PLEASE READ THE MESSAGE BELOW SO YOU DON'T GET CONFUSED LATER ON!
Sorry guys for the late update. I was trying to give you at least two uploaded chapters at the same time, maybe even three, but I only was able to get through part of the seventh chapter since I have a lot planned for that, but then again, knowing how fickle the mind of an author is, it wouldn't be such a surprise that the story went in a completely different direction, so when i say this, don't count on it...DARYL DIXION AND THE REST OF THE ORIGINAL WALKING DEAD CREW HAS HIGH POTENTIAL IN SHOWING UP IN THE NEXT CHAPTER! Like I said, things can change so don't quote me on that, and he most likely won't be written about for too long, just like a glimpse and go. They also do not meet up (like they don't meet Sakura yet, they're still miles apart) I'm just putting them there to clear up on where the timeline is and how it's going to go because even though the canon will still be relatively the same (until a certain point because it really wouldn't be my type of fan fiction if it went line by line) the overall time it takes to do these things will be considerable different, and I will continue to give you glimpses to clear up on where the crew is as Sakura goes through this new life, and also to give you little tastes of the original crew because God knows that when I read other Walking Dead fanfics and they ale too long to give me m fix, I sometimes can't hold myself back from skipping ahead. Oh! There's also he fact that I changed Sakura's backstory quite a bit, so don't be surprised when you hear certain things that are unfamiliar. But anyways, sorry for this long documentary, please go on and read. Enjoy!
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-The undead's mobility comes from the brain
Stabbing the heart, lungs, or any other typical fatal injury never stopped the undead from moving towards their meal. Sakura dispatched limbs, knifed them in various places, even dislodged their head, but it was still "alive". She would need one of their heads to study it.
Sakura had finally reached her destination and quickly scouted out the place, and as expected, the place was swarming with the undead.
'About sixty clones will do, three for each floor'
Sakura nodded in agreement and began the hand signs. Multiple "poofs" sounded and suddenly, there were more than one Sakura standing in the clearing. They nodded to her and dashed towards the building. The undead instantly became riled. All but three of the cloned ran up the side of the walls and into the broken windows.
'We're going to have to fix this place up'
To occupy the time, Sakura sat in a familiar style taught to her by one of her favorite surrogate brothers, and stretched her senses and chakra. Over time, the dread she felt when detecting the undead had lessened to a chill down her spine. She must've been sitting there for quite a while, she opened her eyes and the clones were already gathering the bodies by the fours and taking them into the woods to be burned.
'One step done, tons to go'
'Let's look around first'
She walked towards the building and was hit flu force with the stench of rotten flesh and death, much heavier than when she was up wind.
'Been awhile since I've smelt it'
'Which is a good thing'
Sakura continued towards the tall building, excitement for the knowledge she could gain from it, but for some reason, as she got closer and closer, her footsteps felt heavier and heavier, slowing down to the point where she stopped moving all together.
Inner sighed.
'Saku-chan?'
'Do you think I can do it?'
Being her Inner, she knew exactly what Outer was referring to.
'Easily'Inner replied truthfully.
Sakura continued on as if she didn't hear her.
'I mean...if i do this, take people in, all these people counting on me, and all these lives in my hands...maybe I should give the leadership role to someone else, let them lead'
Inner shook her head.
'No. That means having to explain every little thing we do, especially if we do something out of the ordinary.'
'You think we'll have to use out ninja prowess?'
It was more of a resigned, statement than a question.
'Until we find other ninjas, maybe they're hiding or something' she shrugged. 'But some way, some how we'll have to use it and be seen using it'
Sakura ran a hand through her long hair.
'Think we should risk that? It might come back to bite us in the-no stretch that- we're Team 7, it will come back to bite us in the ass'
Once again, Inner shrugged.
'We'll cross that budge when we get here, but remember Sakura, they need us, not the other way around'
Sakura agreed with that and continued on with lighter steps. The first things she noticed was once again the putrid snell of decaying flesh. Sakura pulled the collar of her shirt over her nose to filter out the smell.
'First things first, let's get this place cleaned up'
Inner hummed in agreement.
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The clones had come back from the burnings of the bodies and started the clean up: wiping blood splatters from the walls, scraping brain matter from the roofs and in hard to reach crevices. They even took a couple of sakura's woods scented, used to calm fried nerves, and lit them. They took found clothes and washed the floors, flying up and down the hallways on their hands and knees, and an hour later, the building was clean, not homey (she'd have to do some stealing for that), but clean nonetheless.
The Sun was already setting, and the sky lighting up in brilliant oranges, yellows, and reds. Sakura climbed up to the roof, and seeing a lone undead there, liked it off. A resounding "splat" was heard, but Sakura paid it no mind, too entranced by the oddly beautiful sunset. Sakura sat on the edge of the building and just watched.
'There's something different about this sunset'
Inner shrugged.
'You're free'
Sakura, taken aback, asked her what she meant. Once again, Inner shrugged. The mental laid on her back in her minds cape with her hands behind her head. one leg bent with the other lightly bouncing over it, and enjoyed the display.
'Home hasn't been home in a long time Sakura, you and I both know that. It's why instead of immediately thinking of finding a way home, the first thought was to save this world's humanity. I mean...you ca chalk it up to a senesce of duty, but we'd both know that wouldn't be true'
And as much as it pained and burned Sakura to admit, she knew Inner was right. Home hadn't been home, it had lost the ties keeping her there, and the only thing that place had were bad memories and ghosts, but here, here she had a brand new slate. No one knew Sakura Haruno: strongest kunoichi in history and war veteran. No one had to know what she had to do, what she had seen and lived through in order to be here today.
She was free.
A breeze blew by, and though it was a far cry from Konoha's fresh breeze, it made the experience all the more sweet.
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Even as night fell, Sakura did not sleep. Adrenaline and excitement too pumped in her blood stream for her to do so. So many things she could tinker with. So many experiments she could do. So many possibilities. One of her clones had found the library/ archive and she cracked down.
'Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait'
Sakura blinked in confusion.
'Like you said before, as of right now, this world is unknown, there is no Atlanta, Georgia on the Elemental Nation's map. This is a new territory, so we have to be cautious-'
'Which means I have o get some good sleep in, eat properly, and take better care of myself, correct?'
'Yes, but', Inner shrugged suggestively 'you know you can always do that all the time, instead of staying up for two weeks straight' she gave Sakura a flat look.
Sakura rolled her eyes with an annoyed sigh.
'It's not like I do it on purpose, time just gets away from me...and Hayate-sensei needed it!'
'Alright, let's pretend that was the only time.' Sakura's eye twitched 'I know he needed the help, but you overworked ourself and passed out cold right outside his door, and not even I could revive you. he had to use smelling salts to rouse you-'
'I know but-'
'And that's not the only thing, you neglected to eat properly, only popping food pills in your mouth!'
Sakura sighed in defeat.
'Alright, I was in the wrong. I'll go out and catch something to eat and get some sleep. Satisfied?'
Inner smirked smugly.
'Very'
There were many interesting cases like the cancer one. It seemed like so far, this world's advancement when it came to medication wasn't comparable to the Nation's. They had found the cure for such a terminal disease years ago.
'Keep going' Inner encouraged.
She read on, absorbing every word she read and Inner tucking the information into small compartment in her head. From what she read so far, this world's plant were almost parallel to the ones back in hers, but what she noticed was missing, something almost essential to ninja unless you were Gai and Lee: chakra. None of the books she had read had references to usage of chakra.
'Well no wonder they haven't yet found a cure for something like cancer. We were able to because of chakra, This also cements the fact that there are-'
'No shinobi here' Sakura finished.
A pang went through Sakura's heart.
'The only ninja' she sighed 'Trading one burden for another'
'But which would you rather carry?'
They both knew the answer. so Sakura didn't both answering. Sakura closed the last book she read for the night and stretched out with a yawn. She looked outside the lone window.
Different constellations.
'Something to study in my free time'
'Let's go eat! I'm starving'
Sakura hummed in agreement and stood from he chair.
'Let's find us a deer and cook us up some venison!'
Sakura shrugged. Most likely won't find any a this time of night, but there was no harm in trying. Plus, that actually did sound pretty good right now. She jumped out the window and into the woods.
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The sky was blood red.
Fire burned everywhere.
And her senses were on overdrive: smoke obscured her vision and clogged her nose, along with he strong smell of blood and burned skin. Her body sore from some unknown beating. She could taste the iron on her tongue, and her ears were ringing from the human scream resounding in the air, but no one was there. She ran into houses, buildings where she thought she heard them, but no matter where she looked, she found no one. She spun in circles, desperately trying to find where it was coming from.
Sakura turned towards the Hokage Monument, but instead of seeing the Kages, she saw five familiar faces. The ground began to shake as if there were an earthquake and the faces began to crumble. The ground beneath her got the same treatment, and the next thing she knew was she was falling. She landed on her back and the hole she fell through began to close.
Darkness
Sakura stood up quickly-practically scrambled to her feet- and spun in circles, desperately trying to find an exit fem the never ending darkness surrounding her, but there was none.
She was in the darkness.
Alone.
Sakura screamed.
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'...ura...kura...Sakura!'
Sakura jerked forward from her makeshift bed and wretched up the venison she was lucky enough to cook up hours ago.
'All for naught' she thought distantly.
'We're okay Saku-chan. We're okay'
Inner sent a wave of calming chakra towards her frazzled nerves. She continued to upheave her stomach contents, even when there were only stomach acids left and her throat burned. Once her body stopped its instinctive response reactions, she flopped back on her belly, too tired and fed up with the situation to bother wiping her mouth. Inner took control and did it for her.
'...Another one?' Inner asked just to fill the silence.
Sakura grunted tiredly. Inner walked down Sakura's dream scape hall and reviewed Sakura's dream.
'It's weird how I'm the only one seeing it'
'Mhmm' Inner responded absentmindedly.
As she finished watching, she sighed. It was quid after that, around her and in her head. Sakura's hand subconsciously fingered the beautiful glass necklace. The trinket shaped like the kanji word for love. Her body slumped and a small smile adjourned her face in remembrance to who gave it to her. There were so many good memories attached to the necklace, and because of that, because of the good memories, it hurt. Hurt because they were only good memories.
And she could never live them again.
PLEASE READ THIS, THIS IS ALSO IMPORTANT!
So to ask some things...first and foremost what do you think of this chapter? Comments? Also, that dream Sakura had, what do you think those five familiar face on the Hokage monument are? Take a guess, you should get at least three of them right. To address the things where Inner took over Sakura's body to wipe the bile off her mouth, I bet some of you were probably wondering why Inner never took control before to stop Sakura from being reckless. You'll see why she doesn't do that often as the story progresses. And lastly, that necklace, who do you think gave it to her, their relationship, and what happened to them?
And to all my supporters...I LOVE YOU!
