The life of a missing-nin isn't easy. Add the comings of war and it's even more so. Yet Sakura stands tall with her ragtag family at her side, child, samurai, and even Uchiha Itachi included. A story of love, hope, despair, and finding who you really are inside emerges from the dark tale of war and death.

Useless, weak, failure... but not anymore. I won't look at their backs any more, I refuse. I will get help in any way necessary to become stronger, to be of use to my boys, to my country. Everybody is in for a shock. Non-mass. Criticism welcomed.

ItaSaku (Post Uchiha Massacre) AU: Climbing through the ranks of Konoha, Sakura finds herself with the invitation to join ANBU and a chance to learn from one of the most renowned and legendary ninja in the world. Despite her efforts to grow stronger however, she finds the world isn't as black and white as it looks and that some truths are easier to hide than others.

Sakura is being haunted by the ghost of Itachi Uchiha. Her duties at the hospital have been interrupted for a solo mission to either recruit or end Sasuke in order to protect both Naruto and Konoha. Success hinges on the aid of a dead man haunting her dreams, getting over her old crush, righting the wrongs of years past, and smashing things along the way.

Twelve years ago, a great and powerful demon attacked Konohagakure, and was defeated and sealed by the fourth Hokage into the body of Haruno Sakura.