Her own Will

10. | Aftermath

A/N: Welcome to a new chapter! Some warnings first tho. English is not my first language, so please excuse the mistake's or tell me so i can fix it. Second, Naruto is Kishimotos Work, this is a FANFICTION about it. Lastly fonts —>  Normal talking    / Normal Thinking     / Inner Sakura Thinking       / Inner Sakura talking.
And with that enjoy!

The new Hokage sat behind her desk, head in her hands and an open bottel of Sake to the side.
It had been about a week since she followed in her old Sensei's footsteps and became the fifth Hokage. After she took up the hat, her main focus was the aftermath of the Invasion.
Most buildings were now repaird, many of the injured shinobi had been taken care of and the funeral for the third had been two days ago. All in all, Konoha returned to normality, only a few of the shinobi had needed to retire.
Now she was looking at the reports from the chunin exams plus what came after that, and determin if any of the genin could be promoted. Up until now she had come across exactly one. "Nara Shikamaru, demonstrated strategic planning, clear thinking and tactics on a chunin level, aswell as displayed awarness of his surroundings and how to use them to an advantage." Some people came by and had recomended him and another genin, who's performance she hadn not yet looked at.
His skills were good enough for chunin, and they could use some new ones in the ranks. With that she aproved of his promotion. With a sight she took up the last review, internally gratefull for almost being finished. "Haruno Sakura"
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"What's youre favourite flower nee-san? " Sakura asked curiously. The turquoise haired girl put her finger on her chin, thinking for a moment. "Well Dahlia's and Zinnias are pretty, so are Coreopsis. But my favourite one mist be Morning glories." she answerd. Tilting her head, Sakura was confused "Morning glories? Why?" Nahoi chukeld. "Moring glories. They wilt the same day they bloom, lasting only until the sun sets. I think thats what makes them so special. They are fleeting, similar to us." "Us?" the pink haired child echoed. The  other girl hummed and leaned back on the tree they ere sitting under. "We will someday die. And to the strings of time is the livespan of a human as fleeting as the bloom of Morning glories. So i will always say to myself, Dont be sad because its over, smile because it happend." she explained. The littel girl nodded, before her attention landed on something else. "Look Nee, butterflies!" she pointed to the fluttering creature. Nahoi only smiled, relaxing in the midday sun. "Sakura, promise me you will continue you're clan's legacy? " Sakura turned around, back to her to ask what she meant, but instead of the old tree she could only see darkness. The ground was rapitdly consumed by it, getting closer to her and then she was swallowd in it, falling.
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"er...uter....Outer...Outer, can you hear me?" "Inner where are we?" "Inner! ah its good you decided to wake up. We are in the hospital, you were in a coma for about two to three weeks. Had a pretty nasty case of chakra exhaustion, and you lost a bit to much blood. Anyways, try to open your eyes." Sakura followed Inners advice, trying to open her eyes. It was way to bright and she quickly hid them behind her hands. The blond woman standing at the end of the hospital bed was suprised for a moment. "This kid has been in a coma for two and a half weeks. There were no changes in anything." Shaking her head the woman looked at the pink haired child "Kid, look at me." she ordered, and Sakura begrudgingly did. Taking her hands of her face and looking at the woman, she did a dubbel take. "He -- I--but--but you--" Her half asleep brain was working overtime "you should be fifty or so !" Beside the bed, a brown haired guy had to stiffel his laughter before he got punched, while another dude with white hair wasnt as lucky. Eye's flashing to the other occupant's of the room, "Genma-san," Sakura called out before Tsunade was abel to say something. After an oblinging "Yes kid?" she continued, "Why is there not only one but two of the legendary Sannin in my hospital room?". He grinned while answering "Well, one of them is the new hokage, and the other? i honestly dont know either." and he shrugged. Sakuras foggy mind wasnt as fast as she would like to "Hokage...but Tsunade-sama cut ties with konoha like twenty years ago and...Jiraya-sama refused. so..why?" uttering to herself, clearly thinking out loud but unaware of it, thus not noticing when Tsunade's expression became somewhat suprised, while Jiraya looked somewhat contemplativ. "Well, i lost a bet to a blond idiot brat and i had to come back and take up a position i never wanted." Tsunade answered at last. "And i have nothing better to do" Jiraya piped in.