Chapter 12: Team Gai to the Rescue!
"Iron Defense!" I yelled, rapidly making hands seals until a shield was produced. Using my chakra shield I moved Zabuza's sword away from my neck. His grip on me lessened in surprise and I managed to break his hold, and jump away. Glowering at him I made more hand seal before putting my hands up as though I was holding my imaginary bow and arrow. "Tenshi style: Piercing arrow!" Releasing my now visible chakra glowing arrows, I watched them find their target and felt very please as I saw Zabuza actually have to put an effort forward to dodge my arrow.
"Sakura get out of here now, you aren't experienced or strong enough to fight these enemies!" I heard Kakashi yell; I ignored him keeping my eyes on Zabuza. My hands flew forming a rapid number of hand seals. "Earth Style: Blooming Razors!" I yelled again, and this time beautiful cherry blossoms began to form. I could see Zabuza beginning to laugh at my jutsu before the cherry blossoms hardened and flew at him. They sliced his skin; each of the blossoms' petals was sharpened like shuriken.
And I couldn't help but smirk.
"Stupid brat!" Zabuza growled at me. He came running towards me, my jutsu having worn off. I began hand signs for another jutsu when someone's fist connected with my stomach. I choked slightly as I felt the air being knocked out of me, and I wobbled weakly until I fell to my knees clutching my stomach. "I'll take care of the little winch, Zabuza, you just take out the Jounin." From my spot on the ground, I could see someone approaching me. Adrenaline was once again rushing through my veins, and I could feel my heart pounding in my chest. I could hear the nam's feet hit the ground as he began to charge towards me. I forced myself to stand on my wobbly legs and face him. "Heh...don't you know when you are outmatched, girlie?"
"Don't you know when you are too old to sound cool?" I retorted, making more hand seals as he ran closer. "Earth Style: Living Blade!" I screamed; my right arm suddenly got heavier, and my skin was becoming hard. I swung my arm around, and it made a long deep cut on my opponent's stomach. "What the...?!" he called out in surprise, and then taking a quick look a t my arm he said, "Heh, I see now, your jutsu turned your arm into a stone blade... Clever girl, perhaps you are not so stupid after all." I growled at him for that comment; I prided myself on being smarter than the rest, so I was definitely not going to stand for that.
The two of us circled each other before jumping at each other; we were now locked in hand-to-hand combat. Loud grunts escaped us and we attacked each other again and again; punches met punches and kicks met kicks. He drew up his leg and swung it at my, but it only grazed me as I dodged it. 'Wait!' I though, an Idea rushing through my head. "Chakra scalpel jutsu!" I yelled - my stone blade jutsu had already long since faded - so taking my right arm I gathered my chakra for the jutsu and hit the enemies calf with the side of my hand. It effectively sliced through his muscle.
He let out a sharp yelp of pain while clutching his leg. Jumping away from him I prepared to finish him off when another yell caught my attention. I spun around locating Naruto and Sasuke... apparently their opponent was much stronger than mine, because while I had been busy fighting Zabuza and his lackey, they had still been fighting the same guy. I threw one last look at my injured opponent, and ran towards Naruto. Their opponent was huge – I could see why they had been having issues. I glanced towards Naruto and he caught my eye and nodded; together we yelled, "Twin Dark Matter Jutsu!"
Our chakra pooled together in the air and slowly faded to black before flying towards our opponent. He was soon covered in the black goop, which was harmless...accept for when it combusted and ignited. "Sasuke! You can use fire-style jutsu, can't you?! Now would be a good time to show us!" I yelled at him; he looked really confused for a moment before it finally clicked. I saw him flash hand signs and then heard him yell, "Fireball Jutsu!" A large ball of flame exploded from him, whit hit our opponent, and he burst into flame with a scream. The attack was a little brutal....but you could not deny the fact that it effectively killed your opponent and left no mess to clean up.
I looked on at the giant flaming mass wearily, but at least now I knew he was dead. However I still felt a strange feeling of regret tug at my heart. Even though he was an enemy, I regretted killing him. Well, not exactly, since he was our enemy, but the fact that I had to help kill someone always bothered me. I wasn't the type of person to be able to kill people and get on with my life. "Sakura, let's go get Kakashi," I felt someone's hand firmly land on my shoulder and I tensed slightly. I turned my head to see Sasuke, who's hand was resting on my shoulder.
I forced a weak smile on my face before I heard an odd sound that was a cross between a hiss and a snarl. I stopped and looked to my right, seeing Naruto's dark face; his upper lip was curled, and he was baring his teeth. A cheeky grin easily replaced my forced smile. "Awww, is widdle foxy boy jealous? I tink he is!" I said teasingly to Naruto. He sent a death glare towards Sasuke and threw his arms around me, breaking Sasuke's contact with me. I smothered my oncoming giggles in Naruto's shoulder. "Excuse me but I think your sensei is in trouble." Tazuna's low, scratchy voice sounded, shaking me from my previous thoughts.
"Kuso," I breathed quietly, gently breaking Naruto's hug I turned to the boys. "Ok, here's the plan. Sasuke, you and I are going to get Tazuna-san back on the road; hopefully we'll be able to get him safe. Naruto I'm counting on you to go help Kakashi, and be careful...if you have to retreat then do it!" Naruto nodded in conformation. Sasuke however did not look so pleased. "Why the hell does dope get to go help Kakashi?" "Because I-" I began, but was cut off by Naruto takin off to do as I had told him. "Oh no you don't!" Sasuke yelled while going after him.
"Wait! Sasuke, get your scrawny ass back here – THIS IS NOT THE PLAN!" I screeched, but that duck-butt haired bastard left anyways, leaving me alone with Tazuna-san. Great. Just great. It wasn't like Tazuna-san wand I didn't get along, it was just that I didn't think I could push my already tired body to fight again if we were attacked. I'm pretty sure that Sasuke was the same way, but we would have been able to hold someone off for a little while, and Naruto hopefully would be able to help Kakashi and catch up to us. But no, they didn't listen to me, the only one that actually thinks! No, I'm just a FREAKING GIRL!
"Uh...Sakura...?" Tazuna-san's voice drawled out slowly and unsurely. Spinning around I said, "Alright. Well we're going to have to leave without those two bakas – so let's move!" I placed my hands together in a familiar sign – one for summoning, and I called out, "Summoning jutsu!" and hoping to Kami that I had enough chakra to summon someone good. With a poof, Yasue appeared in front of me and I sighed with relief. "Yasue, take Tazuna-san back to the road and protect him with your life." I stared straight at the young lioness, and she nodded solemnly, understanding the seriousness of my orders.
"She won't eat you unless you really annoy her," I told Tazuna mildly, "But she won't let you die either." He blinked at me as if he was unsure whether I was joking or not, and then shrugged and followed after Yasue as she lead him away. As soon as they had vanished from my line of sight I turned and bolted towards where Kakashi and the two bakas were. I landed towards the edge of the clearing where the fighting was; now it was only Kakashi and Zabuza, while all the rest of his lackeys had ran off. Naruto stood behind Kakashi, obviously eager to help but appearing very frustrated as our sensei firmly told him 'no'.
I watched silently as Kakashi moved to finish off Zabuza, but suddenly the Mist ninja let out a choked noise and toppled to the ground. Before he even hit the ground, another smaller figure darted in and caught him. I could see that he was only about Sasuke's height and was wearing a hunter-nin's mask. He threw Zabuza over his shoulder and bowed slightly to Kakashi. "I apologize for arriving so late. I am a hunter ninja from the Village Hidden in the Mists. I thank you for taking care of Zabuza for me." And then he darted away in a blur. I saw Naruto blink stupidly at the spot where he had left from, and then suddenly, Kakashi went down.
Oh, shit.
I rushed towards him, yelling, "Naruto, Sasuke, get your asses over here!" I landed neatly next to Kakashi, I couldn't tell if he was conscious or not since both of his eyes (his hiate had been straightened so I could see his other closed eye) were closed. Gently shaking his shoulder I called out, "Kakashi can you hear me?!" I forgot to add the sensei due to the fact that I never really respected him as my sensei but even so I grew anxious when he didn't respond. My heart was pounding so hard that I could practically hear it, what happened? He was just fine a second ago, so why had he collapsed?
My hands flew to his neck, looking for a pulse, and my voice became louder as I called to him. Naruto and Sasuke, hearing the anxiety and worry in my voice, joined in. "...Stop..." I heard him choke out in a gasp; both his eyes slowly opened and realized that the e ye he always had covered was the Sharingan! My eyes widened as I stared at it until my inner mentally slapped me to get to helping Kakashi. "Is he dead, Sakura?!" Naruto yelled, panic seeping into his voice.
"Of course not Naruto-baka!" I yelled back at him, my eyes still focused on Kakashi. "Er...sense, you need to turn off the Sharingan, I think you're suffering from a mix of blood loss and chakra overuse." Kakashi's eyes lazily looked over my face. "...Can't..." He forced out in a weak voice. "What do you mean?" I asked. "...Cover it." he grunted, and I did so before saying, "Kakashi, I don't have enough chakra to heal you right now, okay?" So right now all I can do is put on some medical cream and bandage up your wounds." He just gave another grunt, and then turning I called Naruto and Sasuke over to help me carry him back to our tent.
I knew none of us would be able to travel very far for tonight so I decided it was best for us to just stay here. Then I told Naruto to fetch Yasue; Sasuke argued with me on sending Naruto but shut up when I told him that Yasue would probably eat him. And now here we were, at our camp site, alone with Sasuke; Kakashi was resting in his tent, so we were alone. However I felt really uncomfortable – I kept getting that 'someone-is-watching-you' feeling, and that someone just happened to be Sasuke. "What?" I asked, growing irritated by his constant glances.
He stared at me for a few moments before replying. "You need to rest." It wasn't a suggestion, but a command. How dare he order me around like me was my superior! I snarled, glaring at Sasuke. "Careful, Uchiha, you're on no-mans land – you have no right to order me around," I said with a harsh edge to my voice. He got up silently and left. "Serves him right," I muttered to myself, and then I heard someone move behind me. I tried to turn around, but it was too late – I felt a burst of pain on my neck, and then everything went black.
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I could feel consciousness coming back to me. A groan escaped my lips; it took me forever to sit up – my body was not responding well. I opened my eyes and looked around. I wasn't chained up or being held captive... but I was inside my bed roll and in a tent. I climbed out of my bedroll and poked my head out of the tent and felt a wave of pure murder come over me. I ran out of the tent and brought my foot up and kicked Sasuke hard in the face; I could feel his nose crunch and break.
"Stupid fucking prick!" I howled, moving to kick him again, but Naruto grabbed me from behind, and still attempting to stop laughing, held me back. "As much as I want to see you kick Sasuke's ass, I don't want a lecture about teamwork and why you should not attack your teammates." Naruto said between chuckles. I gave a huff and sat down by the campfire. "Hey Neko, your hair is really messy," Naruto commented mildly. I stared at him for a few long moments and then burst into hysterical laughter. It seemed like a lifetime before I managed to stop.
"Wow," I heard Naruto mutter, shaking his head. I looked over at him and said, "Well Naruto, I don't exactly care what my hair looks like in life-or-death situations." But then I sighed and reached up to feel how bad it was – I could feel the knots and snarls, and I supposed that there was a fair mixture of blood and dirt in there was well. Then Sasuke came and sat down by the fire, keeping his distance from me. He was pinching the bridge of his nose, and blood was still gushing out. He gave me a murderous glare and muttered, "You know, it was really stupid of you to kick me. Now we've got two injured members on the team." I grinned. "More like one and a half, since you're only half a man."
Suddenly out of nowhere a green blur leaped out of the bushes and landed in front of us. I was already on my feet, a kunai in hand before I realized who it was. "YOSH! Sasuke is no half-a-man, for he is filled with the power of youth! As is my ever-so-youthful student, Lee!" I could practically hear my jaw hit the ground. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE?!" I shrieked, eyes widening as Lee leaped out of the bushes and began to rant about youth as well. 'Oh shit, shit, shit! If Lee and Gai are here, then that means...' '...That Neji-kun will be here too! SHANARRO!' My inner began to shriek with glee, adding a headache to my ever-growing list of problems.
And sure enough, Tenten and Neji came walking out from behind the bushes as well, looks of discomfort plastered across their faces. "Yosh, Sakura-san! My ever youthful rival Kakashi sent out a plea for help and the Hokage-sama decided to send me and my youthful team to help!"
I was just about ready to find a kunai and impale myself on it.
Neji and Tenten traded glances and then came over towards Naruto, Sasuke and me; Sasuke earned a curious glance from Neji (and got a glare in return) but didn't ask any questions. Tenten's eye twitched spasticaly. "He's been going on and on about how he knew that one day his 'youthful rival Kakashi' was going to need his help – I can't tell if he's honored that he gets to help, or if he thinks that he's won some great battle against Kakashi. But whatever it is, he won't shut up." I gave her a curious look. "Don't you have to deal with his whole 'youthful' thing every day?" Neji nodded, and then added, "But it's worse when you're cooped up in a tent with him. I'd rather take years of solitary confinement than a day of that."
I stared at him. "Oh my god! It spoke – no, it made conversation! It even attempted a joke! Naruto, please tell me that I'm not imagining things!" Neji gave me one of his famous Hyuuga glares, and I merely stuck out a tongue in reply. Then I turned towards Sasuke. "Hey, Sasuke? I have a question for you – it may not sound serious, but it really is. Okay?" Suspicious, he nodded slowly. I leaned in towards him and whispered,
"Do you have any tampons?"
His face went beet red and he looked angry. "What the fuck? Why do you think that I carry tampons?" I smiled sweetly. "Because you're such a girl!" His face went even redder at the laughter from the others. With obivious malevolent intent, he reached out and grabbed my arm, which earned him a wild shriek from me. "STOP! Don't touch me there! This is my private square! R-A-P-E, get your hands away from me! RAPE! RAPE!" Wild and screaming I took off running around the campsite, screaming 'RAPE!' every few seconds.
Neji looked towards Naruto. "Are you sure that she isn't injured? Has she suffered any serious head wounds? I think you better check." I stopped dead in front of him. "Oh my god! It spoke...again! Naruto, I think we're on a roll here!" Naruto groaned. "Guys, stop! I have a headache and do you know how hard it is to stop Yasue from eating people she doesn't know? Seriously!" My hand flew to my mouth and I let out a hysterical giggle. "Oopsie! I forgot to release Yasue! Hey, Yasue, come here!" The lion obediently padded up to me, and I told her, "You can go now! Bye-bye!" I waved childishly as she disappeared in a poof of smoke.
I felt someone's arms grip around my waist, and I was about to start the rape song again when Naruto spoke in my ear. "Sakura, you better shut up and calm down before I slit your throat. Because I have a headache, and your constant screaming is only making it worse. So let's be quiet and sit nicely now, hm?" I let out another smaller hysterical giggle. "Okay, Foxy-kun." The small, still-rational part of my mind noticed that his eyes were red, but then they were blue again before I could blink. This worried the rational part of me, which was quickly beginning to take over again. Was he having problems with his seal? This could be bad...
My train of thought disappeared when my legs suddenly gave out and I tumbled in a heap onto Naruto, causing us both to collapse to the ground. I ended up on his chest. He groaned, and quickly I rolled over and off so that I was by his side. His eyes were closed, but his brows were furrowed as though he was thinking hard about something. "Eh...Naruto? You alright there?" He grunted a reply. I stared a few more moments before brushing hair out of his face. Then leaning over I kissed his cheek. "Did you know that you're my bestest buddie in the whole world, and that I would be very not-good if you weren't there? So stay with me, okay?" He nodded once and then sighed, his eyes sliding open. They were normal and blue, which was what I had been expecting.
I sighed too, and suddenly my tired-high was gone, and all I wanted to do was sleep. I could hear Gai still ranting to Kakashi by the tents, and I decided that the ground suddenly felt very comfortable. I closed my eyes, and everything went black.
Hello! And Gomen, I AM SO FRIGGIN SORRY THAT WE HAVEN'T UPDATED *sobs* And now here are our excuses - Testing ran through like Two weeks in November, Are teachers are child hating sadist, we can only really type and work ideas out on weekends, and we're like thirteen we have plans, and do stuff on the weekend! Anyway Kitsunegirls2 and I sincerly apologize to you readers!
P.S There will by more neji goodness sooon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :3
P.s.s oh and the "rape" song is a gift from my brother and his highschool friends to you!
