Chapter 2: The tale of Sakura
"Itekimasu!" said Sakura as she left her parents house. Today was going to be another long day of training at the Hokage's tower. Not that she complaint about it... but the thought of her other friends with their senseis going on missions made her feel nostalgic. With Sasuke at Orochimaru's hideout and Naruto out of the village training with Jiraiya, the only left for her to do was do her best with Tsunade's training to be a medic nin.
"Sakura!" called Tsunade once she was in her office.
"Yes, Tsunade-shishou" answered her.
"Today you'd be going to do some research at the Hospital. I want you to take bring me some files from there and also you could learn something from the medic nin there" informed Tsunade.
"Yes, sir" answered Sakura, excited as it was going to be her first research alone at the hospital.
"Ah... can you also call Rock Lee? I have a mission for him" added Tsunade when Sakura was going to open the door.
"Hai!" answered Sakura and left the office.
"I have to go in that other direction to the Hospital so we'll be parting ways from this point" said Sakura to Lee after informing him about the mission.
"Ok then, I'll be leaving you now" added Lee.
"Yeah. Bye, Lee-san" added her waving at him. "And don't forget I'll be cheering on you at the coming Chunin Exams!"
"Arigato! Sakura-san! You too do your best!" she heard Lee cry the moment she turned a corner and dissapeared from Lee's sight.
"Yosh! I'll do my best!" cried Sakura to herself. 'I'm gonna be more prepared for my chunin exams than them, cha!' added inner Sakura.
"Excuse me, can you bring me information about some patients..." said Sakura at the reception but the nurse was somewhat busy and hardly heard Sakura.
"I said I need information about the patients in the room 291, 292 and..." tried to say Sakura but the phone rang and the nurse rushed to take the call.
Sakura sighed in defeat 'Cha! Why are you ignoring me!' cried inner Sakura but came to reality when she noticed a little girl pulling her dress.
"Huh? Oh hi" greeted Sakura kneeling to be her height. "Are you here visiting someone?" added her, the girl only shook her head.
"Oh I see... maybe you're a patient here? Why are you here alone?" asked her but the girl just nodded.
"Excuse me, this girl over here, says she's a patient but no one's taking care of her" Sakura tried to tell the Nurse but she was still talking by phone.
"Well, mind me if I take you to your room?" added Sakura to the girl as the nurse showed no signs of hearing what she said seconds ago.
The girl nodded and started walking with Sakura into the hospital but then stoped when she saw the playing area of the Hospital (the ones for little kids). She then pulled Sakura's dress again, pointing them to her.
"You wanna play?" asked Sakura. "I'm not sure... I don't know if it'd be ok as I don't know the reason why are you here... maybe you might be resting than playing" explained Sakura worried about the girl's health, but then, she looked somehow healthy and not sick at all.
The girl looked her with a sad expression and about to cry so Sakura had no choice but to take her outside. "Ok, ok. Just a little moment, I also have some work to do" explained her and the girl's face lightened up.
The girl then run to the swings that were at the right side of the playing area and looked at Sakura indicating that she could start swinging her.
"Right... you could start telling me your name" Sakura said but was no response. The girl seemed to be enjoying herself and hardly paid attention to her.
Sakura sighed and then the girl jumped ou of the swing and went to the sand box to make some castles. Sakura followed her. "You sure don't like to talk much" commented her looking at the girl but she didn't seem to care.
The next thing, Sakura was running into the Hospital corridors asking every person she run into about the little girl. It was hard for her to believe that the moment she turned to look at the clock in the wall, the girl had dissapeared mysteriously.
She was wondering what'd Tsunade said to her after losing a patient. 'What if she was feeling sick?' thought a worried Sakura and then asked a last person before entering the reception were the Nurse had finally stopped talking by phone.
"Ano... excuse me" Sakura tried again to gain the Nurse's attention but this time she was lucky.
"Oh yes... you were here before. You wanted some information right?" answered the Nurse.
"Yeah but... now I was wondering if you saw a little girl pass by here" asked Sakura.
"A little girl?" asked the Nurse in awe. "Oh... was she visiting someone here with you?"
"Oh no... she said she was a patient in here"
"Oh my... I'm sorry but... at this moment we're not having little kids here... the last girl we had passed away last week. She was really young, though. It was sad" informed the Nurse.
Sakura was in shock, so who was that girl? She then described her to the Nurse who recognised her as the description fit with the dead girl.
"She was really sick. I remember she always asked one of the nurses to take her outside to play but in her condition that was impossible" said the Nurse to a pale Sakura. So... all that time she was talking to a ghost? The idea was pretty scaring itself. But at least she had fulfilled that little girl's last wish.
"So, can you repeat the room's number of the patients you want the information from?"
A/N: that was scary, nee Sakura?... Next one: The tale of Neji. Expect the unexpected ;)