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Chapter 1

15 years earlier

'Ugh what happened' thought Sakura as she sat up in her bed. 'We were being chased by Sasuke and then we jumped into a lake and fell into the past' Said Is. Sakura got out of bed feeling really small. 'How old am I?" thought Sakura as she went to her closet.

'Look at your calendar." Said inner.

Sakura complied and almost did a double take. 'Five, I'm a freaking five year old, and it is the day before I start at the academy.' Thought Sakura in an angry panic. 'Chill girl I will find your memories of when you were five around today so that way you won't be without a paddle you are a bit to early to be us so it give me time to find them' said inner as she went to find them.

Sakura began to try to walk around tripping every so often, 'I am so not use to being so small.' Thought Sakura as she sat on the ground cross-legged and began looking for her chakra to find a small drop in the place of a large lake. 'My chakra is still developing.' Thought Sakura.

Inner came back a bit later bringing flashbacks of her youth. After that Sakura got dressed in a blue shirt and tan pants then went down stairs for breakfast talking with her parents about her first day of ninja school and how she was so excited. Then she went to the park and played on the swings till it got too crowded and the mean girls started to pick on her. After that Sakura wandered into the woods just looking for some solitude and peace of mind. Sakura was close to the Uchiha compound when she heard the rhythmical clunk of shurikin's hitting targets. This sparked Sakura's interest, and she changed her course toward the sound. Sakura arrived in a clearing with a young boy of about 11 in it, he had long black hair pulled into a horse tail, and lines on his face, Sakura knew this was Itachi.

Sakura watched him for a while till he fell down from exertion.

Sakura was shocked, Itachi never did this, so with that in mind she went to see if he was ok. "Hey mister, are you ok?" asked Sakura as she sat down by Itachi. Itachi opened his eyes, "at least you did not faint, that would have been bad. You are really powerful you must be a ninja. I am about to start the academy myself, because I want to protect my precious people. Hey what is your name mister?" said Sakura as she looked at him as he got into a seated position. "Itachi." He said. "Itachi as in weasel that is so cool, they are my favorite creature, and they are much more useful then Sakura blossoms, like my name, "oh yeah I forgot to introduce myself I am Sakura Haruno," ranted Sakura with a smile.

Itachi looked at the strange little girl. She was talkative, but her presence was comforting, and made him feel safe. When Sakura asked if they could be friends Itachi found himself saying yes. He watched as her face lit up with joy, "really, your the first friend I ever had," Sakura then looked at the sky, "I have to get going, but lets play after school Itachi." Said Sakura as she ran off. Itachi stared after the strange girl with a small smile 'she is interesting,' then his face became blank, as he got his things together and headed home.

They met like that almost everyday, he would be training, and she would come and sit under a tree , or doing homework, or just watch him. Then they would talk, he learned a lot about her, like she had an older brother that she never met, she was picked on constantly, and she had a lot of knowledge, because she listened a lot. He even made a few observations about her like the fact that her eyes glazed over and made weird faces when she watched him. She also knew when he was lying. She was a puzzle to him, and he felt that he was missing a few pieces.

But two years later, their routine changed, he got accepted into anbu. Sakura was happy for him, but sad that she would not get to spend as much time with him, he just did not know the whole truth.

After many months in anbu, Itachi found out about a plot that his family was making to take over Konoha; he immediately told the Hokage what he knew the kage was disturbed. A few days later he was summoned to Danzo's office. "You are here because the elders have made their decision." Said the rickety old man. "They have decided that for the good of Konoha you family must be eliminated and the only one to kill an Uchiha is an Uchiha" he then told Itachi what he needed to do this. Itachi had two weeks to carry out this mission.

So when he went home he looked up how to get this ultimate weapon, and what he found scared him… he had to kill his best friend. He was still out of it when he went to go see Sakura.

Sakura frowned when she saw him, because she knew what was wrong. When Itachi sat down she crawled beside him, "hey Itachi, what's wrong?" she asked in an innocent voice. "I have to do something I don't want to do, but I must do to save the village." Said Itachi. "I have to choose my family, or my village." Sakura looked at him then smiled, "don't worry I'm sure that you will do the right thing." Itachi eyes widened, "how can you have so much faith in me?" asked Itachi. "You are the first friend I ever had, you were nice to me, so I trust you with my life." Said Sakura as she began her daily rant of what was happening in her life. Itachi smiled, for this girl he would be willing to die, she was the reason he still had his sanity, he would not kill his family for the village, he would do it for her, and her safety.

A week later Itachi killed his entire clan except Sasuke. He went to the clearing even though it was late, he wasn't expecting her there, but she was, it was as if she was waiting for him. He went up to her and hugged her, holding her close, "I have to leave, it will be a long time till I am able to see you again." He said. "I know, I will miss you, but we will see each other again, and when we do I will have become stronger." Said Sakura as she hugged him tightly. "Do me one favor," Said Itachi, "what?" "Watch over Sasuke for me." He said, "I will," said Sakura, as she pulled back a little. "You need to get going." Said Sakura, Itachi nodded in agreement, and gave her a kiss on her forehead before disappearing.

When Sakura woke the next morning she felt a bit empty, like a part of her was missing. News of the Uchiha massacre was everywhere. Sasuke did not show up at school, he was at the hospital this made his fan girls angry and upset. They took their anger out on Sakura. Sakura really did not care until one said, "She has no friends because she is a freak." It hurt, a lot she ran off crying, the only good that came out was that she met Ino that day.

It had been a couple of day since Sasuke had come to class, and the teacher was worried that he was going to fall behind, so he got one of his students to take him a packet of assignments and stuff to him, and Sakura was the person to do it, because she was the smartest in class.

When Sakura went to the hospital she learned that Sasuke had already gone to his new apartment. On the way there, Sakura saw a vegetable stand, remembering Sasuke's love of tomatoes, she got a bag full of the red fruit. The apartment that Sasuke was living in was on the second floor; the lights were on showing that he was home. Sakura knocked on the door two times before she her him say coming, when he opened the door he did not look to happy, "what do you want." Sasuke demanded.

"The teacher was worried that you would fall behind because you missed some important lectures, so he gave me some assignment to give you that you missed, and I am to show you the new jutsu's we learned in class, because there is a test on them coming up." Said Sakura. Sasuke nodded and let her in. Sakura smiled and took off her shoes.

She put the stuff on the table when she smelled something, "hey Sasuke is something burning?" Sasuke's eyes widened "shit," he said as he ran to the kitchen where there was a pot that was putting off smoke.

While Sasuke put the fire out, Sakura opened the window to let the smoke out. Then she looked over to see what he was trying to make, "rice?" Asked Sakura as Sasuke nodded "steamed or fried?" "Steamed." Said Sasuke. Sakura sighed and put her hand over her face. Then said, "the assignments are going to have to wait." Sakura looked at her weirdly, "why?" he asked, "you need to know how to cook some basic meals so you don't die or kill yourself by eating bad food. Now do you have anymore rice?" asked Sakura. Sasuke nodded.

"Good now go get it." Said Sakura as she took the pot and scraped out the burnt rice into the trash, and then washed it real quick. "Now cooking rice is real easy," started Sakuras, as she showed him how to cook rice when it was over they had some rice balls to eat while studying.

When they sat down at the table Sakura saw her bag, "oh yeah, when I was coming here I passed a vegetable seller and got some tomatoes," said Sakura. Sasuke's face lit up as she handed him some of the bigger juicier ones.

Sasuke was happy he had been trying for hours to make rice, then Sakura shows up bringing homework, and then shows him how to make rice, and to top it all off, she has tomatoes that she got on her way here, he would not admit it but she was kind of cool. He was sort of sad when she got ready to go. "I hope to see you in school tomorrow," said Sakura as she left.

After this Sasuke watched her, she was friends with Ino who was a really loud fan girl, she was also a bit shy, as time went on she became more strong willed, she also was the best academically, and the first to master new jutsu, but she was weak in other areas. But after that day they really had no other contact, except when they were paired up on projects, which was not very often. She also seemed on friendly terms with almost everyone in class.

Sakura was a little disappointed, she and Ino had their fallout over Sasuke, it was because Ino was jealous that Sasuke would actually talk to Sakura. But what can you do it is what needed to happen, and Sakura knew they would make up later.

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