"I am a person who's fighting an ever losing battle. But losing doesn't mean you've lost"
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If I had a second chance, I would take it, grab it, embrace it.
I'm a failure in life; I lost two of the most precious people to me. One to shame and another to shadow.
I'm ashamed to even say that I was ever a teammate to Uzumaki Naruto. He who vowed to bring him back……. just for me.
To the man I loved and cherish every moment with, although he never returned it, I am nothing more than burden, a rock blocking his path. Just to summarize it up, I am weak. I was too weak to stop him and too weak to make him see that I was worth coming back for.
All I did was cry. How I hate that word, cry. Was it because I could do nothing more? I stood there watching them fight my battles for me. Would it even make a different if I was even on their team?
I am a person who's fighting an ever losing battle. But losing doesn't mean you've actually lost right?
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"SAKURA!! GO NOW" her words cut right thru me.
"tsu-tsuna-de- sama-, I ca- I can't do it" tears were streaming down my face, mixing with the sweat that drenched my clothes.
" YES YOU CAN,YOU HAVE SURPASSED ME IN MANY WAYS , NOW GO. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO I S BELIVE IN YOURSELF "it pained me so to see someone put so much trust into what I could do and achieve, only to see their dreams smashed and shattered.," TAKE THIS BUT DON'T OPEN IT UNTILL YOUR SAVE" she pressed something against my chest, it was a parcel wrapped with a pink ribbon, a parting gift perhaps.
"h-hai" I turned around, regretting what I said. Any moment now I wish that I would awaken from this nightmare, to see my former sensei's face before me smiling instead of the distorted and bloody one before me.
"sakura-"I turned around to meet my former sensei's face , half expecting to hear her asking me to come back. What I heard next crushed me.
"Good-bye"
red.
orange.
black.
Her words rang thru my ears. "good-bye" what was that suppose to mean? I unconsciously held the parcel tighter while running for my life, dodging every fiery falling pillar, every crumbling wall, ignoring all the cries for help around me. It's so ironic, to think I was a medic-nin, the one who would make it out alive instead of my sensei.
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On a hill that over looks the great village of Konoha, the once great village of Konoha. Now it's nothing left but fallen buildings and a fiery grave, of all the people that could have survived, I was the only one. My once silky bubblegum pink locks that I cared so much about is now drenched with sweat and sticking to my face but I didn't seem to notice, my mind was too focused on what just happened.
I think back to the words she said to me, "all you need to do is believe in yourself" what did she want me to do? And" good-bye"? could she have know this would happen?
Sadly, it all lead up to one conclusion, but it was too late anyway because there's no more second chances, no point crying over spilled milk. Konoha and everyone in it was gone, burn to a cinder.
My eyes darted to the parcel Tsunade gave to me, the last thing I had to remind me of Konoha. I slowly unwrapped it, it was…. an hourglass and a picture of the old team 7.
I softly caress the glass frame of the picture, letting the memories flood back in.
The hourglass was cold to the touch, there was a sort of tingling sensation like being pricked by thousands of pins and needle, it stared at my fingers and slowly spread to my whole body. I tilted the hourglass vertically to see the sand in it drop but weirdly nothing happened and for a moment there I could have sworn that the grass stopped swaying in the wind and the birds were silence from their chirping just as if time had stopped. But then again, it could have been my imagination because my village just got burned down, and I'd probably lost my sanity already.
I looked back to the hourglass, two grains had dropped in it but no more, the third was suspended in mid-air. "How in the-"I dropped the hourglass because darkness was enclosing around me, when did my eyelids become so heavy? There was no point fighting it, my body was too worn out. I let the darkness claim me. It was like de-ja vu all over again.
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"Arrrggghhh… I hurt all over "I open my eyes to be met with the Mt. Rushmore like mountain that over looked Konoha with all the past hokage's faces craved into it, only this time there were only 4.
"oh great..."
