A Legend Rewritten

A Pleading Wish

      Every Shinobi knows the Legend of Team 7. It consist of a jinchuriki, a powerful Uchiha, and the best medical ninja there is. All three was once lead by an Elite Jonin known for copying over 1,000 jutsus.

       They say all four of them combined were unstoppable, but not many know the story begind their achievements. They all had a rough beginning but nonetheless persevered and grown.

       What happens when the legend they wrote didn't have the ending most of them wanted?

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     Sakura stood at a barren wasteland. It  was quite no laughter nor cries, the chats and loud cheer of shinobis or civilians who welcomed there heroes home.

Instead you were welcomed by bodies that had been decomposing for some time. A faul smell that lingers the air, and bodies no one can identify.

The buildings were destroyed and in rubbles. What used to be called home were now nothing more than peices of rocks littered on the ground.

Who would have expected the Village Hidden in the Leaves to finally fall and wither. No person could destroy the Will of Fire that burned within its people, especially the will in their shinobis. But now its gone, no one alive carries the will of fire anymore and no sprouts were left for another to tree to flourish and grow.

The earth, her home was dying and along with it was the people who called this place home. No one survived, no one but her.

Sakura was covered with bruises and blood. She didn't bother healing them anymore, she would soon die along with her home so why bother.
Her face was stained with tear marks, while her eyss were red and dull. It no longer held light or life.

Sakura was tired and longed for nothing more than to die. To reunite with the people she cares for, who ued to have the same fire burning insie them. They may have won the war but what's it worth if no one is left.

She placed her head on her knees as she brought them close. Her body was numb. No pain emotional or physical could be felt. The wounds would leave scars that would haunt her of the lives she could never save, of the life she could never have.

"If only I was stronger, then maybe things would be different" she muttered to herself. It was pleading wish she knew would never be granted.

Sakura was sitting on the Third Hokage's face as she stares at the place she used to call home. A place filled with happy memories, now were nothing more than a reminder of the things she would never she or do again.

'To what extent can a single persom do to nake their wish come true. To what extent can they fight before they could no loner stand'

"How far to go to change this place? How much are you willing to sacrifice for them? How many times would you fall and stand up to make things right? What would you do if given a chance to change your present by giving up your past?"

Sakura lifted her head, her emerald eyes were met by red pinwheel eyes that has seen both the rise and fall of the land and its people. She was bewildered to see the great Otosuki Hagoromo infront of her. She slowly stood up, nver breaking eye contact.

"Are you willing to give up ypur past for the future of the land and its people?" he asked with a stern yet ancient voice, one that held a promise of change and the answer to her pleading wish.

"I would do anything to change the present. I don't care how many sacrifices I make, how many times I get hurt or fall, even if it means giving up living to give my friends the life they deserve, then I'll do anything" she replied her eyes began to burn a reflection of a flaring fire that she thought died down long ago.

Hagoromo nodded, he knew she would do anything to change the fate of her friends. She really is the perfect one to do it, no she was the only one who could do it.

"I will send you back in time. You will posses the power of all nine tailed beasts and part of my chakra as well as the knowledge and memories you hold. With this you can vhange the course of history and rewrite the legend once more. This time you choose the ending of the legend that started all those years ago"

Sakura nodded and with that Hagoromo began doing hand seals and marked Sakura.

Everything then went black.

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'What does it mean to fight for the people you love. Even if they never realize the extent of sacrifices you do for them or the worth and effort you do to make them bear no pain in life?'

Sakura slowly opened her eyes, her eyes starred at the cream ceiling above her, as half her face gets touched by the moonlight outside.

Her body was stiff and sore, she could not move nor talk. Her was im excruciating pain as she manages to places a hand on her head. Then she recalled everything. She jumped out of bed only for her to fall on the floor. Her feet were shaking and could barely even move.

She held onto her bed for support as she focuses her chakra to numb the pain and heal any injuries she might have obtained from the time travel.

Her body glowed a light green color as she releases a calm and relaxing KI. After a couple of minutes the pain was gone and her body began to move.

She headed to the mirror attached on her closet. She blinked, then blinked again. She placed a hand on her face and examined her body.

Her body was small and fragile. She had short pink hair and a weak body that screamed nothing but fragile and soft. Her appearance looked nothing like a shinobi would but her mind was on a league of its own.

"It worked, i'm two years old again" she exclaimed in a quite whsiper careful not to wake anybody up.

"This time I'll change the past and write a new legend, not just mine but the legend of Konoha and Team 7 as well. I won't let anything bad befall them, not again"