The Shadows Claim Us

Naruto
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G
The Shadows Claim Us
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Summary
Suna!Sakura "You don't want to go near that one." "Why?" "...She's damaged goods."
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Chapter 3

Sometimes, under the evening stars, Sakura tries to remember long lost touches, fading illusions of warm hugs around her bony shoulders, ready to give everything for her to live.

Sometimes, looking up at the cloudless sky, Sakura presses her face against the still-warm sand and hopes that one day it will be someone else’s warmth.

For now, she curls up into a ball on the highest building, her mouth set in a scowl as she nibbles away at the crackers she’d snuck from trash cans and waste centers.

They taste funny like old socks but she doesn’t mind.

She has tasted the mud before—this is nothing.

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