Twelve years ago a young couple by the last name Haruno desperately wanted to have a child of their own until one day Mebuki conceived and bore her husband Kizashi a daughter who had bright pink hair and green eyes.
In agreement with one another they named their daughter Sakura after the cherry blossom that bloomed in spring time and the two proud parents positively adored their little girl and brought her up to be a kind, respectful child.
Until one day Sakura expressed her desire to become a ninja in order to protect her village like so many other children, finding it hard to say no Kizashi enrolled his daughter into the academy at the age of five.
Sakura was a studious girl by nature and thus didn't have many or any friends at all until one day while at the park and a group of girls that always picked on her were bullying her as they constantly did, she made her very first friend.
"My names Ino Yamanaka" the pretty blonde haired girl greeted after running Ami her and cronies off, staring down at the pinkette on the ground, tears trickling down her cheeks and covering her forehead.
Crying as she was Sakura introduced herself with a pitiful sniffle "Sakura" but the other girl in front of her frowned as if she hadn't heard her "My names Sakura" Sakura repeated wondering if the blonde was going to tease her as well.
Only to be shocked as Ino requested her to come back the next day "There you are" Ino waved when her new friend showed up in the park after waiting for a couple of hours and inwardly thinking the girl wasn't going to show all the while.
The girl was as skittish as a newborn foal as she jumped a little and looked as if she was about to bolt in any direction but towards her, Ino wasn't about to let Sakura run away though now that she was there and made Sakura sit in front of her anyway.
And promptly tied the girls hair with a yellow ribbon "Oh wow it's so pretty" five year old Sakura gushed adoringly at the ribbon "Thank you Ino" Sakura exclaimed shyly still not use to having a friend but that's what the two were undoubtedly.
Every day from then on Sakura and Ino met up in the park to play or hang out with one another, towards the end of summer however when there was only a week and half left before she was to start the academy.
Kizashi and Mebuki who'd become merchants selling any kind of wares decided to go on one last sales trip and take Sakura with them before she was stuck in classes all day "Guess I'll see you a week and a half from now" Ino sighed a little bummed that her friend was going on a trip.
"Yeah" Sakura, who'd become more open and outgoing in the past couple of months nodded excitedly, letting her dad pull her away from Ino now that they'd said their farewells to one another, never realizing that this would be the last time she saw Ino or even remembered Ino.
For several years at least, because on the last days of their successful and profitable sales trip according to Mebuki anyway, the wagon carrying their merchandise and they were attacked by a desperate bandit who had gotten his hands on some ninja weapons.
Like the exploding tag for example, and after being thrown into a tree head first from the explosion, five year old Sakura woke with no memories of who she even was or even where she'd come from or why she was there where she was in the first place.
The only things that remained in the area was a destroyed wagon with charred things scattered in every direction and two dead bodies, in pain Sakura grabbed what she could and fled not wanting to stick around for more pain to be inflicted upon her.
And wandered until she found a cave to hide in and rest to figure out what she should do from then on in order to survive since she had no memories at the moment and had no idea where home was for her since she couldn't remember.