Chapter 14
"Sakura yanked the shuriken out of her bandaged arm and used a little healing chakra, "Sakura-san your hurt." She looked to her teammates, "Huh?" They both pointed to a niche in her neck area. She turned to a mirror and felt herself pale another mark, time was moving forward and without realizing it her goal was a step closer to complete. But something was wrong; she wasn't sure whether she should be happy or sad."
Sakura put a hand to her neck, "Oh this? It doesn't hurt trust me it's just a nick, let me tend to your wounds." She walked over to them and patched them up in seconds, "W-well thanks for everything it was fun fighting with you guys see you later!" She half ran to the bathroom when she found that it was clear she pulled down her turtleneck farther down and saw a long red gash like the ones on her arms. She began to shake she didn't want it to end but she knew that soon it would, there were about ten or so more wounds to go but she already felt that soon she would be gone.
'Its what you wanted, so you have to pay the price.' The glass woman's voice rang clearly in her ears, "I know, but I don't regret hoping." Sakura bandaged her neck area and then pulled up the turtleneck to cover it up she re-bandaged her arms they were red but not infected but they were somehow deeper. She looked to the door of the chuunin exam room it was time for her next test.
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Itachi watched the girl she was good on her feet and good with battles it almost made him feel smug when she was able to easily incapacitate Mikara the girl needed to know her place. At the end of the battle, he went to collect her he didn't want any stupid men in his clan to talk to her. "Sakura-san your hurt." She looked to her teammates, "Huh?" Itachi was interested too the only wound she had seen her get was the scratch on her bandaged arm. Sakura put a hand to her neck, "Oh this? It doesn't hurt trust me it's just a nick, let me tend to your wounds." She walked over to them and patched them up in seconds, "W-well thanks for everything it was fun fighting with you guys see you later!"
Itachi was confused her flipped through all of the memories he had of her, she had never gotten a wound there. His thoughts paused 'two year or so left'? Did that mean she was going somewhere? A pang of fear came over him he didn't want her to go. She reentered the room about ten minutes later he noticed a small spark of white on her neck she had bandaged it but why? If it was small, she should have been able to heal it easily. Before he could ask the next test was coming up, she looked prepared not a care on her mind. She was image training imagining the victory; he knew he couldn't take that precious training time away from her. So here merely sat back and watched.
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Sakura cleared her mind now it was a battle of how well you could fight others off two people to be exact, but these people were already ninja and experienced ones at that it was lucky for her that she got landed with Kakashi and Shisui, they were good ninja but she had the advantage. She saw Kakashi twitch and Shisui for once stood still a serious expression on his face. The goal was to take a golden bell from each; she looked to Shisui he would have to be first shed score the easy win later.
Without warning, she lunged forward toward Shisui but surprisingly he raised a kunai, he was different but she didn't know how. She flipped back and kicked with chakra legs kicking up part of the earth toward Shisui but he dodged, surprisingly enough he was good at fighting the battle was being drawn out to long, she looked for a weakness, 'what were guys weak about?' a memory came about, weren't all guys flustered around the thought of sex? It was stupid it was childish did she forget to mention stupid? But it would work. She released a smoke bomb she sort of wanted privacy.
In the fog it was only Shisui Kakashi had summoned his dogs but she set up a confusion barrier that made them loose sense of smell. Shisui looked at her skeptically sighed sigh and blushed, "Sexy no jutsu." She said dejectedly a more curvy and sexy version of herself appeared dress in thin clouds she sat on the floor in the sexiest position she could without showing too much, "Come here Shisui-san, I'm feeling cold, would you warm me up?" As expected from a thirteen-year-old boy from his nose came spurting blood, even if the line she recited was ancient as hell.
Before the fog had any hope of clearing she changed back and searched his pockets for the little golden bell, it was caught in his Konoha headband. When the fog cleared she was standing near the blood covered Shisui his eyes spinning in wonder as if he'd died and gone to heaven, she looked directly at Kakashi who had a half crazed look man he really wanted that book. "Oh Kakashi san if you so much as touch me I'll have Ichan sent to you in little little pieces, or maybe ashes?" she saw him pale and consider. She pulled out said book and waved it in front of his face; he looked like a dog with a dog treat being waved at him.
"You want Ichan back?" He sat on his knees his wrists turned up like a dogs and nodded, she felt herself blush she could almost see the dog tail waving. "Then give me the bell Kakashi. C'mon boy gimme the bell." Kakashi nodded and held out the bell after verifying that it was the real thing she gave him the book. His lone eyes shined like a dog getting a new bone, from the stands she could almost hear the smacking of hands against the head of the protectors. She began to walk away waving the bells letting them clang together. "Oh and Kakashi, look what I have." Kakashi looked to her and she held up the picture with him without a mask, she saw his jaw drop and it look like his soul left him, she walked away smiling it was good to be evil.
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Itachi watched the battle well actually it was more like a game but nonetheless Sakura came up on top, what puzzled him most about it was what had she done to make Shisui give in? He may not have looked it but Shisui was good at fighting, yet when the smoke cleared, his cousin was down for the count bleeding profusely from his nose. When he saw Shisui in the hall holding the bridge on his nose he couldn't help but ask, "How did she get the bell back from you?" he saw Shisui blush and more blood spurted out he didn't answer.
Knowing he wouldn't be able to get anything out of his cousin for a while Itachi left, he wanted to ask the girl himself but imagined that she would taunt him for not knowing but Itachi hated when he didn't know things. How annoying, he then remembered that he wanted to asked the girl about her wounds she needed to explain, before he could, the next exam was taking place he had missed his chance.