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"Talking"

'Thoughts'

Inner/Kyuubi

Emphasis/Visions/Dreams


Past

"I do believe that we now have a problem." Sarutobi spoke calmly. "How do we get you back to the future, Sakura?"

Sakura just stared at him in shock. 'How does he know I'm from the future? And how does he know my name?' She thought. All sorts of possibilities were running through her mind right now.

"How the hell..?" Sakura began voicing her thoughts, though she just ended up trailing off.

"That is inappropriate talk for a young lady." Sarutobi told her.

Sakura narrowed her eyes at him. "Don't tell me what is inappropriate. I am nineteen years old."

"Yes, yes." Sarutobi nodded his head, rather dismissively. "Now back to the issue of how we are going to get you home."

"How did you know I was from the future?" Sakura finally asked her question. She had to know.

"There is only one woman with pink hair in this village, and that is Hikari Haruno." Sarutobi answered.

Sakura looked down at her lap, thinking, 'Maybe… this is my chance to figure out who my father is.'

There was a long stretch of awkward silence. Finally, Sakura spoke again, "Hokage-sama, where am I going to stay?"

"Oh, well... I did not think of that; we will have to figure that out first." Sarutobi said. "And may I ask, what is your rank?"

"I am an ANBU Captain, as well as a medical-nin." Sakura said right away. She was proud of having accomplished her ANBU rank; after all, she'd worked hard to achieve it.

The shock was clear in Sarutobi's eyes. "At only nineteen years old..."

Sakura couldn't help but smirk. "I was trained by some of the best."

"Well then, I have decided to let you keep your ANBU Captain/medical-nin status." Sarutobi told her. "But I shall be having you join Minato's team."

Sakura scrunched her brows up in confusion. "Minato? Who is he?"

"Minato Namikaze... he is the Jounin Sensei of the team that found you."

Sakura's jaw dropped open and her eyes widened from shock. Minato Namikaze was the name of the Fourth Hokage; he had died sealing the Kyuubi inside Naruto.

"Sakura, is everything okay?" Sarutobi asked her, snapping her out of her thoughts.

"I'm fine." Sakura lied smoothly, composing herself at once. She knew it wouldn't be a good idea to mention too many things from the future, or else things could possibly be changed...

"Well then, you may be released from the hospital this afternoon." Sarutobi carried on. "I am also going to inform Minato about you being put on his team."

Sarutobi gave Sakura a quick smile before leaving the room.

As soon as the door shut, Sakura pulled her knees up to her chest and rested her head on her knees. She could feel the tears welding up in her eyes.

What if she could never get home?

Tsunade-shishou was going to pass over the title of Slug Sannin to her. Naruto was in line to become the next Hokage, and he was currently going through training. Sakura had also just started to get into a relationship with him too, though it was a slow-building one. She didn't want to rush because if they didn't work out, she wanted to be able to remain friends.

Temari and Shikamaru's wedding was also coming up in a couple of weeks, and Sakura had been so happy for them. Sakura was also supposed to be helping Hinata with her own wedding plans; Kiba had just proposed to her. Sakura had also been helping Sai with his emotions, seeing as how he wanted to ask Ino out and didn't know how to approach it. She had been helping Neji pick out a wedding ring for Ten-Ten. And Sakura had been helping Shizune with her shopping for baby supplies; she was pregnant with Kakashi-sensei's baby.

Tears began to slip down Sakura's cheeks. If she never returned home, she would miss all of this.

Sakura clenched her fists and wiped away her tears. Crying would not get her home.

No matter how hard it would be... Sakura would get home.


Future

"Where's Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked as soon as the rest of Team Kakashi had arrived in Tsunade's office.

Despite the fact that they were all nineteen and all high-level ninja, all three of them – Naruto, Sakura, and Sai – had refused to be separated from one another. They continued to work in a team along with Kakashi.

"That's what we are here to discuss." Tsunade said. Her tone and expression were both deadly serious.

Naruto's expression hardened right away at the sight of Tsunade's seriousness. "What's wrong with Sakura-chan?"

"It seems she activated a time travelling scroll that I had stored in my desk." Tsunade told them right away – she had no time to let them know all the facts carefully as they had to act quickly.

"Why did you even have a time travelling scroll?" Naruto said, his anger rising.

Kakashi put a hand on Naruto's shoulder. "Calm down, Naruto."

Tsunade sighed and continued, "Back to the topic at hand, I want you three to find two other travelling scrolls. We shall use one of them to try and ride the frequency of Sakura's time travelling scroll... to the time that she went too. Then once you find and locate her, I want you to do the same thing with the other scroll."

"Hokage-sama, won't that be a little hard." Sai said.

"I don't care how hard it is. I want Sakura back here in this time!" Tsunade raged, slamming her hands on her desk, causing it to shatter. "Not only that, we have word that there is a time travelling scroll located in Kumogakure. It shall be found in a shrine, which is hidden in the mountainous area somewhere. That is all I can really tell you."

"When do we leave?" Kakashi asked.

"As soon as possible,"

Kakashi turned to Naruto and Sai. "I want you two to go and pack what you need, and meet back at the gates in an hour."

"Hai," Sai and Naruto replied.

"Good then, all three of you are dismissed. Also, if needed I shall send backup," Tsunade said, waving her hand towards the exit.

"Hai, Lady Tsunade," Kakashi said before leaving with Naruto and Sai.

"I need you, Shizune!" Tsunade shouted.

"You called, Lady Tsunade." Shizune said, once she had rushed into the room.

"Shizune, I want you to go get me a new desk." Tsunade said, pointing to her destroyed desk.

"Understood," Shizune said, turning and leaving the office.

Tsunade sighed and leaned back into her chair. She knew they had a tough mission ahead of them. There would most likely be other people trying to get their hands on the scroll. Right now, all that Tsunade could do was hope that on this mission, they would retrieve the scroll.


Hour later

"Are you two ready?" Kakashi asked Sai and Naruto.

Naruto and Sai nodded their heads.

"Okay then. This is going to be a tough mission." Kakashi started to explain. "Other people will most likely be trying to get their hands on this scroll."

"Woo hoo! That means a ton of people to fight." Naruto cheered.

"Wrong, Naruto." Kakashi was shaking his head. After all these years, Naruto still acted like a child and an idiot. "All these people will probably be extremely strong."

"So, you want us to only engage in combat if deemed necessary." Sai practically summed up.

"Correct, Sai."

Naruto began to pout. "What's the fun in that?"

Kakashi sighed. "Naruto, you baka... finding these scrolls are going to be hard, and to move this along slightly quicker, we should avoid any battles with other people trying to get their hands on the scroll. That way, if we were to get injured in battle, we would not have to waste time recovering."

"Ooh, I get it now." Naruto said, nodding his head.

"Wow... Dickless, it appears you have gotten stupider over the years than before." Sai said. He gave Naruto one of his infamous, fake smiles.

A vein popped in Naruto's forehead. "I'm not dickless! You pale-faced ass!"

"I do believe my ass is not on my face."

"You know what I mean!"

"But... do you know what you mean?"

"That's it! You-"

"Naruto! Sai! You can fight later. We need to get a move on, so we can cover as much ground as possible." Kakashi cut them off with a tired sigh. He couldn't believe he was stuck with these two.

"Fine," Naruto grumbled, crossing his arms.

Sai just gave a curt nod.

"Then let's go." Kakashi said.

The three of them knew this was going to be a long and annoying mission. However, this was for Sakura. So, they were willing to do anything to get their rosette back. After all, Sakura was like a daughter to Kakashi; Naruto still loved her and their relationship was sort of taking of; and to Sai, Sakura was like a sister... though he never showed it, he actually cared about her as he did for Naruto too. They were Sai's family.

They were all determined to bring home Konoha's Cherry Blossom Hime, even if it was going to be difficult.


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