{"id":3889,"date":"2022-02-18T15:45:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T20:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swirlingpetals.com\/?p=3889"},"modified":"2022-02-18T15:45:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T20:45:42","slug":"ch-52-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swirlingpetals.com\/?p=3889","title":{"rendered":"Preview – Chapter 52"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The sun was warm in Tsunade\u2019s office. Everything looked familiar, felt familiar, smelled<\/i> familiar. It was comfortable\u2026and deceptive. It kept playing tricks on Sakura\u2019s mind. It felt like nothing had changed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But Sakura new, standing in this office, she had to confront the truth she\u2019d avoiding for days. Everything was different for her.<\/p>\n

Despite her vow to tell Sasuke what had happened to her in that cavern with Chiyo and Sasori, she found she didn\u2019t want to talk about it. Not the next day. Nor the next. She hadn\u2019t given any extra details, and her team hadn\u2019t asked. Maybe they didn\u2019t suspect it of her, to omit crucial details when she never had before. Or maybe, like her, they were just glad to be on their way home.<\/p>\n

So when Team 7 waited in the hall outside the Hokage\u2019s office immediately after returning, she knew couldn\u2019t avoid it any longer. She would need to explain herself. Tell the whole story and lay bare everything she\u2019d done.<\/p>\n

It made her queasy thinking about it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Kakashi went in first, telling them to wait till he summoned them, then closed the door firmly behind him. But they could still hear Tsunade\u2019s raised angry voice ricocheting around the room.<\/p>\n

For a moment Sakura thought something had happened. Maybe Gaara had died. Maybe the monster inside him had broken free.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But it was not about the Sand Kage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tsunade was furious at Kakashi for taking them out. Several fragments made it crystal clear just how mad she was at him: He twisted her request to take his team into the desert on what was beyond an S-class mission\u2026. Even he<\/i> shouldn\u2019t have been on it\u2026. She asked him to look into it, not go there<\/i>\u2026. And imagine how many things could have gone wrong\u2026.<\/p>\n

Kakashi\u2019s responses were soft and indistinguishable, but apparently contained apologies enough to satisfy her. After another few tense moments, Kakashi popped his head outside, gave them an unrepentant grimace, then ushered them inside.<\/p>\n

Tsunade asked several questions of each of them. The anger aimed at Kakashi had mostly melted from her voice, and the questions were standard of Konoha mission debriefs. When she was satisfied, Sai and Sasuke were dismissed.<\/p>\n

\u201cSakura, please stay a moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sakura nodded and didn\u2019t move.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Standing in the sunny office, Sakura felt more comfortable than she had in days. Exhaustion was blooming in the aches in her muscles and joints. They had come straight to the Kage tower without stopping. And in that moment of normalcy \u2014 the warm sun, the pleasant smell of fresh scrolls \u2014 she felt that everything might be okay again.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It was a mission. It was over. She would file her report. And maybe she could unburden herself of what happened.<\/p>\n

She might never be able tell Sasuke. But perhaps Tsunade would understand.<\/p>\n

The warmth lulled her into believing this would work. That there was a path forward for her\u2014<\/p>\n

The door closed quietly. Kakashi walked back into the room and stood beside her.<\/p>\n

Tsunade looked at Sakura. \u201cKakashi tells me you defeated Sasori to save the Sand Kage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sakura nodded.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSingle-handedly?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I partnered with Lady Chiyo of the Sand. It was her chakra that brought back the Kage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tsunade leaned on the arm of her chair, looking relaxed, but she didn\u2019t move. Her eyes were watching everything Sakura did. \u201cAnd how did that work?\u201d<\/p>\n

Sakura knew she should answer, reveal what Chiyo told her, what the old woman made her do\u2014 But the words wouldn\u2019t come.<\/p>\n

Maybe it was cowardice. Maybe it was weakness. But she couldn\u2019t make voice work, she couldn\u2019t find the energy to explain what happened, to relive one single moment of it. So Sakura took the easy way out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With the same fake smile, she repeated the same lie she\u2019d been telling since she walked out of the cave.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLady Chiyo told me what to do, and I did it. I fought off Sasori while she healed the Kage.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tsunade didn\u2019t move. She just looked at her.<\/p>\n

In the silence, Sakura felt the weight of the lie. The longer Tsunade sat, watching her, the heavier it was getting. Sakura forced herself not to look away or fidget nervously.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It was as if Tsunade could see right through her. A if she already knew the things Sakura was didn\u2019t want to say….<\/p>\n

So perhaps even though she didn\u2019t want to admit to any of \u2014 expose just how broken she was inside, even to herself \u2014 maybe it was time. And if she didn\u2019t do it now, she might never do it. The lie might sit there, inside her, getting darker and heavier, consuming more and more of her. Like Gaara\u2019s monster\u2026.<\/p>\n

So maybe it was time. Sakura blew out a low breath and parted her lips to speak\u2026but that\u2019s when she saw it\u2014<\/p>\n

A single look. Between Tsunade and Kakashi. Her hawk eyes flashed her eyes at him, and he cleared his throat softly in acknowledgement.<\/p>\n

And that was all it took to change Sakura\u2019s fate.<\/p>\n

By the time Tsunade was shifting her eyes back to Sakura, cold clarity was washing over her.<\/p>\n

Some message had been exchanged between them. Something they knew, about her<\/i>\u2014<\/p>\n

The lulling comfort of a moment before gone, wiped away.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing was the same, she thought bitterly. It may never be the same again.<\/p>\n

She grit her teeth and forced her limbs to hang loosely at her sides. To not let her body slide into a defensive pose like it so desperately wanted to.<\/p>\n

If she told them, she\u2019d have to reveal what she\u2019d done, to herself and to Gaara. If she let anyone even see<\/i> her healing chakra now, they\u2019d know she was different.<\/p>\n

Just the fact that she had actually changed her chakra form\u2026. She didn\u2019t even know that was possible. Maybe it wasn\u2019t. Maybe that<\/i> was Chiyo\u2019s poison\u2026.<\/p>\n

Sakura let herself grow cold inside, let it harden her.<\/p>\n

She told herself to remember, to never forget: They knew things about her. Perhaps they all did. And they didn\u2019t tell her. She had to find it out from an enemy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Something inside her shifted, her resolve turned to steel. It was hard and unbreakable as the rope of chakra that coiled now just below the surface.<\/p>\n

She didn\u2019t know who she could trust. She was on her own side now. She vowed to herself, no matter what was at stake, no one would ever know what happened until she had her answers first.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, Sakura felt protected. In control. She raised and lowered her shoulders with a cleansing breath.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There was a detail she would tell them though. A fragment of information that she\u2019d held back for entirely different reasons.<\/p>\n

Sasori\u2019s parting information had been about Itachi, thus it effected Sasuke. She didn\u2019t tell Kakashi on the way back because she didn\u2019t want to risk Sasuke overhearing.<\/p>\n

But now, this scrap of information seemed like the perfect thing to shift attention away from her. At least for a little while\u2026. At least until she figured some things out for herself\u2026.<\/p>\n

Sakura cleared her throat. \u201cSasori did say something, at the end. Something that didn\u2019t make any sense\u2026. It was about Itachi and Sasuke\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tsunade leaned forward, eyes sharp. Kakashi\u2019s body went rigid, alert.<\/p>\n

\u201cSasori was dying.\u201d She stopped. \u201cNo not really dying. Unwinding<\/i>.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Beside her, Kakashi tipped his head, nodding once.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said Itachi had already caught something.\u201d She looked from Kakashi to Tsunade and back again for clarification. They had none.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said \u2018Itachi has already caught his\u2026.\u2019<\/p>\n

Tsunade was so still she looked frozen. Her knuckles were white where her fingers curled around the arm of her chair.<\/p>\n

Kakashi looked pained. He rubbed a hand down his face. He swore under his breath. When he finally spoke, his voice was choked with emotion. \u201cAnd that\u2019s it? Nothing else?\u201d<\/p>\n

Sakura shook her head. \u201cSasori\u2019s voice stopped working on the last word.\u201d<\/p>\n

She looked back to Tsunade. This time, her expression was hard. A mix of anger\u2026and fear.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She tore off a piece of scroll and wrote down Sasori\u2019s words in fast, slashing strokes.<\/p>\n

Sakura added, less sure of herself now, \u201cI assumed it had something to do with Sasuke.\u201d She glanced at Kakashi. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to reveal it in front of him. In case, you know\u2026.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She didn\u2019t fill in the rest. She knew they understood. In case he took off to hunt down Itachi. Keeping Sasuke safe and protected by village had always been the number one priority where Itachi was concerned.<\/p>\n

But Tsunade and Kakashi looked like that was the farthest thing from their minds at the moment.<\/p>\n

Kakashi was grim. Sakura thought she\u2019d never seen him look so anguished. He tipped his head at Tsunade, almost as if he was silently pleading with her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Again, another silent communication passed between them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYes, you should go,\u201d Tsunade said \u201cUpdate the others. Maybe there\u2019s still some hope,\u201d but she shook her head as if even she didn\u2019t believe what she was saying. She dismissed him with a single nod, then he was gone in a swirl of leaves.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sakura was confused. But delivering Sasori\u2019s message had the unexpected side-effect of relieving her guilt. Now she could leave too\u2014<\/p>\n

However Tsunade surprised her.<\/p>\n

\u201cSakura, I\u2019m glad we have a moment alone.\u201d She shifted some scrolls around on her desk, looking for the right ones. \u201cEven in light of this new information,\u201d she said, more to herself. Then she found what she was looking for.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She came around the desk and stood in front of Sakura. Two slims scrolls were in her hand. One was old, with yellowing paper. But the other was very old, with crumbling wax seals at the ends stuck with a few remaining threads of what must have once been a tassel.<\/p>\n

\u201cHad I known what you were facing, where you were going,\u201d Tsunade began, but stopped herself. \u201cWell, first, I never would have let Kakashi take you if I\u2019d known. But he is your sensei. And he knows your capabilities far better than I. And he was not wrong.\u201d She smiled briefly and Sakura bowed her head at the compliment.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut teaming up with a woman<\/i> like that,\u201d she growled the words, \u201cthen fighting against a shinobi like Sasori\u2026\u201d Her voice trailed into a long exhale. She looked down at the scroll. \u201cYou should have been better prepared. And I blame myself for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sakura looked at her feet. For a brief moment Sakura wondered if maybe Tsunade would explain some of her history with Chiyo. She couldn\u2019t deny that relief flooded her at even some small part of her questions being answered\u2014<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d like to officially make you my apprentice.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sakura blinked in shock.<\/p>\n

Tsunade thumbed open the first scroll, the newer of the two. It was a contract. She continued speaking as her eyes skimmed over it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere are different medical practices in the world. Different,\u201d she paused, \u201cattitudes<\/i> about what constitutes healing. And encountering another medic is not always advantageous as it apparently was this time. There are many things I could teach you\u2014\u201c<\/p>\n

Tsunade looked up but was startled to find Sakura wide-eyed and shaking her head.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNo,\u201d she said breathlessly. \u201cNo, no, no\u2014\u201c<\/p>\n

Tsunade\u2019s expression slipped from disbelief to something like betrayal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sakura bowed deeply to avoid seeing it. \u201cI mean, no thank you, <\/i>Tsunade-sama. It is a great honor but\u2026.\u201d She raised her eyes, but only looked as high as the contract in her hands. It seemed so flimsy where the old paper draped over outstretched fingers. \u201cI do not wish to continue on as a medic,\u201d Sakura continued, voice was barely above a whisper. \u201cIn any capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI see,\u201d Tsunade said quietly. She the old yellow paper back up onto itself and pressed the wax seal holding it back together.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sakura closed her eyes, wishing she didn\u2019t hear the pain her voice. Wishing she hadn\u2019t asked. Wishing she wasn\u2019t forced to say no.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But here Sakura was in no doubt. She did not want use her chakra to heal anyone else. Ever again. And until she learned more about herself and what Chiyo had done to her, she didn\u2019t want anyone else to see her chakra either.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is your choice, of course,\u201d Tsunade said. There was disappointment in her tone, but her words were without malice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She placed the contract scroll on the desk behind her, turned back and straightened. Sunlight poured in through the window behind her. It lined her shoulders and made her hair look nearly golden.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen there is only one thing left I can give you.\u201d The clipped tones of the village leader were back in her voice. This was not a request.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tsunade unrolled the second scroll. It was indeed much, much older. Long flowing rows of writing circled around and around themselves on the brown-edged parchment. It was in a language Sakura had never seen before. In the center of the rings of writing, four slashes of ink formed a diamond.<\/p>\n

Tsunade put her fingertips on writing and spoke softly and pushed her energy down into the paper until the writing glowed with her chakra. Then the rings of text began to move on the page. They swirled around and around like a luminous whirlpool. In the center, the glow slowly spread to the diamond. The four lines became so bright it looked as if they might burn through the page.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tsunade lifted her fingertips off the page, very slowly, so as not to sever the chakra connecting to the writing. Beneath her palm, the glow began to lift off the paper too. It hovered there, filling the space like a tiny star had just been born from the churning circle of text.<\/p>\n

The drawn shape had transformed into a perfect four-sided crystal. It rotated slowly above the scroll. The edges shimmered with pale purple chakra and the center was translucent, refracting light through it like a prism.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tsunade lifted her hand away and the crystal traveled with her, turning gently in the center of her cupped hand.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When Sakura saw the diamond on Tsunade\u2019s forehead glowing with the same purple chakra that glistened along the edges of the shape \u2014 as as if she was charging it, controlling it \u2014 she realized what she was seeing.<\/p>\n

Sakura, this seal marks the top of a storage point for your chakra. Think of it like the tip of an iceberg. Or the opening of a well. It is just like mine.\u201d Sakura looked at the purple diamond on her Tsunade\u2019s forehead. \u201cIt will only take up that much space on your skin. But behind it is a vast space. As much as you need or want. So you will never run out again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is an ancient seal, created before there were countries and villages, back when there was a need to control the elemental energy existed freely in the world. It takes a powerful chakra wielder to fill it and maintain it, because it requires both a small amount of chakra at all times to hold it in place. Plus supporting the ocean of chakra that can be stored behind it over the course of your lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI have no doubt that you will manage both easily. In my life I have seen few others with the level of chakra control you have.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sakura looked away, feeling suddenly ashamed of herself. Tsunade didn\u2019t miss her change in expression.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis seal is a gift. From me to you. Nothing more. I give it freely, with no expectations in return\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was no reason to refuse, and Tsunade did not expect her to. So Sakura lowered her chin to accept it.<\/p>\n

Sakura noticed the swirling pattern that moved with the crystal. Like a whirlpool.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not from Konoha, as you may have guessed. It was retrieved from another country that perfected these types of sealing techniques. A country that long ago disappeared beneath the waves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tsunade gathered her fingers together, pushing the crystal out in front of them. Energy spiraled all around her hand. She concentrated the diamond shape at the tip of her index finger, then pressed her finger slowly into the center of Sakura\u2019s forehead. The crystalline diamond sank into her skin like it was being pushed into water. Ripples of energy spiraled around and around above her skin, following the diamond where it had sunk down in the center like a whirlpool.<\/p>\n

The spot tingled slightly on Sakura\u2019s forehead with the not-unpleasant feeling over over-warmed chakra. The air smelled pleasantly singed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a well of chakra for you to always be able to draw from. No matter who you encounter in life. No matter what path you find yourself on.\u201d<\/p>\n

She pressed her other fingers gently against her forehead, and Sakura felt the tingle of chakra from those too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYour chakra is dangerously low,\u201d Tsunade said quietly, and Sakura instantly knew she was reading her energy levels. \u201cThis will prevent that from happening in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

And then it was done. Tsunade lifted her fingers and inspected the mark.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When the glow disappeared, all that was left was a tiny diamond shape, the size of a fingertip, in the center of Sakura\u2019s forehead. It was the same color purple as the one on Tsunade\u2019s head.<\/p>\n

Already Sakura could feel the skin on her forehead beginning to cool.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tsunade rerolled the scroll, placed it with the other \u2014 the unused apprentice contract \u2014 and placed them on the side of the desk nearest the scroll room.<\/p>\n

She returned to her seat. \u201cRight now, your diamond is purple, identical to mine. But my chakra is only there to hold its shape.\u201d Her voice had the clinical tone of a doctor telling a patient about aftercare. \u201cOnce you begin to fill it, my chakra will disappear and it will become completely your own.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sakura bowed. \u201cThank you, Tsunade-sama.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd Sakura,\u201d she began, but stopped herself. \u201cAre you\u2014 Are you certain this is what you want?\u201d<\/p>\n

Sakura held Tsunade\u2019s gaze for a single moment. There was nothing calculated there. But it still seemed like it pained her. And Sakura didn\u2019t feel good about that.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But she was certain. She nodded once.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tsunade didn\u2019t let any expression show. She simply scribbled a note to herself to change Sakura\u2019s status.<\/p>\n

And Sakura had no doubt she would. Above all, Tsunade honored people\u2019s requests. Even when it disappointed her, as she knew this must.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But Sakura felt deeply \u2014 deeper than her distorted chakra form, deeper than all the unanswered questions, deeper even than whatever Chiyo had poisoned her with \u2013\u00a0that she no longer wanted her energy to be used by other people.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will strike your name from the roster, and you will not be called up as a medic, in any capacity, unless you ask to be.\u201d Tsunade finished scribbling and looked up at her, tipping her head to inspect the seal.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce it has completely cooled you should hide it with an appearance-shifting jutsu. It is a mark of power. And though very few people would even know what it is, it could still be used against you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sakura looked at Tsunade\u2019s forehead. Tsunade nodded along with her. \u201cI kept mine masked for many years, but as a Kage it sends a bit of a different message.\u201d She smiled briefly, acknowledging the ocean of power that she held at the ready, all the time. All in that little mark.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you know how to apply an appearance-shifting jutsu? You learned should have learned it in one of your academy classes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sakura nodded, a little confused. It was simple, one of the first justus the learned. It didn\u2019t seem like something that would hide such a powerful mark.<\/p>\n

\u201cGood. This is a little different. Instead of disguising your whole shape, or a single aspect like your face, concentrate the jutsu right onto the edges of the diamond. As thin as you can getter. Thinner, even. Imagine it attaching to the very cells. Just that line around the edge.<\/p>\n

Then that little pool of chakra that\u2019s left inside, imagine it flattening inward. Just a bit, until it no longer sits on the surface. Until the diamond feels like it\u2019s made the tiniest depression in your forehead. Then release your normal chakra to cover it up. It will slip over and sit right on the surface. And no one will ever be able to detect it. Not unless they are extraordinarily proficient, and know exactly where to look.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Tsunade was speaking, Sakura remembered what it was like to be her student. To feel capable and be amazed by what she learned she could do. It seemed effortless, like she could just reach out and grasp her life before, step back into the way things had been.<\/p>\n

She didn\u2019t feel that way after Chiyo. She had learned a lot there too. But she also had been used. Chiyo was right after all. In a sick way she had become that old woman\u2019s student too. Whether she wanted to or not.<\/p>\n

So even this gift, something that would have made her former self feel so proud and accomplished\u2026revealed that there was so much she didn\u2019t know.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Chiyo had used that against her. Had broken her and used her as a weapon. And there was no way to go back to who she had been before.<\/p>\n

Sakura cleared her throat and told herself again this was the right thing to do. \u201cThank you Tsunade-sama,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there\u2019s nothing else,\u201d Tsunade said softly, looking up at her. Sakura hesitated, then shook her head. Tsunade shifted two ancient scrolls on her desk. The hush of paper on paper almost sounded like a sigh. \u201cThen you\u2019re dismissed.”<\/p>\n

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