Futures Past
By: DanniMarie
The Stage has now been set, I'm sorry that it has been going slow up till this point. From this point on things are going to pick up.
Side Note: At this point there are three pairings that I'm thinking about for Sakura.
Kakashi Hatake
Itachi Uchiha
Neji Hyuuga
I would like to thank '10tealeaf' 'XoSophoX' and 'Kritgirl'. I hope that you like this chapter, let me know what you think.
Part ONE
Chapter SIX
"The Plan"
Waking up to a knocking on your window was not the best way to be brought out of a nice sleep. Turning over, and setting up Sakura saw the ANBU member setting outside her window, knowing that they must have a message for her, from the Kage.
Getting out of her warm bed she walked over and lifted the window so that she could speak to them, however what she wasn't expecting was for them to craw though the window, into her room, lifting there mask as they did so.
"Sorry for waking you up so early this morning Sakura, but I was told by one of the Gate Keepers that there where two men that come into the village yesterday." Kiba said looking around her room. "Wow, I don't think I've ever been in here before." He added.
"You haven't and it's not going to happen again. Now, why would I need to know about two men in the Village? And where is Akamaru?" She asked, Kiba was lucky that she was so tired, or she would have tossed him out the way he came.
"Oh I made him wait outside." He said with a smile. "One of the men clams that he is the uncle of some boy that was found a few months ago, that's staying here in the village, I was told to tell you. So you're playing baby sitter now?" He added.
"Temo." She said out loud while in thought.
"Temo, who's that?" Kiba asked as he took a sat down on her bed. "Oh, now why do all the girls that I know have softer beds then me?"
"Oh and how many beds have you been in Kiba? I didn't take you for that kind of guy." She said, laughing when his face turned red in color.
"Temo is the boy that I have been caring for. It's been almost a month and he is still in a coma, we don't even know what happened to him."
"Oh, well his uncle is staying at one of the inns. I'll take you there when you are ready."
"Kiba, how am I going to get ready with you setting in my bed? Get out!" Kiba took that as his queue and stood up, walking over to her door.
"Do you mind if I wait out in the living room?"
"Nope, just walk quietly by Naruto's room, he was up most of the night training, no need to get him up this early."
Not wanting to wake the next Hokage, he walked back over to the window and jumped out, turning on the windowsill. "I'll just wait for you out side, no rush take all the time you need." With that he was gone.
"This is going to be a long day." Sakura said walking over to her closet and pulling out a pare of jeans and a black long sleeve top. She walked down the hall to the bathroom to get ready. She wasn't planning on doing to much today, train with Tsunade and Shizune. They had to start training and talk about how they would go about training the others.
After her nice hot shower and getting dressed, she walked out of the house, the sun hitting her in the face as it made its way over the horizon. Kiba jumped down next to her and they made their way to the inn, Akamaru following close behind.
They made it there in no time; walking up to the front desk they asked for what room the man was staying in. Kiba had told her to wait as he went to get him, Akamaru sitting down beside her. They didn't have to wait long as she saw Kiba walking back, mask on, followed by another.
Walking up to them she addressed the two men. "Hello, I'm Sakura Haruno; I can't tell you how happy I am that you are here."
'This is too easy.' Kabuto thought as he took a bow in front of her. He knew that if he touched her, she could see right though his jutsu. "Oh, I'm just sorry that it has taken me this long to find Jin." He said making up a name. He knew that if the boy was really in a coma, they probably didn't even know his real name.
"Jin." Sakura tested the new name. "So that's his real name, I've come to know him as Temo. I glad that I now know. Jin, that fits him." She said with a smile. "I'm sure that you would like to see him as soon as possible."
"Oh yes, I would like to take home to his family as soon as he is able to be moved."
They walked out of the inn and made there way to the hospital, Kiba and Akamaru took off to go train with their team.
"I have not problem with that; however there are some factors that you need to think about. I don't know how much longer Te… I mean Jin will be in the coma. It's already been a little over a month, and at this rate, it could be a few more. I wasn't able to perform a probe to see if there was any brain damage, do to the fact that I would be able to see into his memory, and in Konoha there is a Law forbidding any mind probing of those under age, and Jin is…"
".. under age, I see. If I was to give you permission, could you do it then?" As much as Kabuto wanted to get on with this mission, he knew that going along with this, acting as if he 'cared' for this kid, was the best way to get close to her, and maybe find out more about the village.
The hospital was coming into view, and Kabuto knew that he had to play this very careful. "I would have to ask Lady Tsunade, it's something that isn't done all the time, and she likes to know whenever one is going to be performed. After I show you to Jin's room, and do a quick check up, I'll go talk to her about doing one as soon as we can." She smiled.
"Oh thank you, you have no idea how much it means to me that you have done so much for someone you don't even know. I am truly in your dept"
"Oh there is nothing to thank me for, I couldn't live with myself if something ever happened to anyone if there was something I could do to help them. I hate to see others suffer." She said looking down at her feet.
After walking into the hospital, and into Jin's room, Sakura did a quick check up on him to see how he was doing. "Well it looks like he is still in good health, other then being in a coma."
Walking up to the bed side, Kabuto took a sharp intake of breath. 'It couldn't be?!' The boy that lay in that bed was from one of the villages that he had gone to, to find medics for Orochimaru. 'I thought I killed this kid! This is not good. When she probes him, she is going to see what we have been doing… and what we are after… unless…' His thoughts where cut off by Sakura calling to him.
"Are you ok? You look like you saw a ghost." Then something crossed her mind. "This isn't Jin is it?" She asked as she pushed some hair out of his face.
Looking up, he knew that he couldn't screw this up. "Oh, no…. it's him. It's just so hard to see him like this. He always is running around trying to get into some kind of trouble, or training to be a ninja."
Sakura felt a great weight left off her. It was good to know that Jin had family. After she talked to Tsunade about the probe, she could focus on training, and teaching the others to get ready for the war.
"I'll let you have some time alone with him. I'll go and talk to The Hokage as soon as I can. I'll plan on seeing you tomorrow."
With that she turned and walked out the door. She had to find Tsunade and talk to her.
Back in the hospital room, Kabuto placed a hand over the young boys head. He couldn't allow Sakura to find out the truth. A soft green glow took over his hand as he forest his chakra into the boys mind.
The Hokage Tower
Sakura had found Tsunade setting in her office reading over papers. "Lady Tsunade? Can I talk to you for a minuet?"
"Sakura, how many times do I have to tell you, you don't have to ask." Looking up from her pile of papers, she pointed to a chair. "Have a set."
Walking in and closing the door she took a set, and began to tell her about the man that had come to get Temo… Jin. After hearing everything, She had given Sakura the 'ok' to perform it within the next few days.
"Thank you. I'll let him know on my way to train." Just as she was getting up, the door opened and Jiraiya walked in.
"Tsunade, I thought that you could use a brake, oh hi Sakura." He said as he tried to hide the two little bottles behind his back, laughing.
"Jiraiya, you do know that it's only ten in the morning. Isn't it just a little early for a drink?" She laughed as she made her way out of the office.
Turning to his old team mate, he laughed. "Man, the young have no idea how to have a good time." He said taking a set handing one of the bottles to Tsunade.
Sakura had talked to Jin's uncle and they had agreed that tomorrow after noon would be best. She would have loved to be able to do it sooner, however she needed to train, and teach the others.
Back in the Hokage tower, latter that day.
Laughing Tsunade looked over to her long time friend. "For a minute there I thought that you just asked me to go find him."
"I did." Jiraiya laughed back. They had sat there in her office drinking away, however Tsunade was the only one that had gone through ten bottles, to his one.
He knew that he was playing at a dangers game, but he had to try, he knew that his plan would work, and for the sake of the Village, he hoped that he could pull this off.
Tsunade tried to stop from laughing, but it was just so funny. "Jiraiya you and I both know that he walked out of this village all those years ago. He not only is a missing-nin, but he is their leader. What are we supost to do, walk up to them and say, 'hey I know your boss, he was my best friend and I would really like for him to come back and help up fight Orochimaru'. I mean I know that they want him dead too, but way to much time has done by and to many things have happened." Leaning over her desk she looked him in they eye. "And for you to bring this up, you do know that it's your student they want to kill, to get to the Kyubi, who might I remind you is going to be the Hokage after me."
Leaning over he met her, looking right into her eyes, it was now or never. He knew that she hadn't forgotten about this, but he knew that he had to bring it up. "Yeah but if you where to tell him that Orochimaru was after his only child, the one he never knew about, that you saved all those years ago. The one who he never had a change to know; the one that he has needed his whole life. You know that is why he left, he thought that he had lost her, not knowing of the life that was growing within her."
It didn't matter how much she had drank, she was thinking back to those days. The day when the Kyubi attacked the village, the day that so many lives where lost, and so many families where pulled apart.
The day that the Forth gave his life, not only save his sons life, but the village as well. The day that heleft thinking that all was lost, and to hunt down the one man behind everything that befell the Village.
"You're serious." She spoke more to herself then to the man in front of her. It had been over twenty three years ago, he wouldn't believe her, and the chance that he would be even more angry at them from keeping it all quite.
"And what if it all back fires? Um? Then what? Not only will we have Orochimaru after us, but we'll have Akatsuki after us too. I don't know about you, but I really am not looking to inter a three way, full blown war."
"I don't know, but we should try. He should know that he has a daughter, that she is just like her mother, and that she is going to be the target of Orochimaru. Tsunade, think of it as if you where Orochimaru. Not only would he be getting a top ranking medic, your only real student, the best friend of Naruto, the love interest of all the men in the village, and the daughter of the strongest shinobi."
"Well I don't know about the strongest." She said setting back up, leaning back in her chair.
"Tsunade, you and I both know that he could kick our asses in a heart beat. He is the only one that Itachi Uchiha respects and fears. We need to try. Think what would happen if he decides to help. He could hunt down and kill all of sound be himself."
"At what Cost?"
He couldn't say anything, he didn't have a answer. This was very dangers, very dangers. If they played this game, they would get burned, it was just the question of how burned would they get.
"You know, but doing this, we would have to tell her, and she would need time to come to terms with it all. She could even hate us after it's all said and done." Taking a deep breath she closed her eyes. "She has so much going on right now, I don't want to worry her, or cause her any unneeded stress."
"I understand."
"Jiraiya, I can't believe I'm going to say this, but I'm going to give you twenty four hours to locate him and disclose this information to him. I think it would be best if you tell him everything, don't leave anything out. We can't afford to be caught off guard."
Standing up he looked down to the women still setting. "I'll leave at once."
"Oh and Jiraiya, take Kakashi with you, just incase everything back fires."
"Good idea."
Watching as the white haired man walked out of her office, she couldn't help but think, 'What have I started?'
So deep in thought she didn't notice the shadow outside her office window.
Up on the roof, Kabuto couldn't help but rethink everything that he had heard. After Sakura had stopped in to tell him that they would do the mind scan tomorrow afternoon, he had thought it best to take the time to 'look' around the village.
He noticed that every shinobi seemed to be training, for what he wasn't sure. It couldn't be that they knew about the plan.
However after lessening in to what they where talking about, everything was coming together, and he knew that he had to get this information back to Orochimaru fast.
The first thought running in his head was that they knew about the plan. They had some how gotten the information and had began to plan for the attack. Something that if giving to much time, Sound wouldn't be able to crush like they had planed for so many years.
Second thought was about Akatsuki. It wasn't a secret that Orochimaru had once been a part of them and had left, with the ring, once Itachi Uchiha arrived. They hadn't planed on dealing with Akatsuki till after the Leaf Village was destroyed.
'Not good.'
However then there was the loop hole.
'Sakura'
Thinking back to the kid in the hospital, he had planed a seal within the boy mind, so that when she would enter his mind hers would be lost as well, only till he released it. He could use that time to get her out of the village before anyone knew what had happened and get her back to Orochimaru.
He couldn't allow Akatsuki time to learn about her, and couldn't give the Leaf Village time to save her. It was the only way, and the best thing to happen to him.
When he told Orochimaru that he had found him a good medic, one that could fix him, and the importance she had to so many, he would be back in his good favor.
"Tomorrow, tomorrow Sakura, your life will never be the same, and no one can save you."
With that he took off heading to the Inn that he had stayed at, now all he had to do was wait.
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