Sakura sat up in a tree looking down at the rest of team 7 on the training field she had canceled her Charka. She didn't feel the need to deal with them today she would save that energy for her mission later on. She was still fighting with herself whenever or not she should say that she was going on a mission…
Tsunade had told her to treat them like teammates, as Hokage, it was Tsunade's job to tell them that Sakura was no longer a part of team 7… Jumping down from the tree while making some noise to get all of them to turn and look at her.
"I'm leaving for a mission now" That was it, nothing more nothing less, just the hard cold truth. Nodding at them she walked away before giving them a chance to talk with her again. She never said more than need, never went to useless team dinners or training together for teamwork. Not after they had so coldly abandoned her, Kakashi had left her to train Sasuke and Naruto had left Jiraiya promising to be stronger in order to protect her from harm's way.
They had been gone for 5 years and only just came back two weeks ago… And Sakura had yet to say more than 10 words to them in one sentence… Hell, she had yet to tell them 'welcome home'. Sakura had no need for them or any friends anyways she had made ANBU without them and she didn't need them for that so she didn't need them for anything anymore.
She looked around her old apartment there was nothing other than a desk with a chair and a small two-man sofa with a small table… or at one point it had been a table now it was full of reports, books, and scrolls. Sakura looked over at the desk to see the only picture off team 7 back where she was still weak and naïve.
Walking straight to her bedroom she took her ANBU-uniform out and found her cat mask, only to stop shortly and look down at it, it was white with two red stripes on each side and a scar on the left eye, a mark that Itachi made last time they met in battle.
She had only been ANBU for a week or two before she met him and Shisui which had been one hell of a fight. Now one thing was dealing with Itachi another was dealing with Shisui he had tried to use Koto Amatsukami on which had been noticed by Inner and stopped it from having any effect on her.
Sakura would by far rather fight Itachi than Shisui since Itachi only tried her out physically while Shisui also tried her out mentally. Hell, she took rather fight against Hinda than fighting against either of them any time, any day.
Shaking her head Sakura put her mask on and walked towards the gate to wait for her teammates Sai, Yamato and Neji when she came to the gate they left at once.
Sakura ran beside Tiger his short brown hair was a giveaway for her, she looked ahead of her to see Wolf and his long chocolate-brown hair move from side to side… It always angered her that he could keep his hair so long and shining all the fucking time, it was so unfair. She only just got her eyes on raven and his short black hair when something blew up and the last thing she saw was something silver out of the corner of her eye that yelled her name and then everything turned black.
-Time-line-
When Sakura woke up once more she came face to face with the enem- Kakashi?! No, wait this man's hair was far longer and wasn't as gravity defying as Kakashi's own hair was… When she looked closer at his face it also seemed older and he wasn't wearing a mask.
She watched the man as he slowly lifted his hand and wave while smiling friendly at her. Sakura only nodded her head in return to the stranger who had a Konoha forehead protector on…
"It's nice to finally meet you Haruno-san," he said politely nodding towards her at the same time, she had heard about him somewhere before, but, could quite put her finger on it. Then it hit her, this man that stood right in front of her was no other than the White Fang, in other words, Kakashi's father a very, very dead man.
"How?" she asked in return instead, of returning the greeting she was in too much of a shock to really care if she was polite or not. Just then the memories return to her she moved her hands to her head gripping onto her hair, had she died? Looking down at herself she noticed the blood leaking from wounds she was unaware she had. She slowly moved one of her hands down to the big piece of wood that went through her heart and ripped it out before looking up at the man before her again.
"My name is Sakumo Hatake, yes, you just died," He said straight to the point telling her it in an even voice as if this happen on daily basic thing to talk about. Like there was nothing wrong with it at all.
Looking around her Sakura realized that there was nothing but black except the fire that the elder Hakata had most likely been sitting by before she came along.
"I need you to do me a favor," He said when she had nodded at him in understanding that she understood that she had just died. Blinking at her he took in how calm she seem when one considers the fact that she had just died…
He had watched his son grow up into the shinobi he was to this day and couldn't help the feeling of guilt that grew as he saw all the terror and horror that happen around his son and this young ninja always seem to be around him. He often found himself thinking "If only she had been there when he was younger he might have opened up to her and the world would have looked difference".
Of Couse it had taking him a long to convince the Kami better known as Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki Sage of Six Paths to send her back in the past the day she died by promising that she would also stop the Uchiha-massacre from happening by keeping both Rin and Obito alive, this would also lead Minato living and Kakashi from losing the second father.
Sakura looked at the man in front of her and slowly had her hand going towards the fox summon-scroll for some sort of support and as she grabs it holding in on for dear life she looked him hard in the face. Had she not giving enough for Konoha yet?
"I need you to go back to the past and help the Uchiha-clan," he told her before everything went black and she cures the man and Kami to hell and back.