Pink stitches


Chapter 4

Sakura and the trio have been doing d ranked missions for the past few weeks. The boys didn't like doing public cleaning and gardening. The times that they didn't want to work they made sakura do all the work.

One day the hokage was at a tent for missions and Naruto yelled at him to give them a better mission. The hokage laughed at Naruto and said that they could have a C rank mission, the mission was an escort mission.

The client was a bridge builder, he needed help going to the land of waves. The clients name is Tazuna he was slightly drunk when the trio met him. Tazuna asked the trio their names and they introduced their self. He called Naruto out on being the shortest and laughed at him, needless to say Naruto got mad.

Kakashi told them to meet him and Tazuna at the entrance of the village by noon. Naruto ran off to his apartment to get ready, Sasuke sneered at sakura and went to get his things. Finally, sakura left to get her stuff, when she went to the apartment she packed what she needed and went to the gates.

The villagers saw that she had a backpack on and did a little cheer saying don't come back, some of them hit her with rocks and some just hit her. Sakura wish she could do something to them but she can't.

When she walked to the entrance the guards tried making her step outside the Gates. They wanted a reason to hurt her and make her suffer.

One of the guards grabbed sakura from behind and made her walk to their booth. Sakura tried stopping but the guard kept pulling her. The second guard grabbed sakura's legs and got on top of her. Sakura tried to get the guard holding her to let go but the one on top of her was stopping her.

The guard on top of her tried to remove sakura's pants when suddenly Kakashi pulled him off of her and knocked him out. The guard sakura let her go and sakura kicked him in the groin, the guard scream and tried to grab sakura but Kakashi interfered.

"I see we have a little problem here, now I could report this to the hokage and make an example of you both of you or you can say that your friend her was drunk and passed out what choice do you think sounds better" Kakashi said

"H…he was drunk"
"Good know stand all the way over there and don't even look this way or at her!" Kakashi said darkly

The guard nodded and went to the other side of the gate, Kakashi asked sakura if she was alright and she said yeah. Kakashi also asked her to not mention this to anyone and sakura said that nobody would care about what happened. Kakashi tried to make her mood better but all he was doing was making her annoyed, they waited for Tazuna and the boys to arrive so that they could leave.

Naruto asked why the mood was so tense and why the guard looked so scared but Kakashi said everything was alright and they left to the land of waves.

The group walked for 3 hours, they were half way to the land of waves when sakura noticed a puddle. Kakashi saw that sakura stopped and looked to see what she was doing.

Sakura said that it hasn't rained in this area for a couple of weeks and pointed out that she sense's other chakra signatures around them.

Kakashi told the boys to be on their guard, the boys surrounded Tazuna and waited to see who was there.

Not a minute later the chakra signatures sakura sensed came out the puddle and attacked Kakashi. The attackers used a very sharp chain to slice Kakashi open. To Naruto and Sasuke Kakashi was killed by the two attackers but sakura saw it was a clone of Kakashi.

Sakura took a kunai out of her pocket and cut one of the attackers face after she got their attention she used her stitches (earth grudge fear) to trap them. she wrapped her left arm around both attackers and slammed them into the ground.

The attackers were stunned to see that a genin trapped them and hurt them so easily. Sasuke was shocked to see her use her stitches to incapacitate them, Sasuke wanted to join the battle but he didn't know if there was a third attacker. Naruto was scared that was his first time seeing somebody die and scared of sakura's ability to do things from a long range.

Sakura with her free arm removed their claws, she made sure they couldn't reach them and made sure that they were still stunned.

Kakashi reappeared and congratulated his students on handling the situation. Kakashi went to the attackers and asked them who they were working for, they realized who Kakashi was and told them that a Gatō hired them to get rid of Tazuna.

"So who are they" Sasuke asked

"They're the demon brothers, chunin level, missing nin from Kirigakure, they have a bounty of 30,000. There not high enough to send ANBU after them but high enough to have a spot in the bingo book." Sakura said

"How would you know to look in a bingo book" Naruto asked

"That's none of your business, so Kak… I mean sensei what do you want to do with them." Sakura asked

"We will tie them up here and go to the wave village. I will inform leaf officials to pick them up now let's go."

While the group was walking Naruto sensed something and threw a kunai into the bushes. Sasuke asked what he was doing and Naruto told him that he saw something move. Sasuke walked to the bush and picked up a white rabbit.

Naruto apologized to the rabbit and tried comforting it. Sakura noticed that it was white and said that it should be brown around this time of year.

Naruto was surprised by the notion and said that they needed to proceeded to the village they were nearly there when a new enemy came. He was tall, pale skin, short hair, bandages around his face, and carrying a very large sword.

Sakura recognized him from her bingo book and announced him to the others

"Zabuza Momochi former Kirigakure nin, he now is a mercenary, S rank missing nin, former member of the 'Seven Swordsman', possibly works for Gatō bounty 100,000 to 300,000" Sakura said

"Quite the girl you have their hmm, I wonder how long it would take to kill you or at least make her beg" Zabuza said

"Stay away from my students" Kakashi said

"Ha you can't keep me away for long, I wonder what do you want to lose first liver, lungs, spine, neck, brain, kidneys or heart so which one should I take first." Zabuza

"Silent kill" sakura muttered

"What's that mean sakura" Naruto asked

"Watch yours back!" Sakura said dunking Naruto down deflect the incoming needles

Naruto was surprised that sakura protected him and did a guard stance, Sasuke also deflected some needles that were coming his way too. This time it was a new attack he had a mask on and was holding needles in one hand

"I told you not to come" Zabuza said

"I had no choice the girl isn't normal" mask guy said

"How?"

"I don't know right know but something doesn't add up" mask said

Zabuza nodded and attack Kakashi with a water canon jutsu, while Kakashi was avoiding all the water attacks and worried about his students.

Sakura was the main target of the masked guy, she was back flipping and deflecting needles. Naruto tried to help sakura but the mask guy was throwing needles at all them. Sasuke was getting pissed off that sakura was the only one getting attention and shots a couple of fireballs at the guy.

The mask guy pushed sakura and avoided the fire balls, he charged Sasuke and punched him in his stomach three times before tossing him at Naruto. Naruto caught Sasuke, Naruto asked Sasuke if he was ok and Sasuke said he needed a minute to recover.

Sakura punched the masked guy in the face, breaking the mask revealing a lively brown eye. The guy was impressed by sakura's strength and ripped her mask of.

Sakura was slightly shocked to see her mask get ripped off and tackled the mask guy.

The masked guy was happy to see that she was a fighter and that she didn't looked too bad even with the stitches. Sakura started using taijutsu against him, the masked guy was more impressed with sakura and continued to fight her.

Kakashi was now on the offense and started attacking Zabuza with lighting and water attacks. Zabuza wasn't giving up on this challenge and trick Kakashi into moving his way. Zabuza put Kakashi into a water prison, Kakashi tried to get out but couldn't.

Sakura saw that he was stuck and tried to help him but the mask guy grabbed sakura's hair and pulled her back to their fight. Sakura told the boys to help Kakashi and leave mask guy to her. The boys looked at her like she was crazy but understood what she meant, they threw kunai's at Zabuza.

The kunai's were deflected and Zabuza sent a clone to deal with them, Sasuke was using most of his energy on the clone but he and Naruto defeated it with Narutos multiple clones.

Sakura saw that they defeated the clone and decided it was time to finish her battle. Sakura finished her battle with an earth jutsu that trapped you underground serval feet. Sakura performed the jutsu and made him go away, this made Zabuza distracted enough for Naruto to send Sasuke disguised as a large shuriken it worked and Kakashi was free.

Kakashi revealed his sharingan and put Zabuza in a paralyzing trance. The mask guy dug himself from out the ground and saw that Zabuza couldn't move and took him. They retreated somewhere and the group went to the wave village.

When the group went to the village they relaxed and Kakashi asked Tazuna why he lied about the mission and how he endangered his students.

Tazuna said he couldn't afford the higher rank mission and he, the villagers need the bridge to be complete in order to finally have their lives. Tazuna told them that Gatō has been threating builders since the construction started.

Naruto was furious about Gatō and told Kakashi that they need to stay until the bridge is finished. Sakura and Sasuke agreed to help with the bridge if they could stay. Kakashi saw that his students wanted to help and agrees to stay, but Tazuna asked sakura to keep her mask on her face.

Sakura grunted and went outside to take a walk. Kakashi didn't stop her because he knows what happens when she is upset. Sakura was walking through the forest when she literally bumped into somebody.

"Oh, we meet again!"
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