CHAPTER TWO
Summary: When Sakura Haruno's parents die in a car crash she in forced to go live at her grandparents shrine in Tokyo. During the first week of her arrival her grandpa tells Sakura a story of a different world he claimed he visited when he was a child. One of ninja's and super beasts. The next morning Sakura wakes up to find herself in this world.
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Black was the last thing Sakura saw and was the last thing she felt. Sakura's eyes began to flutter open, she saw three people standing over her, the two men from earlier and an old man with a red and white gown with a hat. Sakura shot right up and the two men from her first encounter took fighting stances. "What are you doing?!" Sakura scream as she crawled away. "Hokage sama sir, look at her hands." The man with half his faced exclaimed. Sakura looked down at her own hands and saw a blue glowing that admitted from them, "AHHHHHH! What did you do to me?! Why-why are my hands glowing." Sakura stuttered and as she panicked the glowing grew brighter. "Hokage sama!" The man with his bandage yelled.
Sakura looked around. Hokage? No way! She couldn't believe it. She was dreaming she had to be dreaming. With one of her hands she pinched herself. "Oww." Sakura sighed. She wasn't dreaming this wasn't a dream, you can't get hurt in a dream. Her emerald eyes widened with terror. Was she going to die? Were they going to kill her? They didn't even know who she was. "Child what village are you from." The man the two boys were calling Hokage spoke up. He was an old man, he sort of reminded Sakura of her grandfather, expect her was taller and was skinner and didn't have her grandfather's kind blue eyes, but strong powerful brown ones.
Sakura could feel her heart racing even faster. "I-I don't come from any village." She said as she tried to slow her heart beat. The two men's eyes raged with fire. "Hokage sama she's lying, of course she comes from a village." The man with the bandage said. "Kotetsu Hagne be quiet!" The Hokage snapped. "Child where do you come from?" Sakura looked down at her hands, finally the blue glowing demising from sight. This was chakra, she knew it was, it had to be. Sakura's emerald eyes looked up at the old man. "Ok, now I know you probably won't believe me, but I'm-I'm not from here I swear. I –I come from a different world" Sakura shakily spoke not wanting to get herself in trouble she couldn't handle. "Lies! I bet she's a spy from Suna!" The man with half his face covered said as he charged towards Sakura with a sharp blade in hand.
Sakura's eyes widened in terror emerald looking into black bottomless pits. She clenched her eyes shut as she put both hands in front of her to take the blow, but it never came. Sakura opened one emerald eye and saw red and white. The Hokage. "Izumo Kamizubi! That is enough! Both of you leave at once!" He roared. "But Hokage-" they both tried to protest. "I am the Hokage of the village hidden in the leaves and you think I can't handle a girl?! Not only that, but we live in a world where there are priests, where demons roam, and you can't believe in traveling through worlds?!" Both men stopped and started at the round. Sakura was shocked when two puffs of smoke appeared where the two men once stood. The old man in the red and white gown turned toward Sakura. "Child please have a seat across from my desk and tell me all." He said as crinkling appeared at the corners of his eyes.
Sakura dumbfounded nodded and complied with his request. "Now child tell me your name." The Hoakge said and he set his elbows on the desk and rested his head on them. Sakura started fidgeting with the finger's looking down her pink hair flowing around her shoulders. "Sakura Haruno, sir."
"How fitting for a beautiful girl, now Sakura though your story does seem strange, you are in luck, because I once encountered a man long ago who showed up in the village and said the same thing." Sakura's eyes widened. "My Ojisan!" The old man smiled. "Koga Himizike I believe."
"That's my Ojisan! He told me stories of this place, but-but I never believed him."
"I see, well it is very real I can assure you that, you seem to be very strong Sakura," He had said while motioning towards her hands.
That right earlier they were glowing blue. "My Ojisan told me that here you can use chakra, back where I am from my-…my mama had taught me to meditate, to control my chi, and here chi is chakra I'm guessing. I had concentrated all my chakra to my hands thinking it would help me fight if I needed, but when I actually saw the chakra is when I knew I was where my Ojisan said he had gone." The Hokage lowered his eyes to the girl noticing the slight pause before speaking of her mother. "I-I am not scared but I don't know what to do." Sakura looked up at the Hokage, her pink eyebrows knitted together in the middle. "Ahhh, I see," The Hokage sighed. "Well there is only one thing we can do, Kakashi! Come out I know your there!" The Hokage shouted as a man with a mask that covered half his face walked through the window of the building they were in.
Sakura gazed at the man's sliver hair the stood up lazily around his head, he had a headband that covered one of his eyes, and he was wearing a blue jump suite with a green padded sleeveless jacket on. "Yo." He stated. "Sakura this is Kakashi Hatake." Sakura just gazed at the man in front of her. "Kakashi I take it you heard everything?" He said while looking out of the corner of his eye at said man. "Well I wouldn't say everything." the man claimed as he scratched the back of his head. "What is your intake on this situation we have?" Kakashi glanced at Sakura and stared at her. "Sakura? Was it? How old are you?" The Hokage glanced over at the young girl. "I= I am 11 years old sir." Sakura was so confused. "Well if you really want to know what I think, then I say you enroll her at the academy." He walked over to stand beside Sakura. The academy? Sakura thought, she wouldn't be here long would she, Oh no what if she never got home!
I mean it wouldn't be all too bad since she didn't really know her grandparents but still. "The academy you say? That's impossible the year has already started she doesn't know anything about this world." Exclaimed the Hoakge. "But she could if I trained her. And we both know there is a way Hokage sama." Kakashi said looking the Hokage straight in the eyes. "You want me to use the memory tampering jutsu?" Kakashi smiled under his mask. "Give me three weeks with this one and I'll have her up to date with the children in the academy, when she graduates shell be one of my pupils." The Hokage rubbed his temples. "And what exactly should I add to the memory of all Konoha's residents?" Sakura was so confused now, three weeks?
She wouldn't be here that long right? Well whatever, this is a good way to keep things out of her mind, new things to concentrate on. "Her parents died in the battle of the nine tailed fox and she grew up on her own, she lived on her own. That's all you need to put, the village people will make their own image of her after that." Kakashi said. "Very well Kakashi you will find her a place to stay, you will show her the way to be a true shinobi of Konoha." And like that Sakura was in for three weeks of hell.
Kakashi and Sakura walked out of the Hokage tower, it was the first time Sakura got a look around her. There were all sorts of building and shops around. People were bustling through the dirt streets. Sakura was awed, the sky was so blue and the air smelt clean. "Uh, excuse me sir." Sakura stopped walking. Kakashi slowed down and turned. "Call me sensei Sakura." Kakashi smiled down at the young unique girl. "What are those?" Sakura's small hand rose up with her index finger pointed toward the mountain with multiple faces carved into it. "Isn't that the Hokage?" Sakura asked again. "Kakashi looked over at the mountain and gazed at it for a while before answering. "Ah, that's the Hokage rock, we carve all the Hokages into it while they are in rule, and it's a way for those of Konoha to remember the great ninjas who protected this village."
Sakura gazed at the monument a bit longer, which one was Minato she thought. "Come on Sakura we have a lot to do today." Sakura ran after her new sensei being watched from people all around the village, she could hear them whispering to each other about her. "What are we going to do first Kakashi sensei?" Sakura asked as she grasped each hand behind her back swinging her head back and forth memorizing the town. "First we need to find you quarters to stay in, then we can proceed to getting you a few cloths, the ones your wearing don't seem to be flexible, then well get some food, and tomorrow we will start training." As they walked about the town they eventually found a housing unit that was in a grey cement building not far for the Hokage tower.
"Hey sensei? Uh- I – when I came to this world I had brought something with me, it-it was a small red quilt, where is it now?" Kakashi glanced at the young girl beside him with his one visible eye. "Hm, most likely at the Hokage tower, once we are done grabbing some food, I'll go get it for you and bring it back to you, you need to learn how to get around the village so I'll let you find your way home from there." Sakura nodded her head and gazed at a small flower shop they passed, she saw a young girl probly her age, clad in purple with long blonde hair and blue eyes laughing with what seemed to be her father and mother.
Sakura felt a deep pang in her heart but quickly pushed that feeling out as they walked into a weapons/ clothing shop. "Go ahead and look at the clothes Sakura, pick out three outfits, I want you to choose one to train in one to sleep in and then whatever else you'd like. I'll be over there if you need me, I need to get a pouch, weapons and shoes for you, Ah that's right what size shoe are you?" Weapons? Sakura couldn't help but feel very nervous now. "I'm a size 7 sensei." Kakashi smiled and gave her a wave of his hand as he walked off to the opposite end of the store.
Sakura glanced around at everything, all the fabric was stretchy, and mostly dark. That was ok though she liked dark colors. After looking in all sections Sakura settled on getting dark blue spandex shorts that went down to her mid-thigh, a dark blue tube top that ended above her belly button and a sleeveless fish net shirt underneath that for her training cloths. She bought a simple red t shirt and grey soft fabric capris for sleeping and nothing else, not finding anything. Sakura walked over to Kakashi who was it the weapons area, she shuttered thinking about these blades slicing her open spilling blood.
Kakashi grabbed the clothes from Sakura's arms. "Don't worry Sakura, starting tomorrow you will learn to not be afraid of these." Sakura looked at the good side of it all, this was all exciting for her, everything here was different, she gets to take care of herself, she gets to protect herself and this time she would. Nothing else was going to phase her. Kakashi paid for the goods, and they walked off to the market, lots of vendors were at their stalls trying to sell vegetables. But they walked past them and into a little shop. Kakashi grabbed some eggs, milk basically the necessities. "Sensei thank you," Sakura bowed to Kakashi before he handed her the bags of goods. "You won't be thanking me tomorrow, haha, now I'll meet you back at your place, I'm going to go to the Hokages to report to him, and grab your belongings." Kakashi waved off to her as he walked off. Sakura stood in the middle of the road trying to remember which way to go.
As she wandered off going down different streets she tried to approach people and ask for directions but never found the right opportunity to ask them since they were all so busy. Looking down at the ground Sakura started murmuring incoherent words to herself, until she fell backwards from bumping into something soft. She felt the hard ground beneath her and something heavy on top of her, her grocery bags sparred out by her side. "Ooof! Hey get off me your heavy," Sakura gasped trying to breath. Her vision was covered with nothing but yellow. "Watch where your go-oooing, he-he." A small boy a little bit shorter than her with three whisker marks on each cheek got off Sakura. "Maybe watch where you're going," she said as the boy started scratching the back of his head.
His bright blue eyes sparkled to Sakura, she thought he was kind of cute, she looked at him, he wore a bright orange jump suit and had goggles on his forehead. "Yea, he-he I'm sorry about that, here." The boy outstretched his hand and Sakura took it willingly, grateful for the gesture. "Well I'm sorry to, I'm Sakura. Sakura Haruno. It's nice to meet you." Sakura outstretched her hand to shake the boys. She noticed the blush rising on his cheeks. "Are you new? Ha of course you new. I have never seen someone like you before, or heard of a Sakura Haruno before. Haha. Oh yea I'm Naruto Uzumaki." The boy said as he shook Sakura's hand. On second thought this boy wasn't as cute as she thought but he seemed nice. Sakura smiled, her emerald eyes getting a bit bigger as she realized something.
"Naruto-kun, can you help me find a tall cement building? I'm staying there and seemed to have gotten myself lost." Pink hair fell almost touching the ground as the girl bowed down hoping for him to help. When she looked up Naruto's face was bright red. This girl had just used a friendly pretext to his name, he couldn't be more happier by that. "By the Hokage's tower?" Pink hair flowed vigorously through the air as she shook her head up and down. "Of course I can I stay there as well, come on Sakura chan!" Naruto said as he put both hands behind his head and started walking. Sakura ran to catch up with him. Once they got to the building the two had said their goodbyes. Sakura walked up a flight of stairs and opened her apartment's door. Kakashi was already sitting at the table waiting. "Yo, what to you so long Sakura?" Sakura set all her bags on the counter next to the fridge and started putting things away.
"I met a boy named Naruto Uzumaki who helped me get back here, he was really nice, but kind of a knucklehead," she exclaimed. "Sakura once we finish training and you go to the academy, Naruto won't remember meeting you, he will most likely produce a different image of you based on how people usually treat him." Sakura's eyes squinted a bit. "Well I'll just have to change his mind when we meet again." Sakura smiled up at Kakashi, who returned her smile. "Well I want you to be up by 5 am tomorrow we have a lot to do." And like that the white haired ninja was gone.
Sakura sat down on a stool, looking at some ramen she made herself. Just thinking of what her grandparents were doing, if they were worried about her or not. She sighed as she slurped her dinner and went over to her futon, as she laid down she grabbed her little red quilt and let sleep take over. The next morning Sakura was up and ready by 5 am and Kakashi wasn't even there yet, she waited for another then another, until he finally came walking through her front door. "So sorry I'm late-" Sakura grabbed the nearest object to her and threw it at his head. He gracefully caught it. "Sakura come on, I had to help a little old lady and-"
"Kakashi sensei , please take this seriously, because I am!" And like that the girl walked out the door, Kakashi stood in her home, until Sakura came back.
"What are we going to do today?" The man's smile was creepy through his mask. "We are going to study." A stack of books taller than Sakura appeared on her floor. Kakashi sat on the desk and pulled out a small orange book and began to read himself. "If you need any help let me know." Scared Sakura closed the door and grabbed the first book off the stack. "This is going to take forever." Sakura murmured to herself. In fact it didn't take long at all for Sakura to memorize all things about chakra, to learn about all kind of techniques she could use with her chakra. She was already the perfect student with no ground experience on the battlefield within the first week. The next two weeks went by quickly, Kakashi taught Sakura how to control her chakra, how to make clones, throw kunai, climb trees. He taught her more then he should of, but she was learning very quickly and he wanted her to succeed. Sakura was her own kind of prodigy, she has all the brains, and perfect chakra control.
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"Well Sakura I've taught you more than I should of, the tree weeks are up, tonight I'll go to the Hogake and tomorrow you'll start at the academy." Sakura felt nervous meeting people who would thought they knew her. How is she going to know their names? How are they going to think about her? Her stomach was doing continuous flips thinking about it. "Kakashi Sensei, I know where the academy is but how am I going to know who is who.." Kakashi smiled as he pulled a list of pictures and names out of his vest. "You have one last thing to study, don't be nervous either tomorrow all students graduate the academy. Just make it through a few hours, study that list and get some sleep, I'll see you sometime tomorrow." And like that Sakura felt as though she were alone all over again, for all this time she never thought about her parents, now that she was alone it's all she could think about. It wasn't something to mope about though. Sakura sighed as she grabbed the list and began to study it for her big day.
The next day Sakura woke bright and early and put on her training uniform. She packed herself a bento, as she put the lid on her bento box she saw a ribbon with the metal insignia of Konoha engraved on it. Sakura took the material, wrapped it loosely around her waist and put on her shoes and left her house, letting her long pink locks dry on her way to the academy. It couldn't be too bad she thought, I mean no one should hate her anyways. Sakura opened her classroom door, many students were bustling in there. She knew all their faces already, having studied them the night prior.
The girl scanned the room with her piercing emerald eyes and located a seat next to a boy with black hair and eyes, who wore a blue shirt and tan pants. He seemed to be drifting off into space not caring a lot about his pears, Sakura strode over there, planning on taking a seat next to boy she believed to be Sasuke Uchiha. But was stopped in stride by the blonde she saw in the flower shop a few weeks ago, her name was Ino Yamanaka. "Hey billboard brow where do you think you're going? No one seats next to my Sasuke kun! Not even me!" She exclaimed pointing her finger at Sakura. "What did you just call me?" Sakura asked as her fists clenched by her side, flames emitting from her pupils. "You heard me I –" Sakura walked right past the girl and took her seat next to Sasuke, said boy didn't even flinch to see who sat next to him. Ino was flaring with rage where Sakura had left her.
I mean really. Sakura sat there thinking about how her forehead was not big at all, I mean yea when she was a kid it was huge for sure but this girl who had just met her now acts like she knows Sakura. "Stupid jutsu stupid people" Sakura murmured to herself, I mean if Ino thought that of her who knows what other people had thought of her. Sakura snuck a side glance at the boy next to her, he was good looking that's for sure. His cold stare and pale skin whit his spiky hairdo where just so cute. Sakura examined him briefly until he turned and looked right at her. She mentally jumped but kept calm and turned her head to him. "Good morning Sasuke san." Sakura said as she tilted her head. "Hn." Oh no he probly didn't like her like Ino. Sakura sighed this day so far has started out to be tiresome. "Hey Sakura chan! Good morning! You care if I sit here?"
Naruto the boy she met on her fist day asked gesturing towards the chair next to her. "Of course Naruto Kun!" Sakura said. "Aww come on Sakura chan there's no oth- wait what? I can?" Naruto asked baffled. "Haha of course Naruto Kun take a seat." Naruto happily was about to sit down until a girl behind him moved the seat so he fell straight to the ground. "Who said you can sit next to our Sasuke kun?" The girls screeched, It seemed Sasuke had a lot of girls who thought he was theirs. Naruto seeming to be mad jumped on the table right in front of Sasuke. "What do you want idiot?" The boy next to Sakura finally spoke.
"I just want to know what's so great about you, Sasuke?" Naruto yelled in his face. Sakura looked behind Naruto and noticed a boy was about to get up. "Naruto stop it your-" "No Sakura this guy thinks he oh so gre-" Naruto was stopped short of his sentence as the boy behind him stood up causing Naruto and Sasuke to smash lips. All the girls' cried, while Sakura just sighed. "I told you to stop Naruto." Naruto getting up from his position quickly grabbed his chair and sat down next to Sakura. Both boys' glaring daggers at each other while spitting insults.
The teacher finally walked through the doors. He was an older man with a scar across his face, over his nose, he had brown hair and eyes. "Now class, settle down, settle down. Todays is the big day! You get to graduate and get assembled into three man teams." Sakura knew who he was he was Iruka. And she knew who she would be under as well, Kakashi Sensei, She merely closed her eyes and listened not really interested in the other teams. "Team Seven. Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, and Sakura Haruno." Sakura grasped her ears when all the girls in the class shrieked. She looked at each boy beside her. This was going to be interesting. The three said students where in the class room.
Everyone else new found teacher's had already picked their students up. Knowing their Sensei would be late Sakura opened her bento box and started eating some rice rolls. "Hmm, man these are good. You guys want some?" Sakura asked as she held out her bento box. "Uh Naruto kun what are you doing?" The blonde boy was putting a chalk eraser in between the door and the frame. "Loser no Jounin would fall for that trick." Sasuke stated. "I mean I'm going to have to agree with Sasuke san Naruto kun, He wouldn't fall for that." As Sakura finished saying that the door opened and Kakashi walked through the door with chalk powder all over his head. "Sensei! I told him not to do it in sorry." Kakashi looked at the group. "You're a bunch of idiots. Now meet me on the rooftop."
The jounin had disappeared from sight and the three pupils went to the rooftop. "Now kids, what were are going to do is an exercise to get to know each other, I want you to say things you like, things you hate, dreams of the future , hobbies, things like that." Naruto scratched his head.
"Why don't you go first, give us an example so we can get to know you."
"I'm Kakashi Hatake, Things I like, things I hate I don't feel like telling you. My dreams for the future I haven't really thought about and I have a lot of hobbies. Now it's your turn kid on the left."
"Believe it. I'm Naruto Uzumaki, I like instant ramen in a cup, I love the ramen Iruka sensei got me at Ichirakus ramen shop, but I really hate the three minutes you have to wait after you pour the hot water into the ramen to took, my hobbies is eating different types of ramen and my future dream is to become Hokage! Because then the villagers will have to stop treating me like I'm a nobody." Kakashi sighed, this boy was a knuckled head that was for sure, he then nodded towards Sakura to continue. "My names Sakura Haruno. I like.., well at this moment I don't really know what I like. I don't know what I don't like. I have never really had any hobbies, and my dream is to…well I guess I really don't know what that is either." Sakura said as she scratched the back of her head. She couldn't tell them her hobby was playing tennis, or that her dream was to see her parents again. That would just be depressing, and not even Kakashi or anyone else here knows that her parents really did die.
"What Sakura that's no fair you just told us your name like Kakashi sensei." Naruto complained
"That's alright we don't all know much about ourselves? Right Sakura?" Kakashi said through his mask. "Now your turn." He said to Sasuke.
"My name is Sasuke Uchiha. I hate a lot of things and I don't particularly like anything. What I have is not a dream, because I will make it a reality, I'm going to restore my clan and destroy a certain someone." "Good your each unique and you have your own ideas. We have our first mission tomorrow."
"What kind of mission do we have?" Naruto blurted out.
"Its survival exercise. It's not like your previous training, it's a test to see who will actually become genin."
"That's crazy we went through that test?" Naruto cried.
"That was just a pick of kids who could potentially become genin. Now meet me at the bride tomorrow at 5 am and bring your ninja gear, oh and don't eat breakfast, don't want you getting sick." Sakura sighed, she knew Kakashi wouldn't be there at 5 am, he was always late. And like that their new sensei as gone leaving the three genin on the rooftop.