Agony
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. All these characters belong to Masashi Kishimoto
A/N: Sorry I was slow in updating. School… EWW! Math... BIGGER EWW!!! Hope you enjoy, and please R&R!!!
Sakura ducked out of the way of a kunai as it flew past her face, missing her cheek by a scant few inches. Sasuke glared daggers at her.
"If you don't get the hell on the move, you will die here and I won't do a damn thing," he hissed between his teeth. At that precise moment another kunai came flying out of nowhere and clipped him high on the shoulder. The man spun around with the force of the impact and turned to face an enemy that was closing in on the team.
Sakura gathered chakra to her right fist and leapt over a ninja that was charging at her. She spun in mid air and slammed her chakra laden fist into his back, sending him through two trees. She turned on her heel in time to avoid another attack and used the momentum of the ninja to send him flying over her shoulder to join his buddy in a heap fifty feet away.
"Sakura, LOOK OUT!" Naruto yelled as he performed a kage bunshin no jutsu. Thankfully Naruto's warning reached Sakura before she caught katana to the neck. The ANBU ninja standing in front of her holding the katana sword just smirked as she did a double back flip away from him, molding chakra to her feet to help her escape.
Kakashi had heard Naruto yell out and he turned in time to see that Sakura had successfully escaped the wound. He then looked at Sasuke, who at the current moment had chosen to activate the Chidori, his Sharingan eyes blazing. Kakashi smirked as he saw Sasuke charge at another ninja without thought. He decided to take a more personal approach and went straight at the ninja that had attacked Sakura with the katana. He buried the kunai over and over in the man's chest, blood pumping out of the wounds and staining his hands.
Sakura had her own battle to deal with. Surrounded on three sides by ninja and a boulder at her back, she was pretty much trapped. Cha! Let's kick ass! Inner Sakura was ready for a fight, and Sakura was ready to deliver. She gathered chakra once more to her fist and then, using a technique that Tsunade had taught her. She slammed her fist to the ground and opened a deep chasm in the earth. As two of the ninjas fell in, the other launched straight at her, shuriken in his hands.
Sakura screamed a high pitch sound of agony as three of the stars pierced her chest and stomach. Her blood began to flow freely from the wounds and she stared in shock at the crimson liquid of life flowing into the ground.
Suddenly, the Nin that attacked her was flung backwards, a loud, audible crack resonating through the clearing where the fight had taken place. Sakura was floating on a sea of pain and she looked up one last time before slipping into unconsciousness, the face of two men filling her sight before her eyes closed and darkness took her.
"Is Sakura-Chan going to be okay? When will she wake up? Why hasn't she woken up yet? Sasuke bastard why did you yell at her? What if she's dead?"
Those where the first things Sakura heard when she began to regain conscious.
"K-Kakashi, what happened to me?" the young, pink haired kunoichi asked. She put a hand to her head to feel for bumps that would explain her passing out, but could find no evidence of a head injury.
"You lost so much blood that you passed out," the silver haired sensei explained calmly. "We stopped the bleeding and you are all bandaged up, but I don't want you moving for a little while." His gaze was leveled at hers and in the depths of his one visible dark eye; Sakura could see the fear of losing her, hidden deep so that no one else would be able to tell.
Sakura turned her head and looked at Sasuke, who sat aloof from the rest of the group.
"Sasuke, are you alright?" she asked quietly. A part of her wanted him to answer and a part of her wanted him to stay silent.
"Hn," was his typical one syllable answer. Inside, Sakura could feel her heart shattering once more because of the young Uchiha. He had proclaimed to care for her and at the first sign of her weakness; he resorted to his old ways of casting her off as unimportant.
Sakura was in agony, not only from the slowly healing wounds, but because once more, she was the weak link in Team 7. A single tear slid down her cheek as she laid her head back onto the small cushion of a bed roll, presumably belonging to Naruto.
The blonde haired ball of energy was surprisingly quiet she thought as she closed her eyes to prevent any more tears.
Naruto was indeed quiet. He sat to the side of Sakura, glaring at Sasuke. The young man hadn't even checked to see if she was alright. Had it been Hinata laying there wounded, Naruto would have been hovering so close that no one would be able to run him off even if they used every forbidden jutsu known to ninjas. He finally stood up, believing Sakura to be asleep and walked into the forest. His thoughts took over and he sat at the base of a tree, worry and a hint of fear running rampantly through the boys head.
Kakashi knelt down beside his favorite pupil and secret love, tugging off his gloves as he did so. He reached out and gently wiped the tear off Sakura's cheek before sliding his fingers under her chin and tilted her head up.
"Sakura, I know you aren't asleep. Just let me know you will be okay. I was so scared I had lost you," the man said. It was a rare occurrence for Kakashi to touch Sakura, but to also verbalize his fear to her; she could tell that he was still in his own personal agony over not being there to protect her.
"Kakashi…" she said as she drifted off to sleep, not having the strength or chakra to keep herself awake another minute.