Naruto

Sai X Sakura story this is my first attempt at a Naruto story so be kind and let me know if I do alright okay thank you!!!!

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Naruto characters but there are a few of my very own!!! Enjoy!

Chapter 1

The Hokage office was unearthly quiet due to the tension in the room and it's occupants. Tsunade watched with careful eyes the ANBU that stood before her searching for any out ward sign that the girl was like her former self or not.

The ANBU that stood before of the Hokage's desk was wearing her porcelain mask with no mouth and two eye slits. Painted on the mask were falling lotus flowers. The standard ANBU armor making the girl's pink hair that reached to her knees was in a thick braid stood out the most.

And any who knew her remembered her as a healer and a kindred soul that loved all those around her until that day five years ago when she lost two of the people that were family to her.

Sakura's heart was ripped from her chest seven years ago when she came home and found her parents had been slaughtered in their own home. Sakura had started to with drew into herself afterwards and would only respond to her friend and those she considered her family.

Then two years later what was left of Sakura's mended heart was destroyed by the death of Sasuke Uchiha and Ino Uchiha tore Sakura's fragile heart to shreds unable to be mended again. Sasuke gave his life to kill Orochimaru and Ino saved Choji's life but unfortunately she died of her own sever injuries that were beyond even the Hokage's abilities to heal.

Sakura gave up on all human contact and kept everyone at arms length and never let anyone get to close after that. She held her remaining teammates close but didn't allow anyone else close enough to ever hurt her if they were to die as well and leave her behind to mourn them. As time went on Sakura had started to spend more time at the KIA monument more so then Kakashi.

And as they years progressed Sakura joined ANBU where she could hide herself behind a mask and soon after the mask became a security blanket to her and she even adopted a spandex mask like her old sensei.

After all this time Tsunade was truly starting to fear for her beloved student as Sakura would go on solo missions always completing her mission as a success but coming back worse for wear.

And so Tsunade and Naruto whom was getting ready to take over for her as the next Hokage came to agreement about their favorite pink haired Shinobi. They would force her to wake up and live again if it killed them trying.

Once Tsunade came out of her thoughts she looked thoughtfully at Sakura before speaking.

"Sakura how long has it been since you have joined ANBU?" Tsunade asked evenly.

" Four years Hokage sama." Sakura replied softly without emotion.

"How many missions have you taken and how many have you taken out from the bingo books since then?" Tsunade glared at the girl across from her who seemed to not desire to answer and remained silent.

"Damn it steel blossom answer me Just how many solo missions have you taken on and dragged your sorry ass back here beat to hell and back!" Tsunade yelled at her former apprentice, standing from her seat slapping her hands on her desk, which groaned in protest of the abuse.

A hand gently landed on Tsunade's shoulder and rubbed softly to calmer her down. Looking over her shoulder at Naruto who was more mature and aged was silently asking her to regain her seat. Tsunade allowed Naruto to guide her back into her seat and she took a large breath to calm herself.

"10 Bingo book missions, 45 team ANBU missions, 80 regular squad missions, 310 ANBU solo missions, 40 hours a week at the hospital for shifts, and 10 hours on call" Sakura listed off the top of her head dully.

Naruto gasped behind Tsunade and even she was worried over the amount of work Sakura had completed in little over four years. It was an insane pace in which her student was working and how she ever found time to sleep was beyond her. Fear gripped Tsunade that Sakura was trying to work herself into an early grave in much the same way Kakashi had once done only with more responsibilities and honor.

"Sakura do you ever have time to sleep or do you ever go out for the night with friends to enjoy yourself I understand that you have lost much what with your friends sacrifices and you parents deaths but have you even done anything for yourself with your inheritance let alone all the money that you have brought in for yourself from missions and the hospital?

You can not keep doing this to yourself so I will give you one chance to answer me this what do you plan to do with your life?" Tsunade asked lacing her fingers together on the desk and watching her student's eyes carefully.

"I have done everything that I have always wanted to do in my life Sensei I am a top rate ninja, I am a poison master, a top notch doctor, and I have more money than I will ever know what to do with what with my inheritance from my parents, Ino and Sasuke's will that they left me the Uchiha compound and all assets what is their left to acheive or accomplish that I have not yet done what more could I want that I don't have?" Sakura asked bitterly with her fist clutched at her sides.

Tsunade sighed she was afraid of an answer like that. It was as she and Naruto feared Sakura had a death wish and she was going to go about it to get a heroic end if she could and if not she would take the easy out of dieing of exhaustion with the pretense it was all for the village.

"Do you not want children to love as your own? Someone to love you as a lover? What about someone to share the rest of your days with? Or someone to pass on all that damn knowledge in that stubborn ass head of yours! Along with the blood limit you created!" Tsunade gripped.

Again Naruto placed his hand on the Hokage's shoulder to calm her down a bit again. If Tsunade was being honest she was glad that Naruto was here with her right now otherwise she was afraid that she might have reached a crossed her desk and strangled Sakura where she stood.

When Sakura remained silent Tsunade sighed again so this was how Sakura wanted to do things the hard way just great.

"Very well then you leave me no choice. As of today I am pulling you off ANBU solo missions; you are not permitted to take on any missions from the Bingo book either. You will only be allowed to take team ANBU missions' part time. You will have a partner assigned to you as well as the team of genie I also will assign to you as well as the guardianship of one Keo Uchiha. You may only be on call at the hospital for 20 hours a week and no shifts." Tsunade finished watching the way Sakura started to shiver and shake uncontrollably.

"WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE!!! WHY THE HELL CAN'T YOU LET ME ALONE!" Sakura yelled finally she had snapped and her chakra was swirling around her out of control in her rage. Her blood limit coming to the surface unnoticed her green eyes turned electric blue in color and luminous glow.

Her blood limit that she created gave her perfect night vision, and like the sharigan she could follow fast movements and copy them. Though unlike the Uchiha blood limit hers could not trap people in illusions nor see into their minds. But it did give her a boost to her ninjutsu she could use the element of lightning at a whim and increase her speed.

"I am your Hokage and what I say is law are you going to undermine me? If you go against your orders you will be arrested lose all rank or become a missing ninja and be hunted down like a dog never to see this village or those you care about again… you choose."

Tsunade was bluffing she could never force Sakura to leave and even if she did she would never have her hunted down and killed but she would have her brought back to the leaf.

Tsunade knew she had to do something to break through the wall Sakura had placed around her self in order to save her student from falling into the shell she had become and force her to live again it has been to long since Sakura has shown anyone her sunny smile and since she had become broken.

Sakura fell to her knees hanging her head low and starting to cry with out a sound.

"Please don't take this from me I don't have anything left this was their dreams to be the best medical ninja and he wanted to be the greatest ninja there ever was this is all I have left of them please don't take their dreams away from me." Sakura whispered.

Naruto walked around the desk and kneeled downed to wrap his arms around her trembling form.

"Sakura you are going to kill yourself doing everything that you are is asking for a death wish you know that don't you?" Tsunade asked softly

"I don't care I have nothing left nothing but empty building and ghost from the past! Please…" Sakura whimpered clinging to Naruto's strong form.

"I am sorry Sakura but I can not allow my only daughter of my heart to kill herself needlessly. You know they never wanted anything but happiness for you so don't give up on that you must learn to live and love again. Now you have your orders go to the Uchiha district and get some rest and at the beginning of the week report here to pick up Sasuke's nephew the last Uchiha he will be your charge till his 17th birthday when he will be of age to inherit his father's half of the Uchiha district and wealth. You will meet your genie team Friday of next week understood?"

"Yes Hokage sama." Sakura answered defeated.

"Sakura the boy Kyo he is 11 years old he is Itatchi's son Sasuke and Ino were his guardian and then myself after them and now that I am leaving my post as Hokage to Naruto next year I believe it is time I prepare myself for retirement and you will be perfect to raise him you are the only other Uchiha left. You are dismissed."

Sakura stood and form the seals and puffed in a cloud of smoke out of the Hokage's tower and appeared at the old Uchiha compound.

When Sakura left the two blondes behind both sighed a little in relief.

"Do you think we did the right thing forcing her to take care of not one but three kids fresh from the academy let alone letting one live with her permanently? Naruto asked softly afraid to break the silence in the room.

"I am not sure but we shall see won't we, though we had to try something I could not take seeing the zombie that is all we have left of Sakura anymore we had to find a away to make her live again after all she has lost." Tsunade answered just as softly as he had.

Shrugging her shoulders Tsunade turned to her office door to leave.

"Well come on Hokage to be lets go get a drink at the Throwing Star we deserve it after the day we have had kido." Tsunade said as she left the office.

"Yeah we do" Naruto agreed turning and following his mentor out of her office and into the nightlife of the village hidden in the leaves.

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On the other side of the village it was deathly quiet in the Uchiha district with the whole district only having two occupants that lived on opposite sides of the compound to give the other space.

Sakura teleported right into her living room of the main house which she took for her own seeing as it was the last place her friends had lived before they died at Orochimaru hands.

Beside popular belief it was Sakura that had pushed Ino and Sasuke together after he returned to the village with all the information he could get on the Akatsuki and Orochimaru.

Sakura was even the maid of honor at their small wedding that was held here under the cherry blossom trees in the compound gardens that Sakura had hired people to take meticulous care of to honor their memory now that they are gone.

The main house had five bedrooms for the family and six guestrooms on the second floor, there was a dojo in the basement and a secret study where only Uchiha could enter. Though there was a library on the first floor as well; A large kitchen, receiving hall, living room, and four main bathrooms not counting the private bedroom baths for the main family in their rooms.

All in all to much space for one person to live it felt very lonely but it was all hers. Sasuke was adamant about her being adopted into the Uchiha family after he and Ino married he wanted to make sure that there would always be an Uchiha living in case anything were to ever happen to him and Ino there would be someone that was family to take care of their children when they had some.

And so Sasuke claimed Sakura was like a sister to Ino all of their lives and to him as well they had come to find out as they aged that Sakura never loved Sasuke more than a family member and so helped Ino and him get together. And Kakashi having a Sharigan made him an Uchiha just as much as Sasuke himself though he did decline the offer because he is the last of he Hataki clan.

So they held a blood joining ceremony that made both Sakura member of the Uchiha clan.

Sasuke had offered to do the same for Naruto; but after Naruto found out his father had been the fourth Hokage he had his last name changed to match his father's and graciously declined the Uchiha's offer stating they didn't need blood to be brothers.

And before Ino and Sasuke could have a houseful of kids running around Sakura had moved into the Uchiha district and thought life could not get any better and that nothing could go wrong.

Well then Sasuke and Ino died no children, and Sakura was on her own again with only Kakashi living else where on the compound.

Sakura sighed she hated remembering all of the good times she had with Ino and Sasuke because afterwards she would feel their loss so much sharper than before.

Dragging herself down the long hall to the master bedroom she had redecorated Sakura stripped out of her ANBU armor and mask and dumped them on the floor near the bathroom door going in and turning on the shower to scalding hot and stepping under the stream of water and leaning against the wall.

Sakura's arms were hugging herself tight as if to hold herself together to keep from breaking apart when she was in the shower she would allow herself to break down and cry for no evidence of the weak act would be left behind not trail of tears for they would mix with the heave stream of water flowing over her.

Sakura's hands drifted slowly down from her waist to her right hip and down her thigh to touch where a large tattoo started. It was a eastern style dragon that wrapped around her leg from just above the knee and all the way down to her foot. The head of the dragon rested mid thigh its eyes were electric blue the body green, black, purple, and red. If you week to look closely at the detail you would see that the whole body was made up of portraits of all those who were and are still important to Sakura.

Sakura had Sai draw the design up for her and then talked him into recreating it on her body and tattooing it to her skin permanently so she would always have them close to her even those she lost to death.

Sakura felt the normal warmth of the two tattoos on her wrist the Uchiha fan one on the underside of each of her wrist were the blood bond had been attached. Sakura whimpered again at the memories she was subjected to every time she saw the fan on her skin.

Finally getting the strength to wash her hair and body with unscented body wash and shampoo Sakura hurried thru her routine for the night.

Finally when Sakura felt she had control over her emotions again she stepped out of the shower and drying herself with a large fluffy towel and padded softly into her bedroom. She went strait to her chest of draws and grabbed out a sleeping kimono and quickly dressed.

The kimono a pale peach color had the Uchiha fan with the Haruno around it on the back. Sakura fell asleep into a dreamless sleep praying the nightmares wound not start again.