Fight My Cherry Blossom: Sakura has had a rough past. Seh doesn't have a father. Everybody thinks he died on a mission, but what if he didn't. Sakura has a scar no one no about. Will she become strong enough to reveal it to anyone or will she just hid in her apartment by herself?
Chap. 1
"FATHER!" a little girl with pink locks and bright jade eyes screamed as she saw her own father fall to the ground. A kanta embedded deep into his gut. "Noooooooo!" The girl screamed again.
The girl ran fast to her father picking up his head and laying it in her lap. His eyes were going dull as the seconds sped by. A thin trail of blood escaped his mouth as he lifted a weak and pale hand to his daughter.
"Sakura." the girls father breathed.
"Don't talk. Don't move dad. I'll go get help. You'll be fine. I swear it." Sakura said going to get up and to have her caught wrist by her father.
"No Sakura. I want you to stay till I draw my very last breath." The man breathed again. Then he coughed up some blood and Sakura grabbed his hand and it tightly in her small hands. The tears were streaming down her face like rain. Small hiccups echoed in the large estate that Sakura lived in. The room was silent. Peoples screams could be heard from other parts of the Hanuro District.
"You can't leave. It's not fair. Your suppose to take me training tomorrow. You have to be here for me. I'm not done being raised. Please don't leave us. Please." Sakura begged as her father drew his last breath.
"Sakura." Her father breathed in as his eyes closed and his grip on her small hands loosened.
"Nooooo!" Sakura screamed.
"What a pathetic sight." A female voice said. "He deserved to die. He wasn't that much of help to anyone." The voice snickered.
"Show yourself!" Sakura ordered.
The voice laughed and stepped from the shadows. Sakura gasped as a kunai was thrown at her heart.
"Why?" Sakura asked as the kunai came into a close range.
Sakura screamed and shot up from her bed. Sweat glistening her forehead and neck in the moons bright light. Sakura clutched her heart where a scar was hidden under many bandages. 20 years ago her family was could not recall the killer or killers but she remembered the kunai that was thrown at her heart.
"20 years ago and I still have nightmares about it." Sakura said in a small whisper. Sakura was now 26 years of age. Quite the beauty if you asked anyone in the village. Many marriage offers had been made to her but she turned them all down with a gentle smile. She swung her legs off her bed and placed her feet gently on the floor. Sakura pushed herself off her bed and made her way to the kitchen. She got out a small glass cup. Then she went to the cabinet and grabbed a small bottle of whiskey she kept hidden behind all of the canned goods. She poured herself a glass and gulped it down quickly. Sakura placed her hand over the scar. No one knew it was there. Not even her mother.
A week before the murder
"Father are we going training tomorrow." Sakura asked. Her age, 6. She had short pink hair that dangled loosely around her shoulders.
"No Sakura I have a mission." Her father replied kneeling down beside her.
"Oh okay. Then when you get back?" Sakura questioned. Her father laughed and it made Sakura smile.
"We will see. Take care of your mother while I'm gone okay?" Her father asked standing.
"You can count on me!" Sakura said pumping her small fist in the air. Her father laughed again.
"Yes. I know I can. I'll see you when I get back." Sakura's father said sitting down to put on his shoes.
"Okay. See you...Hey Dad?" Sakura asked shyly.
"Hmmmm?" Her father replied.
"Do you think...do you think I'm pretty?" Sakura asked blushing.
"Sakura we didn't pick your name because of your hair color. What Does Sakura mean to you?" Her father asked as he started to fade away from her mind with the fatherly smile on his face.
"Beauty." Sakura answered with a smile as she put the glass in the sink and returned the whiskey to its original place behind the canned goods. She closed the cabinet door and looked outside the kitchen window of her apartment. But only to catch a glimpse of a pair offered menacing eyes watching her. The smile disappeared as Sakura gasped stepping away from the window and ducking under the counter. Her heart pounded in her chest.
'Knock Knock'
Someone was knocking on her front door. 'Who the hell is up at 2 in the morning?' Sakura asked herself as she gathered enough courage to walk to the front door checking to window for those eyes she just saw. Only to find they were gone. With a sigh of relief she unlocked the front door to her small apartment. She slowly opened the door and it creaked loudly. As it opened she heard some familiar voices and she smiled slightly.
"Come on Ugly. It's freezing out here!" A familiar voice called.
Sakura swung open the door and found Naruto, Kiba, Shikamaru and Sai all at her front door shivering from the cold.
"Well no duuhhh it's winter Sai. Put some clothes on and you wouldn't be so cold. And uhh guys what are you all doing up?" Sakura asked with curiosity as she stepped aside to let them in. They all filed in to Sakura's apartment with Naruto leading them to her living room where they all took a seat some where on the couches.
"We could ask you the same." Shikamaru countered looking at Sakura's choice of pajamas. She had on a black spaghetti tank-top with some black baggy guy shorts.
Sakura flushed a little but didn't answer. Then she found something to ask.
"Uhhh why are you here?" She asked taking a seat by Naruto. Who also looked at her with curious eyes.
"Why are you?" Naruto slurred. 'Great just my luck they're all drunk and need a place to crash. Just great.' Sakura thought.
"Naruto...I live here." Sakura said pointed out the obvious.
"You have whiskey on your breath Sa-ku-ra." Naruto slurred again leaning closer only to kiss the arm of the couch.
"One glass will not kill me or get me drunk baka," Sakura said standing next to Sai who also was intrigued by her choice of pajamas as well. "Anyways you guys can crash here. Naruto you can take the spare bedroom across from mine. Kiba take the one next to mine. Sai can sleep on the couch and Shikamaru can take the room on the other side of Naruto's room." Sakura explained getting some blankets and some pillows from the cabinet under the T.V set. She threw a pillow at each of the boys and tossed them a blanket. "It gets cold at night you're gonna want extra blankets." Sakura said pulling out two more for Sai and throwing them at him. Then she just walked into the kitchen and got out a small glass.
The boys watched how Sakura walked with grace and poise around them and into her kitchen. When they saw her get a bottle of whiskey out they watched as she gulped it down putting the glass she used into the sink. And the whiskey bottle back to its place.
"Why do you have such a big apartment Ugly?" Sai questioned the pink haired woman in front of him.
Sakura grabbed his shirt and threw him down on the couch. "Because Sai. I used to live with three sisters and from time to time they need a place to stay when the break up with their on-and-off boyfriends." Sakura growled and retreated into her room without saying good night to anyone.
AN: I don't know if Sakura has sisters. But I needed an excuse to why she ahs such a huge apartment. Though to her it's small.
All the boys cringed in fear as Sakura slammed her bedroom door shut.
Kiba whistled and said, "wow. She's a mean drunk."
"I don't think that's the case. It's something else." Shikamaru stated.
"Yeah Sakura has a very high tolerance to alcohol. She has to have like ten beers to get drunk." Naruto said as he walked into the room across from Sakura's.
"True. So then what go her wound up?" Kiba questioned.
"Probably Sai and his stupid nickname for her," Shikamaru said retreating to his assigned room.
"Jeez Sai. She is gonna be in a pissy mood in the morning. Thanks," Kiba sarcastically remarked also retreating to his assigned room. Leaving Sai all by himself in the lamp lit living room of Sakura's apartment.
"Hn," Sai simply huffed laying down on the couch and pulling the blankets over him. 'Blossom was right. It does get cold at night. I'm sorry Sakura.' Sai thought drifting off into a dreamless sleep.
A/N: Ok guys I re-did this chapter because well one, lots of spelling errors and didn't like the way it sounded when I read it n my mind. So hope you guys like the newer version. : )
