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Chapter 1
The light was too bright. It was probably lunch time, but she had spent hours and hours of healing. Therefore, she was NOT in the mood to wake up!
"Ugh, Naruto, close the curtains!"
"Hey! What's wrong with my voice!? It's sounds so... young. When were the emergency hospital beds these soft?!"
Sakura snapped open her eyes. Before her was a ceiling that she hadn't seen in years.
The green ceiling with sakura patterns were oddly familiar. Where had she seen it?
Suddenly tear drops fell as the memories flooded in.
"Wait, then that means that my parents are alive!"
The now twelve year old Sakura raced to her parent's bedroom. She opened the door not so gently and wedge herself between her parents. Hugging her mother tightly, Sakura let out the tears that she had to hold in for those weeping at the funerals.
"Sakura dear, what's wrong?"
"Did you have a nightmare, Blossom?"
There is was. Her father's nickname for her, Blossom.
"Yeah, I just had a nightmare," Sakura whispered.
Her mother returned the hug, while her father petted her head lovingly.
"Being in the past does feel like a dream, but it is reality. Everyone I love is alive! I'll protect them for sure. The nightmare that will happen years from now is not going to become true," Sakura thought while cuddling closer to her parents.
"Now, I don't normally cry like that. So! I'm guessing that I am physically and mentally younger. Great, I should just go and test my skills," Sakura whined.
Sakura made her way to the training ground that wasn't used as often. There, she punched a tree with chakra. The trunk of the poor tree split, causing the tree to fall back.
"Hey! It usually shatters into dust! I hope my medical skills are still the same."
Sakura lifted the tree she just punched, placed it above the roots, and started healing it. The tree and the roots magically started to connect, and a while later, the tree didn't look like a pink-haired-girl-from-the-future destroyed it on the first place.
"Yay! My medical skills are the same!"
Suddenly, Sakura heard clapping behind her. Surprised, she twisted around quickly to see the familiar gray-haired jounin.
"Kakashi-sensei!"
"Oh? You know me? Anyway, you got some impressive skills out there," Kakashi said amused.
Kakashi was reading his most-favorite-perverted-book-out-of-the-whole-univ erse when a pink-haired girl suddenly appeared cautiously. He was about to tell the little girl that this place was dangerous, but when the girl punched no, shattered the tree, all he could do was drop his book.
No, she didn't look like she was going to break the tree. No, she did not do a cool ninja or karate punch. She just punched it like she was knocking on the door once.
Before Kakashi could collect himself, the girl picked up the tree with one hand. No seriously, one hand! I mean, she looks like one of those little girls on commercial that play with Barbie dolls.
The girl started to heal the tree, and Kakashi wasn't surprised anymore. Well, he was surprised, but he didn't know what kind of expression to make anymore.
He was totally gonna tell on this girl to Hokage-sama.
"Um, this is um...Oh! I was training,of course! Hahahahaha,"
"A genin alone in a training ground used for shinobi of ranks higher than jounin?"
"But shinobi rarely use this training ground!"
"Why would you use a training ground that people don't use, little girl?"
"I'm not a little girl! I'm Haruno Sakura and I was just training!"
"Okay, Sakura-chan, you were training on super strength and great medical skills that only the legendary sannin Tsunade-sama is known to have?"
"Uh, yeah! I'm her apprentice, duh!"
"I heard she only has one apprentice named...Shizuna? Shizuka?"
"Kakashi-sensei, it's Shizune! If you keep interrogating me, I'll burn all your Icha Icha series including the special editions you hid under your bed! I know how to dispel that illusion!"
"Oh right, it's Shizune. Wait WHAT? How do you kno-"
In the middle of the huge training ground, Kakashi was left gaping at the innocent tree and the empty spot that once had a pink-haired girl.
"Wait! She won't burn them, will she? How in the world those she know anyway?"
"Oops, I think I told Kakashi-sensei too much. Hehehe,"
Sakura was skipping down the streets when she suddenly realized the swishing movement of her hair.
"Gotta go cut it! Mrs. Yamazaka would cut it for free! Uh wait, am I on the point where I fought with Ino-pig over Sasuke-kun? We used to be such good friend until she..."
Sakura shook her head sadly.
"No, I'm going to change that. Going back to the past means that the future hasn't happened yet. Breathe slowly, forget the gruesome parts, do not forget your mission," Sakura calmed herself.
"Mrs. Yamazaka!"
"Oh, hello Sakura. You really should come visit more, sweetie,"
"I'm sorry. I was busy these buys. Oh right! Can you cut my hair for me?"
"Of course, but I thought you and Ino were growing it,"
"Nah, we're going to be ninjas now so long hair will only be a hassle"
"I see, now go to Ino while I set the things up!"
"Thank you, Mrs. Yamazaka!"
Sakura knocked on Ino's door.
"Who is it? Oh, Forehead-girl, why in the world are you in my bedroom? Go back, cuz no matter what you do, Sasuke-kun is mine-"
"Right, she's angry...Gosh, okay, I admit that I liked him until I was 13! Although Sasuke-kun, err, Sasuke had a horrible past, he had a very one-tracked mind that will never attract girls if he was not gorgeous. It was his selfishness that made Naruto to lose control. If everything was not chaotic, I would have given him my famed punches that Kakashi-sensei, Naruto, and even Sai would do anything to avoid. If I had not fangirled him for his gorgeousness, I could have been good friends with him. Maybe I'll try,"
"-and everyone knows that he likes me, so-"
"Okay, you can keep him,"
"back off! Uh, what did you just say?"
"I don't like him anymore, so you can hog him all you want,"
"Uh, are you sick, Sakura?"
"Am I so out of character that Ino-pig actually called me Sakura? No, I'm not sick. I don't like him anymore, and we're going to be ninja,"
"Oh, okay then! Now I declare that you're officially my best friend again!"
"So simple-minded,"
"Sakura! Let's cut your hair now!"
"Okay, Mrs. Yamazaka! Going!"
"You're going to cut your hair, Sakura?"
"Uhu!"
After Sakura got her know look, she headed towards the Academy. As she got closer to the playground close to the Academy, Sakura heard whispers.
"Don't go near that kid! He's very evil!"
Then there, on the swing was Uzumaki Naruto, err, Namikaze Naruto.
Sakura was overwhelmed. Naruto was the only person that could make her smile when reality was just so bad. But right now, he was hurting, so now it is her turn to help him.
"Hey, Naruto! What's up?"
It was delightful to see Naruto's face lighting up just because Sakura called him.
"Hi Sakura-chan! You're really beautiful today!"
"Uh, right. He liked me,"
"Classes are going to start, so let's go in together!"
"To-together?! Sure, let's go!"
Sakura watched Naruto's smiling face for awhile. It felt like thousand years since she had seen Naruto smile. The civilians can whisper to each other the lies that they think are true about Naruto, but nobody will know what a wonderful blessing Naruto will be to Konoha.
"Nobody knows...Only I know,"
Chapter 1 is finished.
I have a feeling that this story is going to be really long...
Oh well! Hope you enjoyed it!