Just a thought before you read!
"Blah" Means they're thinking
"Blah" Means they're talking
'Blah' Means thinking back
I think that covers it all…
I don't own Naruto, that's for sure…but I have a nice OC!
The Summoner
Chappie 1 – Finding Her True Strength
"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura yelled.
Kakashi was out cold, Naruto was too busy fighting to notice what was happening.
Five sound nins intercepted them while team 7's was on their way back to Konoha from their recently completed mission. They were like...magnets for enemies. Sasuke being the last survivor of the Uchiha clan, and Naruto being the container of the fox demon Kyuubi.
Sakura trying to be useful, aided her team, but instead got it the way. She was fighting with a kunoichi of sound. Another sound nin ran, ready to pierce Sakura's back. Sasuke thrust her out of the way. He was stabbed in the arm, but he countered by elbowing the sound nin in the face. They nin collapsed, and lay there motionless. Sakura threw a kunai at the kunoichi, but she evaded the attack, and grabbed the thrown kunai. The kunoichi darted towards Sakura with the kunai in hand but Sasuke grabbed another kunai and forced it into the kunoichi's chest. She too collapsed with her comrade. Sakura and Sasuke ran to aid Naruto in his fight with the last sound nin. Kakashi, before he was knocked out, defeated already two sound nins. Sasuke defeated two leaving Naruto with one. Naruto gave one last bash and finally the last nin was defeated. Naruto and Sakura relaxed, but Sasuke tensed and looked suspiciously around.
"Sakura!" Sasuke exclaimed. Sakura shot her head backwards and stared. Another sound nin had jumped out from the tree and was coming fast towards Sakura, the closest one to him. Sasuke and Naruto darted forward trying to get to Sakura before the sound nin. Too late, the sound nin had grabbed Sakura and held her neck from behind.
"Hello little lady" the sound nin whispered into Sakura's ear. "Stop right there or princess here dies!" Sasuke and Naruto stop dead in their tracks. The both started at Sakura and the kunai in the sound nin's hand. It was pressed at her face.
"Get him…" Sakura thought. She just wanted to scream it, but the words just wouldn't come out.
"I'll let princess here go if you too take the dead man over there and leave." The sound nin stated. Sasuke and Naruto didn't budge.
"Get him." Sakura breathed.
"What did you say little lady?" the sound nin said angrily, pressing the kunai harder on her face. Sakura felt a warm trickle down her cheek and neck.
"Get him!" Sakura thought again. "Get him." Sakura said a little louder. Tears started streaking down her face. She was frustrated that she couldn't tell them not to worry about her. She was being a liability yet again. Sakura furrowed her eyebrows hoping they would understand what she was trying to signal. Sasuke stared, then gave a slight nod.
"GO!" Sakura screamed. Sasuke disappeared. The sound nin raised his arm ready to kill Sakura, but a kunai hit the sound nin square in the forehead. The shinobi fell backwards loosening his grip on Sakura. Kakashi had thrown the kunai at the sound nin. Sakura collapsed, clutching her cheek. The blood was flowing freely through her fingers. She stared at the ground devastated.
Naruto was forced to stay in the hospital until he recovered, no matter how much he whined. The same happened to Sasuke. Kakashi, being in a bad condition decided to stay in the hospital as well. The medics had healed Sakura completely, but cheek was left with a thin scar. Sakura sat next too the sleeping Sasuke.
"I wish I could be more useful...if it wasn't for me...you wouldn't be here in the hospital like this...and if it wasn't for you, I would be here at all..." Sakura said quietly. 'I have to become stronger. For Sasuke-kun's sake, for my teams' sake.'
Sakura walked home, dreary from her mission. 'I HAVE to become stronger. I WILL become stronger' thought Sakura. She walked into her house, "Mom I'm home!" Sakura called, knowing that nobody would answer.
Her mother pasted away from an illness. Sakura was extremely depressed at the time, but would her mother want her sitting there sulking for the rest of her life? She knew that her mother wanted her to live a strong life, so she pushed her sadness away for her mother, so she could live in peace knowing that her parenting to Sakura wasn't in vein. But what puzzled Sakura was that right before her mother passed away her mother whispered, "The key to your strength...lies in...cherry...blossoms..."
Ino came over to talk with Sakura. No reason. Just like all friends do. It seems their rivalry ended because Ino gave up Sasuke, just knowing that Sasuke wouldn't like her back. Who would've thought that Ino would GIVE UP!' She brought chocolate to cheer Sakura up. Sakura told Ino about her feelings about being weak. Ino listened...like any good friend would do. Ino was at the door about to depart.
"Ino..." Sakura said quietly
"hmm? Nani? Sakura." Ino replied
"...thanks alot for listening to me..."
"Well? What are best friends for?"
Ino turned to the door, but she knocked over the vase full of cherry blossoms. Sakura's mother had always loved flowers. Sakura just couldn't get it. She had flowers of all types. For some odd reason, those were the only cherry blossoms in the house. Since her mother loved flowers so much, Sakura tried to keep them alive around the house. But taking care of them for so long, Sakura kind of grew attacked to them.
"Ah gomen!" (A/N you guys should know this one...it means sorry...)
"It's alright."
Ino left. Sakura went to get a broom and a towel. She bent down to pick up the glass, and noticed a key. 'The key to your strength...lies in...cherry...blossoms...' the scene just triggered in her mind. She cleaned up the mess and started to examine the key. 'My strength? Where's that supposed to be. This should be the key…but what strength?'
She went to her room pondering about what her mother had said. 'The key to my strength...my strength? What could my strength be? I'm just a weak 13 year old girl...' thought Sakura. Her thoughts lead her to her calendar hanging on the wall. February 26...my birthday is coming up...in 20 days. I'll invite my friends over...' she fell asleep peacefully.
Next morning
Sakura woke up. She took a shower, quickly got dressed, ate a quick breakfast and shot out the door. She went to the hospital. Kakashi had already been released so Sakura didn't bother to check for him. Sakura moved on to Naruto's room, and saw he was still sleeping. She sat on the seat beside the hospital bed. Naruto's eyes started to open.
"Sakura?" Naruto asked drowsily.
"Nani?" Sakura replied quietly.
"Wutcha doin' here?" Naruto wondered
"Just checking up on my friends.!"
"Are you…alright?" Naruto asked, staring at her thin scar across her cheek.
"I'm fine…Sorry for worrying you all…"
"There's nothing too it! You did someth-"
"Please….don't try to make me feel better…at the state I'm in, I don't think it's going to work…"
"…Sakura"
"I'm going to check up on Sasuke, gomen ne? Naruto" (A/N Gomen means sorry)
With that Sakura left to Sasuke's room. She sat in the seat beside the bed. Sasuke was still in a deep slumber. Sakura held his hand.
"I'm going to become stronger...for you...for our team...next time I will NOT allow anyone to get injured because of me...zettai!" (A/N zettai means...for sure...I think. ) Sasuke started to stir. Sakura quickly let go of his hand. Sasuke didn't wake up so Sakura sat there a bit longer.
She left and headed towards home again. Sakura entered her house and climbed the stairs to her mother's room. She looked around for a chest, clutching the key with her.
She hadn't entered her mother's room much after she died. It was a really sunny day so the room was unusually hot so she opened the window really wide. She looked around high and low. In the drawers, on top of the dresser, under the bed, in the closet, through couches. She looked and looked but she couldn't find it.
After hours of searching, Sakura was about to retire. She went towards the window to close it but a really strong breeze blew and shut the door loudly. Taken by surprise, Sakura spun around, staring at the door. On the wall behind the door was a picture. It was written in kanji "Haru" meaning spring. The breeze tilted the frame slightly revealing a hidden door just for a second. But that was all she needed. She walked to the door and crawled through.
Sakura stared with awe to the little shrine hidden in her mom's room. Why hadn't she noticed the door earlier? She lived in that house all her life and didn't notice the door! In the middle of the shrine there was a chest. Gazing at the chest, Sakura squeezed the key in her hands. She stumbled over, anxious to see what was in the chest. She jammed the key, turned the lock and opened the chest.
She peered inside the chest, only to see a pile of scrolls and stacks of charms and cards. She scurried through the pile and found an old tattered book.
She sat next to the chest and started reading the book. It seemed that she was heir of her advanced blood line, the summoning and healing and sealing arts. All she needed was more chakra and she'd be all set. That problem, according to the book, on her 14th birthday, she needed beads of a necklace, engraved with all her best friend's chakra and blood, a string of her hair. But to complete all her summoning arts and to master the last summon, she needed a gem engraved with blood and chakra from someone whom she loved and truly loved her. 'Maybe Sasuke's my true love...' Sakura thought, blushing slightly. '…I'm an idiot for even hoping…'
She resumed reading the book. 'Hmm. So all I have to do is concentrate my chakra in to a charm...either a healing charm or a summoning charm. Healing charms requires quite an amount of chakra, but the summoning charms need blood. Some strong summoning charms need her blood, chakra and chakra from a sphere from the necklace, but others just need blood and chakra. Summons consumes a lot of chakra so we advise only to use about three a day. There are spell charms to do spells like barriers and such. Too activate the charms all you need is the rat seal. This is all so confusing...where are the spheres anyways...'
Sakura started to rummage threw the chest again. She came by a scroll that was addressed to her, and a small wooden box.
She first opened the wooden box, and found 7 small spheres about the size of ladybugs. They were spaced out so evenly on the red cushion. 'They're so beautiful...'
She read the scroll. It was from her mother...it said: "Sakura...my dear daughter. I have made the charms easier for you...so have your ancestors. Me and our mothers before us had a hunch that they heir would have much smarts but no strength or chakra. We have engraved all the charms with our chakra. By the time you have finished our batch of charms you should have enough chakra to summon freely. I'm happy that my daughter was the heir of the Haruno's power. Grow to be a strong girl, like the heir before you 100 years ago. Make me proud...'
Sakura cried after reading the scroll.
"Arigato okaa-san...I WILL become a strong girl...for all the precious friends in my heart...for you..." Sakura went threw all the other scrolls. They were all contracts with different animals and spirits. There were so many she didn't bother to read most of them. Some were of new jutsu's. She signed them all. Feeling weak from blood loss, she went to bed with her face pale white.
I'm sorry for redoing this whole story T.T I discovered that last week, my cousin had deleted everything off my old computer and I forgot to move the story out so all those hours of work are gone…Now I have to rewrite the whole story. cries Don't worry! It's all for you guys! I'll do my best! I'm sure the story's going to turn out better.
I need you're help. Should I write the story in normal format, or dialogue format?
Normal format-
"Blah" she said.
"Bleh" he replied.
Dialogue format-
(Sakura) Die.
(Sasuke) No.
or maybe another format…I'll call it the...normal dialogue format-
(Sakura) "Bleh."
(Naruto) "Blue."
(Sasuke) "Idiots…"
(Kakashi) "Uhhh…" He said worriedly. ( occasionally. The 'he said' part.)
Dialogue makes it a lot easier for me, but normal format makes the story more…real?
I might take a while to gather the whole story together all over again…I'll try my best to get this started again…and better than ever! Review! Gimme your thoughts!
