Colorless Heart
Chapter 7 Panic
Peace Cannot Exist Without War For We Would Know no Peace
Dawn had just broke and the sky was beginning to fill with light as the blonde haired ninja stood outside of a door in the hallway. The house was still and silent. Uzumaki Naruto was unknowing to his teacher and best friend fast asleep in one others arms in a room almost directly above him.
He had been summoned for a brief conference with the lord of the land. He had just discovered the lord's name and the name of his enemy. Nakaniwa Kareru and Donabe Shida. At first the idea for the new ninja village in the Fire Country had been a way for them to show the country's strength. The Hokage, Tsunade, had chosen a more modern village similar to Konoha. The village they were in, Nagareboshi and its lord Donabe Shida.
After the Hokage made her choice the neighboring village to Nagareboshi that didn't even have a full title name revolted. Tsunade did not want a nairan, a civil war, to break out between the deflecting village and the new ninja village so she sent Sasuke to deal with the rebellion with one squad of Konoha nins. So far it wasn't very dangerous and the only serious mission had been when Kakashi escorted Lord Donabe's daughter Donabe Nami back to the village.
Naruto shook his head in thought, 'we were sent to stop a rebellion…but this village we are fighting doesn't even have ninja. It will not be a war…it will just be a slaughter. Tsunade-sama has no choice but to stop this before a nairan breaks out.'
He slapped his forehead in exasperation and spoke aloud, "Why can't things just work out like they should!"
At that moment the door slid open, "Uzumaki Naruto! Have you arrived?" a ninja called out into the hallway.
Naruto collected himself and then saluted, "Hai!" and followed the ninja into the conference room to be briefed on his mission.
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Sakura could feel the sun's rays flashing against her face like an alarm clock from nature. She let out a soft moan of protest and snuggled closer against the warmth in the bed. The pink haired ninja breathed in allowing a relaxing scent of musk to fill her senses. She felt the warmth beneath her steadily move up and down lulling her back into sleep.
The peaceful moment was shattered when a voice reached her, "Sakura…Sakura…times up. You have to get up now."
Sakura was startled at first and she jerked up her eyes wide. She felt herself slipping off the edge of the bed and had prepared herself for a crash landing.
But it stopped. Kakashi's arms were wrapped around her waist and went up to support her back and held her up so she wouldn't fall. Sakura's chest heaved with the adrenaline rush she had gotten from being snuck up on. Now she remembered, she was in Kakashi's room last night and told him everything…he had let her spend the night.
Sakura felt her cheeks become hot as she realized the position she was in. Kakashi's arms were around her and her legs were folded and on either side of Kakashi straddling him. Also in her panic she had grabbed hold of Kakashi's arms as he had caught her.
The warmth from his body began to seep into her…the reality of how close her body was to his the pang in her abdomen she had felt when he wrapped her hand came again but this time it brought no feelings of confusion just a pleasant sensation that coursed through her body. The tension in the room was overwhelming…one of them had to act. Sakura began to lean closer to him, her abdomen already pressing against him, when he broke the silence,
"You should be more careful." His voice cracked a little and then he released her, got off the bed, and left her sitting on her knees as he moved to his rummaged through his pack. Sakura brushed a few stray pastel locks off of her face and stood up. She had been glad for the crack in his voice. It meant he had felt some emotion too.
"Well, I should go get ready…" Sakura walked past him and opened the door a little ways before he closed it. Kakashi stood behind her at a good distance as if he was reluctant to touch her at all. "If you ever need anything…"
"I'll come straight to you. Thank you, Kakashi…I'll see you downstairs." Sakura gave a small smile and left to get ready closing the door behind her.
Sakura pressed her back against the wooden door and clasped her hands together and pressed them against her chest like she use to when ever she talked about Sasuke. As the light from the sun rose Sakura looked out a window nearby at the colored sky, for the first time in a long time things didn't seem so dark
It was a start towards normal.
And it was a start towards something else.
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Sakura was walking down the stairs sporting her normal black blouse and white skirt with the shin guards attached on her shinobi sandals and the black wrist guards the Hokage had given her for her birthday a few years back. The wrist guards had kanji engraved into them that heightened healing power for medic Nins…and would cover the scars. She had already begun to use her chakra to get rid of the scars. It would take a few months but soon they would all be gone.
She came to the main floor when a small giggle knocked her out of her own thoughts. She looked over her shoulder and peaking out from behind a wall was the little girl Kakashi had escorted home.
She was of small stature and had short brown hair with big blue eyes that smiled brightly at her. Sakura smiled to herself and pretended not to notice her. The little girl quickly scampered around behind a table closer to the pink haired ninja.
Sakura quickened her pace and the little girl followed until she disappeared around a corner. The little girl stuffed a giggle and went around and to her surprise the pink lady was gone. She looked around wide eyed and finally with a look of delight stared straight up.
Sakura stuck her tongue out at the little girl as she stood on the ceiling.
"Hey lady! Watcha doin up there?"
Sakura allowed herself to drop down, "I could ask you the same thing."
Sakura's heart almost melted with maternal instinct as she pouted at her, "No far I ask you first!" The little girl ran around Sakura and a few steps away then turned wildly around, "My name is Nami! My daddy is the boss around here. Who are you?"
Sakura smiled and pushed some of her pastel locks away as she knelt down to eye level with the Nami, "My name is Sakura. I am a ninja-"
"Really! You're a kunoichi!" her blue eyes widened with awe, "My mommy was a kunoichi before she died! I wanna be one too but daddy says I can't." Once again Nami pouted. Sakura gave her a gentle look, "Its nothing to special-"
"That's what he always says…oh no! I am gonna be late to my lesson! Ja ne big sister!" and in a blink little Nami was gone.
Sakura stood up and let out a long sigh, 'Was I ever that energetic?' she thought as she continued down the hall. She would need something to eat to keep up her strength.
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'This is not good.' The blonde ninja thought as he surveyed the damage done by the riots. Even after the ninja's arrived it seemed as though the riot worsened. Sasuke was no longer visible to Naruto but he had no worry. Sasuke had been doing this for months no doubtly he knew how to control these situations.
The roar of the crowd made it impossible to hear much but in one seconds time was all that was needed to silence them all. There was a wosh and an arrow had driven into the ninja next to Naruto.
It fell silent as the ninja stared at the arrow jutting out of him in shock, then finally he collapsed breaking the tension in the air.
"DISPURSE YOU REBELS!" Sasuke's voice rang over the now panic stricken crowd. "TAKE THE OFFENSIVE!" Naruto heard a scream by him and turned to see ninja's throwing kunai and shuriken into the crowd hitting the innocent bystanders.
"What are you-!" But before he could finish yelling to the others a rebel struck him with a pitchfork in the arm. Naruto, out of instinct, grabbed a kunai and shoved it in the man's shoulder. He screamed like any normal civilian and collapsed. Naruto jerked the pitchfork out of his arm causing more damage then before to the wound.
Ignoring the now over flowing crowd Naruto furiously made his way to the fallen ninja. He hauled him over his shoulder and jumped out of the crowd shock waves of pain going through his arm.
Naruto surveyed the area, 'The ninja's are out numbered! If we don't fight back will die…but if we do fight back innocent people will die! What should we do?'
And the crowd of armed rebels encircled the ninjas, prepared to kill. Naruto landed on a high branch and set the man down. Quickly he summoned as much chakra as possible and out of the leaves burst hundreds of Kage Bunshin's.
"I'll give you one last chance, He began, disperse or DIE!"
The rebels turned with vicious eyes much like the eyes of starving wolves and in an instant many turned to fight against him.
The Naruto's lifted up their kunai's and braced themselves for the worst.
