I beg for your forgiveness, this chapter is rushed and absolutley 186% horrid. I cannot write fighting scenes so I try to avoid them but I needed some confrontation to lead up to the very first thing you read. I bow repetitively and plead forgiveness for the utter failure that this chapter is (more so than usual). I've been reading all sorts of fight scenes to try to get ideas but it's so far, blown up in my face, horribly. Over time I will get better no? I predict a good many fighting scenes in the future; oh and if you haven't been able to tell, I haven't quite figured out where I'm going with this story, please forgive me, please, please, please!
As AwaitTheRise has pointed out this story thus far is horribly terribly confusing because I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOING. I admit this full force, obviously, if you can't tell from the opening, this is an Ita/Saku fanfiction, but I started out at the wrong point and am rushing the build up to get to where it needs to be and... I'm rambling. I'm sorry, please forgive me, please bare with me until I figure out what the heck I'm doing with this story? ^.^;;;;
She had felt their chakra signatures before they could mask them, morons, breaking into a village without masking one's signature was deadly, especially when they were standing outside of her house and appeared to be attempting to dispel her genjutsu's. She almost laughed at the fumbling and moderately loud curses she was hearing outside of her door but she quickly moved to put on some decent (battle worthy) clothing and grab her weapons. She couldn't quite place who the signatures belonged to but they were familiar and not of Konoha, it made her hackles rise slightly as she stood at the end of the hallway, in the pitch black linen closet, waiting for them to come in. She was out of view of the door and her chakra completely masked, a clone hiding in the bathroom, waiting for the signal to sneak out when it was probably safe and get help.
It only took a minute for them to fumble with the door look before creeping it open. "Why did that take so long, yeah?"
"Shut up."
"Who are you to tell me to shut up, yeah?"
She had to roll her eyes, great, they hadn't even gotten close to getting what they needed and they were fighting amongst themselves. She took the opportunity to peek out from around the corner, Akatsuki. She inhaled sharply and pressed her back against the wall, what the hell did they want with her? "If you don't be quiet, Deidara, they'll know we are here! We need to get that scroll back."
They didn't want her they wanted the scroll, did that pompous asshole really just walk into her house after retrieving a scroll that the Akatsuki wanted, ditch it in her custody and then not tell her that, oh, she wasn't too sure but it might have been something along the lines of, 'Sakura-san, the Akatsuki are also trying to acquire this scroll, be careful.' But no, not a single word of it. She felt her pulse pick up as panic set in, she was in trouble now, because even she had to admit that being able to physically feel their chakras now, that their chakra's were actually quite well masked, her chakra affinity just allowed her to be more sensitive to them. She cursed in her head, she couldn't take on multiple Akatsuki, one had been insanely hard. The scroll, it was in her closet, they hadn't gotten to the bedroom yet, the clone could get it and book it to somewhere safe.
"I don't know what scroll you're talking about, Akatsuki, but you will not find it here."
She spoke, her voice low, her chakra masked, the two looked around everywhere. "You shouldn't sound so sure of yourself girl. Save us some time, hand it over and we won't tear apart your darling house."
The voice was deep, it wasn't the blonde's, she hadn't gotten a good look at the second person, he had been completely covered, still wearing his straw hat but he had been tall, way tall. She released a breath and walked out of the linen closet, a cocky smirk on her face as she did her best to calm her nerves. "I am no 'girl', Akatsuki. I am a kunoichi, one of the best. You've walked into the wrong home."
The tall wall laughed, a boyant laugh, it made her flinch with how it filled up the small space, "You cannot take on two of us girl."
"No one said I would. I said I was one of the best. Not thee best. Now, if you could please get out of my home so I can go back to sleep, it would be much appreciated. I work at four in the morning you see, and I would like to get some proper rest." She looked at the senbon between her fingers, "Or I could escort you out, but it won't be pretty and would end in the destruction of my home either way, make your decision if you would please."
"Hey Kisame, un. Isn't that, un, the kunoichi that killed Sasori?" The blonde spoke for the first time since she came out of the closet, a sadistic smirk slowly sliding onto his face, a crazed look in his eye. "Hey, yeah, she is her, yeah?"
She twitched, Kisame Hoshigaki? In her home? Oh hell no. She didn't see his sword though. She tensed up, she wasn't going to face the man who wielded a chakra eating sword, that's only make him more powerful, she couldn't do it on her on. She brought a hand up to her face, "Ki." She ducked into her bedroom only a second before the explosives in the hallway went off, she had never thought she would have used them, she was now significantly grateful for Kakashi making her put them up so long ago.
"Holy shit, un!"
"Damn it Deidara!"
She heard their shouts as she bolted into her closet, the loud noises of the explosion ringing throughout her house and Konoha, the entire building shook with strain from the force of the fifty tags going off, no doubt toppling the entire front end of her one story home, but there wasn't much else she could do. Her hand gripped the scroll and she bolted out of her closet, sirens ringing throughout Konoha that she could barely hear. Smoke was billowing into her room, she had to get out, but the Akatsuki had been easily able to duck out the door and were, no doubt waiting for her to emerge with the scroll. She didn't have a choice, she grabbed her pack and kicked down the wall, jumping through the hole she had created breathing heavily and coughing. "Damn it!"
"Told you, un! Told you she'd go through the wall, yeah?" The blonde cheered and she glowered at him, not wasting time, the chakra bombs he made were capable of flying. She kicked up off of the ground and onto her neighbors house, she would be safer on the rooftops, that's the way ANBU would be taking to come there.
"She has the scroll Deidara, get her!"
The blue skinned man swung a kick at her that sent her flying into the conjoined building to the one she was on. She dropped to the floor easily, "How the fuck did you, un, kill Sasori, yeah?" The blonde, she couldn't see him but she saw one of his birds and her eyes widened, quickly getting to her knees and jumping away as it exploded, she missed the worst of it but that blast power still sent her flying an extra distance that she was thankfully able to land skidding. She tucked the scroll in her pack she couldn't resist dropping it. She could see her house on fire behind them and she cursed silently but couldn't bring herself to care. Her hand flickered through hands seals quickly, "Earth Release-" Another kick sent her flying this time off of the rooftops and into a nearby tree, she really was too exhausted for this fight.
She released a breath as she dragged herself up from the ground, not understanding what was taking the ANBU so long to reach her, but she could handle this. She inhaled sharply through her nose, this was something she could do. As soon as her opponents joined her on the ground she just grinned at them in a cocky manner again, they were on her turf. "Hand of the scroll half pint and we won't hurt you."
"Yes we will, un! I want her head, yeah!"
She grinned a bit wider as she panted, getting the crap kicked out of her was taking a toll on her, she was certain more than a few ribs had been broken from those two kicks alone. "My head is staying where it's at, I fear." She threw a punch into the ground, immediately the area surrounding them erupted into a dusty explosion of ground, dust filling the air while her opponents were shaken. She still hadn't seen the blue skinned man's sword, so she figured, for now, it was safe to charge and she did. She ran forward at full speed, chakra masked and not a sound made as she hopped between shifting and flying boulders of earth that she had shattered, sending chakra to her foot to land a direct kick to the blondes chest, immediately flipping out of the way. That was not who she had aimed for! She looked around, she could hardly see anything through the dust.
But then the voices reached her ear, "Shit Deidara! Scram! ANBU!"
There was no sound from the blonde shinobi but she could still feel his chakra signature, she frowned, the mist nin's signature moved away and then disappeared was he really going to abandon his comrade? Figures, stupid S-Ranked shinobi didn't know anything about camaraderie and teamwork. Of course, caring about the team was supposed to come after the mission which came before ones own life.
"Haruno-san!"
She felt the gust of a wind pull at her, they were clearing the dust from the area and as soon as it was gone she could see the blonde, blood seeping from his mouth. She approached him, logic stated she should kill him, but as she picked him up by the front of his cloak she sighed, no, she would spare him and hand him over to Ibiki... was that really spareing? Not really, but it would have to do. She felt a hand rest of her shoulder.
"You took him down, good job."
She snort and turned to the ANBU, "It was by pure luck, unfortunately. I was going for Hoshigaki and with all the dust I guess I got disoriented."
"Hoshigaki was here?"
"Yes."
"Did he get the scroll?"
She shook her head, messed up pink locks flying into her face as she sighed and looked around at the damage, that was going to take more than she could afford to fix. Unless of course she could sweet talk some of the more jutsu readied nin to fix it for her, but that would probably cost her even more. No one in their village did anything for anything but money. She sighed again and handed the unconscious nin to the ANBU. "Get him out of my sight, would you?"
No sooner was he out of her hands, was she in someone else's. She was roughly turned to face the shinobi, she blinked blandly. "Sakura!"
Had she never heard the voice of concern come from one Neji Hyuga before then? She was almost certain she had never heard it. After all, he looked so frantic. He himself looked ruffled, as if the only thing he had been able to do was pull on clothes and run, even his head band was gone, replaced instead with the white wrapping that she had seen on his forehead only when his head band fell during battle. She looked up at the taller male, clearly winded as she blinked. "Neji-san."
"Are you alright?"
Of course she was alright, she had been kicked around twice, sent herself through a huge explosion, been put through a huge explosion and was hurting really bad. But she was fine she was fine, "I am fine. Of course."
Perhaps it was the way she was holding herself without realizing it, but he brought a hand to the side of her chest, underneath her armpit, putting almost no pressure behind it he listened to her gasp, "Heal. Or the Hyuga medics will do it for you."
The pink haired kunoichi swatted away his hand, she was fine enough for now, she didn't puncture a lung, "You, Neji-san," she remembered why she was supposed to be angry at him, "never fucking told me that the Akatsuki were after my little puzzle."
"It seemed like a little matter-"
"A little matter doesn't blow up someone's else and then proceed to burn down the rest of it, a little matter doesn't cause," she paused and put a glowing green hand over her ribs, "six broken ribs, a little matter doesn't destroy a now, homeless kunoichi's night, and before you ask about the bloody fucking scroll I have it, it's safe. No thanks to- what the hell are you doing? Put me down this instant."
She was being cradled to the chest of one Neji Hyuga as he picked her up bridal style and jumped to the rooftops, heading for his compound. "You would not heal yourself in a timely manner so the Hyuga medics will look at you."
"I am perfectly capable of breaking my bones and rehealing myself should it come to that, but since it won't you can put me down and I will go... somewhere."
"Where?"
"I don't know, you're marvelous little scroll burned down my house... how the fuck did they know where to find it anyways?" She felt nauseated suddenly, as if the slowing of her pulse as they traveled between rooms made it harder for her to breathe, she gasped out suddenly, coughing on blood, when had her lung punctured? Or had it been ruptured with the kicks? How hadn't she noticed? No, it had probably been punctured when he picked her up so suddenly, how hadn't she felt it? The questions didn't have any time to be answered further as her vision went black.
