Decisions.
Chapter one. Reunions.
"We all have time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take dust forward they're called dreams."- Jeremey Irons.
Sakura's prov.
I was running trough the forest punching down trees that were in my way, I had to get there, I couldn't be late, he had to still be there. I was screaming at myself for ignoring my uneasy feeling earlier. So Many painful things raced through my head, Naruto smiling with his Good guy pose, Me wacking the idiot in the back of his head. Us eating ramen, me about to puke because of how much Ramen the idiot could consume.
I had tears collected in my eyes, they were threatening to spill over but I fought them as I fought myself to run faster. I punched a large tree down in front of me before jumping through the now destroyed tree. I furiously wipped my eyes, refusing to let my emotions take over.
About an hour ago I had a bad feeling and the tea cup I was drinking from broke in my hand, I passed it off as another one of my monstrous strength problems, I though I might have had to tight of a grip and then accidently thought of so thing to make me mad, and the fine china broke.
I was dead wrong.
After making sure my charge was safe, I slowly packed and grabbed my bag to leave, I said goodbye to the family I had been staying with and protecting for the last week, and headed out. My mission was to escort the father of the family to his town, it was at the edge of the fire country. After walking a three day trip we got to his house, I protected his family from some attacking Rogue ninja, last night was the second attack and this time I killed them.
The family would now be safe, and I could leave. When I was leaving the house a Konoha bird was soaring above the light tan two story house. I knew somehhting was wrong when i saw the Hawk Rinju... That was Konoha's fastest hawk... And most important...I whistled and held my arm out. After a minute of waiting the bird flew to me and delivered a message from the godaime herself.
It read. Haruno Sakura, you are the closest ninja to Naruto Uzamzki your mission has been changed to a rescue mission, he had been kidnapped on his mission and we Belive he is being held in a small house approximately a few hours away from your location. The corridant are 46W, 75N.
Sakura had read the emergency mission report and ran as fast as she could to her best friends aid. There was no way Naruto would admit defeat, he never lost a fight. I quickly punched a small hill, that I was to overwhelmed to deal with. I punched the middle and the hill/mountain crumbled to the ground as I ran straight through the now dirty air.
I saw a small normal looking house on the out skirts of the Land of Rivers it was about a mile away, I sprinted towards it,and passed the fire country boundary line and ran into enemy territory. My mind wasn't working right the only thing I could focus on was Naruto, if he was hurt? If I'd have to fight? How many enemies would there really be in there?
I approached the house and slid to a stop I ran around the house checking for an entrance and a exit, the house looked normal but when I focused Chakra to my eyes, I saw much more I saw the inside of the house and the under ground tunnels and rooms. It was almost like one of Oruchimaru's hide outs.
I checked for any sign of the enemies Chakra, they had to be strong if they defeated Naruto. I sensed a few but the others were to far underground to find, I increased my eyesight, I could see miles away with this technique, I'd never told the Godaime about it but didn't see any need to it was like my own little jutsu, just more of a skill.
I looked deep into the house and saw some obvious traps I hadn't seen before, I noted to avoid those, I saw a chakra scanner for intruders I'd have to manipulate that, over load the system... Before it detects me. I saw a flash of Chakra that surprised me... It was.. Naruto!
I almost forgot my whole mission, and just ran to him. I had to let intelligence take over now that I knew he was here, I'd have to carefully move through people, traps, and on little time nothing the less. I walked up to the Chakra sensor and completely hid my Chakra before punching it and stepping back as sparks emitted from the gray box.
The box stopped and steam and smoke came out from it, I knew the time to move was now. I quietly opened the door and jumped over the first of the traps, it was Chakra wire that would trip you and then tie you up and lastly the paper bomb would go off, efficiently lighting your body on fire or exploding sending your body in pieces. She smiled at their little tricks.
She saw a ninja walk by and she did a fast jutsu that made her invisible, it didn't actually turn her invisible. She could manipulate her Chakra and mess with the persons eyes, like a reverse medical jutsu. It would blind them temporarily. It was a mix of Genjutsu and The bodies weaknesses.
Sakura made her way up the stairs as quietly as she could, before she opened a door to reveal a bedroom, she opened the next door and found a bar, the next door was no use either. She focused her eyes again and saw Naruto two floors up in a middleish room, she couldn't quiet detect it, the house had some effect on her.
She heard a man walking down the stairs, and decided it was now or never. She hid behind the first door, and as he passed she popped out and hit a pressure point on his neck, and a paralyzing pressure point in his lower back. He'd be out for an hour at minimum.
She transformed her appearance from her long butt length pink hair to a short brown hair of the male she had just taken out, her forest green, emerald eyes glazed over to a dark purple, her dark lashes without make up on them turned thinner and shorter. Her beautiful angelic face, and high cheek bones that always had a small blush on them, and her more average forehead, and thin pink eyebrows, and small perfect nose that slightly turned up when her head was held tall, and her beautiful cherry plump lips turned into a males face as did her ANBU clothes and body form, her perfect curves evened out as her two inch heels were replaced by a normal ninja sandal.
Her black short shorts that she had specially designed for her ANBU outfit we're replaced by black pants. Her ANBU white tank top like top was replaced by a slightly Baggie black shirt. Sakura who was now posing as a man who worked here, walked down the stairs casually. She walked right into the room.
"Nobu? What are you doing back here? You just left?" The man sitting at the desk looking at the screens that held the outside view of the house all around and the hall ways that lead tothe corridors.
It took Sakura a minute to process that the other man was talking to her. She saw Naruto hanging by his hands from the ceiling he looked uninjured but she could never be to sure. What she saw next surprised her the most. Uchiha... Sasuke... and his team Hebi was sitting chained from the ceiling as well. They were opposite of Naruto.
Her face didn't betray anything as she looked at Naruto and smirked. She directed her gaze back to the other man. "It's my shift... Go you look exhausted.." Sakura said in a deep manly voice.
"Nobu are you doing drugs your shift just got over like ten minutes ago." the Shinobi said looking at his friend with concerned eyes.
"I'm not on drugs... Master? Yeah Master wants me to take your shift... While you rest... Something about good behavior?" Sakura inquired questioning herself along the way slightly.
"Awesome... Have fun dude... Don't be scared to slap the blond brat around a bit... He gets annoying fast..." The man said as he got up to leave.
Something fired up in Sakura as she heard him say, "slap him around and he's annoying." Sakura didn't know what she'd done next but it wasn't good. She flipped the Shinobi and posed a kunai at his throat and snarled at him.
"Don't talk about him like that!" Sakura snarled as the jutsu was released and the man was thrown across his desk and lay unconscious on the ground she let a low famine growl escape her lips and echo slightly through her pink cat mask. She walked over to Naruto as he mask fell off and clattered uselessly to the floor, breaking in half, and her pink hair cascaded down her back.
"Tch.. Tch... Naruto wakey wakey..." Sakura said quietly as she observed him.
"Mmmmmm, ramen... Sakura-chan... I want ,... Ramen..." Naruto said and Sakura nearly tripped.
"Idiot... You can have ramen once we get you back to the village..." Sakura promised.
"NOW!" Naruto yelled loudly.
"Naruto... Shut the fuck up... Your going to blow are cover." Sakura hissed angrily at him while she flicked his forehead.
"Huh? Sakura-chan what are you doing here?" Naruto asked and Sakura sweat dropped he'd been talking in his sleep.
"Che... Idiot... I'm your rescue team... We need to get you out of these Chakra killing Chains and back home." Sakura said gently as she observed the Chains.
Sakura could feel the stares of team Hebi, on her back. Naruto growled at them.
"What are you looking at?" Naruto snapped as Sakura sighed and reached up to touch the Chakra chains.
"Wait... Sakura-chan don't.." Naruto said but it was to late Sakura had touched the chains and electricity shot through both of them, Sakura collapsed backwards on her butt panting, while Naruto fought to stay councious.
"Naruto... Stay away... This Chakra depriver is strong enough to put you... In a comatized state. " Sakura informed him as he rapidly shook his head forcing himself to stay up.
Sakura stood up and walked over to him again and readied herself. "Okay... Naruto this is going to sting a little bit, don't fight it let it surge through you if I do this right I think we can ...overide the system and the chains will break." Sakura said as he nodded.
She waited for the top of the Chakra deprived chains to glowed a blue and a small string of electricity To creep down the chains, when it was almost to Naruto's wrists she brought her hand up and summoned a small little chidori of her own and placed her hand on the chain it sent all the electricity into herself Naruto would only feel a small tingle as she would take the pain.
"Sakura... What the fuck are you doing." Naruto spat out.
In a split second the pink haired girl was sent flying across the room as the chains broke, and the Chakra's collided. She flew back into the wall and slid to the ground, her body hurting immensely, she heard foot steps running up the stairs in a hurried motion, to figure out what all the commotion was about.
She saw Naruto's body laying on the floor... He was unconscious...he depended on her right now... She wasn't going to let the Akatsuki get him... No matter what. With her determined thoughts she pushed herself up and ran over to Naruto's unconscious form, she checked for injury, he had a broken rib a broken wrist and ankle.
She grabbed her broken ANBU mask and lay it across his face and pulled out a scroll and quickly wrote a few things down, as the steps approached. She heard doors slamming they were checking the other rooms first. She finished her note and tucked it in Naruto's shirt. As she made hand seals for a teleportation jutsu.
This justsu took up a lot of Chakra and Sakura was already at one third. She knew she would have next to nothing left after this jutsu. She had already made a decision. She hopped Naruto would forgive her. The door slammed open as Sakura hauled Naruto's body into the light hole that had been created and showed the gates of Konoha. She roughly pushed him through the 'portal.' she knew she wouldn't be able to make it and watched in horror as a guard caught Naruto's fallen body.
She felt a hand grasp her neck roughly and violently pull her to the ground, she didn't fight it her body slammed against the ground and then her head, the room started to spin as the common feeling of Unconsciousness washed over her. She no longer fought it but welcomed it. Naruto was in good hands.
Sasuke's Prov!
He saw his former team mate pulled to the ground roughly and slightly flinched when he heard her head hit the concrete ground, he saw her emerald orbs close as she fell into a uncouncious state. He couldn't help but sigh... Yeah she had saved Naruto from a deadly fate but her fate would be even worse now, they'd interrogate her to know where the Nine tailed Fox had been teleported to, they'd made a deal with the devil ...the Akatsuki, and now she was in the middle of it.
Sasuke closed his eyes as the hung her up where Naruto had been, they renforced the chains and her limp body hung. After an hour she had finally woke up.
"Ah... Princess your up." the man greteted the pink haired beauty with a sick smile. Salura sent him a smirk of her own which surprised him.
"Hey 'Prince-charming' mind telling me what these Chakra deprived Chains are made of?" Sakura asked with Sarcasm seeping through her voice as she started her question.
Suigutsu couldn't help but smile at her sarcasm, while the Uchiha let a small smirk play his lips before he covered himself again. Juugo just observed the girl with a sad smile on his own lips. Sakura focused on her feet and shoes, her two inch heels became five inch heels that wrapped around her small calls and stopped below her knees, she no longer hung from the chains, instead she stood. He hadn't noticed because he wasn't paying much attention.
Sakura had to get him to come closer to kill him and then get herself out of this mess. The man finally looked at her again and answered. "Celiac bronze, some special earthy vitamins that make it indestructible, ummmmm a little metal that the lightning can conduct itself through." The man answered thinking she couldn't use that to get out but he was so wrong.
"What type of earthy vitamins?" Sakura questioned as lightning flowed through her with every small movement she made. She gradually built up the lightning in her body, and then stopped moving letting the lightning settle a bit, some became Chakra, while some of it just sparked inside of her, it hurt like hell.
"I don't know, I'm not a ninjutsu user, or much of a genjutsu user... Mostly Tiajutsu." The man said and realized he'd just given away a deathly secret.
"You little..." The man was cut off by Sakura herself.
"Bitch?" Sakura asked with a twinkle in her eyes as the man stepped closer to her.
"I don't think you realize the situation your in... I'm in control here... I can do whatever I want!" He said in a snappy tone.
"Then do it!" Sakura shot back as he stepped closer and was about to hit her when she wrapped he chains around his neck and her five inch heels dropped back to two along with her body, pulling the suffocating man down, he was desperately trying to get free of her iron grip.
This brave Sakura was so different from the genin Sakura he had left many years ago. She was a real spit-fire. My eyes widened slightly when I saw her pull the man into that deadly head lock and use their own weapons against them. He couldn't help but wonder what this girl was actually capable of... She was probably the same, lame girl underneath.
"Hhh... Ugh... Mmmmmm..." The man made strange noises before giving up and accepting defeat, after a minute of holding that position she unwrapped her arms as the pain started to flow through her body, the electricity being hard to contain, became Chakra and she fell into a unfriendly slumber slowly absorbed the lightning and making her own Chakra.
Sakura's prov.
I didn't open my eyes, I didn't need to see the two man, I only wanted to hear there voices. I knew they were talking about me.
"She's hot as hell dude!" One man said.
"I'd bang her..." The other man said and She knew he had a creepy smile on his face.
"She'd never bang you!" The other man protested.
"Who said it had to be willingly." The man said and chuckled a menacing laugh that set shivers down my back, as the other man joined him laughing.
She heard their foot steps approaching, and the door swing open. She had focused on her hearing, for she had woken Up in the middle of the night and it took to much Chakra to see through the dark, she was limited right now, she had to conserve all of it for her great escape.
I could feel the torches heat even though it was no where near me I could feel its blazing flames, like they were an inch away from me, another Chakra enhanced thing, it became my sixth sense, I didn't have to try any more it came as naturally as breathing did. I cracked open one of my eyes and saw the men smirking at me at the lit other torches around the room.
As both men stepped towards me and when they were in close enough distance I focused lightning in my hand and sent it out to meet the two perverted ugly men. They both flew into the wall dead as I began my escape. I pulled myself up and pulled a Bobbie pin out of my hair, it became a kunai and I stabbed it into the ceilings drywall.
I did this motion repeatedly in tell I hit the spot I was aiming for the wires shut off and I could easily break the chains now that the Chakra sucker was off, and the lightning that paralyzes the body was broken. I pulled the chains and broke them I let them clatter to the ground as my own body fell, and I panted.
I landed on my knees and fell backwards on my butt, I sat for a minute and caught my breath before I made my mind up.
I slowly pushed myself up and walked over to the closest 'Enemy' Shinobi. "I'm crazy." I whispered to my self. As I started the breaking out process. I carefully moved my lightning filled hand in contact with Suigutsu's chains zapping both of us, just not as bad as before. Before I realized what happened it was to late.
A chakra net shocked my body, as I blacked out. And heard a man sigh "She just doesn't give up." I was yet again hung up, just I had less Chakra then before, it's going to be difficult to get out, I thought to myself as I sighed and the man left.
"Good luck next time... Sweetheart." The man said as he Shut the door ignoring the colorful cuse words following so elegantly from the females mouth.
The man walked back in and asked "What'd you call me?" in a furious tone that was very threatening.
"A. Fucking. Asshole. That. Has. To. Be. Bossed. Around. To. Feel. Useful." Sakura said as she broke the words apart for the dumbfuck to understand.
"Why you..." The man was at a lose for words and stormed forward brought his fist back and was about to punch her, she glared him down. She refused to backdown to let him win.
He punched her and it hurt like hell, she'd been punched and hurt before but this punch had a small linger to it, and a little electricity, her head jerked to the right and she quickly spit out some blood that was filling her mouth. She snapped her head back to its original position, fighting off the uncouncious wave, that was dropping on her.
She didn'twaste a second and dove her teeth into his wrist, bitting into the vein as hard as she could beforbogies blood filled her mouth and he punched her again, she released her hold and fell uncouncious.
Team Hebi watched this girl in interest, Sasuke was the only one that knew her, he didn't show any reconization towards the girl, he masked his emotions and watched.
After the man left holding his bleeding wrist, Sakura jaw glowed a light green, healing her injury, she had to be at full health and show no weakness if she was going to escape
"Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean." - Christopher Reeve.