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Her feet hurt.

Bad.

She felt some kind of liquid in them, and she was pretty sure that if she looked, that liquid would be a deep red.

She was running.

Fast.

The very thorns and rocks that had damaged Sakura just a few days before now tore at her soft skin, seeming to reach out to have a chance at her blood. The cuts and scratches firstgrew red with swelling, then purpled into sickeningbruises. Sweat poured into her amethyst eyes, impairing her vision with its salty sting…but she didn't care.

Her blue hair caught many times in the sharp twigs everywhere around her, but she just kept running, ignoring the pain as her hair was ripped from her head. Blood soaked her shirt where she had suffered a nasty fall at the beginning of her terrified, adrenaline-induced flight for help. She ignored it as well.

All she could concentrate on was the barely-distinguishable path left when Sakura had run this same path in a similar level of distress. And at the end of that path…there, she could barely make out a speck of blue. The end of the forest!

Her pale legs tore through entire bushes, their creamy color becoming distorted into a red mess as the braches cut and the thorns embedded themselves in her limbs. Her breath came shorter and shorter as her lungs screamed for oxygen. Suddenly, she stopped, the hairs standing out on the back of her neck.

Her body lurched forward with the suddenness of the stop, causing her hair to fall over her sweat-covered face. She pushed her hair back impatiently and searched the trees and thick underbrush surrounding her to find what ever it was that made her so uncomfortable. She felt like she was being…watched.

Her ears strained for any sound, eyes searching the foliage until they almost hurt, but to no avail. Whoever it was, they were good. She wrapped her arms around herself and started forward again, but this time at a much slower pace. A twig behind her snapped.

She abruptly turned around, her eyes clashing with nothing but the same damn green forest.

She shook her head.

It hurt.

She ignored it, and the overpowering urge to fall over. She had to keep going or Yusuke and the others were done for! That man had dome something to Sakura…..the girl's eyes had gone hazy, glassed over. Then, he ordered her to attack the guys! And she complied, obviously under some kind of spell…..

She pushed the thoughts out of her head and tried to ignore the exhausted headache she was dealing with to find once again the place from which Sakura had come. As she whipped around she collided with something hard. She began falling, gasping as the wound in her side throbbed.

She braced herself for the impact, only to feel a sudden pressure around her arm, and then she was being pulled upward to her feet.

She looked up, fright evident in her face, into the face of a strangely dressed man. He had a mask over the lower half of his face, and a green vest, and a pouch around his leg….wait. She grabbed her head as she felt dizziness fog her mind. Sakura…she had a pouch like that! Maybe….maybe this man….

Then she realized that he had been talking.

"Miss? Hey, are you ok?" Slight confusion surfaced in his already worry-clouded eye.

It occured Botan that he could help her, and relief hit her so hard that she threw her weak, damaged form into his arms. He caught her, making a surprised grunt as her weight was lifted from the ground.

Her worried, misty eyes grew wet.

"P-please…help them!" She croaked, her strangled voice crying in heated desperation.

"Who? Who are you talking about?" His voice grew as he felt the sticky crimson liquid from her side drop onto his exposed arm. Looking down, he saw blood filling her shoes as well. "What happened? Who are you?"

"His name…I don't know it….but he…used a girl….to hurt my…my friends are….please….back…there..…" She pointed behind her and whimpered. She was starting to loose her grip, exhaustion and blood loss taking their toll.

Kakashi's eye widened slightly.

"What girl?" He held her close, as if to find the answer on her face. "What girl? Where did you find her!"

"She….had….so many…wounds and….bleeding so…so bad….looked like….had…pink…had……..like…….….you..." Botan could speak no more and used her remaining energy to point at his kunai pouch.

Silence...

Oh.

My.

God.


Kakashi disappeared with a puff of smoke, the girl in his arms, and reappeared in the Hokage's office. Tsunade looked at the haggard ninja with the odd bleeding girl in his arms.

"Whats going on!" She yelled, running around her desk to gather the injured girl, who had long since passed out.

"She's been in contact with Sakura, I'm sure of it." Kakashi gasped as he looked down at the puddle of blood forming around the poor girl. "She spoke of a man who made Sakura hurt the girl's friends, she came from the northwest. I'm heading out, send the others after me." With that, he was gone.

Tsunade looked up from the unconscious girl and called for help, screaming so loud and with such urgency that half the Jounins appeared, including a blonde and a brooding black-head.

She looked up at them. "Someone, take this girl to the hospital, I will attend to her at once."

With that, the girl was taken.

She looked at the remaining Jounin.

"She's been found, but she's in danger. Northwest, look for Kakashi." Instantly, the room was emptied.

She sighed heavily. 'Sakura, I hope your ok…'


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