Chapter 9
"What a warm welcome, I had no idea clan welcoming entailed petty violence." She felt Itachi stiffen just a bit and sigh internally, Shisui was sweating bullets. She let go of Sasuke's hand and put herself squarely in front of him. The crowd stared at her shocked; no one had ever dared to question Uchiha hospitality. "Would you like to take this little family get together somewhere else? For I fear that if it continues at this pace, nothing will be left to be proud of."
The rash side of her was laughing its ass off when it watched their cool expressions go dumbfounded. Sakura tilted her head and smiled, just like Sai would have it was fake and mocking. She felt them flare up, it really didn't matter now though they were going to pay attention to her one way or another whether they liked it or not. She smiled, and stepped away from Sasuke, "If you feel like having a little quality time together let's see if you can keep up with me first."
She jumped up easily and flew out of the Uchiha compound, she started slowly letting them consider and follow until they were almost upon her and then she took off like wind cutting through everything. She landed in a familiar cherry blossom tree and waited in the pale moonlight on a branch in full view. Soon they began to arrive, of course Itachi with Sasuke were first then Shisui a few minutes later the whole clan had gathered, "Wow I didn't know a ninja could be so unbearably slow." She said playfully she felt the glares get more intense.
She leapt down from a branch the bells tinkling slightly, "So? Who wants to play first? Or do you all want to together? Either way doesn't really matter to me." She took off the kimono it was too pretty to face battle. Gently she put it over a low hanging tree branch near Sasuke, "Saku-chan." "I'll be fine Sasuke, this will all be over soon I'll be done by bed time trust me and I'll tell you another story."
She felt the silent and angry replies of the Uchiha clan as if to say 'What makes you think you'll still be alive?' She stood on one end of the field all alone while the thirty or so Uchiha youths stood opposite of her, wearing nothing but bandages around her chest area and the shorts she had worn under the kimono, with the hair ties still in. She stood still and waited for an attack not wanting to expend the energy just running forward.
After a minute of waiting, a storm of weapons fell to the ground she dodged them easily and began to dance in between the spaces left. Getting tired of the barrage she punched the ground causing many of the Uchiha youths to go flying in the air like useless rag dolls. She smiled it was her turn to play. Like Lee she only used taijutsu on them conserving her chakra by the end of twenty minutes half of the opposing force was down dragged away to be tended by worried parents.
This group got wise they switched to jutsu and sharingan attacks. Multiple times, she had to disperse their Kekkai Genkai and fend off their attacks; it was a pretty easy battle nothing compared to her fight with Sasori. She had accumulated a couple scratches and bruises but that was all, "Anyone else?" she asked her voice had an iron glint to it, but her smile as polite as ever. From the corner of her eye, she saw Itachi step forward in the moon light his sharingan eyes whirling.
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She was getting more and more interesting, a warrior princess that's what she looked like covered in his family members blood, dressed in bandages a pair of shorts and Kimono socks, with those bells in her hair. He wanted a chance to fight too. He made direct eyes contact and began his Kekkai Genkai; this was one that dredged up your worst nightmarish memories.
He saw her pale and her eyes darken and blank, her face twisted in agony. What memory did he see he wondered to make her hurt so? She didn't dispel it but her felt her refusal to it grow. Without warning, she jumped at him and slam her fist into the ground harder then he'd ever seen, it desolated a few trees near them, she was fighting blind but she was strangely accurate, so much so that it was scary.
Her attacks were smothering one after another leaving no room but to avoid, one justu after another, fire, air, then water. Tears streamed down her eyes but they were still wide and unseeing, angry. To be frank Itachi wasn't sure he would win which made her all the more attractive.
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Before her stood all the people she had ever truly hated all in one mocking her, laughing at her telling her what they had done to her loved ones, she had to kill them with her fists, with a weapon any way she could.
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She was running dangerously low on chakra but her attacks were holding getting stronger in fact, but they got a bit slower allowing him to attack her earning her a couple deep scratches and possibly a fractured left arm but regardless she fought, so much so it was scary. Unexpectedly she appeared behind him, wrapped her arms around him, and began to spin them to the ground, faster and faster.
She was going to smash him into the ground he realized. Wanting to save himself he released his Kekkai Genkai hold on her, the attack shifted she flipped them until both were in a standing position and pushed him away from the crazy spin they landed opposite of each other. Her eyes cleared she was heaving in breaths and was shaking just the slightest bit. He could feel the relief in her stature, she began to laugh hysterically and when that was over, she smiled as if the battle were nothing and stated that it was fun.
She brought a shaking arm to her limp left; a glowing green fire knit back the pieces until it was movable again. He could feel the clan's shock he was sure they could feel it too she was special an asset to the village whether they cared for it or not. He smiled the girl had definitely proven herself.
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With out a doubt she was shaken, but she was fine now her shot nerve helped with that it was easier to be unmoved robot. She knew she would cry later when the nerves came out of shock but right now, this was what she needed. "Saku-chan!" Sasuke cried as he came running toward her hugging her around the knee's, "See I told you I'd be done before bed time." She said lovingly, "You ok?" Shisui asked his face for once in his life blank as he wrapped the kimono around her shoulders holding the other one and the obi under his arm.
"What are you talking about of course I am!" She took Sasuke's hand aware that her own was shaking, "Come now Sasuke I promised to tell you a bed time story. I always keep my promises." Sasuke nodded, she smiled a little he was pretty observant, for a little kid. And for that, she was thankful.
