A/N: im sorry i write so much diferent ffs, but the ideas are so mcuh, and i promise ill write on my other ffs!

Darkness of the heart

He ran fast, but Sakuras heartbeat was even faster. She stood in the forest, kunai in her hand, feeling like she had never been this concentrated. Her enemy threw two kunais into her direction. She eluded them, jumped to the right and threw a kunai back, but the ninja stopped it with the knife he already held in one hand. Sakura prepared herself a second , took a kunai and searched for defilade.

Team 7 had been on a mission, it wasn't supposed to be difficult, but now, on the way home, they were attacked by these ninja. Sakura didnt know how many there were, she was too distracted by the fight, she didnt know where Sasuke or Naruto were, so she worried, but inside she knew they could deal with everybody.

Suddenly she felt her foot connect with something solid and stumbled backwards. She fell down, shrieking, and the attacking ninja advanced grinning. Sakura was so surprised she couldnt move and her foot hurt a lot. The enemy was about to throw his kunai right into her stomach when suddenly something held him back. Seconds later, he flew right into the next tree and Sakura could see Sasuke kicking the ninja.

„Everything OK?" he asked her without turning around. But before Sakura had the chance to process everything that had just happened and give a reply, he was back at the enemy ninja. Sakura still couldnt move, still shocked and at the same time so happy Sasuke saved her.

The ninja gave a groan of pain, when he connected with the hard bark of the tree, but regained his footing immediatly to save himself from the dashing Sasuke. The black haired genin jumped high and attacked the strange ninja, but he fended off the blow and prepared a counter attack. His hair, which he wore long on only one side of his head, was already wet. The battle was taking its toll on him, he had to finish it, and quickly. The opposing ninja were about to attack each other again, when Sasuke saw Naruto stumble out of the dense forest, not knowing about the ninja charging them.

The uchiha had to concentrate on his attack, but still he saw a second ninja coming out of the forest, rushing, armed with longknives, towards the unprovided Naruto. Sasuke knew Sakura would have gotten to safety by now and without thinking much he ran towards his other teammate, standing protectively in front of him. Sasuke blocked the attacks of the opponent and threw kunais towards them hitting one of them in the arm, but they still advanced with alarming speed...

A/N: many and special thanks to my beta reader sehellys! (for title too g), and of course thanks to my reviewers! lol