"Shizune, I'll leave Katsuyu and everyone else to you."
Having received the order, Kakashi Hatake entrusted Katsuyu on his shoulder to the companion beside him, then immediately broke away from the group and charged toward the Yogakure ninja.
But just seconds after he left the group, Sakura Haruno seemed to think of something as well...
"I am a failure. I hardly ever notice whether the sun is shining, because I do not have the time.
"My parents could not support me, and I was not highly educated. Alone in the city, I searched for a future.
"I looked for many jobs, but none of them hired me. Perhaps no one liked someone who was poor at speaking, disliked socializing, and had not shown enough ability.
"I spent three whole days eating only two loaves of bread. Hunger kept me awake at night. Fortunately, I had paid a month's rent in advance, so I could continue living in that dark basement without having to go outside and endure the unusually bitter winter wind.
"Finally, I found a job: keeping watch at a hospital, guarding the morgue.
"The hospital was even colder at night than I had imagined. The wall lamps in the corridors were not lit, and everything was dim. I could only rely on the faint light spilling out from the rooms to see where I stepped.
"It smelled terrible there. From time to time, dead bodies would be delivered stuffed into body bags, and we would work together to carry them into the morgue.
"It was not a very good job, but at least it let me afford bread. I could also use the free time at night to study. After all, no one wanted to come to the morgue unless a corpse needed to be delivered or taken