Chapter one: The Mission
Sakura ran, one of the dogs were barking loud at her ankles and the other stayed a few meters in front, leading the way to the base of a scent. Sakura ran through the town, passing large amounts of people, and getting looks from those she shoved. The dog in front was going quickly and she needed to keep up as the other one was still barking for company. Her green eyes pierced the ground around her.
The dog in front turned, she turned, the dog behind her hesitated, then turned. The most fierce, and the one who was leading the way had slowed, as their surroundings had changed completely. Sakura shifted, this is going to be hard to find him, she thought.
The ground was covered with large containers that were filled with crates. Sakura's breath was caught somewhere in her, as a feeling of dread washed over. They couldn't see over the top of the containers, which meant that it would be harder to catch someone of they were running.
"Bark if you find something," she mumbled to the dogs that were standing next to her.
"Scream if you do," the one that had been leading them told her. Sakura nodded, eyes gazing at the ground around her, again. She ran as fast as she could to one of the lanes that the containers had made. A random number of them were opened, which made them easier to hide in. Sakura sighed, very bothered that this was going to be so hard, but all the same her life had depended on this. After running through five lanes, Sakura saw something black whip the air as it disappeared around a corner. Silently, but still very fast, she ran to keep up with the thing that the black was connected to. The started breathing heavy in excitement. Her legs felt like jelly as so many emotions pang through her as if she was a sponge in water. She turned twice, once away from the lane she left behind, and another into the lane she wanted. Sakura saw who she wanted to see, and ran up to him, kunai in one hand. The black haired man turned to face her.
"Argh!" there was no point in not screaming out her frustration that the kunai could not hold, he had already seen her. Only with one hand, the man grabbed the wrist that held the kunai easily. In shock, Sakura dropped the kunai and tried wrestling out of his grip. But he held her tight. Sakura knew not to look in his eyes, that would be as bad as committing suicide. When she got the message that pulling away was only tightening the mans grip, she punched his shoulder with most of his chakra. The man was sent to the other end of the lane, Sakura ran after him again. By the time she had gotten to him, he was standing in an upright position as if nothing had happened only moments ago. This time the man ran, effortlessly, away from the pink haired ninja that was running towards him. After running for a few lanes, trying to shake the girl off, he turned to attack. Sakura gasped and stopped as kunais were thrown at her dangerously. To dodge them, she ran into one of the open containers. She fell to the ground, knowing the missing-nin would surely ran for it. But no sooner had she heard footsteps outside the container. Obviously he wanted her gone for good before she could report where he was to her village. Sakura stood, grabbing kunais from her pouch that hung behind her. Breathlessly, she hid behind one of the crates, which she found were full of weapons, and waiting. She heard footsteps clash with a faint echo of footsteps. She stood to see her enemy with another kunai and threw as many kunais at the man. He dodged, knocking the door shut. Sakura was about to run after the man before he could attack her, before breathing in breathlessly. Didn't weapon container walls have something that chakra couldn't touch, that were unbreakable, incase an enemy village tried to steal any. Sakura chose between finding the man and being safe, to her instincts. Sadly her instincts came before safety. She ran to the door and grabbed the latch pushing down. It was locked. She looked around to see if the man was around, he wasn't. Is he coming up with a plan? Or is he watching me to see if we really trapped? Sakura thought. It didn't matter, because she was to busy controlling her chakra into her fist for a hard punch against the wall. She fell to the ground when she saw no damage had been created towards the wall.
"Damn," she panted. The man could still attack her with chakra as well, Sakura moaned in defeat. She was stuck in the container with a missing-nin. She turned and saw the sharingan user walk closely to her. She held her panting breath as she could almost smell him…
Where is she? One of the dogs thought as they both barked. A shark-like man wearing a black coat with red clouds was smiling as he saw the dogs bark as much as their throats could take. Getting bored (as well as obtaining a headache) the man lunged at him with his sword.
Both dogs dodged. They kept barking and soon the man lunged at them again, only closely hitting one, and attacking another. The dog let out a painful yelp and the other charged. The man hit the attacking dog to lie down, with his friend. The blue coloured man walked away, smiling. He went to look for his partner, who had advised them to split up.
He searched for a while, waiting for his partner to show up and say they were leaving.
But he didn't show.
Kakashi met up with Naruto, Yamato and Hinata, all who where looking at two small figures on the ground.
"Kakashi!-" Naruto started. Pakkun walked over to the two dogs lying on the ground.
"It seems they were hurt pretty badly," Yamato said. Naruto remembered something.
"They were with Sakura!" he shouted. Hinata looked over her shoulders, as if to expect her to shout what took them so long, but alas, no Sakura came running up to pound Naruto's head.
"Do you think she might be in trouble?" Naruto hesitantly asked Kakashi, who looked down at the question.
"Hinata, do you recon you could find her with byakugan?" Naruto asked, desperately. Hinata nodded and used her special eyes. Naruto looked up to the sky worried what the answer would be. Minutes later Hinata let out a breath, and shook her head.
"I can't find a trace, it's like as if there's something hiding her chakra," she muttered. Kakashi looked over to a few containers.
"Weapon containers can do just that," he thought aloud. He looked at the other and they all nodded, realizing what he was getting to.
"But they also have other hiding features, depending on the village they're from," Yamato said. Kakashi thought about this. Hopefully, Sakura was trapped inside one that didn't have too many features.
"Everyone try looking, and I mean seriously looking. You might not be able to hear, see, smell or even sense Sakura. So make sure you're looking very closely," he ordered. Everyone nodded again and split up.
Sakura lifted a kunai, which the man grabbed and threw to the other side of the container. He looked into her eyes, deciding her fate. The pink haired girl squirmed and tried to look away, but the man had forced her eyes to look his way. He let out a breath, deciding what would be best for himself. Sakura let a puzzled look out while she felt the man's hand fall from her own. She grabbed the sore wrist and rubbed it before turning to face the man, who had felt to wall then pushed the latch down. He turned from the door, Sakura didn't know if she saw a minuscule of annoyance for a millisecond in the man's face. He turned towards her and grabbed her other wrist again, forcing her to look into his face. Sakura had tried to look away, but he called her name, which he must've read up from somewhere.
"Haruno Sakura," he said softly. Sakura frowned a little before saying, grudgingly…
"Uchiha Itachi."
