Chapter 2: Confusion
It was like something from my wildest dreams. Perhaps I was dreaming. Everything felt so unreal, but I could sense everything around me. I could see clearly, feel my body and feel myself touch everything I touched. It couldn't be a dream, could it? This place cant be real. It's impossible.
But even thinking that, the more time I looked and stared, the more I started to believe it was real. But what had shaken me, was who I was and what I looked like. I wasn't what I used to look like, a 17 year old girl. No, I was a 6 year old with pink hair. Known as Sakura Haruno. It was unmistakable with the Haruno family symbol. I knew it the second I looked at it.
It was from Naruto. A manga I used to read. I stopped reading it about a year ago, I'd moved onto other manga's and anime's. But I still knew the storyline, from what I had watched and read. But I only remember main parts of it. The rest was like I was staring through a dark and foggy tunnel.
But even so, being here should be impossible. Though, in the eyes of a fan girl or fan boy, it would be a dream of theirs to be here. Yet they'd most likely be naïve, not realizing the potential dangers around them, more than there would be in 'my' world.
Pondering deeper into thoughts, I tapped my chin repeatedly. Sakura, as far back as I remembered, was a very weak girl. Always fawning over the infamous Sasuke Uchiha boy and indulging herself in knowledge and intelligence while she lacked the physical side of it. Her body was always thin and scrawny, not a nice look at all.
But then, insanely as it sounds, 'I am' Sakura. And I can make that change. If training from a younger age was to help out her future wouldn't it be better? But saying that, the storylines would waver and be set in a different path.
Sighing, I pursed my lips and looked up. Sakura's mother was never really shown in Naruto, so this is the first time I'd seen her. Walking me to the Ninja Academy. She looked nothing like people had thought at all, her mother was a fairly short woman with light brown hair and deep green eyes. Her face was slim and her body was average, not overweight or underweight. She wore a red kimono with the Haruno symbol on the back.
But I was always confused. Why has Sakura got such a peculiar hair colour? Had it been inherited? Because if I'm correct, the majority of Konoha had brown, black or blond hair. There was few other odd colours like indigo, Hinata for example. But pink hair, it was rather odd… Unless this wasn't her real hair colour. Or perhaps she was adopted.
Knitting my brow together in concentration, puffed my cheeks and slouched my shoulders. It made no sense. I had seen the odd spoilers on Naruto, Sakura became a very powerful ninja and a well developed medic nin. Her mother wasn't a ninja, it was easy to tell. Her body didn't looked toned or nothing screamed out 'she's a ninja' and her balance seemed different. She walked with a slight limp.
Her father as well, he wasn't in the house. Where was he? Sakura, as I've seen has fine chakra control. But who could she have inherited these trades from? It couldn't have been her mother, but perhaps her father. I bit my tongue to prevent myself from cursing. I was still a child, I laughed to myself in my head, in this body anyway. I shouldn't know such foul words at a young age.
My mouth twitched, stopping myself from smiling. I looked young, but mentally I was old. Rolling my eyes I relaxed myself.
"We're here" came a gentle voice, my shoulder flinched, drawing me out of my train of thought. I looked up Sakura's mother with a look of confusion. She stared back down with dark green eyes and gave a gentle smile. She looked tired, there were rings round her eyes like she'd not slept. A small smile graced her lips. She'd look prettier if she didn't look so worn down. "We're at the academy" she said, as if to reassure my confusion.
I blinked and looked back around. Before me stood a building, a large red sign at the head of the door saying 'Ninja Academy'. There was a man greeting other children into the building, while other adults, I assume was his parents, waved at them as they entered.
Something caught my attention though. A small and young boy, hiding behind two adults. A man and a woman. His hair was a deep bluish black colour, like the colour of a raven. His eyes were dark and onyx too. He stared up with a nervous smile while he chatted. I couldn't make out a word he was saying though.
I processed my thoughts slowly. He looked rather familiar. But where could I have seen him…?
Shrugging my shoulders I turned to 'my' mother and smiled. "Should I go in?" I asked innocently. She smiled back and gave a small nudge on and arm and nodded, encouraging me forward. I sighed and turned slowly, nervously scrapping my feet across the ground with my head down.
There was a reason why I was nervous. Because maybe someone would find out that I wasn't the real Sakura but an impersonator. But was I really? After all, I never knew what happened or how I ended up in this predicament. The hairs on my arms stood tall as I stepped into the threshold of the academy.
"Ah," I jumped, startled by the sudden voice "You must be Sakura Haruno, I presume?" I turned round, it was the man that was greeting people at the door. He wore a black top and trousers with blue sandals, a green vest that I recall seeing a Jounin wearing. His headband was tied tightly around his forehead, where strands of brown hair curled over.
"Ah, yes sir" I replied shortly after.
He smiled kindly "Welcome to the Ninja Academy" he said before looking up at more approaching children.
Shrugging my shoulders I walked onward, heading toward my destined classroom.
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