Talking to the Moon

Chapter 1: Silver Drops.

There she was again, looking at the black sky weeping silver drops as she was closing her eyes. An old image came to her mind; it was with them... the old them, all, Naruto, Sai, Kakashi-sensei and even him... Sasuke, the avenger she once gave her heart to.
"Beautiful times, right Sasuke?" she thought to herself, as the corner of her lips curled into a smile, drown later by tears. "But I never could do what you told me before your last breath... What you, everybody told me to, I just couldn't do it. Silly as always, right?" she said while kept talking to herself.

Sasuke's last battle with Naruto was defining. He was the loser who won, but he gave his life for that... yet before, he made sure that the Uchiha name resonated once again like in the old times: Konoha's heroes! He died smiling... and in her arms. The one who once, annoying as she was, filled his lonely existence that bestowed upon him from the Uchiha massacre. But his dying words were a final advice to her, the most honest one he ever gave her in his life. Maybe his first and last time when he actually thought about her more than just a comrade... like a close friend, a precious family.

Even though in his darkest times he tried to take her life away and was always cold with her, this time, when the burden of the Uchiha legacy didn't weight so much on his shoulders, he could be honest, let those feelings long locked somewhere in the deepest corner of his soul, free. And he wanted her to be happy, so he did what he could do best at the time, give her the advice of his lifetime: "Tell him! Sakura, even I can tell..." he whispered as his eyes and the beats of his hearts closed, while his hand fell from her cheek.
She started crying, loud... In the end, he was once someone for whom she had feelings.

She opened her eyes, wiped her tears and went to the window. She did as she always used to do, climb on its sill and looked mesmerized at the sky. It was one of those things that could calm down her inner storm. She kept thinking, did she do right, did she do wrong?
"But he's happy now..." Sakura told her inner self. That self that actually was longing for his arms to be around her body and warm her like it always did. That genuine, pure smile that always melted her heart, those eyes in which always she found comfort. "So it's ok, as long as he's happy, I'm happy too, right, Sasuke?" she continued comforting herself smiling tearfully. She couldn't stop those tears, as much as she wanted. Those were feelings merging to the surface, breaking free in her eyes, travelling around her tears down to her neck, later, to her hearth. Those were the tears of someone who was always strong, of someone who after the last events decided to just close her heart. She already lost a person she once loved, she didn't want to go through that again. No! Her heart wouldn't take it...
She just wanted to know him safe and sound. That was all that mattered above all. Smirking in a really silly way, her thoughts quickly ran to her master's direction "Hmpf, funny enough, Shisou... In the end it seems that we share the same destiny, the same pain. Who could've told? I came to you for training so that you could share your techniques with me, but in the end we came to share more than those techniques..."

Taking her feet up to her chest while looking at the view through the windows, she stood there closing her eyes, listening to the nothingness around her while tears broke out even through her closed eyes. She just let herself loosened in the wind's breeze and the sky's darkness.

Fifteen minutes later Sakura opens her eyes and gets down from the window sill and goes towards her cupboard. She took out from there her long red coat, put it around her, went out of her room towards the exit door from where she took her boots, put them on quickly, properly dressed with the coat, slammed the door behind her and went out for a walk.

As the rays of the moon enlightened her path, she kept walking and looked around the road as memories from her childhood passed behind her eyes. She put an innocent smile on her face that hid a lot of sadness while the images were rolling inside her mind. Ino's flower shop, from where she bought her first flower, the kids park where she was bullied about her forehead but gained a friend for life, the bench where she was about to have her first innocent kiss with Sasuke, the bridge where she used to spend her turbulence days. So much time had passed, so little has changed while everything looked different.

She stopped there for a moment, on that bridge and looked at the moon's reflection in the water. Sasuke's image appeared before her eyes which once again got filled with tears at his memory. "You dummie! Why did you have to choose that path? Things would be so much different today if you haven't had chosen that way." As she was staying there reflecting at Sasuke's remembrance, she heard some rustling from the leaves. It was autumn, any movement around Konoha couldn't pass unnoticed.

After hearing that distant sound, Sakura moved swiftly 150 feet away, NW distance. Quietly, her body moved through the leaves' shadows as she sneaked around to get closer to her target. While she jumped around the trees, took out a kunai, poisoned, as she never walked around without at least few poisoned kunais on her and from the next two steps she landed in the back of the suspicious two silhouettes with her poisoned kunai around their necks.

- Who are you and why are you sneaking in Konoha? she asked with a low, stern tone. A slim, evil laugh proceeded into a thick one, made its presence around the three characters.
- I wouldn't laugh that much if I'd be you. One movement and you're dead! Sakura threatened as she kept her stern voice tonality. Her kunais weren't using the old trick. This wasn't a poison that was only used to put to sleep the target, it was a poison that was killing the target in 3 minutes. She got that one from her past fight with Sasori of the Red Sand; she had a lot to learn from every experience. Now the Scorpion's venom was one of her most fatal poisons. And since she was the one who built an antidote against it, she also took it to the next level, making it even deadlier.
After hearing this the laughs stopped.
- Even if you kill us now, it's no good. The dojutsus will be ours and they will be brought back to life! the other voice said strongly. Sakura stood there for a second analyzing the statements when she sensed someone from behind coming to attack her. She felt the intent and quickly reacted. Rotating the kunais on her fingers, jumped in a rotation and with her elbow hit the one who wanted to attack her, while at the same time she threw the other two kunais at the other two strangers.

- Told you not to move or you'll be dead, she added as she landed on her feet. The attacker was dead and so were the other two. Before the 3 minutes ended, she reached them as they were laying down, almost unconscious.

- What were you doing here? What are you after? she yelled at them. But it was too late, they were already on their dying breath.
- We will get what we need and when they'll be back, this world shall know end...! were the last words Sakura heard.
"Damn it! What was that?" she asked herself. After this was over, Sakura decided to collect the bodies and take them to Konoha's hospital. It wouldn't be a problem as she had full access to it.

- Kuchiyose no jutsu! she invoked touching the ground as from a cloud of smoke, Katsuyu's body showed itself.

- Sakura-chan! Katsuyu acclaimed as she appeared.

- What do you need me for? What happened? she asked.

- There's no time for questions Katsuyu-sama!Sakura replied. Please help me with these 3 bodies, I need to take them to the hospital for further examination, she commanded as she was thinking at the last words the man said to her.
- In a moment! Katsuyu answered firmly as she split into multiple parts of herself and enveloped the three bodies.

After taking care of the bodies, Sakura asked Katsuyu that before she should return to Shikkotsurin, to split around the village and let her know, through their mental connection, if anything seems suspicious. This way she could go back home safely. The next day she will be having a lot of things to take care of.