Notes: Hello! I'm back to bring you another translated chapter of my fanfic in Spanish. Remember that this is not my native language so if you see misspellings you would help me a lot by pointing out and explaining those mistakes.
She felt a current of cold air hit her face and her entire body, forcing her to open her eyes. The first thing she noticed was the bright blue sky and the white clouds rushing past her at breakneck speed, the second was that her numb body ached like hell and her chakra channels were at a critical level and the last thing, she was falling into straight line to the sea.
The mere act of breathing agonized her, she felt as if she was breathing fire instead of air into her lungs. A sizable trail of blood dripped from her body and her forehead toward the sky as she plummeted.
She heard moans next to her:
"S-sakura-chan."
It took a few seconds for her vision to cloud over for her to make out the blurry silhouette of Naruto. Naruto's arm with varying degrees of burns reached out shakily towards Sakura. She tried to do the same, but her arm didn't respond.
'We're going to crash' She thought to herself. Fatigue overcame her and she closed her eyes, becoming unconscious again.
The second time Sakura came out of unconsciousness she heard the sound of creaking wood with the gentle rhythm of the floor swaying from side to side. With much effort, she looked around her and discovered that she was in some kind of ship. Next to her, crammed into a fetal position, were unknown people who had a fearful and downcast countenance.
What happened? Where is she? What happened to her house? Just thinking about her, her mind was clouded with exhaustion. When trying to move, she could barely process that her hands and feet had heavy chains to limit her movements.
At the back of the room, they began to hear the sound of footsteps going down some steps. Her instinct told Sakura that she had to move. She used a little force until she felt the click of the chains breaking. By the time she did, a person, a man she couldn't recognize was in front of her laughing unpleasantly.
"So you have a devil fruit," Said the man. As Sakura's vision was still very poor she only saw a dark spot.
Before Sakura could react she felt a pinch on her neck as she was injected with a drug.
"Naruto," she whispered before fainting, but not before noticing that she was hanging a necklace from the man's neck with a skull pendant with two x-shaped spears.
The next time she opened her eyes, it took a few seconds for her vision to clear. Although Sakura felt very tired at least she wasn't about to faint like the other two times so he was able to be aware of her and her surroundings. She was in some kind of cold, dark cell. Hearing moans and wailing next to her, she tried to turn towards the direction but she was stopped when she noticed a grotesque necklace tightening around her neck and another pair around her wrists.
'What happened?' she wondered in dismay. This place was nothing like what she had seen so far, not even in the mission where she went to jail as a doctor to talk to Sasuke about the change of plans.
"So you have a devil fruit" She remembered the man who spoke to her before passing out. She frowned in confusion. Devil fruit, in her years as a Hokage student, Sakura had never heard of a fruit with that name, it would be very hard to forget.
Sakura looked around hoping to find at least one familiar face among her cellmates. She had to hide her surprise when she noticed that the people around her had features and complexions that she had never seen before, even one of them, the one at the bottom, seemed to be a giant. A giant!
Some footsteps were heard from the corridor until a couple of people stayed in front of the cell they opened.
"We'll win very well for that giant," one of the jailers taunted, dragging a man out not far from Sakura. The boy tried to struggle but to no avail. "Those damned pirates pulled off this time."
"Please I'll do anything! I don't want to be a slave!" the man yelled before they walked away.
Giants, pirates, slaves, each thing was more surprising to her than the last. Slavery had disappeared long before the founding of Konoha and from what she knew in the other countries it was the same. Had a lab experiment gone wrong and the drug she had been injected with was causing this strange and unpleasant trip? No, her painful wounds and low chakra told Sakrua that this was too real to be a fantasy.
Maybe if she planned it well she could escape but she didn't know where in the world she was. If this was the country of the claw, demons, or one of those who has only been there a couple of times, with her injuries she doubted she could get very far so she decided to remain silent and observe.
The person next to her began to tremble in fear as the minutes passed.
Little involuntary spasms ran through Sakura's body randomly as her chakra channels and her internal injuries became intense enough to make her shudder.
"If you think this is hell, you're wrong, hell has levels," the man next to her told her. "You just have to wait for it to end soon."
She immediately realized that he misinterpreted her trembling but decided not to correct him.
How did she end up falling out of the sky? Naruto! She saw it, he heard it, he was there with her! Still with her chakra levels dangerously low she decided to use some in hopes of tracking Naruto's chakra and getting answers. She felt her chest sink as her eyes trembled in surprise and fear.
"T-the cha-kra," she whispered hoarsely.
As every scholar, scientist and ninja knows, the chakra surrounds and presents a nucleus in all organic matter, even the air was charged with chakra or it is supposed to be. There was nothing here, the people next to her didn't have a chakra core in their body, just some weird kind of aura/energy that surrounds them, objects were also covered by that energy and even the air that it was supposed to have chakra had that aura. Panicked, Sakura began to hyperventilate, even more so when the jailers returned and this time they took the man who told her about hell a few seconds ago.
Nothing. Only the almost empty chakra in her body.
'Calm down, there must be an explanation. You have to look for Naruto' She thought, trying to control herself.
She stretched her chakra as far as she could until it was so painful that her vision blurred for a few seconds and blood began to drip from her nose from the effort and she had no choice but to return it to her body. There was no person with chakra.
The sinking in her chest grew deeper and deeper, sucking the energy and emotions out of her like a monster. Something had happened and she sensed that it was very bad.
When the men returned, this time they went after her, she did not resist. Like a rag doll, she allowed herself to be dragged through the halls. She was so scared and worried that everything around her disappeared. She only heard the voices of her captors.
"Surely we will have a good profit for this girl," said one of them.
"I bet she'll be sold into sex slavery," another of them said.
"The new fashion for nobles is to buy slaves and bet on how long they live running from monsters they leave to starve," said the third.
The theories got darker and darker so Sakura cut herself out of the conversation. She flinched as they walked past the slaves weeping in sadness at being bought and flinched as the three men left her in the dark on a dais until a bright light blinded her for a few moments until she got used to it.
She felt numb to see that in front of her were dozens of people examining her like a piece of meat. Some with interest, others with lust and many others with malice on their faces.
"Here we bring you an exquisite piece, arriving from a distant exotic island, he introduced you to Sakura, she's small but don't be fooled, she's a human who ate a devil fruit that gives her super strength!" the presenter said enthusiastically. He smirked as people murmured to each other with interest. Sakura wondered if she was drugged she said her name. "She can do cleaning tasks, function as a human shield and even do heavy tasks, or if you are interested she has a pretty enough face to be her pet. We will start with the amount of 300,000 berries. Who says me!"
The offers began to come, but to Sakura they sounded like ringing in her ears, she didn't even care that she was being sold, she just hung her head and waited until the last person who offered a large amount of money for her arrived. By the time she was done with her auction, she was taken to a corner with the others that had already been sold.
'What's going on?' Sakura desperately tried to remember the last thing she did, but no matter how hard she tried, her blackout was getting bigger and bigger than she expected.
After a while the masters arrived and paid for their new slaves, they took them away very happy. When three sets of feet were positioned in front of Sakura, she finally looked up. Three people with curious white suits and a kind of bubble on their heads were standing there.
"Here's Fernan, you can do whatever you want with her, I hope this time it lasts longer," said the oldest man of the three.
Fernan, who turned out to be the boy with the big eyes and spiky hair like his parents, looked no more than eight years old. He approached Sakura, took the chain that was attached to her necklace, and pulled her not with much force, but because of how exhausted she was, she fell face down on the floor. Fernan smiled, satisfied that he was taller than her -although he only managed it by throwing her to the ground- giving one more reason for her feeling of superiority.
"Yes, dad, mom, I'll have a lot of fun with my new toy," the boy said with a mischievous look.
They took her out of the building with several bodyguards with them and straight to a float. She was surprised when she saw it around her, not even in her wildest dreams did she believe that this was possible, bubbles came out of the ground and rose to the sky and people transported themselves or transported things with the bubbles. As soon as the three got on, the boy peeked out the door.
"You'd better keep up or you'll be whipped unconscious for not moving at our speed," the boy said with a Machiavellian smile.
When they closed the door, the chain that held Sakura was left hanging over the window, implying that she had to keep up with the vehicle because the child would continue holding until they reached where they were going.
Without a word, Sakura followed the car in silence. The following days were the same, confused, painful, cold and silent while she listened and endured the child's mischief. Only when they arrived at the Tenryuubito residence and left her in a solitary cell did Sakura sitting on the rickety bed finally get some peace. She leaned forward bringing her hands up to her face until she stopped dead midway. The air rushed out of her lungs, her hands began to shake.
Scraps of memories came to her mind like an exploding tag that went off without warning:
She had just come off a long shift at the children's clinic, she was so tired that all she wanted was to get home and hibernate until next spring because the last few months had been very physically and emotionally exhausting and going back to work was not helping her. Even so, Sakura forced herself to go to the Hokage's tower because she knew that she had a pending meeting with Naruto about a serious matter.
Her numbed mind was now racing at full speed trying to rescue her last memories from Konoha, desperate to believe it was an illusion, perhaps a genjutsu.
"There was nothing left," she said, her voice cracking.
The spark of life and hope disappeared from Sakura's eyes leaving a deep, dark void. That man who spoke to you at the auction house was wrong. She wasn't going to enter a worse hell, she was already in the worst of hells.
Notes: In case you have any doubts, I have my MayuraKarin account here at Ao3 in English, and in fanfiction ( / Mayura0Karin) and wattpad (MayuraKarin/ Mayura_Karin) I have them in Spanish and English.
I hope you liked the chapter and for people with doubts I want to say that Sakura's fatalistic attitude is because I believe that a person loses everything from one second to the next, their friends their environment, in other words their entire life, their mind as a defense mechanism is disconnected from the world and had no reason to live.
Without further ado for the moment, I hope to see you soon!
Greetings!