Monster
Summary: My name is Haruno Sakura and there's a monster inside me...
Basically a 'what if' story if Sakura was the Kyuubi vessel.
Chapter 1
New day. New life
Birds flying high
You know how I feel
Sun in the sky
You know how I feel
Breeze driftin' on by
You know how I feel
It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life
For me
And I'm feeling good
I'm feeling good
- Michael Bublé "Feeling Good"
New day. New start.
The birds are chirping happily, the Sun is shining brightly and-
- people are glaring at me.
So I do what I usually do - ignore them.
I'm the first one to arrive on the Training Ground 7.
Soon the boys come too.
We sit in silence, waiting for our sensei.
After two hours he comes too.
He shows us two bells, saying that we have to get them from him before noon.
He counts to three and says 'start'.
Ironically, Naruto and I hide on the same place.
He grins at me,
"Hey, Sakura-chan, how 'bout we kick his style Uzumaki style?"
"Really?"
He nods and I grin too.
We both do 20 shadow clones and jump at Kakashi-sensei, only to find him reading.
"Oh, don't mind me reading." he says when he notices us "I'm still stronger than you."
"Well, prepare for a surprising attack!" exclaims Naruto
"Naru-Naru!" I pout "It's not a surprise if he's prepared for it!"
"True" agrees our sensei
Naruto and I look at each other for a moment and we start running towards him.
Our clones follow and soon it's hard to see anything. I keep throwing punches at random directions. Once I hit something that doesn't poof-s, I exclaim "A-ha!"
That's until I hear my brother yell "Ouch! Sakura-chan! That hurt!"
I grin sheepishly.
By the time we were talking, Kakashi-sensei had killed all of our shadow clones. Now it's just us and him.
We both run towards him and surprisingly we manage to lay a kick on him.
Naruto punches him saying,
"U"
I get the idea and send a kick to Kakashi-sensei's torso,
"ZU"
Naruto kicks him again,
"MA"
I punch him with my 'inhuman' strength like Naru-Naru keeps calling it and I yell,
"KI!"
Kakashi flies good fifteen meters backwards before he poof-s.
"DAMMIT!" Naruto and I scream in unison and I feel a smile coming on my face
For the first time since the Uchihas took Naru-Naru, I feel like we're family again.
"Hey, Sakura-chan," starts the blonde knucklehead "I'm really sorry about yesterday. It's just that Teme has a stick shoved you-know-where and I didn't want him to lecture me about..."
"Talking to me" I finish lamely
Naruto, sensing my mood, quickly adds "But I don't care anymore! In fact, how about we go to get ramen with him after we beat Kakashi-sensei? Like a team!"
"Umm sure..." I reply hesitatingly "But now we have to focus on getting the freaking bells! Cha!"
We start looking for Kakashi, but instead we find Sasuke-san.
Or to be exact, his head.
I wonder if it would be impolite to laugh, but it looks like Naruto doesn't care because he howls with laughter.
"Very funny, Dobe." says the Uchiha "Now get me out of here."
Both me and the blonde create few clones and start digging the Uchiha boy out. In the end we succeed but we've lost too much time; Kakashi-sensei announces that time is out.
We walk back to where the food is. The silver-haired jonin makes us sit down and starts lecture us,
"I'm disappointed in you. Neither of you grasped the real purpose on this test - teamwork. Naruto, Sakura, good job working together, but why didn't you include Sasuke too?"
"Kakashi-sensei," I start quietly "I'm more than sure that Uchiha-san wouldn't have wanted to work with us."
"I don't mind working with the Dobe." he says
If I wasn't used to this kind of treatment, I would've probably cried at the implication of his words, but it was normal.
Wait, is it just me or Kakashi-sensei narrows his eyes,
"Sasuke, that's rude. Sakura's your teammate as well."
"Hn."
Shaking my head I try to smile,
"It's Ok, Kakashi-sensei. It's not a big deal."
"However, you still failed. I'm going to tie Sasuke to one of the posts, and if any of you, Naruto and Sakura, give him food, you officially fail. If you don't, we'll try again in the afternoon."
After he ties the Uchiha heir, he walks away.
I take my food and I can't help but think that it's not really fair to him.
So I hand him the food.
"Here. I already ate more than enough."
Naruto follows my example and gives Sasuke his food too.
"Hn... I can't use my hands..."
Again, is it just me, or he's actually blushing?
"You feed him, Sakura-chan."
"Nu-uh! You do it, Naru-Naru!"
"You do it!"
"You do it!"
"You do it!"
"You do it!"
"You do it!"
"YOU DO IT!"
"NO, YOU DO IT!"
"Wait, wait, wait! We're not kids anymore, Naru-Naru, let's decide it like matured people..." I start slowly and calmly until I scream "We're gonna 'Bunny up'. BUNNY!"
"Damn!" curses Naruto
He takes the chopsticks and starts feeding Sasuke, but after the first bite clouds appear and the sky darkens. Kakashi-sensei appears in the sky.
"YOU... pass!"
The Sun shines again.
"Eh?" I ask confused "What do you mean we pass?"
"Teamwork. Remember, those who don't follow the rules are scum, but those who abandon their comrades are worse than scum."
"S-so we pass?" asks Naruto shakily
"Yep" confirms our sensei
"Dattebayo!/ Shannaro!" exclaim Naruto and me in unison
"Now let's go get some ramen!" he adds
Oh. Right. I almost forgot about that.
"Ichiraku's?" I ask with a smile, remembering the good old days
My brother answers with a grin "You know it."
He then turns to Uchiha-san "Oi, Teme, come with us!"
For a second I feel bad about him. He looks so lonely, standing in front of the very post he was previously tied to, while Naru-Naru and I are already on our way to the ramen stand.
"Tch. Dobe."
I am not sure how to take this, but Naruto acts like the problem's solved, so I guess it was a form of agreement.
While they bicker about something, I suddenly remember our sensei. He is standing in front of a stone.
The stone.
The stone with the Killed-In-Action. Somewhere on that stone are my parents' names, but that's another story.
"Sensei... would you like to come with us?" I question, feeling very small and shy
"Me?" he looks surprised "Well, I guess I could join you..."
Naruto and Uchiha-san wait for us to catch up.
For the first time since the teams were announced, I feel connection to these people.
I feel like we're truly a team.
No, it's better.
I feel like we're a family.
As the time to go home comes, Naruto volunteers to walk me home. To my surprise so does Uchi- Sasuke.
Somehow he manages to convince my brother to go to the Uchiha Compound and leave us.
I think that perhaps there is something he wishes us to talk about, but I am proven wrong as we walk in silence until we reach my little house. I turn to Sasuke and smile at him,
"Thank you for walking me home. I'll see you tomor-"
"Wait!" he says "How... how do you do it?"
I look at him confused,
"Do what?"
"Keep smiling at everyone, even though they say bad things about you?"
That is what he wants to know?
"I don't know. I guess I just ignore what they say and move on. If I'm gonna be a Hokage one day, I can't hate my village and the villagers. So I'll smile as long as I have reasons to."
"What are your reasons now?"
"My goal is what urges me to keep going... and besides, I got my brother back. There are many reasons to be happy. You just have to find them. Goodnight, Sasuke."
And with that I walk in and leave him on the road.
A/N: Double update! Aren't you guys lucky?
Anyways, I just wanna say how incredibly happy I am because of your reviews! Thank you SO much!
HjLostDreams - I understand why may dislike my Naru-kun but try to see things from his point of view - he lived with his sister until he was seven years old. Then came these people who took him with them - they gave him food, shelter and all in all took care of him. He was sad, of course, that he left his sister but he was a child. What could he possibly do? As the story progresses we'll see Naruto growing up and taking his 'brother duties' more seriously. Other than that thank you for your long review (I recently found out I love those!) and for sharing your opinion! Hope you enjoy the story :)
By the way, I wanna point out that this is a SasuSaku fanfic. The little ItaSaku moment in this chapter doesn't mean that they will develop a romantic relationship. They won't. If you find it weird that Sakura found him good-looking, c'mon! We've all had moments like that! -wink wink-
Last thing, I promise! Next chapter's called What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
Love,
Berry
Update 1 (June 9, 2014): I re-wrote the dinner part that is now Ichiraku's part. As I re-read it, it felt so unrealistic!
Anyway, the next chapter should be up today or tomorrow.
Here's a little preview:
"Your next mission... hm, let's see..." mutters the old man "You can baby-sit, buy groceries or-"
"NO!" exclaims Naruto "I'm sick of those stupid missions! Give us a real one!"
I hit him and after I hear him moan in pain, I turn to the Hokage "Hokage-ojiisan, I'm sorry for my idiotic brother's behavior, but can you please give us at least a C raked mission?"
"I'm sorry but-"
This time I interrupt him, yelling "What's wrong with ya, old man?! I even said 'please'! SHANNARO!"
The old man sighs and rubs his temples "Very well then. I'll give you an escorting mission."
I smile cheerfully "Thank you, Hokage-ojiisan!"
I can bet I heard Kakashi-sensei saying something about mood swings and red hot-blooded habanero, but it doesn't really make sense so I let it go.
"Your mission is to escort-" starts Hokage-ojiisan but Naru Naru interrupts him once again
"Who, who, who? A princess, some important lord, a-"
"Are those the one that are supposed to protect me?" we hear a voice behind us "They all look idiotic. Especially the shortest one..."
I look at my teammates and I realize that he's talking about Naruto.
There you are. And there's a mention of the one and only Kushina!
See you all soon!