Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto (Effective until story ends)

This story was done yesterday, ready to be posted today if my mom hadn't jumped in, anyways, now that I've gotten hold of meh lappy toppy, I did some proof-reading and fixed it! Hoped you like it, A start of another project, entitled

FROM THE ASHES

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And so the fields nearby Konoha roused into an inferno, and in her hands was a bundle of cloth, draping a newborn babe from the harshness of the world, its little blonde tuft nestled on its head as it slumbered in her arms. She had helped with Kushina's delivery and was ordered by the Yondaime to bring forth his son.

Sakura raced through the gates, rushed past dying, dead and fighting fellow ninjas until she reached a point she needed to kick away from the earth and land on a massive frog's back, joining Minato to hand over his son.

"Are you really sure about this?" asked Sakura, hints of tears escaping the corners of his eyes. Minato avoided eye contact and took his child from her arms before answering, "My decision is final"

"Please don't do this, there might still be some hope, I can--"

"No Sakura, you know you can't do that," responded Minato with a dangerous voice, "we have little time left to speak. Leave"

"Before I do, please answer me. Do you really want him dead?"

Locking his intense blue eyes unto her emerald ones, he lifted the corners of his mouth in a small smile, "no"

With that, she somersaulted away and landed right in front of Gamabunta, her kunai in hand with a red ribbon tied to its ring, holding on to the answer she received. The Kyuubi's attention had finally been called forth and he chuckled at Minato's threat. It ploughed its way through the horde of fighting ninjas, sweeping with its paw to clean its path from the incompetent challenges of mortals.

"You'd better search for cover, pipsqueak," advised Gamabunta, yet Sakura simply ignored him.

As the Kyuubi continued its approach, she lay down a set of seals before driving her kunai straight to the ground, a wordless technique, fully activated. The ground Gamabunta stood on illuminated a dim red, mirroring the insignia it conjured in the air before Minato like a massive window. He raised his son, aiming his navel in the center of the circular symbol before planting his calloused palm on the babe's smooth skin.

She smirked at the Kyuubi's sudden contortion of visage, pulling its upper lip back in a sneer. Minato had begun his set of seals before bellowing out, "Shiki Fuujin!"

Seconds slowed to minutes and unexpectedly locked eyes with the Kyuubi. It chuckled as its essence of red had been caught by the seal, "so, you're the one--"

"Shut it! To be sealed away in a babe's navel is the best way for you to go down," screamed Sakura

"I'm disappointed, to have your lover's familiar to be sealed into him" pointed out the Kyuubi

"You demon! you've sworn to never touch this village! Your time has come to an end. Die in silence!" she roared

It lowered its head to her level and turned its head, mirroring her image from head to toe with his herculean eye. Her immediate instinct was to jab anything large and pointy at it to have him suffer as he die, but instead, froze in her stand.

Her reflection contorted to the image of the man she swore her loyalty to, with blood red eyes and its exotic marking adorning it, one word escaped her mouth

"Madara? U-Uchiha Madara? But why?"

"Very good Sakura, but no, I'm not the Kyuubi... I'm just simply controlling it"

"Didn't you want to protect the village? Didn't you want to--"

"Enough, none of this was supposed to happen, and you ruined the plan. You helped the enemy and I'll never forgive you"

Hate filled her eyes, biting her palm deeply by the flesh of her thumb's base, she gripped the ribbon-adorned kunai jabbed on the soil before her and pushed it deeper until its ring was the only thing to be left exposed. Her blood flowed to the ring and on to the ground before a dark dare escaped her lips "Then don't, Madara"

It was both unpleasant and satisfying to see fear glimmer in his eye, but before he could ask with what she had done, the Kyuubi had been fully sealed away, allowing time to return to its normal pace. Taking the soul of the father as a sacrifice to the Shinigami, when there should have been one more.

Light ripped through the babe's navel, stripping everything from its color as it left them in mere outlines. The enormous chakra used to suppress the demon in a babe's navel rippled forth a massive wave through the battlefield, silencing the bloodied night. Wails of agony only carried on, along with two babes nearby a lifeless Minato.

One of them lived to be the vessel of a recently suppressed demon and threw a tantrum on his father's arms, while a few feet away from him was a mound of ashes that nearly stood a foot tall, slightly moving by the animation it buried, muffled wails came at hand as locks of pink feathery hair came into view.

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Two slumbering patients, placed in a chakra-laden glass crib, were confined in the quietest room in Konoha's hospital. Behind a transparent glass that occupied one of the four walls stood the Hokage and his two students.

"Didn't Sakura just bring over one child? Minato's child?" asked Tsunade after a moment's pause

"Have they found her yet?" asked the Third, pointing out the more important question.

With Jiraiya comforting them with his unnerving silence, they turned to him and caught a glimpse of his deepened stupor. The man placed his large hand on the glass that separated the examination room from its audience, observing the two newborns.

"I may have a conclusion" began Jiraiya, "that Sakura sacrificed most of her life force to keep Naruto alive"

"What does that mean? Where is she? Maybe she can explain it better, she'd better not be dead," babbled Tsunade with tear stricken eyes, a hand flew to her mouth to halt her quivering lips.

With a sigh, Jiraiya turned to her, "do you see that newborn with the pink hair?"

"Yes..." Tsunade blinked before throwing her hand down, "you've got to be kidding me, Jiraiya, that's impossible"

A small smile framed his lips, "at least she lived, didn't she?"

To Be Continued...

A/N: Well, now that the Prologue is officially over, please do send in some reviews and tell me what you think of it, I'd really appreciate that and see if it's worth continuing. Hopefully this concept hadn't been done with Sakura yet, I have a faint idea on where the plot might lead, just need your support to help me make this story possible.

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