New story from me. Yay! Er... yeah.
Please don't hate me if it's total crap. The idea come to me at three in the morning. Hey... You can't help it sometimes, you know?
But yes. Disclaimer - I don't own Naruto. If I did... Sasuke wouldn't be such a prick.
Now you can read! If you want to...
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This was my chance. If I didn't escape from them now, I never would.
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Carefully, her eyes searched for an opening. About a yard away from her Sai was busy dealing with an enemy clone. She wasn't stupid. Actually, far from it. She knew Sai was up to something. She didn't know what it was, but it was definetely something that would hinder her plan.
A stray kunai headed straight for her. She easily dodged it. 'Really,' she thought, 'I'm trying to concentrate!'
Her eyes darted around once again. There were too many clones in her way. Not that they were particularly strong (actually, they were quite weak), they were dealt with easily enough, which was why she was at the back of the group's formation. She was hardly getting to fight at all. Sai, Kiba and Shino dealt with the majority of them.
'There!'
She saw a straight path out of all the chaos. While her team was occupied she completed a set of handseals and before her shadow clone even formed she darted out of everyone's line of sight.
She hid behind a tree for a moment, making sure no one had caught onto her. 'Good,' she took a shakey breath in and out before she relaxed a bit. She had gotten away from them; something she thought would be a lot harder to accomplish, if at all, but she had done it.
She inhaled once again and she hid her chakra signature. She also hoped to get as close as she could to Sasuke without being detected. She would need ever advantage.
Her eyes lit up with determination and she continued on her way.
'Kiba had said Sasuke went in this direction. Hopefully he didn't decide to turn around.'
She didn't think that would be the case. The dread in her gut told her that. They would meet... and one, she was almost positive, would die.
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"Goodbye, Danzou," Sasuke brought down his sword to the older man's throat, "I'll be seeing you in hell." Danzou's smirk died along with him as Sasuke finished the job. That was one down. All he had left were the Konoha elders.
He sheithed his bloody sword and turned towards Madara. He was last on his hit-list, for the moment, but Madara would die. Sasuke knew that the older Uchiha expected it. However, right now they were of use to eachother. It's only because of that that Sasuke wasn't dead.
He flash-stepped over to him. "We're heading to Konoha." At first the other Uchiha had said nothing. Just looked at Sasuke.
"Sasuke-kun!" Karin leapt onto him. He held back a cringe at the volume of her voice. Why was it that every single female had to be so goddamned annoy-
"Are you alright!? Oh, I'm so glad!" Karin interupted his train of thought, "I almost thought the old man might have done some-" "Karin. Shit up," and she did so, still attatched to his arm. He didn't mind right now, so long as the yelling stopped.
"Konoha will hace to wait a bit, I'm afraid." Sasuke's eyes narrowed, "Why is that?"
The man behind the mask laughed a bit before answering, "It would appear that you have a visitor." He pointed to something behind Sasuke before he poofed away.
"Visitor..?" Karin only then sensed another chakra. "She must be very good with chakra control if she was able to hide that long from me, undetected." The red-head detatched herself from Sasuke to try and pinpoint the exact location of this... 'visitor'. She noted that he didn't look too worried. And he wasn't. He had a pretty good idea of who it was. He was mildly surprised, though, that she had come by herself.
"There!" Karin pointed to her right, to the end of the clearing. Sasuke turned around just as Sakura made her appearance.
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"Sakura." Sasuke aknowledged, in a rather cold fashion. How he managed to do it Sakura would never know.
"Sasuke." She said right back.
Karin looked between them both several times. "You know her, Sasuke-kun?" Sakura couldn't help the small sting her heart felt as this other woman addressed him like that. "Aa," was all he said.
"Your vocabulary hasn't improved much, I see." Sakura forced a smirk to form on her lips. Sasuke raised a brow. Since when was Sakura so outspoken towards him?
Karin looked pissed. How dare she talk to Sasuke-kun in such a way!?
She was about to voice her opinion, but Sasuke interjected, "Karin, stand down. This doesn't require you." She just huffed and glared at Sakura. She'd get hers...
Sakura was reminded of her past self when she looked at Karin. Well, the attitude part at least. Sasuke broke up her thoughts when he stapped closer to her, "What do you want, Sakura?" The pinkette stood her ground. She had to think carefully about her words. She didn't want to set him off prematurely. It would be hard, though. She hasn't seen the boy in years (not counting the breif encounter back in sound), and to be quite frank, she was angry with him. Very angry.
"Oh, Sasuke, you can no longer give me what I want." She smiled sadly as he got closer to her. "You wouldn't have had what you wanted either way." She shook her head, "Maybe so," she said, and she took her own strides towards him, "but now it's just not possible." They both had stopped when there was only a few feet between them.
"Why are you really here, Sakura? I'm not going back with you."
Emerald clashed with obsidian. She tried to make out some kind of emotion within their depths, but there was nothing. She wasn't even sure if he was filled with hate anymore. He was just... dead. What he was doing now was probably just motions. No meaning behind them. He did them just because.
This only fueled her belief in what she had set out to do. It had to be done. Even if only to show him he was wrong.
"Like I said, Sasuke, you can no longer give me what I want."
He became confused. He didn't show it, of course, but then what was her reason for being here if it wasn't to bring him back? He noticed she looked passed him. She was looking at Danzou, lying lifeless on the ground. She grew curious. "Not that I mind the asshole's dead, but what reason could you possibly have had to kill him?" Sasuke's eyes narrowed dangerously, "You know nothing," he hissed out, his body now tense. Sakura tensed also, in reaction to him. She felt some of her own anger rise to the surface. "Of course not. But then again, how could I have ever known anything when you refused to tell me!"
He relaxed, slightly, and turned away. "I don't owe you an explanation. Leave."
...Ha! He was kidding himself. There was no way in hell she was walking away, and there was no chance she was going to let him either.
In the background, thunder rolled. 'How cliché,' she thought to herself.
He walked further away from her, and the girl, Karin?, followed suite.
Again, Sakura smiled to herself, gravely. She had not come ill-prepared.
"I love you Sasuke-kun! So very much! So, please... just stay here!" She saw him freeze. He turned his head slowly, expecting a teary-eyed Sakura. Instead he got the twelve-year old version, the one he remembered that night so long ago.
She was looking up at him with tears in her eyes, begging him to stay. He didn't know what to do at first. He knew in his mind that this didn't make sense; this was clearly a jutsu, but he couldn't get his mouth to open and tell her off. Especially when a cruel grin spread across her features.
"That's what you want me to say, right?" He said nothing, and she dropped her jutsu. "I'm not a naive little girl anymore, Sasuke-kun." She pulled a kunai from her pouch. What the heck was she doing? She could seriously think-
"I've grown up, Uchiha Sasuke, and I've come to end it. You will die by my hands."
Sasuke almost laughed. Almost. He raised a brow at her, clearly not believing her. "Don't be stupid, Sakura. You can't kill me."
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"Wanna bet?"
Sasuke's eyes shot open when another Sakura appeared behind him, kunai to his throat. He quickly grabbed her arm, spun around and sent her flying. When she hit a nearby rock, she exploded in a cloud of smoke. "A clone," "Very good observation, but you should be paying attention to the kunoichi infront of you." She jumped back and sent a kunai towards his head. He easily dodged it and appeared behind the, still moving, girl. "And you shouldn't announce your presence and lose your advantage." He spin-kicked her side, under her ribs, and she dissapeared again. 'Another clone?'
"Sasuke, above you!" Karin shouted.
He barely had time to jump away as Sakura's fist came towards him. Unfortuneatly, he misread what she was trying to do. she wasn't aiming to hit him, but the ground instead. He figured it out too late, though.
Her fist collided with the earth and massive pieces of land rose up and broke, destroying anything and everything. Sasuke escaped the blast with only a small cut on his arm where a rock jutted out faster than he expected.
Sakura stood in her self-made crater and looked around for Sasuke. She felt a little satisfied when she found him, his eyes bleeding into that familliar red she had come to know as the sharingan.
"So, are you going to take me seriously now?"
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