Chapter 1

Three Years After

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Sakura woke up in her bed. She stared at the wall a little bit. She did this all of the time now. She thought the wall was the luckiest thing on the planet. It's friends were confined to the boundaries of her room. Meanwhile, like her, her two best friends and teammates were off training with three of the greatest Shinobi ever. Sasuke was training for power. Naruto was training to stop Sasuke. And she was training to protect them. Her training with Tsundae was all most complete. She had gotten good. She just hoped it would be enough to stop the approaching storm. She hoped she could stop her friends. Because she knew that whoever won that fight, she would lose at least one.

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Sakura made her daily 10 laps around her house, the Haruno Manor, to get warmed up for her real workout. But she had always kept her mind on the game. She wouldn't ever have to be protected. Ever. After she was done, she headed for the Godaime's office. As soon as she opened the door, she saw somebody. Somebody she knew. Somebody who was supposed to be dead, and everything went black.

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"Sakura. Sakura, wake up." A stern female voice said.

Sakura slowly opened her eyes. She saw the Hokage, but nobody else was around.

"What's wrong? Tired? Hungry? You know that we have vending machines and a coffee pot in the lounge."

"No. It's just that I thought I saw the 4th, standing there and talking to you." Sakura said, slowly rising to her feet.

"He wasn't. The 4th's been dead for a while now. About 15 years. Now you might of had seen his picture behind me and, due to the right positioning of the sun and Venus, had thought he was standing here, though the light being reflected through Venus gas, but he was not here."

"Yeah. Weird, huh? How long was I out?"

"About a minute. I sent a jolt to your system to wake you up as soon as you hit the ground. Still, if you're hallucinating that a dead man is standing here, we can call off training today. But just for today."

'Yeah! Rock on! Take that, hag! Day off!' Inner Sakura partied.

Sakura simply bowed and walked off, with a "Thank you."

"Come on out, boy, she's gone." Tsundae said calmly.

And with that, a blonde haired man came out of pretty much nowhere.

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End

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You know I had a better chapter than this. But, I forgot to save it. So, when I tried to rewrite, I completely almost changed it. Why am I telling you this? I dunno. I'm just weird like that. By the way, what's the name of the Fourth Hokage? He's gonna play an important role in the story. Thanks. Oh, and see the little button over in the bottom lefthand corner? Click it, pretty please.

Update: Add a little bit, and fixed a few grammar problems. I still don't know how to spell this crap, and I'm the Naruto expert at my school. Bad, huh?