Author's Note: This is my second attempt at a fic and I hope this goes better than the first one. Also I apologize for any grammatical errors in this chapter.

(only going to do this once)Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

A Second Chance – Chapter1

The Dream

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"blah"- Talking

Blah – thoughts/dream

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Otogakure, a village which has been an enigma to the ninja world for the past two decades. Other than the fact that it resides in the Rice Field country, its location is unknown. It was founded by a former Sannin of Konohagakure no sato, Orochimaru. It's ninja use techniques that attack one's sense of hearing making them very deadly.

For the past 7 years Konoha and Oto have a bitter relationship at best. Ever since the failed Oto-Suna invasion there has been bad blood between these two villages. But luckily for them and the nations around them, there has been no fighting between either armies and not much blood spilled.

The man that founded this now powerful nation is no sitting in a dimly lit room. In this room is a large round table with five seats. In the middle of the table is a large map showing the rice field country and fire country.

"You called, Orochimaru-sama?"

The snake sannin turned around to see a white haired man bowing at his feet.

"Yes Kabuto, it's time to begin the final plan. Wake them and bring them here."

"Yes, Orochimaru-sama." With out question, Kabuto left the room and headed toward the living quarters.

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Silence. Not a sound to be heard. A pink haired woman opened her eyes to see she was laying in the silent dark abyss. She stood, not knowing how exactly,but standing none the less. Surveying her surroundings, she sees the same dark abyss that she saw before, all around her, although she she could see her self, perfectly defined. And yet she is surrounded by only darkness and silence.

A faint sound breaks the deathly silence. The woman turns to where the sound came from, and sees an orange dot in the distance. She started to walk cautiously toward the orange dot.

The same sound replays over and over again like a broken record, getting louder as she closes in on the faint sounding orange dot. Now, as she inches closer, she see that the orange dot is a blond haired boy in an all orange clothing.

Closer and closer she gets, now clearly hearing what the blond boy is saying to her.

"Why...Why would you leave me alone Sakura?"

The pink haired woman suddenly stopped realizing who the boy in orange was.

"Naruto?"

She stands frozen as she sees her former comrade standing in front of her. Now the boy starts to walk towards her until he is at arms length apart form the woman.

"Why Sakura? WHY!?"

In a blinding rage the boy thrusts his arm forward, clutching the womans neck.

"WHY!?" he screams as he clutches her with both hands and tightens his grip on the womans neck while lifting her body in the air . The pink haired woman struggled to loosen the boys grip. She tries to separate his hands from her neck with all her power but to no avail.

"Naru...I...sor..ry." is all the woman could cough out as the boy closed his grip on her neck.

In a last ditch effort, the woman kick the boys stomach with all her strength. Feeling the sharp pain in his stomach the boy released the woman and collapsed to the ground.

Then the woman sprinted away as fast as she could to get away for the boy. Not knowing were she will go in this abyss but she just needs to get away. While running she looks back and sees the blond boy running at her and gaining.

"SAKURA! SAKURA!"

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"Sakura? Sakura?"

The woman flings up out of her deep slumber gasping for air. She looks around looking for the blond boy and only sees that she is sitting in her room.

"Sakura? Are you okay?"

She looked over to her right to see her white haired mentor, Kabuto Yakushi, sitting at her bed side. She paused and realized that it was only a dream.

"Sakura?"

"Yea, I'm fine Kabuto-sempai, just a bad dream."

"Okay well, Orochimaru-sama needs you for a mission so get dressed and be in the briefing room in twenty minutes."

With a nod form his student the white haired medic left the room and headed for the others room to wake them up.

The woman sat in her bed motionless, trying to comprehend the meaning of her dream. This was fifth time she had this dream in the last month and had lost count what time this was this year. Why? Why was she having this dream over and over again? What did she do to deserve these guilt trips.

Each time she asked this question she was met with the same answer. 7 years ago she left everything behind. Her family, her friends, her future all for one person. A person she thought she was in love with.

Realizing that her thinking was wasting her time, she got out of bed and headed for her bathroom. She slips out her pajamas and stepped into the shower. The rush of warm water felt good on her cold sweaty body. Now fully awake, she dries off, puts on a robe, and walked into her room. She opened her dresser and picked out her regular mission clothes. A gray tee-shirt, a purple flak jacket, and a pair of black cargo pants going just past her knees. Then she picked up her purple sound forehead protector and tied it in her classic style holding her bangs up.

Feeling that she was ready she walked at the door, slipped on her purple ninja sandals, and walked out her room walking toward the briefing room. She was egar to see what Orochimaru had in store for her.

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AN: Well there you go. Hope you enjoyed it and if you did, please review. It's a writers fuel. The last time I wrote a story I didn't get any reviews so I stopped writing. So please if want to see more of this story, please review. Constructive criticism is also welcomed."