She's Dead and He's Alive Again
Words- Sakura's thoughts
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An 18-year-old woman named Sakura Haruno wearily walked behind her teammates, Kakashi Hatake and Naruto Uzumaki. One is a porno-reading pervert, Kakashi, while the other is a soon to be porno-reading pervert. Usually she would enjoy the beautiful scenery, smelling the crisp air of the forest, watch the clouds, or just close her eyes and tune everything out. Complete state of bliss.
Euphoria.
Rapture.
Exhilaration.
Today, she guessed, simply is not her best day.
First off, there is the obstinate, chattering Naruto and the subtle page-flipping noise. She tried with all her might to disregard the annoying noises, but not even the great Haruno Sakura could do it.
How much longer until we're home! She thought with a vein popping out on her forehead.
Her emerald eyes scanned the area quickly and caught sight of the village gates. I would run but the last mission completely wore me out. I shouldn't have overexerted myself that much.
"Jiraiya's damn books have corrupted this world!" Sakura yelled more to herself than to anyone.
She needed to do anything, something to distract herself!
Kakashi rose and eyebrow daringly, "How so?"
"Yeah, how'd the pervy-sage corp this world?" Naruto decided to join in on the conversation, rather than the usual talking while other people are talking.
"Corrupt, Naruto. Corrupt." Kakashi corrected Naruto, not even directing his eyes from his book.
"Oh, how's the pervy-sage corrupt this world?" Sakura giggled slightly, Naruto could be such a dope. A very lovable dope that people loved, including herself, she corrected.
"His books, they are all porn! Kakashi, Ebisu, you and even Tsunade read that damned book!" She flailed, pausing to jump over a branch, "His books are everywhere and he even made movies to them."
"Hey I don't read porn books!" Naruto shouted loudly.
Sakura turned her head to look at Naruto with a knowing frown, "I saw that book under your bed when I cleaned your house! Don't lie you damn pervert!" Naruto scuttled away from Sakura, so he would be outside her punching range.
Silence fell upon them after her eruption; she knew undoubtedly, they were both afraid to answer her. Deeming it useless to start another conversation, that was bound to turn into an argument, she angled her head upward and a small smile lit across her face.
If I were to paint a picture, there would be trees, all close to each other with little crevices where the sunlight specks would shine down upon me. Maybe I can get Sai to paint me a picture when we return.
She closed her eyes, and inhaled air slowly. She spun around in slow yet quick swirls.
Today might not be as bad as I thought…
Suddenly, she caught a glimpse of black and white in the mass of trees. She looked at Kakashi and Naruto, but it looked as though they hadn't sensed anything out of the ordinary. "Kakashi-sensei do you sense a presence somewhere?" Kakashi's eye flickered in her direction before checking for any chakra signatures or smells.
"No, why?" She turned her head back into the direction of the black and white before turning her head back to Kakashi.
Sakura shook her head back and forth, "No reason Kakashi-sensei!" She chirped with a smile…a fake smile that had managed to fool the great Copycat Ninja, Kakashi Hatake. Kakashi turned back to his book and started to giggle.
She turned towards Naruto, who had a pondering feeling going on, around him. As she was about to question him on his contemplative expression, she saw the black and white shift from the original position.
In one second, she had stopped spinning.
With two seconds, she had already pulled out her kunai.
Third second, she fused a slight amount of her green chakra, that chakra that healing hundreds-yet killed thousands- into the kunai.
And on the fourth second, she darted into the trees unexpectedly.
Kakashi and Naruto, without questioning-which she knew would come later- trailed in the same direction she had gone in.
Her fatigue and low chakra reserves had defiantly made running a difficult task along with concentrating her chakra it both her feet and to her kunai. It took all her will power, to not give up and just let herself slink o the floor. Something the younger Sakura would've done.
Taking a giant leap, she jumped upon the tree that had the prominent colors. That's when…
she had froze in shock…
There was a man, with black hair and white kenseiken-she vaguely remembers these being a symbol for nobility rank- and a black kimono with a white haori on top. A delicate, light green scarf was place around his neck.
Something inside her made her frightened, she knew just why too. No, it was not his pale complexion, his aristocratic features, his straight nose…it was none of that.
"Sakura!" Naruto had yelled, she ignored him as she stood as still as a deer in front of headlights. She didn't move a single muscle.
About a minute later, she had crouched down to reach for his arm, tenderly and tentatively, when the strange man's eyes opened. Her eyes widened and pulled her hand back as she stood up frantically.
"W-who are you?" She didn't try to look like the strong girl, people knew her as. It was too scary for her.
He stared at her with his deep black eyes, probing her figure slowly. "You have high spiritual pressure and you can see me." If her eyes could widen any further, she knew they would have. His voice…they just sounded so much alike.
"What?" Sakura asked confusedly but the man didn't answer, he had disappeared right before her eyes. "What just happened?"
"I could be asking you the same thing." She finally felt her anxiety leave her and her muscles relax. Sakura looked at Kakashi and the worried Naruto.
"Sakura-chan what happened? You just started running and left us!" Naruto yelled as he jumped onto the tree that Sakura sat crouched on and wrapped her arm around his neck as he pulled her down.
"I…thought I saw someone." She started elusively and bowed her head down, not wanting to see the disapproving faces of her sensei and beloved best friend.
"Who? We saw you talking up there but no one was there."
"That's enough Naruto. Let's go, Lady Tsunade is expecting us to arrive soon." Sakura nodded and lifted herself up. She finally understood what he meant when he said, 'you can see me', but it didn't help when he said spiritual pressure.
What is spiritual pressure?
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Author Note: So this is my new revised form. I decided to cut the length though because I wanted to post this chapter as soon as I could and this was really hard to revise because I don't really have a lot of time. I can't say for sure when the next chapter will come but soon. Please continue to read this. I thank all the people who have read, reviewed, C2-ed, and favorited (a word in my dictionary). I love you all-platonically of course-
This is surely going to become interesting and I hope you enjoy this just as I have. I am sorry for the long waiting and deleting the other chapters I just have been working so hard on fixing gaps in my plot line, grammar, and so much more. I am a procrastinator and I am sorry. - _ -
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