Hello guys I haven't written a story in a long time... Also I had to make a new account because I can't remember what my old one was. Anyway I've been bored lately so I've decided to try and write a story again. Hopefully I'll finish it this time and maybe it won't be too bad. (A/N)

Currently being rewritten to fix previous mistakes as of 27/08/2014, don't mind me ^^.

Sakura walked down the lonely street of Konoha, the same street she walked every time she finished her shift late at the hospital. She usually walked home along a shorter path but at this time of night it's full of drunken men crawling out of the bars lining the street.

It was midnight when she reached her door. She pulled her jingling keys out her jacket pocket careful not to drop the large stack of papers cradled in her arms.

She walked into her medium sized apartment, shedding her jacket onto the coat rack shaped like a moose's horn hanging on the wall. She carried the papers into her office and plopped them onto her desk.

She sat down and shuffled through the papers, most of which were incomplete patient's forms that she had to fill out. Her eyes stopped on a scroll stamped with the official Hokage crest. She opened it and her eyes sped down the page.

"A mission, eh?" she said to herself a grin spreading across her face, she hadn't been on a mission in at least two months. Sakura was now eighteen and was now quite an asset to her village, she was the best medic in the land whom only Tsunade could compare.

Sakura was informally part of the Anbu and on her last mission she was assigned to assist and heal one of the Anbu teams.

This mission however was a solo mission in the land of Sound. The villagers there have reported that an epidemic of influenza had broken out, one which currently had no cure. She was assigned to assist them by extracting the bacteria and creating a cure which she would distribute.

The influenza had horrible symptoms and if she did not leave soon a large amount of innocent people would die. This was an urgent mission and she would have to head out in the morning.

She sat up and walked to her room, searching for her weapon pouch and medicinal satchel. After making sure she had everything she needed including chakra and soldier pills as well as clothing changes, food, weapons and sealing scrolls she took a shower and went to bed.

In the morning the sunlight caressed her cheeks and her eyes drifted open, a glazed look covering her emerald orbs. A yawn escaped her slightly parted lips and she arched her back like a stretching cat.

She hopped out of bed changing into her pink shirt black pants and red tank top. Once she had eaten and packed a supply of food and money into her back pack she grabbed her supplies, strapping her medicinal satchel around her waist and her weapon pouch around her thigh. Sakura left her apartment and walked to Tsunade's office to report to her. This was something that all ninja's had to do before embarking on a mission assigned to them by the Hokage herself.

"Sakura, you're already leaving Konoha?" Tsunade asked tiredly lifting her head off her desk. A few bottles of sake were lying empty on her desk and it was obviously Tsunade had a raging migraine.

"Hai, sorry for waking you, Shizune let me in." She replied cheerily. Tsunade let out a sigh of recognition and wished her well on her mission.

Sakura stood at the gates of Konoha breathing the richly pine scented fresh air into her lungs. "Here I go." She said aloud to herself a brilliant grin spreading across her pretty features.

She jumped from tree to tree, her feet laden with small amounts of chakra. At the speed she was going she would be there in a few days. After a few hours of high speed travel she stopped and rested her back her back on a tree and pulled a breakfast bar out her back pack.

She bit into the bar and smiled childishly, strawberry was her favourite flavour. It was then that she sensed something she hadn't in a very long time.

She quickly cloaked her chakra and dropped the bar into her back pack. Her eyes raced wildly around the terrain below her. Her eyes widened as she spotted them below.

It was Sasuke.