They sky was grey and cloudy, threatening all with the possibility of rain. The wind was cold and unforgiving, chilling anyone to the bone. The weather truly matched the mood of the fight going on at the moment.
Emerald eyes gazed with determination and defiance as the owner was once again punched, her frail body flying into a tree. With a sickening crack, the girl fell to her side, coughing as more blood poured from her mouth. She was hurt, that was obvious. Bruises littered her body, along with many scratches and deep gashes that leaked blood all over her, dripping to the floor to stain the soil. Her sakura blossom colored hair had been stained in some spots with the crimson liquid that covered her.
But not all of her wounds were external. She coughed and flinched as the bitter metallic taste of blood exploded into her mouth. She gasped as she choked up the blood. She had definitely punctured a long, maybe both. She had a few cracked ribs, and a sprained wrist and ankle. She thought one of her pinkies were broken, along with one of her toes. The pain was so much that it blended, and she didn't know exactly what was hurt anymore. She was chakra deficient and numb. The coldness didn't help.
She looked up at her attacker with a swollen eye, and smirked as she managed to sit up. It hurt like hell, she would admit that, but she would not let herself succumb to the ninja that towered over her.
"She is still trying to get up, why won't she learn to just stay down," the ninja sneered as he looked over at his friend. The other just shrugged and leaned against a tree, the only one in the near vicinity that she hadn't been thrown into. That changed when he grabbed her by her already ripped red shirt, and flung her. The boy leaning against the tree just sighed, and moved before the pink haired girl came into contact with the tree.
She yelped as yet another horrible crack emitted from her, and she knew that she had cracked yet another rib. She gasped as she tried to fight the string of coughs that blinded her, and once again she was vomiting up blood. She would die soon, she knew that. She had lost too much blood, and surely the injuries she had gathered would not be able to be healed quick enough to save her. She needed a miracle, but there was no one for her. All of her friends were on other missions or at home, and she had been sent on a solo one. The chances of help showing up, even though she was already passed her deadline, where one in a million, and obviously the odds were against her.
"Just tell us what you figured out when you were in the town, we know you were sent there to gather information," her assailant picked her up again by her shirt. She just looked at him with dull eyes. She could hardly breathe, talking was definitely not an option.
"Just let her go, she's going to die soon enough anyways," the one that hadn't laid a hand against her said. Her attacker just looked at her, and rolled his eyes. With one last kick to her stomach that sent her towards the edge of the clearing, the two ninja departed leaving her for death to come and take her away.
'No Sakura, try, try to live' she said to herself, looking for any chakra she had left. She was out of luck. She cursed the two ninja. If she had just taken them out rather then run she might have had a chance. But she couldn't go back in time, so she was stuck to suffer the consequences, all of which she wished she could change.
She starred up at the tree tops, the sun had come out for the moment and shined through the branches on to her. Maybe if she hadn't of been dying she would have enjoyed the sight, but just as that thought passed so did the wonderful moment. She was back to looking at the grayness beyond the trees.
The wind made her shiver, the action hurting her sore body. She was brought back from her thoughts, and decided to survey the damage. Blood loss was the major factor, if she had been near a medic then she would have had the option of life, but she wasn't near one and she couldn't heal herself. She guessed that she had about fifteen minutes to a half an hour left, and then she would close her eyes for the last time.
She felt what ever warmth she had slipping away from her body, the numbness getting worse. She felt like millions of pins were now poking into her, pins that she couldn't remove. She sighed as she turned her attention back to the sky, she had about fifteen minutes, she wanted to at least try to enjoy it.
She felt herself slipping away. She could feel her time coming. How odd it felt to know that you were dying, but almost feeling completely fine with it. She knew it was time, and she knew she couldn't fight it.
She felt herself falling into the darkness, her vision was starting to slowly fade. She felt the icy grip of death taking her, dragging her farther and farther away into the abyss. But the numbness stopped whatever fear she should have been feeling. For the first time in her life she felt like not fighting, just giving up.
'Goodbye everyone' she said to herself, 'goodbye…….Naruto' she felt a realization within her, as she remembered him, remembered all the times he had saved her, told her to never give up. She felt something click inside of her, and she began to fight, the fear overwhelming her. She didn't want to die, she wanted to see all of her friends again, to be with them, to be with Naruto.
She felt the numbness disappear, and then pain engulfed her, sending her body into turmoil. She held back the scream that had caught in her throat, but she couldn't bare it. The scream tore from her throat with such fierce she was coughing up whatever was in her throat, and the bitter taste of blood flooded her senses. It hurt so much, but the pain told her she was alive, but hopefully it would tell her she would live.
She struggled to breathe, to heal herself with whatever energy she had. She dove deep into herself and drew out strength she never knew she had, even though it was very little. Expanding it as much as she could, she healed the wounds that hadn't stopped bleeding. She could only heal them enough that the crimson liquid that had poured from the wounds earlier would stop soon, but she still had the problem of her lung. She had to stop her eternal bleeding, or she was done for.
'Come on Sakura. COME ON!' she screamed to herself. She tried to find any energy at all, any chakra to help her. She dove deeper, searching her subconscious, but she couldn't find anything.
She was desperate, she had to do something. She pushed past her limits, and found a small stream of chakra, but it wasn't hers. She didn't care. Desperate people did desperate things she guessed.
She dove into the chakra, taking it into her body in a way she never knew possible, but it didn't matter. She took the chakra and put it to work, but it didn't work as well as hers. All she would be able to manage to do was stop the bleeding, but she wouldn't be able to empty the lung of the blood that filled it, or put back the rib that had punctured the lung in the first place. She would just have to heal around it, if she could stop the bleeding maybe she could make it.
She felt tiered as the chakra she was using began to diminish, but she wasn't completely done. 'Just a little more' she thought to herself as she struggled to stretch the last bit, and she sighed in relief when she found that the major bleeding had stopped. Now she had to leave the rest up to fate, hopefully her chance wasn't one in a million.
She felt herself falling back into the darkness, but it was different this time. The numbness that overtook her left her completely void of feeling, but it didn't feel like pins sticking into her. 'Maybe I made it' she said to herself as she saw her teammate's face flash in her mind, his goofy grin urging her willingness to live. 'Please' she begged to any higher power listening to her, 'please let me live' she pleaded, and with that final thought she drifted off into the unconscious world, completely slipping into the darkness as she fell into a sleep that she hoped she would wake up from.
