Sakura's Fall to Middle Earth

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It was early morning when the hobbits, Sakura and Aragorn left Bree, heading towards Rivendell, the house of elves. Which Sakura would like to better say, the wild. Sakura was excited to see what the elves looked like, for her imagination was running rampant and all she could really think of was short, brightly colored toy makers. She was being a little presumptuous, obviously.

She kept her eyes and ears opened to any dangers that could come upon them, knowing that the ringwraiths were probably very angry and were hunting for them even more now that they had escaped their clutches once again. It was very thrilling, Sakura thought, she loved being out on missions when she was in Konoha, and now that she got to explore, new, uncharted territory, it was even more exciting. Not knowing what to expect kept her on her toes and on high alert.

It would be a couple of weeks to Rivendell at the pace they were going, which she didn't mind, she knew that the hobbits were still getting accustomed to moving around and not staying in one place for too long. At one point in their journey they had to go through a bog, which neither she or the hobbits were too happy about.

"Is this really necessary?" Pippin asked at one point, nearly falling face first into the murky water, if Sakura hadn't of grabbed the back of his cloak.

"Yes, Master Pippin."

Sakura blanched as her foot got stuck in the mud, making it ten times harder to walk with gunk in her shoe, the nasty water was up to her knees, and the poor hobbits had it worse, for the water reached their waists, and it was like swimming for them.

She was very nearly shouting with glee when they got back to dry land, only for it to be short lived once it started raining.

"It seems as if they elements of nature are against us." Merry grumbled, looking at the sky distastefully.

Sakura couldn't help but agree. So far they had been through snow, swamps and now a torrential downpour that nearly made her look like a drowned rat. But Aragorn assured them they weren't too far away from Rivendell, and that they had gotten passed all of the bad part. She scoffed mentally, that's what he had said the last time.

"We'll rest there for the night. This use to be the great watchtower of Amon Sul." He pointed out as Sakura walked up beside him.

"How far do you think we've gotten from the ringwraiths?" She asked cautiously.

"I can't be too sure." He said with a shake of his head. "I'll go scout the area, you keep an eye on them." And with that he left them to fend for themselves at the top of the stone pillar.

Sakura paced for a while in the makeshift camp they'd settled in, Frodo sleeping in a corner as the other three hobbits whispered amongst themselves.

"Sakura," Pippin called with a smile. "we were wondering- that is to say, Merry was wondering- oof! Merry, that's not nice." Pippin chastised as he rubbed his offended head. "Anyway, is there a lucky lad for you back at home?"

Sakura closed her eyes and looked out into the open, seeing the sun set and the skies darken. "No... there was once, but he's dead." And that was all she told them. Not wanting to get into depressing details of her love life, or lack thereof.

"Oh," Merry said. "I'm sorry to hear that."

She smiled and shook her head. "Don't be... It's been a long time."

She closed her eyes, technically she didn't tell a lie. She did love someone once, but he didn't die in the sense that he actually died. More like the person he was before, the one she fell in love with, was no more. Now replaced with a hardened shell that was impenetrable. She had loved him for so long and so deeply she had lost sight of what real love was. It had taken her a long few years to actually realize she was in love with the idea of him, rather than the person.

She took in a deep breath of air when she heard it. The screech of the ringwraiths. It sent a terrible chill to her bones that she felt like she could breathe out ice. She turned sharply to see one of them already coming towards a sleeping Frodo. "No! Frodo!" She pounced before she could even think, startling all four of the hobbits, they finally realized what was going on. She had moved so quickly that when the sword came stabbing down on Frodo, she had already rolled them to the far wall.

"Stay here." She ordered softly, dodging a swing of the sword and gave a roundhouse kick to the wraiths side, throwing him solidly off the tower. She bent low to the ground, chakra leveled in her hand as she stood between Frodo and four ringwraiths. She practically gave a feral growl when one stepped forward. "So, you wanna play?" She smiled wickedly. "I'm up for a bit of fun."

"Sakura!" Aragorn shouted, coming up to stand beside her.

"Finally, what took you so long?" She asked, rounding on him with a heated glare.

"No time for questions!" He chastised, blocking a swipe of the wraiths and waving his stick of fire at them, making them shrink back in fear.

Sakura rolled her eyes and dodged a swing from the wraith's blade, swiping her leg under his feet and making him tumble to the ground. She pounced on him and knocked the blade out of his hand, sending the sword skidding to the far side of the tower. As she stood back up she missed the wraith reaching into his cloak and shooting a dart at her. She had no time to think before she stood stock still before she collapsed in a heap on the ground, her whole world being enveloped in dark spots.

The hobbits noticed her fall and called her name, Frodo being the first to come to her aid and moving her into his arms. "Sakura!"

She couldn't speak, but she could feel that she had been poisoned, and it was moving in her system fast. She had half the mind to raise her her hand and place it over the wound on her neck, where the dart had shot her and pour healing chakra to stop the flow of the poison. "F-Frodo." She managed softly, Aragorn already coming to her side after he made the last of the wraiths vanish.

"Sakura," he whispered, pulling the dart from her neck and throwing it to the side. "she's been poisoned, we have to get her out of here." He said frantically, moving her into his arms and lifting her up, carrying her towards the exit of the tower.

"Where are we going?" Frodo cried, following behind Aragorn as the remaining hobbits gathered their things.

"Aragorn," Sakura said softly, catching his attention. "put me down."

Aragorn gave her a look of disbelief. "Sakura, I have to get you to help." He was worried for the girl, he hadn't known her long, but they had grown quite close during their journey, they had a lot in common.

She smiled encouragingly. "J-Just trust me."

After a bit of a mental argument, he finally let her down on the ground, holding her propped up against his chest. The hobbits surrounded them, out of breath, and eyes watering from the worry of their dear friend, who they thought of as a sister.

Sam knelt down at her side and took her hand, noting how she had gone cold and voiced it to Aragorn.

"Sakura, we can not delay, you are growing weaker by the minute." Aragorn said, touching the side of her face, and moving the wet strands of hair out of her eyes.

She smiled and shook her head, willing the bones in her body to stop seizing up so she could heal herself. "I've already stopped the flow of t-the poison." She groaned out, taking gasps of air. "I just need to stabilize myself to fully be able to heal myself."

Aragorn shook his head in doubt. "Sakura, this is a poison that has never been in your world, you do not know what you are doing."

Sakura closed her eyes, and shakily drew her hand to her neck, holding it there steady as she brought chakra to her neck, she could feel the poison through her veins as she tried to draw it out, she noticed that it was different from what she's seen in her world, but she was the best poison extractor in all of Konoha and wasn't Tsunade's apprentice for nothing. She felt the poison fight her, but she would let up, she needed to be cautious though of letting it seep through her chakra and go to another part of her system.

She started to feel the affects from the poison take its toll on her when the last bit was removed and she handed a vile to Pippin. "Hold that out for me, Pippin." She said softly, the poison floating above her hand with the chakra still holding it there. There was barely even there, but she knew how dangerous it was.

Pippin did as she told and uncapped the vile, holding it out to her hands. She put the last bit of poison into the vile, and then collapsed, her chakra dying out and her body going limp against Aragorn.

Aragorn shook her, trying to bring her back to consciousness, but to no avail. After removing the poison and bringing her body to complete exhaustion, Sakura fell into darkness.

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"Sakura..."

Why was everything so dark?

"... Sakura."

Who is that?

"Sakura I swear to kami if you don't wake up, I'm going to throw all your medical texts in the fire!" Ino shouted into Sakura's ear as she tried to wake her best friend up. Sakura had practically been in a self induced coma for three hours. She wasn't even in her home, in bed. No, she was in her office. Her dark, and extremely unkempt office.

Sakura groaned, unable to fully grasp the situation around her. She opened her bleary green eyes and looked up at her friend in confusion. "I-Ino?" She asked with a stutter, unable to believe she was speaking in her language again.

"Who else would it be forehead?" Ino asked sarcastically as she threw open the curtains, bringing the sunlight into the room.

Sakura shut her eyes tightly, her eyes watering from the unexpected light. "Am I dreaming."

Ino scoffed and marched back over to Sakura. "Not anymore, Tsunade's furious, we've looking all over the place for you. No one even thought about checking your office, thinking you were working. But no, here I find you passed out on a book."

What? "What?"

Ino cocked her head to the side and raised a perfectly trimmed eyebrow. "What's the matter with you, are you sick?" She asked the rosette, feeling her forehead. "You feel all clammy. Maybe there was a reason to you sleeping in, are you sick." She placed the back of her fingers against her cheek.

Sakura looked around her, unable to comprehend anything. Was everything just a dream? Sakura shook her head and placed a hand in her hair. "This can't be..."

"Sakura, come on, what's going on, you look as if you've seen a ghost." Ino placed her hands on her hips.

"Ino, what day is it?" Sakura asked.

The blonde gave her a skeptic look. "It's Wednesday, remember, the day you were supposed to meet the Kazekage and give him a good reason why he should stock up on more medic-nin. Preferably our medic-nin, geez, did you hit your head or something?" Ino asked incredulously.

Sakura shook her head and stood, gathering her things. Nothing made sense anymore, the last thing she remembered was being in Aragorn's arms after removing the poison and passing out. It was so real... How could she have a dream that vivid?

Ino tapped her foot against the floor. "Come on Sakura, the Hokage and Kazegake are waiting!

Sakura walked into her apartment in a daze, having been busy all day taking its toll on her, she hadn't even had time to think things through of what happened while she was in Middle Earth... She had been there for months, met so many people, felt so many things. How could all of that be a dream?

She collapsed into her bed, snuggling into her pillow. She stopped and looked out the window. Everyone seemed to think she'd been gone for hours, but to her it was. . . forever practically. What kind of jutsu was she under, if it even was a jutsu, who would cast it over her? She was glad to be home, it was what she wanted in the first place, so... Why did she want to go back?

Maybe it was her inner devotion to always completing a task, or the fact that she left Frodo when she promised to keep him safe, now he was alone with Aragorn, who she didn't know quite well, but still trusted, if that made any sense. But if it was a dream, well, that was one hell of a dream.

She shook her head and groaned in confusion. She puffed out a breath of air and closed her eyes, feeling exhausted from the days events. She just needed a little rest... that was all.

A/N: Yes, short chapter, I know. As you may know something weird might have happened, I accidentally deleted this story, how I managed to do that I do not know, but I did. So all the favs, reviews and follows are all gone... sad face. I understand if you don't want to go through all that again. I promise I won't delete it again. Thank you. Love all your support, hope you liked the little surprise.