Hi you all, before you start reading and become confused, just know that my story does not follow the original Naruto plot line. Please don't try and correct any plot because I probably wrote it on purpose.

This is a non massacred story. No Kyuubi attack as well, Naruto's parents are alive. Team 7 is Sasuke, Sai, Naruto, and Kakashi. Sakura will be younger than everyone and she is from Kirigakure. The Harunos are a clan that is as famous as the Hyuuga and Uchiha.

Summary: They never met each other, but they were going to spend the rest of their life together. One was a cold blooded monster, the other was a sweet peach.

If you're struggling like I am...

Chapter 1

Sakura

Two weeks. They gave her two weeks until she will wed the infamous heir of the Uchiha clan.

She had never met him before but rumors told her that he was a cold man. He had the standard Uchiha looks and was born a prodigy. At the age of 5, he graduated the ninja academy and unlocked his sharingan. When he was 7, he had won some kind of tournament where nearly 300 ninjas participated in. He wielded the mangekyou after he believed his 1 year old brother died at the hands of the snake sannin, Orochimaru. The sannin died a very a painful and violent death at her then 7 year old future husband. By 10, he had completely mastered the sharingan and made a rank where he was only employed S-rank missions, he was the captain of every mission he led. Around 12, the prodigy's grandfather died and his eyes were gouged to save the Uchiha heir from blindness. With the eternal mangekyou, he had become the ultimate weapon of Konohagakure and the Uchiha clan.

Undefeatable. One man army. Demon

"He will provide everything for you, not a hair on your head will be touched, you can-"

"I don't believe it." She huffed and stuff her mouth with more bite sized mochi in anger. The council tsk at her immature behavior and shook their heads," And I won't marry him!"

Next to her, her brother coughed to stifle a laugh.

"The Uchihas are expecting a future matriarch at the 1st of May" The wise elder of the council passed her a small rectangular box with the Uchiha symbol on it. " It'd be best if you reply to them as well"

"Yeah?" With a mouth full of mochi, she raised the box and waved it around. "Then watch me do something wild right now!" she throws her arm back, preparing to hurl the box across the room.

"Sakura!"

She flinched and sat up straight, tucking the box inside her kimono sleeves. Her mother entered the room and took her place next to her father, she gave Sakura a glare. Everyone except her father, brother, and herself, got up and bowed. The atmosphere instantly became serious and tense. She swallowed thickly and the mochi she was chewing on went down the wrong pipe.

Cough. "Wa- Cough. Cough. water please." The maid hurriedly poured her tea and gave it to her. She gulped down the entire cup and gave herself a scalding tongue as her brother patted her back.

"Sakura, do you have problem with Uchiha Itachi ?"

Sakura smiled hesitantly at her father, peeking at her mother through the corner of her eyes. " Papa, Itachi-sama is so old…"

Everyone laughed. Her brother ruffled her pink hair and she smacked it away, pouting again and blowing the hair out of her face.

Lady Haruno brought her hand down the table harshly, the sound of her hand smacking the wood echoed through the room. " Spout anymore nonsense and I will make you kneel through the night!"

Her father pats her mother's hand in an attempt to calm her down. " Now Now Mebuki, Sakura will be married in two weeks, how can you bear to punish her?" He gave Sakura a smile that said, " I'll make sure you won't have to kneel outside tonight!"

"It's because you always spoil her that she's become so unladylike." Lady Haruno glared at everyone who attempted to rebuke her claim. The matriarch of the Haruno clan was the scariest person in the peaceful Haruno terrains. She was once a cheerful pink haired beauty from the third branch until the bride selection for Kizashi Haruno. Even with the beauty the Haruno clan possesses, Mebuki's beauty was outstanding. Her beauty was so well known that outsiders who got a glimpse of her compared her looks to a goddess. Kizashi wanted no other girl to be his bride than Mebuki, but the council disagreed. She was a third branch member, a rank where pure bloods with no status and wealth lived in, the future lord of the Haruno clan could only marry someone from the main branch or main house. They agreed she could be a concubine but Kizashi refused. He was the type of man to commit to only one girl. Finally, Kizashi's father gave in "We are all pure Harunos, this marriage will not taint any blood", and the stretched the rules to any Harunos with pure blood. A future matriarch had to act like one, Mebuki was never given bridal training because the second branch, third branch and no rank houses never married into the main house before. Due to the vigorous training, it scarred her to become what she is today. She is the wife who could rule alongside her husband. She is a mother who raised her children to be the best. She did not allow anyone to bully her any longer.

But as a mother, her two children had only seen one side of her. Her children inherited her beauty, Sakura was the exact replica except for her eyes, which were sea green and more doe eyed compared to Mebuki's gray eyes. Even Hiroto, her brother, could attract both gender with his beauty. He and Sakura both had Kizashi's green eyes but only he inherited his fathers moonlit white hair. Looks were the only thing that connected them to their mother. She was the mother they hardly see because she had to attend to political matters. They grew up listening to her scoldings. They shed many tears because of her. They had to strive for the simplest approval. They would never seek her out, it was Mebuki Haruno who had to go to her children if she wanted to see them. Even Hiroto had come to see her as anything but mother like. That title belongs to their nanny.

"Beauty is wasted on you, you should have had the training to be a proper bride since you learned to walk!"

Sakura bit her lips and stared down at mat below her as her mother went off again. "No, I've always been training, you were just never there to see it" She thought.

"Two weeks! Your giving me only two weeks to work this out? Go to your room and study, we begin training tonight!"

Sakura couldn't fight the tears anymore. As she stood up, two large drop of tears roll down her cheeks. Everyone in the room looked at her with pity. She held her head up and walked across the room as elegantly as possible.

As soon as the door closes, she heard her brother speaks up. " I also reject this alliance."

"Hiroto-sama, as the future lord to our clan, you should know the importance of it."

"If she gives birth, her child will not be a pureblood." Hiroto's voice was getting lower and angrier. " We barely have enough Harunos left, Harunos should not mix blood."

"They have the kekkei genkai we want, and we have the bloodline limit they want. When other clans attack us again, we will have the sharingan and the backing of the Uchiha clan. Her child will have half the Haruno bloodline and half of the Uchiha bloodline. Look at our future, we will prosper!"

Hiroto gave a sigh of defeat and massaged his eyes. It was all true anyway. Now that there was less than 100 pure blooded Harunos, they have been subjected to monthly attacks from other clans. But his dear sister didn't want this, she had just turned 16. A marriageable age, but far too young for the 28 year old Uchiha Itachi. The age gap is big, Uchiha Sasuke would have been a better choice since he was 22, the same age as Hiroto himself. Even though a 6 year age gap is still pretty big, Itachi was 12 when Sakura was born.

But Uchiha Sasuke won't do. It could only be Uchiha Itachi. He was the prodigy of his clan, the heir. A husband that could give her everything. His sister needed to sit on a high throne, she would have people under her feet, following her every command. That was a future befitting of his dear sister, a future of comfort and power for Sakura Haruno.

"For the future of the Harunos. For our future, our future, future future future future." He thought, trying to convince himself, "For Sakura, Sakura, Sak- " He paused, then looked up at everyone.

"Then is she Kiri or Konoha?"

Silence.

"Always a Kiri " Sakura whispers through the wooden doors

When we heard that Mebuki Haruno produced a girl, we sent a bouquet a flowers and supply of weapons to your baby shower.

It was a test and you reached for the flowers. I know now that I was overthinking and would like to apologize. Any girl would have naturally reach for the flowers.

You have grown from a girl we thought would just be spoiled heir, to a woman worth being the future matriarch of the Uchiha clan.

We have also heard of your superb healing skills. Uchihas are not very good medical nins, your presence will be beneficial for our ninjas who avoid the hospital. We would love to have this skill passed down to any future offspring from you and Itachi, along with your bloodline of course. As you may have heard from your father or any other member of your clan, this marriage will be beneficial to both party. If you have any misgiving about this marriage, please be assured that Itachi has agreed and will treat you with utmost care.

The Uchiha grounds are preparing for a lavish wedding for you and Itachi. A carriage will be sent on the first of May. We await your arrival.

From Uchiha Fugaku.

Inside the rectangular box was a hairpin with the Uchiha crest and another note written in elegant script.

Dear Sakura,

I look forward to our marriage.

Uchiha Itachi

Short and simple. It was the type of letter she did not need to reply to. Not that she wanted to anyway, her future husband had neater handwriting than her.

"Am I really doing this?"

No one listened to her opinion. She already said no today morning when they dragged her into the meeting room and told her that the Uchiha clan wanted a marriage alliance. At first, she thought it was a joke, and sat in the meeting room eating the snacks that was provided. Then everything became serious she heard her brother spoke. She went to her father afterwards, but even he wanted her out of the house in two weeks. " Your're no longer a child, Sakura. This is your duty as a Haruno." No one listened. They agreed to it without her knowing, they sealed a future that she couldn't escape out of. Her nanny and maids were crying outside her room when she returned.

Knock knock. " Sakura-sama, Lady Haruno wants you in the library."

With a sigh, she got up and stepped out of her room. As she walked down the hall, she saw her white haired, handsome brother in the hallway. He was donned in a ragged commoner outfit and had a huge bag that he only used for traveling. Next to him, her cousin, Tadao was dressed in a similar outfit. They both stopped their conversation when they saw her. Sadness was marred across her beautiful face.

"Smile imouto. Smile before I leave?"

Sakura looked at them confused. Hiroto gave her hand a squeezed, "We have a mission up north. There are drug dealers near the border."

"How long?"

"Maybe a week."

Tadao smiled gently at Sakura " Good luck with bridal training."

Hiroto gave her a final glance, it was filled with worry. Then they both slipped out of the house.

"Be Safe!"

Itachi

The second Itachi stepped into his parents house, he knew something was up. Nobody was home. His mother did not leave any food for him on the kitchen table, he couldn't detect Sasuke's chakra, and his father left his office door open. Yes. Something was definitely wrong.

But it was something Itachi couldn't bother less with. He had only dropped by to take a quick shower before he reports back to the hokage for her oral report of his latest mission. As he finishes up his shower, he thought about what had caused the Uchiha compound to be on edge for the past month. From what he gathers, they sent a proposition to the Harunos. They must have asked for something big, because the elders were eagerly waiting for a reply, growing agitated with each passing day. Knowing the Haruno's, they were probably just as edgy as the Uchiha's were, not knowing if they should accept or decline whatever offer they were given.

The Haruno's were the most ancient of clans. They wielded chakra like it was effortless, because it almost was. Their chakra supply was almost endless, and they hardly needed to form hand seals to use chakra. Itachi had the chance to see it for himself when he single handedly battled against 5 Harunos who blocked his entrance on a mission to get water from the great Hikaru lake, a lake said to contain sweet, healing water. It was on Haruno property, he had to had sneak in late after night but was stopped before he could scoop a bucketful. It was one of the most longest, exhausting battles he ever come across. But the Harunos had a flaw. Without their chakra, they were as dangerous as normal civilian throwing a drunken punch. He used his sharingan to send them into genjutsu and hit their chakra points, preventing the flow of chakra and rendered them unable to battle. Mentally, he had to applaud himself for having a fascination with the Hyuugas when he was younger and using the Sharingan to spy on their battle tactics. Itachi was sure he would have had his first mission failed that very night if not for his quick thinking. He escaped the Haruno territory that night with barely a cup of the sacred, lake Hikaru water when the intruder alarm rang throughout the Haruno compound.

Many had tried to learn the power of the Harunos in the past, but gave up after knowing that such power could only be handed down through bloodline. The purer their blood was, the easier they could just set a forest on fire from just sneezing. Nobody knew where their power came from but the Harunos were constantly repeating the same story.

They were the direct descendants of Kaguya, the mother of all ninjas, the creator of humanity, the goddess of the moon. When Kaguya fell down from her home in the heavens she gave birth to her children. In an effort to imitate life back in heaven, she made humans out of mud and water. She breathed life into them. On some of the human molds, she spilled her blood on them. The ones with blood spilled on by Kaguya had chakra when Kaguya gave them life. The more drops of blood, the more powerful they were. Her children grew up to marry these humans and created the future of shinobis. Three of her sons passed down the eyes, their own children then mingled with other humans. Clans started to form from people who marry each other because their ability was the same or they looked the same. Then, there was her remaining other two children. Kaguya gave birth to four boys and one girl. Her youngest son did not had the eyes like his brother, but his chakra supply never drained. He commanded the earth, sky, water, and fire with just the flick of his wrist. Along with Kaguya, he flattened the lands for humans to live on and created the tailed spirits and nin animals. Her only daughter, was sickly since birth, but could healed anything with the touch of her hand, with only the exception of herself. Her youngest son and her daughter did not settle for humans, they settle for each other.

Incest. But at the time, nobody thought that it was wrong. They gave birth to multiple children with deity blood. Their children married each other and created the Harunos. Their abilities could never compare to the ones like Kaguya's son and daughter, but it was close. So close the other clans began to shun them because they were not humans. They were gods that looked like humans. They were pure blooded descendant from the heaven but have short lives just like humans did. Eventually Kaguya's children passed away, they were not immortal because they were born on Earth. Kaguya drown herself in tears wishing to follow her children's but could not. Many lands were lost and people died from her salty tears, which became the oceans. Finally, the heavenly servants from heaven were sent to get her after she nearly drowned the Earth with her tears. But Kaguya had lost her body due to grief, her spirit flew way above heaven and settled there. She became the moon, watching over earth and giving them light in the pitch black darkness of the night.

That's when war for power erupted. The Harunos were the main target because they were different. They had pale unique hair like the gods would, their skin practically glowed, and their beauty was unmatched. In order to appease humans who had darker skin and dark hair, they agreed to hand over some Harunos to other clans. Each prominent clan had at least one or more Harunos in their gene pool, their beauty was shared and their chakra became enhanced. To escape and protect their blood from being further tainted, the remaining Harunos hid themselves in a land covered by the mist. Eventually they grew out again and shared the land with other humans. This land became known as Kirigakure. 70 percent of Kirigakure is owned by the civilians and the shinobis of Kiri. 30 percent of land was indebted to the Harunos who followed their own laws and stayed away from interacting with the village. The Harunos did missions like any other ninjas, but they were expensive to hire and only took up missions whenever they felt like it. They were healers, they had the Midas touch in the medical field. Many traveled to the land of the mist just to receive that Midas touch for themselves and their family.

And that's what they told everybody. Civilians laughed and called it a clan myth, but their story did make some sense on why chakra existed. Ancient scrolls did showed that a woman named Kaguya created chakra but nothing else was written about her.

As time went on, Harunos grew tired of marrying inside their clan and started mating with other people. But most offsprings could not inherit the same power as the pure blood Harunos did. While they could be more powerful than the average shinobi, they had the same chakra level like the average shinobi. Very few halfblood could be on par with a pureblood. Now a few generations down the road, the Harunos were dying out. The life of a shinobi doesn't have room for creating offsprings often. It was hard for a Haruno to even get pregnant because they aren't humans, they claimed. Producing took time, so when Itachi heard that the Haruno clan leader gave birth to another child, he, along with the rest of the village, was shocked.

It was a girl. The main house of the Haruno only gave birth to a single male heir for hundreds of generations. Until now.

At the time, when he was 12, he knew the girl was going to be something special. But years went by and no other news were given about her. Everyone naturally just forgot, even Itachi would have to search the back of his brain to remember a Haruno heiress.

Besides, just seeing a Haruno is rare enough, they always keep to themselves and don't trust anybody other than their own.

When Itachi return to the Uchiha territory again in the evening, his mother was waiting outside the gate.

"Come" she motioned with her hand and ran to the training ground. Itachi tailed behind his mother. On the training ground, every Uchiha had already gathered and made their way for him to pass. His father and the elders stood in front of the gathering and Itachi swiftly took his place behind his father. The eyes of his fellow clansman follow him with both admiration and fear.

The head of the elders clears his throat. "Last month, as you may know, I sent a proposition to the Harunos"

"In the beginning, I was going to ask for a Haruno healer. He could could heal our eyes and stall us from eventual blindness for as long as he was here to heal."

The crowd gave round of applause and cheered.

"I was offering to pay for the services when an idea came to my head. Harunos don't want money but they love power."

Everyone was silent, listening intently on what the elder had to say.

"The Haruno heir has a sister, Haruno Sakura, and she was trained to be a medical nin since the age of 3. My messenger tells me she's one of the best inside the clan." Every elder held a grin that stretched to their ears, " I asked for a marriage alliance"

Gasp and whisper spread through the training ground. All eyes were on Itachi again.

"This morning, they sent a reply. We will agree so long as Itachi-san personally sends a letter of agreement."

A deafening roar from the crowd erupted. Everyone was hugging each other, congratulating Itachi and thanking the heavens. Outside the walls of the Uchiha grounds, civilians were straining their ears for gossip.

Fugaku put his hands on Itachi's shoulder. "Son, you know what to do"

"Yes, Father"

Dear Sakura

I look forward to our marriage

Uchiha Itachi

Done. He waited for the ink to dry before folding it and placing it inside a box with his mothers hairpin. the one she received from his father when they were wed. It was her most treasured item before she gave it to Itachi when he turned 18.

He stood up and walked out of his room. Outside his door, stood his otuoto.

"Sasuke"

"Itachi..." Sasuke looked embarrassed to be caught lingering outside his older brother's room.

"Hand this to father" Sasuke took the box Itachi handed to him, and made the mistake of looking into his eyes. The tomoe of his sharignan was spinning wildly, as if... as if... he was mad.

The sight of a mad Uchiha Itachi made Sasuke paralyzed in shock. Itachi never showed emotion in front of other people, he held his calm facade even through pain. Sasuke himself had almost never seen Itachi wear any emotion except for a cold mask. Very rarely, would Itachi give a small, barely visible smile reserved only for him and their mother Mikoto. He was definitely unhappy about this marriage to the Haruno girl.

"Go Sasuke" Itachi low and murderous voice brought Sasuke out of his trance. He didnt need to be told twice. By the time Sasuke reached their fathers office, Itachi was out the gates. He jumped through the roofs, he could only be described as a black blur because of his speed. Itachi ran and ran. He didn't stop until he was outside of Konoha and in his hiding spot at the cliff in the edge of the forest. It was the place he always went to when his emotions were out of control, when he needed to be alone. As he stood at the cliff, he could see nearly all of Konoha, but they couldn't see him because of the leaves from the trees. At was one of the reason he loved this place so much.

He surveyed the area for any presence before looking up at the night sky.

A new moon. What could that mean? A new beginning? Itachi smirked and gave a faint laugh, he'll take it. After all, what could he do? Everyone in his clan was pushing him to do this. Ever since he was a child, he had been following orders, everything was always decided for him, everyone expected things from him, what harm could one more do? He was overreacting, and it was time he took a wife anyway. He always knew the council had been looking for a potential wife for him since he turned 18. He had avoided marriage up until now because of his mother, who rejected every marriage meeting in hopes that Itachi would find a love interest by himself. But Uchiha Itachi could not love. He was fond of his flesh and blood mother, he was fond of his younger brother, but he didn't love. Love was not a existence created for a monster.

And his young wife would need to know that.

There was the sound of several footsteps from his right, approximately 100 meters. He jumped into the trees.

Unlocking his sharingan, he sized up the intruder of his favorite hiding spot. Rogues.

"We camp here tonight boys, tomorrow evening we've got to pose as wanderers looking for an escort home." The leader tapped the moss ground. with his sword. "We will hire that bastard Yondaime's son and kidnap him. We'll ask for a ransom and lure Namikaze here, then get our revenge along with the money."

Cheers and whistles from his followers.

Perfect timing. These poor men. Just when Itachi needed a stress relief, these rogue wandered in and unknowingly volunteered. They will not live to see the sun rise. He will take the time, savoring each kill. His hand twitch in excitement.

Pulling out a kunai, he flung it at the leader. It embedded into his shoulder and he dropped to his knees in pain. Everyone pulled out their swords after seeing their leader attacked.

"Who's there?!"

"Me."

Chapter 1! Finish!

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I'm the type of person to lose passion easily so this story might take time finishing but don't worry! I will finish this story with at least 20-30 chapters! And if some might you might notice, I deleted all past stories in this account because I don't know where the documents went. Fanfiction can't copy and paste and it only gives a 90 day lifespan for our documents.

SO yeah, lost all my documents and I have to retype the whole story if I want to edit it. It was too much work that I just scrapped it.

I'm not a naturally good storyteller, I know myself that I need to slow down the plot and work on my detailing. Please bear with me because I reread the whole chapter over and over and trying to correct everything. It took all of Saturday because I'm that bad. I cringe reading my own story. I'll try to update as much as possible. Feel free to drop the bomb on me and criticize me :) but I will still cry on the inside. Boo hoo hoo.

This heart won't have any wrinkles
It's twinkling and living right here
It lives forever
It lives forever

Any one knows this lyric? I doubt it because its not a English song. But good job if you do, because we are now friends. I love! love! love! this artist, her voice is so amazing. Let us all sing along ~ It lives forever~

~ Berry.