K.L.K- I like this story. I really do. here ya go, fourth chapter.
"Sasuke, who is this?" a boy that was older by the pinkette and chicken-butt haired boy asked.
"this is Haruno Sakura! she's in the boy's class because she was too strong for the girl's classes!" he beamed.
"Aa. hello, my name is Uchiha Itachi, Sasuke's older brother." he bowed slightly.
she bowed back. "hn. I came to this village not more than three days prior, and it is very welcoming." she absently said.
he looked a bit surprised. "hn. where are you from?"
her face screwed up in confusion. "I...I can't remember..." she smiled, hidden by the mask. "but that's okay! I like living here now!" she grinned but it was hidden by the mask, as she snickered. of course she remembered she had lived in Kirigakure. she couldn't remember why though, and was more than content to stay in Konoha.
he looked at her for a moment longer than a minute, and he then looked at Sasuke. "were you going to ask her to come to the district?"
the boy nodded. "hai, hai! she's REALLY strong, Nii-san! plus she's smarter than even the Teacher! she pointed out a misspelling and a wrong fact in the textbooks we read from!"
Itachi looked at her. "so, you're a genius?"
she smirked. "Iie. I'm just very observant, and I sometimes have a forgetful stage, but I work past it. I'm not worthy of that over-used title."
he nodded. "too true. anyone who has a slightly over-the-average talent in something gets to be called a genius, whilst others that truly deserve it do not ever get graced with it's presence."
she nodded. "hn, just like the snow country has no spring, or a loving family has no blood-bathed wars."
Sasuke looked in-between the two. "huh?" oh, yes. quite literarily put, Uchiha.
they looked at him. "Well, I accept and appreciate the invitation, since I have no family to go to." she gave a faint, but hidden, smile.
"okay." the elder Uchiha said. "but will you let us see your face once there?"
she looked over his face, finding no deciet, and saw Sasuke's chibi pout, and sighed. "fine. I...I do not like people looking at me, though." they then went to the Uchiha district, a babbling Sasuke and the other two holding quiet conversation.
they got there, and she had two pairs of obsidian eyes staring at her in anticipation. she raised an eyebrow before she slowly pulled the mask down her features to rest on her neck.
"WOW!" Sasuke yelled as he mini-glomped her. "you're REALLY pretty!"
she smiled at him and patted him on the head, ruffling his hair. "there are prettier girls than me, Sasuke."
he frowned. "no there isn't, Sakura-nee-chan!" he grinned as he hugged her tightly.
her eyes widened a bit. 'Sakura-nee-chan?' she thought, bewildered and stunned. "of course there is." she smiled, regaining her composure.
"that's impossible!" the little boy protested.
she gave a grin. "nothing's impossible, Sasuke. believe me, nothing's impossible."
he gave a confused look. "okay!" he grinned. he began dragging the stoic rosette to meet... someone. "you have to meet Okaasan!"
she felt a small pang of fear. fear? no, something else, probably. "hn..." she grunted. "may I walk, or will my arm have to endure being pulled out of it's socket by such a strong little boy?"
he pouted. "I'm your age."
she grinned lightly at him. "ah, that you are, but I know strength when I see it. you will be a strong shinobi one day, strong enough so that I hope I do not cross you."
Itachi looked on. 'how can a...girl... this age be so wise? so...so...so perceptive?!'
she looked back to the older boy. "Itachi, will you please introduce me to your mother? little Sasuke here is pulling my arm clear from it's socket and is too busy jabbering at the moment to successfully do just that."
he nodded. "Hai."
they walked into the kitchen, and there was a kind woman that had black hair and black eyes. Sasuke pulled Sakura over to her. "Kaasan Kaasan! I have a friend!"
she smiled as she looked over the girl. "she's very cute, Sasuke."
"yeah!" he nodded. "she's REALLY pretty but she said that there are girl's that are prettier than her! is that true?"
Sakura smiled faintly and nodded. "Hai, Sasuke. take your mother for instance." the aforementioned woman blushed a bit. "she has a very feminine beauty, the black hair and eyes contrast with her pale skin, and her kind smile and motherly arua make her very pretty."
he looked at his mother, and then nodded to the girl. "Hai! I never thought of it that way! what about your Kaasan?"
she blanked for a moment. "I...I can't remember, Sasuke. all I know is that she had green eyes, like mine."
he faltered, but brightened. "then she must have been as pretty as you!"
she chuckled. "yes, well, may I speak to your mother without your strength ripping out my arm?"
he thought, then laughed and nodded. "I'll be in the living room!" he called as he ran out of the kitchen.
the pinkette turned to the woman. "Gomen-nasai for intruding, miss. little Sasuke asked me to come, I hope that's quite alright?"
the woman, needless to say, was stunned at how well the young girl spoke, and her politeness. "Hai, it's fine. Sasuke is a nice young boy, ne?"
Sakura nodded. "Hai. I know him from class."
she was taken off-gaurd once again. "shouldn't you be in the girl's classes?"
the rosette shook her head. "yeah, I should be. however, the classes are of no importance to me, and I asked to be put into the boys' classes, where they actually learn the skills of a shinobi."
the woman nodded. she opened her mouth and laughed. "I forgot to tell you my name! I'm Uchiha Mikoto. my husband is Uchiha Fugaku, the leader of the Uchiha clan."
the small girl brightened. "oh! I'm Haruno Sakura, glad to meet you, Mikoto-san."
the woman turned and stirred a pot of some kind of soup on the stove. "where's your parents?"
the girl flinched minutely. "umm....I have no parents. I can't remember exactly what happened, but there were some rouge ninja... and I hid....but I got hit in the head when they took off, and I have amnesia."
the woman gasped, then turned and hugged the small girl tightly. "oh...I'm...I'm sorry..." she whispered.
the little girl, once free of the female Uchiha's clutches, shrugged. "It's fine. I can't remember them, or where I lived, I just remember those rouge nin..."she fake-shuddered. of course, there were no missing-nin or rouge ninja. she mentally clapped herself on the back at her great lying skills. of course, earning a snicker from Inner, and then a evil snarling sound from the other thing.
she smiled at the woman. the woman smiled back. "who do you live with?" she asked the small girl.
the rosette kept on smiling. "nobody."
the woman turned towward her. "oh!" she waggled her finger in the young pinkette's direction. "no, no, no! this simply will not do! you need someone to take care of you! why don't you move in?" she suggested, and Sakura's eyes widened.
"no, no! I can't impose on you as such! I've barely known you for twenty minutes!" she waved her hands wildly in front of her.
"no, no! I insist, Sakura-chan! you need someone to take care of you, kunoichi or not." the woman's eyes softened. "please? Fugaku will let you stay here, if you train with Sasuke and Itachi and keep them from getting in trouble. please, Sakura-chan?"
she girl sighed. she knew the woman wouldn't give up. "Mikoto-san... give it a week, please? If I want to move in by then, I will, alright?" the girl pleaded, and the woman sighed.
"alright." the female Uchiha smiled. "but you probably won't like living alone. I never did." the woman shook her head, and Sakura smiled.
"okay, Mikoto-san." the girl replied.
the woman smiled a bit softly at that. "please call me Mikoto-chan, Sakura-chan." she asked softly.
the girl shook her head. "No...I'm not worthy to do such a thing, Mikoto-san. maybe in time, I will."
K.L.K- well...that was...interesting. I'll continue this, and you'll be able to see Sakura start to experiance emotions once again. she and Itachi WILL get close, as in friendship, but it might continue on from there. Sasuke's just gonna love her like an older sis, because she is more mature, obviously...
Sakura- it IS interesting...huh...more and more of her memory is just fading away about it, isn't it?
K.L.K- Hai. and even though the ghostly images and events remain as scrapped memories, it doesn't mean they won't go away.
Sakura- Ah. I see. what about that 'thing' in me? I wanna know!
K.L.K- no, Saku-chan. the readers will find out whenever you do.
Sakura- damn it.
K.L.K- yuuuuup. so....please Review!