Ran: Nah- ah! I will NOT come back! I will NEVER appear in your stupid story! I'm way too young to die!

Me: come on, Ran-Chan!

Ran: NO!

Me: uh… how about I'll let you meet THE Konoha hot guy, Sasuke?

Ran: hmm… well… would you let me kiss him?

Me: no.

Ran: then I won't come into this story!


Chapter 9

Love Rivals


Team DragonSlayers had been away from Konoha for two months already. Things happened so fast between them, but both of them were happy to accept the fact that they are in love.

Neji and Sakura smiled to each other.

Naruto and Lee still haven't waked up since the battle with Fantasy. It was a very tough fight. Even with the Kyuubi's power, they only barely defeated the girl.

No wonder it was called 'Demon's eyes', Sakura attended Lee's wounds with a worried look, Fantasy's power was INSANE!

She remembered how Fantasy's eyes turned into a combination of Mangekyo Sharingan and the activated Byakugan, and her pupils were glowing like red flame… Sakura shivered. When Naruto's chakra clashed with Fantasy's… Sakura shook her head to get rid of the terror that ran down her spine.


Flashback

Fantasy and Naruto's chakra both started taking shapes. Naruto's was a fierce nine-tailed fox, while Fantasy's looked like a fusion of vampire and fiend. The figure had long claws resembling its vampire features; long bat-like wings expanded as her chakra capacity suddenly grew rapidly. It was impossible to describe the monster in words; it was terrifying… the only word Sakura could think of, was Demonic.

Both Naruto and Fantasy lost control of their own minds. The two chakras only BRUSHED against each other, then half of the forest was destroyed.

Oh no… what'll happen when they seriously START to fight? We'd all be dead! Sakura panicked. But fear stopped her from moving.

"RASENGAN!" Naruto shouted. This was like the fight he had with Sasuke five years ago, only that Naruto had improved even more during these years.

"SOUL- PERISH!" Fantasy formed a very simple hand seal. A sword burning with black fire appeared. She swung it down, piercing it through the ground beneath her.

Everything disappeared. The world was black.

The two powerful chakras roared.

Sakura and Lee felt both of their strengths were drained at once. Neji blinked, finding himself stood in the middle of his three unconscious teammates.

Blood trickled down Naruto's mouth. It seemed that this clash of chakras was so powerful that it didn't affect their surrounding at all. The ground didn't even shudder.

End flashback


"Sakura?" Neji asked. Are you all right?

She smiled. I'm fine.

They understood each other well. There was no need for words between the two of them.

"NEJI!" Lee suddenly sat up and shouted. Sakura jumped, but Neji simply sighed.

"I see you are getting better." Neji's face returned to its usual serious expression.

"Hmm…" Lee looked at Sakura, then Neji, then back to Sakura…

"Would you stop doing that?!" Neji growled.

"how long have I being sleeping?"

"four days."


"Naruto, Lee…"

"Yes, Sakura-Chan?" both of the injured boys turned their full attention to this pink-haired girl who they loved.

"I'm glad you two are feeling a lot better."

"Thank you, Sakura-Chan, for worrying about us!" tears filled the two's eyes.

"uh… your welcome?" Sakura backed away two steps from them, "anyway…" she cleared her throat, "I was going to tell you… I'm Neji's girlfriend now."

silence…

for only five seconds…

"WHATTTTTTTTTT?!"


"Kakashi, was that Naruto again?"
"I love him."

Naruto's eyes nearly bulged out of his head.

Lee was slow at understanding new information. Sakura… my lotus blossom… and… Neji?! 'I-don't-like-her' was what he told me… Neji's voice echoed through Lee's head. Suddenly, he felt anger rose within him. HOW COULD HE, teasing Sakura-Chan like this?! If he doesn't like Sakura, he doesn't deserve to even be near her!

-PUNCH!-

Neji dodged it… barely. If it weren't for that Lee haven't fully recovered, Neji would've died for sure…

"What are you do--------"

-KICK!-

As the 'beautiful green beast of Konoha' as he liked to call himself, his kicks are… pretty powerful.

But! Neji was, after, the famous genius. He dodged it again.

"Lee!" Sakura tackled Lee.

Her long, soft pink hair brushed against his face… they were close…

Neji watched.

"Lee… let go of my girlfriend."

Sakura kind of hoped that Neji would be jealoused. Which, unfortunately, didn't happen. Neji would never be jealous of his bowl-haircut teammate, after all, he was VERY confident that Sakura will choose him other than the green-spendax-wearer.

And so, the trip back to Konoha begins! With a lot of fighting… as Naruto and Lee ganged up together to 'rescue' Sakura from Neji, the 'terrible-husband-who-beat-up-Sakura-in-her-dreams'.


It was Naruto's plan. Lee will attack Neji during the day while Naruto distract Sakura. During the night, Naruto will steal all of Neji's belongings to embarrass himself in front of Sakura.

The plan didn't work well. Since their 'enemy' had 360 degrees vision and can see through trees, so he saw them coming before they could even start. Besides, the following IQ equation shows the flaw in Naruto's plan…

Naruto's IQ times ten plus Lee's IQ times eight equals Sakura's IQ plus half of Neji's IQ


"alright, Youthful, are you ready?"

"yes, Ramen..."

"tell me your location."

"225x,328y."

"ready to strike?"

"more than ready."

"okay... NOW!"

Lee tried to tackle Neji from the bushes. Neji didn't even look at him, he tilted a bit to the side, and Lee went flying past him.

"Ramen... we need plan B..."

"Fate had moved to 332x,162y..."

"where's that?"

"next to Lavendar..." Naruto narrowed his eyes.


Next chapter

Sakura

Me: alright-alright, I'll let you kiss Sasuke.

Ran: YAY! Promise you won't let me die!

Me: well, you DO realize that either Sakura or Ino will kill you…

Ran: no way!

Me: fine, fine… just do whatever you want.

PS: the reason for why I made Fantasy so strong is because then it shows that Itachi was not a coward or anything like that. He was smart not to fight a girl like that! And no, he didn't run away. He made an agreement with Fantasy, remember?


-End of chapter-