Hello fellow sasusaku shippers. Thanks to all the people who have faved and followed my story! Anyway, here we go! I am sorry if this one is kinda short.

(Sasuke)

Without a word, sakura spun back to ino, and fell to her knees next to her. "Shit, shit, SHIT!" She cried, as she hurried to heal inos shoulder. Naruto, shikamaru, hinata and I made a circle around the too. Between us, neji, ten-ten, kakashi, and kiba, the fight was over in minutes. Just as naruto started celebrating, I heard a thud behind me. We all turned to see ino, her wound was healed enough to stop the bleeding, and sakura, who was on all fours in the pool of inos blood. The katana discarded a few feet away. "SAKURA!" I yelled at the same time ten-ten pushed past neji. Shikamaru picked up ino, clutching her close, as I scooped up sakura, and naruto went to pick up hinata. He gasped, and fell to his knees, and began glowing. Kakashi silently placed a hand on his shoulder.

(Naruto)

For the first time, I took a closer look at her face. It looked like lightning was flowing down her face, It started just under her hair on the right side, and ended on her chin. I could feel kurama clawing at the bars, Roaring in anger. I could feel my self-control slipping, but I didn't care. Hinata turned her face away from me, whispering that she was fine, and that I had to calm down. And kakashi sensei had a hand on my shoulder. They would pay for this, they hurt my hinata. Sasuke was there in a second. "Naruto what's wrong." He stopped. Neji landed next to hinata. "Lady hinata…...your…..your face." He sputtered. "They Slashed her face." Sakura mumbled, tearing up. I turned my head to look at her, and she started to sob."I tried naruto. Really I did. But It was to much, I had to save my chakra. I knew we would have to fight our way out." Her voice broke and cracked. Sasuke hushed her, putting his arm around her trying to calm her. She looked at ino, and whispered, tears still streaming down her face. "She'll be scarred too. I didn't have enough chakra to prevent it." She looked shikamaru in the eyes. "I tried. I really did." Then neji. much to my disbelief, hit one of sakura's pressure points. I was half expecting sasuke to try to kill neji, But he looked at him and nodded. "Thank you. She needs to rest. She is dangerously close to running out of chakra." He paused. "Neji, hold her, I'm going to have to patch her up." Sakura too looked worse for wear. She had a nasty gash on her forehead, her arms were cut and bruised. Her knuckles were busted up, and her clothes were torn in multiple place, Not to mention fro the blood on the front of her top, she must have a nice gash on her ribs. I looked at hinata As sasuke started tearing off strip after strip of his cloak. She said nothing, just bowed her head, so her hair covered her face. I reached out for her, and pulled her into my arms. I looked around the group, all the girls save ten-ten were out of commission. Hinata was mumbling something, that I couldn't quite catch. I looked at neji, and silently pleaded with him to do what had to be done. But, just as he was about to knock her out, she said, "No. Neji. You will not do to me what you have done to the others. I will rest when we have returned to camp. Let me go, Naruto." Her voice was flat, and tired. I just held her tightly to my chest. "Hinata…. Let me carry you, we won't make you rest, but let me carry you… I have spent the last day and a half facing the fact that we may have been too late to save you, or that we wouldn't be able to find. I need this. Please." I said as the tears dripped off my face and onto hers. Slowly her face softened. "Okay naruto." She said. I of course noticed that she had called me naruto. Not naruto-kun. But I wasn't about to push my luck. With that, I picked her up, and we took off. Sasuke leading the way, kiba, and neji flanking him, then me, flanked by shikamaru and kakashi sensei. Ten-ten took up the rear, watching our backs.

{Time skip. The waterfall.}

(Ten-ten)

When we had arrived, I took to the trees hiding. There was no way I could face Lady Tsunade after this. Kiba and I had packed up camp, and brought it back here. After we sent up, I came up here. I was crying like a wimp, but i couldn't stop the damn tears. I had messed up. If I had fought harder. Moved faster, or maybe, JUST MAYBE if I hadn't pushed hinata out of the tent, This wouldn't have happened. Maybe my friends wouldn't have been hurt. "Ten-ten?" I jumped, hurrying to scrub away the tears. "Oh hi neji. Didn't notice you there." He came over and sat down behind me, pulling me to his chest. "Ten-ten, you shouldn't do this to yourself. You shouldn't hurt yourself." I was shocked that he knew, until I glanced down, I had forgotten to pull my pant leg back down. So the makes from mine blade were visible. I gulped and yanked my pants back into place. "Just forget about it." I grumbled, trying to get up. But he just held me tighter. "No. I won't love. I can't. " More tears started to flow. I tried again to stop them. He sighed then picking me up, jumped down, and hurrying us into our tent.

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