She hugged the body she was carrying closer to her and continued running.
Her battle with the mist and mist nins took its toll on her, fortunately she was able to do some damage on them, perhaps so much damage that they had given up looking for her.
That's probably what happened because she couldn't sense them anymore.
She continued running through the forest until she found a clearing, and then started to check up on the girl. Nothing too bad Sakura concluded, and with that she started healing the kid.
A rustling sound alert Sakura and she stood up, getting in a defensive position in front of the girl.
Disturbed by the rustling sound as well, the girl started to stir and then she woke up. Sakura sighed in relief but turned her face to the direction of the sound.
Sakura bent down over the girl and explained what was going on and to run when she said.
Sakura waited to hear another sound from the being that would determine if they were shifting positions, leaving an opening for escape.
There was a long silence, giving Sakura the opportunity to explain the plan further in depth.
"I'm going to sneeze really loudly when the time comes to run so that no one will know what's going on. I'm going to follow but not too closely, if you can't see me in back of you anymore don't draw attention to yourself. Keep running until you see a cabin, a lady named Ino lives there. She'll take good care of you. If she isn't there, there's a key under the welcome mat, you can use that to get in. Go to her phone and press the number 8 and wait a few seconds. Tsunade will answer. Say to her "The pizza is still warm". She'll send someone to help you. Got it?"
The girl nodded.
A few minutes later Sakura sneezed loudly. The girl took of with Sakura not too far behind.
And of course, Sakura tripped on a tree root and fell down, slowing her considerably.
The girl could no longer see her, but kept running as instructed.
Sakura sighed, this was always happening to her.
"Why does this always happen to me?" Sakura asked herself out loud "This kind of thing always happens to me. Why not Naruto or Kakashi? Are they, like, immune to it? Sure Naruto has those scratches and Kakashi is always late and perverted, but why do I get the crappy luck? Do I honestly deserve it? Tsunade must be rubbing off on me… Lovely, now I'm the legendary sucker!" Sakura continued her ramblings, shouting her misfortune to the… forest.
"You are too loud. You make yourself an easy target."
"What do you want with that girl?" Sakura asked.
"I don't."
"Well then we don't have a problem. Goodbye then." Sakura said.
"No."
"What do you mean 'No'?"
"…"
"Okay… since you don't have anything to say about it I'm leaving."
"I said what I meant."
"Then what did you mean!" Sakura yelled irritably.
"No."
Sakura growled in frustration. "I know you said no, okay? I just don't know what the hell you mean by it though!"
"I meant no."
"Just leave me alone," Sakura said loudly.
"No."
Sakura clenched her teeth. If you listened closely you could almost hear the enamel wearing together.
She straightened herself up and started to walk away, holding her left arm.
She felt something wrap around her ankle. She looked down, deciding this was not a normal occurrence. She screamed at what she saw. Sand…