Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
"You hold too much hatred in you." Obaba tells her one day after she is done stuffing mandarins in her face.
Cool, flavored juice travels down her chin and Sakura eagerly sticks out her tongue and laps it up.
Obaba grimaces.
Sakura just smiles, uncaring that she carries three days of grime on her body.
She refuses to waste Obaba's water—the old woman is…special. Sakura will not take anything but her mandarins from her.
(And maybe, if Obaba wants to, her affection.)
"I don't care." Sakura answers after a little while. "No one likes me—no one would like me even if I saved the Kazekage himself—I'm just a stupid war prize."
Tears trickle down her cheeks and Sakura rushes to wipe them away.
Obaba watches the hatred, pain and agony grow within the girl and hopes someday that the girl will find it in her to forgive Obaba's people.
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