Konoha's Cherry Blossom
Rating:
M in case. Strong language, insinuation and maybe a few lemons later.
Setting:
2 years after Shippuuden (after Pain's attack on Konoha) so our characters are around 18(19 for Gai-sensei team and 21 for temari... figure the rest yourself)
Summary:
2 years passed. The village is operational under a new Hokage. The shinobi villages are allied against one common ennemy, Uchiha Madara. Naruto and I are now Sannins and ANBU and who cares about what happened to Sasuke? Not us, we're in love!
Everything changed in the Hidden Leaf Village since Pain's attack, almost two years ago.
Our beloved Fifth Hokage, Lady Tsunade, gave up her life that day to protect the villagers' lives. She will forever be missed as a Hokage, a Sannin, a Medi-nin, a Kunoichi, a gambler and a teacher.
My teacher.
If you haven't guessed who I am by now, you must be as oblivious as Naruto. Yes, I am Sakura Haruno, but now is not the time to tell you my story, though you will hear it soon.
Right now I will tell you what happened after Naruto defeated Pain, the person we thought was the Head of Akatsuki. Well he was not, Uchiha Madara was and we are now in a war where all the ninja's countrie are allied against him.
Anyway now Naruto is not considered a monster anymore but a hero. No one even cares that he is the Host of the Nine-Tails because they know he can control the monster and will never harm the village. People went as far as to ask him for his autograph, which boosted his ego to a maximum unheard of before. But no matter how well appreciated he was or how strong he was, the Elders had refused him the title of Hokage.
Their arguments were that he was only 16 and only a genin. He argued that Gaara was the same age as him and was the Kazekage and that the only reason he was still a genin was that he was too busy training to pass the Chunin exam and without it he could not go up the ranks. He accepted his defeat when the Elders explained that they knew he was the strongest shinobi of Konoha but it could raise a rebellion in the Fire country to have a Hokage so young and with so little rank on top of being a Host, and the allied shinobi countries could also decide to break the alliance and turn against Konoha for the only reason they promoted a genin to the rank of Hokage, the ninja supposed to be the strongest of the village.
It took a lot of comforting from the villagers, me and the rest of the Rookie 12/11 now that Sasuke left us, to make him smile again. Naruto promised us then that he would be the Seventh hokage, and that 7 was his lucky number anyway.
And to be honest, no one doubted him.
However, in the mean time, Kakashi-sensei became the Sixth Hokage, a great place for him now since his Sharigan is beginning to affect his health a lot more that he became dangerous on the medical point of view to send him on missions.
The Elders' first choices though was the ANBU Root Leader, Danzo, however one Root member, our dear Sai, revealed all the dark secrets of the organization and accused Danzo of some crimes against the villages closed because we could not find any leads. All of his devious plans concerning the village and Uchiha Sasuke were revelaed and he was to be executed but he escaped and when Sai found him on the run, both shinobis duelled until they both died from the hand of the other.
Sai might be weird and socially awkward but he will be missed.
Now, on a touchy subject, Sasuke had been unattended for ever since he killed his brother, Itachi.
Because of Lady Tsunade, forced by Naruto and backed by the Rookie 12…11… we need a new nickname. Anyway because of our late Hokage and the support of Suna, we had been able to report Sasuke as a missing nin. We all knew he was out for revenge, but we also thought he would come back after revenging his clan. The other shinobi countries, glad to be rid of the eldest Uchiha brother, gave Sasuke a 2 months period to get back to his former village and get re-instated as a Konoha shinobi.
However he did not.
And speculations were that he had joined forces with Uchiha Madara, the founder of the clan and the real leader of Akatsuki. For the part two years, the shinobi countries were in an alliance against him, and therefore against Sasuke who was now an S-rank criminal. Kakashi then could not send either Naruto or me to look for Sasuke, unless it was on the order to kill him. We could not do it, even if Sasuke left us, and replaced us; he was still a member of team seven, a brother to Naruto and my first love no matter how stupid it was.
Looking back at it even two years ago, when Sai, Naruto, Yamato and I found Sasuke, I still had strong feelings for him but not anymore. I do not know when I stopped loving him, but I realized that he would not come back for me even if he did come back so why wait here like the stupid weak annoying fangirl he used to call me. If he saw me now, he would see how wrong he was.
I was not stupid; I became the Head of the Medical Unit of Konoha, in charge of not only the town's hospital, but also all the Medic-nin units. The only person I had to listen to was Kakashi… who was also my patient. I was often requested to do special lessons to not only the Ninja Academies but also to all the conferences in every shinobi villages, to teach some methods for the medic-nins in orderto save their teammates during missions. I was respected for my knowledge.
I was not weak! To become a Jounin you need to be recommend by another shinobi of rank of Jounin or higher, other than your sensei, ours being Kakashi. However, Lady Tsunade had recommended not only me but also Naruto. He was still a genin but because he had been recommended by the previous Hokage, trained by a Sannin, and supported by the new Hokage, also his sensei, an exception was made for him. We both passed the tests with flying color, beating Shikamaru, Lee, Ino, Kiba, Hinata, Shino and the other Chounins in our group. That year we were the only two to become Jounin out of all the participants from all the different countries. Less than a month later we were even asked to do an S-mission by ourselves. It was a month-long mission but we accomplished it in barely a week and we were then told it was a test. It was a real surprise to be then named ANBU. We were the youngest seen ever since Uchiha Itachi and Hatake Itachi. I was respected for my strength.
About a few months ago, the Elders asked Kakashi to find new Sannins, since the previous ones had all perished. Since both Naruto and me were taught directly by those said Sannins, and had become top ninjas in Konoha in the past few years, we became the top candidates. The Elders were apprehensive to let a Host become a Sannin, but since Naruto saved the village, the villagers loved him and the popular vote overrode the Elders'.
A lot of things had changed around here, but thankfully a few things stayed the same. Ino was still a big flirt, currently dating Lee, who was still into his "I want to be exactly like Gai-sensei" phase.
Hinata was still very shy, but did not faint when she saw Naruto anymore, mainly because she got over her crush on him. She was dating Kiba, though their relationship was a secret shared only between the Rookie 11 (we seriously need a new name), because Hinata was supposed to become the Head of the Hyuga Clan, since her father finally recognized her and she won against her sister. But we all know that his father might reconsider his decision to have her as the Head if she knew she dated the Beast Ninja so it was Kiba's idea to keep it a secret until she was officially named and her father could not do anything anymore.
Speaking of Hyuga, Neji had proposed to Tenten a few weeks ago, and if Hinata's father did not approve soon, Neji swore they would elope. We tried to tell them that as soon as Hinata was Head of the Clan, things would be different, first she would take away the clan "branches", making Neji and others like him part of the "main branch" and she would gladly wed the two lovers. After all she always said she wanted Tenten to be her sister even though she was Clan-less as her father called her.
And if their relationship was complicated wait until you hear about Temari. The Sand Princess was now the permanent Sand Ambassador in Konoha to stay close to Shikamaru, now head of the Nara Clan. He had dated Ino for a while, after their sensei's death, until they both decided they did not love each other more than best friends and it could be dangerous to be in the same team if they had deeper feelings. I think it is a load of bullshit. Anyway she is now dating Lee and they were "going steady".
Chouji was still in love with food, but he is also the biggest flirt! He must have hung out with Ino too much but still we do not know how he manages to have a different girl by his side every other day.
And the only one left is Shino. Well he isn't much of a talker, he rather keep to himself except when a hot server comes to our table. Usually it is the girls that jump on a new hot guy, well not anymore. Apparently Shino likes them too, though he does not really share his experiences with us, too bad! When you look at him, he does not look like he is gay, unlike Gai-sensei, but he is.
We made a deal with our senseis. Since we are of the same rank or higher, since Naruto and I are ANBU, Shikamaru, Head of the Nara Clan, Ino, Head of the Interrogation Unit, Tenten, Weapon Mistress, they asked of us to not call them sensei. I think it hurt Asuma Team because they all miss their sensei, even though they are all his children's godparents, along with all the Rookie 11/12/whatever. Kurenai-sensei was pregnant of twins; a girl, Asumi and a boy, Kusumo, and Asuma-sensei had asked Shikamaru on his death bed to take care of them.
Anyway since Asuma-sensei's death we decided we love our senseis too much to not call them sensei anymore. We would regret it too much if they died and we had missed the chance to remind them of all they did to us and how grateful we are.
I have to stop talking now and get ready. I still wear my burgundy tunic, like I did when I was 12, but over it I wear my ANBU armor, and over it a long red belt-like scarf tied in a bow in the back. I also have dark red elbow lengh gloves that stop midway on my fingers with metal plates on the back of my hands and foreamrs. I also wear my black shorts and long boots though my boots now go halway up my thighs. I now uses two arm-lengh katana, that I store one horizontally, hidden behind my medical back pocket, and the other in my glove. Forgot to mention my tunic has one long kimono-like sleeve that hides quite well my weaponed hand since it is about a foot longer that my arm. This outfit, completed with a mask is my ANBU outfit.
I have another few, one for my jounin mission, one for the hospital, one for cover mission, one for regular mission one when I don't have any missions and one for the Hokage's special missions. I know it sounds gross and weird but no I do not fuck Kakashi-sensei-sama. He calls them this way because I did work in the office with the preious Hokage and I know my way through paperwork, unlike him so he calls me for emergencies with paperwork quite often... basically I do that work while he naps, go to the cemetery or reads his infamous book.
Anyway, I am in my ANBU outfit because Kakashi-sama gave me and Naruto an ANBU mission and we are leaving in less than an hour. I know that is plenty of time enough for Naruto to... well for our little night activities, though be also do them in the daylight but we have to do our mission first.
Yes, I am dating Naruto. I have been dating him for over a year now and living with him actually, since my parents' death, the only two patients I ever lost. After losing all my sisters and now them I was the only Haruno left.
I bet you did not know how powerful the Haruno clan was before. Well, I never liked to tell this story until I told Naruto but basically the Haruno Clan was a Kunoichi clan that rivalled the Huyga and Uchiha clan when Konoha was first created. Only the kunoichi of the clan had a special ninjutsu. I had 11 older sisters and each one of us had a different hair color because we all represented a different flower. I represented a Cherry Blosom, DUH! And it was the job of the elder sister the closest to us to teach us the family jutsu, however the sister that was supposed to train me, was Iris. She had long purple wavy hair and was always very beautiful and shy, almost like Hinata. She died when I was 6, when her fiancee, Uchiha Itachi killed her along with his clan. She was the last of my sisters that had not died and by then my mother had long forgotten the jutsu and was never able to teach it to me. I promise I will tell you more about my family and sister more later but I have to go now.
Focus on the mission; Konohamaru and his two teammates were captured after their sensei's death during a mission. We have to go to the Sound Coutry to free the three genin and escort them back safely to Konoha.
8:04 ...shit! And I am late! Well, see ya!
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