A/n: Hello! I just came up with a pretty good plot for a SasoSaku fanfic. This is more of a mellow/peaceful kind of story... So it's best to read it when you're in a peaceful mood. Relaxing music is also good idea.

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Note to readers:

What you are going to read is a story based on a poorly written diary of mine. I never thought that I would publish this, but I guess I really wanted to. It's just a little slice of what my boring life is about. There's not much action or romance that would really make me famous or some form of attention that most people want. I just want to let out the burden from my shoulder that I've been holding on for too long. My name is Haruno Sakura. I'm now twenty-five years old and in this story I'm around nineteen or twenty. It all began after waking up from a failed suicide attempt.

From the author,

Sakura Haruno.

A Slice of Life

"Pity... I didn't die." Sakura thought to herself as her eyes fluttered open slowly seeing white walls and wires around her hearing a machine making endless beeping noises that irritatedly indicated that she is very much alive.

She hated that sound and she grew more aggravated as she heard another unpleasant sound from a witch she was to call "mother"

"Sakura..." A woman who's face resembles the pinkette rudely voices out "I can't believe you did this again, you selfish little ingrate... You're an embarrassment to me. You're already an adult, and you still play childish games like this to get my attention? What a stupid girl. I can't believe I let you into this world. If I would have known you'd become like this I should have had you aborted."

Sakura smiles at the remark that her mother repeats every time she is brought to the hospital. She wished she was never born into this world if she found out her mother was a bitch. Sakura despised her mother in many ways, so much that she didn't even react to her hurtful comments anymore.

"Did I ask to be born in this stupid world?" Sakura replies calmly as she looks out the raindrops splashing endlessly onto the windows. "I didn't ask to live. Especially under you. Why can't you just let me die now? Why bring me to the hospital?"

Her mother rolls her eyes and crosses her arms looking at her with an irritated face. "Because you would die in such a pathetic way. Why don't you just die using sleeping pills or hang yourself on the ceiling to ensure you're completely dead instead of cutting your wrists?"

"Ma'am please... Don't say such things here." The doctor says as she overhears their conversation.

"You have no right to get into our business, doctor. If you cross us, I'll write you out to the head of the hospital." The mother hissed at the doctor and began to pace out the hospital room.

The doctor sighs and nods at the older rosette and turns to Sakura smiling at her. "Well miss, you will be discharged in a matter of days so please just lie down and rest until you recover..."

Sakura turns her head from the window and looks at the doctor with a blank look in her eyes and asked bitterly, "Why did you bring me back to life? I wanted to die. I'm not crazy. So don't try that reverse psychology bullshit on me, I'm fine."

The doctor sighs and looks at Sakura again softly trying her best to get along with her. "I understand... I'll be leaving now, miss." The doctor then bows and takes his leave, leaving Sakura alone with the heart rate monitor beeping mercilessly.

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A few days passed and Sakura's discharge was today. She sat up on the bed and quietly read a book peacefully. The door's knob soon turned and Sakura didn't bother glancing, knowing that it was her mother- although against her will, coming to pick her up.

"Sakura, are you feeling better? I heard the news and I was really worried..." a boy's heart warming voice came across the room, making Sakura turn her head towards the person.

"Oh! Naruto!" She says surprised.

Naruto's presence always soothed Sakura's mind. He had always been there for her ever since they were in elementary school. She had met Naruto when she was getting picked on by older students in school, and he deflected them. She was surprised on how a small kid like Naruto could put up a fight to upper class kids. Till then, they were like two peas in a pod.

"Well, Sakura... It was the talk of the week. Naturally everyone knows. After all your mother does own the college we both go to."

"Right... Sakura, the spoiled little rich girl who couldn't get what she wants and decides to commit suicide to get it. I know, I know..." the pinkette rolls her eyes and yawns turning the book's page.

"Something along those lines... Anyways, here... " The blond boy smiles and hands her a brochure of the countryside. "A ticket to the Suna village. It's quite peaceful there and I thought that maybe this is what you need."

Sakura looks at the brochure and takes it, looking at the photos and attractions and suddenly loses interest and hands it back to Naruto. "Thanks, but no thanks. I'm not interested. A vacation won't do me any good."

The blond boy sighs and hands it back to her, "I know you're not just throwing a tantrum because you didn't get what you want. You're not like that. I think it's depression and as a best friend... I can tell what you're suffering from. Think of this as a therapy session."

Sakura looks at Naruto with a confused face, her eyebrows furrowed at him and takes the pamphlet again. "What therapy session? How do I get this stupid therapy?"

Naruto smiles and chuckles pointing at Suna's local hospital, "Well apparently a patient there is undergoing a somewhat similar situation as you. I kind of signed you up to a community service to be his "therapist" since no one kept that position for a long time. I thought that maybe-"

Sakura clenches her fists and grits her teeth irritated by Naruto, now knowing that he signed her up to something without her consent. "You did what?!"

Naruto shudders a bit and earnestly tries to calm Sakura, "Listen... Talking to him will help you and even him. Killing two birds with one stone, right? Why don't you just try it out... Please? I'm just trying to help you. I'll keep you updated and call you every night to check if things are going great. If not, I'll resign you. Besides.. I uh.. I kind of resigned you from school so you can do this therapy and go to study at Suna. They've got a good college and I heard that they teach well in what you major in."

Sakura grew more irritated at Naruto, but exhales and nodding her head in surrender. "Fine... I'll go. Since I have nothing to do in this city now... Thanks to you..."

"Watch... You will thank me for real later on." Naruto's cheeky smile appears lightening up the stress on her mind.

"Oh, Naruto.. Do you have any idea of what I've gone through? How would you know that the person is going through the same thing as me?" She thought to herself bitterly at him, but conceals the horrible thought with a fake but genuine-looking smile. "I'll see..."

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The rosette packs in all her belongings inside her suitcase along with miscellaneous items put inside a cargo box. After sealing her box and finishes packing up, a knock on the door is heard from downstairs, indicating that a man was there to pick her belongings and drop them off to her new home in the countryside.

As she paced down the staircase, she encounters her mother going the opposite way. The moment Sakura spots her mother, she decides not to lay an eye and neglects her, pretending she had never existed and continues her way to the door.

A cruel voice then comes from her mother's mouth again, "You think going to the countryside will get you anywhere? Your life is already messed up. I don't think moving out will stop you from killing yourself. How many times have I done that?"

Sakura stops at her tracks and smiles to herself and turns facing her with a smug face, "Well this time... This "vacation" is not from you. So I'm not going to waste it. To be honest, when I do something that has a little something to do with you... I just want to die... But not this time. This is for Naruto."

The mother looks at her not at all phased and goes up to her bedroom, and as for Sakura she headed on and answered the door to see the man come and take her belongings.

"Sorry for the trouble I'm causing you. I don't exactly travel light. Since I might practically live there forever. Thank you so much... um..." She smiles at him and bows in respect.

"My name's Kankuro... It's no problem. It's my job anyway..." He replies with a smile as he wipes his sweat with a towel. "Anyways... Your belongings will be where you want them to be when you arrive there. No worries."

"Thank you. I'll look forward to it." Sakura says again and closes the door, hearing the truck drive away.

She then reaches for her phone and dials Naruto telling him that she is ready for departure.

"I knew I shouldn't have relied on you for being my driver to the bus station. I'm not going to catch my ride thanks to you... The bus leaves in ten minutes..." Sakura says impatiently as she leans on the sill of the car's passenger window.

"Hey! Hey! I told you to call me half an hour before you're done with that guy taking care of your stuff. Now your new house will be full of furniture without a person living in it. Whatever... It's fine, it's fine... I'm almost there. It will take me five more minutes to arrive there and you have five minutes to find the right bus. You'll be on time!"

"I doubt that..." the rosette says hopelessly.

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"Okay! We made it! Happy now?" Naruto says as he pushes Sakura aboard the bus. "Now don't be a bitch and make some new friends at Suna. I'm only with you on the phone, so I can't stop you from having a fit all day from now on!"

"Yeah. I know just shut up, Naruto. You're making a scene..." She says rolling her eyes as she hands her ticket to the driver and sits onto the unoccupied seat by the window seeing Naruto still there waving at her.

His bubbly personality gave Sakura a pleasant feeling but also a melancholy feel to her heart. She was going to miss that knucklehead from elementary school. She was going to miss that heartwarming voice that always lifted her mood. She was going to miss everything about him now that her only source of happiness was fading as the bus begins to move far away from the happy blond boy who was still waving.

She began tearing up a bit as she didn't take her eyes off of Naruto until she had gotten to the point where she can't see him anymore. She then leans back onto her seat and lets her tears trail down her cheeks as the bus takes her to a new destination.

A destination in the countryside of Suna. Where there's a hospital standing and inside a redheaded man of twenty years lying on his bed, nonchalantly looking out the window. The heart monitor beeping endlessly as he hopes that the noise will die out along with him.

A Slice of Life: Chapter 1

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a/n: Yes! I managed to pull off a chapter out with this recent idea of mine! So what do you think? Should I continue? Reviews are greatly appreciated. It motivates me to continue. No kidding.

Over and out!

- Boomey Romey