Hey guys! This is my new story and I hope you will like it. The standard disclaimer applies, I own nothing but the plot. The characters and whatnot go to their original creator
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Sakura ran as fast as her exhausted legs could take her across the barren wasteland. She had to get there and she had to do it now. Sasuke had to be stopped before he cause irreparable damage to his chances of being pardoned or at least avoiding banishment or death. Her heart beat rapidly as she jumped over a jagged crater in the ground. Sasuke and Naruto had gone of to the Valley of the End after Sasuke had announced that he would become Hokage and reshape the Shinobi World.
He wanted to become it's dictator and rule over the five nations.
Naruto was convinced that he could change Sasuke's mind and transform him back into the Sasuke they both knew as children, but Sakura feared that it might be too late for that. She prayed to whatever God was out there that she was wrong. This war had taken too much from them already. Ino and Shikamaru had lost their fathers and Kakashi lost Obito for a second time. What really hit them hard though was Neji's death. Sakura knows that his death hit Naruto and Hinata the hardest out of all of them. Tears blurred her vision as she remembered the devastated look on her adopted brother's face.
She never wanted him to look like that again.
If he lost Sasuke, Sakura was certain he'd never recover. He'd never smile again, never laugh. He'd never be able to trust himself again.
In the distance she could hear loud booms and could feel the shock waves of two very powerful attacks colliding. She was too late and they were already fighting and it would be a while before she would be able to get to them. Another shock wave hit, making Sakura stumble to the ground face first. This one was stronger than the last one. Sakura started panicking at the jutsus they were using, at this rate they'd kill each other. No, she thought with determination, that wouldn't happen. Not when she could stop it. Sakura picked herself up and raced towards her boys faster than she thought she'd be capable of in her condition. She reached the edge of the Valley just in time to see Sasuke's hand go through Naruto's chest, his eyes blank and unfeeling. Shock was visible on in Naruto's blue eyes as his head slowly looked down at the hand in his chest and blood spouted from his mouth. Sakura's heart stopped as Sasuke pulled his hand out and Naruto fell to the ground, cold and unmoving.
"NOOOOOO!" The scream tore from her throat before she could stop it. Sasuke's head turned in her direction as Sakura stumbled over to them. Kneeing beside Naruto's body with her hands glowing a soft green, Sakura desperately tried to heal him.
"No no no no, come on Naruto you can't die. Not here, not like this. You have to LIVE!" Sakura didn't realize she was crying until her tears dropped onto her hands. she looked at his face only to find that his eyes remain wide and unseeing.
He was really dead. The boy that she'd come to see as a brother was really gone. Sakura felt as if someone had replaced all the blood in her body with ice. She felt cold all over and couldn't stop shaking, even when a warm hand covered in blood wrapped around hers.
"Sakura that's enough. He's already gone."
Sakura's eyes slowly lifted to look Sasuke in the eyes. Those black pools that held no remorse for the act he had just committed, nor the compassion for how it made her feel.
They were hard as stone.
"Why Sasuke? How could you?" She whispered in a broken voice. Sasuke just scoffed at her.
"He was in the way of my goal. It was nothing personal."
The way he said it was so unemotional and detached that Sakura felt something inside of her snap. He was a monster and couldn't be allowed to live anymore. Any thoughts she might have harbored of saving him vanished along with any trace of the love she once had for him. She gathered medical chakra into her hands, making them deadly blades that could easily cut through flesh and bone. With a battle cry she launched herself at Sasuke with every ounce of pain and anger that she had in her as she aimed for his still beating heart. The only thing that saved the man that she wanted to cut down was his fast reflexes, otherwise her small hand would have impaled him.
Sasuke narrowed his eyes at the woman as he tried his best to dodge her crazed strikes.
"Sakura do you honestly think that you could beat me? Even Naruto couldn't and he wasn't as weak as you."
At the mention of the blonde, Sakura's green eyes blazed as if his words set her on fire.
"How dare you speak his name?! He trusted you! He considered you to be the brother he never had! He held nothing but love for you and you killed him like none of that meant anything to you!"
Sasuke saw his opening the moment she moved her right arm up to strike him and in that split second he sent a chidori filled fist straight through her chest cavity. He flexed his fingers that poked out of her back for a moment before withdrawing his hand. Sakura coughed up blood as she fell to her knees in front of him.
"I told you Sakura. You were fighting a losing battle. If you wanted to throw your life away that badly all you had to do was ask."
Sakura grimaced at his superior tone but then she started to laugh, which turned into a wet cough. Sasuke was confused she was obviously dying, so what was she laughing about?
"You think so Sasuke? I think I won." And with that she brought her chakra scalpels up and into his chest, severing his ascending aorta. Sasuke looked stunned before dropping to the ground lifelessly.
"I hope you enjoy hell Sasuke." She whispered as she fell on the ground beside him, finding it harder and harder to draw in a breath. Even though this was the end, Sakura couldn't help but find the irony in the situation. Killed by the very person she had loved the most in the world.
Sounds like something that would happen in some trashy romance novel.
If she could go back, there were a lot of things she would have done differently.
If only...
Sakura's eyes snapped open as a thought came to her. Some time ago she and Ino were working on a jutsu that could transfer the mind to a different time. Maybe...
Sakura was no Yamanaka, but maybe she could pull it off. It's not like she had anything to lose right? What was it going to do, kill her?
She made the hand signs and felt the darkness closing in around her vision.
Hopefully this would be the second chance the world needed.
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That's chapter 1! please leave a review and let me know what you think!
