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Chapter one

15 years ago

"Sakura-chan! Sakura-chan! Hey!" Naruto yelled as he sprinted towards the pink-haired girl. Said girl sighed with a small smile on her lips.

"Hi, Naruto-" The blonde didn't even let her utter a word, he looked as giddy as a five-year-old who just received a bag of candy.

"Join me for ramen! Come on!" He grabbed her hand and dragged her to his favorite restaurant. Sakura giggled as she ran behind the blonde, a happy grin on her face as she attempted to jump on his back and make him fall- total laugh for her.

Before she could make her funny story happen, a deep voice startled her.

"Dobe, keep it down will you."

Her breath and her laugh were cut short, she straighten her stature, brushing a few strings of bubblegum hair behind her ear.

"Surprise." Naruto almost squealed as he grabbed his friends' by the neck in a hug.

"Sasuke…" She whispered quietly, breathing in the scent of her surroundings-it was one for relief but she made herself think that.

"Teme here was released today Sakura-chan, isn't that great? Better get used to the smell of arrogance and snakes from now on." At this, Sasuke gave a snort at the blonde before a smirk crept up his lips.

"It's better than the smell of failure and old ramen from you, dobe." Sasuke smirked fully.

Sakura wanted the smile to radiate on her face, she wanted to take off in a full-blown dash and press her body to Sasuke's, give him that smile he so did not fucking deserve. So she did the only thing Naruto would want her to do.

She placed her books on the counter, the evil gleam in her green eyes mistaken for a genuine look, and she slapped him (ok, maybe part of what Naruto would expect her to do).

A blow to his right cheek and before the boys could respond, she pulled his body to hers and pressed her cheek against his in a slow tantalizing motion.

Sasuke forgot about the slap.

Naruto could only show a large grin. Bright teeth too

As for Sakura, She was enjoying it while it lasts. For you, Naruto

Naruto couldn't have asked for any better than this. His team seemed to have mutual feelings, even though the thought of the other two arguing-Sasuke and Sai- constantly got on his nerves, Naruto had never been better. He ignored the other two behind him for a moment as he fastened his pace to meet with Sakura, she looked a little anxious so he decided to step up-if you really know what that means.

"Hey, Sakura-chan, are you ok? You've been a little… distant." He asked, keeping his eyes on her. Sakura met his blue eyes quickly and forced a smile he couldn't decipher.

Naruto wriggled his blonde eyebrows and broke out into a small series of small laughter (Naruto's laughs were normally loud, if someone wasn't complaining yet for how loud he was, then the laughing wasn't so bad) and bringing Sakura with him into the fit of laughs.

"What's so funny dickless?" Sai called out with a bizarre smile on his face.

Naruto chose to ignore him and kept chatting along with Sakura.

"No wonder you left them Sasuke-san," Sai smiled strangely "They are full of…" He pondered about his next word before pouting. "Shit."

Sasuke chose to ignore the pale root member and kept his eyes forward, though the anger he felt rising because of the Anbu's words hasn't faltered, he gave the usual 'hn'.

Sai was left dumbfounded for a moment before he muttered several insults about the blonde and at Sasuke, waving at him.

"See you sometime emo prince."

Sasuke's head popped a vein, but his lips were forced shut when his eyes directed towards the couple in front of him, both wrapped up in a tight embrace, he watched as naruto pecked the girl on the cheek before running back towards his direction.

Sasuke raised an eyebrow at this, he promised himself not to bring this up, and he ignored the whole thing and thought about the past events.

The sour taste in his mouth would return if he thought of those.

"Sasuke-teme! My crib bro! It's time to visit my crib!" Naruto madly screamed at him, wrapping an orange-clothed arm over his shoulder. Sasuke seriously wished he could ask the dobe what was with him and his obsession with the bright color-seriously.

"Now that you actually know what you are doing and where you belong, it's time to chat" Naruto whispered the word as I it was almost forbidden-which was partially true on Sasuke's terms.

"Get your hands off me dobe." Sasuke said venomously in usual tone.

Naruto quickly pulled his arm off as if the teen would've caught on fire.

"Ok, where was I... Oh ya! Sasuke, we have serious talking to do. It's about… Her."

Sasuke picked up his pace and walked in the direction of the Uchiha district.

"Wait! Sasuke! Wait, please?"

Sasuke stopped in his tracks, his heart pounding violently behind his ribcage, thinking for a moment about the tone of Naruto's voice and the fact that the reckless blonde had actually called him Sasuke. The latter didn't know which one was more surprising.

"Who exactly is her, Naruto?" Sasuke asked slowly.

"Oh come on!" Naruto's voice hissed out, glancing t his surroundings.

"You know, Sakura-chan. We just started dating a few weeks ago and I don't know how to initiate the next step." Naruto pulled on his collar in a manner that proved the atmosphere was getting hot. Or was it Sasuke?

"I'm going home." Sasuke chose the easy way out of this one; he jumped swiftly on the closest rooftop, and disappeared in the evening.

Naruto didn't push it further; he grinned and jumped, pumped a fist in the air and yelled out his famous 'dattebayo!'

The next day was not so bad, Sakura rushed out of the hospital from an early shift, she was smiling. As she descended down the road towards the training grounds, she met the sly grin of none other than her best friend Ino Yamanaka. Only the grin she saw

"Hey there pig." Sakura greeted warmly as she tucked her gloves in her bag.

"Hello, Sakura."

Sakura stopped dead in her tracks, her face slightly paled, she turned to stare at the blonde. "Something happen? What the hell?"

"So, you just decided to cut your hair down and dye it?" Sakura repeated for the millionth time. Ino shoved the silken locks of strawberry blonde in the pinkette's face.

"I… don't understand. You look a little like-"

"Like you! I know. But it was not my intention, totally." She assured.

"Well, if you… say so? I guess." Sakura couldn't meet the eyes of her best friend. Ino was a girl who was always in competition with her, and the bleach blonde being cocky always seemed to be ahead. Beauty wise

Ino didn't look too different though, but the killer resemblance to Sakura just frightened said girl. Just... why?

Ino had always taken pride in her hair, she always talked about how gorgeous her hair was, how shiny and silky the strands were, she never had split ends, her scalp was healthy and the blondeness of it was the best color a woman would want.

What the hell is she up to?

"It's only temporary forehead, it's not like I'm stealing your fame or anything."

Sakura would want to wish her best friend hadn't said that

"You could've used a henge or something." Sakura muttered gravely, but with her smile, Ino didn't see behind it.

"Too much chakra." Ino quickly said, flipping her hair back.

"Well, I would stay longer to chat but I got to go training with my teammates."

"Yes, of ourse. Bye forehead!"

I'm sorry Sakura… so sorry

It was late evening already and the gang parted ways. Through the whole training, Sakura couldn't shake the feeling of someone's eyes boring through her.

"I'll pick you up tomorrow at 7, Sakura-chan."

She quickly waved at Naruto. Naruto…

She didn't want to hurt him at all, after a few more years of date refusals and punches for attempted kisses from Naruto, she finally gave in and devoted herself into making him happy.

Lately, he had been acting strange towards her, the blonde was a little more… passionate. She didn't know his intentions fully but she wouldn't really want to go far with their relationship. Fucking selfish, selfish bitch

He would be kissing her and his movements or hands would guide a little too intimate for her liking, usually she would make excuses to get away but sometimes it doesn't work and she has to knock him out silently by using her medical jutsu.

I can't do this…

But she was.

Her mind drifted towards Sasuke. True, and obviously factual, she was in love with him. She had kept the giddy façade around Naruto instead, his scowls helped too.

She didn't want to make any mistakes at all, if he had kept his promise, it was only fair to give him something in return. I'm sorry

As she trotted her way home, realizing the sun setting down quicker than normal, she tucked her weapons tighter against her attire and fastened her pace. Someone's here

A couple of senbons dashed passed her ear quickly parting with a few pink strands.

Sakura quickly elevated her body, twisting in a circular motion, she threw a few kunais unswervingly towards the trees. Her keen ears picked up the small gasp from the intruder, she teleported herself towards the noise and cursed as she saw a little squirrel with its nut.

Sighing, Sakura easily plucked out the kunais and inserted them in her pouch.

Boom!

Easily, Sakura dodged the paper and in her hand was the squirrel she had spotted. Unfortunately, the nut loving animal disappeared in a poof.

Damn, a clone?

A punch flew past her cheek, grazing against her locks, she grabbed the intruder's arm with her monstrous strength and slammed the body against the tree.

"You can't hide from us with that stupid new look, Yamanaka." A female voice rung.

"What the!" Sakura gasped. Did that woman seriously call her Yamanaka?

Sakura barely managed to dodge a kunai, with her body flipping backwards, she landed a chakra-filled kick on the woman's stomach, and the impact crushed the woman's guts and forced the pressure to drain the air out of her lungs and immediately cutting her breath short.

Sakura sighed and wiped the dust of her clothes, she glared daggers at the unconscious woman.

"Kikyo-sama didn't mention how strong the kunoichi would be." A voice hissed out from behind the shadows.

"That's because she isn't." Her companion whispered at the same volume.

"Then what the hell is up with the super girl moves?"

"I don't know. But don't you think her eyes are a little strange? They look more green than blue." The first voice mused aloud.

"Shut up, we need to get out of here before she notices us."

"What about-"

"Let's go!"

Sakura turned around swiftly, glancing at her surroundings for wherever the voices were coming from, she controlled her senses but no other intruders occupied the area.

"Ino." Sakura knew the hair thing had its reasons. What the hell did she do?

This chapter was suppose to be uploaded two days earlier but parties took my time away.

This is where the story really begins, the previous update was the prologue and now we're on the path of destruction. Sorry if Naruto was ooc but it was the future and I havent really given the reason behind anyone's actions yet. :(

Thank you for the comments and criticism or flame-whatever it was :) And I will try my best to keep writing this and bring more action. (tell me if i should reply to reviews or not)

Sorry for the lack of sasusaku, there will be more! I guess i have to change my pen name because people think I'm putting my 'emo-tions' in the story. Read the warnings again if you decide to leave a flame or review. :)