A young Sakura Haruno awoke to the alarm on her clock going off as she blinked and sat up groggily. She then went about her normal daily routine of getting clean up and dressed for the day but with peep in her step that usually she only had during the hoildays or when it was her birthday.
However as lively as Sakura seem it was only a illusion for the fact remained that she was already dead. In fact her whole family was dead. Just the Haruno Family became nothing more then Torches that would continued to lives of their original human counterparts. Completely unaware that they nothing more then place holders for the family that had already left this world for the afterlife. The parnets having their existence devoured by Denizens and their daughter's used to repair the damage caused by the said Denizens and Flame Haze that killed him.
Because of the nature of Torches and the fact that they were still relatively new ones they were still very lively and retained large portion of the human counterparts personality and mannerisms still.
"Good Morning!" Sakura said happily to her parnets as she made her way to the kitchen and sat down.
"Well Good Morning to you to, dear" her father said happily as he was acutally finishing up his breakfast and was getting ready for work.
As their daugther sat there way for her breakfast they noticed something different about her as she no longer hid her forehead with her bangs. In fact she was wearing her hair was that everyone could clearly see it but in addition to this she had large red ribbon in her hair which she had been wearing now since after her birthday.
"I see you really like that ribbon" her mother said.
"Of course! This is from Ino-chan so it very important to me" she repiled with huge smile on her face.
Both her parnets smiled as meeting Ino was quietly possibly the best thing that could have happened to their daughter as she was way more outgoing now and was making more friends as well as finally getting over the phobia that she had towards her forehead being too big.
As Sakura ran off though it was not visible in plain sight there was flame that burning brightly within her chest. However it could be clearly seen to those in the aware of the true nature of the world that Sakura's flame was much stronger and stable then her parnet's whose was continually dwindling at stead pace.
Two weeks after becoming Torches…
"Good Morning!" Sakura said as came to greeting her parnets like she had every morning
"Good Morning" her parnets replied though it lack the emphasizing that held the previous weeks and their was no follow up questions about how she was either.
The following day….
"Good Morning!" Sakura said as came to greeting her parnets like she had every morning
Her parnets did not respond but at least looked in at her as she entered the kitchen before going back to what they were doing.
Two days later…
Sakura did not greet her parnets at all in fact she almost completely ingored their presence entirely as she went about making and eating breakfast for herself. While her parnets remain in place unresponsive to be pushed out the way and simply going about their what they normally would do every morning paying no mind to Sakura either.
Three weeks after becoming Torches…
Sakura was in the kitchen making and eating breakfast completely ingoring her parnets who were simply going about the motions of their daily lives. Though as Sakura sat down to eat breakfast, her parnets just vanished like a flame that had been blown out with their daughter completely unawared that this had happened.
Sakura did not mourn the loss of her parnets as she simply continued along with her life as she no longer remember even having parnets. Thinking that she had always been oprhan as the memories of her parnets were erased when their Torches of her parnets burned out. While some would consider not only simply forgetting someone even existed in the first place to be cruel, this was just how things were for all those unaware of torches and the crimson world in general. The fate of her parnets was also that of Sakura's, being a torch herself, though the question of when she would burn out and Haruno family existence was erased completely was unknown since her flame still burned brightly.
Thus this picture of happy family was no more as pair of Haruno Torches burned out their role as place holders having been served thus they no longer had purpose in this world and vanished. However unlike her parnets, the flame of the daughter's torch still was burning as bright as the day it came into being. This was because the amount of time each torch had varied depending on how long the flames burning within them stayed strong. There was number of factors that determined just how long a Torch would exist. The amount of existence left of the original person to form their Torch mattered. For if the Deinzen devoured their existence without a care in the world it was possibly that the best could made is weak Torch that just go out within a day of being made. Another possibility is that rather then Denizen devouring power of existence with reckless abandonment, a person just got unlucky and had their existence feasted on more then other. In this world the presence of those that could use the watered down verison of power of existence known as charka also played role in the determining how long a torch lasted. However once a torch had vanished everyone unaware of the true nature of the world would instantly forget they ever existed in the first place as all proof that they ever had vanished along with them.
However simply vanishing once their flame had burned out was not the only thing that happened to Torches. For as Sakura's parnets becoming more and more disconnected with the world around and the world disconnecting itself from them was normal thing. For the weaker the flame of torch got so does the ability to continue living on as exact copy of their human counterpart.
Although now that the torches of her parnets were gone and she was now an oprhan with her own house. However it was not seen as too strange that the pink hair girl lived in house all by herself. As this was not something that out of the ordinary since this was world of ninjas and were more oprhans getting made every time a parnets did not return from mission that went horribly wrong or unexpected things happened during the mission.
So as young female Torch kept getting up morning after morning with the same happy and cheerful expression as every day her outlook on life had changed drastically thank being befriended by Ino Yamanaka. Acting the exact same way as the real Sakura would have with each passing day if her family had never had that run with Crimson Denizen was because her flame still was burning strong and brightly.
Although the reason behind why this was occurring was completely unknown as she fell into none of the normal categories for possible explaination of just why she was lasting as long as she had without at least losing a fraction of her flame's strength.
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