"Why happened to Sasuke-kun? Why did he leave? Why didn't you stop him?"
She doesn't sprinkle salt. Ino rubs it in.
She knows what has happened but she wants, needs, to hear it from Sakura's own mouth. It is like a girl asking to be told a well known story. It is also like a warrior trying to bleed the poison out from a wound.
The bloody gash weeps but Ino doesn't expect Sakura to apologize. She expects a fighting Sakura, not the crying girl she found in the park with hair in her face. Sakura does not cry in front of her anymore, but today she has the same stench of defeat about her as the crying girl.
And suddenly she is angrier than she has ever been.
