Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. This is fanfiction, after all.

This isn't a real chapter but I decided post up a "flashback" chapter because the story has had very little action for a while. It's not filler. It's relevant and somewhat important to the story. It's just not relevant to this arc.

I understand that this may make a lot of people unhappy. But hey, it's still not at 100+ reviews, 100+ favorites, and 100+ follows (which gives me more time to edit the next chapter lol), so technically, I shouldn't post anything up. To make it up to you though, the real next chapter will be posted in two or three days, regardless of the count. In the meantime, enjoy this flashback chapter.

Unknown, Unknown – Unknown

Where am I?

The pink-haired girl looked around her.

Everything was bright white. There were no roads, buildings, or even trees. Just an expanse of white.

Who am I?

Images started flashing around her. She saw herself getting picked on by bullies. She saw a blond girl offering her hand in friendship. She saw herself with a blond boy and a black-haired boy arguing. She saw the same blond boy taking multiple death blows for her. Again and again.

And again.

And yet again.

Who is that boy? Why do I feel such warmth coming from him?

Then the images started to show the black-haired boy. In battle, he was elegant, efficient, and cool with very little expression on his face. He was handsome and noble, looking like Kami's gift to man. Yet, when she approached him in the visions, he ignored her and put her down.

She could feel herself tearing up as she watch.

Who is he? He feels so cold and cruel? Yet, I can't seem to pull myself away from him. Even just looking at him, I…I want his acceptance.

Her mind slowly started to come into focus.

That's right. My name is Sakura. Sakura Haruno. What happened to make me like this? I can't remember much of anything else. All the details are too fuzzy. Where is Naruto? Why isn't he here to save me?

The images in front of her started to warp again to plunge her into one of her memories.

Desert Stadium, Suna – June 9, AK 17

As with all Chuunin Exams, the one held in Suna was held in three parts. The 17-year-old Naruto had been paired with 14-year-old Mimi Tajiri and Hideki Fuyutsuki. The two genins weren't anywhere near as talented as the famed "Rookie Nine" were in the past, but they were far too talented to waste away in the basic program. The basic program was designed to produce average ninja and Tajiri and Fuyutsuki both had the potential to reach special jounin or even jounin.

Naruto lacked two teammates to take the Chuunin Exams and they lacked one, so it made sense to group them together.

Kiba spoke up from next to her as they looked at the mega screen showing what was going on below them. "It was almost unfair how Team One is dominating the competition."

Sakura rolled her eyes. "I think you mean it was unfair how Naruto is dominating."

Kiba laughed. "Well, yeah, but it's not just him. Those two genin are something else. Their parents were idiots for sending them to the basic program without even giving them a chance to have a jounin instructor."

Sakura wasn't too sure. Kiba was correct in his assessment about their potential, but they had only reached the finals of the Chuunin Exams without receiving a single scratch because Naruto had carried the other two with him.

She smiled as she remembered the first exam.

Flashback

Suna never cared about academics like Konoha did, so the first part had been a test to find and destroy a puppet carrying a scroll among three hundred puppets. The catch was that they were allowed only one hit. It was a test of both espionage—to find the correct puppet—and power to destroy a puppet with one hit. Most teams had taken the full hour to try and determine which puppet to attack.

Naruto had brushed off Tajiri's and Fuyutsuki's attempt to come up with a plan.

She watched Naruto claim he had a "great idea" through the giant screen in the jounin lounge in Suna.

She saw Naruto motion several hand signs.

"Wait, Uzumaki!"

"Don't be so rash."

Sakura smacked herself on the head as she saw Naruto ignore his teammates. "Wind Release: Divine Twister!"

The screen went blank as sand and wind rose up around the team and covered the entire grounds.

"Naruto," she groaned as all the jounin around her fell over in shock at the power of his technique. "You're always such an idiot!"

The wind and sand cleared to reveal that all three hundred puppets had been destroyed. Technically, Naruto had only used one move to destroy the puppet, so he and his team was passed.

Gaara had looked a bit annoyed that Naruto had intentionally exploited a loophole, but couldn't do anything about it.

End Flashback

Naruto had done something similar in the second exam, which required delivering a jug of water to the proper destination in the blistering heat of the desert surrounding Suna. The jar had to be filled with pure water and not water laced with chakra. The jars were only half filled and the idea had been to force teams into fighting to fill their own jugs. The heat would slowly evaporate the water and the fighting would occasionally break the jars. The test was designed to be brutal since the trip to the destination took two days. Ninjas were only allowed to bring exactly two days' worth of water to drink. Ninjas could use the water they had to fill up the rest of the jug, but they would be left with none to drink and would die.

But Naruto had done just that. Naruto had simply taken all the water he and his team had on them and filled the jug the top. He then entered Kyuubi Mode and raced to the destination in less than two hours, avoiding all the other teams. It probably had helped that no one had really wanted to face Naruto after what he did in the first exam.

"In any case, they're no longer in a team anymore. Everyone is on his or her own now," Shikamaru drawled out as Chouji munched on chips next to him. "So you don't have to worry about those two taking all of Naruto's credit."

Sakura blushed at having been caught. "I wasn't worried about that," she lied.

"Right," Shikamaru snorted. "Just give it up and admit you care about him."

She froze. She did care about Naruto. But she didn't like him in that manner. He was just her close friend, her teammate. In spite of everything, her heart still belonged to Sasuke.

"I do," she said in a soft voice. "You should know that I do by now. He's protected me and helped me so much that I won't be able to repay him even if I gave him my life."

"I wasn't telling you to go out with him," Shikamaru said in an annoyed tone. "Why do all you girls read into comments like that? So damn troublesome."

Her anger flared. "Well, excuse me, Shikamaru! Maybe it's because everyone else is always badgering me about how I should give up on Sasuke and go for Naruto, especially now that Naruto's the village hero."

"I can't believe that you're still caught up with that bastard," Kiba growled. "He left the village again. Just give up on him!"

"I have!" she yelled back. "I know a future with him is impossible. But that doesn't mean that I'm going to like Naruto all of a sudden! My life is not just tied to those two."

"Nobody said it was," Shikamaru groaned while clasping his ears on his ears to block out the sound. "You're the one who's overreacting."

Chouji stopped eating to give her a pointed look. "Believe it or not, we've been telling Naruto to get over you for a long time now. So we're not trying to force you to start dating him."

"So don't blame us for what Ino says," Shikamaru said while leaning back in his chair to look at the clouds.

"Hey! They're starting!"

"We would like to thank everyone for coming to watch the Thirty-Eighth Unified Chuunin Selection Exams, hosted by Suna!"

Cheers went up all around them.

It had already been nineteen years after the Third Shinobi World War. Before then, each village had its own separate sets of exams. The Third Shinobi World War had led to the creation of a unified set of exams to foster relations between the villages and a forum to vent frustrations. The term "unified" didn't mean anything, however. In the past, Kumo, Kiri, and Iwa rarely participated in the ones that Konoha or Suna and vice versa.

"Aren't you ever going to make a move?" Chouji asked, while gesturing to Temari who had made the announcment.

"Too lazy," Shikamaru drawled.

"So you're admitting you like her?" Kiba said with a smirk.

"He does but he's just too lazy to admit it," Chouji chortled. "Don't bother asking."

"You like them older, huh?" Kiba leered.

Sakura punched him to wipe the stupid look off his face. She growled. Men were such pigs.

"There you guys are!"

They all turned to see Ino. "Hey, Ino," Kiba waved eagerly, miraculously healed from her punch. Sakura was always confused how that happened. Any damage guys incurred while being a pervert healed up in a few seconds. "We're just trying to get Shikamaru to start dating Temari."

Shikamaru groaned. "Kiba, stop being such an idiot. It's not happening. She's from another village."

"That's not what I heard the last time I asked," Ino said with a glint in her eyes. Sakura laughed at the predatory look her best friend got on her face. "I thought you said she was a troublesome girl and you'd die before marrying her."

"That wasn't a lie, Ino," he said with his eyes closed. "Temari's troublesome and she'd kill me for proposing so I'd definitely die before marrying her."

They all laughed at that and turned to see Naruto and Konohamaru march onto the arena.

"Begin!"

Sakura saw two dust clouds as the two incredibly strong genin rushed at each other. She was shocked. She knew that Naruto was this fast, but how was Konohamaru faster than the average jounin?

He was faster than her and she was a disciple of a Sannin.

Still the speed was nothing to Naruto as he easily wove in and out of Konohamaru's rapid strikes, smiling with pride as he battled his unofficial student. Konohamaru had become strong in the last few years, rapidly growing and soaking in everything that he was taught. Pein's invasion and the Fourth Shinobi World War had a great impact on Konohamaru's attitude. Konohamaru had seen plenty of people die in front of him and wanted to become strong to prevent something like that from happening. Konohamaru had become stronger than even some of the people in her graduation class like Chouji, Kiba, and Hinata.

Sakura's face took on a thoughtful expression. Konohamaru and Naruto were quite similar in that they learned best when they fought for others.

Still, despite Konohamaru's skill, Naruto was clearly better, even without the use of Sage Mode and Kyuubi Mode, both of which were forbidden in the final round.

She saw Naruto suddenly duck under a blow and twist before elbowing Konohamaru in the gut. A Rasengan quickly appeared in his hand.

"Rasengan!" Naruto cried while slamming it into Konohamaru.

Poof!

"It's my win!"

Naruto grabbed the fist that rose up from the ground and while flipping in the air, threw Konohamaru onto the ground. Sakura gasped at the maneuver. It was incredibly difficult to change the position of the body in the air like that, but to do so while flipping a body over was physically almost impossible.

Naruto punched towards Konohamaru's head only to find that the boy had replaced himself with a pre-prepared pot with high-grade explosive tag.

Sakura gasped again. Even Naruto wouldn't survive a blow from a grade-9 explosive tag.

BOOM!

She closed her eyes and grabbed her seat as the entire stadium rocked from the explosion.

"Not bad, Konohamaru," Naruto said as he cleared all the dust with a burst of wind. "But that technique damages your body. I doubt you can use it for much longer."

Sakura's eyes narrowed as mutters went up around them.

"What technique is Naruto talking about?" Ino whispered. "Is he just bluffing?"

"No," Kiba shook his head in a rather serious way. "My fighting style revolves around speed so I was able to catch it. Konohamaru isn't just moving fast; he's using the body flicker repeatedly to keep up with Naruto's speed."

"I thought it was strange that he was so fast," Sakura said as she looked towards the panting Konohamaru. "The body flicker involves coating the body externally with chakra instead of amplifying the muscles to move at faster speeds than what the body is normally able to handle. It's fine for the first few times and okay for short, linear distances, but using that repeatedly and using it to change in mid-movement is incredibly dangerous."

"There's only one person who was able to use the body flicker in that manner," Shikamaru muttered with narrow eyes. "Shisui Uchiha."

"He's nowhere near Shisui's level. Shisui could use that for an entire battle before he felt the consequences. Konohamaru's body, on the other hand, is already beginning to break down even after a few minutes," Chouji said, no longer eating his chips. "If he keeps using it, he won't be able to move at all."

Konohamaru stood up and smirked as he motioned through hand signs. "You're one of the strongest fighters in the Elemental Nations and my big brother all but in name, but that doesn't mean I'm going to let you off easy."

Naruto nodded and gave the younger boy a genuine smile. "We're not just brothers; we're rivals, after all."

"Fire Release: River of Fire!" Konohamaru breathed out a large amount of fire. Unlike the typical fire techniques, this one wasn't a fireball. This was a steady stream of fire.

"A ninjutsu battle? Sure, why not? Water Release: Aqua Shield!"

Everyone gaped as Naruto created a large amount of water out of nothing and evaporate every bit of fire hitting it.

"Tch," Konohamaru said as his technique ended. "How about this one? Fire Release: Raging Sea of Fire!"

Sakura could feel the heat from where she was sitting as Konohamaru flooded the arena with red flames.

The fire in the stadium eventually died down revealing burnt walls and charred sand. Naruto was standing there unharmed. There was a small circle of sand around his feet that was still golden and not burnt brown.

"That's it?" Naruto commented cockily with a small smirk as he walked forward slowly. "I'm a bit disappointed. I thought I taught you not to throw around destructive ninjutsu like that. You're not me; you'll run out of chakra."

Sakura's eyes widened. Naruto's battle strategy had been insane! He had simply expelled a large amount of chakra to shield him from the fire.

"Stop acting cool, Big Brother!" Konohamaru summoned a blade of fire. "I…I wo…won't surrender!" he panted stubbornly as he ran towards Naruto. Naruto merely dodged the wild swings and then caught the fire sword in his hand. "Impossible."

"Nope," Naruto shook his head as the sword suddenly died out. "I know you won't surrender, but this is the end. Shadow clone technique!"

Sakura winced as the original Naruto kneed Konohamaru in the stomach and each of the clones subsequently delivered powerful uppercuts to knock the boy higher and higher into the air.

"Uz—"

"Zu—"

"Ma—"

"Ki—"

The original Naruto body flickered above Konohamaru and then knocked him down to the ground with a double-fisted hammer. "Naruto Combo!"

"Winner, Naruto Uzumaki!" Temari shouted as the medics came running out onto the arena.

"Wow," Kiba whistled. "Naruto sure didn't take it easy on Konohamaru. I haven't seen him move that fast in a long time."

Sakura didn't answer her classmate. Naruto had been impressive, sure, but he was holding back, even in his base form.

Just how strong are you, Naruto? Sakura thought.

An Island off the East Coast of the Land of Fire, Disputed Waters – May 21, AK 20

"Naruto!" Sakura cried. "Why did you jump in front of me like that?!"

She immediately began healing him as fast as she could. Naruto's entire skeletal frame was fractured from taking the huge blast of water. It was a miracle that he was still alive, even with the Kyuubi's chakra healing him.

"Because," he gasped out, "I love you, Sakura. My body just moved on its own."

The mission had not been a good one. They had gotten reports that Kiri was making attempts to conquer a small town on an island near the Land of Fire. The town itself was neutral, but had hired Konoha to fend off attacks from Kiri ninjas. There were ten Kiri squads and three hundred samurais from the Land of Water. Konoha couldn't be implicated in the battle since they didn't want a war with Kiri. The Fire Daimyo also had explicitly warned Konoha to back off.

So they could only send two ninjas. Two of the strongest they had, but still only two to deal with forty ninjas and three hundred well trained samurais, each of which could match an average chuunin. The small town had a garrison of only fifty trained men.

An S-rank mission.

It was made even worse by the fact that Naruto couldn't use the now famous Kyuubi Mode or any of his Rasengan variants. Sage Mode was already risking it enough.

Naruto had managed to slaughter most of the forces by himself with Sakura acting as his backup, but not even he could take care of so many men by himself. He had been distracted and she had been too focused on being his support that neither of them had realized that a squad of Kiri ninjas had outflanked them.

They had fired off a collaboration water technique at her. Naruto managed to notice at the last moment and ran back fast enough to push her out of the way.

Sakura immediately used a genjutsu to make the ninjas who had attacked her fight amongst themselves but Naruto was already greatly injured. Normally, he could shrug off attacks while in Kyuubi Mode, but he had taken a four-way collaboration technique in his base mode without having the time to expel any chakra to shield himself. He had used too much chakra fighting all day and had used a large amount to body flicker back to protect her.

Fortunately, the fifty or so remaining enemies decided to retreat, having suffered enough casualties for the day.

"You idiot!" Sakura berated with tears in her eyes. "You have to stop protecting me like this. You could die!"

Naruto chuckled but only managed to cough out blood. "It's fine, Sakura. I won't die. Not before I become Hokage."

Sakura gave him a small smile to show support but was working as fast as she could to heal him. It would be extremely close. Even though shards of bones were lodged in most of his organs, none of the injuries were too severe individually. It was just that she didn't have enough time to heal all of them individually before he died.

And Naruto's healing factor was dulled from his heavy overuse throughout the day.

Unless that came back or unless she had more help, he would die.

But help wasn't going to come.

She decided to make a shot in the dark. "If…if you survive this…" she whispered, tears streaming down her face, "I'll go out with you. I promise."

Naruto's eyes widened in surprise but shook his head. "Don't say things that you don't really mean, Sakura. I won't hold you to it. You don't owe me anything. I moved on my own."

"No," she said softly, "you don't have to hold me to anything. I'll hold myself to it."

"No," Naruto said firmly. "I'm not going to take that."

"Naruto," she blinked the tears out of her eyes and smiled at him. "Then you'll be rejecting me. I'm asking you out." She paused. "I'm not lying to you this time. I…I really like you."

Takahashi Bar, Konoha – November 8, AK 21

"Naruto!" she thumped her boyfriend's chest as he carried her out of the bar. "Don't take me out. I want to drink more!"

"Sakura," he sighed. "You've had more than enough."

"You've had more than me!" she accused drunkenly, while slapping him lightly across the face.

"I did," he admitted, "but I can hold my liquor better than you can."

"Liar!"

Naruto rolled his eyes. "Then why are you the one in my arms?"

"Because I'm a princess!" Sakura declared triumphantly. "That's what my parents—"

Sakura's mood instantly plummeted and she started sobbing. "My parents! My parents passed away. I'll never get to see them again!"

Her parents had been on a trip outside of Konoha and had been slaughtered by a large group of bandits. Her father had been a chuunin in the past, but he had long since retired and was overwhelmed with numbers.

"Sakura," Naruto said in a soothing voice. "Your parents wouldn't want to see you like this."

She just kept sobbing. It was easier to let out her emotions when completely drunk. "I loved them so much!"

"I know," Naruto said while patting her on the head and stroking her hair. "I'm sure they were great parents."

Sakura nodded as a stream of tears came down her face. "I got annoyed with them so often, but now that they're gone, I feel so empty."

"We often annoy those we love the most, Sakura," Naruto said sagely as he rocked her gently back and forth in his arms, "We know their quirks and weaknesses, they know ours. It's a sign of love to know someone that much. But we often take their presence for granted and snap at them the most."

"When did you get so wise?" Sakura hiccupped as she wrapped her arms around his neck.

Naruto laughed. "Maybe I should drink more often. You seem to like me better. You're not hitting me or berating me nearly as much."

She rubbed her face against his chest. "Say, Naruto?"

"Yes?"

"Can we go to your house for tonight?" she asked. "I don't want to stay alone. It hurts too much."

Naruto stopped walking. "You sure?" he whispered. "People would talk, you know."

"Let them," she snorted before wrapping her arms even tighter. "I'm going to let everyone know that Naruto Uzumaki is mine." She opened her mouth loudly. "Naruto is MI—"

Naruto had clamped his hand around her mouth. "Sakura," he warned. "People are sleeping. You don't want to disturb them at 1 a.m. in the morning."

"Whatever," she growled out while holding a chakra scalpel to his neck. "Either way, I'm going to your place."

He nodded and body flickered to get back home faster. "Sure thing."

There was a long silence as he jumped back home at fast speeds. It took maybe about two or three minutes for him reach home.

"I'm pretty sure that you're going to kill me tomorrow morning for being perverted or whatever, but you would have kill me now if I didn't bring you to my place."

Sakura realized that she was still holding her chakra scalpel near his neck. "Oops!" she giggled as she deactivated her technique. "I forgot about that."

Naruto rolled his eyes as he carried her to his room. "You can try and wash up." He set her gently on his bed. "Or you can just go to sleep now. Either is fine with me. I'll take one of the other rooms."

She giggled and grabbed his arm. "Oh, I won't mind if you are perverted tonight."

Naruto froze. "What?" He tried pulling away from her vice-like grip. "No!"

Sakura growled as she used her strength to pull him on the bed. "I'm both sad and frustrated. You're either going to do this willingly or I'm going tie you up and have my way with you anyway. We both know you want this as well."

Naruto's eyes widened. "We need to stop! You're drunk! You're going to kill me in the morning."

Sakura started removing all her clothes. "That's your problem."

Hokage Monument, Konoha – December 26, AK 21

"Hi, Naruto," she smiled as she came up behind him and hugged him. "Something on your mind? You're only up here when you're worrying about something."

"Sakura," Naruto paused before looking up at the night sky. "Do you really love me?"

She let go of him, hurt by his question. She punched him on the head. "Of course I do, you idiot," she scolded before softening her eyes. "You've given up your life for me so many times. How could I not?"

Naruto didn't turn to look at her but kept looking at the village below. "Do you trust me?"

Sakura rolled her eyes. Naruto was being uncharacteristically serious. It was probably his way of trying to be cool. "Yes, now out with it."

Naruto grabbed her and jumped off the monument.

Sakura's mind went blank before she realized she was falling through the air. "WHAT THE?! NARUTO! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!"

She screamed as loudly as she could, while trying to find something to hold on to so they wouldn't fall to their deaths.

Nothing.

Naruto, on the other hand, was laughing with glee as they fell.

Did Naruto finally snap? She knew he was stressed from constantly being on missions, but surely he wasn't as idiotic as to want to commit suicide and homicide on top of that.

Sakura closed her eyes as the ground came closer and closer.

Three.

Two.

One.

There was no pain.

Her eyes snapped open to see them soaring through the sky. They were flying.

"Naruto," she gasped out. "What—"

"A new technique," he said with a bright smile.

"Amazing!" She spread out her arms while Naruto held her in a flying motion and giggled. The refreshing night wind blew around them and made her feel alive. It was definitely the best experience she had in her life.

"It's a technique I made just for us. Something special to us." He held her closely as he gestured to the entire village. "One day, I'm going to protect everything and everyone you see down there. I'm going to be the champion of the poor and the weak," She looked at the loving look he was now giving her. "But there's only one special person I'm going to hold in my heart, just like I'm holding her in my arms right now."

Sakura felt her heart pounding as he took out a small box. They were in the air so he couldn't get down on one knee, but the feeling of freedom and soaring through the air with her boyfriend more than made up for that.

"Naruto," she breathed out.

"Sakura, my love," he paused to smile at her. "Will you marry me?"

Uzumaki Compound, Konoha – January 2, AK 22

Sakura smiled as she walked into Naruto's house.

Naruto had proposed to her a week ago before he left on his mission. She had heard that he had just returned and she wanted to greet him.

She looked at the ring on her hand; she finally had her answer.

Yes, they had been intimate before, but that had been in a drunken stupor after her parents had died. She hardly remembered the experience—or at least her first time, since they had done the deed through much of the night and through the next day—and Sakura didn't want that to dictate what she did with the rest of her life. And she had already agreed to start dating Naruto because of yet another mission gone wrong. She didn't want her marriage decision to be an impulsive decision.

Marriage was much more serious than just dating or even sleeping together.

It would be painful to have given her virginity already if she ended up with someone else, but she was a kunoichi. Times had changed than in the past when sex was regularly used as a weapon, but it wasn't unheard of for seduction to be required on a mission. And plenty of girls had slept with a boyfriend or two before marriage.

Sakura had wanted some time to herself to think about whether this was what she wanted in her life. Sakura was ashamed to admit it, but she was still worried that she had Sasuke in her heart. It wasn't fair to Naruto if she married him with another person in her heart. She wanted time to search herself and come clean.

Sakura wanted to be absolutely sure.

Sasuke, while more handsome and "cooler" than Naruto ever could be, just did not have the warmth that Naruto exuded. In the past, she had a girly desire for the cool and dark prince to be "cured" by her charms and become a loving protector, but she was more mature now. There was nothing more valuable in this world than pure love and Naruto had that in spades.

Her love for him wasn't natural or immediate, but it had grown over the years after watching him put his life on the line for her over and over again and encouraging her whenever she was down.

Sakura was ready to marry him. She was sure that she had fallen in love with him.

She opened the door to his house and tiptoed inside, hoping to catch him by surprise. After all, all good things were best received when they were unexpected.

AN: So there you have it. You have a few snapshots of Sakura's memories about Naruto. It should throw things in for a loop since everyone felt that Sakura was being a heartless and selfish person when, in fact, she was just a confused girl who was coming to terms with her own feelings. That's not to say that Sakura isn't selfish, since she most certain is, but she's not pure evil. I'm trying to paint her as imperfect, not evil.

And to answer the questions that will inevitably come up.

Does Naruto love Sakura now? No.

Will Naruto ever love Sakura again? No.

Will there be any Naruto and Sakura drama that will derail Naruto's and Hanabi's relationship and eventual marriage? No.

Naruto and Sakura are done and you'll see why in the future. This "bonus" chapter was merely to give a glimpse into the past.

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