Chapter One: Making Choices

Sakura spent the next two days with her family, playing sick and staying home from school so she could soak in as much of them as possible. She wasn't sure how things would change over the next few years, but she was certain many things would change, because they had to.

Everything good or bad in her past life had started and ended within the limits of that village. It was over now, though, and a new chapter was beginning. Nothing would ever be the same as it had been before. She just hoped this chapter wouldn't be the final one. That she didn't mess something up so horribly that she and everyone she loved ended up dead.

The small girl sat up in her bed with a puff. If she was going to start anytime, it might as well be now. Sakura hadn't decided to go to the Academy until her sister had went MIA when she was seven, Sakura was certain if she informed her parents she wanted to become a Ninja now she would have better chances later, she would also meet Naruto and Sasuke sooner.

If she did that, perhaps she could help influence Sasuke if the massacre still happened, find a way to make him stay, and maybe she could help Naruto so he wouldn't grow up alone.

She'd have to start off with small changes with her boys, but Sakura didn't care. She would start training immediately, and she would fix everything.

"Sakura~" Her mother's soft voice reached her ears. "It's Dinner time!"

The rosette slipped off of her bed and padded towards the light colored pink door. It was still a challenge to reach the door knob, but somehow Sakura managed, and she found herself walking down the hallway, stairs, and into the kitchen where both her parents and sister were already seated.

"Otou-San, Okaa-San, I wanna talk 'bout somethin'." The rosette called out in her childish voice as she struggled to get up into her chair. Her sister helped her.

"Yes, Sakura? What is it?" Her father looked at her from over his book and was slightly surprised at the determined glint in his daughters jade eyes.

"I wanna to be Ninja like Onee-Chan." She declared loudly, making her sister choke on her drink of water, her father drop his book, and her mother nearly release the bowl of salad she had been carrying to the table. This wasn't how her parents had reacted in her past (future?) Sakura noted with disdain.

"What brought this on?" The only male in the house demanded. The small pink haired girl frowned. This was going to be harder than she had thought.

"I wanna to be Ninja like Onee-Chan!" She repeated it slowly this time, trying to make her parents understand. Her sister sat silently beside her.

"Why?" Asami looked up, her own green eyes connecting with her little sisters, only Asami's were flecked with a purple purple so dark it nearly looked black.

"Because I wanna help people," Sakura stared defiantly back at her sister, her nose wrinkling in concentration. Everyone in the room stared at her for what seemed like hours, before her mother let out a loud sigh.

"Are you sure, Sakura?" At the small girl's fast nod, her father sighed.

"Alright, we'll enroll you into the Academy tomorrow…if your sure." It was her father who spoke this time, and that was the last time it was discussed, until Sakura was heading out the door two days later, and heading to the Academy.

A/N | Short chapter, I know, a few of them will be until I get the grasp of this a bit more, and until things start to pick up a bit more. Basically, here are the rough Arcs for this story.

1. I want to first develop an early friendship between Sakura, Sasuke, and Naruto, so they all know and support each other early on.

2. Show Sakura's training as it begins and as she improves, have her train with different sensei's and develop different abilities, no worries, she won't be power crazy.

3. The Uchiha Massacre. So far Itachi is winning in the poll, I could use that to my advantage of course.

4. Forming of Team 7

5. Missions – team bonding.

6.Chunin Exams

7. Filler Missions – Plot development

[More to come xD]

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Disclaimer | I do not own the show Naruto or any of the characters, I do own my plot idea and OC's. I am making no profit for this story.