Title: His Shape Shifter
Chapter One: Family First
"Talking" 'Thinking' "Inner Sakura"
Disclaimer: as always, I'll only say this once: I do NOT own Naruto. I do own this story and its contents. That is all. Reviews are what keep this story going so let me know if you want it to continue, otherwise I'll delete it after five chapters. Also, as a side note this is very alternate universe, so some characters are very different from their true selves.
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I had been in my room preparing for another day as a Konoha Shinobi, I had been promoted to Anbu Captain last month, on my 19th birthday, and was due for a mission today. As I finished strapping on my anbu uniform a loud knock at my door made me pause. Looking up at the door I frowned but issued a stern 'enter'. My shoji door slid open and kneeling on the ground was a girl from the branch family. She had scarlet hair and crystal blue eyes.
"What is it Hana?" My tone was neither friendly nor harsh, just authoritative and calm. The same tone all main family members used to address the members of the branch family. We were taught from a young age that even though they were family, they were to be treated as servants. Nothing more or less. I hated acting so cold toward my family, even if they were branch members. But that's what happened when you worked in the hospital so long, you gain compassion. That's what my father hated: that my job swayed my treatment of the branch family when tradition firmly opposed such.
"Sakura-sama, the honorable counsel requests your immediate presence. You've been asked to wear your traditional robes." Her voice was small, timid even, but calm and level. She bowed till her head touched the floor. She would stay that way till dismissed.
"Let them know I'll be there in five minutes. Dismissed." My tone flat but irritated. Now I had to strip off my uniform and adorn the robes proper of the fire lord's daughter. It took all of four minutes to change into the long silver robes with the red Haruno family crest stitched proudly onto the center of my back. It was held together with a red obi and was aired with silver sandals. The robe was heavy but always sat just barely off either shoulder giving a good view of my ample cleavage. I stood at 5 foot, 4inches and just barely came in at 133lbs, I was a 42DDD, but it wasn't entirely obvious with my usual chest bindings… with this robe however, my cleavage was amplified and so were my hips. Most said I had a perfect hourglass figure… I tented to call them on their bullshit.
"I wonder what they want now?" I absent mindedly thought aloud to myself. I pulled my hip length hair into a tight bun, leaving a few strands loose to frame my face. Next, I applied a light clear lip gloss and finally I lined my eyes in black eyeliner. Pulling back, I smiled at myself in the mirror. Maybe I wasn't all that ugly. I turned, slid open my door and exited, not caring to close it. No one would dare to go in without permission. I strolled lazily through the Haruno compound toward the meeting hall at the far corner of the compound away from the main entrance. The head house was directly at the center of the whole thing. And the whole compound was only two miles from the Uchiha compound. The Uchiha had just recently been taken over by a handsome devil named Madara. I'd had the pleasure of meeting him once at the ceremony where he officially took over. His nephews Itachi and Sasuke and Shisui were there as well. Madara and I had talked for nearly an hour before he had to take center stage. He had promised to find me as soon as everything was over, but the opportunity never came up. He had been whisked away by women and the previous clan head who had been talking to him about some important matter. He had tried to find me in the crowd but as soon as our eyes had met and I gave a light smile, my father had stepped in front of me and demanded my attention. Reaching the wooden wraparound porch of the meeting hall I took the steps quickly then slipped out of my sandals. Sighing as my bare feet hit the sun warmed wood I smiled. I continued forward a few feet and pulled open the maid doors. Then stepped in and was greeted by many servants on my way to the front. The meeting hall was big enough to hold the entire Haruno clan which consisted of five hundred souls, thirteen of which were the main family. All the others were considered branch family members and as such had the family crest permanently imprinted onto their forehead. The main family was marked with a crescent moon which we continually stored chakra into incase we ever needed it. All the crescent moons were baby blue. except mine. Mine had stubbornly turn scarlet red and refused to turn any other color. The family elders, which consisted of my father, mother, and grandparents, were at the head table of the meeting hall. In front of the main elders table was a small table built for one person as well as a sitting pillow. I bowed and took my seat.
"Good morning gracious council, I am here upon your request." I hated being so formal, but I was quick to adhere to the traditional rules.
"Most honorable daughter, I bring you before myself and the counsel of the Haruno family with the sole purpose of giving you your official ninja resignation. From this day fourth, you shall no longer be a ninja or affiliate with anything to do with the Konoha ninja. From this day fourth you are to remain here and become the proper new fire lady. You will be matched up with an honorable male and together you shall be the new fire Lord and Lady." His words slammed into like a brick wall.
"That's impossible! I'm the Hokage's Apprentice shell never allow you to strip me of my title!" I shrieked completely losing my composure. My father glared down at me.
"Compose yourself Sakura. You are in front of your elders!" my mother's was the harsh tone in the room now. I bit my tongue and closed my eyes, bowing my head.
"My apologies, this is quite unheard of." My voice was dead flat.
"Your forgiven. Your sensei, whom we know you have surpassed, has allowed me to dismiss you from the ninja work your usually allowed to do, however she demanded you be allowed to continue to work at the hospital and we grudgingly accepted. In case you think you can so easily get away with continuing your normal ninja routine under the guise of extra shifts at the hospital we took extra precautions. Your room and hideouts have been cleared of all ninja items and given to the Hokage apart from your medical things. Also, we have direct connections with the hospital which allows us to know of all your shifts and emergency shifts. There is no loophole in this. After you have been married your husband will be allowed to decide on whether to return your full ninja status. Am I clear?" his tone was hard and unrelenting. No arguments were fists clenched and turned a pale white. Sticky red bloody began to pour onto the floor beside me.
"yes father." I tried not to hiss but I still sounded slightly defiant.
"Dismissed." I growled at being dismissed like a common branch family member and swore vengeance then and there. Standing, I squared my shoulders, lifted my chin, and keeping my eyes shut I turned and strutted out of the hall. Once outside I didn't bother to grab my shoes. I snapped my eyes open and ran. I poured chakra into my legs demanding more speed. Barreling out of the gates, I allowed myself a fit of rage and my chakra flared out dangerously. I was on a war path and wanted nothing more than to beat the living tar out of some poor unsuspecting soul. I darted off into the forest between our land and that of the Uchiha. It didn't take long to get out far enough to be just beyond the Uchiha land, but only just barely. I landed in a clearing, panting I stopped took a second to check the perimeter finding nothing I ran to a nearby tree, I pulled the senbon out of my hair and sighed as my pink tresses gently fell and swayed in the wind. Doing one more check I stripped off the robe, shoved it into the hollow tree, and cast a genjutsu to appear as a solid tree. I smiled turned around to face the open clearing, taking a deep breath I cleared my mind and focused on the powerful body of a horse as it thundered across the plains in the hidden grass village. I grinned as my body began to change, my boned snapped, grew changed, reminded themselves and took solid form again. It was finally done. I had shifted shape into a powerful stallion. And now I was free to run undetected. I reared up on my back legs and took off into a dead run.
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Being clan head had many perks, but it was also stressful. I was walking through the forest reflecting on the last few months in particular one pink haired Haruno. I remembered speaking with her at the party before I officially became clan head, I had wanted to catch her right after the ceremony and talk more with her. She was intelligent and held a decent conversation, unlike most other daughters of major clan heads. That intelligence paired with her power and beauty had become increasingly evident in my mind. The elders of my clan continually pushed me to wed and produce an heir. I had no such interests, especially with some snot nosed brat that most clan heads ad offered me. the only one who hadn't been plopped down in front of me was Sakura Haruno herself and as of late she was the only female I wasn't annoyed with.
'Maybe I'll go and visit her later today.' I though with a small smirk. A sudden flare in dark chakra set me on edge, it was quickly leaving the general direction of the Haruno compound. Heading in my direction. Moments later the pink haired beauty herself flew into the clearing. I masked my chakra as she began a visual and chakra aided perimeter search.
'Hmm wonder what she's looking for?' I frowned as she bolted over to a tree, did one more search and began to strip off. My eye grew wide as the vixen's body was shown to me in full, but I had no time to fully appreciate her exquisite form as she cast a simple genjutsu and walked over to the center of the field. I rose an eyebrow curious on what my blossom was doing naked as a blue jay where anyone could see her. I growled at the though and almost jumped down to ask her about her sanity when she sighed, smiled up at the sky and was almost horrified when her body began to change shapes.
'Well isn't she just full of surprises?' I smirked and couldn't help the plan formulating in my mind on how to catch the beauty and make her mine. I snapped out of my plan just in time to see a massive silver-white stallion with silver-slightly blush pink colored hair rear up, whiney and break out of the opposite side of the clearing. I smirked and bolted after her. Time to set plan "capture the blossom" into action.