This will be my first story and hopefully, not my last. You could say this is just a bit of brainstorming on my part. I've had a few ideas for Sasuke and Sakura for a while now. It'll be nice to finally let them out. Hope you enjoy!
Chapter One_Fate
I was running for my life. The trees rushed past me in a green blur. The sun seemed to be purposely shining down on me, making me sweat profusely. "I knew I should have just gone straight back to the hotel!" I mentally hit myself over the head.
Call it selfishness or stress from working so hard for the past five years, but Sakura had decided she needed a nice, relaxing night to herself. Instead of going straight to sleep in her hotel room(after the long process of curing a whole village of a bad case of the flu) Sakura walked into the closest hot water spring and let the steam work out any stress she'd ever felt in her life. Unfortunately, that certain kind of hot spring entertained certain kind of people.
Criminals, to be exact.
Now, over the years, Sakura had made quite the name for herself. Member of the team seven. Apprentice of the Hokage. On and on the titles go. Add in the known fact of her monstrous strength and surpassed healing abilities of the Hokage and where does all this hard work and fame take her? Why, in the Bingo Book of course! Of course, she had no bounty on her head, but they always liked to include bios of some of the strongest ninjas at the back of the Bingo Book. Her page went a little something like this.
Name: Haruno Sakura
Age:18
Rank: Jounin
Ninja Abilities: Super Strength/Healing/Perfect Chakra Control
Note: She has both apprenticed and surpassed Tsunade, Hokage of the Hidden Village of Konoha
And to the side of this lovely description is a picture of her, after she passed the Jounin Test last year right after her seventeenth birthday. As much as she was honored that the ninja world found her to be such a force to be reckon with, it was also highly annoying. Now more than ever, people would try to kill her. They wanted to prove they could beat the Sakura Haruno. Which they couldn't. 'Heh,' Sakura couldn't help the slight upward twitch of her lips at that thought.
She was forced out of her thoughts by the whizzing of a sword coming at her.
Ducking to a lower branch, she sped up even more. The deep mocking laugh from the attacking ninja only served to make Sakura's mood worse. Stupid ninja. Stupid heat. And Grrrrr! Stupid towel! Deciding she would only waste energy trying to run, Sakura jumped to the ground and quickly hid behind a nearby tree trunk. Plans of attack speeding through her head, she readjusted the knot of her towel and waited for the ninja to come closer.
30 minutes earlier_
Smacking a bunch of yen on the counter before her, Sakura muttered, "One robe and towel please." The lady-who had way too much make up on her face-took one look at Sakura's dirt and mud covered outfit before hesitantly taking out an angel white robe and towel and sliding them toward the waiting kunoichi. "Thanks." With heavy steps, Sakura walked toward the women's changing room. She stripped off her clothes, slipped into the fluffy robe and-after snatching her towel- practically flew to the hot springs.
Being such a bad part of town and still about 3 in the afternoon, the women's hot springs held only her and a few older women. With a deep breath, Sakura let her muscles melt into the relaxing bath...for five minutes. Then, yells broke the silence and the right wall of the spring con caved as a man was thrown straight through. " You know who you're dealing with, fat ass?" Blinking, Sakura stared through the hole and right into about fifteen very obvious criminal male ninjas. Each one was either smirking or checking her out with a very creepy smile. Oh crap. Taking one look at her robe that was now crushed under the man, Sakura went for her towel.
Not wanting them to see anything, Sakura decided to ninja-flash to her towel and quickly put it on while she flashed back to the changing rooms. Opting for a quick escape, she grabbed her clothes and headband, hopped into her ninja sandals, then hi-tailed it outta there. When she made it out, there were eight waiting for her. All smirking, shirtless, and ready to pounce. The first to attack tried punching her middle, but she side-stepped him and whipped him in the face with her hi-ate. Without a second thought, she whirled(dodging the sword of the second attacker behind her) and split kicked them both. Two down, six to go. The third ninja decided to use an earth jutsu to trap her in a newly made dome. She let the ninja gloat for a few seconds("Ha, that's three feet of solid rock all around. Even Shujji couldn't punch his way outta here.")before she decided to act. She had no idea who the hell Shujji was, but apparently he wasn't all that strong because the next second, debris was raining down and her knuckles were slightly bruised but she had in fact "punched her way outta there".
Turns out she used more Chakra then she first thought, because the flying debris had knocked all her opponents out except for one. His reforming body told her he had been hit by the debris but was more than used to it. She had been wrong, too. He had a shirt on and tied to his back was a sword her memories didn't let her forget. Zabuza's sword rang through her head and she immediately knew who this man was. She didn't know his name, but who he was associated with was undeniable. At the thought she froze, only for a moment, and then her legs were rushing her toward the woods, hoping Sasuke was nowhere near his teammate.
Though she wanted Sasuke back in the village, Sakura knew it would never happen. He was far too gone for anyone to save and rumor had it he was planning on attacking Konoha, though no one knew for sure. Naruto still hadn't given up and she admired him for that. Besides, even if Sakura thought she could drag the Uchiha back he was still very powerful. Running around in just her ninja sandals and a towel, Sakura would be defeated in mere seconds. She winced at the thought and tried to dispel any thoughts of the Uchiha.
Present time_
Time seemed to still as I slowed my breathing and the sound of sandals thumping against branches stopped. Where did you go..? Peeking from the side of the tree, I caught no sight of the white-haired ninja. Suddenly, a hand clamped over my mouth. The urge to throw up was strong as the stench of fish invaded my senses. "Hey Pinky, you're quiet the fighter-UGH!" The fish man stumbled back in surprise and I took the chance to up root the tree beside me and swing at him like a baseball. This time, instead of dissolving into water, his body was thrown to the side. While he'd been talking to me, I'd been able to chalk up some special Chakra to turn his form temporarily inflexible by pushing my chakra covered hand into his stomach.
Oh wow...he's definitely down. Sakura took in the Mist ninja's slackened form. I need to get out of here...if Sasuke comes looking for this guy I'll be in some serious trouble. Stomach twisting uncomfortably, I jumped back into the trees and went in to my hotel through the backdoor.
20 minutes later_in the forest
"He should be coming up soon, Sasuke." Sasuke increased his speed and dropped from the trees. "Suigetsu." The Mist-nin didn't move. "Suigetsu," Sasuke spoke a bit louder. Nothing happened. A frown inching its way onto his face, Sasuke nodded his head towards Juugo. Slowly, Juugo came to stand near Suigetsu's shoulders before grasping the nin's tight muscle shirt and tugging him up. Suigetsu's body dangled in the air for a few seconds. Then, water was splashed over the ninja's head and he awoke sputtering curses. "W-whaat the fuuuck?" Squinting at Juugo's face, Suigetsu mind was blank before everything came back to him. "Why that little-" the rest were little mutterings of 'not fair' and 'caught off guard.'
Still dangling in the air, Suigetsu crossed his arms when he became aware of the dark aura coming from his right.
"Oh...hey. How uh-how are you doing leader-sama?" The sound of a thousand birds chirping was the only reply.
END CHAPTER :D so? huh? how was it? Sasuke's gonna show up a lot more in the next chapter, which I'll probably release tomorrow or later today. So don't freak out! Tell me how you liked the story...or how you didn't like it, I accept criticism. This chapter was more of an introducing of characters, since here in fan-fiction world the character's persona's can differ from their real ones. I hope you can tell but, Juugo's the same(devoted to Sasuke), Karin will be too! I don't know if you noticed but she called Sasuke, not Sasuke-kun. Just like in the manga she is secretly infatuated with him. Suigetsu will get funnier! Hopefully I can come up with some good Suigetsu lines. Sakura is stronger than she is portrayed in the manga. I say portrayed because I feel like Kishi always limits her in what she can do.
This is following the manga, except that the ninja war didn't happen. It follows up to Sasuke's anger toward Konoha and all that then goes to an alternative universe where Sasuke and his team lay low instead of going straight for the kill. Sasuke is his usual self, though the time he's taken to lay low...well, that's made him more patient and wiser then his psycho self.
The rest you'll have to out for yourself! That's right! So follow the story or if you're a big sasusaku fan their should be some good sasusaku stories in my favorite stories section if you wanna check those out. [:
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