Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

She is shaking as they escort her to the pen.

The cage.

"It's in there." The blackops points, standing as far away as he possibly can.

He. She thinks, It's a he. A boy. A he.

The boy—because it is a boy not an it—is hunched in the corner, his eyes riveted to the floor.

He is shaking.

The cage bars gleam in the low light.

Sakura wants to curse everything under the sun.

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