Of course a person starts to have second thoughts on certain things once they think hard enough about it. That was currently me as of right now. It had only been a couple days since being apart of team 7 and I'm already contemplating on changing a major event.
Sasuke getting his curse mark really did not sit well with me. The three of us has been spending everyday with each other even since our team has formed. It made me feel warm knowing that I was building a bond with two people I want to consider family. Especially how my family life was in my former life. I'm definitely grateful to have this chance.
Anyways Sasuke getting the curse mark was starting to become less and less favorable. Knowing how I know it affects his mind. How could I let that happen? Stopping the invasion was impossible unless somehow I was able to convince Orochimaru his quest for revenge against konoha. But preventing Sasuke from getting a hickey that will fuck up his mental state is more realistic. Seriously he didn't deserve to have to deal with that. Even if Sasuke doesn't get the seal, the story still should be pretty close to accurate how it was in the show. It is still quite possible for Sasuke to still be trained under Orochimaru so the snake could develop a different interest. Which would make him less...evil? Or less creepy.
If it was my choice, I would have all of team 7 be trained by all the sannin. It will be hugely beneficial to us in the long run considering all 3 of us get trained by one of them anyways.
Honestly it could work out. The time skip is 2 in a half years to three. We could take a year training with each Sannin. That might have an effect on the time line. But it won't change the fact that the akatsuki will make their big move in that time. Meaning the future attack on Gaara was bound to happen.
Hell training with Orochimaru will also allow me to help out Jugo, Karin and Suigetsu. I like those three characters a lot. The sound five can go to hell. Although I do find Kimimaro interesting, he's too mentally fucked up in the head that he'll commit suicide before betraying Ororchimaru. Also by the time he even appears he won't have long left to live anyways. The other 4 were all just annoying side characters. Literally without their curse marks, they are nothing to be worried about. I highly doubt they will cause us much trouble by the time team 7 encounters them anyways.
There are also two other things I'm considering that were risky. As a form of trust, I want to tell both Naruto and Sasuke about the information I hold. It was only fair that they knew the reason why I know so much before I go blabbing off information. The second was telling Naruto about his parents and Sasuke the truth about Itachi.
I know it isn't really my place to tell them. But it's not fair for them to be kept in the dark anymore. Naruto went through 16 years of his life without knowing his origins. He didn't even find out he had a god father until his mother told him while he was training to control his furry partner's chakra. He definitely needed to know just who he was. He can handle it if he can handle knowing he has a tailed beast sealed inside of him.
Sasuke deserved to know the truth about Itachi. Because he needed to focus his revenge on Danzo instead of Itachi. The massacre would have not happened if it wasn't for Danzo. Sasuke could feel a certain way about the village after he finds out. But I'll tell him that only 4 people inside Konoha knew the truth.
So now here I was with my two teammates. We were all at my house just hanging out. You know good ole team bonding.
I took a deep breath before I looked at Sasuke and Naruto. "Guys I have something important I want to share with you. But you have to promise me that you will keep it a secret from everybody including Kakashi-sensei." I said to them. It wasn't like I didn't trust Kakashi. But if it was anybody who I wanted to know first. It was these two. And perhaps Jiraiya once we meet.
Sasuke and Naruto both looked at me with questioning stares. "What is it Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked me.
"I have a bloodline." I voiced
"What kind of bloodline?" Sasuke asked with some interest in his tone.
I kept my gaze on the two in front of me. "Well to be honest I don't even know if it's a bloodline. Maybe it's just an ability of some sort. But every night when I go to sleep. I dream of a future. A future that leads up to many events that heavily involves us. I even dreamed of the past. Ever since I can remember I've been having these dreams every night I go to sleep. It's almost like an never ending cycle." I was too surprised and proud of myself with how quickly I came up with that story.
Naruto looked shocked while Sasuke looked a bit non believing. "Can you prove it?" The raven haired boy questioned.
"Yeah how do you want me to?"
"You said you could see into the future right? Well answer me this, did you see me killing Itachi Uchiha in the future?" Sasuke asked with a serious tone.
I wasn't even surprised by that question. "Yes you do, but if you want me to explain how. I need to tell you a couple things first. It'll probably be hard for you to believe or understand. But I swear to you I'm being completely honest in what I saw."
For some reason I just kept sighing. "Before you killed Itachi. You were the apprentice of Orochimaru. Traitor of our village and a member of the sannin. During the chunin exams, Orochimaru attacks us and gave you a curse mark on your neck. The mark is a power boost. But it's very dangerous. It eats away at a person's mind while feeding more into your dark thoughts. It'll drive you crazy or worse even kill you if you don't learn how to control it's influence. Once you got that mark Sasuke, you wasn't the same. You are already kind of a dark person to start with. So with the curse influencing your drive for revenge. It changed you and made you crave power. During the tome you remained in the village. You witnessed Naruto become strong, you even considered him to be possibly stronger than you. However you pride wouldn't accept that. So you decided to listen to Orochimaru's advice and seek him out. He sent out his personal guards to escort you. Both Naruto and I tried to reason with you but you didn't listen. After training with Orocbimaru for three years, you eventually betrayed him while he was in a weakened state. Orochimaru is after you because he wants to take over your body so he can have the sharingan. As you know with then sharingan, the amount of jutsu you can learn is infinite. Once you killed him, you formed a team with a few people who also were being used by Orochimaru is one way or another. The 4 of you set out to find Itachi. Eventually you found him. Itachi and you fought to the death. However Itachi was already sick with an disease. So you were able to win due to him being handicapped." I finally stopped talking.
Sasuke was sitting there with a shocked expression on his face. I couldn't blame him either. To hear the lengths you went through just to kill your murderer of your family had to be a lot to take in.
Sasuke himself knew that Sakura lying. He could tell by the look in her eyes. Every word she uttered was true. To think he actually sided with a traitor who wanted him for his body. Just the thought of it made Sasuke suffer in disgust. He was grateful that Sakura decided to tell him all of this. It made him wonder if he should really be putting his entire mindset on killing Itachi. While it was an priority. The last few days has made Sasuke feel different than he has in the last several years. Spending time with Sakura and Naruto has affected him in a way. He had gotten used to being alone. But now whenever he separated from the two. The feeling would rise inside of him once again.
"I...I believe you..I can tell that every word you just spoken was nothing but the truth." Sasuke muttered.
Naruto was shocked to hear this. Sasuke really betrayed the village. Well Naruto knew it wasn't entirely his fault. That curse mark or whatever Sakura said he got infected with. Really messed with his head.
I only sighed. "There's more you need to know Sasuke. It's about Itachi. He's not what you think he is."
Sasuke felt a brief feeling of anger well inside of him before he dismissed it. The anger was directed towards Sakura saying that Itachi wasn't a murderer like he thought he was. But Sasuke didn't do anything but raised his eyebrow at her. To be honest, he wondered many times what made Itachi cause a massacre. The caring big brother he knew would never do something like that.
"Go on." Sasuke urged me.
"Itachi is not a cold blooded killer like you think he is. He's a killer but not cold blooded. Sasuke...Itachi was ordered to kill your clan by the higher ups.." I told him with a sad expression. Seriously it pisses me off thinking how Danzo forced that role onto Itachi.
I could see both Sasuke and Naruto freeze at my words. Sasuke looked even in more shock than he just did. I could see the denial in his eyes. But they was also the realization.
"H...How...you have to be lying...there's just no way...why would they do that?" Sasuke asked in disbelief. Sasuke could feel the anger boiling inside of him.
"Before you go thinking angry thoughts. The third hokage did not want to give this order. He was coerced into doing so by his advisors. The one who gave him the order was a man named Danzo Shimura. Danzo basically made Itachi choose to either let your clan go through with the coup they were planning and risk a civil war in the village. Which would result in many innocent people losing their lives. Or Itachi could kill his entire clan himself with the exception of his lovable little brother." I answered.
Sasuke felt as if his entire purpose has been shattered. He wouldn't deny Sakura's words. As much as he wanted to, he just couldn't. Because he knew she was telling him the truth. Why would she say all of this to him just to lie? No her explanation was far too detailed to be just a made up story. A huge part of Sasuke felt gratitude towards Sakura for sharing this information with him. His older brother was forced to kill their entire family in order to protect the village and Sasuke himself. For the first thing in a long time. Sasuke had tears falling down his eyes.
I felt my heart tug as I instantly went over to him and wrapped him in a warm hug. I could tell Sasuke felt awkward by my actions with the way his body tended. But to my surprise, he wrapped his arms around me and cried into my shoulder.
Naruto had joined in on the hug, making it a group hug much to my delight. It brought a warm feeling through my chest.
After a few minutes, Sasuke stopped crying. I could see that his eyes no longer held as much darkness as they once did before. At this point I no longer cared if something changed in the future. Sasuke deserved to know the truth. It would help him in the long run. Plus I didn't want him to find out from Obito who would try to persuade Sasuke into destroying the village.
"I had a new target. Now I will kill Danzo for putting my family through this mess." Sasuke said.
"I agree you should get revenge on him Teme." Naruto agreed.
"Sasuke, before you go trying to kill Danzo. You can't right now for a few reasons. First is you aren't strong enough. Danzo is a man who has fought in both the second and great shinobi wars. He's has way more battle experience than any of us combined. Second, he needs to be put through trial so you can get permission to kill him. Which means we have to go look for the mission document that was signed between him, the third hokage, the elders and Itachi. Third is that, as disturbing as this is to say. He literally has a prosthetic arm made with first hokage's cells full of sharingans in his bandage arm. He even has one in his bandage eye that belonged to Shisui Uchiha." I said.
Sasuke felt his anger boiling even more. That bastard had the nerve to defile his clan's corpses. He deserves nothing less than death in Sasuke's eyes now. From this day forward he would also never consider Sakura useless ever again. She had helped him in more ways than one.
"I understand...thank you for telling this Sakura. I really appreciate it." Sasuke told me.
I smiled. "Don't worry about it. Besides me and Naruto will be there with you every step of the way. Remember I want us to be like a family. Family always sticks together no matter what."
Naruto slung his arm over Sasuke's shoulder. "Hell yeah we will! We will kick that bastard's ass some day Teme! You can count on it." Naruto said in a supportive and determined way.
Sasuke smirked. "Hn good to know I can depend on you Dobe."
"Ok since that is out of the way. Naruto it's your turn." I looked at him.
Naruto was confused. "Huh?"
"Don't 'huh' me you have much regarding you as well. For starters I believe it's best we get this out of the way. Naruto, I know that the fox is sealed inside of you."
Naruto eyes widen in shock. I could see slight fear coming into them as he looked away. Before that feeling could spread even more I spoke up.
Sasuke was surprised to hear that.
"Before you start freaking out." I pulled him into a tight hug. "I don't give a damn if you are a jinchuuriki. That doesn't make you the beast you hold within. Those people treat you that way because they want to take out the anger of their lost love ones on something. They let their anger blind them into judging you as the nine tailed fox's reincarnation. But you are not that Naruto. You are a human just like me and Sasuke. Nothing will ever change the fact that I hold you dear to me now. And if anyone dares tries to treat you badly while I'm around. They'll have problems on their hands." I told him.
Sasuke figured he might as well add in his own two cents. He always wondered why Naruto was treated like an outcast. Now he knew, he knew why he and Naruto related in such a way. Why both of them could understand one another's loneliness. He also knew that it was no way that Naruto could ever be the Kyuubi. He was too much of an Dobe to be a demonic fox reborn.
"Hn just like she said. You aren't the fox Dobe. I'm pretty sure a demonic fox doesn't have a ramen addiction like you do." Sasuke voiced in an playful tone.
I was happy that he was also didn't think of Naruto to be Kurama.
Naruto was stunned beyond words. His teammates accepted him regardless of him being the container of the fox. He felt a warm feeling swell through his chest. A couple tears fell from his eyes. "Thank you guys. You don't know how much it means to hear you say that." Naruto told them.
"Heh who knew you would be cry baby Dobe?" Sasuke teased.
"Didn't you just cry yourself 10 minutes ago Sasuke?" I asked him in a teasing tone.
That shut him up and his had a Uchiha like pout on his face.
Naruto snickered. "You sure did Teme so looks like I'm not the only cry baby."
Sasuke just shook his head. "Whatever Dobe."
I pulled away from the hug. "Now to continue, Naruto I know who your parents are. Your parents are Kushina Uzumaki and Minato Namikaze. They both died on the day of your birth protecting you from being impaled by the fox. The attack on the village was caused by a masked man named Obito who was a former student of your father and former teammate of Kakashi. Obito was thought to be dead since he was last seen being crushed by boulders in the third great shinobi war. He survived due to a man named Madara Uchiha luckily finding him. I'll go into details about that later. But anyways because Obito has changed from the person he once was. He caused the nine tails attack.
He attempted to kidnap you. Obito even put explosive tags on the cover you were wrapped around in. Your father saved you leaving your mother defenseless. Since she had literally just finished giving birth. Your mother was the jinchuuriki of the fox before you. So Obito kidnapped her and used his sharingan to put the fox under his control. Afterward he released it from her by performing some ritual. Like I told you before Uzumaki's have strong life forces so she ended up surviving the extraction. She was very weak though but she still aided your father while protecting the village. Your father had taken both you and here to one of his safe houses to keep you save while he dealt with Obito.
Eventually he was able to find a way to cut off Obito's genjutsu controlling the fox. After wards Obito disappeared leaving the fox rampaging through the village. Many of the shinobi fought tooth and nail trying to protect the village. But it was your parents who got the job done. Your father was convinced that you would be able to master his power. So he sealed half of the Kyuubi inside of you while the other half inside himself. He used a forbidden jutsu known as the shiki fujin. He also sealed the remaining of his and your mother's chakra inside of you. They are to help you either when your seal is close to breaking or if you are trying to learn how to fully control Kyuubi's power. Your parents has always been with you Naruto." I finally stopped explaining.
Naruto didn't know what to think. He literally just found out the circumstances behind his birth and who his parents are. He didn't even question Sakura's words. He believed her wholeheartedly. Considering all she just told Sasuke. It wouldn't make sense for him not to believe him.
"Come to think about it. You do look like a carbon copy of the fourth hokage Dobe. I wonder how did anyone miss this?" Sasuke spoke with surprise and amusement in his voice.
"If I had to guess, most who knew what he looked like refused to look pass the whole Kyuubi thing. I know for a fact that Kakashi and the third hokage knows. Naruto please don't blame either of them. The third only wanted to protect you from your parents enemies. Plus even in the village, you wouldn't have been safe even with just them knowing. Danzo definitely would've had his eye on you more than he already does. He already wants to turn you into his personal perfect weapon. Imagine him finding out you are the legendary fourth hoakge's son? He would go nuts. Hell I honestly wouldn't put it passed Orochimaru to know either. Along with certain members of the anbu. I doubt most jounin even know if they haven't put two and two together themselves yet." I said.
Naruto finally felt a weight being lifted off his chest. He finally knew who he was. He knew who his parents were. And he knows they died protecting him, he was never alone. This whole time they were always with him. He hugged Sakura.
I hugged him back. "Thank you Sakura-chan. All I ever wondered is if I had parents. Now I know who they are and what lengths they went through just to protect me."
A smile formed on my face. "No need to apologize, I just wanted you to know what you deserved to know."
Eventually we pulled away from each other. "Ok but that isn't the end of it Naruto. There is a group full of S-rank missing nins named the akatsuki. Obito is the true leader of the organization. While a man named Nagato runs the organization only by face. Their objective is to collect the 9 jinchuuriki's to take their tailed beast away from them. Once they have the tailed beast, they will unleash the ten tails and caused havoc to the world." I informed them.
"Sakura-chan is a jinchuuriki what they call people like me? Are the tailed beast the demons sealed inside of us? What's the ten tails?" Naruto asked.
"Yes, jinchuuriki's are people like you Naruto. And yes those are the tailed beast. The ten tails is a beast that is combined with all of the tailed beast together. It's a legendary beast that not even the sage of six paths himself could defeat. He ended up sealing it into himself. But as time went on, his body was growing weaker so he separated the beast into the nine tailed beast we know today. Kyuubi or I should call him Kurama is the strongest out of his siblings."
I sighed again. "Guys the future I saw isn't the worst one but it could be a lot better. Many people died who I felt unnecessarily died. Like Itachi for example. Sasuke didn't find out the truth until after he killed Itachi. Also Obito helped Itachi kill the Uchiha clan. He offered his help so he took on the Uchiha police force while Itachi dealt with the rest. I don't want a future like that. As crazy as this may sound but I'm a fan of some of the akatsuki members. I want to try to save them. At least the ones I know can be saved. None of them truly knew what they were getting into except for a Obito and a venus fly trap creature named Zetsu. At first I wanted to leave most of everything in tact to insure the future goes the same way so I can change a few things. But I couldn't keep hiding this information from you two. It felt wrong and I don't want our team to turn out how I saw it did. Me and Naruto spent almost three years training in order to bring you back Sasuke. Naruto even went so far that he begged the Raikage not to punish you for your actions against his brother. I want us to truly be a family. I don't want Naruto to have to prepare to take on the akatsuki alone. We need to get through all of this together."
Naruto and Sasuke nodded in agreement. I felt so grateful towards them. Neither one ever accused me of lying. They believed every word I said. Honestly I didn't know what I would've done if Sasuke decided to go question the higher ups or Naruto go question the third about his parents.
"Yeah we definitely need to grow stronger. I don't want to be marked by Orochimaru. I want to find Itachi to talk to him. I also want to stay by you two side." Sasuke voiced. I was happy to hear those words from him.
"Hey Sakura-chan, do we become awesome shinobi in the future?" Naruto wondered.
I nodded with a smile. "Absolutely, our team is even more legendary than the sannin's. We were the ones who won the fourth great shinobi war. No one in the entire elemental nations was stronger than you during that point. I even surpassed Tsunade-sama is the medical field. While being able to crush an opponent in one punch." A smirk formed across my face. Granted it was actually the real Sakura who became that. But since I'm her now, I can say it's me.
Naruto had stars in his eyes while Sasuke had a smirk showing he was very pleased hearing that.
"Well it seems we have our work cut out for us. Sakura when does exams happen?" Sasuke asked.
"Less than 6 months maybe even less than 5. All I know is that it happens some time after our first C-rank mission which became an A-rank." I answered.
"Woah that's awesome. We definitely have to train. If Orochimaru is going to be coming after Sasuke-teme. Then we need to be able to at least protect ourselves." Naruto said.
"I'm surprised you were able to think of that Dobe." Sasuke teased.
"Shut up teme I'm serious here!" Naruto whined.
I couldn't help but laugh at the boys. "Well you are right about that Naruto. Which is why I was thinking that is three should live together from now on."
Naruto and Sasuke looked surprised at my suggestion. "Oh come on guys, I know for a fact that both of you feel lonely by yourselves. I feel the same way, I hardly even interact with my family when they are around as it is. It's been awhile since I could actually say I felt like a true family with them. It gets real lonely being here by myself. Plus we will be able to grow closer to one another if we live together. Do you two really want to keep feeling this way?" I asked them.
What I spoke was kinda true in both ways. Regardless of my own family issues. Sakura wasn't a close as I thought she was to her family. They didn't approve of her career choice of being a shinobi. So they distanced themselves from her little by little. It was sad honestly. Before I came into this body. Sakura hasn't seen her parents in over two months. At first when I saw the note they left, saying they were on vacation. I didn't think too much of it. But now actually going through the memories of Sakura. I saw the arguments all three would have. It was as if all three didn't like each other. Which was weird to think about. From the anime they didn't show anything like that. Hell her parent seemed very caring when Sakura had amnesia. Then again by that time, they could have learned to accept it. Now it seemed that it was a chance that they weren't coming back. The amount of money they left had been enough to live off of for years. After doing some searching around, I found 2 more spots where they kept a bag of money at. It was noted for me too.
Sasuke was the one to ask. "What about your parents?" The Uchiha could see Sakura wasn't lying. He saw the same pain, loneliness and understanding he held his own eyes. Along with Naruto as well. The three of the them shared the same type of feelings.
I sighed. "Honestly I don't think they are coming back. Either they are done with me or they probably have been killed. They left me a message 2 months ago saying they were going on a vacation. But the amount of money I was left is enough to last me for years...we didn't have the best relationship so I'm not surprised they abandoned me." I shrugged.
"That terrible Sakura-chan! How could they do something like that?!" Naruto yelled.
Sasuke had to agree. How could they do something like that?
"My parents didn't approve of my choice of being a shinobi. From that point on we had a good amount of fights. Especially me and my mom. It never ended well. While we would keep it away from the outside eye. Inside the house it was all hell from there."
Sasuke and Naruto were quiet for a few moments. It was Naruto who ended up breaking the silence. "Well I guess I'll be staying here then. I really don't want to be alone anymore." Naruto admitted.
"Hn same for me..I hate being in my house since it reminds me of the massacre. While I no longer blame Itachi. It still doesn't change how I feel about that place. It's why I live in an apartment now." Sasuke opened up.
I couldn't believe Sasuke had actually opened up about himself! Seriously our team dynamics were truly leagues above how they were in the actual show. Man I was too happy at the moment. So happy that I tackled them both into a hug.
"You guys!" I cried. "I'm so happy you're moving in." I kept crying.
Naruto grinned while Sasuke looked a bit uncomfortable before sighing. He knew he would have to get used to this very soon.
A/N: ok sorry guys change of plans. The wave arc is still coming soon! I just wanted to try to build up the bond of Naruto, Sakura (OC) and Sasuke. The goal is to have them grow up very close to each other.
