Waking up felt like the biggest chore, not because sleep clouded his mind, but because his eyelids felt like lead. He wondered for a second if he had overused his rinnegan but threw the possibility away when he realized both his eyes felt equally heavy. Still, when he finally did have the strength to open his eyes, he was assaulted by the brightness above him. He blinked once, twice, something about seeing the brightness wasn't right.
He and Sakura had been in a cave, the heavy rain forcing them to take a break in their travels. He should not be seeing light, after all he was laying on his back. The darkness of cave should be in his line of sight. As he looked around him he noticed the he was currently in a hospital room. He may not know why he is in a hospital room, but he knew who would, Sakura. He moved to sit up and call for her when hands quickly came to his aid. "You are finally awake," Sasuke was taken aback, that voice, mother? He looked at the woman then, and sure enough his mother stood over him, tears openly shedding, "I'll go get the nurse," kissing his forehead she added, "I'll be right back." She gave him one last look before leaving the room.
Within an hour he had figured out a few things, even with his mother surrounding him in constant worry, and through the interrogation (what else could he call all the questions the medical personnel where asking him?) the first was that he was younger than he had been last time he checked, in fact he was five years old. This took him longer to realize than he cared to admit, however, he would excuse that with, "I just saw my mother who had been dead for more than a decade in front of me." The second realization was that it was not a genjutsu, his rinnegan would have seen through it, and besides that, Sakura was also a genjutsu specialist, it was unlikely that he would fall for one with Sakura so close to free him from one. This meant he had found himself in the past.
This conclusion not only gave him a migraine that instantly had his mother at his side sending the medics away, but a wave of anxiety. Where was his wife? How did he end up in the past? Was Sakura looking for him? Worst than the anxiety about Sakura, was guilt he felt for the happiness he felt at being held in his mother's arms. It was now his turn to shed tears, "everything will be okay," his mother repeated over and over. Yet, he knew it wasn't going to be anywhere near okay until he knew what happened.
A/N: so for any of you who follow Timely and Unexpected I'm sorry I honestly wanted to be done with Unexpected before March was over but I haven't really had my laptop. My sister borrowed it again so that means I haven't been able to write much.
I know what you guys are thinking, "another time travel story!?" and worst part, it's not the any of the ones I promised some time ago. The reason this one exists is honestly cause I was so fucking tired of running into time travel stories where past Sakura is "annoying and useless," and the characters that go in the past whether its Sakura or whoever refers to her as that. Cause fuck that, Sakura is not nor was she ever useless or annoying, Sakura was perfect then, she is perfect now.
That said there isn't a plot or much of one. This fic is not a priority and it may just end up as parts in Beginnings. I do not intend to start any fics until I finish Unexpected and Timely, and yes in that order.
Also before my next update here, how do you guys feel about NaruHina? Personally some Hinata fans ruined Hinata for me in general but I do have an idea...