Sakura remained hidden within the confines of her parents' closet buried beneath all the boxes and clothing. She watched as a man she had dreamed of slay her civilian parents without a care. "Come Kabuto, it is obvious the little brat isn't here. I don't know where Tsunade hid her, but it obviously wasn't here" he said, turning as the two left the abandoned home. Sakura waited for several minutes before moving from the closet, She looked at the dead bodies of her parents before the thought of her brother came to mind.

She ran down the hall before turning into her little brother's room and sinking to her knees as her heart lurched in her chest. Her baby brother's body lay cold on the floor just like her parents' bodies did. She crawled over to her brother and pulled him under the bed and curled next to his body as silent tears fell from her eyes.

Just then she heard a door slam open and footsteps running up the stairs calling her parents' names. Just as she saw Kakashi's face turn into her brother's room, she crawled out and ran straight for him, hugging him as her sorrow finally found voice, knowing she was safe. Kakashi knelt down and picked her up before carrying her down the stairs to Sarutobi. "We need to find Tsunade, get her here immediately" Kakashi stated softly

Sarutobi nodded and informed Kakashi that the girl would need a temporary home till Tsunade could get to Konoha. "I will keep the girl for now, it is safe to say that her and the Uchiha will need each other to grieve for the loss of their family" he said, Sarutobi nodded in confirmation and watched as Kakashi carried her to his home along with a backpack of some of her clothing.

Sasuke scoffed, "who is the pink haired freak Kakashi?" he said, Sakura thought the boy snobbish and stuck her tongue out at him. Sasuke's smirk fell from his face. "So this freak is also a brat I see." Kakashi glared at Sasuke in warning before walking up the stairs to a guest bedroom for her.

"Don't mind Sasuke, he is like you Sakura. He lost his family to his own brother, the two of you should try to understand each other from that loss" Kakashi said as he turned for her to get dressed, turning back around when she tapped his shoulder. He pulled the blankets down and waited for her to jump in before tucking her in. "Good night Sakura"

He stood and walked to the door, pausing only long enough to shut the light off and close her door. He walked down the stairs and sat at the table. "You know Sasuke, would it hurt you to show some sympathy for that girl? She witnessed the deaths of her parents at the hands of a shinobi far more superior than I. She will forever be scarred Sasuke and nothing can alter that" Sasuke looked down at the table.

"How bad was it?" Sasuke asked softly. Kakashi told Sasuke the condition her parents' bodies were found in, the condition of her brother's body and how she saw the face of her birth father but didn't know it was her real father. "How can she not know Kakashi? The man is her blood father"

"She doesn't know because Tsunade placed her in with the Haruno's hoping a civilian family would conceal her from Orochimaru's lust for power. I don't know how he tracked her here, but he apparently thinks she is not here, I would like to keep things that way so if you could just help her along please" he said with a sigh. He knew this would be a fight with Sasuke, everything was.

"Fine. I will make the attempt, but if she annoys me, she gets it and I don't mean an attitude either Kakashi" Sasuke stated with an annoyed sigh. He avoided girls because they would fawn all over him and it disgusted him to no end. 'this girl will be no different' he thought.

Sasuke placed his cup on the counter and walked to his own room for bed. Kakashi sighed, things were about to get more difficult around his home. 'I hope Tsunade is found soon' he thought to himself, before taking himself off for bed.

The following morning, Genma knocked at his door with a scroll from Sarutobi. Kakashi opened it and gave a relieved sigh. "Tsunade is on her way and will be here within the day." He said, "Sakura will have someone she knows at least, which is a good thing." He heard a crash and Genma ran off for his mission. Kakashi walked into the room to see the two fighting.

"Call me a pink haired freak again Sas-gay and your chicken butt hair will get a cut" Sakura yelled as she waved a kunai in the air. Sasuke smugly chuckled before pulling a chair out and sitting down, he knew she was so easily frustrated and riled up but he didn't know he would have fun getting her worked up.

"Pinky! I wonder if that color is natural, what do you say? Shall we look?" He laughed as her cheeks flamed up and she ran for him only to have her arm caught by Kakashi. He pulled the kunai from her hand and tossed it at the wall, satisfied with the thud it made.

"Really Now? Enough you two, I am gone for 2 minutes and you act up, seriously are you young adults or are you toddlers at a playground? Sasuke, you should know better than to antagonize her, I asked you to help her, not make her feel alone and isolated." Kakashi said as he pulled her into a separate room. "As for you, I expect you to not run around the home wielding kunai like they are plastic toys, they are dangerous weapons Sakura" She nodded in understanding before he left.

Tsunade walked through the gates just as the sun set, "I see nothing changed here. Still Shizune I wonder how he found her here, I picked this place so carefully" Shizune shrugged as she carried Tonton along after her. She walked to the tower and smiled in greeting as Sarutobi ushered her in.

"Now as you have heard about the Haruno massacre, Sakura has been residing with Kakashi for now, the girl needs someone she trusts, I must ask for you to reside in the village until she is able to fully understand what being a shinobi means" Sarutobi explained, Tsunade agreed that her stay in Konoha was a requirement for Sakura as she was very unstable.

Tsunade made her way to Kakashi's home only to hear several things breaking, she shook her head and knocked, peeking in and asking for Sakura when he opened the door. "Sakura is in the kitchen, fighting with Sasuke again. She threatens to cut his hair off all the time." Kakashi explained.

Tsunade stopped at the door and yelled her name, Sakura dropped the kunai and ran over giving her the largest hug she could give. "I missed you Tsunade, where have you been?" she asked, Tsunade merely told her she would tell her later and informed her she was moving in with her, so she needed to pack her things. Sakura ran up the stairs immediately to pack.

A New journey waits for Sakura, Will Tsunade teach her everything she knows? How will Sasuke manage to get by without Sakura picking on him for his hair now that their friendship has been secured, and more importantly, what will Tsunade do when she discovers Orochimaru has come back to the village to tear it apart just to find his daughter?