Sakura looked into the alleyway horror marring her features. She had been enjoying her second Kyubbi festival in her nice red kimono when she saw her mother and a few other adults leave an alleyway. Her bright green eyes shined with curiosity as she trotted over to the alleyway to look, her money pouch swinging from its string only to find this.

Inside the alleyway is a nightmare. Blood splattered all over the area making it drip off the walls every single drop of blood coming from a small boy, about her age (6) Sakura notes. The boy was stripped of his clothes and pinned to the wall using kunai. It seems they had whipped and stabbed him with rope and kunai. No harm was done to his vitals; it seems they had done it just to bring him pain. But that isn't the worst part.

The worst part of this is you could see him still awake. She could see him twitching making the kunai rip into him and his blond hair, dyed with his blood, shake from his slight movements. His blue eyes fluttered behind his eyelids in pain.

Partially shaking out of the shock Sakura pukes out the festival food just missing her kimono. She silently bucks up her wits and with her mind blank she approaches the boy. Reaching him she vaguely realizes that he isn't as bad as he looks. Slowly making sure she doesn't hurt him anymore then she has to she takes the kunai out of his body with shaking hands.

Grabbing him before he crashes to the earth she lowers him softly to the ground noting that he's heavier then she would have guessed.

Giving herself a mental shake she looks him over. He's bleeding a lot and even she knows he will die of blood loss if she doesn't get help soon. Looking around she sees a strange man. He is wearing a tight green spandex jumpsuit, orange legwarmers, a jonin flak-jacket, and most importantly a Konoha headband identifying him as a ninja of the village.

Running to the man quickly she pulls up in front of him and starts tugging on his jacket. When he looks down at her she points into the alleyway and says "He's going to die." The shock of a little girl telling him that someone is going to die in such a dead voice makes him rush to the alley. After assessing the situation he quickly picks up the child and vanishes leaving a young mentally scarred girl behind.

Sakura would never be the same again.