To Rescue Me

Hey gang! Sorry I haven't been around. Amongst moving and my computer completely dying, life has been an adventure. Good news though! I decided to just suck it up and buy a new computer! Which is working marvellously and I feel REALLY bad for neglecting you all so I will do my best to try and unearth my notebooks that had all the updates and new chapters written within them, hopefully they will come to you soon! In the meantime, please enjoy this as compensation for your waiting! The only thing I own from this is my new character Chihiro! This is my first time at introducing an original character so let me know how I do!

To Rescue Me

Chapter one:

Sakura and Hinata jumped from branch to branch with adrenaline and chakra fuelled speed. They had to get away from their pursuers or it would be all over. Over the years the two girls had grown close, and Sakura had helped her become more confident, mostly.

"Sakura they're gaining on us." Hinata spoke with all seriousness.

"We aren't going to be able to keep this pace up for much longer Hinata. We are both injured and running out of energy." Sakura did a quick mental calculation of how much longer they would be able to keep up for and the medic's diagnosis was not that optimistic.

"Should we turn and try to fight them off?" Hinata suggested. They were both breathing heavily from over-exerting themselves.

"We don't even know who they are or what they want. As far as you could tell while we were on our mission is that they picked up on our chakra signature and diverted their course due to curiosity. We are far from, home with no back-up and our mission is now a complete failure. Are they still masking their chakra's?" Sakura asked her friend. Hinata activated her byakugan and her eyes widened in horror. Deactivating it she turned to sakura with worry.

"Sakura, they got close enough for me to see who it is! Its Uchiha Itachi and his partner!" She spoke with worry evident in her soft voice. Sakura's own eyes widened in fear and realization. She glared ahead of her.

"If the Akatsuki are chasing us when we didn't attack them and Naruto isn't with us, then they must want something. We may as well just stop and confront them. At this point we won't be able to escape and if they catch us and we continue to try and run away, who knows what will happen. Put your mask on, lets drop into that clearing there and wait." Sakura spoke with authority. Hinata nodded and together they put their ANBU masks back into place and dropped down into a small dirt clearing surrounded by trees and they turned to face the direction that their pursuers came from.

"I don't think the Hokage would want us confronting them Sakura…" Hinata spoke quietly, fingering the end of her ponytail that was slung over her shoulder, in nervousness. Sakura ran a worried hand through her own cropped short pink tresses.

"I know Hinata, Tsunade didn't quite think this mission through. It was supposed to be a simple recon mission to try and discover Sasuke's whereabouts, she probably had no idea that the Akatsuki would be there… so for now this is all we can do. We'll just have to play this one situation at a time." She whispered back to her friend with an agitated tone laced through her words. With that said both Kunoichi stood still waiting for the Akatsuki to show up.

They didn't have to wait long.

As the two advanced upon their prey like the predators they were, the two glanced at each other briefly, unsure of how they would be able to get out of this one.

Kisame smirked and crossed his large muscular arms. He cocked his head to glance at them curiously and then turned towards his silent partner.

"Why do you suppose they stopped, eh Itachi?" Hoshigaki Kisame spoke with an almost sadistic humor tainting his powerful voice. Itachi's gaze never strayed from Sakura's fox mask covered face. She in turn couldn't tear her own eyes away from the all too familiar red eyes that had been haunting her dreams and plaguing her mind since her and Naruto's run in with Sasuke a few months ago. She knew that this was not Sasuke… no Itachi was far more powerful than Sasuke could only hope for.

There was no escape.

The shark-man's wide grin only seemed to support that fact.

So There is chapter one. My character won't be introduced until the third chapter, as she has an important part to play in that chapter with how she is introduced. She does have some background history with the two girls from a while ago... but anyways! It was a lot shorter of a chapter than I had thought it would be. Anyways since I haven't found my notebooks for the other chapters yet, this is kind of just a way of telling everyone I'm still here, sorry for the wait and I haven't forgotten about you guys.

~Tsuki Dream