Mysterious Meeting
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In the deepest dark green forest, Sakura Haruno steadily gazed upon the sky as her eyes formed emotionless and felt exhausted. The cerulean cloudless sky she perceived were covered by its thin tree branches as its shadows were shaded through Sakura.
Leaves swayed around hers including her short pink hair's strands blew softly by the breeze of the wind. She closes her eyes, slowly began to inhale feeling its air was the most refreshing warm summer scent she ever smelt. It feels something new or something contemporary things would be coming to her.
'Everything's fine.' She thought.
In a few seconds, she slowly shut her eyes open, breathing from inhale to a long release of exhale. Her shimmering emerald eyes looked lonesome, reflected by a huge ray of semi-warm sunlight.
Instantly, a memory came back through his thoughts.
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Half dead shinobi bodies covered and stained with their crimson blood. Her friends, her family, and others were wrapped by its pale roots of the god tree. Their unconscious bodies were hanged like silkworm cocoons. And lastly, the death of her ill-fated teammates...Naruto and Sasuke were stabbed by a black ash-bones through their right chests. Meanwhile, her sensei, Kakashi Hatake, laid his upturned lifeless body on a cold puddle.
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Her eyes shut close, trembling whlist feeling so miserable after remembered her loss of her loved breathing turned rapid than earlier. She hates this as she recalled it...feeling like she turned back for being a weak kunoichi. What she ever do...without them?
"Oi! What are you doing here?"
Sakura's contemplation was interrupted whe she heard a youthful voice. She turned away from the sky until she found a ...young boy. Her eyes blinking in twice as she saw a teenage boy grumpy face boy probably around 12 to 13 years old with spiky black hair, black onyx eyes wearing a traditional navy yukata and a pair traditional of slippers. His arms crossed firmly, was piqued
by Sakura's presence.
"I am concerned about your safety. However, I want to remind you that this place is not safe for-"
His stetement discontinued as he saw Sakura's clothing were seemingly bizarre for him.
As an outcome, his cheeks tainted to a warm red with a single nervous sweat formed on the left side of his face slides down through his lower cheek.
He also thought that he never seen this kind of an improper girl's clothing ever before. The boy saw his clueless onyx eyes towards the girl's clothes as she describes an outfit consists of a red qipao dress, black gloves, low-heel, knee-high boots, black shorts underneath a short light brown apron skirt, and pink elbow protectors (Her headband protector wasn't included for some reason). Consequently, he raises his right eyebrow.
'This is the lamest outfit I've ever seen. In comparison, she's even far worse than that boy I've met from the river!' His face glowered. Unforeseeably, his eyes turning slowly up to her face to discerned her clearly.
But then, he apalled. He honestly never seen such kind of an exotic appearance of a girl before. Pink hair like a blooming cherry blossom flower with her emerald eyes like a spring, fair skin and angelic face. Now he seemed a bit dreamy as he gazed her deeply His heart pounds stronger. Subsequently...
"You look...familiar," Sakura wondered.
The boy snapped out, quickly shook his head. He then recalled what Sakura had said to him.
"...I never met you before." He touted, remained unfriendly to her.
"I see..." She muttered as she clutched her fingers to the chin, mouth slight pouted.
She raised her right eyebrow, doubting that she certainly confirmed that this boy looked very familiar to someone that she may know. When the boy caught Sakura the way she stares suspicious to him, he knitted his brows and form his face to unsavoury. His eyes moved to scrutinze her facial expression, glanced away around and see if someone's with her. Then, he stared back to her. He found conspicuous from that girl.
"Are you a Kunoichi? "The spiky-haired boy asked. Face turned to stern with a semi-deep suspicious tone of his voice.
"Obviously I am."said Sakura.
Meanwhile, she meticulously stared at the kid's appearance again, she could tell herself that the boy looks clearly familiar. Not long after, she turned astounded when she finally realised about something. The kid in front of her was very similar to Sasuke's features...or is he, in fact, an Uchiha? She ponders something else until her eyes turned cold and wide. A single sweat appeared at the left side of her face went down through the part of her chin. In just a few seconds, she pretended her face turned to normal, showing her confused smile.
"I'm uh... actually searching for something around the forest. So, what's your name? "She asked curiously, but deep within, she wanted to make sure if it was really the person she was thought about.
"My name is Madara...And how about you, kunoichi?"
Madara pointed his right-hand index finger at her. So, her thoughts were right. However, this Madara kid seems like he's not that scary-looking person at all. This teen Madara seemed innocent at this time, well, not really, since Sakura knew that Madara became a prodigy shinobi when he was a was yoing and he even killed adult enemies mostly from the Senju. She could perceived her memories when she red the Konohagakure's history.
"I'm Sakura...pleasure to meet you, Madara-kun." She answered him. "So.. what are you doing here?" She asked him. Madara suddenly frowned and pointing his two index fingers at her once again.
"Oi! I asked that question first! And this is the way I headed back to my home..." he stopped when he suddenly saw something at Sakura. His lips changes to a wide evil grin. "...forehead girl~." He teasingly called Sakura with the obvious name.
Sakura blinking her eyes until she later realized that Madara called her names. Her left eye twitched. She never thought that this Madara kid is such a discourteous demeanour brat. An Uchiha insult style...now she finally understood how Naruto felt as Sasuke's insulted him calling Naruto names as well. Veins popped out onto her forehead while she raised her right quivering clenched fist.
'You...INSOLENT LITTLE SHITTY BRAT! YOU. WILL. PAY. FOR THIS!' her inner enraged.
"Shannarroo! The real reason that I'm here is to find any medicinal herbs and then I'll be heading back to somewhere else!" She barked as Madara stunned his head.
"Medicinal plants? So, you're saying that you're a medical shinobi?" He said. Sakura proudly nodded and simpered.
"Yep!"
'A Senju?'He thought distrustfully. "Well, that's amazing." He smiled at her and was slightly amazed.
He pondered this girl, wondering what clan she belonged. He judged her looks and her outfit which is lame but confirmed himself that she's not from a Senju clan. Healing techniques are also the Senju's major capabilities. Of shes from the other clan or perhaps from a unnamed clan, medical ninjas were very rear to find and most of them were unfortunately killed because they were mistakenly from the Senju clan. Mostly, medical ninjas from a normal clan would rather not to show their healing abilities or else they will become a personal clan healers each of noble shinobi clans which was unfortunate for them. Because if they fail to heal a certain person, they will automatically be executed.
'No, she's a Senju' Madara thought again. "So Sakura-san are you going to somewhere else? Are you heading back home or still finding medical herbs?" He asked her inquisitively.
Sakura's smile then vanished. 'Where should I go? What should I do?'. She thought. She gave him a confounding look then turned to downcast in an instant. Madara quickly noticed her conspicuous dismayed. He jumped to another branch to come closer to her.
"Are you..alright?" He said showing his innocent melancholic face.
When she lifted her face, and look at Madara, she never felt extreme hate towards him but pettiness. This Madara ... reminds her of Sasuke's soft side of his. He probably loses someone that he cherished most and turned into a ruthless monster in the future years... just like Sasuke's way of hatred against his brother and Naruto...even he pushed her away from himself.
"Uh... what's wrong?" Madara asked her again rigorously.
"Nothing, you remind me of someone that I know." She answered. Madara tilted his head then he put his hands-on-hips while his face furrowed.
"Who could that be?"
"Well, a friend of mine."
"...Oh.." Madara said, curiously. While they were starring each other, Sakura glanced down, she noticed something and saw Madara's left lower leg was wrapped in white gauze bandages with tainted blood located at his shin. The weirdest of all, the blood is still wet and it's going to fall down through his foot.
"You're bleeding."
Madara was quizzical at first, then he quickly glanced down and realized it.
"Oh, I got this from my training, days ago. This is just a scratch." He said but suddenly when he glanced back to Sakura, she's in front of him.
"Days ago? You have to bandage it properly to avoid infection."
"Well, I just washed it using water and-" He stopped as he began to stagger.
He was vacantly at first until realization strikes on his mind, he became bug-eyed with a sudden flash of red in his chicks. Sakura squatted while she was having an observation look at his wounds. She then unwraps the bandage directly without any reluctances.
"O-Oi what a-are you-" he stammered.
"Your wounds were seriously infected. Why you didn't consult it from your own medics?" She questioned him. Madara turned dour.
"Well..because.."
"Don't underestimate the wounds and it looks infected. Whenever you didn't know that this object hits on your skin but unknowingly, it will be contaminated by a serious bacteria itself. And worst of all, a weapon with poison in it. This will weaken your chakra flows or may lead depletion at any chance." She explained while she healed him using his hand with an amount of green glowing chakra.
"..I...appreciated it..." He said with a soft-light smiled but then turned to grumpy as he looked away and pouted his mouth. "... seriously, this is just nothing."
"Don't be so stubborn, Madara. Remember what I told you. If you're bleeding again, don't just wash it with cold water. Use lukewarm water instead. And use marshmallow plants and apply it to your wounds. It can remove poison and debris from any deep cuts." Sakura explained.
After she healed him, Sakura grabs something in her pocket. Then she wrapped the new gauze bandage around his shin. Afterwards, she glanced up at him and smile. Madara was dumbfounded with a blush on his cheeks. He then quickly looks away from her trying not to be thankful for her.
"Hn! Whatever, forehead girl! My wound is not of your concern and I told you! This is just a scratch!" He exclaimed while he crossed his arms.
Sakura ignored his insult words thrown at her. What she was concerning about that her mission is to avoid this kid's perilous ambition. She must do something in order to protect Madara and save the future against the one who started this all destructions, Black Zetsu who called Kaguya a mother and her manifestation will. Sakura must find him before he manipulated Madara or someone else. Sakura suddenly remembering the Uchiha tablet. The one that both Sasuke, Kakashi, and Naruto talked about. She then stands up and chuckled.
"Well, it's nice to meet you Madara-kun." Sakura raised her a goodbye wave of her right hand then she starts jumping away.
Madara's face was a bit surprise for her sudden leave. His feelings within that he doesn't want her to leave but instead, he wanted to know more about her. Why Is he curious about her? What's he pondering about? It sounds too foolish for him to feel very concern for this random girl but he can't help it. He is anxious towards Sakura for travelling any treacherous places that may cause herself into trouble.
"H-Hey! Where are, you going! I'm not finished yet!" Madara tried to stop Sakura as he followed her. Sakura then stops and facing him in a few meters away.
"Hn?" Sakura hummed and stared at him, tilted her head. Madara pause while he looked at her. His face confounded with his blush fades in his cheeks again. "What do you mean you're not finished with me yet? Do you have anything else to say?" She asked her, placed her hands-on-hips.
Madara, couldn't believe why he was doing this, in which it turned something awkward.
"Ah-E-Eto. I just wanted to know that to u-Uhm know that w-where are you going?" Madara stammered. Scratches his right hand on the back of his head shyly.
Sakura smiles calmly and Madara's left chick bloated intendedly with his childish grumpy expression trying to hold his face not smiling her back.
"...I will see you next time, Ja ne!"
She said remained her angelic smile. She turns around and leapt continuously until she went farther from him.
Madara was simply gazing at her. Until his sight can no longer see any signs of Sakura anymore. Unknowing the fact that why he was suddenly acted weird. He slowly raised his right arm and clenches his hand on his cloth chest part. Why is his heart feels something pain, something odd like it ponders abnormally stronger that could hear his hearings? Something he feels happy but grief-stricken at the same time.
'Be careful...' . He whispered. Afterwards, he put his left hand down. He turned around and jumped away in the opposite direction.
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