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The Sandaime stared into his crystal ball to watch how a blonde-haired boy was being made fun of by two older kids. If only he could do something to help that boy…
KNOCK
He put his crystal ball away as fast as he could.
"Come in."
A pink-haired beauty came into the room and he felt as if he had seen her before.
"Excuse me for interrupting you, Hokage-sama."
"It's alright but, who are you??"
"Um…you see…uh…could you do me a favor??" Sakura approached the desk and looked him straight in the eye. She felt nostalgia rise and couldn't hold back the tears that were approaching quickly.
"As long as I can do something about it of course. What is your name, child?"
"Sakura. The favor is if I could…..hug you?" His eyes widened and looked slightly confused.
"If that is all then, come here." She jumped over the table and hugged him while crying on his shoulder. He was like a father to her and she couldn't help but let her tears out. 'I guess I'm not as cold as I thought I was' she thought as she tightened her grip around his neck. She quickly let go after two minutes and looked at him eye to eye.
"Hokage-sama, I'm not from here although I have this headband around my forehead."
He nodded. Sandaime knew everyone from his village. It was his job to know and he never saw this Sakura girl. The only girl that looked a bit like her was a 7 year old with the same name but, she was a mere child and not as old as this girl.
"Where are you from then?"
"I'm from-"
KNOCK
Their heads went towards the door as the knock was repeated once more.
"Come in."
Two men in ANBU uniform walked in while they carried a body in their hands. One of the ANBU took of his dog mask and looked at the Hokage.
Sakura stared wide-eyed.
"Kakashi-sensei." All heads turned to her and she looked staright at the cold onyx eye that stared back at her.
"Sensei?? How do you know my name??"
She tried averting attention from her as she looked at the other ANBU carrying the body. It looked like the person was suffering a lot and had lost a lot of blood. Her medic-nin side kicked in as she ran to the body and grabbed his wrist.
"Explanations later. This man needs medical attention immediately. If you don't mind Hokage-sama, may I take a look at him?"
The Sandaime nodded and Sakura tried to pry the body off the other ANBU.
"You can't carry him. He's too heavy for you." Said the man that had the ANBU in his arms. That voice sounded really familiar to her but she shrugged it off.
"I have super strength." She grabbed the man and carried him bridal-style towards the Hokage's desk. "Sorry about this Hokage-sama but this man needs help now." She put the man on top of the desk and applied chakra to her hands. Slowly her hands started glowing and she started her job.
The men in the room just stared at her in amazement. She looked too young to be able to do such a painstaking procedure.
After about ten minutes, which is pretty amazing since the man was in a very grave state; she stopped and sat down on the chair.
Her breathing was ragged and sweat trickled down her forehead. After a few seconds, she looked up at Kakashi.
"He's fine now. You should put him on a bed. The man will wake up in an hour or so. When he does wake up, give him a lot of liquid and feed him only soft food that he doesn't have to chew much." She got up again and looked at the man on the desk. "It seems he was on a hard mission, huh??"
"Thank you." Sakura looked at the man that had the ANBU mask on still.
"A wise person once told me to use my skills even when I don't need to or it isn't my duty. If I can save a life, that's good enough for me." The Sandaime chuckled. Sakura looked up at him.
"It's funny how that line used to always be said by one pf my pupils. She even heals just like you. Have you ever met her?? Her name is Tsunade." Sakura smiled, a fake smile, and nodded.
"I've heard of her."
"Did you get that saying from her?" She fake smiled again and nodded.
"Yes."
"I see. Thank you so much for healing one of our best ANBU. I don't know what we'd do without him."
"It's my job to help people."
"Are you a medic-nin perhaps?" She looked towards Kakashi and nodded. "How did you know my name before??"
"Umm…well…you see….you're very famous!! I've heard of you from many people."
"Why did you include the sensei??"
"I um…don't know. It just slipped."
"Sakura." She looked towards the Sandaime.
"Why do you have the Konoha headband if you are not from Konohagakure?"
"I was about to explain it to you when the ANBUs came in. You see Hokage-sama I'm from…" she stopped. If she told them where she came from, would they believe her? What would they think?
"Sakura?" Her head snapped up to look into black onyx eyes. She was in a daze. Those eyes…
"Sasuke…" she pronounced and the man looked confused into her eyes.
"How do you know my little brother?" She snapped out of her daze and stared wide-eyed at….Uchiha Itachi. He was the other ANBU. The one who brought the injured man in.
"Itachi." She said his name now and the three men in the room stared at her harder now.
"How do you know my name?? Are you another fangirl?"
"NO!! I mean, of course not. I just happened to know you from other people as well. Just like Kakashi and I know Sasuke because this little girl named Ino was with him the other day and she told me his name. That's all. I'm no fangirl of yours." She said as she burst out in anger. Like she would ever stoop so low as to even think of the murder of the Uchiha clan that way.
"Calm down. It was a simple question. Who else do you know from this village…or my family?" He glared at her suspiciously.
"I…know Yamanaka Ino, Nara Shikamaru, you know….mostly just kids. I'm fond of them."
"Do you know Haruno Sakura?" Itachi asked her. She didn't know if she should nod or not and just stayed still.
"No." she decided to not say the truth.
"You look like the older version of her. She is very good friends with my otouto." Sakura looked confused. She and Sasuke weren't friends during this period…last time she remembered.
"Is that so?? It's very weird since I have pink hair and most people don't have that color."
"She does."
"Oh."
"What clan are you from?"
"My clan…they…they got wiped out!" She said. No name came into her mind so she had to make something up. It wasn't much of a lie either since in the future they would be wiped out by Sasuke.
"What's your clan's name then?" She glared at Itachi.
"Why are you interrogating me? It's none of your business where I came from. The Hokage should be the one asking me the questions in other words, not an ANBU such as yourself." All the people in the room stared wide eyed. No one had ever spoken to Itachi that way, much less a girl. They would try groping him instead.
"I think I speak for all of us in this room when I say that you are strange. You appear out of nowhere, know half of the youth in Konoha, know names of two of the top ANBU, have a leaf headband, and know medical jutsus that aren't usually taught to many people. You intrigue me. What are you hiding Sakura? What is it that you don't want us to know. Come out with it quietly or…I'll just use my kekkei genkai on you."
Sakura chuckled. They all stared at her.
"They didn't you call you a genius for nothing huh? Well for your information you can probe all you want with your sharingan but you won't be able to read my mind. Sharingan doesn't work on me; thanks to something I dubbed inner self."
They all stared wide-eyed. Itachi turned on his sharingan and locked straight into her eyes. She let him and waited for him to finish. Suddenly Itachi took a step back and touched his head.
"What the hell? That was….you but more aggressive. How did you get that thing in there?"
"I didn't. It's hereditary from my clan. No one can read my mind. I'll tell you whatever I want and there is nothing you can do about it. Got it?" Sakura looked at the man still at the desk. He was stirring. "He's waking up. I'm done here. Hokage-sama if you don't mind, I would like to see around Konohagakure."
"You're strange Sakura but I feel that I can trust you. How would you like to be an official Konoha ninja?"
Sakura faked smiled and lifted the sleeve of her right arm all the way up to show a tattoo.
"ANBU?" She nodded. "Well, if you have that then you are officially a Konoha ANBU. Where can I contact you when there are missions?"
"I don't have a place to stay but-"
"She'll stay at the Uchiha district. I'm sure my parents won't mind." She looked at Itachi and glared.
"They might not, but I sure do. It's not necessary; I have a friend that I'm sure wont mind if I stay over. I want to look after him also."
"Is he/she sick?"
"No, lonely."
"Oh, very well. Give me the address." Sakura jotted down the address, praying that he hadn't moved out any time soon. The Hokage looked at the address and stared wide-eyed. "You get along with Uzumaki Naruto?" This time Sakura gave out a true smile and nodded her head.
The men in the room stared at the short lived but beautiful smile as it appeared and vanished. All men thought of one thing. 'She needs to smiled like that more often.'
"I think that I'll be on my way then." She waved at all of them as she closed the doors.
"Too bad she's not a fan girl." Kakashi said as he took out Icha Icha Paradise from his pocket and began to read while the other two in the room sweat dropped and the man on the desk groaned. All heads turned to him as he slowly opened his eyes.
"Where am I?"
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After dealing with his teammate, Itachi started to walk home. That girl was peculiar. He needed to see Sakura-chan soon and ask her about that woman. They could be relatives of some sort…
Finally, he arrived at the park and looked for the swings. On them, he found the little girl he was looking for. Slowly, Itachi walked up to her.
"Sakura-chan." Her head jerked and her eyes brightened.
"ITACHI-KUN!!" She ran to him and jumped to reach his neck to hug him.
He smirked. Somehow, every time he was with Sakura-chan, he forgot about all his problems…like his family.
"I need to ask you a question."
She let go of him and sat on the swing and he walked behind her. He started swinging her.
"Yes Itachi-kun?"
"Do you have any realtives with pink hair like yours?? Someone that looks a lot like you?"
"Nope! I'm the only one with pink hair in my family for some strange reason. Why?"
"I met a girl today. She had your exact same hair, name and also eyes. She was older then you though, about my ages."
"Really!!?? I want to meet her!! Can you show her to me?"
"No. Remember that no one must know that you and I are friends, Sakura-chan."
"Awww… Why??"
"You know very well why."
"Yes Itachi-kun. I didn't see Sasuke-kun all day!! Where is he?" He sighed. For some reason when she brought his brother up, he would feel nautious and angry.
"I don't know where he is. Can you forget about him for a moment Sakura? You're always talking about him."
"It's because I love Sasuke-kun, Itachi-kun!! Just like I love you, too!!" She smiled a warm smile at him and he just nodded. He was glad about the second part but not the first part. It annoyed him to know that she liked his brother just as much as him He was better in so many ways compared to him. Couldn't Sakura see that?
"Sakura?" he stopped the swing and she looked at him.
"Yes?" He bent down and hugged her to him. How such a small human being is so important to a person is beyond him. She blushed furiously. He was so warm. She hugged him back.
He let go and looked at her in the eyes.
"You love me more then him, understand?" She blinked twice and tilted her head on confusion.
"Why?"
"I said so." She nodded her head. "Good." He grabbed the back of her head and kissed her. She stood there, wide eyed at what he was doing. He let go of her and looked at her straight in the eyes again. "You are mine."
He got up and dusted himself. Itachi grabbed Sakura's hand and started to walk off to the Uchiha manor. Sakura insisted that she wanted to see Sasuke.
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I don't know where that Itachi and little Sakura thing come into play…sorry if some of you didn't like it. This is not an ItaSaku fic. I just put that because I want to make it original.
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