Sakura was on her knees in the middle of the destroyed clearing. Mortally wounded, she could do nothing but cry.
"WHY!?" Sakura screamed up to the starry heaven above.
She curled into herself and shook violently. Around her, lay some of her precious people…
Hanabi…Ino…Choji…Shino…Temari…
All five of them died. It was only because of her quick thinking that kept her alive. Over and over, it replayed in Sakura's head.
"I-Ino…" Sakura cried.
The others were all dead but Ino was soon to follow. There was nothing that could be done.
"F-Forehead," Ino stuttered, blood leaking down her chin.
"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry!"
"It's not your fault. We knew that we'd die. It's a miracle that y-you survived…"
"No, it's not! It's a curse because I had to watch you guys die!"
"S-Sakura…" Ino murmured sadly. "Tell my father I love him."
"Ino, please!"
"I'll be with Choji and Asuma and Kurenai."
"Ino."
"There's something else you must do, Sakura."
"W-What? What is it?"
"Everyone knows Kabuto cursed the living to rise as the dead and fight for him. You'll have to kill us when we reawaken."
"No, I can't!"
"Sakura, stop! We don't want to fight against our friends! You have to kill us before we can move."
"Kami, please!"
"Sakura, you must! Imagine how Hinata will feel if she has to fight her younger sister and best friend."
"Maybe like how I feel!"
"Sakura-chan…"
Sakura turned to see a woman with her eyes open. Sakura hadn't killed her properly.
"Who are you? How do you know my name?"
"Tell Sasuke-chan and Itachi-kun that I love them, please."
Sakura's eyes widened before her heart felt as if it was tearing itself apart.
"Oh god," Sakura cried. "I killed their mother!"
"You didn't kill me," Mikoto stated.
"Yes I did!"
"Please, now I can be laid to rest. Please, burn my body so that I may never be brought back."
"O-Okay…"
"But before you do, I want you to take my Sharingan."
"N-No! I won't!"
"Please, Sakura-chan. I know you wish to help them more than anyone. If you do this, you'll be like Kakashi."
"N-No, she'll be better…"
Sakura looked over and saw Hanabi beginning to rise again.
"Oh, god. It's already started…" Sakura cried.
"Sakura-san, when you kill me, I want you to also take my Byakugan. Help my sister lead the Hyuga in the right direction."
"What you two ask of me will hurt two of my close friends!"
"Hinata-chan will understand," Hanabi stated as she walked towards Sakura unwillingly. "Please, I want to rest in peace, as does everyone who was brought back to life."
"It is selfish of us to ask this of you, but please. The Ultimate Doujutsu will be able to stand against Madara."
After much convincing, Sakura agreed. When Hanabi stood before Sakura, Sakura thrust her kunai into her stomach.
"I-I'm sorry," Sakura cried.
Hanabi only smiled and coughed up blood. Using her kunai and kinjutsu, Sakura transplanted Hanabi's eye into her own right eye socket, giving Hanabi her green eye.
"No matter what, keep my eye and use it to protect our precious people."
"I'll use it to watch over your clan, I promise," Sakura cried after the excruciating pain died down, her new eye stinging from her salty tears.
She had no time to bandage it up and there was no point. She needed to find her way back home and she couldn't do that if she was blindfolded. She needed her eyes and she didn't want to hide them. She wanted everyone to see what kind of monster she was for taking their eyes. Her burden.
"Thank you, Sakura-san," Hanabi murmured and closed her eyes, awaiting her end.
Sakura whimpered and stabbed the kunai through her heart. She could see Shino stirring not so far from her and it was beginning to tear at her sanity.
"Hurry and take mine," Mikoto called, still pinned to the ground by the katana through her stomach.
Sakura did so, undergoing more pain as she switched their eyes, giving Mikoto her last green eye and taking one of her onyx ones. When her vision came to, her instincts pushed her to dodge. When she looked up, she saw Shino prepared to fight her. Choji and Temari were starting to rise as well.
"Forgive us, Sakura-san," Shino apologised as he was propelled towards her.
Reluctantly, she took him down with a senbon to the heart. She did the same to the others before they had the chance to attack her, all thanking her and saying goodbye. Now she stood over Ino as she struggled to breathe.
"Make it quick, Forehead," Ino shuddered as a tear slipped down her face and she drew her last breath.
She only had to wait a couple of minutes before Ino's eyes opened and she move to stand. Sakura held her down while she struggled to get up.
"Hurry up, Forehead!" Ino screamed. "Kill me!"
"I'm sorry," Sakura whimpered.
"Sakura!"
"I'M SORRY!" Sakura screamed as she drove a kunai into Ino's heart.
Ino's eyes widened before they slowly started to close.
"I'll see you later, Sakura-chan…" Ino whispered before her eyes closed with a content smile on her face.
Sakura sobbed over Ino's body when searing pain shot through her left eye. Sakura covered it with a hand and found she was crying blood. She cried out in horror and pain and resisted the urge to rip the Uchiha eye from her head. Looking into a puddle of blood, she saw her reflection. She watched as her onyx eye bled red with three tomoe that joined and morphed into an intricate design. It was like a black outline of three flower petals meeting in the middle with her pupil in the middle of the makeshift triangle as it spun wildly.
"You have obtained the Mangekyou Sharingan," Mikoto murmured weakly. "Now you need to replace it with my other eye lest you wish to go blind."
Emotionally and mentally numb, she did as was asked of her and took Mikoto's last onyx eye and replaced it with the damaged one.
"You now hold the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan."
Sakura said nothing as she stared at the Uchiha matriarch. Her eyes shifted down to look at her reflection again. Instead of the three petals, she saw her crimson iris had turned pitch black. The red pattern was an outline of a four point star with the black pupil in the middle. There was also a red outline of a circle that went through each leg of the star, joining them together.
"Now, please. Lay me to rest. When you see Sasu-chan and Itachi-kun, tell them I am proud of them. Sasu-chan managed to step away from the dark path and even though he's not quite in the light, he's going in the right direction and Itachi-kun… tell him I love him and forgive him. Tell him I'm sorry that I couldn't protect him from the clan and that he was forced into his actions but he made the right decision."
Sakura nodded, still numb but her heart and mind knew what she should have been feeling and so two crystal tear drops travelled down her cheek before she ended Mikoto's life.
She kept slipping between anguished and numb. After screaming at the sky, she was tired and empty. With much trouble, she piled all of the bodies, including the oppositions (they were all someone's loved ones after all), onto a fallen tree and tied rope around it for her to hold.
Then, she began her walk back to the Allied Shinobi Forces.
Home…
Now, I know that Kabuto's jutsu doesn't bring the dead straight back to life or even if he touched the Uchiha clan, but for the sake of the story, who cares?