This story is a time travel fanfiction, however the events of the past aren't accurate to the standard 'Naruto' world when they arrive in the past. This fanfiction will focus mainly on Sakura and I didn't want to get into too much detail on how they travel back in time (Neither does it really make sense) ;P Enjoy!

Sakura's hands shook in anticipation as she successfully infused the last eyeball into the assigned space on the complex scroll.

This particular scroll had twenty years of blood, sweat and tears poured into it. Mainly crafted by Tsunade, Sakura had carefully studied alongside her mentor to create a scroll that would send them back in time.

Tsunade had sent Sakura off on an ANBU training course, for roughly six months prior to this moment, with Kakashi, Sai and Yamato so that Sakura would be skilled enough to deceive the shinobi of the past, uncertain of how their presence would affect the timeline they were aiming to head into.

A breath of relief was heard from Sakura's trusted sensei, allowing Sakura a brief moment to relax her body and carefully place her hands back by her side.

"Are we doing the right thing, Tsunade-sama?" Sakura questioned, carefully considering the eyes of Tsunade. Tsunade nodded firmly while she moved her own hand above the three different, and powerful, eyeballs.

The Sharingan, which belonged to Obito, was placed at the top of the triangle diagram. Sasuke's Rinnegan was placed below Obito's eye on the right side. The Byakugan, which was still warm from the extraction Sakura performed, had belonged to Hanabi and sat at the bottom left of the triangle.

Sakura was sure that she made an enemy with the Hyuga's, however blissfully unaware of the current situation they were. Sakura's only hopes was that the years' worth of theorising time travel with Tsunade had paid off.

Tsunade cleared her throat to speak, snapping Sakura's focus to her.

"Everything is in place…Are you ready to travel back into the past?" Tsunade asked with confidence.

This was the very moment the two had planned. They had planned to travel back to eliminate Itachi and Orochimaru. Tsunade wanted to make it her personal assignment to eliminate Itachi, with Sakura's help. Sakura secretly made it her mission to kill Orochimaru, in the instance that Tsunade failed her mission to kill Itachi. Sakura desperately wanted to save Sasuke and believed that he was perfectly fine until Orochimaru had taken over his mind. Hopefully Sakura wouldn't have to kill Sasuke this time around if the jutsu worked successfully.

Sakura swallowed back her fear and nodded. She checked her pouch for the large sum of money she'd been saving during her training in ANBU before placing her hands steadily above Tsunade's. Exerting her chakra as the cold wind blew past the two kunoichi and into the night time terrain.

This was it, for Sakura. She had relied so heavily on this exact moment for the past six months that it almost felt unreal. Her eyes darted left and right as the world around her seemed to collapse in on itself, Tsunade included. However, she did not move an inch or ever stop exerting her chakra.

A sensation of intense dizziness almost tempted Sakura to move her position, although she remained grounded and fought through the feeling.

Eventually, her head started to regain normal feeling and the outdoor surroundings had reappeared piece by piece, looking slightly livelier than before, but Sakura felt like nothing had really happened.

The two Kunoichi were still in the densely tree-populated forest with small rays of soft light shining through the leaves of some of the trees, courtesy of the moon above them.

Sakura was close to collapsing in complete failure until she took in Tsunade's appearance.

"Whoa," Sakura couldn't stop herself from saying. Tsunade looked at her student strangely, inviting her to elaborate. "You must at least be twenty years younger. Our Jutsu worked!" She exclaimed gleefully, accepting that the jutsu seemed to work without a hitch.

Tsunade's lips parted ever so slightly before she took in her own appearance. She smiled triumphantly while storing away the used scroll in her pouch.

"This is great! I loved my young body!" Tsunade exclaimed, slightly childishly, before she took in Sakura's appearance. "It doesn't really look like you're that much younger, Sakura."

Sakura hesitantly looked down at her body and frowned at her appearance, it seemed like she'd only gone back around 5 years.

"That's not all too disappointing, I guess." Sakura started, trying to look at positives. "If I was any younger than 12, I would be a lot smaller." Sakura noted out loud, completely oblivious to her Mentors state.

Tsunade had suddenly collapsed onto the floor with a harsh thud, causing Sakura to flinch.

"Ahh…" Sakura muttered to herself before walking to her sensei's side. She hesitantly examined her sensei before concluding she over exhausted her chakra, which was the possible reason that she had gone back so many years in comparison to Sakura.

"Stop right there!" A voice boomed as a few kunai flew dangerously close to Sakura's face. Her head snapped in the direction of the voices as she got into a fighting stance.

"Who are you?" A different voice hissed. Sakura refrained herself from shivering as she recognised the voice before the two talented shinobi entered the scene.

It was Orochimaru and Jiraiya. Sakura's eyes widened in excitement as she saw that, despite his young age which again confirmed that the jutsu was successful, Jiraiya was alive and well.

Sakura's eyes quickly reverted to their impassive state. She had to make sure that she didn't appear to know too much about these two shinobi, otherwise things could get really messy, really quickly. So, she didn't let it show, but Sakura was quite excited to be presented with a new opportunity to repaint the future.

Orochimaru became super alert and suspicious of the pinkette before him. There was a feeling he had about her that he couldn't shake off. Was it her exotic look that excited him? Or was it the confident look of power she displayed in her face and body. Orochimaru licked his lips in bloodlust.

"Why are you attacking me?" Sakura retorted, trying to engage the two in a conversation. She was more than aware that she would not win in a battle with the two of them working together.

"Why are we attacking you?" Jiraiya bellowed with a confused expression. "Tsunade goes missing for a month and we find you here with an unconscious Tsunade next to you!"

Sakura stood firmly as she tried to fabricate an excuse, her gaze landing on Orochimaru. Orochimaru didn't fail to notice the slight flicker of fear in her eyes as she glared at him.

"I don't know what you mean, Tsunade-sama is my sensei. She didn't tell me she was missing." Sakura made up, earning Jiraiya's trust quite easily as he let his guard down.

However, Orochimaru left his position next to Jiraiya and darted in Sakura's direction with a kunai tightly grasped in his hand.

Sakura glowered in his direction before deciding to use one of Tsunade's moves to her favour, further backing up her initial story.

She reared her hand back speedily and forced it into the ground, flaring her chakra at the right time, causing the ground beneath her to rumble and disperse dangerously in Orochimaru's direction.

He jumped out of the way with ease before he continued to run at Sakura, forcing her to engage in close-combat.

Sakura used all her efforts to dodge each and every one of his attacks, fearing that he was using poison.

Orochimaru grew bored so instead of striking Sakura, he went to attack Tsunade.

"Oh no you don't, snake boy!" Sakura growled as she sped up behind him and tackled him to the ground, not aware of the stab wound she had acquired from the fall.

Orochimaru smirked victoriously before harshly pushing Sakura off him before standing up and brushing the dust off his legs.

"Why did you attack?" Jiraiya inquired as he jumped down to Orochimaru's side.

"If Tsunade really did train this pathetic excuse of a ninja, she will know basic medical jutsu." Orochimaru responded, knowing fully well that the poison he had used was one that Tsunade hadn't found an antidote to.

Sakura stood up slowly before grunting through gritted teeth as her body naturally inspected the damage.

"Basic medical jutsu doesn't involve removing poison from the system, you ass." Sakura muttered mostly to herself, but Orochimaru heard her as clear as day.

"She's out cold…What did you do to her?" Jiraiya broke Sakura out of her self-analogy.

"I didn't do anything at all…She just…Over exerted her chakra when trying to show me her signature move." Sakura quickly responded before snatching Orochimaru's flask of water.

He refrained himself from attacking her further and instead watched her next moves very closely. It was apparent to him that this Pinkette did train under Tsunade when she extracted the poison in her leg before tossing the tainted water to the side.

"You're lucky that's not poisoned water in my flask." Orochimaru chuckled darkly, although Sakura simply chose to ignore his comment.

"So…I wonder what made Tsunade want to train you…" Jiraiya pondered out loud, picking Tsunade up and sneaking peeks down her unusual outfit when he thought Sakura wasn't looking.

"Huh? What makes you say that?" Sakura questioned genuinely, handing Orochimaru back his flask once she was satisfied that her body could burn off the rest of the poison.

"Hm? Well, she not long left a bunch of orphans to fend for themselves…It's quite weird to see her reject the orphans and then decide that she wants to train you." He elaborated with ease. Sakura frowned and recalled that Jiraiya must've been speaking about Nagato, Yahiko and Konan.

"That's…hard to believe. She was so willing to pass her techniques onto me." Sakura responded in correspondence to her frown.

"You better believe it." He responded as he readied himself to leave.

"Wait! Let me travel with you! I live in the hidden leaf too." Sakura exclaimed while patting herself down. If she could befriend Jiraiya at this stage, it may be helpful in her future…maybe she could introduce him to Naruto quicker. Either way, if she could play the happy-go-lucky 12-year-old, she'd gain a lot of positive attention which would benefit her in years to come.

"Just keep up with us." Orochimaru bored as he darted off. Sakura smirked before recalling upon her previous ANBU training to race past him.

"Last one there's a big fat loser." Sakura taunted, purposely picking up wind from behind Orochimaru to block his vision with his own hair whipping him in his face. She swiftly grabbed Tsunade's limp body from Jiraiya and raced in the direction of the hidden leaf.

Orochimaru smirked and upped his pace where Jiraiya shouted in complaint in Sakura's direction.

They all raced for approximately half an hour, Sakura emerging the victor as she effortlessly reached the Gates to the village, Orochimaru was close behind catching his breath. Jiraiya greedily inhaled the air around him as he arrived a minute later.

"How old are you girl, and where did you get that speed?" Jiraiya's voice shook as he leaned against the village gates.

"It's rude to ask a lady her age. And through hard work." Sakura responded as she broke into a brisk walk in the direction of the hospital.

"Seriously, how old are you? What's your name?" Orochimaru questioned as he walked by her side.

Sakura saw no harm in expressing either as she inhaled.

"You can call me Sakura. I'm 12 and a half." She announced proudly, Jiraiya sighed deeply.

"That all?" He muttered solemnly. Sakura knew that it was a perverted joke but she ignored it nonetheless.

"Hmm…ok, I assume you live with your parents in the village then." Orochimaru continued, wanting to probe Sakura for all the information he could get. Sakura was tempted to respond honestly, but as she snuck a glance at where her home should've been, she decided otherwise.

There was a gaping space where her house should have been. Sakura wondered if that meant her parents didn't exist in this timeline.

"No…They both died during the ninetails attack." Sakura muttered, sincerely depressed at the thought of never seeing her parents again.

"Oh." Jiraiya uncontrollably gasped. "I'm sorry for your loss." He continued, feeling awkward and unsure.

"Don't you worry about it. I'm going to live on for them and make a name for myself in honour of their brave sacrifice to the village." Sakura chirped in response, causing Jiraiya to raise an eyebrow.

"You're going to strive towards becoming the Hokage?" Jiraiya questioned with a smug look on his face.

Sakura lost control of her rational mind as she fell into an unguarded topic.

"No way! The next Hokage's going to be Naruto." Sakura smiled very briefly before realising that Jiraiya reacted to her words, giving her a straight look.

"Who's Naruto?" Orochimaru frowned as he turned to look at Jiraiya. Before he could answer though, Sakura shoved Tsunade into Jiraiya's arms before bowing.

"It was an honour to meet all three Legendary Sannin. I hope I can be as great as you in my future." Sakura politely dismissed herself and ran away from the two.

She internally cussed herself for being reckless before a certain knucklehead caught her eye. She didn't expect to see him so soon…But she also didn't expect to see him as young as he was.

Sakura could accurately assume that she was twelve years of age, given her body type and chakra supply. But she imagined Naruto to be a bit older too. Ignorantly forgetting about the fact Itachi had wiped out the Uchiha clan when Naruto was merely 8, Sakura sighed.

She could tell that he was on his way to deface one of the Hokage's faces on the rocks, so she decided to chase after him at a leisurely pace, just so she could analyse his current skills.

She was unsurprised to see that he lacked any significant talent when it came to his speed. Naruto clumsily climbed up the rocks before reaching the Fourth Hokage's face.

Sakura wondered whether he chose that face to paint over first as that was his dad, although being unaware to create the link at his young age, maybe it drew Naruto to him because of the similarities they both shared. Sakura took a moment to take everything in.

She then frowned as she thought about Sasuke…He would also be the same age as Naruto…Which meant that Sakura had to wait just a bit longer to consider getting into a relationship with him…

Sakura sighed inaudibly as she cussed her preference in older men.

Naruto loudly plunged the big brush into the big bucket of red paint, sniggering at himself as he mixed the brush in a circular motion.

"Time to intervene, and introduce myself I guess." Sakura said out loud as she promptly clicked her neck left and right.

She jumped up to the make shift scaffolding that Naruto made and landed so softly that he didn't even notice her, giving Sakura great pride in her progress as a ninja, and thanking the fact that her skills went undamaged when she travelled back through time.

Sakura allowed Naruto to paint the first line onto the face of the Hokage before she tilted her head to the side. Holding her chin in her fingers on her right hand while cupping her right elbow with her left hand, she looked as if she was about to give Naruto's handiwork professional criticism.

"I don't think that's what a future Hokage should be doing to the face of another Hokage, you know." Sakura said in an authorative tone while leaning down to Naruto's height.

Naruto jumped out of his skin, almost hitting Sakura in the face with a paintbrush as he spun on the spot to face her.

"Gah! You flat-chested hag! You scared me!" Naruto shouted. It took all the strength in Sakura not to punch this boy into his grave as a vein on her head twitched.

"You're not supposed to be up here, let alone destroying village property." Sakura darkly responded through a blank expression.

Naruto simply dropped his brush into the paint bucket and crossed his arms before he looked up at the Pinkette.

"Who are you to be bossing me about anyway, Flat-chested hag?" Naruto childishly provoked. Sakura didn't feel as angry as she did the first time but instead felt pity for her young friend, remembering that this was probably what he considered to be fun during his free time as no one else in the village wanted to acknowledge him.

"I'm Sakura H-" She interrupted herself before she spoke her last name. "My name is Sakura and I'd like to be your friend. Because you seem so cool." Sakura added, laughing genuinely at Naruto's confused reaction.

"Did you fall down a tree and hit every stupid branch on the way?" Naruto bluntly scoffed before relaxing his stance a bit.

"Not at all." She responded politely as she stood up straight and offered her hand out. "It's nice to meet you…uh." Sakura said before deliberately stuttering. Naruto's face lit up as he took her hand and shook it.

"The name's Naruto! Don't you forget it!" He said with great pride. Sakura smiled warmly at him before pointing to the bucket of water and soap that was on a different set of scaffolding.

"I'm going to get that bucket over there and bring it back. If I do, will you clean up the mess you've made?" Sakura spoke clearly, finding Naruto's micro-facial expressions amusing to an extent.

"What's the point, the Hokage's don't do shit for us." Naruto barked quietly. Sakura slightly flinched at his choice of words.

"Look, Naruto. The Hokage's have a really important job in the Village, and they all worked really hard to protect the village. If they didn't neither of us would be standing here today." Sakura replied simply, leaning back a bit while crossing her arms.

Naruto was dumbfounded and found himself looking at the ground.

"…Fine, I'll clean the paint off. But don't think this means I respect the Hokage's!" Naruto reluctantly agreed to cleaning up his mess. Sakura nodded slightly before jumping elegantly to the other scaffolding and returning just as gracefully. "Are you a Shinobi?" He questioned while removing the sponge from the bucket.

Sakura kept a hold of the bucket as she hummed in confirmation. Naruto pouted as he made quick work of the cleaning. Naruto's stomach suddenly rumbled loud causing his face to slowly turn red in embarrassment.

"I'm quite hungry." Sakura said out loud, in attempt to hide Naruto's embarrassment. "How about I treat you to Ichiraku Ramen?" She suggested, knowing that Naruto would have no complaints.

Naruto fist pumped the air in excitement before the two packed away and headed to the food stand. A few people in the streets had turned their attention onto the Boy walking next to Sakura.

"It's the monster…" Sakura heard a snobby lady say to her young kid, who clearly had no clue what she meant.

Sakura was glad that Naruto didn't hear her, but she still decided to shoot the lady a deathly glare.

"You got a problem?" Sakura asked softly as she stopped walking. Naruto looked up at her curiously, thinking why she sounded like she was happy but had a deadly aura about her.

"Yes actually. We all do!" the snobby lady gulped back the fear that built inside her and snapped back at Sakura.

"I suggest you get rid of that ignorant notion of yours and start thinking for yourself, otherwise I cannot know which month of the year I'll be knocking you into." Sakura threatened with a sweet smile before ushering Naruto into the familiar ramen stand, not bothering to see the mess she'd left behind her.

"Oh, uh." Ichiraku looked at Naruto nervously, uncomfortable about seeing him yet making sure he bit his tongue. "What can I do for you?" He asked with a shaky voice. Naruto hopped up to the stool and looked at the man with a heart-warming expression on his face.

"I'll have whatever you recommend is your best ramen served in a small bowl please, and Naruto here, what would you like?" Sakura informed Ichiraku before turning around to ask the small blonde.

Naruto made a sound out loud as he thought about what he wanted. He looked at Sakura apologetically before slumping his shoulders.

"I've never been here before…" Naruto admitted finally. Sakura sighed quietly before turning back to Ichiraku.

"And one large bowl of Naruto Ramen." She said with a smile.

"Coming right up, miss." He took in the information and started to cook to order.

"There's a ramen named after me?! That must mean that I'll become Hokage one day!" Naruto laughed loud.

"More like, you're named after Irchiraku's delicious Naruto Ramen, Naruto." She giggled back. Ichiraku heard her compliment and smiled before a brief flashback of his conversation he had with Minato came across his mind. He sighed inaudibly as he continued to cook.

"No way!" Naruto said in disbelief.

The two shinobi spoke amongst each other, sharing their dreams and ambitions for a solid half an hour before Ichiraku served two steaming hot bowls of food. Naruto's eyes seemed to sparkle as they enlarged.

"Whoa! This smells so good!" Naruto drooled as he picked up a pair of chopsticks. "Itadakimasu!" Naruto wailed before he started wolfing down the ramen. "Arhhh! So goof!" He appreciated through his food, making Ichiraku smile modestly at the boy.

"I like you kid!" He roared in a fit of laughter. Naruto continued to hoover his food up as Sakura picked up her chopsticks.

"Thank you for the food." She said before digging into the ramen, carefully picking out the Menma first and eating it.

"Oh! What does that taste like, Bunny-girl?" Naruto questioned after gulping his food, quite unsafely is Sakura were to judge.

"Bunny-girl?" Sakura laughed before picking up a piece of Menma. "Believe me when I say, you probably don't have the acquired palate for Menma, Naruto."

"Try me!" He said, eager to try something new. Sakura handed Naruto over the Menma. He chomped on it once before spitting it out. "Maybe you're right…" He moaned before turning back to his own bowl, shocked to see that he had already finished it off.

"Another Large bowl of Naruto Ramen for Naruto please!" Sakura ordered, Ichiraku already seemed to anticipate this as he whipped up another bowl in no time.

"Hehe, Thanks lady!" Naruto thanked graciously before eating the second bowl at a more appropriate pace.

Sakura would have started to eat the rest of her ramen, if it weren't for the fact she could feel that someone had flared their chakra nearby, is if to call Sakura to them. Sakura sighed as she flared her chakra back briefly in the direction she felt the call came from. Whoever it was that wanted her, she didn't want Naruto to get involved.

"Sorry Naruto, But I forgot that I had to go to the hospital to see how my friend is doing. I'll see you tomorrow, okay?" She said as she got out the correct amount of money and put it on the counter. Ichiraku smiled as he took the money. However, Sakura reached into her pouch for more. "This is for making Naruto's first ramen experience remarkable, I think you've gained yourself a regular customer." She smiled before ruffling up Naruto's hair.

"Hey!" He groaned quietly. She simply smiled again and resisted the urge to pinch his chubby cheeks before walking outside. It took her a short amount of time for her eyes to adjust to the lack of light before she saw to members of ANBU standing quite menacingly under a flickering lamp post.

She easily recognised Kakashi behind his mask, his grey hair wasn't hard to miss. However, she had a bit of trouble figuring out who the member next to him was.

She resisted the urge to freak Kakashi out by addressing him by his name as she approached him. Kakashi noticed that the lady seemed to look at him with a sense of familiarity…Did she know him?

"What can I do for you scary ninjas?" Sakura said in a flat tone, trying to get a better look at the dark-haired member behind the weasel mask.

"We are to escort you to the Hokage's office immediately." Kakashi spoke, gripping his hand on his Katana.

Sakura crossed her arms and leaned to one side while raising an eyebrow.

"And if I decide to simply vanish before your very eyes?" Sakura questioned childishly, hoping to get a reaction from the unfamiliar man to get a gauge on who he may be.

"Firstly, you wouldn't." Kakashi started, despite Sakura scoffing he continued. "Secondly we'd eliminate you without a second thought."

Sakura giggled slightly before walking nonchalantly towards the Hokage tower.

"Don't worry, I have no intention of running away…It's inevitable that the Hokage would want to speak with me." Sakura muttered to herself mostly, very aware that the two ANBU members were stalking her along her journey.

"You've got our villages headband on, yet you're unfamiliar. If it were up to me, I would've taken you to the torturing room. It's more than likely that you are a spy." Kakashi's companion spoke up.

Sakura would've laughed if he wasn't so serious.

"I can't say that I recognise you, so I guess that means that you're a spy too." Sakura mirrored his logic irrationally. "I've seen Mr Pervy grey hair around the village a lot." Sakura said, as if to back up her statement and to provoke the mystery man to revealing his identity.

"Pervy?" Kakashi repeated in disbelief. Sakura was glad that they weren't facing in her direction as she let a wide smile spread on her face.

She would definitely have fun teasing her former Sensei.

A/N: This isn't to be an accurate fanfiction where it concerns the time that Orochimaru left the leaf village, so I'd just like to make you guys aware of that ^_^

I'm trying out a different style of writing, Please let me know if it's good! and if there is anything I could improve on I would love to hear it!

I'm putting my other fanfictions on hold until I finish this story.

I also have read many fanfictions (and created a few of my own) that involved Sakura somewhat involuntarily going back into the past, so without putting too much of the boring detail in the beginning ;D I've taken you all straight to the past.

(Not triple checked the text so I apologise for any mistakes)

Please Review

but more Importantly, I hope you enjoyed and Thank you for reading!

I've not decided on a final paring, so please tell me who you want to see! that includes flings with other characters too! However bizarre!

( I also plan on making a short fan fiction to link to Sakuras ANBU training with Sai, Kakashi and Yamato before she travelled into the past which may focus on a KakaSaku relationship :p )