Naruto Primer: Future Sakura

Black Hair

Sakura…what had happened to her? She had lost Sasuke to Ino and decided that she would never love again. So she ended up isolating herself from the world and eventually ended up becoming completely and utterly insane, stuck in a time period where everything made sense and she was a twelve-year-old on the same three-man team as Sasuke and Naruto.

She was only thirty-six, but she looked like she was well over fifty. She was hunched over in her front lawn planting flowers to make her yard look pretty, her only escape from her insane mind. Suddenly, she heard the sound of footsteps coming in her direction.

Far off in the distance, though not that far, she could make out a very familiar figure of the only man she ever loved. She rose to her feet and watched him approach, running happily while tying his forehead protector on his head.

"Sasuke…" said Sakura, reaching her hand out. The boy stopped and looked at her.

"Yeah?" he said.

He looked like Sasuke, Sakura thought. But his hair was yellow. Why was his hair yellow?

"Sasuke…" she said again. "Why is your hair yellow?"

"It's natural." Sasuke replied, backing away from her slightly.

"It has to be black." Said Sakura, getting closer to him. Sasuke quickly backed away but she kept getting closer, mumbling about how his hair had to be black.

"Hey!" came a voice from the direction that Sasuke had come from. Sakura looked up to see another figure surrounded by smaller ones. "What do you think you're doing?"

The blond Sasuke ran over to the man standing there with four other little boys, two of them obviously a set of twins, and a girl in a carriage with little black pigtails.

"…Sakura?" said the man slowly, approaching her.

"Yes?" said Sakura absentmindedly.

"…Whoa." Said the man. "It's been… a really long time. You remember me? Sasuke?"

"You're too old to be Sasuke." Said Sakura, looking at the blond Sasuke.

"Sasuke," said Sasuke to the blond Sasuke who was OBVIOUSLY Sasuke Jr. "Take Inoshi, Shika, Cho, Senjou and Hana home."

"Who's that lady?" asked Sasuke Jr.

"It's an old friend of mine." Sasuke replied. Sasuke Jr. grabbed the carriage and pushed Hana off as the other four boys followed obediently after him.

"Sasuke?" said Sakura.

"Yeah." Said Sasuke. "Those are my sons and my daughter."

"Your sons and daughter?" said Sakura, watching them go.

"Yeah…" said Sasuke. "Sasuke Jr., the oldest, just graduated from the academy. Inoshi's number two, ten years old. Senjou is seven. Then the twins, Shikamaru and Chouji who are five. Finally, the girl is Hana. She's almost two. How have you…" He looked Sakura up and down. "…been…?"

"But Sasuke…" said Sakura. "We only just graduated from the academy…"

"Sakura, we graduated from the academy almost twenty-five years ago." Sasuke said.

"Twenty-five years?" said Sakura with a slight laugh. "You always struck me as the quiet…serious one. That's always why I loved you. But you married Ino."

"Yes I did." Sasuke said.

"But I loved you Sasuke." Said Sakura. "And we're on the same three-man team."

"We WERE, Sakura." Sasuke corrected. "Not anymore."

"Did something happen to Naruto?" said Sakura.

"No, he's fine." Said Sasuke. "Last I heard, he was a jounin working for the Hokage."

"That Naruto…" sighed Sakura. "He'll never be more than a genin."

Sasuke gave Sakura one more good look. "Sakura…I think I'm going to leave right now." He said. "You clearly are feeling unstable. I'll come back… in a little while… and maybe we can talk again."

"Sasuke…must have black hair…" Sakura said. "It doesn't make sense. Why was his hair yellow?"

Sasuke slowly inched by her and then, once he was past her, quickly walked back to his house.

Sakura watched him go and then went back to her garden, mumbling about Sasuke and his yellow hair. How it must be black. Sasuke must have black hair… he's not Sasuke without black hair… that would be like if Naruto had black hair… Sasuke must have black hair…

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Whoa. Psyched YOU out. What WHAT?! Yeah, we rule. Okay, here's Sakura's REAL future chapter.

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Naruto Primer: Future Sakura

The REAL One

Sakura grew up and got over Sasuke. She wasn't OBSESSED with him after all. In fact, she even went to Sasuke and Ino's wedding and was the Maid of Honor!! Well, we won't go that far. She wasn't the Maid of Honor but she DID go to the wedding and was in all the wedding pictures.

In the end, she ended up marrying Naruto. She got past the fact that she just blindly disliked him and finally saw him for all that he was! Naruto couldn't have been happier either.

The fact about Sakura's ninjahood was true though. After she failed to become a chuunin a few times, she figured it was pointless and just gave up. So she stayed a genin the rest of her life, but she didn't really care. She had her jounin husband to protect her. And besides, she had to look over their beautiful daughter.

Well...that's pretty much it. At least you all know that Naruto got a happy ending at least. And yes, we said JOUNIN!! JOUNIN husband. He did become a jounin just in case you missed it the first time around. And you know what? He's going to become Hokage too! Just not... NOW. When he's old and wise and more skilled.