AUTHOR'S NOTE:

This is the "trailer fic" for Homebound. Once Homebound is released, I do not guarantee that the quotations said in this "trailer fic" will be as exact in Homebound, itself. But these will be the scenes you have to watch out for! Enjoy!

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"Sasuke-kun, do you love me?" Sakura asked her fiancé, Sasuke, who was reading some ninja information cards sent to him by the Anbu Squad for his next mission.

"Sakura, I'm busy." Was all Sasuke could say.

"Answer me now, Sasuke-kun." Sakura repeated, "Please tell me the reason why you want to marry me."

"I want to revive my clan." Sasuke replied, "And I chose you to be the mother of my children."

"But do you love me?"

Sasuke eyed Sakura with his cold onyx eyes and answered, "No."

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Sasuke woke up without Sakura by his side on the bed.

"Sakura?" Sasuke called.

No response.

Sasuke stood up and found a familiar silver-band diamond ring on the table outside the bedroom with a scroll next to it.

He opened the scroll and read, "I realized that I was not the one meant for you. Sorry, Sasuke-kun, I can't marry you and I can't live with you any longer. I'm returning my engagement ring; I just want to be free right now. I just wanted my freedom back. Thank you for being with me for quite some time. Please find another woman, another woman worthy enough to be your wife. Goodbye, Sasuke."

He hurriedly ran back to the room and opened the cabinets. All of Sakura's belongings – her medical catalogues, her clothes, her hairpins, EVERYTHING, was gone.

"She ran away…" Sasuke thought, crumpling the scroll in his fist.

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It was the Konoha festival. Sasuke was said to be mysteriously missing after Sakura dumped him. Lee is now protecting Sakura and she was staying in her apartment, with Lee frequently checking up on Sakura, as advised by Neji and Tenten.

Neji had a hunch that Sasuke WILL come back and do something to Sakura, so they have to make sure Sakura is untouched.

Suddenly the whole area was surrounded by Sound ninjas. Along with them was Orochimaru and…

"S-Sasuke?" Sakura whispered.

Sasuke was covered with Orochimaru's curse all over.

"Lee!" Tenten called as she got her kunais, "Take Sakura out of the town now!"

"Take her to the Hidden Mist Village!" Neji replied, fighting off some Sound ninjas, "Here's the nin card. It contains all the information you need. How to get there, the map and the address of Sakura's cousin."

"Tenten, watch out!" Neji warned, pushing Tenten away from a shuriken hurling at her.

"Hurry!" Tenten yelled, as she prepared her scrolls.

Lee took Sakura by the wrist and they escaped the area.

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"Are you okay?" Lee asked Sakura who was looking outside the window of the bus.

They escaped Konoha. They just disembarked the ferry that carried them all the way to the Land of the Mist. It has been a day after the incident in the Konoha festival. They were now heading to the place of Sakura's cousin in the Land of the Mist, Haruno Kashime.

"Y-yeah, I'm just fine, Lee." Sakura replied with a smile.

"Neji was right." Lee added, "That Uchiha did come back to get you."

"But why?" Sakura asked, "Why would he involve the whole of Konoha when he came just for me? Why does he have to come with Orochimaru and a whole gang of Sound ninjas?"

"I don't know-" Lee suddenly paused. He saw something or someone go past the bus.

"Something wrong, Lee?" Sakura asked.

"N-no, I thought something went past the bus." Lee replied, "It was a hectic day, it may just be my imagination."

"Oh…"

"Yeah, it's just my imagination that it was Sasuke." Lee thought, "I'm just tired, that's all. What I though I saw was all a hallucination."

It was all an imagination for Lee but then again… The unexpected happened.

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Sakura woke up only to find herself on a bed – on a hospital bed.

"Oh, you're awake!" a female's voice echoed in the room.

Sakura slowly stood up and saw an orange-haired woman around her age.

"W-where am I?" Sakura asked.

"You're in the Hidden Mist Village." The woman replied.

"And… who are you?"

"Of course you don't recognize me! We haven't seen each other for a long, long time, cousin dearest!" the woman cheerfully answered, "I'm Haruno Kashime, your uncle's daughter!"

Sakura touched her head and realized that her head was bandaged. Her head started to ache a little, but she also asked, "Who am I?"

Kashime's eyes just widened at that question.

And there, she realized that Sakura lost her memory from the bus accident.

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"He's after you, you have to learn to fight back!" Kashime said after she dragged her cousin in a forest.

"I don't want to fight him!" Sakura replied, crying, "I may not know him but there's something in his eyes that tell me I can't fight him."

"Why can't you take in mind that he's here to kill you?" Kashime scolded, "He killed 7 elite Mist Anbus! Can't you take that as a warning!"

"But-"

SLAP.

Kashime had just slapped Sakura across the face and told her, "This IS reality. He CAN and he WILL kill YOU."

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What happens to Sakura now that she doesn't know anything and Sasuke is after her? What happened to Lee? Why was Sasuke after Sakura? What happens when they meet each other once again?

You should find that out yourselves. Gensomaden-Saiyuki presents:

Homebound

A SasuSaku fanfiction. With other pairings as NejiTen, ShikaIno and NaruHina.

SOON.