Sorry for the long wait!
A/N: i don't own any names or anime involved in the following work.
Guest appearances by:
Mikan Sakura
Natsume Hyuuga
Ruka Nogi
Enjoy!
Cries and screams were drowning out the sound of her heart beating in her chest. How had it come to this? How could the fallen get past their defenses? How can see save all these people? There were little children running around everywhere, screaming and crying, many of which weren't aware of their blood loss. Parents and older adults were holding onto walls to keep steady, or just lying there waiting for it to be over. How could this have happened?! Louder screams came from her left as a fallen had escaped from her partner's hold, what can she do?
It was the first time being out in the field with this many casualties and with a live fallen attacking anything in its way. Why, why, why?! Her feet moved to stand in front of the children that were being followed; she was not going to let the children know any more bloodshed. She stood tall as the fallen was closing in on her. Her heartbeat sped up with each foot step the fallen took; she was going to protect these children! Her eyesight zeroed in on only the fallen, the children, her demon partner were just background noise. Only things that were there were the fallen and her. She blinked once to ready herself for the upcoming battle, "SAKURA, GET DOWN!" She heard her partner yell, but she couldn't move. She wasn't weak, she isn't weak.
As the fallen got closer, a quick blur of black ran in front of her and threw the fallen to a wall to the right of her, away from the children. Her eyes cleared as her view was now on open land, her demon partner stood a few feet away from her with his wings spread out, eyes the color of crimson. He was beautiful, deadly but beautiful. His body was tense ready for battle, what battle was he ready for? A loud crashing noise broke her trance on her Uchiha partner, she looked to the left, and who was it that ran in front of her if Uchiha was still in front of her.
The wall was crumbled and falling slowly. The fallen that had been running at her was now lying on the ground, motionless. Was he dead? She didn't think it was that easy to kill a fallen, could she have been wrong? A few inches from the fallen's body was a vampire, her vampire. Sai was cleaning off his mini sword with an apathetic face. Sai had ran in front of her? Sai had been following her like a good bodyguard for a while now, almost a month. And every time she saw him, he wore a mask of indifference. Like the blood, death, and war had no impact on him. It scared her to death. She didn't know what scared her more, the fallen or Sai.
A metal on metal sound rang through the area as Sai seethed his sword. "Thank you
Sai-san," She smiled before bowing. She turned toward the children before she could get a response. After all her main duty was to heal and protect while the boys did the main fighting, it upset her but everyone played to their strengths. In all honesty, she didn't think the boys could do any healing. The children were shivering from fear. There was two boys in front of a young girl almost trying to shield her "I'm not gonna hurt her or you. I'm an angel, I'm just want to heal your wounds so you don't bleed no more okay." The girl looked up at her. She had hazel eyes rimmed with tears. Her hazelnut hair was in pigtails and caked with dirt. The two boys protecting her didn't seem pleased with the idea though.
One with almost crimson eyes and midnight hair was glaring over her shoulder, most likely at her demon and vampire. She'd have to fix that. "Sasuke, would you come here please?" She didn't hear a response from him but with a few seconds a gust of wind came and with it a demon. The boys' eyes widened before scooting farther back into the wall behind them. "Don't worry he won't hurt you. Will you Sasuke-san?" He was glaring at the children for a while before closing his eyes and allowing them to return to the beautiful onyx color she deeply adored. "I won't hurt you or your friend. Now let the Sakura heal you." She turned back to look at the boys in front of her, the one with red hair and sea blue eyes relaxed a bit and looked toward the other boy next to him.
He was still glaring hard at Sasuke and it seemed Sasuke was glaring right back. Why was he glaring at a child for crying out loud! "Natsume, he isn't a fallen. I don't think he is going to hurt us." The boy named Natsume looked at his friend and then back at the girl before sighing and relaxing a bit, "The girl gets healed first." She nodded her head in acknowledgement before turning toward the girl. She didn't have anything major but there were a few concerning cuts on her arms and legs. "My name is Sakura, what is yours?" The little girl looked toward Natsume who gave her a small nod. "Mikan. My name is Mikan. Thank you for saving us." Sakura smiled before asking for the girl's arm to begin the healing. There was one cut on upper forearm that had been deep, how had she gotten this cut?
"How long have you been running?" a deep voice spoke from behind her. It seems even Uchiha was curious. She couldn't see what the boys were doing but she could hear just fine. A softer voice replied almost cautiously, "It has been a while. The fallen didn't exist in our city. It almost happened overnight. A bunch of them came in and dest5royed everyone and everything. We are best friends so our parents kept us together a lot. We were at Natsume's house when the first fallen had breached our city walls. My mother told us to run into the forest nearby and follow the trails until we get to the capital. That was two days ago." Sakura had already finished healing all of Mikan's wounds by the time the blond boy with a soft voice had finished speaking.
"There all good. Nothing hurts, does it?" Mikan shook her head, making her pigtails swing back and forth. She smiled as she looked to the boys. "alright, who's next?" The dark haired one looked at the blond boy who just spoke, "Ruka is." She nodded again and scooted closer to him. She looked over him and made mental notes about his condition. He had many deep cuts on his arms and a few on his legs. She asked him to remove his shirt, as he did he flinched a few times. She ran her fingers over his body and noticed where he winced. A few bruised or broken bones were more likely the reason why. Her hand glowed green as she healed his bones first, it did no good if he couldn't move because of it.
Luckily, they weren't broken, just bruised. Perhaps from a nasty fall? Once his ribs were healed she began to heal the deep cuts on his arms, they looked more like scratches from long nails. They reminded her of the cuts on Uchiha when he sometimes got nicked by a fallen. Wait a fallen! They had fought a fallen?! "You guys ran into a fallen before?" As she asked this question she could almost feel the hard stare Uchiha was giving the dark haired boy who was in front of him. She heard his sigh and some shuffling. Out of the corner of her eyes, she saw him sitting on the ground writing something on paper. She had moved onto the smaller cuts now on Ruka.
Whatever Uchiha was writing it would have to wait, she had to heal everyone first. She was almost done when she looked up at the boy and saw his face. There was a cut on his face, above his left eye. "Close your eyes", after a brief pause he closed them.
She put her palm on his forehead to heal the cut away and make sure there wasn't scar tissue remaining. As she was healing she felt it. A rush of emotions, of memories, of fear from his trip; she saw the whole trip. She saw them running from the fallen. She was this boy get close enough to one to see his eyes. They looked so dead and lifeless, it was haunting. She also saw the other boy, Natsume, running and fighting against a fallen with a small knife. The girl behind him, he was risking his life for the girl, they both were. She pulled her hand back as if his skin had burned her. "Sakura, Sakura are you okay?!" she looked over her shoulder and saw Uchiha kneeling next to her with a worried look on his face. Was he worried? She certainly was, she saw this boy's memories. She saw the memories of the other boy getting hurt in the stomach. Oh lord, he was hurt and she hadn't healed him yet!
"Sasuke – move. I need to get to the other little boy. He got hurt, I saw him get hurt." Sasuke raised an eyebrow at her as if to say, 'I was here, how would he get hurt?. She set her jaw and moved over to the boy, not answering her Uchiha partner's question. She looked him over before turning her attention to his abdomen where a deep cut ran. "Why did you say anything?!" Natsume just frowned and turned his gaze toward his female companion. 'For her? You kept a brave face on for her?'
She had healed the cut on his abdomen and removed any bacteria that was in his system. She was concentrating on making sure he wouldn't have a scar she almost didn't hear him whisper. "I'm bonded to her. I can't be weak." Sakura blinked, she's heard that term before. Being Bonded to someone was serious stuff. She didn't know much about it, just that's almost like a marriage. When she looked up from her handy work she saw the boy's crimson eyes hold a fire. A strong fire.
"I have to protect her, I can't let anything happen to her! I won't let anything happen to her!"
"Then you have to become stronger. You are a human. If you want to be stronger, than train." Sakura looked up and was suprised to see Sasuke standing behind her with his hands crossed.
"I'm not just a human! Humans can't bond with anyone! I bonded with her."
"hmph." Sasuke's eyes bled crimson as he scanned his eyes toward the girl, "You are bonded. Hmph. So you haven't learned how to turn your eyes off yet." Sasuke sighed before squatting next to the boy. They seemed to be in some mental discussion. Sakura took this time to look back to the blond boy and the young girl. 'He's bonded to her, is she bonded to him?'
So we learned alittle about bonding! and Sai is here to save the day. i'll explain him in next chapter. it deals alot with bonding so yea...
anyway hope you enjoyed! R&R?
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