Summary

You'd think having to decipher a secret scroll, found in a hidden room was enough of a warning to leave it alone but of course she couldn't refuse an order. Now Sakura's trapped in another dimension with demons running wild and many strange characters that she will have to rely on if she ever wants to find her way home.


Turn my form transparent and vanishing

Let every molecule of this earth empower me

To tear through this pretentious world

Grant freedom from this deplorable place and form.

As the dark night passes-

"AH I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE" a voice shrieked, that voice belonged none other than to the pink haired ninja Sakura Haruno who was currently sitting at her desk in her room surrounded by stacks of books and scrolls along with several fruit cups, water bottles and instant noodles that had been empty and lying on the floor for days. At the desk in the messy room sat a girl with short pink hair, emerald green eyes wearing a red tank top and black shorts.

Sakura had been trapped in her room for days on end working on decoding and translating an ancient scroll as requested from her former sensei and current leader of their village Lady Tsunade.

"Couldn't she have just done this herself?" Sakura groaned rubbing her tired eyes; she hadn't wanted to do this job.

There had been a recent discovery of a secret room in Hokage tower which held many secret documentations and scrolls however a few of the parchments were either coded or they were written in an ancient language that no one knew about, the Hokage had assigned several ninja then to start decoding a few of these scrolls and documents but some was proving to be harder than others in Sakura's case this one scroll which she was struggling to decode and translate. She had been working for days and hours on end trying to translate the simplest inscription but it was proving to be a more difficult challenger than she initially thought.

For one because of the fact that this was assigned to her as an actual mission, she couldn't simply say she quits so she was stuck in the village until the scroll was fully translated. Sakura had to take several trips to the library just to figure out what kind of language the writing was in and then after that she had to take her time deciphering it because apparently the entire encryption was mixed up. So one could only imagine her frustration at the moment. The only thing she really got out of this the odd crescent shaped emblem that was tied to the scroll; it was now hanging around Sakura's neck.

'This is too much for a sixteen year old to handle' she thought huffing slightly as she glanced at her progress. Her eyes narrowed as she stared at what she had uncovered so far, it was actually a little chilling for her to read for some reason everything she did she felt a strange sensation as if something wanted to engulf her form and swallow it whole but she brushed it off as superstition after all these scrolls were sealed away and there had to be a reason for that. The only way to discover the reason would be to uncover what it says but she didn't know the purpose of the scroll because the top of the scroll where there had been something written was completely worn out so much that she couldn't even see the words they were just a blob of black.

"That's it I swear, I'm going to finish this damn scroll and then I'm demanding a vacation" Sakura promised herself as she went back to work.

Ten hours later Sakura glanced at the clock and sighed in relief, this language used was particularly tricky for some reason. The book she was using to translate the language wasn't even found anywhere in the library it was actually found in that room as well which took another couple of hours to discover. Luckily it seemed that Sakura's efforts were finally baring fruit because she had just one more verse to translate.

"This makes no sense though" she said as she read the scroll again.

Turn my form transparent and vanishing

Let every molecule of this earth empower me

To tear through this pretentious world

Grant freedom from this deplorable place and form.

Night falls and my wish does not come true

As the dark night passes

Lost

Tomorrow brings a new moon.

I beg of thee.

Trap the endless night

Make the dark days vanish.

Cut through the darkness and bring upon the light to a whole new world.

Remove this spirit and body

Break down the barriers

Bring it to the world it desires

The world that mirrors the darkness of -

Bring this form to the world of-

'Come on Sakura just two more words to figure out' Sakura tried to wrack her brain for the last two words but she just couldn't find them. She was completely drained after spending all that time fully translating everything and now that it was almost midnight and considering that she only got three hours of sleep in the last 72 hours it was finally catching up.

"I just have to figure out these last two words come on Sakura think...think..."

Before she knew what was happening Sakura's head landed on her desk and her eyes gently shut for a well deserved rest.

'No you have to stay awake' Sakura thought to herself 'Just two more words I have to figure out what-

'Gehenna; Assiah'

'What?'

'Ghenna...Assiah'

"Gehenna...Assiah" Sakura murmured softly before her eyes shot open and she looked at the scroll.

"Gehenna, Assiah" she said

Turn my form transparent and vanishing

Let every molecule of this earth empower me

To tear through this pretentious world

Grant freedom from this deplorable place and form.

Night falls and my wish does not come true

As the dark night passes

Lost

Tomorrow brings a new moon.

I beg of thee.

Trap the endless night

Make the dark days vanish.

Cut through the darkness and bring upon the light to a whole new world.

Remove this spirit and body

Break down the barriers

Bring it to the world it desires

The world that mirrors the darkness of Gehenna

Bring this form to the world of Assiah

"But how did I know those last two words?" she whispered in confusion.

Sakura hadn't sensed the sudden chance in the air, the way the room suddenly turned colder, when her room was no longer lit by candles and as shadows seemed to creep closer towards her in the form of hands.

"Gehenna, Assiah" she murmured again

Sakura gasped when she felt something slither over her foot and looked down to see shadows reaching towards her in the form of hands, the pinkette leapt off of her chair and to the side of her room.

"What the hell!" she hissed but then one of the shadows grabbed a hold of her foot and she couldn't pull herself free even with her strength. She began going into a frenzy, her senses on high alert now as more of the shadows crept towards her making her feel like a cornered animal.

"LET GO" she screeched as she pulled but it was impossible as she felt herself being dragged down into the shadows. Her pupils dilated and the hairs on the back of her neck stood up, her teeth clenched as a strange rush of energy ran through her body making her feel warmer as she continued to be dragged down now up to her knees. When she looked at her hands however she saw that there was some kind of red flame emitting from her form but it didn't burn.

'W-What is this?'

She didn't have time to think about it though as she dragged down further into the shadows, her version blurred and everything went black.


"Ouch my head" Sakura groaned sitting up "Must've fallen asleep at the desk again this is the third time this week. Dammit Tsunade's going to get an earful when I hand her back this scroll."

Sakura started muttering about how she was going to get back at her teacher for making her work on this scroll. It made her so tired she was actually seeing things now, like being outside starring at a starry sky with a full moon, feeling a cold breeze brush over her form-

"WAIT WHAT" Sakura screamed jumping up and looking around, she was lying on a solid structure right on top, her eyes strained slightly in the dark as she noticed there were a couple of more structures that seemed to be piling onto each other but other than that she couldn't make out much of anything else then again when you were a ninja you didn't need to be able to see in the dark to move around in it but she was still confused because she was positive that wherever she was right now it was not Konoha and that's what was making her panic.

"Where in the hell am I?" she asked as she continued to look around completely lost but her body and mind were on full alert.

Suddenly another and unfamiliar voice cut through the air "My, my what's with all the commotion in the middle of the night?"

Sakura looked up to see the source of the voice and found the outcast silhouette of someone she was guessing male from the voice and from what she could see...

'What the heck? Is he flying?'

"Who are you?" Sakura demanded getting into a fighting stance, she didn't have any weapons on her but with her strength and jutsu she had learned over the years she could didn't need them.

"I should be asking you that little lady, after all this is my academy you're standing on. I just sensed something strange. I thought it was some demon but looks like I was wrong...still there's something odd about you besides the colour of your hair"

Sakura frowned "It's my natural hair colour first off and secondly I don't know what you're talking about."

"Oh?" the figure asked curiously, Sakura somehow got a weird feeling from him. It was something similar to what she felt whenever she was around Naruto or Gaara.

"Ah now I see it" the guy said suddenly appearing behind Sakura but he wasn't looking at her, he was looking at the ground.

"Well that's a symbol I haven't seen in a while"

Turning around Sakura was able to make out the strange dark lines that were drawing across the floor, it was some kind of symbol- she recognised it instantly.

"That's the same mark as what was on the scroll I translated"

The guy sighed softly "Oh boy, now I get it."

Sakura looked at the man wearily "What?"

He started walking further away and turned back to face Sakura "Well are you just going to stand there little missy?"

Cautiously Sakura followed after him.


She was brought inside into one of the buildings where she was hoping to get an explanation on what was going on because she was unable to come up with any idea of what exactly was going on all she was able to comprehend was that she was in her room translating a scroll, she finished the scroll, then she fell asleep at her desk and the next minute she wakes up in another world.

"Well are you going to explain this to me or what?" Sakura asked starring at the man; she was finally able to see his face clearly. He was odd looking in her opinion, wearing polka dotted blue and white pj's, he had purple hair and a goatee.

"Before I can answer your questions I need you to answer mine" he said

Sakura narrowed her eyes but nodded, she sat down in the seat in front of the desk where the man was sitting.

"Okay now let's start with your name."

"Sakura Haruno" she answered in a monotone.

"Sakura huh, my guess is it has something to do with your hair? Well I'm Mephisto Pheles."

Her eyebrow twitched in annoyance at the pink hair comment again.

"Ok, tell me where do you come from?"

"Konoha village situated in the land of fire" she answered.

"Last question...did you by any chance read a scroll with this insignia on it?" he asked digging through his draw and pulling out a wooden carving of a symbol. Sakura gasped and nodded.

"Yeah what does that mean?" she asked worriedly

"You tell me what exactly lead you to having that scroll?"

Sakura stared at him wearily, this was confidential information she would be sharing and she wasn't too sure it was the right thing to do but considering her circumstances and the fact that this guy seemed to know about it this might be her only chance to figure out where she is and how she can get back home.

"There was a secret room where some documents and scrolls were found, I was told to translate one of the scrolls and I did." She told him

Maphisto rubbed his eyes smirking "Well let's see chances are that you accidently translated a demons window scroll"

"A window scroll for demons?" she asked in confusion feeling her blood run cold.

"Yes, that symbol on the roof was proof that you opened a window and was dragged through it into this world."

Sakura felt herself become light headed as she tried to process the information.

"In other words you are no longer in your world but in Assiah, another dimension. Welcome stranger"

This time Sakura fell off her chair and she crouching down on her hands and knees starring at the floor in shock.

"No way..."

Maphisto nodded "Afraid so, those scrolls are used by demons who want to open windows into other dimensions, the scroll you got was what they used to transport themselves back."

"Oh crap...and wait how do I get back?" Sakura asked

"You can't"

The pinkette shot up from her position on the floor and glared at him "What?"

"The only way you can get back to your world is if you found the demon that used that scroll and got it to give you the other window scroll to return you to your world. However that is probably not possible"

"WHY?" Sakura demanded starting to get really pissed off now at this man's laid back attitude at her situation.

"Because from what you told me the demon that had that scroll now is either still In your world or dead."

Sakura felt her blood turn to ice and her face turned paler "This can't be...no, no, no, no...NOOOOOO"

Miphisto back away as the pinkette pounded her tiny fists against the floor evidently cracking it but that wasn't what caused him to move back with caution it was the red flames that were enveloping her form. They weren't standing out as they would normal powerful demons because he could tell that this girl was quite human but for some reason she was now harnessing the power of a demon.

"Oh dear..."

Sakura looked at her hands in shock as she saw herself being surrounded in red flames "W-What?"

"Now that explains why you survived the transfer"

"What do you mean?" Sakura asked looking around at her form, she appeared to have tiny horns on her head and looking behind her she saw...a small outline of bat like wings that were made of flames.

"What the hell?"

"Mmm, see those scrolls that opened windows are only meant for demons not humans. If a human were to try to attempt to cross over they would fail and evidently die but you somehow survived. I recall you saying the scroll was sealed well chances that the metal seal held a fragment of the demons powers. You don't by any chance still have that on you?"

"Actually" Sakura said pulling up a chain around her neck and at the end of it was the insignia "I thought it made a nice jewellery piece"

Sighing Maphisto shook his head "Yup, I was afraid of that. Well Sakura looks like you've inherited some of the powers of that demon"

"This is not funny"

"And I am not kidding" he said "I suggest you calm down though before you burn my entire office down"

Sakura took a deep breath and started to relax, the flames began to vanish and she was surprised to see how easily it left.

"There has to be another way for me to get back home"

"There might be but I don't know"

Sakura clenched her fists "You mentioned demons a couple of times, perhaps I could get answers from them?"

"Possibly but you'd have to find them"

"Where do I find them?"

Maphisto raised an eyebrow at her "Huh? You'd actually want to battle demons do you even know what you're saying?"

Sakura smirked slightly "I've dealt with plenty of demons back in my world heck I'm friends with a couple of guys who hosts them in their bodies so yeah."

Maphisto looked like he was thinking.

"Somehow I know I'm going to regret doing this but I'll let you in on a little secret about this world and about this place you're in"

"What?"

"This world is called Assiah"

"Assiah" Sakura murmured "I remember that word from the scroll"

Miphisto nodded "Aha and perhaps you have also mentioned the words Gehenna, that is the mirror world of Assiah and the world of demons"

"No way" Sakura whispered in shock, this was all so much to take in but she now understood completely. She had transported into another dimension through that scroll which was a rare Window Scroll and there was no way for her to get back home without getting a hold of another scroll that would take her back to her world only problem was that those scrolls were all rumoured to be destroyed and the only ones who could make more of them were these specific demons known as manna demons.

"This is really happening" Sakura whispered looking at her hands thinking this had to be some kind of dream "And now to top it off, I also have demon powers?"

"You're somewhat correct; it's only a small fragment of power that was transferred into you when you crossed between dimensions therefore you shouldn't have a difficult time controlling it. Demons use to preserve some of their powers for when they returned to make the journey less strenuous, guess you were somehow able to handle that demons flames and now you have a bit of demon power in you"

'Okay this isn't a dream this is a nightmare'

Sakura groaned and collapsed on the floor in complete disdain "Joy, now I've gotta find some demons quickly and get another scroll"

"Like I said those scrolls haven't been used by demons in a long time chances are this world doesn't have any more. Those scrolls died out when the writers did"

"Who were the writers of those scrolls?"

"Like I said demons, Manna demons to be exact and they haven't been seen for a very long time."

Sakura glared and stood up "Well I have to try to find one at least it's my only chance of getting back home"

"That's true but just how do you plan on doing that? You're in another world, filled with dangers that you don't know about aside from that not only is this world a danger to you but you are a danger to it." Maphisto explained as he pushed a button suddenly the room began to fill with several people dressed in black coats that covered half of their faces. Sakura glanced around her wearily.

"See I'm afraid I can't let you simply go wandering around, if you were to cause some sort of trouble in this world then I'd be the one who would have to answer for it since I allowed you to leave."

Sakura stared, there were now five people surrounding her, she glared at all of them as she bent her knees slightly and got into a fighting stance.

"See the best thing to do would be to kill you" Maphisto finished

Sakura smirked suddenly "By all means try"

That's all for now folks and I unfortunately won't be updating for a while after this because I have my final exams and then I'm finished with high school. So I need to focus on studying but right after I'll update the other chapters.

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