She curled her lip as she wiped the smear of blood on her face off with her sleeve. Usually she wasnt this messy with her kills, but considering the man had called her, and she quotes 'sex on legs' she didnt feel to guilty. "Cha Cha! Big, Fat, and Ugly got what he had coming! CHAAA~!" Inner sakura shouted, viciously and enthusiasticly pumping her fist in the air.
At nineteen years old, sakura still had Inner Sakura occupying her head, though her outburst were much less frequent considering sakura didnt hold back her thoughts much any more. At nineteen, Sakura had also become quite the beauty. She had shoulder length, soft pink hair, a toned yet slender body that was covered in a smooth creamy layer of skin that flushed perfectly when she got embarrased or flustered. Men everywhere stopped to look, and admire the beauty before them. But that was it. Sakura was beautiful, but she had a temper that has been said to rival her shishous, and with her monsterous strength, men wilted with terror. The only males who were able to handle her, were her friends, the Rookie 9, Team Gai, and of course her boys, Team Kakashi, consisting of Naruto, Kakashi, Sai and Yamato. The rare few that actually asked her out, were either outright ignored, or by the end of the first date she had punched them through the wall. 'I might need to work a bit on that' she thought with a grimace, before looking around and seeing her team, consisting of Shino Aburame, Shikamaru Nara and Hinata Hyuga scavenging weapons and piling the bodies to burn. Eyes widening, she jumped to help. GLancing down at Big, Fat, and Ugly, she nugded his corpse with her sandle, making a face as his head flopped limply, before grabbing him and flinging him into the pyre.
Shikamaru sighed and slouched his tall broad fram into his usuall posture and mumbled what sakura was sure were various phrases about being annoyed and how troublesome this all was. She couldnt help but smirk amusedly at the familiar phrases. Soon the quiet was broken by Hinata stepping forward, her doll like visage serious and strong as usual when she was on missions, her stutter barely noticable. "Sh-Shikamaru-kun? What are our orders now?"
Shikamaru, the team leader, turned to face her, eyes contemplative. "Yeah, we have the scroll. I say we get the hell outa dodge. Being in Iwa for even a second is dangerous, and we have been here for two weeks." sakura stated, her eyes watching as shikamaru thought it through at lightening quick speeds. "Alright. lets head back home. We've completed our mission, got the scroll, and this place is a real drag." everyone let out a sigh of relief before securing their equipment and sending chakra to their legs and feet, then taking to the trees.
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They had been pelting through the trees, making quite good time if sakura did say so herself, when Hinata let out a small gasp. Everyone tensed, reaching for their respective kunai pouches as they kept jumping. Looking at her sakura noticed her Byakugan Activated, veins pulsating around her lavender eyes. "Hinata?" Shikamaru barked, wordlessly asking her what she saw. Sakura hoped it was nothing to bad, because she was tired, hungry, and her chakra was steadily dropping as the day went by along with the distance they traveled. Hinata was pale, eyes wide her voice catching before she was able to get her words out. "I-it looks like we have been found...there are 12 Iwa nin about 45 meteres east of us. they are closing in fast. Seem to be 8 Jounin and 4 Chunnin based on their chakra levels. This is bad!"
'Oh crap! we cant take 12 Nin! I'm only at half my chakra reserve, i imagine the others are the same.' thought the pink haired kunoichi, eyes narrowing in frustration at the unfortunante situation. "Damn!" Shikamaru cursed, his face showing his stress with the situation. "Okay, Shino, send some bugs bag and have them discretly start draining their chakra. Hinata, keep your eyes on them, sakura be ready to pull back and heal any critical injuries as soon as you are able to. Everyone, get ready for a fight."
"They are almost here, 15 meters!" Hinata spoke through gritted teeth, a determined look on her face. Shino adjusted his sunglasses, nodding his head and shikamaru jumped into the shadows, blending into his element, his hands already going into the rat seal to harness the shadows to bend to his will. Snarling sakura tightend her gloved hands into tight fists. 'If they think they are gunna get an easy fight, they are damn well WRONG!' she roared in her head. Inner sakura was angrily beating her chest, shouting insults and peptalk all at once to Sakura.
"THEY ARE HERE!" Hinata shouted, diving back from a kunai soaring swiftly towards her head. "SHANNAROOOOO!" Sakura roared, jumping and shattering trees and earth alike as she kicked and punched out, making as much chaos could for the enemy nin. Briefly glancing back, she saw each of her team involved in fighting multiple nin, before swinging her head around only to jerk back just in tme to dodge the swing of a kantana. She jumped back to survey her fight and realized she was surrounded by three Iwa nin. She swiftly dodged a punch from the one on her left before swinging her own punch back that he himself dodged.
Punches and kick were delt out. Jutsus were flung back and forth. Kunias and shuriken and swords were slicing through the air and flesh. They were losing. 'Shit!' she thought, looking once again back at here teammates and hoping they were ok, and might possibly have a plan. Judging by how things looked, it was a no...until suddenly Shikamaru shot out his shadow in a huge line between them and their enimies. 'What the HELL is he doing?!' sakura screamed in her head 'He cant hold all of them with as little chakra he has left!' she was about to tell him this when he called out, getting their attention. "Guys, run. There is no way we can win this! I will keep them from chasing you for as long as i can with my shadow, NOW GET OUT OF HERE!" he ordered, sweat already beading on his brow. "No way shikamaru, we are not leaving you!" Sakura yelled, Hinata and Shino echoing her sentiments. "Guys, go! We will all die if you dont!" he growled, tense and strained. At his words, they all paused. "But, Shikamaru, we-" hinata started only to be cut off by her team leader, "Hinata, that scroll has to get to the village, please. Just go!" He said, gasping as his chakra drained away. "He is right, we need to go, he is the only one that can keep them back. Shikamaru, thankyou. We will be forever grateful. We will tell everyone what you have done." Shino said, for once his voice not monotone, but low and sad. Shikamaru nodded as Hinata and Shino Jumped in to the trees, a reluctant Sakura following after them.
As they jumped away into the trees, Shikamaru looked at his enemies his shadows were jabbing at, keeping them from moving past a certain point so that his friends and teamates could escape. He let out a weak sigh, then closed his eyes and said his last prayers as he felt the last of his chakra drain, and he felt his friends chakra getting farther away. 'wait.' he thought as he felt one of their chakras actually running back to him. He was just blacking out, when he felt the ground shake and a loud "SHANNARO" echo through his ears. Then he was out.