I'm finally back on Fanfiction! After about a year of being idle I finally bring to you a new story! Hopefully it won't suck too badly...

Chapter 1: Confusion and Chocolate

The sun was just beginning to rise over the horizon. Different shades of blues and purples were being taken over by oranges and yellows creating a beautiful sunrise in Konoha. Birds began to chirp back and forth greeting each other for the day and creating music to those awake at this hour. Shopkeepers were opening their shops for the day, greeting each other with smiles and laughter, and bakers were getting their breads and baked goods into the oven. The different smells that wafted through the village combined with the different looks and sounds of each shop, created a happy and simple feel to the village; though, one shinobi was not able to enjoy any of it.

Sakura trudged her way through the quiet streets of Konoha. Her head was hung low in tiredness, and her pink hair hid her dim looking jade eyes. She felt as if she was wading through water. She was dizzy and her head was swimming. The simple task of concentrating on walking in a straight line was nauseating to her. She tried to avoid running into people, but whenever she would dodge someone she would almost lose balance and have to stop to steady herself and hold her forehead in pain.

It was way harder than you may think. She could not remember a time in her life when she had felt this... Strange... She could describe the feeling as being sick, but that didn't quite fit it. She felt weird, like there were several different voices in her head trying to talk at once. She wasn't going insane she knew that. It was more like her consciousness fighting to stay awake was in-between reality and dreams.

You might assume she was headed towards her small one bedroom and bath apartment with a kitchenette and living area, or the hospital she was presently assistant to the head hancho at. But, no, she was on her way to the exit of the village for the simple reason that she was going to see her best friend off on this fine spring day. Well, it was fine for other people just not her. Sakura wasn't one to complain about how she was feeling and always went where she had promised she would no matter how crappy she may have been feeling. There was no way she was going to miss saying goodbye to him for the simple reason that there was no promise he would be coming back. He had never been on a more dangerous mission, and she was not going to stay home and rest instead of saying goodbye to him.

She silently trudged towards Naruto, Captain Yamato, Kakashi, and Sai all of which had come to see Naruto off as well.

"Hey," Sakura mumbled, her nose making her voice sound nasally like she couldn't pronounce her "M's" without them sounding like "B's". She sniffed loudly and then rubbed her nose.

"Sakura-Chan!" Naruto greeted excitedly but then taking her in his face dropped and he scratched his cheek. "You look terrible..."

Sakura would have glared or hit him as usual but she was too busy trying not pass out, or to get rid of the feeling that she was going to sneeze, each being equally horrible. She stared blankly at the ground and sort of rocked where she was standing.

"Sakura-Chan...?" Naruto asked after Sakura didn't reply and had to catch herself from passing out. "Sakura-Chan!" he again shouted after she could not catch herself a second time and collapsed, but this time his shout was joined by Captain Yamato. She nearly collapsed on the hard ground, but Captain Yamato was quick and caught her before she hit the ground.

"I'll take her to the hospital, you go on ahead Naruto," Captain Yamato commanded.

"HECK NO!" Naruto yelled unnecessarily loud. "If Sakura-Chan has to be taken to the hospital I'm going with you!"

Before Captain Yamato could protest, Naruto was already stomping his way to the hospital. Captain Yamato sweat-dropped and he and Kakashi jogged after Naruto, Sakura in tow. Sai just stayed in his spot awkwardly and stared after the departing team as the wind began to blow across him.

The hospital was a short journey from the gates and they quickly made it to the doors. They were blasted by cool air as the doors opened. Naruto raced in ahead of Kakashi and Captain Yamato, who was carrying Sakura, and started yelling for a gurney. Kakashi reprimanded him and asked a nurse kindly for a hospital room, because Sakura had passed out.

"Oh goodness," the little nurse exclaimed, though it was more like a squeak, but not like a Hinata squeak.

After an exchange between the nurse and another nurse Sakura was taken to a room on floor 2.

Her condition quickly worsened as she slipped into a coma. Tsunade herself came into the room shortly after Sakura started to toss and turn muttering things like, "Please stop," she then tossed violently and said, "Please, I couldn't... Too hard... I tried..." then she let out a scream of pure agony, "STOP IT!" She was quiet for a few moments then whispered "... Who are you...?"

Sakura was shrinking. She felt like she was tiny compared to the two looming figures in front of her. To make herself feel much smaller she was also curled into a fetal possession, cowering at the two presences. She felt as if the air was being sucked away from her and each breath took more and more effort.

The one on her left was him. Sasuke Uchiha, the man that broke her heart every time she saw him, his eyes, and the evil intent that showed in them. He still wore the same bored expression that said I could care less and Sakura knew that it meant he could care less about her. . The other was Naruto, but he wasn't quite Naruto. He was the more foxy version of Naruto, not in the 'Oh he's good looking' way, but the way only Naruto could have where he actually looked like a fox. His eyes were red, pupils slitted, and his scars stood out more as well as his teeth looking more canine.

"It's always been your fault Sakura," Naruto spat, sounding as if saying her name was disgusting on his tongue. "You could have stopped Sasuke, you were the one that was weak!"

"I tried, Naruto, but I couldn't" Sakura whimpered holding her fists to her temples.

"You didn't try hard enough!" Naruto shouted making Sakura flinch. "You should have used force after seeing words weren't enough, that's what I did!"

"I didn't have time, he knocked me unconscious before I could do anything!" Sakura defended.

"You were always the weakest one, Sakura," Sasuke stated calmly, every word was laced with a cold, malicious intent, and stung like a knife.

"No, I tried to be stronger, I tried to be stronger for both of you," Sakura cried, but was cut off.

"You never changed, Sakura, no matter what you say you tried to do," Naruto cut in again.

"You were always annoying, Sakura, and you always will be," Sasuke shot back, reminding her of what she really wanted to change most in her life. "Nothing but a thorn in Team 7's side from the very beginning." Sasuke continued coldly.

"You never understood any of us, because you never understood what it was like to be alone," Naruto said in a gruff voice.

"You should have done us all a favor and let yourself die on a mission years ago," Sasuke relentlessly continued. "It's your fault Naruto and I almost died countless times."

"You are nothing but a nuisance!" Naruto roared.

"No, no! Please stop!" Sakura shouted putting her hands on her head and crouching down.

"We always hated you, Sakura," Sasuke said easily.

"Please…" Sakura said crying now, "… Stop… "

It was then that five people emerged, lighting the darkness. Sakura couldn't make out any faces, they were too far away, and the light was too blinding.

Naruto and Sasuke turned around and glared in the direction while shielding their eyes.

"Who are you..?" Sakura asked quietly.

It was then that the light faded just a little. She gasped when she realized who one of them was. She recognized two and had never seen the other two before. One of them was Sasuke, but he was different, he was smiling… The other thing that was different about him was, he was twelve again, not eighteen, but twelve.

She looked at the two that looked familiar, trying to figure out who they were and where she had seen them before. The oldest man was in his late twenties with bright blue eyes and crazy blonde hair that straightened at the bottom, she was able to figure out who he was from pictures she had seen. He was the fourth Hokage, that had died protecting Konoha, Minato. He reminded her of someone, but she couldn't think of whom.

The other man she recognized had charcoal hair tied in a ponytail at his neck and disappeared under his shirt. His eyes were the same charcoal black as his hair, and they were also heavily lidded. He looked very familiar; she then looked from Sasuke to him and remembered who he was: The hated brother of Sasuke, Itachi. Sakura had met him before, she couldn't recognize him at first because he was thirteen, but why was Sasuke so happy when his brother was within a hundred miles of him and why was he thirteen?

One of the two she didn't recognize was a little girl with the same eyes as the fourth Hokage, Minato, and the same nose, but she had bright red hair down to her shoulders, and looked nine years old. The other one was a boy about eleven, with the same bright red hair that was shaggy and blue eyes, he didn't look much like the Fourth, but his eyes. She guessed they were the children of the Fourth, but they also looked a lot like Naruto.

The happy Sasuke began to walk towards her and the darkness dissipated wherever he stepped. He continued to walk even when he came to the dark Naruto and his dark self, and without hesitation, he walked right through them and they instantly disappeared. He crouched down in front of Sakura and extended his hand to her. She flinched in response, but he only smiled and moved his hand closer to her reach.

Sakura took it still openly staring at Sasuke's face. She couldn't believe it, he looked more happy than she had ever seen him. What's more is that Itachi was next to him, the two things just didn't mix. What was going on!

"Sakura," Sasuke began saying, his voice kinder than she had ever heard it, "it's time for you to be happy again."

Sakura was taken aback by his words. What did he mean? She started to follow as they walked towards the darkness that had terrified her before, but now didn't scare her so much.

"Thing have gone very wrong in the world, Sakura," The Fourth told her.

"Is this some kind of pollution speech?" Sakura asked.

The Fourth chuckled, "No, not at all. Things have happened that were never meant to happen, because of one fatal error."

"I don't understand..." Sakura said trying to figure out what the Fourth could possibly mean.

He smiled gently at her. "You will, Sakura."

"What? When?" She asked.

No one answered her.

They came to a long steep staircase and Sakura's feet felt as if they were bolted to the floor. She couldn't go any further.

"Sakura, you have to go back now," Sasuke informed her as he took a step up the staircase.

"I-I can't." Sakura admitted, her feet still felt fused to the floor. "It's too hard, Sasuke."

Itachi turned to her and said, "Yes you can, Sakura, it's of great importance."

The Fourth continued for Itachi, "You must change a decision that will kill many. You have to change the past that was changed before. Stop the mistake that was made."

"I don't understand," Sakura admitted again.

"You have to go back and change everything Sakura," Itachi urged. "You need to go back for everyone."

"But, how do I go back to the past?" Sakura was becoming more urgent with her questions as she saw them fading with every new step they took and a door slowly starting to appear at the top of the stairs.

"You have a way," the little boy informed her and then vanished.

"But what decision?" Sakura asked close to tears. Sasuke was going to leave again.

"You'll know," Sasuke whispered giving her hand a squeeze as they fully disappeared.

Sakura immediately missed their presences. Everything had turned dark and cold once again. The only visible thing was the seemingly glowing door in front of her and the long staircase. She took a deep breath, walked up the stairs, opened the door, took a step forward, and didn't remember what happened afterwards. She just seemed to fall unconscious.

When Sakura opened her eyes she was in a bed. She looked around and sure enough, she was in the hospital, but it looked different… Newer… The walls were completely white, with not a single bit of yellow. There were no cracks, dents, scratches, tears, or anything. She blinked a few times to try and figure out if she was imagining things.

She sat up after realizing she felt perfectly fine. How can you go from being sicker than you have ever been to being just peachy? She removed the blankets from her legs and got out of the bed.

She proceeded towards the door and froze as the handle began to turn on its own. She immediately scrambled back to the bed and tried to look like she had never left.

"Oh, Miss, you're awake!" A nurse exclaimed happily when the door finally opened.

"Yes," Sakura responded. Was she new at the hospital? Because, Sakura had never seen this girl before in her life, and with the way the girl was acting, she had never seen Sakura either.

"I'm glad, you've been out for a day now. It's a miracle that Namikaze-Sama and his team even found you.

"What?" Sakura asked.

"You were found outside of the village unconscious. Where are you from anyway? And what were you doing right outside the village?" the nurse asked.

"I'm from here, this village." Sakura said getting uneasy.

"I'm sorry Miss Sakura, but no one knows who you are, there's no record of a Sakura Kuran in Konoha."

Sakura cocked her head to the side, Kuran? How was she labeled Kuran? Not wanting to be labeled insane as well as a false name, she feigned ignorance. "Konoha? Oh," she laughed at herself, "I thought I was still in Suna!"

The nurse laughed too, but her laugh wasn't fake, "Oh, I see the confusion now. But how did you get all the way to Konoha?"

"I don't know…" Sakura said uneasily. "That's what confuses me…"

"Were you on your way here possibly?" the nurse asked.

"Hmm," Sakura thought of an excuse, "I actually was! A relative of mine died, so I came to visit the family…"

"Oh… That's terrible," the nurse sighed, "Was it poor Obito Uchiha?"

"Obito Uchiha…?" Sakura asked. Uchiha? What the heck? Sakura just went with it though, "Oh, yes, yes it was... I'm sorry, we were really close, I'm still in shock." Sakura knew how to act like she had just lost someone close to her. She had seen plenty of people in that kind of situation

"Oh… Poor Obito, he was so young wasn't he? Only twelve years old…" the nurse sighed. "I feel sorry for Namikaze-Sama and the other two on his team, Kakashi and Rin. And especially the family."Sakura hid her shock. How in the world was that possible…? Sasuke was the only Uchiha left alive. Namikaze-Sama? That was the name of the Fourth, so why was he alive? And Kakashi? He wasn't on any other team except her's.

"Would you like someone to take you to the family?" the nurse asked Sakura kindly.

"No, no..." Sakura said trying to think of a way out of this. "I know how to get there." She faked a smile and the nurse returned it, not realizing Sakura's deception.

"Well, you can go now. We didn't detect anything fatal, it must have just been exhaustion." the nurse informed Sakura and then walked towards the door. Sakura thought she was about to be able to leave when luck laughed at her.

A man with the Uchiha symbol on his shirt was walking by.

"Uchiha-sama!" the little nurse called.

The man's head showed in the door and Sakura recognized him as Sasuke's father.

"How in the-" Sakura whispered, but then he spoke.

"Hm?" Fugaku asked.

"This girl says she was a friend of Obito's. She came for the memorial." the nurse explained.

Fugaku looked her over. "Does she have a place to stay?"

"Um... No..." Sakura answered truthfully.

"Come along then." he commanded.

"Okay," Sakura said uncertainly standing up and following. This man was very commanding.

He turned on his heel and started walking quickly down the hall. Sakura had to run to him to keep up. Why was he alive? Things just kept getting more and more confusing and she didn't think they could get anymore confusing.

She was very wrong.

She was walking awkwardly behind Fugaku Uchiha into the main room of the hospital when she saw him. He was sitting in a chair and looking at the ground. His fists were clinched so hard his knuckles were turning white. A bandage was wrapped around his left eye and a mask covered up half of his face.

Kakashi.

But at the same time he wasn't Kakashi. He was thirteen not thirty-two. How was that possible?

She didn't know why but for some reason she felt she shouldn't look at him or make any sort of eye contact - though, eye contact would have been hard since he was staring at the floor completely detached from the world. Fugaku chose this time to turn and look at Sakura causing him to follow her stare and see Kakashi. Now, obviously Fugaku knew that Kakashi was on Obito's team, so he chose this time to try and comfort Kakashi.

Sakura held her breath as Fugaku started walking towards Kakashi. Fugaku then knelt in front of Kakashi and Kakashi looked up and him, eye red-rimmed.

"Fugaku... Sama" Kakashi addressed added "sama" in quickly as if he had forgotten. Sakura was taken more aback when he talked. Talking just made him all the more real. He was so young. It was weird for Sakura to be older than the man that was usually fourteen years older. What the heck was going on!

"Kakashi," Fugaku addressed only using his name as well, making things just a tidbit awkward.

"I'm sorry, Uchiha-sama," Kakashi said looking away. "I let one of your clan die. If only I hadn't been so-"

"Enough, Kakashi," Fugaku commanded and immediately Kakashi closed his mouth. "Obito knew the risk he was taking, there was nothing you can do. Honor his memory instead of living in guilt over it."

Kakashi looked at the ground again, but nodded slowly.

Sakura extended her hand a little in an attempt to comfort her, but she remembered that he probably wouldn't know who she was. She took her hand back and thought that no one had noticed, but Fugaku watched as she extended her hand, froze, and then took it back.

"Well, Sakura, we should be going now." Fugaku said starting to walk again.

"Ah!" Sakura exclaimed and then followed. "Right!"

Sakura followed behind Fugaku awkwardly for an hour as he ran some errands before heading home. Throughout the entire trip he didn't speak one word to her. He handed her bag and she took that to mean she was supposed to hold it.

"Um, thanks..." Sakura said, and then thought sarcastically to herself, "So this is where Sasuke gets his gentlemanly actions..."

"Well go ahead..." Fugaku said watching her as she took the bag.

"Um... What...? I don't understand..." Sakura asked.

Fugaku sighed as if she was missing the most obvious thing in the world. "It's chocolate..." Fugaku said as if that would give her her answer.

"Okay..." Sakura said nodding her head slowly. "I'm still confused..."

Fugaku sighed again. "You're supposed to eat it. You lost someone close to you and met someone you know well but didn't remember you..."

Sakura stared at him mouth open. Had he seen her reach out to Kakashi but then take her hand back and perceived that much from the small action? "Wha- how could you have?" Sakura asked shocked.

"I'm an Uchiha, Sakura," Fugaku said with something that might have been a grin, "we are good at perceiving things."

Sakura chuckled at this. "Yes, I suppose you are..."

"We'll be going home now then..." Fugaku said walking away again without a glance behind him to see if she was following. Without really knowing why, Sakura's face broke out in a grin.

I realize that there are probably about a bajillion typos in this and I apologize. I wrote this about a year ago and finally posted it. Keep me dedicated to writing it!