Title: Breaking these Walls
Author: xMellowLellow
Claim: Haruno Sakura
Theme: #46- Brick Wall
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: It would be cool to own Naruto, but alas, I do not.
She had been a girl. A girl like any other girl. A girl who wished, hoped and daydreamed. A girl who yearned to be noticed. A girl who wanted to be loved. A girl who craved the attention of those around her. They were things all little girls wanted.
She was told that they were trivial things to be thinking about, that she was foolish for doing such. But for a girl of her age, they were her world. She did anything and everything to make sure they came true.
But without even realizing it, her efforts just took her farther from achieving them. Building an impenetrable wall around herself. Encased, unable to escape.
Her dreams became a double edged sword, cutting her down. Attacking relentlessly, until she thought she could stand no more. She had been foolish, hadn't she? For letting such trivial matters consume her entire being.
But what was she to do? When your entire world shatters. Leaving you bare and vulnerable and alone. Still surrounded by this brick wall.
Curled up, and crying where no one could reach her. She had isolated herself to a place she didn't know. Where had she gone wrong? Why had her dreams abandoned her? Why could no one reach her? Why? Why? Why?
And as she laid there questioning the world, she began questioning herself. Realizing the fault did not lay with a world that had abandoned her, but with herself who had abandoned reality.
She certainly had been foolish. Letting ideals take over her mind to the point where she didn't even exist in reality any more. She had been at fault for getting her to this place. And she was the only one who could get herself out. She would cry no more. She would be weak no more. She would cast away her foolishness.
Opening her eyes, drying her tears, she stood. Surveying her surroundings, she still saw nothing. Nothing but a wall engulfing her. She frowned, discouraged and irritated.
She glared and shrieked up at the wall. Angry that she had been the one to build this wall around herself. Made up of broken dreams and ideals that would never happen.
She gave another frustrated scream, sick and tired of this existence. And so she drew back her fist and drove it into the wall built around her. Shattering it's existence in her life. She watched as the seemingly impenetrable force crumbled into dust around her feet.
As she stepped over the rubble into the shining sunlight, she gave a small smile for the first time in a long while, and finally she began moving forward. Forward towards new dreams and hopes that she would achieve herself by her own strength.
A/N: Not all that thrilled with how this one came out, but I hope you all enjoy.
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