She saw him first, but he vocalized it.
"Sasuke!" He was more surprised than angry, but she saw his face, serious and determined.
She kicked a rock angrily. How could that have happened! He was right there! How could he get away!
She asked herself these, and other questions, over and over again.
Why?
Why!
WHY?
But...I suppose there was nothing to be done, she thought.
She kicked another rock as a wind picked up. She raised her gaze slightly to see her tufts of hair before her; they waved in the breeze, like currents in a pink sea.
There was a rumble in the ground, bigger than any human could make; she could sense it.
Just in case it was an enemy ninja or such, she kept walking for a few steps pretending she had notices nothing.
She looked at the sky nonchalantly, as if in despair (which she was) so that she could see her surroundings.
Not to her surprise, it wasn't any ninja, or human at that. But, on the hills - steep hills, or maybe those were cliffs? - she saw a boulder coming strait towards her. Quickly, she shifted Chakra to her right arm.
As soon as the boulder was about two feet away, she punched at it, releasing her Chakra at the same time, and destroying the boulder.
Breathing a slight sigh of relief, she kept on walking, thinking angrily.
Why? - How? - She sighed again.
Her legs swung at another rock, almost of their own accord.
-That rock didn't want to be kicked, though; that rock had other plans for this girl-
The rock must have been bigger on the bottom, and buried under ground. When she went to kick that rock, it didn't move, but the momentum moved her, and she fell flat to the ground. "Damn-it," she swore.
Because of that she didn't her, didn't feel what was coming. If she'd been paying better attention, and not kicking deceiving rocks, she would have noticed.
She would have noticed the rumbling effect caused by the rock dislodging itself from the ground on the summit of the hill. She would have noticed it rolling down, down, down, strait at her.
But she didn't - at least not soon enough. Not until she looked up from the ground, swearing. No until it was just a few feet away. Not until she could see every detail on the slowly eroded surface. Not until it was there, right in front of her.
Not until it was too late to save Haruno Sakura.