Beyond the Hourglass, a Naruto and Black Butler crossover fanfic

Author's Note: I would sincerely like to thank everyone who has read, reviewed, favorited and or alerted this story. It really means a lot to me. I really hope you that you all can keep reading. The chapter title comes from Linkin Park's song of the same name. Enjoy! And read and review, onegai. Sorry I didn't update sooner but work is hectic these days. I must have rewritten this chapter about five times because I wasn't satisfied with how it was coming out. I am still not 100% happy with it but its better than nothing, right?

Disclaimer: I am not neither Masashi Kishimoto or Yana Toboso, so I obviously don't own Naruto or Black Butler.


Chapter One: No Roads Left

Something was very wrong. Sakura didn't need her kunoichi senses to tell her that much. She could just feel it even before she opened her eyes.

In that instant, when she did open them, she didn't see her room. She didn't see the familiar pale rose walls of her bedroom. She didn't see her desk piled with medical scrolls. She didn't see the new new Team Seven photograph that she had in her bedside table. In fact, she didn't see anything familiar in her surroundings. All she saw were unfamiliar white walls.

"Where am I?" She said out loud as she took in everything that surrounded her. Before she could do anything else, she heard voices approaching from a far corridor. They were civilian, as she couldn't sense chakra signatures. But being a shinobi had taught her to never let her guard down, especially not in an unfamiliar place. This could be an ambush but as far as she could recall, she hadn't been captured by enemy shinobi. Was this genjutsu, then?

No, it wasn't because as she used the hand signs to dispel a genjutsu, when she opened her eyes, she was in the same room.

Moments later, two men and a woman walked into the room. They were doctors, if them wearing lab coats was any indication. The woman was a nurse. They were looking at her with different expressions ranging from curiosity to sympathy to distrust..

"Aw, so this is the woman that was brought to us last night, isn't she? One of the men, with dark graying hair said staring curiously at Sakura, making the pink haired woman feel uneasy. She felt like she was being examined under a microscope.

"Yes, she is." The other man, who looked ancient which made her wonder just how old this man was. He paused, his eyes looking at hers intently before continuing. "She apparently was found wandering the streets after dark. She was mumbling to herself incoherently. The people who brought her here told me that she put up quite the fight before she collapsed."

"He looks so old. I wonder how he is still alive?" She wondered as she watched the man. She didn't like how he looked at her.

"Who are you? Where am I?" Sakura asked, looking frantic. Something felt wrong. She just didn't know what.

"You are in a hospital. You were brought here after you collapsed, I am Dr. Ward. This is my colleague Dr. Williams and the chief nurse, Charlotte Jones." The old man replied to her question sternly. "As I was saying, you were brought here after you collapsed on the streets. Just who are you? You are not British? Are you one of that man, Lau's, women? How did you get here?"

Dr. Ward asked one question after another that it was hard to answer. What was British? And who was Lau? She had no idea what he was talking about.

"I don't know what you are talking about. I don't know who Lau is." Sakura replied. "And my name is Sakura Haruno."

"Listen to me, miss…Sakura. If you don't answer my questions, I am afraid I will have to turn you over to Scotland Yard. You, as far as I know, may be a dangerous criminal."

"I told you, I don't know. Last thing I remember was being in Konoha. It was raining. I was upset because Sasuke and Ino announced their engagement…I can't remember anything else." She said. She didn't know what made her talk but she told these strangers that she was a kunoichi from Konoha. The three just looked at her as she spoke, in obvious disbelief.

"Listen, if you don't tell us who you really are, we will turn you over to Scotland Yard. This nonsense about ninjas is ridiculous." Dr. Ward replied angrily.

"Sir, I don't think she is right in the head. Poor thing must have hurt her head when she collapsed." The nurse, Charlotte said looking at me with pity. She seemed genuinely concerned but it also angered Sakura because she was tired of being viewed as weak and fragile. All her life, she'd had to prove that I wasn't the weakest link. She had worked hard to become a respectable shinobi and one of the best damned medics that Konoha had to offer, so she felt upset that these people believed her to be what a weakling.

"I did not hurt my head. What I'm telling you is true. I am a ninja. I am!" Sakura screamed, losing her patience. She didn't need these people questioning her. They, after all weren't anything to her. She only answered to her superiors, which were Naruto and Lady Tsunade. "I am Sakura Haruno, a medical ninja of Konohagkure."

"This is getting ridiculous. I have no patience for this. We'll just let Commissioner Randall deal with her." Dr. Ward replied as he approached her, taking something out of his pocket. It was a syringe, filled with who knows what. Sakura couldn't just let this doctor drug her, especially if she had no idea what he was about to use.

"Stay away from me." She said warning the old man. She looked from him to the syringe to him again and backed away slowly.

"This is only to help you sleep. It will not harm you." Charlotte said trying to ease the girl but to no avail. Sakura tried to dispel genjutsu, hoping that it worked. Again, it failed so she had to believe that this wasn't a genjutsu at all. She cursed inwardly. She had to get out of here. She had to figure out where the hell she was and get back home to Konoha. A dull ache tore through her heart as she remembered that Sasuke was engaged to Ino. It pained her to no end but as a kunoichi, she knew that she would have to live with it.

"Hypocrite"' Her inner self said as she made a resolution. "Are you really that much of a masochist? Would you be strong enough to see your best friend marry the man you love? Will you be able to smile when you see them happily married? And what about when he impregnates her? What will you do then, when you see her pregnant with his children. Because you know that WILL happen. You know Sasuke will NEED an heir."

Sakura faltered for a moment, as she thought about what her inner self was saying. As much as she wanted to give up and escape from her problems, her reality, deep down she knew that she couldn't. It is true that it hurt her so much to know that Sasuke was so out of her reach, but she couldn't run away.

"I won't run." Sakura replied to her inner out loud, perhaps making these strangers think she was crazy, but that didn't matter to her. "I'm tired of running away from everything. If I keep running away from my problems, how can I expect to look at myself in a mirror."

"Dear me, Doctor. The girl must be mad. She is talking to herself now." Dr. Williams said with morbid fascination. He looked at her with interest. There was something in the way that he looked at her that unsettled her.

Without another moment's hesitation, Sakura quickly made a couple of quick hand signs to perform a low-level jutsu.

"What are you doing?" Dr. Ward said as he took a step toward her but stopped when a gust of wind suddenly blew through the room. In a swirl of cherry blossom petals, Sakura disappeared, leaving the three in confusion and disbelief.

Sakura made her way outside the hospital, only to find herself standing in the midst of a crowded street. Men, women and children walked in different directions, some running into her as they scurried off in a hurry. Some stopped to look at her before resuming, as if afraid of getting caught gawking at her. the street looked like Konoha in a way but The similarities stopped when she took a good look at the people. They were dressed in odd clothing. The women wore ridiculously long dresses that would be unsuitable for a kunoichi to move in. the men, though not quite as strangely dressed, still dressed differently than she was used to seeing. Some wore tall hats and walked with sticks, when it was obvious that they didn't need them.

"Where the hell am I?" Sakura thought as she ran through the streets, being careful not to run into anyone. The people perhaps also believed her to be crazy but she didn't care. All she could think of was finding a way home. She ran until she couldn't run anymore. It was then that she realized that she was no longer in the streets of that strange village. She was in the middle of a road but she couldn't recognize the landscape. She didn't even have time to react when she turned around to see a carriage making its way towards her. Bracing herself for impact, Sakura thought she was going to die. She didn't even cry out when she was hit and the cold dirt like a rag doll. She didn't cry out even when her body screamed in pain.

All she could remember was seeing a black haired man with mesmerizing red eyes looking down at her before darkness consumed her.


A/N: Ain't I a stinker for leaving it a such a cliffhanger. I am truly sorry about that but I wanted to make things seem more interesting. I wanted Sebastian and Sakura have a dramatic first encounter and this was the best idea I had. They will officially meet in the next chapter. I will try to update as soon as I can. Please feed the starving writer by reviewing!