Sakura back in time ❦ (Naruto BIT fanfic)

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"Nee-chan!" yelled Sasuke, running into the house a few weeks after Sakura regained her memories.

Sakura, who had been sitting at the kitchen table with Mikoto, shining the good silverware, looked up at Sasuke in confusion. "What's up, Sasuke-kun?"

"Look!" yelled Sasuke, jumping to the side to show a little girl, wearing a pink dress and a red hair ribbon.

Is that me...? she thought, blinking in confusion.

"Her name is Haruno Sakura-chan!" exclaimed Sasuke, looking so proud of himself for bringing this girl home.

I knew it... she thought, trying not to look as proud as she felt. I can spot myself from a mile away! ... Wait, that didn't make sense...

While Sakura thought of the best way to correct what she'd thought, Mikoto commented, setting down the fork she'd been shining, "She does bear a striking resemblance to you, Sakura-san. And the fact that she has the same first name as you is quite the coincidence. I wonder if you two are related?"

Just to be on the safe side, Sakura had told nobody about gaining her memories... Now she was glad she hadn't. "I-I don't know," she lied, looking at her embarrassed past-self. She walked over to her mini-self and knelt down so the two were at eye level. "Hello," she greeted.

"H-Hi..." greeted mini-Sakura, looking at her feet in embarrassment.

I'm gonna call her mini-me... she thought, remembering the line from a movie she'd seen with Naruto and Sasuke a while back... or a while ahead, whichever it was. She ruffled the little girl's hair which made her smile slightly.

"Can she stay for dinner, Kaa-san?" asked Sasuke excitedly. "Please?"

"Oh, I don't see an issue with that," answered Mikoto with a nod. "Itachi-chan should be home in a couple hours, as well as Fugaku-san, so we can all have dinner together."

"Is that okay with you, Sakura-chan?" asked Sasuke, smiling widely.

Sakura blushed even more and stammered, "I-I'm okay with it... Sasuke-kun..." She whispered the little boy's name, her hands shaking.

Of course I liked him back then...

"Why don't you two go play outside, Sasuke-chan?" asked Mikoto, leading Sasuke out the door to send the two kids outside.

The two kids ran off, Sasuke being a total gentle-boy and running slower for little Sakura, so she could keep up.

"Sakura-san, would you mind going and getting Itachi-chan from the training grounds?" she asked, turning to Sakura. "I'm sure he's taken you to the fourth training ground?"

"Yeah," she lied, knowing where it was from training with Team 7. She left the house saying a quick goodbye. She ran through the village, slower than she would when she was back in her own time.

She was a bit rusty from inactivity for the last six months, but she was able to run. She made it to the right training ground and saw Itachi standing there, his head lowered. She wondered if he was hurt or sad, but then he took out several kunai and jumped into the air faster than she could blink.

As he fell downward, he threw all the kunai in sequence along with two he'd kept hidden. All of them hit right in the middle of each of the targets around him, even the one in his blind spot.

She smiled slightly, knowing she had such a great boyfriend, but somewhere in the back of her mind, she knew that it would turn out to be a problem when she had to kill him. She walked toward Itachi, pushing that thought to the deepest, darkest part of her mind and said, "Hey."

He turned to her and smiled slightly. "Hey yourself."

"Mikoto-san asked me to come get you," she explained herself.

He sighed and told her, "Tou-san would have a cow."

"Is he that strict on you?" she asked, furrowing her brow.

He didn't answer. After a few moments, he asked, "Can I teach you a few things?"

She nodded and did everything he said. "First, go into stance." She mirrored the same stance he was in, which was much different than what she was used to.

"Now, concentrate all your energy into the core of your body until you feel you're just about to explode."

She did as told. Since she hadn't concentrated on her chakra for a long time, she found it a little difficult, but she managed to do it.

"Now, concentrate that energy to your feet."

She did as told.

"Now, jump as high as you can."

She did that and found herself at least ten feet in the air. Not knowing what to do next, she fell and he caught her. "When you start to fall," he told her, "turn so your head is facing downward; then, turn again when you're closer to the ground and land on your feet.

She tried this and found herself doing what Itachi had done, but without the weapons.

"You're quite the fast learner," he commented when she landed on her feet after five times of practicing. "And you have a lot of chakra... if I didn't know better; I'd say you were a shinobi at one point."

She laughed sheepishly, trying to seem innocent.

"Now, since you're doing such a great job, I want you to practice throwing kunai," he told her. "Aim, then throw the kunai and try your hardest to get it in the middle of that target." He pointed at a target.

He gave her a kunai and she tried her hardest. She knew this would be the harder part of what he was teaching her, her weaponry not very up-to-par.

She aimed and missed the first time. The second time, it hit the edge of the target and bounced back.

She picked up the kunai and thought of a way to make sure suspicion stayed off of her. She asked, "Can I see one of those star thingamabobs?"

He handed her the shuriken and she held it in her two hands. "Why can't we just do this?" She ran to a tree and planted the weapon into it, trying to look very proud.

He laughed slightly and said, "I'll show you why, come at me as if you were going to attack me."

She ran toward him, slower than usual, still trying to keep the impression that she had no idea what she was doing. Right before Sakura could try and hit him, Itachi moved to the side and stuck out his foot, Sakura's face planting into the earth.

He helped her up, laughing and helped brush off the dirt. "That's why. It's too easy for a shinobi to guess another shinobi's moves if you make yourself a running target like that."

She nodded in understanding, knowing that to be true.

He asked her, "Do you want to learn?"

She nodded excitedly and answered, "Yes!"

He chuckled and said, "That'd give me something to do instead of just training from day to day."

She asked him, "Break now? Mikoto-san is probably wondering where we are."

He nodded and they walked back into the village.