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-ShadowBabe- (My Beta.. Thanks girl!)
Déjà vu
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Sakura breathed in once again, willing herself to calm down and stop the momentary bought of panic. Nobody else knew of what was happening; unless someone from her time was smart enough to figure it out or knew what that dumb scroll was; she was totally on her own.
So as a result, she sat in her room, swishing the ice cream around her tongue and, well.. thought of what to do.
Drumming her slender fingers on her desk, she willed herself to think harder and instead found herself with the beginnings of a migraine.
'Aughh, perfect..'
"This isn't worrkiing…" She sighed out and plopped her head into her open palms.
The door sounded from bellow her and Sakura knew her father was back from work.
She was out of the window before he even had time to slam the door behind him.
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"Naruto.. Can I talk to you for a second?" Naruto blinked up at Sakura and grinned before jumping up.
'She's going to ask me out!! Hell ya, in your pimply face Sasuke-teme!!'
"Of course I would Sakura-chan!!"
She cocked her head in the most adorable expression, "What?"
"Umm, I meant, of course we can talk.." Naruto attempted to keep a straight smile without looking nervous as she raised an eyebrow and shrugged, finally tugging him along behind her.
Sasuke and Kakashi exchanged a glance and looked back at Naruto who was sticking out his tongue at them when Sakura wasn't looking.
She finally led him to behind a couple of trees, shrouding the views of Kakashi and Sasuke, letting go of his arm and turning to stare at him once again.
"Naruto… I'm just going to ask you a couple weird questions.." Sakura began.
Naruto's eyes slightly widened, his imagination coming up with different scenarios…
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"Narutooo-kuun," she would purr "My bra is really bugging me, can you take it off for me..? With your teeth..?"
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He quickly nodded his head, "Don't worry Sakura-chan!! I'd do anything for you!!"
Sakura, not seeing that the poor boy was about to have a nosebleed, smiled softly, not catching the perversion behind his words. 'Aww, Naruto was always there for me.'
"Naruto…" He waited intently. "How old am I?"
"..Oh."
"Something wrong Naruto?"
"No, nothing." Just that his thoughts had crashed all around him in hopeless pieces of glasses… Oh well, Sasuke wouldn't of known what had happened, so he would make something up. "We're still Genin, Sakura-chan! You.. Don't remember?"
'Eep! Think of something quick!'"Yes, ahaha, you see.. I bumped my head this morning! I'm just making sure!!" She giggled nervously.
'Nice lie, dip shit.' Even Inner didn't seem to believe her.
"Ohhh, okay! Anything else?" But of course, Naruto would.
"Umm, how long have we been Genin?"
Naruto didn't even bat an eye at the odd questions and proceeded to answer her. "4 months, 3 weeks, and 2 days! We came back from mist 2 weeks ago and Sasuke is still in love with himself. Do you remember everything now Sakura-chan?" She rolled her eyes and swatted him on the back of his head as he snickered.
They had just came back from mist.. That means the chuunin exams were coming up in a little. Perhaps a month?
But..
Would she let the future become better or let what happened, happen?
At least now she new the basics, the only question left was if this was some kind of perverse reality of the past she had known. Lifting her head again to meet Naruto's gaze (which from she noticed he was daydreaming again…) and quietly called out his name to get his attention.
"Naruto-kun," she began, how the hell was she going to ask this?! And idea popped into her head and she turned away for a moment to look at the scenery around them.
"..Are we dating?"
Thud.
She let out a breath she didn't know she was holding. 'Phew! Heehee so cute.' And proceeded to happily pick up her unconscious teammate and carry him back, trying not to get the thin trail of blood streaming from his nose onto her clean clothes.
He must have bumped his nose when he fell… Or something..
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"I'm telling you-!" Naruto growled to both Kakashi and even Sasuke as they continued to interrogate him, "I don't remember what we talked about!!"
Kakashi sighed and leaned back. Naruto had been carried back by Sakura and dumped in front of Kakashi and Sasuke who were trying their hardest to look bored but in reality were brimming with questions. Kakashi had first noticed the telltale sign of pervert-blood leaking from his nose and the state his pupil was in was the same when Kakashi himself would be in after a racy Icha scene…
The only moment they had to question him was when Sakura had gone off to refill their water bottles before the end of training… But..
'Icha Icha.. So.. Tempting..'
"I'm back." Sakura came into view smiling serenely and moving with the grace she had learned in her older years, dropping beside her Team and passing each a cold bottle. She almost chucked one at Sasuke who she still hadn't forgiven for betraying them. He gave her an odd questioning glance and she pretended not to see it. Jerk.
'Now can we just go?! I need to go look for that stupid scroll… Damn my shit luck..'
"Training" had consisted of her sitting in the shade and watching them fight, so no acting on her part was done, but it had set into her conscious and begun to agitate her even more than it did back then. Did they seriously think they were protecting her by doing that?!
She quietly sighed out and ran her fingers through her hair that now waved a little past her shoulders. In the end she couldn't part with her luscious hair and only trimmed it.
"Ah- Kaka-sensei, can we go?!" Ah, beloved Naruto. She almost leaned over and kissed him if it weren't for being out of character.
"Ahh, one more thing." Kakashi cleared his throat, looking every part the leader that he can be while reading a porn book.
"You guys have all been doing great, and you've all changed drastically since the first day I've started teaching you.." He paused to smile, remembering the first time Naruto had screamed and charged at him in training. "And if you guys would want to enter in the Chuunin exams next week, I would help you the best I can."
The silence after sounded like a gunshot in Sakura's face. Next week?! She didn't predict for it to come for at least another couple weeks!
In her state of panic her cherry lips opened and without her knowing whispered out, "…Next week..?"
Kakashi and Sasuke turned to her wide, terrified eyes with confusion but before they could say anything were interrupted by Naruto, "YESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!"
She had barely any time to plan anything for them! And this was the catalyst event that ruined so many lives..
"HELL YESSSS!!!!!"And their was no way that she could make it back to her own time in a week..
"YATTAA!!"No time to search around without looking suspicious.. She would have to be quicker.
"YYEE-" Nobody even saw the fist that Sakura aimed at his head, but felt the chakra that was infused into it. Sakura had turned back to her sensei and old crush before Naruto had even hit the ground, with an innocent stare.
She almost snorted at the petrified expressions frozen onto their faces.
'How the hell did she do that?!'
"Thank you Kakashi-poo" He growled, "We'll give you our answers later. See you tomorrow then!" He only shook his head and poofed off with Naruto slung over his shoulder.
Sakura tensed. Now it was them alone.. For the first time in years. And he didn't even know what he was about to do.. Even the hate she tried to teach herself to feel towards him was slowly evaporating. If she weren't careful he would only end up hurting her again.
So they stood there.
Her viridian eyes watched as he barely parted his mouth, looking as if he wanted to say something.. Only to shake his head and turn to leave her like he had always done in the past.
"Sasuke.." He stopped and they both knew what she was going to ask. If Sakura was going to keep the past the way it had been she had to be precise with every detail..
Even a simple one, like how she always used to ask him out.
"Would you.." She began and her heart sped up. Damn it, this was a lot easier back then.
Would she? Would she change the future, or would she keep it the way it was?
"Can I.."
He turned his cold stare towards her, "What?!"
That did it. Oh hell would not only freeze over, but turn into heaven before she asked out this jerk again. The past was so hers.
"Would you stop being in love with yourself?" His icy stare turned into shock and she gave him a nymph's grin before bounding off on the trees in the opposite direction, feeling better than she could ever remember.
In Naruto's words – BWAHAHA!
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"It's so hot.." Sakura huffed out, but even then continued her grueling task. This was the large field that past Team 7 had found her in, so this was the first place that she had looked for the scroll that had…
What? Wrote on itself then knocked her out?
Maybe she was just going crazy..?
Inner interrupted her odd thoughts, 'You have to admit, this place was beautiful..' Sakura had to agree as she sat up comfortably to take a break. The wind swung around the leaves that gleamed in the afternoon light before swishing by her hair and lifting silken strands.
She gently shut her eyes to enjoy it, only to hear the quiet tmp of someone's footsteps. She flushed, only one person she knew had that chakra. Great – She probably looked like a freak playing in the mud..
"Neji." Sakura said without even opening her eyes. She heard him freeze in surprise before continuing on to stop behind her.
'I knew she had great chakra control but..!' He smirked even though the young kunoichi below him didn't see it. "Is mud some kind of skin treatment, Sakura?"
Sakura flushed again, but once again didn't turn to look at him. After an odd… Check up appointment that Tsunade had forced him to take, she could never look him straight in the eye without turning bright red and remembering..
'Augh.. This Neji doesn't know about it, don't mess up Sakura! ..Just avoid that appointment like the plague.." Inner scolded.
"Actually yes." She defiantly huffed out, turning to him from her spot on the ground, still unable to look at him in the eye, but instead looking.. at his hair.. Yes, that luscious hair. "But I was just looking for my.. Contacts.."
He blinked at the glowing look on her smooth skin and how her crumpled clothing seemed to stick to her slender body even more; the now shorter hair blew around her face and pouted lips. "You're looking for contacts.. In the mud?" He managed to breath out and raise a curved eyebrow.
Something about her seemed different.. More confidant? Neji knew of how self conscious Sakura seemed to be at times, and really he half blamed her Team for that.
Sakura turned to a spot in the dirt and faked a surprised expression, "Silly, I was talking about a new brand of.. hairclips.. OH dear I guess I can't use it now.. Well I'm going home!"
Neji grabbed onto the back of her red outfit before she could sheepishly flit out of sight and turned her red face towards him.
"Yes?" She fumed.
A small smile twitched at his lips but he kept a straight expression, "Look at me in the eye."
"Wha-?" Caught off guard, Sakura blinked up to meet his pearly gaze and he finally let her go.
"That's better." And he turned to walk off and Sakura couldn't help the smile that grew on her face.
Neji.. He's so tied down in the future.. It's so rare to see him happy now. "Don't ever let anyone change you, Neji-kun."
But again, she was gone before he could turn around to glance at her.
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'Crap, we lost track of time!' Inner cursed and edged Sakura to go even faster than the breakneck speed she was using to almost literally fly over room tops and barely touch onto tree branches.
If she had ran past someone, they would think she was a demon.. If they could see her that is.
'No one should be out at this time..' Sakura looked up at the peaking stars in the darkened sky, 'I'll just let out a bit more of my chakra..'
She winced as the sky darkened further. Her father was going to be angry..! She was even starting to feel that hopeless feeling that she usually got in the past when dealing with her father.. Her stomach clenched but she continued on running.
Finally her house came into view and she slowed down enough to smile and whip out her keys.
The glasses of Kabuto glinted and almost slid off the bridge of his nose in his shock. He watched as a pink-haired kunoichi slide quietly into her house and softly shut the door behind her.
'That chakra.. That speed.. How-?! Wait..'
The pink hair.. And a girl seemingly that young couldn't have as much chakra and prowess as even Orochimaru seemed to have.
This girl… Had to be a demon!!
Kabuto blinked coming back to his senses and slid his glasses back up. He'd observe this.. demon further before telling Orochimaru.
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"You're late."
Sakura froze from her position on the stairs and held her breath before turning to look at the menacing figure of her dad.
Bastard.
"Dad.. I'm sorry, I was.. training and-"
Bastard.
Bastard.
"You're late."
Sakura gritted her teeth. If she didn't leave now, her father would be left as a bloody hump of clothes, but the moment she turned to leave, her father grabbed onto her wrist in a bruising clutch with his rough hands.
"Poor mummy, she had to cook supper all by herself.."
Sakura paused, ignoring his hands, "Where is she?" His alcohol tinted breath assaulted her face as his own twisted into one of rage.
"Don't speak back to me you-"
Thump.
Sakura rolled her eyes from behind her father, ignoring the fact that the move she just used on him was the one that Sasuke had used on her years before. "And Sasuke said I was annoying..? Tch.."
'Okay, time to find mom now.. I hope she's okay.'
Sakura could only stand for a moment trying to breath out and calm the subtle trembling of her small hands. Memories of her father attacked her, and all she could do was smile at the fact that he couldn't hurt her like that anymore.. Even if she couldn't forget.
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"I'm Kabuto Hashiya, thank you for allowing me to train with you before the next chuunin exams."
Sakura twitched.
The little ass followed her here.
"I really need the training too, this is my fifth time taking them again.." Kabuto chuckled sheepishly. "It's really hard!"
'That fake little-'
Naruto burst out laughing, interrupting her thoughts, "BWAHAHA YOU'RE SO WEAK!!"
Normally, if Naruto said something like that she would of slapped him to Sunagakure.. But the situation was so fake, so funny, that she just had to let out a cute laugh.
Everyone immediately stopped whatever they were doing to turn to stare at her. She muffled the giggles and whipped a tear away, extending her other hand to shake his.
"Sorry Kabuto-san, I'm Haruno Sakura.." The hidden malice in her voice and grit of her teeth was only noticed by him as she shook his hand in a death hold. But of course, not hard enough to break his hand or Kakashi would wonder.
"N-nice to meet you!" He gasped out, trying to hide the pain with a forced smile. She gave him a look before finally letting go of his hand. 'The demon also has super strength! I must tell Orochimaru-sama..!'
Kakashi blinked, 'Am I the only one who's noticing this?' Naruto was still snickering under his breath and Sasuke.. Was being Sasuke. 'Yup.. I am.'
"So.." Kakashi finally said, breaking the tension only he seemed to notice, "We will be starting off by sparring, Kabuto and Sakura, do you guys just want to watch us?" Naruto and Sasuke were already stretching and Sakura starred at him in disbelieve.
"No.. I will fight him." And she grabbed Kabuto's hand and led him to another clearing. The poor man could only hold on and try not to look frightened as she grumbled under her breath.
To say she was pissed was an understatement.
Oohh, Kabuto was going to get the full brunt of it.
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My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I lov'd, I loved alone.
-Edgar Allen Poe (Alone)
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Sorry for the long wait!!!! It's just that.. that.. ((no excuses)) Okay, it ws actually because of the insane amount of work I have and my asshole boss, and I can't wait to see her face when I finally quit.. Mwahaha xD
Anyways..
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