Life Gone Awry
Thank you for the reviews! I got good ones and bad ones. I thought over them felt like I needed to explain this one little thing. Sakura had turned into a pink house cat. She doesn't ever have a humanoid state where her skin is fluffy pink and giant ears are connected to her skull. Unless in the far future I decide to do that-its not gonna happen. And this is a romance with Itachi so I'd never have him make out with a house cat...maybe ;] Yeah I know this kind of story has been made before but I never saw them ever get complete or updated until years later. Well I wanna complete this and update it as fast as possible- I know I can upload at least once a week. I have a goal and am determined to complete it. This is a romance/drama/humor story. Things are funny at first but it will get serious, that's why this is labeled romance/drama-it has traces of humor.
Angel897- Thank you. I'll update as fast as I can :]
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This chapter has been revised. I hope you all like it. :D
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Sakura's heart was pounding against her ribcage as she turned another corner crossing an alley. She couldn't believe that she turned herself into a cat. What kind of forbidden scroll does that to you? Apparently the kind of scroll that Sakura Haruno would steal, she figured it as much as karma. Her ears started to twitch at the sound of frying meat as she walked through a district that had all kinds of food stores and restaurants nearby.Her stomach growled loud enough to be heard by people walking by. Sakura felt her fluffy pink face heat up in embarrassment.
'Oops...I forgot to eat before I left for the scroll room. I shouldn't have been so excited.' She paused and sweat dropped. Ichiraku was still open and seemed to be making a lot of food. Sakura became curious and padded her way inside to find her teammates and closest friends eating together in a large group. They looked like were having a great time. Sakura felt a pang of anger hit her.
'Why didn't they invite me?' Sakura wondered irritated, they always sent her a message in some way to let her know. She loved nights like those-everything became care free and everyone got along with each other... or so she thought.
"So you really almost kill her Naruto?" Ino asked the slurping blonde.
"Hm?- Uh yeah I did. It was an accident though. I never meant for the Kyuubi to take over, he really hates Sakura for some reason. Sometimes I do too... but I don't know if its me or just him influencing me." Naruto then continued to slurp his ramen- getting strange looks from his friends. "What?" He asked.
"You like Sakura?" Kiba smacked Naruto on the head, he looked beyond irritated with the blonde.
"Yeah kinda... whats so bad about that?" Naruto paused from eating, he felt uncomfortable with everyone's eyes on him.
"She is weak. She doesn't deserve to be a part of our league. Tsunade couldn't help that idiot and time has proved that. What has she ever done besides making it in ANBU, which is a miracle in its own, and learning how to heal wounds... barely? I would love to know of her accomplishments in life, because I don't know of any." Kiba glared at Naruto. "At least the nine tailed fox is wise enough to know that Sakura isn't worth anything, too bad you broke his control. He would have been doing us a nice favor." Kiba looked around, all of his friends nodded.
"She... isn't that weak Kiba." Ino tried to defend Sakura a tiny bit. "She just hasn't blossomed yet. She needs us to protect her until that time comes, or she will do something crazy that will cause her harm or kill her. We have to be here for her guys."
Sakura suddenly felt bad, was she really that predictable? She had done something crazy but she isn't dead. 'I might as well be though' She thought bitterly.
"Naruto- you need to learn how to act around Sakura. We all have and she never suspected a thing. Your little outburst might have shattered our facade. Keep your beast under control from now on" Kakashi smiled with his eye.
'Kakashi-Sensei too? They really were all lying to me, why would they do that? I never gave them any reason to regret me... besides being weak. But you just don't do that though.' Sakura felt the fur on her back ruffle up. They thought of her so lowly that they were ready to thank Naruto's Kyuubi for killing her? She never knew they despised her weakness so much, who gave them the 'Holier-Than-Thou' attitude? They could have done without it.
"Kakashi-Sensei...why are we lying to Sakura-Chan anyways? Why cant we just tell her that she is weak and will never be strong enough to associate herself with us?" Hinata asked, her stuttering left her over the years.
"She wouldn't be able to handle it Hinata. She is far too fragile to see all of her friends leave her for her imperfections. I understand that some of you agree with us but cherish your friendship with her, to see those few leave her would have a devastating effect on her Psyche. Even though that most of us do not care, we cant do that to her. So remain lying to her for her safety and a false sense of security." Kakashi tried his best to explain. "Its not her fault that she will never be able to climb to the ranks that we have gone to. Maybe it is... but either way we lie to her for her own safety."
"That's not nice, Sakura-Chan is my friend! I don't lie to her." Naruto growled.
"Stop lying to yourself Dickless. I see the looks you give Sakura, and that is not from the influence of the Kyuubi." Sai smiled.
"... Do you hate Sakura?" Naruto looked away for a moment and asked Sai.
"No. Her friendship has value to me. I often wonder if yours does though."
"Shut up." Naruto's eyes flashed an angry red.
"Control your emotions Naruto." Kakashi gave him a warning look.
Naruto gripped the edge of his chair tightly, the metal backing was horribly disfigured when he let go of it to eat the rest of his ramen. Sakura felt a little scared inside, she didn't know what to think of Naruto anymore. Was he her friend? Or was he going to finish what he started from the training fields soon? Sakura didn't know. She was angered at her friends though, all of them thought of her as pitifully weak and wanted nothing to do with her. Some thought the same but liked her as a friend. She felt beyond emotionally hurt, but she had a feeling that it was going to come down to that. Finding out the truth in a way she never wanted to find out, it still bugged her that they spoke freely of her behind her back. It wasn't necessary to lie to her, she could have taken it. Sakura would have been hurt yes but, she wouldn't have cried forever or lost her mind. She would have moved on. Sakura was never that weak, it was sad that her closest friends never even realized that about her.
Sakura watched her friends move from the topic of her to some other random articles of gossip, Naruto looked to be not interacting with them anymore, he ate his ramen and stared off into space. Kakashi had announced his marriage to Shizune and that they were going to have a baby. Sakura was glad for them, but the words they said of her she would never forgive them. Sakura continued to watch her friends have multiple conversations about anything and everything until the hour became late. Slowly one by one they all left Ichiraku. Naruto was the last to get up and leave, his eyes often flickered from red to blue when walking away from the stand.
'I have to get out of here while I still can.' She thought sadly, she could no longer walk the streets of Konoha. It would be too obvious to any ninja that something went wrong with a Justu if they saw a pink cat with green eyes. She would be the laughing stock of the nation and arrested for theft of the information of a forbidden scroll if she wasn't executed immediately for treason. Sakura figured that it would be best to just pack up and leave, find a cure to her problem in other countries.
She had made her way to her apartment reached up to the doorknob, unable to turn it she groaned. Was her window open? Sakura made her way to check, it was open enough for her to slide through. Sakura climbed a nearby tree and leaped for the sill, she almost hadn't made it. When the Kunoichi entered her bedroom, she ran straight for the closet throwing her gear and clothing into a pile as far as she could with her tiny pink paws. Sakura grabbed a black backpack from the top shelve of her closet and threw it into the pile as well. After grabbing feminine products, canned and boxed food she stood up on her back legs in front of the rather large pile. She never knew if the scroll would wear off or if she ever got to change back when she wanted so she felt safe packing everything her human self would possibly need.
'I really hope this works. I should be able to use my chakra still...I think.' Sakura didn't feel very confident as she tried to form her hand seals with her pudgy paws. Pakkun was a ninja dog and he had abilities, so she hoped that when she changed she still contained something ninja-like inside of her. Sakura dreaded the idea of being an ordinary house cat.
'Damn it! Work already!' she growled at the mountain of items, trying to scare it to doing her will. Sakura tried several more times before she gave up, sighing and turning around. All of a sudden a loud boom erupted and also a bright light flashed. Sakura never expected the Justu to be so difficult, she made a mental note to never preform Justu as a cat... things become explosive. Sakura had climbed underneath her bed, upside down and clinging to the cloth lining when she heard the boom. She hoped her neighbors couldn't hear as well as she did now. As she peeked underneath the bed skirt Sakura saw the pile shrink itself, organize, and pile into the ever shrinking black backpack on the top.
'Tsunade-Shishou your a life saver' Sakura smiled remembering Tsunade's wilderness lessons. She was taught a Justu where items were changed to a compact form, it was often useful for missions to other lands like the Snow where you had to carry many more items than a regular mission. When everything shrank to her size, Sakura fastened her backpack on like a harness. Sakura checked her apartment for any other things she might have needed and locked the doors and windows before she left. Sakura placed her keys in a hole she dug near her front door.
'I'm ready for anything now. Lets go have an adventure Inner' Sakura called out to her old companion.
"CHA BITCHES-SAKURA IS HERE! LETS GO OUTER!" Her Inner had screamed.
"Shut up Inner, I'll get a head ache with you screaming like a banshee."
"Your just jealous of my amazing self confidence forehead!" Inner smirked.
"I'm not jealous of anything. Your me remember?" Sakura countered.
" Yeah right. Your a spineless little girl. I'm the one with confidence" Inner sing-songed.
"That's it. Get out of here Inner- I'll show you who's spineless at the end of this" Sakura had mentally locked her behind a door and hid the key far away. Inner shouldn't be meddling with her plans right now-she could sidetrack Sakura so easily that she wouldn't remember what she was talking about in the first place. Sakura needed to focus right now. Leaving the village would be easy enough but where would she go?
"Lets go find Sasuke-Kun! We have nothing better to do you know. And I know you still Loooooovvveee him!" Somehow Inner managed to yell behind the solid door.
"I do NOT love him, it was a stupid crush. That's it. Nothing more okay?...But you do have a good idea. Sure why not? He could teach me stuff. Lets do it" She smiled. Her plan was finally forming.
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Sakura slid past guards at the front gate, not that it mattered much-they didn't care less if a cat with a backpack left the village. It wasn't much of their business anyways.
'That was easy. What is with Konoha and their half-assed guards?' Sakura glared, why were they so secure in thinking that nothing could get in or out in the middle of the night?
'Men are such pigs.' Sakura growled in her mind. One of the guards happened to be reading Icha Icha Paradise, she knew what those porn books contained and it wasn't anything flattering to the female race. Almost every man from Konoha she knew read those books that she so despised. Only two men from Konoha who didn't read Icha Icha Paradise was Neji and Sasuke- well they might too but just be very quiet about it. After all Neji was known not to be found for long periods of time and usually coming back smelling like something other than blood and sweat. And Sakura hasn't seen Sasuke in over three years.
'Well he has been around that old molester Orochimaru for three years. He could have gotten a few nasty habits from him. And yeah...he is a guy. I really hope that he doesn't though.' Sakura cringed picturing her Sasuke-Kun with his nose stuck in his book, eyes glazed over and his nose bleeding. To make the picture worse she thought of an enormous bookcase filled with Icha Icha books behind him.
"If he read that many Icha Icha books, wouldn't that make him amazing in bed? He'd be so creative, and he already has the power and stamina of a horse so he-"
"Inner! Shut up! Get your mind out of the gutter! Sasuke would never read such dirty books.."
"I bet you one day of complete control over your body for that."
"What? You mean if I win you'll leave me alone for a full day?"
"Yes Sweetie, one full day. And if I win- you cant interfere for one full day either."
"Is there a down side to this?"
"Not that I know of." Inner smirked.
"Ok deal."
"You made the right decision." Inner Sakura's eye had an evil glint to it.
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Sakura was walking through a forest on all fours. She slowly got used to the idea of that was the only way she would be moving around in her life for the time being. Inner liked the idea oddly enough, she kept exclaiming on how cute they looked. Sakura didn't care at the moment though. It still felt weird to be an ordinary house cat.
'Your not ordinary-you still have your ninja skills and chakra.' Sakura reminded herself. Okay so she wasn't any kind of house cat, she was pink, and she had the power of a Konoha ANBU medic... she assumed since she could preform basic Justu with her paws.
She jumped to the forest's branches and infused her chakra into her tiny paws. She became a pink blur as she sped through to Sound. Determined to find Sasuke, she never let herself tire or complain. The weak tired easily and complained. The strong always took more. Sakura kept telling herself that she was strong the whole journey while her Inner smiled proudly at her companion. She was starting to see the truth, maybe it was a good thing that she found that forbidden scroll. Sakura was finally going to be her own person and no one was ever going to talk down to her ever again...unless they wanted a chakra infused fist to their face, Sakura would be happy to oblige.
"I see the border to sound Inner" Sakura waited for her to reply.
"We have two hours until we get close to Orochimaru's hideout. Sasuke should still be living there. There hasn't been any news of Sasuke's body being taken over yet. So we still have time"
"I wonder when Sasuke-Kun will kill Orochimaru? I also wonder how he would react to a pink cat stalking him" Sakura pictured it in her mind and giggled.
"Lets just hope Duck-Butt will figure it out before he gets annoyed and tries to kill us"
"Oh I never thought about that. This whole being a cat until I can figure out how to change it thing is really starting to become really lame" Sakura pouted as she saw Orochimaru's hideout forming.
"Don't worry Sweetie, I'll figure this thing out soon enough. We aren't geniuses for nothing"
Sakura steeled herself as she found her way underground creeping through corridors, trying to sense her beloved Sasuke's chakra. The fur on Sakura's little neck stood straight up along with the rest of her body as she heard a voice she so longed to hear for over three years.
"What do we have here? A pretty pink cat like yourself shouldn't be wandering these dangerous halls."
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Its amazing what a simple revision can do.
It changes the mood of a story completely
I hope this is for the better.
I couldn't stand to re-read the childish writing.
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