Scars
Chapter 3
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Kakashi slowly came back to Sakura and said:
"Everything is OK, calm down. You are in Konoha training grounds with your friend Kakashi. You're safe, Sakura"
All those nonsense he was saying didn't matter to Sakura, but his familiar deep voice was soothing like mothers lullaby to a child. Soon enough the pink haired kunoichi braced herself up and got up.
"I'm fine now, thank you" said the woman and was about to leave, but Kakashi's voice made her stop.
"You can talk to me about anything, any time. You know that, don't you?" said her silver haired friend
Sakura turned around and came back to his side. Her arms wrapped around his neck and she whispered to his ear:
"I know ... And thank you for always being there for me"
She kissed his cheek and turned to leave, her pink locks brushing Kakashi's cheek, making him inhale her scent that he loved so much. And, before he could pull himself together and answer, Sakura was already gone...
A lot of injured people that needed her help, Shizune running back and forth and four shinobi that came in almost dead kept Sakura busy for the most part, but any second she had nothing to do was like a curse. Every person she met seemed to be staring at her face like she was some kind of a freak. Like she was not beautiful enough to be her old self. Like she was no longer herself, but someone a lot more screwed up, someone too sad and too frustrated in everything and everyone to live this life.
These kinds of thoughts were usual to her since a month ago, when she finally succeeded in escaping and getting back to Konoha all torn, bloody and dirty. With more wounds than anyone could imagine and with mental scars more dreadful than any physical injury. Tsunade-sama healed her wounds, but she couldn't heal the scars from acid that marked her face and chest on the right side.
On her way home Sakura went in another direction from her usual route home and soon enough stood in front of the memorial, where names of all the shinobi who died for this village were written. Since the day the kunoichi came from her mission, she came here almost every day, just like Kakashi. But her reasons were totally different. He comes here to talk to the people he loved that are already dead and Sakura comes here because she knows her name might have been here if it wasn't for a little coincidence. Another thing she liked about this place was its quiet atmosphere. It felt like souls of the people, whose names are written here, made this place a sanctuary for lonely and sad people. And, Sakura was one of those people.
The young woman only tried to avoid meeting Kakashi here because she wasn't sure if she was ready to discuss her feelings with anyone, even Kakashi. That's why she made sure he was not here before coming to the memorial and touching its cold surface.
Sakura, being the great jounin she was, have been in charge of a lot of missions, and she was proud that no one died under her leadership. She was always able to save them. At least until now.
But she couldn't save herself and that's what made her the way she is now...
~~FLASHBACK~~
Sakura knew she was surrounded. Even though the Konoha kunoichi manged to defeat two of them, there were still three fighting her and one more hiding, waiting for a chance to attack her from her blind spot. She knew she was doomed so her only choice was one little pill inside her vest because she knew these enemies were strong and she couldn't risk them getting any information about her village.
As soon as Sakura reached inside her vest she felt someones presence behind, but didn't have the time to react and the last thing she felt was a stab of a needle, probably poisonous, and then her mind got blank.
When she finally woke up Sakura was laying on the ground, her hands chained with chakra supressing cuffs and her weapons gone as well as her vest.
First thing she did was look around, see if there is anything she could use as a weapon, but the room was empty. There were no windows and the only sorce of light was a lantern at the far end of the room and Sakura couldn't reach it.
Her imprisonment was harsh. They didn't give her any food, only water and every few hours (no matter if it was day or night) one of them would come and try to interrogate her. But they didn't succeed and thankfully for Sakura no one among them had the ability to enter her mind.
She was almost sure she will be dead before they got any info out of her, but when she saw them coming with a few test tubes she knew she was in big trouble.
And she was right because inside these tubes were liquids that form acid after being mixed together. In a second one of them was holding her down while the other one was about to put some of the liquids on her chest. Of course, Sakura was out of chakra, but she could still struggle, which she did.
She kicked them both off her and the tubes crashed onto the ground. Both liquids mixing and creating a pool of acid. But Sakura didn't have time to think about his, they were still fighting her and before she could do anything, the woman was thrown down, her right side of the body connecting to the acid. She started screaming like a wounded animal and rolled away from the acid, but it was too late. She was scarred for life. Both enemies left her screaming, blood coming from the wounds and pouring down her body.
~~END OF FLASHBACK~~