Chapter 8 Choice

Sakura panted. "Leave me alone!" Guards followed her.

"Catch her and off with her head!" Katsuya shouted.

"Sakura!" Gaara took her hand before she started to fade away and jumed in the air. "Ahh!" They landed on a big bird. "Yo! Missed us?" Deidara grinned. "Everyone! Thanks a lot!" Sakura started to cry.

"There is no time to cry, Sakura! We need you out of here!" Pein yelled and shoot a guard down. "Everyone.." Sakura fainted.

"Sakura?!"

Sakura's body began to fade again. "This is bad!" Deidara trew bombs at the guards. "Sakura is home now! We need to save everyone else!" Naruto shouted.

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'Where am I?' Sakura looked around. "Gaara? Pein? Naruto?" Sakura got nervous. "Anyone?!" Sakura heared something. "What was that.."

"Grandma! Where are you?!" Sakura started to cry. "Oh, dear. I'm here!" Hana hugged her. "I don't like this game!" Sakura cried, wiping her tears.

"Shhh, no need to cry. It's just a game, every game will end soon if you finished it." Hana patted her head, "But I don't like Hide And Seek! Let's play something else!" Sakura sulked, crossing her arms. "Fine, let's play…how about you choose what we should Play." Hana sugessted.

"Alright! Me and Karin played it many times and she always lose!" Sakura giggled.

"You play it like this: One person turned around and count to ten while the other one trys to come close to the person. After the person finished couting and turned around, you need to stop walking! If she or he catch you moving, you are out!" Hana laughed. "Sounds like fun! Let's start!

Sakura watched the scene infront of her. 'I remembered…that was funny.'

"-7, 8, 9, 10!" Sakura turned around and saw her grandmother standing like a Stone. "Humph!" Sakura turned back. "1,2,3…" Hana ran closer. "-10! Got cha!" Hana smiled at her. "Argh! You are getting closer!" Sakura sulked and sat down.

Hana giggled. "You need to be patience!" Sakura looked at her. "But I thought, time is money." Hana ruffled her hair. "Not every time is time Money." Sakura tilted her head in confuse.

"What do you mean?"

Hana sat next to her. "I mean, there are times you need to think quick and there are times you just need to wait." Sakura's eyes widen. "I get it! You mean, if you bake your delicious cookies, I need to wait or they'll taste awful. And if Karin tells me her boring stories, I'll need to think of something quick or I'll waste my time on her instead of playing with you!"

Hana sweat dropped and then started to laugh. "Why are you laughing?!" - "You are really spezial, Sakura!"

'Grandma.' Sakura saw another scene coming out of nowhere.

"Hey, sweetie!" Sakura looked at her grandma "Hello, grandma!" Hana smiled at her. "What are you reading?" Sakura sighed. "I'm reading a novel..." Sakura continue to read. "I don't understand it! Why did she choose to go away even though she has everything?" Sakura frowned.

"Humans are different. They are grey" Hana sat next to her "They sometimes want much more than they already have and someimes they kill themself if they had enough." Hana laughed.

"Uh, okay?" Sakura sweat dropped.

Two portals came infront of her. The left one showed her home and the other one her friends fighting the army of the queen.

"Choose wisely, Sakura Haruno. You have only one chance!"

Sakura looked from the one the other one. 'What do I do?' Sakura closed her eyes. 'Everytime, my goal was to come home and now…'

Sakura opened her eyes. "My answer is obvious!"

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"Ohoho! What do we have here?" Sakura turned around and saw an half cat like boy sitting on a tree branch. "W-who are you?"

The boy grinned. "I'm Naruto! The Cheshired Cat!" Sakura stared at him. "I'm Sakura, can you bring me home?" Naruto laughed. "Home? I don't know where you live! If you want to go home, just take the way you came here!"

Sakura looked around. "But I don't remember where I came from" Sakura said.

"Then find a new way!" Naruto jumped off the branch. "How do I do that?" Sakura looked at him. "Aww! What did your grandma said? Just follow your heart!" Naruto grinned and walked away.

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"Gaara!" Sakura hugged him. Gaara's eyes widen. "H-hey! Let me-" Gaara heared Sakura's sobbing and let her hug him. Not knowing what to do, Gaara patted her back "Stop crying, crying will waste your time." Sakura let him go and wipped her tears away. "Right…Thank you, Gaara."

Gaara looked away. "Hn, you're welcome"

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"I don't even know why an outsider want to stay here." Pein shrugged. Sakura was quiet. 'Because I won't have any problems here. I see these danger as adventure not as a problem.' Sakua thought.

"I see" Pein closed his eyes.

"Huh?" Sakura stared at him. 'D-did he just heared my thought?'

Pein chuckled. "I did the hole time!" Sakura blushed. 'How embarrassing! Oh god.' Pein laughed. 'He has a nice laugh…' Sakura blushed as Pein smirked. "Oho, don't flater me that much or you'll be in danger."

Sakura blushed again. "I-i didn't mean to!" Pein chuckled. "Don't worry, I like you too!" Sakura looked away. 'Geez…' Sakura sighed and felt something on her cheek. Pein kissed her cheek. "H-hey! What are you doing?!" Sakura blushed again. "Heh, sorry. I couldn't resist." Pein smirked.

"Stop it!" Sakura pushed him away

"Calm down and stop being so cute!" - "I said stopt it!" They laughed together.

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"I'll save you guys!" Sakura ran towards the portal...