The streets rang with furious curses. Everyone hated the extremist remnants of Danzo's faction to the bone.
After that terrifying assassination attempt, Sakura Haruno and her parents did not dare linger another moment.
Kizashi Haruno held his daughter's little hand tightly while his wife stayed close beside her, shielding her. Still shaken and filled with fear, the three hurried all the way home, shut their doors and windows tight, and no longer dared venture out casually.
Their once warm, peaceful, ordinary family had been swept into the most perilous maelstrom in the shinobi world, all because of the fate that awaited them.
As soon as the disturbance ended, the Anbu Captain overseeing the scene raced to the Hokage Building without a moment's delay to report every unexpected development to Tsunade. He left nothing out, recounting the entire assassination attempt, the attacker's confession, Itachi's appearance from the shadows to save Sakura, and every detail of the trouble Danzo's remnants had caused.
There was no suppressing word of the attempt on Sakura's life that night.
In no time, the news spread through all of Konoha as though it had sprouted wings.
Sakura Haruno was no longer some ordinary little girl nobody knew.
The Sky Screen had revealed her future several times, making her name known throughout Konoha and even the entire shinobi world.
Everyone knew she was highly gifted, that she would become Tsunade's apprentice and learn the Hundred Healings secret technique and medical ninjutsu, and that she would become a powerful figure in the shinobi world.
But what people talked about even more was the story of the bonds between her, Sasuke, and Naruto.
Quite a few villagers joked in private that Sakura was the most famous "hopeless romantic" in the shinobi world. From childhood to adulthood, she had eyes only