29 Jan 2022 2 Comments
From Chapter 50: “Sakura of the Leaf,” Chiyo rasped. Sakura leaned in to listen, wondering if, at the end, Chiyo had some message to pass on. Sakura was not so heartless as to deny an old woman her last wish— Chiyo’s eyes locked on hers. Her hand gripped her forearm, clawing around it in the […]
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23 Dec 2021 4 Comments
From Chapter 49: Chiyo’s far-away voice echoed down through the darkness. It was clear and unforgiving. “Get to work. It’s the only reason I let you live.“ Sakura blinked into the darkness. She took a few steps forward, hands grasping air in front of her, feet shuffling— But a stone caught her toe and she stumbled […]
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09 Jul 2021 12 Comments
Sakura heard muffled voices in the darkness. For a moment, she was completely disoriented. She shook her head and realized she was on the ground. There was a dim light from beyond the edge of the cavern wall, and she remembered the cave…the explosion…. A deep, male voice was speaking somewhere in the darkness…. “That […]
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25 Nov 2020 10 Comments
They worked through the year, but they still were not a team. The chunin exams were approaching, and Kakashi warned them if they didn’t figure it out they wouldn’t make it through the exam. They would most certainly be killed. But even his most stern warning didn’t get through. And after a small mission went […]
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24 Sep 2020 2 Comments
They stopped for a few hours overnight, taking refuge inside a crevice that slashed down a sandstone monolith. Tired to her bones, Sakura sat down hard on the cold desert floor. She let her head fall back against the rock wall. Barely visibly beyond the top of the fissure, the night sky was reduced to […]
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20 Aug 2020 2 Comments
Sakura, Sasuke and Kakashi left out of Konoha under the cover of darkness, before dawn’s first rays cracked over the sleeping village. Kakashi explained briefly that he had a lead on something big and that they needed to go. Time was of the essence. They trusted Kakashi so they went. No questions asked. But as […]
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14 Jun 2020 4 Comments
Well after dark, after she’d run her errands, showered and changed back into her shinobi clothes, Sakura scaled a building wall in the center of Konoha, hopped over the spine of the roof and down into a secluded balcony. Several nins were already there, leaning out and watching the parade a story below. Sakura landed […]
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15 May 2020 2 Comments
Sakura quickly changed out of her shinobi clothes and into a civilian skirt and side-zipped vest, then left for her childhood home. She may have looked like she was a civilian but she was more alert than ever to being noticed. She watched for Sasuke down the dark lanes of the shinobi district. She didn’t […]
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29 Apr 2020 No Comments
Sakura left the streets of Konoha behind and set off for the for the woods outside the walls of the village. This errand for Tsunade was different. The instructions were scant. The destination was at best dangerous. At worst…well…. She didn’t want to think about that…. She was going into the Forest of Death, after […]
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29 Apr 2022 12 Comments
52 – Who to Trust
The sun was warm in Tsunade’s office. Everything looked familiar, felt familiar, even smelled familiar. It was comfortable…and yet somehow deceptive. It kept playing tricks on Sakura’s mind. It made her feel like nothing had changed. But Sakura knew, standing in this office, she had to confront the truth she’d been avoiding for days. Everything […]
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