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Sakura is thirteen when she first finds the journals.
Sakura is fourteen when she has studied enough to understand them.
Sakura is eighteen when she finally accepts what she has become.The air around her tastes like victory and she thrives in it.
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Sakura is twelve when she queues up in front a desk with a bunch of other equally-terrified looking shinobi. The ages range from younger than her to old enough to be her grandpa.
The man sitting at the desk is stony-faced as he doles out assignments. Sakura obediently shuffles forward when it is her turn, and recites her shinobi identification number in a shaky voice when asked.
When the provost marshal looks at her, looks down at his paper, looks back at her, and grimaces, Sakura knows it’s not going to be good.
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How Sakura survives the war, told in bits and pieces.
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What a heartbreaking, tragic, beautiful, and bracing read.
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Its sinuous black spirals loomed over the fields like a thunderstorm.
Its leaves murmured secrets.
Beneath its canopy they lay and breathed. Hundreds of people, familiar people, forgotten people.
They were alive. But they shoudln’t be.