Full Summary:
War Between the Shifters- All three used to be friends. Sakura was the heir to the Cat Haven and Sasuke was the heir to the Dog Palace. Naruto was the Son of the Hokage. They met and befriended each other, but one death tore them apart. Their kinds fought against each other for years until they were betrayed. Then they had to band together against a new foe, with the guidance of the Hokage on their side. Will things ever be like they were before? Innocent Sakura turned to Strong Sakura, Enthusiastic Naruto turned to Mature Naruto, and Uncaring Sasuke turned to Betrayed Sasuke. Will things ever be the way they were before between them? Friends turned to enemies. Lovers turned to haters. Sakura suffers, Naruto suffers, Sasuke suffers. They all suffer, and for what? War, Hatred and Death is all that comes, so why did Sakura suddenly change. She became cold and emotionless. But why? What did the boys do to her?
SakuraxSasuke, NarutoxHinata, TentenxNeji, TsunadexJiriaya, MoegixKonohamaru. Rated M
Prologue
"We're going to be friends forever," screamed a hyperactive blonde as he practised his fox transformation, because of his experience he could only produce a tail and ears.
Two 110 year olds and a 100 year old stood in a clearing playing. The boys had been told not to see their pink-haired female cat shifter friends, as she had for the two boys from the neighbouring kingdom. They didn't know why, so they always just snuck out and played. They had been doing that since they were 80, and had become good friends quickly. The warm-hearted and bubbly Sakura, the cold, impassive Sasuke who was icy and distant to all of those he didn't know or didn't like, and last but not least, the hyperactive, believe-it-or-not knucklehead Naruto.
There were two neighbouring kingdoms; the Cat Haven, and the Dog Palace. They had been at war for as long as anyone could remember because of their ancestors. One of the Cat ancestors and one of the Dog ancestors had long ago fought over the same female dove shifter. The two men had fallen in love with her and had fought, accidentally killing her when she tried to intervene. The Dog shifter's Chidori and the Cat shifters super strength had both played a part in the death of the naïve dove. From then on, the two neighbouring kingdoms had been at war, each side blaming the other.
Each shifter had one form except for the descendants of the first shifters, in other words; the royal family. The descendants had both the power to change into any animal they want from their family, and the power that marks them as royalty; the Chidori and the Super Strength. Sakura and Sasuke were both descendants from the first shifters, yet they never told each other that for fear of being treated differently or/and a fake friendship. Sasuke was from the Dog family and Sakura was from the Cat family. Ages for the shifters, any shifters, were different than normal mortal ages. Shifters lived to be 1000, which in looking at the person would be equivalent to 100 in mortal ages. So when Sakura first met Sasuke and Naruto, she was 70 in years, but 7 in looks. Their ages were in normal years yet their looks were divided by 10. So if someone was 150, they would be 15 in looks even though they have lived for 150 mortal years. This was part of their Shifter magic.
Sakura had met Sasuke and Naruto in the very forest they were in now, 20 years ago when Sakura was 70 and Naruto and Sasuke were 80. Naruto and Sasuke had both run away that day because the both of them had not been able to shift properly into their second forms, when most of their kind at that age had. They couldn't stand the sympathetic looks they got from the people around them. Sakura had been exploring and had stumbled upon a half transformed wolf and a half transformed fox… This is where the story really begins.