Chapter 3
Sakura stumbled down a path clutching her bleeding side, rain continually beating down on her body, panting she began to stumble up some stairs that appeared at the end of the path, she struggled to walk straight up the stairs, gasping when her foot missed a stair, she caught herself before she hit the stairs, grunting when pain burned through her side, pulling herself to her feet she continued up the stairs.
After tripping a few more times, she made it half way up when she stopped, standing on trembling legs she panted, trying to regain her breath her vision had started to blur, releasing she had lost to much blood, she fell forward as her world became dark.
It was early in the morning when Yusuke, Kurama, Hiei, and Kuwabara made their way to Genki's temple; the air was heavy with the scent of rain from last night's down pour.
Walking down the old beaten path, Yusuke chatted away with Kuwabara about how he had broke up with Keiko because she was always going on about how he was never around and was scared of him being a demon now, when Kurama and Hiei suddenly stopped with a grim expression on their face.
"What up Kurama, something wrong?" Yusuke asked confused as to why he looked so uneasy.
"Though the rain washed most of it away the scent is still strong in the air." Kurama muttered to himself, inhaling deeply through his nose.
"What scent?" Yusuke asked after barely hearing what Kurama said.
"The scent of blood, it's overwhelming." He said looking around trying to find the sores of the scent.
"Blood, who's blood, Genki, Yukina?" Yusuke said in a panic.
"No, it isn't either of them, it's someone else's," Kurama said as he began to walk again, picking up speed as he made his way to the stairs. "I've never smelt blood this sweet before and there's a lot of it, whoever's it is I smell, there in danger of dying." He said as they came to the stairway.
Looking up, they gasped, in the middle of the stairway was a girl about their age lying in a pool of blood, her body looked like she had been attacked by demons, her clothes were torn and muddy, they couldn't even tell what colour her hair was, she was such a mess.
Running up the stairs, Yusuke and the others, other than Hiei, kneeled beside her body. "What the hell happened to her, is she alive?" Yusuke said brushing the girl's long blood and mud stained hair out of her face.
Reaching over, Kurama placed two fingers on her neck trying to find a pulse, sighing in relief when he found a slow faint heart beat. "She's alive, but just barely; we have to get her to Yukina before she bleeds to death."
"Alright let's go then." Yusuke said lifting the girl into his arms and running up the stairs, Kurama and Kuwabara right behind him, while Hiei was already way ahead of them.
Once they reached the top, Genki was waiting with Yukina after Hiei informed them about the girl, Genki stared in shock at the young woman that lay in Yusuke's arms, and the energy she felt from the girl was incredible, even in her injured state.
"Oh my, bring her inside at once." Yukina said feeling the girl's life force beginning to fade.
Hinata walked down the street after returning from the mission to the mist, tears slowly trailed down her cheeks, as she approached the compound she noticed Neji waiting at the front gate.
"Hinata-sama, welcome back, everything went well I hope." Neji said before he noticed something missing. "Where's Sakura, did she go to the training grounds?" he questioned.
Hearing Neji ask where Sakura was, her tears renewed, rushing forward she throw her arms around Neji and cried into his chest.
"Hinata-sama, what is it, where is Sakura, what happened?" Neji said in a panic, as his cousin sobbed into his chest.
"S-Sak-Sakura-Chan, she-she's missing, she disappeared after she went after some fake hunter-nin, we looked everywhere b-but we-we couldn't f-find her." She said sobbing uncontrollably.
Neji stood in shock, Sakura; one of his best friends, someone he loved dearly, was MIA, he couldn't believe it. He just stood there holding Hinata letting her cry. "Hinata-sama, we will find her, I promise you, we will find her and bring her back home." He said after what seemed like forever.
The Yu-yu gang sat in the living room, waiting to hear about the girl they found, though Hiei didn't seem to care and sat on the windowsill staring out into the forest, after three hour had passed Yukina and Genki finally came into the room.
"So is she going to be ok?" Yusuke asked jumping to his feet when they entered the room.
"I was able to close her more serious wounds but she won't be waking up any time soon, she lost a lot of blood." Yukina said softly.
"Thank Kami now that that is over I'm going to train, Hiei wanna spare with me." Yusuke said sighing in relief before turning to Hiei who nodded.
Yukina left the room to start dinner, while Kurama, Kuwabara and Genki followed after Yusuke and Hiei to watch they're fight.
Half a week passed when Sakura woke in a strange room, sitting up on the futon, she looked at her body noticing someone had bandaged her wounds, looking to the door when she heard it open, she saw a small blue haired girl walk in.
"Oh, your awake, how do you feel?" She asked before noticing her eyes and gasping. "Oh my, I had no idea you were blind." She said staring at her in concern.
At first Sakura was confused, then releasing with her kekkei genkai she must look blind. "I'm not blind, it's a family trait, I can see just fine." She explained watching the girl sit down next to the futon.
"Oh, I see, so how are you feeling." She said in a soft tone, smiling gently, reminding Sakura of Hinata's gentle ways.
"I feel fine, just a bit stiff." Sakura said rolling her shoulder trying to work out the stuffiness.
"Ok, if you want you can come down stairs, just don't strain yourself, your still healing." The girl said while standing.
"Thank you, I think I will." Sakura said removing the covers from her body and standing up with a bit of effort.
"Then wait here while I get you a change of clothes." She said leaving only to come back a few minute's latter with some clothes.
Once she changed into the clothes, Sakura followed the girl down the stairs, there she found an elderly woman drinking tea.
"Hm, I see your awake, it's about time, sleeping beauty." The woman said in a mocking tone.
"How long was I asleep?" Sakura asked sitting across from the woman.
"You've been asleep for half a week, my former apprentice and his friends found you out cold and bleeding on my stairs." She said setting her tea down.
"I see I'm sorry if I troubled you." Sakura said standing and bowing to the woman, the woman stared in shock for a moment before letting out a loud laugh, Sakura watch her confused as to why she was laughing.
"Heh, I like you, kid, what's your name." She said smirking.
"Huh, oh, my name's Hyuuga Sakura." Sakura said bowing once more.
"Well Sakura, it doesn't seem like you have anywhere to go, so you can stay here if you like." She said making Sakura stare at her in shock for a moment.
"Thank you very much." Sakura said bowing.
'This girl, just by looking at her I can tell she's been through a lot, I wonder what is it she hides behind that headband." Genki thought staring at the forehead protector tied around Sakura's head.
TBC
Sakura Haruno554; sorry for taking so long, school and all, ugh I hate school, anyway the next chapter might take awhile, I'm working on other stories that I hope to get up soon, also I have a poll up, please check it out. Laters.