Summary: What if Sakura saw the future in a dream? What if she found a way to capture Naruto and Sasuke in their great battle before death? What if she captured them and they were transported to their childhood as their present selves? Team Seven would never be the same again.

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Itachi: "Yea, yea. Sasuke. You do it."

Sasuke: "WTH? I don't do sissy things like begging. Hn."

"Hn."

"HN."

"Hnnn…."

Sakura and Naruto: "DAMMIT JUST SAY ENGLISH!"

Both: "Hn. A-a- ok, STOP SAKURA!"

Sasuke: "…I…am ordering you to review."

Itachi: "And that's as good as it gets. You heard the boy!" (Sasuke proceeds to plan revenge. "I'm a MAN, stupid Aniki.")

Preview:

Sakura heard a giggle, rather a familiar perverted old man giggle. She looked to the side at the chained boys she almost died for. Sasuke just rolled his eyes. "Sakura," he grumbled wearily. "Will you please stop raping my not-older-anymore brother?"

Sakura yelped and she was suddenly aware of how scandalous her current position was. She looked back up at Itachi as his chest rose up and down a little faster and he looked pained. "Um, I will just get off, but will you promise to listen to me even if you think I'm crazy?" She looked at him pleadingly.

His blush seemed to get worse, but he let out a hoarse reply, smirking as he did so, "I promise. I already believed you, Sakura-san. I just needed the details. Oh," he craned up to whisper in her ear. His voice deepened. "All you had to do was walk up to me…but this way is much better."

Sakura did what any respectful affronted heroine would do. She knocked him out with a 'SHANNARRRROOOOOO!' and a survivable chakra-infused punch.

Sasuke glared at her as Naruto sighed. Sakura just sweatdropped as she leapt to her feet. She smiled nervously, "Um…oops?"

Sakura Haruno fidgeted in her plain black kimono that kept falling off her shoulders. All she could focus on besides the scandalous girl she stole it from was the body heap at her feet. "Soo…Sasuke," she drawled. "He's your brother. How would you wake him up from a bad…'nap'?"

Sasuke Uchiha (the guy who was supposed to kill them all, but missed out) growled at her. "I don't know Sakura. If he isn't getting killed in our time, he is in this timeline. Can't you do anything right, Sa-ku-ra-chan?" He had his sharingan on, but seeing as how Sakura was used to battling the eye disorder, she just proceeded to punch the wall beside his head. Her head was lowered so her bangs covered her eyes and her lips were next to his ear.

The wood crackled, but kept still. It was as if a shock wave crushed every bit, but it was too quick that the wood had no time to collapse and just stayed in place. Sakura lowered her voice as she quietly warned the ex-lone survivor, "If you don't watch your prissy little tongue, Uchiha, I'll make sure you won't leave any more Uchihas in this world, since I can't do anything right. Because that would mean, you'd be dead, Itachi would be wherever he was, and I would be licking the floor you step on. Oh, wait. You're just chained to a wall with your supposedly best friend, Itachi is just knocked out after having hormonal issues, and I want to twist my kunai into your gut. All you did was cry and try to destroy your dear brother's life sacrifice."

Stepping back lightly, she smiled and swung to face the captives chirpily. "Say, Naruto-kun, I have an idea. Let's kill Sasuke so he won't mess up his own life." At the fox boy's gape, she laughed merrily, "Just kidding. Anyway, like I was telling the Uchiha brat here, have any ideas on how to wake the Uchiha up?"

Naruto glanced at Sasuke. The dark eyed man just glared in front of him, but at least the sharingan was off. Naruto just turned back to Sakura's evilly smiling face and sighed. And to think it used to be Sakura calming his fights with Sasuke down. The blonde cheeky man just shrugged. "Eh, I don't know. Just wait? Or maybe blast him with a water jutsu? I'm good at making guys pass out from nose bleeds, not waking them up from one. That would be your forte Sakura."

The pink-haired lady blushed heavily and counter-attacked, "Naruto, that sounds so wrong. If Sai were here he'd get bonus points – " Her eyes widened as she remembered the lonely painter. Her hands covered her mouth. It finally sunk in.

Naruto Uzamaki looked worried. He tried to reach out to her, but he forgot being chained down. So he settled for the next best thing. "Sakura?" He whimpered.

Even Sasuke looked up.

"W-We're never going back, are we? We – well, no. That's not true. You two will get to live normally again, but I…I will have no one. Ha ha. I can't believe I'll never be able to see Sai paint and call me ugly or fight with Ino over beauty products. I can watch my once self live that life…" She shook at how much of a sacrifice she really made. It never occurred to her at the time since she only had one focus, but with the torture time Itachi was supposed to be giving right now – she basically had a mental breakdown.

Inner: Well there's me.

And I am talking with my inner self. Not insane at all.

While Sakura was busy shaking on the floor, Naruto got the Kyuubi to wake up. Yo, Kyuubi! Help the missy get her mojo back and make it snappy to unchain me, yo, happy? Ch'all right, man!

Kyuubi: Oh my lord, please shut up you annoying cretin. That idiotic rapping container has left a bad influence on you. Jeez, just shut up! Just melt the chains already, here!

Feeling the extra chakra, the blonde ninja grinned excitedly. Thanks Kyuubi-chan! You're the best! Mom was right about you. Ok, let's do this! Believe it! Naruto concentrated hard as he radiated enough heat to melt the chains. The hot metal glowed white as it oozed to the floor, but none of it burned his skin ever since he got a protective sheild jutsu he learned from Hinata-chan. Not a single thread was scorched.

Sakura quickly grabbed the unconscious Itachi from the chains, placing him on her lap. Sasuke 'hmphed' and looked away as he mumbled, "Idiot. Watch out for my brother."

When Naruto finally got all the chains off his body and had it sink into the concrete floor of the "dungeon" they were in, he eyed Sasuke down.

"Yo, Teme. If I let you go, you'll stay here and listen to Sakura? She did save our lives…and so much more." Though I don't know how much more, so I better get the whole story.

Sasuke frowned, but his eyes shone with guilt and he finally agreed. "Alright, I'll listen to Sakura. I want to know how we got here, too. There's no way this is a genjutsu, not since Aniki knocked me out with his sharingan. And…Sakura?"

Emerald green eyes glared at him accusingly. "What?" she snapped.

He pursed his lips tight, but continued, "…I'm sorrrr. Uh, ahem, sor – crap! Ok, I'm sorry! So, ah, please tell us the whole story." This was really a crazy day. Heck, the GREAT Uchiha self he was was APOLOGIZING. He was getting infected with this madness and soon he'd be wearing flip flops and flirting with Ino. Ugh. This was not his day.

Sakura was stunned as Sasuke twitched. If Konoha was able to record this in history, the whole shinobi world would be in shock. But the honor was reserved to her and Naruto, who was pointing his finger like a ten-year old with his mouth wide open.

Naruto had trouble breathing as he got over pointing to laughing so hard he looked constipated. Finally Sasuke embarrassed himself long enough to turn his sharingan on the ramen poster boy. "Well?" Sasuke growled menacingly. "Let me go, Dobe."

"R-Right…" He had the Kyuubi offer him a clawed paw and sliced the chains off. Then Sasuke punched him in the gut for the insults. "Ow! That hurts!" Naruto ended up clutching his stomach and rolling on the floor, facing Sakura.

Sasuke ignored him and gazed at Sakura softly. She was holding Itachi's head like he was a child. He sat cross-legged as he looked at her earnestly. His very posture the image of the honest rogue Sakura loved to read about in romance novels. His voice smoothed out into a soft baritone as he asked the Important Question of the Day, "What did you sacrifice, Sakura?"

Naruto stopped rolling around as he looked between the seriously repenting Sasuke and the shocked beauty he respected a lot.

Sasuke pressed on. "What did you have to do to allow all this to happen, Sakura? How are we not all dead and torn to bits?"

Sakura wiped her tears away as she faced the dark avenger. "Well, you see, you two get to live in this time line for a year as your present selves so you can repent. Then, when you both turn 16 again, you'll remember everything and hopefully by then you'll find your own happiness."

The younger Uchiha kept staring at her. "You didn't answer my question. And besides, how was this all possible?" He shook his head in bewilderment.

"The night before I saw your deaths in a prophesized dream I got from a forbidden justu – don't ask – I snuck into the Uchiha compound. But instead of clues to Madara's immortality, I got a ghost who gave me a deal. Itachi gave me a choice. Of course he won't remember that ever, but he's the one who saved us, Sasuke. Naruto. Next thing I know, I'm dieing by your hands and we end up here."

Naruto furrowed his eyebrows, "What was the deal Sakura-chan? What did you have to sacrifice? You can stop avoiding this question you know."

Sakura just glanced to her side and bit her lip before laughing emptily, "I only had to lose my life. I only had to never be known as 'Sakura Haruno' anymore. That's all. I will fade from history as the woman you knew and just live a new life. It's not a bad deal. I actually gain a lot from it. Who else can die twice in her lifetime knowingly?"

"Besides. In one year, you won't even have a clue I have ever existed. When you disappear until your "present" selves turn 16 again, no one would ever know you as now. After all, I will be the only one until then who'll know."

Naruto went to grab Sakura's shoulders as he cried out, "But Sakura! That's 8 years! Why can't you come with us? You'll be all alone. No, you must come!"

Sasuke just pulled him back as he glared in front of him. He whispered, "She can't. Dobe, don't you get it? THAT'S her price. Nothing she loved will ever be "real" in this timeline. Nothing…"

Sakura slapped the two of them. "Shut up. I made my choice. Anyway, in 8 years, I'll get to see you as you are, but remember, I am NOT Sakura Haruno anymore."

Naruto whimpered and finally spoke out coherently, "Well, then, Saku – ah, well, what can we call you?"

Sasuke clenched his fists.

"I will be called…you know what, I don't know. Wait until we get questioned. I think Itachi's up."

Naruto just groaned, "What the heck? That's so anti-climatic."

Itachi groaned too as he wrapped his arm around Sakura's neck. "Ugh. What is?"

Sasuke answered for him. "Oh, you're upcoming massacre."

DUN. DUN. DUN. Sorry, still working on pacing, but wanted to get out of writer's block somehow. Anyway, anyone got any suggestions on a good name for Sakura? If no one does I might do something stupid like Tsuna + Ra to make Tsunara form Tsunade and Sakura. Lame, I know. But like I said, I need to get out of writer's block. Anyway, hope you enjoyed this chapter and I look forward to another upcoming episode in "HOPEFUL WISHES"!

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