Blood Stained Petals - Disclaimer: Don't own
Sakura sees blood every day. She is a medic; it's her duty to heal the wounds, take away the blood.
But this time, she can't get rid of it.
Blood stains her hands, red liquid dripping down, seeping into her skin. Sakura runs her hands under the tap, calmly at first, then growing more panicked as it wouldn't go away, and the water is at full burst now, water spraying her clothes.
(She hasn't been near a battle, or the hospital in weeks.)
The smell stings Sakura's senses, and she leaves the tap running, frantically flinging her bedroom door open, and clutching the nearest bottle of perfume, starts pouring it over her hands, hoping to get rid of the smell, wash the blood from her skin, with the flowery scent of lilacs and roses.
It doesn't work.
So, she hurtles back to the tap, the bottle of perfume left leaking it's contents on the floor, and resumes washing the blood away, brow furrowed. She's crying tears of angry frustration now, that fall down her face and mix with the blood on her hands.
(In her minds eye, she can see Sasuke with blood streaked down his face, and Naruto, the Kyuubi mixing Naruto's blood and his own chakra.)
She cries harder, and kneels on the floor, rubbing her hands against each other, just to get rid of the blood.
(There isn't any blood in Sakura's house; not a single drop.)