hey guys am so sorry for not posting weekly, i had finals and now am done, summer vaca yay. (not excited)
-but I will update very soon cause I'm almost finished with chapter 5. Also am so sorry for this short chapter, and I'm not good with action/fighting scenes, so excuse my writing.
-please review cause that will make my summer way better. you guys give me the energy to write more.
It is not the first time for Sasuke, Sakura and Sai to be in a mission together. But it was heck awkward at the beginning, and by beginning I mean when Sasuke got back, well, obviously the Council had to let him do community work, for year, he was restricted to D-rank missions for another year, he was allowed to use a limited amount of chakra during those two years. Not to mention it was a good quality time for team seven to come together including Sai.
They went on missions together, mostly A or B ranked missions, not the whole team, sometimes it would be Sasuke and Sai, or Sasuke and Sakura or Naruto and Sasuke, it would be a lie to say it didn't feel awkward, because they grew up through these years, so working together was a bit intense and they needed to know how to fight and to establish teamwork during this missions.
As they were marching ahead, on their way to the Waterfall country, Sakura's was thinking about the team that was sent four days ago, did they got attacked? They were definitely attacked, but by who? Did someone know about Konoha's need for this medicine? But how would they know? The team that they sent could have been sent for anything, not just to get the medicine.
Previously at the gates, Sakura, Sai and Sasuke were informed that Kakashi was sent into another mission, a S-class mission, it didn't surprise them, and they were strong enough. And so the trio started their way to the Waterfall village.
Mean while, Shizune was at the hospital, looking at the window that separated her from Naruto's room, she could see from the machine next to her that the temperature of the room is increasing, steadily, which worried her, she sent one of the nurses to inform Tsunade.
The worst-case scenario was happening. If the room temp is getting higher by the minute it could only means that the Naruto had caught the chakra virus, and it would drain all his chakra, and he is not any normal ninja, he is a jinchuriki, they had no idea if the kyuubi chakra was infected, or was vulnerable for infection.
It didn't take long for Tsunade to rush into the room, she looked at the machine and it was true. She looked at the glass window, Naruto was lying in bed, sleeping, she could see his chest rise and fall. She chewed her lips, her eyebrows furrowed and her worries were becoming true.
Shizune looked at her Tsunade and she knew from her expression, this was only the beginning of this damn disease.
It took the trio a day and a half to reach the Waterfall Village.
When they were only few miles to the Waterfall village, she could sense them, and Sasuke and Sai must have too. But they were kind of far away at the moment, although she could sense their chakra moving faster towards them, exponentially.
They fast in an unnatural way, before she could look behind her, she could feel a kunai on her neck 'when did they..'
She held the hand that was putting the kunai on her neck, he pressed further for the kunai touch her neck, a slight cut through her skin but before he could do anything, she pumped chakra into her hands and twisted his hands free of the kunai, got hold of the ninja's arm and jerked him to the ground.
Another two ninjas charged in her direction, she ran ahead dodging the rain of kunai that they sent, she kicked the ninja on her left with her right leg sending him all the way for his back to hit a tree. The one on her right started moving his hands in a fast pace but before he could finish she hit him in the face with her foot, 'a broken jaw', she predicted.
On an impulse and grabbed the other ninja that was behind her and threw him over her back and threw him on the ground on his back with all her power, she knew he was dead, because that left a big hole in the ground, she sensed another ninja but his hand seals were fast and walls emerged from the earth trapping her, when he knew that she was inside punched the walls so they had collapse over her, but he didn't hear any sound of pain, he checked his surrounding and noticed a shadow ascending on him 'when did she use kage bunshi?', she hit him with her leg on his shoulder, creating another big hole, surprisingly he was still holding up, his left hand holding his injured shoulder, he crouched on the ground and picked a explosive kunai and he threw it at her, Sakura almost laughed at him but she noticed the flying kunai was (repeated) into hundreds, she made a seal to deactivate the explosive tags and so she can dodge it freely. She ran and pointed the kunai at his neck giving him her deadly look "who sent you" she hissed.
The anger was filling her eyes, the ninja grinned,
She tightened her grip that was holding his collar. "I won't repeat myself again" she gritted her teeth "who fucking sent you"
"I have no idea what are you talking about" he answered weakly, blood dripping from his mouth
She loosed her grip from him and brought her arm back and fisted her hand and punched him in the gut
He growled as his mouth splattered blood.
"We were assigned to kill any ninjas" he coughed even harder, his eyes are hardly open "from Konoha, that are coming to the waterfall"
"Why is that? And who assigned you?!" She was shouting now
His eyes rolled back and closed. She saw his hands moving. He's making seals
Sakura backed off as soon as possible.
An explosion erupted; she jumped as fast as she could possibly can.
Mean while, Sasuke and Sai were fighting the other ninjas, Sasuke noticed Sakura wasn't with them, Sai was fighting another ninja not too far away from him, but Sakura's chakra was faint, but the fact it was there eased him.
There was 12 ninjas in front of him, he smirked at the thought of beating them up like flies, sharingan wasn't even needed, he used the lightening technique he head at them with his sword charged with lightning, his speed was indulging when he saw the ninjas falling one by one.
That gave enough time for the tough enemy to prepare his fight against Sasuke, apparently Sasuke was on the Bingo Book and his bounty was exceeded 3 million.
Multiple of chakra-loaded shuriken were thrown in the raven-haired shinobi's way, he dodged them and charged to his opponent collecting enough lighting in his right hand, the ninja jumped avoiding his hand, but Sasuke used his sword and pierced the lightning sword in his left shoulder, but the ninja went in a puff of smoke. And he sensed coming from behind him. The enemy had an axe and was already aiming at Sasuke and it was too late for Sasuke to even lift his head, Sasuke went into another puff of smoke
The enemy curses under his breath. He moved his eyes to the left, right, down, up, he turned to see behind him, but as soon as he did, he felt an electrifying pain in his stomach, the enemy lifted his hand in seals but Sasuke dug his sword into his enemy's body preventing him from exploding himself, for he had noticed the tags on his back, when he activated his sharingan after killing the first ninjas.
He heard an explosion coming from the direction he was sending Sakura's chakra, he charged to the way as fast as he could.
He knew Naruto would never forgive him if something happened to her.
FLASHBACK
Naruto and Sasuke lay on the beating grass, sun was setting.
"I was easy on you" Sasuke said
"Stop making excuses, I kicked your ass and I won" Naruto said triumphantly with a big grin on his face.
"Well, Seems like you have improved your taijutsu through the years Naruto" Sasuke said clarifying the fact that he decided to strength his taijutsu, which was the reason he didn't use sharingan in his spar with Naruto.
"All thanks to bushy brows. Sparring with him in those past years made it worthwhile. You should spar with him, he has gotten stronger, I don't think you're in his level though" he laughed
"hn" he rolled his eyes.
"Don't get all cocky because I let you win this round" the raven-haired boy added
"LET ME WIN?" the blonde was laughing even harder
"I hear a challenge, I don't kicking your ass" said the Uchiha shinobi.
"I'm inviting Kiba and Bushy eyebrows tomorrow at the training grounds" Naruto smiled
"hn" he smirked.
Naruto took that as a sign of agreement.
They lay on the ground, after a long silence that fell upon them
"Did you talk to her" Naruto broke the silence.
"Her?" Sasuke raised a brow.
"You know what am taking about, Sakura. Did you talk to her?"
"Why don't you ask her?"
"She's on a mission"
"She isn't coming be back till next week" he added
"Naruto, Sakura is only my teammate, nothing more nothing less" Sasuke declared. And stared back at the sky
Naruto glanced at him, studying his face, but he only saw the same Sasuke face that Sasuke made
"Good, because I'm marrying her" the blonde declared back.
Sasuke saw huge carters on the ground, and a burned body; it was the enemy's body.
He scanned the area for her; he saw a body sitting on the ground a few feet away from the crater. He moved there instantly. he saw her healing herself. He went to her, Sakura heard his footsteps coming to her.
"Where's Sai?" she asked, not looking at him,
"He's still fighting the ninja. I will have to warn him about the tags that are attached to their bodies" the Uchiha said.
"How many are left? I can't sense anyone around here," Sakura inquired.
She could sense Sai but she can't sense anyone else. Did Sasuke defeat them?
"Are you alright?" He asked
She lifted herself up, "I'm fine, we need to find Sai," she stated.
She was in good shape, she healed herself from the damage she got from explosion, but no that much, she needed chakra to heal her both teammates later.
"Are you alright Sasuke?" she looked at him, checking for wounds, there was none, she sighed in relief.
"I'm good, lets go" he started walking
She got up and followed him.
They both moved to where Sai was fighting one of the enemies, but as soon as they arrived, One of Sai's inked summoning, a snake holding a jar filled with water and stone, a sea blue stone inside it, floating.
They saw Sai taking the jar from the snake. The inked snake returned into the scroll and the snake went inside the scroll as if it never was alive to begin with.
"Is this-" The pinked hair asked
"The cure? It is" the pale ninja interrupted while securing the jar with a cloth.
"It with the ninjas we fought, they got hold of it by defeating the previous team that was sent here in the last four days"
"This cure had the signature of Konoha village on it" he added
He lifted the jar for both his teammate to see
Sakura leaned close "yeah that's true, but that means that the previous team wa-"
"Was about to bring back the cure to the village but they were stopped by those ninjas" Sai interrupted her again.
"Where's the team then? They can't be dead." Sakura said in a low voice
"I don't know Sakura-san" Sai had this expression on his face; it was calm, strangely calm.
"We should go to the village and ask them, maybe they know" Sakura suggested
"We don't have time for that Sakura." Sasuke looked at her, she knew that look, that look he always had whenever he and Naruto would start arguing non-stop.
"Then Sai, Sasuke take the medicine back to the Konoha and I will check the village" she insisted.
"No, Sakura you take the medicine back, you lost most of your chakra from the damage of the explosion" Sasuke commanded.
"'No I'm fine Sasuke, more importantly we need to check on the team" she dictated.
She never argued with Sasuke in missions, Naruto would do all the arguing and they would make a decision and go with it, but this time it was different she needed to check on the other team, as much as she wanted to go back and heal Naruto, she needed to check on the previous team, if Naruto were in her place he would do the same, he would never leave anyone behind.
"I will go and check on the team, Sakura you need to bring the medicine to Konoha, for Naruto" Sai was on Sasuke's side,
'are they insane? Do they think she is that weak?'
"Sasuke, Sai, I can handle myself and you know the team cannot go around without a medic, I'm going to check on the other team and Sai you take the medicine back, leave on of your inked summoning with us so we can stay in touch" she said it with a determine look in her face, she wasn't going to be treated as the weakest one here, things changed she is not the fragile one anymore.
"Alright then" Sai agreed.
He summoned the little mice, two of them hopped on both Sakura and Sasuke's shoulders
They went part ways.
(edited 5.12.2014)