I do NOT own Naruto!!!!!
A small pale hand clung to the black and red material that was being worn by an orange haired man. As the tall man walked with her down the dark corridor, a young pink haired girl walked as close to the man as she could, though slightly behind him as if he was a shield. The two walked in complete silence, the only things that could be heard were their footsteps and (if you listened carefully) their breathing. After walking round many corners and through many doors, they came to a short corridor with a red door at the end. The man led the way towards it and stopped just before opening it to look behind to make sure she was still there. She glanced at him then continued to stare at the handle as if it was made pure gold. The man smiled slightly at her expression and slowly opened the door to a very, very bright room. In fact it was so bright that the girl had turned her head away with her eyes closed as quickly as she could. When her eyes adjusted to the light and she looked in the room once more, what she saw made her eyes widen in shock.
BEEEEEEEEEPP BEEEEEEEEPP BEEEE---- (smack, silence, and a sigh)
Haruno Sakura jumped out of bed and sprinted to her alarm (which was on the other side of the room) to turn it off as soon as she could. Now normal people would keep their alarms right next to their bed so that they could turn it off without much effort, but when Sakura did that, she usually fell asleep again straight away or, if she was in a bad mood, she would smash it to bits with her fist and then have to buy a new one, which just so happened to be the reason why she was absolutely broke, penniless. She shuddered at the terrible reminder, for her a life without money was torture. And so because of this minor problem she had long ago decided that if she put it on a high shelf on the other side of her room, she would have to jump out of bed with enthusiasm to stop its infernal ringing as soon as possible. Her idea obviously worked, as it got her out of bed no matter what, but there was a slight side effect for waking up and moving so quickly and early in the morning. This side effect was of course, grumpiness. But it wasn't just any case of grumpiness, no. It was the "Morning Sakura" grumpiness. Do you know why? Well I'll say it in one very sarcastic sentence for you... "There is nothing like a sprint across the room in your PJ's at five in the morning, to start your day." So after she had quickly attempted to climb the bookshelf to reach for the alarm (I say attempted because the bookshelf fell on top of her), she picked it off the floor and turned it off. She then did all the usual typical things any girl, and some boys do. She had a shower, got dressed, brushed her hair, yelled at Ino for calling her so early in the morning, had breakfast and finally went to her kitten calendar to see if anything special was happening today. According to the predictions of the all-knowing calendar, there was nothing like a war, kidnapping or date with Naruto today, so she claimed it a safe day to let her guard down and have a bit of fun for once. She had no idea how much she would regret that one simple decision
As Sakura walked to the hokage tower she began to ponder on her dream. At first, to her the dream was completely random and something that she could easily ignore, but the more she thought about it the more realistic it seemed. The Akatsuki were real, she was real and every little detail in her dream was so clear it almost seemed like a flashback. In fact, that could be a possibility. She looked to be around four maybe five years old in her dream, which just happened to be the years that she couldn't remember. But why would she be with an Akatsuki member? She shook her head to get rid of the upcoming thoughts and concentrated on walking up the stairs without tripping instead. Once she was finally up the stairs she stopped to rest for a bit. No matter how healthy you are, everyone always gets puffed out walking up the stairs. When she got her energy back she walked round the corner towards the hokage's office, but instead of the hall being empty as usual, there was the young blonde hokage standing with her hands on her hips, her foot tapping on the floor and an impatient look on her face as she looked down at Sakura. Sakura looked up and smiled, not at all intimidated by her sensei, and took a step back to give herself some more space.
"Sumimasen Tsunade-sama. I was running a little late today." As Tsunade nodded and walked to her office, Sakura in tow, she felt rather proud of herself for pulling off the little white lie. Okay so she knew that it was just a tiny lie that anyone could easily say without much thought, but this was Sakura, and it was well known to everyone in the village that Haruno Sakura was a pathetic liar, no matter how small the lie may be, she nearly always somehow gave it away. She was snapped out of her mental self-praising state when Tsunade yelled at her to come back to Earth. She asked how her favourite subordinate was doing and then asked her the usual daily ninja observation questions such as "Have you noticed anything/anyone suspicious? Have you sensed any abnormal chakra other than Naruto's? Have you witnessed/or taken part in any kidnappings in the last twenty-four hours and ect...?" Sakura of course replied "No." to every question and was just about to leave when Tsunade called her,
"Oh and Sakura, I'll be testing you on your medical skills next Tuesday, so train hard okay?" Sakura nodded and left. She was half way down the never ending stairs when she suddenly remembered her dream. She turned around and sprinted back up the stairs again, burst into Tsunade's office and leant against the wall while she caught her breath. As soon as she had enough energy to speak she looked up at her sensei and took in a deep breath before explaining everything. Tsunade sat at her desk the entire time with a slightly worried look on her face. When Sakura was finally finished explaining the dream and what her thoughts on it could be, Tsunade nodded.
"I'm glad that you told me about that. It seems that your past forgotten memories have been mixed up with your current ninja affairs. The orange haired man you talked about is the leader of Akatsuki. He calls himself Pain." Sakura blinked and thought about what she said.
"But I didn't even know who he was, so why was he in my dream?" Ah, there's the problem. Tsunade sighed and closed her eyes. Another thing to worry about. First she had to look out for Naruto, then she had to worry about finding Sasuke and now she has to worry about her apprentice, Sakura. What is it with team 7 and Akatsuki these days? Even Kakashi regularly gets him-self caught in fights with them...geez, what did I do to deserve all this huh? Eventually told Sakura to leave and answered her as she walked out the door.
"Come back later this afternoon and I'll try to answer your question." She saw Sakura nod her head as she silently closed the door.
"Hai Tsunade-sama." And with that she made her way to leave. When she reached the stairs for the third time in one morning, she glared at each step with all her might. After she was sure that the stairs were cursed she began to walk back down them, but after just two steps she stopped and sighed in annoyance before stamping on the step (hoping it would feel her wrath) and mumbling something incoherent about them under her breath. She took in a deep breath before screaming at the top of her lungs,
"I hate these God-damned stairs! Whoever made them must have been mad!" She huffed and made a load of hand signs before disappearing in a puff of smoke.... Now why didn't I do that before? Because you're stupid? Shut up!
Two men clad in black cloaks decorated with dark red clouds, stood on top of the fourth hokage's stone head. As the wind blew, the bell on their straw hats rung out to warn the village of their presence, but as usual no one heard. After a long moment of silence a loud string of curses echoed through the village. The tallest man chuckled, amused at the girl's foul words.
"Looks like the konoichi's home, although she seems to be in a bad mood. Why don't we go and cheer up?" The man next to him barely nodded before they both jumped into the city and silently made their way towards their target.
Sakura was now walking, nope sorry let me rephrase that, stomping down the street towards her home to get some more sleep, as she felt that just 5 hours wasn't enough. She was stomping down the street because the stairs, in all their annoying pride and glory, had managed to thoroughly piss her off. She really wasn't quite sure why an inanimate object had annoyed her to this extent, but she supposed she didn't really care because she could easily use it as an excuse to show just how much her dream/flashback had got to her. Not only was that but the fact that she had to wait for an answer about her dream was beginning to make her anxious. What if it really was a flashback? She began to fiddle with the hair-bands she kept around her wrist as she thought about over all the possibilities of what the dream/flashback could be. Well maybe it wasn't me... YEAH! It could have been a mini-me-look-alike! I mean there has to be someone else in the world with pink hair, even if they died it pink... She was snapped out of her thoughts when she heard a twig snap somewhere behind her. She turned around expecting to see an enemy of some sort stalking her, but instead she saw nothing but a little blue kitten glaring at her. She ignored it continued to walk as if there was nothing there, Relax. Today is a normal, non-ninja day; I can sit back and enjoy myself WITHOUT being paranoid. She heard another twig snap but chose to ignore it; however when she heard footsteps behind her she began to pick up her pace, flip the damn freaky cat thing's following me! She ran round the corner and skidded to a stop, I won't run. I can scare him away with a glare! I'll beat the crap out of it! You do know it's only a cat right? She prepared to face her kitty stalker but when she turned round to face it she bumped into someone's chest. She stepped back in shock and rubbed her nose, she heard a deep chuckle
"You should watch where you're going kunoichi." She looked up to shout at the man but when she opened her mouth no words came out. Standing in front of her were two men, one short and one tall, both with straw hats on to hide their identities, nails painted purple, black and red cloaks and a red ring with a kanji engraved on them. The man she had bumped into had lifted his hat up just enough for her to see two beady little eyes staring down at her. She stood staring at them for seconds that seemed like hours, they stared back.
Finally she blinked; the tall one gave a toothy smile.
"Erm... bye bye?" and in a flash she was running away from them as fast as she possibly could. The tall man chuckled as his partner in crime sped after her.
"She hasn't changed a bit."
Okay so this is the third time I've edited I think XD Sorry if you find it annoying, it's just that I noticed there were still a few swear words in it and that there were a lot of spelling mistakes. I also realise I had made Itachi far too OOC XD So very soory about all that ^^ I think it should be a bit better now and the inner comments explain a few things too. Like why Sakura doesn't like the cat or the stairs ^^ (cuz I know I kinda ((just a lil' but hehe)) went over the top with the stairs) haha ^^ Sorry again for editing it so much! ^^
