Torn between her first crush and the two people who taught her so much…
Hyuuga Neji…
Sabaku no Gaara…
Uchiha Sasuke…
Ever since her parents died, her life has been nothing but an emotional blur. Every morning she would wake up with red and swollen eyes because she had cried the night before. And every night she would cry herself off to sleep.
If you thought that she was pathetic before, how would you think of her now?
She was a wreck.
She used to be pretty and weak, but now she's just plain weak. She couldn't be bothered making herself look pretty anymore. Not even for the sake of looking good in front of her beloved Sasuke.
Sometimes she would be seen walking aimlessly around the village with the neutral face and nothing more or less. Ino would always try to make her smile but always failed. Lee would attempt to make her happy too but like Ino, he was unable to make her smile. As much as Naruto hated her punching him on the head, he hated to see her miserable even more. Sasuke never did anything.
Tsunade felt sorry for her, having lost both her parents due to an unknown disease. But those two were the only casualties. Tsunade had refused to train her because of the way she was now. She wouldn't be able to handle the pressure that she will make her go through.
How long has it been since she last saw her parents? A week maybe? Two…? It's actually been almost a month since. Their funeral was simple, nothing extravagant. She had cried throughout the whole entire ceremony but it was unnoticeable seeing as it was raining at the same time. But her stifled sobs could be heard.
Everybody she knew came. There was Ino's parents and Ino herself. All her friends and their own parents. Thinking about parents made her cry a bit more.
It was weird though…even Sasuke came even though he had never known her parents. Perhaps out of respect then. Naruto came too, even though he never had parents to begin with but he was there to perhaps make her feel better.
She's not alone.
Come to think of it, she hasn't spoken a word since their departure. Not a single sound apart from sobs. Tsunade would still let her team do missions. Simple missions that require very little thinking and effort. It belittled her ability but then again she didn't mind. She didn't care anymore.
She now lives in the house alone. It was slightly dusty since the only room she ever really uses is her own and the bathroom. She hardly ever eats anymore due to depression.
Most people pig out when they're depressed but she doesn't. She just sits in her room and cries herself to sleep.
On the days when they meet up for training, Kakashi-sensei would sometimes let her stay and watch. Maybe let her spar with Naruto or himself. But never with Sasuke since he would only want to spar with Naruto or himself. Sometimes he would let her go home or give her a break from training. She's had so many breaks already, she was getting weaker and weaker.
One day however, Tsunade asked her to stop by the office.
Was she gonna let her train to be a medic-nin? Or was it something else?
It was definitely something else, Tsunade took her off team seven for now and placed her with two other people. Who they were she had no idea, Tsunade told her to come back tomorrow morning to meet them.
She couldn't care less, being moved away from her beloved Sasuke. It would do good for the whole of team seven. She was only a burden to them anyways. She couldn't do the missions properly and always ended up needing to be saved by Naruto, Sasuke or Kakashi-sensei.
However, everything changed the next day.
It was then, they came into her life. At first, she was seen as a burden. Nothing more than a nuisance. Why would Tsunade put such a weakling into a team of strong ninjas? She couldn't comprehend it.
She had spent less than a week with them and she proved to be very weak compared to them. They looked down on her but it was their mission to make her stronger.
He couldn't go against his fate.
He had to do it for the sake of the treaty.
She did it, to change herself perhaps.
"Crying won't solve anything…It was fate that your parents died. Get over it…" the one they called the Hyuuga Prodigy spoke up. His white eyes, as if they could see right through your soul.
"Death is inevitable…" the red haired sand-nin spoke. The one with the black rimmed eyes, the love tattoo on his forehead and the pale green mesmerizing yet unpleasant eyes.
Both of them were strong and both of them she feared.
She had tried to lay a punch on the red head but the sand always blocked it. She tried to use a technique on the Hyuuga Prodigy, but he always blocked her chakra flow. Indeed she was weak, but they had to make her strong. It was their mission. Nothing more.
It's been two months since she was moved away from team seven, and now she was placed back, only to do missions, she trained with the other two instead.
At first, Neji and Gaara saw her as a burden, but their thoughts about her eventually changed. They grew closer, almost like a team of their own.
Tsunade assigned the new team seven to a B Ranked mission. Kakashi knew that Sakura has changed and he had faith in her new abilities but was still slightly worried about her.
She was however, brimming with new life now. She was back to her old self. Not as cheerful as before but still cheerful. If she was pretending, then her training sessions with both Hyuuga and the sand-nin had paid off.
They were surrounded by half a platoon of sound-nins, Naruto was unconscious on the floor and Kakashi was fighting with two other ninjas of Jounin level or higher. Sasuke was just barely awake, he held onto his bloody arm and Sakura stood a few paces in front of him with her back facing him.
"Sakura! Run! Get away from here!" he shouted out at her, clutching harder at his arm but she paid no attention to him.
The two sound-nins smirked at her, and raced forward, both wielding a kunai in each hand. One made an attempt to slash her on the face but she dodged and the other tried to stab her, again she dodged.
She fell backwards doing a few somersaults until she was far enough from them but within range of her next technique. She performed several seals with speed Sasuke thought she never had.
"Suiton! Suiryuudan no jutsu!" as soon as she called out the technique, a water dragon appeared out of no where and surged forward to their targets.
'No way! She's strong enough to be able to conjure a water dragon from no where!' he thought as he continued to watch her fight.
Both ninjas were stupefied at her strength and too paralyzed to doge the technique. The water dragon rushed towards them and knocked them both to the ground. They slowly got to their feet analyzing her.
"Don't underestimate me…" she smirked at them and the sound-nins looked insulted and made another attempt to harm her in some way. One of them tried to punch her in the face but a shield of sand came up to protect her.
'What? Is Gaara near by?' Sasuke looked around for the said ninja but couldn't find him or sense him.
It was then Sakura ran up to them landing a few gentle blows to their chest. They smirked at her but then doubled over in pain, coughing up blood.
'What the…that looks like a technique used by that Hyuuga…' he continued to watch her, feeling his left hand grow numb.
She walked up to them and jabbed their necks with two fingers and they both got knocked out.
'What has she been doing these past two months?' he continued to stare at her but felt his eyelids grow heavier and the last thing he saw was a blur of sand and long black hair tied in a ponytail.
'Are they…' he fell into a dreamless sleep.