March, 28 to most people it was just ordinary day no different then anyone other day. Though to one girl in particular today was very important.
Waking up to her alarm clock a young Sakura Haruno smiled as today was her birthday the one of the best days of the year for her. On this birthday she was now five years old and could not wait to have her birthday dinner at her favorite restaurant like they always had for a long as she could remember.
After taking a shower and drying her naturally pink hair. The young girl looked at herself in the mirror where her eyes were draw to one area in particular.
That area being her forehead which was slightly large then normal and because of this she frequently bullied give her somewhat of phobia delaying with her forehead and its size.
'My forehead look like it getting bigger but this may be the year my birthday wish comes true' Sakura thought happily as she then went about tried hiding her forehead with her bangs.
Going to her closet she opened to see that there was new outfit that her parents must have bought for her was hanging in front of all her other clothes with note attached to the shirt.
Upon opening the note it read:
To: Our Darling Daughter Sakura
Love, Mom and Dad
The outfit in question that young Haruno girl had received from her parents was long sleeve yellow shirt with dark red button shirt over top of it. A pair of blue long blue shorts and light brown shoes completed the outfit.
After putting it on she rushed down stairs where she greeted by her mother and father already up and have prepare her favorite breakfast for her.
"I see the birthday girl is up. So how do you liking her new clothes" her father said.
"I love them! Thanks dad mom!" Sakura replied smiling.
"Though do you really have to hide your forehead like that as take attention away from your face and…" her mother said motioning to move Sakura's bangs away from her forehead.
However before she do that or even finish her sentence Sakura stopped pushing her hand away.
"No! My forehead too big to seen! Its embarrassing let people see and I do not want to talk about it on my birthday!" Sakura yelled.
Her parents just sighed as they did not know what to do with their daughter as this phobia she develop about the size of forehead was just getting worse.
The neighborhood kids were being much help as they only made it worse or just avoid her all together causing her parent to wonder if moving to Konoha was such good idea after all as in their previous home no one had problem with the size of Sakura's forehead.
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With night time be pretty far off, Sakura decide to go play outside then take a walk around the park before going back home. It still be early she thought that get by without having to run into any of the kids that normally bullied her yet that did not turn out to be the case.
Sakura ran into some kids that bullied her and they reduced her to tears and almost got the new outfit her parents had gave dirty as well.
Crying by the park's foundation another kid came up to her and the pink hair Haruno was weary of this person she was did not know if they would make fun of her or not.
"I seem you around here before and notice that everyone make fun of you because your forehead" the blond girl told her.
"Who are you?" Sakura asked to prevent her new outfit from getting dirty or wet she had wiping her tears with her arms and handkerchief she kept in her lap.
"I am Ino Yamanaka. What about you?" Ino asked.
"I am Sakura Haruno" Sakura replied.
"Well your name matches with your hair but trying hiding your forehead with your hair only make you look like ghost. It this that are making kids make fun of you because you giving them a something to make fun of" the blond told her.
"Really?" the young Haruno asked
It was the same thing her parents were always telling her this but she dismissed as they were suppose to think she was pretty. They were her parents after all however hearing from someone else other then them gave her new found confidence for some reason.
"I know! Come back here tomorrow and I give you something nice to help with your problem" the Yamanaka girl said as she once experienced something similar before herself
Though Ino's problem was not with her forehead but her hair. Having blond hair was not normal color for citizens of Konoha with only other kid she knew having it outside her family was that Uzumaki kid whose guardian was Sanin.
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Later that night after Sakura had dinner with her family at her favorite restaurant….
"Then Ino-chan said she will give me something to help make it so people will not make fun my forehead anymore!" Sakura said happily as she walking home with her parents.
"See I told you that hide your forehead with your hair only made the matter worse" her mother told.
"Guess you just need someone else other then us to tell you that" her father said as he guessed them being her mother and father she did not completely take their words to heart. Then again it was like that when her mother was younger as well as she had similar problem to Sakura when she was that age.
As Sakura smiled looking forward to her meeting with hopefully her new friend, Ino Yamanaka tomorrow. Though the entire Haruno family as well as everyone else in the area frozen in middle of whatever they were doing as a Seal was activated. A Denizen looking like large man with four arms appeared and began absorbing the Power of Existence of people at random. Two of his victims happened to be Sakura's parents who vanished leaving the frozen daughter staring up at empty space.
As Sakura remain frozen by the seal unaware that her parents were gone or the battle that waged around thanks to Flame Haze that appeared battle the Denizens.
Then when things started looking bad for the Denizen he grabbed Sakura and held up like she was shield.
"I got you now! I heard a rumor that Konoha Flame Haze foolishly pro….." the Denizen started to say before the Flame Haze's latest attack punch whole through Sakura's chest and his own same time.
"Curse you Tool of…." he said dropping Sakura to the ground before vanishing into the wind as if he was fire that was just blown out.
That took more time then expected Flame Haze said as they did not expect him to be that strong.
Turn out he did have trick or two up his shelve but nothing that could actually cause anything other then damage to the surrounding environment their Crimson Lord said from their Cocytus.
As this conversation between a Flame Haze and their contracted Crimson Lord continued Sakura remain face down on the ground with large hole in her chest. That was until the Flame Haze picked her up and set her next to they guessed were her parents or to be more precise the Torches of her parents. They were devoured by that Denizens after all thus these Torches were all that was left of them.
A frown appeared on their face as looked around to see that while the Torches had been made the damage from the battle still remain. The problem was there was not enough Power of Existence left in the area to repair the damage thus meaning there was only option left was to make someone that would die in the Seal to be released as is into a Torch.
The one that Flame Haze had decided on using was Sakura as not only would die if the Seal was released as if but her parents were already Torches as well.
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"Are you okay, Sakura?" her father asked as placing a hand to her heart for a second before dropping it.
"I am fine, dad. It just I had strange feeling for second that there was something on my shirt that all nothing" Sakura told him.
"Are you sure?" her mother asked
Sakura smiled and nodded running a little ahead of her parents as she want to get home to go to sleep that way tomorrow could come fast and then she meet with Ino-chan again.
Thus Twenty Eight day of March came to close. It was had been to most people just ordinary day no different then anyone other day. Though to one girl in particular today was very important. Not only was it her birthday, the day she met girl who eventually become her best friend, but it was also the day she died.
For the Haruno Family currently on their way home at the moment was not the same this morning as they were nothing family of Torches created from the remnants their original human counterparts with their destiny the same as all Torches. That being eventually to burn out and their existence would be completely forgotten.
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