Tsunade sat in her office when Naruto came bagging in with Sasuke and Kakashi behind him. Putting down the paper she was looking at she folded her arms waiting for Naruto to speak his mind.
"How come Sakura-Chan is going on a mission without us!?" he yelled at her before he was even inside the room. Now would be as good as any time to tell them that Sakura no longer was part of team 7 she put her hand to her temple knowing a headache would be coming soon.
"Close the door and sit down we are going to have a long talk," she said tiredly and she looked at the clock to see that it was only 10 am and she could really use some Sake like right now.
Tsunade sat a bit straighter and looked at the three men in front of her, each had grown in their own right and as she looked at Kakashi she duly noticed that he still didn't look a day over 20 even with his silver hair.
"As I told you before many things have change around here in the last 5 years you have been away" She started out lifting her hand and sending a sharp look to Naruto who had been about to say something, and most likely be rude about it too.
"And so have the things around you such things as Sakura" The elder woman continued when she was sure that the younger blond understood that this was very imported and if just one word left his mouth before she was done talking, he would end in the hospital for a couple of weeks.
"She came in and begged while still demanding that I took her in as my apprentice since no one else would take her on, that she knew she could become something great if her own Sensei had taken the time to see it." The Hokage said while sending Kakashi a sharp look and saw him flick in return.
"And she was right, at the age of 13 she became chunin, 15 Jonin and at 16 ANBU, just three months ago she made captain at 17 and I think she will make Sage at 18 if she continues like this" She watched as she men before her took in what she was telling them. She felt no need to tell them that Sakura had gotten her hands on three very very interesting summoning scrolls in the meantime.
"Tsunade-Hime! The mission you just sent someone on is a fake, they are heading straight to their death" Jiraiya came in and yelled out of breath, just as Tsunade had been about to give the boys a guilt ride that would forever scare them, so that they would be begging Sakura to forgive them for all the pain they had put her though.
"Sakura is on that mission" was all the blond Hokage whispered before looking at the rest of team 7 and nodded her head, they understood what it meant and all of them had a hard expression on. She turned to her old friend and nodded to him as well, silently asking him to go with them to save her priced student and maybe future Hokage material.
A blink of the eye and team 7 was heading towards the gates as quickly as they could only hoping that they would make it in time. And when they did, they would have a heart to heart conversation with her to make her understand that she was still theirs to protect.
By the time they made it to where Sakura and her team was they could only watch and call her name as the bombs went off. Sakura only just had the time to watch them as a piece of wood pierced her though her heart after she had taken a fatal hit for her teammate.
Kakashi could only watch as the second round of bombs went off and with his Sharingan made himself watch as Sakura's body was ripped in two, the only sort of thing that made him feel sinlessly better about this was that she was already dead from the first round. That just didn't stop his own heart from tearing to piece with her, he had once again failed his teammate and this time, he had failed her more than once.
Jiraiya had unlike the others not stopped at the young girl's death and was getting the other ANBUs out the way before the second round of bombs got to them too and her sacrifice would have been for nothing. He turned around to see almost all of them crying, his godson had lost the strength to stand and was banging his hand on the ground over and over and over again while screaming her name over and over and over again.
Kakashi was on his knees and looking straight ahead of him looking where Sakura-Chan once stood with a look of horror-ridden all over her face and the tears was coming down like endless rivers. He had never seen his number 1 fan look so broken, not even when he had lost his teammates or Sensei had been killed. This was the look of a broken man that would never recover from this and Jiraiya bitterly realized that Konoha had lost more than one good Shinobi this day.
Even the Uchiha looked shocked but he still stood on his two feet the only give away to the young boy was feeling just as horrified as the other was that his Sharingan had turned to Mangekyou and was slowly spinning.
But Tsunade's reaction was in a way even more heartbreaking for him to watch as they came back carrying her body. He stood to the side only touching her shoulder as support while she clings to the younger woman's upper body and cries her broken heart out once more.
-With Sakura-
Sakura was slowly beginning to see things once more as she sat up while looking around her trying to find out where she was. When she looked down she saw three scrolls lying right in front of her. Looking closer at the last one she saw it was a summon scroll, the next one looked like a report-scroll, she looked at the first one and slowly opened it to see what stood inside.
Dear Sakura-San
You have my deepest apology I can never say sorry enough times for this. I have sent you to the past before there was a fourth Hokage. I need your help to keep Minato-San and his team alive and happy to the best of your ability.
I know you do not own Konoha anything much less my son, but think of it like this, this is your chance to change the future and keep the Uchiha-clan alive, give Itachi and Shisui a life they both deserve. To help you as much as I can, I give to you my beloved dog summon scroll and hope you will pass it on to my son one day. The other scroll is to the Hokage, it will explain everything so you do not have to worry about it.
Sakumo Hatake
P.S Burn this when you have read it.
Sakura looked at the scrolls before her once more before looking down at the scroll in her lap shaking her head as she read the words over once more. She nodded her head in and accepted that she would have to serve Konoha once more and now in some unknown time. Making the hand sings for a fire Jutsu she watched it burn before looking at the report scroll once more but left it be and looked at the summon scroll once more.
Sakura slowly opened the scroll and cut her palm and signed her name with blood before grating enough Chakra to summon whichever dog showed up, she was kind of hoping for Akino, Guruko or Shiba, since they were the only other dog she knew, was Pakkun and she was NOT a fan of his.
"What do you think you're doing?" A deep growl came from the smoke after she had done the signs and Sakura just sat there waiting as the smoke cleared and she could see all Kakashi's future dogs… or her dogs? Sakura just looked at Pakkun before slowly giving him the report scroll that was for the Hokage, it most likely wouldn't hurt to let some dogs read it right?
She sat perfectly still while the dogs read the scroll and watched as they looked up from the report and onto her before looking down and repeating it a couple of times more before they nodded and Pakkun came over to her and said they would help her with anything she needs.
"Do you mind telling me which way Konoha is… I'm kind of lost and have no idea of where I am" She said dreadfully was there one thing she hated absolutely hated it was asking for help. Nodding Pakkun pointed right behind her before all the dogs disappeared and left nothing but even more smoke behind. Fucking Mutts.
