So today I updated Sleepwalker with out updating Whispering Fingertips (because I never wrote it.) oops.

running into walls I cannot see

falling and scrapping up my face

ignoring the softest spoken grace

She stared at her reflection in her mirror. Another scar had appeared, and it was many hours after midnight. She knew something strange was going on, because that night she had slept on the floor, or she had somehow gotten back into bed sometime during the middle of the night, and then fell out of it then...

She'd have to get to the bottom of all of this, she reasoned. She traced a finger over it. It was rough to the touch. And ugly. Like all the other ones she had gotten. She sighed. What was it that caused such a horrid thing? Whatever it truly was, she had discovered a solution. Just don't sleep. Surely she would not obtain such scars if she did not sleep, right?

She sat down beside her window and hugged her knees close to her. She was able to stay like that for an hour or so, before she drifted off...

"Don't fall asleep..."

- - -

Sakura stared at her reflection in her mirror. Another scar had appeared.

"WHAT THE HELL??"

"It's the strangest thing too! And Naruto had just assumed that I had fallen out of my bed," she walked to a corner, "But I'm almost positive that that's not the case. 'Cause you see," she walked to another corner of the room, papers still in hand,"These times I wasn't in bed," she pointed, "and I still got them." She paced more, "I think that I may be physically inflicting harm on myself. With a kunai or something. That just has to be the case," she said and nodded.

"That's not the main reason you're here, is it?" Tsunade asked knowingly.

"Uh, no, shishou. Here are the papers you needed from the hospital," she handed them over to the Hokage, "so what do you think? Do you think I'm right? Because I think I'm right."

"I don't know, Sakura," she shook her head, "you may need to be monitored on your sleeping activity. But I can't help you right now," she said, showing the papers that she had just receieved.

"Right. Of course. Good day, Tsunade-sama."

"Aa."

She slowly made her way out of the building. That's it, right. Random acts of unseen harm. Self infliction without my prior knowledge, right? Now that I think about it clearly, that sounds kinda stupid actually. It was just a silly conclusion, like Naruto's. We didn't have any evidence. I'll get some though. I'll get to the bottom of this thing and stop it.

"Hello."

"Ah!" Without knowing it, Sai had come out of nowhere while she was busying herself with her thoughts.

"Oh, hey, Sai," she said, trying to give him a smile that at least seemed real.

"I have heard that you have been having some issues as you slept. Have you figured out what has been going on?"

"No...not yet. I will though."

"That's good. Your face as it is now is offending the public."

She growled and gave him a friendly punch, holding back a laugh. "You always know what to say, Sai."

"I do?"

She rolled her eyes. "You must have missed the sarcasm."

"Sarcasm?"

"We'll go over that later. I've got to get to work. Ja," she said and made her way back to the hospital.

- - -

She had returned home late that night, chakra-exhausted and tired, dragging her feel up the stairs and to her bedroom, where she cursed herself for needing to fall asleep. For needing rest for her mind and body. For having to wake up with another hideous thing on her face.

"Sakura, be prepared for anything in the morning," she whispered to herself and layed her head down.