Chapter Seven

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Once again, morning. As always. Sakura clambered out of bed and yawned as she slid off of her bedroll and onto the hard light brown dirt around her. She didn't have any problem with the ground, she was just very tired. She crawled over and out of her tent and started to light the fire. She took the flint out of her pocket and a steel rectangle and started rubbing the metal agenst the flint making sparks. Soon, it caught fire with the leaves and oiled twigs inside the small ring of rocks and a fire started.

"Uchiha. Wake up." She yelled no response.

"Oi, Uchiha, wakie, wakie!" she walked on her knees and unzipped the tent a tad.

"Uchiha! Wake up!" she called into the tent.

"Strange," she unzipped the whole thing and looked inside. There lay a bundle of weapons, an oil lamp, a sports bag and a dark blue sleeping bag neatly folded and rolled up. But so Sasuke.

"He isn't here." She took out her head and zipped up the tent. She looked around. Faint traces of chakra came from westward, but he must've pasted there about two or three hours ago.

"I shouldn't risk leaving the camp… what if some missing-nin comes and takes all of our weapons?" Sakura shook her head and formed her hand into a fist.

"No! I will not act like a little annoying brat!"

You're annoying…

No I'm not!

Then why did Sasuke say so? And that girl from the Village Hidden in the Mist?

Sasuke was just a little upset… and she was trying to set me off guard!

Think what you wish Sakura-chan… but deep inside… you know the real answer…

Inner Sakura quieted down for a little while after that. So Sakura kept to herself. She tried to entertain herself by whistling, but she soon ran out of breath. SO she started to sing.

"This is the story of a girl, who cried a river and drowned the whole world. And while she looks so sad in photographs I absolutely love her when she smiles.

How many days of the year, she woke up with hope but she only found tears…" (I can't remember the rest of the song… hehe…) Her high voice echoed through the forest causing the animals to tweet and fly.

"YOU SHOULD BUY A BUCKET TO CARRY A TUNE PINKY!" rang out a voice from deep within the forest.

"Uchiha? Is that you?" she asked, nothing in reply. Sakura stood up and rushed inside of his tent and grabbed a Crescent Blade and several kunai and slipped the kunai into her pouch and checked the sharpness of the blade. Sharp as a child's echo. She cautiously stalked out and hid behind a tree, holding the blade close to her chest. Badly hidden chakra closed onto her from above. But only one.

"Good, only one." She moved the blade to se the reflection of the forest behind her and could see him. He was hiding in a tree, his face covered by a dark veil. His hair was a dark red. His skin was a light cream and he looked as if he could be her age. She quickly turned the blade which made a quick whizzing sound. She looked into the blade to see her reflection. Sweat was flowing slowly from her brow and she felt the metal shaft in her hands grow slippery. Her face was red and her mouth felt parched. Sakura clenched her blade and let it lean on her shoulder. She made a few hand signs and breathed in. Sakura dropped her blade from her tree and jumped down.

"Ok, ok… I surrender… Sakura closed her eyes hoping that the guy would come out,

"Smart choice." Said the voice he dropped down from his tree while the hidden Sakura breathed in deeply.

"Now to lure him in." she whispered.

"What are you doing out here… all alone?" he asked,

"Well… I was just out here with my friends…" she said in a high toned voice.

"When they just left me allllll alone…" she batted her eyelashes girlishly.

God what have I become?

"I think that it was a joke until I woke up and they weren't here." She started to sniffle.

"Aww well then… I'm sure that—" he whipped a kunai from his pocket and flung it over to where Sakura was.

"—we'll get to know each other well, missy."

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"How did…?"

"Basic instinct. Now come out and let's see you." Sakura gripped her Crescent Blade and turned around to face the guy.

"And you won't kill me?" she asked pitifully.

"No, if you're cute enough."

Pervert

"Fine," Sakura turned around and looked over to him. He did a Fox Whistle and Sakura blushed deep scarlet.

"Now what really are you doing out here?" he asked,

"Waiting."

"For whom?"

"A friend."

"Aww, I see." He raised his arm and clicked something at the back of his neck.

"I'm Kira. And you…?"

"Sakura Haruno." She replied.

"Nice name and I think I won't forget either. Good, I'm terrible with names." Sakura giggled, Kira smirked. The veil fell from his face and onto the ground with a thud. His eyes were the most beautiful dark blue and his nose was neat and perfect. His hair, (Described earlier if you weren't reading this right…) was a dark red he had one of those dark black tee shirts and white shorts just like Sasuke.

"Well, what do think I'm gonna do? Jump at you and scream 'boo'?" he asked, Sakura started to laugh harder.

"Well, no… but you're funny anyways," she said, Sakura dropped her blade in an attempt to keep a straight face but failed… miserably.

"What are you doing?" she asked,

"Well… to be short… I was sent by my master to take you somewhere…" Sakura stopped laughing.

"And if necessary," he talked in an eerily quiet voice.

"I'm aloud to use force." Sakura bent down and picked up her blade and shot up.

"Like hell you will!" she said and tested the blade again. With a soft pat, pat on the ground, her blood dropped making the blade seem even more deadlier, Kira smiled.

"Are you a good fighter as my master says? Or are you just protected by others?" Sasuke and Naruto immediately flashed through her mind. With a small gasp she took a small step back.

"No… I'm not weak…" she took yet another step back.

"Or are you?" a kunai then zipped past her hair, and with it, took her head protector too.

"You're not fit to be a konuchi if you can't even deflect a kunai that slow." He said, and drew a shirikan from his back pack. He started to twirl the blades together in a circle around the semi-large shaft. Sakura took back herself only to be back up right agenst a tree.

"Oh great…" she mumbled. A kunai took launch, seconds whizzed by… minutes… hours… it seemed as if the kunai wouldn't dare come to her… but sadly it did. With a great yelp of pain, the kunai dug into her arm, splattering blood everywhere.

"See? You're weak. You need to be aware of things." He flicked another kunai at her, this time it was engraved into her right thigh. Sakura bit her lip hard causing the blood to slowly trickle down her cheek and onto the ground.

"Dear Sakura-chan? What will we do with you?" the next kunai landed into her left hand.

"You're—"

"No… I'm…n-not… we-ak… you…" the words couldn't even form into her mouth. It hurt so much.

NO! SAKURA! YOU CAN'T GIVE UP! WHAT ABOUT SASUKE? WHAT ABOUT NARUTO?

Naruto-kun…?

Yes! C'mon Sakura! Stand up! Save yourself!

It was then Sakura relised no-one would save her here. God knew where Sasuke went, Naruto probably forgot about her. Kakashi is probably reading his little retarded book somewhere… Sakura gripped the Blade in her right hand, and straightened up.

"No… I will not loose to you…" Sakura glared at Kira,

:"Well not the Pink Princess decides to become the better."

"No… I've been the better all along."

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