Sakura ran with all of her might. 'God damn assholes, just won't leave me alone!' She thought. She was injured, almost out of chakra, and damn it she just wanted to get home! She had been following this business man who had been doing some suspicious actions that Tsunade had wanted checked out. It was supposed to be a simple reconnaissance but noooo, the bastard hired several missing-nins to watch over him. They spotted her and of course they got into a fight. She kicked some serious ass of course, but one of them had a poison that blocked chakra flow. She managed to extract some of it, but it was draining her chakra and she was running out fast. So she had bolted, but not before killing the asshole she was sent after, and now here they were.

She stumbled over a root sticking out of the ground and a kunai whizzed past her ear. She quickly righted herself and kept running. 'How am I supposed to stall them?'she thought. She came up with something. A bunshin of hers appeared and ran in another direction. The three ninja followed.

'Heh, heh, suckers.' she laughed in her mind. She quickly stopped in a clearing and set up her trap. "Earth Style: Corpse Substitution!" she did a few hand signs and a corpse of her appeared. She carried it to a tree and placed it there. She ran back to the bushes and mentally told her bunshin to come in that area. The bunshin disappeared when it came into the clearing. The three nins came up.

"You think she's dead?"

"She's a feisty one, we better make sure."

They walked over to the corpse. When they were distracted enough, Sakura quickly stood and attacked them. Two of them didn't stand a chance, and they died quickly. However the third one was a bit smarter, and when Sakura shoved a kunai into his back, it dissipated into smoke.

'Bunshin!'

Sakura turned around quickly enough to dodge an attack. She stumbled a bit. She had lost a little bit of blood and the poison was still draining her chakra. The missing-nin was coming at her fast, and she didn't have much time left. Already she could fell darkness creeping at her.

Just as her eyes started to lose vision and close, she heard the metallic sound of a kunai catching the other off course.

"Hey who the hell are-"

The man was quickly cut off. A gurgle sound was heard and Sakura groggily acknowledged that the man's throat had probably been slit.

She turned towards where the sound had come from. She saw a form on the ground.

'The missing-nin...'

Her knees finally gave out and she fell to the ground. But before she could actually hit the ground, another caught her. She could feel the strong muscles holding her.

'Definitely male...'

The man gently carried her to the tree where the corpse bunshin had been. He set her down. She tried to open her eyes to see who her savior was. But the fact that she was losing consciousness and that he was holding his hand over eyes didn't help. The man's other hand came up to rub her cheek.

"You're safe now, rest, nothing will hurt you."

The deep tenor voice sounded like a lullaby to her dulled senses. She had heard it before, but from where? She finally gave in to sleep, but before she did, she felt a light kiss on her lips.


Hi guys!! Sry, but the chapters in this story will be kinda short. I'll try to fix it though! Review please, I need to know if it's decent or not.