Summary: The Uchiha Clan is wiped out turning young Sasuke Uchiha's life upside down. In the aftermath Sasuke is mute and withdraws from everyone around him. Can Sakura get him to open back up? And when an unknow man presents himself, can Sakura protect Sasuke from him? And what about Sakura's unusual kekkei genkai?
Your Protector
Chapter 1:Massacre
Sakura's POV
"Sakura! You're going to be late for your class at the academy!" "I'm coming mother!" Hi I'm Sakura Haruno of the Leaf Village's Haruno Clan. I am 9 years old and a current student at Konoha's Ninja Academy. "Sakura!" And that's my mother Tomochika Haruno. The two of us look like we're sisters but we're nothing alike otherwise. I'm carefree and she's very strict, the two of us are like trying to force together two magnets of the same polarity. I run down the stairs grab a rice ball from the table, then run to the foyer and slip on my ninja sandals. When my sandals are on my feet I dart out the door to the ninja academy all the while hoping a praying that I would not be late.
As I arrive to the Academy I find that I am just going to make to my classroom. As I walk in I see Ino-Pig or Ino Yamanaka hanging all over Sasuke Uchiha the boy that almost half of the girls in my class liked, including myself, 'not that I'll admit that out loud though,' I say to myself. 'Sasuke Uchiha is the hottest boy in my class so why would he want ordinary looking me especially with my huge forehead.' I look back over to Sasuke and Ino-Pig and she's still hanging all over him and I notice that he's starting to get irritated. 'Go ahead, Sasuke, let her have it but good!' 'Three…two…one…' "Will you get the hell away from me?" "But Sasuke-kun-" "I said get the hell away from me!" Ino-Pig then walked away in a huff and as she passed me she heard me snicker. "You want to start something Forehead!" I opened my mouth to say something but was interrupted by Iruka-Sensei coming into the room.
As soon as he appeared everyone in the class swarmed to their seats. As I sat in my seat, between Sasuke and Naruto Nimikaze, 'Naruto being the son of the Fourth Hokage,' I felt like I was being watched. Upon further inspection I noticed that all the girls in the class were glaring at me like normal. They glared because of two reasons: 1) I was the only girl who hadn't confessed my love to Sasuke, meaning he wasn't annoyed with me so I could get closer to him than the other girls, and 2) I was the recipient of Naruto's affections, 'Meaning that Naruto has a crush on me.' As Sensei starts class everyone calms down and focuses on the front of the room.
Iruka-Sensei ended the class by saying that the graduation exams for the older classes were to be taken next week so we wouldn't have to come to class that day, most everyone in our class cheered in joy and were shouting things similar to, "We get to sleep in," or, "We get to do whatever we want." I simply smiled and when I looked over at Sasuke out of the corner of my eye I could have sworn I saw a genuine smile gracing his perfect lips, but when I actually turned my head to get a better look the smile was gone. I shrugged my shoulder thinking nothing of it and when Iruka-Sensei dismissed us I went home to eat a snack before going to the library to study.
Sasuke's POV
After Iruka-Sensei dismissed us I went straight to the library like I told mother I would. Along the way I stopped at the small restaurant stand that I always eat at on the way over to the library and got a bowl of Onegiri. When I was finished I went over to the library to study.
When I left the library I noticed the sun had already started to set and by the time I got home it had finished setting. As I walked through the gates of the Uchiha Clan compound something felt a little off. The streets around me were dark which was unusual, normally the lights were on and there were people walking around even at this hour but the streets were completely barren. Not a single sound could be heard except for the crickets chirping. I immediately started to run for home, I just knew that there was something wrong.
As soon as I arrive home I burst through the door, through off my shoes and start to search through the house looking for mother and father. I found them alright, in their bedroom, lying face down in a large pool of blood. I walked forward and when I was close enough I put a hand on my mother's face and her skin felt cold. I fell to my knees and started to cry for the first time in my life. I picked her head up and held it close to my chest and just cried. After a few moments I felt someone step up behind me. I turn around and see a tall woman with red hair in the doorway behind me. She knelt down on her knees and said, "It's alright, I'm not going to hurt you, I'm a friend of Mikoto's. It's alright, now come here and let me look at you and see if you're okay." I set my mother's head down and walked over to her. She then inspected my body carefully and said, "Well you don't look like you're hurt. Did you just get here then?" I simply nodded my head, I just couldn't bring myself to talk. "Can't you talk?" I shook my head no. "Oh I see, well, why don't you come and live with me?" I nodded my head and she took my hand and led me outside where I saw many shinobi walking around the compound.