Hi! This is my first Naruto X Bleach crossover, hope you guys like it! (By the way, it'll take a while to get to Toshiro and Sakura's romance so bear with it for a bit, I'll do my best tomake it good :3)
Sakura: Vizard Style, Chapter 1
Uchiha Madara choked funny. At least, that was what Sakura thought when she stabbed him through the heart. His dramatic fall to the ground was a little cliché though. She pulled her sword out of his chest.
'So we just killed THE Uchiha Madara.' Sakura thought.
'Yeah, I would totally be cheering right now, if it weren't for the fact that we're dying from that son of a bitch's sword through our chest too.' Inner thought dryly.
Sakura looked down at her chest. Madara had managed to stab all the way through her chest, just inches away from her heart. She looked around at her surroundings, the last thing she would see before her death.
She was surrounded by craters and smoke from explosion tags. And it was heaven to her. As her knees folded under her, she lifted a trembling hand to her mask and pulled it aside. Her ANBU Captain mask rested on the side of her head. She bit her thumb hard enough to draw blood and used the dregs of her chakra to summon a small slug.
"Sakura-sama! All you all right?" The tiny slug asked.
"I'm going to die soon, Hikari. Can you do me a favor and send a message to Tsunade-shihou for me?" Hikari nodded a little shakily. "Tell her I bumped into Uchiha Madara while traveling back from the mission then engaged and killed him. Then, tell her to find both bodies fifteen miles south of Konoha."
Hikari nodded again. "Are you sure you're going to die? I could—"
Sakura shook her head sadly. "I'm positive. Even Tsunade shishou can't save me now. Tell the rest of your family I'll miss them, okay?" She drew a shuddering breath. "Tell the rest of the people I love them all, and to keep pursuing their dreams. Tell Tsunade-shishou and Shizune that they were the best, tell Sai to live life to the fullest. Tell Shika that I'll make his life troublesome even in the afterlife and to find a good shoji partner. Please tell them all that I love them so, so much." With each word, her voice grew quieter and quieter. "Bye, everyone." She smiled the tiniest bit before she took her last breath and laid her head back.
'It's finally over.'
'Peace.' Inner whispered, her voice drifting away from Sakura.
And Sakura died in a beautiful, ravaged field, with a dead Uchiha and a small slug, at peace.
Tsunade frowned at the broken pieces of her small cup that she had dropped seconds ago. Shizune also frowned. Her shishou never dropped a cup that held sake.
Poof!
A small slug appeared on Tsunade's desk.
"Hikari? Do you have a message from Sakura? Why are you crying?" Tsunade asked each question with fear growing inside.
"Tsunade-sama… Sakura-sama… She.." Hikari hiccupped a little. "She's dead."
Silence.
"What?" Shizune and Tsunade both whispered, paling.
"How?" Tsunade's tears began falling.
"She… She ran into Uchiha Madara on the way back from her mission." Tsunade and Shizune both gasped. "She managed to kill him but he landed a fatal wound before she killed him."
"That's our Sakura." Tsunade and Shizune both smiled a tiny bit despite their tears. Sakura was a fighter to the end. It only made sense that she would have been killed in action fighting the most powerful criminal ever.
"Her body is fifteen miles to the south from here. She wanted to tell everyone that she loved them and to do their best to follow their dreams." Hikari murmured this quietly. The rest of her family would also cry at Sakura's death. They all loved Sakura for her kindness, Hikari was barely holding in her own feelings.
"Thank you, Hikari, thank you." Tsunade whispered and Hikari poofed away, back to her family to break the news. Tsunade straightened up and snapped her fingers. Immediately two ANBU appeared.
"I want you two to accompany me and Shizune to retrieve two bodies. Follow me." The two shinobi nodded, and the four of them took off.
Sai sat at a large table with Konoha 12. Their genin senseis, and Team Hebi. Everyone was laughing and drinking sake and he would have been drinking had it not been for a cold feeling in his stomach. An image of Sakura flashed through his mind and a feeling of dread settled in his stomach. He was one of the few who knew Sakura was an ANBU Captain and the only one out of the group besides Shikamaru that knew. He looked over at Shikamaru, who also seemed to look a little more patsy than usual.
Sakura didn't hang out much with the rest of Konoha 12 anymore. After Sasuke's return with Team Hebi, Karin had tried to take her place and succeeded. And since Sakura was always busy either with hospital shifts or ANBU work, her friends had been more than willing to accept Karin to fill Sakura's spot. The only ones that Sakura actually talked to with anymore was Sai and Shikamaru. The three of them were like siblings, after missions they would always meet up at Sakura's place to eat dinner and watch movies with lots of gore. To Sakura, Sai and Shikamaru were her best friends, brothers, and one of the few people she would trust her life with.
Sai's worried feelings only increased as an ANBU interrupted their meal. He noticed that the ANBU was hunched over a little, a sign of sadness.
"The Hokage requests all of you to gather at the hospital immediately." He said.
"All of us? For what?" Shikamaru asked. The ANBU tensed a little.
"It's important. Report immediately." He replied and poofed away.
Sai and Shikamaru tensed while the group laughed and prepared to leave, taking their time.
"Do you think.." Sai muttered.
Shikamaru nodded. "It's the only reason all of us would go."
The two of them looked at each other and paled. Sakura. They stood up quickly and raced across the rooftops, ignoring the cries of 'wait!' from their friends. They reached the hospital in less than a minute and ran in.
"The Hokage needed to see us, where is she?" Sai asked the receptionist, who was crying behind her desk.
"Room 203." She said, as fresh tears erupted. Sai and Shikamaru began racing to the room as Naruto and the rest caught up and followed them. They wrenched open the door to the room and found Tsunade and Shizune crying at a bed.
The two of them stopped in shock as they took in the small body of a girl with long pink hair. She was still wearing her torn ANBU outfit, her mask sat on the small table next to her bed.
"No." Sai whispered. They walked to the each side of the bed and knelt near her face, a face that smiled at them even in death. Shikamaru brushed her cold cheek with his fingers as tears rolled down his face.
Sai knelt at her bed in shock, failing to notice the tears that were also making their way down his cheeks.
Tsunade turned to Sai and Shikmaru. "Before she died, she passed on a message through one of her slugs. She wishes for Sai to live life to the fullest and tells Shikamaru to find a good shoji partner and that she'll be troublesome even in the afterlife."
The two boys smiled a tiny bit at those words. So very Sakura, looking after others even as she died.
Tsunade continued, her voice a little stronger. "She died after killing Uchiha Madara."
Sai and Shikamaru looked up from Sakura's face, shocked and proud.
"That's our girl." Shikamaru whispered, Sai nodded. They both turned back to her pale smiling face.
Sakura. And Tsunade, Shizune, Shikamaru, and Sai cried their hearts out over the death of their loving, smiling, pink-haired angel.
Naruto, Sasuke, Ino, Chouji, TenTen, Neji, Lee, Hinata, Kiba, Shino, Karin, Kakashi, and Gai walked to the hospital room. Asuma, Kurenai, Suigetsu, and Juugo had been left behind since they were too drunk. They laughed as they walked leisurely down the hall, still drunk from the sake.
"I don't get why Sai and Shikamaru were in such a hurry." Ino was still drunk, but was thinking of the strange reactions after the ANBU's message.
"Yeah, they were strange all evening." Chouji nodded.
The group shrugged and walked into a room, then paused. They were shocked. Tsunade, Shizune, and Shikamaru were crying. Most of all, Sai was crying.
"What's going—" Naruto stopped when he saw the body resting on the bed.
"Is that Sakura?" Ino gasped. The rest of the group was shocked as well. They hadn't recognized the body lying on the bed since it had been dressed in ANBU garb but only one person had long pink hair.
"SAKURA?" Naruto yelled, and the group rushed towards the bed. Naruto turned to Tsunade. "Can you..?" She shook her head.
"She was already dead when I got to her." Tsunade's voice trembled. "Her last words to you guys were to follow your dreams and that she loves all of you."
Tears trickled down all of their faces, except for Karin, as they remembered their moments with Sakura. Moments that had passed by too quickly.
[One Week Later]
Sakura's funeral was attended by almost all of Konoha. Ordinary civilians showed up to grieve for the girl who had walked their streets with a cheerful smile and knew all of their names, often stopping to talk with the elderly and children. Much of Suna had arrived for her funeral as well; she had helped their village through Gaara's kidnapping and had gone to Suna to teach their medics for six months. And in those six months she had made unbreakable bonds with the people in Suna. Most surprising of all were just how many shinobi, and ANBU, had turned up.
Sakura was a light in the darkness to shinobi. Many of them were her personal friends or had had their lives saved by Sakura. She was a sort of therapist to most when she wasn't busy, she could accept all the horrifying details they couldn't, and ease their minds. As for the ANBU, even though her identity as Dragon was hidden, they had all been touched by her in some way. She was often rotated through groups when she had team missions, and even behind a mask of mysteriousness she had saved lives, soothed minds, and always made sure every single person on her team made it back home alive. When the two ANBU that had accompanied Tsunade and Shizune to pick up the bodies had seen her, they knew that she was Dragon, the legendary ANBU Captain. Word had spread through the ANBU squads and while they had been shocked that the tiny pink-haired medic had been the badass Dragon, it made perfect sense to them.
It was one of the largest funerals held for a shinobi. All of it for a tiny pink-haired girl who had touched so many hearts in her 16 years of life.
"We gather today, to mourn for the loss of Haruno Sakura." Tsunade began the funeral. The crowd all held solemn faces or tears. The ANBU members kept an emotionless facade to hold everything in, however many of the jounins, chuunins, and handful of genins who had known her did cry. Naruto and the rest of them cried for their lost friend, Kakashi stood silently while tears trickled down his face, remembering his smiling Sakura.
"She died an honorable death, killing Uchiha Madara, one of the most dangerous criminals we have ever known. It is for her, that we bow our heads." Tsunade continued and after her speech Sai, Shikamaru, Shizune, and many others spoke about their time with Sakura.
Little did they know they would meet her again; in two years.