It was the Truth 3 (slight spoilers)
A Naruto/ NaruSaku fan fiction
"people speaking"
'thoughts'
And out of the trees behind them, flanked by three snarling, unfamiliar ninja was
Sasuke Uchiha.
His long black hair was in the same style all those years ago. His face, usually devoid of emotion, was glaring at the two shinobi with a mixture of emotions in his eyes. Hatred, anger, guilt, happiness, surprised, but most of all, he seemed uncomfortable. The wind blew suddenly, rustling his uniform. Sakura stared at the half open white shirt, the long wide pants, held up by a twisted gray belt. The normal adoration she displayed when seeing him was replaced this time with disappointment.
'He has obviously escaped from Orochimaru, but why isn't he back in Konoha? Who are the people behind him? His new team?' she thought dejectedly.
"Sasuke, you've escaped from Orochimaru, so why…?" Naruto left the sentence hanging. A deep frown furrowed his forehead.
"Why haven't I returned? Why would I return? I could never gain power surrounded by all those fools. My own team was made up of fools. Neither of whom have talent of any sort," he sneered coldly. "Meet Team Hawk. The four of us have talent, and will go to any lengths to gain power," he finished with a smile.
Naruto was thinking about what Tsunade had said to them:
Your mission is kind of Akatsuki related. A, um, new group has been sighted near by. We're not sure if they are with Akatsuki or not. I want the two of you to go, and um, figure things out, and take care of it.
This was what Tsunade had said to them. Suddenly, Naruto understood what Tsunade was saying. She knew about Sasuke and she was leaving the choice to kill him up to Sakura and him. Naruto scowled, remembering his promise. But, he would honor that promise forever.
"Sasuke, I swore to Sakura I would bring you back, and I will. So even if I have to drag your bloody, beaten up body back to Konoha, I will," Naruto stated, surprising everyone.
"A boy, it'll be a boy, hmmm, this blond one looks good," snarled one of the ninja behind Sasuke. His eyes were glazed with a frenzied passion to kill. The other two ninja immediately held him back. But one asked:
"Hey, Sasuke, can we let him go, I want to see what this blondy is made of, anyways, who cares if he's killed?" the ninja asked. He had short hair. A young face with what seemed to be a mischievous smile peered up at Sasuke. The look of uneasiness returned upon Sasuke's face.
"No, hold him back. We didn't come to kill these two, but to give them a warning," he stated.
'Does Sasuke-kun still have feelings for his old team, why is he afraid to harm them?' the other ninja behind Sasuke thought. Karin. She had deep red hair neat on one side, and messy on the other. A sneer curled up one side of her mouth. Both of Sasuke's old teammates looked pathetic. The girl, very pretty with spiked pink hair, didn't look very strong. And the boy, also quite handsome with shaggy blond hair, looked and talked like a fool.
"Kudos to you Sasuke, your brother is dead, your lifetime goal achieved," Sakura finally spoke, her tone quiet, but strong.
It was the wrong thing to say. Several things happened. The two ninja holding the other one both flinched back, as if Sakura had said something offensive. The topic of Itachi was touchy, since Sasuke learned the truth. A look of pain crossed Sasuke's face followed by anger. His hands clenched into hard fists. So hard, the tendons were white against his pale skin.
Karin, still annoyed that Sasuke apparently had feelings for his old team, took advantage of his sudden anger and let go of the ninja they had been restraining. Sasuke stood, watching, glaring at Sakura with such intensity that she could actually feel heat.
The big ninja, Jugo, was galloping towards Naruto, a large smile, radiating insanity, on his face.
"Shadow clone Jutsu!" Naruto yelled quickly. About 5 Narutos leaped in front of the real one and tried to punch Jugo. He made a few good punches, which should have knocked Jugo out, but unfortunately, the mad ninja plowed through most of them, using brute force. Along with being strong, he moved fast
The last time Naruto has seen Sasuke, there had been an epic battle. Sasuke's strength was rivaling his. Both had nearly limitless chakra, but Naruto knew he would have to save as much possible for Sasuke. While playing defence and landing a few hits with his clones, he made eye contact with Sakura, who sensing his problem, nodded quickly.
Karin and the other young ninja, Suigetsu, smirked. Both were happy that the blond ninja was going to get killed. Both agreed that taking down the pink haired kunoichi would be easy. Karin couldn't resist a few jabs at her.
"Oi, Pinky, don't worry, Sasuke-kun (she said that word with creepy relish) probably won't let ol' Jugo kill blondy. We all know you'll be helpless without him in anything, so we won't kill him!" she laughed out. Sakura stared calmly back, one eyebrow raised coolly. She turned her gaze back to Naruto. She took a deep breath, and looked for the rapidly approaching Jugo.
Meanwhile, all the Narutos were delaying. The real one ran up, avoided all the mad punches and slammed the heel of his palm into his chin. Juugo's head snapped back. But, all the did was wind and anger him more. Blood gushed from his nose in rivers.
Kakashi-sensei had told them about situations like these. At all the team meetings, they practiced on him, eachother, and other teams. You fight brute force with brute force. Kakashi had further more warned Naruto about Sasuke. Last time, Sasuke could muster about 2 good Chidoris with enough chakra left for hand combat. But, now who knew what Orochimaru had taught him. A full-fledged fight would be Curse seal vs. Kyuubi, both however powerful would need as much chakra as possible. Although Kyuubi helped, it destroyed Naruto's body, just as well. Kakashi had also told Naruto to try and beat Sasuke without Kyuubi with Rasengan's power.
Meanwhile, everyone was twitching with anticipation as Jugo bounded up to Naruto, crazed eyes red with anger and bloodlust. With one hand, he knocked out a couple of the clones. None of the stabs seemed to hurt him bad, he just wiped away the blood. Naruto stood ready, a kunai in hand, waiting. Just before Jugo's body came into contact with Naruto's, a blur of pink attacked him.
Sakura had not been sitting helpless. She had slowly been gathering all her chakra to her one shoulder and waiting for an opening. Seeing Naruto about to get pummeled, she ran up, screaming a battle cry, and rammed her shoulder into the large man's body. For any other human, this should have crushed their shoulder, but Sakura had been training her super human strength with the Hokage for years, so she was not harmed at all. Kakashi sensei had also trained her in speed and timing. Jugo, however went flying in the air. He landed hard on the ground after flying through a tree. His eyes seemed to be different.
"Why did the pink girl hit me and scare off all the birdies," he asked in a small voice, sounding like a 5 year old. Sakura looked surprised at his sudden personality change.
Sakura grinned at Naruto, who returned it, feeling deep admiration for his friend. Naruto faced Sasuke armed. Sakura then looked back at a fuming Karin and replied,
"First of all redhead, don't call me Pinky, the name's Sakura. Second, ever heard of a hairbrush? By the way, I don't get helpless that easy, don't you ever forget it," she finished in a tone so mean and cold, Naruto shivered.
Karin took a step towards Sakura, fists raised, when Sasuke broke in. Sasuke had been watching the entire fight. He looked mildly astonished when Sakura hit Jugo, but he brushed it away.
"Enough, Team Hawk, we don't need to waste our time with these people. Naruto, Sakura take this message back to your Hokage and stupid village. Team Hawk has joined Akatsuki. Oh, and we'll meet again, relatively soon. I'll see the two of you when I crush Konoha to the ground. When every Hokage on that goddamned mountain is in crumbles. When that damn statue of the First Hokage in the Valley of End is crushed. All that will be left is the statue of Uchiha. Soon, Uchiha is all that will be left in the Village Hidden in the Leaf."
(A/N: Not really my favorite chapter, but I made some changes. I know I probably have some of my facts wrong, sorry. The only reason Sakura finishes off Jugo instead of Naruto is because they both know that he'll need chakra (however much of it) to fight Sasuke. They don't know his strength, so yeah. I also wanted to make Sasuke a little bit uncomfortable with killing his teammates. But don't expect any apologies from him :D)