A/N: I know I know, I shouldn't be starting a new fic with two already started, but my heart isn't on them and I might even drop one of them SO I decided to write this small fic (it will have only a few chapters) that has been 'living' in my head for a time and pray that I find the inspiration to finish the other two…

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Disclaimer for the entire fanfiction: I don't own either Naruto, or the song 'Only when I sleep'. The first belongs to Masashi Kishimoto and the second to the Corrs.

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NOTICE:I'm searching for a beta-reader, I have absolutely no idea how that works (sweat drops) but I know I'm in desperate need of one! So just send me a PM or something if you're interested. Thanks!!

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Enjoy and Review!!

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First of all I messed up the ages a bit so it would fit the story better. I think all the changes will be noticeable…

Summary: Yamanaka Sakura lives a quiet life with her family in a small village, but what happens when she finds outs the truth about her origins and the fate that awaits her. Massacres, arranged weddings and Konoha's most import clans' dirty little secrets. Slightly AU ItaSaku

Italics - Flashbacks

Bold - Inner Sakura

"Talk"

'Thoughts'

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"Oh Kami they're gone. I-I lost them… They're all d-death…" The voice was clearly that of a female child, trembling with fear and pain.

"Shh. Everything will be okay. I'm here; I won't let them hurt you." It was a male, probably not much older than her, that answered. It was well past-midnight. The moon was covered by dark clouds. Had it been not it would be clear the omen of a tragedy, the fateful red moon. Only the outlines of the children could be seen, but it was clear that the female nodded from her position in the male's arms. He was clearly a shinobi, leaping from rooftop to rooftop holding her gently, bridal-style, in his arms. They seemed to be fleeing. The female tried to look pass the shinobi but he increased his speed, making her retreat to her former position.

"D-did we lose them?"

"Yes." Was his short answer.

They finally arrived at familiar high tower. Without even knocking on the door they entered what she presumed an office, interrupting a meeting. The male said a few words to the occupants of the room and handed her to another person. "Stay here."

"W-what a-are you d-doing?" She had a bad feeling about this. It was almost… as if she would never see him again.

"Don't worry koi, you'll be safe here."


"What… wait! Don't! Please stop!! They'll kill you too!! Don't go back! Please!! No!! NOOOOO!!!

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Covered in sweat a beautiful teenager with unusual pink hair woke up startled in her bed. That dream again… She didn't know what it meant but she had had that same dream for as long as she could remember. Not only that but also some dreams featuring what she presumed to be the same people. Some were beautiful dreams and some were nightmares far worse than she thought could be possible. Some nights she dreamt of blood and death, of pain and loss… nightmares that haunted her almost every single night! But then… sometimes… she had the most dazzling dreams she could fathom. Dreams where she felt safe, wanted… loved… What those dreams had in common was the fact that she could never see any faces or distinctive traits in the people she dreamt about. That fact angered her a lot. She wanted to know! She wanted to know who the child she kept seeing over and over again was, the child whose feeling she could feel almost as if they were her own. She wanted to see the face of the one she held so dearly in her heart! The one she tried to stop from leaving her every single time.

Over the years she had started to think less and less of her dreams. She categorized them as her romantic fantasies about a certain prodigy she had been teamed acquaintance with. That had to be it hadn't it? What else could it be? Why else would she be dreaming of a knight in shinning armour that would save her from the bad guys and fight for her, to protect her? It could only be her over imaginative brain playing tricks with her, mocking her over her obsessive 'love' over one Uchiha Sasuke. Yes, that has to be it!

In her despair to solve the mystery she neglected the fact that she had those dreams long before the raven-haired shinobi had entered her life.

Sakura sighed as she ran her fingers through her rosette tresses. Her usually sparkling emerald orbs dulled by the pain she felt as she, once again, though of Sasuke. Those dreams always made her think of him. Word has it that he had recently killed the "Kage" of Otogakure.

"Serves him right!"

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Who is Uchiha Sasuke and why does he have such a strong effect on Sakura? It all started on the day a team of recently appointed genin of Konohagakure, known as Team 7, performed a simple D-ranked mission on a small neighbour village called Akakarasou (Red Crow).

Akakarasou is a small village located near Konoha. It took only 20 minutes for a shinobi to get there. The population of said village consisted mostly of civilians and so had no Kage, but every now and then a few children would join the academy in Konoha and later join its ranks. Among those shinobi there was a couple, originally from the Leaf, that moved there with their two small daughters. That family is named Yamanaka and the two girls called Sakura and Ino.

Yamanaka Sakura is the oldest. Born with an unknown disease she found herself unable to follow her parents' footsteps and so she remained a civilian working at the Yamanaka's flower shop, which was founded by her parents who worked there between missions. The young blossom is also very cherished in the village for her kindness and readiness to help the others. Physically she is very different from her family. Both her parents and her sister have blond hair and blue eyes while she has unusual pink hair and unforgettable green eyes. Her mother once told her that she resembles her grandmother, from her father's side.

The youngest of the two is Yamanaka Ino. Two years younger than her sister she became a genin at age twelve. Ino is a lot more outgoing than her sister. The siblings have a love-hate relationship.

During her time at the academy Ino became acquaintance with Uchiha Sasuke, the sole survivor of the Uchiha massacre (fact that she did not know of at the time, since the massacre was almost a taboo subject for everyone). Like any other girl of her age (and even older!) she developed a crush on the "heartthrob". Every night, year after year, she would come home and fill her sister's head with stories about the great Sasuke-kun, the most powerful and good looking shinobi of all times. Secretly Sakura wished she would get the chance of meeting him, as well as the other people her sister talked about. All the people around her age on the village were either "dull" or always away in missions and she never had been allowed to go to Konohagakure no Sato…

Un-best-known to her, her wishes would be granted soon, right after her sister, as well as the Uchiha, graduated from the academy.