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Itachi watched her carefully as she slept. She had the saddest expression he had ever seen on her face. She had lost her beloved parents and that was a moment that would definitely change her life. The girl kept close to him all night needing the comfort only trust in him could give her.

The next day they had to be present in the ceremony in which Sakura's parents' names were engraved on the memorial stone. The girl kept her eyes on the stone the whole time. She felt so lonely at the moment yet she stopped herself from crying in front of a bunch of strangers that knew their parents. Sarutobi said great things about them. Itachi had to be next to the Hokage as part of the ANBU protecting him.

She proved herself to be strong, her little body didn't shiver with the pain she was feeling inside, and neither did her face mirror the pain she felt in her heart.

After the ceremony everybody presented their respect to her before leaving the place. When the last one of the people that had gone to the ceremony was gone, Sakura stepped forward towards the memorial stone.

"Mommy, daddy" were the only words that left her lips. She prayed silently for them before little Sasuke put his hand on her shoulder to tell her it was time to go. Sakura nodded and followed him and his parents to the Uchiha mansion.

She went directly to her room as soon as got home. She cried silently in her room letting all her pain to be showed in the darkness of the room next to Itachi's. She hid below the blankets, she was always going to miss them.

"Mommy, daddy" she repeated, maybe the hole in her small heart would stop hurting if she kept calling them. She remembered her father explaining to her once that people born and died at some time or another but he hadn't say they would be gone that soon. He had also said she would have to be strong when the moment came. Now she knew she had to do what he had told her, the only problem was she didn't know how to do it.

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Itachi got home late that night and immediately directed himself towards Sakura's room. All the Uchihas were worried for the little Haruno. He saw no light coming from the room so he opened the door silently not to wake her up in case she was asleep. Then he heard something that broke his heart more painful that anything he had ever felt before in his life.

"Mommy, daddy" it was sob coming from her beautiful lips.

He stood frozen in the spot for some seconds. He would do anything for her but even being the greatest ANBU he was, he couldn't bring people back from death.

Slowly he walked towards the bed. He sat carefully, not doing any rough movement. He didn't wanted to scare her.

"Blossom?" he called her sweetly. He put his hand on her head.

"Itachi kun?" she asked trying to hide the fact that she had been crying.

"Sakura I'm here" she uncovered her head and her red puffy eyes stared at him.

"It's late" she told him "you should go rest."

"I'm staying with you tonight" he moved her small body to the side and rested next to her. Sakura rested her head on his chest as he put an arm around her body and they both fell asleep.

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Five years later…

Tsunade watched her young student carefully. The girl had proven some time ago to be a prodigy. The blond never thought she would take another student besides Shizune, this girl had proven the sannin wrong.

Sakura had matured too fast for her age after her parents' deaths and she was the perfect kunoichi as she didn't show her emotions. Some months later after Tsunade became Hokage when Sarutobi had been killed, she had been doing an inspection in the Academy when she felt something different coming from this girl. The blond had watched the little one for some weeks before calling her to her office and offering the Haruno to be her apprentice. The little girl had accepted immediately. Since then, the girl had become truly strong. She had already presented the chunnin exams and passed them. Tsunade hadn't let her student go faster in the shinobi levels because she knew the world was already hard for her to rush into it. Yet Sakura had convinced her teacher to allow her to take the jounin exam soon.

The kunoichi had been learning not only fighting abilities but medical abilities too. Sakura was usually so busy that you rarely found her in the Uchiha household. She had not seen Itachi in a while and she barely saw Sasuke from time to time.

That day Sakura felt excited, she knew from her Shisou that Itachi was back from a mission and she was going to the Uchiha mansion to see him after she delivered some documents to Shizune at the hospital and finished running some errands. She had missed Itachi so much. First she had to look for a kunoichi named Nanao in the training grounds. The Hokage wanted to see her at her office for a solo mission.

Sakura walked calmly through the forest feeling the chakras around and hiding her own. She didn't want to disturb the shinobi training. As she jumped on a tree she heard some voices.

"Itachi sama the other night was fabulous, it was such an excellent night. Nobody had ever made me feel so good!" then the woman kissed him. Sakura put one of her hands on her mouth and the other over her heart as she felt it being shattered.

"I must go Nanao" he said.

"Promise me I'll get a repetition tonight" she said in a sensual tone of voice. Sakura couldn't handle hearing his answer. She did some fast hand signs to change her appearance to look as an older kunoichi with darker skin, darker hair and special glasses over her eyes. She didn't wanted Itachi to recognize her. Then she jumped in front of the couple. The man was against the tree with the woman rubbing tightly against him.

"Nanao san?" she asked in a deep voice.

"Yes" the kunoichi was angry for the interruption.

"Hokage sama wants to see you immediately in her office" explained Sakura looking directly towards her eyes (avoiding the eyes of the Uchiha), then she disappeared leaving cherry blossoms behind.

Sakura moved as fast as she could towards the Hospital. She ordered her brain to avoid thinking in Itachi and what she had just heard. She was angry at herself for missing him, for wanting to see him. She had to tear him out of her heart and her memories, it hurt too much.

"Sakura chan thank you for bringing me the scrolls. You are probably tired and want to head home."

"No, I want to continue reading the scrolls Tsunade gave me. I'm going to finish handling some messages from Tsunade and then I'll be back." The older woman didn't like the idea. She knew the young kunoichi was working hard on every assignment she got, this was just too much.

Sakura had learnt to know the village perfectly. So she moved fast around it doing whatever task Tsunade had asked her to fulfil. She spent the night keeping herself busy.

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The next few years there were lots of changes in Sakura's life, first she passed the exams for jounin and ANBU. She had surpass Tsunade and began creating her own medic jutsus. Sakura had made the Hospital grow even more than it already had when Tsunade and Shizune began working on it.

Sakura grew up losing her childhood fat. She was just a teenager but a beautiful one. Many shinobi wanted to date her but they were to scar to mess up with Tsunade's student and Sasuke would also scare them away. The fact that the kunoichi was always working didn't help either.

The pink haired teenager had kept her feelings bottle up since what had happened five years before. She hadn't seen Itachi since then either. Whenever she knew he was in town, she would stay as far away as possible from the Uchiha mansion. She had even considered the possibility of moving out of the compound but she would break Mikoto's heart and she couldn't be that ungrateful with the Uchihas.

The girl had gained an office at the Hokage tower, the hospital and the ANBU building. The first one was to help Tsunade finish her paperwork whenever she had too much sake. The second was for her medical research, dealing with patients, medical documents and managing the Hospital when she had to. The third one was for dealing with paperwork from ANBU, interrogation, planning or whatever ANBU missions needed. She also had an adjoin room to attend to any injured ANBUs, criminals that had to survive for interrogation or people they had to protect. Since joining ANBU she had spent most of her nights there.

She never took days off. The anniversary of her parents' deaths she would visit the memorial stone late at night and pray for them. She missed them with all her heart. She felt so lonely even if she was so busy and treated with people most of the time.

It was hard to be a teen ager with no mother to help her figure some of the changes she was going through. She sighed thinking again about the ones that were no longer there and the one she wanted to be there but she was convinced he had chosen someone else.

So much pain for someone so young thought Tsunade as she drank another cup of sake for her student.

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