Fading Blossom - Chapter 1
"Where am I?"
Sakuras whispered as she looked up and saw the huge gates of Konoha off to her right. She touched the side of her head and felt blood caked into her hair. She tried to gather medical chakra to her hands and grimaced when nothing happened.
"What the fuuuuuck?"
Her hands were tiny, not nearly the size they should have been on the 22 year old medic, not nearly the size they should have been to crush a boulder the way Tsunade-shishou showed her. No medical chakra would even appear. It felt like she had no chakra to begin with.
"Hey, Kakashi! Over here, the power of youth is calling me in this direction!" cried the green beast of Konoha.
"Shut up Guy, I don't know why I have to do border patrol with you anyway. What is Minato sensei thinking? Surely I could be more useful than simply watching this stupid gate", Kakashi muttered as he wondered why he was pulled off his Jonin duties for guard duty which was more suited to a Chunin like Guy.
"My eternal rival! Do not doubt our dearest Hokage! He knows that our friendship needs to blossom in our time of eternal youth!"
"Guy! Shut up and get over here, I think I heard someone".
Sakura couldn't believe her eyes. That couldn't be…..Kakashi sensei coming towards her? And was that Guy?
"Argghhhhhh" she cried when she tried to sit up. Sakura looked down and saw the katana that was embedded through her stomach. She couldn't even tell what was damaged without her medical ninjutsu to fall back on. "How did I wake up as a 5 year old?" she thought? "How is that Kakashi? I don't understand, he looks like he should be in the academy, he's so small" she thought.
*Cough* "Oh shit" she muttered when she looked at her now blood filled hand after she tried to cover her mouth.
"Stay down! State your name and affiliation!" yelled Kakashi.
"Sakura, cough, Kon…..oha" she tried to say but she couldn't tell If they understood since her words were probably incomprehensible since her lungs were currently drowning in her own blood.
"Here, sit up and lean to your side, slowly" said Guy as he slowly helped the injured, pink haired child, turn to the side to spit up more blood.
She didn't realize she was crying until she felt Guy wiping them off her cheek. She was so weak, she had the knowledge of a 22 year old medic, second best medic in all of Konoha, and she remembered her old life, growing up on team 7, training under Tsunade, becoming a Chunin and remembered being hailed as one of the 'second coming of the Sannin after the 4th shinobi war. But she also felt the emotions of a little girl who just woke up in a strange, (yet kind of familiar) forest with a gaping head wound and a katana through her stomach. Needless to say, her day just got a lot more interesting.
"Kakashi, stop your questioning! She is no threat, she is an injured child who needs to get to the hospital immediately!"
"This could be a trap from another village, we should send her to Ibiki" replied Kakashi with a shrug. It's not like he didn't feel bad for the kid, but he knows that the world of Shinobi is harsh, something Guy didn't understand. He absentmindedly rubbed his newly acquired Sharingan under his Hitai-ate thinking back to seeing Obito under that rock and seeing Rin cry the whole time she completed the transplant. He finally thought of a gift for his promotion huh? Why couldn't he have just gone after Rin in the first place? Maybe then Obito wouldn't have died….
"Ashi…Kakashi…KAKASHI!"
"What Guy?" snapped Kakashi as he was pulled out of his flashback.
"I told you she just passed out and we are not brining her to Ibiki, she tried to run once she heard his name and the katana shifted, I think it pierced her lung!"
She flinched when she heard Ibikis' name? Interesting he thought. "Shit, give her to me. Don't give me that look, I'll bring her straight to the hospital".
"How long have I been asleep?" Sakura rasped through a dry throat.
"About 6 hours I think".
"Oh no" thought Sakura. Her fears were confirmed when she looked around and did not see a sterile hospital room, no, she saw a concrete box with a single door on one wall.
"Welcome Sakura" she heard just as she turned and saw the much younger, but still scarred, face of Morino Ibiki "to the torture and interrogation headquarters of Konohagakure. Care to tell me how you got to our village?"
"Fucking perfect" is all she got to say before she felt pain shooting up her arm.
"AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH".
The cries of a 5 year old could be heard down the whole underground level of T&I headquarters. Kakashi didn't even flinch as he started to walk back up the stairs.