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Chapter 2

Sakura forced herself, somehow, above the enemy waters as they threatened to pull her further down the current. In blind panic she reached out to something, anything, that could save her. Kami seemed to favour her, for she felt the bark of a palm tree that had managed to stay upright against the torrent. Quickly, she threw her arms around the tree, pulling herself close to it.

After catching her breath, she began to scream out in fear, in helplessness, in pain. Not the pain of her cuts and bruises, she could live with those, but with the pain of losing those dear to her. She had witnessed her family be swept up by the water, and she could only stand by helpless. Her voice grew louder, but it was impossible to hear over the crushing and pounding of the wave.

Suddenly, Sakura stopped screaming, listened intently. For a split second she thought she heard…There it is again!

"Mo…"

The voice was almost inaudible, but she was sure it was there, and she was sure she knew the voice. After all, she was the mother of that voice.

"Mom!"

"Daisuke!" Sure enough, her eldest son was being swept past her by the waters. She reached out with her arm, but he was just too far away.

"Mom, Help me!" Her son cried out, fear in his voice. Sakura could not take it.

"Daisuke, hold on!" She cried, and knowing full well this action could mean her life, she let go of the tree, allowing the current to sweep her towards her son at full speed. Unfortunately, that same current was sweeping her son further away from her at the same speed.

Sakura tried to propel herself away from the floating debris, but the water seemed to fight her. Suddenly, something stabbed her in her left chest. Sakura screamed out in pain and for a split second forgot to keep her head above the water. But she soon realised what was going on and got herself above water again.

"Daisuke!" she cried, trying her hardest not to lose sight of her son. To her left she saw a mattress floating across the water, and made her way over to it. Quickly, she moved it towards Daisuke.

"Daisuke, grab on!" she shouted when he was within reach. Daisuke swam towards her in obvious panic, reaching out to her hand. But the water swept the mattress into a tree, overturning the mattress and sending them back into the water.

She quickly got above water again, making sure that Daisuke was still in sight. Sakura noticed that the water had seemed to slow down, for which she was grateful for. She proceeded to swim towards Daisuke when a train car suddenly floated past them, and form the inside she heard an infant crying his or her lungs out. Then the same distant rumbling from before commenced, and Sakura could see another wave, the backlash of the first one, headed straight for them.

"Daisuke, go under!" She cried the first logical piece of information she could find to her son, but her son seemed paralyzed with fear once again. "Go under!" She shouted again, trying to slap her son out of his stupor.

"Daisuke! Go under now!" She shouted, and this time he obeyed her. She had just enough time to smile before the wave hit her.

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Daisuke felt himself being pushed and pulled under water, his body being slammed into numerous pieces of debris. Somehow, he managed to reach the surface again, grasping on to what used to be a lamp-post. He looked around frantically for the last relative he had seen alive.

"Mom!" He shouted repeatedly, but receiving no response. He was on the verge of tears, something he never dared show, when he saw a body float and come to rest next some debris. A body with pink hair.

"MOM!" He cried, letting go of the lamp-post and swimming as fast as he could towards her. She stirred slightly at his voice, and with some effort she began to swim towards him. He reached her first, grabbing her around her waist, holding onto her tightly, fearing that if he let go, she would float away from him. Unbeknownst to him, his mother was cringing in pain from his tight grasp.

"Mom, p-please…please don't leave me…" He managed to say between sobs.

"Shhh, shhh, I'm here. I'm here." He heard his mother's gentle voice, and her soft hands holding him close to her. He buried his face into her shoulder. "Listen, we have to find somewhere safe." He heard her say, and he looked over her shoulder, spotting a tree that had managed to stay upright.

"Mom, what about that tree?" he asked, hoping that they could reach it. His mother turned in his grasp to see what he saw.

"Yes, yes that could work." Together they swam towards a pile of debris that had come to a standstill, and they stayed there to catch their breaths.

"Mom…" Daisuke started, and Sakura turned to face her son. "I'm scared."

"Shhh, shhh." She reached out to caress his check, then she slowly brought her face to his ear. "I'm scared too." That was all Daisuke needed to hear.

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Sakura took the lead after they had rested for a few minutes. Slowly, the water level got lower and lower as they got closer to higher ground.

Daisuke looked down when he noticed a trail of blood that seemed to be emitting from his mother caught his eye. Then her lower thigh came into few, and it took all the will power he had not vomit. A piece of flesh was hanging loosely from her wound, making it look even worse than it was.

"M-mom." Daisuke stuttered, causing Sakura to turn. When she did, Daisuke looked at her for a second before closing his eyes and turning away, hoping to spare her dignity which she had unknowingly lost.

"What?" She asked, oblivious to her current state.

"Y-Your bleeding, mom." Daisuke managed to force out, still turned away. When Sakura looked down she realised what had caused Daisuke's discomfort. The strap of her shirt had torn, causing her breast to be in full view. On top of that, the stab wound from earlier was bleeding proficiently. Acting quickly, she took the broken strap of her shirt and tied it to the still intact one on her right.

"Sorry." She apologised, noting that it didn't really help. "Why don't you take the lead?" She asked, thereby sparing her son anymore hardship. Daisuke obliged. After a few more minutes their tree was in view.

Sakura took the time she had to make a makeshift tourniquet out of palm leaves and vines for her leg. Just as she finished tying it she started coughing. She held her hand to her mouth while she coughed. When she took her hand away, she noticed that blood was present, but she kept silent. She didn't wish to alarm her son. Besides, she had emergency medical jutsu's if the need came.

Slowly, they made their way to the tree, Sakura leaning on Daisuke for support. They were mere metres away when a cry resounded.

"Wait, did you hear that?" Sakura asked, looking around. Daisuke ignored the voice.

"Mom, we have to keep moving." He said.

"Where are you?" She shouted, not willing to leave the voice behind.

"Mom, we can't help them." Daisuke raised his voice at her.

"Yes, we can." She insisted.

"Mom, if another wave catches us down here, we'll die!" Daisuke anything but shouted.

"We've got to at least try Daisuke." She insisted, trying to understand why her son was acting like this. She decided to try a different approach. "What if it was Shina, or Shunsuke? Would you have just left…"

"MOM, SHINA AND SHUNSUKE ARE DEAD!" He shouted stopping her from finishing her sentence. She stared at her son as he looked down at the ground, unable to look her in the eye. She couldn't believe how he could just give up like this. She took hold of his shoulders, causing him to look up at her.

"If it's the last thing we do." She states simply, and waits for his reaction.

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"Where are you?" Daisuke shouted, treading through the mud and debris in search of the voice from before. His mother was following close behind him. Daisuke then spotted an arm, underneath some palm leaves.

"Over there!" He shouted, making his way over to the arm. Quickly working at the debris, he removed the palm leaves to find a child that couldn't be more than 4 or 5 years old. As soon as he felt the sudden change of movement, the child began to scream.

"Hey, shhh, it's ok." Daisuke spoke in a calming voice. "We're here to help you." His mother came to help pry the boy's legs from underneath the debris.

"What's your name?" He asked the child.

"Tomoaki." Came the almost inaudible reply.

"Tomoaki? I'm Daisuke." He said, lifting the child and carrying him back in the direction of the tree with his mother in tow.

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Sakura stayed at the bottom of the tree while Daisuke took the child the had saved, Tomoaki, to the top.

"Now stay here." She heard her son's voice, closely followed by Tomoaki's cry of protest and fear. "Hey it's ok. I'll be right back." Then she heard her son come down the tree towards her..

"Mom, do you need help?" She heard him ask.

"No, I'm fine." She said, shaking her head. "I can do it." She added firmly.

"I can help you if you wa…"

"I can do it, Daisuke!" She affirmed, causing him to retreat. Slowly, she tried to pull herself up the tree, but pain shot up through her leg, causing her to scream and fall back down.

Daisuke immediately jumped down, getting his hands under her feet, and when she was ready, he proceeded to push her upwards. He tried to ignore her screams of pain, and focused on getting her in the tree. Once she had a good grip on the branch, he let go of her feet and proceeded to climb up past her, stopping only to pick up a bottle of water that was still intact. When he was in place, he grabbed her hands and began to pull her upwards. Her screams resound the surrounding area, until she finally came to rest at a suitable spot on the branch.

As Sakura sat lay on her stomach gasping, Daisuke held onto her hand tightly.

There we go.

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