When I was 11, I saw my family die. Only my immediate family. But the others, they brought pictures of the corpses.
I was tied up, I couldn't break free from the ropes. I was screaming. They killed my mother. Then my father. And then my little baby sister.
"AKEMI!" I shrieked. I was thrashing around, trying to get to my baby sister. She was crying. My little baby sister was crying. She was only 7 months old. She didn't deserve to die.
Then they sliced her in 2.
Right down the middle.
And she stopped crying.
I screamed again, and I cried. How could no one hear me? I heard the men laughing. They put the pictures on the table, and left my dead family on the floor. And left me, tied up and alone, to die.
I was found 2 days later, dehydrated and starving, by my best friend, Ino Yamanaka. It's been 4 years, I am now 15. The hokage himself took me in, since I had no other family in the world at all. He has since died. But his replacement, a woman named Tsunade, demanded I stay with her. She is a medical prodigy, and has been teaching me what she knows.
Sometimes I wish I had died. I think, maybe death would have been easier. I would have been with my family. If not in heaven, then in the ground. We would have been close.
But I'm choosing not to dwell on that anymore. I'm a sophomore in high school now, and I still go to regular therapy sessions. There's not much anyone can do about it though. It's what happened. So this is my story. It's not a fun one, but I need to share it with someone.
My name is Sakura Haruno.
This is how love saved me, destroyed me, and saved me again.
So this is just a prologue type thing. Hopefully the story will turn out the way I'm hoping for. R&R please? Any and all criticism is welcome!
Love,
Me!