Sorry for the short chapters. I wrote them in my notebook, so they don't seem so little until I type it, and every time I type it and see it in the hundreds, I cringed because I'm used to writing somewhere in the two thousands. Hopefully this is only because it's only starting out and later on the chapters get longer. Well, until then...enjoy!

Sakura snapped out of her confused and contemplative stupor and began to prepare, Wherever the hell she was, she at least still had her weapons and materials. There were so many questions she needed answered and sitting here throwing around ideas in her head won't let them answered. She was in new territory, didn't know how she got there, didn't even know where there was.

She was going to have to be more cautious than usual.

Rechecking her things, she took a deep calming breath, gripped the window, and jumped out. She landed in a soundless croach and hopped into a tree, and if it weren't for her proficientcy with her chakra control, she would have not only broken the branch, but fell and gave herself away.

'These trees are very malnourished'

'You can hardly feel its chakra'

Sakura hummed in agreement. She could feel Inner shrug.

'We'll just adjust our chakra'

She did so, but did not forget how odd, for lack of better word, it was. It gave her uneasy feeling.

Sakura traveled for days, watching the things as they roamed and came to realize that not only were an abundance of them, but never caught sight of a regular human, and then she found out why.

Those things feast on them.

She watched in horror as one of them gorged on a body of what looked like a child. Ninja or not, any moral person would be shaken by such a thing. A child murdered so savagely. The shock was so great, she stared at what was left of the body even after the thing lost interest and continued on. She hated when someone loosed a life. She was a healer for Kami's sake!

'She was gone before we even got here Sakura'Inner provided gently. Inner knew that not only did Sakura hate losing lives, but it brought back old scars.

Sakura knew Inner was right, but that didn't mean another scar wasn't etched on her heart. And what happened next was icing on the cake. A couple hours later, as she watched the girl rise again and the same chilling feeling she had before came back.

That's what the things were.

They were undead people.

Now for the next question.

Where were the actual people?