║Before That Day ║
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Her cold emerald eyes witnessed her teammates' tragic death. Sasuke and Naruto stabbed by Kaguya's multiple all-killing black ash bones through their bodies including Kakashi; her Sensei killed in a torturous way, his lifeless body laid on the cold puddle.
"N-n-n-no..." Sakura trembles herself uncontrollably. Covered in dirt, with her and her teammate's blood. Naruto and Sasuke's lifeless bodies were just in front of hers. She couldn't believe they lost the war.
Blood disseminated around with lifeless, mutilated bodies. However, most of bodies were wrapped around by the god tree's stems and hanged like huge cocoons. She knew that they're dying. What should she do now? She can't fight back because her chakra's completely drained.
At this moment, she did not do anything but staring other dead, mutilated bodies afar right after net to Naruto and Sasuke.
The whole reanimated Hokages were released by Kaguya with just a snapped of her fingers as they were attacked her when her teammates died.
Feeling of disbelief but hoping herself that this could be a nightmare. Her body trembling's worst than ever and then a sudden panic overtook her blank mind.
"...NOOOOOOOOO!" All she did was screamed, her tears were bursting out from her shut closed eyes as she feels so hopeless for unable to help them..no, she failed them it's because she didn't succeed in attacking her final super strength fist onto Kaguya's head while avoiding Naruto and Sasuke's seals. Her wailing voice echoes out loud. Both of her hands covered her right ear, tears continuously fall down.
'Why.?!' She thought mentally despaired. Sakura continuously wailed like a lost child clutches her right hand to her right chest where she felt the soreness of pain like a hundred sharpen swords stabbed into her throbbing shallow heart.
She blamed herself for being such a weak kunoichi and realized that she wasn't this strong enough.
However, Sakura remembered something... yes, it's a scroll. She doesn't even know why on earth it suddenly popped into her mind assuming that this might be an answer in times of troubles. But, although it's still useless for her and obviously, this isn't helpful at all. However, something that bothered her mind so much that there's something odd about this scroll. Without any hesitation, Sakura picks the scroll out from her pocket. Her scroll has a black colour on the outside. When she opens it, it's nothing but a blank brown sheet of a scrolling paper.
'Why on earth did I just think about that?' she sighed hopelessly.
On the other side, Kaguya noticed a sudden feeling of an enormous level of chakra from Sakura's direction. She immediately turned her head and looked at a heavily wounded pinked-haired girl. She then cast her extreme powerful Byakugan. When Kaguya checked Sakura, it was a scroll sealed mysteriously which has an unknown red chakra and it has a massive power than even her very own chakra level. Her eyes saw her activated by her Byakugan; an invisible red chakra starts scattering around Sakura. Then, she knew that this chakra was slowly going to absorb inside of Sakura's body.
'That scroll is...exceptionally strange and familiar.' She thought and glared. Kaguya makes up her mind to go and grab that scroll. Unsurely of what kind of that scroll did that pathetic girl's have.
Meanwhile, Sakura wasn't sure about this, but in a few seconds, the scroll suddenly glows itself and then there, the written formula fades in. Sakura startled her head and trying her frozen hands release off this freaky thing from her hand. However, it seems as it stuck on her hands even she unclutches it.
While her eyes looked away from its bright crimson light to the other direction, she instantly appalled when she saw Kaguya came and flew slowly towards her. Her heart throbs faster setting off in fear and trepidation. But unexpectedly, the light glows stronger uncontrollably that both Sakura's and Kaguya's eyes were shut close until they felt a massive chakra exploded resulted into a tremendous blow violently of the wind and flew themselves away.
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Sakura opens her eyes slowly. She blinked 'til she gaped it open. Seeing lots of trees surrounded around her. Right now, she took her glanced down to her feet realizing she was standing on a thick tree branch. Afterwards, her eyes became wide open after she checked her clothes noticed that she wore a regular shinobi outfit at this time instead of that torn and grimy Jounin clothes.
'How is thi-!' Then, she stopped. She raised her head and checked around.
'What forest is this?' Wait! Where the hell am I!? In Konoha?' was all she thought scrutinising her eyes around in an familiar forest.
Then, she instantly heard various Kunais or Shurikens clashed in resonance. Sakura estimates its location using her hearings, it was just around in the forest area. The clashed noise wasn't too far away from where she was standing right now. But then, she heard a sudden loud and prodigious explosion.
Sakura alerted which she immediately leapt and jumped down quickly hiding behind the tree branches. Sakura sneaked her head trying to figure herself where the bombard location was until she found a massive black colossal smoke trail up at the semi-cloudy sky.
"So that's the place..." she spoked remaining her stare at the huge black smoke continuously raised higher up to the cloudless sky.
Avoiding that someone will be noticing her presence, she decided to minimize her chakra first so that no one will able to detect her hideout. Before that, she suddenly saw a dirty brown scarf down just in front of her feet. She was puzzled and remembered that the scarf wasn't there seconds ago. She looked up from above in case a person is surveying her. She scanned her eyes and let herself feeling its presence around, but there's no presence of a person in the trees above or anywhere in particular. Sakura then stares back at the scarf strangely. She was reluctant to pick it up, but then she did, and probably she can use it for some useful purposes.
"This is weird..." She said and then she tied the scarf around her neck. Then, she quickly jumped away.
She leapt and her feet tapped onto branches going to the location where she heard the explosion until, in a few seconds, she finally reached it. Unexpectedly, she saw heaps of men were horrendously fighting, hearing their battle cries and they're killing each other in a wide field. Their dress seems like old fashion for her. Sakura carefully scanned her eyes each of these men's detail until she saw a two familiar clan's crests.
"That's the symbol of Hagoromo clan and...an Uchiha?" she asked herself and was confounded.
Her face expression becomes bewildered and thought that only Sasuke is the lone Uchiha survivor. She was wondering how could this happen of such existence of another Uchiha. Now she is pondering about it, and then her mind doubted that that evil goddess under a Genjutsu might attack her. Her right hand quickly formed a hand seal in front of her lips.
"Kai!" she tried, but she felt like it didn't work. Sakura cast this Genjutsu breaker technique repeatedly but still; it does not affect. She put her formed left hand down, and she abruptly slapped her hands harder on her right cheek.
"I-Itai...I guess this isn't a dream after all." she rubbed her hands on her swelling cheek.
Meanwhile, she proceeded to observe the bloodiest war she'd ever seen. In comparison, this is even worse than the Fourth Shinobi War. She looked at the other corpses and spotted another clan symbols on their left side of their battle gears. Her eyes widen incredulity.
"..Senju clan?!" She whispered and exclaimed.
A huge question that why there's a lot of Senjus at this moment. They supposedly have few of them left included her Shisou Tsunade because most of their members were killed by the First Shinobi war together with the Second Hokage.
"Wait..no, no, this c-can't be."
Sakura knew immediately that she's probably in the warring era with an unsure look on her face. However, doesn't have so much time to think about it because, for her, this isn't the right time to find those reasons why she is currently in this era.
Instantaneously, Sakura noticed another group of Hagoromo men were chasing with someone and went into the forest. Sakura decided to follow them and jumps away cautiously not to get caught from them.
After long seconds of tailing them, Sakura decided to cover and veiling her whole face using that long brown scarf. Not long after, she reaches the destination where these four adults Hagoromo men had stopped. Sakura hides in the bushes immediately. When she sneaked again, she realized that these people are trying to caught and kill a defenceless boy seemingly from another clan.
This young boy with a head of light-coloured hair, and black eyes. He also has an x-shaped scar on his right cheek. He seems to look weak and losing his blood which was the reason why he looked extremely pale. Sakura spotted something from the boy's wound...she discovered that the kid was poisoned after she discovered needles dropped some sort of a dark liquid pierced on the boy's left arm. Now she knew that his chakra's pathways were depleting and the cause that he couldn't defend himself against these older men.
"Die now you brat!" one of the men yelled aiming himself to stab the boy. The boy just glared at them and had nothing to do but his body shivers with fear. Then he crosses his bleeding arms which are the only way to defend himself. Feeling defenceless and expect himself that this will be his tragic end.
"SHANNAAROOO!"
Then she punched her fist into the ground. The area is completely obliterated, and the men were shockingly surprised by Sakura's surprise and monstrous strength. Some parts of the ground ultimately dismantled while the men jumped away. The boy still remaining his sit in an upright reclining his body at the tree trunk. He was also shocked and wasn't sure of what was exactly had happened.
"And who do you think yourself interfering our business!" One of them asked and annoyed.
They didn't see the person who's trying to protect the Senju boy precisely because the clouds of the dust-covered the person's appearance until it slowly disappears and found...a veiling woman figure with wearing her strange clothes. But all they saw in her head area is a glaring emerald eye. She blocked the boy in front of these men.
"It doesn't matter who I am. I'm here to kick all of your asses, shannarro!" She yelled them, and the boy was astonished weakly.
"As a Shinobi like himself will be expected to die you, shit woman! Children, baby or you, annoying women, we don't care! We will kill them mercilessly if they belonged from our opponents!" one of them confronted Sakura. Then, Hagoromo men were smirked and appear that they underestimated at Sakura simply because of her gender.
Sakura was disgusted. Her both hands formed into furious fists. She is seriously feeling irate as she knew that this era, women aren't allowed to fight and do nothing but serve men and bearing children.
" So GO HOME AND STAY IN THE KITCHEN WOMAN! Otherwise, we will kill you along with that pity brat," he smirked and formed his gritted smile. Sakura completely lost her temper.
"Well I'll be the one will let you guys home, will make you cry like a baby and tell your mommies that I spanked your butt you, weak, stupid shits!" She barked them.
"WHY YOU!" one of them trying to attack immediately at Sakura using a Katana. Sakura evaded then she landed her glowing mystical fist onto his stomach. A man flew through 2 trees then he was down on the ground.
"...One down." She smirked while she punched her fist lightly against her other hand as a sign of who's going to fight with her next.
Sakura glared at them and saw their faces in disquietly shocked. They gradually stepping back then another one throwing her a multiple kunai and one of them using small needles with poisons in it. Sakura was alarmed then she dodged all of them. She then suddenly vanished in front of Hagoromo men. She instantly was at their back and kicked using an inside crescent kick style and went down heavily onto the ground. Their ribs part has been severely injured. She then stares at them, turning her eyes towards with the last man standing himself shivering and formed his face like a coward mouse.
"Women is not just a child bearer. But also, a woman can be a Kunoichi to protect ourselves and to our loved ones against those unlawful and heartless people like yourselves, Shannaroo!" She said indignantly to a man. He then furrowed his brow with sweat falling through his chin.
"I'd better report this to our leader and the Uchihas." He muttered then he pick something out from his pocket.
Sakura stuttered her head in a sudden when she heard this man murmured about an 'Uchihas' word. As far as she remembered about the History of the Shinobi, Hagoromo and Uchiha Clan were an alliance to subserve opposing the Senju clan. Sakura immediately alarmed herself and knew that if she's going to confront against the Uchihas, she has no match against them and surely will be defeated. The only way she'll do is to knock this man out just at least she has a lot of time to escape and searching for a hiding place. The reason she's doing this because the battlefield is meters away from the location where they fought.
Sakura was trying to stop him, but it was too late after the man slammed the Kemuridama (Smoke bomb) on the branch and suddenly he disappeared. Sakura was coughing and then she immediately alerted. She doesn't have so much time, so she's looking for the boy who is now completely unconscious. When she jumped over the boy, she checks his pulse rate, and it seems that it beats lower than she anticipated which it leads him to his death. It appears that the boy loses so much blood and the poison was completely spread over all his body systems. Without thinking any further, Sakura quickly carried the boy in a bridal way, hiding her chakra and then immediately jumps quickly before their enemies will find them.
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Uchiha Meeting Room
Night...
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The room lit by candle lights while the storm is continuously making a windy noise outside the meeting house.
"That insolent veiling kunoichi did this to my comrades, Leader-sama." a man the one who fleeted from Sakura's fight spoke with a disappointed look on his face bowed respectfully in front of the two clan leaders. The Hagoromo clan leader named Shun Hagoromo and an Uchiha leader, Tajima Uchiha. Shun had a virescent messy hair with hooded eyes and aquamarine-coloured of his iris. He has tan skin with a natural furrowed mark on his forehead. Tajima Uchiha on the other side has dark-coloured eyes and hair that was shaved in the back, all framing a gaunt-looking face which was further accentuated by his mouth which naturally curled upwards.
The whole room filled with both Uchiha men mostly and few are Hagoromo members.
"And who's this kunoichi interfered your assassination with that boy?" Shun asked curiously.
"She didn't state her name and her clan. But she has incredibly powerful strength and the one who wrecked the ground as I mentioned earlier." He explained.
"She's not an ordinary kunoichi, Leader-sama." Another Hagoromo clan who beaten first by Sakura. "She may be related from the Senju clan because she saved Batsuma's son who we supposedly going to finish him up."
"I see..." Shun simply responded.
"I don't care about that girl..." Tajima spoked. "And do you think that boy will going to die?" He asked with his face frowned. The two Hagoromo men were glancing each other; then they look back at Tajima.
"Sir, If that woman wasn't a splendid healer. He'll be dead by now. I'm sure we hit him with our most poisonous needle during our battle with one of your men." He answered showing their respectful bow. Tajima closes his eyes in hopes that they were successfully killed the boy by a poison.
"I will expect that the boy died right now. Butsuma...and those traitors from my clan had killed my sons" Tajima said holding his grudge. He opened his eyes and activated his Sharingan. Then a roar of lightning strikes from the dark skies above covered with dark nimbus clouds.
Early Morning...
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A boy's eyes blinked slowly. Then opens it wide after a few seconds. At this time, he didn't feel pain such as injuries and heavy wounds which it felt for him better than the last time. What happened to him? And where is he now? Suddenly he remembers the war, yes he was in the war fought himself and his comrades against the Uchiha and Hagoromo clan. But then he suddenly remembers those moments. Moments when he first saw an unknown person stands in front of him before his visions turned to dark.
He raises his body in an upright position. His tired-looking eyes were scanning around until he found out that he's in an enormous dark cave. But what he only see is a medium ray of a sunlight reflection from a hole above the stone cave.
"Are you alright, kid?" the boy startled. He tries to search for this dark area where he heard a woman's voice.
"W-who...are you?" he asked her. Not long after, Sakura showed herself out from the dark and stood at the rays of light from above. She still covered her face, but she showed only her emerald eyes illuminating by the light reflection.
"You remember me now?" she answered. The boy widens his eyes.
"You...the veiled girl from the forest."He muttered. "...May I know your name, miss? W-What clan are you from?" He asked.
Of course, Sakura, the kunoichi from the future will never reveal herself to this boy from the Senju clan. Maybe at this moment isn't the right time to introduce her identity.
"My identity is not important for you to know. How's your feeling? "
"Oh...I feel alright now." He then smiles weakly at her. "I, Thanked you for...saving my life, miss."
"No problem. You're too young to die anyway. You have a lot of things to do at your young age aside from being a shinobi." She said with a chuckle, and he didn't respond. "May I know your name if you don't mind?"
"I'm Kawarama..."He answered. Sakura surprised and knew him when the boy stated his name.
'So...he's Shodai's third sibling? I can't believe I'm the one who saved him from meant early death'
"...Senju right?" Sakura completed his full name. She knew him from the Konoha's History, and then, her face twitched. ' I'm in this FREAKIN' Shodaime's era!' She sweat-dropped. Then the scroll suddenly remembered in her mind.
'Wait...Maybe that scroll...'. then she suddenly snapped out of it when she heard Kawarma's humming voice seemingly trying to speak.
"Oh...yeah...I guess you saw my clan's symbol from my armour." He said while he glanced his armour at his side. Sakura then nodded of agreeing on Kawarama which is half true. "How many hours did I passed out?"
"Well, just last night..about 5 hours or less. You are now fully healed, and we're now far from your enemies. I guess your home is just a few miles away."
"How did you know our clan's hideout?" Kawarama astonished.
"Uh L-Lets just say I am good in geography, I looked at the map then I remembered them." She lied while scratching her hand nervously at the back of her head then smiled at him fakely.
"I see...So, why did you...save me?" He asked with doubt and Sakura sigh.
"The main reason was you're just lucky because I spotted you as Hagoromo-men chased you to that forest. I don't want to see such a young boy like you unfairly challenge you to a deathmatch. Ok? So stop asking questions." she said irritated.
Sakura hates answering so many questions at this moment as she felt currently bewildered in her situation. She's in the freaking warring era and hasn't any ideas as to why that scroll mysteriously did this to her.
"G-gomene...Arigatto..Uhm..." Kawarama was hoping to tell just at least his saviour's name.
" ...Sakura..." She smiled and giggled. Well, atleast he knew her name...not the last one.
At this moment, Kawarama was brightening. "Sakura...Arigatto..." He thanked her dearly.
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Senju Compound
Hours Later...Noon...
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Kawarama had returned, he explained about the healer who saved his life from the battlefield. Batsuma letting his son spoke of how she fought against those Hagoromo men. Then his thoughts about Sakura the way she healed him, it was something bizarre, but he wasn't sure about that. He didn't want to mention this in front of his father yet. However, when they found out that the woman can fight, they were amazed. It is really rare for them.
"Hai, Outosan, a Kunoichi had healed me inside the cave last night." Kawarama bowed lightly in front of his father and his four siblings; Itama, Tobirama, and Hashirama the eldest of all.
" Impressive. Do you know what clan she belongs to?" Hashirama suddenly asked. His siblings were curious about the girl who saved him but Kawarama shook his head in despair.
"Unfortunately no, 'tou-sama, but she had told me her name only... and it's Sakura." He answered.
"Such disbelief that a woman won the fight against these 4 Hagoromos with such great strength. However, what's the most important is that you're alive," Batsuma said, but still, he was a bit disappointed because Kawarama's group were defeated. If that Kunoichi didn't save him, he might be dead as well like a helpless and beaten animal pray feasted with those barbaric enemies like vulture birds.
"I'm still upset about our comrades. They were killed easily with those scums. They're getting stronger than ever before." Kawarama spoke in desperation again and stared gravely, onto their tatami floor.
In the meantime, Hashirama's face turned into a scowl, fretting about what his father had said. Hashirama was hoping that this ceaseless war will end soon or else, another huge number of children will die again, Kawarama was almost on his verge of death. Most of Kawarama's comrades were all children, and most of them were under ten years old. Also, he was very thankful for the woman who saved his brother's life. Hashirama wonders of who could this lady be. What was her purpose for saving his brother? Was it just coincidence or there would be some reason?
Hashirama recalled a random boy that he met yesterday from the riverbank, hoping that he is still in a good state.
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After they dismissed by their father, Four brothers gathering each other at the training field. Hashirama throws a kunai onto the tree branch inscribed a target sign black paint. But then noticed Kawarama sitting above on a thick branch right at his left side. Kawarama gazes somewhere without looking at his brothers, contemplating something. His face seems that something bothers him so much.
Feeling so concerned of his younger brother, Hahsirama leaps away and disembarking his feet onto the branch where Kawarama perched. He strides a bit until he almost reaches his deep-thinking brother as he sat uprightly, giving his fret look to Kawarama.
Both Tobirama and Itama stopped and looked at their brothers. The two were glancing each other, Tobirama nodded at Itama then they decided to follow Hashirama's way 'til they reached them. Both of them sat together in a line, gaze upon Kawara in curiosity.
Hashirama was very curious about Kawarama's thoughts. He, Tobirama and an anxious Itama, waiting for Kawarama to respond first. Hashirama began to open his mouth, but then close as he perceivably saw Kawarama jaw began to open.
"...I am...supposedly dead..." Kawarama said. His light brown pupil was dilated
"Nii-san..." Itama murmured as he fretted.
"Is..there something wrong, Otō-tō?" Hashirama asked, and Tobirama remaining his stern eyes at Karama.
"...I can't actually explain how...but I felt an enormous chakra during that night when...I slowly felt conscious and saw her had healed me." Kawarama explained while he struggling himself remembering that event. Then he raised his left hand and opens his palm. His eyes then mesmerizing onto it. The three of them let confused Kawarama continue to speak. "...she revived me. I'm sure she's the reason why I am alive because she resurrected me. She uses her unusual powers on me."
"Was that you had been seen?" Tobirama asked and knitted his brows sceptically.
"... I was unsure...I based on what I had witnessed. That time, when I slowly opened my eyes, her hands glowed as it surrounded her chakra ... strangely it was an unusual colour and saw a bright crimson chakra..." Kawarama answered. The three instantaneously puzzled.
"C-crimson chakra? Is there such a thing like that?" Itama asked.
"No. I have never seen such crimson chakra for healing. It was mostly emerald, and blue." Hashirama answered him.
"Then, I am right. She's somehow, a strange one." Kawarama muttered. He glanced at his brothers on his right side than to his oldest brother. "...She might be the strongest of all Shinobis I'd ever encountered."
"How certain are you, Oto-to?" Tobirama asked disagreeing Kawarama's thoughts.
"Hashi-Nii-san's healing style took minutes to heal any wounds and injuries right? But that girl...she healed all my perilous and complicated wounds. Including a poison implanted in me were all worn out using her single healing jutsu, quicker than Hashi-nii-san's. She inevitably revived me from my death." Kawarama said. The three of them were astonished.
"So that mysterious girl...is a prodigy," Hashirama said and looked upwards at the sky. "I wonder what she was up to? Do you think she's not an enemy?. " He then benignly smiled. Three turned their attentions to Hashirama.
"Well..i-if she's an enemy, she should have end aniki's life, right?" Itama spoked.
"I agree with you." Tobirama inserted. "Do you think she's with us, Anija?
"Let's just hope she's with us." Hashirama looked upon the nightfall sky.
Sakura stood on top of the branch reflected herself by a huge ray of sunlight. She uncovers her face and let the scarf flew away by the wind. A feeling of more refreshing after she felt the soft breeze wind hit her gentle face. She breathes from a deep inhale to exhale. Subsequently, she raised her left palm wearing her black glove as she opens in widely, eyes deeply gazed upon it. Remembering that glistering crimson light came out from her hand, and that was her chakra, unexplainably a crimson chakra.
Those were the times where she healed Kawarama inside a dark cave when severe weather came.
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Inside a vast spacious cave and it was a dark without lit any lights as the enemy will not be spotted them. Doing her both cardiopulmonary and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation performed to a lifeless boy. Minutes after minutes, Sakura couldn't hear his heartbeat, even though she uses her palm healing jutsu for the boy.
Until she loses her hope, cried desperately.
"P-Please...Please..Please...don't die..please.." She begged a lifeless boy, over and over again. Even she knew that this child couldn't able to save his life. He loses so much blood and was impossible to revive him because it's already too late.
Suddenly, Her mystical palm jade chakra turning into illuminating crimson light. An unexpected outcome that the boy's heart begins to ponder.
The Senju boy starts to breathe, his eyes gradually open, but still, he felt frail and tired. Sakura kept going, ignoring odd things had happened to her chakra that time until she completely turned the boy's back to life as he rested.
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"That scroll's chakra...I wonder if that chakra just absorbed inside my body." Sakura suspected. She then let her hand down, begin to turn his head upwards, letting herself meditate. She breaths from inhale to a long exhale.
'Everything's fine.' She thought. But then...
"Oi! What are you doing here?"
Sakura was interrupted while she heard a young and youthful boy's voice who seemed that he questioned her.
She then slowly turns herself around, and she blinked her eyes after she saw a teenage boy around 12 to 13 years old has spiky black hair, dark onyx eyes wearing traditional navy yukata.
'That boy?... He-'.
"You look...familiar." She wondered.
A boy with dark spiky hair tilted.
Their eyes gazing each other...without knowing that their meeting will be the greatest beginning of their unanticipated journey.
AN: I know my grammar sucks. But I appreciated if you leave any reviews :) Also, for the first one who reviewed my first chappie, thanks for that :)
