Sakura looked at Tobirama blinking once, twice. Out of all of them did she not expect Tobi to be the first to ask her about Ku. She had understood if it had been Minato or the first, after all, they had both fought the Kyuubi. Maybe even Hiruzen would have asked out of worry for her.
"Sakura-Hime-Sama does not have any reason to answer anything you say mortal," the fox said impatiently from her lap having had enough of Sakura's frozen form and waiting to be petted again. She had hit a nice spot behind his ear he could not reach himself, it had been bliss when she scratch right there and he just couldn't wait for it any longer.
Tobirama, however, did not seem very happy about the answer or the fact that the fox had more or less dismissed him. But Tobi was an adult so instead of saying anything childish back to the damn mutt, he went for glancing at it with killer instinct hoping it would burn to ashes.
Sakura was just sitting and looking at Tobirama before she slowly turned her glance towards the other Minato tried to smile at her, but, it looked a bit force and made it obvious that he was not satisfied with the answer either but wouldn't press her for more.
"His name is Ku," she said with a small voice, not giving anything else away. She looked down at Ku who in return looked up at her. When their eyes met he smiled and waves his tail happy to have her looking at him and accepting his presence. He acted a lot like Naruto used to, Ku seems to simply adore her and loved when she looked at him.
Sakura took a cookie and gave it to him, she watched him eat it with delight, as she looked up at them again, Sakura tiredly opened her mouth to say some more only for someone to be knocking on her door.
She looked towards the door before looking back at them raising one of her eyebrows silently asking them if they were expecting guests. When none of them made a move to answer the door Sakura got up and went for the door only to see Minato at the door.
Blinking she looked back where the fourth had been sitting before she petted Ku again. She had yet to get used to living with the blond who was everywhere and nowhere at the same time, all the time.
When Minato returned with the guest she regretted not having ignored the knocking earlier, because now Kakashi stood in her living room. Sakura felt anger running through her, what could he possibly want from her? "What do you want Hakata-san?" she asked politely keeping her anger back she did NOT want to replace anything in her home right now.
"Neh Sakura-Chan don't you think we are way past this? I even like it better if you call me sensei rather than using my last name." Kakashi said happily not even feeling the angrier that was rolling of off Sakura in waves. Sakura swallowed her anger and gave a bittersweet smile in return.
"Please don't use my name as if we are friends after all we could not even call us teacher and student since you would have had to teach me something for that… So if you could just leave before I push you out." Sakura thought but kept her thoughts to herself it wouldn't make a difference anyway instead she ignored his comment and asked him again.
"What can I do for you Hakata-san?" this time, however, did Sakura look him dead in the eyes and she could faintly hear Ku beginning to growling at Kakashi most likely feeling her anger. Sakura was stiff and watching him like she would watch an enemy ninja, never missing a single thing. Like how he slowly began to stiff and his eye looked more surprised with each seconds passing.
"Can't an old man visit his favorite student?" Kakashi asked carefully knowing her bad temper. Sakura, however, just looked at him with an unimpressed look silently asking him if he couldn't come up with something better than that.
"You stopped being my sensei when you so coldly abandoned me while Naruto went training and Sasuke left… speaking of Sasuke we both know you liked Sasuke and Naruto way better than me since you never even bother to learn me anything… You hardly leaned Naruto anything either all in all you just loved the little Uchiha traitor too much" She said in an even voice as if she was stated facts or talking about the weather… Wait she had more emotions in her when she talked about the weather.
Sakura could tell from the way he stiffs that she had hit a nerve with what she said and it almost made her smile with the hurt look he sent her. He had hurt her more than anyone ever had and that said quite a bit with Sasuke leaving, Naruto always believing she needed the protection, the war and the way they had all forgotten about her.
Flashback
Sakura stood over another ninja's body, this time, it was a man who came from Sand, he had had great Chakra control and was a remarkable medic who was eager to help and somehow always smiled no matter what. He had kind green eyes and soft looking short blond hair with a nice build but not like the ninjas who was on the front line.
She sat down beside his cold body that was ripped in two only the spine that held the two body part together and as Sakura turned to look at his face she saw a soft smile it must have been because he was finally with his lover again who had died as one of the first deaths in the war.
Sakura slowly stood up on her shaking legs while looking at him, he a man who gave his life to save others and never lost faith in the fire of will… And yet no one would cry for him or even know of his death he would only be another number that they lost.
After she was done with the hand seals she watched the earth slowly covering his body until he was fully covered in by earth and a stone stood up with the words:
"Inu Yuik
A brave medic who always had a smile on his face
May he always be remembered for his kind heart"
Nodding to herself Sakura watched as flowers began to form it was a Jutsu she had made herself for all the people that die in the war instead of just walking all over them. She had first wanted to make the Jutsu when she saw how all she couldn't saw was just put together in the corner of the camp and left to rot.
Sakura stood before Inu's new made grave when she felt another presence that was coming closer, whoever it was had yet to say a word showing respect to the dead.
Looking over her shoulder to see who was slowly coming closer to her and to her surprise it was Hashirama who stood a bit behind her before he took the last steps and stood beside her instead looking down on the new grave.
Sakura too looked down at the grave to see it that the white Chrysanthemums had been the one flower to bloom, this Jutsu choose what kind of flower which person should have. Like this, it stood for loyal and truth that described him the most.
"This is amazing Jutsu" Hashirama looked at the flowers and gave a small sad smile while still sound impressed at the same time it sounds generous and honest like he meant it.
"It's not useful at all in the time of war" Sakura replied coldly not knowing when she had first shown this to Kakashi he told her to stop the child play and that they were at war, a place where compassion was not allowed and if she had the time for such useless things she might as well spend her time and Chakra better.
End of Flashback
Sakura looked passively at Kakashi who in return said nothing she took Ku up who was still growling at the silver haired man. When Sakura simply passed by him she couldn't help herself from lowly saying
"When you abandon me again this time in the war I desired you were not worth my time or Chakra anymore" She had stayed it in a voice that didn't sound like her own anymore.
She passed Minato once again and left the house walking towards the Hokage tower while her thoughts went back towards Kakashi. She felt nothing really maybe a bit of anger or was it hate? Either way, it scared her how she was slowly losing herself and turning into a cold and selfish person just like Sasuke... and she was beginning to understand Madara more and more from each day and that truly horrified her.
Sakura looked up to see Naruto and Sasuke coming her way, looking down at Ku hoping he had an answer, which he most likely didn't since he just looked up at her in return.
