[Naruto] Spring Branch

Blurb:

At twelve, Sakura Haruno was overjoyed to get closer to the person she liked.

At thirteen, Sakura chased after the person she loved, begging him not to leave and asking her teammate to bring him back.

At fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen, she became Tsunade's apprentice, learning superhuman strength and medical ninjutsu, hoping to catch up with the figures disappearing into the distance.

Later, she resolved to kill the person she had pursued throughout her youth.

It was love, but also a duty: she had decided to abandon the obsession she'd held since childhood.

Later,

she finally understood that fate does not favor those who pursue the chosen ones,

and that the fate she wanted was hers to create!

At twenty-one, Sakura Haruno married Sasuke Uchiha. She once believed that this was happiness.

From twenty-one to thirty-two, a child named Sarada Uchiha blossomed, and Sakura Haruno unexpectedly returned to the past.

The responsibilities she could not abandon, the family she could not bring herself to leave; her younger self, the child as tender as a cherry blossom; her past and her future

Would a nightingale perch before a gravestone and sing to the dusk, or would a sparrow land beneath early cherry blossoms and carry away a fallen bloom?

"Spring has covered the branches once more. Which flower has bloomed anew?"*

1. Primarily focused on Hokage.

2. The pairing is set: Sakura from Boruto: Naruto Next Generations.

3. The line marked with an asterisk is quoted from the song "Kong Sheng," which inspired this story.

4. This is a niche premise written for my own enjoyment. Sorry for changing the blurb, but I really want to write this idea.

Thesis: Grow into a better version of yourself.