Very short yeah I know!
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Chapter 4: The Mark Revealed: Eternal Death
She had fallen asleep on the couch. Her thoughts about the past events had worn her off. She slept peacefully, calmly, so serenely that you would think of anything wrong with the young Konoichi. But those who thought of that were wrong, greatly wrong. And her dream was an unknown evidence to everyone.
"We've told you before, didn't we?" The woman said to her but she didn't respond. She looked up at the woman's smiling face.
Smiling
Smiling
Smiling
'SLAP!'
Blood oozed out of the side of her mouth but she didn't mind. She was already use to it
It was ok.
It was ok.
It was always ok.
It annoyed her…
The woman's hand slowly went back to her side, still smiling.
It annoyed her…
She always smiles. In every situation she smiled, just smiled. Be it sad, serious, or life threatening. Just smile.
"That's a good little girl." She praised, now rubbing the reddening spot on her face where she had slapped her. "Be that way. Do not be affected by anything around you."
The woman's hand seemed flawless. But she knew better. She can feel the roughness of the woman's hand even through her soothing touch.
"Be unaffected, be blank, be emotionless, kill any emotion that lives within you."
She was silent… for awhile.
"Why?" Her small voice was horsed in the silence of the room.
"Because you are part of this family, it's in our blood, our system. Because you are a –"
"Sakura, wake up!" A woman's voice but not that of her dream. She slowly got off the coach trying to erase the remains of her sleep.
"Okaa-san?"
"Sakura, ANBU at the door." Was all that the woman said before she left the room heading to their kitchen.
'ANBU?'
She walked to where the front door was. She slowly opened the door and what reveled to her was a very wet ANBU, probably in his middle age or pass that. Without his ANBU mask she was able to see the very serious expression on his face. But she could sense it…
"Please come in, you're soaking wet." She said with concern in her voice.
"Arigatuo for the offer but Hokage-sama wishes to see you, Sakura-san. It is an emergency." He said with respect in his voice. She tried to hide the look of uneasiness on her face with a look of confusion instead.
Lighting struck from behind him, giving an unpleasant light in their way. She didn't answer to what the ANBU said.
"Sakura-san?"
"Give me a moment." She walked to their kitchen to where her mother was. She was washing the dishes at the sink. The bumping of the dishes meet with the strong downfall of rain.
"Okaa-san, I'll be going to the Hokage's office…" She got no response from her mother.
Lighting struck again, giving them a sudden light at a near by window. "I'll tell you everything that will happen when I get back." She left without a word from her mother and went to the front door.
"Let's go." She said to the ANBU and they both went off in full speed.
The rain didn't stop nor did it slowed down its pace, neither did Sakura and the ANBU. From time to time lighting would strike covering the village in a translucent color of black and white. For a moment Sakura thought she saw him on top of a building but after the lighting stopped there was nothing there. She shook her head thinking and hoping it was just her imagination.
But it was there. Smiling… an innocent smile. Like he always did. Beneath the shadows as the lighting struck again.
They arrived at the Hokage's office. Soaking wet with stern faces and passing stunned expressions on their faces. They stopped in front of a huge wooden door that of which will lead them to the Hokage's office.
"This is where I will leave you, Sakura-san." For the first time since they left her house the ANBU spoke. He bowed and left her standing there. Sakura faced the door with a calm face but with a fast beating heart. It still rained hard but the beating of her heart was far stronger.
What would Tsunade need from her that she had to send an ANBU for it? She wondered in dread if it had something to do with him. With THEM.
The touch the brass knobs of the door. Hesitating at first but then finally she opened it. It opened in an eerie sound and in her table with a solemn look on her face The Fifth Hokage.
"Haruno Sakura, please come in." Sakura closed the door behind her and proceeded in the Hokage's office. She stopped in front of the desk.
"You needed something from me Hokage-sama?" She said in her usual demeanor.
"Hai." Tsunade took out a yellow folder under her desk and place it on it but did not open it. "Sakura…" She started. Sakura looked at her. something was definitely wrong. "You do know that the Chunin exams are coming soon?"
"Hai, Kakashi-sensei told us about a week ago." Said Sakura.
Tsunade nodded. "Let us not prolong this talk." For a moment she thought she saw Tsunade glare at her. "There was a killing earlier this morning at the North Part of the village. They were participants for the exam."
Her right hand flinch.
There was a killing…
"A-A killing?" Sakura stuttered. "B-but who would do something like that? And Hokage-sama… I don't understand why I'm involved in this."
"At first I thought it might have been just another ninja from a village that killed those them… but then-" She finally opened the yellow folder on her desk. In it there were three medium sized pictures. Sakura saw how Tsunade flinch when she looked at it. She thought that it might have been the picture of the dead bodies of those ninjas.
But how wrong she was…
"Sakura… this was taken from the bodies of those ninjas." Tsunade put them face first on her desk. And being a bit of a distance from the desk sakura couldn't see them.
She moved closer her heart pounding.
She saw them. Her heart literally stopped for a moment.
The Mark
The Mark
It is Mark!
'… we'll see, we'll see. There are a lot of things that could happen within a few days.'
My Kohana…
They were not the pictures of those dead ninjas. But something more frightening.
The Mark!
Her mind screamed at her.
He had made his move! He had made his presence known to Konoha!
She was lost for words. Tsunade could tell. She once again looked at the pictures. The mark. The symbol.
It was branded on them. Like when you brand a cow. Branded into their flesh.
A mark. A symbol.
A circle with four comas surrounding it and three more commas in the circle itself. The symbol for eternity…
Death!
Eternal Death!
'They're here. Or at least one of them.' She once again looked at the pinked haired girl. 'Grandfather what did you do when this happened 50 years ago.'
"Sakura we need talk." Tsunade knew… oh how she knew all too well.
Eternal Death will rise.
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A/N: Nothing to say… Just sorry for the late update. And yeah I love making cliffhangers.