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Dedication: Alice Darcia.

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Beast Child and an Emergency Rescue

Just before she was crushed beneath the beast, Sakura felt herself jerking to the side and then her body weight disappearing. Sasuke skid to a stop and got on one knee to lower Sakura down. "What happened back there, Sakura" he demanded from her. The image of what she had seen flashed through her mind. A mere child no older than 10, inside the beast. Sakura snapped back to reality when she felt Sasuke shaking her "Oi! Sakura!" he called out to her, concern showing in his eyes. Sakura reached out and grabbed hold of Sasuke's jacket.

"Th-There was..." her voice trailed off. "There was a child in that thing!" she shouted at her. Sasuke's eyes widened "How can that be...?" doubting Sakura, she saw it in a moment of adrenaline after all but her green eyes told him otherwise. "She was in the beast's chest, we have to save her!" her eyes pleading. Sasuke sighed, this is how he always end up taking Sakura's side.

"Alright, what do you propose we do. The idiot won't be able to hold for long." said Sasuke.

Meanwhile...

Naruto cursed his teammates to their grave. Where the fuck are those two? He managed to dodge a bone crushing smack down by the beast. He flung a kunai at its paw only to have it get absorbed and then melted. Naruto gulped, it would be messy if he was caught in that chakra. He flipped on his hands and landed on his feet, skidding a few meters back.

He caught sight of his teammates, he felt relief but at the same time he wanted to yell at them till they were deaf for ditching him like that.

He reunited with his teammates "Geez, can't you two find a better time to make out? When there's not a gigantic beast threatening the destruction of the village?"

Sasuke was about to throw a counter insult at Naruto but Sakura cut him off "Naruto, there is a child in the beast's chest, we have to be careful about where we attack it." she told him. "C-Child? But that chakra melts anything that comes in contact with it" said Naruto. Their attention was directed away when the beast slammed it's hand down on them. "Kaiho"

It met with a familiar green chakra than sent its paw back to him, snarling as if in pain. "What do you plan to do, Sakura-chan?" asked Naruto. "We have to think of a way to get her out, for now just be careful about your choice of attacks" said Sakura, her eyes blazing. Naruto and Sasuke nodded, Sakura dispelled the barrier and they jumped off, determined to find the beast's weak spot.

Sasuke activated his sharingan and began scanning the creature as he dodged it's attacks, careful not to get himself caught because that might be the last mistake he makes. After looking through the beast, he couldn't find a place where the chakra flow was weaker. He gave a frustrated "Tch" before flipping backwards to avoid a ground shaking hand slam.

He decided to attack and see if it works. "Katon, Goukakyuu no Jutsu" he shouted, shooting a humongous fireball at the beast, making it turn away and snarl at the scorching heat. Eyes locating the source, it struck. Sasuke cut his technique short to dodge, he launched himself into the air. However the beast was smart this time, immediately after it missed. It raised the other paw and decided to squish Sasuke like a bug.

Sasuke didn't flinch, but before he could draw his Kusanagi a voice called from the sidelines.

"Doton, Hachi Doryu Josho (Earth Technique, Eight Rising Earth Dragons)"

Sasuke turned his head to look at the ground, he watched at eight dragons molded from the wet ground shot up from the ground and whooshed carefully past him before piercing themselves in the beast's hand. He watched as Sakura's chakra was clearly evident in the technique, but instead of having the chakra completely dissolved by the beast, Sakura' green chakra fought back and destroyed the beast's paw.

Sasuke landed on his feet and watched as the beast took a step back and chakra began to flare as it repaired itself.

Naruto flung himself (literally) at the beast with another rasengan in hand. He slammed hard onto the beast's head, his attack never got through, the beast just absorbed his rasengan. It lifted its head and sent Naruto off balance, landing sloppily on his feet before dodging a swing from the beast.

"It just keeps regenerating from every attack we throw at it!" said Naruto, he grabbed his kunai. Then he paused and an idea hit him, he pumped his newly attained wind affinity into the blade and flung it with all his might into the beast, it entered through the chest and Sakura let out a small gasp when it just barely missed the child. She heard the beast roar in pain and as the kunai slowly melted away. Naruto let out a loud "Yes! It worked!"

Sakura formed the right seals and clawed her hands in front of her "San Inshi Ookami (Three Element Wolf)" she forced a large amount of chakra into her arm, Wind, Fire and Lightning chakra molded into a shape of a wolf. Sakura doubled the chakra and the wolf doubled in size.

The wolf ran at the beast, it's tail still connected to Sakura as she controlled it's movements. The wolf caught the attention of the beast before it sank it's teeth into the beast's neck. Naruto and Sasuke watched as the familiar wolf stole the attention of their prey.

The beast fought back and swung a hand at the wolf, but Sakura's attack didn't give in. Upon touching the white wolf, the beast lost its arm. Sasuke and Naruto's eyes widened. Sasuke finally understood, Sakura's pure chakra could counter the beast's destructive chakra. The beast seemed to have snapped. It pulled away from Sakura's technique, but to no avail. Sakura pulled her chakra back, she attempted to pull the beast towards her.

Well she got one part right, the beast turned to look at her mechanically. Sakura's eyes widened as she felt the thick pressurized chakra charge at the beast's mouth. She didn't have time to move, a beam of red shot at her, cutting from the ground all the way up.

Sakura found herself being crushed by something heavy on the ground. She groaned and opened her eyes only to find none other than Uchiha Sasuke laying on her, he had his arms wrapped tightly around her and one of his hand behind her head to soften her landing.

Sakura felt his grip on her loosen when she twitched. "Geez, you many times do you have to scare me before you're satisfied. " he said. Sakura blushed, she was always getting saved by Sasuke.

"I-I'm sorry" she mumbled, her eyes trailed and she spotted a scorch wound at Sasuke's side, showing his bare skin in the rain. "Sasuke..!" she breathed sharply. Sasuke followed her eyes and looked at his own wound, he tried to touch it but Sakura slapped his hand away. "Don't touch it, you'll infect it" she bit her lip as she lit her hand with her green chakra and gave it a quick heal, at least to replace the burned layer of skin with a new one to prevent an infections, she'll heal the nerves and tissues later, the beast wasn't patient.

Sasuke decided it's best to tell Sakura now that she was probably the only one that can stop the beast, but he had a feeling she'd already realized "Sakura, your chakra-" he cut himself short."Yeah... So you've noticed too" she said. Her eyes widened when the thunder roared all of the sudden. That book...

'It was just like any ordinary book. With the author of the book in the first page, as usual Sakura dismissed that page and moved on the contents but when she flipped a page-'

She finally remembered the author's name, how could she not have seen this earlier. That weird sensation when she made contact with the book, the familiar warm feeling. On the front page -

The Haruno Clan

By Haruno Tsubaki

That book was written by her mother. And that strange sensation, she remembered when she felt it. The first time she spoke to her mother during the sand's invasion on Konoha, she never saw what she looked like but she could heard her voice and see her shadow. When she explained about her Chakra Kaiho to her, she felt like a tight bandage around her had been loosened. When she touched that book, she felt the same sensation.

Sakura felt a rush of realization before she stared down at her own hands, she felt... So different yet nothing seemed to have changed. The beast charged up for another beam, this one looked huger than the previous one. Sakura could feel Sasuke tensed to dodge till she grabbed her hand, Sasuke looked down at her, surprised. She didn't say anything, just kept on staring at her other hand.

Sasuke decided to trust her.

The beast fired, this time aimed properly at Sakura and Sasuke. Sakura's head shot up, eyes glowing as the beam was about to hit, only to stop when it made contact with Sakura's barrier. Her barrier looked different, something about it made it seem. Stronger.

Sasuke could feel Sakura's small hand tighter around his wrist, he wriggled out and wrapped his fingers around hers. He could feel Sakura's body throb with chakra, green sparks cackled from the barrier and made its way towards the beast through its own attack and electrocuting it's head. The beast immediately cut off its attack and snarled in pain, a spark of electricity ran through it before it died down.

Sakura finally understood the concept of her kekkei genkai, a human weapon was the perfect way to describe it.

Not only are they able to master all 5 basic affinities, but their chakra has the power to suppress ones chakra, whether it be man or beast. They make the ultimate Bijuu tamers. However in price of this gift, the members of the Haruno clan were cursed with ridiculously weak bodies that wouldn't be able to withstand the bijuu's sealing.

Sasuke smirked, if they don't keep up with their training, Sakura was going to surpass them.

"That was totally awesome, Sakura-chan!" shouted Naruto. Sakura dropped the barrier as Naruto came running. His eyes trailed to their attached hands, he made a face and waggled his eyebrows. "I see what you did there, Sasuke" he said. Only then did they realize that they were still holding on to each other's hands. They instantly let go, a tint of red brushing their cheeks.

Sakura smiled "Naruto, Sasuke. Lend me a hand"

...

'Deal as much damage as you can, huh'

The two boys smirked, that's their specialty. They got into position, Naruto standing a fair distance behind Sasuke who was looking up at the clouds, the lightning flashed an thunder cackled, he smirked, perfect.

Naruto formed a seal "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu" but instead of summon one clone to start his rasengan like he usually does, he summoned two. 'Sakura-chan wants a devastating attack, and that's exactly what I'm going to give her '

The two clones picked at the chakra around his hand, this time it didn't look like a rasengan, it was white and the chakra around it was more pressurized as it spun faster and faster, Sasuke waited for Naruto's start. The beast was charging another beam for its next attack, directed at them.

Sasuke narrowed his sharingan eyes. Behind, he could feel the sheer intensity of Naruto's incoming attack just before the blonde ran past him. His sharingan could see the huge amount of chakra stored within that spinning white ball

"Fuuton! Rasenshuriken!"

Sakura's stomach lurched at the force of the attack Naruto held like some kind of play ball. She knew that if someone was hit with that attack, it's unlike they'll be able to wake.

Naruto ran under the beast and landed a sharp upwards hit against the beast's chin, the beast resisted and pushed it's chin down, attempting to aim and destroy anything in the village. Naruto pushed on, the white ball spinning even faster. The beast couldn't stand it, and the beam was launched up at the sky instead of the village. "Sasuke!" Naruto shouted as he was coming down from his jump.

"I'm working on it" the raven head grumbled, he wasn't about to be outdone by his blonde teammate. His eyes closed as he formed a seal.

The lightning seemed to be flashing more violent, the thunder sounded and Sakura could see it, the immense amount of lightning chakra Sasuke was emitting was drawing in the lightning in forming a large thundercloud above the beast.

The stirring of the clouds were violent, even just by looking at it she could feel terror.

"Kirin..!" Sasuke said loudly.

A bright flash of lightning and before the beast knew it, a dragon had came down on it. This was no ordinary dragon, the dragon was made of blue lightning as it bit down on the beast, completely severing and destroying its hind legs.

Sakura knew that was her turn, she shot forward, coating herself with green chakra and, like a bullet she threw herself into the beast, pushing herself as far in a possible as she grabbed hold of the child. She held her tightly and squeezed her eyes shut. Sasuke and Naruto's chakra were already exhausted, however they stared into the beast and watched as Sakura attempted to suppress it's chakra.

It was extremely dangerous to just be throwing yourself into a man scorching beast, but they were left with no choice and Sakura was definitely going to complain that they didn't have enough faith in her if they didn't let her go.

But knowing that girl, the guys knew they had nothing to fear of. Sakura's chakra began to spread like a virus in the beast, it had already stopped regenerating, all Sakura had to do now was suppress the remaining about of the beast that Naruto and Sasuke left for her.

Amidst the pain, Sakura heard a soft voice, 'Who're you?' Sakura heard her said in her head, so she answered 'I am a Konoha Shinobi. I'm here to help'

'You should run, I am a monster'

'I won't leave you'

'You're just wasting your time, lady'

'Then let me do as I please'

Sakura's chakra exploded, blowing Sasuke and Naruto off. When they turned back, Sakura was sitting on her legs, with a child in her arms. The child had black hair that ended messily at her chest, she was wearing a short skirt kimono that children always wear to festivals. Her fingers were caked with dirt and her feet were grubby, her face looked rather rounded but there wasn't a speck of dirt on her face.

Sakura looked down at the unconscious child then smiled. She was absolutely exhausted to the extent that she didn't even want to move. She looked up at her teammates who soon collapsed, sitting on either side of her as well. She let out a chuckle. They did it.

Tsunade and the rest of the village soon gathered around them. The hokage was given an opening that led her to the panting trio. Sakura looked up and smiled at her "As you wished, we didn't leave the village" she said. Naruto gave a huge grin and even Sasuke couldn't contain a small grin as he closed his eyes.

Tsunade crossed her arms and smirked 'These three just keep coming back and kicking the society's judgment in the ass' she thought then turned around to see the two village elders, holding umbrellas under the rain. She gave them a smug look in which they responded by turning and walking away. Guess this means she won the gamble, and in less than a month. She had clearly underestimated them.

Next day...

Sakura handed the little girl over to let the hospital take care of her and the council to place judgment on her, Sakura just hoped that they wouldn't do anything harsh to a child. The rosette had gotten up earlier than the sun and was already up at her desk, scribbling notes as she flipped through the pages of her mother's book. She picked up the test tube that sat the last from her rack, pulled the cock and consumed its contents. It was a concoction made out of herbal extracts that helps keep her heart pumping, it works better than coffee.

She paused when she felt a certain someone's chakra sparking, she smiled and pulled the hair needle from her hair and letting the locks fall around her. She stood up and excitedly exited her room only to knock on Sasuke's door. "You awake? Sasuke?" she asked, even though she already knew the answer. She leaned her head in to hear a soft "Yeah" from behind the door before she entered.

Sasuke was in a pair of sweat pants and loose fitting singlet as he held his wardrobe door, probably about to get changed. "Time to change your bandages" Sakura said and motioned him to take off his top. "Didn't you just change them yesterday?" he sighed. "You can never be too cautious, now are you going to take it off of am I going to have to do it for you" Sakura smiled at him.

He smirked "That's not a bad idea, Doctor" he mocked. He flinched, about to dodge Sakura but the next thing he knew she had tackled him onto the bed, sitting on top of him. Legs folded on either side of his waist. "Geez woman, it was a joke" he said. Sakura giggled, she leaned down and placed her hand on the bed above his shoulders. Sasuke smirked and raised a brow "Are you attacking me, Sakura?" he snaked his hands up legs and rested them on her waist. "What do you think?"

Sakura's green eyes gleamed right before she leaned over and pressed her lips against the Uchiha's. His heart was going out of control, but he refused to show it. Since when was Sakura so well taught in these things. Unless this was part of her training with Tsunade.

When she pulled from the kiss, Sasuke found himself wanting more. She looked down at him, her face turning red "Are you ready to take your top off now?" she asked. Sasuke turned away "I don't feel like it" he joked. Sakura made him look at her, placing her forehead on top of his "I'll stop if you don't listen to your doctor"

Sasuke felt himself flinch, she knew exactly how to control him. The worst part is, he was completely powerless against her. He pushed himself to sit up and reluctantly slid out of his singlet, Sakura's hand immediately went for the bandages but Sasuke grabbed her wrist before she managed to touch it. "You're not touching that bandage until I get what I was promised" he smirked and pulled her hands so that they stood on either side of him and her body, arched down and her knees on either side of his legs.

Sakura raised an eyebrow, then obliged. Sasuke moved his hands up her back to slip his fingers in her hair, deepening the kiss. Sakura etched closer to him, placing her hands on his bare chest now. She now sat herself down at his lap as she pushed him against the headboard and wall and she leaned in.

She slid her hands down from his chest and ran her fingertips around his abs. "Done" Sakura said all of the sudden. Sasuke looked down to see that Sakura had somehow changed his bandage without him knowing. She held a smug look on her face as she got off his bed and trotted over to the door "Be downstairs for breakfast" she told him before exiting and closing the door.

Sasuke was still wondering where on earth did Sakura learn to rouse people like that, his eyes narrowed. Was she using this on her other patients as well?

Sakura stood outside Sasuke's room, body leaned back against his door and fist at her chest. 'It's still racing...' her face was completely red and her hands were trembling as she clutched Sasuke's old bandages. She pushed herself off his door and walked down the hallway and headed for the kitchen 'Strange... Ino-chan never mentioned anything about feeling like this. Maybe I'm sick'

Sasuke came down in time to see Sakura place an omelet on a plate. He went over and took his usual seat with Sakura across him, she walked over to the dining table with two plates in her hands as she set one down in front of Sasuke and the other in front of her seat. She left and came back with the cutlery.

And of course after their meal, as Sakura and Sasuke were washing the dishes. Someone had to come and destroy the perfectly peaceful morning. But a perfectly peaceful morning would be rather boring. Naruto didn't bother using the front door, instead he came around the house and barged in through the paper slide doors which eventually led to the kitchen and dining room, which Sasuke and Sakura always forget to close.

"AH! YOU GUYS ALREADY HAD BREAKFAST!" Naruto shouted louder than necessary, Sasuke flung a plate at him, in hopes that would hit him in the face and shut him up before he made any more noise. Naruto caught the plate expertly "Nice try, teme" he said and brought it back to Sasuke who snorted as he reluctantly took the plate from Naruto, debating whether to smash his head with it. "Naruto, want some breakfast?" Sakura offered. "It's alright, I already ate with Hinata" he said. Sakura and Sasuke looked at each other with Sakura grinning excitedly at him as he just smirked back.

"Oh? So you're making a move on Hinata-chan now?" said Sakura. Naruto blushed immediately after his teammate said that, he covered the lower part of his face with the back of his hand. "She just came back from her mission so I treated her to breakfast, that's all!" he defended himself.

Sakura was well aware of the huge crush Hinata had on Naruto, they were going to make such a great couple. Sakura couldn't help but smile. Naruto dropped his hand "We have a mission" he said, this time he was being serious.

Instead of assembling at the hokage's office like they usually do for an important mission, they found themselves waiting outside their sensei's operation room.

"Didn't they say Kakashi-sensei's injury was just a flesh wound?" said Naruto.

"Seems like he's been in there for the whole night" said Sasuke.

Sakura's brows furrowed, indeed Kakashi's wound looks like a simple flesh wound that needed to be patched up when they brought him back. However her chakra was too exhausted to assist the operation so she was sent back. She didn't expect it to take this long. She looked over to see the expressions of her teammates and noticed that they had the same expression as her. They waited anxiously for someone to come out.

Tsunade came out, pulling a heath mask from her face. "How is he, Tsunade baa-chan" said Naruto, stepping forward. "His wound is infected to a serious extent. He's going to need more time before he can return to the field" said Tsunade. "But he's going to be alright, right?" Sakura said, she sounded desperate, and anxious. Tsunade didn't say anything, Sakura's heart fell. "I can't say for sure now..." the hokage muttered.

"Which is why, as his students you have to take the responsibility of your teacher. Before the village was attacked, I received an urgent Intel from Niju Shotai. It seems like they have spotted a pair of akatsuki members. I don't know if they'll be enough to finish the job so I was about to send Kakashi as back up. But seeing as he is now, I doubt he'll be going for any missions for awhile." said Tsunade.

Sakura's heart sped up as the words 'Akatsuki' remembering what happened the last time they encountered them.

"Squadron 7, Haruno Sakura, Uzumaki Naruto, and Uchiha Sasuke. Your mission is to go to Kusagakure and assist in the capture of two akatsuki members. I'm appointing Sasuke as this mission's captain" said Tsunade. "Right" all three answered and once before they disappeared.

They ran a quick trip back home to gather their things, the trip to the grass village would take about a day or so. They could make it in half a day if they don't take stops. They packed their things and met at the village gate. It seemed like Naruto was first to reach.

They nodded at each other before running down the path.

After a while of running straight they turned towards the north and took the shortcut by cutting through the forest. So far no one seemed like they needed a break. Sasuke was leading, followed by Sakura then Naruto. Sasuke wanted them in this formation in case of an attack. If it's a head on attack then Sasuke would be able to take notice of it first. If they decided to sneak up on them, Naruto would know. They had to keep Sakura away from danger, the medic of the team was always the most important.

However Sakura had to admit, Sasuke was fast. She was beginning to have trouble catching up to him after three hours had passed.

Meanwhile...

"Asuma, now!" Shikamaru cried. His teacher, took one swing of his arm with his hand clutched his chakra blades, he decapitated one of the akatsuki members, making his hitai-ate that was formally around his neck, drop to the ground.

Asuma let out a breath as he watched his opponent's head roll, literally. He lowered his weapon and turned his head, this battle was done.

"Oi, Kakuzu! Look what he did! This is all your fault for not coming to help me"

Everyone froze. "No way...!"

"Is he really, immortal...?"

"It's your own fault for letting your guard down" Kakuzu replied his partner from afar. "Quit ya bitching and come reattach my head!" Hidan snapped. Kakuzu jumped in, dodging the attacks Kotetsu and Izumo threw at him and picked up Hidan's head. Asuma took his stance, but Kakuzu didn't even spare him a glance as he reattached his partner's head with threads.

"Much better" sighed Hidan. His skin turned back and he had a skull on his face and weird white markings all over his body licked his lips then looked at Asuma, who scowled at him. Weapons raised.

Kakuzu was attacked by Kotetsu and Izumo. He merely dodged their attacks and didn't seem interested to do anything else. "Hidan, try not to mess him body up too bad, I need him identifiable so that I can collect his thirty-five million ryo bounty." said Kakuzu.

Izumo and Kotetsu came from both sides of Kakuzu, but the latter didn't move. Instead threads slid from him sleeves and binded them before their attacks could reach.

Shikamaru tried once again to bind Hidan, but it was no use. His chakra was too exhausted to go any further. "Heh, running low on fuel eh?" said Hidan. Asuma gritted his teeth, he couldn't do anything when Hidan was in that circle. Hidan looked at Asuma thoughtfully. "Hmm... How should I kill you" he said.

He placed his blade against his neck, drawing blood. Asume could feel blood trickling down his neck as well. "Stop it!" Shikamaru shouted, but stumbled. From behind him he could hear Kotetsu and Izumo being slammed to the ground, he looked back with a gasp. "Or should I pierce your heart" Hidan chuckled sinisterly as he pressed a blade against his chest.

Hidan pushed the blade in front of him. Shikamaru's eyes widened, he was really going to do it. If he doesn't think of something soon, Asuma was going to die. He wracked his brains for a battle plan, but felt utterly hopeless when he couldn't think of anything that could save them in this situation.

Before he knew it, Hidan had pierced his own heart.

"Asuma!"

He fell. Asuma's blades slipped away as his body landed with a hard thump. Shikamaru struggled to move, being too exhausted he still tried. His hands clenched and shaking as Hidan let out a roar of laughter. "Mortals are so fragile" he laughed.

Hidan turned towards Shikamaru who was glaring darkly at him. He grinned back manically and pulled the sharp metal out of his body. Then turned his body to face Shikamaru, "Don't worry, you'll be joining him soon" he said, gripping his scythe.

Kotetsu and Izumo laid unconscious on the ground, all beaten up and covered in dirt. Kakuzu's threads riled up together and formed two sharp spears positioned right above them.

Hidan threw his scythe at Shikamaru, the boy winced and turned away. Expecting the blood to splatter soon.

The immortal akatsuki's eyes widened, something fast. He almost couldn't see it.

Clang.

His spear dropped to the floor, limp.

Kakuzu looked up to see what had stopped Hidan's scythe. Only to have an attack slammed into his chest "Rasengan!"

He was flung backwards and away from Kotetsu and Izumo.

Hidan twitched, before him stood a raven haired boy in a white jacket, holding his katana that had just knocked his scythe away from his prey, eyes darkened and glaring. From the moment he laid eyes on Uchiha Sasuke, he knew he'd already hated him. "Hey buddy, Looks like you want to die too" he glared at Sasuke. Shikamaru looked back to see Kotetsu and Izumo no longer in danger as Naruto stood where Kakuzu formally stood with the latter far away from them, then he looked up at his savior "Sasuke! Naruto! What are you guys doing here" said Shikamaru. "Orders of Tsunade on behalf of Kakashi" said Sasuke.

"What happened to Kakashi?" said Shikamaru. Before Sasuke could answer his question, she heard his female teammate's voice. "Shikamaru!" she called after him and landed swiftly next to him. "A-Asuma-sensei" he heard Chouji stammer at the sight of their fallen teacher.

Shikamaru immediately felt his heart being crushed all over again, how was he going to explain this to Chouji and Ino? Ino wasn't going to take it well, he couldn't stand the sight of her crying. "Hou... more brats have arrived" said Hidan. "Keh, too bad they aren't worth shit. Just kill them all, I don't care how you do it" said Kakuzu. "Ino, where's Sakura" Sasuke asked, his eyes still fixated on Hidan. "S-She told us to go first" said Ino. Sasuke scowled, Sakura must've felt Asuma's fading chakra.

Hidan smirked and pulled back his scythe. "Get Asuma out of here and have him treated, Naruto and I will take care of things from here" said Sasuke. "Sasuke you can't kill him, he's immortal. Don't let him cut you or you'll get caught in his technique" said Shikamaru.

Sasuke turned his head just slightly "Thanks for the tip" then he turned back to face Hidan "Now go! Asuma's chakra is fading fast" he said. Chouji quickly landed next to his teacher and picked him up gently as Ino helped Shikamaru stand. Hidan threw his spear once more at Shikamaru's side, It merely took Sasuke a swing of his kusanagi to knock it off again.

Hidan pulled back his spear "Feelin' cocky, are we" he said, challenging to Sasuke. This was going to be his fourth time coming face to face with an Akatsuki member. Since he had no idea how to fight this guy, he decided to take Shikamaru's advice. Don't let him cut you. Hidan lunged at the Uchiha, Sasuke noticed that as soon as he stepped out of the circle, his odd appearance disappeared and he had human skin.

Sasuke jumped back as he countered Hidan's spear, slamming down on him. His kusanagi slipping between the blades and having the blades stop in front of his face at a dangerously close distance. Sasuke pushed him off then swung at him sideway, Hidan repelled it. Sasuke kept striking him as his sharingan looked for an opening. "Hou... an Uchiha. You don't see many of that around anymore" laughed Hidan. Sasuke scowled and ignored him.

Behind him he could hear that Naruto has already began fighting his enemy.

"Now's not the time to be worrying about your bratty friends!" laughed Hidan as he lunged at Sasuke. But in an instant, the Uchiha was no longer there. The bingo book were right about Hidan being the slowest of the Akatsuki. Compared to Sasuke's speed, Hidan moves in slow motion.

Sasuke stood good distance from Hidan. Hidan hid his shock, he turned around slowly with his maniac grin "What's wrong, Uchiha. Afraid to come closer?" he said. "No, I just don't want to dirty myself with your filthy blood" Sasuke smirked and held out his hand "Chidori Eiso"

Too quick, all Hidan had to do was blink and he found himself impaled by a long blade of light. Hidan looked down mechanically at the wound in his heart. Sasuke closed his fingers and multiple spikes impaled Hidan from the outside.

Hidan laughed, Sasuke scowled. Shikamaru wasn't kidding when he said the bastard couldn't die. He pulled back his technique and pulled his kusanagi to the side. "Chidori Senbon" Hidan lifted his scythe to block a few of him only to find Sasuke rushing him with the senbons he just shot, he landed a hard kicked at Hidan's chest, sending him flying far away.

Hidan let out another laugh, this man was seriously getting on his nerves. "Those moves... that face" Hidan trailed off as he got up, slowly. "Those eyes" Hidan's eyes held a psychotic look "There's no doubt about it. You must be the brother of Uchiha Itachi" Hidan grinned, eyes widened and completely crazy. "This makes it a lot easier to kill you, that bastard is going to pay for our last fight-" there was a pause in his voice.

After a moment of silence Hidan started talking to himself "Ahh, I know I know. This won't take long"

Sasuke's brow furrowed, he must be having a telepathic conversation. But with who?

"Sasuke!" He heard Sakura's voice called out to him, he felt her land next to him. The rest of Niju Shotai arrived. Outnumbering Hidan and Kakuzu. The sky rumbled and Sakura looked up, the sky was gray. She had a bad feeling.

"Hidan! Leave them!" Kakuzu yelled at his partner. Hidan made a "Tch" sound with his tongue. "Watch your back, Uchiha" he told Sasuke before leaping off in great distance. Aoba and the other were about make chase when Sasuke raised a hand. "Leave them, there's no point in making chase now" said Sasuke, he sheathed his kusanagi "That bastard! How dare he run from a fight!" Naruto cursed.

"Get them first aid" said Sasuke, nodding his head over at the unconscious Kotetsu and Izumo.

They moved the wounded up to the rooftop where Asuma was in his last moments. By the time they reached the rooftop, Asuma had a cigarette in his mouth. Looking peaceful as Ino still tries to heal him, refusing to give up on him. "Sensei! Asuma-sensei!" she called out to him as she felt his heart beat fade. Sakura rushed to his side, sitting on the opposite side of Ino. "You're going to be okay, don't give up" Sakura told him quickly. She was not about to let a patient die in front of her.

Not when he was about to become a father.

Team Asuma knew that their sensei was beyond their abilities. With his last breath "It's alright... Sakura. Let me go" his voice was hoarse and soft, just like a person who was about to pass. Sakura's hands glowed bright as she built chakra beneath them then she injected it all at once in his heart. It sparked his life but it wasn't enough.

Sakura released her kaiho without even realizing. Her immense chakra whipped up the wind around them her hair whipped around wildly. She pumped again, Asuma's body jerked. Ino watched as her best friend kept going. She felt ashamed that she had given up on someone so dear to her. But her heart sank, as a medic nin she knew the damage done on Asuma's body was beyond medical repair unless they could perform an immediately heart transplant.

"S-Sakura! That's enough..!" said Shikamaru. Another voice cut in "Give it up, you can't stop the girl when she's that determined" said Sasuke as he walked up to them with Naruto trailing behind him. He gave them a grin "Asuma oji-san is going to be fine"

Why...

Why do they give up such a spark of hope even though it's hopeless.

Sakura scowled, this wasn't working. She's left to resort to one last technique, it was risky as she didn't know how she first did it but they couldn't be picky right now. She breathed out and her body lit up with chakra and the wind picked up, creating a whirlwind of green chakra around them. Ino, Chouji and Shikamaru watched as the whirlwind shot up all the way to the sky.

"O-Oi, she's going to hurt herself if she stresses her chakra to this extent" said Chouji. Sasuke smirked "Shut up and watch"

Sakura had a brief idea on how to cast the jutsu from her mother's book. But it was said that none of the new Haruno clan could perform it as the seal was still too strong, some even died trying. But she survived it once, she can do it again. Sakura's eyes glowed and all her green chakra seemed to have gather in her hand. "Kurenai-sensei's waiting for you to come back, you can't give up now" Sakura told him. Asuma's body lit up in green chakra and something bright exploded. Everyone turned their heads away from the blinding light.

The light faded and they turned back. Sakura's shoulder heaving and her hands limp on either side of her. Ino moved a hand over to check Asuma's pulse, afraid of the result. Her heart skipped a beat when she could feel Asuma's pulse beating strong.

"H-He's alive" said Ino, looking up as Sakura. She gave her a tired grin "Yeah..." she breathed then looked down at Asuma, "H-How...?" said Ino. Sakura gave her a sheepish smile "He's going to be a father after all"

Team Asuma's eyes widened "How did you know that" said Shikamaru, did Asuma tell her before hand? Because as far as he knows, Asuma had just informed him on his unborn child in Kurenai. Even Ino and Chouji has yet to know. Sakura smiled at him "Don't underestimate the intuition of a medic" said Sakura, fell back. Sasuke held the kunoichi. "S-Sakura...!" said Ino, worried about her best friend. "She's fine, just overly exhausted" said Sasuke as he laid her down.

"Shikamaru! What's was that about Asuma-sensei being a father?" Ino demanded. Shikamaru had his lazy look on again "Troublesome, I just found out a few moments ago" he said then winced and held his side. Ino's demanding face was immediately replaced with concern for her teammate. "Let me see" she stood up and trotted over next to him. Shikamaru felt uncomfortable when she lifted his shirt to see a huge bruise growing.

She placed her glowing hand on the injury, soothing the pain. "Ah, I'll heal you later. Chouji" said Ino. "Oh it's fine. Take your time" the big guy flashed Shikamaru a cheeky look before the Nara sighed. "What are you sighing about now, Shikamaru" said Ino in a suspicious tone. "Nothing" Shikamaru answered. Ino decided to let it slide.

After they tended to the wounded, they headed for home with newly gathered information about Hidan and his partner. Sasuke carried Sakura on his back where as Chouji carried Asuma. Kotetsu and Izumo were carried by Raido and Aoba.

When they got back to the village it was already close to midnight, They dropped Asumo, Kotetsu and Izumo over at the hospital as Shikamaru and Raido had to report to the Hokage, much to Shikamaru's dismay. Sasuke brought a very tired Sakura home and used his foot to push over her door. He set her down on the bed and tucked her in before exiting, however curiosity got the best of him as he walked over to her desk and took a peek at what Sakura was researching about.

His face cringed after the first few words and decided that it was too complicated and let Sakura deal with it. As he turned, his kusanagi knocked over her rack of test tubes. His reflexes were instant, as he was managed to catch all of the tubes before they managed to fall and break. He sighed in relief and placed them back before walking out of Sakura's room and closing the door behind him.

Next Chapter

"Sasuke... D-Did you rearrange the test tubes on my rack?"

"S-Sakura...?"

"You be good girl now, or I might do something to you"

"Where's Sakura!"

"You fucking perverts... Don't speak of indecent things in front of Sakura so casually!"


Once again, I'm so sorry for my mistake. No wonder you guys didn't understand what was going on. Haha, don't leave me!