Haruno Ryoko

-2.rude, very rude

The falling abruptly stopped.

Darkness

Noise, too much noise

My skin burns

I realize my eyes are closed and slowly open them

Too bright

Hazily, I can make out the silhouette of a person....... a woman, I think.

A soft blanket is wrapped around me. I try to move, but my muscles don't seem to oblige.

I have been to enough hospitals in my life to be able to tell that I was in one right now.

Then suddenly I hear crying. Loud, loud crying.

I turn my head towards the source of the noise and am met face to face with bright emerald eyes and a mop of pink hair.

I stare. This is strange. I feel like i'm missing something important.

Strong hands suddenly wrap around me and i'm gently lifted. The man who picked me up also has pink hair though it seems to be a shade darker than the one I saw before.

"You will be Haruno Ryoko", says the man with a soft smile adorning his features.

Haruno? HARUNO?

The baby I saw earlier is also lifted beside me and the man proceeds to declare, " And you will be Haruno Sakura"

My malfunctioning brain finally puts two & two together. Haruno Sakura, Naruto, I'm a BABY.

Well, at least no more overtimes.

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Being a baby is absolutely fantastic and terrible at the same time. I don't have to lift a finger, i'm fed, bathed, cleaned, dressed and adored. But it's all so incredibly boring, just lying there all the time. Gods, do I miss my phone.

Not for the first time, I think about how all of this actually happened. Never knew there were magical laptops that transported people to anime in our hospital basement. If I did, I would have gone their sooner. To be honest, I thought this whole reincarnation business was truck-kun's thing, but this works too I guess.

I'm so glad I learned japanese.

Haruno Kizashi and Haruno Mebuki, my parents. It feels weird to call them my parents....... Anyway, they're both kind and loving people. Civilians.
Why couldn't I have been born into a shinobi clan? Like the Hyuuga clan or the Senju clan or the Uchiha clan-

NO, SCRATCH THAT. DEFINITELY NOT THE UCHIHA CLAN. NOPE.NOPE.

I'll definitely need to become a strong shinobi to survive the upcoming wars........ or wait, maybe it's better if i don't get involved at all........but then i won't get to be close to Naruto or Sasuke or Itachi or Shikamaru..... no way have i gone through all the trouble of reincarnating to not meet my fav characters.

I'll probably just become a shinobi because superpowers? walking on water? clones? UM, YES.

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Sakura is noisy, so very, very noisy. She screams and cries all day and no it's not that 'she's a baby of course she will cry', i'm a med student, an almost doctor, i've gone through my fair share of crying babies to know that this much wailing is NOT normal.

I know Sakura gets better and stronger in Shippuden and all but I get a headache just thinking about living with her during her 'crazy fangirl' phase.

My parents (still feels weird to call them that)fawn over her all day. They don't pay much attention to me because i never cry (well, accept from that one time when Mebuki tried to feed me milk from her breasts, i yelled so loudly that the hospital head five floors up came to check if the end of the world was finally here. I drink from a bottle know. I mean, i'm mentally a 21 year old i'm not going to be breastfed, thank you very much) they're kinda worried actually, they think i might be disabled or something.

They were discussing it right in front of me,

'maybe she can't hear'

'that doesn't have anything to do with crying, idiot.'

'then why......'

'maybe she can't comprehend her surroundings......'

'i would've thought she can't speak with how quiet she is but that demonic screechin- Ahem, crying that day proved that she's pretty capable of speaking'

'she just stares at things the entire day, with that look on her, she looks like she's contemplating the meaning of life.....'

'honey...........you don't think we gave birth to a psychopath do you?'

'let's book a visit to the doctor'

Rude. Very rude. Then again if they knew i could understand them they probably wouldn't have discussed that while changing my diapers.

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I can finally crawl around now. Sakura can't yet, but she's stopped crying so much.Thank the gods, I probably would have gone crazy and flung myself out of a window (not that i can yet, but you get the idea) if I had to listen to that any longer.

I look like a carbon copy of Sakura except that i had lighter eyes and hair and a.......... smaller forehead. At least i won't get teased.( not that it mattered, what with my short temper i probably would have pounced on them the moment they opened their nasty mouths). Though I am worried about being flat. I'll need to find Tsunade and learn sacred technique of big boobas.

Oh, and I have started making random noises now and then to let my parents know that i am capable of speaking. But it backfired and now they think i'm possesed or something.

'dear, why is she hooting?'

'i don't know, i just asked her if she wants me to hold her up and she started hooting like a barn owl'

'...'

'i'm scared'

'you know instead of a doctor, let's take her to an excorcist.'

Again, rude, very rude.