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Ichikoo (ate) – sabi mo gusto mo plot ko. Ehehehehehe just to tell you, wala pa ako sa mismong 'Past' ni Sakura. Pairing, heh, you just gotta read more to find out if Yuki and Sakura will be together.
hunter – I know eh. I just watched episode 3 and I'm starting to see how people got ShikaIno. Shikamaru and Ino talk a lot—and when I mean a lot I mean a lot. But I'm still going to stick with ShikaTem, ehehehehe I know.
Chapter 9—Konoha
VS Oto
The Sound nins smirked deviously at their opponents confidence and arrogance. "You Konoha shinobis really are naïve and stupid! You think you can defeat us Sound nins with only the four of you?" The speaker snorted, "Dream on!" They laughed in amazement.
The four only crooked and irked an eyebrow, "Bet this straight, you arrogant fools! We're not from Konoha, and yes we can and we will defeat you." Yukino said confidently with her eyes narrowing.
"From what I've heard you couldn't even defeat Konoha eight years ago. What makes you think you can now!" Kimiko taunted smirking.
They received growls and curses from the Sound nins. Guess their plan's working. With the Sound nins' minds out of Sakura who escaped from them, maybe she might make it to her destination in time without any trouble.
"Attack with full force! Don't go easy with these bastards! We'll bring their heads to Sasuke-sama and Kabuto-sama!" One of the Sound nins growled abruptly.
Then again, they might be the ones in trouble.
"So much for delaying them." Yuki grunted.
Tsubasa started to shake her head. "Oh boy," she sighed.
Hinata was running towards the Hokage tower after her encounter with Sakura. Even though she was really tired of running, she still kept on going. Something bad might have happened to Naruto, and it will be all her fault.
She turned to a corner only to bump towards something—or someone. She stumbled down only to stop in midair with a calloused hand gripping her wrist. She looked up only to find her older cousin. "Hinata-sama, what's the rush?"
Anxiety started to well up inside her that tears started to form in her pearl like orbs.
"Hinata, what's wrong?" Kiba asked his female teammate worriedly.
"Did something happen?" Shikamaru asked with Neji, Shino and Chouji looking at her with concern.
"Sasuke-san's back—" (Their eyes widen with the news.) "—and he's going to fight with Naruto-kun." She said nervously with tears streaming on her eyes.
Eight years ago, Konoha tried to bring the sole survivor of the Uchiha massacre, Uchiha Sasuke, back to Konoha with only four Genins and a Chuunin consisting of Naruto, Kiba, Chouji, Neji and the Shikamaru.
Naruto was the one who met up with Sasuke, but in the end, he came back to Konoha very close to death. Why did Sasuke come back? To come back and finish what he started—and kill Naruto for real this time.
"Does the Hokage know about this?" Shikamaru inquired.
Hinata shook her head.
"Go to the Hokage then. We'll take care of Sasuke until the ANBU arrives." Kiba said putting a comforting hand on Hinata's shoulder.
"There's already 2 ANBU with you." Neji said offended.
"Excluding you guys, BAKA!" Kiba exclaimed. He turned towards his female teammate. "Go Hinata! Don't waste any more time."
Hinata nodded and left towards the Hokage tower while Neji, Shikamaru, Kiba, Shino and Chouji running towards the direction from which Hinata came.
The ex-sensei's including Anko and Shizune stood in silence in the Hokage's office having a sudden meeting.
"Those four with her—they're quite suspicious." Asuma said slowly.
"With who?" Shizune and Anko asked together.
"Haruno Sakura. She's came back two days ago." Kurenai informed.
"She's back…" Shizune gasped.
"I see." Anko murmured.
Shizune and Anko knew Haruno Sakura well enough to figure out that she might be missing from Konoha two years ago—well Anko mostly. Shizune actually trained with Sakura for the past six years; therefore, she would know that something might have happened to the Cherry Blossom simply by not finding her during training.
"Then we all agree..." Tsunade started. "…you all are to keep an eye on the people with Sakura who I believe are Yuki, Yukino, Tsubasa and Kimiko."
"Isn't that a bit too cautious, Tsunade-sama. After all, they are with Sakura." Shizune protested.
"We can't be cautious anymore Shizune. Not while the Sound village is still ruled by Orochimaru. No matter who it is, if that person is an outsider, they are not to be trusted." Tsunade scowled.
"Hokage-sama!"
Everyone in the room turned towards the doorway where the voice was heard and saw the Hyuuga heiress.
Tsunade frowned. She just hates being interrupted while on a meeting—no matter how urgent it is.
An ANBU came in after the Hyuuga heiress and seized her arm, but she started to free herself from the ANBU's grasp. "Gomenasai, Hokage-sama." The ANBU bowed struggling to hold on to the Hyuuga heiress.
The ANBU started to drag the girl towards the doorway when she elbowed him on his stomach making him loose his grip on her arm for her to escape. "Hokage-sama, please hear me out! Its Naruto-kun—let go of me!" Hinata struggled to get away from the ANBU's grasp that was bringing her out.
"Matte," Tsunade called out to the ANBU. The ANBU released Hinata and she distanced herself from him. "What about Naruto?" Tsunade said with great concern evident on her voice.
"Sa-sasuke-san's back…" Hinata struggled to say his name.
They didn't need any more information. The Jounins's eyes went wide. Tsunade abruptly stood up. "Don't tell me…" Her eyes went wide.
"Onegai Hokage-sama, help Naruto-kun." She begged with tears streaming from her eyes yet again.
Tsunade cursed under her breath. "Toya, gather all the ANBU and search for Naruto immediately!" Tsunade commanded the ANBU who tried to bring Hinata out of the Hokage's office earlier. The ANBU bowed in respect and left.
"As for you," Tsunade said pointing to the Jounins. "Some of the Sound nins might be here. I want you to defend the civilians from any harm from them. Understand?"
"Hai, Hokage-sama."
Blows are being exchanged by each other. When one of them gets a hit, they give another hit back to their opponent. Basically, both Naruto and Sasuke are equal at this time even after 8 years of parting.
"So, you gone stronger, have you Naruto?" Sasuke teased.
"Uruse, teme!"
"You can't beat me Naruto because I will always be above your level." Sasuke's eyes narrowed.
Naruto growled at Sasuke. "Its already been 8 years since I last saw you, so don't expect that you'll be fighting the Naruto you fought 8 years ago!"
"Doesn't that also mean that you haven't fought the Sasuke you fought 8 years ago?" He did a few hand seals 'Katon: Housenka no Jutsu' and fireballs came out of his mouth, aimed for Naruto.
Because of the amount of the fireballs coming at him and because of the fireballs' speed, he dodged but not without getting some burns in the process. Seeing that he was at the disadvantage, Naruto cursed. "Kuso…"
"You'll never win, Naruto. Why don't you just give up this pathetic resistance of yours and come quietly." Sasuke sneered.
Naruto snorted, "I made a promise to Sakura-chan that I would bring you back to Konoha and will never break that promise!" He said in a higher tone.
Hearing his female teammates name made Sasuke chuckle. "You think you can bring me back Naruto. You and Sakura failed to bring me back one before. What makes you think you can now?" Sasuke asked in a coldly.
He saw Naruto's eyes narrowed. "Watch me…" he murmured with a great amount of determination evident in his voice and he disappeared from Sasuke's view.
Sasuke did what he always does—he smirked.
Yuki, Yukino, Tsubasa and Kimiko were fighting the Sound nins despite that the Sound nins have 100 times more than them.
Yuki was cursing under his breath because of the numbers attacking him all at once. "Damn, you guys are annoying!" She swung his rod a 360-degree and hit 10 Sound nins who were attacking him all at once.
"Like you're the one to talk when you have your rod and we have to use our bare hands." Kimiko countered punching the Sound nin coming after her right on the face.
Yukino and Tsubasa just remained silent and kicked and punched the Sound nins coming at them.
"Oh—shut up!" One of the Sound nins yelled at the two who was bickering. The Sound nin made a few hand seals and replicas of him appeared.
Seeing the replicas of the Sound nin, Yuki remembered one of the Jutsus that shinobis use when fighting. "So this is the 'Bushin no Jutsu' I've heard about." His tone didn't have one drop of fear or nervousness.
"Interesting…" Yukino commented.
"But doesn't it have the replicas have a disadvantage of turning into smoke when hit." Tsubasa said.
"Well, that might work in our favor." Kimiko said smirking.
Clones started to appear in Sasuke's view. A hundred clones surrounded him, but he wasn't at all impressed. He knew that Naruto was capable of doing this and he thought that Naruto was able to surprise him considering that his brother, Itachi is after him. "Is this all you can do Naruto? Making clones of yourself… and I thought you have more skills than that."
Naruto didn't have the intention to give him a reply, but some of his clones managed to give a kick without Sasuke noticing because his attention was on sneering at Naruto. His shadow clone army started to pummel Sasuke without the Uchiha heir having to block them. Two of Naruto's clones kicked Sasuke back and forth and then pummeled him towards the ground.
"Take that—my technique 'Uzumaki Naruto Nisen Rendan'." Naruto scorned at Sasuke who wobbled a bit when standing up.
Sasuke smirked, but it turned to a chuckle. He ran a hand threw his hair, "I can see why that pathetic technique is yours. It's a weak as you. I didn't even feel a thing." Sasuke sneered at Naruto while wiping the dirt off his face.
Sasuke just stood there watching Naruto shacking violently in anger.
"I'm not the Sasuke you knew that will be hurt when one simple kunai is struck to him. It will take more than that to take me down because I'm much stronger now than you'll ever imagine. So do you think you're strong enough to defeat me, Naruto?"
Naruto snorted, "If I have to beat you to a bloody pulp to bring you back teme I'll do it."
Fool! You just brought your guard down Naruto. Sasuke thought triumphantly.
The Sasuke before Naruto disappeared in a puff of smoke. What!
"Sleep tight, Naruto." A voice said behind him.
Naruto turned around to the source of the voice and saw a smirking Sasuke with his Chidori aimed right at his abdomen.
Kabuto was enjoying the demise of Uzumaki Naruto. Even though he wasn't the one doing it, he still felt good seeing Naruto's pain. Maybe, it was because of the incident when Naruto thrust his Rasengan to his stomach 8 years ago when he was trying to save Tsunade—now known as the 5th Hokage.
He was supposed to be watching the area for signs of anyone who would come and interrupt Sasuke and Naruto's duel, but he knew that their Sound nins won't let anyone get away from them. Deep inside he knew that this time, they would be victorious! Besides, there wasn't anyone in Konoha strong enough to stop Uchiha Sasuke from accomplishing his goal.
Suddenly, a blur came through the vision of his eyes and then disappeared. Kabuto's enjoyment was cut short and he rubbed his eyes to look around the clearing finding no one. When he turned back to look at the duel of Sasuke and Naruto, he was hoping of seeing a hand through his abdomen, but all he saw is a wide eyes Uchiha with his hand making a deep hole to the ground.
About 5 feet away from the Uchiha heir, Kabuto saw Naruto on the ground with a pink haired girl just above him.
Somehow, Naruto couldn't move his feet. It wasn't because of the speed of the Chidori coming right at him, but he just couldn't move. He tried with all his energy to move his legs and dodge the attack but he couldn't move. Stupid legs! Why won't you move!
When the Chidori aimed for Naruto's abdomen were only inches from it, Naruto felt pressure on the left side of his body and he flew towards the ground and sliding 2 feet more.
Feeling a bit of weight above his body, he looked at the person on top of him—or rather his savior and saw none other than his former pink haired teammate.
She was wrapping her arms around his waist, her left cheek pressed on his stomach. Before he could've said anything, the pink haired girl lifted her head from his stomach and looked at him straight in the eyes. Her facial expression was very unreadable.
Suddenly before he knew it, she lifted her right hand and slapped him across the face. Putting a hand on his reddening and aching cheek, he looked at her with the mixture of confusion and disbelief. He gaped.
"You could've dodged that attack, baka! Why didn't you move? If I wasn't able to come on time then you would've been…" She ranted with tears forming on her eyes. "BAKA!" She spat at him.
Before Naruto could reply, he saw a kunai aimed for his savior's head. He swiftly moved infront of her and caught the kunai effortlessly.
Sasuke turned towards Kabuto with his face showing a tint of anger. "Weren't you supposed to be looking out for anyone who could've interfered with us?" He scowled.
Kabuto remained silent, afraid that his reply to the Uchiha heir would only tick him off more.
Naruto turned towards Sakura forgetting the presence of his enemies. It looks like reprimanding his teammate was more important. "Why did you come here for, Sakura-chan? It would be too dangerous for you! You should've just stayed in the village."
Sasuke who lost interest in Kabuto, looked at the pink haired girl not recognizing a bit who she was, but when he heard Naruto saw the name 'Sakura' his mouth quirked into a smirk. "So… Sakura has come to, eh?"
Sakura looked at him in a pained expression seeing him with marks all over his body. Even though it was already 8 years had passed when Sasuke joined the Sound with Orochimaru to gain power, it pained her to look at him, seeing him like this.
"Coming here, Sakura would just pain your heart seeing that I'm going to take Naruto away and you won't be able to do anything about it even if you try." He said coldly.
"So you came here for Naruto, but why!"
"And why do you think I will tell you what my mission is about? You know, you just don't get answers because you ask them Sakura." He replied coldly.
Sakura looked down on the ground, "Before, I always saw the two of you fight each other a lot but time passed and you suddenly became closer and stronger leaving me behind. You two were like best friends." Sakura got the courage to look at Sasuke in the eye again. "Why would you just suddenly betray him? He's not involved in your revenge?"
"He has everything to do with it." Sasuke answered her bluntly.
"How?" Sakura said not leaving eye contact with Sasuke.
Sasuke snorted, "You know you really are annoying."
Sakura stiffened at his remark. That was the same thing he said—just like last time before Sasuke left. That time that she couldn't stop him.
"You really are annoying."
The last thing he said to her 8 years ago.
Seeing Sakura becoming quiet for a while, Sasuke looked at his hand like searching for something—or rather thinking about something. He looked at Naruto with a faint smirk on his face. "So you won't come with me eh, Naruto?"
Naruto who was feeling queasy about Sasuke's smirk that even though was quite faint, it was still practically visible. "Like hell I would teme!"
"I see." His smirk disappeared and he looked at them with cold eyes, uncaring about anything. "I changed my mind. I won't abduct you yet Naruto."
He paused.
"I'll kill Sakura first."
"WHAT?" Naruto looked at him wide eyed.
Sakura gasped in disbelief.
Kabuto just remained stoic, but he was rather amused of the situation.
"Let's see how well you could take it when I kill Sakura in front of your own eyes." Sasuke smirked at Naruto.
He turned towards Sakura, not feeling a slightest bit of pity or second thoughts about his decision. The second level of his curse seal was starting to form with wings sprouting on his back.
The horrified look on Sakura's face intrigued Sasuke on killing her even more. "How would you feel when the person you say you 'love' kills you, Sakura?" He smirked.
A/N: OMG, I have 53 reviews—already! I'm so happy thank you so much. I know that my grammar is bad, but I'll… get… better…
9th chappie done! Sometimes I wonder—its like I update even faster during school days. Weird! As you can see that I update every week, so if you're waiting for the next chappie—wait until Friday next week. See you then! Ja!
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