A/N: Hi, this is my first official long story. It's an Alternate Universe Story featuring Sakura, Sasuke and several of my other favourites from Naruto (including the Akatsuki because my friend is hopelessly in love with them, lol) in a somewhat-Cyberpunk / Future Spy world. Characters will be ooc because of certain elements, but that makes them more interesting and this is my interpretation of them ;).

(Oh and I apologise for any spelling errors. I always try to be careful with these kinds of things but I'm only human.)

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

Warnings: Mild language and violence.

Other Notes: (fonts)

Sakura thinking

'Inner Sakura'

Flashback

The Peacemaker

Prologue: The Calm before the Storm

Two holographic pads were dropped in front of me. The first had my personal information displayed in a 3D format. Apparently my near spotless track record serving in the Konoha Security Force was not enough to warrant me free from suspicion. ANBU, the spy division, believed that a childhood friendship with a boy agent turned traitor was enough to drag me in for interrogation.

I folded my arms across my chest and leaned back in the uncomfortable steel chair that I'd been confined to for the last half an hour. I swear they deliberately did it to unnerve people. All it did was manage to piss me off. However my attempt to look unfazed seemed to serve as an amusement for my interrogator. I couldn't see his face behind the white mask but I could sense it. Of course who, in my line of work, wouldn't look at me for the first time without some kind of judgemental expression?

A pouting pink-haired teenager never looked menacing. I sighed. No matter what happened to me I didn't have the heart to dye it another colour, considering everything I'd been through in my 18 years of existence. My hair DNA had been augmented before my birth (like many parents did with their children these days) so it would always go back to pink even if I decided to waste money on being someone I wasn't. I'd learnt that lesson the hard way as a kid.

I looked at the second datapad, since the operative seemed content watching me stew in a pot of irritation, although I had a good idea whose information it was.

Confidential personal information: (I snorted mentally at that. It wasn't very confidential if I was looking at it.)

Last Name: Uchiha (a once powerful Human-Augmentation Organisation run by a near-mafia-like family. Joy of joys…)

First Name/s: Sasuke (Gorgeous Asshole)

Birthdate: 23 July (Only 3 months younger than me. Such a strangely depressing thought.)

Height: 168 cm (wow he's so tall now. Not.)

I groaned inwardly; this was just souring my mood further. I pushed the holopad away with my finger to the opposite end of the metal table. This room was way too grey and boring and… fortified. What did they think I'd smash through the wall and run off to join the circus?

'Oh yeah, yeah we should totally smash through the wall', my Inner voice piped up and I could imagine her eyes gleaming at the prospect. 'I don't know so much about the circus part though. Maybe we could go into showbiz make money doing trivia TV shows!'

I wanted to kick myself, literally, for thinking that. I needed cut those programs out of my life.

'I agree, because we're too charitable working part-time at the hospital when we could be kicking ass out there in the big bad world!'

You're missing the point. Please shut up, rowdy person dwelling in my head…

She laughed maniacally; 'no I won't, because I am you! Just better! You should really let me out more often. I hate sitting here in the back of your mind gathering dust.'

I deliberately ignored her.

These people, who claimed to be so efficient, were taking forever to get this silly business over with.

Hello! I'm going nuts here!

'You went nuts years ago, sugar. That's why I'm here! You're faithful figment of your imagination, always ready to assist!'

I'm not crazy! Go take a nap or something.

'Fine, fine. Don't say I never help you.'

Oh believe me, you're more of a hindrance than anything else.

She scoffed but said nothing.

"Sakura Haruno. How unfortunate, for you, that you're sitting here today." Another ANBU officer who walked in said, exchanged a glance with Ogle Eyes in the corner, and then turned to me. He too had a stupid mask on his face. By the tone of his voice I wondered briefly if he'd prepared a speech before coming in to talk to me. No wonder this took so long.

'At this rate he should run for president', my Inner chortled, 'since this city's council are such dimwits. At least he beat their record for decision making. I kind of miss the old president. Before, you know, he ended up all cold and dead. Still hard to believe our almost-boyfriend joined his assassinator.'

I would've laughed at that; if it hadn't been for the fact that the man had started running his mouth about the history between me and a boy I wanted nothing more than to forget about.

I already know my past with him thank you very much. It took me 4 years to get over it and now you're bringing it up again.

"Can you please just get to the point on why I'm here?" I said exasperated. My tolerance was at an end. "Because I'm really clueless. I haven't seen him since the day he left."

"So you are unaware that he's returned to Konoha City?"

My heart skipped. He's back? Sasuke Uchiha is back?

I stared at him dumbfounded. How could they know that? Was this some sort of sick joke?

I wanted to believe that this was some stupid loyalty test but there was something about the way he said it that put me on edge.

"No." I answered carefully, something was wrong here. "Why would you think I had anything to do with him coming back?"

"He has no other close ties here other than to you."

"I wouldn't call us close." I muttered, thinking of the thousand and one glares he'd given me in all the time that I'd known him.

The man looked like he wanted to banter on but I just wanted this to end so I took a deep breath and said, "I've had absolutely no contact with him. No inkling to where exactly he's been all this time or why he's here now either. All I know, like everyone else, is that he went to Orochimaru to become stronger or whatever. I already wrote a testimony."

"I see," He replied. The next moment pulled out a gun and before I could react to disarm him from it I noticed Ogle Eyes had one trained on me too. My stomach lurched. What was going on? What had I done?

"Why?" I looked between the two of them incredulously.

"You're a necessary death." He pointed the gun to my head. I had no means to defend myself and anything I did to stop this man would be countered by the other in the corner.

The door flew open suddenly revealing other ANBU agents.

"What's going on here? Who are you?" They yelled. Using the distraction I flipped the desk send it flying into the man before me. The bullets from his gun hit the roof. The real ANBU officers were quick to capture them. However I noticed their chests collapsing into their bodies and I screamed, "No, don't touch them!"

Those men had just ingested suicide pills. They were specialized with certain acid components which meant…

'Oh man… Not Again…'

In horror I saw the acid break down their bodies which twitched about as they melted into nothing leaving no evidence of them.

I swallowed the bile rising in my throat. The two disintegrating men were a torture to watch. I didn't understand. How could this be? And why me? None of this made sense.

I walked out of the interrogation room in a daze almost bumping into the Head of Konoha City Security Force, Lady Tsunade Senju. I immediately explained what had transpired.

"Lady Tsunade," An ANBU agent came running towards us just as I finished. ANBU had been investigating in that time. "I managed to salvage some data off their holo-computers before they were completely erased."

"Let me see," The blonde woman skimmed over the information briefly. "It seems like Danzo has been running some questionable missions on the side-lines. Damn him, still muddling in our affairs. It's disconcerting that they were able to infiltrate our headquarters. You there, take this."

"Lady Tsunade?" I asked quickly before she turned to walk off, ignoring my other half who was telling me to just drop it. "Is it true what they said? Is Sasuke really back in the city?"

"This is the first I've heard of it. I'm sorry that you had to be dragged into this mess, Sakura. You'll be the first to know if I find something."

I didn't want to know. I wanted to leave him in the past. But something in me was screaming for answers. It seemed that that the past just wouldn't stay there as much as I wished it would. I'd lost too much over that boy.

Little did I know, that soon, I'd lose so much more…