新しい運命、
Atarashī unmei
A new Fate
This is about how Itachi Uchiha's life should have turned out.
It was a sunny cloudless day in Konoha, and Sakura Haruno was waiting for Kakashi as usual, he was so freaking late. He had written her a note, left it at the hospital, and told the receptionist Yoshiko Domen to get it to Sakura as soon as possible. The note said to meet at the entrance of the Hokage tower to discuss an upcoming mission, and to be there at noon. Sakura finished her rounds in less time than usual making sure to say bye to everyone she saw. She talked to Tsunade and promptly left the Hospital at about. She knew Kakashi wouldn't have arrived yet so she took her time walking through the streets of Konoha.
After nodding to the two posted guards she picked up her latest book in the Icha Icha series. The team members of Squad 7 had picked up on a few of Kakashi's bad habits like, her reading Icha Icha, and Naruto and Sasuke both never arriving on time. Sometimes she thought she was only responsible person on the team. Sakura cared for her teammates but they were troublesome. She realized that she had no interest in reading so she thought back on how she had gotten to this point in her life. One of the strongest Kunoichi, and an S ranked ninja in the bingo books, in the Land of Fire.
Her first and foremost memory was being told she was on Sasuke's squad and how Ino was so jealous. Sakura had been so happy, even though not only was she not prepared for this step in her life; he pushed her away at every opportunity. Her heart was always breaking around him. The first time he saw her as a useful member of their squad was the chunin exams in the Forest of Death. What a nightmare that had been she nearly lost Sasuke to his curse seal. That particular fight was worse than the one with Zabuza, one of the seven swordsmen, and Haku.
Thinking back life had been so easy then and she kind of wished it had stayed that way. Afterword, Itachi, Sasuke's brother showed up and force Sasuke to leave the village and work with Orochimaru. Sakura and Naruto had been devastated and had worked extremely hard to become strong enough to rescue Sasuke. Together Naruto and Sakura rose through the ranks from Chunin to Jonin and finally became some of the elite Anbu. They petitioned to remain a team so Kakashi took back his Anbu position as head of the team. With the help of Jiraiya's and Tsunade's extensive training, they brought Sasuke back to the village. Sasuke was put on house arrest inside the Uchiha compound for defection from the village for 2 years.
Naruto and Sakura visited Sasuke every day and began helping him train for Anbu. Before long Team 7 was taking missions together again and it was like the old days. Sasuke didn't talk much about his time with Orochimaru, but he did say he was still an avenger and his main goal was to kill Itachi. Sakura was so mad now after this onslaught of memories that she unconsciously gathered chakra in her and hit the gate. The gate all around the village wobbled but finally remained standing, and Sakura was left looking sheepishly at the guards.
Kakashi took that as his cue to show up and when he stepped in front of Sakura, she whacked him so hard she knew he would fill it for weeks. Feeling bad, she automatically brought her palm up and healed his cheek. "What do you think you are doing showing up this late, you said you would be here at noon."
Kakashi just put his hand in her hair and ruffled her curls. "Sorry I helped an old lady cross the street."
Although Sakura was far from amused she let it go and asked "What is this mission you were talking about, where is Sasuke and Naruto."
"This is a solo mission to the Land of Mist to recover some information on the whereabouts of Jiraiya. He has not been heard or seen since he left the Land of Lightning." "I do not have to tell you how imperative it is that we get Jiraiya. Here is mission scroll here, read it in your apartment and burn the scroll when you have memorized it. This is an S ranked mission so arm heavily."
"Hai, thank you Kakashi."
And with that he was gone. Sakura ran to her apartment and started packing her supplies weapons first as always, kunai, medicinal herbs, senbon(Thanks to Genma and his training, ha ha), and lots of shuriken. After she had packed her clothes she sat down and read the scroll. With Sakura's photographic memory it was quick.
Sakura called fire to her palm and soon all that was left of the scroll was ash. Blowing the ash off, she washed her hands and headed to the main gate to the village.