Sakura's Fall to Middle Earth

Prologue

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Something was not right, thought Sakura as she tried to bring herself to wake up, but found it useless. Her body was completely numb, at least that's what it felt like. She tried her best to make sense of where she was, opening her senses to the area around her. She could hear birds singing and the sound of leaves falling from trees, and feel the wind against her body. She could smell the grass and hear water from a nearby crick. Just as she was about to give up, she heard it.

"Is she alright, Gandalf?"

A young man?

"Quiet my boy, I believe she's trying to wake up."

The first voice was male, young, but obviously foreign. She remembered the language, but not the accent. This was where she was very thankful for all the traveling she did while she was training under Tsunade, she learned a lot of languages during those days. But she herself had trouble speaking it and she couldn't remember traveling in the direction of foreign countries.

"I swear it, I saw her fall right out of the sky!" Frodo couldn't keep quiet even if he tried as he might, he was just so excited about this unknown, yet strange woman that had fallen practically on his lap as he was reading, waiting for Gandalf to arrive.

Now that was strange... Had she fallen from something? She couldn't remember how she had even gotten in this situation, all she could really remember was talking to Tsunade, getting ready to work out some plans for a meeting with the Kages, since the war was finally over. And now here she was, obviously alone and confused.

"Come now, my dear, I know you are awake."

That was definitely the voice of the older male, urging her gently and kindly to awaken, but try as she might. She couldn't, it was like a weight of lead was keeping her from rousing... Her mind was awake and fully alert, but her body was still dead to the world. She tried to bring her muscles to move or to somehow bring her body to listen to her mind, but she couldn't do a thing. She couldn't even tell them what was wrong.

"Maybe she can't?" The young voice spoke up in concern.

She could feel them drawing closer to her person, if she had been awake she would have held out a kunai to keep them at bay, but she couldn't help but feel a little comforted at the fact that they, for now, meant her no harm. She couldn't sense their chakra (which was odd) and she couldn't sense any ill will.

"Nonsense, Frodo it's not as if she is under some sort of... Spell... Hmmm." Gandalf's old eyes narrowed as he stared at the young girl a bit longer. After a few more moments of staring, he knelt down beside Sakura and waved a hand over her eyes, muttering something neither Sakura nor Frodo could hear.

And just like that, Sakura's bright green eyes shot open, and breath left her in great spurts as she gasped for air she did not know she needed. Her chest heaved with the effort and her hands and legs shook as she tried to sit up into a sitting position. She kept her eyes downcast as she looked around herself. As she had figured before, she was in a forest, with tall trees and nothing but a single road leading to what seemed to be more forest. Great. She couldn't recognize anything.

"My dear girl," spoke Gandalf, she figured. "if I had known that you were under a spell, I would have awoken you much, much sooner." He bowed his head in apology.

"Are you hurt?" Frodo asked gently, keeping a respectful distance from the girl as she looked at them both.

Sakura shook her head in answer to Frodo, smiling in return even though she still had no clue who these strange looking people were, or where in the world she was. "W-Where," she stuttered, the words coming out clumsily. "am I?" She managed in the foreign tongue that the strange men spoke.

Frodo smiled kindly. "Why, you're in Hobbiton of the Shire."

Sakura's brows furrowed in absolute confusion. "H-Hobb-iton? Shire?" She knew she must have looked ridiculously confused to the two males as she tried to speak the words of the places she found herself in.

Frodo and Gandalf exchanged curious looks as Sakura ran a shaky hand through her hair. They found her very odd to the eye. For she had unnaturally pink hair and she showed a lot more skin than was respectable. Gandalf figured she must have come from a place neither he nor anyone else but, this young girl, could have come from.

Frodo was oblivious to Gandalf's inner musings as he smiled at the curious girl. "Would you care to come to a birthday party?"

Gandalf at that moment had been breathing in a bit from his pipe when Frodo asked the girl the question and he spluttered in smoky gasps of air. Coughing into his arm his eyes watering he watched the girl nod hesitantly as she gratefully took Frodo's helpful hand.

Sakura figured she had no other choice but to go with the two strange looking men, as she stood she realized the amazing height difference between herself and the young man. He had to have been a man, he looked to be in his early twenties like herself, but his size told her he was nothing more than a child. Gandalf towered over them both like a giant, and she could only imagine what poor Frodo must have felt like compared to the two of them.

"Come, Gandalf!" Frodo shouted as he dragged Sakura towards Gandalf's horse drawn carriage.

Sakura eyed the horse wearily as she gathered her wits and followed Frodo up on the wagon. Gandalf not too far behind them, as he too, managed to bring himself up on the wagon. "I'm sure there is always room for visitors, but let's keep your arrival between us three, hmmm?"

Sakura couldn't help but agree. She only hoped that she found her way home soon, these people were nice, but she'd be a lot more comfortable in a place she was use to.

A/N: This is my only Authors Note, I assure you that this is not a copy of DevilOnYourShoulder's story When in Middle Earth, though I will give her credit to the idea of my Sakura's Fall to Middle Earth. I have wanted to write something like what she'd written for a while, but I assure you it is different as different can be. So please, just read it before you kill me and tell me I'm a thief, because I'm not.

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