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'Why? Why do I feel so… upset?' she asked herself silently,as she looked above the trees of the forest to see these… greenish-bluish serpentine flying…things. She tried to figure out why it upset her but every time she tried to access memories on anything like it, she runs into a mental the rare occasions when she does find something, it's like she gets roughly pushed away so she can't access she knows is that Kagome had related those things with depression and all sorts of other negative emotions.
'I want to know, but… maybe I should just let sleeping dogs lie? Still…' She looked almost wistfully at the odd creatures.
"How did all of this happen anyway?" she quietly snarled out wanting to do… something, anything! She just wanted someone or something to take out her frustration on, but this stupid body wouldn't let her!
"The last thing I remember is…"
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'That guy, he just… swallowed that scroll? This is bad, this is really, really seems this guy is insane and usually those types are really dangerous!'
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She suddenly awoke in a… hut?
She just really felt chest felt a little heavy and felt something brushing against her face.
She saw a man with silver hair. Looking away from her, it wasn't that weird if you factored in her sensei's, Hatake Kakashi's, own hair. However, this individual also had yellow eyes and what looked like wore an old fashioned haori and hakama that was a glaringly bright red, along with some sort of necklace. That last bit was questionable.
But all those things weren't so strange.
She could accept a person's fashion choice, mostly due to the constant viewing of the unique ones belonging to her classmates (naruto's eye raping colors of orange for instance . She could take the claws, the Inuzuka clan had made that one of their abilities if she remembered correctly.
What was bothering her were the fuzzy dog ears on top of the man's that was just downright weird!
When the man looked over at her, she felt like jumping out of her skin by the intense look in his eyes and sudden yell. "Kagome! You're awake, finally! WHAT THE HELL WAS ALL THAT FOR YOU STUPID WENCH?! JUST SUDDENLY FAINTING ON US!"
With that, in walked another guy who seemed to be carrying a staff and wearing a… dress? And a woman wearing a similar garb, with a giant boomerang on her back.
'What the… What's going on? Strange people? Where am I?! Who are they?! What happened to Sasuke?! What about the Chunin exams?! And…and…' She just had way too many questions.
Her rapid thoughts were interrupted as she watched the woman set down the giant boomerang and the man put down his walked over and sat next to her, all but pushing the dog-eared man out of the way, much to his protests.
"Kagome how are you feeling? Are you alright?" the girl asked, leaning over her.
"Huh?" Now Sakura was confused, well… More so than …
"Wait! What's going on?" she asked, trying to stay calm but failing miserably.
"Well, after leaving that last village,which we saved from a giant centipede, we continued on our way. We were heading northeast like the monkey god said and you were explaining your world currency that you called a 'credit card'.During your explanation, you suddenly passed out." Miroku said, for once not taking advantage of the opening that Sango made for his infamous 'cursed' hand to wander.
"What…? NO! I mean what's going on? Where am I? More importantly, WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE?!" Sakura screamed.
Everyone's, other than Sakura's, eyes widened impossibly as they heard the question.
"Don't you recognize us, Kagome?" Sango asked, feeling a bit hurt.
Getting fed up she exclaimed, "And who is Kagome anyway?!" she knew she probably shouldn't anger these… strangers. But it looked like it was too late for that.
The long silver haired boy stood up and said,"Can't even remember your own name now, huh? Stupid girl!"
"What!?" Sakura shot to her feet, calm thrown out the window, but lost her to ignore her embarrassment, she yelled, "You JERK!Of course I remember my name! its Haruno Sakura!" She huffed, turning away from him as everybody just gawked.
Sakura turned to them and did a double take and yelled, "WHAT!?" After all, those looks she was receiving could get annoying.
Later, after a lot of squabbling and sketchy explanations, they only believed the young woman when Shippo said she smelt explained something about the scent of the soul, which full blooded rely on more than the scent of the individual's body.
"Well then, if you're not Kagome, then who are you?" Miroku asked.
"I already told you, I'm Haruno Sakura." she replied with a sigh.
"Sakura? That's a girl's name, correct?" Miroku asked.
"Yeah…Usually." Sakura replied cautiously. She really didn't know what to make of the gleam in the man's violet eyes.
"Well in that case."
Sakura heard exasperated groans and sighs coming from around her,making her wonder why; as the man grasped one of her hands in both of his.
"Sakura, would you consider bearing my child?"
With his question came a groping 'cursed' hand. Sakura blushed from the embarrassment and outrage of getting asked such a question, along with even more rage from his grab at her rear. Well, not her rear but experiences count.
She immediately moved back her clenched fist and let it fly right into his face, knocking him over and hopefully leaving a nasty bruise.
After sitting up from her attack and holding his cheek, he asked a question that didn't need to be asked, "Is that a 'no'?"
Both Sango and Sakura glared at him
"Maybe it would be best to return to Kaede's village for is, until we figure out what to do about all this, at the very least." Sango said, much to Inuyasha's protests.
Although their logic in needing Kagome to find and purify the jewel was sound as well.
Miroku, while not being able to sense the jewel like Kagome, could tell that it no longer resided with her body after that happened. Of course, when Sakura asked what Miroku meant by that nobody was willing to answer.
It was at times like this that Naruto's loud obnoxious antics were really appreciated. She really had taken him for granted…
She missed Naruto's ridiculous, childish and annoying behavior. She missed Kakashi's method of reassurance, with that smile where you could only tell he was smiling by the way his eye creased.
She missed spending time with her team. How the three of them planned attacks on their sensei, which were followed by frustration when it came to unsuccessful attempts to figure out what was under his mask.
Sakura sighed, she couldn't help but worry. 'What happened to Sasuke and Naruto? Is that 'Kagome' girl really in my body? And if so, is she able to fight? Can she help?' The monk and the demon-slayer had done their best to try and reassure her but the fact was that they didn't know for sure either.
The group members only ever had nice things to say about the girl, Kagome, well except for the dog eared one and he was a real… jerk about it too.
As of now, she could say Kagome seemed like a nice enough person, at least from the memories she could pull up.
She also thought that the half-demon expected way too much from the girl. Of course, Kagome's not that sharp a shooter with a bow. She never gets any real practice and, at most, has only a year of experience and he's expecting her to hit a small target that's several yards doubted that even some of the best marksmen in Konoha would have much of chance at hitting something like that, not to mention she's trying to dodge attacks and stuff at the same time! In Sakura's opinion: Kagome had better skills with a bow than Inuyasha had with his sword.
Hours had passed, and Sakura was getting tired of walking. That Inuyasha guy was a slave-driver and, for some reason, she felt the extremely random urge to suddenly scream 'sit' at the dog-eared boy but refrained from doing so.
Sakura began to wince, managing to hide it from the others. The constant pain she had been feeling ever since she entered Kagome's body surged forth again, but somehow this pain wasn't really physical. Yet, it hurt as bad as any bodily the intensity of it, Sakura just shrugged off the feeling, figuring it was just a side effect due to her soul being in the wrong body.
"HENTAI!" was screamed, along with a loud resounding "SMACK" was heard. Sakura looked over to see Sango with a light blush on her face glaring at the monk while he held a hand to his reddening cheek,sighing with a dopey smile. "It was worth it." Sakura couldn't help but giggle at the two. If nothing more, they were entertaining.
A few more hours passed, and she finally had it.
"Can we take a rest?" Sakura asked, finally giving was a bit disconcerting, this strange body wasn't tired, but she herself was. She couldn't wait to get her body back, everything was just wrong and didn't like that one bit.
"We're almost there, Sakura-san, don't worry." Sango said while looking back at her with a reassuring smile.
"Okay." She mumbled. Sakura let her head drop, resigning herself to more walking.
After a few more minutes they peeked over a hill overlooking a small village. "There it is." Sango said and suddenly Sakura was sprinting into the village.
Once she was in the village she realized she had no idea where she was going and suddenly felt slightly stupid when the others caught up with looked back at them and asked, "Uh… Which hut is this 'Kaede's' hut?" They all sweat dropped."It's over here." Shippo said, jumping off of Miroku's shoulder and leading the way to one of the huts.
Upon walking in, Sakura noticed an old lady dressed in traditional Japanese attire that consisted of a white haori and red hakama. The odd thing about her was the eyepatch worn over her left eye.
"I see ye are back." The old woman,whom she could only assume was Kaede, gave a grandmotherly smile that made Sakura smile and slightly relax.
"Yes, and we have a problem, Lady Kaede." Miroku said with a serious expression as he entered the small hut.
"And what would be ye problem?" Kaede asked, seemingly unfazed.
The look in 'Kagome's' eyes was something she hadn't seen in the young woman for quite some were the eyes of a true saw eyes of a child unfamiliar with war, death and destruction, one who has never killed, one who has never really come to grasp the concept of death.
'What has happened?' Kaede silently asked herself
"Well, Kagome-sama… isn't Kagome-sama." Miroku said, not knowing how else to explain it.
Sakura and Sango gave the monk a deadpan look for his stupid and vague explanation.
Kaede simply looked confused and Sakura decided to attempt to explain, rather than leave the poor old woman in the dark to try and decode the monks cryptic, confusing and idiotic 'explanation'.
"Well, my name is Haruno Sakura and I'm a little lost…"
After hours of explanation, Sakura's audience had gotten to the questioning part.
"You're a ninja from a village called 'Konohagakure', in 'the land of fire'?"
"Yes, that's right, and I suddenly ended up here in this girl's body when I was in the middle of a critical battle. I need to get back! They need me! I mean, can 'Kagome' even fight?" Sakura looked and sounded as panicked as she was.
"Calm ye self, child. Kagome is a strong doubt her training with Sango has given her a special edge being that not only her fighting style will be foreign to your enemies, but theirs' will be familiar to her. Be glad it was Kagome that ye switched souls and minds with and not some other untrained woman." Kaede gave her grandmotherly smile again. "And it seems ye 'chakra' that ye have mentioned may have demonic properties especially these… 'Blood line limits' you called them? Kagome channels her spiritual powers into her attacks, naturally, so that will no doubt give her the upper hand in a battle should it come to that."
"Okay, I get that but what about Sasuke and Naruto!?" She was beginning to hyperventilate and couldn't stop.
"Calm they do nothing to harm her or innocents, then she will do her best to help. It is both one of Kagome's best qualities and one of her greatest flaws. She may not know a person but until they prove otherwise, she believes they are a good person and worth protecting. Additionally, if they help her, or even simply attempt to, she will do almost anything to keep them safe and out of harm's way. Unless one of ye friends does something to make her truly angry or feel threatened by them, you needn't worry too much."
"But…!"Sakura was beginning to protest when the old woman continued. "Panicking will solve nothing, calm down and have faith in the gods." Kaede handed Sakura a cup of tea and the latter took a sip and tried to calm down, taking a few deep breaths. She absently noted Inuyasha sniff the air and leave the hut but ignored it. "This lady is right but… Still…"
"If it makes you feel any better, Kagome's probably just as worried as you, maybe even more so." Seeing that it didn't help calm her,Sango tried a different approach, "Besides she has been able to take down demons at least ten times her own size, ninjas shouldn't be too much of a problem."
Sakura rummaged around in Kagome's memories and came across her taking down a lot of demons with just a single arrow and more recent training from the demon slayer next to made her feel slightly girl could fight at the very least.
At that, Sakura calmed down a bit, but there was the problem of being stuck in a totally different world that was filled with demons and not having any Idea what to do with herself. She didn't know anything.
"Okay, but now what? How do I get back? How does 'Kagome' get back?" Sakura inquired slightly calmer, thinking more clearly now that the panic induced fog had been chased away.
"Hmmm… I guess we could try and visit Mushin's are a lot of records and scrolls there. We might find something to help." Miroku suggested. "Or at least its good place to start."
"Okay…" Sakura couldn't say she completely satisfied with that, but it was better than nothing. She gave the monk a weak but grateful smile.
Now here she was, trying to figure out what she was supposed to do to get ready to go on this trip, when she notices some sort of freaky snake things flying just above the tree line.
In the academy she learned that a ninja's instincts were important and hers were absolutely screaming 'DANGER'. Maybe it was Kagome, but either way she just had to know what they were!
Even though the pain she had been feeling ever since she had gotten here increased as she got closer, if she figured out what it was, it would all be worth it.
As she got closer, she noticed a small spot of the forest emitting some sort of light.
She got closer and her heart rate increased. Whether it was from nervousness, anticipation, excitement or fear, she didn't know because she wasn't really thinking about was distracted by an absolutely overwhelming curiosity.
She peeked around the tree to see that boy, Inuyasha, and… Kagome? 'No, that's not her. They just look similar."
Sakura suddenly fell to the ground panting as memories rushed through her mind like water out of a broken dam.
In an instant, Sakura was suddenly furious with both the boy and the woman that he was currently embracing.
'How dare he! H-how dare she! How dare the-… Ah screw 're both going down!' Now if she was being completely honest with herself, she didn't really know the stuff she did know about her, Sakura liked.
She also knew that Kagome had done nothing but her best to do anything she could for either of them, having saved Inuyasha's sorry butt on more occasions than she cared to dig up in Kagome's was also the first person that he trusted and that Kikyo, 'Man I've been mad at people before, a lot of people, but never like this!'
'Not only did Kagome risk her life to save that woman's, but she returns the favor by trying to kill Kagome?! And…and… that Inuyasha… That jerk knew this!" she thought as a snippet of a memory flashed through her head, 'Kikyo… she didn't try to hurt you, did she?"
Sakura paused in her inner ranting thinking, "Okay, so maybe Kagome didn't admit it, but STILL! KIKYO TRIED TO KILL HER AND HE KNOWS THAT!" Sakura was absolutely SEETHING with fury, anger, resentment, loathing and down-right but hysterical rage directed at the woman; nothing but disgust for the man.
"If she's made of ash bone and earth…?" Sakura smirked, picking up a nice solid, almost pointed, rock that she could easily throw just like a kunai, "Then her physical make-up is no more than terra cotta, that beautiful porcelain skin is actually just that, porcelain, fragile." Sakura's smirk became a bit insane and sadistic as she remembered a time when she accidentally broke a few dishes. "It's so fragile…" Sakura was a naturally aggressive person, but not that that woman shouldn't be up and walking around, stealing the souls of the dead. And Inuyasha… 'I'm not even going to go there!"
She held the rock up, ready to throw and… her body froze.'What? Why can't I move?!" Sakura panicked for a was only when she dropped the rock that she was finally able to move again. "What? Wait a minute!"She looked at her hands in bewilderment, 'Why couldn't I-'. Then it dawned on her.
"Stupid girl! She cares way too much." Sakura grumbled under her breath and began to walk back to the village, sulking all the while. "A part of Kagome still lingers in this body and prevents me from hurting those two because she doesn't want Inuyasha upset…" Sakura just wanted to scream.
There was something wrong and nagging in her head. Something about that Kikyo… girl.
She ran through everything she could think of the dead behavior was a total contradiction to Kagome's perception of the dead woman. "No doubt that jerk Inuyasha's fault." Sakura grumbled, peeved at Kagome's willingness to just accept anything that dog-eared mongrel said as truth.
Sakura observed Kikyo's actions again using Kagome's memories and knew that there was something wrong. Something was there, whispering to her in the back of her head, but she just couldn't make out what was being she would.
There was something wrong and she had to get to the bottom of it! She could cause bodily harm to the living dead and the half-breed later.
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