Chapter 4 is here! I don't really have much to say but as always, enjoy my new chapter!
CHAPTER 4
Told in Naruto's perspective
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I heard footsteps around me, circling. I looked to my side."Sakura… what are you doing?" I wanted to ask but no words would come out. I then saw a figure in black walking toward us from the shadows. Sakura had stopped walking now. The figure stepped into the light. 'Sasuke…' he said nothing and moved toward us. His hand reached up and he ran it up Sakura's exposed shoulder. She tensed but didn't move. "RUN SAKURA!" I wanted to shout at her, but again couldn't find my voice. Sasuke made his way behind Sakura. She let out a cold-blooded scream and-
I was yanked out of my restless sleep, sweaty and panting. Kakashi and Shikamaru were hovering over me, concern heavy in their eyes. "Get up, Naruto. Sakura's missing," said Kakashi quickly. I sat up and looked next to me. Her bed was empty and her weapons were still next to her bed. 'She didn't even take her weapons? Something's really wrong here.'
"Come on, we need to get moving. Hopefully, they haven't gotten very far," said Shikamaru.
"They?" I asked.
"See for yourself." Shikamaru led me over to the side of one of the cliffs. There it was, there was no mistaking it. "The Uchiha Clan symbol! Sasuke took her!" I exclaimed angrily. "What could Sasuke want with Sakura?"
"Who knows, but hopefully we can stop him before he takes things too far." Shikamaru sighed. I looked at the cliff again. 'Why hadn't she called for help? Unless he never gave her a chance to. Hopefully, her strength will be enough to hold him off for awhile, or at least until we find her.'
"Summoning jutsu!" I heard Kakashi say from behind us. We turned around to see the pack of ninja dogs appear in front of Kakashi. "Why did you summon us, Kakashi?" said Pakkun.
"Sakura is missing. Can you try to pick up her scent? We also know that Sasuke is the one who took her," Kakashi informed him.
"Sasuke left his clan symbol carved into the rock over here," said Shikamaru, motioning toward the place where the symbol was etched into the rock wall.
"Well, we better get moving then," said Pakkun. "I've got their scent. They went this way."
"Try to keep up!" I said. But I knew this was no time to be joking around. I was really worried about Sakura. 'If she's under the control of Sasuke, who knows what he could do to her.' My fist clenched and I looked forward. 'Time to focus on the task at hand, calm down.' We began to run, running in between the vast cliffs above us, none of us knowing if we would get to her in time.
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"Stop," said Pakkun abruptly.
"What is is, Pakkun?" asked Kakashi.
"They were here recently."Pakkun sniffed. Over here, there's a body. He's dead." We all rushed over to see what Pakkun had found. There was a body lying in a heap on the ground. I knew instantly who it was. "Kabuto," I said.
"This blow to his chest, I could've done this with my chidori. It may have been Sasuke who killed him," said Kakashi.
"Yes, I can smell traces of Sasuke on him." Pakkun said.
"We should go check it out. Maybe there will be a hint as to where they may have gone. " said Shikamaru. So we continued to a cave in the rock cliffs. There were candles lit inside. We walked inside and through a hallway to a room with the door ajar. When we walked over to get a closer look, I saw that there was a huge hole in the middle of the door. I pushed the door open cautiously and peeked inside. There were bodies of white snakes scattered all over the room, most of them cut in half or sliced open. Off to the side, there was a large snake body and next to it was a head. Blood was coming out of all openings on the face of the head. "Orochimaru's...dead?" I asked, shocked at what I was seeing.
"Yes, it appears so. Looks like we missed quite a lot here, didn't we?" said Kakashi.
"I wonder what happened here, but I guess we now know for sure that Orochimaru was definitely not human," said Shikamaru. I could tell that he was trying to take in every possible detail of the scene to try to figure out what happened.
"We still need to keep moving, we'll lose daylight fast and we don't want to try to search for them at night. I f we don't find them by then, it will be a lot harder to catch up to them," said Pakkun.
"He's right. Let's go," said Kakashi. we left the room and the cave and continued on our journey. Pakkun in the front, then Shikamaru, me, and Kakashi followed. 'Hang in there, Sakura! We're gonna find you.'
Chapter 4 is now finished! I think I'll either put chapter 5 in Sakura's or Sasuke's perspective. What do you guys think? Review and tell me! Thanks! ~Scarlet
