Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Edit the Sad Parts ❯ Wilfull Suspension of Disbelief ( Chapter 3 )
[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
“Blame it on the web
but the spider's your problem now.”
but the spider's your problem now.”
Chapter 2: Willful Suspension of Disbelief
`First things first, I have to get out of here, before I taint the timeline any longer' even as Sakura as these thoughts ran through her mind, a problem arose `Chakra, my reserves are sealed!' a wave of hopelessness overtook her. To anyone passing by the area, Sakura just looked like a young at peace sleeping girl, if they were to pass her mind they would see something different, her mind was racing, her pulse was erratic. After feeling out with her chakra and not sensing any of the doctors near by, she opened her eyes and surveyed the area, for possible escapes.
`Window on the east wall, no way of opening it; breaking it will only alert the doctors and I'd probably be sedated before I could get two blocks away, door directly across from window, a cloaking Jutsu could get me to the exit, except I don't have the chakra to pull one off.' The reality of her situation hit her in full force; she let out a heavy sigh, and started looking from a different perspective.
`What jutsus could I accomplish before my mind was unsealed?' She racked her brain, for any useful abilities she had, remembering there really was none, except for precise chakra control, she had been a fairly weak ninja in her youth. `displacement jutsu, it's the best bet I have of getting away with not to many questions asked' It was fairly common for shinobi to escape from the hospital, pride or something, being a medical ninja herself she knew that her disappearance wouldn't be looked into to much, and maybe the changes to the timeline would not be significant. Her fainting was probably caused by at least forty years of memories being jammed into her brain, which would have caused the problem with her hippocampus, but if the doctors were going to investigate that meant they'd be entering her mind with their chakra, which could reveal more than they bargained for. She could not let that happen.
`Time to get out of here!' she made a one hand seal and focused her chakra into a clone. With a poof of smoke, a copy of her appeared in front of her. As the smoke cleared, and Sakura watched her child like body come into view, a wave of shock struck her, something that had defiantly not been there in her timeline, was there clear as day on her clone, which in all probability meant was also on her. She reached forward to trace a thick black line that went down past her forehead down through her eye to her lower left cheek'
`What is this? It looks like a tattoo of some sort, or a scar.' Trying to remember when the mark could have marred her skin, her mind came to a blank. A bit shocked as her finger went through the clone; she remembered the task at hand. `I'll have to worry about that after I get out of this hospital.' Ordering her clone into bed, she did a simple eye averting Gen jutsu that required minimal chakra, its purpose was basically to make someone look over you, often not noticing your presence, anyone actually looking would see through the Jutsu in an instant. Despite the fact that her actions required little chakra, she was already feeling the strain of depletion, not good.
`I need to hurry' with a deep breath she darted out through the hall into the currently empty corridor, a long hallway with an array of doors greeted her. `I use to work at this hospital, where is the exit, think!' she tried to reach for the information, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't seem to remember. Leaving it up to chance, she chose the first door on the right.
`Staircase, good! The exit is just—' her thoughts were interrupted, by someone bumping into her. She looked up quickly berating herself for not sensing anyone.
The person stumbled over her figure and fell down the stairs head first crashing a few times on the way. She cringed inwardly at the display in front of her, with one final bang as the person hit the garbage can at the bottom of the stairs, the once empty stairwell came to life. Alerted by the sound a doctor ran into the room.
“What's happened?” Seeing the poor crumpled mess at the bottom of the stairs, he ran forward bumping into Sakura on the way, pausing in confusion he looked down and in an instant he saw through the Jutsu and sighted her.
“You, what are you doing here?” confusion was evident in the way he looked at her but was quickly replaced by suspicion, he instantly took a fighting stance, but Sakura had already displaced replacing herself with the man the bottom of the stairwell, and taking flight towards the exit.
`Damn, damn, damn this is very bad!' She darted into; the common room which she knew contained many ninja's as well as the exit.
“Don't let her leave, she attacked a patient!” Feeling strong arms grab her, she instantly threw her hands through the displacement sequence, switching with a nearby plant, and continuing her mad dash for the exit, once more using the displacement to switch with a box behind a nearby counter, she crouched and suppressed her remaining chakra. A few nin of various rank, gave a quick glance around, most looked at the scene with disinterest, she wasn't much of a threat to most eyes, she looked like a little kid playing ninja, which meant she still had a chance of escape. She could see the exit from where she crouched, it was so close, but a handful of highly trained shinobi stood in her way, some were coming very close to discovering her location.
“I can't sense the kid, but she can't be far.” A gruff voice stated, she heard footsteps, pass by the other side of the counter, getting increasingly nervous, she tried to think up a plan, and then it walked through the door; in a literal sense. A young man she didn't know was approaching the door, probably coming in to visit a patient in the building; if she timed it correctly she could simply walk through the door with no one noticing her. The eye averting jutsu was still in place and her chakra was too low to attempt another displacement. She slowly stood and walked towards the door, not doing anything out of place, and as the man opened the door she slipped past him into the busy street, finally reaching her goal.
`Not out of the woods yet' She continued her slow walk until the hospital was out of sight, she than released a huge sigh of relief.
`That didn't go as planned' It really hadn't, she had extensively injured someone, was spotted and chased out by an entire hospital of nins. This had defiantly not happened in the original time line.
`I can't change anything now, I have to keep moving and think of my next move' this was easier said than done. With her mind in its current state, she was almost defenseless; she had years of knowledge with no possible outlet. She walked by a store window and stopped to look at herself. `I must be around eleven' She was defiantly not a genin yet. She most likely still was going to the academy. `Everything I do is changing the timeline!' She thought in frustration, she continued looking at her reflection tracing the mysterious black line, across her eye. `If I release the seal now, my abilities will improve, and I won't be placed in Naruto and Sasuke's team, but there is no guarantee I'll be placed there if I keep the seal, my actions have been erratic, no telling what I've already changed!' She let out a stressed sigh and kept going through ideas. `I could leave, my absence wouldn't effect much, I didn't stand out much; if the academy thought I was away training with relatives until the genin finals, there would be some changes, that is unavoidable, leaving is probably the path least resistance' Sakura rubbed her temples lightly as she felt on the verge of a headache.
`What would Naruto want me to do here?' An image of Naruto came into her mind, as a child he had been full of heart and faith in the greater good, he was courageous and very happy, despite the ill treatment of the village, he loved his home very much, but time had changed Naruto, after Sasuke's betrayal and years of chasing Sasuke's shadow and watching friends and comrades die by Sasuke's hand Naruto had lost his greatest power, he might have been able to kill Orochimaru when he was a young man and at full strength, but he was never able to kill Sasuke.
`Sasuke's the variable; I have to find a way change his fate.' Naruto would not have wanted Sakura to kill Sasuke that she knew for certain. `It would be easier to just go there now and slit his throat' her body filled with the chilling feeling of hate. Sasuke had taken everything from her; he didn't deserve the second chance Naruto was giving him.
`I have to leave, go somewhere I'm not known and train my chakra reserves, I'll have to do this without my sealed power for now, the only seals master around will not be coming back to Konoha for a long time.' She remembered when he came, she thought he was nothing but a stupid pervert, who was splitting up her team even more by taking away Naruto, but he played a very big role in her future, and she needed his help. The seal that was on her mind, was meant to separate the corpus callosum the middle of the brain between the two hemispheres, it was placed on members of her family who were born with the genetic defect of separate personalities. What the seal did was allow only one personality to be in control, it had been a fairly new development but had many draw backs. It restricted her chakra reserve by critical measures and made focus very difficult, also what was not known in this time was the possibility of the dominate personality inverting. Experiments had been done to merge the two personalities, but in this time were unsuccessful and predominantly led to death. It had been the seal expert who had, in a moment of urgency had merged her mind and restored her life.
`I am going to need help, someone who won't be considered suspicious and who didn't play a role in the future' Sakura was so deep in thought, she didn't even notice who was in front of her until she walked right into the person. Managing just barely to keep her balance while she knocked the poor person down, she looked down to see who she had hit and dropped her jaw in shock. For right before he eyes sprawled on the ground was someone she had seen in a very long time.
“Hinata!” Sakura sputtered out in surprise before she could stop herself, her eyes dropped sadly, she did not like to think about what happened to Hinata in her future. The young girl blushed a deep red and stood up quickly and bowed.
“I am very sorry, I am too clumsy” her words came out stuttered and stressed as she tried to get away from the awkward situation.
`I bumped into her and knocked her down and she still apologizes…' She looked into Hinata's ghost like eyes and felt a wave of compassion go over her. Hinata had been a very sweet girl, but had grown up in a harsh reality. It was not fair what was going to happen to Hinata. As first born it was her duty to inherit leadership over the Hyuugas. Unfortunately Hinata's father's method of training her did nothing for her, Hinata did not grow as fast as her father Hiashi would have liked and quickly gave up. Hiashi decided to clear a path for his younger daughter Hanabi, when Hinata didn't show as much promise as a ninja. He had Hinata assassinated on her eighteenth birthday, when by legal rights she was to become leader. She would never forget Naruto's rage and her own disgust.
`Did Naruto send you to me Hinata?' She smiled lightly at the prospect, she knew what she going to do was irrational and would have consequences but at the moment she didn't care. `This is what Naruto would have wanted.' That was all that seemed to matter.
“I'm the clumsy one I really should start looking where I'm going ne?” Sakura put on a big smile for Hinata, and extended her hand and put it on the young girls shoulder.
“Hey Hinata-chan I'm going on an adventure, want to come?”
Maybe Hinata didn't have the cold heart of a Hyuuga, but she still had the soul of a Kunochi. She would prove that to the young girl.
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Chapter end! Sorry for the delay! Hope you are enjoying the story! Please review!
-Dramamine
