A horrible scream was heard throughout the hidden leaf village. Of the many who heard it, few had the courage to investigate the source of the cry, lest they be bitched out by the individual who bore it.
Sakura Haruno's outcry was given in the presence of absolute despair.
Never before had she known this feeling of unforgiveable failure, though this failure was neither her first nor her last. No, she knew very well how it felt to fail, but this she could not deny as her worst failure.
Sakura tried to calm herself, knowing that a heart attack as the result of her anguish would be an irony more cruel than the truth in front of her.
But there was another truth contrastingly merciful to her, though she had met her most disparaging failure, there would be much greater disappointments in her life.
Despite the sting of this failure, there would be a day that she would look back on this moment and no longer feel the shame.
So Sakura stepped off of the scale and put on her clothes.
THE END