Disclaimer: Naruto doesn't belong to me, it belongs to some other person.
Sorry I reposted it so many times, just trying to make it longer. This is my first fic ever so I'm not quite sure how to go about this but I guess its trial and error.
Summary: In the original "Naruto", Sasuke left Konoha to become stronger and train with Orochimaru, but what if Sakura was the one that left. Tired of being weak and always standing behind the team 7 boys, this was but one of her reasons to leave. With a sensei that didn't give her the one on one time she needed, and being over shadowed by the last Uchiha, and the Kyubi.
Sakura blossoms and snakes
She looked over her shoulder, one last look at the village she grew up in, one last glance at her home. No not her home, her former home. She couldn't be weak anymore. She can't. What was that? That little yellow flash moving towards her? Oh, it's just Naruto. What's that idiot doing out here? "Naruto? What are you doing out here idiot? It's the middle of the night! Go back inside!" she yelled at him. He paused and gave her a look that would have made Orochimaru try to comfort him. "But Sakura-chan, you're leaving, without saying goodbye." He gave her another one of his sad looks. He continued walking over to her. They were face to face now. "Stay please?" he asked his voice trembling. "Naruto you don't understand, I can't." "But Sakura-chan," he whined, "you have to stay, what's going to happen to team 7, and I'd be alone with Sasu-gay!" She backed away slowly; she didn't think she'd have to tell people, she just wanted to leave. Naruto noticing her getting away frantically searched his mind for something to tell her, anything to make her stay. "I do understand, I understand that you think that you are weak because Sasuke and I try to protect you or that Kakashi-sensei doesn't train you as hard as he does Sasuke and I. But what I don't understand is how you don't see that you are strong in your own ways. You care about other people when others don't, you try your best to help your friends no matter what. Sakura you are strong." The speech stopped her dead in her tracks. She didn't know what to say. Part of her wanted to stay with Naruto and the rest of her friends and family, but another part of her wanted nothing more than to leave. She turned around and started towards the gate to the forest. "I'll follow you!" Naruto yelled behind her. She stopped again. Then next thing Naruto saw was Sakura flicker away. Then he felt more than heard two words, "Thank you." Then Sakura hit his pressure point on his neck. He fell lifeless in her arms. She had to use chakra to catch him and lightly put him on the bench near the street. She continued on her way to Orochimaru.
Naruto woke up sore all over. He looked around expecting to see his trash-covered room, but instead found himself on a bench. Last night's memories came down on him suddenly. "Sakura –chan" he thought, then pounded his fist into the bench. He couldn't stop her. Suddenly he got to his feet and ran to team 7 training grounds. Kakashi and Sasuke were already there. "You're late," Kakashi said through his mask, "Do you know where Sakura is?" "Last night she left." Naruto said quietly. "Gone? Gone where?" Kakashi asked. "Orochimaru." At the name Sasuke and Kakashi stiffened immediately. "She wouldn't do that." Sasuke said unevenly breaking his calm and cool façade. "Well she did and I have a sore back to prove it." Naruto said stretching. "We have to find her." Naruto said suddenly serious. "She may get herself killed." Everyone looked sullen at that thought. "I'll talk to the hokage and see when we can get a mission to find and retrieve Sakura." Kakashi said deep in thought.
Forest outside Konaho
Sakura looked at the sound nin. "This wasn't who Orochimaru was expecting." One of the nin said in a slithery voice. "She looks weak; do you think he could use her?" Another asked "If not at least he could use her as a snack." The first one said with a dark laugh. All the while Sakura kept her face expressionless, and didn't let the nervousness show on her face. Inside inner Sakura and her were having a battle.
"This is crazy!" Inner yelled inside her head. "You're going to get us killed!" "Shush, calm down. If anyone is going to get us killed it will be you. This will be good for us." Sakura said trying more to convince herself than inner. "Fine but when we die don't expect me to be forgiving." Then inner left. "Thanks for sticking around." Sakura said sarcastically, and then she returned her focus to the sound nin. They were currently talking about the pros and cons of keeping her. "I say we keep her, and if he doesn't want her we can use her as target practice." The third nin sound with dark humor. They all looked at her as if sizing her up. "She'd do." The second one said. "Come on pinkie, let's take you to Orochimaru." Then they started the journey to Orochimaru's base. For the second time Sakura turned around and looked at her former village. "Good-bye Konoha." Sakura thought. Then they left in a swirl of leaves.
Konoha
Naruto burst into the hokage's office. "Grandma! We have to go get Sakura from the snake perv!" He all but shouted at the hokage. She put down her sake and yelled at the disgruntled blonde, "How many times have I told you to knock you idiot?" "But granny-Tsunade! What if Sakura gets hurt? We have to go get her, now." Sasuke muttered something under his breath that sounded suspiciously like dobe. "Alright I'll give you three a search and retrieve mission," Tsunade said her voice getting stronger, "Find Sakura and bring her back. Dismissed!" at that team 7 left after bowing their heads. Tsunade sat back down in her chair and resumed drinking her sake. "What was that girl thinking leaving like that?" she thought to herself. "Shizune! I need more sake!"
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