~12 years earlier~
"Shikaku" a shrill scream echoed around the Nara Clan Main Family House as the Nine Tailed Fox rampaged through their village "The Children" Yoshino Nara flew into the room, holding her less than one month old son and less than seven month old niece.
"Where's Mebuki and Kizashi" Shikaku turned quickly pulling on his sandals, he was in the midst of going off to the front lines to help the Hokage fend off the beast and protect the village and civilians to the best of his abilities.
Yoshino shook her head "No idea they were supposed to have been back by now, you don't thinkā¦." she trailed off staring outside the home as dread pooled in her stomach like a sack of rocks and her stomach churned.
"That will have to wait, you should get to the shelter Yoshino, take the kids and make sure you don't leave behind Sakura's medicine again" the Nara Patriarch instructed his wife taking the two children as she rushed around to gather some things to take to the shelter.
He made sure that her path was clear before they both split up, him to join his teammates, her to the shelters, it was a long drawn out fight until the Fourth Hokage showed up and sealed the Fox inside his own newborn son.
Before dying with his wife and the boy was placed in an orphanage, Shikaku lowered his head in prayer, then went to retrieve Yoshino and the kids "Is it finally over" her eyes held a tint of sadness to them, she'd felt what had happened.
In her arms were a silent Shikamaru and Sakura, the little girls cheeks were red from crying "Yes it's over Yoshino, Lord Fourth and Lady Kushina died and the fox was sealed in their newborn son" he rubbed a heavy hand over his face as they returned home.
The next day the village began repairs and the death count piled up among those dead bodies were Mebuki and Kizashi Nara, Yoshino grieved for the loss of her sister and brother in law, though they were only non-shinobi Nara, and chose to become merchants to support their little family.
Sakura would now never have the chance to know her parents and a few days after their funeral, Yoshino and Shikaku adopted her fully into their own family, there was just one thing they always had to be careful of.
As they raised the pinkette as their own child, to make sure Sakura always took her medicine, for she had a autoimmune disease called Churg-Strauss Syndrome, the rare variation of Vasculitis, which caused her to frequently get sick and it was worse especially if she didn't take her medicine.
~Now~
"Congratulations on all of you becoming shinobi, today is the day you find out who's going to be on you're team, I shall now start with calling off squads and their members" Iruka cleared his throat as the newly minted genin gathered one last time in his classroom.
Two kids had their heads resting on their arms, one napping, the other just quietly listening to her sensei after a bad round of coughing, she was sat next to a boy with a large over coat and wearing sunglasses that blocked his eyes completely.
She didn't know it, but this boy was watching her in silent concern, her head lifted in the next moment as her name was called "Team 7, Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Nara and Sasuke Uchiha, that is it" the chunin that was their academy sensei finished.
"Eh why do we get the sick girl on our team that's not fair Iruka-sensei" the blonde boy immediately started complaining "And the Teme's not any better, I want different teammates" Naruto slammed his hand on the desk.
Sasuke glaring at him from the other end of the desk "I agree Iruka-sensei, saddling me with those two losers just isn't going to cut it, I need strong teammates that aren't going to hold me back on my way complete my goal" he nodded.
While Sakura flinched and buried her face in her arms, it wasn't her fault that she got sick all the time and spent the mass majority of her life being ill "Who are you two to say that I won't be just as or maybe even stronger than the both of you" she glared at the two boys.
Iruka sighed "Regardless of you're personal feelings Naruto, Sasuke, you are teammates and Sakura-chan is on you're team, she had the best scores on the written portion of you're graduation exams after all" he didn't relent to the two boys demands.
"Tch great babysitting duty for all of our training sessions" Naruto sulked sending the pinkette a scowl as they waited for their jonin sensei to come and pick them up, green eyes narrowed and she glared right back with a snort.
Next to her "Ignore them, Sakura, why because they don't know the half of what you can do" Shino tried to cheer her up, he was her best friend after all, considering that beyond him and her cousin, no one else would be her friend because of her chronic illness.
At the statement the young pink haired Nara perked up "Thanks Shino" Sakura brightened exponentially reaching for his hand which was conveniently placed in his pocket, their fingers twined and they faced forward together.
On her other side "Yeah plus, Dad said that you don't collapse as often as you used to when we were younger" her cousin Shikamaru Nara explained with a yawn, itching to glare at the two idiots that had been put on her team.
But not wanting to cause trouble before their sensei's arrived, which so happened to be him first "Team Ten" the Hokage's son called looking around the room and spotting his official genin, he'd already been told of course who he'd be teaching after all.
Shikamaru sighed "Good luck Shikamaru-ni" the fuscia haired girl whispered softly, it wasn't often she called him that, but she did sometimes and it gave him a warm feeling in his chest, he mentally reaffirmed his vow to always look after her no matter what to ensure nothing happened.
Even if she was slightly older than him by six months "Right this is going to be such a drag" the Nara heir groaned as he dragged himself out of his desk to follow his teammates, Ino Yamanaka and Choji Akimichi, the next generation of Ino-Shika-Cho and sensei out of the classroom.
When he was gone she slumped her shoulders with a sigh and lay her head down on the desk once more earning another concerned glance from Shino and just as he was about to say something the door slid open once more.
"Team Eight, I'm your sensei Kurenai Yuhi, follow me please" a beautiful raven haired woman with ruby eyes called out, with great reluctance Shino released Sakura's hand and stood to follow his own teammates and sensei.
Leaving Sakura alone with Sasuke and Naruto, neither of whom so much as even looked her way as they waited in silence for over an hour until Naruto couldn't take it anymore "Gah what a joke, why the hell is our sensei taking so long, fine I'll just prank him" the blonde muttered.
Grabbing an eraser to wedge it between the door and wall so that when their sensei did finally show up it would fall on his head and make him inhale chalk dust, it would totally serve the guy right for being late.
At least that's how he justified his actions anyway "Our sensei's a jonin, he's not going to fall for it Naruto" Sakura commented, only to get glared at by Naruto who obviously didn't care much for her opinion in the least.
Nor did Sasuke but that didn't mean he wasn't willing to at least agree with someone else "Hate to break it to you Dobe but she's right, no Jonin would fall for a stupid prank like that" the second to last remaining Uchiha scoffed in disgust.
Imagine their surprise when five minutes later the door slid open and the eraser fell on the wackiest looking guy they'd ever seen "Did you do that on purpose" the pink haired Nara asked, seeing beneath the underneath.
The guy could have been listening to their conversation the whole time after all "Mm oh I didn't even notice, anyway my first impression of you guys is that I hate you, up to the roof we'll do introductions" the silver haired Jonin declared giving them their first order.
"What how could hate us sensei you just met us" Naruto complained but the man simply disappeared in a plume of smoke, left with little choice the three newly assigned teammates trudged up the stairs to the roof of the academy.
Sakura lagging way behind due to a sudden coughing fit "Kami what a pain you are Nara" Sasuke grumbled seeing that she wouldn't be able to make it up the steps any time soon so decided to simply grab her round the waist and practically drag her to stop wasting time.
"Let go I can manage just fine on my own Sasuke" Sakura snapped, managing to free herself of his grip three steps away from the roof and hurriedly jump the last steps to get away from her handsy teammate, who knew, surely not his stupid fan girls anyway.
Off to the side their sensei watched curiously until they were sat before him "Right like I said introduce yourselves" the silver haired Jonin reiterated wanting to see how they'd react, Sakura was proving to have quite the analytical mind though.
For she narrowed her eyes on him "How about you go first sensei, since I'm sure you already know who we are, what clan we're from and the like, while we know nothing about you" the pinkette countered in a polite tone.
"Touche, very well then the names Kakashi Hatake, things I like, things I hate, hobbies, dreams for the future things I don't feel like telling you" Kakashi shrugged un-apologetically, he was certain that they wouldn't pass his test after all.
Naruto gaped "You only told us your name that's so lame..whatever guess I'll go first, the names Naruto Uzumaki, I like ramen and hate the three minutes I have to wait for it to cook, one of my hobbies is training and my dream is to be Hokage" the blonde huffed.
Making his irritation known, first he gets stuck with his rival and the sick case and now his sensei is not taking them seriously "Okay then you go next girly" the Copy Ninja pointed to his lone female student.
Who straightened "My name is Sakura Nara, I like reading and going on walks around the village, what I hate is my illness, I want to be healthy, so people can stop treating me like an invalid, my dream is to find a cure to my illness someday and my hobby is studying" the rosette announced.
Surprising all three males on her team, last to take his turn was Sasuke "Sasuke Uchiha, I don't like anything, I hate sweets, my hobbies I'll keep them secret and my dream or rather goal is to kill a certain someone" the ebony haired preteen glared.
Introductions done Kakashi stood "Good, good meet me on training ground 7 tomorrow 6a.m, oh and don't eat or you'll puke" the silver haired Jonin saluted vanishing in a plume of smoke, leaving his students to trudge home for the rest of the day to prepare themselves.
