Sakura Momochi

Chapter 3

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Kakashi moaned and opened his eyes. 'What happened?' suddenly a flash of pink found its way into his mind, and he groaned again. 'She beat me, at the age of thirteen, maybe younger… With my sharingan, maybe she wouldn't have beat me… I defiantly underestimated her…' Another image of pink made it's way into is head, but this time it was much more different, and much more familiar…

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Kakashi sighed as Obito and Rin chatted happily behind himself.

"What are we doing again Sensei?" he asked emotionally, he knew full well what the mission was, he just wanted to drown out the noise of his comrades.

"Well, were going to the Haruno Estate and then watch over some little girl… Apparently she's going to be the head of the family some day." Minato put his hands behind his head with a look of deep thought. "Hmm… How old do you think she'll be Kakashi?" Kakashi just shrugged and walked on.

"Man, I bet she's really hot or something! All the women from the Haruno's have awesome figures! Not to mention their crazy hair!" Obito started giggling before he got smacked in the head softly from Rin.

"That's no way to think Obito-kun!" she said, shaking her finger in his face.

They fought all the way to the Estate, trying to get Kakashi into the conversation to no avail. Kakashi ignored them and walked up to the front gates of the Estate. Before he got five metes close to it, two Haruno branch members were in front of him, swords in front of themselves.

"State your business!" the tall purple haired man on the right lowered his sword slightly; just enough to get a good view of the entire group—The other, a man with gold hair, never lessened his stance.

"Were here to look after a little girl, -" before Kakashi could say anymore, Minato stepped in.

"Sakura Haruno."

The two guards looked at each other once, nodded, and lowered their weapons. "Follow me." The same purple haired man stated, and walked into the gates.

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"Mother, Father, where are you going?" Sakura asked, upset her parents were going to leave right as soon as they had gotten back.

Two tall figures, both with jounin outfits on, just smiled down at her. The man, who had dark red hair flowing down to the small of his back, placed a hand on Sakura's head. "Don't worry sweetie. Your mother and I are going on another mission. You just be a good girl now. There are going to be four people her to make sure you're okay. Now, are you going to be okay?"

Sakura pouted, but nodded nonetheless, flinging her hair around and sat down. "You guy's are always gone…" she whined, and her mother bent down to face her, her long white hair tied in a ponytail, her bangs falling into her eyes.

"Sakura-chan… Now, we try our hardest to stay and have fun with you, but were both ninja, and on top of that, we have a whole clan to worry and work for! Now, just be glad we get to see you at all! You should be thankful, some kids don't see their parents at all." Her mother gave Sakura a stern look, and sighed. "But were always going to be here, okay?" Sakura had tears in her eye, but nodded.

"I love you!" She screamed, giving both of her parent's hugs just as they left.

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Kakashi watched the sad departure with cold eyes. 'They have too much emotion…' He shook his head and walked into the room, right behind the young girl. Patting her shoulder, he watched her jump and turn around quickly.

"Who are you!?" Kakashi just smiled at her from under his mask.

"Were here to make sure your okay." He tilted his head to the side slightly. "Now, you are Sakura, right?"

She nodded slowly, not sure to trust him yet.

"You still didn't tell me who you are… And why are you wearing that mask?" She pointed at his cheeks, and he smiled at her again—but before he could speak, Obito spoke up.

"He's Kakashi, and he wears that mask to hide his hideousness!"

Sakura grew red as she saw the three other figures come up behind him, the boy who had spoken to her before knelt down beside her like Kakashi.

"Just so you know, I'm way more important than Kakashi! I'm Obito Uchiha! I'm gonna be head of the police department some day!" He gave her a wide grin, but before he could stand up again, he found a small hand smack him across the cheek, and he flew down on his bottom. "What the?" he looked up and saw the little girl glare at him, hands balled into little fists, tears in her eyes.

"You're mean! You should never make fun of someone's appearance, no matter what!" she cried, subconsciously reaching up to put a hand over her forehead. "It's a horrible thing to do!" with that said, she ran over to Kakashi, who was now standing up, and smiled at him.

"Hi! My name is Sakura Haruno, and don't worry! I won't judge you just 'cause you have on a mask!" she smiled as she saw him blush slightly and put a hand behind his head.

"Err… Gee… Thanks Sakura-hime…" Sakura smiled at him, reached up for his hand, and started to lead him around the house.

"How old are you Nii-san? I'm gonna be three years in March!" Kakashi smirked as he listened to the small girl rant on and on.

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Kakashi was sitting down at a tall tree near the Academy. He had silently claimed it at the beginning of the year. Sure, he had graduated, but he still liked to hang out here and catch up on sleep- as he was now. Eyes closed, he sighed and put his hands under his head. Just as he was about to dose off, he felt a small shift of weight in the tree and opened an eye lazily to see a tall ANBU member, a turtle mask on.

'Ah, this better be good…'

"Kakashi-san! There has been trouble, Minato-sama has called for you!" Kakashi regarded the man with curiosity, but nodded and stood up to follow him.

"What exactly is the emergency ANBU-san?" he asked lazily, taking in the fact they were heading to a rather deserted part of Konoha. 'Odd, it seems like he's taking me to the Haruno residence… Maybe he is a Haruno… Then again, he has black hair…'

Before the ANBU member could speak up, he saw Minato up ahead and decided he'd rather hear the news from his Sensei. Just as he ran in front of Minato, he gave Kakashi a desperate look.

"Kakashi, I need you to head in there right now, none of us can get it! There's a small hole just enough for you to fit in, were trying to break in now, but the Haruno's have placed multiple Genjutsu upon Genjutsu!" Kakashi gave a small look of surprise to his sensei, and then ran ahead to see the Haruno residence… It was horrible…

The complex was in ruins. There were multiple fires running through the building and as he started to look around, he noticed a small hole in the side of a wall and numerous Nin's gathered around it. He ran with all his might to get there, and without speaking, he dived ahead and between the crowds and found himself in the smoky main building.

He looked around furiously, despite the smoke and ash, for anyone and everyone, but all he found was bodies… Most of the people had deep cut wounds, burn marks, or had part of their skin rotting and shredded. Despite himself, he was terrified. He needed to find one certain person now. A certain little pink haired girl named Sakura, one of his only friends, his 'little sister.'

"Sakura-hime!" he screamed as he neared her room, and found a large amount of smoke protruding from the door. The tears in his eyes, weather from smoke or fear, started to fall down his cheeks as he reached for the doorknob.

"Sakura-hime?" he shouted once more as he swung the door open, and much to his relief, there she was, sitting down in the corner of the room, coughing and crying.

"Sakura-hime! It's your Onii-san! I'm coming!" He started to make his way over to her, but just as he was no more than two meters away, he felt a large chakra signature come over from the side. His eyes widened and he looked to the side to see a tall man, hair a sickly green, bright grey eyes and a mist hitai-ate tied to his left arm. He held a short sword, maybe two feet long, and it was extremely thin. Before he could do anything, he suddenly smirked, picked up the panicking Sakura, made a few hand signs, and disappeared in a whirl of water and leaves.

Kakashi fell to his knees. He was helpless. He couldn't save her. A few seconds later, he noticed the walls seemed to waver and he thought he was going to pass out from the smoke, but he noticed he could suddenly hear the sound of screams and heard a loud 'boom' come from the wall to his right.

He looked over, tears still falling from his eyes, as a group of ANBU and jounin all gathered around.

Before he knew it, he was being picked up and carried outside.

'She's dead. She's gone. I couldn't do anything for her… I'm worse than scum…'

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Sakura was taken into a plain grey room, several cameras were placed all around, and they placed chakra strings around her wrists, ankles, knees, elbows, and around her stomach, keeping her sitting straight up in the cold metal chair they had given her.

She stared right in front of her- the bastards were teasing her. To her left was a plate filled with all sorts of delicious desserts, and to her right, the same.

But right if front of her was her sword. Doku Karuki was placed on a table, hilt first, and she bore holes into it.

'They're lucky we have no quarrel with them…' she thought, her words rough in her mind. 'No, they're lucky we had no quarrel with them then. Now, we do. They stopped us from our revenge!' her inner screamed, and Sakura had to agree with her other self. Now, she had a fairly correct reason to attack them…

Before she could think of any way to get her double revenge, she saw the door in front of her, past Doku Karuki, open to reveal the Hokage himself and a tall purple haired woman behind him.

The woman smirked as she saw Sakura sitting there. "Hmm… I never would've thought to put food around her, kudos' to you Ibiki!" she glanced over to the left wall. 'Oh, one way I see.'

"Anyways," the woman started again, taking a seat on top of the table, "my name's Anko. You, little maggot, are a prisoner. I will ask questions, or the Hokage will, and you will answer. Understood?"

Sakura smirked. This woman was obviously very rough, and was used to having her way…

"I'm sorry Anko-san, but you see, I'm deaf and mute! I was born this way, my deepest apologies." Sakura bowed as low as she could with the restraints attached. As soon as she straightened up, she saw the woman's face was a deep scarlet.

"Why you little-" before she could finish, Sakura sent what little chakra she had towards her sword. The sword, recognizing Sakura's chakra, started to spasm and spikes jutted from every part of the sword. It wanted it's master back.

Anko jumped off of the table to the side of the room, her eyes wide as the sword finally stopped jerking and spiking here and there.

Sakura smirked as she looked at the table. It had a myriad of holes through it. Sakura laughed and smiled at Anko.

"My sword is pretty loyal. I wouldn't advise you to sit near it."

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Yay! I loved this story, but I forgot the password for this account, and I changed my e-mail recently… So, I made a new account, and totally forgot this one. I hope anyone who liked this story liked this chapter!

(My other account is M-Mello, so if that account has one of my stories, she didn't steal it! 'Cause it's my account as well… Yeah…)

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Kaiki karai kibun