Right foot.
Left foot.
Right foot.
Left foot.
Zetsu's white part was chanting this in his head, trying to ignore the sterner side of him, who was currently scolding him for letting down his guard. His body was cut up pretty badly. He had gone to devour someone one of his teammates killed.
Unfortunately, the person was just playing dead and had caught Zetsu off guard. He had managed to eat the person in teh end anyway, but now he was badly cut up. His black side was complaining about a pain in his eye, but he kept ignoring him and trudged on.
It was getting harder to see though. 'I can't believe I let this guy catch me off guard...'
He was supposed to be the strongest member of Akatsuki, but he's never been caught off guard like that. So the first time in his life he had decided to just eat without any attachments, and his meal just so happened to still be alive.
Disgusting too. He hated eating live people.
"I have to get to the hideout and get this healed." He said to himself.
"Well maybe you shouldn't have let your guard down." His other side said. "It's your own fault."
"Just be quiet for now."
As he went on, he thought he heard a noise. He hoped it wasn't an enemy. Because he had to go in that direction to get to the hideout. Deciding it wasn't worth fretting over, he went towards the noise, feeling a bit curious.
Before he could make it, he collapsed in some bushes. His breathing got heavier and he closed his eyes. But, almost like a wake up call, he heard a voice. His eyes forced themselves open and he forced himself to sit up. He moved some of the bushes, and he felt his eyes grow wide when he saw someone playing in the water, their hands glowing blue, and their clothes discarded on a nearby rock.
Sakura stood on top of the water, her pink hair flowing in the wind, and her feet glowing blue as she put chakra into them to stay on top of it.
She was at ther 12th level of healing. She had to hone it with water. It was a self healing lesson.
And she was covered in bruises and scratches. So she had plenty of things to practice on.
She dived into the water, and then came up out of it like a beautiful sea animal coming out of the water for some nice fresh hair. Her wet pink hair jumped behind her, and her eyes were closed.
She brought her hands out of the water, and surprisingly enough, water was connected to the chakra coming out of her hands, and it followed after them. She spun her body around, the water following, almost like a dance.
The water swirled around her body, and some of the bruises seemed to heal.
'It's not enough' She thought to herself.
She floated gently to the top and seemed to float onto the tips of her toes. She balanced herself on top of the water. One of her arms behind her, the other in the air as she gathered a good amount of the water into her palm, pushing some of her healing power into it.
She spun around again and her cuts disappeared, along with the bruises, just leaving some minor scars.
She fell back into the water, and panted heavily. She seemed pleased.
Zetsu was watching with wide eyes from the bushes. He wasn't a pervert. He had actually found that just rather enchanting. Just like a lovely dance performed by a lovely vixen who was trying to lure him into his trance.
Sakura didn't notice the intruder yet, due to his weak chakra. 'I should be able to do that without water soon'
She climbed out, just in a pair of tight black shorts and a white bra. She put on her red shirt and the rest of her clothing. As she sat down, she sensed something very thin in the air. Her body tensed.
"Who's there!?"
Zetsu had still been watching her, but he had looked away respectfully when she started to dress. When he heard her question, he didn't hide himself. He came stumbling out of the bushes. She gasped, a hand coming up to her chest as if he had scared her.
"You're... Akatsuki..." She whispered, noticing his cloak.
He said nothing. He couldn't say anything. She was confused, but then noticed his state of unconsciousness. As he had stumbled out of the bushes, his eyes had closed. He had fainted!
'I can't just leave him there...'
Curse her good heart.
Sakura sighed and grabbed her canteen, filling it up with water. She also soaked a piece of cloth she had in her medical kit. She turned him over onto his back, and put the dampened wash cloth on his forehead. He had a fever, so this should help.
She soaked her hand in the water, though it was still wet from her water healing, and she set her hand over his heart, concentrating her healing power. The one she had just learned herself. It was supposed to be for self healing, but she felt kind of obligated to put extra effort into healing this guy.
He hadn't tried to hurt her or Naruto. She didn't recognize him at all.
All she knew is that he was wearing an Akatsuki cloak, which meant he was associated with him. Which meant she probably shouldn't just let him die.
'But he hasn't done anything yet to deserve it'
Which was true. All he did so far was eat the already dead people. It's not like he actually killed them. Of course, he had to kill that last man, but merely out of self defense and all that.
Sakura was unaware of any of this, though, and just did her job as a medical nin.
A while later, Zetsu began to wake up. When he opened his eyes, he saw that beautiful girl staring down at him. He blinked in surprise and realized that he was no longer in pain, and there was something wet on his forehead.
He sat up and the wash cloth fell into his lap. He stared down at it and then looked up at her.
"You... Helped me..."
She smiled gently at him. "You are with the enemy, yet you've done nothing wrong, so I couldn't just leave you there."
"Th... Thank you." Zetsu said to her.
The two just stared at eachother for the next few minutes, until Sakura picked up the wash cloth, breaking their stare. She quietly redampened the cloth and then put it back on his still heatened forehead.
"Why would you help someone like me?"
"Someone like you?"
"Yeah. I'm... I'm a criminal." Zetsu caught her stare again. "And I'm just a... I'm not even human."
"I've yet to see you do anything criminal. And you're human enough to me. It's not like I base my opinions on looks."
Zetsu felt something weird inside him when she gave him that beautiful smile. He opened his mouth slightly and said the first thing that came to mind. And as he said it, Sakura blushed. His words repeated in her head several times.
"You have a beautiful smile..."
