"S-Sa-Sakura-chan!" A male, voice rang out. It sounded far away. Other voices started calling to her. Louder and louder. It hurt, the noise and light that started coming closer. Her eyes flung open and she gasped in air. Panting, her eyes adjusted to the the bright light slowly. When she finally could see again and the pain was floating away, she saw a lot of faces. All of them... her friends? Young again. Young! But how?
"Who... Who are you?" She asked the girl who looked like 7-year old Ino. That Ino looked surprised. Her eyes creased in a worrying look. As did the miniature Naruto and Hinata, the other kids around her where looking at each other.
"Sakura-chan, are you alright?" Little Naruto asked. Sakura stared at him for a minute. He looked real. She poked him making him flinch away. She felt him. So this couldn't be a dream... Did she die? "Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked again to grab her attention. Sakura paused, looking towards the sky. It was really sunny out and she saw a tree slightly to her left.
"I... I'm alright, Naruto." Sakura said, closing her eyes. What just happened, she asked herself. She was in a fight. And... And... And it was with Orochimaru, right? No, it was with Akatsuki. Then...? Oh, right. Sasuke was with them with his small team. They fought and fought for hours... Her and Naruto were the only ones left standing. And then... pain. "Ar-Are you guys okay?" The kids all from the rookie nine looked at each other. Shikamaru was the one to answer.
"We're okay. Why wouldn't we be?" He said and afterwards mumbled something about troublesome girls. "Your the one who fell." This time Sakura was confused.
"Fell?"
"Yep. You suddenly ran too that tree! And you super cooly some how walked up it with out hands!" Kiba exclaimed with wild gestures. Naruto followed, equally excited.
"You pulled of some leaves on your way to the top which was super really quick! When you got to the top the leaves turned like hard and you threw them!" Naruto stopped to point at the school wall. Indented in there surprisingly was three leaves. Sakura gaped a little. "And the you looked like something hit you and you fell on the ground! Head first!" At this point a nurse from the nearby hospital came running in with a teacher. Iruka to be exact. The nurse, a woman, came running up to her with green healing chakra glowing around her hands. The small kids watched in amazement, while being shooed away so the nurse could work. The nurse kneeled in-front of Sakura and put one of her hands on top of Sakura's head. She was checking for damages and she did it pretty quickly. That must have been because there was no damages on her head. But there were 20 large cuts all around her body. There were many others, but they were small enough to not count. Strangely enough the cuts keep appearing out of no where.
"Sensei! Come over here!" She yelled over to Iruka, who was holding back the kids from running back over. Iruka was substituted by another teacher and ran over to Sakura and the nurse. She told him the diagnosis as quickly as she could and picked Sakura carefully up. She slowly and carefully walked into the school and choose the nearest unused classroom. The nurse took of Sakura's shirt and pants leaving Sakura blushing in her white underpants. The nurse payed no heed to the blush and stared at all the scabs. It was confusing. The cuts would appear and quickly turn into a scab. Finally after an hour the cuts stopped. The last cut was one right close the heart and circled around it. It bubbled up a little spitting up blood, at this point Sakura felt like she was going to vomit, and the blood dried in a neatly circle scab with skin in the middle. In nurse confusedly wrote some notes and started asking Sakura questions. "Did it hurt?"
"No." Sakura answered.
"Did you feel anything at all."
"... No."
"Do you know how this could have happened or started?"
"..." Sakura thought she knew, but she wouldn't tell this nurse. "No."
"Alright." The nurse wrote a note and walked out of the room. Sakura sat and put her clothes back on. She turned towards the door after the clothes were all correct. They were her old clothes she wore in the Academy, right after she met Ino. It seemed the nurse and Iruka were talking right outside the door. Then, her parent's voice. Her parent's voice! She hadn't heard that in a long time! She ran over to the door which slide open quickly, her mother running in. He dad follow hesitantly.
"OH! Sakura-honey! Are you Okay!?" Her mother started asked quite loudly. Her dad smiled, sweat-dropping at his wife's hyper-ness. Sakura smiled too, but this was because she missed the two. She nodded. The nurse walked in with Iruka after both seemed to have a one-on-one talk.
"Mrs and Mr Haruno, we have no idea what is wrong with your daughter, but it has seemed to stop." Sakura's mom looked horrified with her husband patting her back comfortably. "Here let me show you." The nurse lifted up Sakura's shirt and showed all the scabs. Lifting it even higher, she showed the one around the chest, in the area of the heart. Her dad stared for a moment then turned to the nurse.
"Maybe she's possessed." He said seriously. Sakura's mom punched him in the gut, making him fall to his knees.
"Our daughter is hurt and that's all you can think about! You and your ghosts." She mumbled the last part to he self. But that didn't mean the others didn't hear it. Sakura smiled at her mother, holding in laughter. She missed her and to have her...No, both of her parents... No, everyone back was the best!
