Chapter 1: He's back, I'm alone
Summary: She was admired, she was worshiped; she was praised. She grew in strength and power, she grew distant towards people. Since five, she had trying to save the people around her, but then she just gave up after her closest friend left her. She had never cried since the slaughter of her clan, but she still smiled, but as soon as he left, everything changed, she stopped smiling, she had forgotten how to. She had saved people numerous times in battle with her knowledge and abilities, she brought them back healthy from the missions they came across, it didn't matter, as long as her whole team came back safely, even if she was on the brink of death, she wouldn't allow her self to die pathetically. She had saved everyone, yet she was the one in need of saving; saving from herself and her decaying heart. Sasusaku. Rated T for violence.
'Thoughts'
'Inner selves'
"Talking"
FLASH BACK…
P.O.V
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto does.
She was now fifteen while the other rookie nine were seventeen. She was a jounin, while the rest, except Shikamaru and Neji, were chuunin. She held talent, she held power, and she held strength. She a brilliant kunoichi who was admired by many, for looks, for strength, for wisdom. Now at age fifteen, the people around her that called them selves her friends had slowly paired up; Naruto to Hinata, Shikamaru to Temari, Neji to Tenten and Sai to Ino. Her friends were worried for her; especially Ino, she was never around, she was always engrossed in training, never really stopping for a break, and no one ever knew where she was, it was hard to find the girl.
As the years past, the girl's strength increased, as well as her knowledge, her attitude had changed; it went from slightly happy to just plain cold. Her body grew, and so did her features, if at ten you thought she looked gorgeous, then at fifteen she was a fucking sex goddess and although she really didn't realize it; her new outfit and surely brought it out and revealed everything great about her body. It changed from the green attire to a totally black outfit. Her top was similar to her first genin top which was a simple black tank top; however unlike her genin top, this had no collar and had buckles at the side, clipping the top nice and tight around her body.
On her arms she had full length black gloves which had buckles in the middle of the lower arm and the upper arm, holding the slightly loose gloves in place. Her bottom half was made up of a pair of black tight fitting shorts which ended in the middle of the thigh had buckles on each leg in the middle, so the girl could adjust the shorts to her liking; the other half of her bottom outfit was a black skirt which was open at the front showing off her shorts and on the sides like the shorts, buckles were there for the girl to adjust as she felt. Of course like usual she had her head band tied to her leg holding one of her kunai holsters and on the other leg, a black leather strap buckled her other kunai pouch in place.
Covering her calves were knee high boots which like the rest of the outfit had two buckles on it to complete the look. Her hair had grown extremely long with it reaching just above her knee caps while the front lot of hair reached her mid back; of course the longer lot of her hair was tied into two buns like usual with two black hair ties, which also had buckles on them and around her neck was her choker, but it had changed from just a plain choker to one with a buckle on it and basically resembled a belt which she ironically also had on her hip to keep her shuriken pouch on her hip. And even though the outfit looked extremely tight on the girl it was incredibly comfortable and easy to move in, not to mention it makes no noise what so ever; which was another benefit for the girl; of course the girl had to wear her jounin vest of it; but that wasn't important and like all her outfits, it was weighted from the body attire right down to the hair ties and choker, but it seemed she never noticed, it's also great in water, since it doesn't way her down the slightest. (A/N: See 'Ninja Saku 4' on profile)
Then one morning she came to the Hokage's office and requested a solo mission; a mission to bring Uchiha Sasuke up. The Godaime had questioned why now she had requested this mission, and why it was a solo mission, but, all the girl answered, was 'his time is up and that she never backs down her promises'. This baffled all the other jounin in the room, as well as the Godaime, who insisted that she go as a team for this recon mission, but the blossom denied, and said if they were not going to give her the mission, she will go out and get him her self. With no choice, the Godaime agreed to the girl's request much to the shock of the people around them and let the girl go on the mission to bring back Uchiha Sasuke, the last Uchiha, the survivor, the traitor; although there was the condition that no matter what, she was to come back, with the Uchiha dead or alive; preferably alive though.
Now, early morning the girl was traveling to the Sound to bring back her old friend, like she had promised. Ahead of her was a Mizu Bunshin as a decoy, it's what she always used on solo missions when traveling large distances, the clone would race ahead and scout the area for any possible areas, and as soon as the sound of water splashing on the trees echoed through the forest, she knew that it was an enemy; it was a fail safe plan. Then traveling behind the water clone and another clone that would come out after it had been destroyed; most assuming that the next clone is the real person and attempt to kill it; once the sound of the clone exploding at echoed back to the girl, she could definitely confirm that there was an enemy; it may seem cowardly, but the girl wasn't interested in fighting others she was interested in completing the mission.
Half way to the sound, on the border of the Fire country, Sakura performed a genjutsu so no one could detect her coming; thus easier to avoid human contact; which explained why no one ever found her in the village; she was as good as invisible with the genjutsu cast. Jumping effortlessly through the trees the girl had made it to the sound base with in a couple of hours; record timing for the girl. Sighing, the girl prepared two clones, one a water clone the other a shadow clone, and allowed one to go in after the other before she followed them and looked around for the chamber where Sasuke was supposed to be; or at least Orochimaru or Kabuto, because if they were around, there was a chance Sasuke was close by. Still with genjutsu in play, the girl raced around the lair at incredible speeds checking rooms, opening and closing doors, going through the snake's lair with out a clue of where she was going, occasionally placing a well placed explosive tag or pour oil and other flammable liquids around the place.
Then, as she passed one of the rooms, she could hear voices; Kabuto and Orochimaru conversing and it sounded like they were preparing for something.
"Now, Sasuke-kun, please hold still and don't worry about the binds; it's just to keep you in place during the transfer ritual" Kabuto explained; a growl erupting from some one's throat, obviously angry.
"Aww…come on Sasuke-kun, it won't take long, and as soon as this jutsu is done, we will destroy your brother" Orochimaru hissed and purred.
"Hn" It was definitely Sasuke, Sakura had no doubt in her mind; it seemed she came just in time, they were about to perform the transfer ritual, if the girl remembered what Orochimaru called it, it was called the Fushi Tensei (1). Performing another set of hand seals, the girl whispered "Kanashibari no Jutsu(2)" and waited a few minutes before she was sure that the people inside the room were paralyzed before opening the chamber and walking in; shocking the people in the room. Her assumption was right, Kabuto and Orochimaru were around, if they were close by so was the Uchiha she had come for.
"Well, well, looks like I interrupted something here" Sakura smirked, watching the three males glare at her "I'm terribly sorry, but, I really should complete this mission I have" Sakura shrugged as she walked over to Sasuke.
"Tell me, Uchiha, do you remember the promise I made you five years ago?" Sakura asked knowing that the paralyzing jutsu had just worn off; behind her the four-eyed medic charging at her with a kunai; which was easily dodged.
"Get lost Sakura" Sasuke glared, emerald and black clashed as they each looked into each others eyes momentarily, Sasuke noticing the dullness of the eyes; even more than they used to be, there was longer that tiny sparkle in them in them any more, they were lifeless.
"Oh please, I didn't get up five in the morning this morning to be told to fuck off" Sakura scoffed, missing Kabuto's attack effortlessly.
"My, you seem to have improved from the chuunin exams" Orochimaru snickered.
"I would have hoped so" Sakura said, jumping up into the air to avoid Kabuto's attack and kicked him with her amazing strength right in the head, sending him to the opposite wall.
"So it would seem the rumours are true" Kabuto muttered as he stood back up "You have inherited the Godaime's strength"
"Among other things" Sakura smirked.
"But even the Godaime had trouble dealing with me last time we faced" Kabuto sneered.
"I'm not one to brag, but I guess you haven't heard that according to many shinobi, I have surpassed the Godaime two years after I became her apprentice" Sakura said.
"My, you are quite the talented girl" Orochimaru smirked.
"Whatever" Sakura muttered.
"Sakura, I said get lost, and I meant it" Sasuke glared; some what angry that the girl was moving so effortlessly.
"Since when have I ever listened to you?" Sakura questioned "Tell me something Uchiha, do you remember what I said before you left the village?"
"Why does it matter?" Sasuke scoffed.
"Do you really believe that Orochimaru will go after Itachi and kill him once this ritual is finished?" Sakura questioned.
"Of course" Sasuke replied.
"Man, you have gotten dumber over the years, even the dobe is smarter than you" Sakura scoffed, Sasuke glared "Think Uchiha, your sensei, Orochimaru is after your body for immortality, not to help you with your revenge, as soon as the ritual is over, I bet he will work on crushing Konoha not Itachi-"
"Shut up girl!" Kabuto and Orochimaru shouted.
"It seems they have something to hide Uchiha, if you want revenge, you would only be victorious if you your self did it, body and soul" Sakura glared. Suddenly; without warning, Kabuto hit Sakura with the chakra scalpel and stabbed her in the gut.
"Sakura" Sasuke gasped, some what worried for her, knowing he couldn't do anything in the binds. Watching the girl stand in pain and blood pouring, for some reason, sent the Uchiha's blood boiling, he actually had never seen the girl been fully wounded, he only saw the after affects. The curse seal spread over his body as his anger rose, in a matter of seconds the Uchiha broke free of the binds and kicked Kabuto away from the pink haired girl.
"So this is how it is Sasuke-kun? You attack my subordinate after all I have done for you just because of this pathetic little girl?" Orochimaru spat in disgust.
"I owe this little girl my life" Sasuke glared as he drew out his katana and prepared to kill in the man he had called sensei (though not to his face) for five years.
"Your life? Please" Orochimaru scoffed "This pink haired girl? What could she do?"
"Remind me that you are a bastard" Sasuke glared as he stabbed Orochimaru in the gut before coming back to back with Sakura "Thanks" Sasuke muttered.
"You're welcome, no if you'll excuse me, I'm going to beat up this medic wannabe and show him the powers of a real medic" Sakura disappeared instantly and reappeared by Kabuto's side with a chakra scalpel of her own, hitting all of his important arteries, and cutting off circulation to his lungs.
"You're a medic?" Kabuto gasped.
"I am the Godaime's apprentice after all" Sakura smirked before killing him with a simple senbon needle to the heart, but the needle did have various toxins on it that could kill a person in a matter of seconds, Sakura's own concoction of course, who would have thought taking those little flowers she picked when she was younger with Ino would prove useful? Turning around, Sakura found Sasuke over the Snake Sannin's body with his katana in his heart.
"Now are you going to come back willingly or am I go to have to bring you back in a body bag?" Sakura questioned.
"Sasuke-sama!" a woman gasped running into the room; behind her two men. The woman had red eyes, matching hair color and an unusual hairstyle; her hair is short and unkempt on one side, and long and combed on the other, behind her there was one male with shark like teeth, like Kisame, his hair is a white hair while his skin is pale; resembling that of a ghost in the girl's mind, the other male with brown hair and black eyes with a scary look plastered over his face.
"Sasuke-sama" the shark man gasped, noticing the pink haired girl in the room.
"Another person who trying to bring Sasuke back to Konoha?" the woman smirked, taking note of the Konoha head band and bringing out a kunai, tossing the kunai straight to the girl's heart "Another person to fail"
"On the contrary, whether it be dead or alive, I will bring him back, the orders weren't specific, they just wanted him back, preferably alive though" Sakura shrugged as she grabbed the kunai before it hit her body with two fingers before crushing it into a pile of rubble with her hand "Whoops, hope you didn't want that" Sakura smirked.
"Why you little-" the woman glared, to be stopped by Sasuke.
"That's enough Karin" Sasuke said.
"Sasuke-sama?" Karin turned to him, questioning why he stopped her.
"What's this? Sasuke-sama, stopping us from killing a little girl" the shark boy sneered; Sakura glared, she was definitely no little girl now.
"Suigetsu, Jugo that's enough" Sasuke glared, shutting both males up, noticing that the girl was going to explode and kill them if they weren't careful.
"Am I bringing you back in a body bag or not Uchiha?" Sakura questioned.
"Why you little-" Karin was stopped again by Sasuke.
"Let's go" Sasuke nodded as he watched the girl walk over to the dead bodies of Orochimaru and Kabuto.
"What happened to them?" Suigetsu questioned. Taking out her kunai, the girl effortlessly chopped of the heads of the two men, bagging them in separate body bags.
"W-was that really necessary?" Jugo questioned.
"I needed evidence that two S-class criminals had been killed, I'm not carrying two dead bodies, that is too troublesome and would way me down" Sakura answered.
"What they too heavy for you?" Karin sneered.
"On the contrary I can lift them with one finger together, but it would be too troublesome" Sakura answered, demonstrating that she could lift both with one finger "But, any shinobi knows, that if they need evidence of some one, they just have to remove the end, taking anything else would rise suspicion" Sakura smirked, implying they were stupid or dumb or weren't shinobi or a mixture of all three.
"You implying something there?" Jugo glared, the other two backing her up.
"Oh of course not, I wouldn't ever want to offend some one whom I have never met" Sakura said sarcastically.
"I see you haven't changed one bit" Sasuke smirked.
"That's your own judgment" Sakura scoffed, inspecting the wall before her, knocking on it slightly which echoed through the room.
"What are you doing?" Karin questioned.
"I suggest you cover your heads if you value them" Sakura said before she punched a hole in the wall which led directly to the outside.
"Was that really necessary?" Sasuke questioned watching the wall crumble.
"Hurry up Uchiha, I don't have all day" Sakura announced, walking out of the chamber and to the outside; with Sasuke right behind her.
"What? Sasuke-sama are you seriously going to just go home with this pathetic girl? You could be killed back there!" Karin exclaimed.
"That pathetic little girl just killed Kabuto without breaking a sweat" Sasuke answered.
"Yea, instead she got stabbed" Karin scoffed pointing to the stain of blood that was on her jounin vest; none of the actually realizing that the vest was a jounin. Walking out of the lair, the sound ninja and Sasuke were expecting like five other Konoha shinobi around, but all that was there was two Sakura clones, which were dispelled once the girl hit them over the head.
"I was kind of expecting an ANBU squad waiting outside" Suigetsu commented.
"This was a solo mission" Sakura said.
"What they sent a little pink haired chuunin on a solo mission?" Karin exclaimed "They must be desperate"
"First off, I'm a jounin, second I requested a solo mission since I was bored, third, this pink haired girl just stormed into the sound base without getting noticed once, fourth, if you don't shut up, I will kill you" Sakura threatened "They said nothing about bringing back other subordinates, I just had to bring back Uchiha, they don't mind if a little bloodshed happens, and even if I do bring you back, there's nothing to guarantee your survival, people don't exactly trust sound"
"You're a jounin?" Sasuke questioned.
"Yes, Sasuke I am, three years after you left" Sakura answered before preparing four clones; two water clones and the other two shadow clones. One water clone and shadow clone already racing ahead.
"Konoha must be getting pretty weak then, if they are getting little girls become jounins of your size" Karin snickered.
"You want to test that theory?" Sakura glared, cracking her knuckles in a way that was totally unimaginable "Yes, correct I am probably younger than you, also shorter than you, but I can guarantee that you won't beat me"
"Please, I'm not fighting some one younger than me" Karin sneered.
"Then shut up" Sakura glared, before tying each ninja up quickly and attached all four to her belt "I'd advise for you to keep up, other wise this may be very painful"
"Wha-" Suddenly Sakura started moving and jumping through the trees and unimaginable speeds, the other two clones right behind her, dragging the sound ninjas with her; of course Sasuke was keeping up but with struggle.
"Sakura, stop would you, my subordinates are starting to get really beaten up" Sasuke requested. On request Sakura stopped, watching the three sound ninjas slowly drag their bodies to where she was.
"Why do you talk to her so nicely while she doesn't?" Karin glared at the girl.
"She's my ex-team mate; I can talk to her how I wish" Sasuke answered.
"Ex-team mate? What about us?" Suigetsu scoffed.
"Now, I advise for you to keep up, I'm not waiting for you, I could care less; I'm just doing my mission" Sakura announced before racing through the woods again, admittedly it was slower, but it was still hard to keep up with. By midnight, after constant begging, the blossom decided to stop and let them rest. Tossing them a can of food each, she let them do as they pleased; still on their leads though, one would have thought to just cut them; but Sakura had already thought of that and tied them up with unbreakable ropes. The sharpening of the girl's kunai was the only sound around the camp site; aside the crackling of fire and the breathing. Sighing to herself, the girl healed the wound Kabuto gave her, almost forgetting about it, as well as fixing the places which he hit with the chakra scalpel. Closing her eyes the girl's hearing focused on what the people around her were doing. Sasuke was doing nothing as were the rest, but she could feel Karin glaring at her; the pink haired girl found it quite hilarious though. Allowing the people around her to sleep, the girl kept watch over the camp site, waiting for sun to hit her in the forest.
As the sun glared down on the girl, the group of five were already moving, slower than Sakura had hoped, but what could she do with four pathetic ninjas traveling with her; this was exactly why she hated traveling in teams, it was trouble some, useless and time consuming.
"Hurry up" Sakura shouted "We are falling behind schedule already"
"What? You have a schedule to all this?" Karin exclaimed.
"More or less, yes, I was hoping to get back to Konoha two hours after we left" Sakura sighed.
"That's impossible" Sasuke scoffed, the sound ninjas agreeing with him.
"I was given this mission two days ago and left at five in the morning yesterday. And arrived at the sound base at roughly seven, far be it from me but, I would call that two hours wouldn't you" Sakura said.
"I still say it's impossible" Karin muttered 'Damn, what I would kill to kill her' Karin glared at the girl.
"That's your choice" Sakura said, suddenly stopping and glaring at the distance.
"Why'd you stop? Tired?" Karin sneered.
"Shut up woman" Sakura glared, her bunshins, both of them had exploded, an enemy was near by "Some one's close by" Sakura said.
"What makes you think that?" Suigetsu questioned.
"My fail safe plan, if they bunshins are destroyed, both of them, then some one must be after either me, or my goods" Sakura smirked before performing her genjutsu and continued moving.
"And so you are going to run straight into the enemy?" Jugo questioned.
"I bet you anything they won't see me or you guys passing by them" Sakura smirked. Minutes later, they passed a rouge ninja, who was looking for the real cherry blossom, who was passing right over them.
"Told you" Sakura smirked, she was basically in the guy's face but he did nothing to attack her, before dispelling the jutsu. As they passed the half way mark to Konoha, five grass shinobi stopped them and challenged them to a fight. Without any choice, Sakura released the sound ninjas of their binds to fight, since she wasn't exactly going to fight them all by her self…besides there was a chance that one would kill that annoying girl. Unfortunately for the girl, they did survive and she had no choice but to stop, she had no intention of bringing half dead shinobi to Konoha. Performing the appropriate seals, she healed each one, deciding that they should rest for a bit.
"Tell me, what are you intending to do? Karin, Jugo, Suigetsu?" Sakura questioned.
"I'm following Sasuke-sama" Karin said.
"I haven't got a clue" Jugo shrugged.
"You're the one that Orochimaru made the curse seal off correct?" Sakura questioned.
"How did-"
"I have my ways, you have multiple personalities correct? The desire to kill occasionally right?" Sakura questioned.
"Yes" Jugo admitted.
"I'm sorry but I can not allow a killing rampage to come waltzing into Konoha" Sakura said.
"Nani?" Jugo exclaimed.
"However, if the Godaime allows it, I will bring you into the village to try and figure out how to fix your problem" Sakura said.
"You would really do that? You can do that?" Jugo questioned.
"Yes I would, and yes I can, I'm a medic Nin" Sakura answered.
"Just because you're a medic doesn't mean you are good" Karin scoffed.
"You know the Godaime correct? The best medic of all time apparently" Sakura questioned.
"Yea, I know of her" Karin nodded.
"I surpassed her two years ago" Sakura smirked.
"How could you-"
"I was her apprentice, but I surpassed her two years after becoming her apprentice, but that's according to the shinobi from each country" Sakura shrugged "What about you Suigetsu? What are you going to do?"
"If possible, I want to go back to my home country" Suigetsu answered.
"What for?" Sakura asked.
"Personal" Suigetsu answered.
"I see, well I can't let you just leave on your own at the chance you could kill some one, so we will be making a detour to your home country, the Wave I presume?" Sakura asked.
"Yes, that is correct" Suigetsu nodded.
"Alright, get to sleep, as soon as dawn comes, we will move our way to the wave country" Sakura announced, jumping up onto the tree, presumably to watch for enemies "This is the longest mission I have had in a long time" Sakura muttered.
"Longest mission?" Sasuke questioned "If you're jounin don't missions last at least a week?"
"Not for me, two three days at max" Sakura answered; suddenly a hawk swooped down and landed on the girl's head "Message? Guyver, wait a sec ne?" Sakura muttered as she took the note from the hawk, asking it to wait a moment.
"Tch, they know me too well, I've been gone two days and they know something is up" Sakura smirked, getting out a pen and paper to reply.
'Sorry for the delay, I have Uchiha Sasuke in my custody as well as three of his subordinates, I will be dropping one off at wave, and the other two will be in my custody until then, prepare a room in the psychiatric ward for my return please. Again, my apologies for my lateness.
Sakura of the leaf'
"That should do, here Guyver" Sakura smiled as she put the note in the little messenger pouch on its leg "You may go now Guyver" Sakura nodded, before patting the bird on its head and letting it fly back to Konoha.
"Guyver?" Sasuke smirked.
"Guyver's my own hawk, yea, found him on the way back to Konoha from one of my missions, he just followed me home I guess" Sakura shrugged "He's a pretty good bird too, perfect for when I do a team mission with him"
"Team? Aren't you supposed to work on human squads?" Sasuke questioned.
"Guyver's more reliable" Sakura answered "Go get some sleep, I want to be back home by tomorrow" Sakura said, watching Sasuke jump off the branch, noticing a sudden chill fall upon her from Karin 'Geez, what did I do?'
Sakura looked around at each member of this weird group, trying to remember if she had heard anything about them. She had heard of them before, they all at one stage worked for Orochimaru. Most of this information of course was found conveniently during her missions. Geez, people these days just don't know when to keep their mouth shut, they never known when a wall will be listening, Sakura taking the saying 'walls have ears' to a whole new meaning. Many people talked about the people from sound, these just happened to be one of them, of course never seeing them in person before this, Sakura had no clue of who they were, but she knew they were sound ninjas, and when she heard Sasuke call them by their names, she immediately got her brain working on where she had heard those names before.
First was Jugo that her eyes ran over. Unique Traits: Body produces enzymes that transform him into a monstrous creature. Jugo is the largest of the three members that comprise Sasuke's team, Snake. Jugo was being held at Orochimaru's North Base, which is also where most of Orochimaru's secret research was conducted. Jugo is the means behind Orochimaru's development of the cursed seals. Some time in the past, Jugo purposely sought out Orochimaru to cure him of his "impulses". Jugo has trouble controlling his rage, which unexpectedly causes him to transform into a berserk demon (much like a cursed seal does to its user). Upon examination, Orochimaru was able to isolate enzymes in Jugo's blood as the cause of this change. By extracting these enzymes, Orochimaru was able to use them to produce similar, but more controlled, effects in other people.
While Jugo initially appeared quite bloodthirsty, Sakura noted that this is only common behavior for the enraged; Jugo himself doesn't want to kill anyone. Jugo's fits of rage are random and thus the reason why he willingly remains confined. Why he followed the Uchiha was beyond the girl, but she wasn't really one to care anyway. Jugo has a bracket-shaped symbol on his left palm. Apparently this guy can control his transformations unlike the standard curse seal. If Sakura remembered, she heard that during a raid, some scroll was stolen, and so they wanted it back of course.
Next, Karin. Oh how she already hated the woman, only knowing her for about 24 hours. Unique Traits: Able to locate and track others. Karin was a former subordinate of Orochimaru who assisted him in his experimentations and was left in charge of one of his bases while he was away; and was also the only one loyal to Orochimaru to remain. She has red eyes, matching hair color and an unusual hairstyle; her hair is short and unkempt on one side, and long and combed on the other. Karin will at times appear tough and in control and other times she is flirtatious.
Karin's special ability allows her to track specific individuals through chakra, seen when she is able to discern that Jugo is not among a crowd of prisoners through the standard concentration pose for molding chakra. It also allows her to pick up chakra from long distances and notice changes in an individual's chakra. No matter how good she was with chakra tracking, in Sakura's opinion, she was still very hopeless if she couldn't fight, and she had yet to prove to the girl that she could fight well. No one had spoken of her strength, just her traits, and how she clung to the Uchiha, information she picked up, passing the Uchiha fangirls, how they knew of it, she would never know, but if she did hear correctly, the fangirls were absolutely jealous and enraged that Sasuke had picked Karin as a subordinate, saying she was absolutely hideous.
Finally, Suigetsu; unique traits: Able to reduce him self to a liquid form and can change the size of his limbs. Suigetsu is a former experimental subject of Orochimaru. Suigetsu's teeth are shark-like, much like Zabuza Momochi's and Kisame Hoshigaki's. Suigetsu's name means "water moon", a reference to something that can be seen but not grasped, as the moon reflected in water is. Suigetsu is able to reduce himself to liquid form and to return to bodily form at will. This ability also allows him to change his body shape, giving him the ability to increase the size of his limbs, proportionally increasing his strength, if necessary. It also makes striking him somewhat difficult; since he is made of liquid, any sufficiently powerful strike will go right through his watery form. He is arguably quite powerful or at least very confident in his abilities, since he has threatened Sasuke on more than one occasion.
Kisame Hoshigaki even commented on Suigetsu being a prodigy at the art of murder and the next Zabuza Momochi as he commented that Suigetsu had a habit of chopping off his victim's limbs before beheading them. Suigetsu is also the first ninja seen carrying water bottles on his outfit. Given his somewhat frequent desire to consume water, Suigetsu may require regular hydration to sustain his watery form. Now this one, this piece of information was quite interesting on how she picked up on it. First it was in the wave country when she was heading home. Then on another mission through the wind country, she heard of people talking about the seven swordsmen or something and how there was a guy after them. Then in the Tea country, when ironically she was getting tea from there, she heard that a recent attack had occurred by a person who could change their form from solid to liquid. People and their big mouths these days.
Yes, she would admit, together they'd make a good team, however if left alone for too long the only ones who would survive in Sakura's opinion would be Jugo and Sasuke, Suigetsu is too reliant on water and Karin, well she's just pathetic.
Like the pink haired girl had said, as soon as dawn came, Sakura had kicked them out of their sleep, and forced them to start running through the woods to the wave country, fortunately for them, the wave country was just outside where they were, and so it only took half a day to get to the wave country and find the Hidden Mist, which ironically was past the wave village that she went to for her first mission and the last time that she saw Zabuza. They were granted immediate access into the village, courtesy of Sakura being the Godaime's apprentice and because Tazuna just happened to be walking by at the time and insisted they stay the night, and so here they were, spending the night in a village Sakura hadn't planned on. Without any choice, the girl admitted defeat and agreed to stay the afternoon but not the night, taking the opportunity to visit her first sensei, even if they were going to pass this village soon to head for the mist.
"It's been so long since I have been here" Sakura muttered from the top of the hill where they buried Zabuza and Haku, a bouquet of flowers in her hand for the each of them. Placing the flowers down, the girl smiled a tiny smile of gratitude before walking off.
"We owe you so much Sakura-san, if it wasn't for you and your team we wouldn't be here right now" Tazuna smiled.
"You're welcome" Sakura nodded.
"Sakura-nee-chan, come on, I want you to see how far I have gotten, I'm going to become a ninja just like Naruto-nii-chan" Inari grinned.
"Of course, let's go, however, those four must come with me" Sakura announced as she got up, as the other four grudgingly got up and followed the little boy to the training area where Team seven learned how to control their chakra better.
"Look, Sakura-nee-chan!" Inari exclaimed as he gathered his chakra before he raced up the tree, surpassing Naruto's limit from the first time she saw him and about half way up, almost beating Sasuke's first attempt.
"Well done" Sakura smiled, suddenly another being jumped onto her, hugging her tightly.
"Nee-chama you're back!" a little girl squeaked.
"Eh?" Sakura muttered and looked down at the little recognizing her as the one she gave some money, candy and that grey jumper she had on her at the time "Oh you're that little girl"
"Yup! I wanted to thank you so much, because of what you gave us, my family was able to afford the medical treatment and food to survive" the girl smiled.
"Well, you're welcome" Sakura nodded.
"Aren't you popular with the kids" Karin smirked.
"Technically, I still am one" Sakura said "Ano, Inari, your Kaa-san probably wants you home now, come on, you too little girl" Sakura said as she dropped off the little kids with the four ninjas behind her.
"I can't believe how out of schedule I am for this mission, it's unbelievable" Sakura sighed.
"You should know a ninja should never live by schedule" Karin sneered.
"My missions last up to two days, I have never had anything longer, even if they were S-ranked" Sakura muttered "Hurry up, we are going to go" Sakura announced.
By the end of the night, they had reached the Hidden Mist, and of course she was granted access into the village and headed straight for where the kage of the village would be at, so to drop off this err…shark man into the right custody, before she forced the remaining three to follow her without a break for rest, and so they arrived at Konoha by dawn the next day.
"I don't believe this, we traveled all night, and you have yet to break a sweat or show a sign of fatigue" Karin muttered glaring at the girl as they walked into the North gate of the village where two jounins were sitting keeping watch to make sure no one unexpected came in. Noticing the girl come past the gates, they came from their posts and kneeled before her.
"Hello Sakura-sama" the jounins bowed.
"Sakura-sama?" Sasuke questioned.
"Isn't that a bit much for a pathetic little-"
"If you want to keep your head around here, I advise you just keep quiet for now" Sakura whispered as she clamped the girl's mouth shut.
"Can you tell the Godaime to call an ANBU squad to her office?" Sakura requested.
"Of course, Sakura-sama" the jounins nodded before one disappeared, Sakura following as she walked around the village and to the Godaime's office with Sasuke on her trail, as well as Karin and Jugo.
"My, my, when you requested to being the Uchiha back, I was quite shocked, but I can see that you knew what you were doing" Tsunade smirked "However, what took you so long, and who the hell are these two?"
"Of course I knew what I was doing" Sakura shrugged as four ANBU shinobi appeared in the room "As I did say in that note, I was dropping an unexpected traveler with me to mist, as for these two, they are subordinates of Uchiha, they intend to follow him or something"
"Hokage-sama" they bowed "Sakura-sama" they bowed again.
"What the hell is with this whole Sakura-sama business? She ain't that great? I bet I could beat her in a second given the chance" Karin scoffed, before two of the ANBU personnel raced towards ready to kill her.
"Enough" Sakura ordered. Instantly, the ANBU personnel released Karin, but stood behind her.
"ANBU taking orders from a jounin, now I have seen it all" Karin muttered.
"That's enough Karin" Sasuke glared.
"Hai, Sasuke-sama"
"Oh, by the way" Sakura tossed the two body bags towards the ANBU captain "That's the heads of Orochimaru and Kabuto, I'm not to sure about the sound base, but it should be exploding soon, I set up various exploding tags and other things" Sakura smirked.
"You always like to go out with a bang don't you Sakura-chan" Tsunade sighed.
"Well…I had to occupy some time" Sakura smirked evilly.
"Tsunade-sama, the sound base has just crumbled and exploded!" a chuunin exclaimed as he ran into the room, it was Kiba with Naruto behind him.
"Don't worry, I have already been informed of that" Tsunade sighed.
"Nani?! It just happened basically!" Naruto exclaimed.
"Sakura-chan told me about it" Tsunade explained.
"How could she know about it?" Kiba questioned, obviously still not happy that she became a chuunin before him.
"Because, Kiba, I planted the explosive tags and other things while I was there" Sakura answered. It seemed neither boy had realized she was behind them, turning around, the two boys were shocked to find Sakura with Sasuke right behind her, tied like a dog on a leash.
"What do you mean you were there?!" Kiba and Naruto exclaimed.
"What is teme doing here?!" Naruto exclaimed.
"I mean I was there, how else do you think Sasuke got here?" Sakura glared.
"But every other time we went to collect Sasuke you never were any help!" Kiba glared.
"Because I wasn't going to break my promise" Sakura scoffed, taking the ropes off her waist and handing it to the ANBU head "Here you go, I'm going home, I have enough of being under minded around here" and with that the cherry blossom was out of their sight, with cherry blossoms in her path.
"What the hell?" Tsunade muttered "Anyway, Uchiha Sasuke, I'm sure you are more than aware that you left the village five years ago and went to an S-class criminal for power, thus you became a missing-nin, what do you have to say for your self?"
"I went to him for strength and I got it" Sasuke said.
"I'm sure you are aware of the punishments, however because you do come from a noble clan in the village the punishment won't be as severe" Tsunade said "And what of your subordinates?"
"I intend to stay in Konoha by Sasuke-sama's side" Karin said.
"That Sakura-girl said she could help me with my problem, that's why I am here" Jugo said.
"Shizune, can you go find Sakura-chan for me?" Tsunade asked.
"Hai" Shizune nodded, racing out of the room, coming back in a matter of minutes with the girl.
"Okay, what do you want?" Sakura sighed; in her hands was a bag of food.
"You brought this man for to help him?" Tsunade questioned
"Yea, the curse seal came from him, I think I have a way to remove him self of the problem" Sakura said "Is the room prepared?"
"Of course"
"Jugo wasn't it? Follow the ANBU personnel to the room I've prepared for you" Sakura said.
"Hai" Jugo nodded.
"Now, Sakura, the other reason we called you, I want your honest opinion on what should be done about the Uchiha and his remaining subordinate" Tsunade spoke.
"I'm not the Godaime, ask the elders or some one else, I have no opinion in the matter" Sakura said.
"Please, you just don't want him to get punished" Kiba sneered as the ANBU walked out of the room with the Orochimaru and Kabuto heads, Jugo following them.
"Why would I want that?" Sakura questioned.
"You have emotional ties towards the guy, it's so obvious" Kiba scoffed, the ANBU captain coming back into the office.
"Now, I really am lost" Sakura sighed "But if you really want my opinion, here it is, yes he should be punished for treason, I admit, however if you sentence him to death, great military power at Konoha's hands will be lost, but if he remains alive there is a chance that he will be leave the village again for a more powerful being, however the first seems far worse to Konoha currently. As my advice, probation seems like the only option, have ANBU squads around him constantly, put him under house arrest for a couple of months and only under a good behaviour bond will his punishment be lessened, as for being promoted to anything or gaining the rank he left with back, that is not my decision, as for his subordinate, I believe, as long as Uchiha is in the village, she will remain loyal to him, and this village" Sakura answered.
"Well done Sakura-chan, that's what I was waiting for" Tsunade smirked.
"Excuse me?" Sakura questioned.
"People have requested that you become an ANBU, however people are also questioning if at your age you should become one-"
"I don't want to be one, but thanks for the offer" Sakura said.
"You would let her become an ANBU?!" Kiba growled.
"What about me? Shouldn't I become an ANBU?" Naruto whined.
"You have to become a jounin first" Tsunade sighed.
"Then why is Sakura-chan being offered the job?" Naruto exclaimed.
"Dobe, if you haven't realized she is a jounin" Sasuke sighed.
"Nani? When did Sakura-chan become a jounin?!" Naruto exclaimed.
"Naruto, I have been a jounin for two years now" Sakura sighed.
"Catch up with the times" Tsunade also sighed.
"Did you know about this Kiba?" Naruto questioned.
"Not at all" Kiba grumbled.
"Did Kakashi-sensei know about this?" Or Ero sennin?" Naruto questioned.
"What did we know about?" Jiraya and Kakashi questioned as they appeared in the office.
"That Sakura-chan is a jounin" Naruto answered.
"WHAT?!?!?!?! Why did no one tell me my student was a jounin?!" Kakashi exclaimed as he checked Sakura's vest to find it was a jounin vest.
"You never asked" Sakura sighed "Didn't you find it odd that I have been on so many solo missions lately?" Sakura questioned.
"Tsunade you let this girl on solo missions?!" Jiraya exclaimed.
"If doubt me so fucking much I dare each and every single one of you to come up against me in a sparring match" Sakura glared.
"On second thought, I believe you" Kakashi sweat dropped, hearing that she had inherited the Godaime's strength and surpassed her…but for some reason nothing about her being a jounin.
"Men" Sakura and Tsunade muttered. Suddenly Sasuke coughed, reminding them of why they were there.
"Oh right, Sasuke, I'm sure you remember what Sakura said, you are on probation for five months without any missions and house arrest for two months, and if by chance that you get off on good behaviour then we will discuss re-instating you back as a Konoha shinobi and a chuunin, as for your subordinate, she will remain in custody for the time being and will be on probation for two months, and after that we will see if she is suitable to be in Konoha" Tsunade announced.
"Great, now that's done, can I go? Preferably now, before the market closes?!" Sakura seem to have a glare begging to come out.
"Oh, right, of course" Tsunade sweatdropped, watching the girl disappear through the door mumbling about how she couldn't just go and buy groceries when she needed them these days without being interrupted by someone.
It was early morning, and like always the cherry blossom had gotten up during the early hours of the morning to keep to her strict training schedule. Now by twelve in the after noon, Sakura had to break a sweat as she continued to train, seeing it was her day off, after she had just come back form a mission and had no work at the hospital. How lucky. Taking a breathe, the girl decided to call it quits for the morning and go find something to eat; considering her stomach was practically begging for her to eat something. Sighing the girl packed up her gear and left the training spot (which was ironically the last training spot she and the Uchiha had shared when they were younger) going into town for something to eat considering her fridge was currently empty.
Walking around the market, Sakura smiled to herself as she picked out the really cheap groceries and paid for them before walking away from the market and walking home. At about half way through the town, where no one was around, a kunai was thrown towards her, alerting the girl who dodged it effortlessly, but her groceries just happened to get in the rain of fire. 'Why my groceries? Do people not want me to eat?!' Sakura muttered inwardly before she faced her attacker; it was a Konoha ninja, a chuunin if Sakura remembered correctly and she worked with the person.
"Nani? What do you want?" Sakura sighed as she picked up her destroyed groceries and tossed them into the bin.
"Sorry to disturb you Sakura-sama, but the Godaime wishes to meet with you" the chuunin spoke before disappearing, not wanting to feel the wrath of the girl.
"What'd I do now?" Sakura muttered as she disappeared from sight.
It had been roughly six months after she brought Sasuke back to the village, Karin had been accepted into the village, but people still held distrust for her, and so she was only allowed to do D-ranked missions for now, but they were never with Sasuke which angered her greatly, especially when she found out Sakura had been assigned with him for various missions. Jugo had been cleared of his condition, with Sakura using the transfer seal on him, taking the whole thing into her body, which the demon inside her immediately got rid of, but she still wanted to test it for a bit to make sure he was safe to live in society and wouldn't break out in a killing rampage.
Instantly the girl appeared in the Hokage's office, angry that she had disturbed her on her day off.
"Okay, what do you want me for? This had better be good" Sakura glared at the Godaime; even if she was her teacher at one stage, she never actually called her sensei or anything.
"Aww, such hostilities towards your teacher?" Tsunade frowned.
"You don't hear Kakashi complaining" Sakura shrugged.
"But I do complain" a voice coughed. Turning around, the girl became quite shocked to find all three members of Team seven sitting behind her; noticing aside from Kakashi and Sai, they had new outfits; Naruto's was still that orange jumper and pants combo but instead of blue it was black in some places and Sasuke wore a black high, wide collared shirt with back pants; tossing away his sound outfit. It was Kakashi who spoke.
"Okay, what do you want?" Sakura turned her attention back to Tsunade.
"Don't ask me, they just asked me to call you here" Tsunade shrugged.
"Okay so what do you want?" Sakura asked.
"We wanted to see you Sakura-chan" Naruto frowned "We have barely seen you since you brought teme back"
"And that was at least six months ago" Sai added.
"I have been busy" Sakura frowned.
"None the less, you never meet us at the bridge any more" Kakashi frowned.
"We've been meeting at the bridge again?" Sakura questioned.
"Well…sort of, but the point is that we never see you" Kakashi said.
"Like I said, I have been busy-"
"Not that busy lately Sakura-chan" Tsunade said.
'Tsunade and her big mouth' Sakura glared at her teacher without facing her.
"Look, if that's all you wanted to tell me, aside the fact that I also noticed that, can I please go, I have to go buy new groceries since a certain chuunin decided to decapitate the last lot I bought ten minutes ago" Sakura muttered as she began walking out of the office.
"Chotto matte, Sakura-chan, you never took us up on the offer to eat ramen-"
"Yes I did, when you guys tried to find out what Kakashi's face looked like you and Sasuke dragged me to the ramen stall-"
"You didn't eat then and you left" Sasuke scoffed.
"Yea…well…"
"Oh come on Ugly, it won't kill you to come out once in a while, apparently all you have been doing is missions, hospital work and training, you have no fun" Sai smirked. Although Sai called her Ugly, he knew he was far from the truth, she was gorgeous, she was an angel in black; she was beautiful.
"So now I am getting criticized about how I live my life?" Sakura questioned.
"Sakura-chan, they have been in here for the past five days trying to find you, please just hang out with them for a while, I want them gone" Tsunade pleaded.
"Fine" Sakura sighed; at the first sound of her agreeing to hang out with her the three males lunged at her and dragged her to the training areas of team seven.
"If you wanted to train you could have just said so" Sakura sighed.
"Not train, a little game" Sasuke scoffed.
"Of what??" Sakura asked.
"Us four against you, I'm sure you remembered that game of tag you played with team Gai when you were younger, if we haven't caught you in three days time you win, if you lose, you hang out with us for the next week or so" Kakashi smirked.
"For the love of!" Sakura glared, shuddering the last time she played this game "Fine" Sakura sighed before she disappeared; in her mind it was a simple excuse to get away from them; and with no choice she went back home and trained there, a place where they would never find her since it's got a genjutsu over it.
By the end of the three days, the team had failed to find the girl, let alone capture and now they were at the bridge sighing in defeat, wondering where exactly she was hiding, when she came walking past, not even noticing that they were there. Shocked that she just randomly passed by, they all immediately jumped on her, pulling her to the ground.
"Get off me now" Sakura muttered.
"Aww…but we just caught you Sakura-chan" Naruto frowned.
"Caught me?" Sakura questioned, she was obviously confused on what they were talking about.
"Remember three days ago?" Kakashi questioned.
"Oh yea that…You were serious?" Sakura exclaimed "Besides, technically it's passed the three days if you're counting it by time"
"What?" Naruto exclaimed.
"She's right" Sasuke sighed.
"Well…now that is done and over with-"
"Sakura-sama" a chuunin bowed at her feet, which shocked her a bit…the whole 'Sakura-sama' thing was still new to the girl.
"Err…yea?" Sakura questioned.
"The Godaime-sama requested you in her office with Team seven immediately" the chuunin spoke.
"Hai, Arigato" Sakura nodded, walking to the Hokage's office with the team seven males behind her.
"What is it this time?" Sakura questioned.
"Remember that farm I sent you guys to roughly five years ago?" Tsunade questioned.
"Hai" Naruto nodded.
"Well, it's in need of repairs-"
"Don't tell me, you are sending us to go fix it up" Sakura muttered.
"You were always a sharp girl Sakura" Tsunade smirked.
"This is basically a D-ranked mission; why not get some genin to fix it up?" Sakura questioned.
"Believe my, I would, but…there are none around" Tsunade sighed.
"Then let those three go, it doesn't take two jounin, an ex-ANBU and two chuunins to fix up a farm" Sakura said "I'm gone" Sakura announced before walking out of the office.
"Well I tried and failed, she's too clever to accept D-ranked missions" Tsunade sighed.
"Geez, what happened to her over five years" Kakashi sighed.
"You can't exactly make a comment since you never actually taught her" Sasuke scoffed.
"As much as I hate to admit it, you're right" Kakashi sighed.
"You're on your own now, I can't stop the whole village because you want to see the girl" Tsunade said, kicking them out of her office. As soon as they were out of their office, a squeal irrupted from them.
"Sasuke-sama" Karin squealed, glomping him with her form, making sure to rub her body against him seductively.
"Where have I seen this seen before?" a voice questioned. It was Shikamaru, with the other two of team ten behind him.
"Oh, yea, in the chuunin exams with Ino" Shikamaru sighed before getting hit over the head by Ino, who went up to Sai and hugged him, who hugged back.
"Get off me Karin" Sasuke glared as Team eight came walking up to them.
"Aww…he's still popular with the girls" Kiba snickered, happy that she wasn't on him.
"Have any of you guys seen Sakura-chan?" Ino asked.
"Yea, we haven't seen her in ages and we want to hang out" Hinata added in Naruto's arms.
"I'll say, heck we can't even find her when she's training" a voice added, behind them was Tenten, hand in hand with Neji and Lee behind them.
"Yea, we saw about ten minutes ago for a mission briefing, but when she heard it was going to be a D-ranked team mission Ugly stormed off" Sai said.
"If you don't mind, I would appreciate if you didn't talk about me like that" Behind them was Sakura, glare and all, with her bird on her shoulder.
"What are you doing here? You just left ten minutes ago?" Naruto questioned.
"I'm wondering that myself; Guyver came for me" Sakura said, motioning at the bird on her shoulder "I was about to start work at the hospital too, oh well" Sakura sighed opening the door.
"Tsunade, what do you want?" Sakura asked.
"I was wondering how far you have gotten with Jugo's treatment" Tsunade said.
"It's progressing well. I have removed the cause and symptom, I am just checking to see if he will be safe in civilization, if you don't mind, I want to see how he will react with a few more people in his cell, everything seems fine, he has lost the killing instinct, I am positive, however tests will need to run to make sure that my suspicions are correct" Sakura answered.
"Good, then you can start on this paper work for me" Tsunade smirked, handing her a piece of paper.
"Fine" Sakura muttered, carrying the big pile of paper work out of the office, where her friends were still outside.
"This is the Hokage's job, why am I doing it?" she muttered, not realizing people were around her.
"Hokage's job?" Naruto questioned.
"Paper work" Sakura muttered.
"What a great job for a jounin" Karin smirked.
"Can I do it?" Naruto questioned.
"It was given to for a reason, Tsunade is too lazy, and she knows I know how to sort this stuff out, after going through it numerous times for her" Sakura muttered "I doubt you would know what do to with it, ja" Sakura waved slightly, walking away.
"Matte, Sakura-chan, can we hang out?" Tenten asked.
"An all girls night?" Ino requested.
"It would fabulous to know how you are doing? Especially for a to be ANBU" Hinata pleaded.
"To be ANBU?" Sakura frowned not understanding.
"Rumours have gone around that you are trying out for the ANBU squad" Neji explained.
"Excuse me for a second" Sakura muttered, storming back into the Hokage's office.
"Tsunade, tell me why there are rumours of me going into the ANBU exams going around?" Sakura glared at the woman.
"Not the exams, the village elders have already decided to promote you to ANBU" Tsunade muttered.
"WHAT?!" Sakura exclaimed.
"You heard me, they want you to become an ANBU personnel, preferably the head captain, they reckon you are ready for it" Tsunade explained.
"And if I decline?" Sakura questioned.
"They said you can't" Tsunade explained.
"How annoying, I am so gone" Sakura muttered, walking back out, some how with two bundles of paperwork, courtesy of Tsunade herself.
"So, are you going to be an ANBU?" Hinata questioned.
"I don't even get a say in the matter" Sakura muttered.
"Don't most people have to go through exams for to be an ANBU?" Neji questioned.
"Tsunade said something about the village elders wanting me to be the ANBU head captain" Sakura glared to where she presumed the village elders were currently.
"Without even taking the tests?" Kiba exclaimed.
"Don't complain to me, I declined six months ago to be an ANBU, and I'm still declining, if I'm going to be an ANBU I'll take the exams for it like everyone else" Sakura muttered "Now, I really am going before I get any more paper work, or learn something I really shouldn't"
And with that the Cherry Blossom exploded into thin air, leaving a cloud of smoke, and were those cherry blossoms petals? Oh ironic.
"Since when do people get promoted to ANBU head captain without even taking the exams?" Neji asked, in jealously.
"I have no idea, but the villager elders know what they are doing, I hope" Ino sighed.
Two days, that's all it took for the girl to go completely insane from the paper work, but none-the-less she finished it straight away, going two days straight, living on coffee, before she discharged Jugo into society, but he had to have an ANBU squad with him at all times. By late night, Sakura wobbled into the Hokage's office, dumped the paper on the desk and wobbled back out of the office, ready for a good nights sleep when team Gai as well as the other rookie nine and Karin and Jugo stood there waiting for something, presumably her.
"No I will not hang out with you now, it's late, and I'm tired, good night" Sakura muttered walking away, suddenly she was lifted into the air by the jounin vest and held there for about a minute.
"Please, I have been doing paper work for two days, heck I even got Jugo released, I have not had an ounce of sleep, let me go home and sleep" Sakura pleaded.
"That's why we are taking you now, you are weak, tired and vulnerable, perfect time to force you to hang out with us" Ino smirked.
"Besides, it's Christmas Eve" Hinata smirked.
"Let me go Sasuke" Sakura glared, a glare that could kill a person so many times the numbers aren't exact, it was a deadly glare, so wanting to save his own butt, Sasuke let go of the girl, trying to ignore Karin snuggling close to him.
"Come on Sakura-chan, its Christmas Eve, a time to spend with friends and family" Tenten begged, holding onto the girl's shoulder.
"Pft. Just leave me alone" Sakura growled as she got out of Tenten's grasp and walked away from them.
"Tch, what family?" Sakura muttered from above the tree tops, obviously hiding. She was trying to forget that Christmas was coming, she did her best to ignore the decorations and such that hung endlessly around the villages, as well as in every other village, that's why she requested missions, missions to make her forget that she had no family to spend Christmas with, sure she had friends, but what did they know about her? That she was a jounin? A strong one too? They knew nothing about her in her opinion, but that's because she didn't want anyone to get close to her heart again, last time she did that five years ago they abandoned her, like her family did. She preferred to be alone than be with people who reminded her of how alone she was. She regretted killing those murderers of the clan, they would have killed her, but they didn't because she killed them first. She cursed at her own stupidity, her own pathetic-ness.
Sensing an in coming chakra, the girl honed on it, preparing to vanish into thin air, but was caught before she could. It was unfamiliar, but she knew immediately who it was, it held great hatred for her, and if Sakura didn't know any better, perhaps it might have been jealousy bubbling through that chakra. There was no doubt about it, it was definitely Karin.
"What do you want?" Sakura questioned.
"I'm telling you now, you get in the way of me and Sasuke-sama and I will kill you" Karin threatened. Sakura chuckled.
"Take a ticket and get in line, I have gotten that threat many times before, but it has been a while since I've had that come to me" Sakura sneered
"You little bitch" Karin growled.
"If you want me dead, seriously wait your turn, it's currently at the 25069th Sasuke fangirl who's been sent to kill me, so you would be roughly 3048482872nd on the list, however I advise you do keep your mouth shut, you are still on probation here, if they wanted, they could kill you at any moment, come back to when you actually pose a slight threat" Sakura muttered behind her before disappearing.
"Tch, what could she do?" Karin scoffed before going back to the village.
Notes:
- What do you think? I liked it slightly : )
- Well, I hope you liked. RxR, no flaming.
-Gah! It feels like my chapters are getting shorter and short -cries and wails-
Translations:
1) Fushi Tensei- literally "Living Corpse Reincarnation"
Type: Kinjutsu, S-class, Supplementary
This Kinjutsu, developed by Orochimaru, allows him to transfer his mind to someone else's body.
If repeated periodically, it basically grants the user immortality as long as the user can find new host bodies. Orochimaru can only perform this technique once about every three years. Orochimaru developed this jutsu, to help him achieve his goal of becoming the ultimate being, through learning all jutsu in the world.
2) Kanashibari no Jutsu- literally "Temporary Paralysis Technique"
Type: D-rank, Supplementary, Short to mid-range (0-10m)
Used to cause one's opponent to lose the advantage of movement. Freezing them in their tracks, this Jutsu creates an opening for a more dangerous attack. Most ANBU seem to know this technique.
Chapter 2: What is with the cherry blossom?