I AM SOOOOOO SOOOORRRRRYYYYY!!!!!! for such a late update!! i just haven't been able to work much on it due to school and such.
I made myself finish this chapter today, so i hope you enjoy it! please reveiw and rate!
DISCLAIMER: i do not own naruto, if i did, aliens would take over the world, and the Akatsuki would take over the world using cookies.
"We'll kill you," Hisao stated. Sasuke raised his eye brows.
"Oh really?" Sasuke challenged, handing Sakura back to the glaring Suigetsu.
"Yes," Kaori finally managed to get out grabbing an umbrella from her back. Hisao did the same. Oh no! Sakura thought.
"Ninpo—"Hisao began, throwing the two umbrellas into the air, "Jouro Senbon!"
Just then what seemed like a thousand senbon needles came flying from the umbrellas, down towards Sakura.
SWISH!
Sakura's eyes closed, tightly shut, waiting for the pain to come.
"SASUKE-KUN!" yelled Karin's surprised voice.
No pain……………………………..
What? Sakura thought, as she opened her eyes a crack
"Sasuke…" Suigetsu's voice echoed.
Sakura observed the scene, what she saw was not exactly surprising, but it sill took her off guard. She, Suigetsu, Karin, and Juugo were completely moved from the spot they were in before, senbon needles dug in the spot where they were previously. Sasuke stood infront of the group, katanna in hand; he pointed it mercilessly at Hisao, and Kaori, who unfortunately stood helplessly infront of them.
Obsidian eyes, stared coldly, at the petrified brown ones.
"What do you want here?" Sasuke said his voice almost sounding bored.
Kaori looked furious, "Give us the girl!!" she yelled to Sasuke, "she's what we want!"
"Why?" Sasuke asked his eyes piercing holes through Kaori's furious face.
"That's none of your business!" she spat back at him.
"Hn"
Suddenly, Hisao leaned forward toward Kaori, whispering words into her ears.
Kaori's eyes lit up like flames. She smirked. Then stepped out infront of Hisao,
And put her hand up, ready to make hand signs for another ninjutsu. Sakura stared hard at the Rain-nin wondering what she would do next.
Raising one hand into the air, Kaori murmured words that could barely be heard.
--"Kirigakure no Jutsu….."
Then suddenly what appeared to be very thick mist came in and shrouded Sakura's view.
"Hidden Mist Jutsu…." Sakura whispered surprised. She remember this justu from when the old Team 7 went to the Hidden Mist for their first C-Ranked escort mission. Or, aka the mission that went horribly wrong. "Zabuza's……..technique?" Sakura began, "how—"
"We'll meet up very soon brat" Hisao said. Sakura could barely even see his silhouette in the dense fog. And then, the two nin suddenly disappeared.
"They're gone." Sasuke stated, after a brief silence, while sheathing his katanna.
Karin sighed, and wiped her brow. Slamming herself onto the ground, grinning at Sasuke like he was the most perfect person in the world. The giant blonde guy named Juugo just kept standing there staring at Sasuke and Suigetsu (not holding our pink haired Konoichi) gaped at the empty space where the two Rain Nin were standing only two minutes ago. Sakura felt out of place sitting at the edge against a tree, wounds still bleeding, her splintered and broken bone making a huge bump in her skin.
Oh good, Sakura thought, they're gone
A huge amount of fatigue wiped over Sakura, and gasping with the loss of who knows how much blood, fell face forward into the dust, giving in to the over powering darkness.
Dream\flashback__________________________________________________________
"Sakura-chan!" yelled the young, yellow haired Naruto.
"Yeah?" giggled the little pink-haired girl as Naruto started tickling her.
"You cheated" Naruto pouted, looking at her in the eyes.
"Did not!"
"Did to!"
Laughing and rolling around in the grass, 6 year old Sakura smiled. She was never happier in her entire life. Naruto had seen her crying softly on the ground earlier with her messy bangs infront of her face. And (being the Naruto he is) came up to her and kneeled down to look at her tear smeared face.
"Nii-chan, what's wrong?" he had asked
Sakura, still sniffling looked up to him, eyes wide and teary then looked away.
"Nu-ting" she muttered staring at the ground. Hiding hear forehead even more.
Naruto observed her movements, then looked at hear forehead covered with her hair.
"Nii-chan, your forehead isn't big, if that what you're upset about," he grinned
Sakura stared up at him, then shyly looked away.
"Hey, what's your name Nii-chan?" Sakura looked at the yellow haired, blue-eyed boy, a small smile formed her lips.
"M-my n-name i-is---"
Naruto nodded slowly, urging her on like a teacher would to a kindergartener.
-"Haruno Sakura!" she finally bursted out. Naruto smiled at her, "I'm Uzumaki Naruto, Sakura-chan," then grinning he pulled Sakura off of the ground and asked "Sakura-chan, do you want to play with me?" This time Sakura smiled a real genuine smile, and nodded.
THUD.
"Naruto!!!!" Sakura complained, Naruto, who had tickled her even more grinned wickedly.
"Hai Sakura-chan?"
"STOP!" she squealed out, tears running down the sides of her face since she was laughing so hard.
"SAKURA!" yelled a deep, familiar voice.
"Otosan-" Sakura started to say, Naruto sitting next to her.
"WHAT do you think you're doing?!" Sakura's father asked marching up to Sakura and pulling her by her tiny hand.
"OW! Otosan! Let me go! I was just playing with Naruto!"
"I don't want to hear it; I don't want you to ever see this boy again, you hear me?" Sakura now actually crying, twisted in her fathers grip to turn and face Naruto, who had heard the whole thing. Naruto looked at her sadly, than whispered, "It's all right Sakura-chan, it's okay."
Then Sakura sadly turned around, letting her father lead her back to her home. With Naruto watching her walk down the street.
"Pinky? Hey! Pinky wake up!"
Sakura moaned as she felt cold water splash into her face. Pinky? WTF kind of a name is that?? Jeez…
"N-Naruto!" Sakura gasped, sitting up straight, her hair rippling over her face.
"AHHH!" Sakura screamed out in pain, her twitching hand holding her broken leg. Heh, she thought grimacing, guess I didn't realize the pain till it actually hit me. Stupid!
Sakura felt a cold hand press her down so she was lying on the ground again.
"Whoa Pinky, your leg's broken lie down." Suigetsu spoke through his shark-like teeth.
"Like I care!" Sakura spat back at him, slowly sitting up. Shoving Suigetsu away from herself, leaning forward, gathering up some of her stored chakra, fixed on healing her broken leg. When Sakura heard a loud popping noise, of her leg finally snapping back in place, Sakura started to get up gathering her footing, so she didn't fall down again.
"Phssh! I can see why Sasuke thinks you're annoying!" Karin sniffed from behind Sakura.
Sakura slowly turned around, the pain in her legs stinging her like a thousand bees, to face Karin. Suigetsu started to back away from what he sensed was an "evil" aura that had erupted around Sakura.
SHANNARRO! Screamed Inner Sakura who the hell does she think she is? His girlfriend?? Let's kick some butt!
Sakura completely ignored her Inner's protest against the now, smug looking Karin. Just looking at her made her disgusted. She wore the most sluttish clothes she had ever seen.
Sakura slowly limped her way over to Karin's side, grabbing her in one of her locking grips she leaned down to whisper to her.
"I don't know why Sasuke even thought for you to be on his team," Sakura began with a menacing tone "It's clear to me though that you must have something special about you for him to be this desperate." Karin twitched, "Shove it, you pink freak," she snapped back.
This time Sakura just stepped away from Karin, her boots making dust clouds around her feet. Turning her face away from Karin's, Sakura found her shuriken pouch, leaning against a tall tree to her right. Limping towards the pouch (since she couldn't heal her leg all the way from lack of chakra) she bent down, grabbed it, and fastened it around her petite waist. Turning around to face Suigetsu, she did a slight bow in respect, murmured "Arigatou" not bothering to face Karin, then shoving chakra into the soles of her heels, leaped up to the nearest branch, heading towards the nearest village.
Sasuke's POV.
Sasuke stood in a clearing, about 2 miles away from where they had camped at for the night, the wind blowing past his face and rustling his hair. He sensed something, yet, he didn't know what it was. This frustrated him. The Uchiha was accustomed to knowing what was going on around him, and not being able to tell what was going on made him grit his teeth in anger. Garbed in his clothing he had worn during his times in Otogakure, with Orochimaru, he walked forward his sandals making footprints in the soft dirt.
"Juugo," Sasuke said in his monotone voice, still walking forward towards the gigantic curse-mark bearer. Eyes scanning the area around him, Sasuke turned to stare at Juugo, who stood towering infront of him, giving Sasuke a questioning look.
"Yes, Sasuke-sama, I sense something out of the ordinary as well," Juugo stated.
"I wonder……" Sasuke hummed, turning to face the campsite, where Suigetsu and Karin were.
Normal POV
"AHH! What a beautiful and youthful day it is!!" Rock Lee sighed rather loudly, Tenten, and Neji looking like they were about to burst. They were standing infront of the Hokage's office, waiting to be spoken to. "I wonder what Tsunade-sama wanted to talk to us about," Tenten mused, leaning against the far wall. Neji nodded towards Tenten, agreeing with her. Remembering when Shizune-sama came running up to them, panting, and told them that Tsunade wished to speak with them as soon as possible. But she refused to reveal any details about what Tsunade wished to talk to them about.
Sighing Tenten and Neji watched Lee ramble on about the time he had the "New and improved "Curry of life" " and how he was "DYING to see what new challenge lay before them when they were to talk to Hokage-sama" Neji look like he was literally going to tear himself apart, until a sudden bunch of footsteps came up from behind them.
"Well, well look who it is, Tenten, Hyuuga, and Lee," the leader of the group, Mitarashi Anko sensei said, "I suggest you got your message from Shizune?" They all nodded, "good, while we're waiting, Hinata-sama," Anko turned to face the shaking Hyuuga Heiress, "Y-yes Anko-sensei?" she stuttered.
"Go out and fetch, Nara, and Yamanaka at the Yamanaka flower shop, and tell them to hurry up, or they'll have hell to pay," Hinata jumped up, "Y-yes Anko-sensei!"
and sped off running in the opposite direction, (scared out of her poor mind) going to find Ino and Shikamaru.
"Um, Anko-sensei, What about Chouji?" Kiba interrupted from behind, Akamaru barking in approval.
"He has some business to attend to concerning his clan he'll catch up with us later."
Just then Neji stepped in, "Sensei, exactly what do you mean by 'catch up'?"
Anko grinned, ruffling her violet hair. "Ah, you catch on quickly don't cha Hyuuga? Good job. Yes we ARE going on a mission, today. And YES TODAY. Not tomorrow or any other flippin day of this week, next week, next month or year. Got it?" She hissed menacingly to every one around her who sweat dropped. Neji considered how long exactly he'd last under the control of this psychopath without committing suicide.
"Oh, and don't ask any more questions, or make any assumptions, someone might end up getting hurt and we don't want that, do we?" Anko grinned again leaning back against the Hokage's door.
Everyone sighed, then the sound of footsteps pattering down the hallway, and voices reached everyone's ears.
"Nani baka?!" the voice of Ino screeched, "Stop being so damn tired all the time and get up off your lazy ass! I'm your girlfriend, NOT your babysitter so get a grip!"
A loud groan escaped the pineapple head, as the foot steps came closer.
"u-um, S-she does have a p-point, Shikamaru-san," Hinata squeaked.
"Yeah, yeah whatever, lets just get this over with, Troublesome…." Sighed Shikamaru.
As they came around the corner, Hinata fretting in the background, and an ultra pissed off Ino, and Shikamaru, Anko clapped.
"Well well, you guys finally showed up, now lets get down to business."
Just then the Hokage's office door creaked open, revealing Shizune, who signaled them to come in, filing inside the Hokage's office, to face, across the room, the Godaime who sat behind her desk, her fingers intertwined.
"I'm glad you got my message," Tsunade said seriously. "This is very important, so I need you all to listen carefully,"
Everyone in the room nodded. Even Akamaru.
"Good, I've gotten a letter, from Hatake Kakashi, an emergency letter. Here."
The Godaime reached into the pocket in her green robe and pulled out a wrinkled piece of paper that looked like it had been through a hurricane from the way it looked, and handed it to Neji, who stood closest to the Hokage's desk.
Neji's eyes scanned over the wrinkled piece of paper, his white pupils, contrasting and contracting, and he finished the letter.
"I see," Neji's serious voice said, as he passed the letter around the room for everyone else to read.
-"Sakura.."
"Forehead!"
…..
Hmmm…
"Naruto-kun, Sakura-chan…"
Ino started to sob into Shikamaru's shoulder, as Shikamaru looked at Tsunade with a serious expression.
"Lady Tsunade," Shikamaru started, as Ino's tears ran down the side of his shoulder.
"So our mission…. Is to go and meet Kakashi-sensei, Naruto and Sai, in Sunagakure right? Or do we go and try to find Sakura?"
Tsunade nodded slightly.
"Sort of-" She began, "What I want you guys to do, is split up into two
groups, one of your groups will go to Sunagakure, and meet Naruto, Kakashi, and Sai, the other group …… will go and spy on the Hidden Rain, and Mist, and find out as much information as they possibly can on the latest mission requests there. I already have some Anbu over there disguised and doing some work, but they'll need help.
Everyone nodded.
"I've already assigned your groups, the first group that will go to Suna, will be
Hinata Hyuuga, Shikamaru Nara, Kiba Inuzuka, and Anko Mitarashi as captain.
The second group that will go to Rain and Mist, will be
Ino Yamanaka, Shino Aburame, Rock Lee, and Neji Hyuuga as captain.
"Chouji Akamichi will also go with team two, and Tenten will go with team one,
any questions?"
The Rookie 9 all shook their heads, answering her question.
Tsunade nodded, "Ok then, go pack your things, and be ready in and hour to meet and the front gate, go!"
And with that they all vanished through the Hokage's door, to prepare themselves for the mission.
BACK UP IN SUNAGAKURE, IN THE INFIRMARY.
Naruto, Kakashi and Sai, sat in a circle on the ground, facing each other.
"Ok," the Copy Ninja began "I just got a reply from Tsunade-sama, she's sending a recruit team to the Sand to help us. Alright?" Naruto and Sai nodded.
Naruto jumped up, "Kaka-sensei, Sakura-chan WILL be alright, right?"
Kakashi looked at the ground, "I don't know, Naruto, we'll just have to wait till back up comes, ok?"
POOF!!! *Naruto disappears *
"Naruto!" Kakashi's eyes widened. A Bunshin?
Does that mean…?
"Kakashi-sensei," Said Sai, "I think Naruto just went after Sakura-chan without us."
lol gomen for all the cliffhangers, but i couln't resist. XD
anyways hope you liked it, i'll try to get the next chapter up as soon as i can. no garenties that it will be soon though.
THANKS! mariemm