Life Gone Awry

Itachi - Sakura

Rated M

Time Setting- Shippuden (Ages 16-Sakura And 20-Itachi)

Author- LadyMarrowind

Disclaimer: I Do Not Own Naruto. Or Any Of Its Characters.

Summary: Sakura Haruno was snooping around in the Hokage tower for forbidden scrolls after most of her teammates and friends call her 'weak' in some way or another. She wanted to find an amazing Justu to show off to her friends but the scroll she found changed her in more ways than one.

Hello. Since this fan-fiction has been completed, I shall now go through every chapter- spell check them, revise, and add into more detail for your reading pleasure. I know that this story is popular and it also has some hardcore haters- By doing what I'm doing right now I hope to make fans love this more and haters kind of accept it for what this is (A crack pairing with a clumsy author). So I hope I can gain some new fans out of this and hear from some old friends. Be sure to read on with the sequel "Meltdown" after this- I plan to make it just as good if not more than this one story right here. Thanks for reading always! :D

A special thanks to 'Inner Self', she was the final push to get me to do this.

Much Love~ LadyMarrowind.

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Sakura Haruno was strolling through Konoha with a smile on her face, it was 7 am on a Saturday so most people were still asleep. Sakura was always an early riser, she liked the fresh cool air and the dewy grass in the park. It relaxed her to see the animals in Konoha wake early and follow their daily routines. But she had a purpose today-wake Naruto up for a sparring match. He promised her one a couple months back after a mission they took to the mist village.

"Haha yeah Sakura-Chan! I'll go a round with you! Just name the place and time when your ready."

So now Sakura was going to make him live up to his promise. She chose Saturday at seven in the morning, Naruto would be sure to accept her offer...

Sakura walked to the apartment complex where Naruto lived and entered his apartment through the window. She knew that he didn't have a crush on her anymore since Hinata had confessed her love to him a year ago when he came back to the village. So Sakura didn't have to worry about him blushing and yelling at her for sneaking up on him while he was 'indecent'- Sakura laughed at the time where he used that word. It shocked them both for him to know such a word.

Naruto was sprawled out sleeping in his bed snoring as loud as he could. Sakura came closer to whisper in his ear: "Naruto! Tsunade-Shishou is stepping down and naming you Hokage!"

"WHAT? BAA-CHAN I LOVE YOU! FINALLY-" Naruto yelled waking up, But Sakura had covered his mouth before he could finish.

"Hey! Just kidding! Calm down Dork!" she hissed at him, regretting what she said earlier.

"Awwww! Sakura-Chan that's so mean!" Naruto whined.

Sakura just huffed and sat back down on his bed. Naruto didn't seem to want to forgive her at the moment so she spoke carefully around him. Naruto got up from his bed and started to change into his clothes, listening to what Sakura had to say.

"Naruto...remember that promise you made me at the mist village? Well I'm here to take you up on it" she smiled getting excited to finally spar-it had been months since she had. All she was doing now days was hospital work and filing papers for Tsunade. Naruto finished changing and sat back down on the bed and looked her in the eye.

"Why nooowwwww?" Naruto pouted. "I was having a good dream and everything! Hinata and I were bathing in ramen- oh and it was shrimp and pork! So we were bathing in it like and hot spring and then all of a sudden Hinata threw a giant crab cake out of nowhere at me! I was like 'what the hell Hinata?' and she was like laughing at me and said 'Naruto got hit by a Naruto!' Whatever that means... but yeah you woke me up after that. So what did you want again?" Naruto scratched the back of his head sheepishly.

"Uhmn... I wanted to take you up on the sparring match you promised, remember?" Sakura tried her best to restrain herself from smacking the blonde.

"Oh yeah! Come on lets go!" Naruto grabbed Sakura by the wrist and sped off out of his house in the direction of their old training field.

The two arrived a little later than they were supposed to, Sakura had some trouble with some Jonin that had taken to yelling profanities at her for no reason, they would push her down to the ground, call her vulgar names, and laugh at her face when they saw tears. Sakura looked up to Naruto who stood there with a troubled look on his face, he looked torn. The men continued to harass Sakura that got irritated enough to stand up and attempt to push them to the ground. She succeeded.

"Get the fuck off of me and leave me the hell alone!" Sakura growled. The men gave her an odd look.

"Shut the fuck up cunt. Who told you that you could talk?" A Jonin was ready to hit Sakura across the face, she prepared to counter his blow readily but Naruto punched the man in his nose.

"Leave Sakura-Chan alone." Naruto growled out, his decision made. Sakura felt the urge to smile, it was cute that Naruto stood up for her even when she didn't need it.

"Fine fine demon boy, talk to us when your yourself again. We cant stand those stupid mood swings of yours..." The men grumbled in union and left the two to themselves.

"Thank you Naruto." Sakura smiled, Naruto blushed a little bit and walked ahead of her.

"No problem Sakura." She could barely hear Naruto mumble.

Sakura ran past Naruto in full speed, her mood went back to excitement as she saw the field in her line of vision. She dropped her pack that she brought especially for the occasion, it contained a few snacks and bottles of water. The most important thing she brought was her med kit, she was sure of herself that she blow land a few good blows on the blonde before he cheated and used his demon fox. Naruto took off his orange jacket and tightened his headband, a malicious look went through his eyes before they returned to their normal calm azure state.

"You ready Naruto-Kun?" Sakura stuck out her tongue playfully before slipping her gloves on her hands.

"Yeah, Lets do this." Naruto pumped his fist into the air.

Sakura sped at Naruto at full force, Naruto dodged her easily and made a shadow clone to come at her. Sakura molded a handful of chakra into her hand and punched it into the ground causing Naruto to fall back and his clone to disappear. Sakura laughed at Naruto's disgruntled face but quickly stopped when his face became serious, she steeled herself over to prepare for what the fox boy had. Naruto charged at her with insane speed, his serious face turned into a malicious glare and his eyes changed to a deep crimson red. Sakura paused in shock from her defensive position, her biggest mistake. Naruto when he reached range, wrapped his larger hands around Sakura's exposed neck. She cried out when she felt his claws dig deep, she told him to get off of her and that it was just a sparring match but Naruto didn't listen for he seemed to be in another world of his own. Sakura kicked Naruto's legs out from under him, his tight grip never ceased and blood started to flow out from her new wounds he created and was still occupying. She felt the last reserves of air leave her lungs as she stared into Naruto's red hate filled eyes. Why was he doing this?

"Na-ru-to" Sakura choked out, a few tears left her. Her friend started to look troubled, before she blacked out his eyes turned blue and his tears fell on her face.

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"Sakura-Chan! Are you okay?" Naruto shook Sakura's almost lifeless body awake. She coughed out blood.

"...Yeah." Sakura paused to breathe a little deeper. "What was that all about Naruto?" Sakura felt a little frightened by the fox boy.

"I don't know. Something came over me and... I just don't know." Naruto looked away, ashamed. She had a feeling that he was blatantly hiding something from her. She didn't press on it though.

"Okay. I... I think that I should go." Sakura sat up and grabbed her bag, she braced herself for the lightheaded feeling that came with loosing blood and air. She managed to stay up with few balance and sight issues. She looked back to see Naruto crying on the grass behind her, Sakura kept on walking. Her best friend almost killed her, she felt safer away from him. Sakura looked behind her one more time a good distance from the field and couldn't find Naruto. Inwardly a cold shiver ran down her spine and she picked up her pace to her home.

Sakura quickly shut her door behind her and sighed, she felt like shit. Her neck kept bleeding, bruises were all around it, her head felt light, her chest burned and felt heavy, and her mind couldn't stop going back to Naruto and his actions. Why would he use his Kyuubi powers on her? Why did he have such a hate filled face glaring back at her as she begged him to stop? Why did he snap out of it and become a loving ashamed friend? Sakura smacked the front of her head and walked up the steps leading to her bedroom. She needed to be healed and have some rest, she had work on Monday after all. Those stacks of paper work weren't going to get done by themselves, and Tsunade-Shishou and Shizune surely were never going to help her with it either. Sakura shedded her clothes of and stepped into her stand up shower. She turned the temperature on high, effectively making her ivory skin glow pink as her hair when she stepped out.

"Where's my pack?" Sakura spoke to herself as she wrapped a leaf green towel around her body. Her pack was on her night stand, a big red cross covered the top of it.

Sakura strode back into her bathroom with it, she needed the mirror to apply the ointment and bandages. She didn't want it to heal it quickly with her own chakra, Sakura wanted it as a reminder of what happened, and possibly talk to her teacher about it. Sakura preferred to have her wounds healed naturally if they weren't life threatening whenever possible. She gazed at herself in the mirror, she looked a little more than roughed up. The pinkette sighed, she hated being so fragile. Yes she could crush someone's face in but that someone could just as easily crush hers in. She was strong but she lacked the strength to keep herself protected. It was annoying to her. She saved lives, destroyed lives, and yet she was never sure if hers would be either unless one of her friends were by her side.

"What have I been doing all this time...?" Sakura stared at her eyes through the mirror. "Oh right... paperwork." Sakura dropped her head down. She desperately wanted to train to better herself now, healing only got her so far. Sakura dressed herself and walked around town.

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Sakura walked into the Yamanaka flower shop searching for a head of platinum blonde hair. She happened to pass by it during her walk and quickly decided to walk in, talking to her female best friend was something on her list she wanted. Maybe she knew what was up with Naruto, Ino was more around the boy than her now days- she was too busy with paperwork. She couldn't find her at first but did after she saw Shikamaru leaning against the counter kissing Ino with all his might. She held back a laugh at the sight-it was too cute. If Ino's father would have seen them, everyone would have been run out of the shop by now. Sakura looked around the shop more to find Kiba, Lee, Tenten, and Hinata all looking at flowers together. She gave the two love birds a little more time before she went to get Ino's attention. She walked over to the group of her friends looking at flowers smiling and saying hi to them all.

"Hey guys! What are you all doing here?" Sakura smiled brightly.

"Oh! H-hello Sakura-Chan. W-we were looking for f-flowers for the up c-coming festival." Hinata blushed and turned away shy.

" Yeah the festival is in a week so we thought we would write down the names of certain flowers to buy in advance to decorate the booths." Tenten said, still writing things in her note pad.

"This flower looks certainly youthful! Don't you think so too Kiba?" Lee beamed at the other guy.

"Uh sure. Whatever, Shikamaru and Ino look pretty 'youthful' to me" Kiba blushed with his eyes glued to the couple, never letting them leave his sight.

"Ewww Kiba your such a pervert!" Sakura yelled loud enough for Ino to hear. Ino did hear Sakura and stopped kissing Shikamaru to glare and throw a kunai at Kiba's head.

"PERVERTED DOG GET OUT OF MY SHOP!" Ino yelled. She forgot about Shikamaru immediately and the mood was over.

"What a drag...I was having a good time too." Shikamaru pouted and sat on the counter in front of him.

"Like hell I will! I have to help them with this flower crap!" Kiba yelled back at Ino, he had a raging blush on his face.

"Then keep your eyes on the flowers! Not me, pervert!" Ino tried to throw another kunai at Kiba. The dog boy caught the kunai and mumbled something incoherent, it was obvious that he was thoroughly embarrassed.

"Uh Ino...I was wondering if I could talk to you" Sakura said, her neck started to bother her a great deal.

"For sure Billboard-Brow" Ino said sitting on the counter "Whats up?"

"Right here? I was hoping to speak to you more privately-" She didn't feel like explaining to everyone in the shop that Naruto almost killed her a few hours ago.

"I have to stay at the counter until I'm done with my shift in 8 hours..sorry" Ino smiled sadly.

"I guess here is okay." Sakura lied. "I came from the training grounds with Naruto a few hours ago, things were fine until he tried to kill me."

" Wait.. Naruto tried to kill you? Don't you think that if anything it was an accident?" Ino didn't believe her.

" I'm not bullshitting you Ino. We were sparring together and then all of a sudden his eyes turn red and he almost rips my throat out! I begged him to stop and then his eyes turned back to blue, he cried when I left to go home. I don't know whats going on." Sakura almost glared at her friend.

When she looked up, Sakura saw Ino with a guilty look on her face. Shikamaru had the same look as well. Sakura turned around to see Lee, Kiba, Hinata, and Tenten with guilty faces too. They all had heard her story and knew something about it and not her.

"What do you know that I don't know Ino?" Sakura glared at her friend, why would they keep something that is life threatening from her?

"I think you should leave Sakura." Ino looked away, her guilty face burned itself in the memory of Sakura's mind.

"Fine." Sakura spoke quietly, she felt betrayed that none of her friends would explain. She almost died and they still wouldn't explain. What kind of people were they?

Sakura walked out of the flower shop in anger. Over the years Sakura knew how to read her friends faces, she was proud for the skill. It helped her in times of need as a ninja also. She saw their eyes. Yes there was guilt in them, they were all ashamed. But why? She noticed some of the boys open their eyes widely to see her bandaged neck with red stains on it. She studied their faces when they didn't notice her, there was some kind of joy behind the outward surprise expressions on their face. She didn't understand the joy, why would they be happy for her pain and near death? Sakura felt a little sick inside for that, the boys liked the idea of her being dead? When she looked at the girls faces there was obvious guilt, underneath was some form of anger. Why would her friends be angry with her? Sakura thought over the many possible reasons and dreaded the most logical answer to her. They still found her weak. After all of the things she did, the advancements in the medical field she made, they still thought of her as the day they were all given their headbands. She knew why they thought of her like that though, all of her friends in her graduating class had done far more things than her. She was ANBU rank like her friends, but they were captains. They had all done many things to improve Konoha, they were so much stronger than her, they had stable loving lives, and they all saw her far behind them desperately trying to catch up by having Tsunade-Shishou teach her. It wasn't fair when all of your colleagues had special bloodline limits, Jinchuuriki, and wealthy families that could afford expensive trainers for their children at an early age. All she had was her hard work and determination, she never really had her parents to take care of her or train her. They died during a mission when she was around three years old. The Hokage let her live alone in an apartment that he paid for, he often visited her and became her unofficial grandfather. She was forever grateful for the third, if it wasn't for him then she wouldn't have become the person she was today.

Sakura felt sick though, to know that the ones she trusted thought low of her. To know that inwardly they despised her to some extent, because she wasn't as good as them. How much more selfish could they get? What did she have to do to get some acceptance from her friends? Make a special Justu? Beat the crap out of Naruto? Chew her friends out? Take down an Akatsuki member? Make ANBU captain? She knew that trying to please her friends was the wrong decision but that was the path she wanted to go down. She didn't have the training or time to create her own Justu at the moment and people would know if she took it from a person around the nations. She needed something old. Something that people hadn't seen in over hundreds of years and was strong enough to impress her friends. They wouldn't doubt her ever again, she would be strong enough to protect herself, and she would easily climb up rank to ANBU captain with it. That would give her enough motivation to create her own Justu. Sakura didn't know of many places an old ninja lived, let alone one where they would give up their secrets to a pink haired woman. She sighed, there was only one place where she could get what she wanted. Tsunade showed her a year or so back where it was, where the forbidden scrolls were located. They contained ancient powerful Justu that no one from this day knew about unless they were as old as the first and second Hokage and were still alive. It was perfect, not even Tsunade would figure out that the Justu came from a forbidden scroll. The only problem was getting in and out without getting caught. She would have to get her timing correctly, but besides that she could do it. Sakura smiled, she would show everyone what she was capable of doing.

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Sakura had just finished filing more documents of recent missions in Tsunade's office. Shizune was working at the hospital and Tsunade just went home after getting smashed silly with sake, saying that she had enough stress as it is and needed to go practice on her slot machine at home-whatever that meant... but it didn't matter to Sakura because it was the perfect day to go scroll snooping. She would make her move when the guards changed in a half hour. That gave her time to think her plan through, if she failed and got caught she might go to prison or be accused of treason. Sakura loved Konoha but she felt that this need was more important right now. She had to prove to her friends that she wasn't who they thought they were. She was better than what they saw. In half an hour she would prove that. She had been watching the change of guard for a few weeks, they were not that great. She knew that they hardly ever did their job because they were inside of the Hokage's tower, a false sense of security blanketed over them. Sakura would use that to her advantage. The guards were ANBU, but so was she. Sakura knew that her skills in sneak were the most important key for the theft.

"I can do this. I can do this. I can do this?" Sakura felt a little queasy thinking about it. "I just wont think about it-yeah that's it. No thinking" Sakura tried to wipe her mind clean to no avail. Her logical side finally caught up with her. Guilt ate at her, but Sakura forced it down. This was not the time to be feeling regret, to worry about the consequences.

The guards were changing as Sakura masked her chakra clung to the darkened walls making her way to the tall french doors that held great secrets and power. Sakura bit back a yelp of surprise when she heard the guards footsteps coming closer. She lingered too long at the door. Sakura had practically leaped to the handle and pushed herself in making the least amount of sound possible. Thankfully the ANBU guards didn't notice her, they were too busy chatting about senseless gossip around the village. Once inside she gasped softly, the room was enormous and was packed full of scrolls and books to the very top shelves. Suddenly she felt overwhelmed. There was just so much to look for and not enough time. The guard would change in another hour, Sakura had to leave then but all she wanted to do at the moment was sit down and read the mysterious writing each book and scroll contained.

"Well I'll just have to pick one and go from there" Sakura whispered to herself. She walked to the back thinking that they were older and more powerful, and if they were old then no one would be able to recognize it unless they knew about it beforehand. Sakura dug her hand in the massive pile and grabbed the thickest scroll in the bunch. When she pulled it out it was colored a luminescent turquoise green with golden engravings covering it. Sakura stared at it in wonder, it drew her in like a moth to a light. This was the scroll she wanted.

She could barely hold in her excitement as she removed the hard case and unraveled the scroll. All there was inside was a series of hand signs and a message underneath it. The message said:

'Going back to what was once was needs a strength of its own. You will learn the True meaning of power.'

Sakura didn't understand it but her excitement overtook her logical side. She quickly burned the hand signs into her memory and put the scroll back where she found it. Sakura couldn't risk taking the scroll with her, if she was caught then she could claim that she knew nothing of the supposed scroll and say that she either created the Justu herself or it came in a dream. She didn't want evidence.

"I cant wait until I get to the training field! I wanna see what this thing does now!" Sakura silently squeaked to herself. Her impatience she would later regret.

She slowly recalled every hand sign she needed and within the blink of an eye repeated all of them physically. A turquoise green glow enveloped Sakura, she felt slightly queasy and scared. She thought that this would increase her chakra or give her something similar to a blood line limit, but this felt totally different. It felt like her whole body was rearranging into something completely different, the world was getting bigger or was she getting smaller? She wasn't sure but that was getting to be the least of her worries. The dim room became clearer and colors stood out more than usual. Sakura couldn't get the weird feeling of her spine elongating and her nails and teeth growing and sharpening out of the forefront of her mind. Something was seriously wrong and she needed a mirror now.

'What is happening to me? Will I be able to reverse whatever is happening?' Sakura thought. The scroll had obviously physically changed her, but to what extent? This wasn't what she expected or wanted out of this scroll.

All of a sudden gravity took affect and she landed on her hands and feet. The feeling of her spine elongating stopped but the feeling of it swaying side to side scared her to death. Sakura looked down expecting to see her ivory hands but instead was met with pretty pink paws. She retracted her claws and paused, things started to click inside of her mind. Her gut felt heavy and guilt began to eat at her again.

'Oh my god! What did I just do to myself?' She screamed in her mind. Her mind was racing and her heart pounding. A cute meow escaped her pink fuzzy lips and her heart skipped a beat.

'I cant even talk? Oh this is just great...What am I going to do?' Sakura's ears flattened. A few books fell out of their shelves to the floor, footsteps of the new guard could be heard from the other side of the door. The noise caught their attention.

"Hey whats that noise? An intruder?" A guard asked opening the door. He scanned the room with his eyes before he set foot in the room. Sakura hid in between one of the shelves.

'No no no no no no! I gotta leave now!' Sakura panicked from her place in between the shelves. The man was getting closer every second, he would be able to tell where she was soon. She looked up to a conveniently place window at the top of the room and climbed all the way up to it. Sakura opened the latch and sped through the night.

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Hello, if you haven't noticed already- I have revised this chapter.

Not all of it but I added a lot.

I hope you all like it.

I'll slowly be revising the others too.

This one was the most important though.

I hope you all read and review my chapters when you can!

Be sure to read "Meltdown" - The sequel to this.

Things definitely get interesting in it.

Thanks to all of my devoted fans, and possible new ones.

I hope to never disappoint you.

Please let me know if there is anything to improve on.

I always accept the help.

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