PRESENT

Sakura stayed there with Hinata; laughing, hugging, and crying they gripped each other hard. "I- I can't believe your back….. after all these years…. I was ready to give up hope." Hinata smiled through her flood of tears. Sakura smiled back. Together they walked to the Hyuuga house. "Remember my father?" Sakura nodded. Hinata laughed, "He had this idea where we would put of 'MISSING PERSON' signs around the neighborhood. Sakura's eyes widened, "Tell me your joking!" Hinata shook her head laughing. "Nope. Naruto, remember him?" Sakura nodded, "Blond hair, enthusiastic attitude? Course I do!" Hinata grinned, "He never gave up on finding you either." Sakura looked down. "In fact, he agreed with dad to put the posters up." She laughed as Sakura's head snapped up, "Oh my God…." Hinata grinned, "Yea, you were really missed." Sakura looked away. "Really Sakura, you were missed. You affected us all." Sakura turned to her sadly, "I'm sorry it took so long for me to get here.." Hinata shook her head, "It's ok, you're here now." Sakura nodded. Together they walked into the Hyuuga house.

"So Saya where have you been all these years?" Saya grinned, "I was in the village of sound." Ino's eyes widened, "I heard that the 3rd sannin, Orochimaru lives there." Saya nodded, "I've never met him but some of my friends had seen him." Kiba shook his head, "The important thing is that your safe and with us again." Ino and Chouji nodded. Gaara, Neji, and Sasuke tilted their heads. Could she really be the same girl from their past? Saya turned their heads, noting that they were staring at her. She bit her lip and tried not to blush, but it was very hard. They were very cute! Naruto narrowed his eyes, his gut and instincts told him that this was not the same girl from his past. She seemed to different. But that other girl, the new kid thatb had fought Iruka, Haruno Sakura. Now she seemed more like the girl from his past. He shook his head, but that wasn't possible, was it?

Hinata and Sakura turned a corner only to bump into a wall. Or at least they thought it was a wall, that's what it felt like. Looking up they discovered that it was actually Lord Hyuuga. Sakura blushed wondering what he would think if she told him that she thought he was a wall. "I'm NOT wall Miss Haruno Sakura." Sakura's eyes went wide, her mouth gaped, and her face went pale. Had he read her mind or did she say her thoughts out loud. Lord Hyuuga chuckled, "No I did not read your mind, your expression told me so." She blushed, feeling stupid. Hinata smiled, "Father this is the girl from the past. The first friend I had made friends with." Lord Hyuuga smiled, "Yes I know." Sakura and Hinata looked at him wondering, how did he know? "I saw you fight. You used the Hyuuga fighting style and secret move." Sakura thought back and grinned. Hinata's eyes widened, that's right. Besides the Hyuuga clan members, only Sakura had been taught the Hyuuga move and fighting style. A loud giggle was heard, they all lokked in the direction it had came from. "That would be the others, Sakura would you like to meet the others?" Sakura looked at Lord Hyuuga, "The others?" Hinata smiled, "After you left we decided to keep being friends. And when I say 'we' I mean the other people the 2 of us use to hang out with." Sakura made an 'oh' with her mouth, "You mean like Naruto and them. The old friends we use to hang out with?" Hianata nodded. "Yes of course I'd like to meet them!" She looked down sadly, "But are you sure they'll remember me?" Hinata thought back, "They should." Sakura grinned, "Then take me to them!" Hinata laughed but mentally sighed, Sakura was just as she remembered her to be. Sweet, kind, and full of joy. Lord Hyuuga walked behind them. They turned yet another corner and opened the door.

Naruto looked up. That new kid was here. Saya's eyes widened. What was SHE doing here? Hinata smirked as she saw Saya twitch. Sakura looked around being clueless to the hostility. Saya decided to get rid of the girl so she turned to Ino, "Ino she was really mean to me!" Ino's eyesbrows went up, "Is that so?" Saya nodded, Gaara's sand bundled. "I hate bullies." Saya mentally jumped for joy as Gaara prepared to defend her. Sakura turned to Gaara and stared, there was something about him that was familiar. Then she slapped her forward, now she remembered. She looked around and grabbed a paper, she bunched it in a ball and threw it at Gaara. Everyone gasped as Gaara twitched in anger. "Desecai! Strike 1! Sorry, didn't mean to give you a black eye!" Everyone looked at her as if she was crazy, "Um Sakura, what was that all about?" Sakura smirked and layed one hand on her hip, "Gaara- sensai knows." Gaara stared at her, confused. He touched his head then blinked in shock, remembering a time where a pink haired girl threw a paper ball at him.

FLASHBACK

Sakura got up slowly, she glared at Gaara. He was pushing her too hard to learn to do a sand fist. She grabbed a paper ball and through it at him. He turned around. What was that for?" She made a giggle and then yelped as he leapt after her. They did a chase That would have made TOM and Jerry(the cartoon show) proud. They chased each other around the dojo, the yard, even the house. All the while Sakura was either laughing or yelping. Gaara finally eneded the chase in the garden where he did his final move. A flip that had him and Sakura sprawling. She laughed, he glared. She looked at him as he made the little lost boy look and tried to get the grass and gunk off his clothes. She smiled. "You know you were pushing me too hard.." He turned around, not even glancing at her. She felt guilty and decided to do something about it. She ran up to him and closed her tiny arms around his waist, he jumped slightly and smiled. "Desecai! Strike 1! Sorry, didn't mean to give you a black eye." He turned and and grinned, "Dimwit, you didn't give me a black- eye, though that did hurt." She grinned. "Thank you, thank you very much!" She did a dramatic bow that had Gaara rolling in laugter. Soon she was giggling too.

END OF FLSHBACK

Gaara looked back at Sakura's grinning face and laughed then he finally grinned. "Sakura?" She winked while sticking her tongue out. He shook his head.

Everyone stared in shock. Mainly they were thinking the same thing. Gaara hasn't really laughed or smiled since the girl from there past (Sakura) left. And yet here he was smiling and laughing. They were all thinking the same thing. Surely Gaara's actions meant that the end times were here, right?

Saya pouted, this was not good. Gaara turned his head to Saya thinking, bitch. Saya gulped, she did NOT like the look in his eyes. "Your not the girl from our pasts, I remember now." Ino looked at him in confusion. There must be some mistake Gaara." Gaara sister walked in in that moment. "SAKURA! YOUR BACK!" She ran to Sakura and nearly strangled her. "Temari? You know her?" Yeamri nodded, "Yea, see?" She held out a photo. "This is the girl from our pasts, I had asked her parents to send me pictures of her. I wanted to see how she was growing up. This was the last picture they sent." They all looked at Temari in astonishment. She got confused, "What?" Ino snached the picture from Temari and stared. Then she looked at Sakura, it was her! "Your sure?" Temari nodded, "Yup! Sorry I didn't tell you guys about this!" She hastily explained as she bagan to receive glares from others, especially Gaara, "They, her parents, told me to not tell anyone or no pictures! Something about her still being sick.." Everyone gasped as Sakura put her head down. Temari bit her lip. Kiba shook his head, "I don't know guys, isn't Saya the girl from our pasts?" Hinata, Gaara, and Lord Hyuuga shook their heads wildly. Itach walked in, "Sakura!" Sakura looked up, instantly recognizing him, "Itachi!" Sasuke stepped in front of Itachi quickly, "Wait, how do you…know she's the girl from our past?" Itachi blinked and looked at him as if he was stupid. "Cause the girl from our past was named Haruno Sakura and she had pink hair and jade eyes." They all blinked. Itachi had the beast memory out of all of them, so if he said that Sakura was the girl from their past they believed him. They all turned to Saya glaring, in deadly tones they all spoke at once, " Then who the hell are you?" They spread out arounf the room, most standing protectively around Sakura others stalking around Saya like predators.

Saya paled and her eyes grew wide, she was in deep trouble. So much so that she freaked out and fainted right after whispering, "I'm sorry master.."

Authors note: You might want to think of this as the season fanally for now, I'm going to visit my uncle soon so I won't be home or within space of my computer, sry. I'll start updating though as soon as I get back! Promise, until then, Happy New Years!