A/N:Hello everyone ! I'm writing this time travelling saga 'cus I got inspired to write after seeing the movie Ruby Red ( based on a german novel, which many of you must know about). Tbh, i just thought how well Sasuke and Sakura would fit in this lovely romantic story. Its so magical and amazing that i just had to write it. This is my first solo story. So please don't be harsh on me and PLEASE REVIEW!

Also, in this story Karin and Sakura are cousins.

Why?

'Cus I like Karin as much as I like Sakura. I think she turned out very mature in Boruto (Manga) by helping Sakura delivering Sasuke's child.

~ Zoe

Karin's birthday was always celebrated like a festival in the family majorly because they thought that she was the carrier of the time travelling gene which was passed down in the females of the family since atleast 200 years. Other than that, Sakura didn't have a clue of anything related to what training she had been doing with Uchiha Sasuke since as long as Sakura remembered. (Sakura didn't want to remember the fact that he would show up in the party today.)

Karin's 18th birthday party had long been started in the house but Sakura's presence was never a requirement for her grandmother, the legal owner of the castle-cum-mansion that belonged to the Haruno's, her rich aunt or her daughter Karin. It was only aunt Chio, her mother and younger brother, not to forget Mr. Dock for whom she existed. For everyone else in the family, she was an outcast.

Sakura grazed at her reflection the last time in the mirror, she wore a yellow coloured, tight fitting( thanks to Karin for passing it down to her) blouse and black jeans. Pink hair framed her face which she tucked back in a ponytail with a few rebellious strands pouring down.

The clothes she wore weren't new. They were her cousin Karin's clothes which she wanted to throw away, so her aunt gave it as charity to her own, unfortunate sister's daughter, Sakura.

"Hurry up Sakura! Come down will you!Karin's gonna cut the cake in 10 mins." Her 13 year old brother, James shouted.

"Coming! ",she sang.

She left the room quickly grabbing her phone.

As she walked down the stairs, she pretended not to be amazed at the decorations. There were many people from the higher strata of the society whom she had started to recognise with names, her eyes fell on her grandmother, the most elegant women in London who still believed to live in the '90's. Her flawless gowns and jewellery were timeless and parallel to her manners and attitude infront of the outsiders. Her eyes then ran through other faces only to stop on Karin's face and Sakura swore that she was practically glowing out of pride, but definitely glowing.

Karin, with her burgundy hair and iris locked like a Vampire queen, like a Vampire 'cus she sucked and a queen 'cus everyone treated her so. But at the moment she wore a black dress reaching her knees with thin straps. Sakure knew immediately that grandmother would have loved it the moment she saw it. Karin was elegant and beautiful and intelligent and lucky. But however Sakura would admire Karin for her physical self, Sakura never said that alound. It would be like giving an offering to the devil.

She took out her phone, iPhoneX (thanks to Karin for being bored with it) and clicked a picture of Karin standing at the centre table and cutting the cake while everyone else cheered in the background. The servants started to cut the cake and distribute it so Sakura went up to the table determined to take her piece.

"Oh Sakura!", Karin chirruped with fake excitement, "You look beautiful! This shabby top and tattered jeans just suit your worthless personality."

" You look like a slut too, Karin," Sakura faked a smile while taking the cake Karin offered, to which Karin raised a brow.

" Tell me Sak, who'll you be coming with, to the prom this year? Let me guess, that wannabe Drake from across the street, who pissed in his pants when Grey only threatened to bully him?", Karin challenged crossing her arms like a model.

At that Sakura grimaced and she felt too embarrassed to answer it. She could take any insults directed on her by Karin but whenever it came to guy's, Sakura always felt self conscious. She had never dated a guy in her whole life, not because she didn't want to but majorly because no one had ever asked her out and the guys that had crush on her were...basically just too weird, for the lack of a better term. This always made her self conscious and she always thought that she wasn't pretty enough. Had it not been for Ino, Sakura would have had severe inferiority complexes, which anyone sharing a house with Karin would have.

"I...I wouldn't be going to the prom, its as useless and stupid as this party". She said awkwardly and turned trying to ignore that fake sympathetic look Karin gave to her, "Don't worry Sak, someday someone will see you for more than your big forehead and shitty personality."

As she started to take a few steps away from Karin, focusing more on the chocolate truffle in her plate her eyes landed on Uchiha Sasuke. He seemed to have just entered the front gate and was already surrounded by people talking to him. He was the epitome of perfection. In his way he had curtly greeted all the middle aged women who had trailed their eyes all over him while he smirked plainly at them. And then he took an excuse as immediately as they had joined him and walked straight in her direction. His gaze so intense that it made her insides burn, her hand instantly went up to her face to tuck back a few stray strands. She looked at him again and everything was happening in slow motion.

Sasuke lightly raised one of his eyebrows in acknowledgment, a light smirk played in the corner of his lips. He was perfect, Sakura thought, his jawline was more structured than her whole life put together, his lips were just the perfect shade of pink and his hair, his hair were the most attractive feature on his face, as black as the raven. His hair shade complemented his skin. His skin was as pale as the winter frost, his eyes(though a close competition to his hair) were as black as coal and whenever one looked at them they seemed to penetrate through them. It always occurred to Sakura that his eyes were the burning coal a person freezing in the cold desired.

It was a weird notion Sakura had come up with, she thought of the Uchiha as winter. He was definitely winter, gentle (only with selected women) yet cold, beautiful yet deadly, promising yet fatal. Whenever he came, the surroundings froze, whenever he smiled, snowfall came, whenever he smirked, his signature look, it would freeze your heart completely and send chills down your back. He was definitely the most devastatingly gorgeous and inevitable form of winter.

She was pulled out of her dream world immediately when Karin pushed her by the shoulder and went into Sasuke's arms, who welcomed her.

Sakura stood there clumsily with the cake in her mouth that was neglected by her in his presence. She swallowed it with force immediately when Sasuke leaned in and kissed Karin on her cheek way too sensually for any platonic reference. Sakura could not take her eyes off him, admiring his lean body and well fitted suit.

He looks fucking hot, dammit! Couldn't he just stop looking like a fucking Greek God.

Grandma joined them shortly and Sasuke looked around for someone to attend to them, he looked sideways at Sakura and it was the first time he'd acknowledge her presence in person, the other times she was always in the background.

"Would you be kind enough to get a champagne for three",he looked at Karin and grandma and back at her.

"Yeah..." she said mindlessly, "wait- what!?", she repeated again seeing him in the eyes.

"Three champagne." This time he had a more commanding and assertive tone.

"Yeah... I'll just", she said turning around immediately to get a waiter to attend to them, but Voilà! As she turned in hurry too embarrassed to watch her steps she bumped into a waitress letting all the wine splash on Sasuke's expensive suit.

"Fuck". Sakura mouthed inaudibly while everyone close to them stilled . Sasuke looked at her as if he were mentally stabbing her but gave a subtle smile to everyone to acknowledge their worry. Her grandmother on other hand scolded her with her eyes while Karin giggled lightly helping Sasuke wipe his coat with handkerchief.

Sakura felt enough embarrassed and humiliated to last a lifetime and she just started to move away from everyone in the crowd taking her cake piece with her and a tray full of brownies and cupcakes.

"It's him ?", Ino asked staring down from the royal staircase where she and Sakura sat finishing all the cupcakes and cookies and snacks. The guests had long left, leaving Sasuke sitting with grandma, Karin and Karin's mother, Kate.

"Hm, he stayed here when Karin said her head started to ache and she felt dizzy."

"What was all this, again, for?"

"Karin inheriting a time travelling gene so she could go back in time, and never come back, hopefully. And all this is because she is said to be born under a special star."

" yeah sounds pretty cool", Ino said stuffing a big piece of cake into her mouth.

"Awfully cool." Ino agreed again.

Suddenly they saw everyone get up as Karin started to loose her balance and Sasuke caught her in his arms, she said something to them and everyone got alarmed immediately. Everyone hurried out and Sasuke helped Karin into his Limousine. Now, Sakura and Ino where peeping out of the window next to the staircase to see as everyone got into their cars and left.

"Where are they taking her?", Ino asked Sakura urgently.

"To the Order", said another shrill voice, making Sakura and Ino jump abruptly.

"Aunt Chio! Sakura exclaimed, "you almost killed us."

"What is The Order?", Ino said, trying not to break the flow.

"Ah! I'm not allowed to speak about it, it's prohibited." She looked around seeing no one in the house, she continued," but just for your general knowledge, They are the guardians of the time travellers, you know, they protect them. Its an organisation running from ages and it also consists of a council of 25 members one of them being the head, and your grandfather was it, before he died. He was the most gentle and caring person in all of the universe, my brother."

Sakura remembered a faint picture of her grandfather bringing her a chocolate and smiling faintly at her, "It's for you, my ruby", he would say to her. It was their thing, he made it a point to call her ruby, she would choose him anytime over grandma.

"And yes, they also run the worlds' peace organisation-"

"You mean the UN", Ino interjected.

"UN ? Oh no, Its more like the UN funds them, the government funds them and they have many donations from other rich businessmen. Why you ask me, well I don't know. Also, they have the best scientists working under them, Hisashi once mentioned, I remember. "

"Why the scientists ? ", Sakura asked.

"For a cover up maybe? Like, why else would the government pay 'them'." Ino said shrugging.

"And why is the Uchiha always around Karin, is he the part of the council too ?", Sakura asked.

"Ahh", aunt Chio grinned like a mad woman, more than she already was, "The Uchiha's and the Haruno's share a long history together. In every generation, a female in our lineage becomes a gene carrier its the boy in their family who inherits the gene."

"Ooooo", Ino grinned sheepishly," sounds hot to me."

Sakura just rolled her eyes.

"And you know what-"

"I think its enough for today Aunt Chio, the story telling session, I mean. Get going kids, you have a biology assignment to submit. If you guys don't get an A grade, you'll be grounded for a week."

"Mom!", cried Sakura.

"Mibuki please!", Ino pleaded.

"I've told you girls, aunt chio isn't the most reliable source. She's a story teller, believes highly in super natural things and gets visions." Mibuki scolded while aunt Chio pouted at her fully knowing that she didn't mean a word she said.

Ino and Sakura hurried to Sakura's room on the third floor. It was a nice room, not anything compared to Karin's, but nice. The room must have been a guest room before Sakura's small family shifted in. Her father was in the army so he came back only twice a year for 3 weeks. That was the only time Sakura, Mibuki and James went out of this suffocating house. They would save as much money as they could round the year so that they could go to a nice place, near the country side, peacefully together as a family. His father didn't have much liking towards her grandmother nor the other members, especially Karin's father, Nobi, who was an proud businessman, so he tried to take his family away from these people whenever he came.

They closed the door behind them, the half completed project research on fungi was lying on the bed as well as the study table.

"So, we have to submit this by next week, I have already taken the pictures of our observation of fungus growth on bread at various stages. We have identified the various classes of fungi and-", Sakura started to say.

"I know, I know!", Ino sang "I was with you when we did that, only the analysis, conclusion, sources of error and precautions is left and it will take only 2-3 hours to get completed. Tell me, first, what do you want me to gift you tomorrow?"

At the last question Sakura laughed. "You haven't bought it yet?", she played along Ino guess game knowing full well that Ino would have brought her gift a month ago, thats how she was.

Yes, it was Sakura's birthday tomorrow, her mother told she was born exactly as the clock struck 12, it was only 15 mins after Karin was born. Unlike Karin, she said, Sakura's birth was difficult. "It seemed to the nurse like you didn't want to come out, doctors predicted your delivery till 11:30 maximum but there you were, waiting for the clock to strike 12." Sakura would laugh every time she heard this story, it was very dramatic unlike James who popped out without much pain, her mom said.

Sometimes she wondered how lucky she'd have been had she been the one to be born under the lucky star, then grandma would take care of her like a jewel, she would have been the centre of attention but she used to dismiss the pathetic thought. Living Karin's life was difficult Sakura would admit. All Karin did was work, work, work, or study, study, study. Everything she did was prescheduled. The way she sat, talked, spoke, smiled, screamed refinement and class. She always thought that Karin was only carefree around her, she would abuse her, mock her, make weird faces at her and laugh like crazy whenever Sakura would trip on absolutely nothing and fall,, she was her true form around Sakura, even so as ugly as it was. She had always shared a weird relationship with her where both of them hated each other but never to much to get the other in harm.

"Ummh, I don't know, maybe an outing to the mall on Saturday where the bill's on you ?", Sakura offered laughing.

Ino joined Sakura, "Definitly."

Ino had gifted Sakura a pair of sandals which Sakura had loved once they were window shopping at the mall but they were out of her budget. Ino always knew the perfect gift, a gift that would make Sakura feel so special. She had tried them in the girls bathroom in school and it fitted her perfectly. She felt like Cinderella.

"They are beautiful Ino, I don't know how to thank you."

"Then don't", Naruto said grinning at her, they were now in the canteen, eating, Naruto, Ino's boyfriend and Sakura's said brother was now with them.

Naruto had gifted Sakura a bracelet which matched her silver lined, black sandals. She loved it too.

As they were walking with their food strays to dump them in the dust bin, Sakura's head started to throb making her loose her focus. She stopped immediately and grimaced.

"What happened? ", Ino asked, concerned.

"Nothing", Sakura lied. She started to move again, only this time her head throbbed so bad that her grip on the plate loosened and voilà! The left curry in the plate fell on her white shirt and checked red and black skirt. "Shit", she cursed as the throbbing died.

"Sakura!", Ino and Naruto said in unison.

"Yeah, yeah! ", Sakura said," I-"

"Was being an attention hoe as ever", Charlotte completed. Charlotte was Karin's best friend sitting on the table next to where Sakura was standing.

Karin and Mia started to laugh and everyone around them giggled or just ignored her.

"She wan't being an attention hoe, she was just being her, a total embarrassment", Karin corrected still giggling while the laughs grew.

"Embarrassing would be to have your boyfriend knock your bff at your own birthday party and still dating him", Sakura spat at Charlotte.

"Oooooooooooo", everyone in the canteen said in a unison.

"Fuck, that was awesome", Naruto whispered to Sakura while Ino was laughing her ass off.

With that, the three of them exited the canteen to help Sakura clean up.

"Did u have the head ache again?", Ino inquired, Naruto had gone to his football practice being the captain of the school football team. He was among the most wanted and popular guys in senior year. Sakura thought it was more because of his personality than his amazingly attractive looks, his smile was as bright as the sun, personality as warm as the summer. His presence was noticed and absence missed. He was naturally the most funny guy in school.

"Yes"

"Did you go for an eye check up?"

"Yes I did, last week. And the doctor said i had perfect 6/6 vision. "

"Did you go to a physician, then ?"

"Umh, no. I mean this crazy headache just pops up randomly. And then for days there's no sign of it. And if I tell this to mom she'll get worried 'cus last month we visited this doctor and he said nothing was wrong, he said its all in her head. He thought I was making this up."

"Okayy...tell me again when did it start."

"Just six months or so it appeared for the first time and after that it persisted."

"I think it's because of the work load then, less sleep and more projects. Nevemind, lets go. "

Once the bell rang, everyone got out. Sakura and Ino got in time to see Sasuke waiting to take Karin for her 'training sections'.

Sasuke since the last 2 years came to pick up Karin very frequently after school. Everyone believed them to be dating but it was never official.

Though, if you scroll through Karins Instagram, fifty percent of her posts were with Sasuke. And if you scrolled through Sasuke's posts, which endlessly consisted of Karin and all the hots chicks by his side.

Fuckboy , Ino would say. But Ino and Sakura followed him anyways.

Now, everyone stood there watching Sasuke get off his super sexy bike and Karin cat-walking towards him.

"Hah! Did he just kiss her on the cheek!?", someone beside Sakura said.

"Yes! Dammit, he's so sexy. Karin is so luck! Having a guy like him kiss me is my eternal dream."

At that Sakura rolled her eyes. Every girl, absolutely every girl in high school drooled over Sasuke. Sakura would always try not to think a lot about him. She would be a damned liar if she said she wasn't attracted to him but she knew better to have a serious crush on him. Guys like him aren't loyal, they stick around so long as they get something of you, investing into them is foolish.

Even so as she cribbed about him, she was starting at them.

"Look how he talks to her", Ino pointed, smirking.

"I don't know how can they manage to talk so easily in such close proximity", Sakura said effortlessly.

"It's amazing how he looks so hot", Ino said with a dumb smile.

"He is, that's true, but he is an arrogant douchebag. Staring at him is wasting time, I'm going home." With that Sakura left.

"Fuck, no", Sakura cursed, " not now." Sakura was just a few meters away from her house. "Just half a minute more", she pleaded to god.

The throbbing in her head was like crazy. Her eyes couldn't focus anywhere, she had twice bumped into strangers and almost gotten under a car.

"Just few steps more." She pleaded. At the moment she reached the gate of her house she felt herself weightless, almost her being sucked by an invisible black hole with such force, such tremendous force that the next time Sakura opened her eyes she found herself fall on someone.

"Aaaaa, help! help! help!", she heard someone shout. Sakura opened her eyes immediately to find a women dressed in an old fashioned beautiful gown, she could admire her but the woman won't stop shouting.

"Hey ma'am-",

"What happened, miss?", said a guy dressed in uniform like a soldier.

"This woman tried to rob me, she tried to attack me from above, she's a witch ! she appeared out of thin air!", shouted the woman in the weird attire.

"Woahh! Mad woman calm down!", Sakura shouted back. "What the hell is going on!?"

"Hell!? She is talking about hell! Soldier help, she's a witch!", shrieked the woman.

Now everyone dressed in weird gowns and hats and suits started to gather. It almost seemed like she was in the middle of a play written by Shakespeare.

"Is this some street show going on", Sakura laughed awkwardly, "Its an awesome work guys."

The man dressed like a soldier took Sakura by her arm and slapped her hard in the face.

"What the fuck?", Sakura shouted.

"How dare you!"

"Don't worry miss, we'll take care of her."

"Leave me, you guys are taking this way too far", Sakura struggled in his grip.

"Look at her clothes." Someone in the crowed said.

"Yeah, and look at her hair style."

"See the way she talks, I can't comprehend any of her words."

"Maybe she's cursing bad luck on Eliza."

"She's definitely a witch."

"Yes, she looks like a witch."

"They'll burn her too, like everyone else of her kind."

"Yes! Its the Kings strict orders."

"Burn me!?", Sakura shouted. " Hey, leave me." She struggled harder looking around nervously.

When she did look around, her heart skipped at beat. She looked harder but she couldn't believe her eyes. The whole street was designed in 19th-18th century architecture. There were beautiful cottages, fancy dresses and no cars, no people with headphones, mobiles. She looked around and when her eyes fell on the spot where her house was, it still stood there in all its pride, but it looked different, very different but still she knew it was her house.

The soldier dragged her harder away from her house, "where are you taking me?where are we?and why is everything so old?", Sakura almost had tears in her eyes.

"King George lll has ordered to burn away any female under the suspension of witchcraft. So keep quiet before I execute you in public."

"What!"

Sakura's head started to throb again, the information and realisation were way too much for her to handle and as abruptly as she had popped up in this time zone she was sucked back and only this time she let herself loose her conscious and fade.

A/N: Here the first chapter ends! Hope you guys liked it, the second chapter is under construction, I'll appreciate as many reviews as possible, so PLEASEE REVIEW SO THAT I AM MOTIVATED!