Sakura frowned in fear as the group of guys continued to approach her. The blonde's voice was shaking when he spoke next.
"O-oi, Sakura-chan…?"
She took another step back, surprised at the familiarity or perhaps rudeness of him to call her "chan" upon first meeting. "Who are you?" She asked again, a little more confident now.
The blonde's eyes widened dramatically. "What do you mean? I'm Uzumaki Naruto, Sakura-chan, don't you remember?"
As much as Sakura hated to see that look of grief and sadness on the boy's face, she had to shake her head from side to side uncertainly. She hated where she was then—she loathed it all. She could feel a sick twisting in her gut, yet every time anything worth of use would cross her mind, it would flutter away out of her reach.
A breath escaped her mouth as she closed her eyes against the impending headache that invaded her throbbing temples.
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"And there's Ichiraku," Naruto pointed out loudly, ushering Sakura over to the Ramyn stand. "Is anything coming to mind yet, Sakura?"
Sakura looked around. The stools and customers seemed all foreign to her, but then again, it was hard to think when the boy named Naruto was rambling on every second she was with him. It also did not help matters that the man named Kakashi kept on staring at her intently behind her back.
It was already afternoon, but the only things Sakura could remember were still that she was a kunoichi, and that her name was Haruno Sakura.
Yet so far, she's already been introduced to more than half of the village. A busty blonde woman had checked up on her condition before she left the hospital, and Sakura deduced as much that they used to be acquainted with each other, but that was only the beginnings of the greetings.
Everywhere Sakura went, people greeted her, and she tried her best to remember all of them.
There was a lithe blonde about her height that Sakura found a strange sense of dislike upon first impressions. With her was a man with a spiky ponytail who yawned every other sentence, and commented on how she losing her memories was too troublesome for his liking. Beside him was a boy who finished three bags of potato chips in the three minutes Naruto was trying to get them to converse.
She was also taken to a family of strange looking ninjas in traditional garments. On first sight, Sakura deemed them to be blind, as they seemed to have no pupil, but it was not until she registered them as Byakugan did she realize her mistake. Scary people aside, there was a bowl-cut haired boy who nearly glomped her into oblivion when she was passing a small run-down dojo. Sakura had winced because she thought some costumed fanatic was trying to rape her, and she was quick to defend, but she apologized after Naruto told her of their previous acquaintance. She had helped pry Lee's figure out of the tree she smacked him into.
Just before the day ended, however, and when Sakura would be returned to her own apartment, she was halted by a person standing and waiting outside her door.
"Who…are you again?" She asked tentatively, not wanting to be rude if it was someone she was supposed to know.
"I'm hurt that you have no recollection of your old sensei, who by the way, wants a word with you before you turn in."