Chapter 1 the beginning
Hollow
She drags herself through the burned ruins of the once proud city. Left and right on her path there are half decayed corpses. Sakuras brain doesn't acknowledge them, just as it doesn't recognize the warning signals that her body is sending her, the only thing she is feeling is the numbness in her heart. Finally she stops moving as she sits down beside the mangled blond corpse whose eyes stare hollow into the sky.
Despair
For a second Sakura let's herself hope as the body beside her twitches and the eyes move. Then the hope turns into despair as the normally sky blue eyes turn red and focus on her.
Kyuubi
The demon grins grotesquely at her and says "How does it feel to be the last of your beloved village?" and sneers at the slowly dying kunoichi, before he starts chuckling while blood trickles out of his dead vessels mouth. "How does it feel to die?" she shoots calmly back, her answer shuts him up and he glares hatefully at her.
Offer
"You could prevent this,… if you are willing to pay the price", the sentence cuts through the choking silence.
Enquiry
"How,…" she trails of as she stares at the destroyed Hokage monument. Her body and mind strangely calm and listless.
Price
"Tze, there is a reason why time travel is said to be impossible,… the deities don't want the humans to try,… even the demons are cautioned against it,… to change time and fate a sacrifice has to be made,…" Calm green eyes wander over the decimated hospital and the turned over water tower. "And what is this price that has to be paid?" the question rings through the emptiness of the ruins after Kyuubi stopped explaining. "… Nobody knows for certain,… only the deities know, whether humans nor demons can judge how high the price for changing time is,…".
Decision
Slowly standing up on her ever weakening legs Sakura looks down on the dying body before her with resolute eyes "What do I have to do?".
Silence than the prisoner inside the blond corpse starts laughing,… it was an awful sound.
Jutsu
"…, Tiger and Ox after that you release all the chakra you have and think about where you want to go,…" "That's all?" comes the skeptical reply "Tze for course not,… after the jutsu,… you have to kill yourself" answers the gleeful demon.
Sighing Sakura turns to the setting sun that had started to turn orange and red before slowly disappearing at the horizon. Then she calmly goes through the handseals and thinks about preventing Konohas downfall. With a wishful smile she slits her throat as she stares at the dying sun.
A haunting laugh is the last thing she hears before everything goes black.