Author's Note: The series "Naruto" does not belong to me. The song "Everybody's Fool" belongs to Evanescence.
Everybody's Fool
Perfect by nature
Icons of self indulgence
Sakura walked gracefully down a mildly busy street. Quite a few people watched her in awe from the corner of their eye. The rest fully turned their heads and stopped what they were doing to openly stare at her.
On the outside, she had a face of calm serenity. However, on the inside, she was silently seething. Don't people have better things to do than stare at a high ranking kunoichi? A perfect, beautiful, powerful……
Just what we all need
More lies about a world that
Never was and never will be
Have you no shame don't you see me
You know you've got everybody fooled
She quickened her pace to escape the stares of the Konoha citizens. A tightening, gripping pressure formed in her chest and throat. Why was it that almost everyone only saw her occupational status and not her?
Look here she comes now
Bow down and stare in wonder
Oh how we love you
No flaws when you're pretending
But now I know she
She entered the ANBU headquarters building and proceeded to make her way up to her floor, full of her own personal soldiers that are under her own command.
A group of lower ranking kunoichis stopped in their laughter and gossips to smarten up and bow when Sakura walked by. She nodded at them with only a glance. She could feel them gaze at her retreating back in awe.
She heard one of them distinctly say how lucky she was to be working under the great Haruno Sakura.
Never was and never will be
You don't know how you've betrayed me
And somehow you've got everybody fooled
She snorted lightly as she turned into the corner into her office. The 'great' Haruno Sakura was she now? She softly closed the door behind her and locked the door. She walked to her desk to pick up a circular, porcelain object.
Without the mask where will you hide
Can't find yourself, lost in your lie
She gently fingered the beautifully painted mask. Black cherry blossoms adorned the lower left side of the mask.
Two years ago, she would have been ecstatic to be one of the highest ranking officers of the ANBU squad. Now though….
She was honestly strong and honestly smart, a result of her honest hard work. Her one bravo is her attitude and personality outside the battlefield. People always expect her to be just as brilliant with everything else. Well….people expected that person, and she sub-consciously became that person.
I know the truth now
I know who you are
And I don't love you anymore
She became aware of that person when she went to visit Iruka at the Konoha Academy a few months ago. All of the children that were once like her, rushed up greet her. Asking for her autograph and asking to tell them how she became the strongest kunoichi of the five great Shinobi countries.
It never was and never will be
You don't know how you've betrayed me
And somehow you've got everybody fooled
That was like a blast of cold water to the face. Her? When did this happen? A role model? An icon…of a perfect soldier…? No! She wanted to be just Sakura! Haruno Sakura! Just Sakura!
It never was and never will be
You're not real and you can't save me
Somehow now you're everybody's fool
The dam that had built up in her heart broke, letting out waves of anguished sobs of the broken and misunderstood woman. She sank down onto her knees and clutching her ANBU mask she let out her heart-breaking sobs until they weren't heart-breaking…..
The sound became less desolate as time wore on…it no longer tore at the heart….rather, it was bruising and aching, yearning for who she was before…
Okay well, it's been a while since I've put up a new story, but...ta-da! It's my first shot at a Angst-kinda thing...Tell me how I did if you ever get the chance to review it, and I hope they're constructive comments too!!