Disclaimer: I sadly own nothing of Naruto and its characters.
(Hey Zero here, this is my first Naruto fic and well I'm going to say that this fic is going to be a romance/action/adventure and well not much else to say except I'll be starting this fic at a point in the anime Naruto not yet covered and will not be for a long in Shonen Jump, so if you don't want any major spoilers I suggest that you don't read this fic. With that said let the Story Begin!)
Chapter 1: Lost Thoughts
A faint wind blew across the dark land. There was a full moon out, which flushed the streets and buildings of village of Konoha with a faint eerie glow almost as if it was daylight. No one within the whole village was awake to witness this beautiful sight however except for one.
On the outskirts of the village slightly into the forest a young boy of the age of 13 with wild blonde hair, deep crystal blue eyes and dressed in his usual attire, a orange jump suit was laid spread eagle in a big patch of moonlight surrounded by the great oak trees of the forest. The boy's name was Naruto and he was training to become the best Shinobi, the Hokage.
Luckily for him he enjoyed the pale beauty of the full moon because even if he had wanted to move out of the moonlight or even turn on his side he was incapable of doing so for he could not move his body one inch, the result of spending the whole day in the forest (again) practicing his ninjutsu. The Rasengan more precisely, a technique that his "New Master", old perverted Jiraiya had taught him on his journey to recruit the newly appointed Fifth Hokage-Tsunade.
He was starting to master the technique because could now perform the Jutsu twice in a row, but he still could not do it without the help of a clone or doppelganger. "Shit" he whispered frustrated he closed his eyes and began thinking of his life and what was going on. Things hadn't been going to well since he had gotten back from his mission.
Despite all of his improvements no one had noticed because they were all too busy hating his guts he thought angrily. Orochimaru was still out there planning who knows what, Sasuke and Sakura as far as he knew still thought he was an idiot and hated him.
He cringed when he though about them especially Sakura, he had liked her for so long and she knew but all she ever did was either yell of hit him, which was hardly considered attention or swoon over that ASSHOLE Sasuke! Anger and pain as well as lonely started to swell up inside of him as it always did when he thought about them so he pushed them to the back of his head the started to think about something else
Jiraiya had told him about a new group called the Akatsuki, which was now after him for the nine-tailed fox demon inside of him-Kyuubi. This thought made him angry too. Why couldn't he be normal!? Why was he chosen out of all the people in Konoha to carry such a monster such a curse!? Tears started to swell up in his eyes as he thought of all the pain and hatred he had received from his childhood and he still received all because of the damn demon living inside of him!
Although Kyuubi had saved Naruto a few times in the past when he needed strength the most but still he didn't feel the pain was worth it. At times he just felt he would rather die than take the pain and loneliness inside of him any longer, but he kept on living fighting the pain hoping that one day he would something that would make the pain go away. With a tired mind and body Naruto fell asleep in the quite night.
The sun was just beginning to rise above the village of Konoha. At that very moment a beautiful young girl also about the age of 13 with lovely pink hair and deep green eyes could be seen skipping down the street. Her name was Haruno Sakura.
She had just left her house and was on her way to meet her master and teammates at an appointed spot. She knew full well that her master probably wouldn't be there for a few more hours even though they were supposed to meet in five minutes but she knew that her cell would be there on time.
One boy in particular, Uchiha Sasuke. "Ooooo" she squealed just that name gave her shivers and the thought about spending some alone time with him was overwhelming. When she arrived at the appointed meeting place she was surprised to see that both Kakashi-sensei and Sasuke were both already there.
"HIII" Kakashi-sensei, Sasuke-kun! Sakura yelled now running down the street. "Oh, god here she goes again." Sasuke said quietly to himself. Sakura stopped breathing slightly heavy smiling and blushing wildly at Sasuke.
"Well, now that everyone's here let's get going." Kakashi stated
plainly. Both Sasuke and Sakura both looked up surprised. "Wait a minute sensei..." Sakura said regaining her breath, "What about Naruto?" She was kind of surprised at herself for asking that kind of question.
"Oh, Naruto is no longer in our cell. He's now under the guidance of Jiraiya-sensei." Kakashi replied quickly. This last statement really shocked both Sakura and Sasuke. "Oh, no..." Sakura said quietly. She felt herself suddenly saddened by this.
But wait, the less of Naruto around to bug her and more time for her and Sasuke to be alone together the better she thought. He was loud, obnoxious, annoying and he and Sasuke were constantly fighting, but... Naruto had always been there with them through the whole time, and though most of the time they were the ones getting Naruto out of trouble there were times in the most dire situations when Naruto's true strength showed and using it he had rescued them both a few times in the past.
After all the time she had spent around him she had even grown a certain fondness towards Naruto that was well...different from the feelings she felt towards Sasuke.
NO, she told herself firmly, this is definitely a good thing I'll have more time with Sasuke so I can try to get him to like me, she thought trying to cover up her previous thoughts, but they were still there in the back of her mind.
"So, that's how he got so strong" Sasuke said through clenched teeth. Sakura looked over at him and saw that he was having his own thoughts about Naruto. "That's how he was able to...on the roof."
Sakura gasped, she remembered that little incident on the roof that might have escalated into something big if Kakashi had not intervened.
"Jiraiya-sensei, must have taught him that technique which...which is stronger than the Chidori!" Sasuke said staring down at his right hand. "Kakashi-sensei, what was that technique that Naruto used on the roof, teach me how to use it!" Sasuke turned on Kakashi, anger flaring in his eyes.
"Well, to tell you the truth Sasuke I really don't know how to use that jutsu." Kakahi replied sheepishly. "But... then how..." Before Sasuke could finish his sentence a huge explosion ripped through Konoha and an enormous cloud of giant smoke could be seen floating upwards.
"THE VILLAGE IS UNDER ATTACK" they heard someone yell. People were running through the streets trying to get to the shelters. "another one?" Kakahi yelled, "Sasuke, Sakura let's go!"
On the outskirts of the village Naruto was sleeping peacefully until...KABOOM. The huge explosion that shook the entire village also served as a big alarm clock. Naruto shot straight up all the pains in his body the night before completely gone.
Naruto saw the huge smoke emerging and lots of screaming and shouting. Quickly he jumped to his feet threw his orange coat on not bothering to button it up and ran down to see what the hell was going on.
Kakashi, Sasuke and Sakura moved quickly through the village. They saw other shinobi jumping from building to building moving down the village to the explosion, chuunin and jounin alike.
Finally Kakashi and his cell rounded the last building to come face to face with a horrific sight. There were hundreds of shinobi from the sound and mist. Although all of the shinobi's from the mist had slashes across their headbands.
Just like Kisame, Kakashi thought, these shinobi must have been sent by the Akatsuki but, for what purpose it couldn't be just to attack the village. No, they were trying to accomplish something but what he could not tell.
Unfortunately Kakashi had no time to think, there was fighting to be done. The village and it's people needed to be protected. "Sasuke, Sakura, make sure no enemy ninja pass this point into the village!" Kakashi yelled back, before he hastily pulled up his headband revealing the dreaded Sharingan eye and charged ahead into the battle.
"Heh, you gotta be kidding me," Sasuke said with a laugh as he ran off in a different direction. "Hey, wait Sasuke-kun! Sakura shouted after him "Kakashi-sensei told us to..." but it was no use Sasuke either didn't hear here or didn't care (it was probably the second one) and he kept going.
I won't be much of a defense against any ninja trying to get inside, Sakura thought to herself. She might even get herself killed, so she ran as fast as she could after Sasuke with her kunai knife drawn.
Weaving in and out of different battles Sakura chased after Sasuke all different types of ninjutsu was flashing everywhere around Sakura. Fire, water, lighting, wind, earth, she had never seen so many different variations of ninjutsu.
In fact she would have been amazed if she wasn't so terrified. Some of those attacks actually almost hit her, but this was expected, after all this was a battlefield.
When Sakura finally chased Sasuke down to a clearing along the outskirts of the village just at the entrance to the forest, she was surprised to see that Sasuke had already found an opponent. He was a shinobi of the Sound and he was HUGE!
He stood at least twice as high as Sasuke and twice as wide as well. By the looks of it he was a Jounin as well. Oh, why does Sasuke always have to pick fights with strong guys Sakura thought dismally.
Quickly she ran over to Sasuke's side and held her kunai knife up ready to fight. "Just what do you think you're doing Sakura-chan?" Sasuke said coldly to Sakura without even looking at her. Taken aback by this Sakura felt hurt but tried to explain herself nonetheless, "I-I was gonna help you Sasuke-kun...." She stammered.
"Shit" Sasuke spat, clearly pissed, "Go back to the village you'll just get in my way here!" This last comment really hit home and Sakura couldn't help but cry. Tears started to run down her beautiful face but Sasuke didn't care. "H-How can you be so c-cruel Sasuke-kun," Sakura managed to say between bouts of tears, "I-I was just...I was just trying to h-help you"
"Damnit Sakura, this is a battlefield and there is no place for your dramatics or weakness here, all that matters having the strength to win the fight and I'll be damned if I let you hold me back!!!" Sasuke yelled this time looking deep into Sakura's eyes. Never...never before had he looked so cold and serious.
Meanwhile the enemy shinobi was watching this whole scenario and he noticed when Sasuke took his eyes off of him. Perfect he thought. He began forming a hand seal and ended with both of his hands clenched together. EARTH- SHATTER NO JUTSU he bellowed and crashed his right foot into the ground, tearing the earth in a straight line towards Sasuke and Sakura.
Sasuke notice this attack at once and was quick to jump out of the way but Sakura still shocked by what Sasuke had just said to her was not able to jump away in time. She screamed as the ground broke away under her and she began clawing and something, anything that she could to prevent herself from falling.
Sakura's hand just barely grabbed the edge of the ground, which was splitting rapidly. She looked down and was horrified to see that it was totally black as in she could not see the bottom of the crack. To make matters worse she could feel the edge of which she grabbed starting to crumble. It wouldn't last long.
"Help, Sasuke-kun!" she screamed, "I'm slipping!" She looked up to see that Sasuke was staring right at her. But to her total dismay all Sasuke did was give her a disgusted look and turn back towards his opponent.
Sakura was completely and utterly overwhelmed with sorrow. Forget going on a date with him, Sasuke didn't even care about her enough to help her climb up from the pits of death.
Tears started to swell up both inside and outside of her. Suddenly she didn't care if she fell. Because the one she cared about most had just totally shattered her heart.
Sakura felt the edge on which she was holding fall away, and time seemed to pass in slow motion as she fell backwards into the dark abyss. She was almost happy, at least she wouldn't have to feel the incredible pain she was feeling right now.
Sakura's body fell back her hair flowing upwards until suddenly a hand grasped hers. Her body was jerked upwards and she felt a wave of relief. Sasuke had changed his mind about her he had saved her! At least that was what she though until she opened her eyes and saw that it was not Sasuke's hand that was holding on to hers but Naruto's.
"Sakura, hold on!" Naruto yelled as he slowly lifted Sakura out of the crack, his teeth clenched and his body straining. "Why? Why Naruto..." Sakura thought to herself as she was being pulled up onto solid ground.
She looked up at her savior and saw that he was panting, obviously he had saw her falling and was rushing to try and save her which he did. Sakura's eyes met Naruto and Naruto did something that Sakura would never forget. He gave her his big, goofy trademark smile.
Sakura suddenly burst out in tears, as she rushed forwards into Naruto's arms sobbing uncontrollably. she couldn't help it she didn't know or care what was wrong with her all she wanted was to be in his arms.
Naruto was slightly taken aback, this was extremely unusual for Sakura he thought, but then he thought about what had just happened so he softened his expression and wrapped his arms around her and put his hand on her soft, silky pink hair. "There, there it's going to be ok," Naruto said softly. Sakura started to wipe her eyes as the last of her hiccups were subsiding.
She looked up deep into Naruto's eyes, his deep, beautiful, crystal blue eyes, and saw something. She felt a strange emotion deep inside of her pulsing. That feeling towards Naruto had been growing slowly within her only she never noticed it...until now. What she saw...was it love? She gazed deeply into his eyes and he gazed back into hers, all of a sudden Sakura felt so...she felt so warm.
Naruto was loving every moment with Sakura in his arms. He loved everything about her, from her looks to her hair to her smell to her attitude even though at times it could hurt, but this wasn't like Sakura and he knew that this was probably to good to be true but he didn't care. As long as he had the moment he would make the best of it. That glossy look of happiness in her eyes was suddenly replaced with sheer terror.
Naruto knew something was wrong, he whipped his head around to see one of the shinobi's of the mist with the slash across his headband standing over him with a sword about to stab.
Quickly Naruto shoved Sakura to the side just as the sword came straight down into Naruto side. Naruto screamed loudly and slumped over. The shinobi laughed and pulled out a dagger about to make the finishing blow
Sakura couldn't believe what was happening. Everything seemed to be going by so fast. Naruto...he can't die! She thought to herself, but the look of him slumped over like that...wait his hands were still moving.
Naruto formed the sign of the doppelganger and a clone of him appeared right behind the shinobi who had just stabbed him. The shinobi turned around just as the clone jumped straight into the air and delivered a powerful kick to his jaw.
Ahh, Naruto had purposely slumped over to make it seem like he was immobilized and to cover up his kagebushin hand seal so that the enemy shinobi wouldn't be able to see it.
The Shinobi flipped several times in the air before falling on his face and stomach, blood dripping from his jaw, completely knocked out. Naruto cringed in pain as he reached back and took the sword out of his side.
"Naruto, are you ok?!" Sakura yelled, running up to him but Naruto quickly stood up getting into a fighting position. Sakura wondered at what he was doing but after quickly looking around she found out why. They were completely surrounded by a circle men in black and red cloaks. They started to move in closer to their target.
Sakura was suddenly terrified all over again. Where was Sasuke where was everyone. She wanted to curl up into a ball and hide. She looked up at Naruto who was still bleeding from his wound. She winced wanting to help him but knowing that now was not the time. Naruto turned his head back towards her, "Don't worry Sakura-chan, I'll protect you!" he said and put his hands together forming a hand seal again.
KAGEBUNSHIN NO JUTSU!!! Naruto yelled, a huge puff of smoke exploded out of nowhere and Sakura was suddenly surrounded on all sides in a circle by Naruto's clones like a barrier...protecting her from harm. Naruto and his clones faced off against their new attackers ready to fight, a fire burning in his eyes.
Well this is the end of chapter one! Please excuse me if there are a few spelling or grammatical errors I was kinda in a hurry to finish this chapter and sorry it's a little short I'll try to make my next chapters a but longer. Well anyways that's all for now I have some very interesting things planned for this story but I can't promise them unless you guys give me lots of reviews, HA. Well so long for now.
(Hey Zero here, this is my first Naruto fic and well I'm going to say that this fic is going to be a romance/action/adventure and well not much else to say except I'll be starting this fic at a point in the anime Naruto not yet covered and will not be for a long in Shonen Jump, so if you don't want any major spoilers I suggest that you don't read this fic. With that said let the Story Begin!)
Chapter 1: Lost Thoughts
A faint wind blew across the dark land. There was a full moon out, which flushed the streets and buildings of village of Konoha with a faint eerie glow almost as if it was daylight. No one within the whole village was awake to witness this beautiful sight however except for one.
On the outskirts of the village slightly into the forest a young boy of the age of 13 with wild blonde hair, deep crystal blue eyes and dressed in his usual attire, a orange jump suit was laid spread eagle in a big patch of moonlight surrounded by the great oak trees of the forest. The boy's name was Naruto and he was training to become the best Shinobi, the Hokage.
Luckily for him he enjoyed the pale beauty of the full moon because even if he had wanted to move out of the moonlight or even turn on his side he was incapable of doing so for he could not move his body one inch, the result of spending the whole day in the forest (again) practicing his ninjutsu. The Rasengan more precisely, a technique that his "New Master", old perverted Jiraiya had taught him on his journey to recruit the newly appointed Fifth Hokage-Tsunade.
He was starting to master the technique because could now perform the Jutsu twice in a row, but he still could not do it without the help of a clone or doppelganger. "Shit" he whispered frustrated he closed his eyes and began thinking of his life and what was going on. Things hadn't been going to well since he had gotten back from his mission.
Despite all of his improvements no one had noticed because they were all too busy hating his guts he thought angrily. Orochimaru was still out there planning who knows what, Sasuke and Sakura as far as he knew still thought he was an idiot and hated him.
He cringed when he though about them especially Sakura, he had liked her for so long and she knew but all she ever did was either yell of hit him, which was hardly considered attention or swoon over that ASSHOLE Sasuke! Anger and pain as well as lonely started to swell up inside of him as it always did when he thought about them so he pushed them to the back of his head the started to think about something else
Jiraiya had told him about a new group called the Akatsuki, which was now after him for the nine-tailed fox demon inside of him-Kyuubi. This thought made him angry too. Why couldn't he be normal!? Why was he chosen out of all the people in Konoha to carry such a monster such a curse!? Tears started to swell up in his eyes as he thought of all the pain and hatred he had received from his childhood and he still received all because of the damn demon living inside of him!
Although Kyuubi had saved Naruto a few times in the past when he needed strength the most but still he didn't feel the pain was worth it. At times he just felt he would rather die than take the pain and loneliness inside of him any longer, but he kept on living fighting the pain hoping that one day he would something that would make the pain go away. With a tired mind and body Naruto fell asleep in the quite night.
The sun was just beginning to rise above the village of Konoha. At that very moment a beautiful young girl also about the age of 13 with lovely pink hair and deep green eyes could be seen skipping down the street. Her name was Haruno Sakura.
She had just left her house and was on her way to meet her master and teammates at an appointed spot. She knew full well that her master probably wouldn't be there for a few more hours even though they were supposed to meet in five minutes but she knew that her cell would be there on time.
One boy in particular, Uchiha Sasuke. "Ooooo" she squealed just that name gave her shivers and the thought about spending some alone time with him was overwhelming. When she arrived at the appointed meeting place she was surprised to see that both Kakashi-sensei and Sasuke were both already there.
"HIII" Kakashi-sensei, Sasuke-kun! Sakura yelled now running down the street. "Oh, god here she goes again." Sasuke said quietly to himself. Sakura stopped breathing slightly heavy smiling and blushing wildly at Sasuke.
"Well, now that everyone's here let's get going." Kakashi stated
plainly. Both Sasuke and Sakura both looked up surprised. "Wait a minute sensei..." Sakura said regaining her breath, "What about Naruto?" She was kind of surprised at herself for asking that kind of question.
"Oh, Naruto is no longer in our cell. He's now under the guidance of Jiraiya-sensei." Kakashi replied quickly. This last statement really shocked both Sakura and Sasuke. "Oh, no..." Sakura said quietly. She felt herself suddenly saddened by this.
But wait, the less of Naruto around to bug her and more time for her and Sasuke to be alone together the better she thought. He was loud, obnoxious, annoying and he and Sasuke were constantly fighting, but... Naruto had always been there with them through the whole time, and though most of the time they were the ones getting Naruto out of trouble there were times in the most dire situations when Naruto's true strength showed and using it he had rescued them both a few times in the past.
After all the time she had spent around him she had even grown a certain fondness towards Naruto that was well...different from the feelings she felt towards Sasuke.
NO, she told herself firmly, this is definitely a good thing I'll have more time with Sasuke so I can try to get him to like me, she thought trying to cover up her previous thoughts, but they were still there in the back of her mind.
"So, that's how he got so strong" Sasuke said through clenched teeth. Sakura looked over at him and saw that he was having his own thoughts about Naruto. "That's how he was able to...on the roof."
Sakura gasped, she remembered that little incident on the roof that might have escalated into something big if Kakashi had not intervened.
"Jiraiya-sensei, must have taught him that technique which...which is stronger than the Chidori!" Sasuke said staring down at his right hand. "Kakashi-sensei, what was that technique that Naruto used on the roof, teach me how to use it!" Sasuke turned on Kakashi, anger flaring in his eyes.
"Well, to tell you the truth Sasuke I really don't know how to use that jutsu." Kakahi replied sheepishly. "But... then how..." Before Sasuke could finish his sentence a huge explosion ripped through Konoha and an enormous cloud of giant smoke could be seen floating upwards.
"THE VILLAGE IS UNDER ATTACK" they heard someone yell. People were running through the streets trying to get to the shelters. "another one?" Kakahi yelled, "Sasuke, Sakura let's go!"
On the outskirts of the village Naruto was sleeping peacefully until...KABOOM. The huge explosion that shook the entire village also served as a big alarm clock. Naruto shot straight up all the pains in his body the night before completely gone.
Naruto saw the huge smoke emerging and lots of screaming and shouting. Quickly he jumped to his feet threw his orange coat on not bothering to button it up and ran down to see what the hell was going on.
Kakashi, Sasuke and Sakura moved quickly through the village. They saw other shinobi jumping from building to building moving down the village to the explosion, chuunin and jounin alike.
Finally Kakashi and his cell rounded the last building to come face to face with a horrific sight. There were hundreds of shinobi from the sound and mist. Although all of the shinobi's from the mist had slashes across their headbands.
Just like Kisame, Kakashi thought, these shinobi must have been sent by the Akatsuki but, for what purpose it couldn't be just to attack the village. No, they were trying to accomplish something but what he could not tell.
Unfortunately Kakashi had no time to think, there was fighting to be done. The village and it's people needed to be protected. "Sasuke, Sakura, make sure no enemy ninja pass this point into the village!" Kakashi yelled back, before he hastily pulled up his headband revealing the dreaded Sharingan eye and charged ahead into the battle.
"Heh, you gotta be kidding me," Sasuke said with a laugh as he ran off in a different direction. "Hey, wait Sasuke-kun! Sakura shouted after him "Kakashi-sensei told us to..." but it was no use Sasuke either didn't hear here or didn't care (it was probably the second one) and he kept going.
I won't be much of a defense against any ninja trying to get inside, Sakura thought to herself. She might even get herself killed, so she ran as fast as she could after Sasuke with her kunai knife drawn.
Weaving in and out of different battles Sakura chased after Sasuke all different types of ninjutsu was flashing everywhere around Sakura. Fire, water, lighting, wind, earth, she had never seen so many different variations of ninjutsu.
In fact she would have been amazed if she wasn't so terrified. Some of those attacks actually almost hit her, but this was expected, after all this was a battlefield.
When Sakura finally chased Sasuke down to a clearing along the outskirts of the village just at the entrance to the forest, she was surprised to see that Sasuke had already found an opponent. He was a shinobi of the Sound and he was HUGE!
He stood at least twice as high as Sasuke and twice as wide as well. By the looks of it he was a Jounin as well. Oh, why does Sasuke always have to pick fights with strong guys Sakura thought dismally.
Quickly she ran over to Sasuke's side and held her kunai knife up ready to fight. "Just what do you think you're doing Sakura-chan?" Sasuke said coldly to Sakura without even looking at her. Taken aback by this Sakura felt hurt but tried to explain herself nonetheless, "I-I was gonna help you Sasuke-kun...." She stammered.
"Shit" Sasuke spat, clearly pissed, "Go back to the village you'll just get in my way here!" This last comment really hit home and Sakura couldn't help but cry. Tears started to run down her beautiful face but Sasuke didn't care. "H-How can you be so c-cruel Sasuke-kun," Sakura managed to say between bouts of tears, "I-I was just...I was just trying to h-help you"
"Damnit Sakura, this is a battlefield and there is no place for your dramatics or weakness here, all that matters having the strength to win the fight and I'll be damned if I let you hold me back!!!" Sasuke yelled this time looking deep into Sakura's eyes. Never...never before had he looked so cold and serious.
Meanwhile the enemy shinobi was watching this whole scenario and he noticed when Sasuke took his eyes off of him. Perfect he thought. He began forming a hand seal and ended with both of his hands clenched together. EARTH- SHATTER NO JUTSU he bellowed and crashed his right foot into the ground, tearing the earth in a straight line towards Sasuke and Sakura.
Sasuke notice this attack at once and was quick to jump out of the way but Sakura still shocked by what Sasuke had just said to her was not able to jump away in time. She screamed as the ground broke away under her and she began clawing and something, anything that she could to prevent herself from falling.
Sakura's hand just barely grabbed the edge of the ground, which was splitting rapidly. She looked down and was horrified to see that it was totally black as in she could not see the bottom of the crack. To make matters worse she could feel the edge of which she grabbed starting to crumble. It wouldn't last long.
"Help, Sasuke-kun!" she screamed, "I'm slipping!" She looked up to see that Sasuke was staring right at her. But to her total dismay all Sasuke did was give her a disgusted look and turn back towards his opponent.
Sakura was completely and utterly overwhelmed with sorrow. Forget going on a date with him, Sasuke didn't even care about her enough to help her climb up from the pits of death.
Tears started to swell up both inside and outside of her. Suddenly she didn't care if she fell. Because the one she cared about most had just totally shattered her heart.
Sakura felt the edge on which she was holding fall away, and time seemed to pass in slow motion as she fell backwards into the dark abyss. She was almost happy, at least she wouldn't have to feel the incredible pain she was feeling right now.
Sakura's body fell back her hair flowing upwards until suddenly a hand grasped hers. Her body was jerked upwards and she felt a wave of relief. Sasuke had changed his mind about her he had saved her! At least that was what she though until she opened her eyes and saw that it was not Sasuke's hand that was holding on to hers but Naruto's.
"Sakura, hold on!" Naruto yelled as he slowly lifted Sakura out of the crack, his teeth clenched and his body straining. "Why? Why Naruto..." Sakura thought to herself as she was being pulled up onto solid ground.
She looked up at her savior and saw that he was panting, obviously he had saw her falling and was rushing to try and save her which he did. Sakura's eyes met Naruto and Naruto did something that Sakura would never forget. He gave her his big, goofy trademark smile.
Sakura suddenly burst out in tears, as she rushed forwards into Naruto's arms sobbing uncontrollably. she couldn't help it she didn't know or care what was wrong with her all she wanted was to be in his arms.
Naruto was slightly taken aback, this was extremely unusual for Sakura he thought, but then he thought about what had just happened so he softened his expression and wrapped his arms around her and put his hand on her soft, silky pink hair. "There, there it's going to be ok," Naruto said softly. Sakura started to wipe her eyes as the last of her hiccups were subsiding.
She looked up deep into Naruto's eyes, his deep, beautiful, crystal blue eyes, and saw something. She felt a strange emotion deep inside of her pulsing. That feeling towards Naruto had been growing slowly within her only she never noticed it...until now. What she saw...was it love? She gazed deeply into his eyes and he gazed back into hers, all of a sudden Sakura felt so...she felt so warm.
Naruto was loving every moment with Sakura in his arms. He loved everything about her, from her looks to her hair to her smell to her attitude even though at times it could hurt, but this wasn't like Sakura and he knew that this was probably to good to be true but he didn't care. As long as he had the moment he would make the best of it. That glossy look of happiness in her eyes was suddenly replaced with sheer terror.
Naruto knew something was wrong, he whipped his head around to see one of the shinobi's of the mist with the slash across his headband standing over him with a sword about to stab.
Quickly Naruto shoved Sakura to the side just as the sword came straight down into Naruto side. Naruto screamed loudly and slumped over. The shinobi laughed and pulled out a dagger about to make the finishing blow
Sakura couldn't believe what was happening. Everything seemed to be going by so fast. Naruto...he can't die! She thought to herself, but the look of him slumped over like that...wait his hands were still moving.
Naruto formed the sign of the doppelganger and a clone of him appeared right behind the shinobi who had just stabbed him. The shinobi turned around just as the clone jumped straight into the air and delivered a powerful kick to his jaw.
Ahh, Naruto had purposely slumped over to make it seem like he was immobilized and to cover up his kagebushin hand seal so that the enemy shinobi wouldn't be able to see it.
The Shinobi flipped several times in the air before falling on his face and stomach, blood dripping from his jaw, completely knocked out. Naruto cringed in pain as he reached back and took the sword out of his side.
"Naruto, are you ok?!" Sakura yelled, running up to him but Naruto quickly stood up getting into a fighting position. Sakura wondered at what he was doing but after quickly looking around she found out why. They were completely surrounded by a circle men in black and red cloaks. They started to move in closer to their target.
Sakura was suddenly terrified all over again. Where was Sasuke where was everyone. She wanted to curl up into a ball and hide. She looked up at Naruto who was still bleeding from his wound. She winced wanting to help him but knowing that now was not the time. Naruto turned his head back towards her, "Don't worry Sakura-chan, I'll protect you!" he said and put his hands together forming a hand seal again.
KAGEBUNSHIN NO JUTSU!!! Naruto yelled, a huge puff of smoke exploded out of nowhere and Sakura was suddenly surrounded on all sides in a circle by Naruto's clones like a barrier...protecting her from harm. Naruto and his clones faced off against their new attackers ready to fight, a fire burning in his eyes.
Well this is the end of chapter one! Please excuse me if there are a few spelling or grammatical errors I was kinda in a hurry to finish this chapter and sorry it's a little short I'll try to make my next chapters a but longer. Well anyways that's all for now I have some very interesting things planned for this story but I can't promise them unless you guys give me lots of reviews, HA. Well so long for now.