his own words, finding that the only choice of words as he could put it. He reached and took a small lock of her hair, mentally sighing . She blushed slightly. "Plus you no longer have your short hair."
"B-But I..." Sakura started to say flustered to no end. She always thought he liked girls with long hair. A thought popped in her mind. "Wait, Sasuke-kun, if were back in time, then doesn't that mean..."
"Hey, Sakura-Chan!"
Both Sasuke and Sakura froze the second they heard the voice. Slowly, the turned and saw their fallen friend walking towards them. Tears appeared in Sakura eyes as she smiled big. She ran and hugged him tightly.
"S-Sakura? Are you okay?" He asked turning bright red but mainly confused. The Sakura he knew said he was annoying and a pest but it seemed a person could change their mind in a short amount of time...
"I'm perfect! Just perfect!" She said with a large grin. It then struck her that this wasn't the same Naruto from her time and instantly let go. "I..um..mean..." She glanced at Sasuke who gestured to himself before catching his drift. "Transform!"
Naruto blinked and then a clone of Sasuke appeared right next to him. He glared at both of them. "Sasuke! I knew it! Sakura would never do that! I'm gonna-" The blond stopped and held his stomach as it roared. He then ran away towards to the building at lightning speed which made Sakura change back.
She ran back over to Sasuke and let out a breath of relief. "Thanks, Sasuke-kun. I think I almost gave him a heart attack."
"I think just looking at him almost gave us one." Sasuke commented crossing his arms while looking at her. "So now what? If we're here, that probably means that our future doesn't exist anymore."
Sakura nodded before catching something within his sentence. She grinned while looking at him. "If our future doesn't exist, you know what that means?" He gave her looking for her to go on. "If it doesn't exist then, the war never breaks out. Naruto and everyone else doesn't die. This a chance to start over again. Also, in this time, Itachi isn't dead."
As Sasuke thought about her reasons, he found each one to be true. Unlike he knew a while ago, he had no reason to kill Itachi but it bothered him knowing that he couldn't even reach out to his brother but knew exactly where he could be. "Maybe you're right. We could do things differently now that we know what to expect."
"Well...there something I wanna do first. Hand me the kunai in your pocket." She held out her hand. He reached and handed it to her. His eyes widened when she grabbed her hair and chopped it off right then and there without a second thought. It was back to shoulder-length and she made it neater before fixing her headband. "I like it better like this so now it won't get in the way."
"W-Whatever. Let's go. It's about time we go back." He turned around to hide the smile on his face. He was kinda glad to have her back to short hair rather than the long. Putting his hands in his pockets, he began to walk back to academy. Sakura put her hair remains in the garbage and followed him to catch up.
As they walked, they noticed how everything wasn't broken or even cracked. It was relieving to know that they could get the times a peace again. Once inside the classroom, they went to their seats like before without acknowledging each other to make sure that they didn't blow their cover.
However, someone immediately noticed Sakura's hair length and went to confront her about. "Hey, Sakura, I couldn't help but notice that you cut your hair." Sakura looked up and restrained herself from hugging her best friend after remembering that in this time they were still competing. Ino smirked at her. "Does that mean you've given up on Sasuke?"
Sakura thought about it for a second before nodding her head which surprised Ino and Sasuke. "Sure have. Actually, I thought that...you know..we could be friends again? All this rivalry has been stupid anyway." Sakura asked her smiling. "So how about it? Can we start over?"
Ino was a bit too shocked to answer. Her rival has given up? It was just this morning they raced and fought over who got sit next to Sasuke...what had happened to her in such a short amount of time? Part of Ino was a bit glad. She missed being her friend too. Smiling, Ino nodded and smiled holding out her hand. "Sure. I'm Ino Yamanaka. Do you wanna be friends again?"
Sakura smiled and shook her outstretched hand. "Sakura Haruno. Yes, I'd love to be friends again, Ino."
After Ino left Sasuke leaned back in his chair with a smirk. "So what was that about? Even in our time, you and her still fought like cats and dogs." He asked.
The pinkette shrugged with a smile. "I dunno. I just thought I get my friend back while I the chance. All we ever did was fight, so I wanted to, you know, end it before it became a habit." She answered joining her hands together. "This may prove to be better for the greater good."
"We do need to go over some things." Sasuke stated in a serious tone making her give him a confused look. "We need to conceal a bit of our power or else we're going to cause a lot of disturbance. Think about it. If I used my Sassuno or hell even my Chidori, wouldn't it be weird when I didn't even learn it yet? I don't even think I can used my mangekyou sharingan in front of anyone or that will gain some questions."
"You can still use your sharingan?" Sakura asked in a somewhat unsure tone. He activated it and looked at her making her look the opposite way. "So that's a yes then. I don't why you just didn't say it. You know damn well that I can't stand those weird eyes.
Sasuke chuckled and deactivated it before anyone could see it. "Cause the look on your face gives me joy." He answered leaning forward. "Still it would best if we held back a bit. Like that insane strength and healing abilities of yours. People may wonder how you possess the power of Tsunade and how your able to heal anything when you haven't even met her yet."
"I see you point. For now, let's stop talking before someone notices." Sakura finished looking the opposite direction so no one would see that they were talking.
"So how about I talk to you like this?"
Sakura turned slight with a shocked look. He sent a small wink and smirk at her. She looked down and avoided eye contact and the urge to punch him. "Alright, when did you learn this little trick?"
"Came with the sharingan. I'm sure Itachi knew all about it. I just never used it till now." He responded looking at the window. "This way, no will know we're talking except you and me."
"Fine...you're still a jackass for not saying anything though." Sakura crossed her arms closed her eyes with small puff.
"You'll get over it." Sasuke chortled hiding a devious smile.
"He's late!" Naruto growled as he paced by the door. Sasuke was sitting at a desk up front while Sakura sat on the desk beside him. They were both secretly smiling while looking at their teammate.
"Naruto, just sit down and wait." Sakura suggested but a bit nicer than she had did before leaning back using her arms to support herself.
He shook his head impatiently. "I don't want to. How come our teacher is the only one who's late? I'm ready to roll, Believe it." He told her. She really wasn't upset but mostly happy to hear his constant complaining. She tried to see it as making up for the year of his complaints that she didn't hear from him. "Everyone else already met their teacher and took off on some adventure or something and Iruka-Sensei is gone too."
"We know okay." Said Sakura knowing what he was going to do next. She watched as he walked over to the board grabbing the eraser then setting it up so whoever opened it was hit by it. "So should I say something or no?"
"Nah, let's just let him pull his trick." Sasuke responded with a light chuckle while watching him set it up. "To tell the truth, it was quite amusing the first time. Should still be the second time."
Sakura giggled silently. "So did I to be honest. I just apologized to make it look like it wasn't funny. In a way, I think he thought it was fun too"
"That's what he gets for being late!" Naruto stated moving back to admire his work. "Surprised." He grinned and looked at the door waiting for it to open.
"Do what you want but do you honestly think that will work?" Sasuke asked him emotionless. "Our teacher is a jonin, an elite ninja. You think he'd fall for something like that?"
Sakura remained silent and did a small countdown in her head. Right as she reached one, the door slid open and the eraser fell on top of their sensei's head. She sat up to look at him with a half a smile. There was Kakashi examining the eraser while Naruto laughed at his prank. "Bet you 3 yen that he'll say something different."
"I'll take that bet." Sasuke accepted as he waited for Kakashi to say something. He and Sakura seemed to have gotten closer over the time spent together so he could officially call her one of his best friends.
"Alright how should I put this? My first impression of this group ..." Kakashi started putting a hand to his chin in thought. Sakura and Sakura shared a glance before he finished. "You're a bunch of idiots." Their faces dropped and Sakura was especially mad about it.
Sasuke laughed slightly in his mind. "I win. That will be 3 yen." He said to her making her slightly glare at him. "Some things will never change with him."
"I guess your right." Sakura sighed with a hidden smile. Maybe this was a second chance...
Well thats about a wrap for this chapter! Tell me what you think!
-Cherry
