Okay! Now things are getting interesting! Sakura has explained everything to everyone! They are now going home to eat and explain things to her parents! Does anyone know whether her parents are ninjas or not? If you do, please tell me. In my story, they are. Yosh!

Also, please tell me f you think that too much is happening too fast. Should I slow the story down a bit, because there seems to be too much happening one after another? This is what I'm worried about!

Sorry, Sakura kinda cries a lot. I'm trying to show how by being with Sasuke again is changing her personality. I have a hard time putting the younger Sasuke in here cuz I don't really know what to have him say. But I'm trying my best. Please keep supporting me!

I would also like to make a special shout out to niwi-chan for supporting me and reviewing for basically every chapter! Thank you! All of your reviews make me so happy and inspires me to write the next chapter!

KIKI: I do not own Naruto. Do you think I would own Naruto? AFTER I'VE BEEN TELLING YOU I'M STARTING HIGH SCHOOL?

Enjoy! Oh yeah! SPOILERS! There are some spoilers for after the time skip.

Bidding goodbye to Gaara who said he needed to get back to his siblings, Sakura hummed as she led the way to her house. On the outside, she showed no fear. No doubt in her mind that things were fine. On the inside, she was crumbling. Sasuke always had that effect on her. He was the one that had caused her life to be a living hell. She wiped the few rebellious tears coming out of her eyes away.

Quickly realizing where she was and who she was with, she scanned the faces around her to see if anyone saw. Like with her explanation, she could not bear to see the pity in their eyes.

She wasn't the weak genin left behind and she didn't want to be treated as such. She was a strong kunoichi in her own right though she had gone through many hardships. She could take care of herself and her son.

Eyes flying wide open, she had realized that she had not tried to contact her son in the slightest these last few weeks. Seeing the silhouette of the house she shared with her parents, she hastened to the top of the steps and motioned for the others to do so as well.

Sighing, she resigned herself for the talk that was inevitable to come with her parents. Opening the door she called out, "I'm home! And I've brought some people home for dinner with me!"

Silence greeted her. She looked around. Funny, they didn't tell her if they were going out on a mission tonight. She told the others of this and they grew suspicious. Why wouldn't her parents be home?

"AHHHHH!" Ino's scream rang through the house. The group rushed over to meet her.

"What happened in here? What's wrong?" Shikamaru cradled a trembling Ino in his arms. Hinata grew pale and leaned against Naruto for support. Because there, in the middle of the living room was Sakura's parents. Lying in a pool of blood.

Sakura was frozen.

"Why?" the words slipped out before she could stop them and for a second, the mask crumbled. She was no longer Haruno Sakura, the twenty-seven year old who could do almost anything. She was the twelve year old crybaby Sakura who needed others to protect her.

She fell to her knees and looked so lost that for a second, Sasuke had the urge to rush over and hold her in his arms. To stroke her hair and tell her that he wouldn't do this. That this wasn't him and that he would do anything to make the hurt go away.

But as quickly as the feeling came, it disappeared. Sasuke pushed the emotions back deep inside himself. He could not let these strange feelings get in the way of his goal. And if he had to be consumed by pure evil, so be it.

Kakashi came to Sakura and put a reassuring hand on her shoulder, only to have it shrugged off. As they looked on, Sakura crawled to where the bodies lay.

"Mama? Papa?"

Hinata had silent tears running down her cheeks as Sakura took her mothers head into her hand and stroked the forehead. TenTen was crushing Neji's hand as he was trying to comfort her. Ino wasn't even looking anymore. Her head was buried in Shikamaru's shoulder as if, if she couldn't see it, it wouldn't be true.

But it was.

Until Sakura stiffened.

She raised her head and wiped the tears away. Professional once again, she inspected the corpses. They looked up at her in confusion for her eyes had narrowed in anger.

"Damn you Uchiha," Was all that she said.

Rising, she picked up the body of her mother and threw it up in the air. She leapt up and spun around, kicked it so that it hit the wall with a dull thud.

"What are you doing Sakura-chan!?" Naruto was appalled. Why would Sakura do a thing like that to her own mother? Needless to say, they were all surprised when the body "poofed" into a log. The father's "corpse" soon followed suit.

"Genjutsu?" was Neji's incredulous voice. "How was it that we didn't see it?"

"Because it wasn't Genjutsu." Sakura growled. "It was a new type of technique that I've seen before. It turns the supposed Genjutsu into a reality. Very tricky." She smirked.

"But apparently not tricky enough." The smirk dropped. "But if these aren't my real parent's bodies, then where are they?"

CAW!

Bewildered, they turned to the window where a glossy black raven was perched on the sill.

Sakura recognized the raven instantly and move towards it, holding her hand out. Opening its beak, it dropped the glowing orb it had been carrying into her awaiting palm. She nodded her head slightly and it flew off.

She turned to the others with another grim look on her face and dropped the shining ball of light. The others had to shield their eyes for there was an explosion of pure chakra. There standing before them now was a shimmering image of Tsunade that seemed to solidify. She gave a loving smile in Sakura's direction, not so different from one a mother would give to their child.

"Sakura." She murmured and her arms were stretched out wide, reaching for her adoptive younger sister. "Sakura I can't stay long. This jutsu won't last. I have to tell you something very important." Here she turned to the shell-shocked expressions of the ninja standing to the side. "This includes all of you as well. The stream of time is unraveling."

Sakura's eyes widened but this did not deter Tsunade as she kept speaking in a rush. As if they were running out of time. They were running out of time.

"Sakura, you, Sasuke, and anyone else he might have brought from the past have tampered too much in the fabric of time. It's being rewoven as we I'm so sorry. I know you never meant for this to happen, but things are disappearing. People are disappearing."

"Both Satoshi and Suzume are translucent now. If we don't do something, they could disappear permanently.Hurry! Oh no, the jutsu is wearing off. I have to go! Sakura you and everyone else in this room has to do all they can to right whatever wrongs have been commited. Do you hear me? I..." she was cut off as the image of her faded away.

It seemed to be too much for Ino and HInata who promptly fainted as silence reigned over the room. Luckily, Shikamaru and Naruto were there to catch them. Although truth be told, they didn't look too good as well. Their faces mirrored Sakura's in the aspect of the grim slash set into their faces and Naruto's mouth shut for once.

TenTen looked weak in the knees and Neji allowed her to lean on him, subtly letting her know that she could depend on him and that he would support her. Kakashi was silent as always.

Sakura's eyes strayed to Sasuke and was not entirely surprised to see that he was inconspiciously leaning against the wall for support. It was a lot to take in and she applauded him for making his way through all of this. She knew it wasn't easy finding out that you're a mass murderer and you got your temamate pregnant at 16.

And that was how it was left. Everyone was lost in their own thoughts of the whole fabric of time unraveling itself and the issue of Sakura's missing parents.

Sakura sat against the edge of a bed and closed her eyes for a moment. When darkness claimed her eyes, it kept a hold on its grip and she collapsed on the bed as though exhausted. She gave a small laugh and asked if she could be left alone for a little bit.

One by one, they all left the room. Sakura might have imagined it, or wanted it to happen, but as Sasuke was last to leave the room, she caught his eye for a moment and could have sworn she saw a look of concern, compassion, maybe even something more lurking in the deep depths of those ebony orbs.

Okay, i know it's super short, but i wrote this thing at like 3 in the morning and i wasn't even sure that i actually finished an submitted it when i turned off the computer.

So enjoy