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 careless with an especially important soul-an immortal soul. A soul that belonged to a person rebirthed so many times that her 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.
*#1 in the madasaku tag, March 19, 2019!*
*#2 in the narutofanfiction tag, May 23, 2019*
"Don't make this any harder than it has to be, Sakura." I swallowed hard, my body shaking. I can't believe this is actually happening. Who knew that it will actually end up like this? I knew that I have to save Naruto and Sasuke-kun so that we could run away and hide before it's too late.
"I-I'm not opening the door." I took a step backwards, looking at the kitchen. There was a knife on the counter, I needed it. If he is going to break inside, I have to fight back in order to get out of here. I quickly get it and face the door once again. I take a deep breath and tighten the grip on the knife's handle. There was one big question that kept running inside my mind over and over again.
When will this nightmare end?
Sasuke, Sakura and Naruto suddenly found themselves stuck in their own "ideal world"; a world with no chakra, ninjas, wars and just peace, tranquility and happiness. Their loved ones who were once dead are alive and the place they called home is back to normal again. Everything seems perfect, right? Wrong. They soon find out the person who has trapped them in that world is out to kill them. What's worse is that he won't stop at nothing until they're dead and they don't even have chakra to fight back. Will they be able to escape and be safe? Or will they remain trapped forever?
Quote of the story (but not in the actual story): "Just like everybody else, you three believe in everything until it's disproved. You believe in old myths, in ghosts, in powerful creatures, etc. It all exists, even if it's just in your minds. So who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as you and I?"
[Warning: May contain some Sasusaku or Narusaku and lots of feels]