Chapter 1: Mission Gone Awry

Chapter 1: Mission Gone Awry

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Chapter 1: Mission Gone Awry

The wind blew up the dust and rubble as the cave began to collapse around them.

She made a half-assed job in an attempt to cover her nose, no need to kick start dust allergies. Sakura grabbed Kakashi by the scruff of his shirt before diving out of the cave just in the nick of time, saving them both from the hands of death once again. She had sustained some nasty bruises along with a slight cracking in the humerus of her left arm. However Kakashi was worse for wear having snapped his scapula in half, his patella had a deep dent in it, a broken femur and a cracked ribcage. This excludes the second degree burns that they both sustained. Their uniforms were tattered beyond repair, torn so badly it couldn't be considered as clothes at all. Sakura healed Kakashi's bones first, albeit a painful process but it had to be done. Once she was done she began to heal his wounds. She needn't heal herself since her regeneration jutsu kicked in.

The mission had been suicide in its worst form. She sincerely hoped that Tsunade had not won any gambles lately. She was glad her mentor, had she sent anybody else it would have literally been like committing suicide.

A letter sent from the village hidden in the moon had been sent to Konoha requesting two of its strongest shinobi to escort the "princess" of wind back to her home. After all she was the daimyou's daughter. The mission scroll seemed believable enough at first. However, as they made their way to the village hidden under the moon they could have sworn that they were being followed. Having checked multiple times they put it off as exhaustion and paranoia but that didn't stop them from being put on the edge.

They darted across the border of the fire country at breakneck paste to finish their mission, because they had a feeling that something was off. Five miles into the rocky terrain their suspicions were confirmed. They had been followed by twenty Abu ranked Iwa shinobi. They had literally been undetectable.

The Anbu circled them as Kakashi and Sakura stood back to back, kunai's drawn. The Anbu attacked first, they were mostly lightning and earth jutsu users with the occasionally rare fire jutsu user. Sakura drew chakra to her fist slamming it into the earth causing the formation of a fissure which swallowed two Anbu who last their footing. Really clumsy for were down to fifteen as Kakashi took down three should have trusted their instincts and known that this was a trap from the start. There was twenty million ryo bounty on both their heads respectively and a flee on sight warning that hasn't been seen the late Yondaime Hokage in the bingo books. It was more of a warning to those sane enough to take them on. However, there was no time to dwell on past one yanked her by her hair but she managed to throw him off with a sharp punch to the gut knocking him into a boulder. Adrenalin was sky high in the tense atmosphere willing away any physical pain that the two Konoha shinobi were feeling.

They were down to ten now. Sakura's chakra was depleting drastically. Kakashi had half of his reserves left. Things were starting to look very bleak for the two wary ninjas. An Anbu had sent a kick aiming for Sakura's back but ended up kicking Kakashi's patella as he jumped to block it.

They were currently in a sticky situation with no idea how to get out. It seems they have to pull a page out of Naruto's book and just wing it. Of all the times they need the knuckle headed ninja.

The three Anbu that had been left manage to corner them in a cave to avoid Sakura using her chakra enhanced strength on them. That really was a smart move on their part nobody wants to be a slug sannin's practice dummy. She couldn't use her strength without causing the cave to collapse on them. There was a massive rock situated next to the carnation haired woman. She picked it up and slammed it into the nearest Anbu knocking him unconscious possibly killing him. Sweat and grime stuck to their bodies like sand to wet skin.

"Well you two seem incredibly stronger than what we pegged you for." The captain said.

"Well yeah, that we would be us." She retorted between ragged breathes. She needed to get back into shape, all those endless hours at the hospital were no good for her stamina and physical strength. When she got back to the village she would request time off to get back into shape. Tsunade was always telling her to take a break anyway. Now she had an excuse too.

"Such fiery spirit, you would have been a great companion, how unfortunate that I have to kill you instead." He said.

"Sorry I'm not straight jacket material just yet. Cocky Iwa shinobi, even wear their forehead protectors around their necks assuming that they'd be able to kill us, wait till Tsunade-sama hears about this." Kakashi muttered.

She stifled her laughter at the look on the Anbu captain's face. He looked slightly scared at the mention of their Hokage. He ran forward his katana ready to strike them down. In the background metal clashing with metal could be heard as Kakashi fought the remaining Anbu as she took on the captain.

"I guess it's just you and me pinky. Don't worry when I'm done with you I'll take good care of Hatake over there." He taunted her.

"Over my dead body you will." She snarled.

"That's what I'm planning my dear."

"Bring it on Porky."

She launched forward fighting till her chakra almost boarded on depletion. She managed to snare him in one of her complex genjutsu while Kakashi placed the other Anbu under the Tsukuyomi. She punched the ground which lead to their current predicament. With the last ounce of her chakra she managed to summon her largest summon, the white phoenix, Akemi.

"Hime-chan! What happened?" Akemi shrieked at seeing her mistress and companion in such blustered and vulnerable state.

"Akemi-chan do you think you can manage to carry us back to Konoha?" She asked before blacking out.

"Anything for you Hime-chan." Akemi said to the unconscious pinkette before her.

Sakura opened her eyes occasionally to find that she was till in Akemi's talon flying as fast her wings could carry her. She looked over at Kakashi eying for any injuries that she might have missed. He was still unconscious. She fell into darkness, once again letting fatigue take over. Akemi flew faster once Konoha came into view. She landed in front of the hospital transferring the unconscious shinobi to her wings. The medics came rushing out taking them from her grasp.

What do you think good or bad? I rewrote this thing quite a few times and I'm still not happy with it but then again that's just me. By the way to those of you who are wondering I will continue my other stories in due time. It might take a while though so I can't give you an exact date. With grade 11 in the way and exams are being thrown left, right and centre I will try to update as much as possible. I wrote up till chapter 6 for this story.

Date published: 07/08/2015

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