"Do you understand the terms that come with this?" A booming demonic voice spoke up, breaking the silence that had come over the raining plains. The being that it came from was none other than the magnificent Kyuubi no Yoko, who had recently been enjoying his world outside of his container. He loved being able to breathe the fresh air of the world again, and look at something wasn't a dingy sewer. It's several tails swung around slowly as it sat on the grass, looking down at a young woman who had managed to find him. The great beast's eyes looking down at the human who had come to his attention, surprised that not only the fact that she had found him, but also her reason for doing so. He had to admit that her reasoning was good, but needed more of a reason to go back. He already knew that she wanted to go back and change events for the betterment of everyone, but he also knew that there was more to it than the rosette was telling him.

The woman before him looked up at the most powerful of the Bijū, no fear in her eyes, or hesitation as she spoke. She didn't fear the beast in the slightest, knowing secrets that it would hate to have gotten out. If worse came to worse, then she would use those as a bargaining chip to get what she wanted. The rosette knew that the Kyuubi wouldn't be happy in the least if people knew the truth about it, especially the secret involving its favorite form above being a giant fox. With a mental smirk, she pictured laughed at the Kyuubi when hearing about the form.

"Yes. I understand." She told the beast, looking it right in the eyes as she spoke calmly and seriously. She wanted for things to be different than they were now. Not only for the sake of all of the Elemental Nations, but as well as the one that she had truly lost. She had not told it that part, though, and simply explained to the beast that she wanted for things to be different. She knew, however, that the Bijū understood what she truly wanted.

It was almost a year since it had all happened, all of the jinchūriki being killed and their Bijū being freed, as well as the sudden disappearance of the criminal group Akatsuki. Nobody knew where they went or what happened to them, but some suspected that it was taken out from the inside, and their leaders, as well as Madara, were killed. Nobody wanted to question it though, as it was a new time of peace that they hadn't had in quite some time. No everyone was happy about it, though, as many of their close ones were killed during the extraction of the Bijū. Although only nine were killed, everyone was affected by their deaths, and hardly anything was the same any more. Although each of the hidden villages were affected, none of them had it as bad as Konohagakure.

With a vile and gut wrenching smile, the giant fox lowered its head to the young woman and looked at her, silently hoping that her endeavors would pay off for her and everyone else. He knew the true reason behind her wanting to go, and as much as he loathed admitting it, he wanted the brat back as well. "Very well..." The beast spoke, its smile only widening as its tails began to flare up and whip around violently. "As I said before, you will maintain your memories of everything up to today, meaning you will have the knowledge of all of your jutsus and techniques. However…" It paused again, slowing for the information he had just given her to sink into her mind. She was a smart and brilliant woman, so she would have easily guess what it was about to say next. "Since you are going back, especially to an age where your body it weak and fragile compared to its state now. You will probably not be able to perform any of those techniques until you rebuild your body. Being bluntly honest, you were terrible back then." The rosette simply nodded with a calm face as she looked at the demon fox. She hated looking back and seeing how weak she was compared to everyone else, and even her best friend was ahead of her despite both being two of the worst when it came to their class. She knew that she had to work hard, but it would all be worth it to be with the one she wanted.

She had made a mistake, and by the time that she had realized it, it was much too late to do anything. He was gone from her life, and she now knew how badly she needed for him to be there and brighten up every day just by simply existing. His bright, kind, and fox-like smile, his sun kissed blond hair, and everything else about him. Thinking back to their younger days as Genin, the woman smiled softly, forgetting that she was in the presence of the lord of the Bijū.

"Sakura. You're thinking about him, aren't you…?" He didn't even need to say his name, as Sakura nodded and began to tear up, now remembering all the things that she had done to him when he was only trying to be nice. Shaking her head, the Jonin woman looked at the Kyuubi and sighed. She didn't have to say anything to him, as he already knew what she really wanted out of all of this. In a seemingly endless moment of silence in the rain, the two of them looked at each other, not moving a muscle with the exception of the beast's freely moving tails. She could hardly feel the rain hitting her skin as she stood there, as only one thing filled her thoughts at the time.

"Thank you, Kurama." Sakura spoke softly as she looked at the beast, seeing its eyes widen for a short moment before returning to normal. Only a very few amount of people knew the Kyuubi's true name, and Sakura had done much more than needed to earn that right to know it. The Kyuubi nodded its head and looked at the girl, it's tails swinging more viciously than moment before.

"One of two things will happen, Sakura.. If you do change things, you will either change this world, and I will notice the effects as soon as they happen, or you will create another timeline completely. Either way, you will have what you want." Sakura nodded once more as she looked at the tailed beast, understanding what might happen when she changed the outcome of some events. She hoped that Kurama would be able to see the changes for he-himself, but she couldn't be sure. Even if that wouldn't happen, the demon fox was still allowing for her to travel back to make things better. "One last thing…" Kurama spoke, its tails becoming more and more violent as the seconds passed. "No matter what I might threaten to do, tell him everything that he should know about me. Even…"

With a small smile, Sakura nodded to Kurama, knowing exactly what the demon was talking about. She was unsure how a twelve year old would react to something like the 'true form' of Kurama, the great and magnificent Kyuubi no Yoko. "I'll be sure to tell him as much as I can, but without giving away too much. It might be difficult, though… he wasn't nearly as calm understanding as he is when he comes back with Jiraiya-Sama."

She sighed once more as she remembered the death of Jiraiya, how the great Sannin was brought to death. Shaking away the thought, she looked around the area, as if trying to find someone that wasn't actually there. Looking back at Kurama, she gave a silent nod to the demon fox, which only smirked back and sat there calmly as it gathered its own special brand of Chakra. If anyone were anywhere nearby, they would definitely be able to feel the devastating power that could only belong to one being. Before Sakura could say anything else to Kurama…

There was black.

"Sak…Ura…Saku…Sakura…!" The dulled and distant voice slowly cleared up as Sakura woke up. She had an impossibly large headache that didn't seem to be going anywhere, and as much as she wanted to stay in her bed until it went away, but the voice that had been calling to her continued yelling out her name, hoping for the young woman to get up. "In a minute, mom.." She answered lazily, staring at the ceiling for a moment before widening her eyes and looking around to see her old room. "Mom?!" She mentally yelled at herself as she looked around the room, finding that the room was colored with a light pink, with white and even a few greens to break up the coloring. "This is my old room..! Kurama, you did it!" She cheered, causing for her to squeal out loud, much to her mother's amusement.

The older Haruno was standing on the other side of her daughter's door, waiting for her to get up so that she could go and meet with her team. Although she didn't fully approve of having Uzumaki Naruto on her daughter's team, she was more than happy to hear that Sakura was on a team with the last Uchiha, the self proclaimed best and most powerful clan of Konohagakure. She was sure that the Uchiha would be able to keep the Uzumaki out of trouble, but she couldn't say the same for her own daughter. In all honesty, Mebuki Haruno didn't like having her daughter obsess over the Uchiha. She knew that he was important, as well as powerful, but it didn't allow for her daughter to joining the ninja ranks just to be with him. She actually hoped that a mission or two out in the world would tell her daughter that she would either have to apply herself fully to being a ninja, or leave the ranks and become a civilian like her parents. She wouldn't admit it to the public, but her daughter was on an outstanding team, with the last Uchiha, and the Demon Prankster of Konoha. The reasons for not saying it in the public were because she actually respected what they boy could do. He could paint the entire Hokage monument in a day and not be captured, what was even more was that he didn't use a Genjutsu at all to cover it up while he was painting. Even more than that, he could evade the Jonin and ANBU of Konoha for days while wearing the blindingly orange jumpsuit of his. It took a lot of skill to pull off those pranks, and while most said that they were just stupid pranks, other saw that he had potential to be a devastating ninja.

Jumping out of her bed, Sakura could already feel that her body was nothing like it should be. Even with having all of the chakra control in the world, she was nothing without decent reserves. Since she was from two civilians, neither of their family trees having many ninja, she had small chakra reserves, and needed to build them up as quickly as possible without going through chakra exhaustion too many times. Getting to her feet, the young Haruno walked over to her closet and pulled out her standard attire, a red dress with black shorts and her Headband going across the top of her head. It felt so odd to be wearing this outfit again, but she knew that she would get over it eventually because without Kurama to help her, she was stuck in her old body.

Walking out of her room, Sakura encountered her mother, who both shared their green eyes. Mebuki was different, however, as she had dark blond hair, and a darker shade of green in her eyes. Mebuki smiled sweetly at her daughter, who returned the smile back to her with equal kindness. It was so nice to see her mother happy and calm, rather than seeing her stressed out from the war and constantly worrying about her daughter. Sakura hoped that a time like that wouldn't come again. "Hello Sakura-chan." Her mother said to her following her through the hallway and to the living room of their house. "Are you ready to do that test with your team today? From what you told me yesterday, you aren't supposed to eat breakfast this morning, but I ask that you do..." Sakura remembered this moment exactly and saw it playing out through her mind.

"Are you ready to do that test with your team today? From what you told me yesterday, you aren't supposed to eat breakfast this morning, but I ask that you do..." Mebuki told her daughter, knowing that she had been skipping meals to stay skinny for Sasuke. Shaking her head, Sakura looked at her mother with a slight frown. "But mom! Kakashi-sensei said that we shouldn't eat! Also, I need to watch my weight for Sasuke-kun. I don't want to eat too much and make him think that I'm fat!" Continuing the conversation in her mind, Sakura only got more worked up and stormed out of her house, thinking that her mother was crazy for suggesting that she eat food, even when she was told not to, as well as trying to become impossibly skinny for someone who wouldn't even show emotion if his comrades died on a mission. It turned out that even that little bit of information by their sensei was a test, as a ninja should always eat when he can, as they will always need that extra energy, or something like that, as she remembered.

With a small nod and smile, Sakura looked at her mom and walked to the kitchen, sitting down at the table that they had set up. She wasn't in any rush, as she knew that her Sensei was going to be hours late, so taking her time wasn't going to be a problem at all. With her mother preparing food, Sakura began to think about if the others would eat or not, even if Kakashi told them not to. Sasuke would probably say something like "An elite Uchiha like me doesn't need food. It would only make things worse for you if I did eat, so you should consider yourself lucky." She knew that Sasuke would say something like that, as he always had and always will think that he was better than everyone just because of his name and his eyes. Without those two things, he was nothing, and only a man expecting for people to bow down to him when they obviously wouldn't. Moving her thoughts to her other teammate, she imagined what he would say. "Man… I should have eaten this morning… Stupid Kakashi-sensei telling us not to eat breakfast, I'm gonna go see if Sakura-chan has anything I can bite down on.. I don't think that the teme will let me even look at whatever food he has…" Knowing Naruto as well as she did, she knew that he wouldn't have eaten breakfast this morning, because Kakashi had told them the day before that they would most likely vomit whatever they had that morning. Looking over at her mother, Sakura gave her a nervous look before speaking up to the older Haruno. "Mom?" She asked her, causing Mebuki to look over to her daughter. "Do you think that you could make some extra food? I'm not sure if….Sasuke-kun, will be eating this morning, so I thought that I could bring some to him at the training field.." With a small nod, Mebuki smiled at her daughter and silently wondered when Sakura had ever placed doubt on the Uchiha. She was glad that her daughter would be eating normally this morning, and hoped that she would take her new duties seriously now that she was considered an adult of the village. Little did she know, Sakura was much more of an adult than everyone realized.

Well everyone! I hope that I can get this story moving, as I have a lot of ideas for it, as well as many ways from derailing it from the original series so make it different so that it's not just a repeat of the story with Sakura now having feelings for Naruto. Hopefully I can get another chapter out soon.

Until then folks!