The little girl couldn't remember much of that day.
She remembers that the sky was bright and clear from any sandstorms. They were sitting at a field at the outskirts of Suna having a little picnic after training.
Her mother brought sweetened dates, a Suna delicacy, which Hana recalls, taste disgusting. She knew from the early age of five that even though her fighting skills are that of Suna, the rest of her is Konoha.
Filling up her red bucket with sand, she wanted to make five small castles for her mother. Five because that's her age and castles because her mother was being so nice at her during training, she deserve to get her sand castle.
"Careful dear, we don't want the sand getting into our food." Her mother smiled.
After plopping the fifth bucket full of sand just on the border of the checkered mat they were sitting on, she remembers her mother's voice turning grim. "Hana, stay behind me…"
Too immersed in the building of her important projects, she didn't realize the three dangerous looking shinobi now standing in front of her.
"Haruno Sakura…" one of them spoke.
"What do you want?" She saw her mother adopting her fighting stance.
"You'll find out just before you die!"
With that, Hana saw her mother spitting out two senbons to deflect the shuriken that were coming their way. Forming a very fast seals, her mother screamed at the top of her lungs "Doton: Kabe no Jutsu!!"
Immediately, the ground on her right left and behind rose to shield Hana. Another one seem to rose from her front, just before the sand castles but her mother's jutsu were halted as three of the nins flew at her for a direct attack.
Hana could only whimper as she saw her mother dodge two swords aiming for her ribs. In a series of adapt flips, kicks and small punches, her mother succeeded in creating a distance between her and the two nins. Putting all the chakra into her hands, her mother hit the ground creating a big crater that swallowed the two unlucky shinobi.
Where's the other one?
Hana screamed as the third ninja appeared before her sand castles. "Little girl, you are coming with…"the ninja seemed to choked as a blue colored chakra appear behind his neck.
"Hana! Are you okay dear?" Her mother had come running to her as soon as she heard her scream.
Hana nodded slowly but her eyes turned wide in horror when she saw five kunais landed to the soft flesh of her mother's back. Her mother fell down on her knees, blood trickling from her lips. Crying, Hana walked her little steps to her.
"Stay where you are! I'm not done…" she said, soft yet stern.
Hana knew that her mother was out of chakra from the training they had, she had five open wounds on her back and she was definitely outnumbered. Three more ninjas appear from her side. It seems like they've been hiding there since the fighting started.
She knew her mother was determined to end this fight quickly as she punch the abdomen of a ninja with her blue chakra, making the ninja froze in his choking position. Avoiding the second ninja's series of kicks, her mother placed her blue palm on the his chest before pushing it lightly with her index finger. It seemed to have stopped something because like the first ninja, he was left still like a statue.
'Standing death…' a technique her mother was famous for.
She remembered over hearing a conversation between her parents. Her father was trying to convince her mother from using the standing death technique because it uses a large amount of chakra and… something else. She couldn't remember what.
On that day, she could half-guessed what it was as she saw her mother dropping face first on the ground.
"Mother!" she cried at her.
The third shinobi was walking towards them. She didn't know what to do. She couldn't possibly beat the shinobi using her Kawarimi no jutsu. So she pulled her mother's hands and dragged her so she would stay inside the three walls and her castles.The shinobi was coming closer but her mother's legs were still outside her castles. Somehow, she thought that they would be safer inside.
When her mother was finally lying limp next to her, the shinobi was standing right in front of her castles.
"You are coming with me…little girl…"
Trembling, the little girl hugged her mother's hands as she mouthed a scared "No". The shinobi raise his legs to step inside and that was when Hana screamed her heart out.
"NO!!!!!!!"
She closed her eyes and screamed frantically. "NO!!! NO!!!! NO!!!!!". She didn't feel anyone grabbing her so she peeked frighteningly to see if the shinobi had changed his mind. The shinobi in front of her lied on the ground, lifeless and her five castles gone.
Sobbing quietly, she could hear the sound of sandstorms from afar. She remembered the last thing that she said to her mother was "Father is coming…."
Everything went blank.
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It's been six months since she last visited her mother. She is so angry that her father went to Konoha yesterday, without her. She wants to visit her mother, see the colorful bridge, meet her uncle Naruto and eat good food!
Kankurou looks at her niece who has been pouting ever since they started training. She reminds him of his little brother whenever he didn't let him touch his puppets. That was, of course, way before he knew that his sand could do abominable destruction.
"Yo! Did u get bitten by a mosquito?" he teases her.
"No.." she pouts
"Why are your lips so blown up then?"
"Uncle Kankurou!!!!" she smacks him on his waist, the highest point that she could reach.
'Geez, for a six years old that's a hard smack!' he thought. Then, he remembered that this girl is Haruno Sakura's spawn. He chuckles, turning back his attention to the pouting little girl
"I want to go to Konoha!"
"But it's nice here in Suna!!" he replies. Hana remain silent. "Okay, I tell you something. I will let you play with my puppets but don't tell your father!" he smirked.
"Don't want.."
"Why? All the kids wants to play with Karasu!"
"But I miss my mother! I want to visit her!!!". He sighs as she saw big droplets of tears coming from her eyes.
There was nothing he can do.
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Banging his hands on his desk he yelled, "Gaara! What are you doing in Konoha!!"
'What a way to greet your friend' he thought, irritated.
The loudmouthed Hokage ignores the annoyed look at Gaara's face and continues.
"Where's Hana? Is she with you? Is she in Suna?"
Folding his arms, he hissed and replies curtly, "Yes."
"Gaara, listen…"
"Naruto, listen, I just wanted to visit Sakura…apparently I've made a wrong decision of coming to see you first."
"No! You don't understand!" he said, throwing him a piece of scroll
"Tsunade oba-chan already said that she can't do anything! You better go back to Suna now!"
Naruto continues talking but his words faded out as Gaara's mind tries to process the information written in the scroll.
'This can't be…'
Naruto looked up to see Gaara gone leaving only his powerful murderous chakra in the Hokage's office.