The Queen of Masks [Sakura Haruno Story]

73 (Naruto The Last arc)

I went to a classical piano concert yesterday (I got back home at 2 am) and it was amazing! It was by this twenty one year old piano prodigy and he was super tall and super handsome. His name is Jan Lisiecki. This is him:

Doesn't he kinda look like Keefe? (Any Keeper of the Lost Cities fans here?)

"Rui." Sakura whisper-hissed, shaking her brother awake.

He rolled over and blinked up at her sleepily. "What?" His words were slurred with grogginess.

"Hinata just left the camp and Naruto followed her."

That caught his attention. He propped his head up and asked, "What're you waiting for? Let's go."

Stepping through the forest with a silence that only ninja could muster they sat in a tree and watched as Naruto approached a solemn Hinata.

"Hinata, I love you."

Sakura turned to Rui and whispered in his ear, "I almost feel bad for eavesdropping on such a private conversation."

"Almost?"

"Almost. I can't wait to see the look on Ino's face when I tell her abo- Someone's coming." Sakura shot out of the tree, her bright green eyes seemingly glowing in the night. She came to stand beside Hinata, Rui not far behind, as Naruto ran forwards to confront the enemy.

"Toneri! Or are you just another puppet?" He stopped in front of the floating platform that the white haired man was standing on. "Where's Hanabi?"

"Hinata, have you made your decision?" His voice was deep and cold. So cold that it nearly made Sakura shiver.

Two pairs of blue and one pair of green eyes darted to the side as Hinata stepped forwards. Her lips were pressed into a tight line but other than that, she showed no outward emotion towards her betrayal as she shoved the knitted scarf into Naruto's arms and stepped onto the platform wth Toneri.

Thousands of thoughts raced through Sakura's head but only three she paid any attention to: 1) Hinata wouldn't betray them, she must have a plan, 2) this was Sakura's chance to get aboard and help, and 3) while her face showed nothing, Hinata's eyes were alight with so much fear.

Smoothing out the crease between her brows and ironing out any real emotions, Sakura slid a sly smile on her face and put a confident sparkle in her eyes— which wasn't very hard as they were both almost always there. She stepped past a confused Rui and a betrayed Naruto, and placed herself right in front of the platform, tilting her head to the side. She sent out waves of chakra that made her practically radiate power. "Where ya going?" She swung her words to making them sound careless but deliberate at the same time, adding a dangerous edge to her voice.

Toneri icy blue eyes widened. "The Queen of Masks?"

Sakura made a show of reaching behind her and pulling her mask off of her belt, before holding it up to cover half her face. "Ah, so I guess even the moon has heard of that name."

Toneri smiled a smile that was much to relaxed for the knowledge that he was currently standing in front of the most dangerous person currently alive. "Yes... I could use someone like you. How does being my right hand advisor sound? Or perhaps a royal mistress if you desire it?"

Disgust reared its head within her, but on the outside her smile simply widened as she stepped onto the platform and placed her hand in his extended one. "That sounds very nice. I've always wondered what it would be like to be a mistress for royalty."

So, I was thinking of starting a new fanfic and I was planning on continuing the story from the last chapter. I went a bit trigger happy and made tons of covers, and am in the process of writing the first chapter, which is currently nearing two thousand words... Which is also one of the reasons (the other ones being procrastination and laziness) why this update was so late... Sorry! I have the cover ready for you guys though, and here it is!

Making the cover honestly took forever because I made so many before deciding on the first one, this—and it's still not very good...

So, I have no idea when this story will come out, or if it even will in the first place, but I am trying to bring you guys new content to read~ Please tell me if you'd check out this story if I were to publish it; here's the description:

Sakura was tired. So very tired.

And it's not even the type of tired you feel after a sleepless night. Or the type you feel after exercising. It's a deep rooted tired, that you feel in the very depths of your soul. That makes the seconds feel like minutes, the minutes feel like hours, the hours feel like days, and days feel like months. It's a type of tired that makes you wonder why you're still here.

And the reason for this tiredness, is that Sakura simply cannot die. Well, she can die, but when she does, her life simply starts over.

In her first life, she was a hopeless romantic, fallen head over heels for a certain Uchiha.

In her second life, she was a confused scholar, searching for the reason of her rebirth.

In her third life, she was a careless daredevil, showing no regard for her life.

In her fourth life, she was moody, getting sick of this game.

In her fifth life, she gave up hope, knowing that the process would always repeat itself.

In her sixth life, she took a blade to herself, hoping to move on. She didn't.

In her seventh life, she was a killer, a merciless assassin.

In her eighth life, she was a traveler, searching the world for an answer.

In her ninth life, she became a leader, her name known far and wide.

In her tenth life, she was a civilian, a small, little nobody.

Now her thirty third life has come to an end (she was a genius musician in this one), and something goes wrong in the rebirth process. To put it simply, the gods screwed up. They were carless with an especially important soul—an elder soul. A soul that belonged to a person rebirthed so many times that their soul carried so much wisdom and knowledge that it needed special handling. In the end, they accidentally put her soul into another body. A body that was already occupied.

A body belonging to none other than Madara Uchiha.

So it's gonna be a MadaSaku love story (I've never written one before and I'm super psyched) and it'll be waaaaay shorter than this fanfic, but the chapters will be longer.

I promise promise promise that I'll get back to you guys with another chapter as soon as possible~!