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Sasuke-23 Naruto-22 10 years have passed since Sasuke left
Sakura-21 Kakashi-34
.;Sheltered Chapter one :.
Kakashi sighed, as he watched the three in front of him move through the trees, he was glad, they finally got a good mission together, it was like old times, since Sasuke had returned the year prior everything had been close to back to normal.
Although Sasuke now seemed very dark, Kakashi was lying if he said he didn't enjoy it, it balanced the team better. Sakura and Naruto were so bright and cheery it needed to be dimmed with some of Sasuke's brooding.
Suddenly they stopped, Sasuke and Naruto on the same branch and Kakashi and Sakura one or two behind them.
Suddenly Sakura jumped down past Naruto and Sasuke landing gracefully on the ground, next to the reason they had stopped: a man lying on the ground in a pool of his own blood, she checked his vitals and looked back as the three men landed behind her, she was getting a very slow pulse, she leaned her head toward his chest and listened for any breathing, labored but there.
"Is he dead Saki?" Naruto blatantly asked
She turned and glared, she grabbed the gauze out of her pack and pressed it to the man's deep wounds, he was bleeding, he'd lost a lot of blood.
"Should we really be wasting our time on this?" Kakashi asked he was itching to get out of the clearing; after all they were in enemy territory.
"Let's go, there's nothing to be done here." Sasuke answered in a gruff tone, arms crossed over his chest
Sasuke had killed Madara Uchiha and Itachi, effectively earning his freedom within Konohoa, he didn't even get probation. His hair had grown much longer now, no longer in the spiked formation of his youth, his arms and back covered in tattoos, he'd gotten a new wardrobe also, typically a long sleeve black ambu shirt no matter the temperature and a pair of black cargo pants and a pair of black boots. Clearly he also wore the ambu armor when he was on missions such as this. He stood at a towering 6 foot 8 inches. He was taller than Naruto and Kakashi by 3 or 4 inches.
"Dammit," Sakura stressed "He was poisoned by something, some sort of anti-coagulant-"
"What's that supposed to mean Saki?" Naruto cut off "If you'd let me finish" she answered with a glare in Naruto's direction "I could tell you to watch out for traps, anti-coagulants mean your blood can't clot, so be car-"she was cut off by a volley of kunai coming her way, she managed to dodge most except for one that chopped off a few strands of her long pastel hair.
Everyone was in a fighting stance as soon as it happened, they now watched about a dozen thugs coming their way.
"This should be fun!" Naruto stated with glee
Sasuke grabbed four kunai in his hand while charging his chidori, transferring it into the kunai he sent all four flying into four men's heads. This effectively scrambled their brains.
"Cool trick brat, you'll pay for their lives" The leader called to Sasuke, to which Sasuke answered with a smirk, he looked over his shoulder to see Sakura throwing a man into a tree, Kakashi kicking a man in the face and Naruto in hand to hand combat with the other clearly toying with him
Sasuke turned again to look the thug in the eye for he was only about three feet in front of him,
"They're not gonna help you pretty bo-" he was cut off by Sasuke appearing behind him in a split second and grabbing him by the back of the head bringing the man down to connect with his knee. He did enjoy strictly tai-jutsu every once in a while. The man's skull gave a sickening crack off of his knee, and Sasuke dropped his limp body on the ground
He turned to watch the last of the men receive a kunai between the eyes courtesy of Kakashi, none of them even broke a sweat, Sakura's cheek had been nicked he noticed
"Careless" Sasuke thought
"You okay Saki?!" Naruto questioned
"Yeah" she answered rubbing the blood from her cheek between her fingers "They killed that man, their kunai have the anti-coagulant on them" she healed her cheek flawlessly without even touching it
"Well that was fun, but we still need that scroll, were three days out from Snow country" Kakashi stated in a bored tone
"Can't we just travel through the night?" Naruto asked,
Sakura shook her head "At night it gets to be -3 here, we can't travel safely without risking hypothermia or at very least a pulled muscle."
Sasuke scoffed and she glared at him "I'm sorry Sasuke, are you a medic now too?" she retorted
"Children be nice now, Sakura's right, well travel until midnight and by then we'll be close to a town," Kakashi mediated
Sasuke rolled his eyes and Naruto groaned "Fine if you three want to travel through the night then we'll do it, don't let me stop you." Sakura answered angrily, and she began storming off
"Wouldn't want to pull a muscle," Sasuke said to Naruto in a girly voice making a feminine wrist motion
Only to be hit in the side of the head with a tiny shoe, as Sakura glared at the two males as Kakashi laughed behind his mask "Just like when you were little" Kakashi called out
Sakura glared at all three of them now walking over to Sasuke grabbing her shoe out of his hand in a huff and walking away from him
.: 4 Hours Later- Approx 10:00 pm :.
Sakura clearly still angry from earlier hopped ahead of them at a good distance, the three men followed behind at a leisurely pace
"We really pissed her off," Naruto stated in a hushed tone to the men around him
"She's probably having lady issues," Kakashi said as Naruto joined with a quiet snickering
Sasuke just gave a smirk, as he watched the women in front of him hop along the trees, her long pink hair flowing behind her, she now wore black spandex pants with a few pockets and a short sleeve pink shirt with a black warm one under it because of the cold and small little slip on shoes, being that she only wore a size 4! You may think it small but she'd look ridiculous being just under 5 foot with huge feet! (A/N Don't make fun of the size it can happen *cough* me *cough*) suddenly she stopped on a branch, she was at least 10 ahead of them. Seeing her stop they sped up and landed on the same branch, Sasuke glanced at the small girl only to see a single tear flowing down her cheek, he followed her gaze only to see what had caused it.
"Oh god…"
So bad? Good? Im not sure if it was a boring beginning for everyone but I thought it was a bit boring, read on, itll get more interesting I promise!
IF you have any questions just ask them, I understand that I could leave holes but I'll try to explain better!
Thanks for reading,
Jenn