Okay I lied, everyone who read 'how far must we fall' I'm going to post this story tonight because it is already finished, so all three of my stories, 'a cherry blossoms blood tastes sweetest,' 'an angles blood,' and 'the scars remain' will all be updated tomorrow because I am almost done with those chaps so they will be up tomorrow
My apologizes to everyone but like I said this chap was already finished and I just really wanted to post it
So I guess here it is I hope everyone likes it.
P.S. this is just a prolog so the next chaps will be longer
Prolog
Brilliant emerald green eyes fluttered opened to a sound coming from the living room. A small girl looked around her dark room slowly before calling out to her parents, "Mommy, daddy?" When she did not get an answer she slowly pulled the covers back and let her short legs dangle over her bed side before she jumped down, her short pink hair bouncing as she landed. She stood there for a few moments listening for anymore sounds; her ears were met by a soft thump coming from the living room. Slowly but surly her small feet paddled across the hardwood floor, "Mommy, Daddy?" She called out again, but was met with nothing but silence as she made her way past her sister's room to the living room.
Slowly walking down the hall she came to a corner where the wall to the hall way ended and the living room started. Peaking her head around the corner she looked around the living room, it was almost pitch black, but as her eyes adjusted she could see a big lump lying in the middle of the living room. Slightly curious about what it might be she walked closer to the lump walking around the couch in front of her. When she stepped into something wet and heard a small splash she looked down to see that her foot was wet and dripping but she couldn't really see what it was. 'Water?' the young five year old girl's innocent mind thought before she made the final steps to the lump in the middle of the floor. Once she got close enough she could see it was her parents lying on the floor slightly on top of one another with their backs facing up.
"Mommy, Daddy why are you sleeping on the floor?" she asked innocently as she shook them both in an attempt to wake them up. When they didn't respond she shook them a little harder until a small flicker of light came from the other side of the room. Looking over she saw a boy holding a match in his hand letting it light the room so she could see mostly everything pretty well. "Ichigo, Mommy and Daddy won't wake up." The little girl said looking up to her big brother hoping he would have and answer as to why they would not wake up. "And they never will." The boy said his long-ish red hair covering part of his face as he spoke in a monotone. "What?" The small girl asked the innocence showing through her eyes and she looked up at him confused. "They are dead." The boy said motioning his head toward the lump on the floor. The pink haired girl looked down and gasped, tears filling her eyes as she looked down at her parents, they had many cuts and gashes all over their body, and as she looked down more she could see that it was a puddle of their blood that she had stepped in and was now knelling in.
"And" the older boy said getting the watery eyed girls attention again, "I killed them." He said finally looking up so the girl could see the blood that was splattered over his face. It was then that she noticed that her brother was holding a sword that dripped with blood, and that his cloths were stained from head to toe with blood. Staring the girl just stood there to far into shock to think to move, and pools of tears spilled from her eyes, and ran down her checks uncontrollably. "Ah Sakura, Sakura, Sakura, you always were a weak little thing, never worthy of the gifts you were given…" The older boy said laughing sadistically as he slowly walked toward her, gripping the sword in his hand tighter. "…Never worthy to live at all…" He said as his speed quickened and he was in front of her in seconds, sword raised above his head, before it quickly came down on her, snapping out of her state of shock Sakura fell backwards just enough so the attack missed her.
Breathing heavily at the realization that her brother really was trying to kill her, "Ah so you can move after all, maybe this will be more fun than I thought." Ichigo said laughing as he looked over at her. Eyes widening in fear Sakura stumbled to stand up as her brother came closer to her. With every step he took towards her she took that many more back until her back hit the wall next to the front door and he stood in front of both their parents' dead bodies. She hadn't notice it before but Ichigo was still holding the brightly glowing match in his hand as he stood over their parents.
"Now watch as everything you've ever loved burn." He said smiling a sickly smile as he dropped the match on the two people who had raised her. "No!" She screamed out as everything quickly went up in flames, her parents lifeless bodies lost in the sea of flames.
Sakura stood there in fear for a few seconds before realization dawned on her 'Lily!' she thought as she quickly bashed off in the direction of her sisters room. As the flames became stronger, they swept across Sakura's body burning her arms and legs. Once she made it to her sister's door she quickly pulled the thick piece of wood open and closed it, so that the flames would stay behind the door long enough for her to get the two of them out. She felt a relief sweep over her shortly as she found her sister in bed sleeping and alive. Quickly grabbing the black bandana that the young three year old loved to wear, Sakura rapped the cloth around her sister's eyes, effectively waking the red head. "Saku what going on?" The small girl asked trying to take off the bandana that covered her vision. "Its okay Lily, just what ever you do, don't take off the bandana." Sakura said to the three year old as she picked the girl up and put her on her back. Looking back to see that the flames were beginning to come out form under the door, Sakura quickly moved to the side window, opening it, and quickly hoisted herself out the window with Lily on her back .
"Ah my dear little sister…" Sakura could hear her brother's voice as it echoed throughout the whole Haruno estate. "How does it feel to watch everything burn…" He said laughing and his voice echoed. Sakura took this time to turn around only to see the horror of his words displayed right in front of her. The entire Haruno estate was engulfed in flames, she could see the lifeless bodies of her whole clan, her whole family sprawled out all over the burning houses. There were bodies hanging out of windows, laying on the street, and blood, there was so much blood, it was everywhere, she couldn't walk a foot without stepping in it. "Don't take off the bandana Lily." Sakura reminded her sister, not wanting her baby sister to see what had happened.
She could feel the tears begin to poor out of her eyes again this time quicker and heavier, as she watched everything she ever knew burn to the ground. "Oh how thoughtful, you saved our baby sister, but you should have just let her burn, you both will be joining them soon." Ichigo said as he appeared in front of her the blade of his sword ready to strike down on her, her eyes widened in fear as she looked up at him. "Why do you look so surprised? Do you not wish to join them?" He said laughing as he brought his sword down so that it would strike both Sakura and Lily. Not being able to think Sakura quickly throw Lily off her back so that she would not get hit, but she was not able to move out of the way as the sword came down on her slicing over her right eye. Sakura screamed out in pain as her hand went up to her eye, blood gushing out form under her hand. She could hear Lily crying behind her as she held her scraped knee but her bandana was still on.
"Do you think you deserve to live, you didn't even hear the sounds of their screams, you couldn't even save them, you're too weak to deserve to live." He said laughing, "The world will be better off with someone as weak as you gone." He said bringing his sword down on her. Everything seemed to move in slow motion after that, as Sakura watched her brothers sword, come down to end her life, 'he's right I couldn't save them, I didn't even hear them… I don't have the right to live.' She thought as she closed her good eye, as she waited for her end.
But when no pain was felt she opened her eye, only to look into a slightly familiar face. Confused the 5 year old girl looked over to see her brother was being blocked by a group of ANBU, and Lily was being held by a Jonin, "Itachi, Shisui, take the girls to the hospital!" One of the men said as he held a weapon in front of him for protection. Nodding, the 11 year old Jonin,Uchihaclan prodigy, and his cousin bolted toward the direction of the hospital.
It wasn't long before Sakura's eye began to blur with blackness at the edges, and her eye was soon fill with darkness.
Sakura's emerald green eyes slowly began to open, before they quickly shut again from the bright lights in the room. Letting her eyes adjust, she began to open her eyes again slower this time so they wouldn't be irritated by the light. Once her eyes adjusted, she could see she was in an all white room, laying in a bed, sitting up she felt slightly dizzy before a sharp pain came to her eye. By instinct her hand went up to the pain only to feel a bandage had been placed over her eye. "It will hurt for a while, but you will be able to see through your eye in a few months." A voice said startling the five year old girl; she looked over to see Uchiha Itachi sitting in a chair next to her bed. She knew Itachi fairly well because her parents were very good friends with the Uchiha's so she had seen them many times. She looked at him confused for a second before all that had happened washed over her as she remember everything. Her eyes widened, as she grabbed her head as the images of everything that had happened came rushing to her.
She could feel the tears welling up in her eyes when the voice of her brother came rushing through her mind, 'weak…'
'not any more…' the small girl thought as she willed the tears back, when Itachi saw that the girl was remembering the past events he put his hand over hers in an attempt to comfort her. "It's okay to cry." He said, he knew for a fact this wasn't true for shinobi, but this was a 5 year old girl all she should know how to do was cry and play. Hearing this Sakura lifted her head, her eyes dry, "But they all dried up." She said, her voice as innocent as ever but Itachi caught that small amount of pain and knowledge, that a shinobi who had seen well beyond there years of pain and suffering. And he knew it was only the beginning for her.
Itachi could tell whatever Ichigo had done to this girl, had broken her, and he knew by the blank expression on her face that she wasn't going to let anyone know she was broken. He was about to ask her a question when her heard a women's voice booming from down the hallway. "Where is she, which room!" 'mother…' Itachi thought as he heard his mother's voice becoming louder as she got closer and closer. It didn't take much longer before Mikoto came crashing through the hospital rooms doors, Fugaku, Sasuke, and Lily quickly in tow. "Sakura, my dear are you all right?" Mikoto asked in a panicked voice as she took the girls face in both her hands.
"The Doctor said she had a few sever burns and a serious wound to the eye that will keep her in pain for a while but she should be able to see out of her eye in a few months." Itachi said deciding to step in before his mother mulled a Doctor Trying to get the answers. "Sakura why are you hurt?" an innocent Sasuke asked looking up at the girl "Yeah Saku what happened?" Lily asked innocently, apparently no one had told the two about what had happened. Mikoto looked over at Sakura seeing the pain flash over her eyes before she looked toward Itachi as he nodded knowing what she was asking. "Come on Sasuke, Lily lets get some food from the cafeteria." Itahci said sighing, he knew his brother had no clue on what was going on, and Lily had been blindfolded when they found her so he figured she didn't know anything either but, Sakura had been through enough without two small children probing for answers on the exact thing that was hurting her.
Once the boys had left Mikoto looked at her husband, asking an unsaid question that Fugaku already knew was going to be asked. Motioning toward the door, Mikoto got the hint and walked out with him, "We will be right back Sakura." The Uchiha women said and she cracked the door. "I know what you are thinking and I don't think it would be a good idea to have them stay with us." Fugaku said both adults unaware that Sakura could hear every word they were saying. "They have just gone through a tragedy that no one should go through, and their brother is still out there, what if he comes back for them?" Mikoto argued
'He's… still… out there…' Sakura thought, she had thought he would have been captured by the ANBU. "She would be put in the custody of another family, and the elders would not allow an outsider to live at the compound." Fukgou said trying to reason with his wife. "But they would not know them like they know us, and with powers like Sakura has been given the elders would boost about having her at the compound." Mikoto said easily countering every excuse he made, she knew he liked the girls well enough it was just a matter of making him realize it. "We don't even know if she had the gift." Fukgou said in a matter of fact voice. "But she is said to have it." She said countering his excuse once again. Sakura was confused by all this her brother had said the same thing about a gift but she was never told anything like this, it was very confusing. There was a long silence before Sakura heard the voice of Fugaku, "Very well, but I do not want any trouble from either of them, we are not adopting them either they are to live with us but that is it." He said in a huffy voice, Mikoto's sighed in relief as she and Fugaku came back into Sakura's room, it was not too long after that Sasuke, Lily, and Itachi came back in, both kids carrying a small candy bar.
"Sakura would you like to come live with us?" Mikoto asked in a sweet voice kneeling down at Sakura's bed so she was face to face with the girl. Not knowing what to say Sakura just lowered her head so that her hair covered her face, and nodded her head in a yes monition. "Good myself and Fugaku will go discharge you and then we will leave." Mikoto said as she pulled her husband out the door.
A nurse came in 5 minutes later to help with Sakura's IV, the small girl winced slightly as the needle was taken from her arm, and sat there quietly as other tubes and such were taken away from her. Itachi helped her out of bed and helped steady her seeing as she was slightly wobbly from all the drugs se had been given. It wasn't 10 minutes later and the six of them were walking to the Uchiha compound. Lily and Sasuke were running along the path laughing like nothing had happened… but of course in their minds nothing really had happened.
The next day Sakura stood in the middle of her new room dressed in an all black long sleeved dress, helping her sister with her own black dress. "Saku I no wanna wear this, I wanna go home, where's mama and dada?" The small girl whined as Sakura pulled the dress over the three year olds head. "You have to wear it Lily it's for respect. And we can't go home this is where we live now… and…" Sakura said pausing as she tried to find the right words to say to her sister, "Mommy and daddy can't… be here anymore…" Sakura said careful in trying not to upset her sister, "Why?" Lily asked looking up at her older sister, "Because… they… are in a better place now…" Sakura said trying not to cry as the memories of her parent's death came flashing through her eyes.
"You mean their in heaven…?" Lily asked tears filling in her eyes as she looked up with a saddened look on her face, their parents had been great shinobi and had always told Sakura and Lily if they died they would see them in heaven, it was kind of like a safety net to easy the pain for the two if their parents were ever killed on a mission, Sakura sighed knowing this wouldn't end well, "Yes… but I will tell you a secret…" Sakura said with a sad smile on her face as she pulled out Lily's favorite black bandana. "Wha?" the young girl asked as the tears began to disappear at the sight of her favorite thing, "They… can see you right now… and they are smiling because they are happy…" Sakura said tying the bandana around her sisters head like a ribbon, this made Lily smile as she looked up and waved to the ceiling like her parents we just sitting up there, "Hi mommy, hi daddy!" She said a bright smile on her face.
Sakura smiled down at her sister as she pulled her out of the room and into the living room where the rest of the Uchiha's stood waiting for them.
The funeral was very large and a very long ceremony that was held for all of the Haruno clan, through the whole thing Lily only cried once, which was when their parent's bodies, or what was left of them, were being lowered to the ground. Sakura on the other hand did not cry once, she stood there with a grave look on her face as images of that night swam through her vision, but not once did her cry. Once the ceremony ended Sakura and Lily stood by their parent's graves as many people came and gave their condolences. Sakura stood there giving her thanks and nodding when people talked to her it wasn't till she saw more familiar faces that she perked up slightly. "I'm… I'm… s-sorry for… w-what happened." A very familiar and shy voice said from behind Sakura, the girl turned around to see Hinata and Neji. She smiled at her two friends; her parents had been friends with many of the clans so she had been around them all since the day she was born. "Thank you Hinata-chan." She said trying to smile bigger but her face would not allow it; she looked over at Neji who was very quite to see that his forehead was wrapped.
She knew what this meant he had been given the curse seal, her parents had once told her about it. She walked up to the young boy and hugged him, giving him the untold message that she knew what happened and he could talk to her about it, the young boy hugged her back saying the same thing. Next to come to her was Ino, the young blonde haired girl came running up to Sakura with a two small bouquets of flowers, "This is for you Sakura, and this for you Lily." Ino said trying to smile but Sakura could tell she had been crying, the bouquets were beautiful, Sakura's was Iris's her favorite flower and Lily's was many different colors of lilies. Both girls thanked the blonde before the teary eyed girl ran off to her mother. Many others had come, Naruto, Shikamaru, Choji, Lee, Tenten and many others had all come to give their condolences.
It was mid evening now the gray cloud above her getting darker and the last of the people were leaving the ground, Mikoto, Fukagu, Sasuke and Itachi had come to the two girls as they all got ready to leave, when they heard the voice of a young five year old boy running toward them. Sakura recognized that brown mess of hair anywhere as a small white dog trailed behind him. "Sakura I have something to give you." The boy said grinning, it was a nice change compared to the amount of crying and sad faces Sakura had seen today. Sakura gave a surprised smile as Kiba pulled out from behind his back a black and white, wolf pup.
"I hope you don't mind." Tsume, Kiba's mother said as Hana stood next to her, "He was going to give him to her on her birthday, but we thought she needed a companion now more than ever." Hana said with a sad smile on her face. "Well-"
"Oh its fine it's wonderful thank you!" Mikoto said jabbing her husband in the gut before he could decline their offer. "He's house trained, so you shouldn't have any problems." Tsume said looking down at Sakura as she petted her new pet.
Sakura kneed down petting the wolf, it had soft black fur with a white strip on its neck, white paws to match, and its ears had white tips along a white snout. "His name is Hikaru." Kiba said grinning as Sakura smiled up at him and gave him a big hug, "thank you so much Kiba!" she said as she went back to petting Hikaru. "He is house broken, but it's up to you to train him the rest of the way." Tsume said as she kneeled next to Sakura, the young girl nodded in understanding, "If you train together and learn to work together you two will have the strongest bond." Hana said smiling at the pink haired girl, as she nodded once again.
As the Inuzuka's left Kiba yelled over his shoulder, "Take good care of him Sakura!" the young girl smiled and giggled at this as the four Uchiha's and two Haruno's left the burial site.
It was about six at night the sun was setting and rain was starting to descend from the sky. It was almost dinner time and Sakura was no where to be found, Itachi had taken the role to go look for her. It didn't take to long to find her; she was in one of the old Uchiha training ground that no one used anymore. She had somehow gotten a hold of some shuriken and was throwing them at the target, and surprisingly hitting them quite acutely, but Itachi could see by the looks of the ground that the girl had been at it for hours, the trees had small indentions in them with small amounts of blood from the girl kicking and punching them. The young wolf pup was laying down obviously worn out from training as well, he looked over at Sakura to see her knuckles were bleeding as well as her legs and she was breathing heavily.
It wasn't three minutes later that the young girl stopped what she was doing and began to fall to the ground, Itachi quickly ran to the girl and caught her before she hit the ground. He looked down at the small girl, she was breathing heavily and she was fairly well beaten, he looked over at the wolf pup and motioned for the pup to fallow as he headed back to the compound.
He looked back down at her when she spoke in her sleep, "Must… must get… stronger…" She said as she tossed around in his arms.
'Well Ichigo if your objective was to break this girl… you did it…' Itachi thought as he looked down at her with a sad look on his face.
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