Heya everyone. I'm back again. Sorry for the delay in updating once again. My family and I have been having issues but things are a little bit better at the moment. I was planning on having this chapter go a completely different direction but I decided I'd like it like this. I hope you all enjoy it. Here's chapter 10.
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I was exhausted. My head was still aching, and my chest was sore. I glanced around and saw the Hokage and Kizashi speaking off to the side while Mebuki knelt beside me and was holding me up in my seat. Behind me I heard inner fighting with my newest nuisance.
"This is my domain, so I am in charge." Inner shouted followed by a shuffling sound that made me believe she had shoved the brighter version of me. Well not really brighter but more of a pastel version of myself. My bubblegum pink hair was a light blush pink shade on her. My emerald green eyes were a light grass green.
"I was here first!" Echoed pastel in return.
My father and the Hokage were still speaking so at this point I stood on my shaky and weak legs. Mebuki protested, but I still walked over to the tussling personalities and grabbed them both by the fronts of their vests.
"Enough!" I shouted as my face contorted in a mix of annoyance and pain. No one has ever frustrated me to this point except for Naruto who quickly was put back into his place. This caused everyone's attention to be on me. "You two had better start behaving or else I swear life will be hell for both of you. I will smother you two in the most repulsive moments in our life and I swear..." A wave of dizziness hit me, but I didn't let it show but the others weren't as lucky. It seemed that when the wave of dizziness hit me I had let the pain slip throughout my mind causing even the visitors in my mind to feel a wave of what I was feeling. It was brief but was enough to knock the breath out of almost everyone. The only one who didn't seem affected by it was Itachi.
"Alrighty visit time is over. Too many minds for too long can be disastrous to Sakura." Inner says with a sigh. "Not that I don't like having visitors. But you guys don't have to deal with this girl when she gets in one of her moods." Inner added with a cocky grin across her face. I wanted to punch her across the village at that moment but that's not how this worked. Manifesting her into a physical form after this session would be me begging to go into a chakra depletion coma.
"Kizashi." The Hokage said having broken a silence that had developed between us all.
"Yes, Lord Hokage!" Kizashi answered.
"I know that you, Mebuki, and Sakura here have quite the amount of catching up to do but I believe we should all head to my office for a chat about all of this." The Hokage said as he nodded towards me in a reassuring manner. I appreciated how he always thought about everyone. Kizashi then nodded and looked at me.
"Let's do this. Do you remember the hand signs I told you about before?" I nodded. "Good. Let's go back."
Upon our return, I let out a sigh of relief as I felt the increasing stress from my mind being stretched stop from growing stronger. My head was hurting a lot from the built-up stress but aside from that it felt awkward as I could feel Pastel taking in the changes to my mind. She was loud with her oo's and ah's. Everyone was out of my mind and were back in their seats around me in the hospital bed. The weakness in my limbs was gradually beginning to spread as I felt myself about to pass out. I don't know what's going on, but time travel doesn't make sense. I'd believe this more if these were all high skilled ninjas using henges to appear as those I care for and those who are dead in a way to make me believe that they are from the past to make me disclose information on the villages security procedures since I am one of the highest ranked ninjas in the village. An elite Anbu level ninja who is the head medic of the village hospital as well as being a master of practically every jutsu type known to man. Time travel was not in any of the scrolls held in the leaf's or sand's or the wave village libraries. So, I highly doubt it's even possible in this realm of possibilities.
"So… That was a strange development…" I said as I tried to take my mind off of the buzzing that was spreading throughout my body. "So where do we go from here?" Mebuki showed no sign of wanting to answer.
"From here we will have to test your abilities and the progress of your training but from what I can tell just from unsealing your second - third…" Kizashi paused, "personality it seems your chakra control is exceptional, and your chakra levels are unusually large."
"Unfortunately, we will have to find some sort of housing arrangement for you because there's not enough room at the house for you because we have young Sakura with us and her room is too small for you to stay in with her. That can wait until you are out of the hospital because you need to be observed a little longer due to the side effects of the seal being broken after so long." Mebuki finally spoke up.
'No Duh-'
"Yes, I can tell from how I feel I will probably pass out here soon. I can feel almost my whole body buzzing and going numb." I mumbled as I attempted to adjust myself. But failed.
"We shall leave you to rest Sakura. Do not worry about anything too much. I shall discuss things with your parents and we shall get a majority of what's needed ready for you." The Hokage said as he stood from his seat with Shisui and Itachi close behind him. He then exits the room with the two once they removed the jutsu from the room. Mebuki and Kizashi didn't stay long after them but I had passed out as a nurse entered the room. I knew I'd be fine, but I couldn't help but panic as I realized that if this truly were the past then the state of the Medics would be as they were before Tsunade had come here. That meant one thing, and that is that, when I come to I will have to use more chakra to double check that they did everything to my liking or else I'd have to do it myself.
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Itachi's P.O.V.
We left the hospital quickly and then made it back to the Hokage's office. Once there me and Shisui returned to our positions in the shadows in the corners across the room from the Hokage's desk. Within half an hour the Haruno couple had arrived at the Hokage's office. We had our masks on and were hidden from their view. Shisui seemed to be overwhelmed and curious about what we had witnessed before. I couldn't say I wasn't curious as well or else I'd be lying and there is no need to lie because I am not on a mission that requires deceit.
The two sat across from the Hokage talking about their "Niece" as they were playing it. There was more to the story than we have been told but unless the president makes it my business then there is no need to question it. Unless of course it could hurt the Hokage whom I have sworn to protect.
The three all seemed to be exhausted. But the continued their conversation as the Hokage explained to them how he'd provide a small house on the outskirts of the citizen community where it meets the shinobi housing. She'd be provided two guards of anbu level that would interchange so that she has proper surveillance. This didn't sound like something the girl would willing allow to happen. The way she carried herself made it obvious that she didn't need want much help to go about her business. She seemed to distance herself from others as well. The talking about time travel seems strange and doesn't makes sense. Using Kekkei Genkais, one can manipulate time and stretch every second those caught in them feel as if years have passed. There has been no proof written in any of the scrolls and journals I have read that even hint to time travel except for hints from old Sharingan related journals but those were more like travel or viewing of different dimensions not time. I feel that the girl herself doesn't even believe in time travel which makes her even more suspicious because that's supposedly her cover story. She acts clueless, yet she is obviously a skillful shinobi. These people who claim to know her, she treats almost as if they were not to be trusted. Her reactions make it seem as if she is trapped in a novice ninja's genjutsu and she suspects she is but lets it play out without drawing attention to herself.
Sakura is highly suspicious and I'm going to keep an eye on her because I refuse to let my village fall because I let my enemy get past me. Especially this second-rate child. This village, it's people, Shisui, my mother and Sasuke are worth so much to me and I will not allow any harm to come to them.
Unknown P.O.V.
If I must, I'll kill her. She lied to me and betrayed me. Said she'd stay with me forever. That she'd never leave me when I needed her. That she'd be there for me. But she wasn't there for me. From time to time I'll see her out of the corner of my eye. Her snow-white hair. I'd run after her and chase her through whatever town I was in. At first it was just to take in the fact that she was back. Maybe that she was looking for me too and that her leaving was not of her own volition. After the first two years it was to confront her about why she abandoned me… to reconcile with her and then we could go back to how things once were. Without the previous pressures I encountered in life we could be happy. We could be friends again. Maybe then she'd learn to love me. If not, it'd be ok cause she'd still be by my side. But for the last year I've given into my anger. It's been 8 years. 8 years since she left me. 8 years since she betrayed me. 8 years of loneliness and reflection. I've tried long enough to keep my anger at bay. But now… I'm done...
