Hello everyone! This is my first time trying something like this. I am a horrible writer so bare with me ^.^! Rated T for colorful language and possible lemons (possible rating change also). This is only a fanfic… so I DON'T OWN NARUTO! I wish I did that would be awesome but I don't *tear*. Anyway here's the first chapter!

*Note* Sasuke never left. He doesn't have the curse mark. His family wasn't murdered by his brother, but his parents are kinda non-existent in this fanfic. And he is still his jerky stuck-up self that we all know and love!

Oh and it kinda takes place in Shippuden. They are older and stuff like that (also the outfits except Sasuke's just think of an older version of his black outfit and Neji and Gaara and Temari and Tenten are wearing the younger outfits also (personal preference hahaha))

Chapter 1:

A Forced Beginning

The blood… it was everywhere… It was on hands. It was on my clothes. All that blood… it was my family's blood. Where is he? I can still here his sword going through Mother. *shutters* Father's head was cut off and it was lying on the floor, frozen for eternity in a unseeing stare of fear. I have to look away and get out of here before he comes and finds me! I'm bleeding… when did that happen? *footsteps* I've got to get out NOW! He's coming. "Hello, my dear cherry blossom did you think you could escape me?" His voice… it's like listening to fingernails on a chalkboard. It's so horrible I don't think I'll ever be able to forget it…

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Sakura's POV

I woke up screaming. I had a terrible nightmare… but I can't remember anything about it.

"Sakura?" voice in the corner said cautiously.

I turned at the sound. I saw a lady in her thirties with long blonde hair and a green crystal of some sort in the middle of her forehead.

"Sakura..." she said again. I opened my mouth to ask what 'Sakura' was but nothing would come. I looked around franticly.

She must have seen my efforts because she said, "Its ok. Clam down. Your throat is just dry. Here, drink this" and she handed me a glass of a clear liquid. Hesitantly I took a sip. It tasted sweet. I took another sip. Then I tried to speak again. This time it worked.

"What is 'Sakura'?" I asked. Her expression changed into shock, then just as quickly changed into a sad one.

"Sweetie… You must have lost your memory. Well Sakura is your name, Sakura Haruno.", she said. I just sat there shocked. I looked down and tried as hard as I could to remember anything about me or my past. She was right... I can't remember anything. I looked at her with an expression that must have looked so helpless that she came over and hugged me.

She kneeled next to my bed and holding my hand. There was such sadness in her eyes… "Are you my mother?" I heard myself say.

She looked down, her brows were knitted together, as if she was having difficulty thinking. She looked up and said "No, I am not your mother Sakura. Your whole family was killed just over a week ago."

I looked at her in bewilderment. "My… f-family?" I said in a daze.

"Yes", she said "Last week your family was murdered but somehow you made it out alive."

"I don't remember anything… What did they look like?" I inquired

She produced a picture of three people. I guessed that the two on the out side were the parents. There was also a girl in the middle…. "Do you have a mirror?" I said

"Of course… Here" She gives me a mirror.

I flipped it over before I could see my reflection, took a deep breath and flipped it back over. I gasped; I was the girl in the photo. Those are my parents.

Pink hair, huh? I thought

And emerald eyes another voice said inside my head

Am I going crazy already?

Sorry sweetie I didn't mean to scare you

Who are you?

I am like a conscience… I keep you on track and make sure you don't do anything stupid.

Oh…

I'll pop in every so often but I've got to go.

Wait!

She's already gone… *sigh*

The lady spoke snapping my out of my trance "Well, we better start getting you caught up. It is going to take some time. My name is Tsunade. I am the Hokage of the Village Hidden in the Leaves. That means I'm the top ninja in this village. You were my apprentice, the best medical ninja next to me. You are 16 years old. You are on Team 7 with Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha. (A/N I watched the English version first so this is how my names are I'm sorry if you don't like it. I know I'm a bad fan. I like Naruto's voice in the English version. Don't kill me!) Your sensei is Kakashi Hatake. You work at the hospital when you are not training with them or me or are not on missions." I took this in trying to comprehend it all.

"Can you stand?" she said "Your wounds are all healed now."

"Ummm I believe so…" I hop of the bed with so much skill and agilely that I'm surprised. I look at Tsunade. She nods in encouragement. Then says "Do you want to walk around the village and meet some people?" I nod in agreement. "Ok let's go"

And just like that we are outside. The suns so bright and it is a beautiful warm spring day outside. I notice that as soon as people saw us they stop talking and started whispering. I only heard parts of what of they were saying but it sounded like they were talking about my parents' murder….

Naruto's POV

I wonder how Sakura-chan is it has been more than a week and she is still hasn't woken up…

"Yo, dobe! Stop spacing out during our training!" I hear Sasuke call

"Shut up teme!" I call back

"Hn" His famous response… that and silence coupled with a death glare

I see Tsunade-oba-chaan walking towards us. Then I see Sakura-chan a distance back… She looks …scared

"Oi, Sak-" I start but I get stopped by Tsunade-oba-chaan.

"What's the deal Oba-chaan?" I ask

"As you can see Sakura is out of the hospital but… something is still wrong with her..." she trails off

Sasuke, who is now right next to me, growls "What's wrong with her? Tell me!" He has been moody (well more than usual) since Sakura has been in the hospital.

"Calm down Sasuke. She is fine physically but she lost her memory. She didn't even know her name when she woke up, so I need you help get used to life here and try to help her to recover her memory so we can catch the basterd that did this. Think of it as an A-rank mission. Can I count on you two to handle that?"

Sasuke Hn's

And I agree…..

Sakura's POV

Tsunade-sama told me to stay here while she talks to these two boys one is blonde with tan skin and bright blue eyes and looks hyper-active but also looks loyal while the other has pale white skin and raven hair and bottomless onyx eyes and he looks sad and alone. He looks furious at something Tsunade-sama said. She turns around and motions for me to come to her and the boys. I walk slowly towards them. My heart was beating a hundred times a minute.

I wonder if I felt like this when I met new people before.

Not wanting to look at them, I look at my shoes.

"Sakura-chan" I look up at my name

The blonde one was the one who spoke. His tone and expression were ones that of a person not trying to scare a child

"Y-yes" I reply

"I am Naruto Uzumaki, and this teme here is Sasuke Uchiha"

I shifted my gaze from Naruto to the raven-haired boy, Sasuke.

"Hn" ….

Sasuke's POV

I expected her to jump on me shouting "Sasuke-kun!" but she did nothing of the kind. All she did was look over at me when Naruto introduced me with thoughtful eyes. It was kind of refreshing to not have a girl jump on me the second I meet her. I gave her an "Hn" in acknowledgment.

How can she have forgotten me? I feel betrayed.

"No 'Sasuke-kun' like before?" I taunt

Tsunade gives me a heated look, but I don't care. When have I ever cared?

She looks confused then says "If I did it before and it is that important to you, I suppose I could do it again… Sasuke-kun."

I looked at her in shock. This confuses her.

"Was that not to your liking?" She thinks for a bit then says "Sasuke-kun" in the most loving way I have ever heard my name said. Not ever my mother says it like that. I can feel my face getting hotter until it feels like my face is burning up.

"Teme, are you blushing? Oh my god the great Sasuke Uchiha BLUSHED! I can't believe it!"

"Shut up dobe. I am not blushing." She made me blush? I can't believe it either.

"You sooo are, teme!"

"Hn" was the only think I could think of to say

Sakura breaks in saying "I'm sorry Sasuke-kun. It's my fault."

At which point I turned toward her with a look of complete and utter shock, for the third time in the last five minutes.

"No, its fine. It was not your fault."

She is so different from before.

Tsunade interrupts this time telling Sakura that they have to go meet others and to say goodbye.

"Good-bye Sasuke-kun and Naruto…" she looks at Naruto thoughtfully "Would you also prefer for me to call you Naruto-kun?"

"Yeah that would be fine Sakura-chan" he blushed slightly

"Very well then, Good-bye Naruto-kun."

And she and Tsunade left….

Sakura's POV

It pissed me off that Sasuke was teasing me about stuff I don't remember. I wanted to cry and hit him at the same time. I decided against both (they wouldn't help my situation any). So instead I acted innocent. It felt great to see his shocked face. What's a little fun at his expense it? It wasn't like he was nice enough not to do it to me and I pulled it off perfectly too.

"Tsunade-sama? Where are we going now?" I asked aloud

"To meet some of your old friends" she replied

"Oh…" sadness swept over me.

I hope they aren't as mean as Sasuke was.

As if reading my mind Tsunade-sama said "Don't worry Sasuke is forever on his man-period, the rest of us aren't so bad" she smiled

"Oh ok"

We walked for a little longer. It was all so beautiful. I loved being outside. We came upon these trees, they had hundreds of little pink flowers. When the wind would blow the petals would fall off creating a blanket of pink on the ground around the tree.

Tsunade-sama saw me staring and said "Those trees are called Sakura trees. You were named after those."

"Really? They are so beautiful."

"Well you are too"

I blush, "T-thank you"

She stops in front of a flower shop. There is a girl about my age with long blonde hair watering the flowers outside the shop. She sees us, stops suddenly; joy crosses her face when her eyes fall upon me.

"Sakura!" She yells at maximum volume. Then she starts to run towards me with her hands out.

"Sakura! You are ok! I'm so glad." She pulls back from the hug and looks at my face.

"What's wrong Sakura?" Before I can answer, Tsunade-sama speaks.

"Ino..." she says softly

"What? What's wrong with Sakura?" I look down at this.

"Ino… she has lost her memory... she doesn't know who you are."

She steps away from me slowly with an expression of almost disgust.

"S-sakura..? Nooo it's not true! Sakura tell me it's not true…"

I stand there looking down unwilling to answer her. It is too painful to look in her eyes.

"Ino…get control of yourself!" Tsunade steps in-between us. Worried Ino was going to lash out at me.

I deserve to be struck. I have put everyone I've meet in agony. Why didn't I die with the rest of my family? What did I do to deserve to live when everyone else died? They left me and took my memory with them. They left me unable to remember my name and now I'm a burden to everyone here.

I was pulled out of my thinking Tsunade-sama talking to two people that look like Ino. They must be her parents. They take the crying Ino into the store and Tsunade walks back to me.

"Come on lets go meet someone else" she says

"Ok" I say sadly. We begin walking. After a little while Tsunade-sama spoke again.

"It's ok Sakura. It's not your fault. Ino Yamanaka, she was your best friend. Its no wonder she freaked out. Don't worry she will come around."

I nodded in response

"You guys had one of those love/hate relationships. She would call you billboard brow or forehead and you would reply with Ino-pig or some variation of that. It was very interesting to watch."

I suppressed a laugh. Not successfully though, a little giggle escaped. It was almost musical… I laughed a little louder.

Tsunade-sama smiled at me.

We walked through the village in silence. When we got to what I guessed to by the center of the village, she stopped, turned to me and asked "Are you hungry, Sakura? We could stop to get something to eat."

"That sounds great!" I say with false cheer. I still feel sick from meeting Ino but I don't want to rude. Also, it's obvious that Tsunade-sama is hungry.

We stopped at a ramen shop. Tsunade-sama said that it was Naruto-kun's favorite place to eat, and that once he ate 36 bowls for lunch. I wonder where all that food goes… He's not even chubby. Tsunade-sama said that he must eat so much to have as much energy as he does.

After we are done eating, we start walking again. We walked for less 5 minutes, when Tsunade-sama calls out to a group of kids around my age and a huge dog.

"Kiba! Hinata! Shino!" she yells. They turn their heads and start walking towards us. There were two boys and a girl. The girl had long purple-ish hair and white eyes with a lavender tint to them. She looked sorta timid, not too bad though. The first boy had two red triangles tattoos (I think) on his face and fangs and claws. It looked like he was the dog's owner. The other boy was kinda creepy. He had a hood on and dark glasses and the collar on his shirt came up to his glasses. You can't see his face.

The dog-boy comes up to me and says "Yo, Sakura! You feeling any better?"

"Kiba, Sakura lost her memory. She doesn't remember you."

"Oh..." he steps back a little then extends his hand. "In that case, I'm Kiba Inuzuka. This here is Hinata Hyuga" he points to the girl "and Shino Aburame. And the dog there is Akumaru." He points to the boy.

"It's nice to meet all of you" I say a little shocked that he is almost unfazed about what Tsunade-sama said.

The girl Hinata bows, Shino grunts and Akumaru barks. I guess Kiba's the mouth in this group. Tsunade lets them go back to whatever they were doin before.

"It is getting late Sakura, you must be tired. Why don't you go home and get some sleep?" I look at sun and sure enough it was starting to set.

"Yes, I am a bit tired…" I pause wondering where my house is. "Ummm Tsunade-sama?" I say as she starts to walk off.

She stops and turns around to face me "Yes"

"Ummm where is my house?"

"Oh my gosh! I'm terribly sorry Sakura!" She bites her thumb and does these weird hand hands. Then she places her hand on the ground. As soon as she does that a puff of smoke appears and out of that smoke steps a person with a mask on and a black and white uniform of some sorts. What the hell? Where did he/she come from?

"Please go fetch Naruto and Sasuke." She is unfazed by what just happened!

The man/women disappears with a bow. Within 30 seconds he/she comes back with Naruto and Sasuke at his/her side. They don't seem to be bothered with what just happened.

"Naruto, Sasuke please take Sakura home and help her with any problems she has…" she looks thoughtful for a moment "Actually, collect your things from your places first. You will both be sleeping at her house until she can remember everything."

"Ok Sakura lets go!" says the ever peppy Naruto.

I nod as the two boys start to walk. I start walking behind them.

"SLEEP WELL SAKURA!" Tsunade-sama shouts

I nod as we walk away…

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Thats all for now! I hoped you liked it. Please review and tell me how it was any suggestions are welcome. Also I am kinda new here so what are flames? I have the next chapter already to go so just say the word and I will get it up within a few days :)

-Forever