Dreams of Eternity

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It has been said that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly's wings can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world.

- Chaos Theory
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Sakura thinks it would be easy to play and blend in as a civilian. There are no rejections, no deaths and no war. It's easy to pretend. But Sakura could not forget. It wouldn't let her. Her dreams only got worst.

"Sak'ra-chan," The boy with golden hair, whiskers that are now too bloodied to distinguished calls to her. He looks pale and malnourished and both his hands and feet are chained to the wall. Sakura could see there was some sort of drawings (?) on the chains that were holding him down.

Where is she?

"Sak'ra-chan, how could you do this to me?"

Sakura's blood ran cold. She? She did this to him? But how? It wasn't supposed to be like this!

"Good job subduing the kyuubi. You may return to your quarters, Kinoe."

Sakura froze. There are two new individuals she hasn't seen before. Her green eyes take in the appearance of the newcomers. The first was an old man with a cane and bandages that wrapped around his right eye. He stood with an air of arrogance and power that Sakura barely manage to suppress the shiver that wants to run down her spine. Clearly, he was the one giving out orders and the other newcomer was under his ruling.

"Hai, Danzo-sama," The other newcomer—Kinoe— bowed respectfully to the man before disappearing without a trace.

Sakura flinches as the old man—Danzo, her brain tells her—approach the chained golden-haired boy. The boy quickly was aware of his captor.

"Let me go, you bastard!" The boy struggled against his chains but his efforts are futile. The chains were made to hold something bigger and stronger than him.

"Silence! A demon like you deserve no rights to speak," Danzo snarled and the boy flinched

"I have no idea what you are talking about, bastard!" The boy growls out, gritting his teeth

"Even after all of this, you dare to lie to me, demon?" Danzo sneer

"I'm not lying! You can ask jiji about it!"

There was a moment of silence as the older man frown and Sakura would swear there was a flash of red coming from where his bandaged eye la "Your jiji is dead!" Danzo spat out 

"W-what?" The boy's blue eyes widen. Clearly, he wasn't aware of that fact.

"Sarutobi Hiruzen is dead! Murdered, and his body was found mutilated beyond recognition," Danzo pauses and Sakura could see the man grinning, "He was mutilated by a demon. The demon that you hold within yourself!"

Sarutobi Hiruzen? The third Hokage?

If Sakura's heart hadn't ached for the boy before, her heartache for him now. The boy—the one that used to remind her of the sun—was now trembling and crying. His agonies echoed throughout the room.

"No, no, no, I'm not a monster, I'm Uzumaki Naruto. I'm not a demon. I did not kill jiji. I'm not a demon," The boy—Naruto, she knows now—tries to repeat the mantra but slowly his breaths hitch as his sobs only become louder. Sakura could see Danzo's grin only widen in satisfaction.