Tsunade finally decided to make it public.
She was going to tell everyone.
She was going to tell them that Sakura Haruno came back.
She was determined to tell them that Sakura Haruno was alive.
Well, she couldn't exactly call it 'still alive' could she?
Because Sakura had came back from the dead.
So after calling all the people that Sakura knew into the Hokage tower, she decided to start speaking.
"I've got an important announcement to make."
Tsunade sounded serious. That got everyone's attention.
After taking a long, deep breath, she continued.
"Sakura Haruno is alive." And she got the reactions that she had expected.
Naruto growled.
"What do you mean by that?"
Tsunade didn't have a joking look in her eyes. She kept saying the things she needed to say.
"In fact, she is in the Konoha hospital right now."
Ino looked stunned. Hinata and Ten-Ten started crying. Crying tears of joy. Chouji and Rock Lee seemed happy too. Naruto looked too shocked to speak. A tear rolled down his face. Sasuke and Neji, who usually didn't have expressions, looked happy as the tears streamed down their faces. Gaara looked like he was going to run towards Sakura this instant.
But Tsunade noticed something odd.
Shikamaru and Sai looked like they had already been expecting that piece of news.
Still, Tsunade continued with her speech.
"But there is bad news."
Everyone stopped celebrating.
The atmosphere tensed immediately.
Tsunade continued with a sigh. She really didn't want to say this but she had to.
"You are all prohibited from meeting Sakura Haruno."
"What do you mean by that?"
Naruto seemed really pissed.
Who wouldn't be, either ways?
He had just heard that the love of his life was still alive.
It was pretty obvious that he wanted to meet her as soon as possible.
Naruto wasn't the only one who seemed pissed.
The others had mixed expressions on their faces.
It showed confusion, anger and it seemed like they all couldn't understand why Tsunade was doing this to them.
Tsunade knew that they were all going to be heart broken when they hear the last piece of news.
"Sakura Haruno has lost all memories of herself and of everyone. In short, she doesn't remember anything."
There was a long silence.
Sakura came back.
She came back to Konoha and was at the Konoha hospital.
She was alive but she couldn't remember anything.
And at that moment, Naruto's feelings exploded.
"You're lying right…? It can't be true… how… how can Sakura-chan forget about us…? It can't be real… it isn't real… just how? HOW?"
No one had anything to say.
Instead, they all cried tears of pain.
They cried for the poor pink girl who had lost her memories.
They cried because they pitied her.
But they mostly cried because of the pain.
The pain of being erased completely from Sakura Haruno's life.
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Sakura stared at the Sakura flowers outside her hospital room window.
They looked so young, so beautiful and yet so sad.
'Sakura flowers die so young…' she thought to herself in a nonchalant way.
She was just like a Sakura flower that didn't bloom yet.
She didn't want to open herself to anyone.
It was like she created a world of her own. And she wasn't willing to let anyone in.
A world of solitude.
A world that only she could enter alone.
A world that nobody could break.
Sakura turned her head towards the window again.
There was a person sitting on it.
The man was wearing a black cloak with red clouds on it.
Just like Sasori and Deidara who claimed to know her.
The man kept staring at her intently. So she stared at him too. Just like a child.
The man smiled at her gesture.
As Sakura stared at him, she noticed a few things.
First, he had fiery orange hair.
Second, he had a lot of piercing.
Third, his eyes were purple. They were pretty.
The man walked towards her.
Sakura could feel that he meant her no harm.
Instead, he asked her a question that she obviously expected.
"Sakura, do you remember me?" she winced at the question because she didn't want to hurt anybody. But she had to tell the truth.
"No… who are you?" she asked with remorse.
The man looked hurt. She could see the pain in his eyes.
Even if he tried to cover it with a smile, she could still see it.
Instead, he just started to introduce himself.
"My name is Pein. I was hoping you would remember me…" he trailed off.
Not knowing what to do, Sakura kept silent in an apologetic way.
She didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings.
So she tried to tell him everything.
She talked with him about everything she remembered.
She talked about how she got here.
She somehow knew that this guy would never harm her.
Pein listened to her intently.
It was a pleasant time for Sakura.
Then after about an hour, he finally stood up from the bed.
He looked at her and told her he had to go in a sorry way.
"I think I have to go now, Sakura-chan."
Sakura, who seemed lost in her own world, looked at Pein after hearing those words.
"But I promise I will come back." And just like that, Pein disappeared leaving no trace behind him.
But what Sakura didn't see as he left was the tears in his eyes that he tried to desperately to hide.
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Kakashi stared up at Sakura's hospital room. Then he felt a presence behind him.
He turned around to see Pein of the Akatsuki.
Kakashi immediately went into a battle stance.
But the leader of the Akatsuki didn't seem to care for him.
He seemed to be staring at the window of Sakura's hospital room.
Then he started talking in a voice that sounded dead.
"She doesn't remember me… she doesn't remember how much I loved her."
Kakashi was shocked.
He had never expected that from the Akatsuki.
In fact, he didn't expect the Akatsuki to have feelings.
As he stared, Pein continued.
"She's so pure… I just love her so much… how did you bear with the fact that she forgot you Kakashi Hatake?"
Kakashi thought of the right words to say.
The way that Pein loved Sakura was different with the way that he loved Sakura.
Kakashi loved Sakura like a father. In short, it was fatherly love.
But Pein's love was different.
It was too tearful to watch.
"She will never remember us… so instead; I decided to give her new memories. Good ones only…"
"Do you think it will be possible?" asked Pein in a questioning way.
"I'll have to try wont I? Besides, I don't want Sakura to remember me if she doesn't want to remember me…"
As Kakashi trailed off, Pein looked at the sorrow in the old man's eyes.
And without a word, Pein left.
Leaving Kakashi to look at the window of Sakura's room.
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