Getting My Bearings As Sakura Haruno


Somehow Inner-Sakura had managed to not start demanding to know the future. The fact I had just listed off things that hadn't happened for her yet set her eagerly waiting for an explanation.

But instead of demanding one, she simply asked that I promise to get back to that once she was done explaining her life. After all we had all the time I was here for me to tell her the future, and we only had until her mother got back for her to tell me the cliff notes of her life so far.

She told me about her mom and about her dad, both of them were... well, characters.

They seemed to always be bantering at each other and were clearly deep in love, but Sakura could only stand to be with one of them at a time because the two together could wear her nerves down in seconds.

She told me about her friend Ino and her bully Ami and her friends Fuki and Kasumi.

I didn't know that Ami also happened to be one of Ino's old friends before they had a falling out. Nor did I know that Ami's dad had died fighting the Kyuubi and her mom had poisoned her against Naruto. I didn't want to give away Naruto's secret even to an Inner personality in the same body as me, so I kept silent about why the girl seemed to hate Naruto.

From what Sakura knew I could figure out Ino had stopped being her friend after her mom was caught selling moldy bread to Naruto. He had gotten pretty sick and tried to prank her for it. Sakura didn't know if he got away with it or not but Ami hated the boy regardless.

Fuki on the other hand was just plain mean. She was violent and enjoyed beating on people. She would often attack civilian children twice her age if provoked.

Kasumi while not as violent or mean was more than willing to point out peoples flaws and insecurities. She seemed to be able to sense what someone hated about themselves and used that against them.

Then there were the clan kids. I knew a lot about the heirs already. But I didn't know there was an illegitimate Inuzuka kid in another class. And there were two other Hyuuga children in the academy than the ones in the anime. Neither of them had the full bloodline or what ever but they were still part of the clan.

Ino had an older cousin a year ahead of them too.

Then there was Naruto. Her mom had always told her to stay away from him because he was always getting into trouble and she didn't want her daughter to get a bad mark on her record, or worse, a bad grade.

Her dad on the other hand was constantly telling her of the pranks Naruto would pull. Oddly enough, he made sure to tell her what the victim had done to deserve it first.

So Sakura decided he wasn't evil he was just stupid. Unlike the other kids who would either ignore him or complain to a teacher when he tried to talk to them, she had actually just told him to leave her alone.

A few years later and she seemed to be the only one who ever paid attention to him. She had yelled at him for being stupid several times in class, because no one else would. Then he got it in his head that because she actually talked to him a couple times that meant they should date.

She tried to just stop talking to him but he began asking her out every single day. And the word no only lasted a day at a time.

So she hit him.

While I couldn't condone her hitting him, I understood her reasons.

This had happened two weeks ago and he had asked her out three times since then.

Besides, hitting a ninja wannabe had less impact than hitting a regular child in this world.

They were trained to fight and got hurt like this all the time. It's like the difference between tackling a football kid and tackling a mathlete.

Sakura's Inner self had saved what she considered the best, for last.

Sasuke.

Oh dear god, if I have to listen to her gushing about that emo prick I'll puke!

Instead it was all about how much Ino thought he was cute, and how his whole family was dead.

Sakura had decided to like him because everything she thought a good shinobi should be was there and ready to be made.

Or at least, Ino thought it was and she was an expert on these things.

So Sakura swooned when she thought she should, until finally she had began to see it too and understood the appeal.

That was a frightening thought.

The fan-girlish obsession with the emo princess was contagious!


Inner-Sakura got me through most of her life and began explaining her classwork before her mother returned with the promised food.

I felt a sharp pain in my gut as I smelt meat and peppers. There was a lot of different foods in the small box her mother brought to me that I couldn't recognize. Sakura's inner self pointed out her favorites and the ones she didn't like, and each one she named would pull up it's true identity in my mind as if her simply naming it gave me the full comprehension of what it was...

A lot of it made me want to starve. Weirdly, the closest items to normal food were the ones she didn't like.

I guess I enjoyed fatty food more than her.

"Oh don't give me that look. I know you think you have to be thin to be popular but that isn't going to fly when you're sick. You will eat every bite if I have to sit here all day and make you eat it." Her mother planted herself in a lotus on the floor next to Sakura's bed.

Swallowing I decided to tuck in.

The pain in my belly wouldn't stop otherwise.

I liked most of it after a few bites. But what really drove me to eat it all was the hunger. When I was done, I had to fight with Inner-Sakura as I tried to raise the box up to her mother.

"Don't do it you fatas! We already ate too much you're going to make me faaaaat!" She screamed in my head as she tried to hold me back, but I had too.

"M-Mom? Could I have seconds?" The question came out almost forced, given how I had to force my will over the mouth rather than let Inner-Sakura keep it shut, that was expected.

I was starved!

And I hadn't splurged on Asian cuisine in months!

She could suffer though one meal while her body was sick right?

Her mother didn't have any complaints and let me eat until I was as full as I would get.

"Okay, I guess you must have been sicker than I thought. But I'm glad your feeling better dear." The woman was bouncing between worry and relief like a slinky.

Having had my fill, I began my end of the bargain.

Starting with how Sakura had given up dieting because she couldn't keep up with her teammates once they made Genin.

I guess I'm not that good of a person, but it was for her own good. Beside's I wasn't going to spend who knows how long feeling angry all the time because my stomach was empty.

I told her there was some things she couldn't ever learn from me and others I didn't mind telling her. Since I had already said it, I continued with the fact she was going to be on the same team as both her crush and her bane. And because she wasn't eating right yet she would have been too slow and weak to keep up with them. She needed to put on muscle, not fat. But with nothing to build with, there wasn't enough meat to be made into muscle.

I didn't know the specifics, I was a computer programmer not a doctor.

However after that they would go on a bunch of silly stupid D-rank missions meant to earn pocket money until they could prove they were ready for something better. and that was when I told her I wouldn't share anything else until I could confirm things would stay the same.

Here she tried to suggest that I go back on the diet in order to keep things the same but I rejected it.

She began asking me a bunch of personal details of her future, like when would she marry Sasuke and who would be her first kiss... the fact that her first kiss was questioned when her marriage wasn't caught me by surprise.

I told her I only knew about the missions and such. I still hadn't told her about the real world or who I was, and I wasn't sure I wanted to but even if I tried it would be too unbelievable for her to understand.

So She began asking about my personal life. I decided I could tell her a few things like my age and my divorce...

That was a mistake.

"So I have some wrinkled up old hag living in my body!" The inner girl was mortified. "How could you ever hope to keep Sasuke interested if you couldn't keep a civilian guy! I'm going to end up just like you now aren't I? I'll be a shut-in Neet!"

My patience with her ended shortly after she began spouting her crap off. 'Now listen here you tit-less little brat! I spent years finding a life-style that was comfortable and I had everything I wanted until I got forced into this situation. I don't want to be here any more than you want me here!'

The inner girl finally stopped her tirade about what a loser I would turn her into and pouted.

'The moment I can go home I'll be gone.' I confirmed to her.


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