Chapter one: Alone with the Two.
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What am I to do? My poor Sasuke, is he dead? He can't die. I never grew close enough to him. I don't know what I would do if he dies now. I can't let him die. No, the snake ninja said the bite was a "present" but I know I heard him say that Sasuke will probably die tonight. Sakura wipes the old tears from her red cheeks as she shakes off her train of thoughts. Sakure looks around as a new wave of tears slowly crawls down her face. A single tear drips from her chin and falls toward the rough brown ground. Sakura is surrounded by huge dead trees. They tower hundreds of feet into the air. Their branches shoot out here and there. Their size helps them block out all sun and cast a shadow of the disillusion of time.
Sakura sit crying in front of a dead monstrous tree. Its shade of brown is a darker brown, a death brown. A sharp dense olive green undertones this dead brown. At the bottom of this tree is a small black gap. Inside this dead rotten tree is a small hallow. This is where Sasuke's and Naruto's bruised bodies lay.
Get yourself together Sakura. An angry thinks this thought. You can't let Sasuke die. You have a future with him and you need to prove Ino wrong! Sakure rises to her bruised aching feet and slowly ducks into the hollowed out tree. Inside she finds Sasuke on the same position she left him in. The purple bruise on his neck had grown though. Naruto though had rolled over on his side and was muttering in his sleep.
The site of Sasuke and Naruto helps to open up another flood of tears. What am I going to-do. Sasuke's probably going to die tonight, if it is night, and even if he survives we still have to worry about being attacked by another team.
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"...fuck, crying. If Gaara hears it he will want blood." Kankuro whispers to Temari. Gaara stands ahead of them on the edge of the monstrous brown tree branch. He stars straight ahead at nothing. He seems not to pay attention to Kankuro and Temari.
"Kankuro, stay here and watch Gaara. I will go ahead and try to stop take their scroll" Temari whispered back as she drew the giant fan from her back and flicked it open.
"Shut up and stay here and watch Gaara. I'm going." Kankuro brutally replies. He then takes the wrapped puppet from his back "I'm going take the scroll from who ever it is. YOU can watch Gaara..."
"...I will kill whom ever it is and take their scroll. And if you follow I will kill both of you." With this Gaara sand flies out of his gourd. It rapidly spins around him until it blocks him from site. Finally the sand slows until it just falls onto the tree branch.
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...Sakura drew a kunai. She then stood up and wiped the tears from here eyes. The sound of foot steps on the tree awoke Sakura from her crying. She looked all among the trees. Only the tree's giant, dead, green, leafless branches moved.
"Desert coffin." A cold emotionless voice sounded from behind her. Pressure squeezed Sakura. She felt as if she was going to burst. Her face grew red. Sakura looked down around her. A mound of sand squeezed her. Sweat started to roll down her reddening cheeks, blood started to run down her sides as her skin started crack...
--4--
"...Lee, Settle down." Tenten says as she jumps trying to keep up with Lee. Neji runs and jumps along side him yet; Lee seems to lead the way.
"We can get through this forest." Tenten yells as she stops running and throws a kunai towards Lee. The kunai swerves around Lee and sticks in a tree branch ahead of him. He jumps to the next tree branch only to be tripped. He falls to the ground with a swift thud. Neji stops in front of the kunai, and picks it up.
"How unlike you, Lee, to so easily be tripped. Fool." Neji calmly taunts as he throws kunai up in the air and caches it. Rock Lee immediately stands up and glares at Neji.
"I heard Sakura crying. As I promised to protect her, it is my job to protect her and I WILL!!" Rock Lee yells as he throws his right arm and hand straight up in the air in the form of a fist. He eyes seem to catch to fire.
"How do you know it is Sakura crying, Lee?" Tenten asks as she jumps besides Neji and catches her breath.
"Any simple fool would know that it was Sakura." Neji says as he throws the kunai straight in front of the passionate Rock Lee. With that Neji sits down, crosses his legs in a meditative position, closes his eyes, and forms his normal seal with his hands. "Lee, go save her and if you manage to defeat her attacker, take their scroll." Neji says with out moving an inch. Lee then picks up the kunai in front of him and throws it at tree. "Don't worry Lee, we can wait here. You have all the time you ne ..."
"Neji, he is already gone into the forest. You know, you are such an ass." Tenten says as she walks up to the tree with the kunai in it and picks it up. "I like this kunai. I am glad Lee didn't take it."
"Lee is not a master of weapons like you, he can only use taijutsu. I will be surprised if he makes it to chunnin rank." Neji mockes. "It isn't his fault though. It was fate that he can't use ninjutsu..."
"Neji, shut up about fate. Is that how you blame everything, on fate? Things change. You need to understand that." Tenten says as she carves a small target on the tree.
"Things only change as fate tells them to." Neji replies as if any child should know that. Tenten throws the kunai straight in the center of the target.
"Neji, why do you talk about this fate?" Tenten says as she jumps into the air, lands on the kunai, jumps onto the tree Neji was on, walks next to him and sits down. "You should tell me what happen to you..."