Mark Chapter 10
Recap:
"Kukuku, I'll be waiting for you Sasuke-kun," Orochimaru said.
Sasuke barely heard it through wave after wave of pain that assaulted him.
"Sasuke! Naruto!" Sakura yelled in concern.
Chapter 10
Team 7 walked into the tower. Sakura and Naruto were both worried about Sasuke. He had been unconscious for the last few days and he would twitch in pain now and then.
Naruto and Sakura looked around the room while Sasuke was led away by Kakashi. Sakura was whisked away by Gaara and Naruto went over to the blue-haired Hyuga heiress. Naruto started flirting with the red-faced girl while Sakura talked to Gaara.
"Your teammate keeps looking at you," Gaara growled. His arm was wrapped around her waist.
"Naruto?" Sakura blinked, she was sure that her blonde teammate was obsessed with Hinata.
"No, The other one," Gaara said.
"Saskue?" Sakura asked. "I hadn't noticed."
"If he touches you, I'll kill him," Gaara growled.
Sakura blinked. "He won't."
She was sure of that.
A few more teams came in as the deadline came. There were 5 teams from Konoha and one from both sand and sound.
Kabuto, and odd leaf ninja, quit saying he was too tired to continue. That left the fights even.
"We will use *cough* the computer to decided fights at random," Hayate explained.
Everyone looked up as the names flashed by.
Hyuga Hinata v. Yamanaka Ino
Sakura looked towards the blonde girl and saw she was smirking.
"Woot!" Naruto cheered. "Go Hinata-chan!"
Sakura smiled and rolled her eyes at him.
"Will everyone by the two contestants leave the arena?" Hayate asked.
The genin cleared the field and climbed up to the balconies.
"You are not allowed to kill your opponent and I will stop the fight if I need to," Hayate said. "Do you understand?"
"Hai (Yes)," Both girls answered.
"Begin," Hayate said, jumping back.
"Byakugan!" Hinata yelled
As Ino formed the seals for her mind-switch technique, Hinata attacked. Ino cursed and dodged Hinata's blow.
Ino threw a punch. Hinata blocked and grabbed Ino's arms. She her open hand into Ino's chest, forcing chakra through, effectively winning the fight.
Ino gasped and fell to the ground.
"Winner, Hyuuga Hinata," Hayate coughed as the medics came to collect Ino.
"Yay Hinata-chan!" Naruto cheered.
Hinata grinned as she went up to join him.
The computer began shuffling through Names again.
Uzumaki Naruto vs. Akadou Yoroi
Naruto cheered, "MY TURN!" he jumped down into the arena.
The other guy, who was one of Kabuto's teammates also entered.
"Begin!" Hayate said when hey were facing each other.
The other guy moved first. Naruto didn't have time to even blink before Yoroi's arms were wrapped around him.
"You lose brat. I drain chakra," he mocked.
Naruto grinned. "Wrong."
Blue eyes fell closed and red chakra exploded from the blonde's body.
His opponent screamed in pain.
"My chakra is deadly to anyone but me," Naruto said in a dark voice.
The Konoha-nin was on the floor, his body jerking in pain as silent screams fell from his mouth.
Sakura shivered and leaned into Gaara while she watched the malicious red chakra surround her teammate.
"He's a jinjuriken, like I am," Gaara said, eyes wide. Sakura looked up at him.
"My chakra is deadly to anyone but me," Naruto's dark voice made her shiver.
Gaara's arms wrapped tighter around her.
"He's not going to hurt anyone," Gaara assured her.
"Winner, Uzumaki Naruto," Hayate said.
Naruto grinned as the medics collected the dying ninja. Then, the blonde jumped up next to Hinata.
Inuzuka Kiba vs. Kankurou
The fight was over before it began. Kankurou's puppet realeased a posion gas when Kiba attacked it. Kankurou won.
Shikamaru vs. Kin
Shikamaru won by capturing Kin in his shadow-possession jutsu and making her hit her head against the wall.
The computer shuffled through names yet again.
Haruno Sakura vs. Tenten
Gaara growled.
"Gaara, I'll be okay," Sakura assured.
Gaara nodded and reluctantly let her go.
Sakura walked onto the floor and faced the older, brown-haired girl.
"Begin!" Hayate called.
Tenten brought out a scroll and jumped in the air. The scroll was opened and blood slid across it.
Projectiles flew towards Sakura.
As they hit, Sakura's figure flickered, then disappeared.
Tenten landed on the ground and didn't have time to react as she was surrounded by Sakura petals. Tenten threw weapons to them, but the weapons only disappeared.
"Give up," Sakura's voice came from all around. "Your energy is being drained. Soon all of your strength will be gone and you'll die."
Tenten fell to her knees. This strange jutsu was already affecting her.
"I-I surrender!" she gasped.
The petals disappeared.
"Winner, Haruno Sakura!" Hayate announced.
Tenten had passed out ant the medics were collecting her.
"We'll take a short break and return to finish off the matches,"
Sakura shifted unsteadily on her feet.
Gaara appeared behind her and held her up.
"You're tired," Gaara said. "That jutsu took a lot out of you."
Sakura grinned. "Yeah, but I did it."
Gaara smiled. "Yes, you did."
Naruto smiled down at the couple.
"Naruto-kun," a soft voice said.
The blonde turned and grinned at Hinata.
"What's up Hinata-chan?" he asked.
"Y-" She was cut off by Naruto's silver-haired sensei.
"Naruto, we need to talk." Kakashi said.
Naruto looked up, his eyes screaming innocence, "About what Kakashi-sensei?"
"Your fight,"
"Oh," Naruto's face fell. "Well… I'll talk to you later Hinata-chan."
Naruto gently touched the shy girl's pale face and smiled.
Kakashi had begun to walk away, so Naruto ran to catch up.
"Naruto…kun…? Hinata said before her face went up in flames and she passed out.
Sakura was washing her face with cool water when the bathroom door opened.
She turned in time to be pushed against the wall and her mouth to be covered.
Her frightened emerald eyes stared at her dark-haired teammate.
"Your jutsu interests me Sakura-chan," Sasuke said mockingly. "Too bad it drained all your energy. Now I can make you mine and break the curse that Gaara has on you."
He brushed her bangs away, pinning her body with his.
Sasuke's fingers traced over the love mark on her forehead. Sakura hissed and her arms came up in an attempt to push Sasuke away.
Sasuke glared and grabbed her wrists. His knee went between her legs and he kissed her.
Sasuke's tongue forced its way into Sakura's moth. The pink-haired girl struggled, but Sasuke was bigger and stronger then her, especially now since she had just used a jutsu that required a lot of chakra.
So, she bit his tongue. Sasuke cursed and pulled away. Sakura screamed until Sasuke hit her.
"You BITCH!" he yelled as the door was splintered by two angry jinjuriken.
Gaara growled and threw himself at Sasuke while Naruto got Sakura out.
Sasuke dodged Gaara's animalistic attacks until Hayate, Kakashi and Gai appeared.
"Stop," Kakashi commanded. "Your names were chosen for the next battle. Fight there."
Gaara grinned sadistically.
End Chapter 10