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Summary: - when did saviour and killer go hand in hand?
He reaches out to her (heart kindness love soul) hand, trying to calm the girl whose hands are red with blood and eyes are wide and blank with pain and anger and the loss of the people who tried to kill her family.
" don't touch me." her voice is naught but a whisper, a kiss on the air that hasn't shifted, but he hears it and he's worried because she never talks to him like that.
"Sakura." his voice is empty and desolate but he's vexed and until he gets an answer he'll pester and poke and prod and make her tell him what the hell is wrong with her. He calls her name twice, until he finally just slumps and hisses out (with all the animosity he can muster because she has to listen to him, she's Sakura and he's Sasuke and if she doesn't listen then she's –
strong
– not herself) " weakling."
and suddenly Sakura is gone, in her stead is a girl whose taken lives and is finally strong enough to wear her hair short, Sakura fades away to leave the shell of her because no one kills and gets away with it.
Sakura is gone, and where she once was is a woman scorned and a monster whose claws are searching for Uchiha blood.
she sends him flying with a flick of her wrist and Sasuke sits – head bloody but not like the mutilated bodies around him – delirious and feeling sufficiently apologetic (like hell if he'll ever tell her).
but Sakura doesn't care because she's killed ten men – robbed ten families of a son, brother, lover, friend.
and she's so filthy, dirty, but she saved her team and that means she's a savior and when the fuck did savior and killer go hand in hand. A savior doesn't kill, a hero doesn't murder, but Naruto did and if Naruto kills isn't that all right?
But it's not and it never will be because there's still blood on her hands and she's still nothing but a murderer.
(Sasuke sits and wonders what happened while he was gone –
so much so much so much
– as Sakura buries the dead.)
poor girl.
~AU.