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Chapter 9
I do not own Naruto
This was bad. I was only maybe a half hour into my mission and I was already hurting the people I cared for. And I really didn't want to hurt them any more.
I mentally took a deep breath. "If you four could move out of my way that would be helpful." I said not letting the emotion pour out into my voice.
"What's happening!?" Ino shrieked.
"I don't know." Sai said.
"On the mission with Shikaku, Orochimaru gave Sakura a curse mark, on the back of her neck. " Kakashi stated. "And it seems she's leaving the village."
"That would be correct." I said staring at Kakashi, with a grin plastered on.
The wind started to blow and the trees shook in the wind. I was getting a bit cold from the chilly air. I guessed that it was going to start raining soon just perfect.
"Why are you doing this Sakura!?" Ino yelled in a high pitch tone of voice.
"Unlike you I'm doing something about my weakness. Orochimaru can help me with that problem." I said with a smile. "I'm only helping myself."
Naruto gritted his teeth in anger. "You're not weak! You don't need Orochimaru!" Naruto yelled at me.
I stared straight at Naruto. He was extremely angry. And it stung that I was the one that was making him so angry.
"This is what I need to do for myself." I told him. "It has nothing to do with any of you; you should mind your own business."
"THAT'S RIDICULOUS! You're my best friend! Ino's friend, a friend of Sai's and Kaka-Sensei's student. We all care about you!" Naruto yelled. "This has everything to do with us!"
I gritted my teeth in anger. "Just move out of the way Naruto!"
"NO!" Ino screamed "We're taking you back with us to the village!" she yelled at me. "Do you really want to become someone like Sasuke-kun! Sakura!"
"Don't put me in the same category as him!" I yelled over. "We're completely different!" I screamed.
It was true we were different, he went to Orochimaru for power, to kill his brother and I, I went for the mission, at least that was what I was telling myself. In all truth, maybe, I did want to go to Ororchimaru for the sake of power.
"Not if you run off and abandon the village and your friends! You're exactly the same!" she angrily shouted back to me.
"We have different reasons, for going to Orochimaru, mine of which is none of your concern!"
"If you're going because you think you're weak, you've just got to be kidding! Sakura! You aren't weak at all!"
"Coming from the girl who can't do anything, the girl who spends more time on her appearances rather than her own life and survival! You're the weak one! I'm the one who is doing something about it!" I snapped. "Now move out the way!"
"No! We're taking you back to the village!" Naruto shouted out.
"Fine. We'll do this the hard way then." I mumbled.
I took a kunai with the formula for the fourth's jutsu. It would work to my advantage. No one here knew about it. I never used it in a spar because, I wanted to focus more on taijutsu, and ninjutsu, ninjutsu was the main thing that I need the most work in. And the mission I used it with Shikaku was the first mission I got to use it in.
I sighed, realizing that I was going to have to hurt these people, the ones I cared for so much. But I had no choice.
I threw the kunai towards Ino, knowing her reaction would be to catch it. I transported to the kunai, two inches from her face, grabbed it and sent a kick right for her side, sending her down to the forest floor.
I received confused and shocked looks from Sai and Naruto. Kakashi's face a mixture of shock and something else, but he wasn't surprised by the speed I just used, after all he was around this jutsu and speed so much when he was a genin.
"I'm sure you're familiar with the jutsu, Kakashi." I looked to him with a smirk, not adding Sensei behind his name anymore made me feel rude and not even his student, but it had to be done, I had to detach myself from him as much as I could. He wasn't going to be with me anymore to protect me. "A jutsu that even you, my sensei, couldn't even begin to master."
"How?" he asked.
"Genma and Raido. They seemed to think that I would have a knack for the jutsu, turns out they were completely correct." I told him turning to look the three in the face. "Even they needed the third person on their team to use the jutsu. It only took me a couple months and I had it mastered, all by myself even."
Naruto gritted his teeth and charged at me randomly with a punch getting ready in the air. He went to swing the hard punch he mustered, but I grabbed his fist mid-air and gripped down. Hearing the bones in his hand brake. I grinned at him, I had to get him unconscious, he was the biggest problem here. I pumped chakra to my fist and punched him the stomach, not hard enough to kill, letting go of his now broken hand, which was now accompanied by broken ribs, and sending him flying into the tree behind him.
"Stop this Sakura." Sai said. "What happened to rescuing Sasuke-kun?"
"That's in the past." I snapped. "Now, it's different."
I threw the kunai I had thrown at Ino towards Kakashi, knowing he would dodge it. When he did, it was soaring back towards Naruto. I transported and caught the kunai, three feet in front of Naruto.
Quickly I made hand signs, I was going to use a genjutsu, nearly impossible to get out off, and with Naruto's chakra control it he wouldn't get out of it at all. But when he would go back to the village Tsunade would get him out of it no problem. Sorry, Naruto.
I touched his forehead and sent him into the genjutsu. Unfortunately from using that specific jutsu my chakra depleted greatly, and Tsunade stressed that it was a last resort only.
Now that I got rid of him, I could take care of the other two. Did that sound bad?
I turned to face the others to see Ino up back on the tree branch, panting, and cut up. I sighed.
"I thought I took care of you?" I sneered. I was actually getting annoyed, why couldn't she just stay down there, defeated? Now I had to fight her more, and cause more injuries to my childhood best friend.
"STOP IT, SAKURA!" she screamed.
"Oh, will you just shut up already. This is happening, Ino. Whether you like it or not."
"No, you don't need him, and if I have to beat some sense into you myself, I WILL."
"Well, aren't you acting all big and mighty." I joked.
"Just drop this stupid phase Sakura! It's just the stupid curse mark affecting you!" she snapped. "Don't do this! Don't hurt everyone just like Sasuke did! Stop being stupid! Can't you see that you are betraying the entire village?!"
"Of course I do." I said. The three looked at me with shock. "What? You thought I was actually being controlled or something ridiculous like that? That Orochimaru decided to fuck with all of you? I'll have you know that this was my decision, and mine alone." I told them. "So shut it." I said and threw the kunai past the two and straight for Ino.
I tackled her to the ground and took a kunai to her throat.
"I'm thinking if your even worth killing." I sneered and took the kunai straight to her stomach. Forcing it in she screamed in pain. A cut left on her neck from the quick movement from her throat to her stomach. My eyes burned, why did this have to be so hard?
I took my palm to her forehead making her unconscious with a medical ninjutsu. Sorry, Ino.
I took a moment to collect myself and sent chakra to my eyes to clear them up, they would see the red in my eyes if I turned around now.
I rose from her body and turned to face the remaining two. It was defiantly a strange feeling, taking them down without another thought, and saying these things to them without thinking twice. But it was something that came along with the mission.
Sai remained stolid staring me right down in the eyes. I had to take him out next, then Kakashi. I was going to send Sai into the same genjutsu I put Naruto in, no matter the effect that would claim me afterward, leave Kakashi in a small one, giving me time to run off.
Knowing Kakashi he would pick to save and help his teammates rather than run after me. I took a breath. I had to end this quick.
I ran towards Sai with the genjutsu prepared, all I had to do was touch him, and he'd be done for. He blocked my kick with his own and that done him in. He fell to the forest floor like Ino did awhile ago, to anyone else it looked like he just fainted randomly. Taking the chance, and not underestimating Sai, he was trained by Danzou, and a part of the organization, Root. He might be quick to come out of the genjutsu.
I went towards Kakashi, unfortunately for the genjutsu I was going to put on him, touching him wasn't as easy, I needed to hold him in a still position for five seconds. I debated just to do the easier one, the one that would possibly make me unconscious for a couple days for using it a total of three times, and making him unconscious for while, but Ino needed medical attention, so that plan was foiled, besides he would take me back to the village as unconscious body and the mission would result in failure.
We sent kicks and punched at each other but I took the chance when it came.
I grabbed his wrist and sent my chakra through his body making him paralyzed. "What are you doing?!" he yelled, realizing at that moment, movement was not an option.
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"Goodbye, Kakashi." I said.
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He fell over, his body lay lifeless on the tree, the genjutsu taking effect.
I panted hard nd my vision turned blurry for a quick second. I couldn't tell if it was because of the tears welling in my eyes or the fact I was very low on chakra.
I looked over towards Naruto, his back up against the tree, passed out, Sai was on the ground the same, and Ino furrowed her brow in pain.
I ran off the fastest I have ever ran to get away from them, Kakashi would wake up soon, so I needed to get a move on. I masked my chakra completely taking more precautions. I couldn't afford to run into someone else.
The stinging pain began on my mark. I used to much chakra and the seal was trying to activate itself, the pain was faded and distanced thanks to Kakashi's seal but soon Orochimaru would have that seal taken off and I would feel the pain full time.
Tears started to fall from my eyes, the toll taking on me, from speaking that way and trying to actually kill them.
They went easy on me, I knew that, even that stung a bit, it was like they couldn't even take me seriously.
But the pain continued to hit me continuously, their body's dropping to the ground form me hurting them.
The tears flowed from my eyes.
I wanted Kakashi to wake up soon to take them to the village, to cure them, so they could live, and I could see them in perfect health when I came back to the village. That is if they let me. Or even come near me.
I'm so sorry, everyone.
Tsunade walked with a quick step through the halls of the hospital. Sakura has been gone for a mere four hours and the hospital staff was already falling apart.
Tsunade was getting so many messages about people getting sick this, what medicine should we use that, and people coming and telling her that it was an emergency but when she got their it turned out to be absolutely nothing. Something an intern could handle.
Tsunade sighed. There were people running around shouting about Sakura being late, where's Sakura, she's not answering the messages, and what are we going to do without her, Tsunade was ready to kill all of them.
It's like they didn't even know how to be a doctor, she really needed to crack down on the curriculum for the classes, the only one with her head on straight was Hazuki, a woman Sakura had insisted on teaching her a few things.
Thank god someone was sane.
Hazuki was directing many people on how to do their jobs, she, Tsunade thought, would be come the replacement for Sakura. Tsunade was thankful that Sakura trained Hazuki.
The only reason Tsunade had even come down is that she was asked personally by one the patients. No other information was given to her at the time. When she got to the hospital she learned she was requested by Hatake Kakashi.
Last time she remembered she sent them on a mission a group of genin could do. She didn't think that him and his team would be coming home hurt.
She sent all of the people that were friends or close with Sakura on missions even if they were idiotic. Sakura needed time away from her friends to think about the mission.
The nurses were now running around more frantically.
Geez, did she have to do everything herself, she was practically keeping calm for every worker in this damn building. Minus Hazuki.
When she reached the end of the hall she walked in to see Naruto and Sai on beds by the window, Kakashi in a chair, and Ino on the third bed in the corner. This is was one of the hospital's larger rooms, usually used for ANBU, or private patients, who had a lot of money.
"Tsunade." Kakashi said rising from his seat.
"You called." She said annoyed.
"You need to help them." There was a tone in his voice that worried Tsunade. More quiet and…sad.
"Why what's wrong with them?" She said confused, as far as she was concerned they looked fine, just passed out.
"Genjutsu."
"Ah." Tsunade walked up to Sai's bed and put her hand over his forehead. Sai's eyes slowly fluttered open. Tsunade did the same to Naruto.
Tsunade had a strange feeling about this.
"Tsunade, may I speak with you outside?" Kakashi asked.
Tsunade looked to him and then walked out the door signaling him to follow.
When the door was closed to the room, there was no talking, only silence. The nurses and doctors rushed around them, their frantic talking was the only thing that was heard. For awhile Kakashi looked down to the ground his hands in his pockets.
"Well?" she asked.
"It's Sakura…" Kakashi sighed. "On our way back we saw her, it seems she decided to go to Orochimaru."
This was going to be harder than Tsunade thought. She had to completely act mad and angry, and like she was shocked, like she didn't already know this. So how was she going to play this? Tsunade gave a sigh.
"I know." She said to Kakashi. She didn't express any emotion, she figured it'd be better to just gamble it and wing this whole conversation on a whim, the first thought that came to mind was going to do the trick.
Kakashi's face turned to shock. His eyes wide, with a tiny glint of anger.
"What?"
"She left a note." Which was in fact true.
"She did?"
"On my desk, the time I got to it though, she was already long gone. I sent ANBU to track her but she is masking her chakra to well and covering her tracks like a pro. Sakura is gone, so I'll have to be forced to take drastic measures."
"Drastic measures?" Kakashi asked. "What do you mean?"
Tsunade asked herself the same question. "As of tonight, Sakura is now classified and a missing-nin, she has been entered in the BINGO book and she will be named a traitor to the shinobi villages. I'm sorry, Kakashi, but since we've already been through this with Sasuke, the villages will not understand leeway and a mission or two to try and bring her back. I have told all the villages that if she is spotted she should be stopped, arrested and treated like they would any other traitor."
"WHAT!?" came a shout from inside the room. The door opened up to reveal Naruto. He was standing behind the door listening the entire time, Tsunade assumed.
"That's all you're going to do!?" he shouted. Nurses passing by were now staring. "We should be searching for her right now!" Naruto screamed and he stomped off down the hallway. Tsunade grabbed him by the collar stopping him in his tracks.
"You're not going anywhere. I have contacted the other villages and they are keeping an eye out for her."
"I can't just sit here!" Naruto yelled. "Besides, those villages and people might kill her!"
"She is already past the border, she will soon be reaching Orochimaru, unfortunately there is nothing more we can do."
"Shut up!" Naruto yelled. "There has to be something."
Tsunade knew she wasn't going to winning this battle if she told Naruto she was going to casually do nothing.
"I am already having Shikaku round up a team to head out, Naruto, what I meant is there is nothing you, who are already injured, can do."
"Let me go!" Naruto pouted angrily.
"No! Get back in your room and rest." Tsunade snapped and stomped away.
This was for sure going to be harder than Tsunade initially thought. First of all she had already screwed up, saying she wasn't going to send a team out to look for her, but then said Shikaku was out doing so, he was doing something that involved Sakura, he was cleaning out her house, and waiting for her parents to come home to break the news.
But, she'd have to be more careful from now on.
"EH?" came the voice from the tube.
"I'm letting you out for a short mission." Orochimaru said.
"Hm? With who?"
"Isamu, Kuro, and Takara."
"No thanks."
"It wasn't a question."
"Fine… anything to get out of here."
Orochimaru hit a button on the computer next to the tube, the top of it opened up and the water began to move around. Two arms came from the top of the water, out of absolutely no where but the rest of the body was invisible, transparent in the water. The arms reached the rim of the tube the arms pulled up the now visible body. The man jumped out of the tube and onto the floor.
Silver hair, purple eyes, and sharpened teeth. "AHHHH!" he let out loudly stretching his arms and legs. "It feels nice getting out of that."
The man that came from the tube turned around to face Orochimaru.
"So what's this mission? He said taking his hands to his hair and began ringing it out. "Is it stupid? Cause I don't feel like doing something dumb that's going to be so simple a dog's ass can do it."
"Geez, you're annoying."
"Hm?" the man turned around to meet the body that came with the voice that just spoke. "Oh, Isamu… I would tell you it's nice to see you but that would be a lie."
"Kind as always I see." Isamu said.
"Only to you." The man joked.
"WILL YOU PUT ON YOUR DAMN CLOTHES!" a woman with purple hair shouted.
"Takara, you seem nice today." The man said sarcastically.
"YOU FUCKING IDIOT YOU'RE STANDING HERE NAKED JUST PUT ON SOME CLOTHES."
"Oh?" he looked down at himself, he was indeed naked. "Oops."
"Are you too incompetent to put on attire in front of a lady…"
"Nice to see you too, Kuro."
"Now that you have all caught up, leave as soon as you can, they'll fill you in on the way." Orochimaru said to the still naked silver haired man, and then walked out of the room.
"So what is the mission anyway?"
"WILL YOU PUT ON SOME CLOTHES YOU IDIOT?"
"Oh, sorry."
And Chapter 9 is finished!
I'm excited to write the next chapter! Really, really am!
More so because Suigetsu will be in the chapter more, I just love him.
At this point I don't know if Sasuke will be.
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