Sakura back in time ❦ (Naruto BIT fanfic)

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"Um, Sasuke-kun...?" Sakura called as she walked through the border of Konoha with the rest of Team 7.

"What?" asked Sasuke coolly.

"Well, I-I wanted to thank you for backing me up during the mission," she told him, blushing. "You really saved me there and, well, thank you."

"Yeah, whatever," he replied indifferently.

"Do you want to go to Ichiraku's with me?" she inquired. "To thank you for helping me. It'd be my treat, of course and..."

"I don't think so," he answered.

"Oh, uh, okay... maybe another time then?"

"I doubt it."

Sakura watched as Sasuke picked up his pace and left her where she stood.

"I'll go to Ichiraku's with you, Sakura-chan," Naruto told her. "Forget about that nasty Sasuke-teme and go with me!"

"No thanks, Naruto," she replied sadly. "I'm not very hungry." Sakura walked away sadly, trying to walk off her most recent rejection. She turned into a dark alleyway, mumbling, "Damn that Itachi... he didn't have to do this to everybody. I'd kill him if I had half the chance."

"Do you mean that, Child?" a voice asked from behind her.

She whirled around to see a middle-aged woman standing behind her. "W-Who are you?" asked Sakura, taking a step back in surprise. She hadn't even sensed her presence... had she been that out of it? She hadn't thought so.

"My name is of no importance," answered the stranger. "I am a traveling sorceress and I bid you no ill will. I will ask you again, did you mean what you just said, Child?"

Sakura let her statement roll around her mind a few times, contemplating just how much of her actually wanted to go through with that threat. "With every fibre of my being," she answered with a nod.

"Very well then," the sorceress said.

"E-Excuse me...?" Sakura asked. "What do you mean, 'very well then'? What do you want?"

"In my travels I have met many a person that has been impacted by Uchiha Itachi's wrong-doings," the sorceress told her, "I believe now is the time for the sins along with the sinner to be rectified."

Sakura's silence told the sorceress to continue.

"I have been thinking this plan through for a very long time," she carried on. "I have the gift of time travel and I wish to use it to send you back to before the Uchiha Massacre took place so that you may kill Uchiha Itachi and prevent any of these things from happening."

"I'm listening," Sakura said, her interest fully piqued.

"You will be sent back exactly a year-and-a-half before the Uchiha Massacre," the sorceress explained. "To keep any suspicion of you being a missing-nin off of you, you'll have temporary amnesia where you will only remember your name for precisely six months... upon retrieving your memories, you will kill him."

"Sounds pretty... unrealistic," Sakura commented suspiciously.

"I guarantee you my powers are far from unrealistic," the sorceress ensured her, "Will you give it a try and help this person you claim to love?"

Sakura sighed and nodded, not really believing that this could really happen.

"First, I need you to take off your headband and your weapons' pouches."

Sakura reluctantly did as told, knowing she could easily get the things back from the old lady if she had to.

"Great, farewell, Sakura," she said.

"How did you know my-" It was too late. Sakura was cast into unconsciousness with the wave of the old lady's hand.