The Abandoned Cherry Blossom

By: Uchiha l Haruno

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto (unfortunately)

Genre: Romance/Tragedy

Summery: After Sasuke leaves Konoha, what does Sakura do? What changes will take place?

Note from Author: THANK YOU! Thank you, the ten people who reviewed and to the 850+ people who have read this fan fiction. I really love you people …so um, so celebrate this, I'm making a special chapter. This chapter doesn't really follow the storyline so far …so um enjoy!

Remember, special chapters will from now on be events (made up or real) from Sakura or Sasuke's childhood and how their childhoods are entwined.

PLEASE HELP ME BY POINTING OUT ANY MISTAKES!

'Blah blah blah' -Thoughts

"Blab blah blah" -Speaking

(A/N :) – Author's note


Special Chapter 1: A Lonely Childhood

In the Haruno residence, a young girl at the age of five was clad with pink sleeveless top and pink capris with a few cherry blossom designs on the bottom. Over all, she was a very pretty girl with her pretty pink hair tied in to low pigtail that no longer silky or smooth but rather wild and tangled.

The most extraordinary thing however, about the girl is that she had the brightest most brilliant green eyes, her eyes were captivating and beautiful, but suddenly, in a flash they were dull and lifeless.

Her eyes shimmered in the few rays of light that shone form the window; she was currently sitting on her bed with a teddy bear practically suffocating in her arms. Thought she was pretty and kind, that didn't help her current situation.

She was alone.

Not physically alone, she always had Mr. Snookers (A/N: It's the teddy bear) but she was mentally alone. She had no one, he parents were never home, and she didn't have any friends because she was always teased about her big forehead.

Just thinking about that brought tears to her emerald orbs.

"This isn't fair is it Mr. Snookers?" She always thought of her teddy bear as her very best friend, someone she could talk to when she was alone and needed someone. "No one likes me, not even mommy or daddy, they don't love me!"

She started sobbing uncontrollably, soon after many tears and wails; she decided maybe fresh air is what she needed. She jumped off her bed and went to the washroom to wash face. Just as she was about to leave the house she suddenly remembered.

"Oh no! Mr. snookers! I can't leave you behind!" She went everywhere with Mr. Snookers. She went to the park with him; she took him to all the festivals and other places she would go.

She ran upstairs to her bedroom and hugged Mrs. Snookers "I'll never forget you, you're my best friend!"

The she happily ran out the door with her beloved teddy in her arms.

Sakura was use to taking walks with her bear; she couldn't just stay at home while her parents gone. She had to so something.

So she took walks.

Her favorite place to go would be the Konoha Park. There was everything there, swings, sand box, a play ground, picnic tables and everything a park would have.

One of her favorite in the park was the cherry blossom forest. An entire forest with only cherry trees, this pace was special, to Sakura, and especially her parents. The cherry blossom forest was where their parents first met and where her father proposed to her mother.


When Sakura was younger, she use to look at the other children and notice that non of them had pink hair like hers. They always had blond, black, blue, purple and many other colors but just never pink not even her mother or father had pink hair.

One day she asked her mother why her hair was so unique, this was her mother's reply.

"Sakura, you hair is unique and special because it represents my lover and you father's love for each other." Sakura seemed quiet confused with her answer.

"Your father and I met in the cherry blossom forest and that is where he proposed to me, that place is special and when you were born we noticed you pink hair and it reminded us of the place were we first met. You hair and name is a symbol of the undying love between your father and I.

Sakura now understood.

She felt very responsible; she was the reminder of their love for each other.


Sakura didn't feel like burring Mr. Snookers in the sand, pushing him on the swings or sliding down the slide with him today. She just wanted to spend some quiet time with her best friend. Even thought her teddy was always there for her, she missed her parents, they weren't around very often and even though she cherished and loved her parents very much, she just wished they would be home more often.

She thought going to the cherry blossom forest would make her feel better. She made her way to the forest and she was so happy that she didn't notice that some kids were pointing and snickering at her.

As she climbed in the tree that her father proposed to her mother, she felt like they were really there, watching her and protecting her. Sakura watched the cherry blossoms drifted gracefully toward the ground, to her it looked like little pink fairies dancing towards the ground. She thought it was very pretty and watched them until she started to doze off hugging Mr. Snookers.


She dreamed that she was standing in a field of roses, she suddenly saw her parents at the end of the field waving and smiling at her. Sakura could feel the tears form in her eyes. 'They came back, they came back for me' Sakura started running towards her parents but due to the roses and thorns on the ground, it made it quite hard to run. The thorns scratched and pricked her legs but she didn't care, as long as she got to her parents

She suddenly feel and looked at her legs, they were bleeding and scratched that as she touched her raw flesh it stung and she struggled to get up and get to her parents before they left, again. What Sakura saw next horrified her, not only were her parents getting farther an farther away but they was someone there…with crimson eyes.

She wanted to tell them to move out of the way, but as she tried to call out she couldn't find her voice, she lost her voice. All she could do was watch as the dark figure approach her unsuspecting parents until, they were slaughtered before her eyes.

Her parents were dead.


Sakura sat up with a jolt. She must have dozed off for to long. She made sure that no one was watching her or no one saw her wake with a start. After checking she wasn't being watched, she looked around for Mr. Snookers, he wasn't there…her best friend wasn't there.

Her best friend had been bear-napped.

Sakura looked frantically around for her bear but he was no where to be found, she ever climbed down the tree to check if he fell off, but he wasn't there. Sakura really didn't know what to do now, he best friend was gone and she didn't know how to find him.

One thing came to mind.

Cry.

So Sakura collapsed on the ground and began to cry, she cried because her friend was missing, she cried because she didn't have any real friends, she cried because her parents didn't seem to love her, she cried because she felt sorry for herself.

Soon the kids that were laughing at saw a chance to make her feel even worse. When they were right in front of her, they loomed over her and Sakura felt very small compared to the big bullies that were in front of her.

"Aw, little girl, what's wrong? Are you hurt?"

"Don't cry, people will hate you even more if you do"

"What a crybaby!"

"Stop crying you big baby!" this just make Sakura sob even harder.

"HE SAID STOP CRYING!" said the biggest one, with that he kicked her on the back making her fall forward and scraping her elbows and she bit her lip in the process. Sakura couldn't focus her eyes properly; she could taste the blood in her mouth.

"Look at her, she's such a freak! Pink hair, green eyes, and look at the size of her forehead!"

"What a huge forehead!"

"You forehead freak!"

"It makes you look even more like a freak!"

"You belong in the freak show at the circus!"

"Your parents must hate you!"

Sakura always knew she had a big forehead and she wasn't proud of it. She was use to being teased about it but never to this extent.

Sakura couldn't take it any more, she wanted to tell then that her hair was a symbol of her parents love and she had parents that loved her deeply, but why weren't they ever at home? She started to question if her parents really did love her. 'Do they really love me? Or maybe they aren't home all the time because they are avoiding me?'

Sakura's world shattered at that moment, she started doubting everything thing she ever believed and knew. Was her whole life full of lies? Was her life a lie?

Sakura summoned her courage and asked.

"H-h-have you seen my t-teddy?"

"Oh, well guys I think we've found out why she's so sad, she wants her teddy."

"Why didn't you say so? We know where it is don't we?"

"Of course" the bullies replied.

One of them suddenly pulled Mr. Snooker from behind his back and dangled it above her head just out of her reach. "Is this what you're looking for?"

Sakura's face lit up when she saw her best friend, so he was in one piece and that's what mattered, for now. "Y-yes, that's what I'm looking for. C-can I please have him b-back please?"

"NO! You may not have your bear back! We're going to keep him!" And with that they ran of with her best friend still in her clutches.

Sakura stood there in shock, before suddenly coming back to her senses and running after them. She tripped over a pebble on the pavement and all she could do was watch as her precious teddy got farther and farther away.

Sakura couldn't believe it, her best friend was gone, never to be seen again. Sakura, for the second time that day, collapsed onto the ground and sobbed uncontrollably. She kept crying until she saw someone else come up to her. 'Another bully? Oh no, not again' She squeezed her eyes shut ready for the impact.

Only to find that it was a girl and she looked way friendlier then the bullies. Sakura was looking at the most beautiful girl she's ever seen, she had beautiful silky blond hair with a green clip that help her hair away from her face. She has the most dazzling blue eyes full of innocence and curiosity unlike Sakura's which were full of hurt and pain.

"What's you name? My name is Yamanaka Ino"

Sakura stared in disbelief, was this girl being…friendly and nice to her? This has never happened to her, compared to Ino, Sakura felt little and ugly.

"My name is Haruno Sakura" Sakura could barely hear herself and didn't expect Ino to hear her either.

"Speak up, you have to be louder if you want people to hear you"

Sakura took a breath of air. "MY NAME IS HARUNO SAKURA!" Sakura couldn't believe herself, she yelled…at the first person who's ever been nice to her, now she was going to get it. What Ino said next was totally unexpected.

"That's better, you got to stand up for yourself, remember that." Sakura gave her a small nod. "Well now that we know who we are, why are you crying?"

"People t-tease me because of my big f-forehead."

"Oh, I see, so you hide it with your bangs." Ino poked her forehead "You shouldn't hide it like that, you look like a creepy ghost" Sakura gave a small whimper.

Seeing how the joke actually offended the girl Ino said. "How about this? Come back here tomorrow and I'll give you something nice." Then Ino started walking away. Sakura just sat there, dumbfound, did she just make a new friend?


Itachi couldn't take him father's lectures about being a great shinobi anymore; it was always the same thing. 'To be a great shinobi, you need to train, train and train some more. Without that you can never improve. It's like he was brainwashing me.

He then went to the park to take a walk and just clear him mind. Itachi always took walks in the park because of all the children and joy in the air, he could sense it and it make him feel relaxed and clam. One child he noticed was always alone with just a teddy bear for company, thought he has never spoken to the child, he knew she was unique.

He could tell just by the way she looked, shimmering pink and brilliant emerald green eyes? Yup, she was a special one. Every time he took walks through the park, he would always see her by herself by the same box burying her bear in a pile of sand or on the swings with the bear in her lap. She was never seen without the bear and the bear was never seen without her.

Today however he did not see the girl, that was quite odd but he thought. 'There's a first for everything isn't there?' Then he saw a group of kids digging vigorously in the sand box, he had nothing better to do so he decided to see what they were doing.

As he approached, he saw that they were burying a…bear? 'Doesn't that bear belong to the pink haired girl? Why do they have it?'

"Hey, what are a bunch of you big, grown up kids doing with a baby toy like a teddy bear?"

"…Uh…um…we found it, so we wanted to bury it…so we can make a treasure hunt…yeah…"

"Well, I happen to know who it belongs to so can I have it?" The boys handed him the bear and Itachi gave them one of his coldest glares and they ran off before he bout mumble a 'thank you.'

'Well that was easy. Now the hard part, finding that girl' The girl seemed to be about Sasuke's age so maybe Sasuke could give it to her, he would ask him later but for now enjoy his stroll through the park. People gave him weird looks thought.

"Isn't that THE Uchiha Itachi?"

"I think it is"

"Why is he caring a teddy bear?"

"Maybe it's a new weapon! If Itachi has one, I want one!"

Some people even murmured in agreement and ran off to get bears of their own. 'Great, I started a new trend, well it isn't my fault thought. I'm not the crazy one thinking you can attack an enemy with a teddy bear'

As Itachi entered the Uchiha mansion, he could hear Sasuke' cry of "NEE-CHAAAAN" (A/N : is it that for older brother? )

"Oi, no need to scream Sasuke"

"Itachi! You're home! Now we can train!" Sasuke said with a determined expression on his face. Itachi couldn't help but twitch. 'Seems like father's brainwashing worked on this one.'

"Maybe later, I want to ask, have you ever seen a girl with pink hair and green eyes? I've found something of hers but I didn't see her at the park." Sasuke racked his memory thinking of someone that matched that description and only one came to mind.

"Do you mean Sakura? She always plays at the park by herself and doesn't seem to have nay friends." Itachi gave a nod. "Give it to her next time you go to Konoha Park."

"Hai nee-chan!" Pure admiration shone for his brother. 'Nee-chan is such a nice person as well as a great shinobi; I want to grow up to be just like him!'


It has been a few weeks since Sakura met Ino and lost Mr. Snookers, ever since that day Sakura and Ino have been playing together and doing what friends would do, but she still missed her precious bear. Ino gave her a ribbon to tie up her hair so she wouldn't be teased because the more you hide it the more people notice it.

Ino was sick today so she couldn't play with Sakura, which was okay in Sakura's opinion; she could have some time to play by herself. She was by the sand box wondering what those bullies did to Mr. Snookers but was interrupted form her thoughts by a light tap on the shoulder.

"Excuse me, but does this belong to you?"

Sakura turned around and came face to face with Uchiha Sasuke, the son of one of Konoha's greatest clans. Sakura blushed, THE great Uchiha was talking to a nobody like her, and she would have never guessed what he was holding in his hand either.

It was Mr. Snookers.

Sakura squealed in delight. (A/N: Which kind of freaked out Sasuke) Her best friend was back, he was back in her arms.

"T-thank y-you Sasuke-kun"

"You know my name but I don't know yours"

Sakura remembered what Ino said about being confident so she took a deep breath and tried not to stutter. "My name is Haruno Sakura."

"Well it was nice meeting you Sakura-chan! Bye!" Then he ran back to his brother who was watching the whole scene, and smirked 'I know fore sure she's going to have an interesting life.'

A few minutes later Ino came running towards her. "GUESS WHAT FORHEAD! (A/N: Sakura only let Ino call her that and she knows she doesn't mean it.) I'M NOT SICK ANY MORE! I CAN COME PLAY WITH YOU NOW!"

"G-guess what Ino, I h-have someone I like now."

"And who would that be Sakura-chan?"

"S-sasuke Uchiha"

It wasn't until a few months later that Sakura found out Ino also like Sasuke Uchiha along with all of the female population of Konoha.


Uh…yeah I know I changed a few parts and stuff, so remember next chapter we continue with Sakura's mission.

RR please

Ja!