An Arrowed Heart and The Lost Priestess
Chapter 2

An: YAY here is chapter 2! I hope people enjoyed chapter 1….. I really didn't get much feedback.

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Well now that that is out of my system I can move on with the story. I feel terrible because I forgot to put the disclaimer on the first chapter but here it is.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters of Naruto or Inuyasha! All of that goes to Masashi Kishimoto-sensei and Rumiko Takahashi-sensei!

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*last time*

"Kakashi follow me, we need to get her down to the hospital." with a quick nod they were all off to their assigned tasks.

Meanwhile deep in Sakura's subconscious mind a visitor waits for Sakura to enter the dream realm and speak with her.

The sun was bright, the grass was green and a tall tree stood in there right in the middle of it all. Up in the branches a young priestess decked out in battle armor watched a black two tail demon cat with blue flowing stripes pace back and forth across the branch.

"Mizuru, stop pacing it's not going to help anything," she sighed as the cat looked at her.

"Roew, but Mistress Midoriko she should be here by now!" Mizuru whined and started pacing again.

"We have caused that girl quite a bit of pain to get here let her come when she is ready," she spoke calmly.

"But Mistress! You don't have time! What if she doesn't show or she comes too late! Mistress Midoriko I can't lose her ag..."

"Mizuru," Midoriko scolded. The demon cat looked up at her a little hurt.

"Hai Mistress, I'm just worried."

"I know Mizuru. I am as well," Midoriko sighed and looked up at the clouds. A small set of twinkling lights drifted to the ground.

"She is here, Mizuru," Midoriko smiled as the lights faded leaving Sakura's body gently set on the ground.

Sakura slowly sat up and rubbed her head. "Ugh note to self-next time Tsunade-sama challenges you to a drinking contest decline," Sakura whined as she stood up and looked around.

"Geez, she couldn't even make sure I got home safe. What happened last night, had to have been pretty bad? Not even Naruto made sure I was ok. Wait Naruto, I was mad at him wasn't I," She tried to think back to what she last remembered. Something about Naruto selling her out then nothing.

"Can I go to her now mistress?" Mizuru whispered. Midoriko nodded as the neko jumped out of the tree and on to Sakura's head.

"Ahhhhhh," Sakura let out a squeal and grabbed the neko off her head to throw it. "Geez," she sighed. "Just a cat." Mizuru huffed and wiggled out of Sakura's grasp. He walked with both of his tails twitching toward his mistress.

"Did you hear that Mistress Midoriko? She called me just a cat!" Sakura tensed up and took a defensive stance.

"Who are you? What is your business with Konoha?" Midoriko looked up at her and smiled.

"I am Midoriko as my excited friend stated, and I am here with the business is with you dear girl not your village."

"Ha and how do I know I can trust you?" Sakura frowned.

"Well I trust her so that means you can," a voice her right spoke. Sakura jumped and looked at the figure next to her. The figure stood a few inches shorter than Sakura herself and was black and white. In fact as Sakura looked closer the figure looked exactly as she did when she was younger.

"WHAT THE HELL?" Sakura screamed.

"Hi I'm your conscience; we haven't spoken in a while. How are you?" the figure smiled at her joke. Sakura stared at her not amused. The figure sighed.

"Do you remember when you were younger and there were things you never had the guts to say out loud? I was the one you said them too. I was the one who listened. Then you grew and didn't need me anymore, so I get to chill in your head all the time. This dream realm is the only place I am considered real," she did a small circle and giggled freely. Sakura looked at her still unconvinced.

The figure stopped spinning and sighed again, "Now you want proof I suppose. Ok but you're not going to like what I say, so don't say I didn't warn you. The night Sasuke left you said to yourself that if he would allow you to follow you would. Well deep down you knew if he was going to try leave the village he was walking down a path you couldn't follow. And you knew he was never going to come back. You sent Naruto away with a promise you knew he could never keep. You were being selfish and you have never admitted that to anyone not even yourself," the figure turned and looked Sakura square in the eye.

"Tell me I'm lying then you don't have to believe anything that's happening here. Lady Midoriko has been waiting to meet you so make your decision fast," the figure smiled. Sakura stared at the figure speechless. The figure nodded knowing she had succeeded and turned Sakura toward the priestess and gave her a light push.

"Let's not keep the lady waiting." Midoriko looked at the small black and white Sakura slightly stunned, but she let it go there wasn't much time left she could already start to feel the pull of the jewel.

"Sakura, I am here searching for help. I don't come from a world like yours. In my world there are demons the roam and kill. My people are suffering. I have tried to help by creating a jewel that can equal out the balance of the world but it went wrong. The jewel now can be used as a weapon. It is in the care of a young priestess and I need you to help her. The world powers are shifting and the balance is being lost," Midoriko shook her head and tried to keep tears at bay.

"I have been watching you for some time and I have seen your large amount of compassion. I believe that with your help the world can be balanced," she looked up at Sakura with pleading eyes. The pull of the jewel was starting to get stronger her time was running out faster than she wanted. Sakura looked confused but as soon as Midoriko dropped to her knees from the pull of the jewel Sakura ran to her side.

"This is the compassion I have need of," Midoriko smiled up at Sakura with sweat dripping down her face.

"Mistress," Mizuru whined by her side. Sakura sighed and help Midoriko stand.

"Well my compassion does usually get the better of me. I will help however I can," she started walking across the clearing.

"So where are we going?"

Mizuru laughed and Midoriko smiled, "if only it were that easy to get here. I will leave you in the capable hands of Mizuru and a parting gift," Midoriko straighten her stance and poked Sakura in the forehead.

"With these crystals I am placing on your forehead you with be able to find your way to my world." a slight burning sensation sizzled on Sakura's forehead.

"Ouch! What the heck?" Sakura hissed as she touched her forehead. There were now four little pink crystals pointing in the directions of the compass imbedded in her forehead.

"Ow ow ow!"

"This will help you reach my world and Mizuru; you will protect her with your life won't you?" Mizuru nodded with a serious look on his face.

"I will serve her mistress as I have served you," he finished with a deep bow. Midoriko giggled and then started to fade.

"What's going on?" Sakura panicked. Midoriko smiled at her.

"It is alright we will meet again, but I must leave now," her body was covered in twinkling lights and then sue was gone.

"Safe travels mistress and may the battle continue for the sake of the world," Mizuru mumbled to the sky.

"Will she be ok?" Sakura looked up at the fading twinkling lights. Mizuru nodded and started walking away from the tree.

"Good now how the heck do we leave this place?" Sakura looked around for a door or twinkling lights heck even a window.

"You wake up!" the figure giggled.

"Really?"

"Yep it's that simple," the figure smiled and climbed up the tree that looked like it was fading too. Mizuru looked up at her and the ever fading tree.

"If you don't come back with us then you will fade into oblivion. Once we leave, this place will disappear with everything in it," he sounded slightly concerned.

"I'm free silly. Even if I fade away and never come back I did it on my own free will. That's all I have ever wanted," the figure jumped down and ran to Sakura. The figure jumped into Sakura's arms and gave her a big hug.

"Thank you for needing me," the figure let go and ran back to the tree. She laughed whole heartedly as she started fading. The black and white figure started changing and Sakura could faintly see a pair of shimmering wings on her back before the tree disappeared taking the figure with it.

"She was free in the end. A very nice ending for an imprisoned sprite," Mizuru mumbled too low for Sakura's ears. Sakura looked at the empty space where the tree was as a small tear slid down her face.

"I didn't realize I would miss someone I had forgotten was there so much."

"She would have been happy to hear you say that. With the emotion you are showing it proved that she was real to you," he spoke softly and then started walking again.

"Thanks now how do we get back to my world? I thought I just had to wake up," Sakura looked down at the neko.

"That is the way but I wanted to walk a little bit. When we get back you must prepare to be weak and in pain," Mizuru sighed.

"Why?" Sakura looked at him suspiciously.

"Well we couldn't get here we needed a more power. The only way to get the power we needed was to take it from someone, and the only way to get you to the dream realm was to make a connection with you. To achieve both we had to take your power, and I believe Mistress Midoriko said we took quite a bit from you. It was very forcefully as well," the little neko winced a little as he felt Sakura getting angry.

"Please Mistress, try to understand," Mizuru tried. Sakura sighed and kept walking.

"I get it you needed help for your friends and would do anything to get it. I would have done the same. Now how do I wake up?" Sakura asked simply. Mizuru smirked and jumped on to Sakura's shoulders. Sakura blinked at him a little surprised.

"That part's easy," he placed a paw on my forehead and a bright pink light blinded them. They started falling out away from the ground and then everything went black.

*Sakura's hospital room*

Naruto walked into Sakura's room mumbling about the stupid nurses and such. It wasn't like he did anything to them. All he did was stop by every day and talk to Sakura hoping she would wake up. Ok so a few times he had been kind of loud but Sakura was in a room by herself no one else was in here. I guess that's the perks of being the Hokage's apprentice. Naruto sighed as he looked down at Sakura's peaceful face, and then looked down at the floor in shame.

"It's been a month Sakura. Ero-seni has been talking to baba-chan and she said you should be wake at least. Come on Sakura how are we supposed to find Sasuke together when you're stuck in this bed?" Naruto looked up to find a very surprising sight. Sakura was covered in a light pink glow and she was floating. Her short cropped hair was growing at a seriously fast rate and flying everywhere as an unknown wind started blowing. A nurse came running into the room.

"Naruto! What did you do!?" the nurse screamed.

"Nothing," Naruto yelled back as a wind began whipping around the room faster. A bright pink light flashed blinding the nurse and Naruto for a moment. When they open their eyes Sakura was laying on the bed again, her hair was all over the place and sitting on her chest was an odd looking cat. He had two tails and blue stripes that seemed to move. The cat lifted his head off Sakura's chest and glared at Naruto very hard.

"What the hell just happened?" Naruto asked but the nurse had already run out the door to get baba-chan no doubt. Naruto took a few steps toward Sakura's bed as the cat's fur puffed up and it started growling at him.

"Hey kitty kitty where did you come from?" Naruto reach out his hand to touch it but the cat swatted at his hand and hissed. He backed away and bumped into a panting Tsunade.

"What happened in here and what the hell is a cat doing in here?" she panted as Naruto shook his head.

"It just appeared and it won't let anyone touch it or Sakura."

"Is that right?" Tsunade walked up to the bed and swatted the cat off the bed. To her surprise the cat's growling turned savage. She looked down at the cat to see it grow to the size of a large horse as water clung to its fur. It took walked toward Tsunade as she stumbled to back away.

"Stay away from my Mistress!" it growled and swatted at everyone in the room. There was a small groan from the bed behind the large cat. Tsunade tried to jump around the cat and get to Sakura but he roared and bite at her. All the commotion attracted Kakashi to the room.

"What the hell is that?" he yelled as he walked in the room.

"Kakashi-sensei! We don't know but it won't let us get near Sakura. It called her its mistress?" Naruto briefed him as they tried to get to Sakura again.

"You mean it talked?"

"Yeah, we think Sakura's waking up but we can't yet to her," Naruto's voice was stressed and full of worry.

"Get out of my way you giant fur ball!" Tsunade ran at the cat again. The giant cat waited and was about to take a good size bite out of the Hokage when he heard something.

"Mizuru it is alright," he whipped around to see Sakura wake. He shrunk to his smaller size and jumped onto the bed.

"I didn't know how long it would take you to awaken Mistress. I vowed to protect you with my life," he spoke as he rubbed against Sakura's thigh.

"I know I know," Sakura slowly sat up and looked around the room. She started laughing at all their faces.

"You guys look life you've seen a ghost!" Her long pink hair bounced as she laughed.

AN: AND that's a wrap for chapter 2. I hope you enjoyed it! I am slowly getting to the part where she goes on her adventure but I don't want to rush the story!

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