Toguro Sakura
By Moonraker One
A/N: By Toguro, I mean the younger (ototo) Toguro. She's not the daughter of the retarded ani (older brother) Toguro. No, I don't own characters from Yu Yu Hakusho, or Naruto.
PROLOGUE – The Events of Eleven Years Prior
"We can't allow her to stay, you KNOW that, Lord Hokage." The sentence that finally broke the silence came from none other than the person who'd been her team leader for what seemed like forever: Kakashi. Haruno Sakura couldn't believe it as she heard her own team leader pleading the case against her. Then again, she'd seen almost all of her own friends and the kids she'd grown up with turn their backs on her, so it didn't terribly surprise her when the one who'd given her the most of her training told the leader why she should be thrown out into the wilderness to die. "She is the daughter of a demon."
"Kakashi!" Iruka argued. He'd seen Sakura's abilities and of all the instructors present, he seemed to be the only one not protesting how his former student was being treated. "How can we just throw her out to die?! She's demonstrated no malicious intent!" Hokage, as well as fifteen of the jounin from around the Konoha village turned to face him as though he'd just committed blasphemy. Small talk between instructors sitting adjacent to each other erupted, until Hokage himself spoke, to which all of the other talk ended.
"I know you all have mixed feelings about the discovery of one of our own students being the daughter of a demon," the calm leader of the village hidden in the leaves explained, "but Iruka is correct; she has demonstrated no malicious intent. Therefore, we must tread lightly on what we decide to be her fate. On one hand, we must take into account what happened to Yamanaka Ino last week; yes, she was put in the hospital after causing Sakura here to undergo a sudden emotional outburst." Upon hearing a pause in his leader's explanation, Iruka took it upon himself to further his argument.
"See? She's one of our own!"
"HOWEVER," Hokage did not hesitate to finish, "despite the fact that she almost killed a fellow genin, I will forgo the death penalty. That leaves one option: banishment. I've heard some of you argue it is not honorable to banish a young girl to die in the wild. Unfortunately, I must say that sometimes, we must forgo what is fair and honorable in order to protect the lives of the innocent. I hereby decide that Sakura, who no longer is allowed to go by the surname of Haruno, must forever be banished from this village. This decision is final; this meeting is adjourned." Two shinobi immediately behind Hokage grabbed Sakura by her arms, and began to drag her out of the room. However, she would not go easily.
"NO! NOOO! KAKASHI!" she pleaded for her very life. "DON'T LET THEM TAKE ME AWAY! NOOOO!" As she was being dragged away, she couldn't believe that her former team leader could stand there with a straight face while two jounin pulled her against her will towards the village gate. "SOMEBODDYYYYYY!" Down the dusty streets of Konoha, all the people stood at their doorsteps and watched the girl writhe and scream of her fate, pleading for help from anyone. Only one person ran towards the two jounin holding her, wanting to help.
"NARUUUTOOOO!" she screeched as the blond-haired junior shinobi dashed out to help her. "HELP MEEEE!" Upon hearing his rapid footsteps towards them, the two jounin increased their speed, and due to their extra skill, kept a decent pace away from him. He slowly began to catch up, in desperation trying to reach her. He cared for her; to see her unjustly kicked out of the only home she'd ever had didn't seem right to him. Just as he was about to grab her, someone pounced on him and tackled him to the ground.
"NO NARUTO! YOU CAN'T GET INVOLVED! LORD HOKAGE HAS DECREED HER TO BE BANISHED!"
"Oh YEAH?!" he shouted, turning around to see who was on him. "I DON'T HAVE TO DO WHAT AN..." as soon as his eyes met with those of the person who'd tackled him, he found himself short of breath. "SASUKE?!"
"Naruto," the dark-haired Uchiha said, slightly calmer, "you can't fight them now! Our lord has instructed them to put her outside the village forever!" He tried to quickly get to his feet to run after her, but the Uchiha prodigy got up just as fast and locked him in a full nelson. "WHAT DO YOU THINK WILL HAPPEN TO YOU IF YOU FIGHT THEM?"
No words could have shocked Naruto more. "WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK WILL HAPPEN TO HER IF WE LET THEM KICK HER OUT?! YOU THINK SHE'LL JUST BE UNAFFECTED?!!" He screeched. "SAKURRAAAA!" He tried to break his captor's grip, but couldn't. Finally, he surrendered his struggle with Sasuke's grip after seeing the gates open, them toss his teammate and friend outside, and slam the massive doors shut.
"See? Nothing you could have done would have mattered. Sakura's still been banished."
Naruto nailed his teammate in the face with a hard right hook. He spat on the Uchiha's shirt as he slowly walked away. "I'll never forgive you, Sasuke," he warned his comrade, with tears gathering. "she was one of us, and now look what your kind has done."
It is sometimes said that time makes one forget. Neither Iruka, nor Sasuke, nor Kakashi or anyone else who had played a major role in the permanent banishment of a young girl—who just happened to be the daughter of an extraordinarily powerful demon—would forget that first night they went to bed, knowing that someone they'd cared for so much, had been abandoned.
Sakura herself, will never forget that first night she tried to steal sleep in the dangerous forests outside the village of Konohagakure. Also, she went on to regret the person she just happened to meet that night she tried to steal sleep in the forest.
"Hello, young one," he'd said, awakening her just after she'd cried herself to sleep. "Sorry if I awoke you." She shook her head and buried her face in her arms.
"No one cares for me anyway, why should you be sorry? After all, the reason they hate me is because I'm a Toguro, not a nice, normal, human Haruno."
"But ah!" he exclaimed. "It's because you're a demon's child that I care about you! There are wonderful things we can do together. How'd you like to somehow get revenge on the ones that turned their backs on you?"
Through her tears, her frown turned into an evil grin, which at the time seemed to fit her tear-stained face. "I'd love to get back at them someday," she thought out loud. "Who are you anyway to care for me?"
He adopted an evil grin to match hers. "I've been called many things by many people," he explained. "for the sake our friendship though, you can call me Orochimaru."