Sakura's mind was blank at first. All she could remember were some pictures which came to her mind. A blue thunder…coming towards her and then darkness surrounding her. She also remembered that she had been falling…now she felt the pressure of something against her back. She winced slightly. Was this ritual supposed to be that painful?

"Are you okay?" An unfamiliar voice asked her.

The voice was very close to her, but then again seemed to come from far away. Sakura tried to refocus and to open her eyes. Her back was still hurting…and her eyelids were so heavy, however, she fought the urge to just fall asleep. Slowly she managed to open her eyes and the first thing she saw was a pair of blue eyes, which were damn familiar to her…and also this blond, spiky hair.

"Naruto?!" Her irritated voice sounded as if she had been shouting all day. "Why didn't it work, Tsunade-sama?!" Although her back hurt, Sakura sat up and was face to face with another person.

Her jaw dropped, as she stared in one single, black eye.

"Holy shit! It worked!" She exclaimed receiving a suspicious glance from the guy in front of her.

"I think she hit her head pretty hard", the man kneeling behind Sakura stood up and stretched his head, "Could you bring her to the hospital, Kakashi?"

"Sensei! Are you crazy?! This girl appeared out of nowhere and you want me to take her to hospital instead of the investigation building?!" The silver-haired guy hissed at the blond man and shot a murderous glance at Sakura while speaking.

'You didn't exaggerate, Kakashi-sensei…' Sakura thought, as she heard the younger Kakashi's tone.

Sakura looked around to make out where she had landed, since it wasn't easy to say from where she started at home. She recognized the place at once. Right next to her was Ichiraku's ramen shop. In the last 16 years it hadn't change a bit. Maybe the owner was younger, but other than that…nothing.

Kakashi watched her and tried to make out what she was thinking. She seemed to know this place. Then something caught Kakashi's eyes.

"Minato-sensei! Look…she has a forehead protector! I knew it! She is a spy ninja to investigate here for another country!" It looked like Kakashi was about to attack Sakura any second.

"Calm down, Kakashi", Minato said evenly and then stepped to the right side the pink-haired girl, who was still sitting on the ground, "Take a closer look and you will see that she has a hidden leaf forehead protector."

"That must be a fake one-" Kakashi started to say.

"Are you the Fourth Hokage? Konoha's yellow flash?" Sakura asked all of a sudden with the fire of excitement burning in her eyes.

Kakashi and Minato changed a quick look and then the Fourth smiled down to her and nodded.

With a sudden movement Sakura was on her feet and grabbed Minato's hand. Kakashi moved as fast as her and dragged out a kunai and was about to hold it against her throat, but stopped in his tracks as the young kunoichi started to shook the Fourth's hand in awe.

"It's such a pleasure to meet the legendary Hokage! I never thought I would meet you, Konoha's yellow flash, in person! My name is Sakura Ha-", suddenly Sakura snapped out of her enthusiasm and came back down to earth.

She didn't think of a proper story…like what her name was because she wasn't allowed to use her right name her, or like where she was from…but Minato and Kakashi already knew she was a ninja of Konoha…this would be complicated. The Fourth watched her expression and he didn't miss the thoughtful glance of her even if it only lasted a second. She smiled and went on.

"Hanuro…My name is Sakura Hanuro", she decided to switch two letters of her second name…it was the best she could come up with at the moment.

Kakashi looked at her as if she had lost her mind, but Minato just went on smiling at her, when she released his hand.

"I am honored that I seem to be so famous", he said chuckling.

"Of course you are! Defeating -", she was about to say 'the Kyuubi', but stopped before she could tell too much. "Eh…defeating so many enemies in the third secret world war and playing a big role in enduring it…you are one of the best shinobi, who have ever lived!"

Sakura was still all excited. She couldn't believe it that she actually had done it! Traveling 16 years in the past…her mind wandered off to the event, which would happen in half a year and she thought of how she should tell Minato that she was from the future.

"I don't want to disturb, but we should go to a less crowded place", Kakashi hissed again.

Only now Sakura noticed that people had stopped and were standing around them watching the scene. The faces were not familiar to her.

"Let's get out of here", Minato agreed, "Do you mind if you come with us?"

Sakura shook her head and then shot a glance to Kakashi, who had grumbled something unintelligible. It was clear that he wouldn't have given her a choice.

As soon as they escaped from the crowd and were now in the Hokage's tower, Sakura thought of so many ways to tell the Fourth everything, but no idea was good enough.

The young Copy Ninja walked behind her and watched every single move she made. He knew that she was hiding something from them and that she was up to something, but he couldn't tell what it was. He was sure that she must have been a spy or something who was sent to Konoha with some kind of summoning jutsu…otherwise she wouldn't have appeared out of nowhere. Kakashi also wondered what his Sensei was thinking that he let her wander around with them instead of interrogate her.

Minato made his way to his office followed by the two ninjas. When they passed by the Hokage's office, he said:

"Once we are in my office we can talk privately."

Kakashi wondered what that was about.

"But we just passed by your office, didn't we?" Sakura asked not being aware of the Hokage's trap.

The Copy Ninja's eye widened.

"Oh yes…my mistake", Minato gave her an innocent smile and returned to the door which they just passed by and opened it.

Walking inside he signaled Sakura to sit down in the chair in front of the desk. As she did so, she heard Kakashi closing the door and approaching them. She could feel his murderous glance on her…it was really uncomfortable.

"How do you feel?" Minato asked taking his seat behind the desk.

"I am fine." This time Sakura didn't miss the signified glance the Fourth shot at Kakashi.

Behind her Kakashi revealed his Sharingan and watched her chakra flowing through her body.

"Okay, then…Sakura, you said your name was? Where are you from?"

Now Kakashi understood…his Sensei wanted to interrogate her himself and he should find out -with his Sharingan- if she was lying to him or not.

Sakura tried to come up with a good story…but failed. They knew she was a kunoichi from Konoha…so she just decided to keep as close to the truth as possible. At least she must hide the complete truth from Kakashi…for the moment.

"I am from Konoha", she said.

"How come that I don't know you then?" Minato asked suspiciously.

Kakashi noticed that her chakra flow quickened. Sakura turned her head slightly to the silver-haired guy and saw that his Sharingan watched her.

"Ah…that's how it is…well if that's the case then I suppose that I won't be able to lie", she said turning to Minato again, who nodded once, "I wasn't here until now."

"Were have you been then?"

"Sorry, but I can't tell you", Sakura tried to smile a bit.

"Are you a spy?"

"No!"

The Fourth looked over to Kakashi, who answered his silent question.

"She is telling the truth…so far."

Sakura rolled her eyes and remembered the talk she had with Kakashi-sensei a couple of hours ago. He was telling her about his former self, but she expected him to exaggerate…about his character. She couldn't believe that someone could act that way, the older Kakashi described, but now there was the proof. The younger Kakashi was a suspicious, little brat. Sakura couldn't imagine that this person would be her nice, friendly teacher in some years.

"What do you want here?" Minato kept asking her questions; however, she decided not to answer them in order to keep her mission safe.

After his fruitless attempts to get some information from her, he sighed and leaned back in his chair.

"I guess -although you are keeping a lot of things from us- we can trust you. You don't seem like you planned something, which would cause the village a lot of troubles", he smiled.

"I don't trust her at all! She is a stranger who is carrying a hidden leaf forehead protector! And I bet nobody in the whole village knows her!"

Sakura had stood up and had turned around to the annoying guy and was about to protest, when the door flew open and a woman with long red hair stood in the door frame panting.

"You are so dead, Minato! Believe it!"