Prologue: The life of a blossom.
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Summary: She was admired, she was worshiped; she was praised. She grew in strength and power, she grew distant towards people. Since five, she had trying to save the people around her, but then she just gave up after her closest friend left her. She had never cried since the slaughter of her clan, but she still smiled, but as soon as he left, everything changed, she stopped smiling, she had forgotten how to. She had saved people numerous times in battle with her knowledge and abilities, she brought them back healthy from the missions they came across, it didn't matter, as long as her whole team came back safely, even if she was on the brink of death, she wouldn't allow her self to die pathetically. She had saved everyone, yet she was the one in need of saving; saving from herself and her decaying heart. She was the blossom that needed reviving and saving, he was the one who she saved. Now six months after his return to the Leaf, it is their mission to save the girl from her self. Sasusaku. Rated T for violence.
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'Thoughts'
'Inner selves'
"Talking"
FLASH BACK…
P.O.V
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Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto does.
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At the age of five, a girl witnessed the massacre and slaughter of the entire Haruno Clan, from beginning to the end. The only survivors were her older brother Daiki, her older sister Hikari and of course herself. Upon their last moments in the world of the living her father, on behalf of him and her mother blamed the girl for their death, and the only way for redemption from them was to surpass her older siblings. At five, the girl left the thriving city of Konoha with her older siblings to go to the Wind Country; to the Village hidden in the Sand; Suna leaving behind her best friend Yamanaka Ino.
At ten, the girl returned to her home sibling-less and enrolled into the ninja academy, graduating six months after joining. At ten she became part of a genin squad with a jounin as their new sensei. That genin team was called Team seven; and along with her, she had Uchiha Sasuke the sole survivor of the Uchiha clan massacre, Uzamaki Naruto the vessel of the Kyubi and Hatake Kakashi the copy ninja. At the age of ten the girl had gone on countless missions with that team, enough so that she was allowed to participate in the Chuunin selection and passed with flying colours on her first try, thus becoming a chuunin at age ten; continuing to gain strength in her dead parents' wishes to beat her siblings.
At age ten, she allowed her closest friend leave the Village hidden in the Leaves and head for sound to obtain power, after woods being knocked unconscious by that friend. For some reason she felt useless. On the first recon mission to bring back Sasuke which was the morning after he left, the girl was one of the few selected to bring him back, so along with Shikamaru, she lead the genins to being back Sasuke; the genins consisting of Kiba, Chouji, Neji and Naruto; the males not exactly liking the idea that a girl was basically in charge; over Shikamaru as well; especially since she did such a good job of it.
The following year, at age eleven, the girl became the Godaime's apprentice; Tsunade's apprentice; one of the legendary Sannin, like her team mates who were apprentices of one of the legendary apprentices. At eleven she inherited the Godaime's ability to mold chakra into her fists; thus making her taijutsu unbeatable. At eleven she learnt to summon slugs of all sizes and a large range of medical ninjutsu. At eleven she watched the last member of team seven leave the village hidden in the leaves to train with the frog hermit; and as Naruto left, the girl felt alone again, abandoned again. She lost trust in the people around her, and began to seclude her self from everyone.
At thirteen she had surpassed the Godaime and took the jounin exams; and like in the chuunin exams; she passed with flying colours; becoming a jounin one year before Hyuuga Neji and Nara Shikamaru. At thirteen she had gone on many missions, a lot of solo missions as well, numerous times cheating death with out any chance of survival, but by some miracle, each time the girl ended back into the Konoha hospital. At thirteen Uzamaki Naruto came back to the village, taller than her, older, wiser, and with the return of the blonde, Tsunade announced the re-assembling of Team seven.
At thirteen, the Akatsuki came towards her and her squad after Naruto and the Kyubi, as well as Gaara and the Shukaku, who was traveling with them as well. Half way through the battle, she had killed Sasori, one of the Akatsuki, but in doing so, her bandages had been ripped off, revealing odd markings all around her arms, which shocked everyone extremely, they thought it was just a tattoo, but then Deidara had said something about that being a seal mark, but he didn't understand what it was for, but it held much chakra, by now the marks had evolved, becoming white in the centre pieces and black on the outside, as if the black was an outline.
At thirteen, the Akatsuki had found out that the inner mind of the girl was not just a spirit but a demon; one of great power, and if they got control of that demon the pair to it would come out; like ying and yang; they were joined together in fate, but because it was sealed into the girl, the yang of the pair had gone and the only way they learned about this was when her bandages around her arms had been accidentally torn and ripped off; no one expecting the marks on both of arms and of course to have something like that on her body that had chakra in it, meant it was a seal, a seal that appeared on her tenth year of life. Of course, no one in the team understood what it was or how to deal with it, not Gaara or Naruto knew what the hell Deidara was going on about, but some how they knew that she was like them. At thirteen she gave up on pleasing her parents and focused on avoiding the Akatsuki, and controlling the demon inside her, as the urges to kill people grew, as well as the amount of chakra swirling around in her body, it became very hard to maintain at a safe level after every training session, the chakra amount seemingly growing a little bit thus making it harder to control, ironically, she was still in a way pleasing her dead parents by getting stronger.
By fourteen, a new member had been added to the Team seven squad; the replacement for Sasuke. At first they didn't like the new member, he didn't approve of them. His name was Sai, he was an artist, and apparently was part of the ANBU as well. As the year passed, they warmed up to the dark artist and he to them; although, Sakura seemed to be the one with hostilities still; but she seemed hostile with every one. By fourteen they had gone on so many missions to bring Sasuke back that they lost count after a while. As promised, the girl did not interfere with the Uchiha's training, emerald and black never clashed, nor did pink and black. She avoided him, as much as he avoided her.
Now at fifteen the girl had gone on some many solo and suicidal missions the numbers were endless. Her outfit changed form green to black. She became very anti-social, she glared at people with distaste and hated people with a burning passion, she growled, she held no respect for them. Her training was strict and rough, never seizing for a brake. On the girl's fifteenth birthday, though know one knew of it or when it was, the girl wasn't around, like she had disappeared from the face of the planet. One day out of every year no one could find her, coincidently it was always the day of her birthday, but no one knew when her birthday was, so they never understood why she disappeared. The day before or that morning would be the only appearance she would make for twenty-four hours, and that to buy flowers at the Yamanaka flower shop. It was always the same arrangement, four red roses, eight white roses and two cherry blossom twigs; which was much to the distaste of the Yamanaka, but none-the-less she sold the girl the flowers.
At fifteen, like her promise to the Uchiha, she brought him back; she came at the right time too, as they were about to perform the transfer jutsu. Sasuke told her to get lost and not interfere but she refused; reminding him that after the transfer jutsu was complete, she doubted that the snake Sannin would keep to his promises and kill Itachi for him and that she had swore that if hadn't come back after three years, she would bring him back, be it dead or alive. Realizing the girl's logic, remembering what she had said five years ago, the promise he made the teenager watched as his ex-team mate battled against Kabuto; getting knocked down by his chakra blade, and then stabbed in the gut with a kunai; watching the fall of his ex-team mate Sasuke's anger grew as he pulled free of his binds and killed Orochimaru, while the girl beat Kabuto while sitting down.
At fifteen the recon mission to being back S-class missing nin Uchiha Sasuke was successful, however bringing back Sasuke also meant bringing back his subordinates, insisting they follow him; although it was the female subordinate that insisted on this after they broke them free of their binds in the dungeon Orochimaru had shoved them into. The females name was Karin and she despised the young girl with all her heart and soul. She hated her from the moment she convinced her Sasuke-sama to go back to Konoha where he will most likely be punished. She hated that she had convinced him to go home; while Karin had insisted on killing the girl. Karin didn't know who this girl was nor did she care, but she wanted her dead, but as soon as she made that threat, the girl had announced that if they attempted to kill her; she would be the one left standing not them, her decision backed up the by the Uchiha, which infuriated the glassed female.
On the way towards Konoha (they dropped one of the Uchiha's subordinates in the Wave Country since that was his wish to do so while the other two followed their Sasuke-sama); they came across enemy ninja; whether they be missing Nins or not, Sakura took charge and killed them mercilessly after they had hit Sasuke's subordinates, but didn't kill them. As they arrived in Konoha, they were greeted two jounin; and she escorted remaining members of Team Snake to the Hokage's office for punishment; which ended in a very lax punishment, since they wanted the Uchiha power on their side; a simple punishment of probation for five months and an escort to where ever he was to go. Upon a good behaviour bond, the Uchiha was released from his punishment after three months and was re-instated as a Konoha ninja and was promoted to jounin after they found out he had killed Orochimaru. They allowed his two remaining subordinates to stay, but an ANBU squad or tracker was always with them, the other having gone back to the wave.
However, even if she were the one to bring him back; as soon as she was allowed to leave the Godaime's he had not seen her ever again for at least six months; she was always on missions, always solo missions as well or she was training, and apparently she changed her training ground every now and then, so no one knew where she was, it's only by luck that they find her, and her chakra was undetectable, so they can't find her by sensing her either. And if she wasn't training, or on a mission, by the odd occasion she would be in the hospital; but that was only after the Godaime would order her to help out. Sasuke, though he didn't want to admit, missed the girl. By fifteen, the girl had been attacked countless times by the Akatsuki it was ridiculous; they must really want the demon in her really badly, but no one knew that she had been attacked, and if they did, they didn't understand why.
Now at fifteen, she was enclosed into a shell, an unbreakable shell with the ultimate defenses and offenses. When she was ten, people thought she was coming out of the shell, but with the departure of the Uchiha she moved back into her shell and closed up. The cherry blossom had yet to come into full bloom. Now, six months after the Uchiha's return, they are trying to revive the soul of the cherry blossom and get her to bloom. This is the story of that girl, a girl who shares the name sake of the delicate and fragile flower, a flower that has the colour of her hair; that shares its beauty with the world every time it greets you; this is the story of Haruno Sakura.
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Notes:
-Hey there –waves- I'm back with the sequel as I promised, you guys are so lucky I'm on holidays right now, but I only have a week left...Waaaaaahhh!!!! -cries pathetically-
-I know, it's a little short for one of my stories, gomen nasai, but I promise that they'll get longer, besides, I can have so much more fun now since I have no script to basically stick to :D and this is the prologue.
-Remember, this is the sequel to 'The Strength of the Cherry Blossom' if you don't understand what's going on, please read that first -sweatdrops-
-I feel so unaccomplished having such a small prologue -wails-
-Please note, that with some of these chapters I might be using the movie missions because I'm cool like that, and I planned it like that...sort of... :)
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Chapter 1: He's back, I'm alone
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