Tied together

Summary; When Minato sealed the Kyuubi inside his son, the Death God didn't eat his soul. Instead, it was blasted from his body, and landed on the only other young human near the attack – a baby girl named Sakura Haruno."

Chapter 1

Disclaimer; I do not own Naruto

It was an ordinary day in Konoha, the sun was shinning brightly. The children ran through the streets and played games, you could hear laughter and giggles from the children while the adults walked by and smiled at the children. The streets were filled with people walking around. In the middle of the crowd, was a female shinobi walking, relaxing in the nice weather. Sakura Haruno was on her way to the hokage tower. It had been a year since she start to train with the fifth hokage Senju Tsunade.

Sakura eye stopped and watched the people and the children around her. Her eyes soften when she saw a young boy who was playing with his friend. It reminded her of her teammate, Uzumaki Naruto, the jinchuriki of the kyuubi. Naruto had left the village with Jiraiya for a three years training trip. She knew what she needed to do. she needed to get stronger to help Naruto to bring Sasuke back. The memories of her former teammate still hurt. Sasuke had left them with no regret and had no intention to return. Sakura eyes sadden and looked at the hokage mountain, where the stone faces of the former and the current hokage was. A smile appeared on her lips.

"When Naruto comes back, we will bring Sasuke-kun back. I won't be left behind, I just hope we'll be able to get him"

Sakura continued towards her destination. She would keep doing her best to become better. She had made a promise to herself she would improve and be useful. She arrived to the hokage tower where Tsunade and Shizune were waiting for her to start her training.

Sakura walked through the corridor and reached the office when she heard footsteps coming towards her. Sakura turned her head and saw Shizune coming with paperwork, probably for Tsunade.

"Ah, Sakura-Chan, good you came, Tsunade-sama is waiting for you in the office." Sakura blinked at the older woman before nodded and walked through the door.

Sakura walked in and saw her teacher sitting at her desk doing paperwork while Shizune watched the blonde woman doing what she was supposed to do.

Tsunade smiled when she saw Sakura. The slug princess had become fond of the young girl and saw the potential she had to become a great medic ninja. Tsunade had been impressed that Sakura had the guts and come to Tsunade on her own and asked her to train her to become a medic.

"Well, there you are my little student ready for more training?" Tsunade asked, a grinning. Seeing Sakura eyes lit up with excitement was an joyful thing. Sakura reminded Tsunade of herself when and understood how Sakura felt, being left behind by her teammate and yearn to become better and be able to fight her own fights.

"Hai, Tsunade-sama" Sakura answered, the excitement could be heard in her voice. Tsunade chuckled seeing the girl being so excited to train.

"Good, let's get down to the business. Time to head down to the training ground."Tsunade stood up from her chair and walked around the desk and by Sakura. Sakura turned around and followed the blonde sanin out of the office.

They arrived to the training ground and Sakura felt nothing but gratitude towards the older woman. She gave Sakura hope, that even she could be stronger. Tsunade made her believe in herself, that even she, a kunoichi from a civil family could become stronger.

Tsunade turned to Sakura, her honey colored eyes watching the teenage in front of her. Her eyes narrowed.

"Now then Sakura. I want you to start meditate."

Sakura nodded and sat down under one of the tree and toke deep breaths and started to meditating. First her mind wandered everywhere but Sakura focused to not to think on anything special just to relax and let everything go. She felt at ease sitting there under the tree, hearing the birds chipping in the background. She heard Tsunade move to sit down and then there was just silence. Only sounds from the birds around the training ground was heard.

Tsunade sat a bite from her and watched the pink haired girl under silence. Tsunade observing her student. Sakura had let her hair grown out, to be longer, it now reached a little bit down on her back. Her body had dramatic changed, gotten more muscles. Her chakra reserves had grown as well. Tsunade sighed and closed her eyes.

Is it fate that brought these kids to us? It's ironic that we all three got students that are similar as us. Sakura is just like me, stubborn and refuse to give up and perfect chakra control. Naruto is just like Jiraiya. Idiot but still lovable, funny but clumsy. Sasuke and Orochimaru is also alike. They want power, however Sasuke for revenge and Orochimaru yearn for immortal to learn every jutsu there is.

After what felt an hour Sakura opened her eyes watching Tsunade who had her eyes closed. She had also been meditating. The older woman felt Sakura watching her so Tsunade opened her eyes and starred at Sakura in the eye.

"Now then are you ready?" Tsunade stood up, Sakura following suit.

"yes ma'am" Sakura watched, mentally preparing herself for anything Tsunade would do to her. Tsunade was unpredictable when it come to the training.

"Good, today we'll sparring today. Don't hold back got it?" Tsunade said, her eyes narrowed at the girl. Tsunade know very much what Sakura was capable to do and Tsunade had all intention to push Sakura to her limits and help her to get stronger.

"Hai"

Suddenly Tsunade leaped forward, startling Sakura however, she managed to shake it off and dodged Tsunade's attack. Sakura watched the damage the punch had done the ground was shattered, big rocks was standing up and in the middle of it was Tsunade standing smirking towards her. Sakura got a dreadful feeling. This training would be though, Sakura could tell by the looks Tsunade was giving.

Sakura focused her chakra in her fists when she felt a strange sensation in her neck. It was tingling, it was uncomfortable. It ached, making Sakura for a moment close her eyes instinctively.

Tsunade, who jumped up from the hole and had raised her fist once more, saw her student flinch in pain which made Tsunade stop in her tracks and landed a couple meters away from her student.

"Sakura, what's the matter? Something wrong?" Tsunade walked up to her student and saw Sakura touching her neck.
Sakura flinched but tried to ignore the weird sensation, however it vanished just as quick it came. Sakura looked at Tsunade who frowned, looking concerned.

"I'm not sure I got this uncomfortable tingling sensation in my neck and back of the head, but whatever that was the feeling is gone now"

Tsunade still frowned, but said nothing. "Do you wish to continue?

"Yes ma'am" Sakura said, looking determined to continue the sparring. Tsunade smirked.

"Very well then, let's continue then" Tsunade had a bunch of balls which Shizune had prepared and taken them to the training ground. Sakura eyed the balls warily. She knew this exercise and frankly. It was one of the ones she didn't like.

Tsunade had no mercy when she sent those balls towards her.

"You know this, you're to avoid every single ball I kick towards you." Tsunade said grinning. Sakura gulped, feeling nervous. This would end badly she was certain.

"This is going to hurt a lot" Sakura thought with a grimace. She saw Tsunade throw the ball into the air and smashed it, sending it with high speed towards her.

Several hours later

Sakura and Tsunade ended their training session for the day. Shizune had briefly been at the training ground with them, but she had been summoned to the hospital.

Tsunade returned to her office, leaving Sakura alone, who were on her way back to her apartment. Sakura was walking down the street, feeling it was getting colder.

"Geez, you would think the evening would be warmer now but no, of course not. It's freaking cold." Sakura muttered. She looked around, seeing the shops in the street was preparing to close for the night. The light from restaurants was shining out to the streets. Children and parents was walking through the streets. Freezing, Sakura hurried to get home, she was tired and she needed a shower.

"A warm hot shower when I get home will be nice" Sakura hurried through the streets. She was tired, Tsunade had been rough on her, but Sakura didn't mind. It was a good thing, Tsunade didn't held back and it made her feel she did improve and get better.

"Hah aha" Sakura stopped and looked around to see where the laugh was coming from. When Sakura saw the children with their parents, Sakura sighed and smiled.

I hope everything is all right with you Naruto, we miss you greatly. Konoha is not the same when you're not around.

Sakura come to her apartment and went inside, she kicked off her shoes and decided to take a long warm shower for her arching muscles. She had just entered the bathroom when strange tingling sensation was back, however it was worse, it was much more intense, like someone had stabbed her in the neck with something similar to a knife.

Sakura grabbed her head, her eyes tight shut, the pain was moving, so her head was arching. Sakura groaned and closed her eyes tightly. She couldn't stand the pain. She tried to use the little chakra she had left to use to smoother the pain but it didn't help. The pain was overwhelming, Sakura felt tears in her eyes, threaten to spill, the pain was extreme. Sakura fall down on her knees and held her head in her hands. The Pain in the neck was getting worse. Sakura wasn't sure it felt like something was burning her. Sakura gasped for air, trying to breath calmly and steady however soon black spout was appearing in her sight and before Sakura could move any further, she fall down to the floor, lying on her side.

A/N: Hey people! What's up? This is my newest story, all thanks to Goddess OF Deaths who come with this idea, to help me to get inspired again to write my stories. So it will be another MinatoxSakura pairing. This was short but it will get better I promise. Please enjoy and I hope you'll leave a review.

P.S I am going over all the chapters with my beta reader now, to make the story better. I hope you like it.