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Inner/Kyuubi talking

Recap:

"Naruto! Sai! You can fight later. We need to get a move on, so we can cover as much ground as possible." Kakashi said.

"Fine," Naruto grumbled.

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. But 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 her never showed it. He actually cared about her, as he did also care about Naruto too. They were Sai's family. And they were all determined to bring home Konoha's Cherry Blossom Hime, even if it was going to be difficult.

End of Recap:

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Past

Hokage's office

Normal POV

Sakura currently stood in from of the Hokage's office. Not far beside her was Minato.

"Minato, Sakura here shall be joining you team for a while." Sarutobi said. "Now Sakura, onto the issue of where you shall be staying,"

"She can stay at the Namikaze mansion. I have a bunch of extra guest rooms." Minato suggested.

Sarutobi looked at Sakura. "Do you have a problem with that Sakura?"

Sakura shrugged her shoulders. "I don't have a problem with it."

"Okay then, it's decided. Sakura you shall stay with Minato." Sarutobi confirmed. "Well then, Minato how about you bring Sakura to your house, and let her settle in."

"Sure thing," Minato said.

"You may go then." Sarutobi said.

Minato and Sakura both walked out of the Hokage's office together.

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Sakura and Minato walked down the streets of Konoha, in an awkward silence. Finally Sakura spoke up.

"So what's your team like?"

"Well my team consists of Hatake Kakashi, Uchiha Obito, and Rin. They are all pretty interesting and unique."

I inwardly smiled; I was going to be able to see what Kakashi-Sensei was like as a kid.

Minato continued on. "Obito is our team's goofball you could say. He is constantly tardy, claiming that he was busy doing a good deed for someone, He is also very stubborn at times, care-free, and would probably save the team if they were in danger of instead of completing the mission, when he cries he refuses to admit it; he always claimed there is something stuck in his eye, and when he sometimes lie when he is in trouble or faced with an uncomfortable situation. He also has a rivalry/friendship with Kakashi.

Now Kakashi on the other hand is completely different. He is very stern, and serious, lecturing anyone who disobeyed; especially Obito. Because of this Obito claims to dislike Kakashi, though I know that deep down those two care each other. But both of their egos are way too big for them to realize this.

And finally is Rin. She is a sweet and friendly girl, who cares greatly for care greatly for her comrades. Rin is also the medic-nin of the team, and is quite a good medic-nin. Whenever Kakashi and Obito fight Rin always tries to break up their arguments and will never take side. I have also seemed to notice that Obito has a crush on her, but Rin seems to like Kakashi. Sometime their whole love triangle thing puts a whole lot of stress of stress on the team."

Once Minato had finished talking, Sakura had stopped head in her tracks as memories of old Team Seven began to resurface in her head. Team Seven's first ever really big mission to the Land of the Waves guarding the bridge builder Tazuna. Fighting Zabazu, Kaku, Gato and his army of bandits, the Chunin exams; the forest of death where Orochimaru gave Sasuke the curse mark, where Sakura had to defend Naruto and Sasuke when they were knocked out. Where Rock Lee protected Sakura, and showed her that she wanted to be as strong as him, Naruto, and Sasuke, where Sakura fought against the Oto genin to protect her teammates.

When she had to fight Ino in the preliminary rounds; and they both tied by knockout. Where Naruto fought Neji, and won showing everyone just how much he had grown. Then a month later, where Naruto beat Neji during the finals, and where the invasion of Konoha began. How Sasuke pursed Gaara in his silly little attempts to beat him in battle. Then Sakura, Naruto, Shikamaru, and Pakkun had to chase after them. And Sakura protected Sasuke from Gaara, which resulted in Gaara using his sand to immobilize Sakura, and Naruto used her as an inspiration to beat Gaara.

And the worst memory of all, that haunted Sakura; was Sasuke leaving; because she was not strong enough to stop him to fully turning to the path of darkness. Sakura always blamed-

"Sakura, you still there?" Minato said, snapping Sakura out of her train of thoughts.

Minato was standing in front of Sakura, his face right in front of Sakura's.

A blush spread across Sakura's face. "Sorry, I was lost in my thoughts."

Minato chuckled, and moved away from Sakura. "That's fine, the same thing always happens to me."

The two of them began walking again.

"If you don't mind me asking, what were you so lost in thought about?" Minato asked.

"My team," Sakura muttered.

"Your team?"

"Yeah, it's just that hearing you talk about your team brought back memories about my old team. Especially, since your team seems to be so familiar to mine."

"Really?"

Sakura nodded, knowing if she was going to be telling Minato this she would have to be careful about what she said. "Team Seven consisted of me, Naruto, and Sasuke. Our Sensei was Takao." Sakura paused taking in a sharp breath before continuing. "Naruto much like your Obito was our knucklehead ninja. Though Naruto graduated dead last, he was stubborn, always pulled pranks, shouted rambunctious stuff out at his enemies, and he was a baka. But when it came down to it Naruto was the best friend someone could ever ask for. He was kind, caring, and always put other people first at his own account. He too also would probably rather save his team if they were in danger then complete the mission.

Then there was Sasuke, he was the cool one and graduated with top marks. Sasuke was strong, and was good with Jutsu's unlike Naruto who at first had trouble with it. Because Sasuke seemed to be so cool, almost every girl in our class was basically in love with him, including me. And because of this, I ignored Naruto's feeling for me, and I always made fun of him, and hit him, hurt him. Naruto and Sasuke had a rivalry/friendship because of this. Naruto wanted to beat Sasuke in everything, so Sasuke would acknowledge him. And he did, and because of that Naruto thought as Sasuke as his only brother since he grew up with no family.

But Sasuke was so hell bent on revenge because when he was younger his elder brother killed his family. Leaving Sasuke with an emo complex. In the end Sasuke ended up leaving us for power, I tried to stop him but I was too weak, and Sasuke knocked me out and left me on a bench. When Sasuke left Naruto was torn, then I made him promise to bring Sasuke back. Naruto told me it would be his life time promise. By making Naruto promise this, I ended up hurting him, because Naruto had a huge crush on me and was going around trying to bring Sasuke back for me. I-I it was all my f-fault every time N-Naruto got h-hurt trying to g-get S-S-Sasuke back for m-me."

Sakura was clenching her fists so hard, that her palms were bleeding.

Tears were flowing down Sakura's cheeks, showing no sign of stopping. Her knees began to get wobbly. Sakura would have fallen to the ground if Minato did not catch her.

"I-I all m-my f-fault." Sakura cried. "I-I w-was w-w-weak. A-and I-I m-made N-N-Naruto t-try to b-bring S-Sasuk-e b-back. B-but I w-was onl-y h-hurting h-him."

Sakura buried her face into Minato's chest, crying even more. People around them began to stop and stare, but they did not care.

"I-If o-only I w-was s-strong e-enough to s-stop S-Sasuk-e he w-would h-have n-never l-left. B-because of m-me N-Narut-o h-had to k... k-kill S-Sasuke, h-he w-was so c-c-corrupt wit-h e-evil." Sakura stuttered.

Minato began to gently stroke Sakura's silky hair trying to calm her down.

"Sakura it's not your fault, so calm down." Minato whispered to her.

"I-I'm s-sorry." Sakura whispered back, just as Sakura was about to pull away Minato scooped her up into his arms bridle style and continued to walk.

Sakura's tears stained face blushed. "W-What are you doing?"

"Carrying you." Was Minato's simple reply.

"You don't have to do that." Sakura protested.

"Yes I do, right now you are unstable. And you might fall again. So I am going to carry you the rest of the way."

Sakura was about to argue but Minato cut her off.

"No arguing with me. I am not allowing you to walk."

Sakura sighed, and looked away from Minato, still blushing. She had to admit that he was incredibly good looking. There was no denying that fact. Sakura snuck one last peak at Minato, though her vision was blurry with tears, he still looked amazing. Maybe just maybe being stuck in the past would turn out not to be that bad after all.

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"Am I not the only one that just witnessed that?" Obito said, as he watched his Sensei walk away with the rosette in his arms.

"We all just say it baka." Kakashi said in his monotone voice.

Obito shot a glare in Kakashi's direction. "Shut up grandpa."

"I am not old."

Obito smirked. "Then why do you have grey hair huh?"

"My hair is silver!" Kakashi growled.

"You two stop fighting please." Rin pleaded them.

Obito huffed and crossed his arms. "I will stop fighting for you Rin."

Kakashi said nothing; instead he began to walk away from his two teammates.

"Where are you going?" Obito shouted after him.

"Home," And with that Kakashi continued to walk away.

Rin stared at Kakashi's retreating figure with sad eyes.

Why won't you open up to us Kakashi...?

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Future

Normal POV

"Let's set camp up here." Kakashi announced, once they had put a good distance in between themselves and Konoha.

The sun was setting, and the sky was getting dark signalling that night was on its way.

They all stopped, and set up camp. Once they had the fire going, they had some instant ramen, which Naruto (obviously) had packed.

"Kakashi-Sensei, do you think we will get Sakura-Chan back?" Naruto asked out of nowhere.

Kakashi was silent for a while before replying. "That's not a question I can answer Naruto."

Naruto clenched his fists. "What if we never get, Sakura-Chan back. Did any of us really know anything about her?"

Everyone remained silent to this one; the truth was no one really did know anything about Sakura's family. She always kept quiet about her family.

"Dickless, we all want to find hag." Sai said.

Naruto gritted his teeth. "I know... it's just if we never got Sakura-Chan back I would feel like shit. Because I never truly knew anything about her family. And I am supposed to be her best friend.

"It's not like you've never kept anything from her dickless. Have you ever told her who your parents are?" Sai asked.

"No." Naruto muttered, looking at the ground. "But I never really thought it was that important that Sakura-Chan had to know."

"Naruto, maybe that's how Sakura feels. Maybe she thinks her past, and family is just not that important that you had to know." Kakashi said. "So calm down."

For the rest of the time they ate in silence, then they all began to get ready to go to sleep.

"I will take the first shift, then Sai, and finally Naruto." Kakashi told them.

"Sure thing Kaka-Sensei." Naruto mumbled already have asleep and in his sleeping back.

"Hai sir." Sai said, he then crawled into his sleeping back and basically became a motionless lump, unlike Naruto who rolled around all the time.

Kakashi hopped into the nearest tree and perched himself onto a high branch, so that he could get a better view of his surroundings.

Sighing he got ready for a boring guard duty.

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Past

Namikaze Mansion

Minato POV

As soon as I arrived at the mansion, I carried Sakura to a guest room and laid her down on the bed. The moment her head hit the pillow she passed out.

I gave her one more look before leaving the room. She looked so much more peaceful now that she was sleeping.

Sighing, I went into my room, and changed into some more comfortable clothes.

Then seeing her have an emotional breakdown like that of nowhere, was a shock. To hear that Sakura was in love with someone else me jealous. And who the hell was this s Naruto guy's, it sounded sort of like she like him.

I could also tell that when Sakura was telling me the story she was leaving parts out. But sooner or later she would tell me the whole story when she felt ready.

I yawned, I was pretty tired, and it was only one or two in the afternoon.

"Can't hurt to take a nap."

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Next Day

Konoha

Tsunade POV

"Lady Tsunade." Shizune, said coming into my office after knocking.

"What is it Shizune?" I asked her, setting my paper work on my new desk.

"It seems that Shikamaru and his team have returned from their mission." Shizune replied.

I leaned back in my chair. "I want you to send Shikamaru straight here."

"Hai Lady Tsunade." Shizune said, she then left the room.

Instead of going back to my paperwork, I grabbed a bottle of sake from my stash which I had just recently refilled, I yanked the lid of and took a big gulp. I continued to gulp the bottle down.

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Unknown place

Normal POV

"Master, one of our spy's inside of Konoha has just sent word that, Tsunade has sent out a squad to find a time travelling scroll." A male voice said.

"Where are they headed too?" Another male voice replied, but this one was creepy and evil.

"Kumogakure." The first voice replied.

The creepy male let out an evil chuckle. "Go gather your squad. I want you to make sure Konoha does not get their hands on that scroll. And I want you to kill, this team that Tsunade has sent out."

"Yes sir,"

"But first. I want you to figure out what team she sent, and why."

"As you wish my master."

"Good them you may leave."

The first male bowed down, then quickly left the room to go accomplish the task that he was just given.

Well that was the end of the chapter.

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