CHAPTER 5 Chain. The bleeding heart cries out.
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Naruto walks through the dreary rain. His hair drenched through as it hangs low. Naruto keeps his gaze cast to the clouds. Naruto walks about the field, his eyes mixed with rain water and tears. "Why can't I just die...? I just want to die rain...is it because death will bring me happiness?" Naruto tells himself as he fixes his gaze about him. He sees several ANBU squads surround him.
"Great...more bloodshed...can't I ever walk alone?" Naruto ask himself inside his head.
"Leave please." Naruto ask as his dull glassy eyes look about.
The ANBU simply respond by drawing there swords causing Naruto to hang his head low. "Please... I don't want to kill you. I don't want to kill anymore I just want to be left alone in my tears."
The ANBU strike forwards, causing Naruto to let out a grunt as they strike past him landing several kunai and sword slashings into his body. Naruto holds up his chain closing his eyes he lets the chain spring free from his wrist. The chain acting as if it had a will of its own swinging and piercing every single ANBU.
"I'm sorry." Naruto says in a soft tone. "Shatter." As the words escape his mouth the ANBU fall lifelessly to the ground a single tear runs down their cheeks.
"I didn't want to kill you...why couldn't you have seen that?" Naruto says as he walks away from the bloody mess continuing his walk through the sad rain.
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Sakura continues her walk, the rain pouring down upon her drenching her clothes. Yet she follows her feet, not caring where they take her. She just wants to vanish from her nightmare. She could not keep the image of Naruto out of her mind. How she had been so stupid...? So ignorant. Since that day not even her innerself seemed to talk to her. Sure all her friends still hung out with her, but she knew everyone blamed her for not stopping Naruto's run away. Sakura looked up at the sky. "Why can't I just die...? I just want to die..." Sakura mumbles inside her head.
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One blonde haired shinobi walks east as one pink haired kunoichi walks west. There paths seem to cross as if guided by the hands of kami herself. They keep their gaze low at the ground, not even noticing one another as they pass each other. Their thoughts seem to pass with one another.
"I miss you Sakura-chan. I'm so lonely without you"
"I miss you Naruto-kun. I feel so empty inside"
They continue walking, growing farther and farther from one another. Their gazes still cast at the ground. As they pull away into the haze of the mist something is left on Sakura's right wrist...nothing other than a heavy iron clad shackle with a long chain seeming to trail from it...she does not notice the extra weight as she disappears into the forest, seemingly walking in oblivion.
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Sakura manages to return to town after another hour of walking. Her eyes seem to scream sadness. Yet her mind screams her regret of losing Naruto. Her heart cries out her love for him. She doesn't know how much longer she could hold out. She had tried several times to locate the blondy, but she could not find a trace. "Why...? Why did I let Sasuke use me like that...? Why...? I could have been happy with Naruto-kun...now I will never be happy." Sakura tells herself as she walks through the streets, the thick heavy chain seemingly swaying freely in the air as her hands linger at her side. She has a look of someone who has just fought a Shinigami face to face and lost.
Her green eyes seem to dull almost like glass. Her medium length pink hair seems to look tangled and messy from the battering of the rain. Sakura walks around with her eyes sagging as if she hadn't slept in years. Her body moves slowly and sadly. As she drifts through the rainy mud covered streets, all emotions seem to drain out of her. She walks into Ino not even stopping as Ino falls into the mud.
"Oi Forehead! Watch where the fuck you're going." Ino shouts as she looks over her mud covered clothes. Sakura doesn't even stop as she moves forward like someone in a trance.
"Well what the fuck do you have to say for yourself Forehead?!" Ino screams out at Sakura.
"Sakura..." Ino doesn't even finish as she quickly catches that something is wrong, something terrible wrong. She looks over her best friend's appearance as she notices Sakura looks like she had just went through hell and back. But what frightens her the most is the dangling chain hanging off Sakura's wrist swinging freely.
"Sakura what is that on your wrist?" She says as she quickly runs up to Sakura and grabs her wrist. Sakura looks down at her wrist. "Huh...? Whatever." Sakura says as she tries to walk forward but Ino does not release her grip.
"Not whatever. Tell me who did this to you Sakura. Please." Ino says in a very scared and worried voice.
"Who cares...? Just let me die." Sakura says her thoughts out loud as she tries to walk but Ino does not release her. "Sakura..." Ino says in a shallow voice.
Sakura doesn't even look up as she yanks her arm forcefully from Ino's hands as she walks forward, seemingly on a path to nowhere, yet everywhere.
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Naruto drifts by the Hokage's office. In his hand he clenches the necklace Tsunade had given him so long ago. He walks up to the window using wall climbing. He peers into the room to see Tsunade passed out face first on the desk, the stench of sake clouding the air.
Naruto looks to his necklace; he slips himself inside draping the necklace around the unconscious Tsunade. "I don't want to be Hokage anymore." Naruto vanishes into the night air.
Tsunade is awakened by a pounding on her door. "Hokage-sama, Hokage-sama." Pleads a desperate sounding female voice.
Tsunade rubs her temples as she performs a small medical jutsu to help her with the large amount of sake she had downed. "Come In."
A mud covered Ino barges into the office. "Hokage-sama its Sakura."
Tsunade frowns. "What about my student Ino?"
Within moments Shikamaru walks in carrying an unconscious Sakura draped over his shoulder. He walks over to the love seat on the far wall, laying Sakura down to let Tsunade get a full view of Sakura's almost dead look.
Tsunade clearly notices the dull distant look in Sakura's eyes, along with the matted mess of her hair and soaked clothes. "What happened to her?"
Ino shakes her head. "I don't know Tsunade-sama. All I know is she said. 'Who cares. Just let me die.' When I asked her about the chain on her wrist."
Tsunade looks to Sakura's wrist noticing that the shackle of the chain looks a lot like a chain a slave trader would put on their slaves. She also notices how the last link of the chain clearly shows that it was broken as if pulled apart in a diagonal right to left pattern. She knew if she could find the source it would match up perfectly. Tsunade lets out a sigh. "Ino, how much has Ibiki taught you on your mind probe jutsu?"
Ino nods her head. "Enough."
Tsunade nods. "Right, Shikamaru you hold her down Ino you dive into Sakura's mind and tell me what you can find."
Shikamaru cast his Kagemane one more time not even bothering to let out a troublesome as Ino proceeds to dive into Sakura's mind.
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Ino enters with ease, yet she seems to find herself knee deep in an ocean of blood as far as the eye can see. "What the hell." Ino looks around, trying to locate a way to read Sakura's mind. She wanders around looking for Sakura. What she find nearly makes her eject herself. She looks at the figure of Sakura before her.
Sakura is covered in blood her heart seemingly cut out of her chest. Tears running down her face even with her eyes held shut. Her naked body shackled to nothing but air. An ocean of blood flowing from her empty chest. The crying Sakura just appears to be mute as Ino asks her. "Who did this to you? Why are you like this?"
Sakura looks to Ino, tears streaming down her face. Her expression carrying the look of a broken and scared child. Yet Sakura does not speak, she only lowers her head back down. "Are you the one I seek?"
Suddenly Ino feels a darkness surround her.
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Ino is yanked out of Sakura's mind as she looks to see the chain that was once hanging free around Sakura's wrist piercing her chest. Shikamaru releases his Kagemane as he tries to break the chain. Even Tsunade and her super human strength fail to break the chain as they tug with all their might.
Ino feels her heart seem to ache and twinge in pain, as if crying out in mercy and sadness. Soon she blacks out.
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Ino looks around in the dark space that seems to be her mind. Before her stands the same bloody Sakura, her arms extended at Ino's chest, the chain impaled through Ino. Sakura's voice is lonely and plagued with pain. "You are not the one I seek...Shatter"
Ino feel her heart seem to break into pieces as heartache floods her mind. But just as Ino seems on the edge of breaking Sakura's eyes widen and the chain leaps out of Ino's chest, sparing her from the certain death.
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Ino returns to reality as she sees Tsunade looking down at the three crystal Hokage necklace that had fallen on the chain. The necklace is what appeared to cause the chain to break back into its normal dangling manner. Tsunade begins patching up Ino's wound as Shikamaru picks up the necklace. "Isn't this Naruto's necklace Hokage-sama? Why were you wearing it?"
Tsunade nods he head. "Hai, it is Naruto's. Why it was around my neck I have no clue, but it seemed to have just saved Ino's life. We better not try anything. Get Jiraiya in here Shikamaru."
Shikamaru nods his head. "Hai, but can we move him from the hospital."
Tsunade nods her head. "Go to my desk and grab a notice paper and pen, I'll sign the release."
Shikamaru quickly moves to her desk and returns to Tsunade, who continues her work on Ino. She grabs the pen with her mouth. After giving a rough signature she spits out the pen. "There, now hurry, and if anyone argues they can come direct to me. Tell them I need a medical transport team. Ino took a direct hit to the heart."
Shikamaru nods his head as he flickers away.
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(AN: Ooooooh Freaky... I'll make this short so I can begin reviewing the next chapter... Whats happen to Sakura... Whats with the freaky chain... And the Fked up mind of Sakura's... Stay tuned for more of Chains... Yeah... That was lame...)