Hello, this is my first try on GaaSaku fic so please go easy on me. Actually, this fiction is dedicated to one of my best friend in FanFiction: Katarin Kishika. Happy Birthday, Mi-chan! I wish you enjoy this^^,,

It supposed to be one-shot, but since I think it will be long, I make it two chapters story. The chapter two will be updated next week.

Warning: In chapter two, mostly kinda a rewrite of chapter 129-131 with some difference (I add my own idea here.) And I am sorry for any mistakes.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. If I did, Sakura would never fall in love with Sasuke. By the way, Naruto and all its characters and story plot belong to Masashi Kishimoto.

Summary: Sakura learnt a dangerous jutsu to travel through time. She wanted to go back to her twelve so that she could stop Orochimaru's invasion to Konoha. But she ended up in her six and went to Suna. She had new mission then: healing Gaara's injury.

"Talking"

'Thought/flashback talking'

Time Heals

Eighteen year Haruno Sakura was a beautiful talented kunoichi. She was recognized as the most powerful medic nin in Konoha. Everyone respect her. It seemed like she was perfect, but she didn't think so. No one's perfect and she knew she still had weakness.

Sakura was just in her home after her shift in hospital. After taking bath, she relaxed in her room. She found an old photo album under her bed and opened it. There were many photos. She smiled at her photo in Shinobi Academy. Her mind flew to her past then. She remembered her childhood time. Then she frowned when she remember what happened in her twelve. Orochimaru's invasion had brought many deaths to her village. That was enough to make anger filled her heart.

'How I wish I could stop that invasion so that there wouldn't be any deaths," Sakura thought. "Hey, I can do that!" She yelled to herself. "How can I forget that jutsu? The forbidden jutsu must make me be able to travel back to my past. I can stop that invasion!"

Sakura had just realized that few weeks ago, she started learning a travelling through time jutsu. That was a great and also a dangerous jutsu because it had many risks. Ignoring the risks, Sakura decided to use it to go back to her twelve to stop the invasion, but not that day. She was a bit tired after the hospital shift. If she was going to use that dangerous jutsu, she must be in her best condition. So she decided to go sleep early and use that jutsu the next day.

The next morning, Sakura woke up. Remembering her plan last night, she face the morning with enthusiasm. She immediately tidied up her bed, took a bath, got a quick change and breakfast. She decided to take a walk along Konoha first before going back to her past.

An hour later, Sakura went to a deep forest. She decided to practice the jutsu there. After sighing, she made sure herself of what she was going to do.

"Just concentrate your chakra, Sakura," She ordered herself, "and memorize your twelve."

Sakura then remember the chuunin exam. The first time team seven knew about it was the time they first met the sand nin, Gaara and his siblings. 'Oh, yeah, Gaara,' Sakura thought. Realizing where her mind flew to, she yelled in her thought, 'What? Why do I think of Gaara now? I should concentrate on Orochimaru's invasion, not Gaara!' But it was too late; her chakra had been concentrated on the jutsu. Then Sakura felt dizzy, the jutsu started to work.

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Sakura opened her eyes weakly. She touched her head and groaned in pain. "That was a troublesome jutsu…"

"Troublesome what?" An old woman voice asked.

Sakura looked up. It was her mother, a young version of her mother exactly. "Mom?" Sakura asked, sitting up from her laying position. She was on her bed in her room.

"Sweetheart, you wake up and say something troublesome. What's wrong? Do you have a nightmare?" Sakura's mother asked, walking toward Sakura's bed.

Sakura blinked several times, "Oh yeah, nightmare." Sakura lied and then she said in her childish voice, "Troublesome nightmare! I don't wanna remember that anymore!" She didn't know why, but her shinobi instinct told her to pretend as a kid.

Rubbing Sakura's head, Mrs. Haruno said, "It's okay, sweetheart. Now take a bath and get change. Mom will prepare the breakfast." She then gave Sakura a kiss on her forehead then left her.

Sakura sighed. She got down from her bed and walked toward her cupboard to take her outfit so that she could take a bath. "While rubbing my head and kissing my forehead, I felt Mommy is much taller than me. May be it's because I'm younger now. Wow, the jutsu works."

Sakura blinked at her clothes on the cupboard, "These clothes are really small! Even too small for twelve year old girl! Wait, does it mean I'm not twelve now?" Sakura then run to her mirror. Her eyes widened. She was not in her twelve, she was in her six.

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"Sakura, are you okay?" Mr. Haruno asked Sakura.

"Oh, um, what?" Sakura said in her childish voice. Now, she got used to it.

"You don't eat your breakfast. It's not delicious?" Mrs. Haruno asked.

"Oh, no; It's delicious, Mom!" Sakura then ate her breakfast quickly. 'I just ate breakfast few hours ago. Besides, how can I eat well in this situation?' She thought.

"O-okay, then. Honey, we are leaving this afternoon, aren't we?" Mrs. Haruno asked her husband.

"Yeah, we go to Suna this afternoon." Mr. Haruno answered.

'Leaving? Suna?' Sakura got confused. Then she remembered, 'Oh yeah, in my six, Mom and Dad once went to Suna for business trip. I was not in because I preferred to stay here. I didn't like sand.' Sakura chuckled at her reason refusing to go to Suna when she was six. She then realized that Suna was Gaara's village. She had nothing to do in her six; she thought that going to Suna was not a bad idea. "Mom, Dad, can I go to Suna with you two?"

Mr. and Mrs. Haruno looked at their daughter then looked each other.

"Sakura, I thought you are the one that refuse to come with us?" Mr. Haruno asked.

"Well, I change my mind!" Sakura said.

"You said you don't like sand" Mrs. Haruno asked.

"Uh, oh, I change my mind. I think I will enjoy playing sand! So, pleaseeeeeeeeeeee, let me go with you two…" Sakura pleaded.

Mr. and Mrs. Haruno looked each other again. They seemed to think for a while.

"It's okay if you want to go with us…" said Mrs. Haruno but before she could finish her sentence, Sakura exclaimed happily, running along the dining table, "YAY!"

"But, you haven't packed yet," Mr Haruno finished his wife's sentence, causing Sakura to stop cheer up, "Remember, we leave this afternoon." He added.

"Uh, I can manage that," said Sakura. She then run to her bedroom. Her parents then followed her but couldn't get in since Sakura locked it. Noise could be heard inside. They asked each other what happened inside. Mrs. Haruno knocked but Sakura yelled that she's okay. Fifteen minutes later, Sakura came out from her room carrying her pack, "I am ready!"

Sakura's parents just looked each other again, confused. "You have already prepared this, huh?"

"Uh, yeah…" said Sakura. She couldn't tell her parents that she created five clones using Kage Bunshin no jutsu to pack in less than fifteen minutes. That afternoon, Haruno family left Konoha to Suna.

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Three days later, it was a bright afternoon in Suna. Four kids were playing football in a yard while not far from there; a kid was sitting on a swing, holding a teddy bear doll. This boy seemed to be alone.

"Here!" One of the kids playing the ball yelled.

"Pass it!" The other ordered.

Unfortunately the ball was stuck on a high place. "Oh, crap!" said the other. "What do we do?" The previous boy asked.

"We haven't mastered wall climbing no jutsu yet!" the last boy said.

Suddenly there was sand covering the ball. The sand brought the ball to a boy. The four kids got surprised and frightened seeing the boy. "Y-you are…"

It was the boy who previously held a teddy bear doll sitting on the swing.

"Ga.. Gaara!" One boy yelled, finishing his friend's sentence.

"It's Gaara of the Sand!" The other yelled.

"Run for it!" The other boy screamed as if it was his last chance to be still alive.

"Aaahhh!" All the four kids run away.

The boy who is called Gaara of the Sand got surprised and immediately shouted, "Wait!"

'Don't leave me alone!' Gaara yelled in his thought. He used his sand to capture the kids but it seemed that the sand hurt them. Suddenly a blonde man appeared protecting the four kids from the sand, "Lord Gaara, please stop!"

"Ya-Yashamaru…" said Gaara. He then stopped his sand, but the sand had hurt the four kids the man called Yashamaru.

"Ugh, uh…" The kids groaned in pain.

Yashamaru then stared at Gaara while Gaara just looked down at the ball, not saying a single word. An image of a woman that looked like Yashamaru passed his mind.

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"Mom, Dad, can I walk around?" Sakura asked her parent with puppy eyes.

"I'm sorry, Sweetheart, but you'd better stay in the hotel until we came back from the business meeting." Sakura's mother answered.

"Your mother is right. Stay here and be a good girl, okay?" Sakura's father continued.

"Ugh…" Sakura pouted. There was no way her parents would allow her to walk around Suna alone since she was only six and Her parents thought that she was absolutely new here so Sakura surrendered by saying, "Okay, Mom, Dad…"

But Sakura didn't really surrender. After her parents really left, she used her shinobi trick to unlock the hotel room. Then, there she was, walking around on the road to open yard when she noticed some kids got injured.

"O-oi, are you all okay?" Sakura asked.

"Yes, we are okay. Where are your eyes? Can't you see that we got injured? We are absolutely NOT okay!" One kid answered madly.

"Oh, um, sorry" Sakura apologized. 'If I weren't in a body of kid and you weren't kid either, I would have given you some lesson to respect females.'

"We'd better go home now" Another kid suggested. "And you too, Pinky. Go home before you meet Gaara of the Sand."

Sakura was going to punch the kid for calling her Pinky, but she forced herself not to when she heard the name Gaara. "Ga-Gaara of the sand?" Sakura asked, repeated what the kid said.

"Yeah, Gaara of the Sand; he is the one who injured us when we were playing ball in the yard. It seems that you are new here, huh? " Another boy said.

"Yes, I am new here. Well, I wish you all get well soon then" Said Sakura. She wanted to heal the four kids but her six year body needed some healing train before she could heal someone. After the four kids left, Sakura went to the yard. She saw sand and something there. She picked it up and smiled, "It must be Gaara's. How cute…"

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