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.
Sakura felt a cold draft hit her face, her eyelids fluttering until she managed to open their eyes. She was disoriented and confused, her blurry vision gradually began to clear, and noticed certain things, first, the bright blue sky and the white clouds passed by her at a dizzying speed, second, her numb body hurt like hell and the chakra channels were at a critical level, and the last thing, she was falling straight into the sea.
Just breathing made her feel like she was breathing fire instead of air. A sizable trail of blood dripped from her body and forehead toward the sky from plummeting.
She heard groans next to her.
"S-sakura-chan."
It took a few seconds until her cloudy vision made out Naruto's blurred silhouette. Naruto's arm with varying degrees of burns reached out shakily towards Sakura and tried to imitate him but her arm didn't respond.
'We're going to crash' Sakura thought just before falling unconscious again.
The second time Sakura came back out of unconsciousness she heard the sound of wood creaking with the gentle rhythm of the floor swaying from side to side. With a lot of effort, she straightened up and looked at the place, finding that she was in some kind of ship. Next to her, squeezed in a fetal position, were unknown people, they had a fearful and downcast face.
What happened? Where is she? What happened to her house? Just thinking her head began to throb and the vision blurred for a few seconds. Trying to move, the pinkead could barely process that her hands and feet had heavy chains to limit her movement.
At the back of the room, they began to hear the sound of footsteps going down some stairs. 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, leaned in front of her laughing unpleasantly.
"So you have a devil fruit," the man said. 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 a doctor recognized that she was injected with a drug.
"Naruto," She whispered before passing out, not before noticing that a necklace with a skull pendant with two x-shaped spears dangled from the man's neck.
The next time she opened her eyes, it took a few seconds for her vision to clear. Although Sakura herself felt very tired at least she wasn't about to faint like the other two times, so she was able to be aware of her surroundings. It was 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?' Wondered in dismay. This place was nothing like what she had seen so far, not even in the mission where she went to the prison as a doctor to talk to Sasuke about the change in the mission.
"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 she had never heard of a fruit with that name, it would be very hard to forget.
The kunoichi looked around hoping to find at least one familiar face among her cellmates. She had to hide her surprise when she paid attention to the people, they all had features and complexions that she had never seen before, and even one looked like 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 stood out this time.
"Please, I'll do anything!" I don't want to be a slave! the prisoner yelled before they were gone.
Giants, pirates, slaves, each thing was more surprising 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 a drug 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 doubted she could get out very far so Sakura decided to remain silent and observe.
The person next to Sakura began to tremble in fear as the minutes passed.
Little involuntary spasms ran randomly through the pinkhead's body as her chakra channels and internal injuries became intense enough to make her shudder.
"If you think this is hell, you're wrong, hell has levels," said the man next to her. "It only remains to hope that it ends soon."
She immediately realized that he misinterpreted her tremor but decided not to correct it.
How did she end up falling out of the sky? Naruto! She saw him, heard him, 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. Sakura felt her chest tighten as her eyes trembled with 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 core of chakra in their bodies, just some weird kind of aura/energy that surrounds them as well as objects, and even the air that is supposed to have chakra, have that kind of 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.
'Calm down, there must be an explanation. I 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 had no choice but to return it to her body.
The tightness in her chest grew deeper and deeper absorbing her energy and emotions 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, 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.
Sakura felt numb when she saw that in front of her, dozens of people were 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, I introduce to you Sakura, she is small but don't be fooled, she is 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 your 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. Just hung her head and waited until the last person who offered a large amount of money for her arrived. By the time it finished the 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, the amnesia was getting bigger and bigger than she expected.
After a while the masters arrived, paid for their new slaves and they took them away very happy. When four sets of feet were positioned in front of Sakura, she finally looked up. There were four people with curious white suits and on their heads a kind of bubble.
"Here's Fernan, you can do whatever you want with her, I hope this time it lasts longer," said the oldest man of the four.
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 his 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. Sakura was surprised to see the surroundings, not even in her strangest dreams did she will 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 of them got into the carriage, the boy peeked out of the door.
"You'd better follow us or you'll be whipped to pass out for not advancing 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 boy will continue to hold the chain until their destination.
Without saying 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, and her hands began to shake.
Pieces of memories came to her mind like an explosive seal that was activated 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 so physically and emotionally draining, and going back to work didn't help. Still, Sakura forced herself to go to the Hokage's tower because she knew that she had a pending meeting with Naruto about something serious.
The blood in her veins froze as a couple of images flashed through her mind like a scene of terror. Loud explosions, the earth roaring like a wild animal opening deep cracks, great flames of fire spreading throughout the earth, and the terrified screams of people before dying in front of her eyes. Tears began to flow from her eyes soaking the cheeks, and the little energy that she had gathered evaporated in seconds when she realized what had happened. Her body began to shake uncontrollably.
Her dulled mind was now racing at full speed trying to salvage her last memories of Konoha, desperate to believe it was an illusion, perhaps a genjutsu.
The magnitude of the damage was so great and so fast that life disappeared in the blink of an eye, there were no survivors.
"There was nothing left," she said with a cracked voice.
The spark of life and hope disappeared from the emerald eyes leaving a deep, dark void. That man who spoke to her at the auction house was wrong. She was not going to enter a worse hell, she is 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!
